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October 14, 2010 Issue 20
STUDENT LIFE

Consulting
firms reach
out to seniors
Top companies attract high
numbers of qualified applicants
By SAMANTHA MCGIRR
DESK EDITOR

While many students on campus sport T-shirts and flip-

flops, a select group of seniors are donning suits and slacks
as they stroll through White Plaza.
These students are participating in the intensive recruit-
ment process for consulting companies. The companies, FRANCISCA GILMORE/The Stanford Daily
with specialties ranging from finances to biotechnology,are Residents say intruders entered Storey on Friday evening through this back door, which was propped open, and stole three laptops and an XBox from the residents
eagerly courting seniors who have begun exploring their of one room. Residents in 680 Lomita and Kairos also have also reported thefts during the past week.
postgraduate options.

Row is hit with three alleged burglaries

Bain & Company, a top global management consulting
firm that currently employs more than 150 Stanford alum-
ni, is recruiting students for its associate consultant, or AC,
position. Suzanne Tollerud ‘07 M.A.‘08, now a senior asso-
ciate consultant,says the role of an AC is to work with clients
“in the process of solving complex business problems.”
“These interactions range from simple data requests to
in-depth discussions with clients to brainstorm and debate
ideas,”Tollerud wrote in an e-mail to The Daily.“As insights
and potential solutions begin to emerge,team members will
often return to the employees they have worked with to
share these ideas and iterate on strategy development.”
ACs at Bain and other consulting firms work on small
teams, managing a caseload that changes daily. Sherry Ho
‘11,an international relations major,spent the past summer
as a Bain AC intern at the firm’s San Francisco office. She
said she enjoyed being exposed to a variety of business sec-
tors.
“One thing I really like is that no two days are the same,”
said Ho, who will work for the firm full-time upon gradua-
tion. “It varies a lot, and Bain is a very dynamic place to
work.”
The excitement of the consulting field also drew in
Patrick MacKenzie ‘11, a management science and engi-
neering major who interned for Accenture this summer.
“It’s a fast-moving environment where you’re constant-
ly switching from case to case,” MacKenzie said. “You’re
learning about new industries and constantly being chal-
lenged.”
MacKenzie,who plans to attend business school eventu-
ally,said he views consulting as a learning experience rather
than as a long-term career prospect.The first step in that ex-
perience, for most hopefuls, is the notoriously intense re-
cruitment process. Many companies begin courting Stan-
ford students before their senior year and continue with in-
formational sessions and informal meet-and-greets in the
early fall.
Please see CONSULTING, page 5
RESEARCH
Storey, 680 Lomita and Kairos residents report stolen laptops, iPods
By KELSEY KING
Several houses on the Row have re-
ported burglaries in the past week, re-
sulting in the loss of thousands of dol-
lars’ worth of student belongings, in-
cluding laptops and iPods.
The first reported break-in occurred
around 3 a.m. on Saturday, when four
unidentified men entered a first-floor
room of Storey House, according to res-
ident Chris Jenkins ‘13.
According to Storey resident assis-
STUDENT GOV’T
GSC talks Constitutional Council picks
By ANNA SCHUESSLER
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
On Wednesday, the Graduate Student
Council (GSC) prepared for upcoming holi-
days, discussed recent nominations to the
ASSU Constitutional Council and clarified
policies about religious and political events.
The Council’s Thanksgiving coordinator,
doctoral student in earth sciences Mary Van
tant Andy Hiller ‘11, the four men were
able to enter the room through an open
door, which accesses the Tresidder park-
ing lot, after it had been propped open
to keep the students’ room cooler.
Jenkins was asleep when the men en-
tered his room. His two roommates
were in the kitchen.
“I had been asleep for a few hours
when four men came into the room,”
Jenkins said. “I heard them and got out
of bed and grabbed hold of one of them,
but they got away.”
der Hoven, announced plans to revamp the
menu for the annual dinner given for gradu-
ate students in honor of Turkey Day.Van der
Hoven was pleased with last year’s increased
attendance but was determined to improve
the programming for graduate students and
their families spending the upcoming
Thanksgiving break on campus. According
to Van der Hoven,last year’s event attracted
hundreds of students, but she invited willing
The intruders stole an XBox and
Jenkins’ laptop, as well as his two room-
mates’ laptops.
On Saturday evening, residents at
680 Lomita also experienced a burglary.
Community manager Alexei Dunaway
‘11 said two first-floor rooms were bro-
ken into.
Among the items stolen were bottles
of scotch, an iPod and Engineering 60
textbook. Dunaway said these were par-
ticularly interesting items to steal, given
that there were five computers between
participants to add some creativity to the
event.
“What I would really like is for someone
to take it and run with it, get creative,” Van
der Hoven.
The GSC turned from celebrations to
speculation as Ryan Peacock,a graduate stu-
dent in chemical engineering and ASSU ex-
Please see COUNCIL, page 5
the two rooms. He said the choice of
stolen items could suggest the identity
of the perpetrator.
“I mean, who steals an E-60 book?”
Dunaway said. “That makes me think
it’s Stanford people.”
The most recent alleged burglary oc-
curred on or before Monday afternoon
at Kairos, when someone entered the
room of kitchen manager Michelle
Mederos ‘11 and stole her netbook and
Please see ROW, page 7
NEWS BRIEFS
Dalai Lama kicks off visit
to Stanford,EPA; talks
will be webcast
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
The Dalai Lama is set to headline a va-
riety of events on compassion, altruism
and a meaningful life Thursday and Friday
at Stanford.
The exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader’s
last visit to campus was in 2005, when he
discussed the biological meanings of com-

Recent study suggests love passion with scientists and Buddhist lead-
ers and explored spiritual and scientific
aspects of suffering, craving and choice.
On this visit, His Holiness the 14th

