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STUDENT LIFE

Student CARDINAL CROWNED

store gets
By NATE ADAMS sophomore who was the standout amid a having 11 championships. We want it by
MANAGING EDITOR number of Cardinal reserves that saw ex- ourselves, though, not with [second-place]
tended playtime on Thursday. UCLA.”
The banner in the southwest corner of WOMEN’S BASKETBALL If another Pac-10 title wasn’t enough,
Maples Pavilion is going to need another the No. 2 Cardinal (25-2, 16-0 Pac-10) made

new space
Ribbon-cutting
ceremony at noon
By AN LE NGUYEN
MANAGING EDITOR
The Stanford Student Store opened the
doors to its new home in Tresidder Union
today. Preparations for the store’s launch
have been in the works since summer of
2010 and will culminate in a ribbon-cutting
ceremony at noon.
According to project manager Kelly
Rohlfs, the total cost of the new Student
Store was $297,000.
“Design began in June 2010, and con-
struction started October 2010,” Rohlfs
wrote in an e-mail to The Daily. “We had
expected to complete construction in early
January but ran into problems that were a
result of previous renovations.”
Raj Bhandari M.S. ‘10, CEO of Stan-
ford Student Enterprises (SSE), which
oversees the Student Store, said the proj-
ect was held back due to construction re-
quirements and the need for permit ap-
proval.
“Looking at the project, we ended up a
little bit late but still fairly within the scope
of what we imagined it to be,” he said.
The delay, in fact, may prove to be a
business-savvy plan.
“We made a strategic decision to open
up [during] Parents’ Weekend,” Bhandari
said.
He hopes to see “parents come join
their students exploring the new store for
the first time.”
Walking into the new Student Store,
customers will notice several prominent
features. One such feature is the introduc-
tion of pivoting display doors, which were
custom-designed to showcase merchan-
dise and to keep the store secure during
closing hours.
According to Bhandari, the Student
Store also features “a monitor display
demonstrating life here at Stanford.”
“We designed the store so it could be a
Please see STORE, page 2
STUDENT LIFE
update.
After a string of slow starts, Stanford
women’s basketball came out firing against
Oregon State last night as it kicked off Par-
ents’ Weekend with a 73-37 blowout win at
home, clinching a share of its 11th consecu-
tive regular season title in the process. Stan-
ford’s big night was highlighted by 16 points
from forward Sarah Boothe, a redshirt
Freshman guard Toni Kokenis (31) drives in for two of her 10 points as the crowd at Maples
Pavilion looks on in Stanford’s 73-37 blowout win over Oregon State on Thursday night.
OREGON STATE 37
STANFORD 73
2/24, Maples Pavilion
“It definitely says something about con-
sistency,” said Stanford head coach Tara
VanDerveer, reacting to the streak of con-
ference titles. “We have excellent competi-
tion in the Pac-10, and we’re really proud of
LUIS AGUILAR/The Stanford Daily
history in a few other ways. Thursday’s vic-
tory over Oregon State (9-17, 2-13) was
Stanford’s 59th in a row at home, tying a
program record. The win also secured the
top seed for the upcoming Pac-10 Tourna-
ment in Los Angeles.
For a moment in the early going, the
Cardinal found itself down by a margin of
11-6 thanks to some timely three-point
shooting from Beaver guard Sage Inendi,
but the deficit wouldn’t last long. Stanford
shut down the Beavers for the remainder of
the period, driving hard to the glass and
powering its way through a 17-0 run over
the next 11 minutes. On the only play that
saw a Beaver put the ball through the net
during that stretch, Earlysia Marchbanks
was called with a charging foul.
Stanford enjoyed a 29-14 lead at the half
— a doubly impressive feat considering the
absence of its leading scorer, Nnemkadi
Ogwumike. The junior forward suffered an
ankle injury against USC last Friday and
hasn’t played since.
VanDerveer wouldn’t say if she would
be ready for Saturday, but indicated that
Please see WBBALL, page 9
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NOTES: No. 2 Stanford clinched at least a share of its
11th consecutive Pac-10 title with a 73-37 win over
Oregon State. They will square off against the visiting
Oregon on Saturday afternoon, with a full house ex-
pected on Parents’ Weekend. The Ducks come into
the game on a bit of an upswing after snapping a
seven-game losing streak with their first win this
month Thursday night over Cal.

Yu urges end
to N. Korea
nuke program
By ANTHONY VASQUEZ
Myung Hwan Yu, former South Kore-
an minister of foreign affairs and trade,ar-
gued that North Korea’s nuclear weapons
program must be shut down at yesterday’s
lecture on “The North Korean Nuclear
Program and Inter-Korean Relations.”
Yu, a 2010-11 visiting scholar in the
Stanford Korean Studies Program, said a
nuclear-armed North Korea is a major
threat to its neighbors and to the United
States. His talk focused on North Korea’s
nuclear program, its upcoming leadership
change and relations on the Korean
Peninsula.
North Korea detonated a nuclear
weapon in 2006 and conducted a second
test in 2009.Yu said North Korean leader-
ship maintains that the country needs nu-
clear weapons as a deterrent against for-
eign aggression.
But he noted that more should be done
to ensure that North Korea is disarmed.
“It’s time for all concerned to take
more aggressive and intrusive steps to
shut down Pyongyang’s nuclear pro-
gram,” Yu said. “It is a direct threat to
most of East Asia as a whole and to the
United States, as well.”
Please see YU, page 2
Showdown against
No. 3 Vandy looms
By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
DESK EDITOR
Continuing what might be the
most grueling non-conference
schedule of any team in the country,
the Stanford baseball team heads
back out on the road to battle No. 3
Vanderbilt in a three-game series
that begins today in Nashville.
It’s the No. 8 Cardinal’s second
trip to the central time zone in a
week, after it opened the season with
a 2-1 series victory over No. 17 Rice,
and marks another tough test on the
national stage.
Vanderbilt (5-0) swept through
the San Diego schools in its opening
weekend, taking a three-game set
from the University of San Diego
while knocking off San Diego State
in a one-game affair. The Com-
modores beat Belmont in a midweek
game on Wednesday, 6-2, but have
set their vaunted rotation to face off
against the Cardinal this weekend.
Junior right-handed ace Sonny
Gray will likely start the Friday
game for Vanderbilt, while the Car-
dinal (3-1) will trot out sophomore
righty Mark Appel, who pitched four
strong innings in the season opener
against Rice. Gray had a rough first
inning, allowing three runs, but the
preseason All-American settled
down and didn’t allow a hit the rest
of the way as he earned the win
against San Diego in a rain-short-
ened game.
Saturday’s pitching matchup
should feature either senior Taylor
Hill or junior Grayson Garvin for
the Commodores, facing off against
junior Chris Reed.The Stanford left-
hander was roughed up in his first
start against Rice but had a very im-
pressive summer in the Atlantic Col-
legiate Summer League with a
miniscule 1.09 ERA through 33 in-
nings — he was rated as the top
prospect in the league.
It will be a tough task against ei-
ther Hill or Garvin, however, as both
pitched brilliantly in their openers at
San Diego. Garvin, a tall lefthander
from Suwanee, Ga., took a perfect
game into the seventh inning and
struck out 10 in 8.1 innings of work.
Hill, a righty from Old Hickory,
Tenn., looked equally impressive SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
after throwing 7.1 innings of five-hit
ball with eight strikeouts and just
Sophomore first baseman Justin Ringo (10) awaits a throw as
freshman Brian Ragira (21) looks on at Klein Field. The baseball
Please see BASEBALL, page 7 team is back on the road this weekend to face No. 3 Vanderbilt.

