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VIVIAN WONG/Staff Photographer The Row office of Student Housing, above. Housing placed some Row staff in temporary rooms while other residences awaited the finishing touches of capital im-provement projects. House staffers said the delays have disrupted some set-up and decoration, but they are working to be ready for residents on Thursday.

When asked about the potential ef-fects of construction on staffers, RowAssociate Dean Nate Boswell de-clined to comment.

Miller said that permits were re-quired before houses could be inhabit-ed, thus delaying staffers move-indates.

There was not much [Housing]could do;they needed to get permits tomove everyone into the house, hesaid.Its pretty cool that they could geteveryone in at the time that they did.

Hiller agreed,say ing,It was obvi-ous that [Storey] needed to be reno-vated.

Whitney said now that interiorwork is done, landscaping can comenext.In the meantime,fences surroundthe perimeters of the three Row hous-es,but the houses are still accessible.

The new landscaping plan,once itis fully implemented, will make for awonderful outdoor living spacearound and between the houses,Whitney said.Bob and La Casa Ital-iana are now directly connected withwalkways.The area between the hous-es will become a park-like sharedcourtyard, with trees, benches, a bas-ketball court and grass volleyballarea.

Hiller said his staff would addressissues as they arise when residentsbegin moving in on Thursday, butoverall was happy with the improve-ments.

Were making it work, and wereoptimistic that well have everythingready to go on our end by the time theresidents move in on Thursday, hesaid, although his theme suggestion of freshest house on campus Storeystill smells of fresh paint was nixedby his staffers immediately.

Contact Kate Abbott at kmabbott@ stanford.edu.

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During four short years,think twice about Stanford

T o those of you who are reading TheDaily for the very first time: congratu-lations. You have taken the first of many steps in what will undoubtedly be anamazing four years of your life here at Stan-ford.While a dizzying array of new faces andopportunities whirl by,you took the time tosit down and read a few lines about the go-ings on of this crazy place.This seemingly in-nocuous act of relaxation is actually some-thing much greater.What you are doing is in-vesting in your budding stay on the Farm.What you are doing is giving a damn.

As you will no doubt come to discover, if you havent already,there are limitless thingsto do on campus,with four years rightly feel-ing too short to fit even half of it all in. Withall this raging about you, it is easy to getcaught up in your student group,your sorori-ty,your major or your sports team. It is easyto not pay attention to student government,changes in housing policies or the status of alumni fundraising. It is very easy to pass bydemonstrators in White Plaza without oncethinking about the issues for which theystand.And it takes literally no effort to walkby the table with the stack of Daily issues andnot think twice.

You, however, did. And for the rest of your time on the Farm,we hope you will con-tinue to pick up The Daily and take the timeto think and talk about the events that areshaping the school because this effort onyour part helps ensure the vibrancy thatmakes Stanford one of the worlds premierinstitutions of higher learning.A public dia-logue,even at times rancorous and emotion-al,is the very foundation of the academy. Bykeeping up to date on Stanford sports and

news,you are able to participate in and shapethat dialogue.

It is not difficult to argue that many of theissues covered in these pages simply do notmatter,that changes in dining or ResidentialEducation do not impact your life in theslightest. Particularly when the sun is shiningon the palms dotting the Quad,or when that20-pager is rapidly coming due,its difficult todisagree.Leaving boring meetings and densereadings to others feels like a pretty solid de-cision to make.And with good people in theASSU, admission, the office of the viceprovost for undergraduate education, anddepartmental front desks, why worry?

There are many well-intentioned studentsand staffers on this campus whose interest s liewith improving Stanford for you and every-one else. But odds are sometime in the nextfour years,they will make a decision or take astand with which you would disagree. Butwhen you do not keep reading and thinkingabout Stanford, it doesnt really matter whatyou think.For good or ill,you are putting your college experience in the hands of folks youdo not know, whom you will not meet andwho never may have the chance to hear outyour concerns. You become a passive playerin four of the more absurd years of your life.

So give a damn. Take the time to try andunderstand how this place works, to get toknow the candidates for student govern-ment, to ask your RA and the dining hallmanager about their positions and their in-terests. Read The Daily. It matters lesswhether or not you agree with what has beenwritten.It matters more that you are payingattention.

Oh,and go Cardinal Football.

I f New Student Orientation is about onething,its about hearing speeches.Most of them are self-congratulatory, recountingthat percent-admitted statistic that just keepsgetting smaller or the veritable Model U.N.that makes up the international-studentssubsection. My year, at the Discover Stan-ford assembly, Etch first went into great de-tail about the kid who had already been pub-lished for his research in robots, then talkedabout six more people before he mentionedMichelle Wie. Its a good little ego stroke orinsecurity provoker, but mostly its a setupfor where he goes next: an exhortation of theentire freshmen class to fail, because failurepromotes learning.

Its a jarring piece of advice in the middleof an otherwise inspiring speech,partially be-cause of the arrogance it betrays:that we asStanford students really have succeeded ateverything in our lives, to the point that weneed to intentionally fail in order to be prop-er human beings.Thank God there arent anyundercover Kal fans in the audience.Its a pi-quant suggestion, though, because eventhough Etch mostly just means, Take hardclasses so we can look good,hes kind of gota point,though you wont really need to try inorder to fail.Even if you make it out of herewithout a dreaded NP, or even an RP, onyour transcript, you will fail at something,and you will fail someone.

How do I know this will happen? It turnsout college is not just four years of learningor self-discovery, but also four years of growing up,which you cant do without mak-ing mistakes,sometimes huge ones.Remem-ber the last four years of your life you justspent in high school.I have serious questionsabout your character if youre not thorough-ly disgusted with your 14-year-old self andhis/her/per conduct.

Whats more, youre finally on your ownand riding high on that wave of vindicationthats been lasting ever since you loaded upyour application Web page at 6:00:00 PMEST on March 31.After all, you had alreadyspotted the cognitive dissonance from a mileaway. They keep trying to parent you whiletheyre in and out of therapy or in the middleof a divorce proceeding. Eventually youlearn to tune most of it out and just recognizethat all their advice about how to treat otherpeople is really just about how to treat them,since theyre the only people you know in-side and out at this point in your life anyway,and theyre your parents. That letter of ac-ceptance is proof that throughout it all, youknew what you were doing,so youre going totrust your instincts from now on.

But the failure will come,rest assured,andsoon enough youll be back longing for thedays when lying to your parents about goingto the library was the greatest moral compro-mise you ever made.Youll be on the receiv-ing end first,probably from your dorm mates,who never knew anything but Stern Love.If youre lucky, itll be followed by a Sorry,man, but chances are that person will con-tinue on like nothing ever happened, mostlikely because he/she/zes got a hugemidterm coming up.And then, soon enough,youll pay it forward.

Youll become the Person Who Booted

All Over the Hallway and Didnt Clean It Upor the Person Who Mooches Way Too MuchWeed but Gets Self-Righteous When Con-fronted About It. Or maybe the Person WhoFlakes Out after Over-Committing Himself,Leaving Everyone Else in the Group Hold-ing the Bag. Or the Person Whose ExcessiveCriticism is Driving Your Close Friend Deep-er into a State of Depression. Or the SoberGuy Who Kept Going Even Though She WasFar Too Drunk to Respond to Anything,Much Less Consent.In some way,you will dosomething that will reveal that the threadcount of moral fibers in the oh-so-uniquetapestry of you is far closer to 150 than to the1,500 you were so sure it was during ethicsclass.

And youll probably get away with it.Youll also move on from it, as will the

main target from your damage, and youllboth go on to realize all that brilliant poten-tial that you carry.With any luck,youll use itto solve all the other problems you seearound you,the ones everyone else is too ab-sorbed in to notice.

Dont get too down on yourself just yet,because youre not a bad person, I dontthink. You just have some growing up to do.Eventually youll learn to despise your 18-year-old self just as much as you despise your14-year-old one, and thats all Etch was real-ly asking of you in the first place.

Want to learn what type of person Peter was asa freshman? E-mail him at petermc@stan-

ford.edu.

EDITORIAL

T hese past couple years, I worked forThe Stanford Daily behind the scenesas a graphics editor. I remember whileI waited for graphics requests, I read thecolumns a good deal of them during myrun there.I always wanted to write a columnof my own, but I never knew what I had tooffer.

Now,here goes: my experience as a queer,trans-identified person at Stanford.It has been a positive one. I came into

Stanford as lesbian and didnt come out astrans until winter quarter sophomore year.Despite a couple bumps here and there withthe pronoun change, Stanford has acceptedme for me. When I consulted the registrarsoffice, they changed my preferred name toCristopher Marc within the week.My profes-sors who knew me before my transition ad-dressed me by my preferred name and pro-noun without a second thought. I was al-lowed to study overseas at Oxford as a guy.And as if I couldnt love my university more,Cardinal Care announced its coverage of transgender surgery beginning in the 2010-11school year.Stanford is a mighty fine place tobe trans.

But Stanford isnt the real world. Myname on StanfordWho is Cristopher Marc,but thats only my preferred name.The regis-trar allows me to use it in some instances,butnot in others. My preferred name shows upon class rosters, but my legal name,Cristina

Marie, is still printed on official documents,such as my transcript, ID and housing forms.The registrars office said it wouldnt be ableto make my names consistent until I legallychange my name a process in Californiathat costs hundreds of dollars.Were not evengetting started on changing the gender mark-er on my birth certificate.

