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Volume 238
January 6, 2011 Issue 51
STUDENT GOV’T

Graduate
students
look ahead
to elections
Council debates how to raise
interest in officer positions
By ANNA SCHUESSLER
STAFF WRITER

The Graduate Student Council (GSC)

began its first meeting of the new year with
programming that embraced the winter sea-
son.
Andy Hernandez, assistant dean of the
Graduate Life Office, informed council mem-
bers of an upcoming family ice-skating outing
slated for Jan. 22 and a graduate family bowl-
ing night planned for Feb. 26. Hernandez re-
quested funding for the two events, which
have both proved popular in the past. He has
already heard from more than 100 people
who have expressed interest in the skating
event.
“People with little children can even go Courtesy of Marc Levoy
out in strollers and joggers,” Hernandez said. Using algorithms, professor Marc Levoy and his team are developing photographic features that can keep an image in focus at all depths
“It’s a good way for graduate students with
families to meet each other.” of a scene.
ASSU Elections Commissioner Stephen

SNAPSHOT OF THE FUTURE

Trusheim ‘13 updated the council on the
events leading up to the student body elec-
tions, which are scheduled for April 7-8. Ac-
cording to Trusheim, the elections commis-
sion will have to be creative with this year’s
spending. After budget cuts dramatically
trimmed the commission’s coffers, its officers
have been working to design efficient infor-
mation sessions and candidates’ nights to pro-
vide accessible forums for candidates looking
to spread their messages.
“We’d really like to have your help in
drumming up interest in the elections
among the graduate community to have a
full Graduate Student Council again,”
Trusheim said.
ASSU President Angelina Cardona ‘11
brought council members up to speed on
undergraduate measures. She along with
other student representatives are set to
briefly address the Faculty Senate in the
next few weeks. Cardona encouraged grad-
uate students to inform her of any concerns
they wished her to bring before the Faculty
Senate, inviting them to e-mail or speak to
her personally about issues they found espe-
cially compelling.
GSC secretary Erik Lehnert ‘07, Ph.D.‘13,
proposed that the council reconsider its prac-
tices with regard to preparing and informing
potential candidates for officer positions
within the council. Lehnert suggested that
members think about drafting transition doc-
uments for their respective positions on the
council earlier in the year, as this process is
often hastened with the turnover of council
positions that takes place every April.
“It’s just things like making sure the candi-
date for secretary knows what the secretary
does before he or she runs that make a differ-
ence,” Lehnert said.
GSC co-chair Jessica Tsai ‘08 M.D. ‘12
brought the meeting to an end by echoing the
election commission’s plea for increased
graduate participation in the upcoming elec-
tions.
“If you could start tapping people within
your schools, especially in the humanities,
such as education, law or business, that would
be great,”Tsai said.
Contact Anna Schuessler at annas7@stanford.
edu.
Researcher making strides in high-tech photography
By ERIN INMAN
STAFF WRITER
Imagine taking pictures at a soccer game.
Currently photographers have two main op-
tions: set the camera to sports mode or manu-
ally adjust its settings to create a good shot.But
what if you could buy an app for your camera
whose sole purpose is to keep the soccer ball in
focus?
This camera industry revolution — one
that might lead to app stores for cameras —
could be made possible by
the Stanford Comput-
er Graphics Labo-
ratory’s cur-
rent research in computational photography.
Computational photography,a term coined
by professor of computer science and electri-
cal engineering Marc Levoy, refers to the use
of “sensing strategies or algorithmic tech-
niques to enhance or extend the capabilities of
digital photography.”
Such enhancements include high dynamic
range (HDR), panoramas and all-focus imag-
ing. HDR preserves detail in the brightest and
dimmest areas of a photograph, panoramas
stitch together a scene only a wide-angle lens
could capture and all-focus imaging pre-
serves camera focus at all depths of a
scene.
While these enhancements
are possible on a computer pro-
gram such as Photoshop, relying
solely on a computer program pro-
vides no immediate feedback on the
device, according to Andrew Adams
Ph.D.‘11,a lab assistant and graduate
student in computer science.
“Perhaps the panorama is missing a
corner,”Adams said.“You realize this
only after the computer program
stitches the shots together.”
Additionally, when taking a burst of
pictures, the images are slow to acquire.
According to Adams, however, an al-
gorithm in the camera could change
camera settings faster than a human
hand.
Due to the limitations of
immediate feedback and time, the
lab creates algorithms capable of
producing raw images of similar
quality to those of photo editing
programs.
Courtesy of Marc Levoy
Adams presented the example of an indoor
party, a scene with not much light. The perfect
shot necessitates a fusion between two differ-
ent shots:one short,low exposure and one long
exposure. An algorithm,he said,can take both
shots successively and fuse the images into one
raw image.
He also gave the example of an individual
taking pictures with a long exposure in a set-
ting bound to yield blur.According to Adams,
an algorithm could take eight successive shots
and save only the least blurred.
Adams noted how cameras, although noto-
rious for being the “most ubiquitous comput-
ers out there,”are currently not programming-
friendly.
Levoy agreed, adding that researchers out-
side of the industry are “clueless as to how ex-
isting camera modes [night, sports, portrait,
etc.] work.”
“The camera industry creates beautiful pic-
tures, but they’re mysterious,”Adams said.
Since no open-source camera existed, the
Stanford lab drew on the financial support of
Nokia, Adobe Systems, Kodak and Hewlett-
Packard, to create the Frakencamera. The
camera, featuring Linux operating systems, al-
lows the lab to create and test their own algo-
rithms.
Currently the lab plans to distribute Frak-
encameras to other universities to “push the
API out there and see what people can do,”
Adams said.
While Frakencamera serves the purpose
of developing algorithms in the research in-
dustry, it specifically is not seen as the future
of the camera industry. Instead, the lab hopes
to “influence industry partners to open their
cameras’ interfaces,” Levoy said.
Although computational photography has
caught on for open-source consumer cell
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LOCAL

