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Volume 240 Issue 62

Stanford plans collaboration with FDA

Institutions sign memorandum of understanding, seek to improve regulatory process
By JULIA ENTHOVEN
STAFF WRITER

On Jan. 12, the Stanford biodesign program and the Stanford School of Medicine signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This memorandum gives both organizations a foundation that allows future collaboration on projects, such as working to improve the regulatory process for innovations in medical technology. Paul Yock, a medical professor and director of the biodesign program, said that the partnership was inspired by a mutual consen-

sus that the FDA regulatory process is too burdensome. Yock noted that Jeff Shuren, the director of the FDAs Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), has been spearheading an outreach effort to speak with universities about possible collaborations and new projects for regulatory science. Yock said that he believes Stanford was chosen as a partner because we are in a hotbed of tech innovation out here and because of Stanfords national reputation. When asked if he thought the FDA was pursing similar agreements elsewhere, Yock said that

their intention is absolutely to work with other universities, but that he did not know which universities these might include. While the MOU promises more collaboration in the future, its concrete provisions are yet to be developed. Describing the memorandum as a first level of agreement, Yock said that it allows Stanford and the FDA to jointly pursue projects . . . as a formal partnership, so that we can fundraise together, for example. It gives us the legal clearance, he added. The memorandum goes into effect immediately and was signed by a panel of medical de-

vice and technology experts, including Shuren and Yock. Although the FDA has interacted most closely with the biodesign program so far, Yock said the program is a kind of the conduit and that members of the FDA are absolutely interested in reaching into the medical school. Harry Greenberg, professor in the School of Medicine and director of Spectrum, an independent research group funded in part by an award from the National Institutes of Health, was also present at the signing of the memorandum. Greenberg noted that the Stanford biodesign program which he said focuses on medical

devices and how best to sharpen the skills and train young people who are interested in being innovators in that field has garnered a great reputation around the country and around the world. The memorandum of understanding provides a sort of agreement to say, What should we do? Greenberg said. The federal government . . . like[s] to have memorandums of understanding as sort of a baseline thing, [certifying that] we agree to work together. Now, specifics need to be added to the MOU if its going to

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SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Eikenberry discusses Afghanistan

Former U.S. Ambassador speaks on nations transition
By MARWA FARAG
DESK EDITOR

Weve done a lot there. We havent done it all well, but we should be proud of what we have done, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl W. Eikenberry M.A. 94 said during his closing assessment of the United States role in Afghanistan. Eikenberry spoke to approximately 140 attendees about the transition to Afghan sovereignty in the Central Asian state Monday in Encina Halls Bechtel Conference Center. Eikenberry, retired United States Army Lieutenant General, drew on his experiences in Afghanistan to assess progress and identify expected challenges in the transition period while delivering the 2012 Payne Distinguished Lecture. Previous lectures have been delivered by editor in chief of The Economist John Micklethwait, Bill Gates and former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei. Eikenberry started his lecture by discussing the beginning of his involvement in Afghanistan, citing the 9/11 attacks and American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon literally underneath his office. Little did I know that my entire life, my career, like it was for so many Americans, was to take a very dramatic change, he said. Eikenberrys academic focus had been East Asian Studies, but the 2001 attacks and the declaration of war on Afghanistan in October of the same year constituted a sharp departure for him. At the beginning of the talk, he maintained that despite serving as

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Human rights activist John Prendergast, right, sought to examine why international involvement was successful in helping form Southern Sudan, but was a failure in the Darfur conflict during a lecture Monday afternoon in the Arrillaga Family Dining Commons Study Room.

Prendergast calls forinformed activism

By NATASHA WEASER
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

SPEAKERS & EVENTS

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U.S. President Barack Obama said student groups were the key to putting the conflicts in Darfur and Sudan on the radar screen of policymakers, according to John Prendergast, a prominent human rights activist, author and former Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council. Prendergast spoke Monday afternoon to a group of 40 Stanford students, staff and community members at the Arrillaga Family Dining Commons Study Room. Prendergast praised the efforts of youth and student movements, such as anti-genocide movement STAND, which has a Stanford chapter, for its advocacy efforts. He encouraged students who are passionate about activism to use new media tools to craft personal stories that can mobilize the public and policymakers. I am amazed by criticism that activists have undermined the peace process, he said. These groups have had a great deal of influ-

ence in putting the issue on the agenda of policymakers who are the ones responsible. Informed activism can make a huge difference, he added. We cannot tell the U.S. how to conduct foreign policy but we can help drive its focus on forgotten human rights issues where literally millions of lives are at stake. The discussion, titled Why South Sudan Succeeded and Why Darfur Failed: Lessons About Activism, is part of a guest lecture series on various human rights issues by Prendergast, which had its first event last Tuesday and will have its last event this Thursday. Crothers Global Citizenship, the Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education and the Residential Educations Charles F. Riddell Fund co-sponsored the talk. Prendergast co-founded the Enough Project, an initiative to end genocide, with Crothers Resident Fellow Steve Stedman. Prendergast began his talk by applying what he called the Four Ps of external engagement consisting of Policy, Personnel, Process and Political Will to both South-

ern Sudan and Darfur. Prendergast warned that there are still key issues to resolve between Sudan and Southern Sudan including the distribution of oil revenues, border demarcation and territory disputes as well as internal communal fighting in both areas. However, he considers the formation of Southern Sudan as an independent state to be a success, crediting it to international pressure and the efforts of the Obama administration in reasserting a firm U.S. leadership role in the region. The international community was able to zero in on the essential issue of self-determination for the people in the south, Prendergast said. There were a lot of hiccups, but they essentially got it right. In comparison, he called the U.S. and international involvement in the Darfur conflict literally a case study of how not to undertake peace. The utterly fatal flaw in Darfur was send-

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NEWS BRIEFS

$30 million donation funds Stanford-Columbia new media institute

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF Stanfords School of Engineering and Columbias Graduate School of Journalism announced Monday a new institute that will span both campuses and explore the relationship between technology and journalism. A joint press release heralded the plans as groundbreaking in that they are designed to encourage and support new en-

deavors with the potential to inform and entertain in transformative ways. Long-time Cosmopolitan editor in chief Helen Gurley Brown donated $30 million, in memory of her belated husband David Brown B.A. 36, to make the bicoastal institute possible. The new center will bear both their names: the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation. This $30 million donation will be divided in thirds. Both Stanford and Columbia will receive a gift of $12 million, intended to fund a director for the institute on the West Coast and a separate director on the East Coast. The remaining $6 million will finance the construction of an addition to Columbias current journalism building, which will include a state-of-the-art high-tech newsroom.

