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April 14, 2009
The Stanford Daily
SCIENCE & TECH
Engineers
find work
abroad
Student group focuses on
environmental solutions
By ANNEKE NELSON
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
A group of Stanford engineers got
some hands-on experience over spring
break, traveling to two developing
countries in an effort to improve envi-
ronmental infrastructure.
The Stanford chapter of Engineers
for a Sustainable World (ESW), a
national non-profit organization that
uses technical approaches to promote
sustainability in under-developed coun-
tries, was formed in 2003.
“ESW is very similar to Engineers
Without Borders,” said ESW President
Heather Bischel, a graduate student in
environmental engineering. “But we
operate pretty independently.”
ESW at Stanford funds and coordi-
nates a course entitled “Design for a
Sustainable World,” which is meeting
this quarter to continue work on ESW
projects.
While the class consists mostly of
graduate students, it is also open to
undergraduates who show initiative in
the projects. This year was the first in
which the class became a more compre-
hensive experience, with a spring break
trip to the focal countries taking place
before the first day of class.
Please see ENGINEERS, page 6
An Independent Publication
Controversy develops over pre-assignment process, role of co-op residents in task force
Draw changes yield concern
By KAMIL DADA
DESK EDITOR
Student Housing released details on
Thursday of the new Draw system being
implemented this year. The changes have
been met with controversy, however, as resi-
dents of co-operative households (co-ops)
complained that the alterations were not in
their best interests and were implemented
without their input.
The Pre-assignment Process
Pre-assignment — in which prospective
residents can be placed into the house of
their choice and bypass the entire Draw
process — has been extended to all
focus/theme houses and co-ops this year.
Prospective residents are eligible for pre-
assignment, and those who don’t receive it
can still apply for a house’s remaining slots
through the regular Draw process.
Nate Boswell, associate director for the
Row, said that pre-assignment applications
will be vetted by a combination of resident
fellows and faculty affiliates. He added that
the process offers numerous advantages over
the older system of priority, in which a stu-
dent could garner an advantage over other
applicants, but not a guarantee of getting in.
“[In the past], all theme houses offered a
special priority that required that students go
to each individual house to fulfill numerous,
fairly haphazard criteria,” Boswell said.
“There was no cap on how many priorities
people could apply to or how many priorities
there were.”
Boswell further explained how many stu-
dents applied for priority based on particular
locations on campus and were not necessari-
ly interested in the theme of the house; they
would apply for priority to as many places as
possible and try “gaming” the system.
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“Now [that]
we are extend-
ing to all theme
because they
found the
changes poten-
which had its own criteria for selecting stu-
dents. Yet, some co-op residents were still
angered by the changes.
houses the abil- tially detri- “This is a student-body-wide change, [so]
ity to pre- mental to the I’m really shocked there’s been no democrat-
assign, you co-op lifestyle ic student polling from even a minority of stu-
have to be a lot
more intentional
on campus.
Jo r d a n
dent groups,” Nygren said.
Indeed, he added that Chi Theta Chi was
about which hous- Hurwich ‘10, a considering following in the footsteps of fra-
es you’re applying financial man- ternities and sororities and removing itself
to,” Boswell said. ager in Kairos, from the Draw altogether. He added that
He added that also said that since it is a private title house, the residents
with the shift to pre- residents of his have the freedom to make such changes.
assignment, there can house were not “[However], since the Draw is happening
be much more oversight invited into the so soon, we are in such a short time span,”
and objectivity from the decision-making Nygren said.
houses, ensuring that peo- process. Other students were more concerned
ple truly interested in the “The students about the role of sophomores in co-ops. Matt
theme are able to live there. [that were represent- Bush ‘10, the kitchen manager at Terra, said
CRIS BAUTISTA/The Stanford Daily
Rodger Whitney, executive ed] weren’t from co- that the tier system would prevent some
director of Student Housing, ops, and Housing sophomores from getting into co-ops if they
agreed and described how many students felt Assignments never reached out to co-ops,” drew in tier 2.
that the priority system was one of the Hurwich said. “Some of the co-ops such as Kairos and
inequities that needed to be fixed. Whitney however, defended the Housing Synergy draw low, and it’s difficult to get into
“The Draw has to feel fair . . . this is not a task force. He argued that the group was the house un-preferred,” he said. “They’re
sub-fraternity system, this is not meant to be meant to be a cross section of students, and worried that they are not going to get enough
a subjective process,” he said. “Simply and not automatically include a student from a sophomores [in the house].”
objectively, [we wanted to] support the pro- co-op. Whitney however, does not anticipate a
gram that gives more support to the theme “This was one of the most consultative lack of sophomores in co-ops.
houses. I think we accomplished the goal.” task forces I’ve ever been a part of at “If there are committed sophomores who
Stanford,” Whitney said. “Resident fellows, come to the open house, they can be pre-
Co-op Controversy the Vice Provost for Undergraduate assigned there,” he said. “I don’t understand
Some residents in co-ops, however, have Education, the Vice Provost for Student this notion that they wont get any sopho-
complained that they were not consulted Affairs, Residential Education, Residential mores to continue their program, because
about the changes. Erik Nygren ‘09, a house and Dining Enterprises and Student Housing then you can pre-assign them.”
manager in Chi Theta Chi, said that the house [were all involved]. We went to the ASSU Bush, too, acknowledged that pre-
was never approached for its thoughts on the and talked to the Senate committee, talked to assignment was a possibility for drawing
changes. residents in ethnic theme houses and had a sophomores into co-ops. However, he felt
“We were all initially shocked because the town hall meeting for all undergraduate stu- that the Draw should have a quota to
priority system has been a very good way for dents.” ensure that sophomores are able to enter
getting people who want to live in co-ops, Housing ultimately gave the task of deter- the houses.
into co-ops,” Nygren said. mining which students would be on the task
He added that many residents were upset force to the ASSU nominations committee, Please see DRAW, page 5

SPEAKERS & EVENTS SCIENCE & TECH

Optimism for DOE scrutinizes

China at FACES SLAC worker safety
Scholars see strength in Chinese By ELIZABETH TITUS

economy, despite bad press Stanford will not contest health

and safety violations recently
reported by the U.S. Department
By CALLA HUAN SHENG of Energy (DOE), according to
STAFF WRITER senior University counsel Steve
Porter.
Questions about how the Chinese economy will fare in The DOE alleged in an April 3
a depressing global market have been the source of much report that the University-operated
speculation recently, but two experts expressed their opti- SLAC National Accelerator
mism yesterday, in a panel sponsored by the Forum for Laboratory violated many rules
American/Chinese Exchange at Stanford (FACES). leading up to the explosion of a
Political Science and Chinese Politics Professor Jean Oi polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe on
and Stanford Center for International Development Senior Sep. 13, 2007.
Fellow Ronald McKinnon spoke about the future of The mishap occurred during a
China’s economic growth in front of a capacity audience of water pipe installation project at the
students and scholars in Bechtel Conference Center. Both east end of the linear accelerator
speakers were upbeat about China’s performance in the JULIA GREGORY/The Stanford Daily facility, and one worker reported
Stanford Political Science and Chinese Politics Professor Jean Oi shares her broadly positive temporary hearing loss.
“Stanford University did not
Please see FACES, page 2 take on the Chinese economic situation at the FACES Conference, “On Common Ground.” establish effective procedures to
ensure that welding and cutting
would be performed safely,” the
SPEAKERS & EVENTS DOE said in its notice. It listed eight
pages of examples of improper
project planning.
CRIS BAUTISTA/
The Stanford Daily
resulted in serious
injuries or deaths.
“These consequences
were averted only by circumstance
and timing,” it read.“DOE is partic-
ularly concerned about Stanford
University’s role in this event
because it was the failure of SLAC
personnel to properly plan and
design the underground utilities
upgrade project to preclude haz-
ardous conditions that ultimately
put workers at risk of serious
injury.”
The DOE also sent notices to
two firms involved in the incident:
Pacific Underground Construction,

