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FREE SPEECH FRIDAY
Events urge students to speak
their minds
The Stanford Daily
MONDAY
May 23, 2011
STUDENT LIFE
RCCs talk
computer
problems
Cluster, network issues
most common complaints
By MATT BETTONVILLE
STAFF WRITER
As the University’s first line of
defense for all computer and tech-
nology-related issues, Resident
Computer Consultants (RCCs)
regularly face a huge number of
computing problems as they keep
students printing, surfing and cod-
ing. According to several RCCs,
the most common issues this year
were maintaining residence com-
puter clusters and registering In-
ternet-enabled devices for net-
work access.
Computer clusters posed the
most issues to RCCs this year, as al-
most every RCC noted problems
with the computers’ reliability and
speed.
“They’re slow, and they’re often
buggy. I’ve had the [cluster] com-
puters re-imaged several times,”
said Soto RCC Matt Chun-Lum
‘12.
Though information from a Stu-
dent Computing Services (SCS)
survey indicated that students
asked most frequently about com-
puter cluster printers, Academic
Computing Consulting Services
Manager Sherwin Smith pointed
out that questions do not necessar-
ily correlate with problems. He
also noted that problems are ex-
pected with frequent use.
“The top questions asked of
RCCs were about the wireless net-
work and cluster printers, which is
consistent with our understanding
that the wireless network and cen-
tralized printing are two of the
most widely used technology serv-
ices at Stanford,” Smith wrote in an
email to The Daily.
Many RCCs were impressed
with the support that University
Please see RCC, page 2
DRAMA AND DOMINANCE
MEN’S TENNIS
ELIMINATED IN
HEARTBREAKER
By DASH DAVIDSON
STAFF WRITER
The Stanford men’s tennis team
fell on Saturday afternoon to top-
ranked and undefeated Virginia in a
gut wrenching confrontation that
came down to the last match — a
duel between two seniors.The No. 8
Cardinal laid it all out on the court
early Saturday evening, but its best
effort came up just short. UVA de-
feated Stanford 4-3 as the shadows
were lengthening over the Taube
Tennis Center.
MEN’S TENNIS
VIRGINIA 4 Feeling confident and on its
STANFORD 3 home courts, Stanford (27-0, 8-0
5/21, Taube Tennis Center
It was a match that people will
long remember and a match that
was on the brink of going down in
the great trove of Stanford tennis
annals as one of the most memo-
rable wins in recent years — but it
was just not meant to be.
Building on the electric atmos-
phere from the Cardinal’s victori-
ous match against Texas A&M on
Thursday, the crowd at Taube was
fiery on Saturday, occasionally get-
ting a little too engaged in the
Please see MTENNIS, page 7
Index Features/3 • Opinions/4 • Sports/6 • Classifieds/7
SPORTS/6
SOFTBALL SWEEP
Card wins weekend series,
advances to Supers
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The deciding match against Virginia pitched senior Alex
Clayton, above, against Sanam Singh in a nail-biting fi-
nale that ended with a loss for Stanford.
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Senior Hilary Barte, above, won her doubles and sin-
gles matches on Friday and Sunday, helping the Card
clinch a close win against Northwestern and solid vic-
tory over Georgia.
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Volume 239
Issue 68
HACKERS
HIT ASSU
WEBSITE
GAIA,SCN sites also affected
in black hat SEO attack
By SAMANTHA McGIRR and
KABIR SAWHNEY
Several Stanford websites were taken offline
May 9 after being targeted by hackers looking to
sell cheap software. The affected sites, currently
offline and inaccessible, are those for the Stanford
Concert Network, the Green Alliance for Innova-
tive Action and the ASSU.
According to Rowan Chakoumakos ‘13, chief
technical officer for Stanford Student Enterprises
(SSE), the Stanford Information Security Office
(ISO) generally handles issues related to the Uni-
versity’s network security.
“Since the webmasters of the respective sites
did not remove the content in the designated time
set by the Stanford Information Security Office,
the websites were taken offline,” Chakoumakos
wrote in an email to The Daily.
The main University website was unaffected.
Tina Darmohray, Stanford’s chief information
security officer, said the ISO alerted SSE after the
initial intrusion, based on the contact information
attached to the machine.
“We could chuck out a very short-term patch,
but what we want to do is go in and implement a
more long-term solution,” said the ASSU Vice
President Stewart Macgregor-Dennis ‘13.
He added that the main ASSU website will
likely be down until a comprehensive update is
implemented during the summer. However, sev-
eral critical functionalities have been restored,
namely the Old Union room reservation system,
bookings for the ASSU airport shuttle and the
SSE website. With those services online, Macgre-
gor-Dennis predicted that keeping the main web-
site down would have a “marginal” impact on
ASSU operations.
“Because of a lack of investment in security in
the ASSU websites and servers, we need to go
back to some of the basics and look at the actual
server software that’s on there,” Macgregor-Den-
nis said. “If we tried to just fix it straightaway, then
someone would just hack it again within a few
Please see HACK, page 2
WOMEN’S TENNIS
AT FULL THROTTLE
IN 4-0 WIN
By CHRISSY JONES
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
After a nail-biting match against
Northwestern in the round of 16,
the No. 1 Stanford women’s tennis
team rallied to continue its quest for
a back-to-back national champi-
onship with a victory over Georgia
in the quarterfinals Sunday after-
noon.
WOMEN’S TENNIS
GEORGIA 0
STANFORD 4
5/22, Taube Tennis Center
Pac-10) didn’t quite expect the chal-
lenge it faced in moving past the re-
lentless 16th-seeded Wildcats (22-8)
on Friday night.
Stanford dropped the doubles
point for the fourth time all season at
the start of the long battle. Though
Stanford’s No. 1 doubles pair of sen-
ior Hilary Barte and sophomore
Mallory Burdette clinched an 8-5
victory in doubles, freshmen Nicole
Gibbs and junior Veronica Li
dropped their set 5-8 to Northwest-
ern as senior Carolyn McVeigh and
Tan were also defeated 6-8.
Please see WTENNIS, page 7
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Mind over Matter HACK RCC

