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WEDNESDAY
May 18, 2011
UNIVERSITY
Administrators
detail online
privacy policy
University officials have access
to all transmitted information
By ELLORA ISRANI
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
University officials have confirmed that all
electronic information transmitted on the
Stanford network is accessible to privacy offi-
cers and other administrators.
In an email to The Daily, privacy officer
Susan Weinstein ‘72, MBA ‘79, wrote that the
University has access to “all electronic infor-
mation stored on its systems.” This includes
all emails sent to @stanford.edu addresses,
Zimbra accounts, chat lists and any website
requiring an SUID to log in, such as Course-
work.
However,Weinstein maintains that the Uni-
versity does not routinely police this informa-
tion. It is only retrieved in one of two situations.
“Since the University respects the privacy
of its community, Stanford only accesses elec-
tronic information when necessary to com-
plete an investigation, or if access is required to
maintain its systems and keep them fully oper-
ational,” Weinstein said.
“In those rare instances when the Universi-
ty has a need to access this information, the ac-
cess is limited to the minimum necessary to ac-
complish its purpose,” Weinstein said.
The reasoning behind this access lies in the
University’s responsibility for all uses of its
technological resources.
“When the @stanford.edu email address of-
ficially became the primary email address for
students about four years ago the intention was
that it be used for Stanford business only,”
wrote Greg Boardman, vice provost for Stu-
dent Affairs, in an email to The Daily. “When
we create email address distribution lists inter-
nally they must meet that criteria . . . All are
supposed to be for University business only
and all should allow students to opt out. They
are not to be shared or dispersed to other stu-
dents or staff.”
All of this is in accordance with the U.S.
Department of Education’s Federal Educa-
tional Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA),
which prohibits educational institutions
from sharing with outside sources much of
the personal information they retain about
students.
The notable exception to this policy is infor-
mation transmitted over Stanford’s network
— from a desktop, laptop or mobile device —
which can only be accessed while in transit.
“Once transmission is completed, the infor-
mation may only be accessed if stored on Stan-
ford’s servers,” Weinstein said.
There are, however, several ways students
can opt out of sharing personal information.
Axess allows individuals to dictate what per-
sonal information will be shared on Stanford-
Who, the University’s public directory. Further-
more, some University-wide surveys are not
Please see PRIVACY, page 5
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Students shared their opinions on undergraduate education, especially freshman requirements and general education requirements (GERs),
with members of the Study of Undergraduate Education at Stanford (SUES) at a town hall held last night in the Toyon Lounge.
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Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla speaks at the Graduate School of Business (GSB)
as a part of the “Global Speakers Series.” She is the first female president of Costa Rica.
President of Costa
Rica speaks at GSB
President showcases plans for development
By ANTHONY VASQUEZ
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla
discussed international trade, foreign in-
vestment, economic development and
other issues at the Graduate School of
Business (GSB) yesterday.
Chinchilla, who grew up in a politically
involved family, is the first female president
of Costa Rica. She earned a master’s in
public policy from Georgetown in 1989.
Her talk on Tuesday evening was part of
the GSB’s “Global Speakers Series.” Chin-
chilla opened her speech by stating that her
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country has developed in a relatively
peaceful and environmentally friendly way.
“We Costa Ricans have always believed
in achieving prosperity through peace,
freedom and the rule of law,” Chinchilla
said. “That is a major national understand-
ing and through history we have taken the
decision to follow our beliefs.”
The country has not had a standing
army since 1949. According to the CIA
World Factbook, Costa Rica spends 0.6
percent of its GDP on defense.
Chinchilla toured the Bay Area in
Please see PRESIDENT page 5
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Volume 239
Issue 65
ACADEMICS
Pera explains
stem cell Ph.D.
program vision
Director discusses future of first
program of its kind in the nation
By JANELLE WOLAK
STAFF WRITER
A new doctoral program in stem cell biology
and regenerative medicine is set to launch in the
fall of 2012.Approved by the Faculty Senate on
April 28, the interdisciplinary program will
draw not only from the biomedical sciences but
also from the law, business and engineering
schools.
Renee Reijo Pera, professor of obstetrics
and gynecology, will direct the program. The
goal of the doctoral program is to create leaders
who will, in Reijo Pera’s words, “change the
world” by translating basic stem cell biology
into cures and clinical therapies.
According to School of Medicine press re-
lease, the first class will be made up of three to
six students.The program will eventually enroll
a total of 24 students.
“Even without [an official] website, we are
getting so many emails from students who want
more information about our program,” Reijo
Pera said.
Students will be required to take three broad
biomedical sciences courses, called Stem Cell
Biology 1, 2 and 3. They will also have the op-
tion of taking additional courses in law, engi-
neering and business. Another unique compo-
nent of the program is that students will under-
go a clinical rotation where they will shadow
surgeons and physicians.
According to Reijo Pera, Stanford is truly
“special” in that it already has the faculty in
place to begin the program. When she and her
colleagues first considered founding a new doc-
toral program in stem cell biology, they serious-
ly debated another possibility: the expansion of
the current graduate program in the biomedical
sciences.
