FEATURES/3

CAMPUS TRANSPORT

SPORTS/5

Today

Tomorrow

SENIOR NIGHT
Womens tennis survives close call with Cal
Mostly Cloudy Mostly Cloudy 69 54 66 50

T Stanford Daily The

TUESDAY April 24, 2012

An Independent Publication
www.stanforddaily.com

Volume 241 Issue 45

Alcohol use on par with national average

By MATT BETTONVILLE
DESK EDITOR

LORENA RINCON-CRUZ/The Stanford Daily Data courtesy of the Office of Alcohol Policy and Education

Stanford undergraduates fall just below national averages in alcohol consumption, according to a survey conducted by the Office of Alcohol Policy and Education (OAPE). The survey indicated, however, that Stanford is above average in having alcohol as the center of campus social life, in hard liquor use and in pregaming before events. According to OAPE Director Ralph Castro, the survey was conducted as part of a larger Stanford alcohol initiative including the re-

cent development of the OAPE office. The office used a standard, national survey from the Core Institute in order to compare responses to standard questions with survey results from other institutions. This year, 583 students took the survey. Castro said OAPE will conduct the same survey every year to evaluate trends over time. Compared with the national average of 81.7 percent, 79.7 percent of Stanford students said they had consumed alcohol in the past year. The average number of drinks consumed per week fell well below average, at 3.6 versus the national 4.6.

Despite the near average numbers for overall alcohol consumption, Castro said that some of the more specific drinking habits at Stanford still might be cause for concern and University action. We are above national averages for students who take shots of alcohol, who drink hard liquor and who engage in pre-gaming, Castro said. Those situations . . . are risk factors for negative consequences to happen. OAPE added several questions to the Core Institute survey to eval-

Please see ALCOHOL, page 6

UNIVERSITY

NYC mayor awards NYU public land

Stanford admins frustrated by restraints on disclosing University proposal
By BILLY GALLAGHER
MANAGING EDITOR

ROGER CHEN/The Stanford Daily

Members of student groups concerned with human rights gathered Monday night in a focus group to determine how their groups might share resources and work to collaborate on their campus intiatives. The focus group also discussed the possible creation of a minor in human rights.

STUDENT LIFE

Human rights groups consider collaboration

By KRISTIAN DAVIS BAILEY
DESK EDITOR

Focus group explores common goals, potential for human rights minor

Youre the engine of improving the world today, said Helen Stacy, a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) for International Studies, to a student activism focus group Monday evening. So we want to give you more of what you need to be a platform to help you spread your word. Stacy, a coordinator of FSIs Program on

Human Rights (PHR); Nadejda Marques, PHR program manager; and four members of the student advisory board hosted PHRs first coalition meeting with students Monday at Koret Pavillion to discuss how the program can better support the needs of students interested in human rights academically or extracurricularly. Student leaders representing Six Degrees, Stanford Amnesty International, Stanford Students for Palestinian Equal Rights (SPER), Stanford Students for Queer Liberation (SSQL), Stanford Students Say No to War (SSNW) and STAND attended the event. Stacy began by explaining PHRs main objectives.

We have a goal of being, first of all, a melting pot of human rights research from around the University, Stacy said. Our first function is to be a place where human rights is broadly defined, and faculty, researchers and students can find a home. Stacy added that PHRs second goal is to raise awareness and attract Stanford research on a different human rights topic each year. This years topic is human trafficking, she said. Stacy said that PHR needs student input to determine these topics. In years going forward, we want to make sure our student advisors are responding to

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg awarded New York University (NYU) public land in downtown Brooklyn Monday to build an applied sciences campus. NYU is the second winner, following Cornell in December, in the mayors competition granting city money to boost the New Yorks technology sector. The announcement comes months after Stanford abruptly withdrew its bid three days before Cornell was announced the winner. We are really happy for NYU, Stanford spokeswoman Lisa Lapin said. Its a much smaller concept than ours. But its something that we supported. According to Bloomberg News, Carnegie Mellon University, the City University of New York, the University of Toronto, the University of Warwick, the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, IBM and Cisco Systems will all be involved in the consortium with NYU. The announcement came just hours after The New Yorker published a lengthy piece about Stanford, a significant portion of which

Please see RIGHTS, page 2

Please see NYC, page 2

RESEARCH

Research ties death rates, social factors

By ARIELLA AXLER Internal Medicine Professor Mark Cullen and his interdisciplinary research team published a study last week that illustrates the relationship between death rates and socioeconomic and environmental variables. Cullen and his research team focused the study on 22 socioeconomic and environmental variables that together prove to be better indicators of early death than race or geography. A few years ago,Victor Fuchs, professor of economics and health research and policy, contacted Cullen to become involved in research assessing trends in mortality rates. As a result, Cullen launched the study with Fuchs. The study was a self-initiated idea, Cullen said. We wanted to make some sense of the enormous scope of disparity of death in the country and come up with a unified explanation. U.S. life expectancy varies widely by geographical location, race and other contextual factors, and Cullens team sought to make some sense of the trends. One way of assessing death rates is to examine mortality statistics. However, Cullen said that these indicators often dont illustrate specific details about those who died. Instead, studying the lifestyles of different communities and individuals can serve as important information to understand the determinants of mor-

Jazz Jam

ROGER CHEN/The Stanford Daily

Please see SOCIAL, page 2

A trio featuring an upright bass player, jazz guitarist and drummer performed at the CoHo during a weekly Jazz Jam Monday night. Each week, musicians and spectators gather to perform, improvise and enjoy the music of others.

Index Features/3 Opinions/4 Sports/5 Classifieds/6

Recycle Me

2 N Tuesday, April 24, 2012 WORLD & NATION

The Stanford Daily

Minerva Project seeks to create a new model of education

By AARON SEKHRI
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

As talk about online education ramps up nationwide, The Minerva Project aims to present a new model of higher education. With Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller launching online education start-up Coursera while on sabattical and Stanford artificial intelligence professor Sebastian Thrun curbing his Stanford involvement to start Udacity, an online university, Stanford constituents are heavily involved in determining the future of online education. The Minerva Project presents an alternative model with a mixed online and physical presence that could challenge these Stanford initiatives down the road. The project recently received $25 million in funding from venture capital firm Benchmark Capital. The company is currently generating its video lecture content and hopes to accept its first class of students to begin instruction in fall 2014. Our mission, the reason I founded Minerva, the reason we exist, is to accelerate the life trajectory of the smartest, hardest working students in the world, said Ben Nelson, CEO of The Minerva Project. Because of the capacity constraints of elite universities, the world is losing out. Minerva hopes to leverage new techno-

logical capabilities to create a new pedagogical model: a four-year, residentially based university of elite students where lectures are delivered by video and subsequently dissected and discussed by intimate seminar groups, led by teachers who have completed doctoral degrees. Why should we charge students for things that are out there for free, at an incredibly high quality? Nelson said. We want to teach students only how to think and how to do deep analysis. Nelson said his curriculum will be based on four pillars: empirical, theoretical and systems analysis, complemented by communications. The first year of a Minerva education would entail a core curriculum with no electives. [The classes] would be less about knowledge and more about thinking, Nelson said. Although Minerva would offer degrees in subjects similar to those available at existing universities, the implementation of the educational experience would be almost entirely different than what is currently available. The next two years would build on this foundation, and the fourth year would be a capstone year in which the knowledge and skills are integrated into a project, depending on the students domain of choice. Minervas plan includes physical campus-