Civil War scholar examines pivotal conflict During a 19-month investiga-

By AN LE NGUYEN
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Distinguished historian James McPherson
spoke last night at a crowded Kresge Auditorium
about the turbulence that characterized the
American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
McPherson, a professor emeritus of American
history at Princeton University, is the acclaimed
author of 15 books and the recipient of numerous
accolades, including the Pulitzer Prize and
Lincoln Prize. In his lecture, “But There Was No
Peace: The Aftermath of the Civil War,”
McPherson first expounded on the ironies found
in the annals of history.
“In one sense, there is a glaring anomaly in the
classification of history as a humanities disci-
pline,” McPherson stated. “The most inhumane of
all human activities is war, yet most of historical
writing focuses on wars.”
This paradox is further complicated by the fact
that war brings out the best and worst in a nation,
McPherson added.
“In American history, wars gave birth to the
nation, preserved its existence, ended slavery and,
in 1945, liberated oppressed peoples of Europe
from one of the darkest tyrannies ever known,”
McPherson said. “But American wars also extin-
guished the title of native peoples to their land,
expanded the nation’s borders by force and
resulted in atrocities that have betrayed our best
ideals.”
McPherson devoted the remainder of his
speech to analyzing the Civil War and
Reconstruction period as a case study of these
contradictions. In particular, he focused on the
factors that led to the outbreak of war in April
1861, and the elusive quest for peace four years
later. According to McPherson, the Civil War sim-
ply transferred a national conflict from the politi-
Please see MCPHERSON, page 6
tion, the DOE found that Stanford
broke rules regarding construction
safety, fire protection and general
procedures that could have pre-
vented the explosion. The blast
occurred when heat from a work-
er’s steel-cutting torch ignited
vapors from the primer of a nearby
PVC pipe.
“[The DOE] outlined what hap-
pened on the day and that certain
parties did not do things that they
should have done, and we’re not
going to contest that,” said Porter,
who serves as SLAC’s on-site coun-
sel.
The DOE notice warned that
Stanford’s violations could have
Inc. (PUC), a subcontractor of the
University, and Western Allied
Mechanical, Inc., a subcontractor of
PUC.
Stanford will not face fines once
the notice becomes final, although
that is usually the consequence of a
DOE worker safety violation. The
DOE proposed a $210,000 fine
based on the severity of the viola-
tions, but said it would waive the
fine because Stanford operates the
laboratory for the federal govern-
ment without charge.
Pacific Underground
Construction faces a proposed
$42,000 fine, while Western Allied
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FACES
Continued from front page
current economic downturn.
Oi began the discussion by contra-
dicting the belief of “China in peril.”
With exports falling by 25 percent a
year, and the growth rate shrinking
from 13 percent in 2007 to 6.8 percent
in the first quarter of 2008, many are
worried about China’s export-led
growth.
Nonetheless, according to Oi, the
share of exports in Chinese GDP is
much lower than the press estimates.
Often cited as 30 percent, the figure
might be as low as 10 percent, lower
than most of Southeast Asia and
close to that of Japan and India. Oi
also noted that China’s export
dependence is a recent phenomenon
concentrated in its southern part,
while “the heart of the Chinese eco-
nomic miracle really started in the
countryside,” and is sign of a “very
much domestically driven develop-
ment model.”
THE STRENGTH TO HEAL
McKinnon concurred with Oi’s
overall assessment, contending that
the true picture of Chinese economy
is far less dire than newspaper head-
lines sometimes make it out to be.
“If you’re a reader of The New
York Times, you’ll likely get the
wrong idea,” McKinnon joked, dis-
missing the prospect that economic
hardships in China might lead to
social unrest.
The panel was part of the annual
FACES conference “On Common
Ground.” A select group of 40 dele-
gates from top colleges in U.S. and
China will be on campus April 12-17
for a series of panels and discussions
on U.S.-China relations. FACES
President Matt Platkin ‘09 said the
conference fit with the group’s main
goals.
“The goal of FACES is to bring in
a diverse group of future leaders that
are interested in issues across the
board,” Platkin said.
Oi maintained her optimism
when discussing further challenges
posed by the crisis and even saw a sil-
ver lining in the Chinese govern-
ment’s $586 billion stimulus package.
She considered the half-trillion in
stimulus money a timely resource for
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China to renovate its infrastructure
and build much-needed railway and
high-speed tracks. The Chinese are
also gripping the opportunity to “go
up the value chain,” she observed,
with their recent efforts in developing
electric cars and improving energy
efficiency.
From a financial perspective,
McKinnon assessed China’s develop-
ment through the years. He com-
pared the current pressure in the U.S.
Congress to appreciate the Chinese
currency to the historical “Japan
bashing” in previous decades.
McKinnon pointed out that Japan’s
eventual decision to appreciate the
Yen “thoroughly destabilized the
Japanese economy and contributed
to the collapse of the global economy
in 1991.”
McKinnon also called the pro-
posed policy to appreciate the Yuan
“a big mistake in political economy
and a major influence on American
policy.”
Arguing against the continual rise
of the Yuan, McKinnon affirmed that
a fixed currency serves to anchor
China’s domestic price levels and
contributes to more stable growth. A
pegged currency would, according to
McKinnon, check the pouring of hot
money into China, while the ever
higher value of the Yuan would slow
investment, without definitively
reducing saving.
“When you think of fixed curren-
cy, you think of rigging the market,”
McKinnon said. “I think we should
call it international monetary harmo-
nization.”
McKinnon concluded his talk by
commending the economic policy of
the current Chinese government. He
drew on the surge of corporate prof-
itability and the expansion of com-
mercial bank credits in China as evi-
dence of the country’s economic vital-
ity, labeling China as the only place in
the world where commercial banks
are expanding. He also urged the U.S.
to stop “China bashing” and to rely on
China to pull the world out of crisis.
Platkin felt the timing of the con-
ference made the economic issues
particularly relevant.
“This year is special in a way,
because it’s probably in the worst
global climate that the U.S. and China
have faced since the founding of
FACES,” he said. “I think that’s an
interesting backdrop to host a confer-
ence like this; as the panel shows, [the
issues are] on a lot of people’s minds.”
Contact Calla Huan Sheng at hsheng@
stanford.edu.
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OPINIONS
EDITORIAL
A time for reconciliation
for the ASSU
s Stanford’s political community re-
A
covers from one of the more divisive
election seasons in recent memory,
the editorial board hopes to take this chance
to remind incoming undergraduate senators
and the newly-elected Executives of why they
wanted to get involved in the ASSU in the
first place, and what the student body wants it
to offer.
While the past ASSU Undergraduate Sen-
ate session was marked by bickering both
within the body and with outside groups (in-
cluding The Daily), ASSU Executives Jonny
Dorsey and Fagan Harris did much to refur-
bish the ASSU’s moribund image. We hope
the incoming group of elected students looks
past the recent dust-up over late-breaking en-
dorsements and pointed personal emails, and
asks how best to emulate the public-relations
success of our current ASSU Execs.
When interviewing Executive candidates
last week, the editorial board heard three Ex-
ecutive slates sing praises of Dorsey and Har-
ris. Each slate made its own argument as to
why it would be the successor best able to
carry on the Dorsey/Harris legacy — Gob-
aud/de la Torre and Hauser/Sprague empha-
sized their commitment to public service and
desire to expand the outgoing team’s sustain-
ability initiatives, while Just A Couple Of Af-
fable, Public Service-Oriented Guys Trying
To Help The Student Body Exercise Its Voice
While Also Bridging The Gap Between Our
Peers And The Faculty/Administrative Com-
plex touted their ability to follow in
Dorsey/Harris’ footsteps and touch elbows in
a show of undying unity. Last year, no slate
would have bragged that it was most like its
predecessors.
While the editorial board did not have the
pleasure of interviewing all 47 Undergradu-
ate Senate candidates,we imagine that few —
except, perhaps, the incumbents — would
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M ARK M Y W ORDS
The separation of
marriage and state
n April 3,2009,the Iowa State Supreme
O Court rules unanimously (9-0) declared
that the state’s ban on gay marriage was
unconstitutional and had it immediately over-
turned. A legal declaration for gay rights right
out of America’s conservative heartland, fol-
lowed up by Vermont’s recent legislative legal-
ization of gay marriage, may in fact be the wa-
tershed moment the homosexual movement
was looking for. But I have to say that, despite
my agreement and happiness in the Iowa
court’s decision to practice law and not morali-
ty, I worry that by legalizing gay marriage we
trample on the personal beliefs and rights of
what seems to be a majority of Americans.
Now, before you send me a burning moun-
tain of hate mail, let me qualify my statement.
Marriage is a civil, or legal, institution. In
the eyes of the law there has never been, nor
should there ever be, any religious aspect to it
at all. Period.
