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MONDAY November 14, 2011

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By JACK BLANCHAT
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Volume 240 Issue 37

Oregon runs by Stanford again to end perfect season

It had been 406 days since the Stanford football team last lost a game. But on Saturday night against the Oregon Ducks, the Cardinal experienced the worst form of dj vu.

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For the second time in as many years, the No. 4 Ducks undressed the No. 9 Cardinal in a prime-time showdown, rolling to a 53-30 victory that stamped out Stanfords perfect season and ended its hopes for a national championship. The Ducks took the early lead in the first quarter and never looked back, capitalizing on five Stanford turnovers including two interceptions and a fumble from star quarterback Andrew Luck that spelled disaster for the Cardinal.

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Redshirt junior quarterback Andrew Luck struggled all day, turning the ball over three times as No. 9 Stanford suffered its first loss of the season, 5330. No. 4 Oregon took an early lead and never looked back, pounding the Cardinal on both sides of the ball to claim control of the Pac-12 North.

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STUDENT LIFE

Senate site launch still delayed

ASSU limits access to Senate records, bills
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CONTRIBUTING WRITER

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Vets event probes civilian-military gap

Veterans Day speakers explore separation
By KURT CHIRBAS
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Technical and organizational challenges have delayed the launch of the ASSU Undergraduate Senate website, limiting access to the Senates proceedings, bills and funding decisions, all of which are required by ASSU bylaws to be publicly available. In the sites absence, the Senate is publishing proceedings via online archives of messages sent on the Senate email list. Individuals who wish to access the information must locate the ASSU Undergraduate Senate mailing list through the Universitys Information Technology Services website and download the Senates proceedings from emails. [All our proceedings] are available publicly, said Dan Ashton 14, Deputy Chair of the ASSU Senate. All [meeting minutes, bills and proceedings] are sent out on the public Senate list which is archived and accessible. So while the website is down, thats the public way of students getting the information. This fulfills the Senates obligation to publish any funding decisions within a week of the meeting they were made, although the information is more difficult to access. Obviously, the website is much preferred,Ashton said. The Senate website has traditionally been a resource for the campus community to see ASSU resolutions and spending decisions. Basically, every [Senate] committee uses it as a way of publishing their information and their projects,Ashton said. Meanwhile, the sites Webmaster Daniel Holstein 13 said he is still finishing development on the site and that it is coming soon.

The Haas Center for Public Service and the Stanford Military Service Network co-hosted a Veterans Day barbeque at Kappa Alpha (KA) Friday. Members of United Students for Veterans Health (USVH) also volunteered at the event. Professor of political science Larry Diamond 73 M.A. 78 Ph.D. 80 spoke and said that separation between Americas civilian and military life can be dangerous for a democracy. He said the day not only honors the sacrifice of service members but is also a reminder of the need to heal the wedge between these two spheres. Around 56 people attended the barbeque, according to Tim Hsia, a

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A barbecue in honor of Veterans Day on Friday afternoon at Kappa Alpha featured speeches from Hoover Institution and FSI Senior Fellow Larry Diamond and CISAC Senior Research Fellow Colonel Joseph Felter.
law student and former U.S. Army Infantry Captain. He called this a good number and commented that the veterans clubs at Stanfords law and business schools were holding similar events at the same time and that he hoped to consolidate their efforts next year. Colonel Joseph Felter, a senior research fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), spoke at the

barbeque. This is just a time of tremendous sacrifice, Felter said. I think no one here is oblivious to that, but I think our country unfortunately might be in Planet Palo Alto sometimes, a little insulated from that incredible sacrifice thats going on. Theres war going on, and people are in harms way. He called the Faculty Senates vote last April to invite ROTC back to campus a great gesture in helping to increase awareness about the military amongst members of the Stanford community. He also recognized the ROTC students who were in attendance, saying that service members deserve to be lead by those with a Stanford education. You are at Stanford, Felter said. Each of you has options that are probably more lucrative,certainly more comfortable and absolutely less dangerous. Its comforting to know that our country will remain in

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Project shows early social networks

By TAYLOR GROSSMAN A project led by Stanford researchers made gains in documenting the extensive social networks, similar to todays online platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, that existed as long ago as 1500. The project, entitled Mapping the Republic of Letters, aimed to create a visual illustration of the Republic of Letters a term used to denote the widespread exchange of ideas and thoughts between leading intellectuals through letters during the early modern period, between 1500 and 1800. This was a project that did not

s thousands left Stanford Stadium dejectedly following the Cardinals loss to Oregon on Saturday night, a fortunate few detoured to Ford Plaza for an exclusive concert featuring Maroon 5. An enormous white tent housed the event, divided into a stage area and a ritzy, club-like zone with champagne, hors doeuvre and a lounge complete with pristine white couches.
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Study points to BayAreas concentrated poverty