“We thought about all the options. We
looked at the possibility of expanding some of
the programs currently in place,” Reijo Pera
said. “After really thinking about it, we came to
the conclusion that stem cell biology and regen-
erative medicine are really unique.”
“We couldn’t find a natural home for the
program to fit into,” she added. “And so, we es-
tablished a new one.”
Please see PROGRAM, page 5
STUDENT GOV’T
Senate debates
use of Nitery
rooms, bills
ASSU Senate adjourns early to
attend SUES student town hall
By KURT CHIRBAS
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
The Undergraduate Senate raced against
the clock Tuesday night, setting out to finish its
weekly two-hour meeting in half that time, so its
members could attend the tail-end of the Study
of Undergraduate Education at Stanford
(SUES) student town hall, which was held con-
currently in Toyon Lounge. Committee updates
and a discussion of three bills that the Senate
will vote on next week were the main order of
business.
During the meeting, Senator Daniel De-
Long ‘13 announced that two previously locked
rooms on the second floor of the Nitery will
soon be added to the ASSU reservation system.
The news came last night when DeLong re-
ceived a phone call from Jeanette Smith-Laws,
director of operations and student unions, who
informed him that the rooms had been cleaned
and are ready for student use.
“I want to say this is a big win for the ASSU,
a big win for the administration and, most im-
portantly, a big win for Stanford students,” he
said.
Please see ASSU, page 2
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FEATURES
Advancing the
placement test free-response questions that promote critical
By RUOKE YANG
thinking and analysis.

T
he Advanced Placement program
is getting a face lift. This year’s
prospective freshmen will be
among the last high school stu-
dents to take the old form of the
Advanced Placement (AP) exams.AP, a well-
established program by College Board that
offers students the opportunity to take col-
lege-level classes in high school, has come
under fire for its alleged inability to adequate-
ly prepare students for college level work.
“Frankly, while AP is good preparation
and a strong foundation in general, many of
our faculty and departments do not view it as
comparable to courses here,” wrote Richard
Shaw, dean of undergraduate admission, in an
email to The Daily.
Shaheen Jeeawoody ‘14 admitted that
there is a big gap between high school AP
classes and the courses offered at Stanford.
“There are plenty who have taken AP
Physics, and are going into Physics 41, then
didn’t do so well at all because they didn’t
know the material, [even though] they aced
the [AP] test,” she said.
Denise Pope, a senior lecturer in the Stan-
ford School of Education, recognizes this lack
of preparation as a big problem. Pope has
been working with schools in the Bay Area
that have decided not to offer certain AP
exams because of concerns that the tests do
not reflect college level work.
“Anything AP does to make students think
more critically, write better, I am for,” she
said.
The old AP tests were criticized for at-
tempting to cover too much material and en-
courage rote memorization. One of the pro-
posed reforms would reduce the course con-
tent to a more manageable amount. The new
tests would also place increased emphasis on
Brandon Garcias ‘15, a prospective fresh-
man, has had experiences with both AP and
its counterpart, International Baccalaureate
(IB).
In comparing the AP and the IB programs,
he noted that IB emphasizes writing and
short responses while AP’s use of multiple-
choice stresses regurgitation.
“Synthesizing information in an essay is ERIC KOFMAN /
more demonstrative of your grasp of the The Stanford Daily
knowledge,” he said.
Garcias did not think that stress on memo-
rization in AP exams would prepare him for
college-level work.
While Pope thinks that the reforms to the
AP program are steps in the right direction,
she has uncertainties. She has suggested an
exam with one or two big questions based on
real scenarios and a recalibrated point struc-
ture.
“The program fundamentally needs a
way to look at an individual as an indi- Shaw agreed that one or more AP test, according to Associate
the AP test has praisewor- Registrar Celeste Nguyen.
vidual in preparing them for col-
lege,” she said. “But at the current thy aspects. Shaw said that Stanford considers any stu-
“AP does set a national dent and “will try to understand the system in
scale of standardization and
numbers, that [problem] isn’t standard and the content is very which he or she is being educated.”
well thought out,” he said.“Further, it While uncertainty over the specific
going to go away.”
Still, standardization and does assure with rigor of expectation changes for AP remains, Shaw nevertheless
that students will be given well thought out approved of the new initiative.
numbers do offer a gener-
al measuring stick — un- academic material which against a [regular “We want students to have strong analyti-
high school] curriculum is more accelerated.” cal skills and that is a goal of our curriculum,”
like GPAs, it is easy to
compare AP scores While many schools rely on the AP pro- he said. “So to the extent that goal can be ini-
gram, it is not the only college preparatory tiated at the secondary level, it is good.”
across different high
schools. The standard that curriculum. Pope emphasized that the problems asso-
“If a high school does not offer AP, they ciated with AP stem from the fact that the
AP sets is particularly relevant,
according to Shaw and Pope, in the program’s can have a structure that is comparable to program is serving a whole spectrum of col-
AP’s difficulty,” said Randall Williams, associ- leges and high schools.
growth at schools where resources are tight.