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NEWS
NEWS BRIEFS
State awards
Stanford $500k for
energy use
research
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Stanford researchers will re-
ceive $500,000 to finance studies
that analyze the effectiveness of
motivational strategies and aware-
ness campaigns in cutting back res-
idential energy use. The funds are
part of a nearly $3.5 million award
underwritten by the California En-
ergy Commission’s Public Interest
Energy Research program.
“California’s strength comes
from the ability to invest in energy
research across the board,”Commis-
sioner Jeffrey Bryon wrote in a press
release.
At Stanford, researchers will
track energy use patterns with soft-
ware, databases, Internet portals
and sophisticated home power me-
ters. They intend to provide real-
time energy use statistics via in-
home displays, computers and
smartphone applications. The re-
searchers will also test community
STORE
Continued from front page
retail incubator,” said Peter
Claassen, project manager at Hill-
house Construction Company, Inc.
Project planners designed the
store to give its managers “the op-
portunity to do different merchan-
dising,” Claassen said.
While classic Stanford apparel
will remain on the shelves, the Stu-
dent Store is diversifying its mer-
chandise.
“We’re definitely expanding; we
have a lot of new stuff,” said store
manager Olivia Witter ‘13. “We
have men’s and women’s items that
programs and financial incentives
in an effort to reduce energy con-
sumption.
The findings are expected to
help utility companies and local
governments estimate what prac-
tices and incentives best motivate
reductions in energy use. This, in
turn, will help the state reach its
goals for energy efficiency and
greenhouse gas reduction.
This grant will supplement the
$5,006,011 awarded to Stanford by
the U.S. Department of Energy
under the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act and the
$790,871 provided by the Universi-
ty for the project.
The Energy Commission has
doled out money to several other
California universities and compa-
nies, including UCLA, UC-Merced
and Electric Power Group, LLC.
Projects funded elsewhere by
the award include the development
of hyper-efficient computer
servers, research on the efficiency
of light-duty vehicles, studies on
algae-based biofuels and an exami-
nation of water demand in the pro-
duction and consumption of trans-
portation fuels.
—Tyler Brown
are little trendier, a little bit more
vintage, a little bit more fashion-
able than just our classic sweat-
shirts.”
Student input played an impor-
tant role in this respect and in oth-
ers.
“Working with the architect, the
students made all the decisions re-
garding the layout of the store, dis-
play cabinets and walls, colors and
lighting,” Rohlfs said. “They even
suggested adding the new door to
the back patio which was a great
idea.
“They also made decisions on
how to spend their money, for ex-
ample, using carpet in the store
rather than adding funds to the
project.”
Nevertheless, planning for the
YU
Continued from front page
Yu highlighted recent aggression by
North Korea in the past year,including
last March when a torpedo struck a
South Korean naval ship.Forty-six per-
sonnel were killed in the attack, which
Yu attributed to North Korea.Last No-
vember, North Korea also shelled
South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island,
killing two soldiers and two civilians.
“Such reckless brinksmanship will
not change South Korea’s policy to-
ward the North and will further isolate
North Korea from the international
community,”Yu said.
According to Yu, it is entirely up to
the North Korean leadership to decide
whether or not it wants a better rela-
tionship with South Korea.
“North Korea is at a crossroad,”Yu
said. “If it continues to keep the door
closed and develops nuclear weapons,
there will be no outside help, which
North Korea badly needs to feed its
people.
“The starving citizens will no longer
follow their leader,as nuclear weapons
cannot feed them.”
Last Monday, Reuters reported
that a third nuclear test is likely. Ac-
cording to South Korea’s Yonhap
News Agency, tunnels are being dug
store came with several complica-
tions.
Rohlfs noted that dealing with
the original terrazzo floor was the
biggest challenge of the construc-
tion process.
“After removing the old carpet
in the lounge area, we discovered
the floor needed a lot of costly re-
pairs that exceeded the project
budget,” Rohlfs said. “We struck a
balance by repairing and refinish-
ing the terrazzo in the halls and
placing carpet in the store.”
“It’s been a process, definitely,
but it’s rewarding to see the store
now,” Witter said.
ASSU and SSE celebrated the
store’s completion in a launch
party last night.
“I don’t think that many people
Myung Hwan Yu, former South Korean minister of foreign affairs and trade,
spoke yesterday at a lunchtime talk. He argued for a nuclear-free North
Korea and discussed its future leadership and its conflicts with South Korea.
near the site where North Korea con-
ducted its two prior tests.
When asked about the test,Yu said
the international community should do
more to discourage it,including impos-
ing further economic sanctions.
Yu said there would likely be a lead-
ership change in North Korea next
year. Kim Jong-un, son of the current
North Korean President Kim Jong-il,is
understand that the Student Store
is completely, 100 percent student-
run and that all of the proceeds go
back to student groups,” Witter
said. “It’s a non-profit organiza-
tion; I think that’s just something
special about it that sets it apart
from the Bookstore.”
“I think the new location will
help people recognize us more on
campus,” she added.
Bhandari expressed similar op-
timism about the new store, which
will resume regular business hours
starting Monday. The store is open
daily from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
“Our goal is to be the showroom
of Stanford,” he said.
Contact An Le Nguyen at lenguyen
@stanford.edu.
The Stanford Daily
IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily
widely expected to become the coun-
try’s next ruler. Yu doubted North
Korea would see an uprising akin to
those that have happened in the Mid-
dle East and North Africa.
“We cannot compare North Korea
with North African countries or other
countries,” Yu said. “It’s very unique. I
don’t think we can expect to see a pub-
lic revolt against the regime in North
Korea.”
Among the students who attended
the event, at least one said he was un-
moved.
“To be honest, the issue has been
done to death,”said Desmond Lim ‘14.
“[The talk] wasn’t revolutionary in
terms of its perspective.”
But other students left the lecture
with the view that North Korea’s neigh-
bors should do more to stymie its nu-
clear ambitions.
“I feel that more emphasis should
be on further actions,” said Joshua
Wong ‘14.
Lim said that with the unpre-
dictability of the North Korean leader-
ship,he expects more instability.
“I can’t be optimistic, at least in the
short term,”Lim said.
Contact Anthony Vasquez at vasquez2
@stanford.edu.
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The Stanford Daily
M ARKS M Y W ORDS
Stop . . . the Ellipsis
I
n my feverish attempts to avoid
the pages and pages of reading I
have every week, I find myself
on Gchat with my friends all too
often. The other night, as I wiled
away the minutes of an all-too-long
study break, I paused . . . There
were so many ellipses! In contrast
to the academic paper pulled up on
my computer screen, the Gchat
window was characterized by more
three-letter acronyms, a lack of
proper capitalization and a host of
little dots clustered in groups of
three.
What is the new, evolving ellip-
sis? To answer this question, think
about the extent to which we com-
municate with the written word. Ig-
nore the laments that students are
not writing as well as they used to; in
terms of the sheer amount of writ-
ten communication, it seems as
though young adults today rely on
writing to talk to each other more
than they would have done a gener-
ation ago. I’ve heard stories.Appar-
ently, back in the day, if you were
writing to a friend, you were proba-
bly writing a letter. You sat down
and spent a long period of time ar-
ticulating your thoughts in a large
body of text.
Today, messages to friends travel
instantly and have consequently
grown shorter in length. Much
shorter.“Dinner?”“Party tonight?”
“Kk.” As our writing is transmitted
more quickly to our friends,we have
simultaneously condensed the size
of our messages and altered the pat-
tern of our writing. From what I’ve
observed, our conversational writ-
ing more and more closely mirrors
the way we speak.
And now for the ellipsis. There
are, admittedly, several uses of the
ellipsis. I most frequently use the el-
lipsis for, as it is described on
Wikipedia, “an unstated alternative
indicated by context.” Let’s say I
were watching the new music video
for “Hold It Against Me,” and I
chose to tell someone, “That video
was . . . interesting.” My ellipsis be-
trays that something else crossed
my mind first, that I caught myself
and opted not to say,“pretty creepy,
plus I don’t think she’s a very talent-
ed dancer.”
There is also the exasperated el-
lipsis. In response to an outlandish
request that begs an answer of
“NO,” an ellipsis implies something
akin to “are you serious?” or “what
do you think my answer to your stu-
pid question is?” One morning on
Gchat, a frugal friend asked me if
she could have my quarterly alloca-
tion of services provided by the
SHPRC. Then she asked whether I
could go and get them for her even
as she specified a list of brands and
flavors. She got a “ . . . “ in response.
These are what I would deem
strategic ellipses, not to be confused
with the filler ellipses. In order to
define the filler ellipsis, allow me to
EDITORIAL
Continued from page 4
That said, Stanford has developed
a wealth of institutional knowledge
about best practices for catalyzing
high-tech industry. Home to a proac-
tive IP licensing office friendly to busi-
ness,a vast research park that incubat-
ed HP and Lockheed Martin, and a
President who, like many faculty, is an
entrepreneur himself,Stanford is in an
undeniably better position than most
institutions to impact innovation in
New York City.
Unfortunately,Stanford finds itself
caught between conflicting priorities:
a larger branch campus threatens to
siphon valuable resources from a
main campus recovering from budget
cuts. From the outset, administrators
should establish the growth strategy of
the campus and decide on the scale of
the prospective impact to New York
City. Traditional academia cannot yet
boast a true multi-site,elite university;
however, the proliferation of one-off
entities — the Columbia Business
School in Berkeley and the Wharton
Executive MBA in San Francisco are
local examples — offer blueprints for
narrow,focused expansion.
According to President Hennessy,
the New York project passes three key
tests: immersion in a pool of top stu-
dents, location in a thriving environ-
ment that can attract quality faculty
and collaboration with a deep-pocket-
LETTER
Continued from page 4
more course to the rest of their lives
(and often more than one career) to
contextualize why that “knowledge”
is, in fact, a myth. Our resources are
substantial despite the budget cuts,
and our visibility on campus is in-
creasing. But our effectiveness is
limited as long as Stanford students
believe they don’t need advising or
cannot benefit from the great wis-
dom and experience that lies within
Friday, February 25, 2011 ! 5
Miriam Ellora
Marks
showcase the habits of Elon
(anonymous name). Elon uses A
LOT of ellipses. In any sort of writ-
ten communication, be it messages
on Gchat, in e-mails with friends or
in texts, Elon refuses to use com-
mas, semicolons, or even periods. A
typical paragraph written by Elon
contains about one ellipsis per six to
eight words.
What’s the big deal, you ask? So
what if ellipses are his preferred and
only form of punctuation? If our
writing increasingly mirrors our col-
loquial speech, which I think is true,
then the use of the ellipsis is a writ-
ten expression of our pauses and si-
lences in conversation.When speak-
ing with a friend,no one is complete-
ly fluid and graceful; we naturally
stumble for the next word, throw in
a couple “like”s and substitute ges-
tures and sounds for real words.
Those are our spoken ellipses.