There also are the rather uncomfortableexplanations at interviews about why thename on my transcript doesnt match the oneon my resume.Or, at the supermarket whenIm carded buying beer, the cashier starespuzzlingly from my face back to my name

and picture on the ID, then back to my faceagain, until he finally laughs awkwardly andtells me he thought I was a dude. That onetime when I was in a club in London,a coupledrunk girls kept asking me if I was a boy or agirl and even went as far as trying to touch meand check.

The real world is out there, and the realworld isnt going to be fun.Once Im looking

for jobs or applying to grad school, a simplemention of,Oh,Im trans,might not fly,es-pecially in a world where an English majorlike me might not be able to find a job here,and would have to look for work in placesthat might not dig the whole queer thing.

This year is going to be a big one for me.Not only am I a senior writing an honors the-

sis and being an RA a frosh dorm (Serralove), but Im also looking at a couple bigsteps in my transition.I need my transcript tomatch my preferred name in time for gradu-ate school applications,so Im going to courtto change my legal name.Im also about tostart the process of hormone therapy so I canfinally treat my testosterone deficiency, asI like to affectionately call it.

The goal of this column is to documentthis journey. I want this to get people won-dering,to get them talking. I want people tounderstand. Im not saying that my experi-ence is the definitive transgender experi-ence.My story is simply one of many.

Perhaps,a couple years down the line, ayoung transgender Stanford student whohas just come out will look for some re-sources. They will type Stanford transgen-derinto Google,grasping for straws andthis column will pop up in the Daily archives.Yeah,its only a small handful of articles,fullof weird little anecdotes and observationsfrom this small Filipino transboy who gradu-ated years and years ago. But its at least

something.I remember when I was first com-ing out, I was desperate for at least some-thing, because something was better thannothing.

So if youre reading this,Stanford studentfrom the future: this is for you, and I hopereading these words will make your transi-tion a little bit easier.

Stanford, I offer you my experiences inthe form of this column. Sit back and enjoymy journey into manhood.

Continue the conversation. Write to Cris at [email protected].

I f you listen to any of Roy Zimmermansbrilliant political satire (YouTube him),youll have heard of this lyric:America isa Japanese fiddler / in Branson, Missouri /doing Louie Armstrong.

That one line says a lot to me about thiscampus. It is more than a description of ourdiversity. It is a description of the ridiculous

juxtapositions present in daily Stanford life.The examples go on and on: the ugly roaringhead of Meyer is located next to the elegantQuad.Our police enforce local bike laws butoften turn a blind eye to drinking laws,exceptif we bike while intoxicated. CondoleezzaRice and the rest of the Hoover Institutionare members of our otherwise liberal faculty.We use Axess, yet we invented Google. Weare diverse, but not when it comes to ourcomputer science majors genders or theKappa Sig chat list. Premeds seem to alwayscut each others throats. Bike thefts and thehonor code coexist (we dont cheat, but wewont give up stealing?).A church defines thecenter of our decidedly secular campus.Many of us have sunny dispositions despitedifficult issues of depression and procrastina-tion.

Could we be weirder? That is to say,couldwe be more American?

When I went home from campus for thefirst time, I was under the opposite impres-sion, still under the trance of the all-impor-tant Stanford bubble created in my first quar-ter here. So, just to show everyone how just

how entitled and privileged I was as a collegestudent,I made sure that I carried at least oneStanford article everywhere I went in my lit-tle Ohio suburb.At the airport,my Stanfordsweatshirt was on top of a Red Zone t-shirt,complete with bright red Stanford sweat-pants. Whenever it was raining,I flashed myStanford umbrella from the car for the worldto see. I looked like a Cardinal logo every-where I went. I realize only now, as I write

this, how irritating I must have been to myfriends and family.Although not all of you have gone to my

lengths to emphasize your Stanford-ness toan apathetic populace, I have brushed upagainst this psychological concept of entitle-ment in my peers here.So,readers,let us popthe bubble for a second.Let us realize that allof us convert ADP to ATP and then back.Allof us put our pants on one foot at a time. In

summary,everybody poops.It is better for us to assume that our placesas Stanford students are really like the placesof every other college student.Although thisassumption may not be totally true, it em-powers us to let go of the opposite:an ill-con-ceived isolation from the world around us.Realizing that our future is inextricablylinked with that of our peers forces us towork and think on larger spheres of politicaland social action, making a real differencebeyond the Stanford community.

We may be the cream of the crop,but still,we are mostly made of high-fructose cornsyrup like every other American college stu-dent.We are all hapless individuals, just witha few more Olympic- and Nobel-worthy aspi-rations, continually confused by the wholequestion of what it means to be a real man orwoman in todays society.Our place and fate,like the rest of America,is to fail and succeedover and over again until, as Kipling so fa-mously wrote, we can treat both those im-posters just the same.

So, fellow readers, I implore you: look

around, further than the walls of the Quad.Do work in your time here that has direct im-pact on a society larger than your school.Make an effort to embrace the high-fructosecorn syrup similarities within all of us andlet go of the rest.

To find out exactly how to break a bubble withcorn syrup,send Aaditya a comment at [email protected].

CrisBautista

AadityaShidham

Welcome, behind the scenes

Breaking the bubble

Failure is not just an option;its inevitable

Even if you make it outof here without a

dreaded NP, or evenan RP, on your

transcript,you will failat something,and you

will fail someone.

Despite a couple of bumps here andthere with the

pronoun change,Stanford has

accepted me for me.

Write to us. SUBMIT PHOTOS OR VIDEOS.SEND LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [email protected] OP-EDS [email protected]

SEND PHOTOS/VIDEOS [email protected]

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Stanford Daily File PhotoFountain-hopping, a summer favorite, continues into fall quarter with the arrival of freshmen this week. For tips to freshmen from upperclassmen, please see Features, page A1.


at this point to add syllabus informa-tion to Explore Courses.

The Registrars Office created aninterface between Axess and theStanford Bookstore (eFollett),Shirreffs said. We asked depart-ments and faculty to submit textbookinformation by May 24th in order to

facilitate passing this information tothe bookstore and to assist the book-store to obtain best possible pricingon tex tbooks.

The only expense to Stanford wasthe cost of creating the interface, hesaid.

Gawley said that an early deadlinefor textbook information from pro-fessors allows the bookstore to getthe best possible prices on used text-books for students.

For students, the new textbook in-formation location is a convenience

that, while helpful, hasnt been welladvertised.

I hadnt heard about the newmandate, said Yashraj Narang 11,who said he usually buys his textbooksonline for a better price by finding theinformation from sources likewww.syllabus.stanford.edu.If I knewthis information was [on Axess],thatdprobably be a lot easier.

Although the mandates goal is toprovide students with information sothey can make textbook purchasesfrom any provider, Gawley doesntthink the mandate will affect book-store sales.

Students are pretty savvy, shesaid. If they wanted the book infor-

mation, theyd seek it out and find it.We dont look at it as a loss of money.The bookstore traditionally is theorganization that collects textbookinformation from professors, but, asGawley said, the law places the re-sponsibility for compliance with thenew mandate on the University regis-trar. In the end, though, both thebookstore and the registrar agree thatthe professors are the ones who havecontrol over the information.

This all works on what we obtainfrom the instructors, Gawley said.

Although we strongly encour-aged faculty to submit textbook infor-mation in a timely fashion using thenew resources, the responsibility tocomply in the end rests with them,Shirreffs said.

The Higher Education Opportu-nity Act stipulates other cost-cuttingrequirements,such as selling bundledtextbooks as separate items,and em-phasizing transparency between pub-lishers and professors when dis-

cussing textbook prices.Contact Ellen Huet at ehuet@stan-

ford.edu.

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Stanford and all other American universities are now required to provide rele-vant textbook information especially book prices, editions and Internation-al Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) for courses at the time of registration,in accordance with the Higher Education Opportunity Act, a law that took ef-fect on July 1.

...the responsibility

to comply in the end

rests with [faculty].

STEVEN SHIRREFFS,assistant University

registrar

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fective in educating them about col-lege alcohol issues and 77 percentsaid they learned something usefulabout alcohol from the program. Al-coholEdu is the online-based alcoholeducation program introduced in2006 and required of all incomingfreshmen at Stanford.

The Substance Abuse Preventionand Policy Office constructed the sur-vey,said manager Ralph Castro.Psy-chiatry faculty and UndergraduateAdvising and Research staff vettedthe survey,he said.

Stanford sent the survey to eachclass during the spring of the academ-ic year the class completed AlcoholE-du, Castro said. In four years, 1,685students completed the survey, a re-sponse rate of approximately 27 to 33percent.

The University had a materialstake in the outcome. In January,theUniversity cited the success of Alco-holEdu and other education meas-ures when it gained exemption fromSanta Clara Countys social hostdrinking ordinance. The rule allowsthe county to fine property ownersand those responsible for hosting un-derage drinking gatherings up to$700. Stanfords exemption cameunder the stipulation that it continueits historically intensive efforts to pre-vent unsafe and underage drinkingand regularly report the results to thecounty.Castro said the county is awarethat Stanford uses AlcoholEdu, butthat the program is only one piece of much larger alcohol education andsafety efforts on campus.We contin-ue to strive to have a cutting edge,em-pirically based alcohol and drug edu-cation and early intervention pro-gram at Stanford,Castro wrote in ane-mail to The Daily.Our main goal isto educate students to think criticallyand make healthy, responsible andsafe decisions.

Meanwhile,students responses tothe survey were mixed.According toCastro,only 22 percent of respondingstudents reported having a construc-tive conversation about the program,while 63 percent reported engaging ina negative conversation about theprogram,a finding Castro called sur-prising. He said he hopes to chal-

lenge students negative perceptionsof the program and encourage themto discuss its merits as well as its neg-ative aspects.