The “institution” of marriage, however, is a
peculiar one in American society:it brings in ar-
guments of tradition and faith into a society
that is supposed to be governed by law. It is a
deeply personal matter, but it retains very high
salience across society.
This makes it very difficult to separate argu-
ments of reason and logic from arguments of
personal morals and subjective ethics. Every-
one has their own personal stake in the mar-
riage debate, whether religious, traditional or
legal, and by mixing personal morals with legal
principles, we destine marriage to be doomed
to eternal debate and conflict.
This is why I don’t like the idea of state-sanc-
tioned gay marriage.
This is why I don’t like the idea of state-sanc-
tioned marriage at all.
The joining of religion and civil function is
guaranteed to cause problems because the
state is supposed to be neutral and fair, where-
as religion is inherently biased towards its be-
lievers.
And that is where we run into problems.
Church “A” claims that their omnipotent
sky wizard says that redheads can’t marry
brunettes, church “B” claims that their polit-
buro of heavenly friends find it unacceptable if
anyone with an extra dose of melanin in their
skin marries anyone without it,and most Chris-
tian churches firmly hold that God believes any
man who wants to marry another man is an
“abomination.”
And you know what? I’m fine with that.Re-
ligious organizations should be allowed to dis-
criminate to their tastes who they allow to par-
take in their rituals and whom they consider a
member of their congregation. It is a right in-
herent to religions and a right that the govern-
ment cannot limit, especially in this country.
However,this right would also logically pre-
clude any religious involvement with state and
have compared themselves to an Undergrad-
uate Senate that most students consider a do-
nothing group of bloviates taking themselves
far too seriously. It may be asking a lot, but we
challenge the incoming batch of senators to
carry themselves in such a way so that candi-
dates next year — rather than devising ever-
more-questionable puns on their names and
slapping them on their campaign flyers —
will campaign on the basis of their ability to
continue the Senate’s excellent work.
The editorial board is also wary of the
conspicuous role that factions like Students
for a Better Stanford (SBS) and the Stu-
dents of Color Coalition (SOCC) played in
the political process this year, and their con-
tinuing prominence will likely undermine
the Senate’s ability to reinvent itself. Like
George Washington in his famous farewell
address, who decried parties as engines “by
which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled
men will be enabled to subvert the power of
the people,” we are suspicious that these
coalitions have little to do with promoting
students’ well-being and all too much to do
with self-promotion. We do not dispute the
right of these groups to exist, but would
hope that any such coalition would refrain
from the vapid sloganeering common in the
campaigns and focus instead on the issues.
Unfortunately, there do not seem to be
many substantial differences in the elected
candidates’ platforms, or at least none that
they highlighted in their campaign flyers. In a
letter to the editor last Wednesday, Senate
candidate Anton Zietsman ‘12 asked the
Stanford community to think of the two coali-
tions not as bitter rivals, but partners that will
work together to address the Senate’s busi-
ness. We hope, for the sake of the Senate and
that of the ASSU, that Zietsman’s conception
of the two groups takes shape, preventing the
Senate from devolving into a battleground.
Mark
Kogan
civil institutions.
It makes sense - religions are allowed to dis-
criminate due to their protection nature. The
state, on the other hand, cannot discriminate
against any member of the public for the very
simple reason that it is illegal and unconstitu-
tional to do so.
A religious institution shouldn’t have the
ability to exclude individuals from federal ben-
efits and privileges simply because of religious
dogma and traditionalism, right? Not only
would that be very direct public discrimination,
it would be a downright moral tyranny of a ma-
jority against a minority.
Yet, despite this seemingly obvious under-
standing, we have the modern institution of
marriage.A religious institution directly bound
to a civil one.
This needs to stop.There’s no other option.
If we want this ongoing legal battle and social
conflict to end, and if we believe the state
should treat everyone as equal, then the state
has no choice but to get its hands out of reli-
gious marriage and vice versa.
The most logical and simple solution for the
state to take is to eliminate all state-sanctioned
marriage.The state cannot marry anyone; they
can only join them in civil union with one an-
other according to the rule of law.This civil join-
ing would recognize the couple in the same way
that the current state-sanctioned marriage
does. Full tax and access privileges, both state
and federal, would be granted to the couple
upon the signing of the legal document.
Churches would still be allowed to marry
whomever they want, just without the legal or
tax benefits. In fact, this would make it much
easier to discriminate against whoever they
wish. Churches could marry only whites, only
Spanish-speakers or only turtles for all anyone
cared. What matters is that their decisions
would not have any effect upon the legal stand-
ing of the couple in question.
Married in the eyes of God? Congratula-
tions! If you want federal tax breaks and recog-
nitions, file for a civil union simultaneously.
If the churches of America truly believe that
marriage is a religious institution,then let them
back up their talk by reclaiming the practice
and giving up the federal benefits.
Let judges and civil servants do the legal pa-
perwork for joining any two individuals who
wish to declare union. Let churches marry
whomever they wish before God.
Just keep them separate.
“The clergy, by getting themselves established by
law and ingrafted into the machine of govern-
ment,have been a very formidable engine against
the civil and religious rights of man.” — Thomas
Jefferson.Agree? Disagree? Email Mark at mko-
gan@stanford.edu and let him know!
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C RIME
Existential engineering
ans of Stanford Professor Gil Masters
F and environmentalist author Edward
Abbey have probably heard Abbey’s
exhortation to humanness — “Be as I am —
a reluctant enthusiast . . . a part-time crusad-
er, a half-hearted fanatic. . . . It is not enough
to fight for the land; it is even more important
to enjoy it” (1978).
This sentiment punched me in the face
several times this weekend while disguised as
conversation, mountains and stars. Painful,
yes; but my soul was growing sluggish and
needed a good call to action.
It is convenient during these periods of
soul-sluggishness to have a very good friend
who also happens to be a mountain-dwelling
hippie in Colorado. More convenient still
when said friend is open to the idea of you
inviting yourself over with three days’ notice.
So I flew to Denver and then went the 50
miles west and up.
It’s amazing what a purple-black sky, a
coyly full moon, and a few pine trees can do.
When you find yourself suddenly stopped
dead in the darkness, gasping for breath and
staring at a sky that has actually taken your
life — not by killing you, but by taking and
holding your life for a moment before the life
rushes back into your body, crisper and fuller.
The sky working by catching you, pulling the
vital functions entirely out of you and an-
choring them in itself.
When mountains are gray and green and
alive, and when rocks are the natural exten-
sion of streams, and when it starts to snow,
then rain, then both, then hail, and then when
everything explodes into a blue sky — that is
when you know there’s something worth liv-
ing for.
Sometimes a passion isn’t quite enough
— I love looking at dams, reservoirs, power
plants and transmission lines as much as the
next engineer, to be sure. I am one of the for-
Grad student diversity is everyone’s problem
friend of mine once told me that the so-
A lution to America’s lack of environ-
mental conviction was simple — instill
in children a love of nature. He thought if par-
ents took their kids to see the Redwoods or
Bryce Canyon, the children would develop a
sense of environmental responsibility.This atti-
tude, while simplistic, stresses an important
point — without concrete and articulated
knowledge of what is worth saving, or worth
cultivating, we lack the will to do what is right.
For issues like environmentalism, increasing
awareness can be quite pleasant; other issues,
such as race and gender disparities in science
and engineering programs are often painful to
discuss. They require an honest disclosure of
deeply ingrained biases in our society, our Uni-
versity and oftentimes ourselves. Consequent-
ly, they are rarely discussed in a meaningful
way, and the will necessary to address the issue
is not developed.
We have a problem at Stanford when it
comes to minority enrollment. This may sur-
prise some readers because representation at
the undergraduate level is close to U.S. aver-
ages,and foreign nationals make up a large por-
tion of the graduate population. However,
when we look at numbers for women, blacks,
Latinos and Native Americans in the graduate
science and engineering community,the story is
much worse.
A place like Stanford offers us a unique
view of the problem.We sit near the top of en-
gineering’s intellectual pyramid; from here we
see the cumulative effect of more than 20 years
of unequal education. Reasonable people may
disagree on solutions and their implementa-
tions, but given our point of view, it is clear that
there is a problem.
It is a problem when our nation is 51 percent
female and women comprise only 21 percent of
our engineering PhD candidates. It is a prob-
lem when our American PhD candidates are