may be a natural painkiller Dalai Lama is set to host a public talk

By BRANDON POWELL
Your blossoming relationship may be
providing more than just an ear to listen and
a shoulder to cry on. It may actually be re-
lieving your pain. A recent study at the
School of Medicine suggests that love may
alleviate pain in the same way narcotic
painkillers do.
Sean Mackey, associate professor of
anesthesia, Jarred Younger, a professor of
anesthesia, and Arthur Aron, a professor of
psychology at SUNY Stony Brook, collabo-
rated on a study investigating the pain-re-
lieving capabilities of love that was pub-
lished Wednesday online in PLoS ONE.
Subjects in the early stages of a romance
— nine months or fewer into a relationship
— were shown pictures one at a time of their
significant other or of a platonic friend while
receiving pain in the form of either intense
blasts of heat to the hand. As comparison,
the study also measured pain relief that sub-
jects felt when they were given a word-dis-
traction test while experiencing pain.
The subjects were then asked to rate
their pain levels, at which point the experi-
menters could compare those results to the
neurological changes they observed.
“The centers that were being activated
that were responsible for the pain relief
were definitely general reward centers,”
Younger said. “These regions are also the
ones activated by drugs of abuse, sex, eating
really good food — anything that your
body wants you to keep doing.”
Younger said the reward sensation feeds
into pain-suppressing centers that can block
pain signals from reaching the brain, a
process known as analgesia. Since love is an
experience of reward, it could in fact have
analgesic effects.
“[Art] and his wife study passionate love
and I study pain,” Mackey said in describing
how the study got started. “We got to talk-
ing about the brain systems of love and the
brain systems of pain and realized there was
tremendous overlap.”
Mackey then offered Younger, a post-
doctoral student at the time, the opportuni-
ty to join the study and assist the love-pain
experiment.
“I think we picked love because it’s one
of the strongest naturally occurring reward
experiences that we can actually emulate in
the scanner,” Younger said.
Happy couple Tim Gurshin ‘14 and Laura Figueroa ‘14 embrace. A recent School of Medicine
study suggests love may affect neurological pathways responsible for the experience of pain.
Furthermore, Younger expressed hope
that harnessing the activity of these brain
regions could lead to the discovery of non-
addictive methods of controlling pain.
“One of the possibilities is that now that
we see some of the regions associated with
love that reduce pain significantly, we may
be able to teach that person how to control
their activity in that region,” Younger said.
Younger conceded, however, that it may
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be difficult to determine how specifically to
induce love and thus reduce pain.
“We can’t ask them to have an affair or
anything,” Younger said, “but it could be
that anything rewarding could reduce
pain.”
Still, Younger maintained that love is
among the strongest of the reward sensa-
Please see LOVE, page 5
from 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on Thursday in
Maples Pavilion about compassion and al-
truism and their central roles in human so-
ciety. Following the public talk, the Office
of Religious Life will host the Dalai Lama
as the 2010 Rathbun Visiting Fellow, and
as such, he is scheduled to give the annual
memorial Harry’s Last Lecture on a
Meaningful Life from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30
p.m. in Memorial Church.
On Friday, he is set to serve as a pan-
elist in the all-day conference “Scientific
Explorations of Compassion and Altru-
ism” in Memorial Auditorium. His fellow
speakers and panelists include education
professor Linda Darling-Hammond, psy-
chology professor emeritus Philip Zim-
bardo, neurosurgeon James Doty, associ-
ate bioengineering professor Karl Deis-
seroth and economics professor Bill Har-
baugh, among others. The Dalai Lama is
set to serve as a panelist in all four confer-
ence sessions, which cover both societal
and biological interactions with compas-
sion.
Tickets for both Thursday talks and the
Friday conference are sold out, but the
University is broadcasting both days’
events via live webcast.A recording of the
event will be available on iTunes U and
Please see DALAI LAMA, page 5