Esther Vigil 14, who is currentlyparticipating in AlcoholEdus onlinetutorial, said she thinks the programwill have a minimal effect on studentspartying and drinking habits.Vigil val-ues AlcoholEdu as a way of openingdiscussions about partying safely, butthinks the program doesnt create val-ues,only reinforces them.

Depending on how much atten-tion we paid to the presentation,wereall better informed,Vigil wrote in ane-mail to The Daily.When it comes tohow we drink,however,our decisionsare influenced by the atmospherewere in and the experience weve hadwith alcohol and partying in the pastimmensely more than by the twohours we spent trying to multi-taskwhile the computer showed us animat-ed figures in different states of inebri-ation.

Matt Wong 11, who took Alco-holEdu before his freshman year atStanford and was a staff member infreshman dorm Larkin last year, saysstudents who come to college withvarying experiences with alcohol willexperiment and find their own limits,regardless of any structured alcoholeducation.

Having honest role models in adorm can provide a more honest anduseful view of alcohol use on cam-pus,Wong said.With that said, addi-tional information about alcoholsafety cant ever hurt.

Contact Elizabeth Rosen at [email protected].

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Stanford Daily File PhotoThe University announced this summer it would fund AlcoholEdu for four more years, citing survey results about the program that suggest it works at Stanford. Now, administratorsare explaining the methodology behind their survey, whose results are part of a package Stanford presents to the county to keep its exemption from a local alcohol ordinance.

...additionalinformation about

alcohol safetycant ever hurt.

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By CAROLINE CASELLIDESK EDITOR

After a whirlwind day of hauling belongings,tracking new faces and darting from infor-mation sessions to the opening convocationceremony on the Quad,new Stanford stu-dents and their parents return to the resi-

dences for an event simply entitled Welcome Homeon the New Student Orientation (NSO) schedule.Thedescription of the event is understated, yet clear:Theconclusion of this event is the typical time for you to saygoodbye to your student.

But for some parents, the concept of goodbye isopen to wider interpretation.While their children maynow reside somewhere else,some parents common-ly referred to as helicopter parents for their tenden-cy to hover overhead go to great lengths to remainheavily involved in their college students lives.

In my experience, helicopter parents are thosewho want to do the heavy lifting for their student re-mind them of deadlines, fix things for them, find an-swers for them and be a constant presence in theirlives,said Dean of Freshmen and Undergraduate Ad-vising Julie Lythcott-Haims 89.

Lythcott-Haims, commonly referred to by studentsas Dean Julie, wrote in the Chicago Tribune on the

topicof heli-

copter par-ents in 2005.

She explainedthat colleges and

universities beganto notice this phe-

nomenon of increas-ingly involved parents

who were staying beyonddrop-off to ask questions,meet with advisers and ques-tion the fairness of policies and processes in the earlypart of the decade.Since then,this group of parents hasonly continued to grow, even following children intograduate school and the workplace.

We know that their actions are rooted in love andthey do it to be helpful,Lythcott-Haims said.But if they stopped to think about it for a minute,I think theywould see that they are undermining their ultimategoal, which is to raise a human from childhood to self-sufficient adulthood.

Their behavior also sends quite a discouragingmessage, she added,which is, I dont trust you to beable to handle this on your own.

Many Stanford students felt their parents pres-ences in college, especially during the initial adjust-ment months away from home,but few felt that Momand Dads actions were overbearing or oppressive.

My parents literally flew from Texas like everyweekend my first fall at Stanford, remembered KitGarton 10, a Human Biology major from Dallas.They claimed it was to go to the football games, butthat was back in the day when the football team wasawful.

However, Garton didnt mind herparents periodic visits and even cited

several benefits that stemmed from them.When they came,they always offered to take me

and my new friends out to eat,which was always appre-ciated, she said.It was nice because now all my col-lege friends know my parents and my family.And theynever hung around the dorm or anything.

Others, like Karen Nesbitt 11, a senior lacrosseplayer, felt that having an older sibling who had alreadybeen through the off-to-college routine eased thefarewell for both her and her mother.

My mom came out with me to move-in Imfrom Ohio,said Nesbitt. I think I was too wrapped upin the excitement of moving in and being on my own toreally be sad that I was moving across the U.S.My momhad done the same thing two years before with myolder sister, so we kind of had the drill down,I think.

Without being physically present, Nesbitts mothersent lots of packagesto Karen through the mail as afriendly reminder of love from home.

Im a senior now and she still does, Nesbitt said.Christmas lights, Halloween decorations, Easter bas-kets, finals study-break materials [like] trashy maga-zines, food,all the good stuff. She even includes thingsfor my roommates.

But not all parents are so benignly involved.Callingand e-mailing multiple times a day or contacting pro-fessors with grade complaints on behalf of their chil-dren,for example,may be more debilitating than help-ful in this transition to independence.

Both Lythcott-Haims and Greg Boardman,the viceprovost for student affairs,emphasize that parents stillhave an important role in their childrens develop-ment, albeit probably different than the role they heldfor the previous 18 years.

We often say that our primary relationship is withstudents, and we view parents as our partners in pro-moting students success, Boardman said. We wantparents to know that we appreciate their involvement,and at the same time we expect students to develop andgrow as individuals during their undergraduate ca-reers.

Lythcott-Haims mentioned outreach efforts by theUniversity to parents that are intended to conveyboth our respect for the important role they still play inthe lives of their adult children and our philosophy of treating the student as an adult.

These outreach efforts include an annual letterfrom President Hennessy,a quarterly newsletter,a Par-ent Guide, a parent tab on the University website, a he lp li ne f or r ou ti ne q ue st io ns([email protected]) and a set of events on the firstday of NSO designed to answer frequently asked ques-tions.

Boardman feels that an open dialogue may helpparents and students reach a comfortable middleground and alleviate some of the tension and anxietyboth parties can feel.

I suggest that parents and students have a conver-sation about this separation and what each person isfeeling, he said. It may be possible to agree on a reg-ular check-in session by text, e-mail or phone so par-ents feel involved and students dont feel their newlives are being unexpectedly interrupted.

As freshmen finish moving in and the goodbye ap-


They claimed they

wanted to go to thefootball games...

KIT GARTON 10

F EATURESF EATURES

By JENNY THAICONTRIBUTING WRITER

Idont have a photographic memory,but I dont need one to remembermove-in day,the first step along mycollege journey: the ring of shockedeardrums, the personalized greet-

ings, the surprised cries of delight uponmeeting roommates.

It was one of the busiest weeks I hadever gone through. Socializing was notonly rapid, but rampant. Everyoneseemed to want to make friends witheveryone else. Every freshman was quickto take advantage of the dining halls all-you-can-eat meals. If that werentenough,every minute of NSO was filledwith assemblies, workshops, social mix-ers,you name it.

Overwhelming? It was just the begin-ning.

At first, classes seemed easy. Insteadof the old high school 8-a.m.-to-2-p.m.routine with seven to eight classes, there

were four classes dispersed throughoutthe week. But many students, includingme, quickly found the sentiment of easewas only an illusion. Maybe Chem31Xlecture met for 50 minutes three times aweek,but those freehours in the after-noon, when we might rather be playingvideo games or hanging out with friends,came with a hefty price.There were sim-ply not enough hours in the day to geteverything done. Sleep deprivation be-came a chronic ailment.

Too much excitement can be danger-ous. I wanted to take 19 units and fourclasses. I signed up for 15 clubs. I evenplanned time in my schedule to indulge inmy fantasy-books fetish.In short, it was ayear-long ban on proper sleep.

Then,the third week of fall quarter, Igot a generous dose of swine flu.

Some called it misfortune. Otherscalled it a failure to wash hands with run-ning water for at least 20 seconds.I calledit bullheaded, I-should-have-seen-this-coming stupidity.

It was the worst week I had at Stan-ford. I couldnt go to classes. (Heavenknows I tried to get to chem lecture,but

the ground spun wildly on my feet, pre-venting me from leaving the building.)My throat stabbed with hot miniaturesabers, those aching chills and thatstuffed-up nose the whole nine yards.

During those agonizing hours, thesame delirious thoughts kept repeatingthemselves in disjointed, abrupt jolts:Idont want to be here. I want to go

home.I couldnt go home. Instead,Stanfordended up bringing home to me.

My roommate helped out with er-rands,running the risk of illness by beingin the same room.The RAs checked onme regularly to ask if I was ok.

These were small gestures, but theymeant so much to me.It was then that Irealized I was not alone. There werehelping hands every step of the way.

As the weeks flew by, I slowly beganto learn not only the names of everyonein Alondra,but about their pasts,their in-terests and their families. Gradually, Icrept out from my shell, like a wakingtortoise as it tentatively tests the air,inching out to see what all the commo-tion is about. The dorm had become asecond home.

I did things I never dared to do before.Band run was painfully wild,and was thefirst time I had stayed up past midnight.Secret Snowflake was a polarizing expe-rience; in some of the dares, I have

learned more about my fellow Alondransthan I had originally cared to know. Bestof all, doors were always open. Peopleambled around the hallways, their headspoking into rooms for no other reasonother than to just hang out.

My dorm mates agreed with what Icame to feel.I couldnt have asked for amore awesome group of people to sharefreshman year with,said Maria Dogero13.

I am positive that my summers willbe spent reminiscing on the days when Iwas watching epic movies [and] getting toknow some truly amazing people, ScottThao 13 wrote in an e-mail to the Alon-dra chat list that year.