1.3 percent black and 1.6 percent Hispanic ac-
cording to 2005 enrollment numbers. In ab-
solutes, that corresponds to 19 black and 23
Hispanic PhD candidates in the entire School
of Engineering. Proportional representation
drops by a factor of five for both blacks and
Latinos between the undergraduate and PhD
level.The term leaky pipeline is an understate-
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tunate ones able to spend my time studying
something I actually do love.And yet? Ener-
gy infrastructure, climate policy, all the rest of
it — it isn’t what makes being human worth-
while.
That’s where the green-streaked rock
faces of Death Valley, the smooth boulders of
Boulder and the fact that Orion is more than
just a three-star belt all start to come in.
On some level, I think an engineer’s high-
est calling is to protect the poets and the writ-
ers, the painters and the philosophers. It’s dif-
ficult to encourage the study of the incredible
things the human brain can produce if every
family needs six people working the land just
to keep food on the table.
That is modern science’s great contribu-
tion, it seems; we have managed to bring our-
selves to a point where it is understood that
people may productively engage in work that
increases quality of life rather than work
that, at best, ensures prolonged presence of
life.
We can study free will; we can study cul-
ture; we can study beauty.
Fossil fuels were definitely good for at
least one thing: they fueled human creativity
by increasing what we were able to do. It is
because we found cheap, easily-burned fuels
in the earth itself that we were able to devote
resources to things like medical research, to
book preservation, to schools and to muse-
ums.
That we were able to start sending both
girls and boys to school.That the concept of a
liberal education exists — just the fact that
graduating from Stanford signifies you’ve
had three quarters of IHUM and probably
no animal husbandry shows that our in-
creased use of energy has allowed us to spend
more time being human.
Something else that fossil energy provid-
ed us: time and expertise needed to create
O P-E D
ment in the face of such numbers.
These statistics reflect the harsh reality that
women and minorities face more obstacles on
the path to becoming a scientist or engineer
than their white male colleagues. Yes, some of
these obstacles exist outside of Stanford and
impact these groups from an early age, but to
use that as excuse for disengagement is negli-
gent and cynical.There are specific areas where
Stanford could make a difference.Take recruit-
ment, for instance. On average, only 24 black
and 25 Hispanic Americans apply to Stanford
PhD programs in engineering each year. Un-
dergraduate numbers tell us that there are sig-
nificantly more qualified applicants out there.
So why aren’t they applying to Stanford? It is
important to cultivate an applicant pool that
does not overlook segments of society; Stan-
ford’s inability to recruit outside the conven-
tional sphere is disappointing.
There are multiple reasons why we should
work hard to increase the representation of mi-
norities in the sciences and engineering. It is
worth reiterating here that the U.S. is in danger
of falling behind in the competitive global tech-
nology market as countries like China and
India further develop their infrastructures. It is
also worth noting that 55 percent of Stanford’s
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better technologies.
Fossil fuels were necessarily a bridge tech-
nology, and developing the global economy
in a fossil fuel-dependent way has had some
major positive impacts on human life, mostly
because it revolutionized our ability to have
as much energy as desired when we need it,
how we need it.
But it is time to move on from there. Im-
perfections can always be improved upon —
the fossil energy structure is not providing
the world with many huge new opportunities
at this point, largely because of the pollution
associated with it. It has served its purpose
and enabled us to get as far as we have, but ul-
timately, we will have no choice but to move
on to something better.
To let the sky keep control of its own col-
ors.
To let the mountains continue to host
most of the world’s rivers.
To allow us to study beauty and truth in-
stead of mitigation strategies and Superfund
sites.
Because after all, I became an engineer
because I want to help solve problems that
no one will ever have to solve again because
they won’t be problems anymore.
First step: Let’s go stare at a mountain.
Emily is probably either staring at a wall or
looking up walking directions to national
parks on Google Maps again. Get in on it by
emailing gruberte@stanford.edu.
engineering PhD candidates were foreign na-
tionals in 2005. Drawing on a broader spec-
trum of our domestic population is essential to
keep pace in the global science R&D race.Still,
we need to move beyond this paradigm.Those
of us pursuing PhDs in a technical field should
acknowledge that we work in a community
whose makeup is influenced by longstanding
cultural biases. A solution to this problem re-
quires work done at all levels of our education-
al system, and each of us has a role to play.
We have a problem at Stanford, but it is not
exclusively a problem for women, blacks or
Latinos.It is everyone’s problem.We cannot ex-
pect that an issue as deeply ingrained as this
could be solved by 19 black PhD students
spread across nine departments. No, all of us
must do our part. Be active, ask your depart-
ment chairs if any minority candidates were in-
terviewed in the latest faculty search. Find out
what the applicant pool of your program looked
like last year. This doesn’t have to be your full-
time job, but let those whose job it is know that
you support progress in this area. Let them
know that the will exists to get something done.
MICHAEL MINAR
Applied physics graduate student
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SPORTS
BEARS MAULED
Cardinal scores 13 unanswered runs to beat Cal
By ROXIE DICKINSON
STAFF WRITER
In last night’s game against Bay Area rival
California (15-18, 3-9 Pacific-10 Confer-
ence), everything came together late for
Stanford baseball. The hosting Cardinal (14-
13, 7-5 Pac-10) scored 13 unanswered runs in
the last four innings of the game to earn an
important win heading into this week’s
games.
Sophomore Kellen Kiilsgaard dominated
offensively, finishing only a home run short
of the cycle. Kiilsgaard thrived under pres-
sure, as all six of his RBI — the most in a sin-
gle game since Michael Taylor plated six of
his teammates against USC on May 26, 2007
— came with two outs in the inning.
The right-fielder put the Cardinal on the
board with a double in the fifth for his first
RBI; smashed a three-run, standup triple in
the seventh; and hit a two-run single in the
eighth to boost his team-leading season RBI
total to 27.
“I was seeing the ball well today,” Kiils-
gaard said.“We’re all hitting the ball well.We
know that Cal can hit, and I give a lot of the
credit to our pitching staff. They really shut
them down.Also,the team did really well get-
ting on base; I always had someone on base
when I got up.”
The winning pitcher was senior right-han-
der Max Fearnow, who earned his second win
of the season last night by allowing only one
hit and no runs with five strikeouts in three
BASEBALL
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GAME NOTES: Stanford scored the final 13 runs of the
game to beat Cal 14-4 last night. The win pushes the
Cardinal over the .500 mark for the first time since it
was 2-1 after opening weekend. On Wednesday, Stan-
ford will travel to Santa Clara to face the Broncos, who
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just snapped a 10-game losing streak with a sweep of Sophomore catcher Zach Jones was one of many Cardinal baserunners yesterday, as Stanford pounded Cal pitchers with 13 runs between the
conference foe Portland.
sixth and eighth innings to pull away for the win. The victory is Stanford’s 10th in its last 13 games, pushing its season record over .500.
Stanford on the scoreboard. Jeff Kobernus’s single to left — just past game at four with a line drive to bring in Sch-
innings pitched. Fearnow retired nine of the The Golden Bears started off the game sophomore shortstop Jake Schlander — to lander.
10 batters he faced, ending the game with a strong, scoring two runs in the first inning. widen the gap to 4-1, Cal going into the sixth. The real dagger in Cal’s back came in the
strikeout. Over his past seven relief appear- Stanford’s Scott Snodgress hit Cal’s first bat- At that point, Stanford’s fate seemed grim bottom of the seventh inning when Stanford
ances, Fearnow has earned a 1.20 ERA in 15 ter of the game, center-fielder Brett Jackson, until catcher Zach Jones singled, followed by brought 10 batters to the plate and scored six
innings pitched. and allowed a single from shortstop Brian junior Adam Gaylord’s hard shot to the left- runs off the Golden Bears’ right-hander
Cal’s sophomore right-hander Kevin Guinn. Michael Brady’s two-RBI double put center gap, which earned him a standup RBI Daniel Wolford. Sophomore pinch hitter
Miller had an effective start for the Golden the Bears ahead to start the game. double. Sophomore Colin Walsh followed Ben Clowe failed to get a few bunt attempts
Bears,limiting the Cardinal to two runs on six Cal added to its lead, scoring a single run suit, hitting an RBI grounder to bring in Gay- down, but eventually swung away and hit an
hits, with three walks and six strikeouts over in the fourth when designated hitter Blake lord and advance sophomore Jake Sch- RBI double to left field, putting the Cardinal
5.1 innings pitched. Miller kept Stanford Smith hit an RBI single. The Bears also lander. Finally, senior Joey August brought
scoreless until Kiilsgaard’s RBI double put scored a run in the sixth on second baseman life to the Cardinal faithful when he tied the Please see BASEBALL, page 5