Here’s the problem. Because our
day-to-day communication by writ-
ing looks more and more like our
manner of speaking, there is un-
doubtedly an influence by our writ-
ing upon our speaking, especially
given that most of us text and Gchat
each other all day. Is our colloquial
manner of writing really starting to
affect our speech? Yes. Without a
doubt. Examples include: saying
“lol,” saying “omg,” saying “lmfao.”
(Don’t do this.)
The ellipsis is another example
of the way in which our writing
feeds our speech patterns. People
are starting to use the ellipsis when
they talk. This is manifested in sev-
eral ways: pausing, using a lot of
filler words, playing up the “awk-
ward” silence.A conversation starts
with a long, “Sooo . . . “ or contains
lengthy pauses; statements come
across hesitantly and lacking in con-
viction; a conversation loses struc-
ture when its participants are used
to trailing off . . .
I think we lose out when our con-
versations are punctuated by el-
lipses. We lose the habit of thinking
quickly on our feet, of being articu-
late and of using the right word at
the right time. From an academic
standpoint, I guess this could harm
students’ abilities in the realm of
oral presentations. From any sort of
conversational standpoint, it makes
conversations lackluster, slow and
prolonged. Would you want to read
a paragraph full of ellipses? I would-
n’t want to have a conversation like
that either.
Miriam wonders if this made any sense
. . . melloram@stanford.edu
ed partner — the city of New York.
While the proposed campus would
become financially self-sustaining,ad-
ministrators should ensure that the
majority of start-up land and capital
costs come from external sources, not
by paring other programs from the
convalescent University budget.
Additionally, the campus will ex-
cite Stanford’s New York donor base,
the fastest-growing alumni popula-
tion after the Bay Area.With lucrative
fundraising prospects and the allure of
penetrating the East Coast elite aca-
demic aura, the New York branch
could acquire a prestigious, mercan-
tile, Wall Street ethos. Stanford needs
to resist this temptation to commer-
cialize its brand. We don’t need to
plant palm trees on Manhattan, but
we do need to recreate the essence of
Stanford wherever we fly its banner.
The value of a Stanford campus in
New York City is a different, disrup-
tive research institution, anchored by
West Coast ideals.After all,a Stanford
of the East should be much more than
just another Ivy.
Like President Eisenhower’s call
for investment in scientific research
after the Sputnik crisis in 1957, Presi-
dent Hennessy has captured the pop-
ular imagination with a vision for na-
tional dominance in engineering. Be-
fore we launch our own satellite, we
urge the Administration to consider
the core goals of academics and com-
munity impact,so that this exciting op-
portunity does not sacrifice our cur-
rent excellence or dilute the Universi-
ty’s distinctive identity.
our faculty and staff advisors. As
marvelous as the “iDeclare” offer-
ings were, and though they were
well-promoted by the leaders of the
sophomore class, a small percentage
of sophomores attended.
We are doing our part to make
advising one of the things that is best
about Stanford and which sets us
apart from our peers. We look for-
ward to working with undergradu-
ates on this process.
JULIE LYTHCOTT-HAIMS ‘89
DEAN OF FRESHMEN AND
UNDERGRADUATE ADVISING
6 ! Friday, February 25, 2011
SPORTS
FREE FALLING
STANFORD DROPS CLOSE GAME AT OREGON STATE
By NIC REINER-PARRA
In the highest-scoring game the
men’s basketball team has played all
season, Stanford coughed up a sec-
ond-half lead and fell on the road
Thursday night at Oregon State, 87-
80.With the loss, the Cardinal extend-
ed its losing streak to four games and
solidified its position in eighth place
in the Pac-10 as the regular season
winds down.
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OREGON STATE 87
STANFORD 80
2/24, Corvallis, Ore.
Oregon State (10-16, 5-10 Pac-10)
snapped its own four-game losing
streak with the victory, and its 87
points were the highest total the team
has put up in the Pac-10 this season.
The Beavers were on fire all night,
making a crisp 62 percent of their
shots from the field. They also had a
very balanced attack, with five players
scoring in double figures, led by soph-
omore guard Jared Cunningham, who
had 21 points on 6-of-8 shooting, and
senior guard Calvin Haynes, who
chipped in 14.
Oregon State’s freshman guard
Ahmad Starks scored the game’s first
basket to take a 2-0 lead at 19:38, but
Stanford, powered by junior guard Je-
remy Green’s hot three-point shoot-
ing, went on an early 14-4 run to lead
by eight with 16:27 left in the first half.
After Oregon State cut the lead to 14-
12 with 15 minutes to go, the Cardinal
(13-14,6-10) reeled off another big 11-
0 run to take a commanding 25-12
lead halfway through the first period.
The Beavers fought back to within
two, trailing only 33-31 with 3:27 left,
but the Cardinal was electric from be-
Junior Veronica Li, above, and the No. 1 women’s tennis team enter Pac-10
play with a perfect 9-0 record. They will put their NCAA-record 169 home
win streak on the line this weekend against Oregon and Washington State.
CARD ENTERS
PAC-10 PLAY
By CHRISSY JONES
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Fresh off claiming the title at the
ITA National Team Indoor Cham-
pionships in Charlottesville, Va.,
this past weekend, the women’s ten-
nis team looks to keep the momen-
tum rolling with matches against
two Pac-10 rivals, the Oregon
Ducks and the Washington State
Cougars, this weekend.
Not only will Stanford (9-0) have
the opportunity to continue its un-
defeated season,but it will also have
the chance to increase its home win-
ning streak of 169 consecutive vic-
tories on the Farm, an NCAA
record.
After a 4-0 sweep of No. 16
Arkansas in the first round of the
ITA tournament last week, the No.
1 Cardinal went on to defeat No. 5
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hot early. After last Saturday’s 11- on two free throws from forward Joe STANFORD
point showing in the loss against USC, Burton. The teams traded blows the 2/26, Maples Pavilion
he nearly reached that total in the first rest of the way, with Stanford appear-
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Michigan 4-1 the next day. In the
semifinals, the team zoomed past
No. 3 North Carolina, setting up a
much-anticipated final between the
Cardinal and No. 2 Florida, who
Stanford beat 4-3 in the NCAA fi-
nals last year. Sophomore Stacey
Tan clinched a hard-fought three-
set match, propelling Stanford to
the championship by the score of 4-
2 last Monday.
“I was so inspired watching all
my teammates fight for each point
of the match,”Tan said.“That really
helped me work that much harder
to do my best in my match. The vic-
tory was a great confidence builder
for our team moving forward.”
It’s back to the grind now for
Stanford, as the eight players who
traveled to Virginia arrived back on
Please see WTENNIS, page 9
The Stanford Daily Friday, February 25, 2011 ! 7
Jaffe takes NCAA over
NBA all day,everyday
T
he NBA trade deadline just
passed, and the league has
been turned upside down
thanks to a number of
blockbuster, and in some
cases head-scratching, trades. I’ve fol-
lowed the NBA much more closely
than I have in the past few years, and
after watching a slam dunk over a car
and absurd performances from all
kinds of players, I have come back to
the simple conclusion I’ve known all
along.
College basketball is better than
the NBA.There, I said it.
Yes, I know that NBA players are
the best of the college game and that
the talent level in the NBA is un-
questionably better than in college. I
know that the thoroughly pointless
one-and-done rule has taken away
from the continuity of the college
game and harmed everyone in-
volved (except John Calipari).And I
know that most sports fans ignore
college basketball until March Mad-
ness and that players like LeBron
James and Blake Griffin are only
boosting the NBA’s popularity.
But no matter how much I watch
the NBA, I can’t help but think that
the pure basketball involved is worse
than in college. And recently I’ve fi-
nally discovered the reason why
NBA basketball is not as fun to me:
NBA players are too athletic and too
talented.
Of course, in professional sports,
the appeal is supposed to be that the
players you see are the best in the
world at what they do.The difference
with basketball, though, is that talent
can lead to a less-aesthetically pleas-
ing result.
Case in point: LeBron. He is
clearly one of the best players in
NBA history and maybe the most
athletically gifted individual ever to
play basketball. Some of the dunks
and midair adjustments he makes
are breathtaking. Still though, if you
watch a whole game of LeBron’s,
what do you see? Maybe a couple
disgusting dunks in transition
(against weaker defense than most
middle-school players) and about 20
fadeaway 24-footers.
The long fadeaway jumper is ex-
tremely difficult and impressive, but
I can’t say it is particularly fun to
watch. Sure, one or two can make
you marvel at the player’s skill, but
when five possessions in a row in-
volve one player taking the ball up
the floor,dribbling outside the three-
point line for 18 seconds and then
taking a contested jumper, it doesn’t
particularly matter to me if the shot
goes in or not, because I’ve already
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Continued from page 6
However, down by six with five
minutes left, Oregon State charged
back on a game-deciding 15-4
stretch to take an 82-77 lead with 35
seconds remaining. Haynes, Cun-
ningham and Burton all had big
buckets during that final run for the
Beavers. From there, the Beavers
got a few dunks by Cunningham
and Haynes as they cruised to the
victory.
In addition to shooting 53 per-
cent from the field, Stanford had
one of its most unselfish games this
season in the loss. Junior guard Jar-
rett Mann finished with a season-
high 10 assists while freshman for-
ward Dwight Powell had five assists
to go along with two steals. Fresh-
man guard Aaron Bright matched a
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Continued from front page
one run — neither pitcher issued a
free pass in 15.2 combined innings
of work.
The Commodores are a con-
stant presence in the NCAA
Tournament, making it to the
past five NCAA Regionals under
manager Tim Corbin. Besides
their top-notch pitching, they
also return seven everyday
starters from a team that won 46
games last year. That includes top
hitters Aaron Westlake, Jason Es-
posito and Anthony Gomez.
Juniors Esposito and Westlake
hit 12 and 14 home runs apiece
last year while both batting
above .300, and the sophomore
Gomez hit a team-high .379 en
route to being named a Colle-
giate Baseball Freshman All-
American.
Stanford and head coach
Mark Marquess counter with
their own quartet of young guns,
led by two preseason All-Ameri-
cans, sophomore shortstop
Kenny Diekroeger and freshman
outfielder Austin Wilson, along
with sophomore third baseman
Stephen Piscotty and sophomore
outfielder Jake Stewart.
Diekroeger hit a team-high
Jacob
Jaffe
Fields of Failure
changed the channel.
See, when NFL players play real-
ly well, they make pinpoint passes,
miraculous catches, crazy jukes and
shoestring tackles.When MLB play-
ers play really well, they make diving
catches, disgusting pitches and hit
monster home runs.The way basket-
ball is set up, NBA players have no
incentive to play team basketball
when they can just do it all by them-
selves.
Compared to college basketball,
NBA players have less time to shoot,
get all the advantage on offense (the
rules take away zone defense, under-
the-basket charges, etc.) and are ca-
pable of making ridiculous shots, so
there’s no need for traditional plays.
And no,“iso” doesn’t count as a play.
While college basketball might
not give you as many eye-popping
feats of athleticism or staged dunk
contests (jumping over a car: cool,
but not that cool), it gives you some-
thing more. Players set off-ball
screens (yep, they exist), make the
extra pass, cut to the basket . . . you
know, they actually play basketball.
Other than the occasional high-
light-reel play, what else does the
NBA provide over college? All I see
are a whole lot of egos.
I mean, what’s the better atmos-
phere for a basketball game: hun-
dreds of students jumping and
screaming in unison, or Jack Nichol-