In these cases, the standardization is particu- ate dean of Undergraduate Advising and Re- “That’s a problem with tests like these,”
search. Pope said. “You can’t please everyone.”
larly beneficial.
For topics like calculus,AP does manage to In fact, only 857 out of 1674 students in the
current freshman class received AP credit for Contact Ruoke Yang at ruokey@stanford.edu.
teach the essential concepts, Pope said.

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“I want to say this is a big win for
the ASSU, a big win for the admin-
istration and, most importantly, a
big win for Stanford students,” he
said.
Smith-Laws was originally slat-
ed to field questions about the
Nitery issue at Tuesday night’s
meeting, but the Senate decided to
postpone her appearance because
of the shortened meeting time. She
will be added to next week’s agen-
da.
Senator Alon Elhanan ‘14 then
asked DeLong about the two other
rooms that remained locked in the
Nitery.
“We’re looking further into it,”
DeLong said. “From my under-
standing, those two rooms are
going to be used essentially for sex-
ual assault counselors.”
Senator Brianna Pang ‘13 clari-
fied that this is just a proposal for
the rooms.
ASSU Vice President Stewart
Macgregor-Dennis ‘13 then said he
met with Greg Boardman, vice
provost of student affairs, yesterday
during lunch to discuss the remain-
ing locked rooms. During their con-
versation, they came to the conclu-
sion that the ASSU could decide
how the space should be used up to
end of the quarter, but that they
would also establish a working
group — one that included mem-
bers of both the administration and
the ASSU — to draft a proposal
that would determine its long-term
purpose, Macgregor-Dennis said.
“Apparently, Boardman has the
final say,” he said. “If we go ahead
with this plan, where the Senate
and the ASSU as a whole puts to-
gether a proposal . . . and follows
certain steps, then he’s prepared —
even this quarter — to publicly
state that the Nitery will then take
that direction.”
Macgregor-Dennis finished by
saying that the sexual assault coun-
selor will arrive on campus in two
weeks and that it might be in the
Senate’s best interest to let the Uni-
versity use the rooms as a counsel-
ing space for the remainder of the
quarter.
The conversation then turned to
three bills that will be voted on next
week: one that would allow the
ASSU to release the names and
SUID numbers of students who are
requesting refunds for special fees,
another would create a publicly ac-
cessible list of projects that the sen-
ators and Senate committees are
working on and a piece of legisla-
tion that would create the Under-
graduate Senate Campaign Financ-
ing Fund. This latter fund would
provide up to $100 to low-income
students to run in Senate elections.
“I’m really upset — not really
upset, but sad — that we don’t have
time to talk about this right now,”
said Elhanan, who authored the last
bill. “This is a really important bill,
something I’ve been working on for
a long-time and it’s not something
we can just talk about in a second.”
Senator Janani Ramachandran
‘14 then asked whether the Senate
would better use its time discussing
the three bills, since there was only
one hour left of the SUES town
hall.
Senator Brianna Pang ‘13 re-
sponded by saying that they would
be missing the question and answer
session and, therefore, lose out on
hearing student opinions. Senate
Chair Rafael Vasquez ‘12 asked if
they wanted to take a straw poll to
decide whether or not they should
extend the meeting, but prior to the
vote, senators started packing up
their laptops and backpacks, and
the meeting came to its close.
Earlier in the evening, all fund-
ing bills were passed.
Contact Kurt Chirbas at kchirbas@
stanford.edu.
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OPINIONS
EDITORIAL
Please Don’t Take
Our Email
W
hen Cal does something
better than Stanford,
there’s something wrong
— not just for rivalry’s sake, but also
because our bankrupt neighbors
should rarely outperform us, given
that we are endowed with greater fi-
nancial resources and blessed with a
nimbler administrative structure. So
students should be incredulous to
hear that Cal offers each of its 7,000
undergraduates email forwarding for
life, while Stanford cannot promise
the same.Preserving our digital iden-
tities is a core concern. By working
collaboratively with the administra-
tion,students can forge an acceptable
solution to all parties,but we must ap-
proach such a negotiation firm in our
resolve that permanent loss of our
email addresses is unacceptable.
Last year, former ASSU Presi-
dent David Gobaud appeared to
have secured lifelong email for-
warding, only to have higher ad-
ministration officials reverse the
decision the following summer, cit-
ing miscommunication. Student
outrage was fleeting, and the issue
disappeared. The problem is that
only seniors faced with the impend-
ing prospect of severed University
affiliation realize how important
continuity of email address is.But it
will take a concerted effort by
every single student, especially
elected ASSU officials, to sign peti-
tions, write letters and negotiate
with the President and Provost to
preserve that continuity.
Take a moment to consider the
consequences of losing your @stan-
ford.edu address. Think about the
prospective employers, former
Professors, fellow students, com-
munity contacts, friends and family
who might for any reason try to
email you, only to have their mes-
sages bounce.Many of them will ig-
nore your mass entreaty to modify
their address books, and you won’t
even know to contact others. Over
four years, Stanford students build
formidable networks of contacts
around their email addresses; a de-
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WANDERLUST
Besos de Buenos
Aires (BsAs)
I
arrived in Buenos Aires last
Thursday deranged from a cou-
ple flights of little-to-no sleep
and groggy from the in-flight fiesta
prompted by a rather instigating
stewardess, causing me to fall for
the biggest trick in the book:
charge the gringo double for the
taxi ride.