Local senator authors new cyberbullying law

By MARIANNE LEVINE
STAFF WRITER
Senate Bill 1411, authored by
Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto,
confronts the new dangers of so-
cial networking websites such as
Myspace and Facebook. In effect
since Jan. 1, the law makes online
impersonation intended to
“harm, intimidate or defraud”
someone illegal. Offenders may
face up to a year in prison and a
$1,000 fine.
Although SB 1411 confronts a
significant problem in the digital
age, it has received criticism from
some legal scholars alleging the
new law could infringe on the
First Amendment right to free
speech. The law attempts to ad-
dress this problem through a
clause stating that parody or
satire is acceptable and that mali-
cious intent must be apparent.
Ryan Calo, the director of the
Consumer Privacy Project at Stan-
ford Law School, warns that the
line between harmful intent and
satire remains blurred. It’s difficult
to point exactly to acts of imper-
sonation that are threatening, in-
timidating or defrauding, accord-
ing to Calo.
“Reasonable people will dis-
agree whether an impersonation
falls within these categories,” Calo
said.
Although the bill provides both
a criminal penalty and a civil action
penalty for online impersonation,
Calo believes the law’s vagueness
allows for misinterpretation.
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“The danger is that people will

do something that is funny or con-
troversial that might possibly fall
under this law,” Calo said. “It’s not
realistic to think that this will focus
on the crime that we’re worried
about.”
He suggests, for example, that
private litigates may use the law as
a reason to justify lawsuits that
would otherwise be unfounded.
Despite the criticisms legal
scholars have of SB 1411, Calo ac-
knowledges the bill sends a signal
to potential cyberbullies that their
actions can result in serious legal
consequences.
He stresses, however, that SB
1411 is just one solution to the
growing problem of online imper-
sonation and emphasized the need
for private entities to act more re-
sponsibly online.
“Laws are not the only way to
address this behavior,” Calo said.
“Companies could do more to cut
down on harmful behavior on-
line.”
MARK DIAZ/The Stanford Daily
Contact Marianne LeVine at Senate Bill 1411, authored by Senator Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, makes online impersonation intended to “harm, intimidate or defraud” illegal and
mlevine2@stanford.edu. punishable by up to a $1,000 fine and a year in prison.

OBITUARY
Richard J.Newberger
Stanford lost a long-time friend
when Richard J. Newberger passed
away at the age of 91 this December.
We will all remember him as a gra-
cious gentleman. He spent most of
his life in Palo Alto living on Sand
Hill Road across from the Universi-
ty and working at the Stanford Busi-
ness School and Blood Bank. Busi-
ness School students will remember
him as the librarian who knew their
names when they arrived for the
first time at the library because he
would memorize the new student
names prior to the start of fall class-
es. He is survived by his two sisters,
Caroline and Jane, who live in Seat-
PHOTO
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phone cameras, as evidenced by a
look at the iTunes app store, Levoy
acknowledged that the camera in-
dustry has yet to embrace the tech-
nology.
While companies have adopted
computational photography tricks
such as HDR and panorama modes
into closed-source cameras, an
open-source camera has yet to be
announced,let alone made available
to consumers.
Contact Erin Inman at einman@stan-
ford.edu.