es in metropolitan areas, but students will be encouraged to rotate their living environments and engage with their chosen living place as a campus, according to Nelson. The lectures will be delivered by video and will be specifically designed to optimize the discussion environment Minerva will create. Groups of 10 to 25 students in the presence of a teacher will pause videos sporadically to discuss what the virtual lecturer has just explained. We will never make you watch a class that you can simply consume, Nelson said. The recorded lecture is only there to curate discussion. Computer Science Professor Yoav Shoham, who currently co-teaches an online course on game theory to an audience of around 60,000 people around the world, said he think[s] that this is the decade in which higher education is going to undergo significant change. How it will happen, or what the end result will be, is unclear. Shoham is particularly concerned with Minervas proposed timeline of growth. To build an excellent institution takes decades, at least, if not centuries, Shoham said. For this reason, Shoham said he does not believe that elite universities such as Stanford should feel threatened, especially if they adapt to the disruption that new models of

education create. This model will really affect the future of the community colleges and other such institutions, Shoham said. Nelson said that a comparison to Stanford is irrelevant. We dont need to compete with one another. Different students thrive in different environments, and Minerva is serving a particular breed of students, he said. The talent pool is enormous, and our target audience is that global, brilliant middle class. Critics, including Shoham, have argued that Minervas model will lose out on the interactions between student and teacher. Nelson conceded this point, but challenged its relevance. When I was at Penn, he said,I had three classes over four years which really changed me and which I would not be able to replicate at Minerva. But at the same time, I had about 20 or so which I could not only replicate, but improve. Shoham said that the potential for disruption in online education leaves any possibility on the table. I do think that there will be new models of higher education that will rise to complement existing ones, he said. Contact Aaron Sekhri at asekhri@stanford. edu zations to forward information to other mailing lists has not been very successful. If we could have someone from each group who knows everyone else in the other human rights groups, it would make it easier [to co-sponsor and publicize], Naimark said, speaking from his involvement with STAND. Marques clarified that PHR does not wish to make student groups dependent on one another. Its not centralizing its more coordination, Marques said at the conclusion of the meeting. We want to be able to coordinate the work of different groups on campus. Tenzin Seldon 12, a member of PHRs advisory group, commented on what she hopes will develop going forward. Seldon serves as student-at-large on The Dailys Board of Directors. My hope is that this advisory group can echo the sentiments of what Stanford students want and need and should have on campus, Seldon said. I hope that students with an interest in human rights can find every channel . . . every avenue to get involved. Contact Kristian Davis Bailey at kbailey@stanford.edu.

NEWS BRIEF

ASSU proposes bro tank uniform

By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF No one ever comes to ASSU Senate meetings besides the elected Senate . . . and sometimes, not even all the senators are present. Most students in the student body dont know what the ASSU Senate actually does. The student body doesnt even know when ASSU Senate public meetings are. These criticisms come from within the ASSU Senate in a bill drafted by current Senator Brianna Pang 13 and co-sponsored by three other sitting senators, proposing a unique solution to the Senates lack of visibility. The bill proposes that senators be required to wear bro tanks with the words What is an ASSU Senator? on the front and Im an ASSU Senator, silly! on the back on the day of Senate meetings. The bill is a throwback to a constitutional amendment suggested by the Senate in 1994 requiring similar attire to be worn by current representatives. The amendment, which was endorsed by The Stanford Daily editorial board, passed and was implemented for one year. Former Elections Commissioner Adam Adler 12 added several suggestions Monday, some of them mocking the current Senate, in an email over the Senates public email list. One suggestion recommended the shirt read, Whats an ASSU Senator do? on the front and Nothing, silly! We cant even show up to make quorum! on the back, referencing the Senates lack of attendance and tangible objectives in recent weeks. He also recommended the rule only be repealed if unanimously decided upon by all senators and Graduate Student Council members. Additionally, a bill inserting new language to the non-discrimination clause of the ASSU bylaws will be introduced at the Senates Tuesday meeting. The addition prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity, national origin, religious beliefs or lack thereof, socioeconomic status and/or veteran status. The bylaws already prohibit discrimination based on gender, nationality and religion, among other categories.

RIGHTS

Continued from front page

the human rights issues [students] think are hot that need attention right now, that need action, research, activism, focus by the University and focus by the world, she said. Student advisory board and STAND member Jared Naimark 14 said that the best way to achieve this task is to facilitate better coordination of information about student groups, academic programs and research opportunities. We dont necessarily have a grand vision for what this entity that were forming is going to look like, but I think the idea of having representatives from all these different human rights groups come together every once in a while and talking about what theyre doing with their group would make that process of collaboration a lot smoother, Naimark said. Naimark added that another goal of the PHR coalition is to explore ways to connect student groups to academic research from FSI associates.

Tessa Ormenyi 14, another advisory board member and a participant in SSQL, discussed some initiatives the group is considering, including putting together a career and internship database in human rights and having PHR help facilitate student events. Stacy and Marques addressed implementation of such ideas by calling for a consolidation of resources. What I think we might be able to do with some collective action is to maintain a database of professors who are working in human rights, who are teaching human rights units . . . [and] professors who are willing to supervise longer-term research projects in their particular field of expertise, Stacy said. PHR currently hosts lists of affiliated faculty and courses and student groups, but neither of these lists reflects information from the current academic year. In terms of institutional support for student groups and events, Stacy added that PHR currently offers small grants from $100 to $200 to help groups purchase refreshments for events. Marques said that PHR currently uses its Facebook group to publicize events that student

groups send to it, but does not post the events on its official website. Marques also commented on the potential for a minor in human rights. Ultimately what we want is to have the University offer human rights as a concentration, Marques said. The idea is to persuade the University that theres enough student interest at Stanford, that interest has been sustained over time and that theres student demand that the University has to supply, Stacy said. Were in a position to make that case, provided that weve kept track of the steps leading up to it. Stacy concluded that an official academic program in human rights would improve how Stanford contributes to the field in relation to its peers. We want to make sure Stanford has a similar human rights presence at the undergraduate and graduate levels as other universities, she said. Right now we dont, and we need to fix it. When addressing challenges facing student action groups, the focus group commented that its difficult to see which campus events are taking place and that co-sponsoring with other groups or even asking other organi-

SOCIAL

Continued from front page

tality rates. Interdependence is always a question, Cullen said. Variables such as income, education and marital status are huge predictors for accounting for death rates. When you assess the latter factors in correlation to behavior, such as diet and smoking, they demonstrate a heavy dependence. Every 10 years, national census data accounts for population numbers, geographical distribution and other statistical factors. About one in 20 families gets a long form with detailed questions about lifestyle factors, such as income, house ownership, marital status and education. With this information, along with statistics about death rates from various counties, the study discovered the extent to which different variables are relevant to death rates. In addition to census data, the research team looked further into