Bernd Girod, a Stanford professor of electrical engineering, has been appointed as the institutes founding director. Columbia has yet to choose its counterpart director. New York City, as the major center for television, music, print media and advertising, is profoundly affected by rapidly evolving digital technology, Girod said in the press release. The Brown Institute will bring together creative innovators skilled in production and delivery of news and entertainment with the entrepreneurial researchers at Stanford working in multimedia technology. At both Stanford and Columbia, the institute will award Magic Grants, which will financially support the most innovative and promising ideas by graduate and postgrad-

uate fellows. The press release stressed that the new center will focus on actually realizing ideas through the creation of prototypes and establishing links with the business world. David and I have long supported and encouraged bright young people to follow their passions and to create original content, Brown said in the press release.Great content needs useable technology. Sharing a language is where the magic happens. Its time for two great American institutions on the East and West Coasts to build a bridge. Mr. Brown graduated from Stanford with a B.A. in communications and would later attend Columbia School of Journalism. He was an Academy Award-nominated produc-

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the Afghan National Security Forces development . . . and a continuing focus against Al Qaeda. He also mentioned Secretary of State Hillary Clintons call for a diplomatic surge in February 2011 as part of the transition strategy. Eikenberry then moved to assess challenges to the transition strategy, mentioning Pakistan, the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), economic challenges and corruption as the four main potential obstacles. He described corruption as a massive, rampant and cancerous problem in the country. Looking ahead to 2014, were not seeing the necessary steps being taken to ensure a better election, he said. There are no signs of electoral reform emerging. Implications of U.S. involvement overseas Eikenberry ended by discussing the implications of U.S. campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq for American power overseas, drawing upon American historian Townsend Hoopes 1969 reflections on the United States role in Vietnam. If we think that we can continue to avoid discussions of cost and complexity, and try to continue to impose order on our terms without thinking through . . . consequences, I frankly have to say in leaving Afghanistan that I worry more and more about our own country experiencing our own East of Suez moment of overreaching, he said, drawing a parallel with the end of the British empire after the Suez Crisis of 1956. He also stressed the importance of reinvigorating the U.S. economy. We have the anomaly that weve got the best military in the world that is making Afghanistan safe for Chinese and Indian investments, he said. He told a story of his experience in the Southern Afghan province of Helmand, when tribal leaders asked him about Peace Corps and U.S. Aid workers who had assisted the region in the 1950s and 60s. The need for us, as Americans, is to remember what our roots of greatness were in the last century, he said. Audience members posed questions about the problems of narco-trafficking, American business interests, Pakistan and identity concerns in ethnically diverse Afghanistan. Although Afghanistan produces about 90 percent of the worlds poppy it consumes about 1 percent of that total, Eikenberry said. Look around, wheres the demand? To be angry and accusatory with the Afghans . . . we dont have a very good grip on our demand problem either. Director of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) Larry Diamond, described the talk as riveting, compelling, lucid, analytically powerful and honest. Contact Marwa Farag at mfarag @stanford.edu. flict and Bashirs defiance are very difficult and complicated. After the discussion, Prendergast provided some inspiration to Stanford students who asked about becoming involved in activism. Find other like-minded students and act with them to build relationships with other universities and constituencies, he said. It is all about being part of something bigger and changing the world one step at a time. Contact Natasha Weaser at nweaser@stanford.edu.

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the Commander of the American-led Coalition forces from 2005 to 2007 and the U.S. Ambassador from May 2009 to July 2011, he was not an expert on Afghanistan. The statement elicited chuckles from the audience. Four phases of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan After following with a number of humorous anecdotes featuring mistranslations and ironic situations, Eikenberry spoke about the four phases of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan to establish context for his discussion of challenges in moving forward. He divided the stages chronologically, 2001 to 2003, 2004 to 2008, 2009 to 2011 and the current to future transition stage. He described the first stage as one of urgency. At the time of course, the Bush administration was eager to quickly launch a counter-offensive into Afghanistan and strike at Al Qaeda, he said. Not a lot of thought at this point was about a comprehensive kind of statebuilding program, or a comprehensive stabilization and reconstruction program. Some of the actions taken by the United States during this stage, he said, would come back to complicate policy, particularly the formation of local alliances with militia to fight the Taliban. The second stage was distinguished by deterioration in the security situation, marked by a drop in security in 2007. You started to now see in policy statements more discussion of what you could call the hardening of Afghanistan, Eikenberry said, mentioning public declarations of frustration with President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai and critiques of Taliban sanctuaries in Pakistan. The third phase Eikenberry described began with the election of President Obama, and Eikenberrys own appointment as ambassador. The military and civilian counterinsurgency surges marked this phase, following an assessment of the situation and General McChrystals recommendation for an increase in military troops. In Nov. 2009, The New York Times published two classified cables by Eikenberry, which indicated his belief that a troop buildup would hurt the war effort, that were leaked. Eikenberry did not mention these objections in his talk. Gen. McChrystals assessment [was] that were getting to a tipping point in terms of security, he said. Its starting to move very much in the Talibans direction, and so the response to this will have to be a recommended surge of military troops to help regain the momentum from the Taliban. There was no question at that time that more military troops would be needed, he added.

Eikenberry led the civilian surge, which he said was designed to give a choice between the Taliban which could provide justice but not services and a better more accountable government of Afghanistan. This strategy included U.S. support for developing the rule of law, democratization and the economy of Afghanistan. He said it led to an increase in the number of civilians present at the U.S. embassy in Afghanistan from 325 to 1300, making it the largest U.S. embassy in the world. Eikenberry argued that the surge was successful, unquestionably in the case of its military impact. There was absolutely no question that the Taliban momentum was shifted back against them and that we regained the momentum, he said. Special Operations Forces conducted a series of raids against

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er for the films Jaws, The Verdict, A Few Good Men and Chocolat. David passed away in 2010 at the age of 93. Kurt Chirbas

Harrington named new chair of Stanfords Department of Medicine

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF Robert Harrington, currently director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), will take on the position of chair of Stanfords department of medicine beginning in July of 2012. Stanford School of Medicine Dean Philip Pizzo announced the appointment Monday in his bimonthly newsletter. Dr. Harringtons breadth of knowledge, his area of research, commitment to patient care and clinical excellence, and his leadership roles at Duke and nationally make him an ideal choice for this position, Pizzo wrote. In the newsletter, Pizzo outlined the selection process that was used to fill the position, which was left vacant by the previous chair of the department Ralph Horwitz after his term concluded on Oct. 31, 2011. Horwitz announced that he was planning to step down from the post on July 29, 2010, in a message to the Department of Medicine and the School of Medicine Executive