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FEATURES
Arabic sparks new passions
By ALIZA ROSEN
“I
went to Egypt for personal rea-
sons, as a means of escape. I
needed a break. But little did I
know that my experience there
would completely alter my ac-
ademic plans for the future, and my already-
set pre-med major would change into a life-
long passion for Arabic and the Middle
East.”
Born into a time in which Middle East-
ern issues are at the forefront of American
politics, Michelle Lee ‘14 has recently real-
ized the strategic necessity of studying Ara-
bic in today’s politically complex world.
Thousands of others are following suit.
Ever since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in
2001, there has been a nationwide surge in
college-student enrollment in Arabic and
study abroad in the Middle East.According
to a study by the Institute of International
Education, the number of American stu-
dents spending their junior year in Arabic-
speaking countries has increased six-fold,
from 562 in 2002 to 3,399 in 2007.
Khalil Barhoum,the coordinator of Mid-
dle Eastern and African Languages and Lit-
eratures at Stanford, notes that according to
a recent survey conducted by the Modern
Language Association, “Arabic enrollment
at the university level has more than dou-
bled nationally between 2004 and 2008, and
so has the number of institutions offering
programs over the same period, with 23,974
students currently enrolled in 466 programs
around the country.”
This upward trend of interest in Arabic
and the Middle East exists at Stanford as
well, though the University has no formal
Middle Eastern studies department.
“We have seen our numbers often triple
and quadruple each fall quarter over the last
few years,” Barhoum said.“It is not unusual
for us these days to have over 120 students
enrolled in Arabic classes each fall quarter
since Sept. 11, 2001.”
Arabic instructor Khalid Obeid agrees,
noting that students are attracted to Arabic
for a variety of reasons.
“We’ve seen in many articles and studies
that the number of students interested in
Arabic increased after 9/11,” Obeid said.
“But I’ve seen a genuine interest in students
learning Arabic for the culture and language
away from the conflict. Many of them are
taking it for themselves. They just want to
learn a foreign language and enhance their
language skills.”
NONPROFIT FOR HEALTH EDUCATION
By OLIVIA SIMONE JEW
I
t’s new. It’s nonprofit. It provides pa-
tient education. It’s Anjna:A New Joint
Nonprofit Approach to Patient Educa-
tion.
Founded in May 2010 by Stanford under-
graduates, Anjna is a student-run organiza-
tion that develops and disseminates high-
quality health education materials to free
clinics around the Palo Alto area, as well as to
other institutions across the country, includ-
ing Cornell, Harvard and HEC Paris. The
main focus is to establish health education in-
frastructure programs in free clinics where
patients have one-on-one interactions with
health educators.
Among its many programs and services,
Anjna targets socioeconomically disadvan-
taged patients by providing health education
materials, such as easy-to-read pamphlets in
different languages, to areas where these ma-
terials are lacking. It strives to improve the
treatment and prevention of diseases, includ-
ing obesity, diabetes, hypertension, depres-
sion and other chronic illnesses.
Anjna began with a team of 15 members
led by its founder and executive director Vi-
neet Singal ‘12 and Donovan Barfield ‘12, the
managing director. Singal first came up with
the idea for the organization after taking a
quarter off from Stanford to volunteer full-
time at St.Vincent’s Free Clinic in Galveston,
Texas.
Galveston’s community was suffering
from a weak economy ever since Hurricane
Ike, which forced many people in under-
served populations to lose their health insur-
ance and thus made them dependent on free
clinics for treatment.
“I noticed how many people were suffer-
ing from diseases like diabetes and obesity
and high blood pressure,” Singal said of his
work in Galveston. “The worst part is that
these diseases are preventable; there’s no
reason why people should have to have
them.”
In response to the lack of quality patient
and health education infrastructure, Singal
started a health education program at the
clinic in Galveston by partnering with med-
ical students who were working there. The
Lee concurs, insisting that learning Ara-
bic and understanding culture go hand in
hand.
“Learning a language is more than just
learning the words and definitions,”she said.
“It’s more about understanding the cultural
paradigm and ideology. In the little sub-
tleties in which Arabs communicate, we get
a glimpse of their culture.”
The students in Obeid’s Level I Arabic
class come from a variety of backgrounds.
Some focus their studies in history, interna-
tional relations and political science, but a
growing number of them hope to major in
engineering, law, anthropology and archae-
ology.
“What all of my students have in com-
mon is interest in the Middle Eastern region
and culture,” Obeid said.“I have archaeolo-
gy students who are interested in studying
sites in the Middle East and engineering stu-
dents who believe that having a strong foun-
dation in Arabic will help them in finding fu-
ture employment. The motivation is not al-
ways politics.”
History professor Joel Beinin noted that
there is a “clear difference at Stanford be-
tween students taking classes in Arabic and
students taking classes in Middle Eastern
politics.”
While the number of students signing up
for Arabic has grown in the years following
9/11,the number of students expressing in-
terest in taking his Middle Eastern politics
classes has dropped.
“I teach a course on the Arab-Israeli
conflict in winter quarter,” Beinin said.“In
the past, my course has been very difficult
to get into. I would have to turn students
away.But this year,I don’t even know what
enrollment’s going to be like. I’m sure that
a freshman could even get in this year.”
Political science Prof. Lisa Blaydes be-
lieves that there is room for develop-
ment and expansion in the realm of
Middle Eastern politics. Blaydes just
returned from two years at the Har-
vard Academy for International and
Area Studies
“I think when it comes to the
Middle East, there is enough
student demand, and it’s suf-
ficiently important that the
University does need to pro-
vide coursework and advising
for students who are interested
in the area,” she said.“We’re not
talking about a small university.I
think Stanford is large enough to
program eventually became integrated into
the clinic’s regular operation.
To date,Anjna works with 40 partner clin-
ics around the country and has already re-
ceived awards for its work from foundations
such as DoSomething and Institute for the
Future. In contrast to other patient education
nonprofits, Anjna is the only nonprofit that
develops, translates and provides consulting
services specifically to free clinics.
Of the 40 clinics Anjna works with, most
are located in Santa Clara County. Anjna’s
handle that kind of diversity of scope.”
Meredith Wheeler ‘14 came to Stanford
with a strong background in Arabic and
Middle Eastern politics. In the summer be-
fore her senior year of high school and again
during her gap year,Wheeler participated in
the National Security Language Initiative, a
project within the State Department’s Criti-
cal Language Scholarship Program that en-
courages college-age students to study Ara-
bic. She believes that the upward trend of
students studying Arabic is “to an extent tar-
geted toward the State Department initia-
tives, because the government benefits if
there are more Arabic speakers in the
world.”
After living in Jordan and Egypt,Wheel-
er gained interest not only in the Arabic lan-
guage, but also in Middle Eastern culture
and politics, so she was somewhat disap-
pointed that Stanford lacks formal pro-
gramming in this area.
“I hope that the University will start to
invest more in Middle Eastern studies in
general,”Wheeler said.“The Middle East is
currently one of the most politically volatile
and socially complex regions in the world,
and while there is sufficient coursework
dealing with the Middle
East,Stanford lacks a syn-
thesized pro-
next priority is to scale up so that it has a na-
tional presence.
“The future is to provide this service to
free clinics nationwide,” Singal said. He
hopes that Anjna will eventually reach un-
derserved patients worldwide.
Barfield, Anjna’s managing director, said
that building the organization took a summer
of establishing the various disease teams
within the organization and applying for
grants.
“We’ve expanded in the span of about
gram and major to unite these classes for
students like me.”
It is unclear if the inverse relationship be-
tween students taking Arabic and those in-
terested in Middle Eastern culture and poli-
tics will remain.
“As a third-year Arabic student and
someone who is passionate about Middle
Eastern politics, I hope that this growing
trend is just the beginning for Stanford
and that we will be able to push for new
infrastructure in academic program-
ming before we graduate,” Wheeler
said.“If every class could be like my
intro seminar, Everyday Political
Life in the Authoritarian Middle
East, my life would be com-
plete.”
Contact Aliza Rosen at alizar
@stanford.edu.
four months,” he said. “We have about 100
people within the organization, we’ve raised
$3,000 to implement our project in local clin-
ics, and so we’re really excited in seeing
where we can go.”
Barfield has personal motivations for
working with Anjna.
“I myself was raised in an underprivileged
family,” he said, “so it’s really rewarding be-
cause growing up, I was involved and I have
stories from my mom about going to free
clinics . . . It’s like I’m giving back directly to
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a situation that I was once immersed in my-
self.”
Another key player in building and sup-
porting Anjna is Dr. Tien-Wen Wiedmann,
Anjna’s faculty advisor and a former pro-
fessor in nuclear medicine at the School of
Medicine. With experience as founder and
president of H.E.L.P. for Kids, another
nonprofit dedicated to youth education
and development through partnership with
public schools, Wiedmann has assisted the
team with recruitment and has helped
Anjna define exactly what it wants to ac-
complish.
“We want to make people rethink . . . the
experience that a patient has when they go to
a free clinic,” Barfield said. “It’s not just they
come in, they get medicine, they leave. They
come in, they get to see a doctor, and they get
to sit down with somebody and talk about
their problems.”
Wiedmann notes that one of the biggest
problems in health education efforts is pa-
tients’ noncompliance with their doctors’ ad-
vice.
“If you don’t understand your own condi-
tion, you don’t do what the doctor says, most-
ly because you don’t understand what the
doctor says . . . I personally think that educa-
tion is very important, because if you really
understand the material [and] what’s going
on, you will actually be a participant in your
treatment.”
Wiedmann doesn’t know whether patient
education makes a difference in the long run,
but in an analysis study on the efficacy of pa-
tient education in chronic diseases and obesi-
ty published in June 2010, researchers found
that 50-80 percent of patients who received
therapeutic patient education showed gener-
al improvement in health.
Still, one of the biggest obstacles for
Anjna has been convincing larger health ed-
ucation nonprofits and fiscal sponsors that
undergraduate students can accomplish this
project.A great source of assistance has been
the student body.
“The students have been awesome,” Sin-
gal said. “We’ve been blown away by the tal-
ent of the student body and how dedicated to
a cause they have been.”
Contact Olivia Simone Jew at osjew@stan-
ford.edu.
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out the extracurricular resources? We do live

here for four-plus years, so non-academics
make up a significant part of our lives. And,
arguably, those activities are as much about
how we T HIS C OLUMN I S I RONIC
education as our classes. They give us hands-
on practice rounds of activism, business, per-
formance arts and so forth. Many of us will
attempt to earn a living with those skills, and
parcel out Welcome to Stanford, Max Fischer
those who don’t will still benefit from the
breadth of experiences. So why can’t every-
one do all the activities they want and reap
the full educational benefits?
extracurricular This column originally ran on Sept. 23, 2010. probably be friends if I said something like,
“I’m going to drive my Prius to catch a show