son screaming at the refs about a call
he doesn’t understand? What in the
NBA can match the passion of fight-
ing to get off the bubble? Don’t even
say trying to get into the playoffs.
What can match a Duke-UNC game?
Lakers-Celtics isn’t even close.
I’m sorry, but even the most excit-
ing NBA Finals game doesn’t feel as
passionate or as intense as a Cinderel-
la run through March Madness, or
even a 15-seed hanging with a two-
seed. That’s the one thing about col-
lege sports that pro sports can never
match, and the NBA doesn’t get any-
where close.
Oh, and I didn’t even mention
traveling.
Jacob Jaffe won way too much
money in last year’s Daily March
Madness pool to ever go back to
watching the NBA. Contact him to be
your bookie at jwjaffe@stanford.edu.
season high with 15 points, making
all five shots he took behind the
three-point line.
Both teams were reckless with
the ball, and the game was a bit
sloppy at times — the Cardinal fin-
ished with 14 turnovers while the
Beavers committed with 15.
This is a critical juncture for the
Cardinal, as it has two more confer-
ence games left this season. Stan-
ford is still within reach of sixth
place in the Pac-10, an important
benchmark to reach for, as teams
one through six get first-round byes
in next month’s Pac-10 Tournament
in Los Angeles.
Next on the docket for Stanford
is Oregon, where the Cardinal will
look to avenge last month’s 67-59
home loss to the Ducks. Tip-off is
set for 3 p.m. at the Ducks’ new
home, Knight Arena in Eugene.
Contact Nic Reiner-Parra at nreiner
@stanford.edu.
.356 and had 41 RBIs while being
named Pac-10 Freshman of the
Year; he is off to a good start this
year with seven hits in 16 at-bats.
His first home run of the year put
Stanford on top against Cal, and
he added an RBI single later in
the game.
The play of Wilson has also
met the lofty standards that ac-
companied the highly touted out-
fielder from Los Angeles to the
Farm. Wilson is currently tied for
second on the team in batting
with Piscotty, sporting a .429 bat-
ting average to go with a home
run and four RBIs, all in games
against top-25 opponents.
The weekend series is just the
second between the two teams,
and Stanford holds a 3-1 all-time
edge thanks to a 2-1 series win in
2009. With both teams now sport-
ing top-10 rankings, the rivalry is
likely to only grow more intense
this weekend as conference brag-
ging rights are also on the line.
If the games are close, the Cardi-
nal should get a boost from its
bullpen, which has allowed only
three runs in 16 innings so far.
First pitch on Friday will take
place at 2 p.m. PST, with Saturday’s
game scheduled for a noon start
and Sunday’s slated to begin at 11
a.m.
Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at
milesbs@stanford.edu.
8 ! Friday, February 25, 2011
Years later into her career,
she still thinks about the class that she took
during her summer at Stanford –
it shaped her way of thinking ever since.
Which class will it be for you this summer?
The Stanford men’s tennis team had two hard losses last weekend at the ITA
National Indoor Championships, but will try to bounce back against rivals
No. 5 UCLA and No. 9 USC with help from junior Bradley Klahn, above.
CARD LOOKS
TO REBOUND
Stanford hopes to
avenge loss at ITAs
By ALEX ECKERT
The No. 7 Stanford men’s tennis
team travels to Los Angeles this
weekend to face a pair of formida-
ble Pac-10 rivals in No. 5 UCLA and
No. 9 USC.
The Cardinal (8-2) is hoping to
bounce back from two tough losses
at last week’s ITA National Indoor
Championships, where it went 1-2
against some of the top teams in the
nation in Florida and Georgia.
However, the Los Angeles schools
may provide even stiffer competi-
tion.
Stanford will first take on UCLA
(9-1) this afternoon.The Bruins had
a strong showing at last week’s tour-
nament, going 2-1 and beating the
same Florida team that handed the
Cardinal its first loss of the season
just two days earlier.The Bruins will
be looking to prove that they are
the team to beat in the Pac-10 this
season.
Then, at 1 p.m. tomorrow, the
Cardinal will face two-time defend-
ing national champion USC. The
Trojans (8-2) will certainly be
amped up for the match after Stan-
ford took the first matchup between
the two rivals 4-3 in a hard-fought
match last weekend. Plagued by in-
juries early in the season, it is tough
to say how good this year’s version
of the Trojans can be.
Head coach John Whitlinger has
no illusions about this weekend.
“Any time you go to L.A., no
matter what kind of team I’ve been
a part of over 25 years, it’s always a
challenge,” Whitlinger said.
“They’re just very good; they play
well at home, and they have their
crowd.”
While he recognizes that the
matches won’t be easy, Whitlinger
views this weekend as another op-
portunity for the team to gain valu-
able experience against elite teams.
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“I’m looking forward to two very
competitive, tough matches. When
you play top-10, top-five competi-
tion, it can only help to give you an
idea of where your team’s at.”
According to Whitlinger, Stan-
ford still has plenty of work to do
after losing to Florida and Georgia
at last week’s tournament, but he
believes the losses will help moti-
vate the team going forward.
“Every match we played in Seat-
tle was very close and could’ve gone
either way,” Whitlinger said. “I
don’t think they’ve lost confidence.
I think they’re just a little upset we
couldn’t pull off all the matches that
we played.”
The Cardinal hopes to carry the
consistent play of defending NCAA
singles champion junior Bradley
Klahn (16-5 record this year), soph-
omore Denis Lin (12-4) and senior
Greg Hirshman (12-3) into this
weekend. Hirshman appears to
have turned a corner in his game, as
he is currently riding an impressive
four-game win streak.To beat teams
of UCLA and USC’s caliber, how-
ever, all of the players will need to
step up.
While matches between top
teams can be indicative of the sea-
son to come, Whitlinger was also
wary of putting undue emphasis or
pressure on these early-season con-
tests.
“Like I tell the guys, you don’t
get too high with the wins or too low
with the losses, so no matter what
happens, we’re trying to get better
and improve and get ready for
May,” he said.
The NCAA men’s tennis season
is a long one, and as one of the top
teams in the nation, Stanford has
chosen to focus on the long-term
goal of winning an NCAA champi-
onship.
That being said, this weekend’s
matches feature traditional Pac-10
rivalry hype combined with the
usual excitement of top-10
matchups.
Contact Alex Eckert at aeckert@stan-
ford.edu.
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her injury had nearly recovered.
“If it was the tournament,she’d be
playing,” she said. “Her ankle looks
good, but I told her I want it 100 per-
cent.”
With Stanford’s top forward miss-
ing, a roulette of reserves filled in the
gaps for the Cardinal and kept OSU
on its toes. Seven players scored in
the first half alone — a number high-
er than OSU’s total field goals in the
same period.
“Obviously, we depend a lot on
Kayla [Pedersen] and Jeanette
[Pohlen] and definitely Nneka, but
it’s great to see people stepping
up,” VanDerveer said. “They’ll all
help us.”
As she did on Sunday,sophomore
forward Joslyn Tinkle started in
place of the elder Ogwumike. Her
classmate, forward Mikaela Ruef,
saw 10 minutes of playing time in the
first half after averaging just 10.2
total minutes on the season, and
Boothe saw plenty of time at the low
post after coming off the bench and
going a perfect 3-for-3 in the first half.
“I told our team that we’re an or-
chestra, it’s all about our whole team
being successful,” VanDerveer said
about the reserves. “But tonight we
had a nice solo from Sarah Boothe.
She really finished inside.”
Chiney Ogwumike put the team
on her back in the second, scoring
two crowd-pleasers in the first 60
seconds.That included a breakaway
layup after she recovered a loose
ball just beyond the Beavers’ three-
point line, a move senior point
guard Jeanette Pohlen emulated a
minute later.
Friday, February 25, 2011 ! 9
Freshman guard Toni Kokenis lit
up the crowd as well,scoring a pair of
fast-break layups to bring the Stan-
ford lead to 43-26. On the second of
those,the Illinois native made a lung-
ing steal on a pass from Beaver guard
Alexis Bostick and dashed for the
left side of the hoop, dropping an
easy basket that had VanDerveer
pumping her fist on the bench.
Kokenis reached 10 points at 8:12,
making her the fifth Stanford player
to enter double digits.The only blem-
ish on her record was a trio of sec-
ond-half fouls.
Stanford slowed things down a bit
as its reserves took over, but contin-
ued to play an open, perimeter-fo-
cused game that cut the Beavers’
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Continued from page 6
campus Tuesday after hours of wait-
ing due to delays and canceled flights
on the East Coast. Sophomore Mal-
lory Burdette, who played in the No.
2 slot over the weekend, described
the 30-plus hour journey back to
Stanford as “a break to catch up on
work, but now we have returned and
are focusing on upcoming matches.
“We usually focus on ourselves as
opposed to worrying about who we
are playing,” Burdette continued.
“Preparation for this weekend will be
like any other. We only lost the dou-
bles point one day, but we will defi-
nitely go back to the drawing board
with doubles and hopefully tune our
singles play up. I think that we have
played a lot of tennis over the past
week, so it’s important to remain
physically healthy as well.”
This is especially true for Bur-
dette, who was out for the first three
matches of this season. Since return-
ing to the court just a few weeks ago,
she has improved steadily and this
weekend marked her first time play-
ing at No. 2 for the Cardinal this sea-
son.
“Although I was a little nervous,”
Burdette said, “having three solid
performances was a huge step for-
ward for me confidence-wise going
into this weekend.”
She also hopes that Stanford can
capitalize off the fact that Oregon
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zone defense to pieces. Pohlen
scored a pair of threes in the half and
Pedersen added another, while Tin-
kle and Sara James, a freshman
guard, each netted one. Their shoot-
ing was dangerous enough to open
things up for the forwards, who did
the rest of the work. Stanford scored
eight layups in the second half and
shot 56.3 percent from the field.
The Cardinal will complete its
final two-game series against Ore-
gon tomorrow at 2 p.m., and then
wrap up the regular season against
Cal next Thursday at 8 p.m. Both
games are at Maples Pavilion.
Contact Nate Adams at nbadams@
stanford.edu.
and Washington State both practice
indoors,yet will be forced to play out-
side in the matches this weekend on
the Farm.Wind frequently becomes a
factor when players aren’t used to
compensating for it.
The Ducks have a 6-2 record enter-
ing conference play, although they
have yet to beat a ranked opponent
and lost to No. 24 Oklahoma and No.
73 Minnesota earlier in the year. But
they have won two straight matches
and have gotten big performances
from their freshmen. As always, Ore-
gon will be a tough Pac-10 opponent
that Stanford cannot afford to under-
estimate.
Likewise, the Cougars are sitting
pretty at 8-2 in non-conference
matches, but recently lost a close
match to No.44 Boise State and have
just one win over a ranked opponent,
an upset of No.73 BYU in Utah.They
went on a five-game win streak to
open the season at home, but are 3-2
in their last five matches. More press-
ingly, they will be playing their third
match in three days — including two
against top-five opponents — when
they arrive at the Farm on Saturday.
The match against Oregon is slat-
ed for today at 1:30 p.m. with the sec-
ond match against Washington State
scheduled for Saturday at 11 a.m.
With rain (and potentially the first
snow in the Bay Area in decades) in
the forecast, both matches at the
Taube Family Tennis Center are sub-
ject to delays and postponement.
Contact Chrissy Jones at chrissy
j@stanford.edu.
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inside TELEVISION
page 7
“Top Chef” finally unseats reality champ
THEATER
page 6
“The Pillowman” is the funniest show
cover
“The Amazing Race.” about child murder you’ll ever watch.
English songbird Adele turns in a soulful Roxy picks the best songs to
Anastasia
sophomore effort with “21.” “get it on” to. Yee
MUSIC
page 4 ADVICE
page 8