There was no question at that time that more military troops would be needed.
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Taliban mid-level and seniorlevel leadership that absolutely decimated the Talibans . . . command control, he said. On the civilian side, he added, Theres no question that gains were made in terms of politics in Afghanistan or in the building of political institutions. He also mentioned results of the Asia Foundation Survey of 2011 as evidence that the surge had positive effects. If we did not have the presence in Afghanistan, our military, our intelligence and our civilian teams . . . we would not be making steady progress against Al Qaeda, he said. You cannot think of Afghanistan . . . without thinking of the enablement that comes from Afghanistan. The final phase in U.S. involvement in Afghanistan was the focus of the remainder of his talk: the strategy of transition to Afghan sovereignty. What weve embarked upon . . . is a very ambitious program which over time will lead to the transfer of responsibility for security to Afghan policy and to the Afghan army, he said, outlining a transition plan that will end NATO combat operations in Afghanistan in 2014. President Karzai announced the second wave of transition on Nov 27 of last year. I would say at this point in time that were doing reasonably well, Eikenberry said. With transition now weve got, on the military side, a renewed focus on and dealing with the problems in the region holistically. After the talk, audience members posed questions on topics ranging from Chinas involvement in the region to the efficacy of foreign intervention. One of the audience members, community member Gabriel Tor, shared his experience as a Sudanese who had to escape the country as a child in 1987. I think some of the important points were glossed over though, said audience member and Sudanese student Atheel Elmalik 15. Some issues like the oil con-

Committee. Pizzo said that the search committee led by Steve Galli, chair of the Department of Pathology began its work in the fall of 2010, and that the eight final candidates for the position visited Stanford from June 2011 to August 2011. Pizzo wrote that he then visited the home institutions of each of these applicants and discussed the candidates with institutional and national leaders. Based on a complex register of assessments, recommendations and opinions, along with a convergence of skills and opportunities, I am very pleased we have been successful in convincing Dr. Harrington that he and his family will flourish at Stanford, Pizzo said. He added that Harrington was the director of the largest such clinical research enterprise in the world, commenting that DCRI has more than 200 faculty members, 100 members and an annual operating budget of over $150 million. Pizzo called Harrington a natural and energetic leader who is able to bring diverse groups of individuals together. Linda Boxer, professor of medicine, served as the interim chair of the Department of Medicine since August 2010. In his newsletter, Pizzo wrote a letter of appreciation to Boxer for her service. I am well aware that there are many views about how searches are conducted and concluded and what the necessary and even ideal characteristics of a department chair should be which certainly undergo change and evolution over time, Pizzo wrote. But in my discussions with countless individuals during the search for a new department chair, there is no doubt that respect and admiration for Dr. Boxer and the role she has played as Interim Chair were constant and deeply valued. Kurt Chirbas

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do anything. According to Greenberg, the MOU does suggest the foundation of what Yock calls a bilateral education program. Yock and the biodesign program expect to expand their joint fellowship program with the FDA, which has hosted around 16 Stanford students since its inception in 2004. Yock anticipates both expand[ing] the educational impact for Stanford students beyond just this fellowship, as well as creat[ing] a mechanism for the reviewers at the FDA [to come to Stanford] to understand a little bit what its like to develop a new technology. Although Stanford has worked with the FDA before, both on investigating regulatory processes and bringing new devices through it, this will be the first time that the biodesign program has established an educational partnership with them. Its complicated; but at its heart, I think, I would say that the FDA realizes that to best do its job in the 21st century, it has to

have a deeper understanding of some of the scientific breakthroughs and new types of science that are going to . . . [be] brought to them, Greenberg said of the new partnership. The FDA, I think, reached out to us and said, We [want] . . . an agreement with Stanford to really take advantage of the innovative stuff youre doing there . . . and our people at the FDA can get a better feel of whats actually happening now in the real world that theyll have to deal with. Yock said he also looks forward to developing some case studies of local companies . . . and what their experience was in going to the FDA. This will be just the start of what we hope will be a series of teaching models that are available nationally and internationally that talk about the regulatory process, that look at aspects of regulatory science and how it can be improved, he added. Other plans, Greenberg said, have just started and are no more than a gleam in the dean, and my and several other peoples eye. Contact Julia Enthoven at jjejje@ stanford.edu.

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ing in U.N. [United Nations] peacekeepers, he said. The peacekeeping mission had absolutely no impact in slowing down the crisis, but rather it was a tremendous diversion of effort and energy. According to Prendergast, the U.S. and the international community should focus on real democratic transformation in Sudan

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FEATURES
UNEARTHING THE PAST FOR
CLUES ABOUT THE FUTURE
By SHIRLEY YARIN

PROFILE

IAN MORRIS

square meter of any archaeological dig tends to unearth bones, stone tools, ceramics, textiles a little of everything and a lot of dirt. Some might call it playing in the dirt. Others just dig for expensive artifacts. For history and classics professor Ian Morris, it is an opportunity to unearth the past in a way that helps explain trends of the present. After many such digs and a large amount of research, Morris formulated some ideas as to why the Western world has become so successful. His most recent book, Why the West Rules . . . For Now, explains the effects geography and natural resources have on the distribution of wealth and power. For his book, Morris conducted research projects and excavations to analyze the gradual decline of indigenous cultures. He directed one such excavation in Mote Polizzo, Italy, where native Sicilian society arose. His team focused on what happened when Greeks settled on the coast. Morris discovered that the indigenous Sicilian population grew after the Greeks arrived because they were able to connect to bigger economic networks. Morris explained how he analyzed archaeological artifacts to help him arrive at these conclusions. One way to distinguish archeological artifacts is form and function, Morris said. Different vessels are good for different things. Another common methodology is residue analysis, through which archeologists are able to discern what liquid soaked into the material. Because the cups are almost indistinguishable from the Greek originals and made from clay found at the site, Morris concluded that the Sicilians actually adopted the Greeks heating process, much like they adopted a variety of other cultural traditions. Thus, the culture of the