WOMEN’S TENNIS
4/10 vs. Oregon W 7-0
4/11 vs. Pepperdine W 7-0
Conference Daniel
Bohm

perfection
On My Mind
UP NEXT CAL
(16-4, 6-1 Pac-10)
4/18 Berkeley 12 P.M. By SARAH OHR
CONTRIBUTING WRITER WOMEN’S LACROSSE
Tragic times
GAME NOTES: No. 10 Stanford swept No. 56
Oregon and No. 45 Pepperdine last weekend in
its final two home matches of the season. The
Cardinal next faces No. 8 Cal in the Big Meet
It was a big weekend for the
Stanford women’s lacrosse
4/12 vs. CAL W 13-4 in the sports
team.
UP NEXT
world
this Saturday. The Golden Bears are tied for sec-
ond in the Pac-10 standings at 6-1. Not only did the No. 14 Car-
dinal dominate Cal, 13-4, on
Sunday’s Senior Day, but it also
capped off an undefeated con-
DAVIDSON,
Stanford ference season. The Cardinal is
6-0 in Mountain Pacific Sports
Federation (MPSF) play and 9-
3 overall, with just two noncon-
NORTH CAROLINA
4/17, 4/19
I
’ve been sitting at my computer
for a while, mulling over what to
write about this week, but I’m
stuck with a major moral dilem-
Davidson, N.C.,

sweeps on ference games remaining.

“We’ve been building to this
week, and the players worked
hard to prepare,” said Stanford
Chapel Hill, N.C.

GAME NOTES: The women’s lacrosse

ma. I really want to write about the
upcoming NHL playoffs, but I also
want people to read my column, so I
decided I should find a new subject.

Senior Day
Women continue home
streak with two more wins
By ANTHONY NGUYEN
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Over the weekend, the Stanford
women’s tennis team swept its last two
home matches of the season, setting up a
final showdown against California.
While picking up its sixth and seventh
shutouts of the season, the No. 10 Cardi-
nal women celebrated Senior Day in
honor of their two seniors, Jessica
Nguyen and Isamarie Perez.
head coach Amy Bokker.
“They came out really tough
and got a big win.”
With both Sunday’s win and
a 17-10 victory over Denver on
Friday, the Cardinal will go into
the MPSF Tournament, April
23-26, as the top seed. Stanford
will also have home-field ad-
vantage, with the tournament
being held at the Farm’s own
Laird Q. Cagan Stadium.
“Our goal was to come
through MPSF undefeated, and
we did,” Bokker said. “I attrib-
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ute it to the depth we have on
Sophomore Karen Nesbitt helped the Cardinal easily defeat Denver and Cal to our team.”
finish the season undefeated in conference play. The wins helped Stanford Stanford has won the MPSF
clinch the top seed in the MPSF Tournament, which is later this month. title 11 out of the last 15 years
team finished its season with a win
over rival Cal on Senior Day. The win
completed Stanford’s undefeated run
through conference play. The Cardi-
nal travels to North Carolina this
weekend to take on Davidson and
No. 4 North Carolina.
and is looking to win the con-
ference title for a fifth consecu-
tive season. But this year —
Bokker’s first as the Cardinal’s
head coach — Stanford
achieved its first undefeated
conference season since it ran
the table in 2005.
On Friday against Denver,
Please see LACROSSE, page 5
The past week was a weird one in
sports. In many ways, it was rich with
action and excitement. There was a
three-way playoff at the Masters on
Sunday — the same day that both
Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson
made late charges. It was also the
first full weekend of the baseball sea-
son, and the last of the aforemen-
tioned hockey season.
Despite these bright spots, how-
ever, the overwhelming theme of the
week was tragedy.
On Friday night, Los Angeles An-
gels of Anaheim pitcher Nick Aden-
hart was killed by a drunk driver in
Orange County,just hours after mak-
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SNOW DAY
While her four years on the Farm
have included an NCAA championship
and three Pacific-10 titles, Nguyen used
the occasion to rejoice with her team-
mates as they near the end of a tough sea-
son.
“Coming into it, I was thinking to my- By JACK SALISBURY
self,‘I can’t believe it’s already been four SENIOR STAFF WRITER
years playing for Stanford and playing
on four different teams,’” Nguyen said.
espite the specter of winter sentatives — Murray, senior Clayton