By SARAH MOORE More than 40 percent of residents in the Bay Areas five poorest neighborhoods live below the poverty line, according to a recent study by the Brookings Institution. The six-month study, entitled The Re-Emergence of Concentrated Poverty, surveyed locations around the country. It identified Alameda Point, Berkeley, Hunters Point, uptown Oakland and West Oakland as Bay Area neighborhoods with at least 40 percent of the population living below the poverty line. However, only 1.2 percent of the overall metropolitan population concentration in the San FranciscoOakland-Fremont region was found to be living below the poverty line. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the current poverty threshold, adjusted for inflation, for a singleperson household is an annual income of $10,830. If people have income thats discretionary, they can spend it on restaurants clothes, entertainment and a lot of things that support a much wider range of businesses, said Sean Randolph, president of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, for which President John Hennessy serves on the Board of Trustees. If you have communities with very low incomes, they are probably drawing on public services and are unable to contribute in ways that they might otherwise be able to the larger economy around them, he said. In order to improve upon these numbers, Brookings Institution Senior Research Associate and the studys lead researcher Elizabeth Kneebone suggested the implementation of new policies. Policies that foster balanced and sustainable economic growth at the regional level and that forge connections between growing clusters of low-income neighborhoods and regional economic opportunity will be key to longer-term progress against concentrated disadvantage, she said. The study comes at a time when the Occupy Wall Street movement has already sparked nationwide discussions on the definition of class gaps. The majority of people who are below the official poverty line enjoy a level of consumption that my parents never enjoyed, said John Pencavel, senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). Poverty is a relative concept. It is a measure really relative to the consumption level of other people in the community. The report also found that the percentage of people living in neighborhoods across the country with 40 percent or more of residents living below the poverty line increased from 9.1 percent to 10.5 percent over the past 10 years.However, this percentage actually decreased in the Bay Area. This change could stem from the studys finding that the populations of extreme-poverty neighborhoods increased more than twice as quickly in suburbs than in urban neighborhoods. Weve had poverty throughout the Bay Area for a really long time, Randolph said.If weve seen some amelioration of those conditions in the last 10 years, then its a good thing, especially in light of the recent recession that weve just been through. According to Randolph, improvements upon these numbers have the potential to impact the national economy. What you want from a publicpolicy standpoint is to have that group be as small as possible, and you want pathways available to enable them to increase their income and their quality of life, Randolph said. Of course, you want to see measures that show that circumstances are indeed getting better, so its what we want with the Brookings study showing improvements withstanding the recession. Contact Sarah Moore at smoore6 @stanford.edu.

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evolve out of an interest in using technology or doing things with the digital humanities in the first place, said Dan Edelstein, associate professor of French and Italian and the projects principal researcher. This project emerged from an academic problem. Researchers at the Stanford Humanities Center began with data compiled by the University of Oxfords Electronic Enlightenment project to map this interchange of letters. By organizing and coding these vast stores of data some 55,000 letters Stanford researchers created a visualization tool that enabled researchers to understand the scale of the Republic of Letters. The idea for the project was born from The Republic of Letters, a conference held on Stanford campus in the late fall of 2007. Tony Grafton [professor of history at Princeton University and a

contributor at the conference] pointed out that nobody really knows what this whole thing looks like . . . because there is just so much information, Edelstein said. I work on Voltaires correspondence, which has 18,000 letters. Multiply it by all the figures in the Republic of Letters and you have an avalanche of data. The project has allowed Edelsteins team, which includes a number of graduate students and professors contributing case studies, to explore the social networks that underlie geographic relationships. We can go back and think about this question again, he said. We can use the empirical observations as a springboard for formulating new hypotheses. Edelstein characterized the project as an illustration of Stanfords approach to the digital humanities. We arent trying to transform the study of humanities into a quantitative science, he said. We are using quantitative methods to formulate new questions. The project also contributes new information to Stanfords BiblioTech program, a conference-

based initiative that explores the relationship between humanities graduates and Silicon Valley. This is the first moment where people are partaking in these public conversations in writing . . . conversation explodes, said Anas Saint-Jude, BiblioTechs director. Its very much akin to what is going on today with Facebook, blogs, Twitter . . . the proliferation of new virtual spaces that allows for lots of new communication across the world. Its akin to what it feels like for us a psychological avalanche. Edelstein also mentioned future research that could stem from the project. He is currently working in conjunction with University of Oxford researchers on a mapping of major places of publication in the 1700s. He aims to examine the interdependencies between geographic place and published content. Why are some places more important than others in different intellectual climates? he said. Contact Taylor Grossman at taylormg@stanford.edu.

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good hands. Diamond, who is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, said that he came to Stanford as a freshman in 1969 a year after the University ended its ROTC program. He called this an ugly period in Stanfords historyand said that it created an intense and sometimes thoughtless division. I was opposed to the Vietnam War, but I was also opposed to the treatment that Vietnam veterans got when they returned, Diamond said. They didnt make the decision to go to war in Vietnam.They didnt make the decision to fight it as unwisely and incompetently as was done. He said the division between service members and civilians has begun to heal, given the militarys humanitarian work in the 1990s. He also noted that the gap cannot be fully bridged until students and faculty members take the initiative to understand the military more. According to Hsia, one of the advantages of having ROTC and veteran students on-campus is the potential for members of the Stanford community to become more informed voters. People should think about our nations wars the cost of them and whether or not they would want their sons and daughters to go to war, Hsia said.Its very easy to want to go to war when the personal costs are not felt. Hsia said he was particularly touched when several of his professors acknowledged in class that it was

Veterans Day.According to Hsia, the day was less about thanking service members and more about recognizing a civic duty to know whats happening. Dennis Te 14 and Andrew Huo 15 members of USVA, a student group that volunteers at the Menlo Park Veterans Affair Hospital helped to set up the event. USVA also had a table at the entrance to KA where individuals could make cards that would be delivered to veterans. Te said that while he has abstained on the issue of bringing ROTC back on campus empathizing with the argument put forth by the LGBT community he decided to volunteer at the event because he has seen friends go into the military.He added that some of his mentors in high school were also veterans. I figured they needed people, and I wanted to show my support,Te said. Huo said that he began volunteering with the USVA because he is considering medical school but added that the Three Books program this year, which debated war ethics, got him thinking about the armed forces in a new light. Stephen Carter [author of The Violence of Peace:Americas Wars in the Age of Obama] talked about, What does it really mean to support your troops if youre against war? Huo said.Its sort of a paradox.You really have to be morally aware of whats going on to really support your troops and try to understand [President Barack] Obamas justification of wars. I guess this is the time to really think about what we are risking these lives for, he said. Contact Kurt Chirbas at kchirbas@ stanford.edu.