Brendan OByrne

the multidimensional factors that impact populations and correspond to disparities in health outcomes. Equally high-quality data can be drawn from publicly available data sets, Cullen said. For example, from [the Environmental Protection Agency], you can look at data about air pollution; from the Oceanic Institute, you can get information about climate; from various sources, you can look at ratings about hospitals; or you can use surveys from [the Centers for Disease Control] about population behavior. The study incorporated widespread public data, assessing approximately 570 counties that have equal racial distributions of whites and blacks. Despite the diversity of the locations, transparent trends emerged from the data. Many social factors are interrelated; however, whats not interrelated is geography and race, Cullen said. Where black people enjoy high levels of education, they do as well as white counterparts. However, for gender there is a difference. Women can have the

same education and resources, yet do much better than men. This is something we are still trying to explain. The study returned clear trends in its results, which may help to advance public conceptions of welfare and healthcare necessities. Think about how different each city is, from the Bronx to Los Angeles, from San Francisco to Atlanta; yet every country falls into same blanket, Cullen said. Once you know the major determinants, you can almost always predict the death rates. Cullen and his research group plan to expand the study and look at transnational trends of death rates. On a domestic level, however, the research points out important information for national healthcare priorities. In the national debate about

changing the healthcare system, if you want to level the playing field for health, you should invest in education, housing, job quality and social welfare, because those are where the differences in death rates are made up, Cullen said. As these results indicate the influence of social policy on health, the research findings may have implications for the political domain. All policy is actually health policy the environment, making housing better, improving the job market, Cullen said. From the point of view of public health, all investments affect public health. If you want to help communities maintain better health, it is important not just to run and get more doctors; rather it is critical to improve the social fabric. Contact Ariella Axler at aaxler@stanford.edu. mation to come out regarding Stanfords bid since January. According to Lapin, Stanford has not been able to release its $2.5 billion proposal, which cost the University $3 million, to the public because the mayors office and the New York City Economic Development Corporation said the competition was still ongoing. In the interest of transparency, we should be allowed to share our proposal, Lapin said. Its not a situation thats competitive with anything else still being proposed or negotiated. Were very frustrated that the city doesnt want our proposal to be seen. In a Monday press release, the mayors office wrote, Collectively, these institutions along with other potential winners will further strengthen New York Citys global competiveness. This could potentially mean that the city will continue the competition, despite already selecting two winners. By continuing the competition, New York may be able to prevent Stanford from releasing its proposal because of previous non-disclosure agreements between the two parties. We remain frustrated at the delays which are now many months beyond their original intended announcement date, Lapin wrote in an email to The Daily. Contact Billy Gallagher at wmg2014@stanford.edu.

NYC

Continued from front page

covered the Universitys decision to withdraw its bid in the New York competition. Publicly, the university was vague about the decision [to withdraw], and, in a statement, [President John Hennessy] praised the mayors bold vision, wrote Ken Auletta in The New Yorker. But he was seething. In January, he told me that the city had changed the terms of the proposed deal. After seven universities had submitted their bids, he said, the city suddenly wanted Stanford to agree that the campus would be operational, with a full complement of faculty, sooner than Stanford thought was feasible. Stanfords general counsel and lead negotiator Debra Zumwalt told The New Yorker that the city added many millions of dollars in penalties that were not in the original proposal, including penalizing Stanford for failure to obtain approvals on a certain schedule, even if the delays were the fault of the city and not Stanford. I have been a lawyer for over thirty years, and I have never seen negotiations that were handled so poorly by a reputable party, Zumwault added. The New Yorker piece presented some of the first new infor-

The Stanford Daily

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 N 3

ruising around campus C

By SIERRA FREEMAN

FEATURES

or the most part, Stanford has everything students need right on campus, only a quick bike ride away from the dorms. But while biking is the most popular mode of transportation for students, there are a wide variety of transportation options available for students who opt for something other than two wheels.

For many, the choice of transportation depends on the destination. You can take the Marguerite a decent amount, Keith Wyngarden 15 said.But itll only get you so far. The problem with the Marguerite is that you have to be proactive about schedule times and where you want to go has to be on [one of the routes]. While the free bus system offers a total of 144 stops on or around campus, it is restricted to destinations in the Stanford area, as opposed to locations in nearby Mountain View and Redwood City. Even still, its reliability and price or lack thereof makes the Marguerite a popular means of transportation for Stanford students without cars or those simply unwilling to make the long walk or bike ride to reach downtown Palo Alto. Some students choose another four-wheeled vehicle to get around skateboards or longboards. Owen Falk 15 said he opts for boarding simply because its more fun than riding a bike. Despite the boards slower speed and lack of brakes, Falk said he finds it more enjoyable than most other modes of transportation. Other popular options for students seeking more flexibility or to travel greater distances are rental car or ridesharing services, such as Zipcar and Wheelz. Zipcar, a nationwide rental car company, allows students to sign up to rent one of 39 cars located in 16 locations on campus. Zipcar charges a $25 application fee, an annual fee of $60 and an hourly rate (roughly $8 an hour) during the actual period of use. While Zipcar rents out cars specifically for student use, Wheelz, another rental car company, allows individuals in the Stanford area to rent out their personal cars to those in need of a temporary ride. Car owners are paid an hourly or daily amount based on how frequently

On the Farm

their car is rented, with rates varying on the year, make and model of the car. As previously reported by The Daily, Wheelz recently received a $13.7 million investment from Zipcar to expand the reach of its services. Rental cars and ridesharing programs encourage carpooling in order to split the costs of driving a car, helping to reduce gas emissions and other harmful environmental effects. Yet perhaps the most flexible mode of transportation for students despite the associated costs is the use of their own cars. While freshmen cannot apply for an oncampus parking permit, upperclassmen enjoy the freedom and utility the combination of bike and car ownership provides. According to Shane Hegde 13, having access to a car makes getting around the area and off campus much easier. I use my car about five times a week, he said. I get to go out with friends, I can go to the grocery store whenever I want whenever is convenient. Rafael Witten 12 uses a combination of bike and car transportation to get around and is sure to use a bike light at night, as he once had to attend a bicycle diversion class through the Stanford Department of Public Safety.