tle, and two nephews and a niece:
Dan Canafax of Half Moon Bay,
Alan Freyd of Seattle and Susy
Jones of Anchorage. He will be with
his parents at Hills of Eternity
cemetery in Seattle.
— Courtesy of Dan Canafax
Correction
In “Espinosa is new Palo Alto
mayor” (Jan. 5), The Daily incor-
rectly reported new vice mayor Yi-
away Yeh is 38 years old. He is 32.
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FEATURES
By OLIVIA SIMONE JEW
I
t’s a regular Wednesday night
at the Axe and Palm. Students
sit in red leather booths eating,
chatting and studying. But
something about the scene is
different.
In the main room that would
normally house more students,
salsa music blasts. An eclectic
group of Stanford students and
Palo Alto locals dance in pairs as
two experienced students repeat
the counts: “1, 2, 3, turn . . . 5, 6, 7.”
Those new to salsa laugh self-dep-
recatingly as their arms and feet
twist awkwardly while the instruc-
tors give words of advice and en-
couragement in one of the weekly
salsa lessons sponsored by Los
Salseros de Stanford, Stanford’s
only salsa-performing team.
Directed by Ariana Borgaily ‘12
and Diogenes Brito ‘11, Los Salseros
performs at cultural diversity fairs,
campus fundraisers, such as Salsa for
the Cure, and other dance events,
and it puts on an annual spring show.
The club of 18 women and 16 men
rehearses for two hours twice a week
in Roble Gym. Los Salseros also
holds free weekly beginner and in-
termediate lessons for students and
local residents, as well as free bi-
weekly salsa socials, where anyone
can come for a salsa lesson and then
a salsa dance party.
For the two directors,being in Los
Salseros and dancing salsa in general
has been gratifying. Brito, who is half
Dominican and half Colombian,
grew up listening to salsa music and,
with an interest in the music and in
joining a dance group on campus,de-
cided to audition. Borgaily, on the
other hand, grew up around quite a
bit of dancing in El Paso, Texas; she
started salsa at 13 years old and saw
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Los Salseros in the Dance Expo about correcting you.” dancer, because this is one of the few all over the world travel to a differ-
show during Admit Weekend. Both Indeed, at rehearsals, a strong things you can do after college. I ent city to take workshops, watch
directors have been involved with sense of community exists between mean, every major city has salsa performances and enjoy Latin food.
Los Salseros since freshman year, members. As they filed into the clubs and has a salsa community . . . With large salsa communities and
and both are in their second year as brightly lit studio, they cheerily start- and it’s cool to be able to have an events like this going on around the
club directors. ed pairing up and dancing to salsa- outside group of friends here. My Bay Area, Los Salseros aims to
The range of Brito and Borgaily’s infused versions of songs by Justin year, I felt like everyone was super “spread the knowledge of salsa,” in
levels of previous experience with Timberlake and Maroon 5, doing nice when I joined, and since then, I the words of Borgaily.
salsa dance mirror the diversity of dips and turns and reviewing chore- think other people have felt the “As the only salsa group on cam-
experience in the rest of the club. ography from previous rehearsals. same way.” pus . . . trying to get a little bit of that
“[There’s] a lot of variety on the “I like to think it’s a really good Borgaily described a salsa outing here on campus within our little bub-
team,” Borgaily said. “We have peo- community, a social group with a some of the members took in No- ble is important.”
ple who had never heard of salsa salsa problem,” Brito said. “We per- vember to the International Salsa
until they came here, and we have form and stuff . . . but I think it’s re- Congress in San Francisco, an annu- Contact Olivia Simone Jew at
people who had grown up with it for ally about becoming a better social al cultural event where people from osjew@stanford.edu.
forever . . . I’d say it’s a pretty nice
mix of people.”
Borgaily noted that the skill level
of the group tends to vary from year
to year, depending on the pool of
dancers who audition.
“At least 80 people auditioned
this year, and only 13 made it on the
team, so it’s pretty competitive,” she
said, adding that in auditions, they
look for dancers’ potential, style and
ability to perform.
While some students have
danced salsa since youth and have
participated in salsa competitions,
others come in with hardly any expe-
rience, merely a willingness to learn
something new. Two such examples
are Ronnie Tisdale ‘10, a coterminal
student, and Caroline Ferguson ‘14.
“To have this opportunity is just
incredible,” Tisdale said. “[There’s]
solidarity for me being in a group
where everyone loves it. It’s a skill
everyone deep inside wants to have .
. . it’s the culture for me. I just love
being in the environment. I can prac-
tice my Spanish, and I love the music
and the dancing.”
“It’s something I always wanted
to try,” Ferguson said. “I had never
danced salsa before. I did a lot of hip
hop and tap classes, but I just wanted
to try. It looks really cool, and every-
one is really, really nice and good
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cert hall and the Knoll has been
outfitted nicely for all sorts of com-
puter music. Braun Music Center
itself was an upgrade a couple T HIS C OLUMN I S I RONIC
decades ago.
We’ve got some good things
finding places
going on, so what are the setbacks?
Let’s start by imagining you’re back
at the beginning of freshman year.
Dr. Guiltypleasure or: How I Learned to
You’ve played an instrument and
want to keep it up while in college.
Where can you practice? If you
to rehearse. Stop Worrying and Love Taylor Swift
want to put together a small band,