Well, we have some elements of a meri-
tocracy here and there, for good reasons. I’m
sure you would learn a lot playing football
under the coaching of Jim Harbaugh, but
that’s just not in the cards for most of us.And
when it comes to music, performance groups
have just as good a reason for auditions. At
this age, people expect a level of musician-
ship when going to shows — we’re no longer
in elementary school orchestras with audi-
ences of proud parents listening to us squeak
away.
But what about when there’s a clear de-
mand for people to learn something, and a
clear desire to teach them? I’m in Cardinal
Calypso and we saw over 50 people audition.
All would have clearly loved to learn about
the steel pan, yet we could only take three.
Our mission includes teaching, so we show
new members how to play. The rest we teach
about the sound and versatility of the instru-
ment via gigs and shows, which is great, but
not the same.
We simply don’t have enough instruments
for a 60-person band. We don’t have enough
time in our schedules to try to put together a
B band using the instruments we already
own. We don’t have a full-time instructor
who could run several ensembles. And even
if we did, we don’t have a practice space with
the flexibility for us to use more than the few
hours per week we already occupy. In theory,
the music department would have that kind
of jurisdiction and could provide some of
those opportunities, but part of the point of a
VSO is that it’s student-run.
Calypso has a music ensemble’s version of
the timeless problem of resources. Other
groups get to wrestle with the same issue in
different ways. But the solution is always
money.
I’m not going to get into an argument
about special fees. That is but one potential
source of financial help that can provide op-
portunity to more students. Other options in-
clude ASSU discretionary funding, all shapes
resources?
and sizes of grants, The Stanford Fund, in-
come from performances and our own wal-
lets. Each has its own process, its own limita-
tions (of time or amount or purpose), and
you can get into arguments about the justice
or appropriateness of using any of them. Suf-
fice it to say,there is a variety of places groups
can go to ask for resources.
So even though not everyone gets to ben-
efit from all the opportunities they see at
Stanford, the farm doth have fertile ground if
you want to get some money to plant some-
thing. And given that musicians are usually
pretty strapped for cash, at least while you’re
in college you can apply for funding to record
an album or start a steel pan group.
Besides, is it even a huge deal that some
doors are closed to students? With all the
classes and activities to choose from, a few
unavailable options might make it a bit easi-
er to pick among the thousand other things
on your to-do list.
Let’s be clear, though: This issue of un-
available opportunities due to short re-
sources is not unique to Stanford student
groups. It’s a part of life. My point is merely
that, as I advocate for a stronger music pres-
ence on campus, I lament the times when sit-
uational factors prevent more people from
joining in. Taking the long view, groups can
build themselves up over the years, enabling
them to share music with more people later.
Right now, they might not have room, but
things can change.And when you don’t make
it the first time around, Stanford’s got some
resources if you’re enterprising enough.Who
knows, it might teach you something.
Got any pedagogical or opportunistic com-
ments? Email lucaswj@stanford.edu.
M
y name is Shane Savitsky, and I am a
white person.
I thought I should get that out of the way
immediately, because it’s going to be an over-
arching theme to this column as it progresses.
After all, Mark Twain once said,“Write what
you know.” What I know is how to be un-
abashedly, undeniably and almost unattrac-
tively white. Maybe you’ve seen me: I’m that
kid who was biking to class the other day in a
Ralph Lauren oxford with a Jamba Juice in
my hand while jamming to some Vampire
Weekend.
While I’m at it, I should probably get
some other things out of the way. I get all of
my news through Twitter. I think “Arrested
Development” is the funniest series to ever
air on television. There are a couple pairs of
skinny jeans hanging in my closet. “The Life
Aquatic” is my favorite Wes Anderson
movie. I check Pitchfork multiple times a day
for the latest in music updates. Of course I
voted for Barack Obama. And no, I am most
definitely not a PC.
I guess some people might call me a hip-
ster. We can go with that if you want.
Obviously, Stanford is known for its diver-
sity. We have people from all over the planet
coming to study at our fine institution nestled
in its own little slice of paradise, and we do
everything we can to make those people feel
comfortable. Stanford is loaded with com-
munity centers and theme houses beckoning
to every corner of society — something that
makes our university such a great and wel-
coming place. But sometimes, white people
need a little place where they can come to
and hear someone rant about the latest
episode of “Mad Men” or “Breaking Bad.”
Maybe you just want to relax with a coffee
and sit down at your Macbook. This is that
place. (Please ignore the fact that I just com-
pletely described the CoHo or any
dorm/house lounge on campus.) Every week
when you open up The Stanford Daily and
Shane
Savitsky
Maybe you just
want to relax with a
coffee and sit down
at your Macbook.
This is that place.
see my column on the page, know that this is
a safe respite for those of you who have been
feeling lost.
Fear not! That is not a message of exclu-
sion.While this column might be a jaded and
sarcastic view of everything from culture to
Stanford-related issues to anything in be-
tween, I hope to reach out to all members of
the Stanford community. You’re a college
student, right? And you go to school in Cali-
fornia? From that, I can immediately assume
that you’re probably socially liberal and cul-
turally conscious. Thus, I’m sure we would
at the Fillmore this weekend and stop in The
Mission on my way back to campus for some
dive Mexican food. Oh, and I hope Prop 8
gets overturned!” Maybe you’d like me even
more if I told you that I thought Arcade Fire
put out the best album of 2010 thus far. If you
still have no idea why anything I just said
should be appealing or if you’ve never heard
of Arcade Fire (or think that I’m referring to
a conflagration amidst some pinball ma-
chines), then we definitely have some work
to do.We’ll accomplish that over the next few
weeks.
That takes me to an important point to
leave you with: in my personal film pan-
theon,Wes Anderson-directed movies hold a
very esteemed position among my favorites.
And in Anderson’s classic film “Rushmore,”
the main character is a teenager named Max
Fischer. Max might be something of a bud-
ding sociopath, but he is also involved in
countless extracurricular activities at his pri-
vate high school, Rushmore. From the “Yan-
kee Racers” to the fencing club to the Rush-
more Beekeepers, Max does it all. He’s a lit-
tle obsessive compulsive, slightly unstable,
over-the-top and has way too many things on
his plate to focus on schoolwork. And that,
my friends, is something all of us at Stanford
can agree upon. I’m talking to the person out
there among us who has climbed Mount
Everest or whose research might unlock the
cure for cancer someday. But mainly, I’m
talking to you — the average Stanford stu-
dent who is in a thousand different student
organizations with countless meetings to go
to and a couple papers or problem sets due
on top of that and just not enough time in the
day. It doesn’t matter if you’re white or black
or brown or some odd shade of purple; all of
us here at Stanford have just a little bit of
Max Fischer in us — otherwise, we wouldn’t
be here.
Think you’re more of a Steve Zissou? Drop
Shane an e-mail at savitsky@stanford.edu.

L ETTERS TO THE E DITOR

The wind of freedom still blows

Dear Editor,
I am one of those who wrote in to criti-
cize The Stanford Daily’s editorial, which
labeled Dr. Victor Davis Hanson a racist,
and expressed my disappointment that such
a poorly argued editorial, whose author had
entirely misread Hanson’s remarks and in-
tentions, was published at all. Like others, I
believe The Stanford Daily owes Dr. Han-
son a public apology.
However, the writers of several letters to
the editor responding to the Hanson edito-
rial have engaged in similar ad hominem at-
tacks and generalized negatively about the
intellect, abilities and political leanings of
Stanford students and their teachers, even
questioning the national standing of the
University itself.
Despite the well-deserved criticism of
that single editorial, I do not waver in my
belief that it was an absolute privilege to be
a Stanford student and it still is. Stanford is
an incredible place to get an education, a
place of rigorous debate, talented students
and outstanding faculty, and may well be
the best University in the world.
As an alumna, I am about to spend
$3,000 for my husband and me to attend the
four-day Homecoming Reunion of the
Stanford Class of ‘65 this month (registra-
work-study program even to be able to af-
ford to go to Stanford, I was an English
major who took classes across the curricu-
lum with professors I could only dream of
meeting. Admittedly, I wrote some papers
that I’d like to reach back through time and
retract (not unlike some Daily editorial
writers), but I learned the proverbial les-
sons of a lifetime at Stanford. I met people
of all races, religions and creeds and spent
long nights at Roble, FloMo and Hurlburt
and in Beutelsbach listening and openly
discussing every philosophical, religious
and political viewpoint imaginable. Like
students everywhere, sometimes I was an
ass and sometimes I actually made a few
worthwhile contributions.
But I was never pressured to conform
my thinking to any particular direction at
Stanford, whether liberal or conservative,
other than being guided to be clear, to use
logic and to be able to back up my asser-
tions with facts, authority and solid exam-
ples. Perhaps some of the writers of those
letters to the editor criticizing Stanford as
promoting leftist, liberal propaganda
would be amazed to know I actually gradu-
ated as a conservative independent in my
political leanings.
Yes, at every university, as Dr. Hanson