From biking to busing, driving to longboarding, Stanford students and college students across the country have a variety of options when it comes to transportation

With all of the options available from self-owned cars to Zipcars to the Marguerite some students choose to factor in green thinking, making the most environmentally responsible decision. Kenneth Qin 15, green living coordinator in freshman dorm Soto in Wilbur Hall, argues it is necessary for people to consider environmental factors when evaluating their transportation choices, but he notes that the Stanford campus is already very environmentally conscious when it comes to these decisions. Stanford is such a green campus already, he said. I encourage people to live more environmentally friendly lifestyles, but pretty much everyone uses bikes or public transit here. As Qin points out, biking or skateboarding are obviously the top choices for zero-emissions travel. Stanford boasts 13,000 registered bicycles on campus, accord-

Safe (and smart) travels

ERIC KOFMAN/ The Stanford Daily

ing to Brodie Hamilton, director of Parking and Transportation Services (PTS). However, with so much bike traffic, there are risks for bikers and non-bikers alike. Many fail to follow the rules of the road, like stopping at stop signs or yielding the right of way when appropriate, riding on the right side of the road or path, using a light when riding at night, riding too fast or while distracted, Hamilton wrote in an email to The Daily. He also added that helmetwearing rates at Stanford are very low, citing a number of reasons including students feeling that they look geeky, that wearing a helmet is uncool or contrary to the Stanford student culture or that

bikers do not want to pay for a helmet. He maintains that these are not justifying excuses. Students and their families make a considerable financial investment to attend Stanford, he said. Spending $10 to $15 for a bike helmet is a cheap investment to protect the grey matter on which they are spending so much to educate. In order to combat this issue, PTS has founded numerous outreach programs to educate students about biking safety, even handing out free bike lights to a select number of dorms. Like Stanford, colleges across the country boast a variety of transportation methods to cater to individual students needs and the

Comparisons across campuses

demands of their specific campus locations. UC-Davis, located in what is known as The Bicycle Capital of the United States, boasts that the name Davis and the word bicycle are synonymous, since the majority of all traffic near and on campus consists of bike traffic. Like Stanford, Harvard University and Yale University host Zipcars on campus and encourage students to walk, bike or carpool when possible. For instance, Yale boasts a car rental program, Relay Rides, which is similar to Stanfords Wheelz. Through Relay Rides, the cars, typically owned by students, are rented out and returned at a time specified by the owner. As advertised on Yales website for Relay Rides, the programs allows

Please see TRANSPORT, page 6

t might seem strange, but just as the harmful effects of tobacco were not well known a half-century ago, many people also did not recognize the dangers of too little sleep. Not until William Dement, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and

CATCHING UP ON SLEEP I
founder of the Sleep Research Center (widely regarded as the worlds first sleep laboratory), set up summer sleep camps during the 1970s at what was then the Lambda Nu fraternity now the self-op Jerry, named after the late Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead.

It was the first time anyone had ever used a large residence to study sleep, Dement said. Dements work in Jerry was commemorated earlier this year with a plaque placed in the entryway of the residence, which once housed both undergrads living on campus

ROGER CHAN/The Stanford Daily

Self-op Jerry was the location of numerous summer sleep camps conducted by leading sleep researcher and founder of the Sleep Research Center, William Dement, during the 1970s. Dements landmark research was the first to use data collected over multiple nights.

during the summer and participating in the research, and the researchers themselves. The researchers could actually manipulate the subjects sleep, Dement said. He said the biggest surprise to come out of the Jerry sleep camps was just how much sleep can affect an individuals day-to-day performance. According to Dement, more sleep can make a person vacillate between widely different moods turning a person from an idiot to a genius, cranky to cheerful or morose to happy. Along with colleague Mary Carskadon, now a professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University, Dement paid subjects to live at Jerry for about a week at a time, comparing their ability to do tasks after a night in which they received the proper amount of sleep with their ability to perform the same tasks while suffering from sleep deprivation. During Dements study, a subject might go to bed at 10 p.m. the first night and be awakened at 8 a.m. and, the next night, go to bed at 12 a.m. to be awakened at 6 a.m. Researchers would then study how long it took the person to feel and act normal and fully rested again. Researchers had studied sleep before, but usually only in one-night increments. Asked for his advice to sleep-deprived Stanford students beyond the obvious solution of getting more shut-eye Dement had good news. If you stay up all night, [you] can restore with about seven or eight hours because sleep is deeper, he said. He also noted that recent research conducted by his colleague Cheri Mah 06 M.S. 07 on the Stanford mens basketball team has shown that sleep deprivation can affect athletic performance. When the players got more sleep, their cognitive reaction times improved. According to Mahs study, athletes who worry primarily about nutrition and training should also focus on getting more sleep. So does Dement himself ever have trouble sleeping? Apparently, not much. The source of almost all [my] sleeping issues is nervousness and lecturing, he said. But after 40 years of teaching, he suggests that academic duties are second nature to him, much in the same manner as catching some Zs.
Katie Kramon

4 N Tuesday, April 24, 2012

OPINIONS
O P-E D

The Stanford Daily

A day of remembrance

Established 1892 Board of Directors Margaret Rawson President and Editor in Chief Anna Schuessler Chief Operating Officer Sam Svoboda Vice President of Advertising Theodore L. Glasser Michael Londgren Robert Michitarian Nate Adams Tenzin Seldon Rich Jaroslovsky

AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
Managing Editors Brendan OByrne Deputy Editor Kurt Chirbas & Billy Gallagher Managing Editors of News Jack Blanchat Managing Editor of Sports Marwa Farag Managing Editor of Features Sasha Arijanto Managing Editor of Intermission Mehmet Inonu Managing Editor of Photography Amanda Ach Columns Editor Willa Brock Head Copy Editor Serenity Nguyen Head Graphics Editor Alex Alifimoff Web and Multimedia Editor Nate Adams Multimedia Director MollyVorwerck & Zach Zimmerman Staff Development

The Stanford Daily

Incorporated 1973 Tonights Desk Editors Matt Bettonville News Editor Molly Vorwerck Features Editor Zach Zimmerman Sports Editor Roger Chen Photo Editor Willa Brock Copy Editor

or those of you who are not aware, there was a genocide that did take place against the Armenian people . . . We have seen a constant denial on the part of the Turkish government. It has become a sore spot diplomatically. America deserves a leader who speaks truthfully about the Armenian genocide and responds forcefully to all genocides. I intend to be that president. Senator Barack Obama in his presidential campaign, 2008

On this day, April 24, 2012, 10 million Armenians around the world commemorate the 97th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the premeditated annihilation of 1.5 million Armenians living in Ottoman Turkey in 1915. This first genocide of the modern period nearly erased the presence of the Armenians from Eastern Anatolia, expunging an ancient civilization from its ancestral homeland of more than 3,000 years. On April 24, 1915, the Young Turk government began the systematic genocide of its Armenian citizens, an unarmed Christian minority population. They arrested and executed the Armenian intellectual elite and community heads in Constantinople (Istanbul), which successfully deprived the community of its leadership. Armenian men were either forced into military labor battalions and then murdered at their worksites or summarily executed outside of their towns and villages. Under orders from Constantinople, the Ottoman military uprooted the Armenian women, children, and elderly from their homes. They were forced to march and then were brutally killed on the roadsides or starved to death. Those few who arrived in the Syrian desert died of starvation, disease or in primitive gas chamber caves. The present Turkish government continues to officially deny these facts and promotes a revisionist history. So why is recognition of these events relevant today? It is important for societies and governments to take responsibility for crimes that occurred in their past in order to be partners in a civilized world as well as to earn reconciliation with victims and their descendants. In a 2005 letter