Continued from front page
hours.”
The hackers targeted Stanford
and other high-profile websites,
including websites for NASA,
Syracuse University and North-
eastern University. These efforts
were part of an attempt to “flog,”
or sell, cheap versions of Adobe’s
Creative Suite and other software
products. The scammers filled the
pages with nonsense text and
links to other hacked pages.
“Black hat SEOs [search en-
gine optimizers] were simply try-
ing to insert links to improve
search engine results for a web-
site,” Chakoumakos said. “Both
.edu and .gov domains are com-
monly targeted due to the high
‘Page Rank’ assigned to them by
Google.”
Contact Samantha McGirr at smc-
girr@stanford.edu and Kabir Sawh-
ney at ksawhney@stanford.edu.
Continued from front page
technical teams gave for clusters in
anticipation of and response to
problems.
“Stanford provides pretty qual-
ity, excellent service consistently,”
said Joe Domenici ‘13, an RCC in
Stern Hall.
“It does a pretty awesome job
of keeping things running smooth-
ly,” he added.
The busiest time of any RCC’s
year is at the start, when personal
printers and networks need to be
set up. Many RCCs expressed frus-
tration with the registration sys-
tem, although many admitted that
reading directions more carefully
could solve these problems.
“At least half of the dorm came
to me with registration questions.A
lot of times they were legitimate
questions in the sense that the regis-
tration system is fairly faulty, espe-
cially for Windows machines,” said
Matei Daian ‘12, the RCC in Cas-
taño.
Other RCCs discussed similar
problems in which they had to by-
pass the registration system entire-
ly in order to get students online.
However, according to the SCS
survey, only 2.3 percent of students
found the registration process diffi-
cult. Smith said even with such low
numbers, residential computing is
still looking to improve the service
based on what students are saying.
“Alongside the quantitative
data, we are also paying close at-
tention to the qualitative answers
that students provided in order to
find ways to improve our services,”
he said.
However many day-to-day
computer problems are, to some
extent, beyond the University’s
domain. Countless hours are spent
networking printers and getting
rid of malware.
“Most of the problems are com-
mon sense. They’re more to do
with users than actual technical
problems,” Chun-Lum said.
Contact Matt Bettonville at mbet-
tonville@stanford.edu.

ZACK HOBERG/The Stanford Daily

Stanford's College Student Interest Group in Neurology (Co-SIGN) host-
ed a conference on neural prosthetics at the School of Medicine on Sat-
urday morning. The event, titled "Mind over Matter," brought attention to
a number of new developments in biomedical research. The focus of the
conference was on devices designed to help reverse impaired neurolog-
ical function and brought together prominent researchers from Stanford
and elsewhere to share their findings. Ophthalmology associate profes-
sor Daniel Palanker explained the latest research in "optoelectronic reti-
nal implants," a device that uses images from video goggles projected
onto subretinal implants which then convert the images into an electric
current that can be recognized by the brain.

UNIVERSITY

Stanford‘has no right’
to save janitors’jobs
By SARAH FLAMM
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
On June 3, 29 Stanford janitors
are set to lose their jobs because
they are unable to meet the back-
ground checks required by the Uni-
versity’s new janitorial subcontrac-
tor, UGL (UNICCO) Janitorial
Services.
The University “will not inter-
fere with the agreement and has no
right to do so,” said Jeff Wachtel,
senior assistant to University Presi-
dent John Hennessy. “This is not a
choice of the University, and we can
take no action.”
According to Wachtel, UGL and
Local 1877, a chapter of the Service
Employees International Union
(SEIU) that represents the work-
ers, mutually agreed upon a resolu-
tion to the dispute. Under this
agreement, the janitors are slated to
lose their jobs.The union did not re-
spond to requests for comment
from The Daily, and UGL said it
had no comment at this time.
The Student Labor Action
Coalition (SLAC), a student group
that has been advocating on behalf
of the janitors over the past several
months, has requested that the Uni-
versity intervene to protect these
workers jobs. In a petition created
by SLAC and sent to Stanford and
UGL last December, some 2,000
Stanford community members
signed a statement that read,
“Workers should retain their em-
ployment and the wages and bene-
fits associated with their seniority
rights through a subcontracting
transition.”
Stanford is attempting to re-
move itself from these disputes,
which stem from its switch last No-
vember to UGL from its previous
services subcontractor, ABM. At
the time, the University explained
the change by saying that UGL
would provide superior services.
Under an agreement with SEIU,
UGL was contractually obligated to
offer all ABM workers the opportu-
nity to keep their jobs and initiated
an employment process to rehire
the workers. The employment
process consisted of background
checks on all 134 of the employees
in order to verify each individual’s
identity as well as to check for any
criminal history.
According to a letter from UGL
to Stanford, which Wachtel provid-
ed to The Daily, one of the purposes
of the process was to ensure that all
employees were lawfully eligible to
be employed in the United States
and that UGL complied with feder-
al laws covering immigration and
employment.
Please see JANITORS, page 5

NEWS BRIEFS

SoM disciplines five ued that are difficult, if not impossi-

ble, to reconcile with our policy, and
here we have concerns.”
faculty members
— An Le Nguyen
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF

The Stanford School of Medicine

has taken disciplinary action against
five faculty members who gave paid
promotional speeches on behalf of
drug companies, thereby violating
the School’s conflict of interest rules.
This development comes five
months after ProPublica, a public in-
terest media outlet, found that more
than a dozen of Stanford’s doctors
served as paid speakers.
Following the ProPublica report,
Dean Philip Pizzo condemned these
violations in his Dec. 13, 2010
newsletter.
“Our preliminary investigation
suggests that some of the individuals
likely to be reported by ProPublica
had understandable reasons for con-
fusion about Stanford’s policies and
have already addressed them and
ceased activities like ‘speakers’ bu-
reau’ participation,” Pizzo wrote
then.“Others, though, offered expla-
nations why their activities contin-
Athletics venues to
feature Wi-Fi
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Stanford Athletics and AT&T
have entered a five-year agreement
to enhance wireless and broadband
connections at nine athletics venues,
including the Avery Aquatics Center,
Stanford Stadium and Maples Pavil-
ion.
“We are eager to roll out our new
mobile applications and AT&T Wi-
Fi as we seek to provide our fans with
an enhanced and personalized game-
day experience,” said Athletics Di-
rector Bob Bowlsby in a press re-
lease.
Among the new applications are
live in-stadium instant replay, inter-
active games and player stats.
— An Le Nguyen
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FEATURES
SPEAKING OUT Free Speech Friday and Let’s Talk encourage campus conversation
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
By ERIKA ALVERO KOSKI
STAFF WRITER
S
o reads the First Amendment of
the Bill of Rights in the Constitu-
tion. Even though it has been writ-
ten into American history, free
speech isn’t necessarily easy to put
into practice.
According to Wesley Walker ‘11, stu-
dents are limited in class discussions at
Stanford, because they are constantly pan-
dering to professors, trying to regurgitate
the viewpoint that will help them achieve
an “A,” rather than sharing their own per-
spective.
“We tend to learn more and better
when we talk with friends outside of class,”
Walker said. “That’s meaty discussion. We
want to have profound discussions.”
While the general realization of the
need for more communication at Stanford
had been growing in discussions among
Lyla Johnston ‘11, member of The Spoken
Word Collective, and her circle of friends,
the actual idea for ‘Free Speech Fridays’
hit Johnston spontaneously.
“I was going to sleep one night, and I
thought,‘Man, I feel like I have so much to
say,’” Johnston said. “‘And I wish I had a
venue to express myself.’ And then it just
popped into my head.”
Immediately acting on this burst of in-
spiration, Johnston called her friends and
reserved the White Plaza stage for Friday,
April 29. With an open microphone on the
stage, Johnston, Walker and the others
urged passers-by to pour out their feelings,
read a poem or even talk about their day
— anything to open up discussion.
“We were thinking of having the audi-
ence down on the ground there and the
speaker on the stage,” Johnston said. “But
we thought that might have been too hier-
archical and too separational [sic], so we
just had everyone on the stage.”
The second Free Speech Friday on May
13 coincided with other events at White
Plaza, including an Amnesty International
food fair and a band gig, attracting a crowd
from those milling about the sunny plaza.
This time, Free Speech Friday was opened
During the second Free Speech Friday on May 13, artists of all types joined student speak-
ers on the White Plaza stage to exercise their first amendment rights.
up to forms of expression other than spo-
ken word. Chalk was brought out, and
soon a crowd of barefoot artists was cover-
ing the backdrop of the stage with fantas-
tical swirls, ornamented forms of the word
“love” and multi-colored hearts of varying
sizes. Rappers came out and freestyled. A
bearded guitarist sang and individuals
read poems by Shel Silverstein and Je-
laluddin Rumi.
There was still heartfelt sharing of dia-
logue as well. At one point, Johnston, who
was M.C.-ing the event, took the micro-
phone in her own hands and shared the
story of her injury in Chile during the
earthquake last year. Trapped in a trem-
Courtesy of Dalila Shannon
Monday, May 23, 2011 ! 3
bling 12-story apartment building, John-
ston jumped from the third story window,
injuring her spine and pelvis.
One Stanford graduate sat on the stage
and honestly shared his experiences with
depression after his mother’s suicide.
Lucia Hennelly ‘11 believes that this kind
of sharing could foster a healthier com-
munity.
“This campus had huge mental health
challenges that were very, very much swept
under the rug or that a lot of people simply
aren’t aware of,” Hennelly said.“Huge sex-
ual assault rates, depression and we don’t
talk about that.”
Free Speech Friday is not the only event
on campus geared toward trying to create
more of a community at Stanford. As part
of a wellness campaign associated with The
Bridge, students sat on benches around
White Plaza holding signs reading “Let’s
Talk About Anything.” Participants like
Sami Hartley ‘11 and Robin Thomas ‘12
had conversations ranging from inflatable
ties to politics.
“Sometimes we’re so afraid of bursting
anyone’s bubble that we hesitate to ac-
knowledge that other people exist,” wrote
Hartley in an email to The Daily. “We’ll
suddenly become engrossed in the side-
walk when another person approaches us
on the street, we stare at out phones until
we can escape bookstore lines and shove
our purchases at the cashier and we silent-
ly zoom around campus from one bubble
Please see SPEECH, page 5
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OPINIONS
EDITORIAL
Free Speech Rules:
Still Illegal
U
niversities stand upon the
bedrock of free speech. An
open forum of ideas is the
very essence of the academy. Stan-
ford should pride itself on fostering
an open environment in which all
students may express their views
without precondition, but this Edi-
torial Board is disappointed by our
University’s repeated refusal to
meet even this basic standard.
Last week, The Daily reported
that the student group Stanford
Says No to War had been prohibit-
ed from passing out flyers on multi-
ple occasions because doing so vio-
lated the University’s free speech
policy.This policy designates White
Plaza as the approved “free speech
zone” from 12-1pm. The implica-
tion is that speech isn’t free any-
where else, and Stanford’s policies
explicitly require that any other
protest or demonstration are
banned without prior approval
from the University.
Further, by confining speech ac-
tivities to White Plaza, students are
unable to exercise their freedom of
speech at the locations where many
important decisions are made. This
was the case with the Stanford Says
No to War events,while demonstra-
tions before the recent Faculty Sen-
ate meeting to reinstate ROTC
only proceeded because the event
organizers received prior approval
from the University. Consider for a
moment how ridiculous this re-
quirement is.When students on our
campus stage any kind of protest or
demonstration, is it almost always
in response to a University action.
This rule forces students to ask the
University for permission to protest
University policy.
Stanford’s inconsistent and over-
ly broad restriction of speech has ex-
tended to political activity as well.In
2004, the Stanford Democrats at-
tempted to hold a phone bank for
John Kerry in White Plaza during
the approved “free speech” hours.
Even though the event followed
every one of the University’s rules,
administrators deemed it objection-
able and prevented it from proceed-
ing. Only after Kai Stinchcombe
MA ‘05 Ph.D. ‘10, president of the
Stanford Democrats, wrote an Oc-
tober 11, 2004 Daily op-ed alleging
that Stanford’s free speech policy
was illegal did administrators prom-
ise to revisit and update speech
rules.This put the issue to rest for all
parties involved, and the phone
banks were allowed to proceed.
But four years later, when the
Stanford Democrats attempted to
organize a phone bank for Barack
Obama, Stanford again denied
them permission, citing the very
rules that the University had prom-
ised to revisit. The phone banks
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In Search of Someone Like Me
I
have recently come to this jar-
ring realization — I don’t know
any Asian transmen or very
many transmen of color. I have sev-
eral transgender friends at Stan-
ford — we are a tight-knit commu-
nity.They are people whom I treas-
ure and who I know care for me. I
have also reached out to other
transgender communities in the
area. But in my adventures both in-
side and outside of the Stanford
bubble, I haven’t met any Asian
transmen. And as I live in an area
that has a large Asian population,
it’s really strange.
Not only am I a transman, but I
am also a transman of color. I am
Asian — more specifically, Fil-
ipino. I am a first generation Fil-
ipino-American — my parents
emigrated here from the Philip-
were moved off campus, making
them inaccessible to most students
who had planned to participate.
Why did this happen? Because
Stanford’s policies on partisan
speech, as expressed in the Univer-
sity’s Administrative Guide Memo
15.1, had not changed. It has now
been more than six years since the
University first promised to update
its speech policies to reflect the 2004
agreement,and still no progress has
been made.
Not only are these rules unrea-
sonable and antithetical to academ-
ic freedom,they are also almost cer-
tainly illegal. Under California Ed-
ucation Code, Section 94367, also
called the Leonard Law, private
postsecondary educational institu-
tions may not punish students for
engaging in “conduct that is speech
or other communication that, when
engaged in outside the campus or
facility of a private postsecondary
institution, is protected from gov-
ernmental restriction by the First
Amendment to the United States
Constitution.” The Leonard Law
also “does not authorize the prior
restraint of student speech.”
University lawyers argue that its
rules qualify as so-called “time,
place and manner” (TPM) regula-
tions, which the Supreme Court has
allowed as restrictions on First
Amendment rights.However,Stan-
ford would be hard-pressed to ex-
plain how its policies meet the
Supreme Court’s four-part test for
TPM restrictions, which requires
that they (1) be content-neutral, (2)
be narrowly tailored,(3) serve a sig-
nificant public interest and (4) leave
open alternative channels of com-
munication. If the present rules do
not meet any one of these criteria,
they are illegal.We believe they are
so egregious that they actually vio-
late all four parts.
1. Content-Neutral?
When Stanford chooses to allow
expressions of speech, the approval
process is unilateral, opaque, and on
a case-by-case basis. To the extent
that speech policies are ambiguous,
the University is free to interpret
them however it wishes — and its
past behavior has been far from con-
sistent, as its history of silencing stu-
dent political activity demonstrates.
2. Narrowly Tailored?
It is also laughable that restrict-
ing free speech to a tiny fraction of
campus for one hour per day is a
“narrowly tailored” regulation.
Even if the entire campus were only
five times as big as White Plaza —
and it is much, much larger than
that — the present rule would ban
Please see EDITORIAL, page 5
T HE T RANSITIVE P ROPERTY
pines in the 1980s, and I was born in
1988 down the street in Santa
Clara. I have lived my entire life in
the San Francisco Bay Area. I
come from a predominantly Fil-
ipino community, attended schools
where Filipinos were the majority. I
took my ethnicity for granted until
I reached college, when all of a sud-
den I was exposed to Caucasian
people and other non-Filipino peo-
ple. I came to a place where some
people didn’t even know what Fil-
ipino was. It was certainly a culture
shock — and Stanford is only 20
miles from my hometown.
A lot of my friends have told me
that I’m the first transgender per-
son they’ve ever met, and many of
my readers have emailed me
telling me that my column is their
first exposure to the experiences of
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It’s Hard to Write About the Good Things
I
f you’ve followed our column over the past few
months, you’ve probably noticed that we’re some-
what critical of several aspects of Stanford. We’ve
tried to weigh in on the most controversial topics on
campus, but as the joke goes about the liberal/conserva-
Zack Hoberg
tive divide in Synergy being drawn around paper tow- & Dave Grundfest
els, conflicts on campus are on relatively few fringe
questions.The hot button issues we’ve highlighted com-
prise the five percent of on-campus topics that every-
body doesn’t agree on, and the simple truth is that even thing would have been all right, and life on campus,
with the enormous diversity of thought on campus, the even for those most affected populations, would have
vision for Stanford’s future is a widely shared one.That
been and will be just fine.
said, we thought we’d run through what we’ve written Then we dove into the alcohol policy and especially
about, trying to put it in that context. personal responsibility.We still believe that the brunt of
In our first column, we argued that introductory un- the consequences surrounding a drinking incident
dergraduate education would be better served with should fall on the individual doing the drinking rather
dedicated instructors rather than regular faculty. While than on the institution enabling it. But taking a step
this may be the case, the problem is entirely overshad- back and looking at the alcohol policy in a broader con-
owed by the unbelievable quality of upper level cours- text, Stanford is an incredibly safe and sheltered place
es once you manage to wade your way out of IHUM to learn how to handle alcohol responsibly. Freshmen
and the Math 50 series. RAs are on the student’s side, law enforcement is rela-
Next, we took up the concert scene, and although it tively lenient and resources are committed to keeping
still would be nice to have a big name concert in Frost underage students from drinking irresponsibly rather
in this lifetime, the social scene at Stanford is nothing to than drinking altogether.
complain about, especially when compared to other
We spent two columns on the ASSU election
universities of similar academic caliber. We definitely process, the first on special interest and coalitions and
wouldn’t trade any other top 10 schools. the second on campaign spending. In our minds, the
Then came ROTC. It’s been invited back on campus,
which was probably a good thing. But either way, every- Please see LUNCH, page 5
Cristopher
Bautista
transgender people. However, I cal portrayals of Asians and Fil-
will admit that my experience has ipinos in media (Filipinos can only
many unique aspects to it, because either sing or fight. We can’t do
I am a transman of color. Not only anything else, apparently). And al- they? Are they hiding from me? Is
have I had to transition, but I have though Asia is seen as a very trans- there some secret, exclusive club of
also had to battle stereotypes sur- gender-friendly place, it’s a culture Filipino transmen that I’m not cool
rounding Asian men — such as dominated mostly by transwomen. enough for?
how I am perceived as more femi- Transmen are virtually invisible, A couple weeks ago, I decided
nine than other men, less because pushed aside. I am part of a mar- to reach out beyond Stanford and
I’m trans and more because I’m ginalized group within a group that find other Asian (especially Fil-
Asian (and I think I am very manly, is marginalized enough already. ipino) transmen. I joined Tumblr,
thank you very much).As an Asian And I don’t get it — I mean, connected with Facebook, referred
American, I have also had to con- there has to be other people like to Google. I scrolled through web-
front the traditional notions of me someplace, in the billions of page after webpage, blog after
masculinity presented by both people on this earth. I’ve met many blog, forum after forum, and this is
America and the Philippines. I LGB Asians and Filipinos. Howev- what I found strange: these online
have had to face my own insecuri- er, strangely enough, I don’t know communities were mostly white
ties about not feeling attractive any Filipino transgender people. transmen. It was alienating. I could
enough because I am not white. When I came out to my parents, I not find somebody like me, even in
Ever since childhood I have had to remember my dad told me that something as incredible and vast as
deal with the fact that there are not there were people like me all over
many realistic and non-stereotypi- the Philippines. But where are Please see BAUTISTA, page 5
The Stanford Daily Monday, May 23, 2011 ! 5