It was the quintessential multi-
man, foreigner stakeout, pay up
front kind of operation. I of course
didn’t fall for the: “Oh you only
gave me $150 instead of $250” trick,
at which point I probably should
have become belligerent, demand-
ed the money back, taken out the
bags and scolded the man for being
dishonest when he had a rosary
hanging from his rearview mirror,
but my Spanish was rusty and my
tongue not quite sharp as usual. Bi-
envenidos a Argentina, I guess.
(For reference, a current taxi
fare from the Ezeiza airport into
the city of Buenos Aires should run
around 150 pesos, including the
tip).
While I was quick to point out to
my new Argentinian friends that
this kind of discriminatory taxi
scam had never happened to me
upon arrival in Brazil, they were
quick to quip something about los-
ing a day earlier in the last World
Cup. We’ll see who wins 2014.
Crime in Buenos Aires is equal
to that of any Latin American city,
so take care not to overtly display
your valuables. A prime example
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ministrators and University em-
ployees get @stanford.edu ad-
dresses as well,students proposed a
simple fix in a letter last year to the
administration:set up an automatic
reflector that alerts the sender to
the recipient’s new alumni address.
The administration subsequently
balked at setting up a massive
“spam relay.”In reality,such a solu-
tion sounds much more intimidat-
ing than it actually is — it is techni-
cally trivial to set up such an auto-
mated system that does nothing
more than forward emails and send
a reflector message.
University officials also ap-
peared uncomfortable about pro-
viding a service in perpetuity, be-
cause it limits Stanford’s flexibility
in providing future email services.
Perhaps one day email will become
obsolete and the continued guaran-
tee of forwarding email will become
onerous to the University. Most stu-
dents are probably fine with the idea
of the University canceling its com-
mitment to email forwarding in that
unlikely contingency. It is likely that
most students would even be
amenable to paying some nominal
fee to defray the expenditures of
email forwarding. (Senior Gift
Committee, take note: donations
would pour in if you convinced the
administration to change its mind.)
In fact, most students would proba-
bly celebrate a University statement
that it would try its best to forward
emails but reserved the right to can-
cel the service if it became too cum-
bersome.
Please see EDITORIAL, page 5
Johnny
Bartz
was when a thief grabbed the Black-
berry of the woman sitting next to
me on the bus as he ran out the
door. Lucky for her, my uncon-
scious instincts grabbed the phone
out of the thief’s very hands, return-
ing it to a very stunned lady from a
very stunned, newly formed Argen-
tinian hero.
So I’d say thieves .5, Johnny 1.
There is much to see in the city of
Buenos Aires, and it’s a cheap-
skate’s dream with 30c bus rides,
cheap markets and food, and even a
taxi practically anywhere in the city
is less than $15 USD.
There is plenty of sightseeing in
BsAs, but for that I would suggest a
good guidebook! Pay your respects
to the women in Plaza de Mayo on
Thursday who mourn the loss of
their children during the dictator-
ship, take a photo in front of La
Casa Rosada and walk along the
brightly colored buildings, tango
dancers and well-fed stray dogs of
the Boca area. The Sunday market
in San Telmo is great for take-home
trinkets.
Please see BARTZ, page 5
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NEWS BRIEFS
PRESIDENT
She also addressed China’s grow-
ing influence in Latin America.

Continued from front page

search of companies wishing to in-
vest in her country. Costa Rica’s ex-
ports include bananas, coffee and
beef, but it also has a growing high-
tech sector. Chinchilla said she
plans for her country to be compet-
itive in this industry.
She hopes that Costa Rica will
be Latin America’s first developed
country and is a strong proponent
of free trade.
“We are very well-integrated
into the international economy,”
she said. “Our products compete
very well in the most important
markets in the world.That is why in-
stead of being afraid of continuing
this path, we want to look for more
opportunities.”
She stressed the importance of
education, particularly English-lan-
guage education. To ensure that
Costa Rica becomes an internation-
ally competitive player, Chinchilla
wants all high school graduates to
be fluent in English by 2017.
“For Costa Rica, China means a
very important opportunity,” she
said. “We are in certain ways com-
plimentary economies. We do not
compete with them.”
Anabel Gonzalez, the country’s
minister of foreign trade, amended
this by adding “the United States is
the most important trade and in-
vestment partner and has been so
for a long time.”
“I believe it will remain so for a
long time,” Gonzalez added.
Chinchilla also talked about her
keys to personal success, noting the
importance that having a strong
moral compass bears in life.
“If you don’t believe in what you
are doing it’s very hard to be suc-
cessful,” she said. “If you have
strong convictions and if you never
leave that set of basic values, I think
you are going to do very great.”
Business school students who at-
tended the lecture were generally
satisfied with what they heard.