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indigenous population gradually collapsed after the appearance of the Greeks. While conducting research for his book, he said his perspective changed drastically. Morris looked at a large span of history while comparing the development of the West with that of other parts of the world. That helped me to understand that the Wests success in projecting its power around the world wasnt driven by some innate superiority of European culture, but rested on . . . geographical forces, Morris wrote in an email to The Daily. People have the same motives, same desires, urges and shortcomings. What makes a real difference in how societies flourish is the geography they are in. This quarter at Stanford, Morris brings his archaeological experience to the classroom in an Introduction to the Humanities course, A Human History, a Global Approach. Teaching students drawn from all

FOCUSING ON THE FUTURE OF KOREA

n sociology professor Gi-Wook Shins sunny room in Encina Hall, a black and white drawing of Seoul, circa 1965, hangs next to the door and golden statuettes from Korea perch on smaller shelves. Shins book collection of Korean documents and his own writings, expansive and neatly organized, spans most of his office wall. As the director of Stanfords Korean Studies Program (KSP), Shins interest in Korean studies is vast. Shin left UC-Los Angeles for Stanford in 2001 to create Stanfords Korean Studies Program. He wanted to carve out a niche for a program that would focus specifically on Koreas current issues. As director, Shins mission would focus on social science, contemporary issues and policy implementation. Despite its relatively young age the KSP celebrated its tenth birthday in 2011 the program has experienced marked success, Shin said. It has acquired significant

PROFILE

GI-WOOK SHIN

By LANA HO

funding and increased its faculty base, serving the niche Shin had hoped. Four years ago, Stanfords program led the New Beginnings Project, in which 10 American experts on Korea drafted policy recommendations concerning U.S.-Korean affairs, which were sent to the Obama Administration. The KSP has also started a semi-annual dialogue between American and Korean experts, in which they discuss the South Korea-U.S. alliance and shared concerns of both countries. The Korean Studies Program has been particularly active since former North Korean leader Kim Jong-Ils recent death. On Jan. 18, they organized the panel discussion The Korean Peninsula After Kim Jong-Il: Challenges and Opportunities, featuring Shin alongside Katharina Zellweger, the Asia-Pacific Research Centers (APARC) Pantech Fellow; former Korean Ambassador to the European Union Park Joon-woo, APARCs Koret Fellow; David Straub, the

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OPINIONS
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Editors Farewell: From service to self-discovery

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s a student journalist, I have found that it can be extremely gratifying to receive individual feedback from readers. There is one email I received during my freshman year which stands out clearly in my mind. To me, it signifies the time at which I began seriously considering journalism in the context of public service. In the third article I published in The Daily, I wrote about Stanford students coping with a series of suicides of Gunn High School students. After some time, local school administrators and psychologists collectively chose to stonewall media. A week after unsuccessfully trying to reach those sources, this article emerged when Gunn graduates told me about close-knit communities which were beginning to form on the Stanford campus to promote healing after the deaths. The day my story published, a University librarian wrote in an email to me that he felt the story conveyed a human perspective on a topic that is often shrouded in silence or reduced to statistics. He described his hope that with more awareness of mental health, the community might promote successful change. This was the first time I saw the potential for my reporting to serve as a platform for social change. The response was an affirmation of the purpose I found in gaining sources trust to discuss issues that mattered. It helped reaffirm my passion for understanding the world through words. During this 2011-12 academic year, our campus has grappled with questions of what it means for Stanford and for individuals of this community to meaningfully serve society. The proposed New York City applied sciences campus represented a possibility for the University to serve our nation with a new source of cutting-edge research and innovation. The Occupy movement probed the implications of our career choices and reinforced our responsibility to challenge social inequalities. Developments in Internet legislation

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THE YOUNG ADULT SECTION

Lost in articulation
ut, what, specifically, do you want to do? the high-ranking executive of Fox Searchlight Pictures asked me over the phone. Ah, well, yeah, thats a really good question . . . As I mentioned, I have that broad, abstract idea of what Id like to be doing, but I suppose, I guess, the issue is what that looks like realistically in, well, an actual job title, I totally sputtered. . . . Nina. You need to do your homework get on Google, and do your homework. No ones giving you a job if you dont even know what job you want. And that is a concise summary of a 15-minute conversation I had on a planter in the quad with a woman who got straight to the point about the fact that I wasnt getting the point. It was a realitycheck treatment I hadnt yet had the honor of experiencing from anyone else I had spoken to about post-grad work. By the end of that call, my only remaining thought was to thank her for her time (she had to be at a meeting now) and for being so direct (I decided against cutthroat) with advice. But then, after we hung up, my lasting realization was how difficult it had been to articulate myself, even when I thought I knew how. I hadnt realized how lost I was. Fumbling over words is, generally, not enjoyable. At a place like Stanford, where rhetoric skills are acknowledged as necessary and thus require two quarters of train-

ing, most of us take for granted that smooth speech equates with intelligence. We are aware that being able to explain something well often means knowing it well, too. Now, if we take the above and stick it in a discussion section even here at Stanford what do you get? You get professors who say the following: I dont get these kids. I know they can talk they start babbling as soon as class is over. But in class, theyre completely silent. They must be smart, but this is ridiculous. Thats a comment I overheard last year in the Department of History, where discussion sections are common. And we are those kids. Obviously no single section can fully characterize a student, since we all attend classes that we personally find utterly fascinating or downright dozy. But I know that in many, there are students who have something to say but are furiously editing it in their heads lest it accidentally exit in run-on form and make them feel stupid. We hold a pervasive fear of that feeling especially on the stage we often make section out to be. So ideas dont get to interact, and nothing gets figured out. Other times, we are the willing center of attention and take charge in a conversation or a heated debate. Unexpectedly, Ive found that this is the birthplace of so many little lies at the moment we realize were on a charismatic roll, and Im not sure or I dont know would interrupt it.