The Alondra that we made will al-ways be in my mind and heart,sa id Do-minique Dabija 13

As summer draws to a close, the realfun begins. But as I learned, activitiesalone dont complete the Stanford expe-rience.Its the accompanying bubbly sen-sation in the stomach, the anticipation of seeing those familiar faces.

Contact Jenny Thai at [email protected].

By HELENAVILLALOBOS

Its that time of the yearagain.The signs abound,from terrified newbies try-ing to navigate their bikesaround the Circle of Death

to a campus recharged with enthusi-asm and adventure.The freshmen arehere.

I can feel their excitement radiating inwaves all the way from Middle-of-Nowhere,Texas,and I cannot help but think of my firstday on the Farm the year before.Sometimeswhen I look back on that day,I try to forget the cringe-worthy moments. But most of the time,I remember theexperience with fondness.

Most people look forward to move-in day at Stanford.While I was indeed thrilled about moving in and finallycounting myself among the Stanford student body,you couldsay I was a bit apprehensive.

And by that, I mean my palms were sweating and heartwas beating out of my chest.

I had spent the better part of the past nine months excitedabout the adventures I would encounter at Stanford. Eversince I received that glorious letter of acceptance,I often pic-tured move-in day.In my head it went like this:arrive at Stan-ford,meet super-awesome roommate,unpack bags,send par-ents back to Texas, study hard and party on.

It went nothing like that.For starters, I couldnt sleep the night before.I knew that

the next day,there would be no going back.I was quiet the whole car ride to Stanford. My dad looked

at me nervously through the rearview mirror.Hey, cheer up,mija ,he said.It feels like were dropping you off at juvie,notStanford.

As we pulled up to Roble Hall,there were students holdingsigns and blowing horns, just like the pictures in the Stanfordinformation pamphlet. My jitters slowly started to dissipate.

Even before getting a chance to get my keys,there werepeople coming at me from all directions.Some offered to helpwith my luggage and one wanted to know my name so the DJcould shout it over the intercom alongside Party in theUSA.

A redhead walked over and introduced himself.Hey,youmust be Helena, he said.Im Red,your RA. Quack.

No lie. He quacked.I immediately felt a bond of kinshipbecause,much to the chagrin of my family,my ringtone was aquacking duck.

Red would later prove to be one of the quirkiest and mostcreative people I have met at Stanford,as well as the best RAany lost freshman could ask for. He explained how he builtVersailles inside his dorm room.He even let us play with liq-

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gen duringhall meetings.

If the extensivedecorations didnt convey

how serious Roble was aboutthe Willy Wonka theme, the man-

made chocolate waterfall situated in themain entrance did the trick.I was shocked at

how many superlatives I had used to describe Stanford evenbefore reaching my room.

My mom and I walked through the maze that is Roble Hallpretending to know where we were going. A friendly Asianman looking like a true Stanford tourist and proud parent,complete with a video camera around his neck, approachedme like we were old buddies.I did what any other decent per-son would do:wave and act like I know him.

Are you Helena? he asked.I hesitated,skeptical about who he was and how he knew

me.Turns out he was my roommates dad,and he was just aslost as we were.After two rides up and down the elevator andanother two trips via the stairs,we found my room.

The first thing that came to view was stuff four girlsworth of stuff. The beds were everywhere, the desks wereeverywhere,the clothes were everywhere and there was a LilWayne poster staring me directly in the eye.

Even though expectations had so far been completely off target, I was spot-on about one thing: I had the best room-mates.Soon after the traditionally awkward first meeting, westarted talking like we had known each other forever. Out-wardly we were different,but we meshed well.Our culturaldiversity prompted Anne,Jen,Alyssa and me to joke that ourroom looked like an advertisement for the United Nations.

Meeting my roommates put me at ease, but the pit of theday was saying goodbye to my parents on the Roble lawn.Myfamily is kind of like the Mexican ve rsion of My Big Fat GreekWedding,so goodbyes are never easy.Not even the sight of my

HELICOPTER PARENTSHAVINGA HARDTIME LETTING GO IS OK .

HOVERING , NOT SO MUCH .

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make for interesting conversation.

4. Try out all the dining halls andcampus eateries. My freshman hallwould have what affectionately be-came known as Ricker dinner once aweek where wed ditch our normaldining hall in favor of Ricker Dining,Erin Inman 13 said. Although wemay have thought we were getting

better food, in actuality we were justtaking the time to slow down andtruly enjoy our meal and our friends.If youre still not satisfied, there areplenty of fruit trees around campus.

5. Blow the bubble as big as youcan... by noticing the little things that

Stanford has to offer,such as GreenLibrary and its media collection, 5-SURE, speaker events, the Mar-guerite, FLiCKS, Career Fair (grabsome free stuff!), Cantor, sunshineand many patches of grass.

6.Find a good study place. Try dif-ferent niches at Green and loungesin department buildings.Its a goodidea to take advantage of the abun-dance of California sunshine duringthe beginning of the school year be-fore winter rolls around, said LillySath 12.Its always great to kill twobirds with one stone when you canstudy outside on a field and soak upsome sun at the same time. Hint:once it turns into a good nap spot, itstime to find a new one.

7. Take pictures. Do not be mis-taken as a tourist.

8. Get involved. In absolutely

anything that you want. No rush if you havent found your thing rightaway.Try a broad range,but be care-ful not to over-commit.Your room-mate and dorm mates will hate youless when they are not woken up at 7a.m. by the perpetual pounding andshouting that accompany roll-outs.

9. Make friends. Really, you haveno excuses. Really [put] yourself out there and [get] to know the peo-ple who will surround you for thenext four years of your life,BrittanyUeno 12 said.I wouldnt say to tryand befriend everyone everywhere,but having a close-knit group of dorm friends or just someone to talk

to you when school gets rough is es-sential during the first year awayfrom home. And hang onto yourfrosh FaceBook. You never knowwhen it will come in handy!

10. Remember that Stanford ac-cepted you. And that you choseStanford. Take care of yourself, beappreciative of others, and take ab-solutely nothing for granted. Trywalking to your classes for at least awhole day to slow things down.Youare just beginning your part in one of the greatest legacies.No pressure.

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roommates John Goodman look-a-like father weeping and slobberingover his little girl was enough to cheerme up.

But there was no time to dwell.There were more people to meet,classes to pick and student groups to

join. Stanford that day, full of whizzing bikes and I love fresh-men pins,offered but a small tasteof what would come next.

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proaches, Lythcott-Haims andBoardman say they hope to provideempathy and reassurance for theparents of the Class of 2014.

Parents of Stanford studentshave worked hard to help their stu-dent get to this point, and althoughthey may feel great pride and satis-faction there is also a great deal of wistfulness, Lythcott-Haims said.

My advice is simply that parents

allow themselves to experience boththe joy and pain of this separation.These feelings are real and the Uni-versity is quite empathetic about itall, so there is no need to hide thesefeelings on move-in day.

Its understandable that parentswant to feel connected to their sonsand daughters whom theyve workedhard to raise, Boardman added. Iencourage them to have faith in theirchildren and trust that their childrenwill make good choices as they con-tinue to grow and mature.

Contact Caroline Caselli at caro-

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At this point,you are pretty much guar-anteed some form of outrageous scan-dal at MTVs Video Music Awards.

Just look at some events from the past:DianaRoss grabbing Lil Kims boob,Madonna andBritneys girl-on-girl smooch and, of course,last years Kanye-gate. With that in mind,2010s edition was a tedious letdown. TheMTV gods ought to be glad for Kanye Westbecause their bland production had littlemore to run on than the fumes of last yearthrough its three-hour-plus runtime.

The preshow was fairly entertaining,if onlybecause we learned Ke$has mini dress wasself-made out of garbage bags which, com-bined with her ratty Rapunzel braid and whatappeared to be some sort of dead creaturewrapped around her neck,reassured her spotas the reigning mess of all things drunk andtrashy. Lady Gaga brought class to the whitecarpet flanked with four discharged membersof U.S. Armed Forces to speak out againstDont Ask, Dont Tell policies, remindingaudiences that No one person is more valu-able than another person.

Eminem kicked off the night with NotAfraid which segued into Love the Way YouLie. The latter featured a surprise perform-ance from Rihanna who seemed to be chan-neling Carrie from Sex and the Cityin a longwhite tutu and bedazzled headband.Howev-er, the hands down best showing of the nightwas from English alternative artist Florenceand the Machine with a rendition of DogDays Are Over.The performance was majes-tic in every sense of the word,from the trippy,Hindi-inspired blue women writhing on thefloor to Florence Welchs impeccable vocals.Unfortunately, the high from her perform-ance was quickly extinguished by an uncom-fortable, out-of-place transition to TravieMcCoy with Billionaire.

But what everyone was really waiting forwas the musical showdown between TaylorSwift and Kanye West.Swift,dolled up with anew Grace Kelly do, went first, debuting amelodramatic ditty she had previously writtenon the whole debacle.Unless you paid closeattention,the vague lyrics made it hard to tellwhether or not Swift was really forgiving West.However,key phrases like 32,still growing upnowand today is never too late to be brand

newindicate that she probably has absolvedhim of his past transgression.As the much-bal-lyhooed closer of the show,West similarly in-troduced a new song Runaway.Where Swiftlyrically beat around the bush,West cut rightto the point,exposing his vulnerability and re-gret while throwing in choice words likescumbagand jerk-off.While he may havefallen from grace last year, West has miracu-lously secured his big comeback check theloud Kanye! chants at the end of his per-formance.

