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October 5, 2010 Issue 13

Innovating ‘the
STUDENT LIFE

Students organize for

November elections
Next month’s propositions,
candidates prompt student
action, voter registration drive
By MARY ANN TOMAN-MILLER
Stanford voters will speak on an
array of ballot propositions in the Cali-
fornia midterm elections on Nov. 2,
ranging from marijuana legalization to
the suspension of air pollution stan-
dards to making it easier for the perpet-
ually gridlocked state legislature to pass
a budget — all measures that have the
potential to impact Stanford constituen-
cies.
The unusual coalitions forming both
in support of and in opposition to these
measures give new meaning to how pol-
itics makes strange bedfellows. The
propositions getting the most attention
are Prop. 19, the marijuana initiative,
and Prop. 23, the measure that would
suspend the greenhouse gas law (AB 32)
until unemployment drops to 5.5 per-
cent.This week offered a rundown of the
major propositions and how local
groups are lining up.
Prop. 19: Marijuana Legaliza-
tion
The fastest miles this
year appear to have been
recorded by politicians
running away from Prop. 19. Elected of-
ficials and candidates are shying away
from associating their names with mak-
ing pot available for recreational use.
Indeed, one of the few things that
Steve Cooley and Kamala Harris — the
respective Republican and Democratic
candidates for attorney general —
agree upon is opposition to Prop. 19.
Both have signed a ballot statement
warning that “Proposition 19 seriously
compromises the safety of our commu-
nities, roadways, and workplaces.”
The Stanford Democrats held a
meeting on Sunday at the Old Union
Clubhouse and discussed fall activities
and this measure.
“This proposition splits voters down
the line,” said Mauricio Grande ‘12. “It’s
a good way to bring in extra revenue, but
many other laws would have to be re-
ERIC KOFMAN/ The Stanford Daily
considered, like what constitutes DUI.”
The California Democratic Party is
remaining officially neutral on the
measure. Although the Stanford Con-
servative Society, which is comprised of
conservatives, moderates, Republicans
and libertarians, has similarly declined
to take a position, the California GOP
has come out in opposition while the
California Libertarian Party recom-
mends a “yes” vote.
Prop. 23: Suspension of Greenhouse
Gas Laws
Passage of Prop. 23 would suspend
implementation of the pollution control
law AB 32 until unemployment drops to
5.5 percent for a year. AB 32 requires
that major emissions contributors sub-
mit reports of
their emissions and reduce their levels.
Prop. 23 is generating passionate reac-
tions on the Stanford campus, as demon-
strators came out on Sept. 24 at the
Campus Drive Valero station to partici-
pate in a “Stop Texas Oil” protest
against the measure.
“I absolutely cannot stand the propo-
sition,” said Sarahi Constantine Padilla
‘11. “We have a moral obligation to vote
no. Climate change is such a huge issue
that it overpowers everything.”
“Students for a Sustainable Stanford
opposes Proposition 23 because the very
idea of allowing outside corporate inter-
ests to suspend California’s landmark
Please see ELECTION, page 3
new Arab woman’
In Monday talk, renowned Lebanese poet
examines the changing role of Arab women
By MARGARET RAWSON
STAFF WRITER
Joumana Haddad, renowned Lebanese poet,
journalist and founder and editor in chief of
Jasad Magazine, the first erotic magazine in the
Arab world, spoke Monday afternoon in Wallen-
berg Hall about the “new Arab woman” and her
latest book,“I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions
of an Angry Arab Woman”.
Joining Haddad on a panel were Esther Woj-
cicki, chairwoman of Creative Commons, Diana
El-Azar, director of media, entertainment and
information industries for the World Economic
Forum, and Kirsten Mogenson, associate profes-
sor in journalism at Roskilde University. El-Azar
and Mogenson served on the panel via webcam
from Switzerland and Denmark, respectively.
The panel, co-organized by the Stanford Cen-
ter for Innovation & Communication (SCIC)
and the Center for Design Research and moder-
ated by David Nordfors, founding executive of
SCIC, began with Haddad reading a section of
her book.
The book’s title references Scheherazade, the
heroine of “One Thousand and One Nights,” a
character normally regarded as the vision of a
strong woman. In the classic tale, Scheherazade
saves her own life and the lives of other women
by telling stories to a king for 1,001 nights.
Haddad argued that the archetype of
Scheherazade must be killed because she repre-
sents a woman who negotiates for her basic
rights, a process which must stop as women real-
ize they are equal with men and deserve these
rights from the onset.
In her excerpt, Haddad described the “so-
called Arab woman,” an image of a belly dancing,
submissive woman perpetuated by the media
and innovations such as Mattel’s “burka Barbie.”
“What is an Arab woman, anyway?” Haddad
asked.
“She is not as uncommon as you might sup-
pose,” Haddad said of the independent Arab
woman, saying “she represents an intense kind of
hope” for other women, both Christian and Mus-
lim, of the Arab world.
Haddad stressed that she does not deny the
existence of the submissive Arab woman.
“It has become like an art,” Haddad said of
the problem of denial in the Arab world.
Haddad’s work, which includes challenging
religion and discussing sexuality, has received
strong reactions, drawing hate mail and death
threats. Jasad, the title of her groundbreaking
magazine, means “body” in Arabic.
Haddad contended that Islamic feminism is
“an internal contradiction” and challenged the
conception that a woman can be emancipated
while choosing to wear the veil.
Despite censorship, Jasad Magazine has a di-
verse readership of both men and women. Out-
side of Lebanon, the most interest in the maga-
zine comes from Saudi Arabia, where the maga-
zine’s website is banned.
“The more you ban something, the more you
make it desirable,” Haddad said, characterizing
censorship as “a monster that feeds on itself.”
Haddad described her book as the outcome of
building passion and anger and discussed the im-
portance of economic empowerment, culture
and reading in the liberation of women. She de-
scribed the “illusion of freedom” that some
women have in Lebanon despite the fact they re-
main economically dependent on men.
Haddad, who speaks seven languages and has
received literary awards from various countries,
typically translates her own works. Though she
Please see HADDAD, page 3