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[The site] will be up hopefully within a week or two, he said. There was a lot of work needed to be done to get it functional, and its still being done. Its mainly been touch-up issues and getting access, he added. And then once I got access, things kept having to be done. I was like Wow. Theres no database here . . . It was cleared out from last year.The URL . . . wasnt pointing to [the right destination]. Development of the website was delayed even before the discovery of these technical issues. Confusion between the ASSU and its financial branch, Stanford Student Enterpris-

es (SSE), regarding authorization to access and edit the site, held up the process for over a month at the beginning of the academic year. When Holstein finally gained access to the site, with the responsibility to code the site and upload budgets, bills, meeting notes and other Senate proceedings throughout the year, he said the ASSU offered him $500 in compensation. Despite the delays, both Ashton and Holstein said they expect the website to be up and running within the next few weeks. [The new site] is in line graphically with the new ASSU website, Holstein said. There are many aesthetic upgrades, and there are a lot of ease-of-navigation upgrades that were implementing as well. Contact Edward Ngai at edngai@ stanford.edu.

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ome: it wasnt until I heard my Australian host mother, Maree, say it that I really contemplated the sound of the word itself. Maree and her husband, Stan, took me and my host sister, Elise, in for the first three weeks of our time with Stanfords program in Australian Coastal Studies. During these weeks, we were studying the intricacies of coastal resource management from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. at the University of Queensland. We would return to Maree and Stan daily, whining about the schedule and its toll on our wellness, describing the stale air and windowless room we were cooped up in for all those hours. And Maree and Stan would listen,patient and sympathetic. Stan, in his mid 60s and an avid road cyclist, would shake his head at the injustice of it all, while Maree, cautious with her well-placed wit, would echo our concerns. Maree and Stan took us out to the Gold Coast beaches on our first weekend off. We travelled to Noosa and Mooloolaba, two picturesque beach towns, where we ate gelati, shopped for produce at a local market and had our first swim in the Pacific Ocean on the other end of the globe. During that trip,Elise and I practiced saying the word home in an Australian accent. It was Maree who inspired it; there was something gentle and soothing about the way she said the word every single time. So we practiced and practiced. We practiced throughout the rest of our stay with our host family. We practiced after we left them to traverse Queensland, on the cattle ranch in far north Queensland and on the white sandy beaches of Heron Island. We would reminisce about our stay with Maree and Stan; about the warm, buttery tone of Marees voice and her clever teasing; or

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Stans bear hugs and light-hearted chuckle. We missed the gentle sounds of the home that we had come to love. There are 47 Stanford students studying here in Australia. Some of us have seen the first kangaroo, shark and koala of our lives. Weve watched the sun rise and set over the Great Dividing Range. Weve counted shooting stars on the beach, the sound of whistling wind and crashing waves lulling us

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to sleep. My home, once a concept that kindled images of family and green oceans, extended in the past few years to encompass the echo of oh-twelve chants and the clunk of loose red bricks shifting under the weight of bicycles on Stanfords paths. It stretched further last year, when I studied abroad in Florence, to include mozzarella gnocchi and Lorenzo Ghibertis gold doors at the Baptistery. And now its scope has widened to include Australias beaches and the mirror-reflections of constellations I grew up tracing with my finger. Home: the word lassos a swirl of emotions and images. For me, home is family. Home is the warmth of the hospitable a buttery voice and unconditional love.
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or all that Michael CruzsASSU Executive team aimed to accomplish this year, it has fallen short on at least one expressed goal: connecting better with students. Compared to the standard set by last years executive team,led by President Angelina Cardona, it is hard to see how this years team is connecting better. Cardonas team sent out emails detailing what the ASSU was doing and how regular students could get involved.In other emails,Cardona solicited student support for projects ranging from a sustainable living dorm to sexual violence reform. Her executive team sponsored a student input forum on Judicial Affairs and an ROTC town hall. And Cardona wrote opinion pieces forThe Stanford Daily on various campus issues;these op-eds frequently referred to the notion of one Stanford community, which was a consistent emphasis of her executive team. In comparison, President Cruzs email updates have been less detailed, and the calls for student feedback in these emails have been less visible. Furthermore,whereas Cardona invited students to attend undergraduate student senate meetings in her emails, there has been no such invitation from the current Executive team.Although ASSU Vice-President Stewart Macgregor-Dennis has written one opinion piece for The Daily during his term so far, it seems to have largely been intended to be self-promotional.Cruz has not published any pieces.And despite being used extensively by Cardona last year,theASSU Exec Twitter account has only been updated once since Aug.9. Furthermore,many students have expressed frustration with a platform that seemed to emphasize quantity of initiatives over the feasibility and value of such endeavors. With so many ideas for student government, it was difficult to comprehend the Executive teams priorities apart from technology and entrepreneurship.