“It wasn’t as much of a sad, emotional,
sentimental thing. Instead, we were cele-
brating the end of the season and the fact
that we’re closing in on a fun season since
we’ve battled through so much.”
On the day, Nguyen — one of two
captains for this year’s squad — was
greeted with a surprise visit from three
former teammates.
“We had three seniors from the team
when I was a freshman come watch,”
Nguyen said. “They came and put up
photos on the wall from when I was a
freshman. It’s funny to think that they
were in my position when I was just start-
ing.”
“I really appreciate the fact that they
were so supportive and there to share the
moment with me,” she added.
The team lived up to the occasion of
Senior Day, as the Cardinal scored two
shutouts over Oregon and Pepperdine,
bringing its record to 17-3 overall and 6-1
in Pacific-10 Conference play.
Against Oregon, sophomore Hilary
Barte missed the match with an injury.Ju-
nior Lindsay Burdette was bumped up,
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D
quarter finals looming, five
Stanford athletes took to
Mammoth Mountain on
March 14 to represent the Cardinal at
the 2009 Red Bull Snow Warz.
It ended up being a normal jump —
at the not-so-normal ski and snow-
boarding competition — that was the
highlight of the weekend for Stanford.
Going a bit too fast on the second
jump of the freestyle course, freshman
Lucyann Murray, and her snowboard,
flew straight past the landing point.
Murrary’s folly turned to fortune,
though — it happened to be her
biggest jump of the whole weekend.
“I thought it was hilarious,” Murray
said. “I probably took about 90 feet in
the air before I hit the ground. I guess
you could call that an accomplish-
ment.”
Though that may have been her sin-
gular highlight for the weekend, Mur-
ray’s feats didn’t stop there; the fresh-
man was named the top female com-
petitor at the event, which drew nearly
300 college students from 52 schools.
As a whole, the five Cardinal repre-
Kenney, sophomore Mike Ortiz and
graduate students Aaron Parness and
Wes Smith — came up just shy of qual-
ifying for the final round. The compe-
tition, however, wasn’t so much about
the results; after all, most events don’t
use the letter Z to signify plural usage.
“It was still a contest, but people
were dressing up,” said Kenney, de-
scribing the competition’s atmos-
phere. “Some people could barely
snowboard, and it was more about get-
ting a team there and hanging out, as
opposed to being really serious and
trying to win this thing. It was really
fun. It kind of felt like the first couple
days of school, when everyone’s
friendly; we got to know and meet a lot
of people really quickly.”
Despite failing to qualify for the
last session, the Cardinal skiers were
pleased with their performances.
“We didn’t quite make the finals,
but everyone had pretty solid runs and
had a lot of fun doing it,” Kenney said.
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then, to No. 1, while Nguyen played at
No. 2. Afterwards, Barte downplayed
the injury, saying “Everything’s fine.”
Stanford quickly finished off the
Ducks with a sweep of doubles and
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“If we did the pre-assignment, we
would have the option of having more
class balance in the house,” he said.
“[But] if we focus on getting more
sophomores, instead of good resi-
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towards the end of April, and we are
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Now, Stanford must travel to Cal
for its final match of the season. The
squads have nearly identical records
and are tied for second place in the
Pac-10 behind USC.
Earlier this season, Stanford nar-
rowly edged the Golden Bears 4-3 on
the Farm, preserving a 10-year home
win streak. In the match, Nguyen
capped off the five-hour marathon
with a 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 thriller over Cal’s
Claire Ilcinkas. This time around,
Nguyen is again expecting a battle
from the rival Bears.
“We’re all very excited — it was
such a monumental match to beat
them 4-3,” Nguyen said.“We’re going
dle,we are willing to do that . . . I think
we will actually end up showing more
commitment to these houses and have
a mechanism to give them more con-
trol than they realize.”
Changes to the In-House Draw
Outside of the contentious
changes to the priority system, the in-
house draw has also become more
standardized. Sue Nunan, director of
Housing Assignments, explained that
the two criteria for the in-house room
selection process will be draw number
and class year. In the past, the in-
house draw was somewhat arbitrary,
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was unique to each house.
The only exceptions to the changes
will be Synergy and Columbae, which
will continue to use the consensus sys-
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room allocations.
Whitney explained that the change
in the in-house process will make the
Draw even fairer.
“I’ve hated this [in-house draw sys-
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matching that up,” he said.“The same
tier number will apply to in-house
room selection.”
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There are also a number of
changes to the way students will be
billed for their housing, making the
charges clearer to students. Whitney
explained that there is almost no mon-
etary difference between living on the
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to approach the match very confident-
ly and be ready to take them on in a
different setting. I think we have the
mental edge on them now.”
“Hopefully it won’t be as close —
hopefully it will be a more decisive
win,” she added.
The Cardinal is currently riding a
five-match win streak with 12 victo-
ries in its last 13 matches.
“If we play like we’ve been playing
the past few weeks, we’ll be confident
to finish our season on a good note,”
Nguyen said.
Contact Anthony Nguyen at an-
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Row or in a dorm, but students have
traditionally mistakenly believed that
living on the Row is more expensive
because of the manner in which they
are billed.
“In the past, when you pay for
housing on the row, it includes your
kitchen overhead, [as well as] a sepa-
rate fee for food,” Whitney said.
“[Now,] we are taking the kitchen
overhead out of the housing charge
and linking it into other fees on the
Row. Food costs and labor charges
will all be included into one board
charge.”
“We have had confusion for years
about why housing is much more on
the Row and food is so much less; it
was time to fix some problems that
have been there for a while,” he
added.
Boswell further explained how,“In
the past, [the University bill] was for
tuition, room rent and kitchen over-
head, but then you had to pay a sepa-
rate bill for Row board,” and now, the
Row housing bill will go on the Uni-
versity bill.
In addition, the bill will be consis-
tent across all three quarters.
“Whatever your housing charge is,
it is will be split by three to ensure the
same charge each quarter, which al-
lows parents to plan better,” Whitney
said.
Liz Stark contributed to this report.
Contact Kamil Dada at kamild@stan-
ford.edu.
TRACK AND FIELD
Card ready for Big Meet
Track competes in L.A.,
prepares for Berkeley
By ANARGHYA VARDHANA
STAFF WRITER
The Stanford track and field team
sent a few athletes down to UCLA
this past weekend for the Rafer
Johnson/Jackie Joyner-Kersee Invi-
tational. Only a select few field event
athletes, hurdlers and sprinters com-
peted in order to improve times and
marks, as well as gain competition
experience before Saturday’s Big
Meet against rival Cal.
Team captain Kyle Davis-Ham-
merquist led the men with a win in
the hammer throw.With a toss of 198
feet, the fifth-year also scored a re-
gional standard mark.
“It was a pretty cool win,” Davis-
Hammerquist said. “I beat second
place by five feet, and held first the
entire meet.”
Also providing a win for the Car-
dinal men was freshman Geoffrey
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in the lead for the first time. Then, a
smattering of RBIs from several
Stanford players put the Cardinal up
10-4.
Just when the Golden Bears
thought things couldn’t get any
worse, Fearnow struck out two bat-
ters in the seventh and put the Cal
defense back on the field. Stanford
then proceeded to bring up nine
more batters and score four more
runs before the inning ended.
Along with Stanford’s hitting suc-
cess, the Cardinal’s pitching staff
came together for the team’s win.