A couple of side notes Modern Fami-lys Sofia Vergara has got to be one of themost likable people on the planet. Eventhough it was hard to understand her throughthe thick Colombian accent, she still gotlaughs with her sassy charm. Also, props toJane Lynch for channeling both Sue Sylvesterand her inner glamazon with that floor-lengthtrack jacket.And way to go MTV for makingTwitter more irritating than it already is withthose constant look whats trending! bitsscattered throughout the telecast.

The plodding telecast wasnt helped by the

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Nostalgic Bumbershoot impresses againE ntering its 40th year, Seattles Bumber-shoot music festival trotted out nostal-gia-inducing heavy-hitters to draw in thecrowds over Labor Day Weekend. It was amove that worked: bullfrog Bob Dylan soldout the main stage before the festival evenstarted, and to gawkers delight, CourtneyLove the rock star, not Courtney Love thezombie-drug-marionette, showed up for theShoot not to mention a Weezer spectaclethat will go down in festival lore.

Yes,old and new problems still dogged thefestival, from a will call pick-up system de-signed by FEMA, which had crowds antsyeven before the first guitar was strummed,to apervasive rain haze on Monday.And it seemsfour decades isnt long enough for engineersto rig up a consistent sound system for theMemorial Stadium Mainstage (perhaps theywere all busy at the neighboring Penny Ar-cade Expo this weekend).

But on the festivals last night, the wind-breaker-sporting crowds still boogied down toput Gene Kelly to shame. Overall, Bumber-shoots 40th iteration had its bizarre highs,andwell definitely be there for 41.Saturday

The dusky chops of Americana Star Anna

& the Laughing Dogs were an alt-countryblast in the early afternoon.Blistering throughheartache, Star Anna had the older crowdnodding,then getting their dance on,as her fullvoice cracked over the notes. The highlight,though,came when Pearl Jam s guitarist MikeMcCready,a longtime supporter of the band,shredded across the stage in a not-so-secretguest appearance.Rock on.

Longtime folk-pop heroes The Decem-berists drew a sizable crowd in their own rightfor one of their rare shows this summer,play-ing the same main stage theyve rocked be-fore.But the band that has sparked thousandsof soul-gazing imitators was off that day, de-spite the familiar outfits comfortable stagepresence.The band gave their best live render-ings of upbeat The Engine Driver and 16Military Wives,but the mood was premature-ly killed by an instrumental bass monster thatwas the first victim to the dirge-like acoustics.An exodus before the shows end mustvethrown off the band,who cut the set short by15 minutes with no calls for an encore.

For those with the less-snazzy EconomyTicket, Texan Bob Schneider threw a funk-folk dance-a-thon like no other at the Star-bucks Stage.The bluegrass veteran command-

ed the stage with his aviator cool and scragglyvocals,but it was keyboardist-guitarist OliverSteck that dazzled on stage with both musicaltalent and some suave spazzing.

With the most impressive pipes of thenight,redheaded Neko Case ,the voice behindThe New Pornographers, gave the couplessomething to cuddle over back on the Main-stage. Befittingly, as the sun set, her sensual,throaty melodies off Middle Cyclone rico-cheted off the upper rafters as a warm blanketof romance, further heightened by someraunchy between-song banter.

For people wondering where all the crowdswere on Saturday,they had to look no furtherthan the stockyard-packed Broad Street Stagefor Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes .Even the stage looked crowded for the cara-van of performers that make up the L.A. band,and their spectacle of a performance showedthat singer Alex Ebert and crew were robbedof a headlining spot.

And then there was Bob Dylan . Pushing70, he sounded like an anti-nicotine commer-cial, his tenor register was blown out by hisbacking band and the stadium could have usedsome video screens. But hes still the BobDylan, one of the greatest songwriters (if not

the greatest) of all time, and the crowds dulysung along to Just Like A Woman,the oldermembers off remembering previous showsand the younger set glued to their digital cam-era video setting.Dylan, busting out his trustyharmonica, transported the stadium to earliertimes.Well let the old man sing.Sunday

People streamed toward the Broad StreetStage early for Seattle seven-piece orchestral-pop group Hey Marseilles . Favoring a waltzbeat,breaking into joyous handclaps and play-ing hot potato with their quirky collection of instruments, the band moved the crowd withtheir lush layers and grinning sincerity.The al-ready Quidditch team-sized band then addedfour more members to the stage for closing fa-vorite Rio,getting the whole crowd clappingand shouting as they held aloft two marching-band bass drums to beat out the last hits of thewhimsical single.

Bringing a tougher energy to the new Cen-ter Square Stage, guitarless rock band CrashKings almost tore the Space Needle downwith their pulsating performance. Launchingthe most crowd-surfing set of the day,the L.A.

W hether you like it or not, whetheryou remember how to write or not,whether you got enough GTL thissummer or not (there had to be a TV refer-ence in there somewhere),the time has cometo return to the sandstone arcades of Stan-ford University. To my returning readers, Ihope you enjoyed a summer of intern daysand Katy Perry nights. To incoming fresh-men, put down this paper right now and gomake friends! Or better yet,take it over to afriend and discuss the merits of my passion-ately held opinions about the defining artform of our generation: television.

Just last week, A.O. Scott, the illustriousand orgasmica lly gifted New York Times filmcritic, asked, Are Films Bad, or Is TV JustBetter? He invokes Mad Men, Lost,The Wire, Modern Family and evenGleein his exploration of how television issurpassing feature film in originality, pop-ularity and diversity. In my two years at Stan-ford,TV shows have proven much more of acommon denominator than movies,as youngviewers have overcome the mediums seem-ing incompatibility with the college lifestyleand flocked to cables technological alterna-

tives.I believe that the current crop of TV

shows is vastly superior to any movie in re-cent memory (save Toy Story 3,perhaps).Even Hollywood seems to recognize this, asmore and more film production companiesseek to add television programs to their cred-its.This fall, the augmentation of televisionsreputation for excellence and profitabilityhas mixed implications.This falls new offer-ings are nowhere near as strong as last years,but theyll whet your appetite and work infavor of new cable shows slated for later inthe year.

Based on my research, the following rep-resent both the best and most emblematicshows for the fall season. Ditch your firstweek homework and tune into as many newshows as you can television shows, morethan any other popular art form, have a ten-dency to surprise you.

FX and the CW rolled out their fall line-

ups last week, with critics lavishing the for-mer and PR the latter. The return of Emmysnub Sons of Anarchy segued into the se-ries premiere of Terriers (FX,Wednesdaysat 10), an unconventional and irreverent

buddy cop show (puppies are, unfortunately,not a central focus).It features the ever-hilar-ious Donal Logue in a well-matched pairingof unlicensed private eyes.If the show is over-all a little low budget and simple, I dontmind,because it defies gender in its humor.

The CW is serving up its traditional teenfare. Nothing as subversive and shocking asthe early Gossip Girl seasons or even thelatter half of Vampire Diaries, but how canyou not enjoy the pubescent bodies on dis-play in Hellcats or the even greaterachievement of 31-year-old Maggie Qs bodyin Nikita? Hellcats (Wednesdays at 9)seems more likely to work its way into my ro-tation,as my Thursday night dance card is al-ready booked. The show, featuring Disneycastoffs Aly Michalka and Ashley Tisdale,isreminiscent of Greek and a thorn-lessBring It On. Just as Glee integratedmusic into scripted television, I will be in-trigued to see if Hellcats can incorporate

choreography in a similar fashion.But the heavy-hitters of the 2010-2011 tel-evision season will come from cable, specifi-

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Courtesy of Shurui SunWeezer closes Bumbershoot's Sunday night with an epic extended drum solo.For more on the 40th incarnation of the Seattle fest, see below.

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TOP FIVE SUMMER MOVIESFor those who were broke, comatose or stranded in a

yurt the last three months, here are Intermissions top five movies from the past summer.

(1) Toy Story 3The third installment of the beloved series is yet

another flawless combination of humor, adventureand touching poignancy.Pixar breathed more human-ity into these inanimate objects than any other moviestudio could do with regular actors. Nobody but theGrinch (or Jane Lynch as Sue Sylvester) could haveleft the theater without tearing up a little.

(2) InceptionIn a sea of brainless, flashy blockbusters, Christo-

pher Nolan does his part to bring well-crafted, bril-liant pieces of film to the masses.His dreamy, mind-bending thriller is no exception.Chalk it up with Me-mento, The Prestige and the new Batman movies this guy is on a serious streak.(3) Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Videogames generally do not transfer to the bigscreen very well (see 1993s god-awful Super MarioBros.). So leave it to a film adaptation of a graphicnovel to perfectly incorporate the zany aesthetics of a

videogame from its hyperkinetic Mortal Kombatfight scenes to the pee bar that appears when the titu-lar hero uses the restroom.While the films box officereceipts left much to be desired, the quirky, surrealfilm is destined for cult status.(4) Salt

After Tom Cruise dropped out of the movie, Co-lumbia Pictures caused waves by changing the leadcharacter from Edwin Salt to Evelyn Salt and re-cruiting Angelina Jolie to headline the spy thriller.Its a good thing they did. Jolies sexy,rogue agentand the movies twists and turns made Salt the

kind of fun, big-action blockbuster that summer isall about.(5) Going the Distance

Sure its your standard rom-com boy meetsgirl, boy almost loses girl but decides to enter a longdistance relationship,hijinks ensue but its a darnentertaining one. The movie unapologetically earnsits R rating again and again with hilarious dialogueand, at times, crude physical comedy. Drew Barry-more,likable as always,carries the film as Erin,an as-piring journalist who leaves New York to attend gradschool at Stanford (!).