tion fees, airfare, hotel, rental car, etc.). We
are willing to pay that just for the privilege
of sitting in on a few Classes Without
Quizzes led by distinguished Stanford pro-
fessors and researchers, panel discussions
on current issues, tours of the gorgeous
campus and the singular opportunity to
enjoy a Dinner on the Quad. And we plan
to do it again five years from now for my
50th reunion.
On scholarship, loans, grants and a
Write to us.
writes, some policies should be re-exam-
ined and changed. Stanford has warts, but it
continues to be a truly great university.
And I have no doubt that open discussion
and rigorous examination of diverse ideas
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COUNCIL
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ecutive cabinet member, brought an
Oct. 12 Stanford Review blog post to
the council’s attention.In the post,blog-
ger Otis Reid ‘12 questioned the recent
selection of three new nominees for the
ASSU Constitutional Council, postu-
lating that GSC politics may have
played a role in the developments.
“I think it was unfortunate
that that message was sent
because it was not true.”
— RYAN PEACOCK
“Otis was able to get a little infor-
mation from an anonymous source,”
Peacock said. “I think it was unfortu-
nate that that message was sent be-
cause it was not true.”
Reid wrote that Brianna Pang ‘13,
former GSC beat writer for The Daily,
was a first-round Constitutional Coun-
cil nominee but was not re-nominated
in the second round, raising “concern
about the impartiality of GSC mem-
bers . . . towards her nomination.”
(Pang remains a Daily staff member.)
Peacock addressed this issue as well.
“As a GSC member from the previ-
ous year, we thought Brianna was
great,” Peacock said. “She turned the
level of reporting on the GSC around.”
Samir Siddhandti ‘12, representing
one of the second-round nominees to
the Constitutional Council,attended the
meeting and fielded questions posed by
GSC members about his new position.
The meeting concluded with an in-
vitation to discuss the GSC’s bylaws re-
garding funding for religious and polit-
ical events. Krystal St. Julien, a gradu-
ate student in biochemistry, reported
recommendations given in a recent
meeting with representatives from
Student Activities and Leadership
“The recommendation was that we
should be open to funding religious
events,”St.Julien said.“Everyone must
feel welcome attending. On the politi-
cal side, keep the bylaw stating that we
don’t fund political events unless they
are educational.”
Contact Anna Schuessler at annas7
@stanford.edu.
Lighting the Way
Andres Gutierrez ‘14 reads an essay on Wednesday about his struggles growing
up with homophobic peers. “I’m really glad to be at a place like Stanford where I
can be myself, but the fact of the matter is that not everywhere is Stanford,” he said.
Correction
In “Whitman, Brown spar in final
debate” (Oct. 13), Brokaw’s quote,
“You said businesses and households
ought to be held accountable for em-
ploying undocumented workers . . .
if you couldn’t find out someone in
your home was undocumented or il-
legal, how do you expect businesses
to be able to?,”was incorrectly attrib-
uted to Brown.
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“It’s not uncommon for us to be in
contact with a recruit for a year or more
before we invite them to interview for
a full-time position,”Tollerud said.
MacKenzie, who has attended sev-
eral sessions, says that the number of
students in attendance makes it diffi-
cult to gain face time with company
representatives.He recently attended a
McKinsey & Company session in a
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YouTube for several days after the
event.
Many of the panelists, including
Doty,are affiliated with the School of
Medicine’s Center for Compassion
and Altruism Research and Educa-
tion (CCARE), a center whose re-
search focuses on joining psychology
completely full Tresidder Oak Room.
“It was really hard to speak with
McKinsey people because there were
so many students wanting to meet
them and network,” MacKenzie said.
“There’s definitely pressure to stand
out to someone at a company and have
a good conversation so they remember
you.”
Applicants submit a resume and
transcript to the firms they are interest-
ed in, and most firms send out inter-
view requests within a week of receiv-
ing applications. Bain’s interview
process, like that of many other con-
sulting companies, consists of two
LOVE
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tions, and thus among the most ef-
fective pain relievers. The specific
type of love most valuable as a
painkiller would be a matter of fur-
ther study.
“I would like to look at mater-
nal love, long-term romantic love,
and test different types of love to
see if they’re also pain-relieving or
not,” Younger said.
Mackey expressed an interest in
pursuing the matter of quantifica-
tion of pain relief with respect to
degree of love.
“Does more love equal more
pain relief, more analgesia?”
Mackey questioned.
Both Mackey and Younger ex-
pressed hope that further explo-
ration of the interactions between
love and pain relief could lead to
more innocuous methods of pain
relief.
Contact Brandon Powell at bpow-
ell1@stanford.edu.3
and neuroscience with examinations
of human compassion and empathy.
CCARE and the School of Medicine
are hosting Friday’s conference.
The Dalai Lama also visited East
Palo Alto’s Costano School on
Wednesday, speaking to an audi-
ence of about 400 eighth-grade stu-
dents. He also visited critically ill
children at the Stanford Hospital
whose parents are staying at the
Ronald McDonald House.
— Ellen Huet
rounds of case interviews.
“Our case interviews are based on
real business problems, very similar to
the ones our clients hire us to help them
solve,” Tollerud said. “The case inter-
view process is the best way for us to ac-
cess a candidate’s ability to be success-
ful in the associate consultant role.”
Firms typically present offers to
candidates within a week of interviews.
According to a 2008 article in Business-
Week, “Best Places to Launch a Ca-
reer,” entry-level consultants at top
firms can expect a starting salary of
$55,000, plus signing bonuses.
Though consulting firms work with
Thursday, October 14, 2010 ! 5
STUDENT LIFE
Stanford hosts annual
FACE AIDS conference
More than 100 students
to attend weekend event
By MARIANNE LEVINE
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
This weekend, 100 students from
FACE AIDS chapters around the
United States and Canada will attend
the annual FACE AIDS conference
at Stanford. This year’s conference is
entitled “Beyond the Pin.” The con-
ference is primarily funded by FACE
AIDS, an international nonprofit
founded by Stanford students dedi-
cated to fighting HIV/AIDS. The
conference was planned and organ-
ized by the FACE AIDS Director
Corps, a group of eight Stanford stu-
dents passionate about global health.
According to Romy Saloner ‘07, a
FACE AIDS executive and manag-
ing director, the conference gives stu-
dents the unique opportunity “to
learn from global health experts and
each other about critical issues in the
field and how to be effective advo-
cates and leaders in the fight against
HIV/AIDS.”
The FACE AIDS conference will
host a variety of speakers, from doc-
tors to lawyers to activists. The
keynote speakers are Joia Mukher-
jee, medical director of Partners In
Health, Joe Amon, director of the
Health and Human Rights Division
at Human Rights Watch, and Don
the Career Development Center
(CDC) to plan on-campus recruiting
events, CDC Director Lance Choy of-
fers words of caution to students con-
sidering the field.
“For some students consulting is a
great field,”Choy wrote in an e-mail to
The Daily.“Unfortunately,I see far too
many students who pursue consulting
without exploring other options. For
many students, they pursue consulting
because of their friends.These students
think that it must be a good field be-
cause so many others are pursuing this
field.”
For students like Ho,however,con-
Francis, executive director of Global
Solutions for Infectious Disease and
co-discoverer of HIV/AIDS.
Mukherjee is scheduled to speak at
Bishop Auditorium at 6:30 p.m. on
Saturday;Amon is scheduled for Sat-
urday and Francis on Sunday, both at
the Clark Center.
In addition to hosting a wide
range of speakers, the FACE AIDS
conference will include other activi-
ties. According to Sidhtara Tep ‘11,
the national events director for
FACE AIDS, these activities include
a “speed-dating” session where stu-
dents can meet with professionals
and activists in the field and a career
panel in global health.
The University of Oregon, Vassar
College and University of Texas-
Austin are among many schools with
large FACE AIDS chapters. In order
to attend the conference, students
simply had to register online.
For the Stanford organizers, the
conference involved a significant
amount of planning. “We had to find
speakers, create programming, design
t-shirts and finalize logistics for food
and airport pick-up,” Tep said. “There
is so much more that went into the con-
ference and we literally have a million
Google documents floating around.”
The FACE AIDS conference will
begin Friday at 5 p.m. and end Sun-
day at 2 p.m.
Contact Marianne LeVine at mlevine2
@stanford.edu.
sulting offers an opportunity to be an
integral and valued member of a
team. In few other professions, she
points out, are recent college gradu-
ates given such a high level of respon-
sibility right away.
“They [fellow consultants] don’t
discredit you for your age,”Ho said.“If
you’re on a four-person team, they ex-
pect you to work just as hard as every-
one else.You have the chance to make
an impact immediately, and that’s
hard to come by.”
Contact Samantha McGirr at smcgirr@
stanford.edu.
6 ! Thursday, October 14, 2010 The Stanford Daily

