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Marian Wright Edelman delivered Harrys Last LectureBy JORDAN SHAPIROCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Marian Wright Edelman,founder and president ofthe Childrens Defense Fund (CDF),delivered a lec-ture on the meaning of life Wednesday evening inMemorial Auditorium.As the 2011 Rathbun VisitingFellow,Edelman shares an honor previously awardedto Justice Sandra Day OConnor,former Secretary ofState George Shultz and the Dalai Lama.

The tradition of Harrys Last Lectureoriginatedwhen law school professor Harry Rathbun deter-mined that he would dedicate the last lecture of hiscourse every spring quarter to ponder the meaning oflife with students who were about to leave Stanford.The Foundation for Global Community recently en-dowed the Harry and Emilia Rathbun Fund for Ex-ploring What Leads to a Meaningful Life,a program of

By EDWARD NGAICONTRIBUTING WRITER

With less than a year to go before the 2012general elections, Stanfords political organiza-tions are shifting their focus to the upcomingelection season.

In the off-year between the 2010 midterm

elections and next years presidential election,organizations representing both parties areworking to ignite busy students by planningvoter registration drives, volunteering withcampaigns and hosting meetings to discuss theissues of the campaign.

Getting young people involved in politics isone of the biggest challenges associated with abig political campaign, said Rahul Sastry 13,vice president of the Stanford Democrats. Fora candidate like Obama, energizing the studentvote will be a very important aspect in getting[Obama] re-elected.

[A] goal is to encourage everyone [at Stan-ford] to become active in politics, as universitystudents are our countrys, and the worlds, fu-ture, wrote Mary Ann Toman-Miller 14, presi-

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Study examines shift in squid life cycleBy NOMANA INTEKHAB HADI

Biology professor William Gillyand student researchers recentlymanaged to identify the El Niophenomenon as the reason forchanges in the Humboldt squidsspawning habits.

The Humboldt squid whichresides in the Sea of Cortez hasbeen spawning at a much youngerage and smaller size than in past

years. Gilly began his research in2009, inspired to find the missinglarge squid in the Gulf of Califor-nia.

What we found instead wassmall squid all over the Gulf, but

the biggest surprise was that thesesquids were mature and spawn-ing,Gil ly said.

The El Nio phenomenon,a cli-mate pattern that occurs every fiveyears, causes warm water to bepushed down from the surface toan unusually great depth. Warmwater from the Eastern TropicalPacific gets pushed north into tem-perate latitude, causing tempera-ture change. El Nio triggers a

coastal upwelling process, which isdriven by wind and the rotation ofthe earth.The upwelling of normal-ly cool, nutrient-rich water bringswarm, nutrient-poor tropicalwater to the surface. The phyto-

planktons productivity, as a result,suffers.The squid,which eat phyto-plankton, are thus impacted.

Squid can move to an area oftidal upwelling,which remains pro-ductive during an El Nio condi-tion, and continue on their merry,giant squid lifestyle and live tospawn when they are a year and ahalf old,Gilly said.

The study found that Humboldtsquid are maturing earlier in re-

sponse to exaggerated, changingenvironmental conditions. Thenumber of squid was found to belower than in past years. Another

By MARIANNE LEVINEDESK EDITOR

During a Faculty Senate meetingon Oct. 13, electrical engineeringprofessor Bernd Girod indicatedthat if Stanfords NYC campus pro-posal is approved, the Universitywill leverage distance learning andtelepresence technologies exten-sively.

While distance learning betweentwo campuses may be a new chal-lenge,according to Paul Marca, ex-ecutive director of Stanfords Cen-ter for Professional Development,Stanford has been engaging in dis-tance learning for the last 40 years.

Weve had a long and rich histo-ry delivering education, Marcasaid. We have delivered televisionand internet-based education aswell as face-to-face education.

The Center for Professional De-velopment provides the opportuni-ty for individuals with full-time jobsto continue their education and en-hance their skill sets. According toits website, the Center offers over25 graduate degrees and certifi-cates, as well as 51 masters of sci-

ence degree depths.Thirteen aca-demic departments from the Schoolof Engineering participate in thedistance learning program. Thosestudents interested in pursuingmasters degrees must be admittedby specific departments.

In order to qualify for distancelearning, students must belong toone of the Centers member compa-nies, listed on the Centers website.These member companies includeApple Inc., Hewlett-Packard Com-pany, General Electric, GeneralMotors and NASA. Marca said themember companies understandthe value of a Stanford education.Member company employees qual-

By DANIELLE LUSSIER

Stanford Residential Educationand the Program in Writing andRhetoric co-hosted a panel discus-sion Wednesday night about the past,present and future of womenssports.

The event featured notablewomen in the sports realm,includingBrandi Chastain, a former member

of the U.S. womens soccer team andEllen Estes Lee 02, former captainof the Stanford water polo team anda former Olympian.Dena Evans 96,a highly recognized track and fieldathlete and coach, and Dr. JoanOloff, a podiatrist from Los Gatos,also spoke.

Kelly Myers, a PWR instructor,organized the event. Myers said shewas inspired by a class that [she is]teaching . . . about women in sports.She believed it would be beneficial totalk to women who have reachedthe highest level of sport and figureout where do we go from here.

The panel provided perspectiveson the past, present and future ofwomens sports to an audience of 40,which was comprised primarily ofstudents.

The panelists reflected on specificmoments in womens sports thatserved as turning points and inspira-tions in their own careers. Some ofthe panelists inspired each other.Oloff referred to Chastains sportsbra moment as a defining momentin womens sports that has affectedgenerations of women athletes.

The panelists discussed the chal-lenges that remain for womenssports today.According to Dena Evans, there arevast amounts of young girls playingsports,[yet] there is a struggle to keepa womens soccer pro league fromgoing under.

Oloff confirmed that a currentchallenge for womens sports is thatyouth sports have come leaps and

bounds but professionally, there is astrange disconnect.Chastain discussed the reasons

for why children continue to playsports today.She discouraged the no-tion that children should specialize ina given sport for the purpose of earn-ing scholarships.

Kids today are not having achance to truly experience sports be-cause people are telling them, Youcan only do one, she said.

Although the panelists reflectedon some of the negative aspects ofwomens sports today, they werehopeful for its future.

A professional league exists be-cause [sports are] just like school,where you go to learn something

Method expands accessto graduate programs

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Womentalk sportsevolutionPanelists assess futureof professional athletes

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Marian Wright Edelman, the founder and president of the Childrens Defense Fund (CDF), spoke on Wednes-day about education, incarceration, nuclear disarmament, poverty, excessive materialism and family values.

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The Humboldt squid, which resides in the Sea of Cortez, is spawning at amuch younger age and smaller size than in past years. William Gilly foundthat changes in the squids lifestyle were linked to the El Nio phenomenon.

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dent of the Stanford College Re-publicans, in an email to The Daily.We need to act as a voice for ourgeneration and remind Washingtonthat our generation does not wantto inherit an unsustainable econo-my.

Toman-Miller is a Daily staffer.A year away from the election,

however, the Stanford Democrats

still feel challenged by the uniquedynamics of campus organizing.I wasnt here in 2008 [for the

last general election], so it was veryinteresting . . . trying to figure outhow organizing on campus works,said Lindsay Lamont 13,presidentof the Stanford Democrats. Wevebeen going about it in a two-pronged [manner], being the liberalbase on campus . . . and workingwith the Obama for America cam-paign outside the Stanford commu-nity.