to Prime Minister Erdogan, the International Association of Genocide Scholars wrote: We believe that it is clearly in the interest of the Turkish people and their future as proud and equal participants in international, democratic discourse to acknowledge the responsibility of a previous government for the genocide of the Armenian people, just as the German government and people have done in the case of the Holocaust. We, the Stanford Armenian Students Association, would like to inform the Stanford community of this history because we Armenians still feel the pain of this genocide and the associated official denial. Many Turkish citizens and scholars recognize the Armenian genocide, notably scholar Taner Akam. He is among the larger international contingent of genocide and Holocaust scholars who openly discuss the truth of the Armenian genocide and speak out against the Turkish government. The legal scholar Raphael Lemkin, who coined the word genocide in 1943, did so precisely because of the Armenians. As he told one interviewer: I became interested in genocide because it happened so many times. First to the Armenians, then after the Armenians, Hitler took action. To date, 21 countries including Canada, France, and Russia have officially recognized the events of 1915 as genocide. The U.S. government, despite its many promises, has yet to officially use the word genocide to describe the events of 1915, not because it is not the truth, but because the use of such a statement could jeopardize Turkish-American relations. Unfortunately, President Obamas campaign commitments have not been fulfilled. Our Stanford community must bear witness to this injustice. A civilized society can only be built on the pillars of truth and not on denial and revision. On this day, please take a moment to remember the victims of the Armenian genocide and all other victims of crimes against humanity.
NAIRI STRAUCH 14 NAREK TOVMASYAN 13 The Stanford Armenian Students Association

Contacting The Daily: Section editors can be reached at (650) 721-5815 from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. The Advertising Department can be reached at (650) 721-5803, and the Classified Advertising Department can be reached at (650) 721-5801 during normal business hours. Send letters to the editor to eic@stanforddaily.com, op-eds to editorial@stanforddaily.com and photos or videos to multimedia@stanforddaily.com. Op-eds are capped at 700 words and letters are capped at 500 words.

FROM FARM TO FORK

Food breakthroughs and food breakdowns

Rove v. Gibbs is not helping

s the masses fill up Circus MemAud this afternoon to watch Rove vs. Gibbs, the biggest surprise for me is that the debate isnt happening on Sunday SUNDAY SUNDAY!!! Wasnt it just last week that we were calling for a more civil political discourse in the aftermath of ASSU election season? Which party is better suited to lead? This is a question that is being asked. I fail to see how

any self-respecting educational institution can sanction the idea of essentialism in ones party alignment, much less apply it to leadership capabilities. We put on events like this and then wonder why American politics is so toxic and partisan. I hope those attending are at least planning on pre-gaming, because from the looks of it, this debate is spectacle and nothing more.
PETER MCDONALD 11 Occupier of Meyer Library

he term food desert has gained popularity in recent years as a way of describing low-income rural or urban neighborhoods that lack access to fresh fruits and vegetables. However, two recent studies have attacked the concept of a food desert. Research by the Public Policy Institute of California suggests that poor urban neighborhoods have twice as many supermarkets and large-scale grocers per square mile than do their more affluent counterparts, and a study by the RAND Corporation found no relationship between childhood obesity and the type of food outlets within a mile and a half of a childs home. These are important findings, but both studies missed the point. Food deserts are explicitly defined as areas with low access to supermarkets or grocery stores, not simply lowincome urban neighborhoods.

Our focus on debating the existence of inequalities in access has helped us continue to ignore the underlying health and hunger problems. Vast inequalities exist with regards to food access. As activist Nikki Henderson suggests, the widening income-inequality gap has helped keep some individuals in a state of perpetual food breakthrough, while others are locked into perpetual breakdown. Without exposure to the opposite state, its hard to conceptualize how deeply rooted these problems are in society. Having grown up in Fresno County, I was given a pretty good understanding of the breakthroughs. My family had local, fresh, organically grown produce delivered weekly from a friends farm, and bike rides to the neighborhood farmers market were a Saturday morning routine. (Dont worry, life wasnt always this idyllically romantic. I still had my chance to try Lunchables, Taco Bell and canned pineapples when Dad was in the kitchen.) With $5.9 billion in total gross production value from nuts, poultry, raisin grapes, milk and over 350 other commodities, Fresno is the most agriculturally valuable county in the state and one of the most agriculturally productive regions of the world. Sadly, the county also has one of the highest food insecurity rates in the state. Almost 200,000 individuals are classified as food insecure in Fresno County, which means they have limited or uncertain access to adequate food, according to the USDA. More than half of those individuals are children, making the childhood food insecurity rate a frightening 35.4 percent of the population under age 18. Many of the food insecure households are composed of farmworkers who grow our food but lack a living wage to feed their own families. That Fresno County can simultaneously produce the largest agricultural revenue in the state and sustain such high levels of food insecurity highlights the sharp divide between food breakthroughs and food breakdowns. But you dont need to venture into Californias interior to find food injustices. California has six

Jenny Rempel
counties with more than 100,000 food insecure children each, more than any other state in the union. There are 100,170 children living in food insecure households in our own Santa Clara County, meaning there is a 23.6 percent childhood food insecurity rate in the county once known as the Valley of Hearts Delight for its abundant fruit orchards. A study by the Food Empowerment Project found that low-income neighborhoods in Santa Clara County had fewer supermarkets, lower access to produce, almost no access to organic produce and lower-quality fruits and vegetables than their high-income counterparts. There are both local and broader actions individuals can take to raise awareness about hunger and reduce these glaring inequalities. The Stanford Project on Hunger (SPOON) is always seeking volunteers to assist with leftover food deliveries. Recognizing the value of leftover food from campus eateries and dining halls, SPOON activists collect leftovers and transport this food to the Palo Alto Opportunity Center. In recent years, they have redirected over 12,000 pounds of food that would otherwise have been wasted. Students and campus organizations can also volunteer to serve breakfast at the Opportunity Center. Though it may seem like an insignificant gesture, interacting with individuals who are in the midst of a food system breakdown can expose student activists to real food insecurity, reinvigorating broader efforts to address malnutrition in our society. We produce enough food to feed Americans, but our system is stuck in a state of inequality. Access to affordable, culturally relevant, healthy, sustainable food should not be a pie-in-the-sky goal. It should be a basic right. Need help understanding how breakthroughs can relate to breakdowns? Email Jenny at jrempel@ stanford.edu.