“I think she has a very good
grasp of what countries in Latin
America need in order to be com-
petitive and create jobs and solve
“If you don’t believe in what
you are doing it’s very hard to
be successful.”
— LAURA CHINCHILLA, President of Costa Rica
some of the problems,” said Eduar-
do Hurtado MBA ‘12.
Jon Elist MBA ‘12 noted that
emerging economies,such as China,
will play a role in Latin America.
“Going forward we’re going to
be seeing more and more Chinese
influence in an area that tradition-
ally has had strong relations with
the U.S.,” Elist said.
Naama Stauber MBA ‘12, was
curious to know about how Costa
Rica is working to solve problems
related to the achievement gap be-
tween men and women.
“I would like to hear more about
what exactly do they do to address
this problem, specifically what do
they do to support females,”she said.
Chinchilla’s advice to maintain
one’s values whenever pursuing a
goal impressed Stauber.
“I’m sure she wouldn’t be able to
be at the place she’s at if she wasn’t
a strong woman with strong opin-
ions,” Stauber said.
“It’s amazing that the GSB is
able to attract these high govern-
ment figures from around the
world,”Hurtado said.“I’m so happy
to be here.”
Contact Anthony Vasquez at vasquez2
@stanford.edu.
Stanford bumps up
email storage space
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
In an email sent yesterday to
Stanford staff and students,Informa-
tion Technology (IT) Services an-
nounced that it has increased the
base email quota from 1 GB to 3 GB.
IT Services said the change was im-
plemented to meet a “continuing
need for additional space to store
email.” The change has already
taken effect and will not impact ex-
isting sponsorships for additional
storage quota.
— An Le Nguyen
Students speak up at
SUES town hall
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Students were invited to Toyon
last night to discuss their undergrad-
uate experiences with members of

PROGRAM
Continued from front page
According to Reijo Pera, stem
cell biology and regenerative medi-
cine have not grown out of a single
discipline; they have evolved from
the “biology of what is a stem cell”
and the “engineering of material
for differentiation” into the arena
of regenerative medicine.
“Establishing a graduate pro-
gram in stem cell biology is really
kind of a big deal,” she said.
By doing so, Stanford has ful-
filled what Reijo Pera considers is
one of its more important functions
as an academic institution —
namely, recognizing what consti-
tutes a discipline and what does not.
According to Reijo Pera, stem
cell biology is very similar to the
fields of genetics, biochemistry and
molecular biology, which all began
as divisions of biology but have now
evolved, after initial controversy,
into their own disciplines.
“For Stanford to approve [a pro-
gram in] stem cell biology and re-
generative biology means that they
recognize the field as a discipline
and believe that it’s not going to di-
minish in importance,” Reijo Pera
said.
“We wouldn’t start a program if
we thought this was just a fad,” she
added.
She expects a degree in stem cell
biology and regenerative medicine
to be marketable and highly valu-
able.
Because California passed
Proposition 71 in 2004 after the fed-
eral government restricted funding
for stem cell research, the Califor-
nia Institute for Regenerative Med-
icine accorded Stanford $186 mil-
lion to pursue further research.This
has allowed Stanford to not only
fund the new doctoral program in
stem cell biology but also to con-
struct the new Lorry I. Lokey Stem
Cell Research Building and recruit
top stem cell researchers who will
teach the new doctoral students.
“We want to make this the best
program in the world,” Reijo Pera
said. “Along with that, we want to
make sure that our classes are the
best, our students are the best and
our faculty do the best they can in
teaching them.”
PRIVACY
Continued from front page
sent to students who have indicated
a preference against this practice.
“If a study/survey has been ap-
proved because it supports the ac-
ademic mission of the University,
one of two things happens con-
cerning privacy: 1) if it is a survey
approved by the Provost’s Office,
all students are included; 2) if it is
a study or survey that is approved
but not directly related to an inter-
nal purpose, students who have re-
quested privacy are excluded,”
wrote Boardman.
“An example of the first would
be the Senior Survey or the En-
rolled Student Survey that we do
the Study of Undergraduate Educa-
tion at Stanford (SUES) task force.
The SUES members sought input on
freshman year requirements and
other general education require-
ments (GERs).ASSU senators were
among the attendees, as the Under-
graduate Senate adjourned its week-
ly meeting early to attend part of the
event.
The co-chairs of SUES delivered
a presentation about the shortcom-
ings of the undergraduate curricu-
lum at the May 12 Faculty Senate
meeting. It was the third report by
SUES to the Faculty Senate this
year. The task force will make a full
report in the fall of 2011.
— Billy Gallagher

EDITORIAL
Continued from page 4
Ultimately, most students would
bend over backwards to work with
the administration on a solution
that does not devalue Stanford’s
brand, consume technical re-
sources, or bind the University into
an uncomfortable commitment in
perpetuity.The problem is that Uni-
versity officials haven’t taken the
issue seriously — there has been no
data collection on what students’
views and needs are. It’s about time
we students took that into our own
hands.