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Partridge fights disfigurement stigma

By ERIN INMAN
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
What do we see when we look in the
mirror? One in 111 people see a socially
or psychologically “significant” facial dis-
figurement, according to nonprofit leader
James Partridge.
In a talk at Stanford titled “Face Dif-
ferent, Life Ruined?” on Monday night,
Changing Faces founder and chief execu-
tive Partridge talked about his work fight-
ing the stigma attached to disfigurement,
which he said includes the visual effects of
a rash, scar or skin graft on a person’s skin
or an asymmetry or paralysis to their face
or body.
Changing Faces, a United Kingdom-
based nonprofit, counsels those with a
disfigurement, challenges public attitudes
and works to ensure a culture of inclusion
through social change.
At age 18, Partridge was severely
burned in a car accident.
“The first time I really knew I’d done
something to myself was when an old
friend of mine came in and fainted in the
ward,” Partridge said.“I started to realize
that people weren’t actually looking at
me. They were looking away.”
Although Partridge had some recon-
structive surgery, he said he was enriched
by his disfigurement. Rather than contin-
ue with more reconstructive surgery, he
“liberated” himself from the “absurd
pressures” put on him to conceal his dis-
figurement. VIVIAN WONG/Staff Photographer
Joumana Haddad, Lebanese poet, editor-in-chief of Jasad Magazine, and author of “I Killed
Please see STIGMA, page 3 Sheherazade” discusses her views on Arab women and ideas for social change.

RESEARCH

Researchers advance nanoscale solar-cell work

By MATT BETTONVILLE
Solar cell technology, long limited by
costs and practical issues, has the potential
to cross a new threshold of efficiency
through an approach recently theorized by
Stanford researchers.
Solar cell researchers Shanhui Fan,
Zongfu Yu and Aaswath Raman took a sig-
nificant step toward future solar power
practicality with a Sept. 27 paper titled
“Fundamental Limit of Nanophotonic
Courtesy of Zongfu Yu Light Trapping in Solar Cells,” which lays
the foundation for nanoscale solar cells —
research indicating that for solar cells, less is
more.
“We have developed essentially a rigor-
ous theory to treat light trapping in
nanophotonic structures in general,” said
Fan, an associate professor of electrical en-
gineering, pointing out that the team did not
construct new kinds of solar cells but rather
laid the theoretical foundation for future
development.
Most solar panels in use today imple-
ment the 20th-century technology of mak-
ing thick panels with rough surfaces to keep
light rays inside the panel for as long as pos-
sible. However, the nanoscale cells that
Fan’s team researched take a fundamental-
ly different approach, using solar cells as
thin as 500 nanometers, or one two-thou-
sandth of a millimeter.
“Previously, the theory treated light as a
straight ray,” said Yu, a postdoctoral re-
search fellow. “But light has a lot of wave
factors, and this in fact does not show up
until you go into the nanoscale.”
Yu pointed to a previous theoretical limit
for light absorption in larger solar cells and
said that the theoretical limit that his team
determined for nanoscale cells that dealt
with the wave aspect of light turned out sig-
nificantly higher. In addition to their in-
creased efficiency, the thinner cells also cost
much less because they use fewer resources.
And lower cost is a big deal.According to
Scott Gould, senior engineer for building
energy systems commissioning, solar power
currently offsets well under one percent of
Please see SOLAR CELLS, page 3

