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NEWS BRIEFS
FounderSoup aims tocombine ideas and
technical talentBy THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
FounderSoup a collaboration betweenStanford, the venture capital (VC) firm An-dreesen-Horowitz and FounderSoup presi-dent Michael Dorsey MBA 10, M.S. 11 is anew organization aiming to bring talented in-novators and entrepreneurs together tochange the now standard startup cycle into amore collaborative process.
FounderSoup seeks to reverse the typical
VC funding cycle, turning this process on itshead, according to the groups website.FounderSoup seeks to bring together the tech-nical talent necessary for putting ideas into
practice instead of following the traditionalfounding route of a company.The idea for a simplified founder search
started when Dorsey began to receive in-quiries from entrepreneurs looking for techni-cal talent to round out their teams. This simpleidea grew into FounderSoup, which had itsfirst event of the year last Thursday at the In-stitute of Design at Stanford (d.school).
More than 170 Stanford students were inattendance, eager to hear pitches and networkafter the event. Fifty founders submitted theirideas for review, and 20 were given the oppor-tunity to make a 90-second pitch to the group.
Aside from giving founders the stage topresent their ideas, FounderSoup also provid-ed pitch practice sessions to help perfectfounders presentations through constructive
feedback. Roberto Vargas
Iconic Great Depression
photo series comes to Cantor
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
More than 125 prints of the works by
STUDENT LIFE
DOE selectsStanford
solar team
WORLD & NATION
Knight Fellowalumni startEgypt project
By MARWA FARAG
MANAGING EDITOR
At a moment when technologyand journalism increasingly inter-sect, two former Stanford KnightJournalism Fellows have launched#18DaysInEgypt, a collaborativedocumentary project about theEgyptian Revolution. Co-creatorJigar Mehta and story producerHugo Soskin are members of theKnight Fellowship class of 2011.
On Jan. 19, a group of about 400people gathered in Tahrir Squareto launch the projects public beta,which relies on contributors tosubmit self-generated media tocreate a crowd-sourced documen-tary about the 18 days in early2011 that resulted in the resigna-
tion of former Egyptian PresidentHosni Mubarak. The documen-tary will also cover developmentsin the nation since Feb. 2011.
During the revolution, I wasimpressed by how much mediawas being created by people onthe front lines, Mehta said in aSkype interview with The Dailyfrom Egypt. He cited images ofprotestors recording events on cellphones and the use of social mediaduring the revolution.
I posed the academic ques-tion: is it possible to do a docu-mentary based on all the footagebeing created? Mehta said.
After multiple iterations, theproject became #18DaysInEgypt.
It is a documentation processabout the ongoing revolution,Mehta said. Its a living, breathing. . . toolkit that allows people totell stories of any moment of thelast year or the ongoing revolutionthrough their media.
The project receives 15 to 20streams of material a day. Most re-cently, users have contributedmedia streams to documentEgypts Port Said soccer riots on
Student team to compete insolar house competition
By MARSHALL WATKINSDESK EDITOR
The U.S. Department of Ener-gy (DOE) selected a Stanfordteam last week as one of 20 colle-giate teams set to compete in thebiennial Solar Decathlon compe-tition.
The Decathlon, hosted by theDOE, offers participating teams$100,000 in seed money to design,build and operate solar-powered
homes with a zero net energyfootprint. The Stanford team willhave two years to build its home,which the team will assemble inOrange County in 2013 for aDOE panel to assess.
Stanford progressed through aselection process that pitted theteam against around 40 differentuniversities from both the U.S.and abroad. Each university sub-mitted a 30-page proposal thatoutlined the teams concept, or-ganization, fundraising andscheduling. The Stanford teamsubmitted its proposal in Novem-ber and received word of the ap-plications success last Wednes-day.
Derek Ouyang 13, co-founderof the Stanford Solar Decathlonteam, noted that the Stanfordteam faces an inherent disadvan-tage in numbers due to the Uni-versitys small undergraduatepopulation relative to competingengineering-focused schools.While typical Decathlon teamsnumber in the hundreds, Ouyangcurrently expects a committedStanford team of around 40 stu-dents.