Now is the time for our tech-
savvy ASSU Executive to espouse However, starting a new pro- every 4 years,” he added. “Exam-
this issue and collaborate with the gram — planning courses, creating ples of the second kind are specific
administration on building a solu- a website and raising funds — is not studies run by a few faculty whose
tion. Student concerns like this one so easy. study will support and inform aca-
can quickly gain traction through “I celebrated the first day and demic policy.”
petitions and letters, and then lan- then I started worrying about the
guish over the summer when every- details the next day,” she laughed. Billy Gallagher contributed to this
one goes home. Therefore, this “There’s a lot of work.” story.
Board finds it incumbent upon our
elected representatives to survey Contact Janelle Wolak at jwolak@ Contact Ellora Israni at ellora@stan-
the student body and bring the rel- stanford.edu. ford.edu.
evant data to the attention of the
Faculty Senate, the Board of
Trustees and the highest University
officials. In three short weeks, Stan-
ford will celebrate Commencement
with much pomp and circumstance.
Forcing new graduates to cut ties
with their professional and person-
al networks only makes this transi-
tion more bitter than sweet.

BARTZ
Continued from page 4
At Puerto Madero the walk
along the canal is nice. Check out
Puente de la Mujer, designed by the
famous Spanish architect Santiago
Calatrava, which is supposed to re-
semble a woman performing the
tango, though this may be quite an
abstract interpretation. I will let
you decide if the beam stretching
into the sky is supposed to be the
arm or leg, however might I suggest
posing in different tango-inspired
positions with the bridge in the
background.
The Porteno fare is delicious to
any 20-something meatlover, how-
ever vegetarians beware. You can
hit up street cafes all over the city,
and I suggest you try all varieties of
empanadas and milanesas to deter-
mine which you like best. Just be
prepared to eat a lot of fries, and
forget about counting calories —
you’re on vacation. I’ve decided
that I’m an empanada de pollo and
milanesa completa (fried/breaded
veal with two over-easy eggs on
top) kind of guy. Cafe de Los An-
gelitos (Rivadavia 2100) is fre-
quented by the rich and famous,
and it won’t break the bank. Even if
you feel like the milanesa is reject-
ing your body, a few minutes of rest
and perhaps a cafe con leche usual-
ly solves the problem.
For dinner, I highly suggest
Desnivel (Defensa 855). The interi-
or is unassuming, however the food
is exceptional at a reasonable price.
My beef tenderloin with mustard
sauce could have been cut with a
spoon, though I didn’t really need to
as I inhaled it on account of its deli-
ciousness. Washing down the gener-
ous piece of meat with several glass-
es of Malbec, I was satiated, but not
overly so that I couldn’t nibble on
some flan for dessert.The full dinner
for 5 came in at only $88 USD.
Buenos Aires has a very late
schedule to say the least, and its
best that you just embrace it to get
the full experience of the city.After
a leisurely dinner between 9 and 10
p.m., you may want to go get some
dessert or coffee. The bar scene
starts up around this time as well,
and while there are hundreds to
choose from, you may want to start
with The Alamo (Uruguay 1175) or
Milion (Parana 1048).The Alamo is
frequented by expats while Milion
is a trendy cool bar that is inside of
an old mansion. You may want to
make Milion a later destination, as
the drinks are relatively expensive.
It’s unthinkable to arrive at a
boliche (club) before midnight, and
they really don’t get started until 1
or 2 a.m. The Palermo Hollywood
neighborhood is full of cool places
to dance the night away. Check out
Kika (Honduras 5339) or Esperan-
to (Juan B. Justo 1625), and be
ready to get down to some
reggeaton or some awesome Lady
Gaga cumbia remixes.
Johnny wants to know your favorite
empanada/milanesa combination.
Let him know at jbartz@
stanford.edu.
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SPORTS
CARDINAL CHATTER BRADLEY KLAHN ‘12, RYAN THACHER ‘12 & ALEX CLAYTON ‘11 Kabir
Sawhney
NCAA HOME COOKING Follow the Money

H
ere we are, sitting in room 208 of
Sigma Alpha Epsilon waiting to go
to practice at 3 p.m. Unfortunately,
it rained today and we had to
change our practice time on four
different occasions. Denis’ monthly allotment of
text messages ran out by noon today, so he was a
bit late to practice.The big match is on Thursday
night at 6 p.m., and we fully expect the campus
— and especially the brothers of Sigma Alpha
Epsilon — to be quite rowdy and inebriated
(you should check out the Facebook event too).
ment. At this time the previous two years, we
were thousands of miles away from Stanford
stuck in hotels with nothing to do but practice,
sleep and indulge the occasional team Sporcle
competition.
Now, we are able to go to class, stick to our
normal routine (for the most part) and not have
to worry about the new TSA pat-downs, flight
delays (canceled flight from Seattle to Eugene at
12 a.m., and driving five hours to play at 11 a.m.
the next day? It happened), cramped rental cars
and southern humidity. Unfortunately, this year
Old bowls
With all that said, it’s important that you get
to know the individuals on the team before com-
ing out to watch Thursday night. Or at least, get
to know them as we do.