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2 ! Tuesday, October 5, 2010
FEATURES
I DON’T LIVE
HERE
Sneaking into dorms and houses
remains a stubborn security issue
By JENNY THAI
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
I
recall a mission I once had. The target
was Otero. After a late brunch around
1 p.m. one day, I approached the door,
my motions jerky and tense. The door
swung open as one of the residents
emerged, her head barely visible as she car-
ried a large basket of laundry.
I took a step toward the closing door.
Without a second glance, she stuck out her
foot a bit, stalling the door just enough for me
to grab the handle and sneak into the build-
ing, the home of more than 60 freshmen.
It had taken fewer than five seconds to
penetrate the dorm. No alarms.
Today, on a campus where the relative
ease of sneaking into dorms is known widely
— and where one of the country’s most high-
profile dorm security breaches happened
three years ago — Student Housing and the
Department of Public Safety (DPS) continue
to work on tightening campus security.
Police say the campus feels safe to many;
it’s not uncommon to see students up and out
at odd hours.
“We see a lot of people out walking or bik-
ing in the early morning and at night,” said
Lt. Rich Cinfio of DPS. “Unless you feel safe
and secure, you wouldn’t be out by yourself.”
The department works closely with Stu-
dent Housing to ensure a safe campus for its
residents. One security measure
was the implementation of a card-
access system in many dorms.
By 2007, “Student Housing’s
Stern Hall was selected as the pilot
program for the University, and was
completed successfully,” wrote
Rodger Whitney, executive director of
Student Housing, in an e-mail to The
Daily. “Since then all of our residences
which house freshmen, as well as the major-
ity of our large residences, have been con-
verted to card access.”
The premise of the system is to keep
strangers from infiltrating student resi-
dences. To supplement the card-access sys-
tem, dorm alarms also were installed, activat-
ing when doors are intentionally or acciden-
tally propped open.
Yet there is a limit to the effectiveness of
the card system. Students often use a tactic
called “tailgating,” or following another resi-
dent into a dorm, which can potentially com-
promise the safety of the entire dorm, police
say.
“Think of [opening the door] as the front
door of your house,” said Bill Larson, a
spokesperson for DPS. “Except, of course,
it’s not just your house but everybody else’s
in the dorm, too. You wouldn’t let anyone
tailgate through your front door, would
you?”
Student Housing encourages students to
be vigilant. “We empower residents to ap-
proach
strangers in
their residence and
to ask who they are there
to visit,” Whitney said, “or to
ask them to leave if they are not
an authorized visitor. It is also important that
students limit their guests to people they
know.”
Another step that students can take is to
familiarize themselves with their fellow resi-
dents and distinguish them from strangers,
police say.
“What it boils down to: people need to
trust their intuition,” Cinfio said.“If someone
looks suspicious, then contact security. An-
other good way to [prevent] strangers from
getting in is to get to know everyone in your
dorm, or at least become familiar with their
faces.”
This strategy appears to work well for
smaller residences, such as Row houses or
Suites, where the tailgating method may not
work quite as well as in dorms due to less foot
traffic.
Because the campus is perceived to be so
safe, lapses in safety protocol are common-
place.
“It will happen,” Larson said. “Last year,
two people snuck into a dorm. It was a clever
ploy.They were wearing Stanford sweatshirts
so everyone in the dorm assumed that they
were students.”
Major breaches in security, such as the in-
famous incident in 2007 when Azia Kim
spent eight months successfully tricking
Okada residents into thinking she was a
Stanford student, are rare.
“The incident a few years ago where an in-
dividual posed as a student was an unusual
one,” Whitney said. “And while the situation
did provide the University-at-large with a re-
The Stanford Daily
ANASTASIA YEE/
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minder of the ne-
cessity that everyone involved work together
toward security, it did not significantly im-
pact our processes.”
Authorities urge the Stanford community
to take initiative in maintaining security and
to think twice before letting an unknown per-
son through the door with a wordless, per-
functory glance.
“Even the best systems are defeated,”
Larson said. “What happened several years
ago was a lapse in protocol, but not necessar-
ily a lapse in security. Everyone needs to be
reminded from time to time to follow the
protocol.”
Contact Jenny Thai at jthai1@stanford.edu.
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STUDENT LIFE

Seniors prepare for another

round of school after graduation
By CAITY MONROE
DESK EDITOR
For a certain subset of Stanford seniors, this fall’s
workload and stress levels derive only partially from
their course loads. With the pressure of LSATs, GREs,
GMATs, medical school applications and interviews,