LUNCH
Continued from page 4
election process would be im-
proved considerably if both were
limited significantly or done away
with entirely. But the best part
about the Undergraduate Senate,
Class Presidents and ASSU Execu-
tive is that no matter how seriously
candidates take the elections, they
aren’t tasked with doing very much
that’s fragile enough to be broken.
In short, all they have the potential
to do is improvement.
Another two columns were de-
voted to the quagmire that is special
fees. They could use an overhaul —
we sure don’t want to be the ones to
do it. We think that the primary
problem of the system stems from
the fact that this is the majority
opinion on campus. We hope that
FLiCKS finds a way to operate next
year, but if not, it’ll be a lesson
learned about reading (and writ-
ing) the small print — we’re sure
they’ll be back the next year.
We dove into the realm of the
Stanford administrators with a col-
umn on the ongoing review of Judi-
cial Affairs and another on Camp
Stanford. On the Judicial Affairs
front, we still think that faster case
time and maintaining the current
standard of proof is important. But
those we talked to tasked with re-
forming it seemed reasonable, and
we tend to trust the decisions they
will make. And with Camp Stan-
ford, while our proposed enroll-
ment policy would likely be a net
positive, the fact that the University
cuts the seniors any slack at all is
pretty remarkable.
Finally, we spent a fair amount of
column space talking about housing
politics and the Row geography.
We’d like to see more draw parity
between pre-assigning and rush.
We’d like to see the Row revitalized
by recognizing that it is highly desir-
able housing in low supply and
choosing to relocate administrative
functions elsewhere. But as with
everything else, there’s only so
much complaining you can do about
something like the Row. Could you
make it better? Absolutely, but it’s
pretty amazing that it’s here in it’s
current form in the first place.
We’ve really enjoyed writing this
column, and we legitimately believe
that Stanford would be a better
place if some of the things we’ve
discussed were changed. But we
don’t take any of it too seriously,
and neither should any one else.All
in all, it’s a hell of a place to get to go
to school: let’s enjoy it.
Write us about the good things or
things to change — Dave and Zack
at Daveg4@stanford.edu and
Zhoberg@stanford.edu.
BAUTISTA
Continued from page 4
the Internet.
Why am I so preoccupied with
finding other Filipino transmen?
There is something unique about
growing up trans in a Filipino
household. The Catholic culture
(church every Sunday), the family-
centered mindset (I can’t imagine
living more than twenty miles
away from my parents), the na-
tional obsessions (when boxer
Manny Pacquaio fights, the crime
rate literally drops to zero because
everyone in the Philippines is
watching the match. Solution to
our country’s problems: have him
fight 24/7.) — and don’t forget, the
rice (you can’t have a complete
meal without rice). I have yet to
connect with another Filipino
transman, have yet to share and
compare experiences. I have yet to
discuss with another Filipino
transmen how we are treated com-
pared to transmen of other ethnic-
ities, about our family situations,
about our relationships with reli-
gion, about our role models, about
our love of Filipino food.These are
all things I have wondered about,
all things that I wonder are univer-
sal amongst Filipino transmen or
just unique in my own experience.
I’m still searching. I’m not giv-
ing up hope.There’s got to be a guy
like me out there, someone who
maybe even lives in the SF Bay
Area I could meet up and grab a
cup of coffee with. I would give
anything to meet somebody like
me. I can’t be the only one.
Are you a Filipino transman or a
transman of color? Email Cristo-
pher Bautista at cmsb@stanford.
edu.