Lamont says she understands

the challenges in igniting enthusi-asm on a college campus in a deep-blue state.

Even if you feel that . . . Cali-fornia, as a whole, your vote maynot have a voice, it doesnt meanthat you cant have an influenceelsewhere, she said.If we look to2008, we [had] a huge influence onneighboring states.

To increase involvement, bothorganizations are beginning to exe-cute their plans for the election yearwith the final goal of building mo-mentum and fostering a more polit-ically active atmosphere on cam-

pus.I am planning to take a delega-tion of Stanford Republicans to the2012 Republican National Conven-tion in Tampa, Florida, Toman-Miller said.I will also take a dele-gation . . . to the California Repub-lican Party state convention in Feb-ruary.

The Stanford Democrats aretaking a more community-basedapproach to their event planning.

The big event . . . were lookingto organize [is] a Dress Like a Re-publican party on campus, Lam-

ont said. Thats what we mean byhaving campus events that . . . dragthe liberal base and get thempumped and excited. Its the com-munity-based stuff that keeps peo-ple volunteering and involved.

Lamont laughed off a follow-upquestion pressing her on whatDress Like a Republicanmeant.

You can take that as you like,she said.Favorite candidate imper-sonations,to presidential masks . . .as extreme [of a] stereotype as youwant to go.

The lightheartedness of the pro-posed events on the Democratic

side contrasts with the more formalplanning of the Stanford CollegeRepublicans.

Our meetings feature speak-ers, Toman-Miller said. Our lastspeaker was Professor Evers fromthe Hoover Institute. Other promi-nent speakers . . . [like] House Ma-

jority Whip Kevin McCarthy haveoffered to speak . . . in the newyear.

Toman-Miller also denies the as-sumption that the Stanford campusis deeply liberal.

Republicans have been here on

campus since its founding,Toman-Miller said, pointing out that Le-land Stanford was a Republican.At the activities fair this fall, [theCollege Republicans] signed upover 60 new members . . . there areindeed many Republicans at Stan-ford.

However, even with recentgrowth, the College Republicansmailing list remains one eighth ofthe size of the Stanford Democrats,which boasts about 800 members.

Both organizations, however,were quick to point out that politi-cal engagement is nonpartisan.

[We] help register everyone el-igible to vote, Toman-Miller said.[All of us] must engage in a con-stant and active debate on the risksand opportunities facing our coun-try.

Lamont echoed her sentiment.A big thing for [the Stanford

Democrats] is activism as a whole,she said.Theres no partisanship ingetting people to register. Our bigtask is following up and getting outthe vote.

Contact Edward Ngai at edngai@stanford.edu.

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ify as part-time students and are el-igible for tuition discounts.

We think of Stanford and theSchool of Engineering as [deliver-ing] the needs of industry, Marcasaid.

He added that an importantbenefit of distance learning is theopportunity for students to directlyapply their education to their pro-fessional lives.

If companies have specific ini-tiatives, [they] can re-tool employ-ees specifically and do so throughStanford, Marca said.

Marca indicated that since dis-tance learning students are workingfull-time,the amount of time neces-sary to complete a program varies.Masters degrees are typically com-pleted in between three to fiveyears, with five years being themaximum amount of time provid-ed.Because of the part-time natureof the distance-learning program,the Center measures its size basedon the number of enrollments as

opposed to the number of actualstudents.

Marca emphasized that whiledistance learning students are en-rolled part-time, there is no differ-entiation in status between distancelearning students and full-timeStanford students.

When we offer extended edu-cation to industry, and the depart-ment admits students, that studentis a graduate student at Stanford;there is no difference,Marca said.They happen to be working atIntel or Cisco or Hewlett-Packard,but they are in the courses . . . justnot physically on campus.

Marca attributes much of thedistance learning programs successto the dedication of the Stanfordfaculty. Distance learning studentsmay communicate with and receivehelp from faculty through differentforms of technology, including livemeetings and videoconferences.

Our faculty understands thatthere is a distance learning compo-nent of the class, Marca said. Ifthey deliver to graduate students ata distance, [they] understand therole of responsiveness. That hasbenefited students at a distance in asignificant way.

Joyce Rice, director of market-ing at the School of Engineering,in-dicated that the technology devel-oped for distance learning, whichincludes taped lectures, has alsobenefited full-time students.

Full-time students at Stanfordappreciate the opportunity to go

online and view lectures of thecourses online, Rice said. [This]

gives them the opportunity to goover materials and prepare forprojects.

Some professors at Stanfordhave also initiated distance learn-ing classes,outside of the Center forProfessional Developments specif-ic programs. Sebastian Thrun, acomputer science professor, cur-rently offers his Introduction toArtificial Intelligence course on-line for free. The class now has

130,000 enrollments.

Our class had an amazing suc-cess, Thrun wrote in an email toThe Daily. We are changing thelives of people whom we couldnever reach before, in places likeAfghanistan [and] Tanzania. Wereached people in over 190 coun-tries.

Thrun emphasized that whiledistance learning is no alternativeto campus life, online courses canhelp to democratize education.

Although distance learning mayraise concerns about the potentialdecrease in face-to-face interac-tions,both Thrun and Marca do notfind the decrease problematic.

Our students consistently re-port a very strong connection tous,Thrun said. Many of them feelas if they are in the same room withus, as if we listen to them, let themtry and respond to their answers.

Marca believes that for mastersdegree programs, face-to-face con-nections may not always be neces-sary. He stated that the only disad-vantage of the Centers mastersdegree programs is the limited net-working opportunities for distancelearners.

We believe the online experi-ence is a great way to get the mas-ters education out there, Marcasaid. Its a pretty solid programand a great way to extend Stan-fords intellectual work to make adifference in the companies thatengage with us and for those pro-fessionals who wish to take classes.

Contact Marianne LeVine atmlevine2@stanford.edu.

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change Gillys research team dis-covered was that the squid werenot as concentrated in one region.Gilly attributed this recent changeto the squids ability to quicklyadapt to new conditions. The ef-fects of these adaptations, howev-er, are difficult to determine at thisearly stage.

Its as if a population of hu-mans started reproducing at agethree, Gilly said.Whether this isgood or bad for the squid, is notsomething that I can easily grasp.Its just the way it is but pre-sumably this radical change inlifestyle serves some purpose andhas been selected for by evolu-tion.

The study found that the shift inlifestyle, in response to El Nio, is

circumstantial.Among the surpris-es was the speed at which the shift

occurred the changes in squidliving patterns occurred betweenSeptember 2009 and May 2010,less than one generations time forsquid. The timeframe correlatedexactly with El Nio,leading to theconclusion that El Nio caused thechange in squid lifestyle patterns.

To our knowledge, the onlytimes small mature squid havebeen reported from the Gulf ofCalifornia have been after the1997-98 El Nio and the 2009-10El Nio Modok. Gilly said.These squid are not on the smalltail-end of a normal distribution oranything like that they form acompletely distinct size class.

The studys implications for thefuture of the Humboldt squid pop-ulation remain unknown.Gilly andhis research team have been look-ing to changes in squid patternsduring the 1997-1998 El Nio peri-od to formulate predictions.

It took two years for largesquid to return to the traditional

fishing grounds in large enoughnumbers to support commercial

fishing, Gilly said.Were comingup on two years, so next summermay show a return to normal [pat-terns]. All we can do now is try totrack things and see where they go.