some seniors are busy planning for the next stage of their
education — while still wrapping up their current one.
“It’s kind of a struggle to be preparing for a test like
[the GRE] while doing school stuff,” said Alex Robert-
son ‘11, who took the general GRE on Saturday.
Students hoping to attend medical school next year
are in the middle of the nerve-racking process of await-
ing interview offers. “Every time I check my e-mail, I
check it hoping to see something from a medical school,”
said Chris Sonne ‘11. “And that’s been the case for the
last month and a half.”
While the process is no doubt stressful, Stanford does
have resources to ensure that students aren’t navigating
the application process alone. Stanford’s Undergraduate
Stanford Pre-Medical Association (SPA) to provide
medical students with opportunities to shadow physi-
cians.
“It’s important for medical schools to see students get
exposure to the hospital and see what life as a doctor is
like,” said Kevin Tran ‘12, co-president of SPA. “That’s
why we created the shadowing program a few years ago.”
Student groups like SPA, the Stanford Pre-Law Soci-
ety and the Stanford Pre-Business Association provide
interested students with peer support and other re-
sources to help them through the application process.
“Because there is no pre-law curriculum, we try to fa-
cilitate intellectual discussion of the different legal is-
sues,” said the co-president of Stanford Pre-Law Society,
Jimmy Threatt ‘11.“We try to organize events with Stan-
ford law professors and lawyers in the area to give Stan-
ford students the opportunity to discuss legal issues with
legal scholars.”
Ericka Sohlberg ‘11, an English major applying to
medical schools, has appreciated the programs she’s
taken part in so far, especially recent events to help her

STIGMA
Advising and Research (UAR) has four advisors who prepare for interviews.
work specifically with pre-professional students. In addi- “The mock interview was very helpful,” she said,“and
tion to advising appointments, UAR provides those stu- as someone who’s not a biology major,I still feel like I get
dents a variety of events all the information and support that I need.”
and resources. Students made it clear, though, that while the re- Continued from front page
“There’s a whole sources are there, they aren’t going to be delivered to
array of services your doorstep. “I had felt so much like Humpty
available,” said “They don’t come hold your hand and help you Dumpty,” Partridge said. “Surgeons
Randall Williams, fill out your primary,” Sohlberg said. “You can get you back on the wall. Al-
associate dean of have to take the initiative.” though the problem for me was I did-
UAR. “[We pro- Threatt agreed that the help is there, n’t want to spend my life on the wall.
vide] general ad- but only for those who seek it. I met people sitting on the wall
vising, info ses- “I think the problem is that I don’t thinking, ‘This is hell.’ They felt
sions, panels and know if all students are aware of the re- pushed into the margins of society.”
programs, visits sources,” Threatt said. Pop culture does little to dispel
from law school Not all students who are in pre-profes- this culture of exclusion, but rather
teams, academic sional fields are moving straight on to their enforces strong stereotypes and
and experiential pro- next degree, though. Kim Conner ‘11 is one prejudices regarding disfigurement,
grams.” of many pre-med students who are taking he said: “Culture has used — and I
Sonne is one of the many some time off before medical school. mean used — disfigurement as a de-
students who have taken advan- “I felt like I wasn’t ready to launch vice.”
tage of the UAR’s help. straight into another eight years of In the majority of James Bond
“I’ve made appointments with school,” said Connor, who was just nomi- movies, for example, the main vil-
several of the pre-med advisors and nated for a health extension position in the lains are scarred. Other infamous
they’ve always been helpful,” he said. Pacific Islands with the Peace Corps.“I felt like disfigured cinema characters include
“Luckily, I have to say it is pretty I might end up being bitter about it even if I did get the Phantom of the Opera, the beast
busy for us,”Williams said.“Students are into a medical school I liked, just because I have in “Beauty and the Beast,” and Scar
coming through the door, making ap- not had the time to investigate any other options in “The Lion King,” Partridge point-
pointments and dropping in to see all the in my life other than school up until now.” ed out.
pre-professional advisors, as well as the Popular television shows are not
general ones.” Contact Caity Monroe at cmonroe@stanford. innocent either. “Nip/Tuck,” an
For the upcoming weeks, UAR has edu. American drama about plastic sur-
organized visits from deans of admis- gery, once featured an advertising
sion from various law schools to meet slogan, “Ugliness demeans us all. In-
with students and answer their ques- ERIC KOFMAN/ vest in your face.”
tions. UAR also has joined with the The Stanford Daily
In an effort to understand cultural
attitudes concerning disfigurement,
Changing Faces conducted an “im-