The Stanford Daily

SPORTS
Tom Taylor

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 N 5

Enjoy it while it lasts

ometimes Im not really sure why I invest so much of myself in soccer; its hard to say I really enjoy myself much when watching either my home club or national team. Yes, my heart races, but usually with a sense of impending doom rather than joy. Although the start of each season or major tournament inevitably seems to promise hope, the end almost always comes as a relief. This year, though, is different. Not just because Euro 2012 kicks off in just over a months time, or even that London will get to host the Olympics and the rarest and most divisive of things, a united British soccer team. No, this year is different because, even before the current action has finished, the kickoff to the new season when my home team, Reading FC, will begin its glorious return to the Premier League seems such a desperately long way off. Right now, life is sweet, and sports are fun. I feel no sense of rueful jealousy watching the Champions League semifinals. Just to see some English representation in the final, I might even cheer for Chelsea when it travels to Spain today, hoping to hold onto a narrow 1-0 advantage over fan-favorite Barcelona. Or maybe Ill put my support behind Real Madrid tomorrow, somehow suspending the fact I absolutely despise Cristiano Ronaldo and pardoning manager Jose Mourinho for some unjustified remarks in the aftermath of Petr Cechs nasty head injury at Reading back in 2006. In the same vein, something that always impressed me about former Stanford great Nnemkadi Ogwumike, who signed with the WNBAs LA Sparks just a week ago, was how much fun she always seemed to be having. On court, in practice and even in press conferences, she was consistently cheerful and enthusiastic. I guess it helps to be always winning, and having never personally seen the Cardinal lose on the Farm the team currently holds a 79game winning streak at Maples Pavilion Ive never had to face her after a defeat. But there are many incredibly successful athletes who dont have such a sunny disposition. Nneka is, without a doubt, living the dream. Not only is she going to earn a healthy sum of money in her career, but she also gets to be a professional sports star. I know many of you reading this would give everything to be able to say the same, but your aspirations simply started too late, you just werent good enough or your dreams were killed by injury. Its natural to be a bit jealous, but the feelings would be far worse if she stormed around in a bad mood, failing to enjoy the life and talent given to her. Sport is, at the end of the day, a form of entertainment. It should be fun, but all too often we take it too seriously, and we overcomplicate things tactically, financially and emotionally. None of that ever does us any good. My fellow writer Jack Mosbacher diagnosed the Cardinal baseball teams woes last week as a result of nothing more than the team not enjoying itself. That is often a reinforcing cycle: no fun leads to bad results, which quickly pile on the pressure and make it even harder to bring the enjoyment back. Losing sight of the fun is not just a failing of fans and players, either. Over the weekend, the Fdration Internationale de lAutomobile (FIA) brought Formula 1 back to the deeply troubled kingdom of Bahrain. Instead of simple family entertainment, the sport allowed itself to be wielded as a political tool under the tagline of UniF1ed: One Nation in Celebration! This little gulf state is anything but that. Since the start of the Arab Spring, it has seen continued unrest as the majority Shia population seek greater say in their countrys affairs from the ruling Sunni minority. Last years race was called off, but despite protests and the death of at least one person, this years event went ahead as planned. F1 organizers claimed that the decision was the right one and that it was only in Bahrain as a sporting entity, disconnected from any political machinations. Losing sight of reality and putting the importance of

DOUBLES POINT CRUCIAL IN 4-3 WIN OVER CAL

By DAVID PEREZ
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

JUST BEAR-LY

On a sultry Saturday at Taube Family Tennis Stadium, the No. 5 Stanford womens tennis team defeated Cal 4-3 on Senior Night to all but lock up a share of the Pac-12 championship. Veronica Li, the lone senior on the team, was honored before the match with warmhearted tributes from her coaches and loud ovations from the crowd. Li was praised for the consistency and ability that she demonstrated over her four years as a starter. She won a total of 78 singles matches and 73 doubles matches during her time at Stanford. She has meant so much to me on a personal level and also on a tennis level, said sophomore Nicole Gibbs. She will be very important to us going into NCAAs, especially because she has so much experience, added junior Mallory Burdette. Although Li faltered in singles, losing 6-0, 6-1, her doubles victory alongside junior Natalie Dillon proved to be crucial in the teams victory. The No. 10 Golden Bears are formidable in doubles with two duos ranked in the top 15, including the No. 5 duo on court two that handed junior Stacey Tan and freshman Ellen Tsay an 8-2 loss. Burdette and Gibbs won 8-6 on court one, despite losing four straight games after being ahead 6-2 early in the match. The doubles point proved to be the deciding factor in a match with added importance for the Cardinal. Both teams knew the winner would have a chance at a share of the Pac-12 title along with USC, the other team in the conference with only one loss. The only thing standing between Stanford and a share of the title is a makeup match with No. 31 Washington State on Wednesday, which the teams postponed earlier in the season because of rain. Since 1987, Stanford has won at least a share of the Pac-12 championship in every year except 2009. The win was also important because the Cardinal is coming off its first defeat of the season, a 5-2 home loss to then-No. 1 UCLA. This was really big for our confidence as a team after coming off of last weeks loss, Burdette said. No. 5 Burdette defeated a formidable opponent in No. 11 Zsofi Susanyi 6-2, 6-4 on court two for her 17th victory in a row. She was the first player to finish her match, a sight that is becoming increasingly familiar to Stanford fans. No. 4 Gibbs, on the other hand, had a lot to prove in her match against No. 6 Jana Juricova. Gibbs lost last weekend against UCLA, only her second loss of the season and the first since mid-February. On top of that, Juricova beat Gibbs in a third-set tiebreak in last years NCAA singles semifinal. Gibbs took Saturdays match 7-6 (2), 6-2, beating Juricova for the second time this year. Even with all of the personal implications, Gibbs stressed what her victory meant for the team. It was that much more important for me because it helped our team pull out the 4-3 victory, Gibbs said. Gibbs was not playing her best tennis early, falling behind 5-3, but she hung in to tie the match at 6-6 and win the tiebreak 7-2. After closing out the set, Gibbs gave a big fist pump to the crowd, which was concentrated in the shady section of the stands directly above court one. The atmosphere was awesome, just a lot of support and a lot of noise. [The crowd] ab-

MADELINE SIDES/The Stanford Daily

The Stanford womens tennis team inched closer to a share of the Pac-12 title with a win over Cal on Saturday. The Card takes on Washington State in a makeup match on Wednesday.
solutely helped pull me through the first set, Gibbs said. The sun affected everyone involved on Saturday and was responsible for uncharacteristically high temperatures. Water coolers had to be refilled several times, and a few players even went in for shade between sets. Stanford seemed to deal with the heat somewhat better than its opponent. The Cardinal went 4-2 on second sets, although freshman Ellen Tsay did lose a tiebreak that replaced her third set after Stanford had already clinched a victory. We were fortunate to play a team that was just as affected as we were, instead of one of the teams from the South, Gibbs said. The Cardinal dropped all three points on the lower courts, as junior Natalie Dillon lost 6-4, 6-2 at court six along side Li at five and Tsay at four. The Cardinal has a busy weekend coming up, as Wednesdays makeup with Washington State precedes the Pac-12 championships. The matchup with the Cougars is slated to begin at 11:30 a.m. in Ojai, Calif., which will also serve as the home of the conference tournament. Contact David Perez at davidp3@stanford.edu.