Gillys research indicated theimportant role of global warmingin the El Nio phenomenon. Thecurrent changes from globalwarming could exacerbate the im-pact of El Nio, resulting in a po-tentially irreversible change in thesize and living patterns of theHumboldt squid.

As long-term warming contin-ues and temperate California wa-ters become more tropical-like,one might expect a northward pro-gression of the smaller form ofHumboldt squid, Gilly said.Whats intriguing about our ob-servations is that the switch from

jumbo to small Humboldt squid atmaturity can happen so fast andthat it can be triggered by a dis-crete event like El Nio.

Contact Nomana Intekhab Hadi at ni-hadi@stanford.edu.

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Shakespeare in the plaza

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The Stanford Shakespeare Company displayed a fall showcase of student-directed and performed pieces in White Plaza Wednesday night.

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youre passionate about. You hopethat when you graduate, youll havethe opportunity to do that thing,Chastain said.

Lee echoed a similar statement.With the absence of a professional

water polo team in the UnitedStates, Lee had to stop playing be-cause she knew [she] was going tohave to do something elseand con-siders business her second career.

Evans emphasized that womenathletes who are not at the profes-sional level can still see promisingfutures. Evans said she has seen aredefinition of what it means to be afemale athlete, as well as hugegrowth in women athletes on arecreational level. She noted thatan overwhelming majority of partic-ipants in races like the New YorkMarathon are women.

Attendees, such as Caitlin Sched-er 15, reacted positively to theevent.Scheder said the panel was in-spiring and that it was interesting tohave people [she had] looked up to

[her] whole life talk about womenssports.

Robbie Dela Cruz 15 was gladshe went and said she was pleasedthat the event did not solely focus onwomen in sports.

We [also] talked about how toencourage each other and appreci-ate ourselves, she said.

Contact Danielle Lussier at dlussier@stanford.edu.

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Still danceVisiting artist Ann Carlson experiments with time and space

By LESLIE NGUYEN-OKWU

In a well-lit office on the fourth floor ofEncina Hall, Jeremy Weinstein makes hishome among papers stacked tall acrossthe room.During a recent afternoon,at awooden table placed squarely in front of

the door,he sat with his legs crossed and spokepassionately about his time at the White House.

Jeremy Weinstein has a foot in two worlds,one at Stanford and one in Washington, D.C.

Here,he is an associate professor of political sci-ence and senior fellow at the Freeman SpogliInstitute for International Studies. But for thepast two years, Weinstein worked under Presi-dent Barack Obama,serving as the director fordevelopment and democracy on the NationalSecurity Council.

In that role,he dealt with several internation-al issues in the interest of the United States,in-cluding global development and democracy,anti-corruption and foreign assistance reform.During that time,Weinstein also helped shapethe nations agenda for global developmentthrough the United States Agency for Interna-tional Development,a government agency thatprovides economic and humanitarian assis-tance around the world.

Prior to serving on the National SecurityCouncil,Weinsteins first brush with the WhiteHouse came under the Clinton administration,during which he focused on Africa policy.There,he developed strong connections and eventual-ly was offered a position as a global develop-ment and democracy advisor for Obamas 2008presidential campaign.

I was thrilled,Weinstein said.I had readDreams from My Father, and I was convincedthat this guy was something special.So I quick-ly got involved in the campaign and . . . ulti-mately took a public service leave from Stan-ford to join the Obama administration.

Weinstein deeply admired Obamas foreignaffairs strategy, adding that it was an approachthat stemmed from Obamas background as acommunity organizer. Both he and the Presi-dent agreed that establishing and maintainingdemocracy required fostering ties with othercountries based on mutual understanding.

I think at the core of the presidents agendaon democracy and human rights is recognizingthat sustainable political change comes from the

bottom up,Weinstein said.It cant be imposedfrom the outside.You tend not to get the kindsof outcomes that youre interested in unless youhave that base of support and interest with peo-ple willing to take risks,as we saw in the ArabSpring in their fight for human rights.

Through his encounters with the president,Weinstein concluded that advocates outside ofgovernment were key to constructing publicpolicy. One particular meeting with the presi-dent and a group of human rights activists

struck a chord with Weinstein that continues toresonate today.

The president was very powerful in his re-sponse in a number of ways, Weinstein said.He said to the groups,Your job is to hold myfeet to the fire . . . so,you need to be out thereeveryday raising these issues, telling us whenwere doing the right or wrong thing.My role isto be President of the United States, and yourrole is to be a strong voice for people whoarent always heard. I think thats a powerfulmessage what produces good policy is not

just the expertise of people inside the govern-ment, but the pressure that comes from out-side.

Weinsteins political background in his ca-reer outside of government spans years of pub-lic policy research and experience and alsodraws upon his desire to effect change on aglobal scale.

In a big picture sense,Ive always been a so-cial scientist,Weinstein said.I believe that [so-cial science] provides powerful tools to help usunderstand fundamental processes of politicaland economical change. Theres no place likethe West Wing of the White House to have an

idea . . . and be in a position to call on any coun-try,any organization,any business,any group ofadvocates and convene them around doingsomething [about it].

For students aspiring to work in govern-ment, Weinstein strongly advised travelingabroad as a way to gain first-hand experiencewith problems resulting from different histories,cultures and political environments.

Get out of the United States, Weinsteinsaid.Its really important to experience theseissues in places where their salience is high andunderstand them from the perspectives of peo-ple who are fighting every day for human rightsand challenging their governments. You cant

learn that from a textbook.Weinstein also encouraged depth of knowl-edge,rather than breadth.The policymakers hemost admires are the specialists. Thorough ex-pertise with a specific issue,he said, allows poli-cymakers to be more creative in their area of in-terest.

Dont spread yourself too thin,Weinsteinadded. Know something about something.There are a lot of generalists in Washington,butsome of the most effective policy players that

Ive met are people who are deeply invested inaccumulating knowledge and expertise aboutsomething like global poverty reduction orwhatever it might be.

Weinsteins White House experiences haveleft an indelible mark on his views about the in-ternational role of the U.S. government. In We-insteins opinion, many people see the govern-ment as an obstacle to human rights advance-ment. However, he hopes to instill in the nextgeneration of political leaders the notion thatgovernment can be an effective means of large-scale progress.

I think its increasingly easy to write off gov-ernment as behemoth and bureaucratic and

slow and broken . . . but the U.S.government isa massive player and what it does matters enor-mously all around the world, Weinstein said.We need the best people going into govern-ment. [Students] need to see the politicalprocess,despite its dysfunction,as a process thatcan generate good outcomes and make a differ-ence throughout the world.

Contact Leslie Nguyen-Okwu at leslie.nguyen-okwu@stanford.edu.

By ARUSHI JAIN

Four lawyers stand still in anoffice hallway surroundedby elevators. Dressed intypical business attire, themens backs are to each

other,and they dont say a word.Thelawyer on the left makes the firstmovement, reaching over to slap hisshoulder. The rest follow in a seriesof gestures and expressions as theybend,stretch,point and shout.Whatappeared to be a normal scene oflawyers in suits is transformed into adance. To Ann Carlson, a visitingartist in the drama department, thisuse of everyday people in experi-mental settings is what makes her artdistinctive.