Nina Chung
There seems to exist a tiny juncture in most energetic talks, perhaps most often with acquaintances, where we decide whether to hesitate honestly over our opinion, or move right along with something easy and plain ol untrue. And we may feel a twinge of inward embarrassment afterward but it fades, right? Ultimately, this habit emphasizes how much we value the image of coherency, even at the expense of truth. But through a volumes worth of writing this column and talking about confusing questions with confused people (including me, you and maybe someone else), Im consistently reminded of why conversations are great. (There are many reasons: 1. You can have one over coffee. 2. You can have one over tea. 3. The other person is awesome.) One of the reasons is that it forces us to construct something legitimate out of a mental mess. Communication is ambitious it demands to be understood. Instantaneously, right as our words roll off of our tongues, we feel if they fumble. When we confuse ourselves, when we get tongue-tied, when we cant make

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IM DONE WITH MY LIFE

What do you want to do with the rest of your life?

kay, times up! Got an answer? Well, if you do, then youre doing much better than I am, because I have no idea. Figuring out what I want to do with my life is like trying to make out whats playing on my grandmas old antenna television during a blackout; its very fuzzy and constantly changing. Since I find it almost impossible to answer this question, I tend to avoid thinking about it. However, as I climb the ranks of upperclassmen-hood, that gets harder to do, since everyone wants to know what I have planned for the future. As I said before, I do everything humanely possible to not dwell on the fact that I have no clue what Im going to do in life, but every once in a while the question creeps up on me, and Im stuck struggling to find a suitable response. It started off with a meeting with John Prendergast. If you dont know who this man is, you must Google him right now. Im serious. Stop reading and look up all the remarkable stuff hes done . . . finished? Good. Isnt he impressive? As the co-founder of the Enough Project, he completely reinvents the concept of human rights activism, partnering with celebrities to bring attention to atrocities happening in African countries like the Congo. Hes just one of the coolest guys ever. How do I know this? Because I had the fortune of not just meeting him, but actually having a conversation with him about life, social service and Ryan Gosling (apparently the two are about to write a book together.) During my little talk with John (yeah, were on a first-name basis),

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he asked me that question. I paused, feeling like any answer would seem inadequate in the eyes of a man who managed to help end the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Eventually I said that one of my many goals is to work in foreign countries reporting on issues surrounding women and children. However, that answer really didnt feel like it encapsulated my true calling in life. Being the quick-witted girl I am, I turned the question back on John, asking how he figured out what he wanted to do with his life. He laughed and told me that when he was younger he was just as lost as I was. He continued by saying it was a time-tested clich that got him to where he is now: he followed his passion. At this point, I just nodded my head and went uh huh like that made perfect sense, but all the while I was thinking, what do you do if you dont know what your passion is? Thankfully, he broke it down for me further by saying he just did things that made him happy. In his younger years, he didnt always make sense to his friends and family, and he didnt always make the smartest decisions, but he did what felt right. He had some ups and downs, some twists and turns, but now Johns doing exactly what he wants to be doing and making a huge difference in thousands of lives.

Thus, I started to think about what makes me happy. Theres a lot to choose from (eating and sleeping are at the top of the list), but honestly . . . I love making people feel great. I know its cheesy, but I thoroughly enjoy giving pep talks. Im not gonna lie, I think no, I know Im pretty fly. Therefore, I think its crucial that everyone around me feels just as fly as me. When it comes to helping someone else, I have (almost) no shame. My friends make

fun of me all the time for saying some pretty outlandish things to make them see themselves the way I see do. After John finished telling me about his incredible life, he encouraged me to do what he did. Not so much saving African babies (though I totally would), but more like doing whatever rocks my world. When I mentioned this nifty column, he implored me to use this space to write about things that matter to me. He

helped me realize that there are so many ways that I can make a positive impact, and this can be one of them. If Ive made you laugh, made you think or made you smile then Ive done my job, and that makes me feel amazing. Hmmm, maybe I do have a passion after all. Want to let Camira know that shes rocked your world? Then email her at camirap@stanford.edu.

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complish: improving the relations of the two countries to which I am most attached, he said. Since childhood, Shin possessed a deeply ingrained sense of purpose. His father, a church minister, often worked with impoverished men and women. Shin said that he hopes to bring about positive social change like his father. In 1979, when Shin was a freshman at Yonsei University in South Korea, Korean president Park Chung-hee was assassinated. The death of the long-time authoritarian leader prompted a student-led initiative between Shin and his peers at South Koreas elite universities. This catalyzed Shins existing interest in Korean social movements. When asked about his motivation to choose his particular field, Shin mentioned the influence of South Korean culture on social works. In Confucian culture, you become [an] elite to serve the state, he said. If you see social injustice, then you are supposed to speak out. So theres a sense of mission. So if you go to an elite school, you have to do something against the social injustice. As a professor, Shin hopes to extend his sense of mission and purpose to his students. I try to make them understand Korea, he said. Contact Lana Ho at lanaho@stanford.edu.

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associate director of the KSP; and Daniel Sneider, associate director of research for APARC. The panelists discussed a variety of North Korean affairs, including its future relationship with the U.S. At the discussion, Shin said that he didnt expect there to be any major changes this year. However, he anticipated a shifting relationship between North and South Korea next year, especially if the Progressive Party comes into power. He also speculated that South Korea might pursue a very aggressive policy engagement with North Korea. Zellweger agreed. I dont think that in the shortor medium-term there will be political change, she said. As far as the economy is concerned, [there will probably be] more experimenting rather than major economic reform . . . The new situation could also be an opportunity for renewed dialogue for those countries with an interest for peace and stability on the Korean peninsula. Shins work with KSP focuses on the bridge between the U.S. and Korea. As a Korean-American scholar, I have a sense of mission to ac-

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across the University is another big plus, Morris said. They bring a tremendous diversity of experiences and approaches to historical questions, which makes the whole thing a lot of fun. Morriss instruction is generally well received. Hes very dynamic and keeps the class interesting as we start with a really broad framework and then working towards more specific details, said Michael Peuelas 15. Ultimately, the class aimed to provide a broad scope of human history in order for students to

understand how it relates to the histories of others and to find what it means for us to be human, wrote John Corbally, a former teaching fellow for the course, in an email to The Daily. By understanding, albeit at a high level, how all ethnicity, nations and creeds of people arrived at this point in history, students are better equipped to grapple with the bewildering professional world awaiting them, Corbally said. The course, like Morriss research, also incorporates other disciplines. Thinking about the past as a career suggests that the human story is very like the story of biology, Morris said. The symbiotic relationship between the cultural evolution and

the biological revolution helps explain why so much of what it means to be a human has changed over the last 1000 years, he added. And similar principles, he argued, extend further into the past. If we look at the whole of the human past, covering the entire world and going back 200,000 years to the origin of our species, we really can explain the patterns that have driven history and make reliable policy predictions about whats coming next, Morris said. This requires us to look at archaeology, genetics, anthropology, biology, linguistics and a host of other fields, as well as the texts that historians normally analyze. Contact Shirley Yarin at syarin@ stanford.edu.