Much like their extensive platform, Cruz and Macgregor-Dennis were criticized over the increasing size of their cabinet. Time spent creating new divisions and hiring cabinet members necessarily detracted from time that could have been spent directly advocating for students. Whether these myriad complaints were warranted or not,one thing became increasingly clear: at some point, the Executive team lost touch with much of the student body. Although severing its ties with E2.0,its entrepreneurship wing,was a step in the right direction for the Executive team,more needs to be done to regain a connection with students. To be fair, it is only halfway through the Cruz/Macgregor-Dennis term. However, a trend is developing wherein the student body is becoming less and less connected with its government.Cardona set a high standard last year in terms of fostering student involvement, especially in sponsoring discussions on various campus issues.We wonder if the E2.0 ordeal could have been prevented in the first place with,say,a town hall or online Q&A on the subject. However, besides town halls, there are many feasible actions this years Executive team can pursue to better connect with the student body. In its update emails, the Executive team can be more detailed and more clearly emphasize ways for students to get involved. It can send out surveys to solicit input on its projects.In future opinion pieces, it can write about issues pertaining to the Stanford community. Although half of their term has already passed, Cruz and Macgregor-Dennis still have time to make this years ASSU Executive Team memorable.A necessary component of that, however, is developing a true connection with students. Cruz/Macgregor-Dennis emphasized that goal in their platform when campaigning, and it is now time for them to realize it in action.

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tanford students dont agree on many things.With such a diverse student body, its no surprise that the campus rarely reaches a general consensus on any issue whether the topic of debate is the Occupy movement, the return of ROTC or the quality of dining hall food. We just love to argue. There are only three things we can agree on: 1) Cal sucks, 2) Oregon may have beaten us at football, but we totally beat them at life (How many Oregon students go on to become Internet billionaires, Olympic athletes, Supreme Court justices and leaders of countries?) and 3) IHUM sucks, too. Why do students hate IHUM so much? Its not a particularly rigorous class like, say, CS106A. (I couldnt even get through the syllabus for that course without saying,Huh?) Its not an overly time-consuming class besides two short-ish papers and weekly readings, there really isnt any outside work. Sure, some of the material covered may be drier than the Sahara Desert, but Im willing to bet there are plenty of other courses that focus on even less interesting topics. So why, then, is IHUM the most loathed class on campus? Because students here hate to fail. And by fail, I mean get Bs. Just wait til you freshmen get your first papers back, one of my upperclassman friends told me two weeks ago.Its gonna be like a slap in the face.And he was right. Plenty of my friends were visibly upset when our papers were returned last week. One of my friends moped

around for the rest of the day looking like someone had kicked his puppy. Another girl walked out of lecture looking like she was about to burst into tears. But heres the crazy part: its not like these kids had flunked the assignment. They like most other kids in IHUM had gotten Bs.As in, aBove average.As in, a still fairly decent grade. And they were acting like Thanksgiving break had been cancelled. To be honest, I really didnt understand why they were so distraught. I mean, getting a B on the first major assignment of your college career isnt so abysmal especially when your school is one of the most prestigious and rigorous institutions in the world. Then I realized that many of my classmates had never gotten a B before. As new students at Stanford, we are all accustomed to succeeding at school. Were used to getting As. Were used to being The Best at whatever we do, whether it be academics, athletics or art. One of the hardest parts of freshman year has been accepting that we cant all be The Best anymore. Whether youre a dancer, chess player or a math prodigy, there is probably still a person on this campus who could beat you at your own game. I remember realizing this during Opening Convocation, when the speaker (some distinguished member of the University wearing a funny-looking hat) told a class of 1,700 high school valedictorians that we would not all be graduating from Stanford with honors. Hell,

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One of the hardest parts of freshman year has been accepting that we cant all be The Best anymore.
850 of us would be graduating in the bottom half of the class. Thats a hard pill to swallow, particularly after 18 years of getting gold stars on all your spelling tests and 2400s on the SAT. Want to vent about your IHUM paper or any other aspect of freshman year? Email Bianca at blchavez@stanford.edu. Shell listen. haze of fog, lead singer Adam Levine strutted across the stage like a glamour model in front of a crowd largely composed of screaming women. Though the California natives microphone was a bit quiet for the first few songs, Levine was at his vocal best, breaking out his distinctive falsetto in almost every song. The band performed singles from all three of its studio albums for an hour, including Sunday Morning, Harder to Breathe, which was remixed with Kanye Wests Power for a surprisingly catchy update, Stutter and perhaps its most successful hit, This Love. Though Maroon 5 particularly guitarist James Valentine and drummer Ryan Dusick sounded spectacularly good, all eyes were on Levine. Members of the crowd wrestled with each other for a chance to get to the front and touch his hand, but the singer took it all in stride, throwing out a few jokes between songs. When you see singers turn their heads to the side in the middle of a song as if theyre changing the lyrics, like I just did . . . they actually just have to burp. Now you know all the trade secrets, Levine said, as he paused to take a sip of water. After Maroon 5 concluded with the encore ballad She Will Be Loved, many fans filtered out. Most, however, stayed for high-energy performer Tommy Lee, who finished out the show with his recent solo work as an electronic disc jockey. Though a stark contrast from his usual rock sound, Lees set was the perfect end to the night. Thoughts of fumbles and interceptions seemed all but forgotten as the crowd, stepping over abandoned Go Stanford posters, filtered out of the venue after midnight. andrea HINTON contact andrea: anhinton@stanford.edu

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neous choir. Either one dumbs down our discourse and has a chilling effect on the quality of intellectual life, itself predicated on a free and vibrant exchange of sometimes-conflicting ideas. Or and this is unquestionably the best option of a bad lot we can say what we like without worrying unduly about the fury of the purple buzzer. Such writing, if articulated respectfully, can cause people to think critically rather than to passively accept the prevailing orthodoxy; to reexamine their own deeply held beliefs against the light of a real challenge; to contemplate the possibility that they may be wrong on a sensitive and important issue; or to reaffirm with conviction that they are in fact right. (Thanks for that one, Mill.) So if I happen to get angry messages in my inbox strongly disagreeing with me, or nasty comments on the Daily website, I tend to think Im doing at least one thing right: Ive made people think hard about something important. (It can also just mean Ive written a really awful article,though,so negative responses are a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for proving intellectual quality.) If were not careful, though, breaking the taboo can instead spark uproar, mutual bitterness and the ritual dance of self-flagellating apologies on the part of all involved, concluding in an unproductive retreat to the same ideological corners in which we began. And so we remain stuck in a game we cant get out of. Miles loves Taboo, in small doses. Play a game or two with him at milesu1@stanford.edu.