where could you rehearse? Few
dorms have practice rooms, and
though Stanford is good about plac-
ing pianos everywhere, many are in
inadequate condition. Hoping for
some help, you trundle over to the
music department.
Practice rooms turn out to have
a fee. Over four years, it calculates
that you could just buy yourself a
cheap drum set at the cost of prac-
ticing it. Perhaps you decide to
sign up for lessons while you’re at
it. They cost $550 per quarter for
non-majors? At $55 a lesson, that’s
not as extreme as some private les-
sons go, but on top of tuition, it
feels like you just bought an ex-
pensive plane ticket and ran into
another hidden fee.
And how about group spaces?
Unless you’re in a music depart-
ment-sponsored group and get time
and space allotted automatically,
you realize you’ll have to be cre-
ative in finding places to rehearse.
In Cardinal Calypso, after a couple
years of scrounging around for re-
hearsal space, we managed to find a
good friend in Roble, where we can
store our pans and practice. But tak-
ing over dorm lounges isn’t optimal
(nor always fair to residents). And
louder groups like rock bands don’t
have the luxury of their parents’
garage anymore; instead they have
to hope one of the few houses with
a decent rehearsal room is willing to
share. Not to mention transporta-
tion difficulties for freshmen who
aren’t supposed to have cars but
play large instruments.
Suffice to say, when you get to
campus, the buildings don’t imme-
diately say, “You can easily practice
music here!”
To be fair, I am not blaming the
music department on the fees or fa-
cilities, because they’re not neces-
sarily their fault.They make lessons
and practice rooms available to all
students, which I don’t think every
college does. Instead I take issue
with our priorities more broadly.
We all get free Web space and any-
one can use the gym for no-cost,
small examples of how Stanford’s
engineering and athletics are stellar
and have been cultivated for a long
time. Music and the arts, on the
other hand . . .
Exactly how University-wide
budgeting decisions are made, I
have not researched. So perhaps
there are constraints beyond any-
one’s control that leave music less
financially and architecturally sup-
ported than other disciplines. But to
whatever extent the administration
has control, I urge for a continued
focus on how to improve the music
facilities. And I am not suggesting a
sacrifice of other parts of the school
(or budget) for music; we should
work on independently building up
the portion devoted to the arts.
Yes, yes, I know that every de-
partment and program thinks it
needs more resources and support.
I’m playing the part of a self-inter-
ested musician. But there are a lot
of us. And many musicians don’t
major in music, so when obstacles
pop up, it’s easy to give up and take
fewer lessons or forgo an audition.
Then, music on campus suffers as a
whole. So I say, keep up the im-
provements. I’ll be sure to come
back after graduating to see Bing
Concert Hall when it’s finished.
If you think new money should just
go to charity, tell Lucas at lucaswj@
stanford.edu.
I
s it seriously Week 1 of the quar-
ter already? That break went by
just a little too fast. Honestly, it’s
probably for the best. I need to be
back here at Stanford being stu-
dious. Not because my life devolves
into a sad mix of sloth and gluttony
over winter break (whose does-
n’t?), but rather because break al-
lows me ample time to indulge all of
my guilty pleasures. And trust me, I
have a lot of guilty pleasures.
In fact, I’ll tell you about a few
right now. I’m still not sure I should
admit most of what I’m about to
write to the Stanford campus as a
whole, but we’re friends, right? This
relationship has been going on for
almost four months now, so I feel
like there’s a lot you need to know
about me before we can take things
to the next level between us. So grab
a bag of Doritos and some ice cream
and read on:
Guilty Pleasure #1: Independence
Day
You’re probably saying, “Shane,
how can you call one of the greatest
cinematic achievements of all time
a guilty pleasure?” I know where
you’re coming from, but apparently,
a lot of people out there didn’t like
this movie. Society has a name for
them: idiots. Let’s put it this way —
I’m pretty sure President Whit-
more’s climactic “TODAY, WE
CELEBRATE OUR INDEPEN-
DENCE DAY!” speech influenced
the future 48th President of the
United States to run for office. We
call Barack one of the greatest ora-
tors of our time, but I don’t know if
he could pull off an impromptu
speech like that with an alien war-
ship looming overhead.
Come on, Will Smith and Jeff
Goldblum commit alien genocide
together! I know it’s coming up on
being 15 years old, but try to tell me
Shane
Savitsky
This is a dream that
my Stanford
education can never
help me to achieve.
you’ve seen a film with more re-
watch value than this one. I should
know. I watched it twice over this
break alone, bringing my grand
total to 179 views.You read that cor-
rectly.That means I’ve spent 18 days
of my life watching Independence
Day. I loved every minute of it — all
26,000 of them.
Guilty Pleasure #2: Gossip Girl
This one is almost impossible to
defend among my friends. And I
don’t even want to get into some of
the conversations I’ve had with my
dad about my Gossip Girl obses-
sion. No one seems to care that it’s a
television show packed with beauti-
ful women. Apparently, if you have
a Y chromosome, you’re not al-
lowed to go near this show.This dis-
crimination needs to stop. It’s not
what America is about.
Seriously, have you seen Serena
van der Woodsen? Gossip Girl is
known for its fashion, but I’m not
even sure what she wears in half her
scenes count as clothes. That can
only be a good thing. Then there’s
Blair Waldorf. In a recent episode,
she admitted to washing out her
wine glasses with L’Occitane sham-
poo because dish soap just doesn’t
cut it. I know that most normal peo-
ple wouldn’t count that among their
turn-ons, but this is my guilty pleas-
ure for a reason. Please don’t judge
me.
Guilty Pleasure #3: Taylor Swift
Every Christmas, my best friend
Sam and I exchange gifts. Now, she
probably knows me as well as any-
one on the planet, so I always look
forward to her present. This year,
she got me a Taylor Swift T-shirt. I’d
like to pretend it was a gag gift, but
I’d just be lying to myself. It’s pur-
ple. It’s a size large. Actually, I’m
pretty sure it’s a women’s large. I
still haven’t decided if I can wear it
in public yet.
My life’s dream is to have Taylor
Swift write a song about me.It would
ostensibly be about how I was the
perfect one for her and she let me get
away because — let’s be honest —
the best Taylor Swift songs are the
bittersweet ones. Unfortunately, this
is a dream that my Stanford educa-
tion can never help me to achieve.
It’s solely up to my wit, charm and
good looks. Luckily, I’ve been
blessed with all three. Let’s just hope
she never reads this column.
Do you think you’re a better match
for Shane than Taylor Swift — even
after all that? Then you should prob-
ably e-mail him at savitsky@stan-
ford.edu.