Oscar Snubs W ith the 83rd Annual Academy Awards airing this Sunday, Feb. 27, we can
anticipate the customary mix of glitz, glamour and stars. But while a lucky few will
hear their names called in the Kodak Theatre when they announce the winner, some won’t even hear theirs listed with the nomi-
nees. Intermission is here to lend a consoling back rub to those sadly snubbed by Oscar with a coveted spot in our weekly Top 5.

1 2
Actor: Ryan It seems unfair to honor Michelle Williams but not Director: Nolan is overdue for a directing nod after his near-perfect
Gosling when their performances relied so heavily each track record of mind-bending hits. “Inception” was the
Gosling, Christopher
other. Williams rightfully deserves her nomination, but most sophisticated blockbuster to come along in a while,
“Blue Valentine” her exasperated Cindy wouldn’t be half as compelling Nolan, and there aren’t many other people who could’ve helmed
without Gosling’s frustrating yet endearing Dean. the film the way he did. But with two noms
“Inception” — for Best Picture and Original Screenplay — Nolan’s

3
probably not shedding too many tears.
In a year of strong matriarchal performances from Jacki
Supporting

4
Weaver in “Animal Kingdom” to Melissa Leo’s gritty turn in
Actress: Barbara “The Fighter,” Hershey’s sublimely creepy mother in “Black Supporting Andrew Garfield was the
Swan” takes the cake. It’s perhaps a sad testament to heart and soul of “The
Hershey, Hollywood’s ageism that Hershey was pushed to the side-
Actor:
Social Network.” Without
“Black Swan” lines in favor of the fresher faces of fellow stars Natalie Portman and Andrew Garfield, his complex blend of
Mila Kunis. cockiness and vulnerabili-
“The Social ty to ground it, the film’s humanity
Animated “Tangled” was a surprisingly pleasant and thoroughly entertaining Network”

5
would have been lost some-
addition to the Disney canon. While it may have had a shot at a
Feature: Best Animated Feature nom in a weaker year, it’ll just have to settle
where in between Sorkin’s fast-
paced dialogue and Trent
“Tangled” on a nom in the Best Original Song category (for “I See the Light”) Reznor and Atticus Ross’s
instead. dark ambient score.

games Guitar Zero ind StanShakes: ‘Julius Caesar’