After graduating from the Uni-versity of Utah with a bachelor offine arts in modern dance and theUniversity of Arizona with a gradu-ate degree in dance, Carlson beganto collaborate with many dancers, in-cluding the award-winning MeredithMonk. Her work has been per-formed throughout the UnitedStates, and she has received numer-ous awards, including an AmericanMasterpiece Award in 2008 and athree-year fellowship from the Na-

tional Endowment for the Arts.This quarter, Carlson is teachingtwo undergraduate classes at Stan-ford: Performance, History andMemory:The Jasper Ridge Projectand Stillness in Action: The BodyOut of Time.She is also the first vis-iting artist to collaborate with theJasper Ridge Biological Preserve, abiological sanctuary on Stanfordland that is designed to promote re-search and education.It is not a placetraditionally associated with dance.

The idea of having a visitingartist first came up two years agowhen I was approached by RobertBuelteman, a well-known photogra-pher, requesting access to the pre-

serve,said Jasper Ridge administra-tive director Philippe Cohen.I thenwent to the vice president of theStanford Arts Initiative about hav-ing Robs photography at the pre-serve as a way to raise funds for hav-ing a visiting artist program at JasperRidge.

Carlson saw Jasper Ridge for thefirst time when she was invited to dowork on campus in 2008. In March2010, she returned to campus to col-laborate with 250 students to pro-duce Still Life with Decoy, inwhich students posed like they werestudying textbooks and lying on theground after a bike collision, amongother things.

I have been really interested ininvestigating stillness and how it res-onates in different places and differ-ent contexts,Carlson said.It dealswith Einsteins idea that all of timeexists in the present.Stillness is real-ly interesting because it arrestsmovement and lets the past and fu-ture fold on into it.

Based on Carlsons previouswork,Matthew Tiews M.A.99 Ph.D.04, executive director of the artsprograms, invited her to be JasperRidges first visiting artist.

She is a very unexpected artist,

and we thought it would be an inter-esting collaboration,Tiews said.Carlson was interested by the his-

tory and environment at JasperRidge, which she described as veryancient and very alive.

I got really interested in the bal-ance of [Jasper Ridge] not beingopen to the public, but then invitinga time-based artist into the situa-tion,Carlson said.It seemed coun-terintuitive and wonderfully inven-tive.

The project follows the tableauxvivanttradition,where actors pose aspaintings or photographs, and in-volves restaging about eight photo-graphs from Jasper Ridge on the

spot they were taken.The perform-ance will take place in March 2012,when the audience will be guidedthrough a series of tours through thedifferent stations on the preservewhere actors perform scenes fromthe past.

Its a collision between that mo-ment in time and the present mo-ment,Carlson said. It touches on alot of different disciplines, such asenvironmental biology, botany, ani-mals,f ish and birds.

Carlson herself has touched onmultiple disciplines in her work overthe past 20 years, collaborating witha broad range of people who wereunited by shared professions, rela-tionships or passions.

I approach dance as any con-scious movement, Carlson said.Itcan be you typing on your laptopright now as long as you are thinkingabout it, a keyboard dance.

This diverse group of performershave included lawyers,nuns, securityofficers and pediatricians, and herprojects have included the fourlawyers skit and a piece with fly fish-ermen she found in a sporting goodsstore for a festival in Maine.

The work is about labors im-print on the body, about how what

we do or what we love is expressedthrough our gestures, Carlson said.Carlson is particularly fascinated

everyday movements and activelyexplores how they can be sequencedinto a dance.

I feel there is a huge hunger forpeople to have an engagement withmetaphor,pulling out their everydaymovements and reconstituting theminto a portrait of who they are,Carl-son said.

Her attention to common objectsand people is evident in her person-ality as well as past work.

She is this short, blonde fire-ball, Cohen said.I once describedher as the Studs Terkel of dance.My

impression of her is that she looks inthe everyday and finds what sheviews as a performance, which Ithink is fascinating.

Tiews expressed a similar per-spective on Carlsons energy andpersona.

She is incredibly dynamic andinquisitive, Tiews said. A part ofher artwork is informed by real, al-most scholarly work,which she man-ifests in really different ways.

Carlson uses this energy to por-tray the body as a powerful vehicleof change to speak against what shecalls a tendency to disregard move-ment.

I call it the real people work,Carlson said.It responds to certainkinds of social issues because it looksat stereotyping and then bursts itapart, like with the dignity of the

lawyers. You wouldnt expect thoseguys in the fancy suits to be doing allof that action.

Through her work, Carlson con-

tinues to investigate how dance canbe conveyed through anything andanyone, whether they are lawyers, flyfishermen, scientists or Stanford stu-dents.Her stillness class has discussedthe possibility of occupying SanFrancisco to experiment with still-ness.

We have been talking about,howdoes the still body support or objectto things in public space? Carlsonsaid. Anytime you work outside oftime,it scares people and is a kind ofdisruption.It changes the whole ener-gy and impact of the space.

Contact Arushi Jain at ajain93@stan-ford.edu.

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the Office for Religious Life.Dr.King warned us a long time

ago about excessive materialism andmilitarism . . . and worried that wewere integrating into a burninghouse,Edelman said in an interviewwith The Daily.He warned us aboutthe failure to use our great wealth asa nation to make sure that every-body had the basic necessities oflife.

With these ideals at heart, Edel-man focused her speech on theneed to redefine the meaning of suc-cess in America, claiming that theUnited States is off track. Shespoke about education, incarcera-tion, nuclear disarmament, poverty,excessive materialism and familyvalues. Edelman presented each ofher concerns to students as lessons oflife she had given to her own chil-dren.

As a young woman growing up inthe south,Edelman learned core val-ues of social responsibility. She be-came the first African Americanwoman admitted to the MississippiBar and led the Poor Peoples Cam-paign with Dr. Martin Luther KingJr.These experiences influenced herdecision to create the CDF in 1973.

Prevention and early interven-tion became the theme [for CDF],Edelman said. And hopefully, Ithought that people wouldnt blamefive-month-old babies for parentsthey didnt choose.

Since then, Edelman has writteneight books and received the Presi-dential Medal of Freedom the na-tions highest civilian honor among other accomplishments. Shespoke of her struggle to found thefirst Head Start program for childrenin her community, one of her manyefforts to improve the lives of thosesurrounding her.

Edelman discussed the tendencyof impoverished children to end upin prison,a process that she refers toas the Cradle to Prison Pipeline.

[The United States spends]

three times more per prisoner thanper pupil,Edelman said in her lec-ture. She urged for America to re-place that pipeline to prison with apipeline to college.

When asked to compare the Oc-cupy movement to the Civil RightsMovement, Edelman praised thepublicity the movement has given toeconomic gaps in American society.She said that major transformationis possible if enough people are will-ing to get out of their comfort zones[and demand change].

In addition to her lecture in

Memorial Auditorium, Edelmanspent time during her visit speakingwith students. At a discussion withstudents who were planning to goabroad or who had already traveled,she spoke of the need for youngadults to understand their endeavorsin a global context.She indicated thisperspective could only be obtainedby visiting other countries.

Dont think you have to win im-mediately or even at all to make adifference, Edelman warned. Ifyou see a need,dont ask,Why does-nt somebody do something? ask,Why dont I do something?.

Edelman emphasized the role ofyoung people in advocating forchange.

I think that young people need

to find their voice in all of this be-cause so much is at stake for them aswell as for the country,and Im hop-ing that there will be more campus-based activism, Edelman said.Democracy is not a spectatorsport.

Contact Jordan Shapiro at jordansh@stanford.edu.

EDELMANContinued from front page

Dont think you

have to win to

make a difference.