L ETTERS TO THE E DITOR

With DADT gone, plenty
of objections to ROTC
remain
Dear Editor,
Kurt Chirbas’ article in yester-
day’s Daily contains a misleading
narrative,which goes something like,
“Since DADT was the only obstacle
to Stanford devoting its resources to
a ROTC program, and DADT has
been repealed, now we can talk
about accommodating the military”
(“Debate marches on,” Jan. 5). In
fact, DADT was never a reason for
the expulsion of ROTC from cam-
pus.
Imani Franklin, being a member
of the ROTC ad hoc committee,
should know this but doesn’t appear
to. To quote from the committee’s
own document: “The majority [of
the 1968-9 committee] felt that the
personal conduct standards of the
three services ‘can seriously limit the
student’s free participation in all
facets of intellectual inquiry and
legal political activity.’” It concluded
that a formal, on-campus ROTC
program was inconsistent with the
definition of Stanford University as
“a community whose members . . .
have a primary commitment to the
creation and dissemination of
knowledge, in an environment of
free intellectual activity.” Plainly, this
has nothing to do with DADT.
Furthermore, I wonder if the
committee even looked at the letter
that I wrote to it or if it went straight
to the trash bin. I raised several
points that would pose a problem for
ROTC’s return: 1) ROTC violates a
student’s right to confidential coun-
seling and advising; 2) ROTC re-
stricts academic freedom by prema-
turely determining a career path and
major for students; 3) undergradu-
ates should not have their major de-
termined by those who fund their
education,as ROTC demands;4) the
power to set up teaching facilities on
campus in exchange for scholarships
sets a dangerous precedent for aca-
demic control of the
University; 5) the necessity of the
current constitution of the U.S.
armed forces is in doubt. (I have an
upcoming article in the Stanford
Progressive elaborating on these
points, but one can read it now at
rotc.stanford.edu.)
I repeat, these are the objections
that appear in my letter only.Appar-
ently others, such as SSQL, also have
their own issues with Stanford ac-
commodating the military. I don’t
suppose Stanford would want to be
known as the university that is oh-so-
progressive on gay rights but is all
too willing to throw transgender stu-
dents under the
bus?
The Daily’s graphic of a soldier
on a multicolored backdrop is en-
tirely appropriate for the situation.
Perhaps the U.S. military should
paint rainbows on their cruise mis-
siles so that when the families of the
strike victims discover the charred
bodies of their loved ones, they can
reflect on the lofty ideals of egalitar-
ianism and humanity that now per-
meate the armed forces.
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SPORTS
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL
1/5 vs. UC Santa Cruz W 3-0