SOLAR CELLS HADDAD

Continued from front page
Stanford’s yearly power consump-
tion because of the impractical costs
to install solar cells and the physical
space required to house cells.The re-
cent research theorizes cells that are
both less expensive and more effi-
cient, making them overall more
practical for widespread use.
However, the team’s research will
not make solar cells more practical
overnight.
“What we have pointed out is re-
ally what outer limit of light absorp-
tion enhancement can be accom-
plished in different structures,” Fan
said. “It’s very important [as a solar
cell producer] to know how far you
are from the absolute optimum as al-
lowed by theory.”
The team hopes that its paper
serves as a gateway to the optimiza-
tion of solar cells as future research
uses its theoretical computer models
to make concrete and functional
cells, but the work is unlikely to in-
The team’s research
will not make solar
cells more practical
overnight.
Project generally use decades-old
technology, companies including
General Motors and Volkswagen
sponsor the project with an interest
in researching ways to implement
solar cell technology.
Gould said that SWEP, a group
that advocates for sustainable ener-
gy sources, has worked a lot with his
department and that solar cells are
on the rise in Stanford facilities. The
Knight Management Center, under
construction as the new home of the
business school, is planned to con-
tain 4,275 solar cell modules, more
than tripling the school’s current
Continued from front page
first wrote it in English, which she
said was coincidence, Haddad plans
to translate “I Killed Scheherazade”
into Arabic soon.
Though she has chosen to remain
in Lebanon, Haddad said she would
leave if a war breaks out again.
“I have always felt like a world
citizen,” she said.“I’m scattered as if
an explosion happened when I was
born.”
Contact Margaret Rawson at marawson
@stanford.edu.
Corrections
In “Powers talks investment”
(Oct. 4), the graphic misstated Stan-
ford’s investment gains as 5.5 per-
cent for the recent year.As the story
correctly reported, the University’s
principal investment pool gained
plicit attitude test.” It found that 90
percent of those surveyed implicitly
judge people with disfigurements to
be less attractive, less likely to suc-
ceed and less likely to lead happy
lives. People with disfigurements
often deeply hold these unconscious
negative attitudes themselves.
While patients need multidiscipli-
nary treatment, society needs to
challenge the prejudices often re-
sponsible for those patients’ vulner-
ability to low self-esteem, depression
and reduced self-confidence, Par-
tridge argued. At the group level,
governments, public policy and edu-
cation need to dispel the myths re-
garding disfigurement.
“I was surprised by all the sectors
working for the same goal: the med-
ical field, schools, et cetera,” said Ab-
dulkareem Agunbiade ‘10, organizer
of the talk. “And I figured a lot of
Stanford students would be interest-
ed in learning about disfigurement. JIN ZHU/Staff Photographer
It’s an important issue.”
James Partridge, founder of United Kingdom-based nonprofit Changing
Contact Erin Inman at einman@stan- Faces, argues for a more inclusive and accepting attitude surrounding
ford.edu. physical disfigurement. He spoke Monday at Stanford.

fluence any commercial units for
years.
Solar power is both a prominent
Stanford hobby and a serious under-
taking. The Stanford Solar Car Pro-
ject,which produces a solar-powered
car every two years, and the Stanford
Solar and Wind Energy Project
(SWEP) bring together student
solar-power enthusiasts. Veteran
Solar Car mechanical team member
Matt Lambert ‘12 said that although
the solar cells used in the Solar Car
number of modules.The huge cost of
installing solar cells, however, re-
mains the central obstacle to retro-
fitting current facilities with solar
cells, necessitating research projects
like this one.
“The hope is that all this research
tells us what to do to make those
cells absorb light as well as we want
them to,” Raman said.
Contact Matt Bettonville at mbet-
tonville@stanford.edu.
14.4 percent in the year ending June
30, 2010. The endowment grew 9.6
percent in the year ending Aug. 31,
2010. The budgeted endowment
payout for fiscal year 2011 is set at
5.5 percent of the endowment’s be-
ginning-of-year value.
In “Refunds to stay online — for
now” (Oct. 4), The Daily incorrectly
reported the refund period was a
week long. It was two weeks long.
ELECTION
Continued from front page
climate-change legislation simplis-
tically conflates aggressive energy
policies with harmful economic
ones, while ignoring the truly criti-
cal issue of climate change,” said
Hanni Hanson ‘13, who is the co-
leader of the climate change sub-
group of Students for a Sustainable
Stanford and is heading up the
group’s “No on Prop. 23” campaign.
Republicans point to the meas-
ure as a temporary fix until Califor-
nia generates more jobs.
Regardless of political affilia-
tion, students agree on the impor-
tance of casting a vote.
“I think it’s important that
everyone has a voice in their com-
munity, especially Stanford stu-
dents,” said John Haskell ‘12,ASSU
executive chief of staff.
In the spirit of greater voter en-
gagement, the ASSU will be con-
ducting a non-partisan drive to reg-
ister voters across campus. The ini-
tiative, headed by Haskell, plans to
go door-to-door in dorms to make
sure both local and absentee voters
can cast their vote. Voters may reg-
ister in California until Oct. 18.
Contact Mary Ann Toman-Miller at
tomanmil@stanford.edu.