MARIAN WRIGHT,

CDF FOUNDER

DON T SW E A T T H E SMALL STUFF

Lets be honest: theres a 60-

year-old trapped inside my 21-year-old body. In my perfect

world, Id be in bed by 11 p.m. everynight,nursing a cup of Yogi tea whilepenning in the answers to the dailycrossword.People now respond withtypical when I just laugh at thesuggestion of throwing back a fewshots and raging at a frat party. Myprocrastination websites of choiceare not Reddit or Perez Hilton, butrather lumosity.com brain training (Iswear by it!) or Heidi Swansons veg-etarian food blog, 101cookbooks. Istill dont understand YouTube.I can(and do) spend hours on end playingboard games.Im the kind of personwho looks at a menu for 15 minutes,asks the waiter an average of threequestions and then settles on thesame thing I always order.

In short, I am a creature of habit.But arent we all? Routine,tradition,schedule:its so much easier to choosethe comfortable inertia of whats fa-miliar over the uncertainty thatcomes from a gamble.When I know Ican enjoy a lovely evening by myselfwatching the latest episode of TopChef,why would I go through the has-sle of picking up the phone,calling myfriends and trying to figure out theirplans for the night when those plansmay very well fall through and leaveme in the lurch? In short, its a muchsafer,easieroption to accept theguaranteed payoff of Top Chef,ratherthan venture into the territory of anuncertain outcome.

Heres the irony, though (if Imusing that word correctly). I know

Im my happiest,best self when I de-viate from what is routine.My comfortable status quo tends

to be solitude.Frankly, though, peo-ple annoy me sometimes.Put me in abig group of people trying to decidewhat to do and I literally go crazy.Well spend hours spinning ourwheels, talking in circles, stewingover where to go,what to do,what to

eat, etc.The Stanford student in me

cringes at the inefficiency. And forthat matter,it s frustrating to wait onpeople to make up their minds onlyto cancel last minute.In my mind,itsmuch better to avoid that whole rig-marole by doing things alone.

But even though I enjoy my alonetime, its also my emotional crutch.As I learned from living alone inParis over the summer, too muchsolitude is never good for anyone.Yet even though I know I need peo-ple,I still struggle to reach out.

Thats not everyones rut. Onepersons rut can be another personsadventure.But we all have our vari-ations on the general theme, andonly we know exactly what it takes tobreak out of our comfort zones.

Regardless of what your routine is,deviating from the norm will alwaysrequire taking a risk. And, unfortu-nately,that lands you smack dab in themiddle of uncertainty,a no-mans landwhere no one feels particularly com-fortable.Taking a risk could generatea potential failure,and, after all,dontwe like what were good at? So, werevert to the comfort of sitting on thecouch, watching a movie instead ofgetting out and about, exploring allthat life has to offer.

Every day can be an adventure.Thats one thing travel has taughtme. Being in a new city for a limitedamount of time makes you start tomilk every second of every day forwhat its worth. Youll run yourselfragged going from museum to muse-um, or from landmark to landmark.But how many of us have taken the

time to explore what our own home-town or campus has to offer? Its notthat theres nothing to do. By virtueof going to Stanford, we all get10,000 different emails from 10,000different groups every day advertis-ing all sorts of cool and excitingevents on campus! And if that wasntenough,San Franciscos golden aurabeckons us from the horizon. But

even though Im well apprised of allthe current goings on in the city,lifesdaily grind will most likely alwaystrump my grand aspirations of ad-venture.

But life doesnt have to be boringif youchoose for it to not be.There areso many opportunities to do some-thing different or fun in every mo-ment.From exhibits to see,mountainpaths to travel, sports to try, hobbiesto rekindle, new people to meet,oldfriends to have coffee with, differentfood to try adventure is yours tocreate.It doesnt have to be a big to-do if you dont want it to be. Some-times, its enough to strike up a con-versation with the grocery store

cashier or run a different routearound campus. But it does requirethat you put forth the effort and takea risk, allowing yourself the freedomto try . . . and sometimes fail!

Want to place a bet on whether Lesliewill actually end up going to Thurs-days senior night? Emaillabrian@stanford.edu to find out!

Stuck in a rut

Theres a line in the coming-of-age indie-flick Garden Statewhen Zach Braffs character

says, You know that point in yourlife when you realize the house yougrew up in isnt really your home any-more? All of a sudden,even thoughyou have some place where you putyour shit,that idea of home is gone . .. You feel like you can never get itback.Its like you feel homesick for aplace that doesnt even exist. Thatbrings me to this weeks advice:

DO:Be Grateful.DOO-DOO:Be Homeless.Im not sure if it was a life-imi-

tates-art-imitates-life sort of thing,but my first two years of college werepervaded by a strange sense of nothomesickness, but homelessness andrestlessness. Stanford was my newlife,but I wasnt about to call it home.And when I would return home forbreaks, home just felt like a housewhere I kept the things from my pastlife. It was like my life was placed onpause, nothing I did at home wouldcontribute to the bigger picture.There were no feelings of conse-quence or progress.

This led to a great deal of restless-ness and discontent. When I was atStanford, I just wanted to be in Or-ange County,and when I was there,Iwanted to be anywhere but there. Iwas stuck living in the past bliss ofnostalgia or the future hope of aplace to call home.

Over the last two years, my con-cept of home has drasticallychanged and it has allowed me tobe truly happy where Im at in thepresent.The sense of security and be-longing we call home isnt a place wefind or discover or reach in the dis-tant future, its a feeling we createhere and now, where we are with thepeople around us. Thanksgivingbreak was the perfect reminder forme.There are times when we all feellonely and lost in the world, and Ivefound that the best remedy is grati-tude true appreciation for thepeople that have shaped our lives.Itmay help to sit down and remindyourself where you belong and whatyou call home.

For me, home is Clint having theDeathly Hollows tattooed on hiscalf forever, and Lauren knowingIll be at your house in 15, meansIll be at your house in an hour.ItsDavid still saying,Yo Yo Yo!uponentering every room, and Coltonstill insisting that his virtual girl-friend exists (well then, how comeweve never met her?).Home is howit somehow makes sense that Matt

got disqualified from a pancake-eat-ing contest . . . for eating too manypancakes.

Home is the way Brett still has anunshakable faith in the 18-year-oldGreen Van, and the way Hilary caresless about the Cal-Stanford rivalry

than even I do.Its how Greg had thehardest year of his life and stillstrengthens the people around him.And how Nick and I spent the winterwriting songs about getting better(and if were being honest, were get-ting there.) Its Doug having the dumbidea of biking to Berkeley from LAfor no reason at all, and Sunny havingthe genius idea of secretly followinghim to film how far he actually goes(hell probably make it.)

Home is Landon performing thesickest cover of Skinny LoveI haveever seen (in the deepest V-neck Ihave ever seen). Its Jill knowingsome things never do change.Its howColeman used to get teased for beingstraight-edge and now gets teased fornot being straight-edge, and howMichael still wont let me ride hishorse (this is a 100 percent literal andshould not be taken figuratively inany way). Its how Garrett will godown in history as the funniest,nicestand most agreeable person ever (anarrow finish over Will, who used tobe Bill in high school),and how Clarkknows more about more things thanyou do (but seriously,he does).

Home is how Arya knows any-thing I write here wouldnt do him

justice and that Carson still is. . . andwill forever be . . . Carson. Its howHayden is going to be super famoussome day,and it wont change a thing.Its how were all counting down thedays until Ian, Sam, Taylor, Laurenand Sarah come back to us in Ameri-ca (aka Amurrricccaaaaa!).