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logical sense of our own sentiments we know. When our thoughts go public, we see them for what they are, and sometimes theyre fine, and sometimes they fail. But wait is it failure, really? Is being lost for words or hesitation or thinking silence really so painful? Or are we finally giving our crazy, potentially damaging thoughts a chance to get finetuned, probably with the help of

someone else, too? Sometimes we need to hear our inner nonsense out in the air before we ever realize it was unnecessary nonsense at all. Not everything has to be shared, of course. But, sometimes, its in the struggle to articulate ourselves that we see ourselves in real terms. And for that, I think we first have to know how completely, hopelessly lost we are before anything can be found at all. Nina likes to talk it out, and hopefully youve gotten the non-subtle, weekly hint that she wants to talk to you, too. Shes asking for your thoughts. So email her at ninamc@ stanford.edu.

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SPORTS
KORDIC LEADS COMEBACK
By DANIEL LUPIN
STAFF WRITER

The Stanford Daily

Tom Taylor

The No. 4 Stanford mens volleyball team headed to the Midwest over the weekend to take on a pair of powers: No. 8 Penn State in a rematch of the 2010 national championship match and No. 10 Ohio State in a matchup of the past two national champions. The Cardinal came away with a split in the third and fourth matches of its 10-match road stretch, falling to Penn State (3-1) in four sets (26-24, 16-25, 25-17, 25-17) before defeating Ohio State (6-4) in five sets (25-22, 23-25, 24-26, 2522, 15-12). For the Cardinal (5-2), the Penn State match was a tale of two halves. During the first two sets, the Cardinal went toe-to-toe with the Nittany Lions, even dominating Penn State at times. The second two were a different story, despite strong nights from senior outside hitter Brad Lawson (12 kills), sophomore outside hitter Steven Irvin (10 kills) and senior middle blocker Gus Ellis (seven kills on seven attempts).

Frat guys put the team on their back

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Stanford came out ready to prove to Penn State that the rematch would be no different than the last meeting between these two teams, jumping out to a 10-5 lead in the first set. However, the Nittany Lions countered with a 7-2 run of their own to even the score at 12.The rest of the set was a back-and-forth affair, with the Cardinal even gaining a set point at 24-23. However, Penn State senior outside hitter Joe Sunder came up huge with consecutive kills, and the Nittany Lions closed out the Cardinal on a block by middle blocker Nick Turko and opposite Tom Comfort. The second set went decidedly in Stanfords favor. The Cardinal again raced out to a 10-5 lead, mostly thanks to some sloppy serving by Penn State. This time, the Cardinal did not give the lead get away, never letting Penn State get any closer than four points. Due to some good adjustments by Penn State, the Cardinal was not able to maintain the same level of play during the last two sets, falling behind early in the third and giving up a 15-7 run to end it in the fourth. This years match against Penn State certainly conjured up memories of our championship match. We had equally high expectations, but unfortunately didnt play up to our potential, Lawson said. I thought our communication and determination in general were lacking on Friday night, but it was encouraging to see us turn it around against Ohio State on Saturday. Turn it around they did. While the story on Friday night may have been a lack of energy, there was certainly no shortage of that on Saturday, thanks in large part to setter Dylan Ko-

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Senior libero Erik Shoji had a season-high 16 digs to help the Stanford mens volleyball team come back from a 2-1 deficit to beat No. 10 Ohio State in five sets and salvage a weekend split.
rdic. The senior, who had played just five career matches before Saturday nights contest, came up with a clutch 23-assist performance after relieving an injured Evan Barry in the third set, rallying the Cardinal to fourth- and fifth-set victories. As good as he was, he certainly did not do it alone. Lawson, Irvin and sophomore outside hitter Brian Cook each shared the team lead in kills with 17, sophomore middle blocker Eric Mochalski turned in a typically efficient performance with 11 kills on 17 attempts for a .529 hitting percentage and senior libero Erik Shoji led the defensive effort with a season-high 16 digs. Stanford was able to win the first set, never

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GYMNASTICS

Men beat cal, women fall

By CONNOR SCHERER
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Gymnasts split matches over the weekend

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Sophomore Alan Yen lost in a major decision as the Stanford wrestling team fell in Pac-12 play for the first time all season, dropping a 22-14 contest against conference leader No. 13 Oregon State.

CARDINAL FLAT ON ITS BACK

By PALANI ESWARAN
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Traveling for the first time this season, the Stanford womens gymnastics team suffered its first loss against the No. 10 Oregon State Beavers on Friday. Oregon State, the defending Pac-10 champions, pulled out a 196.800-194.525 win over the No. 12 Cardinal, extending its winning streak over the Cardinal to three, including meets last season.

WOMENS GYMNASTICS STANFORD 194.525 OREGON STATE 196.800 1/27, Corvallis, Ore.
Starting on the uneven bars, Stanford scored a 48.875, led by a pair of 9.850s by junior Ashley Morgan and sophomore Shona Morgan. But Oregon State put up a season-high 48.975 to gain a one-tenth lead going into the second round. The Cardinal put up a 48.950 on vault in the second round, highlighted by a 9.900 by junior Nicole Dayton, who was making a return from injury after missing last weeks meet against Washington. Having Nicole Dayton back in the lineup was huge. She anchors our vault and leads off on bars and floor. It was great to have her stability in the lineup, said head coach Kristen Smyth. Ashley Morgan scored an impressive 9.850 to add on, but the Beavers were still able to extend their lead to 98.225-97.825, thanks in part to a 9.875 by Leslie Mak, defending Pac-10 Gymnast of the Year, on the bars. Ashley Morgan posted another 9.850 on the floor, her third 9.850 on the

The No. 20 Stanford wrestling team dropped a close 22-14 dual to No. 13 Oregon State in Maples Pavilion on Sunday. With the win, the Beavers will now likely take the Pac-12 regularseason title.

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Stanford (8-6, 3-1 Pac-12) wrestled well, but Oregon State (9-2, 4-0) was too much for the Cardinal. Five Beaver wrestlers came into the dual ranked in the top 25, and all five won matches. The winning wrestlers for the Cardinal were junior No. 8 Ryan Mango at 125 pounds, redshirt sophomore Bret Baumbach at 165 pounds, redshirt senior No. 1 Nick Amuchastegui at 174 pounds and redshirt jun-

ior Spence Patrick at 184 pounds. Baumbach looked very good on his feet. His single leg was working well, and he reacted well to his opponent with good defense and re-shots. What was most impressive about the match was that Oregon States Joe Latham kept electing to go neutral, and Baumbach kept taking him down; he beat Latham at his own game. With Sundays win, Mango improved to 23-5 overall and 14-0 in duals. He looked very impressive on his feet, taking good shots, quickly converting them into throws and earning near fall points. Sunday marked the first time this year that Mango has wrestled 125 pounds. Last season he was an All-American at 125, but this season he has wrestled exclusively at 133 pounds. It will be interesting to see how this transition goes. Amuchastegui once again looked dominant. On his feet, he got extremely deep on every shot, not giving his opponent any room to