EDITORIAL
policies are not narrowly tailored
for those interests.

Continued from page 4 4.Alternative Channels?

speech in more than 99 percent of
all possible circumstances.
3. Significant Interest?
Stanford claims speech restric-
tions are necessary to avoid losing
its tax-exempt status.The IRS begs
to differ: in a 2002 document enti-
tled “Election Year Issues,” the
agency explains that to jeopardize
the University’s tax-exempt status,
“the political activity must be that
of the college or University and
not the individual activity of its
faculty, staff, or students.” More-
over, “the actions of students gen-
erally are not attributed to an edu-
cational institution unless they are
undertaken at the direction of and
with authorization from a school
official.”This would seem to refute
Stanford’s primary rationale for
limiting student speech. While
other interests would seem rea-
sonable — say, avoiding class-
room disruptions — the current
Even in the age of Facebook,
students have few avenues to ex-
press dissatisfaction with Universi-
ty policy.While this Editorial Board
supported the Faculty Senate’s de-
cision to vote in favor of ROTC’s
return, we were discouraged that
many administrators and faculty
members outside of the ad hoc
committee declined to meet stu-
dent groups advocating against
ROTC. Short of protesting, these
students had no other means of ex-
pressing their dissent to University
officials.
For all these reasons, we chal-
lenge University administrators
to change current speech policy.
The University must acknowl-
edge that its vague and overly
broad regulations have created
problems for student groups, sup-
press student dissent, and likely
violate California law. Nothing
less than our most fundamental
freedom is at stake.

SPEECH
Continued from page 3
to another.”
Taking initiative and disregard-
ing inhibitions is a key component
of Let’s Talk.
“When students are able to put
their fears and boundaries aside
and truly open up to each other, the
impact on student mental health
and sense of community at Stan-
ford is phenomenal,” wrote Taylor
Winfield ‘13, participant and facili-
tator in the movement, in an email
to The Daily.
Fear is perhaps the root of the is-
sues espoused by Free Speech Fri-
day and Let’s Talk. The founders of
these events hope that their pres-
ence at Stanford will erase this fear.
“Present your truth,” Walker
said.“Talk because we want to know.
We can only grow with dialogue.”
Contact Erika Alvero Koski at
erikaa1@stanford.edu.