Starter Snodgress allowed only two
runs on four hits and two strikeouts,
with no walks over three innings
pitched. Danny Sandbrink came in
for some relief and allowed just two
runs over two innings pitched. The
final two pitchers sealed the deal for
the Cardinal; sophomore Michael
Marshall allowed no runs and one
hit in the sixth, followed by three
scoreless frames from Fearnow to
wrap up the victory.
“Anything I can do to get the
team the win,” Fearnow said of his
efforts. “If you throw strikes like we
did today, we are bound to give up a
few runs. Momentum is everything
in baseball. If we can just keep the
ball down this week, hopefully we
will be successful.”
The comeback win gives the Car-
dinal some momentum going into
tomorrow’s game at Santa Clara and
this weekend’s road trip to Arizona
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ing the best start of his career in his
season debut.
Then, just yesterday, Harry Kalas,
one of the most legendary voices in
all of sports and the longtime
Philadelphia Phillies broadcaster,
collapsed and died in the press box
before the Phillies’ game at the
Washington Nationals.
These two tragedies put into per-
spective the relative importance of
sports in the grand scheme of life.
The baseball world froze upon hear-
ing of the death of Adenhart, and the
Angels’ game against the Oakland
Athletics on Thursday was post-
poned.
Athletes and role models are in-
deed human, and many times we are
reminded of this for the wrongs rea-
sons — highly publicized arrests or
divorces, for example.The passing of
these two baseball personalities, one
with his career waxing and the other
with his career waning, is a reminder
that tragedy can befall just about
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the Cardinal started slow, struggling
to find its rhythm and falling behind,
5-2. Beginning at the 20:25 mark,
however, Stanford found the mo-
mentum that it would carry all the
way through the weekend, rattling
off four unanswered goals in less
than four minutes.
Junior Dana Lindsay closed out
the half strong, scoring with just 11
seconds to play and giving the Cardi-
nal a 9-6 lead. Stanford never looked
back and sent the Pioneers home
with a seven-point loss.
The top scorer against Denver
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 N 5
Tabor in the shot put. The young
thrower won the open competition
freshman Amaechi Morton in the
400-meter hurdles. Morton will face
with a toss of 54 feet, 2.5 inches, off against California’s Jake Hanson,
which was a personal record.
“Winning the event and getting a
a senior hurdler who ran a 51.25 in
late March’s Stanford Invite. While
personal record is a great way for Morton didn’t compete in the same
Geoffrey to prepare himself to com- event during the Invite, he ran a
pete against shot putters from 51.03 at the Texas relays last week.
Berkeley for this upcoming week- The women’s team will be led by
end,” Davis-Hammerquist saidd. its phenomenal distance runners, in-
“For his size and stature, that was a cluding senior Lauren Centrowitz in
very impressive throw, and he has a the mile and 3000 meters, freshman
lot more potential.” Laurynne Chetelat in the 3000 me-
Coming up next for Stanford is ters and senior Alicia Follmar in the
the annual Big Meet against Cal.The mile and 3000 meters.
Cardinal promises intense competi- Freshman Katerina Stefanidi will
tion, having several top-ranked ath- face off against California’s Katie
letes in the nation. Sophomore Elliot Morgan in the pole vault. Morgan,
Heath, ranked sixth in the 3000- currently a senior, posted a mark of
meter run after the indoor season, 4.20 meters during the indoor sea-
will face off against third-ranked son, while Stefanidi finished the sea-
Michael Coe of California. Fresh- son with a mark of 4.10 meters. Cali-
man Chris Derrick is also a top run- fornia sophomore Allison Stokke
ner in the event, ranked No. 15 in the will also be a factor; she stands with a
nation. Derrick is also ranked No. 7 mark of 4.07 meters.
in the 5000 meters, but California has Saturday’s events begin at 11:50
no runners ranked in that event. a.m. with the women’s javelin.
Other runners to watch this Sat-
urday include senior Myles Bradley Contact Anarghya Vardhana at vard-
in the men’s 110-meter hurdles and hana@stanford.edu.
SNOW
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CALIFORNIA STANFORD
AB R H BI AB R H BI
Jackson cf 3 0 1 0 Walsh 2b 3 2 1 2 Continued from page 4
Guinn ss 4 1 1 0 August cf 5 1 2 2
Canha rf 4 2 2 0 Gerhart lf 3 1 0 0
Brady 1b 4 0 2 2 Kiilsgaard rf 5 0 3 6
Kobernus 2b 4 1 2 1 Milleville 1b 6 1 2 0 “It was probably one of the high-
Oh lf 4 0 0 0 Jones c 4 3 2 0
Smith dh 4 0 1 1 Mooneyham dh 0 0 0 0
lights of my season,” added Murray,
Krist c 2 0 0 0 Kaskow ph/dh 3 0 1 0 who snowboards with the Squaw
Gorman pr 0 0 0 0 Clowe ph/dh 1 2 1 1 Valley Snow Team. “It was a really
Hsieh c 1 0 0 0 Gaylord 3b 3 3 2 1
Semien 3b 3 0 0 0 Schlander ss 4 1 0 2 fun weekend; it was great traveling
Miller p 0 0 0 0 Snodgress p 0 0 0 0 with those guys down there, and we
Anderson p 0 0 0 0 Sandbrink p 0 0 0 0
Bugary p 0 0 0 0 Marshall p 0 0 0 0 had a lot of fun.”
Wolford p 0 0 0 0 Fearnow p 0 0 0 0 Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo ended
Donofrio p 0 0 0 0
Cassady p 0 0 0 0 up winning the Snow Warz, which
Totals 33 4 9 4 37 14 14 14
were judged by snowboarding pro
Zach Leach, skiing pro Omar Otte
R H E
California 200 101 000 4 9 1 and 17-year-old snowboarding phe-
Stanford 000 013 64X 14 14 1 nom Forest Bailey.
E—Guinn (13); Jones (3). LOB—California 5; Stanford 12. 2B—
Canha 2 (9); Brady (12); Kobernus (7); Kiilsgaard (8); Clowe (3);
Though this year marked the
Gaylord (3). 3B—Kiilsgaard (1). HBP—Jackson; Gerhart; Gaylord. fourth year of the Snow Warz com-
SH—Semien (2). SF—Walsh (1); Schlander (1). SB—Brady (2); petition, it was the first year that a
Kobernus (9); August (2); Jones 2 (7).
Stanford squad made it out to the
Pitchers IP H R ER BB SO
California competition.
Miller 5.1 6 2 2 3 6 “I love snowboarding, so that was
Anderson 0.1 1 2 0 0 0
Bugary L (3-2) 0.1 2 2 2 1 0
a big part of it,” Kenney said of his
Wolford 1.0 2 4 4 3 1 motivations to put together a team
Donofrio 0.0 1 2 2 1 0
Cassady 1.0 2 2 2 1 1
this year. “I had kind of wanted to
Stanford have Stanford represent that people
Snodgress 3.0 4 2 2 0 2 ski and snowboard and still have fun
Sandbrink 2.0 3 2 2 0 1
here, while studying hard. It was
Marshall 1.0 1 0 0 1 1
Fearnow W (2-3) 3.0 1 0 0 0 5 kind of cool to put [a team] togeth-
WP— Miller (5). HBP—by Snodgress (Jackson); by Bugary
er.”
(Gerhart); by Cassady (Gaylord). BK—Snodgress (1);
Essentially the founder of this
HP: Mark Beller 1B: Sid Aguilar 3B: Ted Kovach
year’s Stanford team, Kenney hopes
Weather:66F
that the Cardinal will continue to
field a team in the upcoming years.
State. This is the Cardinal’s fifth win “It’s great if we can have people
in its past six games, giving Stanford go every year,” he said. “We defi-
a winning record for the first time nitely staked out a good reputation.
since opening weekend, when it It would be cool if we could start a
went 2-1. legacy.”
Contact Roxie Dickinson at Contact Jack Salisbury at jack24@
roxie221@stanford.edu. stanford.edu.
anyone. son, Kalas had the luxury of calling
Adenhart was one of the most the World Series in which his Phillies
likeable guys in the Angels’ club- won just their second title during his
house. After going from being a top tenure.
prospect in high school to needing Kalas was more than just a voice
Tommy John surgery and falling in on a television screen, though. As
the draft, then working his way back former Phillie John Kruk alluded to
to being a top prospect in the Angels’ on ESPN yesterday, Kalas was a part
system,Adenhart overcame adversi- of the Phillie family. He traveled
ty and looked to have a promising with the team every day and took in-
career ahead of him. terest in each player that put on that
One of the saddest parts about his Philadelphia Phillies uniform.
death — from a sports perspective His influence on broadcasters
— is that he went out with all the up- and players alike has undoubtedly
side in the world. Just hours before been felt throughout baseball.
his passing, he threw six shutout in- So, despite the joy that comes
nings, showing that he was indeed with sports in spring time — the an-
ready to fulfill the promise that ticipation for NBA and NHL play-
made him such a highly touted offs, the Masters and the beginning
prospect. of the MLB season — this week’s