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Several unnamed Stanford alumni hosted the private, inviteonly event titled Stanford Rocks, which featured a lineup including newcomer Larissa Ness, who was followed by Maroon 5 and Mtley Cres Tommy Lee.

ne of my all-time favorite board games is Hasbros wildly popular Taboo. You may be familiar with it and its tremendously annoying purple buzzer, which the opposing team gets to gleefully press every time you utter one of the five forbidden words printed on each of the games many cards.The object of the game: get your teammates to guess the item on your card without using the five Taboo words (which Hasbro knows people are most likely to use when describing said item). Use green when describing grass, for instance, and you immediately get drowned out by the purple buzzer and docked a point or two, to the disappointment of your teammates and the laughter of your opponents. Its a lot of fun, really. Things get a little tougher, though, when we apply the same strategy to our real-life Taboos: things that are difficult to talk about because society deems them unsettling, controversial or potentially divisive. We have a lot of these at Stanford: race and affirmative action, multiculturalism, religious faith, political beliefs and sexual orientation prominent among them. And just like in the board game, there are a lot of words and concepts we cant use, for various reasons, when talking about them. A lot of the time, I think thats a great thing. No one wants the Nword casually tossed about in a discussion about race, for example, or the loudest and most obnoxious voice to win in a discussion about politics. But not infrequently, I think that like the tabooed items in the board game, tough discussions would be a lot easier to have if we let ourselves use our full vocabulary while having

them. We dont generally do this, though, and for good reason: someone always gets really angry. As a columnist and writer, I get (and see other writers getting) the rhetorical equivalent of the purple-buzzer treatment all the time. Its not an enjoyable experience. If youve ever written or spoken on a taboo subject (this ones for you, Flipside staff), youll know what Im talking about here: bitter ad hominem attacks against your personal character or writing style; overheated assertions that assail, rather than respectfully disagree with, your point; outraged rebuttals that, in true straw-man fashion, read far more into your original argument than you ever intended to put there. In short, writers who tread on tabooed ground, at Stanford and elsewhere, tend to get hit with fullfledged barrages of the purplebuzzer treatment, drowning out potentially productive conversation with loud but unproductive noise. The ubiquity of such animus, however, belies its danger. What is a writer to do when faced with the possibility of such animosity? We have several options, none of them good.We can delicately avoid writing about anything controversial, which has the upside of upsetting no one but the downside of resulting in blandly vapid columns about the oatmeal we ate for breakfast or the fun party we went to last night. We can write about controversial topics but do our best to agree with everyone, which also upsets nobody but tends to result in either meaningless selfcontradiction or, if everyone really does agree, glorious and inspirational but ultimately forgettable preaching to a happily homoge-

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SPORTS
Jacob

Jaffe
Stat on the Back

SHUTOUT ENDS YEAR

By SARAH MAISEL
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

ith all the pressure, hype and media attention focused on the Farm for the first time this season, only one team stepped up.And for the first time this season,it wasnt Stanford. Heres Stat on the Backs take on the Cardinals first loss of the season, a 5330 thrashing by Oregon. Number of the game: 2 What it means: 10/2/2010 and 11/12/2011 had a whole lot more in common than just the zeros, ones and twos.These two days are the only two times in the past two years when Andrew Luck threw at least 14 incompletions.Theyre the only two times Stanford faced a team ranked higher than No. 15.Theyre the only two times the Stanford defense gave up over 50 points.And theyre the only two times Stanford has had to play Oregon. Most significantly,of course,theyre the only two times in the past two seasons Stanford has lost. And that is no coincidence. Why it matters:The Cardinal is one of the best football teams in the nation. There is no doubt about that. Stanford has gone 21-2 since the start of the 2010 season, which is tied for the most wins by any FBS team in that span. Of course, its those two losses that really stand out. In the past two seasons,the Cardinal has had two shots to knock off a top-10 team.Once it was as a road underdog,once it was as a home favorite and both times it was against the Ducks. Stanford whiffed both

Title dreams destroyed as Ducks roll

It was a tale of two halves in Norfolk, Va., where after holding No. 6 Duke to just one goal in the first period, the No. 10 Stanford field hockey team fell 5-0 and swiftly exited the NCAA Tournament. The blowout ended a season that saw the team tie the school record of 17 wins and climb to a school record of No. 6 in the national rankings.

FIELD HOCKEY DUKE 5 STANFORD 0 11/12, Norfolk, Va.