UP NEXT
BYU
1/14 Maples Pavilion 7 P.M.
GAME NOTES: No. 4 Stanford shook off a slow start against Di-
vision III Santa Cruz. The Cardinal was led by junior libero Erik
Shoji’s 10 digs. Stanford begins MPSF play next week when it
takes on BYU.

STARTING
WITH A
SWEEP By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
STAFF WRITER

The No. 4 Stanford men’s volleyball team shook

off some early jitters against Division III power UC-
Santa Cruz before pulling away and winning its sea-
son opener, 3-0, at Burnham Pavilion.
Cardinal head coach John Kosty was pleased
with the performance given that the team had not
been able to scout its opposition much and was
coming off a break.
“Santa Cruz is a good team, and we came into
this match needing to get competition besides what
we have in practice,” he said. “That’s exactly what
they gave us; it was a good chance to compete
against someone besides ourselves.”
Junior Evan Barry had a nice game for the de-
fending national champions, tallying 31 assists be-
fore sitting much of the third set with the match in
hand.
“We needed to get into a groove and Santa Cruz
jumped off to a good start,” Barry said. “But in the
end we found our rhythm, it just took longer than
we wanted it to.”
Santa Cruz’s fast start was helped by some excel-
lent blocking up front, particularly by Thomas
Davidson, who led the Banana Slugs (0-1) early
with four kills and three blocks. However, Stanford Stanford Daily File Photo
(1-0) fought back to tie the score late, perhaps with The Stanford women’s basketball team, led by Pac-10 player of the week Jeanette Pohlen, above, looks to use a recent surge
the help of the referee who failed to see a touch out of momentum to remain undefeated in conference play.
of bounds by junior outside hitter Brad Lawson on

FINDING THEIR
set point for Santa Cruz. The Cardinal fended off
three Santa Cruz set points and eventually won the
set, 28-26, on Barry’s only kill of the night.
Redshirt junior outside hitter/opposite Garrett
Dobbs was pleased with Barry’s play,but said he has
come to expect excellence from the first-year
starter.

GROOVE
“Evan played great, but I’m not at all surprised
because he is super dedicated both to the game and
the program,” he said.“He always comes to practice
with a confidence that he can fill [graduated senior
setter and last year’s AVCA player of the year
Kawika Shoji’s] shoes and take us to a national
championship.”
The second set saw Stanford take control early

RED-HOT CARDINAL HOSTS ARIZONA

with consecutive kills and a couple of Santa Cruz
miscues, but the Slugs rallied and gave Stanford
some problems again with several blocks.
The Cardinal responded, drawing energy from
its costumed fan section, and eventually Stanford’s
talent and depth were simply too much for Santa
Cruz to handle. Sixteen players saw action and 10
registered at least one kill. The team didn’t light up
the stat sheet, hitting a solid .256, but led by junior
libero Erik Shoji’s 10 digs, Stanford held Santa Cruz
to a very poor .083 hitting percentage.
Back-to-back solo blocks by junior outside hitter
Jake Kneller helped ignite a run of six straight
Please see VBALL, page 8
By NATE ADAMS
DESK EDITOR
Their grueling non-conference season
may have left the Stanford women
scratching their heads at times, but with
2010 over, it’s hard not to argue that the
Cardinal is hitting its stride. And with the
conference season getting into full gear as
it hosts a talented Arizona (11-2, 2-0 Pac-
10) team tonight, the timing couldn’t be
much better.
No. 4 Stanford (10-2, 1-0) has made a
habit of scheduling plenty of top-25 oppo-
nents early in the season, and this year, the
tough schedule left its mark on the Cardi-
nal’s record with a pair of losses against
DePaul and Tennessee. It isn’t often that
Stanford, a winner of 10 straight confer-
ence titles, finds itself on the wrong end of
a losing streak, even if it’s only two games.
“We definitely have one of the tough-
est schedules out there, and I think
that’s something that definitely helps us
grow, no matter the outcome,” said soph-
omore forward Joslyn Tinkle. “We did
have a couple steps backward, but we re-
ally did learn from it.As a team, we’ve re-
ally improved since then, and I think play-
ing these teams will help us in the long-
run.”
Whatever Stanford needed to learn, it
didn’t take long. The Cardinal shocked
the nation with last week’s 71-59 upset
Please see WBBALL, page 7