Ben-Jammin’ Ball (Jamin Ball) — freshman
from Palo Alto, Calif. Stepped up big this year;
assumed a starting role and a permanent desig-
better
than BCS
nated driver spot for the SAE house.
Alex clayTON — senior from Plantation,
Fla. The most eligible bachelor on the team. Be-
tween the job at Goldman Sachs and his passion
for creative writing, what’s not to love?

Hosting the NCAA Tournament this year is a
very exciting time for our team, and it’s a great
opportunity for us. We are comfortable on our
home courts, and we feel it’s a big advantage
being able to have the home-crowd support be-
hind us as we progress deeper into the tourna-
Juniors Bradley Klahn, front, and Ryan Thacher, back make up one of the nation’s top doubles
tandems. Stanford’s top pair won both of their matches on the first weekend of the NCAA tourney.
we were not able to see Gregory Hirshman wear
his tiger-skin onesie on the plane flights or see
Jamie Hutter take down an ounce of one of the
hottest sauces in the world, “100% PAIN.” Our
trainer didn’t even feel sorry enough to give him
some Tums.
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
Samuel “Mr.Nice Guy”Ecker — sophomore
from Mequon, Wis. Man of many racquets. Also
happens to look similar to Justin Bieber.
Gregory “The Renaissance Man” Hirshman
— senior from La Jolla, Calif. Tenacious fighter
who always finds a way.Far too many skeletons in
his closet to ever become a politician; he dreams
about one day owning a “hybrid” vehicle.
Danny “Daniel-san” Ho — freshman from
Rosemead, Calif. In his first dual match of the
year, came up clutch for the team in the second
round of NCAAs; not so clutch in English class,
however.
Fawaz “El” Hourani — freshman from
Amman, Jordan. Gives the team its token inter-
national player. Member of the Jordanian Davis
Cup team,which you’ve probably never heard of.
James “Jamerton” Hutter — junior from
Menlo Park,Calif.Injuries kept him out of action
the past few years, but he still thinks he can
bench press more than you.
Matt “capTAIN” Kandath — sophomore
from Gansevoort, N.Y. Hits both hands off both
sides. Absolutely loves receiving fan mail and
mail from his teammates. Write him — he’s a
chill dude.
Walker “Hard Hat” Kehrer — sophomore
from Pacific Palisades, Calif. Strong contributor,
especially in doubles, until a few “missteps” took
him out of action.
Ted “Frank the Tank” Kelly — senior from
Charlottesville, Va. A staple in the doubles
lineup for the majority of his career, we can al-
ways count on him when we need to put a
match on ice.
Bradley “BK Broiler” Klahn — junior from
Poway, Calif. Last year’s NCAA singles champi-
on, knows some Spanish, volunteers at Green-
peace.
Denis “Denise” Lin — sophomore from
Thousand Oaks, Calif. An incredible talent for
shanking balls over the fence, known for aggres-
sively pegging anyone and everyone he can, but
isn’t always sure where it’s going.
Ryan “Toucher”Thacher- Junior from Studio
City, Calif. Actually, he is the most eligible bach-
elor on the team.An international TV star whose
favorite city is Vienna. If you don’t believe me,
Google “Jake Pavelka.”
L
ike most college football
fans,I don’t particularly like
the Bowl Championship
Series. If nothing else, the
BCS routinely fails to live
up to its stated goal of crowning a true
national champion in college football.
Thus,I was extremely interested to
hear that the BCS is finally facing legal
action over possible violations of an-
titrust law. Utah Attorney General
Mark Shurtleff filed a lawsuit against
the BCS, and the Department of Jus-
tice,led by standout prosecutor Chris-
tine Varney, opened its own inquiry
into whether the BCS is an illegal mo-
nopoly.
The BCS’ response to these legal
inquiries has been twofold. First, Ex-
ecutive Director Bill Hancock made a
somewhat silly statement about how,
in essence, the government should
have better things to do than look into
college football — which doesn’t
make too much sense to me, seeing as
how the majority of bowl game partic-
ipants are public schools that are
owned by — you guessed it — the
government.
However, the second threat lev-
eled by BCS supporters is more inter-
esting to me.They have claimed (cor-
rectly, as it happens) that the destruc-
tion of the BCS would not necessarily
lead to the creation of a playoff to de-
termine the national champion. Un-
like having a playoff, which most fans
agree is the best way forward, there is
no clear answer to whether or not the
BCS is superior to the system it re-
placed.
For those of you who are unfamil-
iar: prior to the creation of the BCS,
each bowl game acted as its own inde-
pendent entity and selected its partic-
ipants through agreements with con-
Please see SAWHNEY, page 7

Stanford baseball game against San
Francisco rained out
Yesterday’s baseball game
against the University of San Fran-
cisco was rained out because of in-
clement weather at Stanford. No
makeup date was announced.
The No. 25 Cardinal (28-18, 10-
11 Pac-10) is scheduled to host Ari-
zona (32-17,11-10) for a three-game
series beginning this Friday at 5:30
p.m. at Sunken Diamond. The Car-
dinal could have used a midweek
game as a chance to bolster its
record, as the team is 11-1 in mid-
week contests this season.