The lopsided score after a season of offensive domination may leave many scratching their heads. It was only the second shutout of the season against Stanford, with the first coming in the 1-0 loss to California in the NorPac Championship.After routinely blowing out opponents, often by five or more goals, the Cardinal failed to score in its last two games. Duke scored off its first shot, when midfielder Devon Gagliardi found the back of the net a little over two minutes into the game. But despite being outshot 7-3, Stanford did not give up. Redshirt senior goalkeeper Ale Mosss four saves finished the period with the team still very much in the hunt for its first ever NCAA Tournament win. But things would not fall the Cardinals way in the second period. Duke came out strong once again, this time scoring within the first minute. Assisted by Gagliardi, forward Emmie Le Marchand snuck the ball into the net for her 17th goal of the season. Marchand scored again just before the 53rd minute to put Duke up 3-0. The last two goals came less than a minute apart in the final five minutes of the game. Forward McKay Ross blasted an open shot behind

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Junior defender Kelsey Lloyd and the Stanford field hockey team ended one of the best seasons in school history with a 5-0 loss to Duke in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the Cardinals second-straight goalless effort.
Moss, and Marchand completed her second hat trick of the season on a deflection. It was an evenly matched game, but we lacked the confidence and experience to move forward in the postseason play, said head coach Tara Danielson. At end of the day, we just didnt have the experience. It was an evenly matched game up until the middle of the second period. Stanfords offense never ignited. It managed just three shots in the first period and seven in the second, but four of those came after Dukes fifth goal. While it held the edge in penalty corners 6-2,the team simply could not execute to find the net. At the next level, if we want to be a champion and a title holder,we have to work on having the experience under our belt, put the ball in the net and keep the ball out of the net. Overall, were really proud of this team, and they worked very hard, Danielson said. Stanford can pride itself on a stellar season that brought recognition to the talents of the program. Junior defender Becky Dru earned the honors of West Division Defensive Player of the Year and West Division Co-Player of the Year and was named to the West Division All-Conference Team. Moss, senior attacker Stephanie Byrne and freshman attacker Alex McCawley also earned All-Conference honors. There are so many positive attacking structures to build on for the spring and next season, Danielson said.The team shows good signs of discipline and understanding of the game at the next level.This year was a real breakthrough year for a young team to perform and execute. [On Saturday,] we were missing the ability to capture that moment and capitalize on opportunity to get to that next level. This was a season of personal bests for many Cardinal players. Drus career-high 16 goals were enough to make the star defender the leader in goals scored in backto-back seasons. Byrnes 16 assists led the team and were the most of

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BLOWOUT IN OPENER
By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
MANAGING EDITOR

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While the football team drew the hype and the crowds over the weekend, the Stanford mens basketball team tipped off its season in style with a 91-52 blowout victory over Central Arkansas on Friday night in Maples Pavilion.

MENS BASKETBALL CENTRAL ARKANSAS 52 STANFORD 91 11/11, Maples Pavilion

Sophomore point guard Aaron Bright had a game-high 16 points, making him one of five Cardinal players in double figures as Stanford (1-0) looked solid on both sides of the floor after some initial shakiness on the offensive end early on. Central Arkansas (0-1) had a very tough season a year ago finishing 5-24 overall and winning one league game in the Southland Conference and it was a little tough to gauge how well Stanford will match up against some of the better competition it will see this year.

But the Cardinal certainly had stretches on offense that showed signs of real promise for the year. As hard as it was for the Bears to find their shooting touch all night long, it was three times harder for the Cardinal to miss, at least by the end of the half. While Stanford came out looking a bit nervous and firing up numerous bricks, the team found its groove six or seven minutes after the opening tip. And thanks to that torrid stretch to close out the final 12 minutes of the period the only missed shots came on a last-second three-point shot by freshman guard Chasson Randle, a botched layup by Bright and a long jump shot from junior guard Gabe Harris Stanford finished the first half shooting a robust 17-for-30 from the field. Many of those points came on easy layups, and it looked like head coach Johnny Dawkins had his players much more active in the lane compared to last year, when stationary one-on-one isolations were very common. It definitely helped that Stanfords shooters were making jump shots to stretch the defense

sophomore forward Anthony Brown went 6-for-11 from the field, and Bright hit five of his eight three-point attempts. The highly touted Randle performed well in his collegiate debut the 2010 Illinois Gatorade Basketball Player of the Year scored 15 points on 4-for-9 shooting, pulled down six rebounds and dished out four assists while playing a gamehigh 28 minutes. There were, however, also some glaring holes in the Cardinals allaround game. Without Bright, the rest of the team went just 1-for-9 from behind the arc, and the teams free-throw shooting was, on the whole, abysmal. Stanford needed a second-half surge to push its freethrow percentage barely past its field-goal percentage 57.9 percent from the stripe and 54.2 percent on field goals. But even without sophomore forward Dwight Powell, who sprained his ankle in practice on Wednesday, the interior defense was an improvement over last season. The Cardinal also owned the