No doubt,home is something dif-

ferent for each of you. But theres astrange confidence and joy in lifewhen you remember you alwayshave a home to return to, no matterwhere you go.And better yet,you cancreate one right where you are.

If youre trying to find a new home,meet-ing Chase might be a great place to start.Email him at ninjaish@stanford.edu to

find good company.

Chula Vista, my hometown,has the largest elementaryschool district in California,

with 46 schools that serve thecitys 230,000 residents. Havingsuch a large school district posesan interesting set of problems,pri-marily dealing with the quality ofeducation that exists across theeconomically diverse city. TheEast has the newest homes, the

newest schools and the wealthiestfamilies, while the West tends tobe poorer, have older facilitiesand generally lag behind in theAcademic Performance Index(API), which the state of Califor-nia uses to measure scholasticachievement from second to 11thgrade. I guess it makes sense (al-though it may not be proper):studies have long shown a corre-lation between wealth andscholastic achievement. Howev-er, there is something a bit moreunsettling happening in ChulaVista.

EastLake, the second-largestsubdivision and possibly thewealthiest and most successful,having won San Diegos BestCommunity award 11 years

straight on the East side ofChula Vista has its own educa-tional foundation. The EastLakeEducational Foundation was es-tablished in 1995 and serves thesubdivisions four elementaryschools, one middle school andone high school. Geared towardgrants for technology,the founda-

tion states that it funds programsthat are either poorly fundedthrough traditional means orhave no existing funding basethrough the public school dis-tricts. Which is to say that it hasprovided over 1 million dollars insupplemental aid to precisely thesame programs that no other stu-dents at the 42 other elementaryschools,nine other middle schoolsand nine other high schools haveaccess to.

Thats not all though: the ini-tial endowment for the founda-tion was created by the EastLakeCorporation, the entity that de-veloped the community. Maybe itshouldnt be surprising that the

development that set up privategovernments for its own residentsto administer its pools and parks(as city parks and pools saw se-vere budget cuts or were closed)also created a privatized schoolfund to supplement the dwindlingstate budget for education. Mar-keting ploy or not, the EastLake

Corporation greatly reinforcedthe economic inequality that geo-graphically maps the city and ex-acerbated it by impacting theyouth that will make up our fu-ture generations.

I have been asked if therewould be a way to make the EEFcontribute to the other schools inthe district. Perhaps they should,but coming to a philosophical de-

cision on whether the EastLakeEducational Foundation (andother organizations like it) shouldbe mandated to spread the wealthsteps beyond the heart of theissue.The system is broken: privi-lege builds upon and serves itself,congratulating itself and baskingin its wealth as the disenfran-chised continue to go without,falling further and further behind.Thus I cannot accept the exis-tence of this foundation and oth-ers like it. From the realizationthat a childs education needssupplemental funding, under-standing that other children atother schools in the same districtare also lacking should follow.Rather than retreating from thepublic sphere or using their

wealth for subsidy, the privilegedfew should exercise their agencyand work to create an educationsystem that brings an appropriatelevel of public funding to studentsof all socioeconomic back-grounds.

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DOS AND DOO-DOOS

You remind me of home.. .

STUDE NTS RE FL E C T ON OCCUPY

Leslie

Brian

Chase

Ishii

The system is

broken:privilege

builds upon and

serves itself.

Its so much easier

to choose the

comfortable inertia of

whats familiar over the

uncertainty that

comes from a gamble.

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SPORTS BRIEFS

MENS WATER POLO

Title hopes washed again

By JACK BLANCHATDESK EDITOR

Chester McGlockton, a defensive assistantfor the Stanford football team,passed away lastnight in his sleep due to an apparent heart attack.He was 42.

McGlockton, a four-time NFL pro bowler,was in just his second season coaching for theCardinal, seven years after retiring from theNew York Jets.

Everyone in the Stanford Football family isdeeply saddened by the passing of Chester Mc-Glockton, head coach David Shaw said in astatement on Wednesday.For the past two sea-sons,Chester has been a valuable member of ourfootball staff and a wonderful friend to us all.Our thoughts and prayers go out to Chesterswife Zina and their two children.

McGlockton was a former all-ACC defensivetackle at Clemson and was a first round pick ofthe Los Angeles Raiders in 1992. He played inthe NFL for 12 seasons with the Raiders,Chiefs,Broncos and Jets.

San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Har-baugh, who brought McGlockton on to hiscoaching staff last season, weighed in on his for-mer assistants passing.

Chester has been a very close and dearfriend over the past four years, Harbaugh toldthe San Jose Mercury.He was part of our teamhere and at Stanford.Its a shock and just sad,sadwith his passing.

I want people to know Chester was a goodguy doing the right thing and helping a lot ofpeople. To say he was coming into his own as acoach would be understating it,Harbaugh con-tinued.Hed already blossomed. He was so pos-

itive with other coaches and players.The untimely passing of McGlockton

brought an outpouring of support from currentCardinal players as well, who took to Twitter toremember the assistant coach.

Prayers go out to the family of CoachChester. He taught me so much, wrote fresh-man linebacker James Vaughters.

Speechless . . . lost much more than a coachtoday.Please pray for Chester and the McGlock-ton family, tweeted redshirt freshman line-backer AJ Tarpley.

We lost a brother today who made us all bet-ter. He challenged me personally to be a betterman,wrote offensive assistant coach Mike San-ford, who joined McGlockton as a member ofthe Cardinal coaching staff two seasons ago.

McGlockton is survived by his wife,Zina,andhis two daughters. Funeral arrangements havenot yet been made.

Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat@stanford.edu.

Defensive assistant

McGlockton dead

AGGIESEASILY AXED

DAVID PEREZCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The 2011 season ended on a bit-ter note for the No. 4 mens waterpolo team this past weekend inLos Angeles, marked by anothertop squads unsuccessful cam-

paign to bring a national champi-onship home to the Farm.

Stanford ended the season at19-7 overall and 5-3 in the Moun-tain Pacific Sports Federation(MPSF).The team finished fourthin the MPSF regular season stand-ings and also took fourth in theMPSF Tournament, behind No. 2UCLA (23-4, 6-2 MPSF), No. 1USC (22-3,8-0) and No.3 Califor-nia (20-3,7-1). (At the time of pro-duction, the most recent NCAArankings, released on Nov. 23, re-flected USC as the No.1 team. It islikely that No. 1 USC and No. 2UCLA will switch positions to re-flect UCLAs victory in the MPSFTournament.)

The Cardinal ended its seasonwith three losses in the span of aweek, two of them at the hands ofrival California and the other toUSC in a game that ended Stan-fords hopes for the conferencetournament and national title.Therough ending,however,should nottake away from an otherwise solidseason.

It was a good season, saidjunior driver Paul Rudolph,even

though we ended with three badlosses.

The biggest highlight of theseason was winning the SoCalTournament in early October,something Stanford had not donesince 2002. In the course of thattournament, the Cardinal defeat-

ed both USC and California. Thatweekend we proved that wecould play with anyone,Rudolphsaid. Looking back, redshirt soph-omore goalie Hunter Ploch noted,The second day of SoCals wasdefinitely the biggest day of theseason.

Ploch will be taking centerstage this offseason alongside fel-low redshirt sophomore goalieScott Platshon. One of those twowill have to step up next year toreplace redshirt senior goalieBrian Pingree, who has been thestarter for the past two seasonsand was named honorable men-tion All-MPSF this year.