Mosbacher Minute

GYMNASTICS

Theres no place like Sunken Diamond

By JACK MOSBACHER
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Men, women finish top-five

CARD OVERCOMES TOUGH ODDS AT NATIONAL MEETS
By CONNOR SCHERER
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Jack Mosbacher was a member of the Stanford baseball team from 2008-2011. Each week, hell take a look at the Cardinals ups and downs on its road to the College World Series.
Suddenly, everything was going right for No. 10 Stanford again this weekend, as the Cardinal swept No. 23 Arizona State and clawed its way back into the race for the Pac-12 title. Most importantly, the Cardinal righted its previously sinking ship, breaking out of an ugly offensive slump to score 34 runs in three wins against the Sun Devils in a mustwin series. The Cardinal is peaking at the right time. Stanford probably cant lose another series if they hope to get home-field advantage for the Regional and Super Regional tournaments. Baseball can be a fickle game. Every season has its mountains and valleys, and

Stanford has struggled mightily at times in the current campaign. However, this team has proven itself a fighter. The firepower displayed in this weekends return-to-form offensive explosion against one of the nations best pitching staffs showed once again just how potent this Cardinal offense can be when clicking on all nine cylinders. Now that things are back to normal, its time for this Stanford team to revisit its goals and recommit to a plan for reaching them. At the outset of every season, Stanfords goals are the same: compete for a Pac-12 Championship and make it to the College World Series in Omaha. This past weekends series marked the halfway point in Pac-12 play. Though it feels like the season started only a few weeks ago, time is flying by. What does Stanford have to do to make its Omaha dreams a reality? When it comes to predicting which

After a thrilling regional competition in which the Stanford womens gymnastics team barely qualified for NCAAs, the Cardinal entered the national tournament ranked 10th out of 12 teams competing. Though the team faced an uphill battle, head coach Kristen Smyth knew that, if her gymnasts could successfully hit their routines, they could compete with anyone in the country. She was right. Stanford was led by freshman Ivana Hong and sophomore captain Amanda Spinner on the balance beam and freshman Samantha Shapiro on uneven bars, all of whom scored 9.900 in their respective events to help the Cardinal to its first score above 197 in two years and its second-highest score ever at nationals. By finishing in the top four of their events, they also earned first-team All-American honors as well as the chance to compete in the individual competitions on Sunday.

Please see TAYLOR, page 6

Please see BASEBALL, page 6

Please see GYM, page 6

6 N Tuesday, April 24, 2012

The Stanford Daily

Diamond. Is Stanford talented enough to pull this off? Without a doubt. Will they? Thats a whole other question. I guess thats what will make these last five weeks of regular season baseball worth watching. For now, the Cardinal needs to come together around the shared and immediate goal of performing their best in the final five series of the season in order to set up an optimal scenario for getting to Omaha. After that, all bets are off. This Stanford team has proven conclusively that it can play with anybody, so having to play a Regional or Super Regional on the road will not necessarily be a death knell for this gifted team. However, hosting should become this teams primary goal as it heads down the home stretch of the 2012 season. If the Cardinal can pull it off, opponents will be hard-pressed to keep this team out of Omaha in June. Contact Jack Mosbacher at jackmos@stanford.edu. fend their national title. First, however, they had to earn the opportunity to defend their crown, as they had to get through the field of six teams on Thursday in the qualifying meet. The Cardinal posted a score of 348.500, just good enough to qualify for Fridays competition. Thursdays meet was highlighted by the work of junior Eddie Penev, who led the team in typical fashion. His 15.750 on floor earned him second in the event, while his 15.450 on vault gave him the individual victory. His overall score of 87.150 was good for second in the entire competition. Other notables were redshirt freshman Sean Senters on vault (15.250) and redshirt junior Cameron Foreman (15.100) on parallel bars. On Friday, the undermanned Stanford team had the daunting task of protecting its national title, a task that the team was ultimately unable to handle. The team finished with a team score of 352.650, earning Stanford a fifthplace finish behind Illinois (358.850), Oklahoma (357.450), Penn State (354.800) and Cal (353.000). Though this is just the first time in seven years under head coach Thom Glielmi that the mens gymnastics team has finished worse than third, his entire team will return next year to try to reclaim its throne. Penev, however, dominated Saturdays individual competition, as he earned the national championship in both floor and vault. These two first-place finishes gave him three total national titles in his career, as he won vault as a freshman. Foreman, Senters and redshirt sophomore Paul Hichwa also earned All-American honors to wrap up a successful season for the Cardinal. Contact Connor Scherer at cscherer@stanford.edu. ty life, compared to 77.9 percent nationally. There isnt anything else to do, said Jacob Cruz 14, who said he does not drink. Cruz said that socially, he usually just abstains at events with alcohol present or does not go out. Theres different kinds of drinking scenes, Cruz said. You have the huge, big house parties, and then you have just the chillbacks. I enjoy those [chill-backs] a little bit more. OAPE started a program this year called Cardinal Nights to offer alternative, alcohol-free activities for the weekends, but the program is still in its infancy. For me [the survey] was clarification that were on the right track, Castro said of OAPEs response to the numbers. One survey question, addressing student likelihood to attend alcohol-free events, divided students into thirds, according to Castro, with one third each saying they were likely to attend, unlikely to attend and unsure. Castro said he wants OAPE to adjust its offerings to target the unsure group. For me, we need to make it OK for people to want to go [to alcoholfree events], Castro said. Some numbers, however, indicated that students are already making healthy alcohol decisions. Nationally, 20.2 percent of students reported ever performing poorly in their schoolwork as a result of drinking, but only 12.7 percent of Stanford students reported the same. Stanford also fell below averages for vomiting or feeling nauseated because of alcohol and for other consequences like driving under the influence (6.9 percent at Stanford, 24.1 percent nationally). Even though only 13 percent of students say theyve performed poorly on a test because of drinking, thats still a significant number of students given our academic rigor, Castro said. Contact Matt Bettonville at mbettonville@stanford.edu.

BASEBALL
Continued from page 5
teams will make it through the playoffs to Omaha in June, one variable consistently exerts an overriding influence: hosting a Regional. Hosting both Regional and Super Regional contests at home has far-reaching implications for a team trying to make it to the World Series. In last years tournament, seven of the eight teams that made it to Omaha played both their Regional and Super Regional on their home turf. Although correlation doesnt necessarily mean causation, theres something to be said for this apparent relationship. Any team trying to reach the World Series while playing on the road is fighting an improbable, though not impossible, uphill battle. Take last years Stanford team, for instance. After finishing the season on a hot streak, the Cardinal upset host Cal State-