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They took advantage of our turnovers, said head coach David Shaw. You play against a team thats got that kind of speed and that kind of talent and is as well-coached as they are, you turn the ball over, you cant win. Luck,who finished 27-of-41 passing for 271 yards and three touchdowns, had a harsh assessment of his play. Not good enough to win, he said. Worst game of the year, I guess, in that category. But even with his hopes to play for a national championship and perhaps his Heisman campaign dashed so forcefully, the redshirt junior tried to grasp for perspective. Its disappointing obviously, Luck said. Disappointment, yes, but life goes on.Weve got two more games coming up. Overall, the Cardinals performance was not up to par mostly due to the Ducks forcing a seasonhigh five turnovers and sacking Luck a season-high three times. The offense scored a season-low 30 points and rushed for a season-low 129 yards. Shaw admitted that his team did not perform up to expectations but was also quick to point out that Oregon was not just any other opponent. I dont think we gave them our best game, and they took advantage of it, he said. Theyre not a good team, theyre a great team. That LSU game [a 40-27 Ducks loss earlier this season], if they dont turn the ball over against LSU, they might be ranked No. 1 in the nation right now. Oregons lightning-fast offense didnt rack up an insane amount of yards (unlike the 626 it hung on the Cardinal defense last season), but it continually capitalized on a short field with big plays set up by a ferocious defense. Oregons first big play of the night came on the Cardinals third drive in the first quarter, as Luck fired a dreadful pass directly into the arms of Oregon linebacker Dewitt Stuckey, who returned it to set up a touchdown and two-point conversion that made the score 8-0 early on. Redshirt junior running back LaMichael James then ripped off the first big play of the day for the Duck offense in the second quarter, juking past senior safety Delano Howell for a 58-yard touchdown that made the score 15-6 in Oregons favor. After Stanford made a field goal, the Cardinal defense forced the Duck offense to a fourth down at the Stanford 41-yard line. Needing seven yards to keep the drive alive, quarterback Darron Thomas found running back DeAnthony Thomas on a screen pass, and the speedster jetted untouched into the end zone to extend the lead to 22-9. Luck did engineer a brisk drive to make the score 22-16 at halftime, but the Cardinal wouldnt make it any closer after that, as the Ducks found ways to make impact plays over and over again in the second half. Oregon receiver Josh Huff took a Darron Thomas pass and made two defenders miss for a 59-yard touchdown on the Ducks first drive of the third quarter, then James took in his second score of the day after a Luck fumble to make it 36-16. The two quick scores put the Cardinal 5-for-14: Stanford converted just five of its 14 third downs, and two of those conversions came in the fourth quarter when the game was out of hand. For a Cardinal team that relies on long, punishing drives and came in ranked fourth in the nation in converting third downs, starting 3-for-10 isnt going to cut it. 13: It seems unthinkable, but Stanford actually outgained Oregon by 13 yards. Im not kidding look it up. If you only saw that the Cardinal forced two turnovers, held the Ducks to 387 total yards and forced Oregon to go 1for-9 on third downs,you would probably expect Stanford to come away with the win. However,if you were watching the game, you know that Oregon was much more dominant than any of these statistics show.The Ducks made big plays four of their seven touchdowns came from at least 40 yards out. They forced five Stanford turnovers, kept pressure on Luck in a way that no other team could and they dominated special teams. 17, 11: The loss marks the end of Stanfords 17-game winning streak and 11-game home winning streak. The Cardinal almost certainly cannot win down by 20 with 22 minutes left in the game, a deficit that proved far too large to overcome, even though the Cardinal cut the Oregon lead to 13 two times after that. The final margin was set when Luck threw his third pick-six of the season in the fourth quarter off the hands of freshman wide receiver Ty Montgomery the ghastly cherry on top of Stanfords already miserable day. When the dust that the Ducks kicked up finally cleared, James finished with 146 yards rushing and three touchdowns, certainly putting him back into the Heisman conversation, and Darron Thomas went 11of-17 through the air for 155 yards and three touchdowns. The loss left a conspicuously bitter taste in the mouths of the Cardinal, which found little to be positive about as a whole. You cant miss a tackle or it goes for 60 yards and a touchdown, said redshirt sophomore defensive end Ben Gardner. And that happened far too many times tonight. With a team like this, once they get a lead, thats what theyre built for, Shaw echoed. In spurts we played well, but just playing well against a great team not a good team you cant win. And while the Ducks dominance made the Cardinals shortterm sourness understandable, Stanford wont be able to afford any hangover effects if it wants to play itself into a BCS bowl for the second season in a row. Indeed, the Cardinal still has two games remaining on its schedule home contests against Cal and Notre Dame and can still make it to a BCS bowl with two the Pac-12 North and will not play in the national title game.All hope is lost. Yet, contrary to popular belief, the season is not over. Theres this little thing called Big Game this week, and rumor has it that Stanford and Cal dont like each other. After that is Notre Dame to close out the regular season. Neither team will be a pushover, and the Cardinal had better regroup fast in order to beat those two teams. And although a national title really is out of the picture (dont bother finding a scenario Ive heard it, and its not happening), Stanford still has a good chance at playing in a BCS bowl. But before we go into scenarios, lets wait and see how the Cardinal does in its final two games. After all, as Saturday showed,wins can never be assumed. Jacob Jaffe had one of the greatest fantasy football weeks of his life and still spent Sunday afternoon eating lactosefree ice cream and watching Bambi, The Fox and the Hound and The Lion King. If you would like to console Jacob or want to join him in his misery, email him at jwjaffe@stanford.edu or follow him on Twitter at @Jacob_Jaffe.

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Redshirt junior quarterback Andrew Luck was under pressure all game long. The offensive line allowed Luck to be sacked a season-high three times as No. 4 Oregon routed No. 9 Stanford 53-30. The Cardinal also committed a season-high five turnovers as Stanfords undefeated season came to an end.
more victories. I had no grand illusions of just showing up and things just falling for our team just because we show up on Saturdays, Luck continued. Weve still got football left, and for that, Im grateful. Hopefully, more games after the conference season is over. Theres still goals left for us to accomplish. Shaw said that his team would not need any extra help to finish the season strong especially after Saturdays dreadful dj vu. I expect them to rebound greatly, he said. Weve got a lot of guys in our locker room with a lot of character. Weve got two regular-season games left, and next week is Cal.We dont need help with motivation this week. Contact Jack Blanchat at blanchat @stanford.edu. NCAA Tournament appearance since 2008. The matchup televised on ESPNU as part of the Dicks Sporting Goods NIT Season TipOff will be a better measuring stick for Stanford, if only because the Bulldogs will play four other Pac12 opponents in the preseason. Tip-off from Maples Pavilion is set for 8 p.m. tonight. Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at milesbs@stanford.edu.