TOUGH ROAD
AHEAD
By ZACH ZIMMERMAN
DESK EDITOR
After dismantling Cal in its Pac-
10 season opener, the Stanford
men’s basketball team continues its
conference season tonight when it
travels to the hostile confines of
Tempe to take on Arizona State.
The Cardinal (8-4, 1-0 Pac-10)
enters the game riding a two-game
winning streak. While the team has
yet to lose at home, away games
have proved difficult for a roster
consisting primarily of underclass-
men. Stanford has won just one of
five road games on the season and
will face two of its toughest oppo-
nents during this weekend’s trip to
Arizona.
Cardinal head coach Johnny
Dawkins says his team, which has
won its two previous games by an
average of 15 points, is feeding off
the monumental wins by the Stan-
ford football and women’s basket-
ball teams.
“It’s exciting,” Dawkins said.
“There’s very much a team atmos-
phere among the program. It’s great
to be a part of that and these kids
MEN’S BASKETBALL
1/2 vs. CAL W 82-68
UP NEXT
ARIZONA STATE
(8-5, 1-1 Pac-10)
1/6 Tempe, Ariz.
5:30 P.M.
GAME NOTES: Stanford has won its last two
games by an average of 15 points. Arizona
State is searching for its fourth consecutive
20-win season. The Cardinal beat the Sun
Devils of the first round of last season’s
Pac-10 Tournament.
want to leave their mark on the pro-
gram.”
Leading the charge for Stanford
is junior guard Jeremy Green,
whose lights-out shooting propelled
the Cardinal to a 62-48 win over the
Golden Bears on Jan. 2. Green led
all scorers with 21 points and con-
tinues to improve his offensive effi-
ciency and decision-making as the
season progresses.
Perhaps the biggest change to
the team in recent weeks is the pro-
motion of freshman Aaron Bright
to the starting point guard position.
Bright’s ball-handling and passing
abilities have been met with a vote
of confidence from his coach.
“I give a lot of credit to maturity
shown by Aaron,” Dawkins said.
“I’m really proud of the players and
[we have received] key contribu-
tions for the young kids.”
One of Bright’s classmates, for-
ward Dwight Powell, has benefited
from his move to the bench. After
beginning the season as the team’s
starting small forward, Powell has
flourished in his role as a reserve
and has demonstrated his flexibility
to play at either forward position.
Powell had 20 points and seven re-
bounds in his last game and will
need to come out with similar ag-
gression against a stout Arizona
State squad.
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GAME NOTES: No. 4 Stanford jumped from
No. 9 in the national rankings after defeat-
ing UConn, Xavier and Cal. Cardinal sen-
ior guard Jeanette Pohlen was recently
named Pac-10 Player of the Week. Arizona
is off to its best start in seven years.
alone. The Cardinal roster is noth-
ing if not flexible this season, leav-
ing head coach Tara VanDerveer
with a veritable smorgasbord of
lineup options on any given day.
And she hasn’t been afraid to
change things up — all but two of
her players are averaging over 10
minutes per game.
On paper, the team might seem
like it has too many options. But the
Cardinal has embraced the reality
of its roster, a team full of multi-
taskers.
“A lot of us are playing all over,
and we’re really versatile,” Tinkle
said. “And I think that’s kind of
working in our favor . . . whether or
not we know what our role is, play-
ing here or there, I think it’s impor-
tant that we know each other, our
personalities, what we do best. I
think that’s helped us improve our
game as a whole, and take full ad-
vantage [of] what we have.”
As impressive as its victory
against UConn was, Stanford still
has plenty of dangerous teams to
look out for in the Pac-10. Among
the best of them is tonight’s oppo-
nent, Arizona.
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ference opponents.
“[Before the season] I don’t
think anyone would have said he’s
not a good player,” Montgomery
said. “He’s really good. He’s quick
with the ball and made some really
good shots.”
Arizona State (8-5, 1-1) will look
to contain Powell, Green and the
rest of the Stanford offense as it
continues its quest for a fourth
straight 20-win season. The Sun
Devils are coached by reigning Pac-
10 coach of the year Herb Sendek
and are fresh off a second-place
conference finish.
However, Sendek’s squad has
gotten off to a less-than-ideal start
that includes a 22-point defeat on
the road against Oregon State. In its
last two games, Arizona State has
played without guard Trent Lock-
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The Wildcats, like Stanford, are
among four teams in the confer-
ence with only one or two losses,