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4 ! Tuesday, October 5, 2010
OPINIONS
EDITORIAL
Students face enormous
stakes in November
T
he 2008 election saw historic levels of
youth voter turnout around the coun-
try.The 54.5 percent of 18- to 29-year-
olds who voted represented the second-
highest percentage in American history and
played an instrumental role in propelling
Barack Obama to the presidency. But two
years later, political prognosticators tell a
different story. Voter apathy is up and vote
totals among youth will be down, say the ex-
perts. Historic trends and current polling
show a relative lack of excitement for
midterm elections that will keep our demo-
graphic away.
The editorial board urges Stanford stu-
dents to prove this prediction wrong. Make
your voice heard.Register to vote.Fill out an
absentee ballot or find the right polling
place on Nov. 2.
To really fulfill your civic duty,you must go
far beyond this minimum standard. Educate
yourself on the candidates and the issues. Do
your best to get past the political banter and
engage in the complexities of the questions.
Read newspapers.Ask your professors what
they think. Take the time to apply your own
reasoning to the facts and opinions.
The decisions your elected officials make
in the coming years will shape this nation
and the world for decades. How will tax pol-
icy and spending evolve to prevent the na-
tional debt from exploding? How will we at-
tempt to shape a vibrant economy that
quells the crisis of unemployment? What
comes next in Iraq,Afghanistan and around
the world? Can we ever find enough agree-
ment to make necessary changes and invest-
ments in our energy infrastructure?
Through the ballot, we have a voice in these
issues if we choose to use it.
And for the nearly 90 percent of Stanford
students who voted for President Obama,
G IRL YOU K NOW I T ’ S T RUE
Smoke and Mirrors
I
t used to be that when the issue of mari-
juana legalization came up, supporters
had to pretend that what really mattered
to them was medicinal marijuana — that,
even though nobody ever really cared much
about the old people with glaucoma, under-
going chemotherapy or facing whatever
other unspeakable pain marijuana could
ease. Honestly, who doesn’t support letting
some sick person smoking a whole bunch of
weed if they want? They’re old and sick. Let
them have it.
Indeed, a majority of California voters
succumbed to the powerful old-and-sick
lobby and in November 1996 and passed
Proposition 215, which legalized medicinal
marijuana and more or less left us where we
are today.
Few people actually understand or care
about the medicinal benefits of giving weed
to people. In general, it is good for easing
pain and stimulating appetite. The fact of the
matter is that some people like smoking a
whole bunch of weed in their basement and
playing Mario Kart while eating some Fun-
yuns, and some people find that detestable
and dangerous. Shocking to hear, I know, but
it’s true.
And it’s that Mario Kart, Funyun-loving
taste for freedom that brings us to California
Proposition 19, also known as the Regulate,
Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010. On
Nov. 2, 2010, California voters will decide
whether or not they want to make it legal to
possess up to an ounce of marijuana for per-
sonal consumption.
Because of the one-ounce limitation, pas-
sage of Prop 19 would not mean that the next
time you go to Safeway there would be a
wide variety of blunts to choose from, nor
would it mean you could light up a joint
wherever you please.
So the net result will basically be, um, not
a whole lot. Marijuana was decriminalized in
the legislature a few days ago. Prop. 25, which
would make it so that only a simple majority
is required to pass a budget, is inarguably
more important, but Lord knows you would
not still be reading if this were about the pro-
cedural workings of the California legisla-
ture.The question of how California will vote
on a referendum on the morality of smoking
weed? More interesting.
So let’s join the conversation about weed.
On one side, we have our media establish-
ment, which has all but universally opposed
Prop. 19 and generally been willing to throw
in a few demeaning jokes about marijuana
users to boot. Here’s the Pasadena Star-
News’ apocalyptic vision of a post-Prop. 19
world: “The guy in the cubicle next to you at
work is stoned. There’s an increased likeli-
hood the driver of the car in the next lane on
the freeway is under the influence of pot.
Commercial entities openly selling pot in
storefronts near where you shop, or perhaps
now is no time to be silent. Despite a litany
of setbacks, Obama has, contrary to popular
perception, succeeded in his first two years.
Swift and sure action saved the nation’s fi-
nancial system from total disaster.The stim-
ulus created and saved millions of jobs while
beginning to lay the infrastructural and
technological foundations for a successful
21st-century economy. The war in Iraq is
drawing to a close.
Indeed, much remains to be accom-
plished. But Republicans are offering a
starkly contrasting vision of what exactly
needs to be done. You must decide yourself
whether or not Vice President Biden is right
when he says that if Republicans gain con-
trol of Congress, the progress will “come to
a screeching halt.” Republicans have prom-
ised to peel back the landmark health-care
law that will extend coverage to 32 million
Americans, stand against efforts to promote
clean energy, and start taking drastic meas-
ures to curb the size of the federal govern-
ment.
Debates about these policy issues are not
the only thing characterizing this campaign
season. A wave of anti-intellectual extrem-
ism, which diverts from mainstream politics,
also has marked the year. A host of “Tea
Party” Senate candidates deny that anthro-
pogenic global warming is happening. Can-
didates have lied about their college de-
grees, objected to the passage of the Civil
Rights Act and called for the closure of the
Departments of Energy and Education. If
elected, who knows if they will indeed act
upon these claims?
There is no presidential race on the bal-
lot, but the stakes this November are enor-
mous.Whether or not you agree with the po-
litical views expressed here, get your ballot
counted on Nov. 2.
Jordan
Carr
It’s like a big
fancy train,
and it’s not going
to be free.
in your child or grandchild’s college dormito-
ry.” Dun dun dun! Chaos will reign! The
streets will run red with blood! Someone
might actually find being in a cubicle to be
tolerable!
Obviously, none of this should be allowed
to (puff, puff) pass. I mean, they’re lazy, have
a short attention span, eat too much and are
entranced by television for hours on end.
Isn’t that crazy? Nobody else in America is
like that at all.
But for all the evasions and doomsday
scenarios on the other side, it’s not as if the
pro-legalization forces are trying to win this
debate straight up either. I mean, The Regu-
late, Control and Tax Cannabis Act? Really?
A more direct name like The Smoke, Bake
and Smoke Cannabis Act would get us a bet-
ter sense of how much support there really is
for legalization.
Instead of pretending to make dying and
sick people happy, this time they pretend rea-
son is that Prop. 19 might raise a little money
to pay the forthcoming debts from projects
such as our increasingly popular prisons and
the California SuperTrain. Remember voting
on that two years ago? No? It’s like a big
fancy train, and it’s not going to be free.
Prop. 19 represents a chance to take some
of the disposable income of those allegedly
irresponsible marijuana users to try to pay
our debts, so that even if we cannot make
ends meet, we’ll go down in a blaze of glory,
so to speak.
Want to spark up a conversation about bad
weed-related puns? E-mail Jordan at
jcarr1@stanford.edu.
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I
have a confession: I’m addicted to board
games. I’m not talking about Candyland
or Monopoly, though I do relish a raucous
game of Pictionary. I get my fix from games
that are a little more complex and a little