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times, and this inability to win big games is what separates the Cardinal from the truly elite teams. Other notable numbers: 1: Saturday was the first time in a long time that Stanford was thoroughly outplayed from start to finish.In fact, it was the first time in theAndrew Luck Era (2009-11) that Stanford was outscored in both halves of a game. You have to give credit where credit is due, and Oregon was far superior to the Cardinal in every aspect of the game.The Ducks deserved to win,and they left no doubt. 3:Its unfair to point to one player in a game like this,and the loss should be spread around to the whole team. However,Luck is seen as the best player in the country and possibly one of the best ever, but he did not look remotely deserving of the Heisman on Saturday. For just the third time in his career, Luck threw multiple interceptions in a game. One of them was completely Lucks fault and set up the Ducks first score of the game. The other was not his fault at all but was returned for a touchdown. Three is also the number of turnovers Luck had, as he also fumbled for the first time this season,one of three fumbles by Stanford. Three was not a kind number for the team, as the offensive line allowed Luck to be sacked three times by Oregon. Luck had been sacked just four times total in the first nine games.The sacks on Saturday caused Luck to be held to -13 rushing yards, just the second time in his career he has had negative yards on the ground. Stanford fumbled three times after fumbling just twice in the first nine games.The Cardinal seemed to give up at the end of the game,as three of Stanfords season-high five turnovers came in the final five minutes.

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things to build on, Danielson said. The outlook is that were excited, were young, the moment for the program is there and the girls are hungry. The Cardinal will see many key players return next fall. Six underclassmen made starts this year, and many others produced off the bench as reserves. The talents of these players, as well as all those returning, will undoubtedly make for a strong team next season, when the Card will look to take back the NorPac Championship and finally break through the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Contact Sarah Maisel at sgmaisel@ stanford.edu.

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the attackers career. Moss won seven shutouts, the most of her career as well. There are a lot of positive

OGWUMIKES START STRONG

By JOSEPH BEYDA
DESK EDITOR

Seven months after falling short in the Final Four for a fourth consecutive season, the Stanford womens basketball team was at it again this weekend, kicking off the season against a pair of tough foes in No. 24 Texas and Gonzaga. While the absence of star senior forward Nnemkadi Ogwumike for the Texas trip may have slowed the squad down, the No. 5 Cardinal (20) was able to pull out two tough victories to start the season on a strong note.

WOMENS BASKETBALL GONZAGA 61 STANFORD 76 11/13, Maples Pavilion

As expected for the coming season, the Ogwumike sisters led Stanford in scoring in both games, with Nnemkadi putting together a flashy 33-point, 18-rebound performance against Gonzaga (1-1) to cap off the weekend. When youre playing a really good team like this, you cant afford to put three players on somebody, said Gonzaga head coach Kelly Graves, referring to Nnemkadi Ogwumikes performance. And on some of those shots tonight, it wouldnt have mattered if we had five people, one on top of the other. She wouldve made those shots. Its just the combination of strength, quickness and tenacity, and its just incredible how she can play.And its fun to watch. Stanford had to do without the preseason All-Americans services on Friday, however, due to an undisclosed upper-body injury. The Cardinal started slowly against the Longhorns, failing to pull away in the first half while shooting just 12for-32 from the floor and 1-for-7 from behind the arc. With sophomore guard Chiney Ogwumike on the bench after two first-half fouls, Houston-native freshman guard Amber Orrange stepped into the spotlight in her first college game and kept Stanford running with 12 points before the break. But Chiney Ogwumike would have the chance to make up for her sisters absence in the second half, leading Stanford with 16 points and 14 rebounds for the 11th doubledouble of her young career. Junior forward Joslyn Tinkle and sophomore guard Toni Kokenis would also finish in double figures to finish off a 72-59 win. Unfortunately, scheduling was not kind to the Cardinal, which had little time for rest between its Friday night game at Texas, the flight back to the Bay Area and a 2 p.m. start on Sunday against the Bulldogs. We were tired, and theyre an excellent team, said Stanford head coach Tara VanDerveer. They shoot the ball really well, theyre in great shape and theyre physical, but they just didnt have an answer for Nnemkadi and Chiney inside. I think the turnaround did probably affect us a little bit, but thats just college basketball. Youre going to travel, and youre going to have that kind of stuff to deal with. Stanford had some trouble dealing with the turnaround at first, and

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Sophomore forward Chiney Ogwumike led No. 5 Stanford with 16 points and 14 rebounds in the Cardinals season-opening 72-59 win at No. 24 Texas.
a slow start left the Cardinal trailing at halftime 32-31 thanks to a 10-3 turnover deficit. It was the first regular-season game that the Cardinal had trailed at the break since a Dec. 19, 2010 loss to Tennessee nearly a year ago. The lone bright spot in the opening frame against Gonzaga was Nnemkadi Ogwumike, who led all scorers with 16 points going into the second half. But her teammates rallied behind her to close out the win, which was highlighted by a onehanded, underhand basket and one by the senior as she was fouled to the floor. When I go out there, the only thing I think about is my team and what we need to do, so I go out there as hard as I can, Nnemkadi Ogwumike said. We talked about it before we went out there, that we never lose at Maples.We defend this place like no other, and I think my team did a really good job of coming back. The first half was not how we wanted it to be; we were missing a lot of shots, we werent necessarily getting the rebounds for those missed shots and we werent getting back on defense. I think we did a really good job of adjusting. Thanks to improved ball-handling and a stingy defensive effort, the Cardinal pulled away late to win 76-61. Stanford will have to perfect its play even further with yet another busy week ahead.After hosting Old Dominion at 7 p.m. on Thursday, the Cardinal flies out to face No. 4 Connecticut a week from today in a rematch of last years heroic effort by Stanford, which ended the Huskies record 90-game winning streak. Contact Joseph Beyda at jbeyda@ stanford.edu.

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