Its always hard losing a seniorgoalie, Rudolph said when talk-ing about next season.

Two players the Cardinal willnot have to worry about replacingare freshman utility Alex Bowenand redshirt sophomore 2-meterForrest Watkins.

I am really exited about nextyear, said Platshon with regardsto the teams outlook. Both ourtop offensive and top defensiveplayers in Alex and Forrest are re-

turning.Bowen and Watkins were the

stars of the 2011 team. Bowen, atrue freshman, led the team with2.41 goals per game, which wasgood enough for third in theMPSF. He finished the year with52 goals.

Bowen has surprised every-one,said coach John Vargas earli-er in the season. Rudolph addedthat it is almost unheard of for afreshman to have that type ofgoal-scoring season. His statisticsthis season were so special that hewas named MPSF Newcomer ofthe Year in addition to beingnamed to the All-MPSF FirstTeam. There is still a great upsidefor Bowen, though, as he will belooked at to improve on his de-fense in the offseason.

Watkins,on the other hand, hasas complete a game as anyonecould ask for. Not only is he theteams best 2-meter defender, hewas also tied for second on theteam in scoring this season.Watkins has also been honoredwith an All-MPSF First Team se-lection for his outstanding season.

He is our backbone, Vargassaid. We go as he goes.

Within the first weeks of theseason, Watkins had alreadyeclipsed his season total of sevengoals from last year. He finished

Pac-12 justgot a lot

more fun

Which do you likebetter, Christmasor CoachingCarousel Season?Luckily, one is al-

ready in full swing and the other isright around the corner,but I love mesome hirings and firings more than

just about anything in the world.Col-

lege football fans are so dedicated andravenous that there is no greater joy intheir lives than having a bad coachfired and getting a brand new additionto their family thanks to several mil-lion dollars and three courtesy cars.

But the best news about newcoaches in new places is that they cantotally change the framework of howan entire conference works.That kindof wackiness is exactly what I love somuch about the Pac-12s two newestfamily members Washington Statehiring Mike Leach and Arizona hiringRich Rodriguez is about to make thePac-12 a whole lot more fun.

First of all, Leach and Rodriguezwill bring two explosive offensiveminds into the conference, and thatsan exciting prospect. The Pac-12 al-ready has five of the nations top 25 of-fenses and two of the top 10 (Ore-gon and Stanford) so just imaginewhat it will be like to have Leach andRodriguez added to that mix.

Rodriguez was the guy who turnedWest Virginia into a two-time BCSbowl winner by finding guys like SteveSlaton, Pat White and Noel Devine,and Leachs Texas Tech quarterbacksroutinely threw for more than 5,000yards a year. When you add them tothe conferences already potent offen-sive minds, I get excited just thinkingabout it.

Can you imagine the box scoresthat look like something out ofNCAA 12? Can you see the scoresthat look like they came from a bas-ketball game instead? The Pac-12 willbe like the Anti-SEC!

But secondly,and more important-ly, Rodriguez and Leach will bringtheir two unique (and somewhatbizarre) personalities to the confer-ence something that should be sig-nificantly more exciting for the fansthan the imminent offensive explo-sion.

Simply put,there is no better thingfor any football team than a coachwho loves to stir the pot and talk trash.

For example,a Stanford fans mindshould turn directly to former headcoach Jim Harbaugh, who not onlytook the Cardinal from an also-ran toone of the baddest teams in the coun-try, but shook up conference su-premacy by bad-mouthing USC andgetting into a tiff with Trojan headcoach Pete Carroll.How much betterdid that make the conference? Infi-

nitely better. Immeasurably better.The same thing is true in the NFL

Noyola, Derrick named Pac-12Scholar-Athletes of Year

Mens cross country star ChrisDerrick and womens soccerstandout Teresa Noyola got somegood news Wednesday when theywere both named Pac-12 Scholar-Athletes of the Year in their re-spective sports.

Fresh off his runner-up finishat last weeks NCAA Champi-onships,Derrick will end his colle-

giate career as just the sixth ath-lete in history to finish in the top-10 at the championship meet allfour years,as well as being an 11-time All-American in cross coun-try and track and field.

A native of Naperville, Ill.,Derrick is an economics majorand carries a 3.86 grade-point av-erage.

Noyola is on track to graduatein the spring with a degree in mathand computational science, andthe Palo Alto native sports a 3.52GPA. With eight goals and 14 as-sists this season, she has againhelped lead the No. 1 Cardinal toits fourth-straight College Cupthis weekend.

Along with being undefeatedin her career at home,Noyola is a

three-time First Team All-Pac-12selection both Derrick andNoyola are previous Pac-10 All-Academic team honorees.

Andrew Luck a finalist for WalterCamp and Manning Awards

Redshirt junior quarterbackAndrew Luck was named one offive finalists for the Walter CampPlayer of the Year Award and oneof 10 finalists for the ManningAward on Wednesday.

Luck was also one of the final-ists last year for the award namedafter legendary Yale footballcoach Walter Camp,which is voted

on by the Football Bowl Subdivi-sion head coaches and sports in-formation directors the winnerwill be announced next Thursdayat 8 p.m. on ESPNs SportsCenter.

With 3,170 passing yards and 35touchdowns, the Houston nativeand son of former NFL quarter-back Oliver Luck has played hisway into the conversation formany of the nations top awards,leading Stanford to the No.4 rank-ing and an 11-win season.

That includes Lucks first nomi-nation for the Manning Award,cre-ated in 2004 to honor the accom-plishments of Archie, Peyton andEli Manning.Open only to quarter-backs, previous winners includeCam Newton, Colt McCoy, TimTebow and Matt Leinart. It is the

only award that takes into consider-ation bowl performance, with thewinner being announced on Jan.18.

Miles Bennett-Smith

By TOM TAYLORSENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Stanford womens basket-ball team announced its return tocampus after the Thanksgivingroad trip last night with a 93-44rout of UC-Davis. The Cardinalonly held a lead of three pointshalfway through the first period,but it turned up the heat to put thisgame all but out of reach at thebreak. Stanford (5-1) began thisgame with just one upperclassmanin the starting lineup, senior for-ward Nnemkadi Ogwumike, incomparison with the three seniorsand two juniors of Davis (6-2),andthe lack of experience seemed tohamper the Cardinal in the earlygoing.

The Aggies were more effective

at pressing Stanford on offenseand stole the ball several timesearly on to help it drag the gameback to level with 12:31 remainingin the half. But from 13-13 on-wards, the Card turned its earlyproblems around and began toinch back into the lead and thenrace ahead to double UC-Davisscore with 1:23 left and lead 51-23at the half.

We came out with tremendousenergy and a lot of confidence,ex-plained Davis head coach JenniferGross of the good first few minutesby her team. To start with, we

were playing our defense reallywell,and we had really good actionon our offensive side of the ball.

WOMENS BASKETBALL

UC-DAVIS 44

STANFORD 93

11/30, Maples Pavilion

The last couple of times weveplayed at Stanford,weve been in avery similar position where it cango one way or the other, Grosscontinued. We really tried tobuckle down, and we tried to getsome stops and some scores, butunfortunately it went the otherway, and it turned into a 20-pointgame.