We expect that our team willbe composed of about 25 percentgraduate students, 75 percent un-dergraduate [students], said Tay-lor Brady 13, co-founder of theStanford team, in an email to TheDaily. Brady said most of thesestudents will be from the Schoolof Engineering, but the team willalso include a fair portion ofstudents studying business, eco-nomics and marketing, as well.
Brady added that he antici-pates the team splitting up intosmaller groups, each focusing onan aspect of the houses design
SPEAKERS & EVENTS
Freedom Riders inspire, encourage activismBy EDWARD NGAI
STAFF WRITER
Black History Month kickedoff at Stanford Monday eveningwith a panel of three of the origi-nal Freedom Riders, civil rightsactivists who participated in the
iconic Freedom Rides, a series ofbus trips from Washington, D.C.,to the Deep South in 1961.
Freedom Ride participantsRip Patton, Helen Singleton and
Dr. Bob Singleton joined moder-ator Clayborne Carson, profes-sor of history, on a panel hostedby the Stanford NAACP, BlackStudent Union, History Depart-ment and the Martin LutherKing, Jr., Research and Educa-tion Institute.
We want to get the studentbody to think about [the historyof our civil rights] and to get stu-dents to see they can influencethe system, said Shawn Dye 14,
chair of the Stanford NAACPpolitical action committee. TheFreedom Riders were our agewhen they were [fighting for ourcivil rights].
During the half-hour panel,the Freedom Riders shared per-sonal stories and reasons for em-
barking on their history-makingjourney.
Helen Singleton recountedhow traveling with her family in-formed her participation in the
Rides.We were happy until we got
to Washington, D.C., Helen Sin-gleton said. And as we pulledout of Washington and headedinto Virginia, we could feel thetension in the car, because herewas my father who was nervous
because he was going into territo-ry where he couldnt protect hisfamily.
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Bach in time
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Richard Egarr performed a harpsichord solo last night in Dinkelspiel Auditorium as part of the StanfordLively Arts program. The audience heard works such as Bachs Well-Tempered Clavier.
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CARDINAL SIGNS TOP RECRUITING CLASS IN SCHOOL HISTORY
BEST CLASS EVERBy JACK BLANCHATMANAGING EDITOR
Its not often that the sweetestsound on the Stanford campus isthat of a screeching fax machine.
But that was the story onWednesdays National SigningDay, when the Stanford footballteam signed its best recruitingclass in school history.
The Cardinal signed 22 play-ers from 14 different states onWednesday, including three five-star prospects and three of thetop eight offensive line prospectsin the country. Altogether, theCardinal finished with the na-tions fifth-best recruiting classaccording to Rivals.com, trailingonly Alabama, Texas, Florida andOhio State.
I think weve got probably
one of the best classes in the his-tory of the school, said headcoach David Shaw. But its not
just about the rankings or thestars, its about the quality of theindividuals that we added to ourteam. Needless to say, we are ex-cited about this.
Shaw and his coaching staffhad already compiled an excel-lent class of commits beforeWednesday, but National SigningDay saw three five-star recruitsall commit themselves to the Car-dinal.
Stanfords biggest grab cameearly in the day, when offensivetackle Andrus Peat, a 6-foot-7,307-pound native of Tempe,Ariz., spurned Nebraska, FloridaState and USC to come to theFarm. Peat, the countrys sixth-best offensive lineman, was ex-
pected to join the Cornhuskers inLincoln, where his brother is cur-rently a defensive tackle.
The Cardinal offensive linethen got another boost whenKyle Murphy, the third-best tack-le in the country, promised him-self to Palo Alto. When Murphyadded his name to a list that al-ready included Peat, Joshua Gar-
nett the nations second-bestguard and three other four-star offensive linemen (NickDavidson, Brandon Fanaika andGraham Shuler), the Cardinalhad pieced together the nationsmost talented and promisinggroup of offensive line prospects.
Five players sure to make a difference for the Cardinal in 2012
6-foot-7, 305-pound OTfrom Tempe, Ariz.