SPORTS
BRUIN Jacob
Jaffe
Fields of Failure

BONANZA The highs

and lows of
Cardinal looks to build off MEN’S SOCCER
10/10 vs. Oregon State W 1-0
Card football
double-overtime victory

By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
After dropping its first two Pac-10 con-
tests to California and Washington, the
men’s soccer team avoided an even bigger
hole thanks to senior forward Dominique
Yahyavi’s golden goal to beat Oregon State
in double overtime.
This weekend, the Cardinal returns home
to face a stiff test from two tough opponents:
No. 13 UCLA and previously-ranked San
Diego State.
The Bruins (8-2-1, 3-0 Pac-10) are tied
with Cal for the Pac-10 lead and are looking
to extend their dominance over the Cardi-
nal, already holding a 36-5-7 advantage in
the all-time series. UCLA head coach Jorge
Salcedo’s club is rounding into top form as
well — opponents have scored just one goal
in Pac-10 play. The Bruins have won four
straight matches and have only one loss in
their past nine games.
After losing several key players from last
year’s 12-4-4 squad that lost to Wake Forest
in the NCAA quarterfinals, UCLA is riding
the wave of a very highly ranked freshman
class this year. Five Bruins were drafted in
the 2010 MLS SuperDraft in January, but the
current freshman class includes five more
players from Top Drawer Soccer’s Top 25.
Underclassmen have scored all but one of
UCLA’s 18 goals this season, and only five
upperclassmen have received a start this
year.
Freshman midfielder Kelyn Rowe is on a
tear of late, with a goal or an assist in his past
four games and totaling four goals and five
assists on the season. Incidentally, UCLA is
7-0 when Rowe has at least one point, and 1-
2-1 when he is scoreless.
UP NEXT
UCLA
(8-2-1, 3-0 Pac-10)
10/15 Cagan Stadium
7:30 P.M.
GAME NOTES: Stanford is coming off a thrilling double-
overtime victory against Oregon State. Historically, UCLA
holds a 36-5-7 record against the Cardinal. Stanford
will likely be without injured starting goalkeeper Jason
Dodson for the rest of the season.
But for all the statistics, rankings and talk
of how well various opponents are playing,
Stanford’s focus remains intensely inwards.
Sophomore defender Hunter Gorskie
emphasized not allowing opponents to dic-
tate the team’s style of play.
“We have to focus on playing our game
and let them adapt to us.We have to keep the
ball, be confident on the ball and maintain
possession,” he said.“To win, we also need to
be clinical in the final third [of the field] and
make sure the last pass is also the right pass.”
In the 2-0 loss to Washington on Friday
night, the offense never really found its
groove, according to redshirt senior mid-
fielder Thiago Sa Freire.
“It was just one of those nights when
things weren’t going our way,” Sa Freire said.
“You have to give them credit, because they
played a really good game, but we just didn’t
really get into our game and our offense
never got going.”
Sunday saw a more energetic and aggres-
sive Cardinal team against Oregon State, as
it dominated possession throughout the
match.
Gorskie said that the team found itself in
After defeating conference rival Oregon State in a double-overtime thriller, the Stanford men’s
soccer team hopes to extend its winning streak as it takes on powerhouse UCLA. The Cardinal is
most likely without injured starting goalkeeper Jason Dodson for the rest of the regular season.
a difficult position and reacted accordingly.
“We were all pretty disappointed starting
off Pac-10 play 0-2, especially when we know
we need to do well in order to get into the
[NCAA] Tournament,” he said. “Sunday, we
saw that we had nothing to lose and needed
to do everything together.
Stanford Daily File Photo
“Right from the beginning we played ag-
gressively and were energetic and had lots of
possession,” he added. “It was a good game
for us.”
The Cardinal will need more of that ener-
Please see SOCCER, page 8
I
t’s Stanford football’s bye week,
so this is a perfect time to focus
on other sports. There are so
many other things going on in the
world of sports — the MLB
playoffs,the beginning of the NHL,the
thick of the NFL season, the NBA pre-
season and the realization that college
football players break the rules, just to
name a few.
But let’s be honest, this is college
football season. So with apologies to
the Rangers’ first series victory, a new
class in the NASCAR Hall of Fame and
Brett Favre’s latest way of staying in the
headlines, here is a review of the first
half of Stanford’s football season.
Let’s start with the good:
Record: The most important stats
for any team are wins and losses, and
the Cardinal sits at 5-1 through six
games. A 5-1 record has to be consid-
ered a success for almost any team,and
let’s not forget that Stanford just broke
a string of seven straight seasons with-
out racking up more than five wins.
Looking at the schedule before the
year,just about any Cardinal fan would
be happy with five wins at this point in
the season.
Replacing Toby Gerhart:Pundits all
around the country doubted Stanford’s
ability to replace its star from 2009,
Toby Gerhart.While there is no doubt
among the Cardinal faithful that Ger-
hart was a big part of the team’s success
last season,the team has clearly moved
on. The backfield-by-committee ap-
proach has turned into the Stepfan Tay-
lor Show in the past few weeks. This is
partly due to injuries, but it is mostly
Please see JAFFE, page 7