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cally HBO as it tries to reclaim thetitle of best drama from three-timeaward winner Mad Men. Board-walk Empire (HBO, Sundays at 9,premiere September 19) not onlymarks the return of Terence Winter,David Simons protege on The So-pranos, but also highlights the hy-bridization of television and film withMartin Scorseses role as producerand director.The boardwalk in ques-tion is Prohibition Era Atlantic City,and the empire reaches all the way toChicago and historical figures such asAl Capone. Steve Buscemi of Fargo fame anchors an ensemblecast as gangster Nucky Thompson,who presides over the usual HBO de-bauchery: sex, violence and moon-shine. Though the series has beenkept tightly under wraps, those whohave seen the first few episodes re-port that, even though Scorsese di-rects the pilot only, subsequent direc-

tors emulate his style. The pilotepisode cost a whopping $18 million,but Im confident viewers will get thebang for HBOs buck.(Its worth not-ing that HBO has some particularlyexciting new projects on the horizon Luck with Dustin Hoffman,Tildawith Diane Keaton,a femalecomedy with Lizzy Caplan, a showabout a Broadway family, amongothers.Mom, you know what I wantfor Christmas now).

Where season three of TrueBloodseemingly reached the limitsof the vampire genre and HBOs tol-erance,AMC will try to reclaim theparanormal genre this fall withWalking Dead(AMC, Sundays at10, premiere October 31).The seriescenters on a southern town followinga blood-thirsty zombie apocalypse (Idoubt there will be any fraternizationwith the enemy). The preview sug-gests that its style will be simultane-ously muted and allegoric a la

Breaking Bad,while more conven-tionally grotesque and artistic. Ill beintrigued to see how the plot unfolds,but those who like pretty TV will

surely be pleased.Meanwhile,the networks have in-

vested in addictive dramas to succeedLost. NBC is the most flagrant inthis effort with The Event (Mon-days at 9, premiere September 20),whose pilot was well received atComic-Con in July. The show inter-weaves many likable characters, in-cluding the congenial Blair Under-wood as President of the UnitedStates, around a secret governmentdetainment program. The structureof the pilot is strong,but it remains tobe seen if the mythology is fully de-veloped.

Fox is heavily promoting LoneStar (Mondays at 9, premiere Sep-tember 20), a soapy drama about aTexas con man, artfully portrayed byJames Wolk. The con relies on thecharacters double life as the son-in-law of a Texas oil magnate in Hous-ton and a salesman (with a differentgirlfriend) who sells bad investmentsto constituents in the Midland.Theshows creator,Kyle Killen,wrote thescript for The Beaver, which wasnamed as one of the best featurescripts of 2008, so the writing for the

pilot is strong as expected. I questionthe ability of the sudsy premise tosupport the show beyond its fresh-man season (remember The OC?).

The new arrival Im most lookingforward to is My Generation(ABC,Thursdays at 8, premiere Sep-tember 23), which does justice to thenow ubiquitous single-camera styleas it fictionalizes a documentaryabout the high school class of 2000.Inpresent day 2010,the students returnto their Texas hometown and mustconfront how they have surpassed orfailed to live up to their high schoolreputations.The themes and relation-ships established in the pilot resonat-ed with me as a child of the new mil-lennium;I hope the series will be ableto redefine high school stereotypes ina similar way.

Comedy is the weakest genre of the bunch, especially in comparisonto last years convention-defyingModern Family, Community,

Cougar Town and Glee.WilliamShatner returns to television as thestar of $#*! My Dad Says (CBS,Thursdays at 8:30, premiere Septem-

ber 23), but the quippiness of theeponymous Twitter feed feels tooself-conscious and sitcom-punchline-esque,even in the previews.The pilothas been reshot since May upfronts,but I sense the buzz has worn off andthe final product will underwhelm.

The wildcard of the comedy sea-son will surely be Outsourced(NBC, Thursdays at 9:30, premiereSeptember 23).Im biased against it,as it pushed back the third seasonpremiere of the outstanding Parksand Recreation and Ron EFFINGSwanson,but my friends assure me togive this show a chance after its re-tooling. The white male lead, a totalnewbie in Ben Rappaport,works at acall center in India and navigates the

cultural differences it will be up toaudiences to determine if the showhandles them humorously or offen-sively. The previews seem mostlyharmless, though certainly unworthyof unseating Amy Poehler.Its going to be an interesting fall.The new arrivals have a lot to prove,especially when they have to com-pete against the buzz of the returners.Regardless, you can find me pushingthe limits of Stanfords bandwith as Itry to download all the pilots simulta-neously;nothing comes between meand my TV.

liz STARK contact liz:

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trio rocked some serious stadium-ready anthems,anchored by the sweetkeyboard melodies by fedora-edsinger Tony Beliveau.The photogenic indie-darlings RaRa Riot brought the strings back tothe Broad Street Stage with a rousingset that combined material from boththeir debut The Rhumb Line andtheir new album The Orchard, re-leased in August. From opener St.Peters Day Festival to bouncing fin-ish Dying is Fine, the band was onpoint with their string arrangementsand harmonies,only disturbed by thebass drum pedal breaking during Oh,La.

The most danceable performanceof the day,however,belongs to Ra RaRiot follow-up Delorean , straight off the plane after playing L.A.s FYFestthe day before.While the crowd wassurprisingly thin for the techno-root-ed Barcelona band (they were upagainst the hometown charmerCourtney Love),Ekhi Lopetegi et al.kept their stomping energy upthrough the knob-turning, electronic

delirium that was heightened by thewell-executed instrumentals.The firstcrowd-surfers went up at the machinegun start of Warmer Placesand did-

nt let up for the rest of the hour, alldestined to end up in the arms of thegrinning security guard.

Sunday night, high-schoolersheaded to Fisher Green for a shot,shot, shot, shot, shot of hip-hop duoLMFAO . The sparkly rapper pairtook to the stage late due to crowdproblems and enjoyed a highly ex-pectant (and just plain high) packed-in audience, who ate up the aptly-ti-tled entrance Get Crazy.The set justwent downhill, though, as LMFAOcovered the Black Eyed Peas BoomBoom Pow, and it became clear thecrowd wasnt old enough to get somemore Coronas.

We learned a few things from theshow-stopping closeout show byWeezer : 1) Rivers Cuomo is one spry,speed-walking champ, 2) Lady Gagahas truly infiltrated everything and 3)a full head of hair is unnecessary torock the hell out.It was the 30-minuteencore,however, that shot the set intothe Bumbershoot stratosphere,though its hard to pinpoint exactlywhen the crowds Oh my gods wentviral possibly when Weezer erupt-ed into a cover of MGMTs Kids,segueing into Poker Faceas Cuomodonned a blond wig a la Lady Gaga.Or maybe when Cuomo was star

jumping on stage and dry-humping a

giant beach ball,as the band shreddedthrough classic Buddy Holly. Allthats certain is that by the time the en-tire band jumped onto the drumkit for

the finale,the collective hive mind wasblown.Monday

Attendees escaped the afternoonsprinkles for Seattle charmer BOAT sbass-ringing set inside the EMPs SkyChurch. Joking about the inadequacyof the free mini-sodas and the light-show behind them, the BOAT dudesdoubled as stand-up comics. God,theyre really not going to have usback next year . . . shit, said guitaristJ.Goodman before they launched intoa song about lobsters and snakes.Buttheir irreverent rock showed the fun-nymen earned their placement at thisyears Shoot,particularly on Princeof Tacoma and cymbal-tappingLately.

Indie-loving Seattleites couldntresist the Jenny & Johnny lovechild,rain be darned. The pair quaintlybrought their sugarcoated Im Hav-ing Fun Nowto life,but their hour-long goo-goo eyes at each other mademe crave some genuine Rilo Kileyangst.Particularly since Rilo Kiley vetJenny Lewis carried the set with riotgrrrlish coos and growls,making real-life boyfriend Jonathan Rice a bit ir-relevant.

Rapper-singer Drake was Bum-bershoots attempt at being trendyand the demographic (read: teenage

girls) loved his headlining show, if thehigh-pitched screams were anythingto go by.While the crowd engaged in akaraoke playback of literally every

song on the set list , Drake kept to rap-ping,letting his backing vocals sing thechorus. Its a shame that the echoingdrums fuzzed him out,since the boy isequipped with one smooth voice.

Floridas Surfer Blood had to con-tend with cold sideways rain-mist dur-ing their evening slot,pushing beach-washed rock in the last place youwould ever describe as summery.Theyoung band was frazzled by the break-ing of their drum pedal early on,whichthey negotiated with less aplomb thanRa Ra Riot the day before, ironicallyon the exact same stage.But the bandrecovered and baby-faced frontmanJ.P. Pitts was proudly strutting thestage edge by undeniable anthemSwimat shows end.

The dedicated waited out the wors-ening rains for Portlands The Ther-mals ,whose punk intensity and singa-long choruses gave one last chance to

jubilantly mosh the tension away be-fore real life resumed. The insistentbass of Kathy Foster best met HutchHarris clarion cries in oldies WeWere Sick and Returning to theFold,while the new fodder off albumPersonal Life kept the pit surging.Foster also had the most rockstar f-you of the weekend:after the requisitedick in the audience called for Free-bird,Foster nonchalantly held up her

middle finger with a droll, Heresyour free bird right here.Touche.

marisa LANDICHO

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Its a surprise given Handlers bounti-ful laughs and effortless zingers on herlate night show,but her charisma waslost on the VMAs big,futuristic stage.The taped skits were considerably fun-nier and less awkward than her liveshtick,save for maybe the mildly amus-ing hot tub scene with the cast of Jer-sey Shore.