Kalas, on the other hand, was at happiness has been overwhelmed by
the tail end of his career when tragedy and reflection.
tragedy struck. The 73-year-old had There are few real lessons to be
been the Phillies’ lead broadcaster learned from the deaths of Adenhart
since 1971 and had also been the fa- and Kalas, except that celebrities are
mous voice of NFL Films since 1975. people too, and that sports extend
Despite his old age, he was in beyond the boundaries of the play-
good health and spirits prior to his ing fields and into real life.
passing, and it came as just as big a
surprise as Adenhart’s. Daniel Bohm hopes he can write
Like Adenhart, Kalas ended his about something happier next week.
career at a high point. Just last sea- Email him at bohmd@stanford.edu.
was Lindsay, who had four goals. Fel- injuries.
low junior Lauren Schmidt and The offense also did its job, not
sophomore Sarah Flynn added three only scoring goals, but also putting
goals apiece, and each also tallied an pressure on the Cal midfield. Flynn
assist. in particular led the attackers by
Fittingly enough for Sunday’s forcing three turnovers.
Senior Day, it was one of Stanford’s “We talked about putting more
five seniors who stood out against pressure on the midfielders,” said
Cal: Maris Perlman led the defense Bokker, whose team forced 19 Cal
and was a huge factor in keeping the turnovers.“We want our attackers to
Golden Bears to their lowest score be the first line of defense.”
against Stanford since 2002. Perl- Sophomores led the scoring end
man tied a school record by forcing of the game with Karen Nesbitt and
five turnovers — and she didn’t Flynn garnering three apiece.
even play the entire game, having to The Cardinal travels to the East
be taken out near the end due to a Coast this weekend, as it takes on
knee injury. The extent of the injury Davidson and No. 4 North Carolina
is not yet known, but the team is in its final regular-season games.
hoping for the best for one of its top
defenders. Three of the Cardinal’s Contact Sarah Ohr at sohr@stanford.
five seniors are now out due to knee edu.
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cal arena to the battlefield. Thus, the This year, the Stanford team is
war did not end with the surrender working for the first time on two
of the Confederacy, but rather with simultaneous projects — the first
the difficult task of reuniting the with SARAR, an organization
nation politically. working in Oaxaca, Mexico, and the
McPherson also discussed the other with GeoHazards
get involved.
“It’s one of the few organizations
that provide a way to help people in
other countries rather than just
fundraising,” Blum said. “You never
really get to know how the money is
helping.”
The next workshop, on April 23,
will be on water quality and how to
test for pathogens.
For Bischel, the project has been
a “long process of initiation,” but a
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troubled Johnson administration,
which moved between radical, mini-
malist and Reconstruction
approaches, and the disastrous long-
term consequences it brought
about. He also described a postwar
world characterized by riots; atroci-
ties committed by the Ku Klux
Klan; and black codes, which severe-
ly constrained the rights of African
Americans.
The lecture appeared to strike a
chord with its audience.
“I didn’t have a solid impression
of what [the lecture] was going be,”
said Ben Shapero ‘11. “In the end, it
was very enjoyable. He’s clearly pas-
sionate about history and sees histo-
ry as an opportunity to look at
humanity [in a way] that doesn’t
bring to mind old, dusty academics
— it’s active and vibrant.”
Last night’s event constituted the
first part of McPherson’s visit to
Stanford as a presidential lecturer.
It is followed today by an informal
discussion at the Stanford
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faces a proposed $56,000 in penalties.
Porter said he could not comment
on why the SLAC project manager
approved safety plans that the DOE
found inadequate. He did, however,
call the alleged violations by Pacific
Underground and Western Allied
“an interesting issue from both a
legal and practical perspective.”
“DOE has always held a contrac-
tor responsible and accountable,”
Porter said. “They are now dipping
down and holding a subcontractor
responsible.That’s an unprecedented
move and we’re concerned about
that, because it may have some
untold results. For instance, subcon-
tractors may not be interested in get-
Eminent Civil War scholar James McPherson gave his thoughts on the war
and its place in American history last night in Kresge Auditorium. The event
was part of the Presidential Lecture Series.
Humanities Center, which will begin
at 4 p.m.
McPherson left audience mem-
bers last night by emphasizing what
he felt was the war’s most important
result.
“In the war of the armies of 1861
to 1865,” he said, “the North pre-
ting on work out here anymore if
they run the risk of getting fined by
DOE.”
Hanley Lee, the DOE’s deputy
site manager at SLAC, said that he
did not know whether the subcon-
tractors’ fines are a first for the
department.
Stanford has 30 days to respond
to the Preliminary Notice of
Violation and will likely do so this
week, Porter said. Once Stanford
finalizes a response to the notice, the
DOE will oversee its safety correc-
tions, according to Lee.
“We will be tracking to make sure
all the corrective actions are put in
place,” Lee added. “Then we’ll do an
effectiveness review to ensure that
the implementation of corrective
actions is effective.”
Porter said that SLAC has already
taken several corrective measures
since the explosion.
SARA PIASKOWY/The Stanford Daily
vailed and unequivocally achieved
the principal goals of that war:
preservation of the United States as
one nation, indivisible, with liberty
for all.”
Contact An Le Nguyen at lenguyen@
stanford.edu.
“We’re in the process of imple-
menting a new work controls
process,” he said. “Work controls is
basically a more formal process for
documenting hazards and how
they’re going to be dealt with.”
Porter also cited changes to
SLAC’s leadership as beneficial to
safety efforts and explained that
Craig Ferguson, director of
Environmental Safety and Health,
and Dr. Persis Drell, SLAC’s direc-
tor, have a “sharper focus” on safety.
Stanford operates the SLAC
National Accelerator Laboratory,
which conducts particle physics
research, under a contract from the
DOE. The Preliminary Notice of
Violation is on the Web at
http://www.hss.doe.gov/enforce/eas/
WEA-2009-01_PNOV_.pdf.
Contact Elizabeth Titus at etitus@stan-
ford.edu.
International, an organization rewarding one at the same time.
devoted to preparing for and pre- “There’s a lot of intrinsic motiva-
venting consequences of natural dis- tion of the people we’re working
asters currently working in with,” Bischel said. “It’s challenging,
Indonesia. and if we try to be holistic in the way
The students took trips over we approach the problems, we can
spring break to view the situations actually have an impact.”
in both Mexico and Indonesia first-
hand, before the class started in Contact Anneke Nelson at adnel-
spring quarter. son@stanford.edu.
According to GeoHazards
International, Padang, Indonesia is
the place in the world most at risk
for future tsunamis. While the
organization tries to educate the
community on the dangers of such
natural disasters, the Stanford team
is focusing on improvements to the
infrastructure and evacuation
routes in this densely populated city.
Meanwhile, while SARAR had
already developed methods of eco-
sanitation in Mexico, Stanford stu-
dents are working on making these
methods more efficient.
Bischel has worked with ESW
since her undergraduate years at
UC-Berkeley, and assists the course
this quarter as a teaching assistant.
She noted that the hands-on
approach taken by ESW is very
rewarding.
“I think what’s unique about
ESW is that we do these projects
that are real-world,” she said. “All
the projects that are in this class
have a real impact. We apply these
designs to places where there is real-
ly need.”
Annalise Blum ‘10, one of 12
core officers of ESW, is planning on
taking the class next year to gain
valuable experience. She said she is
interested in sanitation projects in
Mexico.
While the national ESW organi-
zation funds some of the projects,
Stanford’s ESW chapter also
receives funding through the School
of Engineering and the Haas Center
for Public Service. In addition to the
class, ESW also hosts lecture series,
invites speakers and provides work-
shops for the campus community to