Defending the crown

MPSF champions to
kick off new season
By JACK BLANCHAT
The Stanford women’s lacrosse
team begins its fall season this Satur-
day, welcoming Fresno State, St.
Mary’s and UC-Davis to town —
three teams that Stanford will meet
again in MPSF conference play in the
spring.
The championship season for
women’s lacrosse won’t begin until
February, but the Cardinal’s fall
schedule will prove to be a champi-
onship-level test. After this week-
end’s round-robin event at home, the
Card will travel to Philadelphia,
where it will take on three perennial
lacrosse powerhouses in Penn, Vir-
ginia and Maryland, all of whom fin-
ished in the top 10 of last year’s final
rankings.
But before the Cardinal can set its
sights on its third NCAA appearance
in the spring, it faces a test against
three Mountain Pacific Sports Fed-
eration (MPSF) foes this Saturday.
The UC-Davis Aggies are the
headliner for the visitors, as the Ag-
gies went 11-6 overall last season
with a 3-3 record in conference, good
enough for fourth in the MPSF. The
Aggies pushed the Cardinal the full
60 minutes in their only meeting last
season before eventually fading
back, falling 17-14.
St. Mary’s finished the 2010 spring
season with a 4-12 record and will be
looking to rebound after a difficult
performance in its last trip to the
Farm. The Gaels had a tough time
against the Cardinal, which was in
the middle of a stretch that would
end up being a seven-game winning
streak. When all was said and done, Stanford Daily File Photo
the Card completed an impressive The No. 20 Stanford field hockey team travels across the country this weekend to face a trio of East Coast
21-5 victory, its largest margin of vic- schools. The Cardinal encounters one if its toughest challenges of the season in No. 8 Syracuse on Friday night.
tory of the season.

Card women face

Fresno State enters after a winless
season and without its head coach of FIELD HOCKEY
the past two years, as former leader
Sue Behme moved on to Rochester 10/8 vs. Harvard W 6-0
earlier this month. Fresno State’s

East Coast test

program will be looking for its first
win ever, as the brand-new program
began just two years ago.
In their matchups last year, the
Cardinal dominated Fresno State,
taking the Bulldogs down 19-4 in a
game at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium,
and later polished them off 16-1 in
the first round of the MPSF Tourna-
ment in Denver.
The Cardinal will look to extend
its winning ways from last season, as
Stanford head coach Amy Bokker
led the Cardinal to one of its best sea-
Please see LACROSSE, page 8
LACROSSE UP NEXT
FRESNO STATE
10/16 Stanford
GAME NOTES: Stanford won it’s last match
against Fresno State 16-1 in the first round
of the MPSF Tournament. The Bulldogs have
yet to record a victory in the program’s brief
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
two-year existence. The Cardinal will look to
Fresh off one of the most successful seasons in school history, the Stanford improve upon last season’s finish, a first-
lacrosse team begins a new campaign on Saturday as it takes on Fresno round exit in the NCAA Tournament.
State. The Cardinal smashed the Bulldogs 16-1 in their last meeting.
By NICK SU
After a dominant 6-0 romp over
Harvard last Friday at the Varsity
Turf, the Stanford women’s field
hockey team will be taking its game
on the road, playing a trio of match-
es on the East Coast this weekend.
The No. 20 Cardinal (8-3, 3-1 Nor-
Pac) begins play this Friday, as the
team takes on No. 8 Syracuse (8-4).
This match will be followed by two
more away games against Rutgers
(5-9) on Sunday and Northeastern
(6-7) on Monday.
Recovering from a nail-biting 2-
1 loss to No. 1 North Carolina (14-
0) in late September, the Cardinal
has gone on to win its last three
games. But despite the strong offen-
sive performance against Harvard
last week, Stanford fell three spots
in the coaches’ poll as Drexel, Al-
bany and Old Dominion jumped
over it in the national rankings.
Now, after 16 consecutive weeks of
being in the coaches’ poll, a loss on
the road this weekend may drop
the Card out of the national rank-
ings for the first time since Septem-
ber of 2009.
Stanford has done a great job on
the road, with a 6-1 record away
from home. Its only loss came at
the hands of undefeated North
Carolina, which is also the defend-
ing NCAA champion. In fact, the
Card has done significantly better
on the road than it has at home, with
a record of only 2-2 playing on the
Varsity Turf.
All three of the Cardinal’s losses
have come by one-point margins,
with its two losses at home to No. 7
Michigan State and California both
decided by goals scored in the last
five minutes of the match. Syracuse,
on the other hand, has defeated sev-
eral ranked teams in highly contest-
ed matches, coming off an overtime
victory against No. 18 Albany last
Sunday. At the same time, the Or-
UP NEXT
SYRACUSE
(8-4)
Albany, NY
5:00 P.M.
GAME NOTES: The No. 20 Cardinal is cur-
rently riding a three-game winning streak.
Despite an impressive victory over Harvard,
Stanford dropped three spots in the coaches’
poll. No. 8 Syracuse is undefeated at home.
ange has not been defeated on its
home turf, posting a 3-0 record.
The Stanford squad has done a
solid job throughout the season,
scoring an average of 3.18 goals per
game while holding a shooting per-
centage of .201. Defensively, the
Card has kept its opponents to only
1.27 goals per game. The team pos-
sesses great depth as well, with 15 of
18 players on the squad having
scored at least one goal. Senior de-
fender Katherine Donner was
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due to Taylor’s success. He has rushed
for over 100 yards each of the past
three games, and Stanford as a team
ranks in the top 25 in the nation in rush-
ing at over 200 yards per game. Toby
who?
Andrew Luck: In case you haven’t
heard, Stanford has a quarterback
named Andrew Luck, and he’s pretty
good. As in top-10-in-the-nation-in-
passing-efficiency and tied-for-fourth-
in-passing-touchdowns good. Oh, and
don’t forget that he’s second on the
team in rushing at over 40 yards per
game, including a ridiculous 52-yard
touchdown against Wake Forest. The
craziest part about Luck’s season
might be the fact that exactly zero peo-
ple are surprised by his success. Many
experts project him to be the top over-
all pick in next year’s NFL Draft, and
he’s only a sophomore. And while no
one with an ounce of sense could com-
plain about Luck’s first half, it’s fair to
say that he hasn’t come close to his best
football, and that’s certainly good for
Stanford football.
Defense . . . at first: The biggest
question mark for Stanford coming
into the season was the ability of the
defense to keep the Cardinal in big
games. During Stanford’s first four
games, every defensive question was
answered and more. The Cardinal
threw its first road shutout in 36 years
against conference foe UCLA, which
later rolled Texas in Austin. The sec-
ondary, which had been the source of
countless near-heart attacks, looked
dominant during the first three weeks,
ranking first in the nation in pass de-
fense. Stanford allowed only 11 points
per game in the first four weeks, and
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iPod, Mederos said. She echoed Dun-
away’s observation that the burglars
selected an unusual assortment of be-
longings to steal.
“I had a lot of other valuable things
laying out,” Mederos said. “I had a
desktop monitor, a nice 35mm camera
and jewelry,but none of that was taken.
It’s really sort of obscure. It makes me
believe that it’s some student some-
where who just wants to sneak in and
sneak out and knows campus well
enough to do that.”
Despite the recent string of Row
break-ins, Police Lt. Rich Cinfio of the
Department of Public Safety (DPS)
said the incidents are not yet indicative
of a larger trend and are all “under in-
vestigation.”
“There’s not a concentrated pattern
of crime on campus,” he said.
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the normally potent rushing attacks of
UCLA and Wake Forest were stymied.
Everything looked rosy.
Which brings us to the bad:
Defense against good teams: The
biggest negative for Stanford this sea-
son, and the biggest change between
the first four weeks and the last two,has
been the defense.After pounding four
mediocre-at-best teams — not one has
a winning record — the Cardinal ran
into the buzz saw that is the Oregon
spread option. The loss was not the
issue — Oregon might very well win
every game it plays this year by double
digits — but the inability of the Stan-
ford defense to get a stop did not bode
well. Giving up 626 yards, including a
staggering 388 on the ground,said even
worse things about the Cardinal de-
fense.
While these numbers are grue-
some for a defense, Oregon’s video
game-style offense stopped many fans
from worrying. That should change
after the abysmal effort of Stanford’s
defense last Saturday against USC.
The matchup was supposed to be an-
other chance for the Cardinal to assert
itself over the rival Trojans. Stanford
was favored by 10, and USC was reel-
ing from a last-second loss to Wash-
ington. Then the Cardinal secondary
decided not to cover Trojan wideout
Robert Woods, and the USC offense
made it pay. As in 12 catches for 224
yards and three touchdowns, making
him the only player in the country to
put up those numbers in a game this
year. Woods’ numbers in five games
coming in? 13 catches for 175 yards
and one touchdown.
Stanford cannot take the next step
to becoming a powerhouse unless it
figures out a way to hold teams like
USC below 35 points.The run defense
was better against the Trojans, but a
top-10 team would not give up 390
yards to Matt Barkley,even if he’s hav-
been 79 burglaries on campus thus far
in 2010. DPS considers each victim of
theft to constitute a separate burglary,
for a total of 49 incidents since Janu-
ary.
Nonetheless, the recent burglaries
have led some students to call for
greater security measures and the in-
stallation of more security cameras.
“We understand that there are a lot
of ways to get into a building, but we
don’t understand why there’s no secu-
rity camera in Tresidder parking lot,”
Jenkins said.“There’s nothing stopping
someone from breaking a window.”
Cinfio said security cameras “can be
a good tool” to assist in crime preven-
tion, but he said the addition of cam-
eras to that area would be problematic.
“The problem is, who is going to
monitor these security cameras?”
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Turnovers: One of the best attrib-
utes of Luck during his first season on
the Farm was his ball security (he only
had four interceptions all year). Ger-
hart didn’t cough up the ball too easily,
so Stanford was one of the best teams
last year at avoiding turnovers. This
trend was expected to continue into
2010,but the last few games have hard-
ly reinforced this notion.
In the past three weeks, Stanford
has committed nine total turnovers,
three in each game. This total is unac-
ceptable for a top-tier program, and it
will cost the Cardinal dearly. Taylor’s
fumble late in the fourth quarter
against USC might have been the dif-
ference if not for the final drive and
field goal by Nate Whitaker.
Are turnovers really that impor-
tant, you might ask? Well, something
that separates top teams like Ohio
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None of these four teams has commit-
ted more than seven turnovers all year,
and that’s no coincidence. Among top
teams, only Oregon has racked up
more turnovers than Stanford, but the
Ducks can get away with it because
they lead the nation with 22 takeaways.
The Cardinal, on the other hand, has a
negative turnover margin over the past
few weeks, and this will be a big prob-
lem if it continues during the meat of
Pac-10 play.
Despite its 5-1 record, Stanford has
plenty to work on during this bye week,
from covering receivers to making
extra points. So far, though, the Cardi-
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“It’s also important to lock your doors
and windows and secure your valu-
ables.”
Rodger Whitney, executive direc-
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students must play an active role in
keeping the residences safe through-
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son. Her 0.496 save percentage was
good enough for 13th in the nation.