For those who missed the live run,the single moment you shouldYouTube was when Cher, in herbizarre,If I Could Turn Back Time

sheer black getup, presented the BestVideo of the Year Award to Lady Gagafor Bad Romance. The 64-year-olddeclared herself the oldest chick withthe biggest hair in the littlest costume.Gaga still managed to one-up her in aneven weirder contraption made of meat,complete with matching hat andpurse.I never thought Id be askingCher to hold my meat purse,said theclearly touched Gaga who, as prom-ised, released the title of her newalbum Born This Wayand even sanga snippet for her little monsters.

lauren WILSONcontact lauren:

[email protected]

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S PORTSBRUINS GET BASHED

SOCCER STARTS WITH BIG SLIDE

By MILES BENNETT-SMITH

The Stanford mens soccer team openedthe season hoping to justify a No.14 rankingfrom the National Soccer Coaches Associa-tion.Four games into the season, the Cardi-nal has already tumbled out of the rankingswith four straight defeats. Of the fourgames,just one was against a ranked oppo-nent No.10 Harvard.

In the home opener on Saturday at LairdQ.Cagan Stadium,the Cardinal fell 2-1 to asurprising UNLV squad in overtime. In thesecond game of the weekends Cal LegacyClassic on Sunday,Sacramento State scoreda game-winning goal with 18 seconds re-maining.This has been a trend for the Card,as all four losses have come by one goal.

After graduating just four starters, andwith a large incoming class bringing plentyof new talent to the Farm,the Cardinal waspicked to finish second behind UCLA inthe Pac-10. Senior defender/midfielderBobby Warshaw, arguably the teamsstrongest player, has been named to almostevery preseason All-America team as wellas the preseason watch list for the MACHermann Trophy, given to the best colle-giate player in the country.

With 19 returning players, the Cardinalappears to be very talented, but the team

has not been able to break through.

Throughout the game against UNLV,Stanford seemed confused and unaware.The Card seemed more skillful on the ballthan its opponents, but was consistentlydone in by turnovers at inopportune mo-ments.The initial 1-0 deficit was the result of a Stanford corner kick that was clearedaway in the 35th minute,and which led to aquick UNLV counterattack. With the de-fenders on their heels, UNLV strung a fewshort passes together, and redshirt fresh-man goalie Jason Dodson was helpless atclose range.

An equalizing goal from junior TaylorAmman off a shot from junior Garrett Gun-ther gave life to the home team and severalhundred fans in the stands, but another ef-fective UNLV counterattack eight minutesinto overtime left several players lying de-

jectedly on their backs in the afternoon sun.Warshaw, for one,proved to be every bit

the captain that head coach Bret Simonhoped he would be, barking out commandsand consistently winning and distributingthe ball. The organization among the de-fending quartet of seniors Cameron Lam-ming,Ryan Thomas and Warshaw alongside

junior Tommy Ryan was also generally

Footballcoaches arepaid to win

A s scandals over improperbenefits played themselvesout like TV dramas acrossthe college football land-scape this summer, the

media and coaches at various programscame out strongly against the agents whopaid college football players huge sumsof money,and criticized the players forviolating NCAA rules against studentathletes taking money during their colle-giate careers.Blame was cast (most fa-mously by Alabama head coach NickSaban,who called agents pimps),pun-ishment was meted out and the sport hascollectively moved on from the issue tofocus on the season currently underway.

The role of one critical group wasoverlooked, however, and I think itstime we addressed the place of the col-lege football coach in this entire land-scape.How did coaches fail to notice thefact that college kids from less-than-wealthy backgrounds were suddenlyrolling into practice in brand-newSUVs? Or,why did they see it and ignoreit?

The answer is really quite simple.Col-lege football coaches are not teachers,professors or anything of the sort.Theyare not paid to encourage graduation,ac-ademic achievement or even NCAAcompliance.

College football coaches are paid todo one thing and one thing only: winfootball games.It is this singular metricupon which they are evaluated, and atthe end of the day,it is winning,not aca-demics,that college football coaches willpromote above all else.

To put it in other terms,coaches arenot in the business of making sure play-ers take tough academic courses and stayaway from agents and boosters.It mighteven be to their advantage to encourage

WOMENS SOCCER

Card wins Nike Invitational, holds No. 2 rank

By KABIR SAWHNEY MANAGING EDITOR

In a manner befitting a contender for thePac-10 title,the No.19 Stanford football teampummeled UCLA (0-2,0-1 Pac-10) on Satur-day night, scoring at will in a 35-0 blowout.

While the Cardinal (2-0,1-0 ) headed to theRose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. with expecta-tions of victory, few expected it to dominatethe Bruins in such a thorough manner.

The first quarter saw the game get off to aslow start, with three-and-outs from both of-fenses. On Stanfords second drive of thegame, redshirt sophomore quarterback An-drew Luck took over, overwhelming theUCLA defense with a combination of strongpasses and 10-yard scrambles.He hit seniorreceiver Ryan Whalen with a 16-yard touch-down pass to cap the drive,putting Stanfordup 7-0.After another UCLA three-and-out,Stanford took the ball and marched down thefield, getting all the way inside the 10-yardline before incompletions on second andthird down forced the Card to settle for aNate Whitaker field goal.The Cardinal offen-sive line lived up to its billing as one of thebest units in the country,opening big holes forStanfords running backs and giving Luckplenty of time to make throws.

After halftime, the two teams came backonto the field with Stanford holding on to a13-0 lead. UCLA took the ball to start the half and appeared ready to make the game a closecontest;its running backs started to find holesin the Cardinal front seven, and quarterbackKevin Prince made some key completions topush the Bruin offense forward. However,the drive eventually stalled, and a field goalattempt by Lou Groza Award winner KaiForbath sailed wide right.

Stanford took over after the Forbath missand again began an efficient drive, dominat-ing the UCLA defense and putting the mo-

mentum on the Stanford side for good. Luckscrambled several times, including for a firstdown on third-and-10 early in the possession,and the Cardinal running back rotationshredded the Bruin front seven. The clock-eating possession ate up nine minutes and 30seconds, and ended with senior fullbackOwen Marecic bulldozing his way into the

By NATE ADAMSDESK EDITOR

After opening the season with a four-gameroad trip against some tough teams on theEast Coast,the No. 2 Stanford womens soccerteam had yet to defeat any opponent by morethan a single goal and had tied two of itsmatches in double-overtime.That changed lastweekend in the Cardinals first homestand,asStanford (4-0-2) was both host and victor of the annual Stanford Nike Invitational. On itsway to victory, last years national runner-updefeated No. 23 Georgia 2-1 in overtime onFriday, then routed Pacific 4-0 two days later.

Fridays win over Georgia (4-2-1) was any-thing but smooth, as the Cardinal fell behind

early and struggled to find an offensiverhythm.Senior forward Christen Press wouldeventually play hero for the Cardinal, scoringthe tying goal and sealing the win in overtime,but not without a game-long struggle to find

the right rhythm on offense.After Georgia forward Marah Falle put theCard down 1-0 in just the 15th minute, Stan-ford head coach Paul Ratcliffe made a lot of adjustments, eventually using eight players atforward. Freshman Taylor McCann made herfirst start there, but was replaced in the 24thminute by classmate Sydney Payne.

The Cardinal did manage a respectable 23shots in the match,but not many of them hada chance of getting past Georgia goalkeeperAshley Baker, who had 11 saves. Ratcliffe

even tried putting starting defenders Court-ney Verloo and Camille Levin at forward toshake things up. The Stanford coach madechanges on the other side of the ball as well,re-placing senior goalkeeper Kira Maker with

freshman Emily Oliver at halftime.It took until the 79th minute for Stanford tobeat Baker and tie the game, and even then,the goal came from an established force on theCardinal,Christen Press,and not from one of the offensive substitutes.

Despite the teams earlier struggles, thetying goal was a thing of beauty. Press got apass from Levin just outside the box,and arcedit just under the crossbar in the far corner of the goal.

In the 10th minute of overtime,Press took

things into her own hands again to seal thewin.This time,though, the goal felt a bit morelike good luck.The senior forward knocked aheader in front of the goal that hit a Georgiadefender and careened into the net.

Heading is not my strength, Press said.Coaches have been telling me to jump in theair and get some strength behind it. So, I

jumped up and tried to head it back this way,and I didnt get enough power,so it went thatway.

But,you know,Ill take it.After three weekends of play,the Cardinal

had started a series with a win for the first t ime.All three of those games (against Boston Col-

LUIS SINCO/Los Angeles Times/MCTStanfords defense came out in force Saturday night against UCLA. Junior linebacker Max Bergen (right, No. 57), playing for the injured Shayne Skov, had three tackles on the night.

Stanford Daily File PhotoJunior Taylor Amman scored an equalizing goal in the second half against UNLV. However, theCardinal could not stave off a counterattack and lost the game eight minutes into overtime.

Defense shines, earnsroad shutout of UCLA

Please see FOOTBALL,page B2

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end zone for a touchdown.The subsequenttwo-point conversion gave Stanford a 21-0lead, and the Card never looked back.

Stanfords offense built on its perform-ance last week against Sacramento State, es-tablishing itself as a force in the Pac-10. Luckhad a strong game, leading the offense with11-24 passing and 151 yards through the air,including two touchdown passes.He also car-ried the ball seven times for 63 yards.