W
hen I was a sophomore
in high school, the orig-
inal Guitar Hero
changed my life. Like many other
Stanford undergrads I’ve seen at
drunken rock sessions, I felt like a
god as I raced through expert mode
with that plastic, click-clacky guitar
in my hands. Sure, it was simple and
it was silly, but it was something
totally new, and it opened the flood-
gates for a whole generation of
would-be losers to joyously kid
themselves into feeling musically
competent. Forgive me for saying so,
2 gouge prices on sets of minimally
intermission
but it was really a beautiful
moment for gaming.
Things have changed since
then. Just last week, mega-publisher
Activision — which immediately got
on board with the small-time Red
Octane after the first game sold over
1.5 million copies — announced the
unceremonious death of the “Hero”
franchise in a corporate earnings
statement.
So what happened?
The truth is, Activision had it
coming. When you release a stagger-
ing 19 “hero” games in half a decade,
fail to provide a solid online solution
for updating and importing songs,
upgraded peripherals, saturate the
ames market
with garbage like last
year’s Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock
(Metacritic 72) and drag five entire
studios into working on one proper-
ty, your brand name’s reputation will
go to hell, and so will your sales.
People get laid off, gamers get shod-
dy products and whole segments of
the industry crumble to pieces. It’s
not a pretty picture, but with big-
name publishers like Activision,
Electronic Arts and Ubisoft, it’s
becoming all too common.
Courtesy Daniel Chia
I don’t want to see that happen
Stanford Shakespeare Company has three more shows of the Bard’s
classic drama: tonight at 7 p.m. & 10:30 p.m. and Saturday at 8 p.m.
| continued on page 6 | Read our review online at www.stanforddaily.com/category/intermission.
 food
A real taste of India
I
ndia controls more than 40 percent of the
nearly three billion dollar world spice mar-
ket. India’s concentration in spice agricul-
ture is driven by the demands of its cuisine —
India consumes 90 percent of what it grows.
Junnoon continues the tradition of flavorful
cooking and pairs it with real culinary talent
to produce a fantastic dining experience. There
are vast regional differences in Indian cuisine
that make Junnoon hard to categorize, but it
can be described as an eclectic, modern Indian
restaurant incorporating elements from
throughout the sub-continent. Fortunately, the
geographic differences are expertly navigated
and everyone, vegetarian or omnivore, should
be able to find something he or she enjoys.
The restaurant manages to have an attrac-
tive décor without being intimidating. In gen-
eral, Junnoon is best for a nice dinner with a
good friend or perhaps a second date.
Cooking a thick piece of meat is among
the more difficult tasks in the kitchen; high
temperatures for short periods help the meat
retain moisture but can end up searing it and
leaving the inside raw, while lower tempera-
tures ensure thorough cooking but can dry the
meat out. Junnoon masterfully handles the
challenge with both red and white meats as
well as fish. The Chef’s Award-Winning
Halibut, despite its less-than-humble name, is
certainly one of the strongest dishes on the
menu. The halibut is cooked perfectly and
served with a coconut-ginger sauce that is
divine. A small mound of fluffy semolina acts
as a sponge to help collect the last drops of
ambrosial sauce. The Basil Malai Chicken
Tikka is unbelievably juicy and tender. The
accompanying cold dip carries a bit of pep-
pery kick that contrasts well with the chicken.
And the Tandoori Lamb Chops, succulent in
their own right, are plated with amazing mint
chutney that compliments both the red meat
and the accompanying mashed potatoes.
Junnoon is also able to produce several
strong vegetarian options to balance its meat
selection. The Baby Corn Saag is tasty and not
too heavy; the baby corn provides an interest-
ing variation in texture. The Goan Cauliflower
and Ginger Soup is subtle but a secret gem.
The top notes are almost entirely cauliflower,
but you exhale a pleasing ginger perfume.
Junnoon also does excellent variations on
Indian vegetarian street food that make for
music
some very pleasurable eats. For example,
Junnoon’s Signature Tangy Semolina Shells,
high-end Pani Puri, are beautifully plated and
have an array of textures in each bite that give
them an incredible mouth-feel. The Veggie
Frankie Wrap, a
refined version
of a typical Junnoon
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profile really separates it from its quotidian
origins.
Junnoon offers a variety of naans, some
of which are substantial enough in their own
right and others meant to compliment its
selection of raitas and chutneys (dips). The
Onion-Pepper Kulcha is fairly hearty with a
nice bit of crunch from the onions. The
Classic Naan and Lachha Paratha each have
their own fluffiness and subtly sweet tones that
make them delicious but allow a raita and
chutney topping to stand out. The Fresh
Cranberry Chutney is delectable and perfectly
balances the sweetness of the cranberries with Courtesy Vinney Le
sour tamarind and mustard seed spice. The
T
he red couch came from a dumpster. tured notable campus acts such as Nimbleweed
Garlic Chili Chutney is fantastic, although it is
Well, to be fair, it came from the free and Jamaica Osorio.
store of sorts that is the Ditch That Inspired by the concept of NPR’s Tiny
| continued on page 4 | Dumpster campaign. So, yes, it’s recycled. In Desk Concerts, informal gigs behind All Songs
fact, with that story in mind, one could very Considered host Bob Boilen’s desk, Red Couch
well think that the scribbles in black Sharpie was originally christened Kimball Tiny Couch
which cover the armrests come from its past Concerts. It has since moved away from the
owners. Except they’re not scribbles: they’re image of a single-dorm event and toward a
autographs from the performers on The Red more encompassing image, not just across
Couch Project, a new student initiative begun campus, but across the global networks
last year in Kimball Hall which aims to pro- attached to social media.
mote musical performance on campus. So “The idea is to get the artists themselves
don’t be afraid to sit on it — in fact, be excited. involved with the marketing of the event,” Jeff
The setting is Kimball, third floor, in a explained. “The strength of the event lies in the
corner single facing Campus Drive. Roughly personal ties the performer has.”
once each week, a Stanford student performer Take Ohioan Rebecca Richardson ‘12, for
sits on the red couch, surrounded by recording example. Richardson had had no previous
equipment, and plays an intimate 15-minute recording experience before she appeared on Red
gig which is subsequently lightly edited and Couch. Once her 15-minute video was uploaded
uploaded onto the student group’s YouTube onto YouTube and a Facebook marketing cam-
page. The masterminds behind the project are paign begun, viewership of Red Couch’s
Celeste Noche/ The Stanford Daily Emma Sedivy ‘12, artistic director, Stephen
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eclectic Indian dishes such as the Chef's Gerson ‘12, publicity man-
Award Winning Halibut in coconut-ginger ager. The project has fea-
sauce, Old Delhi-Style Chicken, and warm
Carrot Halwa with vanilla gelato. friday february 25 2011
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 the vital stats
music
S
omewhere, and at any
given moment, a host of
blues-lovers swoons over
Adele. At just 22, the
singer/songwriter has almost sin-
gle-handedly incorporated soul into main-
stream music. With a powerful voice and artful
composition, Adele speaks to music lovers of
all backgrounds through her introspective bal-
lads. Her second studio album “21” flawlessly
continues a reign of sophistication for the mas-
terful artist.
“21” wastes no time on frilly opening
interludes. The first track and single, “Rolling
in the Deep,” jumps right into the heart of the
album. Bolstered by a thumping bass, a driving
guitar strum and a host of background singers,
Adele warns, “There’s a fire starting in my
heart.” The track is followed by another of the
strongest of the album, “Rumour Has It,”
which attacks a former paramour and his poor
choice of substitute.
Clearly,“21” has a common theme. After
releasing “19,” her debut album focusing on the
wistful nuances of breakups, Adele let her anger
ferment. Two years and 11 tracks later, her emo-
tions have finally found an outlet; the album
smolders as song after song addresses the count-
movies
“U
nknown” (2011), featuring a juicy
cast and gripping suspense, is a
compelling rendition of the arche-
type of one man’s quest to discover his true iden-
tity. The film does have some immediately obvi-
ous, albeit minor, setbacks, including unnecessar-
ily lengthy scenes and extensive similarities to the
movie “Taken” (2008), in which “Unknown” star
Liam Neeson also played the lead.
American biology professor Martin Harris
(Liam Neeson) flies to Berlin for a conference,
accompanied by his wife Elizabeth (January
Jones). Upon arrival, he discovers that he left his
suitcase at the airport, and rushes back in a cab
driven by Gina (Diane Kruger). However, a fate-
ful accident occurs on the road — the cab
plunges into the river. Harris survives, but dis-
covers that he has been seamlessly replaced by an
imposter — not even his own wife recognizes
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less problems with men as Adele sees them.
In proportion to the accusatory lyrics, “21”
hosts a number of bittersweet pieces as well.
“Do You Remember” is a gorgeously mournful
ballad ruminating on a failed relationship, while
“Set Fire to the Rain” is more frustrated than
angry, an upbeat song that helplessly wonders
why everything went wrong. One of the star
components of the album, “One and Only,”
pleads with a man to realize her love for him;
reminiscent at first of Otis Redding, the piece
digresses into a 1960s soul-sister-esque chorale,
spotlighting the singer’s sorrowful crooning.
“21” ends on a pretty note; “Someone Like
You,” a piano driven work of art, closes the
album with a wistful goodbye to her object of
desire and, perhaps, her hopelessly conflicting
emotions regarding him.
In every way,“21” is an astoundingly
sophisticated album. Adele refuses to pepper her
lyrics with catchy euphemisms to attract heart-
broken preteens; from the first beat, she throws
out accusations and fights dirty.“21” features no
him anymore. With no one to turn to but Gina,
Martin has no choice but to involve her in his
dangerous quest to reclaim his identity.
After watching the trailer, viewers are struck
by the film’s plethora of unanswered questions.
Who is the imposter? Who is pulling the strings
backstage — and why? The answers, unfolding
over a nail-biting 113 minutes, exceeded my
wildest expectations. At first glance, the premise
of the film is slightly unconvincing — profes-
sional assassins are somehow unable to kill a uni-
versity professor, and an imposter manages to
fool Martin’s own wife — but the second part
justifies it all. It’s a conspiracy — and it just
might blow your mind.
Even the subplot — a romance between
Martin and Gina — is suspenseful. Martin
waltzes into Gina’s otherwise ordinary life and
pretty much ruins it all for her. The audience is
tempted to believe that he is the worst thing to
ever happen to her, but is he really? The ques-
tionable existence of an unlikely romance con-
tributes to the uncertainty in the film. Would
Martin choose his wife, to whom he is fiercely
electronic sounds to construct the perfect dance
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INDIA” PAGE 3
party song. Instead, she sticks to jazz instru-
ments. Whether the songs are piano driven,
not as spicy as advertised; it has a pro-
most noticeably in “Turning Tables,” or steered
nounced garlic flavor that harmoniously
by gentle guitars, as in her cover of The Cure’s
collaborates with dried mangoes to produce
1989 single,“Love Song,” “21” stays grounded in
a wonderful spread. The Spinach Raita is
the world of naturally produced sound.
not particularly exciting but may save your
The only downfall of the album is its
life should you order the Shrimp Vindaloo.
monotony in theme. At 22, Adele creates music
The Shrimp Vindaloo, perhaps the hottest
far beyond her years; but of course, she is only
dish on the menu, provides the fire neces-
22 and still retains that typical, wholehearted
sary for those looking for that experience in
focus on men. While her approach is more
Indian food. The entree’s intensity comes on
sophisticated than most, and she clearly has no
slowly, and the leftover sauce begs to be
kitschy, clichéd love stories at the forefront of
scooped up with any leftover naan or
her mind, Adele might benefit from a broader
paratha.
range of topics. However, she plays the role of
Junnoon has managed to assemble a
the scorned lover wonderfully, leaving “21” not
menu that is extremely versatile; fans of
nearly as annoying as albums of other song-
Indian food will certainly leave satisfied, while
writers of the same age.
the less adventurous can find comfort in
Mainstream as her music is, Adele refuses
some of the more modern adaptations. After
to become mainstream herself. “21” is a brutal-
I recently broke the $20 barrier at the CoHo
ly honest album that stays true to her soulful
for lunch, I’ve decided to make the lunch spe-
style. Never one to futilely chase pavements,
cial for Stanford students at Junnoon part of
Adele’s refined musical sense plants her firmly
my usual rotation. Junnoon is “definitely
on a path to success. She might be unconven-
worth trying” — and absolutely don’t forget
tional, but that voice and those lyrics will take
to try the Warm Carrot Halwa for dessert.
her anywhere she wants to go.
—andrea HINTON —josh GLUCOFT
contact josh:
contact andrea: anhinton
@stanford.edu glucoft@stanford.edu
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Gina, the girl who saved his life? “Taken,”“Unknown” is a one-man show from
Starring some well-known actors, includ- start to finish.
ing Liam Neeson (“Schindler’s List”; “The One last minor flaw is the protracted nature
Chronicles of Narnia”), Diane Kruger (“Troy”; of certain scenes intended to create suspense; for
“National Treasure”), Bruno Ganz (“Downfall”) example, it takes much too long for Martin to try
and Frank Langella (“Frost/Nixon.”), this movie to grab a pair of scissors in a scene where he is
does not want for acting chops. However, what tied to a bed. This problem may simply be a defi-
detracts from their strong performances is the ciency in editing; fine-tuning aside,“Unknown”
dearth of screen time accorded the supporting is a movie worth watching.
roles, especially in comparison with Neeson’s
character. Just like his previous thriller movie —cindy NI
c o n t a c t c i n d y : h n i @ s t a n f o rd . e d u