Nnemkadi Ogwumike lookedimpressive the first half, when shenetted 18 points and grabbed ninerebounds, followed closely by hersister, sophomore forward Chiney,who had 20 points and nine re-bounds.But with the game lookingall but won early on,Stanford headcoach Tara VanDerveer could restboth the players recently named tothe Naismith Trophy watch list andgive others who dont regularlystart significant playing time.

While some teams might slowdown when their best playersleave the floor, Stanford refusedto do so.Ten of the 11 players whotook to the floor scored points,and junior forward Joslyn Tinkleand freshman forward BonnieSamuelson both notched careerhighs in points.Tinkle played the

SPORTSJack Blanchat

TRAGEDY STRIKES CARD

DON FERIA/Courtesy of Stanford Athletics

Defensive assistant Chester McGlockton (left) gives pointers to defensive end Ben Gardner

during spring practice. McGlockton, who died yesterday at age 42, was a four-time NFL Pro Bowler.

JASON CHUANG/The Stanford Daily

Senior forward Nnemkadi Ogwumike (above) and her younger sister,sophomore forward Chiney, combined for 38 points and 18 reboundson Wednesday night. After a road matchup against Fresno State onSunday, the Cardinal will take a two-week break for finals.

Ogwumikescrush UC-Davis

Please seeWBBALL,page 7

Please see BLANCHAT,page 7

Please see MWPOLO, page 6

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WRANGLINGIN VEGAS

By PALANI ESWARANCONTRIBUTING WRITER

This weekend the Stanfordwrestling team travels to Las Vegasfor the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Colle-giate Wrestling Invitational. Thetournament starts on Friday, Dec. 2and finishes on Saturday, Dec.3.

Stanford has never competed inthe Vegas Invitational, one of thepremier collegiate competitions inthe country, and looks to bring for-

ward a strong showing against thenations top competition. Numer-ous top-25 teams will be competing,

including Northwestern and Mis-souri, two of the countrys bestteams that have already beatenStanford.

Other teams to watch this week-end are Stanfords fellow Pac-12members: Arizona State, BoiseState, Cal State Bakersfield andOregon State. Although it is earlyin the season, matches against Pac-12 opponents have special impor-tance because they will determineseeding in the Pac-12 Tournamentand possibly the NCAA Tourna-ment.

There is no doubt that all eyeswill be on redshirt senior No.1 NickAmuchastegui (174 pounds) and

junior No. 5 Ryan Mango (133pounds). Both wrestlers are unde-f ea te d t hi s se as on , a ndAmuchastegui and Mango willboth be contenders for not onlyAll-American honors this season,but also national championships.

But its not just Amuchasteguiand Mango who need to send amessage this weekend the entireteam will be looking to show thatthey can compete with the best inthe country.The Card has lost threematches in a row all to rankedopponents and a successfulweekend in Las Vegas would helpthe Cardinal garner national re-spect.

This weekends measure of suc-cess for Stanford will be how manywrestlers advance to Saturday. Fri-day will consist first of play-inmatches to place the lower-seeded

competitors into the 32-man brack-et. Following those initial rounds,the tournament will proceedthrough the quarterfinal matchesand two consolation rounds. If awrestler makes it to Saturday,thereis a good chance he can place andearn points for his team.

The Cardinal takes to the mat inLas Vegas this Friday and Saturday.

Contact Palani Eswaran at palani14@stanford.edu.

the 2011 campaign with 42. Withthat level of offseason improve-ment, only time will tell how highhis ceiling can be for next season.

Two players to look out fornext season will be Rudolph and

redshirt sophomore driver IanGamble. Rudolph started off thisseason slowly on the offensiveend, but picked up his scoringpace significantly at the tail end ofthe season. He finished the yearby netting a hat trick against Cali-fornia in the MPSF third-placegame.

Rudolph spoke highly of hisfellow classmate Gamble, saying,He is a good player, and it iss tart ing to show. Gamblecracked the regular playing rota-tion this season and earned moreand more playing time as the sea-son progressed.

Amid all of this optimism therewere still some definite low points

for the Cardinal. Stanford did notlose to any opponent ranked out-side of the top four nationally, butthey were unsuccessful againstthe elite teams. Outside of theSoCal Tournament, Stanford was

0-7 against the top three teams,losing three times to both USCand California and once in its onlycontest against UCLA.

The Cardinal will also lose twoof its top four scorers to gradua-tion: senior driver Jacob Smithand senior utility Peter Sefton,who received honorable mentionhonors to the All-MPSF team thisyear. Smith has accounted for 156goals in his Stanford career and

was named to the All-MPSF Sec-ond Team.Replacing Jacob will be a huge

challenge for next year, Platshonsaid. He was one of the prolificscorers in Stanford polo historyand was constantly a target ofother top schools defenses.

Stanford has not won a nation-al championship since 2002, but astrong core of returning playersand the possibility of a strong re-cruiting class that includes the toprecruit in the nation should putthem right back in the runningcome next season.

Contact David Perez at davidp3@stanford.edu.

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Senior Dylan Rush (above) and theCardinal wrestlers are looking for astrong showing in Las Vegas thisweekend against some of thenations strongest squads.

Wrestlers head to

Cliff Keen Invitational

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Freshman Alex Bowen (above, left)was one of the bright spots on atalented Cardinal squad this sea-son, but three losses in one weekderailed the Card as it came upshort of a national championship.

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Jets head coach Rex Ryan has madethe entire league more fun to watchby always running his mouth aboutanybody and everybody. So gettingRodriguez and Leach into the Pac-12in one hiring season is like hitting the

jackpot.For example, Rodriguez LOVESto cry during press conferences, andthat could make for some entertain-ing and awkward moments duringPac-12 media days. But Leach willbring a new level of weirdness to theconference that has never been seenbefore.

Hes obsessed with the history ofpirates because he thinks pirateswould make great football players.

Pirates function as a team,Leach once said.There were a lot ofcastes and classes in England at thetime.But with pirates,it didnt matterif you were black,white,rich or poor.The object was to get a treasure.If thecaptain did a bad job,you could justoverthrow him.

He once said his Texas Tech team

lost to Texas A&M because, Ascoaches,we failed to make our coach-ing points more compelling to theplayers than their fat little girlfriends.

He once dispensed dating adviceto a Texas Tech freshman by tellingthe starry-eyed youngster to take agirl on a date to a steakhouse be-cause the girl will be forced to eat infront of you,which girls hate to do,sothey will have to conversate andshow their true self.

Sometimes you cant make thisstuff up but isnt that much betterthan a coach who does nothing butdispense cliches?

So get excited,Pac-12 football fans I know I am for a new era ofquirky quotes and nonstop offense,because its about to take the WestCoast by storm.As long as someonedoesnt get locked inside a storageshed again,that is.

Jack Blanchat aspires to one day beboth a pirate and a head footballcoach,and he doesnt mean working atEastern Carolina or Tampa Bay.Sendhim some more practical and less dan-

gerous job options at blanchat@stan- ford.edu or follow him on Twitter@jmblanchat.

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most time of any Cardinal playerand made personal records with her19 points and nine rebounds, whileSamuelson easily surpassed herprevious career highs after hittingfive three-pointers to finish with 15points.

Asked how she kept makingthose shots, Samuelson gave a sim-ple explanation.

Probably my dad, she said.Ive shot with him since I was little,a lot of hours in the gym.

The Cardinals next test will beagainst Fresno State on the road thisSunday, followed by a two-weekbreak for finals.

Contact Tom Taylor at tom.taylor@stanford.edu.

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