Luck was also able to limit the impact of Rahim Moore, UCLAs All-America safetyand projected NFL draft pick.Moore madeseven tackles but only deflected one pass.Luck also stayed error-free, throwing no in-terceptions.

After the game, Luck still saw room forimprovement.

I did not play my best game by anymeans, he said.I think UCLA had a gooddefense. But a win is a win,so were happy.

Sophomore Stepfan Taylor led the Stan-ford rushing attack with 20 carries for 81yards. While head coach Jim Harbaugh hasbeen employing a running back by commit-tee approach to replace the production of graduated senior Toby Gerhart, Taylor hasemerged as the offenses feature back. Theother three backs in use by the Card soph-omore Tyler Gaffney and freshmen UsuaAmanam and Anthony Wilkerson com-bined for 49 yards on 14 carries.

Stanfords offense is also poised to geteven better, as two of its biggest playmakers,

junior wide receiver Chris Owusu and seniorrunning back Jeremy Stewart, are currentlyout due to injury.Stewart sustained an ankleinjury last week against Sacramento State,while Owusu was listed as questionable with

an undisclosed injury. Both are slated tomake returns in the coming weeks, givingLuck even more weapons with which toshred opposing defenses.

The Cardinal defense also answeredmany of the questions swirling around it.Lastseason,the defense was a weak point, and itwas given an overhaul in the offseason (com-plete with new coordinator Vic Fangio).

In its first test against Pac-10 competi-tion, the unit performed admirably,limitingUCLA head coach Rick Neuheisels vaunt-ed Pistol offense to just 81 passing yardsand 233 total yards. Quarterback KevinPrince was often hurried and frustrated bythe front seven, while the secondary kept atight hold on his receivers.Stanford defend-ers also picked up two interceptions andforced five fumbles, two of which were re-covered.

The star of the defense was junior defen-sive back Michael Thomas. Aside from hav-ing five tackles, Thomas forced two fumbles,including the highlight of the game whenThomas ripped the ball from Princes handsin the third quarter, running it back 21 yardsfor a touchdown. The play came on UCLAsfirst snap after the Cardinals 20-play, 9:30drive in the third quarter, and effectivelyerased any remaining hope for a UCLA vic-tory. After that play,Prince was replaced byhis backup,Richard Brehaut, for the remain-der of the game.

Overall, both the front seven and the sec-ondary had excellent games. The teamnotched three sacks,while the teams leadingtackler was junior cornerback JohnsonBademosi with six.

Unfortunately for Stanford, sophomore

linebacker Shayne Skov did not return to thefield for this game. Like Owusu, Skov waslisted as questionable with an undisclosed in-

jury,and is also expected to return in the com-ing weeks. His replacement, junior MaxBergen, performed well for the secondstraight week, making three solo tackles.

Stanfords next game is at home againstWake Forest on Saturday.The Card will be aheavy favorite, but the Demon Deacons doenter the game with a 2-0 record, including a54-48 win over ACC rival Duke this weekend.At 53.5 points per game, they also have thethird-best scoring offense in the countryheading into Week 3, which will provide an-other solid test for the new-look Cardinal de-fense.

However, the Wake Forest defense ishighly suspect,giving up 30.5 points per gameup to this point in the season. Stanfords of-fense should be able to put up big numbersagainst the Deacons,especia lly if Owusu andStewart are back on the field.

Last season, the two teams met in the sec-ond week of the season on Wake Forestscampus in Winston-Salem, N.C. Despite anearly Stanford lead, the Deacons came backto win the game on a touchdown with twoseconds remaining. It was the first meetingever between the two schools, and a much-improved Stanford squad will be looking toexact some revenge this weekend.

The Cardinal will kick off against WakeForest on Saturday at 8:15 p.m.The game willbe held at Stanford Stadium and will be tele-vised on ESPN2.

Contact Kabir Sawhney at ksawhney@stanford.edu.

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SEPT. 4 SACRAMENTOS TATE W GAME ALREADY PLAYED

SEPT. 11 @ UCLA W GAME ALREADY PLAYED

SEPT. 18 WAKEFOREST W THEDEACON DEFENSE IS NO MATCH FORANDREWLUCK,WHO HAS A HUGE DAY IN LEADINGS TANFORD TO THE WIN.VICFANGIOS DEFENSE ALSO CONTINUES TO IMPRESS, BOT- TLING UP DUAL- THREATQB TEDS TACHITAS.

SEPT. 25 @ NOTREDAME W REBUILDINGNOTREDAME DEFENSE DOESN T PUT UPMUCH OF A CHALLENGE

,WHILE THE

CARD MANAGES TO

LIMITDAYNECRIST-LED OFFENSE

OCT. 2 @ OREGON L S TANFORD CAN T CARRY ITS MOMENTUM INTOAUTZENS TADIUM, WHERELAMICHAELJAMES ANDKENJONBARNER COMBINE TO LIGHT UP THECARD.

OCT. 9 USC W LANEKIFFIN TAKES HIS FIRST TRIP INTO SOLD-OUTS TANFORDS TADIUM, WHERE HE AND HIS TEAM COLLAPSEFROM SHEER TERROR ATJIMHARBAUGHS MERE GAZE.

OCT. 23 WASHINGTONS TATE W ARE THECOUGARS STILL APAC-10PROGRAM? TERRIBLEWAZZU TEAM CAN T EVEN MOUNT A CREDIBLE CHALLENGE TO THE DOMINATINGCARDINAL.

OCT. 30 @ WASHINGTON L S TANFORD IS UPSET FOR THE FIRST TIME. JAKELOCKERSLICES AND DICES THES TANFORD SECONDARY INTO OBLIV-ION, MARCHING METHODICALLY DOWN THE FIELD FOR AGAME WINNER IN THE FOURTH QUARTER.

NOV. 6 ARIZONA W IN AN UGLY, DEFENSIVE GAME, THOMASKEISER ANDCHASETHOMAS PROVIDE THE DIFFERENCE FORS TANFORD.WITH TWO SACKS APIECE, THEY SENDNICKFOLES& CO.HOME WITH A LOSS.

NOV. 13 @ ARIZONAS TATE W WHILEASUHAS SOME GLIMMERS OF HOPE, THE REALITYREMAINS THAT THIS IS A TEAM IN A REBUILDING PHASE. INA BLOWOUT, ANDREWLUCK MAKES WAY FORALEXLOUKAS EARLY IN THE THIRD QUARTER.

NOV. 20 @ CALIFORNIA W THEAXE RETURNS TOS TANFORD AFTER A TWO-YEARABSENCE. ONCE AGAIN, THE DEFENSE MAKES THE DIFFER-ENCE, KEEPING THEBEARS OFF THE BOARD THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE SECOND HALF AND PICKINGKEVINRILEY OFF TWICE.

NOV. 27 OREGONS TATE L THETUNNELWORKERS UNION FINALLY MEETS ITS MATCHINS TEPHENPAEA, WHO ALLOWSS TEPFANTAYLOR TO GOEXACTLY NOWHERE. MEANWHILE, RYANKATZ AND THERODGERS BROTHERS RUN ROUGHSHOD OVER THES TANFORDDEFENSE.

FINALRECORD9-3 PAC-10 RECORD7-3

W YNDAMS PREDICTION NOTES

W GAME ALREADY PLAYED

W GAME ALREADY PLAYED

W ANDREWLUCK REBOUNDS FROM A LESS- THAN-STELLARUCLAPER-FORMANCE TO LIGHT UP THEDEACONS, AS THECARDINAL EXACTSREVENGE FOR LAST YEARS CONTROVERSIAL LOSS.

W DAYNECRIST ANDLUCK DUKE IT OUT, BUT ITS TIMELY STOPS FROM THECARDINAL DEFENSE, AND INEPTITUDE FROM THEIRISH FRONT, THATULTIMATELY LEADS TO A VICTORY.

L AUTZENS TADIUM IS QUITE POSSIBLE THE HARDEST PLACE TO PLAY IN THE NATION, ANDOREGONS OFFENSE IS TOO EXPLOSIVE FORS TANFORDS DEFENSE TO HANDLE.

W NAME OF THE GAME: OVER THE TOP. LUCK RACKS UP MASSIVE YARDAGEAGAINSTUSCS SUSPECT SECONDARY.

W SERIOUS QUESTION?

W IN A MATCH-UP OF THE TWO TOP QUARTERBACK PROSPECTS IN THENATION, LOCKER IS CONTAINED ON THE GROUND AND FORCED TO PASS,LEADING TO TWOS TANFORD TAKEAWAYS. MEANWHILE, LUCK SHINES.

W FOLES DICESS TANFORDS DEFENSE. LUCK DICESARIZONAS DEFENSE.ALEXLOUKAS REPEATS HIS HOMECOMING HEROICS FROM TWO YEARSBACK AND RUNS IN THE GAME-WINNING SCORE.

W IN A LOW SCORING CONTEST, S TANFORDS DEFENSE STEPS UP WHENVONTAZEBURFICT AND THESUNDEVILS CONTAIN THECARDINALATTACK.

L SHANEVEREEN AND THECAL FRONT SEVEN PROLONGS TANFORDSBIGGAME WOES, BUTLUCK KEEPS THE GAME CLOSE WHILERILEY TRIES HISBEST TO THROW IT AWAY.

L NO ONE WANTS TO PLAYOREGONS TATE INNOVEMBER. ABIG GAMEFROMRYANKATZ WOULD BE NICE, BUT THERODGERS BROTHERSENSURE THAT SUCH A PERFORMANCE WOULD MERELY BE THE CHERR.

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