and have defeated their last six op-
ponents by an average margin of
19.2 points. That includes a 109-94
effort on New Year’s Eve against
Oregon, which leads the confer-
ence in scoring with 89 points per
game and had just two losses en-
tering the game.
It’s been seven seasons since
Arizona began 11-2 and six since it
started the conference season with
two straight wins.
Marks like those would be im-
pressive in any situation, but com-
pared to how Arizona was faring
when it last faced Stanford, it’s
downright surprising. The Wildcats
were 13-13 when they hosted the
Cardinal last February, a game they
dropped, 75-48.
Stanford’s big hero from that
matchup, junior forward Nnemka-
di Ogwumike, might be missing
from the lineup tonight. She left
with a shoulder injury after scoring
14 against Cal on Sunday, and it
isn’t clear if she will be limited in
minutes tonight or out of the game
altogether. The last time she faced
the Wildcats, Ogwumike led her
team with nine rebounds and
added 15 points.
Four of the five Wildcat starters
from that game are back this sea-
son, and three of them are getting
plenty of minutes and leading the
team in scoring. Senior forward Ify
Ibekwe is in the lead with 15.5
points per game, with sophomore
guard Davellyn Whyte right behind
her at 14.8. Soana Lucet, a senior
forward like Ibekwe, rounds out the
trio with 13.0 points per game.
The team has added only two
freshmen since last season, but even
with many of the same players, this
year’s Arizona squad should pres-
ent a whole new challenge.
Stanford will tip off against the
Wildcats tonight at 7 p.m. in Maples
Pavilion.
Contact Nate Adams at nbadams@
stanford.edu.
ett, the team’s leading scorer, who is
averaging 14.7 points per game on
the season.
Lockett’s 6-foot-5 frame and ex-
plosive jumping ability could pose
problems for the Stanford defense
if he is able to overcome a sprained
left toe. His return would come in
front of a home crowd that has seen
the Sun Devils play inside Wells
Fargo Arena just five times this sea-
son.
Arizona State swept Stanford
in the regular season last year, but
was upset by the Cardinal in the
opening round of an unpre-
dictable Pac-10 Tournament. Still,
the Sun Devils play at another
level in Tempe, winning 80 per-
cent of their home games in the
past three seasons.
Tipoff tonight is scheduled for
5:30 p.m. PST as the Cardinal looks
to remain undefeated in confer-
ence play.
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@stanford.edu.
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Junior libero Erik Shoji had 10 digs as Stanford started off its 2011 season with
a sweep of UC-Santa Cruz in Burnham Pavilion. The Cardinal is looking to
defend its 2010 national title despite losing three starters to graduation.
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Continued from page 6
points in the middle of the second
set. Stanford won the set comfort-
ably, 25-17.
With a 2-0 lead, the third set saw
several freshmen wet their feet in
the collegiate game, and they didn’t
disappoint. Outside hitters Brian
Cook and Steven Irvin in particular
had good debuts, tallying seven and
five kills respectively.
“The whole experience was just
really fun and I am really happy to
be a part of the team and just happy
to be out there,” Cook said. “It was
nice to come back from a bit of a
deficit because it showed that we
trust each other,and it’s a good start-
ing point for the rest of the season.”
Kosty, too, was pleased with the
work of his freshman group.
“There’s going to be some nerves
playing for the first time with a Stan-
ford jersey on, but they worked
through it pretty fast and played a
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nice game,” he said.
It helped that the Slugs fell apart
a bit in the third set, making several
poor attempts and registering only
seven kills in the set, as Stanford
went on a nine-point run to lead by
as many as 12. The Cardinal closed
out the match, winning the final set,
25-14.
“The old saying ‘get the rust out’
really applies here,” Kosty said. “In
the first game we had to really tight-
en our belts and catch some breaks.
But we were able to finish the game
strong.”
Things will get much tougher
right away for the Cardinal, as BYU
comes to town on Jan. 14 for the
Mountain Pacific Sports Federation
(MPSF) opener.
“That’s the fun part about the
MPSF,” Kosty said.“It’s always right
around the corner.We have six prac-
tices and the alumni game to get
ready for our MPSF opener, and the
Cougars are going to be a good
team.”
Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at miles-
bs@stanford.edu.