JANITORS
Continued from page 2
One of those laws is the Immi-
gration and Nationality Act, which
prohibits hiring anyone who is an
“unauthorized alien.” Employers
must verify using “a form designat-
ed or established by the Attorney
General by regulation” that the in-
dividual is legally eligible to work in
the country.
Eric Griffis ‘12, a member of
SLAC, noted that an I-9 form —
which does not ask for a Social Se-
curity number — meets verifica-
tion requirements, but that UGL
instead chose to use a system called
“E-Verify.” That system issues “no
match” letters if a database detects
a mismatch between Social Securi-
ty numbers provided on W-2 forms
with the Social Security Adminis-
tration’s records. UGL asked for I-
9 forms later on in the process.
In the letter to Stanford, UGL
wrote that its background checks
could not verify the identity of 30 of
the employees. After negotiations
between UGL and SEIU, the em-
ployees were given until June 3 to
provide documentation establish-
ing their eligibility to work in the
U.S. According to the settlement,
UGL will provide the workers
whose jobs will be terminated with
severance pay.
UGL also refuted allegations
that it is seeking to lay off more sen-
ior workers, who are entitled to
higher pay and superior benefits
than newer hires, in its letter to the
administration. The gap in wages
can be fairly significant — accord-
ing to Griffis, senior employees
earn $13.09 per hour with benefits,
while new workers earn just $9.15
per hour and do not receive bene-
fits.
UGL claimed that the 29 affect-
ed employees are neither the
longest tenured nor the highest-
paid janitors working at Stanford,
pointing out that nine of the em-
ployees set for termination have
worked at the University for less
than five years. None of the affect-
ed janitors have had their jobs for
more than 15 years, and UGL said it
would continue to employ 23 jani-
tors who have worked at Stanford
for more than 15 years.
Contact Sarah Flamm at sflamm@
stanford.edu.
6 ! Monday, May 23, 2011
SPORTS
SWEEPING TO SUPERS
By WILL DOOLEY
STAFF WRITER
Stanford softball breezed
through NCAA Regionals this
weekend, making the most of its
home field advantage as it beat Pa-
cific, Fresno State and Nebraska.
The Cardinal was dominant, never
surrendering a lead while outscoring
its opposition 10-2.With the region-
al victory, Stanford moves on to face
No. 2 Alabama in the Super Region-
al next weekend.
SOFTBALL
NEBRASKA 1 hart and Rich, giving Stanford a 2-
STANFORD 4 0 lead.
5/22, Smith Family Stadium
No. 11 Stanford’s stars stepped
up when it counted, particularly
sophomore pitcher Teagan Ger-
hart. Showing why she was named
to the Pac-10 and All-West Region
First Teams last week, Gerhart
pitched three complete-game wins
for the Card, allowing just two runs
and 11 hits over 21 innings of work.
The three decisions move her to 25-
11 on the year. The team itself
moved to 41-15 (10-11 Pac-10), se-
curing its twelfth 40-win season in
school history.
Fellow All-West First-Team
members Jenna Rich and Ashley
Hansen also played well for the
Card, accounting for six of the
team’s nine RBI. Hansen, a junior
who leads the nation in batting av-
erage and was recently named Pac-
10 Player of the Year, went 4-10
with 3 runs scored. Rich finished
with 4 RBI, at least one in every
game.
“Winning this weekend was a
huge feat for us,” Rich said. “It will
provide a lot of momentum going
into Supers next week. Despite the
expected hostile environment
awaiting us in Alabama, we plan on
playing our game and taking care of
business.”
Stanford opened the tournament
with a 3-0 shutout of Big West Con-
Card ekes out win over Arizona
One run the decider
against Wildcats
By MIKE LAZARUS
STAFF WRITER
A few inches can be the differ-
ence in a weekend of baseball. If
freshman right-fielder Austin Wil-
son’s two-out eighth-inning
groundball had been hit just a few
inches farther left, it would have
ended up in Arizona third baseman
Seth Mejias-Brean’s web, and the
heartbreak would have continued
for Stanford.
But the ball bounced off the tip
of Mejias-Brean’s glove, allowing
sophomore left-fielder Tyler
Gaffney to score the game-winning
run all the way from second and
giving No. 25 Stanford (30-19, 12-
12 Pac-10) a series victory over No.
27 Arizona (33-19, 12-12 Pac-10).
The game up until Wilson’s sin-
gle had been absolute torture.
Sophomore left-fielder Tyler Gaffney, above, scored the game-winning run in Sunday’s game against Arizona, in
a thriller until the final at-bat. The win clinched the series for the Card in a battle for conference position.
ference champion Pacific (37-19),
beating the Tigers for the second
time this year. Gerhart stymied the
Pacific offense, allowing just three
hits and giving up no walks while
striking out four.
All three of the Cardinal’s runs
came in the bottom of the third dur-
ing a two-out rally, as Stanford capi-
talized on a pair of Pacific errors.
Teagan Gerhart started the rally
when she reached on an error by Pa-
Sophomore pitcher Teagan Gerhart, above, allowed only two runs and 11
hits over the weekend, helping the team clinch its victories over Pacific,
Fresno State and Nebraska. Next up for the team is Super Regionals.
Other than a solo shot in the sec-
ond inning, junior pitcher Jordan
Pries was masterful. The righty
pitched seven innings of one-run
ball, allowing seven hits and strik-
ing out six.Yet the offense blew op-
portunity after opportunity.
BASEBALL
ARIZONA 1 surely plated the speedy Jones. But
STANFORD 2 in a cruel twist of fate, the ball rico-
5/22, Sunken Diamond
“I threw a ton of changeups,”
Pries said. “Normally I’m mixing
everything, but today I was focus-
ing on getting first pitch strikes and
staying ahead of batters.”
Despite several hard-hit balls
right at Wildcat defenders, Stan-
ford could not deliver the key hit.
The Cardinal stranded two runners
in the second, and sophomore
shortstop Kenny Diekroeger hit
into an inning-ending double play
in the fifth.
In the sixth, though, it became
apparent that the baseball gods
cific first baseman Nicole Matson.
Junior centerfielder Sarah Hassman
singled weakly to third and reached
second on a throwing error, and
Gerhart scored on the play. Hansen
kept the inning alive with a single up
the middle setting up Rich, who
promptly doubled to centerfield,
plating Hassman and Hansen.Pacif-
ic’s Nikki Armagost (19-10) was sad-
dled with the loss despite allowing
no earned runs and just four hits and
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
simply weren’t on Pries’ side. Se-
nior catcher Zach Jones singled to
lead off the inning, and senior des-
ignated hitter Ben Clowe sacri-
ficed him over to second on the
first of his two sacrifice bunts in the
game. Gaffney then scorched a line
drive up the middle that would
have gone into center field and
cheted off Arizona starter Konner
Wade’s thigh, forcing Jones to stop
at third. One pitch later, sopho-
more third baseman Stephen Pis-
cotty hit into a 6-4-3 double play to
end the inning and prolong the suf-
fering.
“Being a junior, I’ve had plenty
of outings where I haven’t had
much run support,” Pries said.
“You can’t really let that get to you.
Whether you get the win or not, it’s
not something you can control. Just
have to focus on throwing another
zero on the board.”
In the seventh, the Cardinal’s
offensive ineptitude simply be-
IAN GARCIA-DOTY/The Stanford Daily
a walk.
Saturday’s game was a slightly
closer affair against Fresno State
(35-19), which earned an at-large
berth to the postseason. Gerhart
once again pitched a three-hit com-
plete game for the win,although this
game she gave up a solo home run to
Fresno’s Nicole Angene.
The Cardinal struck first in the
top of the third.Teagan Gerhart led
off the inning with a walk and then
stole second. After Hassman
popped out, consecutive singles by
Rich, Hansen and freshman left
fielder Caitlyn Pura scored Ger-
Stanford added another run in
the sixth when senior first baseman
Melisa Koutz singled in Pura. Stan-
ford went on to load the bases with
no outs but failed to do any addition-
al damage. Fresno State’s Michelle
Moses failed to turn the game
around, taking the loss to move to
16-12.
Stanford needed to take just one
of two from No.16 Nebraska (41-15)
Sunday, but made the second game
unnecessary with a 4-1 win. Gerhart
was solid in the circle, giving up one
run on five hits and a walk. Stanford
wrung nine hits and three walks
from the Cornhuskers’ Ashley
Hagemann, moving her to 31-13 on
the year.
Stanford threatened in the third,
loading the bases with one out, but
Hagemann retired the formidable
duo of Hansen and Rich to escape
the jam. Hansen wouldn’t be kept