f youre an undergrad, you probably already know that the Kappa Sigma fraternity got its house back; if youre a grad student, you might not care. Either way, you might be wondering why I feel I can justify writing about this in my sports column. Prior to the Fiesta Bowl, I would have agreed. The way that tickets were distributed to students in Glendale meant that seating was randomly assigned, and there was no guarantee youd get to sit next to your friends. Anyone who has been to the Red Zone in Stanford Stadium knows that that is not exactly the way we do things, and so, by some happy coincidence, we ended up, at first, sitting in a row in front of a handful of Kappa Sigs. But their presence steadily grew as numbers of them and their friends surged in for the kickoff. Quickly the rows around us filled up, and then began to overflow. We were lined up almost two abreast, and there was a row of undergrads behind us standing on our seats. A couple of times during the game, security attempted to organize the chaos and send everyone back to their allocated places, but it didnt work. New occupants streamed in faster than they could eject even those in the seats closest to the aisle. In case you think Im complaining about the disorder, though, Im not. While it was, admittedly, a little cramped, it was awesome. The frat boys and their friends around us were loud and nothing if not dedicated to the cause. We were just a few seats from the divide between the Cardinal and Oklahoma State fans, and all game long there was a healthy amount of abuse being traded with them my favorite of which childishly adopted the chant of the Cowboys in-state rivals Oklahoma: Boomer Sooner. Whether or not the players on the field heard much of what was going on, the atmosphere in the stands was one of the highlights of the contest for me. Kappa Sig had their house taken away from them due to patterns of behavior that go . . . to a level that was dangerous and an alcohol culture that was dangerous, according to Dean of Residential Education (ResEd) Deborah Golder in March 2011. While I cant support anything that may have actually been dangerous, I cant deny that the atmosphere brought by groups like fraternities is an integral part of college life, and alcohol legal or illegal, and whether you partake or not is a necessary evil that lubricates the social gears of campus. Few would want to attend a completely dry university, because, the truth is, students dont go to college just to learn what they are taught in lectures. The extracurricular activities and parties are just as important. In the same way, fans dont just go to games purely to watch the onfield action. If you really wanted to study the game, youd tune into it from the quiet of your living room on your HDTV and perhaps log in on the Internet to get a detailed breakdown of the statistics. Live sports are all about the atmosphere, and the atmosphere in college sports is all about the students. Why else would we get free entry to all athletic events on campus, and why else did we get such a significant discount to the Fiesta Bowl? But not all student fans are created equal. I will happily make some noise at games and join in with the chants, but I know Im not the most raucous fan out there; Im not going to strip down and paint my chest. That is where groups like fraternities come in, and why it matters that Kappa Sig got their house back. Without somewhere to meet up, it is harder for these organizations to bond, and over time, they and their influence might slowly fade, both on campus and in the stadium, where it matters most to Cardinal fans of all ages. You dont have to be in a frat, be an undergrad or even like the idea of Greek life the concept still seems weird to me to benefit from their existence. Home-field advantage can make a crucial difference in tight games, and as Stanford struggles to create the same intense atmosphere that some other schools take for granted, there is even greater emphasis placed on the few who are willing to be sufficiently noisy and mischievous, those who put the team on their back.

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Please see GYM, page 8

Tom Taylor doesnt need to be loud to put the team on his back. Find out how he runs with a broken f**king leg at tom.taylor@stanford.edu.

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after a kill by Cook. Stanford was not able to finish the job at hand, however, as Ohio State closed out the set on consecutive kills by senior opposite Shawn Sangrey. The Cardinal, thanks to Kordic and Irvin, would win the back-and-forth affair in the final two sets, using a 10-4 run to decisively close out the match. Kordic thanked his teammates for his success during the match, a trend not uncommon among this close group. We were successful because the guys stepped up big, he said. Semi-jokingly, I told them they really needed to help me out by passing perfectly and hitting bad sets. But thats exactly what they did. The Cardinal is back on the road this weekend, taking on BYU on back-to-back nights. Contact Daniel Lupin at delupin @stanford.edu. who wrestled extremely well was sophomore heavyweight Dan Scherer. Although he lost, he put up a good fight and showed toughness. Scherer wrestled No. 5 Clayton Jack, and when the two wrestlers stepped onto the mat, everyone could see that Scherer had a 50-pound disadvantage. Despite the large size discrepancy, Scherer entered the third period up 1-0. But Jack secured a reversal to go up 2-1 and used his weight to prevent Scherer from escaping and tying the match. Scherer is now 18-9 overall and 11-3 in duals. Despite four good individual wins, the team still lost. In all of Stanfords six losses, the Cardinal was dominated on the mat. When Oregon State was in top position, the Stanford wrestlers rarely escaped, and the scoreboard often showed riding time in favor of the Beavers. But a loss to Oregon State should not make any of the wrestlers hang their heads. Oregon State has multiple ranked wrestlers, and Stanford needs to stay positive moving forward to the home stretch of the season. There are only a few duals and one tournament left before the Pac-12 Tournament. Stanford wrestles Cal Poly and Utah Valley at home on Friday. Contact Palani Eswaran at palani 14@stanford.edu.

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trailing after evening the score at two points apiece. Both squads hurt themselves with six service errors each during the set, though Stanford finally closed out the Buckeyes, 25-22, on an Ellis kill. During the second set, the Buckeyes were able to keep the Cardinal at bay after using a 7-2 run to take a 13-9 lead, from which they never looked back. Stanford was able to battle back, erasing two set points to draw within one after consecutive kills from Irvin and Lawson, but was done in on the next point. Kordic would enter center stage for Barry in the third with Stanford trailing 20-17, promptly rallying the Cardinal to a tie at 24

HOT HOME START

By DASH DAVIDSON
STAFF WRITER

The Stanford mens tennis team cruised through its two matches this weekend, looking every bit like the nations No. 6 team. A hallmark of good teams is that they handily take care of lesser opponents, and that is exactly what the Cardinal (4-0) did this weekend against No. 64 Saint Marys and No. 50 Santa Clara. Neither of the matches was ever close or in doubt, leading to the simple statement by Santa Clara head coach Derek Mills, We played hard today but lost to a better team.