T
ickets for Coachella sold out
in record time this year, but
this Friday, Stanford students
can attend Snowchella for free. The
second annual Snowchella, hosted by
Stanford Concert Network, Sigma Nu
and Kappa Kappa Gamma, is this
Friday at 9:30 p.m. on Sigma Nu’s
front lawn.
Playing at this year’s event will be
OCD: Moosh + Twist, an up-and-
coming rap group from Philadelphia.
Though OCD are still high school
seniors, they’ve been gaining a lot of
exposure on the East Coast and will be
talking with major record labels in San
Francisco while they’re out west. Their
mixtape drops March 7.
“They have a sound similar to
Chiddy Bang,” said Joey Mezzatesta
‘12, one of the event’s coordinators.
He explained that, like Chiddy Bang,
OCD samples popular songs, includ-
ing “some pretty cool alternative rock
music.”
The next performers will be the
cleverly named Pance Party, a San
Francisco-based DJ group that recent-
ly opened for Dada Life in San
Francisco.
And headlining the event will be
AC Slater, a DJ from Brooklyn who
Courtesy OCD Moosh + Twist
music
In its second year, Snowchella brings fun, music to Stanford
runs his own record label,
Trouble and Bass, and has
just completed his world
tour.
“It should be different
from your typical frat
party,” Mezzatesta said.“The
tempo last year was very
active, fun and upbeat.
People were really into the
music and what was going
on.”
“[Snowchella] was very
successful last year,” said
Abigail Andrews ‘13, anoth-
er coordinator for the event.
“This year, we focused more
on publicity and made sure
our marketing materials
were top notch.”
After Snowchella’s
great success last year,
drawing in a crowd of
roughly a thousand music-
loving Stanford students,
Sigma Nu and Kappa were Courtesy AC Slater
eager to bring the event
fees, sound equipment and set up, them in Tanzania’s rural villages. Many awareness about SIC by tabling in
into its second year with a
while Sigma Nu provided the venue. Stanford students have spent their White Plaza this week, selling t-shirts
bang. The Stanford
Both the fraternity and Kappa pro- summers working with SIC, which and products made by HIV support
Concert Network provided
vided additional funding for the tent offers students committed to global groups in Tanzania.“We’re really mak-
the majority of the funding
and stage. health and rural development issues ing SIC a bigger component of our
for the musicians, booking
Snowchella doesn’t just bring the opportunity to work with local publicity efforts this year, connecting
music to campus; it also brings aware- HIV education workers and the cause with Sigma Nu and Kappa,”
ness. Like last year’s event, Snowchella Tanzanian university-level students. said Andrews, Kappa philanthropy
2011 will benefit Support for Applications for working with SIC this chair.
International Change (SIC), an organ- summer are open until March 4. —jennifer SCHAFFER
ization that trains American college This year, the Snowchella coordi- contact jennifer:
“
students in HIV education and places nators are working on raising more j m s c h a ff @ s t a n f o rd . e d u
Snowchella
doesn’t just bring
music to campus,
it also brings
”
awareness.
Courtesy Pance Party 5
friday february 25 2011
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YouTube channel increased exponen- cases the performers as they really

‘Pillowman’: Pitch black comedy

tially thanks to heavy viewership in her are. In its intimacy, TRCP represents
home state. The same effect was appar- the more laid-back, refreshing energy
ent when the project formed a part- of a live set than what you’d be able

“T
he Pillowman” is probably the funniest show
I’ve ever seen about child murder.
That’s not to say that the show is a comedy —
though it was consistently clever and frequently hilarious,
this production is primarily a supremely dark drama, a
macabre exploration of the human psyche in which
author Martin McDonagh takes a hard look at life and
death and all the stuff that happens in between. It’s a play
full of death and torture and hysteria, which makes it
extremely hard to pull off, but in my opinion, the
Stanford cast and crew fully succeeded.
“The Pillowman” is about an interrogation; a writer
and his mentally disabled brother are
accused of the murder of several chil-
dren who were killed in very specific,
graphic ways — ways that were careful-
ly spelled out in a few of the protago-
nist’s stories. It opens with a fairly stan-
dard good-cop/bad-cop routine and
then proceeds to mockingly acknowl-
edge the cliché and cast off any sem-
blance of comfortable familiarity,
plunging the viewer into unforeseen
depths of depravity.
The plot itself is fascinating, but
what sets this play apart is the relation-
ships between characters, whose interac-
tions constantly defy expectation. The
two cops seem to share the rapport of an
old married couple, all comfortable
familiarity and aggravation and nagging, juxtaposed with
the context of the excessively brutal torture that they are
visiting upon their prisoner. It is here that the show finds
much of its humor: between discussing several graphic
murders, the cops enter a harmless sort of domestic dis-
pute. Still more intriguing is the growing relationship
between the writer-protagonist Katurian and his interroga-
tors, which vacillated between oddly comfortable banter
and raw, violent cruelty. These very believable and consis-
tently clever interactions gave the show a freshness and
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Courtesy Jacob Boehm
nership with the Stanford Soundtrack,
with an opportunity for one of the
performances to be featured as a spe-
cial track on the compilation. Viewers
were asked to vote for their favorite
performance by “liking” it on
Facebook. With the incentive of having
their recording on a formal release,
performers probably contributed to
the spike in Red Couch’s number of
Facebook friends, which increased to
485 during the voting stage.
But the real magic of Red Couch
does not come from its popularity on
the Internet (although it has cultivat-
ed a fan base which spans as wide as
the BOSP campuses). Although the
organization is definitely invested in
bringing the experience of live per-
formances to the virtual world, the
strength of the organization lies in
the ease and comfort the artist finds
in the setting. The project strives for a
feeling of veracity in the recordings
— according to Henderson, the back-
ground noise from the natural envi-
ronment of a dorm isn’t removed
during the editing, because it would
take away from the real experience.
The intention is to create a deliber-
ately unpolished sound which show-
to get at on-campus venues like the
CoHo. The focus is on creating an
accessible environment in which the
invisible boundary between audience
and performer embodied by the ele-
vated stage dissolves. Red Couch
instead creates a community of musi-
cal appreciation that lasts not only for
the duration of the performance, but
is preserved in the digital media
which define our generation. Red
Couch manages not only to present
artists at their best, but also to attract
its audience members in their natural
habitat: the Internet.
One of the goals of the project is
to capture the musical scene of
Stanford as experienced by the stu-
dents, and it really has. Not only has
it created a much-needed personal
space for performance, but it has cre-
ated a middle ground for busy
Stanford students to experience the
wealth of musical ability around
them. “Good music should be lis-
tened to,” Henderson said. And so it
shall be — even if it’s on YouTube.
—maría del Carmen Barrios
contact maría:
m a r i a c b g @ s t a n f o rd . e d u