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A few other notable names to
watch this weekend will be from the Continued from page 6
“It’s going to be a
young guns on the team, as the Cardi-

gy if it hopes to slow down UCLA,

particularly since it will again be
sons ever. The girls from the Farm
reached as high as No. 8 in the na-
nal looks to have many young players
in important roles this year, with four
of its top nine point-scorers from last
named NorPac Player of the Week
last week after scoring two goals in
challenging weekend.”
without the services of redshirt tional rankings and won the MPSF year lost to graduation. Perhaps the the match against Harvard. Donner
freshman Jason Dodson in goal. Tournament title, defeating Denver most notable departure is Claire became the fifth Cardinal team
Dodson suffered a dislocated 11-10 in double overtime. The victo- Hubbard, who notched 41 assists member to receive the player of the TARA DANIELSON, head coach
shoulder against Cal and will likely ry avenged a 17-12 home loss to from her attack position last year, the week honor this season.
miss the remainder of the regular Denver earlier in the season, and sixth-best total in the country. Though the Syracuse team has put country. season — conference matches
season. marked the sixth consecutive MPSF Fans can also be on the lookout up lower numbers than the Card, the Coach Danielson stressed that against Pacific and Cal. With a 3-1
In his absence, fellow redshirt title for the Cardinal. for the new freshman class this sea- Orange is not to be underestimated. quick ball movement would be a key conference record, Stanford is cur-
freshman Galen Perkins has This year, the Cardinal returns son, which boasts two Under Ar- Playing a tough schedule filled with to victory against the very physical rently second in the West Division of
stepped up and — by all accounts seven seniors from last year’s 15-6 mour All-Americans, including at- East Coast schools, Syracuse has not play of the New England teams, but the NorPac, behind Cal. However,
— delivered. squad, including last year’s two lead- tacker Annie Anton, who was lost any of its four matches played seemed quite confident about the two wins in its remaining NorPac
“If there was one very positive ing point-scorers, Sarah Flynn and named the best player in Colorado against opponents in the top 20 Cardinal’s upcoming matches. matches would give Stanford a bet-
thing from this weekend, it was Lauren Schmidt, who captured her by the Denver Post, and goalkeeper ranked lower than itself. “The expectation for this week- ter seed and more momentum going
Galen,” Sa Freire said. “He played second consecutive MPSF player of Lyndsey Munoz, who was a selection “It’s going to be a challenging end is to execute well and to start into its postseason, which begins
very well and has really stepped up the year award last year. Senior goal- to the ESPN All-Rise team. weekend,” said head coach Tara showing some signs of postseason with the NorPac Championships in
in his role this weekend.” keeper Annie Read also returns to the Danielson, who acknowledged the play,” she added. early November.
Perkins made his first two ca- Farm — Read was nothing short of Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat difficulty of playing three games in After this weekend, the Card will
reer starts and finished with nine outstanding for the Cardinal last sea- @stanford.edu. four days while traveling across the play its last two games of the regular Contact Nick Su at njsu@stanford.edu.
saves and two goals allowed in 197
minutes, an impressive debut in a
difficult situation on the road.
He will have his hands full Fri-
day night against UCLA, and it
won’t get much easier against San
Diego State on Sunday.
The Aztecs (7-3-2, 1-2) have
been flirting with the rankings
throughout the year, falling from
their No. 25 perch this week after a
tough 1-0 loss at UCLA. They did,
however, manage to hold off Wash-
ington, 4-3, in overtime with only
10 men and will be looking to re-
bound off the loss to the Bruins.
With a little under half the Pac-
10 season complete, the pressure is
mounting for the Cardinal to make
a move and play its way into the
postseason.
“We are really excited to play at
home, and we love playing at home
because we usually play well here
and play our game,” Gorskie said.
“But there’s no mistaking that we
need to do very well in the second
half of the Pac-10 season to move
on. I think we are all ambitious to
take on the challenge.”
Kickoff against UCLA will be at
7:30 p.m. Friday, with the game
against the Aztecs slated for Sun-
day at 2:30 p.m. Both games will be
at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium.

Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at miles-

bs@stanford.edu.