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breathe. And on top, the topranked 174-pounder in the nation looked unstoppable, punishing Oregon States Cody Weishoff with a deadly turk. Amuchasteguis technical fall was the only non-minor decision for the Card on Sunday. He is now 160 overall and 13-0 in dual meets. But the most exciting match of the day was definitely Patricks. Patrick entered the third period trailing the Beavers Ty Vinson 20 (effectively 3-0 with Vinsons riding time). Through the first two periods, it didnt seem like Patricks match he wasnt doing much on his feet and couldnt find a way to counter Vinson putting in legs on top. But in the third period, Patrick took his opponent down, let him up and took him down again to tie the match and force overtime. At that point, it was clear that his opponents will was broken, and Patrick secured a takedown within the first 10 seconds of the sudden death period to lock up the win. Patrick is now 15-9 overall and 11-3 in duals. He has looked very impressive lately, and this match shows how much determination he has. Another Stanford wrestler

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Fridays match, the first round of the qualifying tournament for the National Team Indoor Championships against the Gaels, started with the quick acquisition of the doubles point for the Cardinal as the teams of Ryan Thacher/John Morrissey and Matt Kandath/Robert Stineman took care of their opponents in a speedy fashion. Stanford also started strongly in the singles matches, led again by Thacher a senior who is filling in admirably for his injured two-time allAmerican teammate, Bradley Klahn. Thacher trounced his opponent 6-1, 6-0, and from that point, the rout was on. Stanfords only dropped point in the contest came on court three, where junior Denis Lin was outplayed in three sets by Saint Marys Sherif Hamdy. The other Cardinal singles winners were Kandath, sophomore Jamin Ball and the potent freshman duo of Morrissey and Stineman, who both won for the combined fifth time in six dual matches. In the end, Stanford came away with a 6-1 win. Saturdays second round of the ITA Kick-Off Weekend pitted the Cardinal against the Santa Clara Broncos, who knocked off the Boise State Broncos in their matchup on Friday afternoon. A ticket to Februarys National Team Indoor Championships

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Senior Ryan Thacher more than made up for injured classmate Bradley Klahn at the No. 1 position, winning his two matches while dropping only four games in his four sets. The Cardinal cruised to victories in both matches.
awaited the winner of the match. As in Fridays match, Stanford started off strong, rushing out to a similar demolition by the duos of Thacher/Morrissey and Kandath/Stineman. Staked to this 1-0 lead, the Cardinal had to work a bit harder in its singles matches to secure the victory. Thacher cruised past his opponent again, winning 6-3, 6-0, and Lin, exacting some revenge for his loss on Friday, won in straight sets as well, putting Stanford on the brink of victory with a 3-0 lead. The remaining four matches had all split the first two sets, so all were forced to play a decisive third set, a rarity in college tennis. Stanford proved its superior endurance by winning three of the four three-set matches and securing the same lopsided margin of victory 6-1 as it had on Friday. We played tough and didnt let ourselves get satisfied with our wins from last weekend, Ball said. Santa Clara gave us a tough challenge but our guys were prepared, both physically and mentally. This weekends wins will add to the momentum that the Cardinal achieved on last weekends road trip to Oklahoma, where the team defeated the highly regarded North Carolina Tar Heels and Tulsa Hurricanes both ranked in the top 25. This momentum, along with the depth of a Stanford team that is competing without its best player in Klahn, will surely be tested when the Cardinal next takes to the court in next weekends highly anticipated home matches against Stanfords perennial Pac12 rivals from Southern California: USC on Friday and UCLA on Saturday. Contact Dash Davidson at dashd@ stanford.edu.

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day, to help the Cardinal post a team score of 48.750. But, as was a common trend throughout the meet, the Beavers were just a little bit better, as they extended their lead to 0.900 going into the fourth and final round. It would take a very strong round on the beam for Stanford to overcome the deficit in the last round. However, the Cardinal was unable to put together its best round on the beam, scoring just a 47.950, its worst score in an event all season. The team struggled on the beam, falling three times throughout the event. Obviously I didnt prepare the team on the balance beam well enough. Were going to have to have a lot more repetitions and a lot more numbers, Smyth said. She added that theres no greater pressure than that type of atmosphere, but that the team should be able to handle, and be excited for, that kind of moment. Senior Alyssa Brown was able to put up Stanfords season-high score of 9.925 on the beam. Smyth, however, was not surprised by Browns performance: Alyssa, you expect that from our senior leader. Thats who she is. Stanford will continue its fivegame Pac-12 road streak on Sunday at UCLA. Mens Gymnastics Facing California for the third time in a row to start its season, the No. 6 Stanford mens gymnastics team looked to take control of the season series Saturday night in the Stanford Open. The Cardinal lost to the Bears by 6.100 points at Berkeley to open its season, but was able to come away with a 4.750-point victory last Saturday at Burnham Pavilion to tie the season series. Thus, Saturdays meet against No. 5 Cal, No. 9 Nebraska and Washington was an important one to establish the Cardinal as the team to fear in the Pac-12. Stanford was able to do just that, as it came away with a total team score of 348.400, its highest score of the season, to beat Cal (339.000), Nebraska (332.600) and Washington (251.200) and improve its record to 4-1. The Cardinal never trailed throughout the entire match. Key to Stanfords sweep was junior Eddie Penev, who was the all-around winner of the meet for

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Junior Nicole Dayton came back from injury to bolster the Stanford womens gymnastics lineup in its matchup against Oregon State. It was not enough, though, as the Cardinal suffered its first loss of the season.
the third time in a row to open the season. While many considered his performance in last weeks meet to be the best of his career, Penev bettered that with a careerhigh 89.200 on Sunday, including personal-best scores in floor exercise (16.200), still rings (14.500) and parallel bars (15.000). The Cardinals lack of depth, one of the main reasons cited by the coaching staff after the loss at Berkeley, did not appear to affect Stanford much in Saturdays meet. Prior to the match, head coach Thom Glielmi claimed that the team was able to handle the extra pressure associated with this lack of depth, and his gymnasts agreed. While Penev mentioned that there was definitely added pressure, he went on to say that it doesnt change the gymnastics, in that they all still have to go out and execute the routine just as they would anyway. Freshman Brian Knott, who finished third overall for the third straight meet, mentioned that this added pressure could even help the team: It forces you to do better; it adds some more incentive to do well. Stanford has now improved its total score for each of the first three meets and will look to continue this trend as the team next competes on Feb. 12 at Cal. This week, several individual gymnasts will take part in the Winter Cup Challenge in Las Vegas. Contact Connor Scherer at cscherer @stanford.edu.

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