more embarrassing — a category sometimes
referred to as “Eurogames” or “German-
style board games.”These involve less strate-
gy than chess but more strategy than Sorry!
and are often based on strangely specific his-
torical periods.
Settlers of Catan is probably the most
well-known German-style board game, but
in my tentative exploration of the board-
game scene on campus and off, it is definitely
not alone. I spent a little time denying this
foray into a new level of nerd, but after I
started frequenting a virtual version of one
game online, facing off against terrifying,
possibly German strangers, the matter be-
came undeniable.
Following this stage of denial, I entered a
brief stage of shame, during which any men-
tion of games would make me sheepish and
prone to blushing.My penning of this column
marks my exit from the shame stage. I am an-
nouncing my fixation on the most public
forum I have.
In retrospect, it is unsurprising that I de-
veloped this acute interest in strategy board
games. It indulges my fondness for solving
puzzles while giving me an outlet for a com-
petitive attitude that I usually hide,while also
allowing me to feel self-congratulatory about
being somewhat social instead of squander-
ing all my free time on the Internet.
These games often use numerous, highly
stylized wooden pieces that I like to admire
on an aesthetic level and, of course, arrange
into neat stacks before beginning game play.
Predictably, my favorite subcategory of
games is cooperative, the sort of game where
all players work together toward a common
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goal (Think “Jumanji,” though the thought
that many readers may be too young to re-
member the film disturbs me more than I
would like to admit).
I like games that are relatively simple and
fast, since I tend to get bogged down with in-
decision and strife otherwise. I like games
with cute graphics and boards that are well
I am more or
organized. I now realize that I am so far gone
that I am able to detail my specific game pref-
erences and relate them to my personality.
My quest for adulthood has hit an unex-
less at peace with
pected obstacle. I spend more time now than
I did as a child giggling over board games,
and if my all-too-frequent online researching
my newest hobby.
of games doesn’t severely undermine my
credibility as an adult, I would be very sur-
prised.
As it turns out, though, I am too willing to
I am in no hurry
sacrifice my credibility based on maturity for
an afternoon of rolling dice or drawing cards.
Before I graduated for the first time and en-
tered this stage of adulthood-light, I had a
to become a bona
penchant for obsessive behavior. This per-
sonality flaw was made apparent through
high school with my teenage fanaticism and
fide adult.
through college with my numerous ill-ad-
vised decisions to stay up all night pursuing
some minutia instead of doing the reason- My coterm year has given me the gift of one
able thing and finding sleep. Perhaps it is ask- more year before I enter the abyss, and I cer-
ing too much for this characteristic to leave tainly plan on enjoying it.
me when I am attempting to put on a show And really, is there a clear definition of
that I am a real adult.The obsession needs an
adulthood? Maturity of hobbies as con-
outlet, and when I declared celebrities, structed by society seems an unimportant
books, and films too juvenile, my resulting factor to take into the bigger picture.
affinity for board games, of all hobbies, is a I’ll concede the possibility that the true
study in irony. conclusion I should take from all this is that I
Upon further contemplation, though, I am thinking too much.
am more or less at peace with my newest
hobby. I am in no hurry to become a bona-
Perhaps it’s time for a little distraction,
time to go inside and set up a board game.
fide adult. I’ve always been something of an
old woman trapped in a young body, so per- Want to trade wood for sheep? E-mail Jade at
haps this is tipping the balance back a little. jadew@stanford.edu.
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SPORTS
UNBEATEN
No. 1 women strike late to beat visiting Santa Clara
By SAM SVOBODA and BROOKE DAVIS
It took two late goals to do it, but the No. 1 Stanford
women’s soccer team took down its local rival, No. 13
Santa Clara, 2-0 at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium on Sunday.
The match was highly physical, but the Cardinal (9-0-2)
broke through against the Broncos (7-3-2) with a record-
tying goal from senior forward Christen Press and a free
kick by junior forward Lindsay Taylor, both of which
came in the last 15 minutes.
Stanford dominated possession in the early stages,as
Santa Clara seemed content to sit back and park the bus
in front of its box. Press had the first attempt of the
match, curling a shot just over the bar from the left side
of the box in the fourth minute.The Cardinal fashioned
another chance in the ninth minute, when Taylor served
a cross in for fellow junior Cami Levin to head the ball
goalward,but the angle was tight and SCU keeper Bian-
ca Henninger made the save.
Stanford’s next good chance would come 15 minutes
later when Press got in front of her marker on a cross into
the penalty area, but the senior could only redirect the
ball right at Henninger.The Cardinal continued to apply
the pressure for the rest of the half,but largely settled for
long-range shots. In the end, although Stanford outshot
Santa Clara 12-0 in the first half (with six of those 12
coming from Press),the score remained knotted at zero.
Stanford head coach Paul Ratcliffe, while not sur-
prised with Santa Clara’s conservative approach, gave
credit to its staunch defense in the opening minutes.
“Basically they sat in and made it hard for us to
score,”Ratcliffe said.“And yeah,you give them credit for
that. And I give their goalkeeper credit. (She) made
some fantastic one-on-one saves, point-blank saves. So
yeah, I give them credit.”
The Santa Clara defense was bolstered with tough
physical play to which the Cardinal responded through-
out the game. At the end of 90 minutes, the match had
seen a total of 16 fouls.
“I thought we responded fine,” Ratcliffe said of the
Stanford Daily File Photo Broncos physicality.“I mean,they’re just trying to throw
Junior forward Lindsay Taylor, above, has been one of Stanford’s catalysts all year and throughout her career. In Sun- us off our game and throw us off our rhythm and it was-
day’s victory Taylor bent home a free kick to extend the Cardinal’s lead to 2-0 late in the second half. n’t a huge issue for me. I thought we played hard and it
WOMEN’S SOCCER
10/3 vs. Santa Clara W 2-0
UP NEXT
USC (7-1-2)
10/8 Los Angeles, CA
7 P.M.
GAME NOTES: Top-ranked Stanford opens its Pac-10 Conference
season at No. 16 USC Friday. Stanford enters the contest unde-
feated on the year, while USC has only dropped one game. The
Trojans are coming off their lone loss of the season, a 1-0 deci-
sion at the University of San Diego.
didn’t rattle us at all.”
The second half saw more Stanford domination,
starting with Levin winning a free kick just outside of the
box on the right in the 49th minute. Junior midfielder
Teresa Noyola’s free kick was headed out, but fellow
midfielder Allison McCann, a senior, served the ball
right back into the box, and Press was just inches away
from getting the vital touch.
Stanford again nearly broke through in the 55th
minute. Substitute Marjani Hing-Glover, a sophomore
forward, got to the endline on the right before crossing
to the middle. Press was waiting in the box, only to see
her close-range effort once again stopped by Henninger.
Sophomore fullback Rachel Quon’s header hit the
crossbar a minute later.
The Cardinal continued to push forward, with both
Press and Taylor finding good opportunities, but neither
could find the back of the net.
Yet the all-important goal arrived with just over 12
minutes remaining in the match.Quon sent in a pinpoint
cross from the left, and Press powered a header past
Henninger to set off a dog pile celebration.The strike not
Please see WSOCCER, page 7