Stanford lost two of three at
Oregon last weekend and currently
sits in a tie for sixth in the Pac-10.
SPORTS BRIEFS
There are two weekends left in the
regular season before the NCAA
Tournament field is drawn.
— Daniel Bohm
9 Cardinal teams honored for
academic progress
The NCAA honored nine Stan-
ford athletic programs yesterday
for their Academic Progress Rates
(APR). Stanford’s baseball, foot-
ball, men’s golf, men’s tennis, men’s
water polo, women’s cross country,
women’s gymnastics, women’s in-
door track and women’s outdoor
track teams all placed in the top 10
percent of all teams in their respec-
tive sports over a four-year period
beginning in 2006-07.
APR tracks scholarship players’
progress each semester by looking
at metrics such as graduation, eligi-
bility and retention.
Full APR scores are scheduled
to be released on May 24.
— Daniel Bohm
Women’s rowing earns NCAA berth
Stanford was one of 16 schools in-
vited to the NCAA Women’s Rowing
Championships yesterday. The No. 3
Cardinal is one of the five Pac-10
schools headed to the championships
May 27-29 on Lake Natoma in Gold
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Senior Carolyn McVeigh won her No. 5 singles match in Stanford’s first round victory over Illinois-Chicago
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ferences (rather than five games com-
ing together with six conferences to
set the rules, as with the BCS). There
was no guarantee that the No. 1 and
No. 2 teams in the final rankings
would meet in a bowl game, which
often resulted in split national titles,
with multiple undefeated teams
claiming the top spot.
The original intent of the BCS was
to correct this flaw by ensuring that a
national title game between the
sport’s top two teams was staged each
year. However, the BCS has failed
miserably in this aspect, as there are
almost always more than two teams
worthy of playing in the national
championship game. This year, TCU
went undefeated and beat Wisconsin
in the Rose Bowl, but didn’t get a
crack at the title despite never losing.
So the question remains: would it
really be all that terrible to go back to
the bad old days of the free-for-all
bowl system? I’ve already established
that the BCS’ claim that it crowns a
true national champion rings hollow;
the only reason to keep the BCS,then,
would be that it ensures more com-
pelling matchups than the old bowl
system would.
In a little thought experiment, I’ve
guessed at what I think the four mar-
quee bowls would have looked like
this past season if there were no BCS.
Rose: Oregon vs.Wisconsin
Fiesta: Oklahoma vs. Stanford*
Sugar: Auburn vs. Ohio State
Orange: Virginia Tech vs.Arkansas
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nized over; the spot could have easily
gone to Michigan State or a third SEC
school.
In my opinion, the differences be-
tween this slate and the BCS are small
enough to be irrelevant; regardless of
which system you use, you will get a
very good set of games. Sure, the
smaller schools of the world like TCU
get left out, but with TCU and Utah
joining major conferences in the near
future,that will become less of a prob-
lem — not to mention the fact that
preferring the BCS on the basis of the
fact that it better represents non-AQ
schools is far too rich with irony for
me to even contemplate.
Thus, the scare tactic of reverting
to the old bowl system wouldn’t be
that bad even if it did happen. We
might lose the No. 1 vs. No. 2 title
game,but that game stopped deliver-
ing a controversy-free national
champion a long time ago. The bowl
season would be just as compelling,
and each game would be free to up-
hold its own tradition — the Rose
Bowl could stage its Pac-12 vs.Big 10
matchup every year, without having
to host some team from Texas that is
going to jump to the Big East. Of
course, the BCS will continue to
come up with excuses to justify its ex-
istence — but now that I refuse to be
cowed by the threat of returning to
the old bowl system, I’m excited to
see what its PR spin doctors cook up
next.
It may be May, but for Kabir Sawh-
ney, it’s football season! Let him
know that your football season never
ends either at ksawhney@stanford.
edu.
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BRIEFS
Continued from page 8
River, Calif. The other Pac-10 com-
petitors are Cal, USC, Washington
and Washington State.
Joining the five Pac-10 schools
will be Virginia, Brown, Clemson,
Dartmouth, Harvard, Michigan,
Michigan State, Ohio State, Prince-
ton, Wisconsin and Yale. Virginia is
the defending NCAA champion.
Each team must field boats in the I
Eight, II Eight and Four classes.
Stanford placed second in the
Pac-10 Championships at Lake
Natoma last weekend. The Cardi-
nal’s II Eight boat won its second
straight conference title while the I
Eight team finished second.
The Cardinal finished fourth in
last year’s championships and won
its only national title in 2009.
— Daniel Bohm

SIMON WARBY/
The Stanford Daily
Sophomore Denis Lin,
top left, crusied to a 6-
0, 6-1 victory in Stan-
ford’s first round win
over Army. Senior Jen-
nifer Yen, middle left,
played No. 3 doubles
and No. 6 singles in
Stanford’s first round
win. Stanford’s top
player, senior Hilary
Barte, middle right, won
all of her matches last
weekend. Junior Ryan
Thacher, bottom, split
his two matches at No.
2 singles for Stanford
last weekend.