down long, as she singled home Tea-
gan Gerhart in the top of the fifth to
break the tie. Nebraska responded
in the sixth when second baseman
Julie Brechtel hit a solo shot that
tied the game at 1-1.
Hansen once again stepped up in
the final frame, driving in junior
third baseman Jenna Becerra for the
go-ahead run. Rich picked up an
RBI as her groundout to second
Please see SOFTBALL, page 7
came comical. After freshman first
baseman Brian Ragira and Wilson
led off the inning with singles, it
looked like Stanford could finally
make a winner out of Pries. Once
again, the Cardinal found a new
way not to score. Freshman second
baseman Lonnie Kauppila failed
to get down a sacrifice bunt, flying
out to center on a two-strike count.
Ragira and Wilson did not ad-
vance, as sophomore outfielder
Jake Stewart and Diekroeger flied
out quietly into the sunny after-
noon.
Finally in the eighth, Stanford
broke through. After Jones ad-
vanced to second on another
Clowe bunt, Gaffney brought him
home with a single through the left
side to tie the game. Two batters
later, Wilson found just enough
room to send the Sunken Diamond
faithful home with a win.
Junior closer Chris Reed
recorded the final six outs — in-
cluding a perfect ninth — to pre-
serve the victory.
Stanford took the first game of
the series Friday night in another
nail-biter highlighted by more
dominant Cardinal pitching, this
time by sophomore Mark Appel,
who threw eight shutout innings
and tied a career-high with nine
strikeouts.
Once again, Stanford could not
find a way to score until extra in-
nings. In the bottom of the
eleventh, tied 0-0, pinch hitter
Brett Doran stepped to the plate
with the bases loaded after a walk,
a hit-by-pitch and another walk.
The freshman showed no nerves,
blasting a single off the left field
wall for a walk-off hit.
Arizona tied the series on Sat-
urday, taking advantage of unchar-
acteristically sloppy Cardinal base-
ball with a 7-3 victory. Wildcat
starter Kyle Simon outdueled Stan-
ford senior Danny Sandbrink, scat-
tering eight hits over 7.1 innings
and striking out four. Simon baf-
fled Cardinal hitters with off-speed
and breaking pitches throughout
the game, getting into a bit of trou-
ble in the eighth before reliever
Matt Chaffee closed things out and
earned the save.
Wilson and Stanford would
have the last laugh, though, win-
ning by the narrowest of margins
on Sunday. Stanford closes out its
regular season in the Bay Area,
heading to Cal Poly on Tuesday
and facing Cal for a three-game se-
ries next weekend.
Contact Mike Lazarus at mlazarus
@stanford.edu.
The Stanford Daily
Daniel
Bohm
On My Mind
Tennis
loss’ silver
lining
T
o the layman, the Stanford
men’s tennis team’s loss to
Virginia on Saturday was
simply another end to an-
other season. However,
those who were at the match know
that it was one of the most exciting
sporting events anyone could ask for.
In fact, I’ve been at Stanford for
five years, and there are few games
that I can think of — in any sport —
that matched the atmosphere and
tension at Taube Tennis Center on
Saturday.
To give you some perspective, No.
8 Stanford was playing No. 1 Virginia
in the quarterfinals of the men’s ten-
nis championships, which are being
played on the Farm this year.Virginia
came into the match undefeated —
the Cavaliers hadn’t played a close
match all season.They had absolutely
killed everyone they played. No play-
er on their team dropped more than
three singles matches all season.Their
No. 2 singles player, Alex Domijan,
was 25-0 in dual matches. The Cava-
liers’ tightest matches of the year
were a trio of 5-2 victories back in
March.
The point is, Virginia was a heavy
favorite.
Early on, it looked like Virginia
was going to cruise to another victory
by quickly grabbing the doubles point
and earning wins at No. 6 and No. 4.
The Cardinal had its back against the
wall, down 3-0. But behind an electric
crowd led by costumed frat guys (an
elephant, a tiger, SpongeBob, etc.),
Stanford rallied. Junior Ryan
Thacher handed Domijan his first
loss of the year, and fellow junior
Bradley Klahn dispatched Michael
Shabaz at No. 1. When sophomore
Matt Kandath won at No.5,the match
came down to two seniors on court
three: Stanford’s Alex Clayton and
Virginia’s Sanam Singh.
Although Clayton took the first
set and was up a break in the second,
Singh came back to square the match,
and after four deuces, he broke Clay-
ton in the third set.Singh held serve to
take the final set 6-3, ending Stan-
ford’s season.
But the atmosphere surrounding
Clayton’s match was special. In the
post-match press conference, Singh
said that it was the rowdiest crowd he
has ever faced.
“I’ve played in some very hostile
environments before,” Singh said,
“but that was probably the most hos-
tile I’ve ever played in. Everything
was stacked against us.”
Between points, Stanford fans
Please see BOHM, page 8
SPORTS BRIEFS
Women’s golf finishes 23rd at
NCAA Championships
Stanford’s women’s golf scored
1,225 in the 72-hole NCAA Cham-
pionships this weekend, finishing
out at 73 over par and placing 23rd
in the 24-team event.
UCLA (1173, +21) won the
championship, edging out second-
place Purdue (1,177, +25) by four
strokes.
Sophomore Sally Watson was
the Cardinal’s top finisher at the
tournament, tying for 45th place
with 301 (+13). Senior Rebecca
Durham played the last game of
her collegiate career, placing 74th
with 307 (+14). Durham tied with
freshman teammate Marissa Mar.
— Ellen Huet
Men’s golf finishes season, fails
to make NCAAChampionships
Men’s golf came close but failed
to advance to the NCAA Champi-
onships after the Central Regional
Saturday.
The Cardinal dropped one place,
starting the day in fifth place but fin-
ishing in sixth. Tennessee shot past
Stanford in the final round, moving
from seventh to tie Iowa in fourth.
Junior David Chung was Stan-
ford’s highest finisher, placing 11th
at 213 (E). Chung knocked in an
eagle on the ninth hole but bogeyed
three holes on the back nine.
— Ellen Huet
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The score continued to flip-flop
as Gibbs tied the match at 1-1 with
her straight-set victory. However,
Tan’s loss to Northwestern’s Kate
Turvy on court four put Stanford
down 1-2 as the Cardinal found it-
self in an unfamiliar position. The
top of the ladder came on strong,
however, as Barte and Burdette
captured wins to propel Stanford
into the lead for the first time all
night. Li and McVeigh were both in
very tight matches at the No. 5 and
6 spots as the home crowd watched
anxiously.
“It was nerve-wracking,” said
Tan, who watched hopefully after
her loss. “Northwestern stepped up
their game and came out ready to
play with nothing to lose. I believed
that my teammates would give 100
percent and pull it out.”
That’s exactly what McVeigh
did, finally clinching the win for the
Cardinal at 1:34 a.m. as she breezed
through the third set and defeated
the Wildcats’ Stacey Lee 7-5, 3-6, 6-
1. Li and Northwestern’s Linda
Abu Mushrefova’s match was un-
finished after the Cardinal finally
secured a victory at 4-2.
Relieved to have survived the
potential upset it faced, the Cardi-
nal looked to focus all its attention
on yesterday’s quarterfinals match
against No. 8 Georgia (19-4), a team
that has made 26 straight NCAA
Tournament appearances.
Stanford appeared to have
reawakened after its Friday night
battle, sweeping the Bulldogs 4-0.
“We were definitely more in-
spired to go out there and give it
all our effort,” Tan said. “We did
not want to play hesitantly. There
were going to be nerves, but we
needed to go out there and do
what we’ve been doing all year
SOFTBALL
Continued from page 6
scored Teagan Gerhart, and Pura
capped the three-run inning by sin-
gling in Hansen.
Nebraska came close to scoring in
the bottom of the inning, but Mc-
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The undefeated Cardinal was
not going to let the doubles point
slip away again. Barte and Burdette
clinched a fast win on court one, 8-
1. At one point, however, McVeigh
and Tan were down 1-3 before
bouncing back to secure the dou-
bles point with their 8-5 win. Court
two’s match was suspended at 7-7.
“I was really motivated, espe-
cially after losing my match on Fri-
day, to show the team that I’m going
to do my best,” Tan said.
“[McVeigh] and I stuck to our game
plan, played solid tennis, and did
not make too many errors.”
It was then on to singles as Tan,
supported by a fired up crowd, led
the charge with a 6-0, 6-0 domina-
tion over Georgia’s Cameron Ellis.
Barte defeated Chelsey Gullickson
at the No. 1 spot, with Gibbs closing
up the match by beating Maho
Kowase 6-2, 6-3.