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to intellectual property that I care Lionhead tried to make an epic,
about, and I don’t want the industry sprawling RPG accessible to everyone
to thrive on iteration more than inno- and their mother, and in “streamlin-
vation. So in the interest of thought ing” the genre they managed to
experiments and, well, venting my remove the HUD, menus, meaningful
frustration, I have some advice to character growth and virtually any
offer for a couple of franchises that gameplay innovations.
have seen better days. Lead designer Peter Molyneux
Let’s start with the Microsoft made his name by jumping from idea
exclusive, Fable — a series that often to idea with every game he made, like
finds itself in the company spotlight. the PC classics Populous and Black &
It’s always suffered from a bit of an White. The downloadable market has
identity crisis, but with its third made this business model more
installment, Fable has backed itself appealing than ever, and Lionhead
into a painfully paradoxical rut. would do well to work on smaller
projects. It’s worked out fantastically
for the like-minded innovators over
6 at Double Fine Productions, which
intermission spreads small design teams over mul-
tiple, bite-sized projects at once.
How about this one? Final
Fantasy. It needs no introduction, but
it does need a serious makeover. Last
year’s 13th entry in the vaunted
Japanese role-playing franchise
looked beautiful and sold fairly well,
but it disappointed series veterans
with its painful linearity. That game
just had a direct sequel announced,
while the series’ foray into the online
space continues to puzzle gamers
with the abysmal Final Fantasy XIV
(Metacritic 49).
When series creator Hironobu
Sakaguchi was still at Square Enix,
Final Fantasy games were less about
visual splendor, featuring open and
epic worlds while walking a delicate
line between exploration and deep
storytelling. We can’t expect this for-
mula to work perfectly in the HD era,
but Square Enix would please a lot of
gamers by taking a few pages from its
own history books and from the
open-ended, western RPGs that are
dominating this generation.
It’s not impossible to keep a
franchise healthy over a long period
of time. Just look at The Legend of
Zelda, a hallowed franchise that cele-
brated its 25th anniversary just last
Monday. Nintendo doesn’t fool
around with outsourced development
studios; they only release a game
when they’re good and ready, and
they’ve kept the same core of talent
— producer Shigeru Miyamoto,
director Eiji Aonuma and composer
Koji Kondo — for almost 20 years.
With only a few missteps (see: Link’s
Crossbow Training and those awful
interactive cartoons on the Phillips
CD-i), the franchise has consistently
showcased new hardware and added
gameplay innovations while staying
true to a simple formula and main-
taining its loyal fan base.
Not every franchise can be like
Zelda. But even so, Activision’s rough
handling of Guitar Hero should stand
as a reminder for other publishers that
quantity can never replace quality.
—nate ADAMS
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unday night, the NBA shocked
analysts when its annual All-Star
Game, billed as a battle of LeBron
vs. Kobe, drew 9.1 million viewers. The
largest audience since 2003 turned out
to watch their favorite athletes and
sports personalities face off in a familiar
arena but in unfamiliar combinations:
Encore or enough?
nowhere else will you see Kobe and
Carmelo playing on the same team.
Perhaps the viewers’own stake in the
game, since they voted for the initial line
up, compelled them to tune in.
On the same night, the newest sea-
son of CBS’s original flagship reality pro-
gram,“The Amazing Race,” also pulled
in 9.1 million viewers. However, that fig-
ure represents a decline of 14 percent
from last year’s season opener. The
decline is particularly compelling
because of this season’s similarity to the
All-Star Game: subtitled “Unfinished
Business,” the newest installment brings
back 11 couples from previous seasons
to race once again for $1 million.
Coincidentally, or more likely not, this
comes as the reigning Emmy Award-
winner for Outstanding Reality-
Competition Program “Top Chef,” hav-
ing broken up the seven-year “Amazing
Race”monopoly, enters the latter half of
its own “all-stars”season. Though the
two shows are often lumped together as
the best quality reality programming,
their forays into the “all-star”setup have
highlighted their adherence to the tropes
of reality television.
“Top Chef: All-Stars”began with 18
of the most beloved contestants from
the previous seven seasons of the cook-
ing competition, from foxy Fabio to
crazy Carla.With the exception of som-
melier Stephen from season one, all of
the contestants were unified in their
indisputable talent: Marcel, despicable as
he may be, was arguably more creative
than line cook Elon; Richard Blais’s loss
to Stephanie, the first female winner in
season four, remains inexplicable. Both
“Top Chef”and “The Amazing Race”
claim that these new seasons were
designed to give second chances — to
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provided for a startling contrast that
prevented the audience from growing
desensitized to the darkness of the
piece.
The most remarkable scenes for
me, though, were the scenes in which
Katurian’s short stories are recited and
performed for the audience. The entire
mood would change; the lights would
be warm, and Katurian would glow
from within as he spoke — even as,
behind him, children were tortured
and buried alive. The result was allur-
redeem Carla for suvee-ing her meat,
Angelo for getting sick, Zev and Justin
for losing a passport, Margie and Luke
for not drinking enough water. Noble as
this justification may be, the short half-
life of reality television fame leaves me
asking, do these “characters,” because yes,
they are characters and not people, exist
outside the context of their respective
seasons? “Top Chef”in particular pur-
ports to be a merit-based competition
having little to do with luck, but the very
conceit of the “All-Star”season seems to
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be that merit itself, cooking talent,and a
subjective barometer of merit, a panel of
judges, are both fallible. The “All-Star”
season will vindicate one contestant and
leave 17 others all the worse for wear. For
example, Jennifer, arguably the most
professionally successful contestant as
chef de cuisine under Eric Ripert, turned
combative and cocky in the new season.
Alternatively,“The Amazing Race:
Unfinished Business”incorporates those
motivations into the fabric of its show.
The returning teams have been selected
because their narratives as people and as
former contestants can carry over to a
new season. Because the contestants on
“The Amazing Race”offer no specific
talent other than determination and
ingly eerie and entirely effective.
Two actors stood out for me,
though the entire cast surpassed all
expectations. Nathaniel Nelson ‘11’s por-
trayal of Michal was wholly compelling
and surprisingly believable, forcing us to
love the character despite being given
more than enough reasons not to.
Perhaps even more impressive was
Harley Adams ‘12 (playing Tupolski),
whose erratic mood swings could con-
trol the room; the character’s rapid
switches between convincingly friendly
enthusiasm, the “Unfinished Business”
model should work well because that
desire is amplified. The abstract chal-
lenges don’t change, a conceit that
enables the contestants to apply knowl-
edge from the last cycle or deepens
their tragedy by repeating the same
mistakes. Ron and Christina, the
father-daughter pair plagued by ver-
bal abuse in season 12, have returned
to beat their second-place finish and
their reputation of dysfunction.
Notably, the engaged or dating couples
whose relationships were in tatters at
the end of the race are missing from
the roster. There seems to be a con-
tradiction in that omission — that
the teams displaying the most
humanity in their season are not
invited back, but the teams stymied
by fate are. At the same time, howev-
er, the teams are chosen for their
personalities, their status as stereo-
types of humanity.
These reality shows are imple-
menting what sports organizations
like the NBA, NFL and MLB discov-
ered decades ago: that competition
needs narrative and characters to
heighten its cultural power. It’s easy
enough within a single season to cre-
ate by editing antagonism, triumph,
tragedy and suspense, but, when the
audience knows the strategy, why
should they come back? Now that
the novelty of purist reality competi-
tion has worn off — “Fear Factor”
was cancelled long ago, after all —
alternative programming turns to the
pre-packaged narrative of character
and edges closer to scripted program-
ming. The uncertainty of competition
does not command an audience with-
laughter and white-hot rage were
incredibly unsettling.
“The Pillowman” is, in short, the
darkest dark comedy that you’ll ever
come across. It weaves the perfect bal-
ance of morbidity and humor, using
very real characters and the vehicle of
storytelling to explore the dark recesses
of the human psyche. If you’re at all
intrigued by human nature or fascinat-
friday february 25 2011
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WHAT TO WATCH NEXT
WEEK
Family edition! Parents and
children, unite around these
family shows in the aftermath
of Parents’ Weekend:
Sunday at 9 p.m.: Be glad
you only have two parents
when you watch “Big Love,”
HBO’s domestic drama about
modern polygamy
Tuesday at 10 p.m.: Familiar
TV and cinema faces abound
on “Parenthood,” the
reimagination of the 1989
Ron Howard film that is qui-
etly holding its ground on
Tuesday nights (NBC)
Friday at 8 p.m.: Remember
the unsung heroes of modern
family life with
“Supernanny”(ABC)
Friday at 10 p.m. : Watch fil-
ial and professional duty
intersect on “Blue Bloods,”
where the world’s most
attractive law enforcement
family fights crime from the
bottom up (CBS)
out a character counterpart to anchor
our interest each week.
—liz STARK
contact liz:
estark12@stanford.edu
ed by death, or at least have a decent
sense of humor, I urge you to head
over to Prosser Theater at 8 p.m. to
experience the show for yourself.
—eliana CARMONA
contact eliana:
car mona@stanford.edu
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R. Kelly — Sex Planet
preposition, and choose your
It’s the best way to launch your liaison
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into outer space. R. Kelly has a giant
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Black walks her partner through all
curling your toes into asphalt and
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es on your back. You’re welcome to
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