Fullerton in the Regional and headed to Chapel Hill to face North Carolina in the Super Regional. This time, Stanford was playing in heat and humidity the likes of which most of the players had never experienced. Suddenly, the strike zone would grow eight inches for the Cardinal hitters and pull a magical shrinking act when the Tar Heels came to the plate. Two lightning-quick games later, Stanfords season was over. Point being, Stanford needs to set its sights on becoming one of the top-eight national seeds in this years tournament, thus securing home field advantage throughout the playoffs. By my count, Stanford will need to win a pair of hard-fought series against UCLA and Oregon State and hope for a sweep against Washington State, lowly Utah or Cal to end the year. Should the season end this way, Id be shocked if Stanford didnt lock up the seventh or eighth seed in the 64-team playoff and win the right to host the Regional and Super Regional at Sunken UCLA (197.750), Stanford, Utah (197.375) and Arkansas (196.300) in a competition consisting of only Pac-12 and SEC teams. The story of the day was Hong, who competed in all four events for the first time all season and didnt disappoint. Highlighted by a 9.975 on vault (her best of the season and tied for second best in the competition behind a perfect 10 by UCLAs Vanessa Zamarripa), Hong scored a 39.475 in the overall competition, the best allaround score for Stanford this season. In her first competition on bars of the year, she scored a 9.875. Junior Nicole Dayton also had a career performance on Saturday, tying her career-best 9.950 on vault to help lead the team to a 49.550 score in the event, its second-best vault score in school history. In its final meet, the senior class elevated its performance. Brown received a 9.925 on vault and a 9.900 on bars, while Pechanec recorded a 9.900 on both floor and bars. However, though their team competition was done, the Stanford gymnasts still had more to settle, as Spinner, Hong and Shapiro all had work to do in the individuals competition. Shapiro led the way, finishing with a 9.900 on the uneven bars to earn herself second in the entire competition and becoming only the second Stanford competitor ever to finish within the top two in the event. Hong and Spinner tied for fourth on the balance beam with a 9.875 to cap off a truly incredible season for womens gymnastics. The Stanford men had a very similar weekend, astonishing or a team so badly marred by injuries all season long. Fielding just a 10person team entering the final weekend, the Stanford gymnasts knew they would all have to be on their game in order to make a statement in their attempt to dehard liquor and pre-gaming, Stanford still fell below national numbers in the Core Institute survey for binge drinking, which is usually considered a metric of high-risk drinking behavior. At Stanford, 40.9 percent of students reported having five or more drinks in a row in the last two weeks, whereas nationally 43.1 percent reported the same behavior. Another area of concern for OAPE is in the alcohol-centered culture that students reported experiencing at Stanford. Notably, 84.5 percent of students said that people at Stanford drink because it gives them something to do, almost 13 percent above the national average. To me that was a big one, Castro said. When people say the perceived effect of alcohol is that it just gives people something to do, then it means people are maybe just bored on given weekends. One of the largest divergences from national averages came from asking if students think the social atmosphere on campus promotes alcohol use. At Stanford, 73.6 percent of students said yes, whereas only 47.7 percent nationally said yes. Fraternities in particular were believed to promote alcohol use: 94.8 percent of students said they consider alcohol central to fraterni-

CLASSIFIEDS
DONORS WANTED
$$ SPERM DONORS WANTED $$ Earn up to $1,200/month. Give the gift of family through California Cryobanks donor program. Apply online: SPERMBANK.com ASIAN EGG DONOR NEEDED We are seeking a smart, intelligent, attractive, and healthy woman with athletic abilities If you would consider donating your eggs to an amazing happy couple,please contact:info@aperfectmatch.com 1-800-264-8828 Generous compensation for time and travel CA Health and Safety Code Section 125325: "Egg donation involves a screening process. Not all potential egg donors are selected. Not all selected egg donors receive the monetary amounts or compensation advertised. As with any medical procedure, there may be risks associated

(650) 721-5803
www.stanforddaily. com/classifieds
with human egg donation. Before an egg donor agrees to begin the egg donation process, and signs a legally binding contract, she is required to receive specific information on the known risks of egg donation. Consultation with your doctor prior to entering into a donor contract is advised." VW: 03/2012

HIRING

$50K_funding for Internet Entrepreneurs/Hackers. hr@kingstarusa.com

GYM

TAYLOR

Continued from page 5

holding the race, and the money that it would bring in, above the rights and freedoms of the people of Bahrain. Just as China wielded the Beijing Olympic Games as a political tool, to the detriment of many ordinary Chinese citizens who found themselves forcibly evicted to make way for various stadiums, Formula 1, at least momentarily, became synonymous with oppression. If only we took everything a little less seriously. If only we sat back once in a while and took in the bigger picture, realizing that that there might be more important things than holding a car race or suffering a few bad defeats. If only we took a page out of Nnekas book and remembered that we got into all of this because it was fun. And if only I could be sure Id remember this thought if and when, next season, my current high becomes a fightfor-survival low. We hope Nneka enjoys being mentioned in the same column as Bahrain for the first and last time in her career. Send Tom Taylor more unlikely pairings at tom.taylor @stanford.edu.

TRANSPORT
Continued from page 3
indivuals to choose a greater variety of cars than offered by Zipcar and many other rental car companies. And what about Stanfords rival across the Bay? UC-Berkeley has a system much like the Marguerite, which shuttles travelers around campus and the nearby vicinity. Unlike the Marguerite, UC-Berkeleys bus system, known as Bear Transit, is not free to the public. Much like at Stanford, however, a portion of UC-Berkeleys student body own cars. According to the Office of Parking and Transportation, only 53 percent of campus faculty and 92 percent of students commute by transportation other than solo driving. As the various travel options at Stanford and its peer universities show, transportation at college depends on students specific commuting needs, as well as their concern for safety and the environment. From biking to longboarding, students at Stanford and across the country have a variety of options to get where they need to go. Contact Sierra Freeman at sierraf@stanford.edu.

Continued from page 5

The national competition is divided into two groups of six teams, with three from each group moving onto the final Super Six round. With the lowest score on the afternoon coming by way of a 196.550, Stanford had to have a top-notch performance to qualify for Saturdays Super Six. It did just that, putting up a season-high 197.125 to advance, barely beating fourth-place Oklahoma, who was a top-three national finisher the past two years, by a mere 0.200 points. Finishing ahead of the Cardinal was UCLA (197.400) and Utah (197.200), two familiar Pac-12 opponents. Stanford also had four competitors qualify as second-team All-Americans by finishing in the top eight in their events: senior Alyssa Brown and Hong on vault (9.900 each), sophomore Shona Morgan on bars (9.875) and senior Nicole Pechanec on floor (9.875) and all-around (39.325). Going into Saturdays Super Six competition, the Cardinal had already far surpassed expectations. The team was never ranked within the top 10 all season long, and the Super Six broadcast on ESPN went so far as to call the Stanford season a true Cinderella story. However, the Cardinal was not content with settling at sixth place, as it wanted to make an even bigger statement. Though the team was proud of its 197.125 effort on Friday, it raised the bar even higher on Saturday by posting a score of 197.500, its best championship score ever. The mark earned the team a fourth-place finish, its fourth top-four finish since 2004. Alabama finished first (197.850), followed by Florida (197.775),

ALCOHOL

Continued from front page

uate these high-risk behaviors. According to Castro, 53.4 percent of students reported pre-gaming in the last 30 days. Many more students 32.2 percent reported drinking primarily hard liquor than students who reported drinking primarily beer 24.3 percent. Castro said that 56.9 percent of students reported ever having taken a shot of hard liquor. It reaffirms what our thought was, Castro said of OAPEs reaction to the high-risk drinking numbers. We know that [pre-gaming and hard liquor] are our two big risk factors, and we know we need to provide some targeted education in those areas. Castro also noted that the trend toward hard liquor, which is typically served in quantities that are difficult to measure, could exacerbate underestimation by drinkers of overall alcohol consumption. Castro specifically referred to the average of 3.6 drinks per week, noting that when drinking hard liquor, students might not know how much alcohol they are consuming. Despite the tendency toward

LORENA RINCON-CRUZ/The Stanford Daily Data courtesy of the Office of Alcohol Policy and Education