The Cardinal keeps rolling as it
faces No. 5-seeded Baylor (28-3)
— which defeated 4th-seeded
North Carolina yesterday — in the
semifinals this afternoon. The win-
ner of that match will face the vic-
tor of No. 6-seeded UCLA (22-5)
and No. 2-seeded Florida (29-1) in
the championship on Tuesday af-
ternoon. Stanford has already de-
feated both North Carolina and
Florida this season with victories
at the ITA National Team Indoor
Championships. They have not
faced Baylor.
Before learning the result of the
North Carolina-Baylor match, Tan
said that the Cardinal will focus on
itself going into tomorrow’s semifi-
nal.
“I think that we will be ready to
face either team,” she said. “No
matter the outcome, we will pre-
pare ourselves to play our best.”
The show continues at 4 p.m.
today at the Taube Tennis Center.
Contact Chrissy Jones at chrissyj@
stanford.edu
Cann was nailed at home on a relay
from Pura and Hansen to junior
catcher Kelsey Gerhart.
Stanford now travels to
Tuscaloosa, Alabama to take on the
No. 2-seeded Crimson (48-6) in the
Super Regional on Thursday at 5
p.m. PST.
Contact Will Dooley at wdooley@stan-
ford.edu.
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matches as, on several occasions, the
chair umpires had to ask for deco-
rum in the stadium to be main-
tained.
UVA senior standout Sanam
Singh — the man who struck the
winning shot for the Cavaliers in his
back-and-forth decisive match
against Stanford senior Alex Clay-
ton — said as much in his postgame
news conference.
“We knew going into the match
that it was going to be very hostile,”
he said. I’ve played in some very
hostile environments before, but
that was probably the most hostile
I’ve ever played in. Everything was
stacked against us.”
Much of Stanford’s (21-6) suc-
cess this season rested on its excel-
lent doubles play; the Cardinal’s cu-
mulative dual-match doubles record
heading into the NCAA tourna-
ment was an impressive 48-16. But
on Saturday against UVA (33-0),
just as on Thursday against A&M,
Stanford lost the doubles point.
Heading into singles play after
losing the often pivotal doubles
point can be difficult, and the Cardi-
nal showed that on Saturday, quick-
ly losing two matches on the fourth
and sixth courts to go down 3-0 —
on the brink of a speedy exit. But
then Stanford’s upperclassmen and
top singles players asserted them-
selves.
Junior Ryan Thacher was the
first to post a point for the Cardinal,
dispatching the towering Alex
Domijan, ranked No. 2 nationally,
for Thacher’s most impressive victo-
ry of the year. Thacher’s win gave
the crowd — and his teammates —
critical momentum. Fellow junior
Bradley Klahn’s straight-set dis-
mantling of fifth-ranked Michael
Shabaz followed Thacher’s victory.
Stanford was then firmly back in the
match and down just one point. Sev-
eral tension-filled minutes later, a
vociferous cheer erupted from the
back courts at Taube, signaling that
sophomore Matt Kandath, playing
on court five, had just outlasted his
opponent Justin Shane and
emerged victorious in their closely
contested, three-set affair.
Suddenly, Stanford and Virginia
were tied, three points apiece, and
the Cardinal was just one win away
from pulling off the upset. All eyes
Monday, May 23, 2011 ! 7
“You can look
yourselves in
the mirror and
be happy.”
— JOHN WHITLINGER,
head coach
turned to court three, where the two
seniors, Singh and Clayton, were
battling to see which team would ad-
vance to the semifinals.
Clayton holds a special place in
the heart of head coach John
Whitlinger, having been the nation’s
most prized recruit coming out of
high school in 2006 and becoming a
key building block in Whitlinger’s
revival of the team.
“We’re going to miss Alex Clay-
ton,”Whitlinger said.“He’s a special
human being. He’s like a son to me.
It hasn’t always been easy for Alex
at Stanford, and his biggest legacy is
where he’s leaving this program and
the foundation that we’ve built.”
Clayton’s match against Singh
was an intense and hard-fought en-
deavor from the very beginning.
Singh complained to the chair um-
pire in the first couple games of the
first set about the rowdiness of the
crowd, prompting two warnings —
the first directed at Stanford’s legion
of supporters and the second to the
UVA delegation of fans.
Clayton was able to convert a key
break chance late in the first set to
secure the 6-3 win. The second set
was even more closely contested,
with the match hanging in the bal-
ance at 4-4. Singh proved himself ca-
pable of dealing with Clayton’s
tenacity and the crowd’s distraction,
upping his game for the match’s piv-
otal stretch drive.
“After 4-4 in the second set, I
kind of found my second gear,” he
said.
He would need all of that second
gear after winning the second set 6-
4 and heading into the decisive third
set with the entire fate of the two
teams’ tournament hopes hanging
in the balance of this one set.
The final set of the final match
could have gone either way, with
each player threatening to break the
other’s serve early in the set, only to
be foiled and exchange games.
Eventually, Clayton was the first
man to blink, losing his serve in the
set’s eighth game, allowing Singh to
grab a 5-3 lead and serve for the
match.
When Singh’s forehand skidded
past the outstretched racket of Clay-
ton after a breathtaking exchange,
the Cavalier lifted his arms in victo-
ry, and his jubilant teammates
swarmed around him. Stanford had
lost, but the team had put up an
amazing fight.
After the match was over,
Whitlinger put the loss in perspec-
tive.
“I told the group, ‘You can look
yourselves in the mirror and be
happy about yourselves.’ We almost
pulled it off, and it would’ve been
awesome, but it just came up a little
short.”
For senior Alex Clayton, his final
Stanford team match may have
ended in defeat. But more impor-
tant things remain.
“It’s hard being done,” Clayton
said. “I’ve never teared up after a
match before in my life, and this is
the first time. This place has given
me so much, and I can never be
thankful enough. To get here, and
push the No. 1 team to the very end,
in the final match, at home, is the
most incredible experience I’ve ever
had in tennis.”
Stanford’s team season may be
over, but Klahn and Thacher will
each compete in the individual and
doubles tournaments later this
week. The singles competition be-
gins on Wednesday, and doubles
starts on Thursday.
Contact Dash Davidson at dashd@
stanford.edu.
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erupted into “Let’s go Clayton!”
chants.With every point that the sen-
ior won,the Cardinal crowd was on its
feet.
To be perfectly honest, this was
the exception and not the rule for
Stanford fans. When have Cardinal
fans been described as hostile? Per-
haps not since the men’s basketball
team was good a few years ago, and
the Sixth Man Club was out in full
force. No, Stanford is not known for
its hostility,but the fans’ performance
at Saturday’s match was clearly wel-
comed by Stanford players.
“The crowd was incredible,” a
clearly emotional Clayton said after
the match. “That was the most in-
credible experience I’ve ever had in
tennis.
“I’m not going to forget this
match or this crowd,” he added.
Hopefully Stanford fans can build
off of Saturday’s tennis match. It’s
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Saturday's Society, Technology, Art and Nature (STAN) conference brought together a number of Stanford-affiliated
speakers and artistic performers. STAN was modeled after the popular ‘TED talks.’ Big names headlining STAN in-
cluded David Hornik, a venture capitalist at August Capital, and women's basketball head coach Tara VanDerveer.
Above, the student band Nimbleweed performs outside during a break in the speaker lineup.
rare that a crowd can make a visible
difference in a sporting event, but
Virginia was definitely shaken by the
eruptive fans.
The lackluster nature of Stan-
ford’s fans has been well document-
ed.There were reports that Washing-
ton’s football coach Steve Sarkisian
had his team practice in silence to
prepare for playing at Stanford Stadi-
um.There is the dwindling Sixth Man
attendance.And there is much, much
more.
Anyone that was at Saturday’s
match, however, now knows how fun
it can be to get behind a Stanford
team. Is this an event to build off of
for Cardinal fans? Perhaps. More
likely, however, is that fans will con-
tinue to come out for big events —
the USC and Cal football games, the
UCLA basketball game and playoff
games in sports like tennis and base-
ball.
For one day, however, Stanford
fans made Stanford athletes proud.
Daniel Bohm cried a little while writing
this column. Send him an e-hug and a
tissue at bohmd@stanford.edu.