Step your Zach

Zimmerman
SPORTS BRIEFS

game up, Dishing the Rock Stanford water

polo settles for
Card fans! “SUID ONLY” sign, only to get the
stiff arm from the queen bee of the
rent-a-guard clan.
sixth in SoCal

P
rior to the event-that-shall-
not-be-named that took
place on Saturday night, I
started to regret my deci-
sion not to make the trip up
to Eugene.I decided to stay on campus
for three reasons: 1) I was broke, 2) I
needed to study German, a new lan-
guage for me in which I knew the word
for “f******” but not “brother,” and 3)
there was going to be a potentially awe-
some mass viewing at Angell Field.
So my girlfriend and I, being the
sports optimists that we are, decided to
set out for the viewing party at 3:30 p.m.
with hopes of securing ourselves prime
positions for the single big screen.Keep
in mind that kickoff for the event-that-
shall-not-be-named was scheduled for
5:12 p.m.
We ended up being late (standard)
and didn’t make it to the field until
about 4:18. What met us was both sur-
prising and infuriating.
The field was empty except for 25
red-vested security guards on major
power trips.
We approached the makeshift
“We’re not open yet,”she barked at
us.Not open yet? Kickoff is in less than
an hour.
“When do you open?”
Before she responded, she gave me
the kind of look that a neighbor gives
you if your dog shits in his yard.
“4:30!”
This woman, in all the glory that
comes with carrying an SUID scanner,
is what is wrong with the sports scene at
Stanford.
Before coming to the Farm,I had vi-
sions of campouts three days in ad-
vance of big games. Maybe my ideal
world was skewed by hundreds of im-
ages that saturated my brain of Duke
kids parked outside Cameron Indoor
Stadium a week before the UNC game.
Believe it or not, those kids are also
smart. They also care about their
schoolwork and their futures. But they
really, really care about Duke basket-
ball. If they have a test, they study with
five of their friends in a tent on the con-
crete.
Unfortunately, that sports-above-
Please see ZIMMERMAN, page 8
The No. 4 Stanford men’s water
polo team split its four games at the
SoCal Tournament, which included a
13-9 loss in the fifth-place contest
against rival Cal, this past weekend
and left the tournament at UCLA as
the sixth-place finisher.
The Cardinal (6-4) opened the
weekend with a 22-12 rout of No. 13
UC-San Diego on Saturday.Four Car-
dinal players tallied three goals each
and redshirt junior goalkeeper Brian
Pingree made nine saves in the victory.
Stanford would not be so fortunate
in its second game of the day, falling to
No. 6 UC-Santa Barbara 12-10. After
taking a one-goal lead into the second
period, the Cardinal allowed six Gau-
cho goals in the second frame, and
UC-Santa Barbara never looked
back. Senior utility Jeffrey Schwimer
and junior utility Peter Sefton each
notched three goals in the loss.
Resigned to the consolation
bracket, Stanford bounced back with
a 9-8 win over No.8 Long Beach State
in its first game Sunday. The contest
Please see WPOLO, page 8
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WSOCCER
Continued from page 6
only gave the Card the lead, but gave
the senior her 59th career goal, tying
Sarah Rafinelli’s Stanford career
record.
It had taken nearly 80 minutes for
the first goal to arrive, but the second
one came just a minute later. Taylor
drew a foul about 25 yards out, and
stepped up to take the free kick herself.
The junior bent her kick low around
the wall,and although Henninger got a
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the net.Just like that,it was 2-0,and that
was all Stanford would need.
“I think we just had more tenacity
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said.“We knew we didn’t have as much
time left, we didn’t have a full game
ahead of us and that we knew we want-
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had to put a goal away.”
The win over Santa Clara marks the
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was tight throughout, and Stanford
got a huge day from junior driver
Jacob Smith, who hammered home
five goals. Pingree had 11 saves in
net.
The win put the Cardinal in the
fifth-place game against rival Cal.The
third-ranked Golden Bears blitzed
the Cardinal early in the match and
led 8-2 at halftime. The Cardinal was
never able to recover, falling 13-9, de-
spite outscoring Cal 5-2 in the final
period. Sefton had four goals in the
loss.
The champion of the tournament
was No. 1 USC, who took down the
tournament’s host, UCLA, in the
championship game, 9-8.
Stanford will now get ready to
host the top-ranked Trojans, who visit
the Farm on Saturday.
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all culture doesn’t exist here. Here, it’s
perfectly acceptable to show up for a
home basketball game against UCLA
with six minutes left in the game, only
to leave with two minutes remaining
in a four-point game. Here, it takes a
free T-shirt to draw a full student sec-
tion at Stanford Stadium. And here,
you can arrive at a school-wide view-
ing party for the biggest football game
in a freaking decade, only to be
spurned at the gate by a pissed off se-
curity guard.
Unlike some of my fellow colum-
nists,I can’t put all the blame on the stu-
dents. Despite our athletic prowess —
YEAH 16 DIRECTORS’ CUPS WE
ROCK, YEAH! — this is not a sports
school. It’s a shame, but no one gives a
damn about the Directors’ Cup. We
won’t be a sports school until every
component of a successful athletics
program — the students, faculty, ath-
letic department, party planning com-
mittees, red-vested field Nazis, etc. —
comes together for the sole purpose of
Despite the team’s mixed results at the SoCal Tournament, junior driver Jacob
Smith, above, had a great individual performance. In Sunday’s first game, a 9-
8 victory over No. 8 Long Beach State, Smith tallied five goals to lead the Card.
improving the life of a Stanford fan.
This begins with events like Satur-
day.These are not cocktail parties. I’m
not trying to show up 45 minutes be-
fore a game,make small talk,munch on
some cheese and then eat dinner. I
want to eat four meals,play some touch
football and drink my weight in cheap
beer. Game day should be a day, not a
three-hour gathering.
Yet we see the same pattern, year
after year. The first football home
game is packed,and if you take out the
USC,Cal and Oregon games,there is a
steady decrease in attendance. And if
we face a team like Washington the
week after an away game,you can hear
crickets in Stanford Stadium.
The Sixth Man follows the Red
Zone’s lead and performs an annual
vanishing act just a month into the sea-
son. It is entirely possible to show up
for a game at tip-off and grab a spot at
center court. If you tried to pull the
same stunt at Duke, you’d be lucky to
find a seat at a sports bar within a five-
mile radius of Cameron Indoor.
One of the biggest contributors to
the decline in sport popularity is the
coma the campus goes into when one
of our big teams hits the road.The Car-
dinal faithful need to change the way
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they handle the absence of their teams.
When any sports team from Oregon or
USC comes to the Farm, you can feel
the presence of its fans,both those in at-
tendance and those hundreds of miles
away.
We really do have amazing athletes
in a giant variety of sports. It’s time to
care. Saturday’s event was beautiful in
theory, and horrifying in execution.
That type of school-wide gathering
should be held on a regular basis.There
doesn’t always need to be food and
drinks provided, just a place to hang
out and watch the game. It may not
make us Oregon or Duke,but we won’t
be the University of Chicago either.
And most importantly, we don’t
need people running the event that feel
inconvenienced by eager students. All
we need is one Ben Laufer and a
dream, not a redcoat army.
So fans, there is no such thing as a
bye week.We need you to throw more
viewing parties, party throwers. It’s
time to change the Cardinal experi-
ence.
Zach probably assumes you don’t
care about this column either. Show
him your dedication at zachz@stan-
ford.edu.