Five-star rating by ESPN,Rivals
Highest-rated Stanfordrecruit ever in ESPNU 150
6-foot-6, 270-pound OTfrom San Clemente, Calif.
Five-star rating by Rivals,Scout
Top-four OT recruitnationally by ESPN, Rivals,Scout
6-foot-4, 233-pound OLBfrom Leesburg, Fla.
Four-star rating by ESPN,Rivals, Scout
2011 High School ButkusAward winner
6-foot-3, 275-poundDT from Atwater, Calif.
Five-star rating byRivals
89 tackles, nine sacksas senior
5-foot-10, 190-pound RBfrom Oklahoma City, Okla.
No. 9 RB recruit by ESPN,Rivals, Scout
Son of Hall of Fame RBBarry Sanders
Andrus Peat Barry J. SandersAziz ShittuNoor DavisKyle Murphy
Raking in the recruits
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Great Depression photographerWalker Evans went on displayWednesday at the Cantor ArtsMuseum. The collection, meant to
juxtapose the struggles of the De-
pression era with the economicstruggles of the present day, willremain on display until April 8,according to a University pressrelease.
Evans, who passed away in1975 at the age of 71, resented de-veloping social programs of theera. According to English profes-sor Gavin Jones in the press re-lease, the purpose of Evans art is,respecting the moral integrity ofthe poor while recognizing inthese tenants something transcen-dentally human.
Jones will host a free book dis-cussion on Feb. 25, as part of theexhibit. His book titled, Ameri-can Hungers: The Problem ofPoverty in U.S. Literature, which
examines the works of Evans andothers in the era, will be the sub-
ject of the event.The display, entitled, Walker
Evans, also holds the work ofJames Agee, a Depression-era au-thor who worked and traveledwith Evans while reporting forFortune magazine. Agees writinghelps enlighten Evans photo-graphs and provides context, ac-cording to the press release.
Agee sees the poor as beauti-ful but does not believe they arecapable of recognizing their ownbeauty, Jones said in the release.Sometimes it seems that he findsthem beautiful not despite but be-causethey cannot appreciate theirown value.
The display also features an on-line photography series, WalkerEvans of the Week.
Matt Bettonville
Stanford Cancer
Institute opens new
Survivorship Clinic
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
The Stanford Cancer Instituteopened a new clinic this week withthe intention of providing bettercare for patients after cancer treat-ment. The clinic, which will initial-ly to be open only to gynecologiccancer survivors, will focus on as-sisting patients through issues
such as fatigue, anxiety, bodyimage, sexual function and rela-tionships, according to a press re-lease from the Stanford School ofMedicine.
Weve done a beautiful job ofhelping rid people of their can-cer, said Kelly Bugos, a nursepractitioner and manager of theStanford Cancer SurvivorshipProgram, in the press release.
The piece thats been missing ishelping them to return to well-ness after treatment. Its time forus to give people tools to makethat transition and extend thetreatment safety net a little bitlonger.
David Spiegel, director ofStanfords Center for IntegrativeMedicine, said that the clinic willprovide both emotional andmedical support for cancer sur-vivors.
Patients treated at the clinicare expected to be cancer-free orhave a high probability of achiev-ing long-term remission. Thesesurvivors will be seen by nursepractitioners with which theyhave already interacted during
the treatment process. The nursepractitioners will help patientscope with any of the ongoingphysical or psychological pain fol-lowing treatment and direct themto physicians or support groups ifnecessary.
We know that when treat-ment ends, the cancer experiencecontinues, Bugos said.
The clinic has been in develop-ment for more than a year, andthe press release identifiedLIVESTRONG SurvivorshipCenter for Excellence Networkas a source that Stanford utilizedduring the planning stage. TheLIVESTRONG SurvivorshipCenter, which was founded in2005, provides up to $250,000 peryear for five years through a com-petitive request-for-proposalprocess to institutions that prom-ise to increase access to and qual-ity of survivorship care. Stan-fords Survivorship Clinic is notlisted on the LIVESTRONG Sur-vivorship Centers website as asponsored network member.
According to the press release,there are currently more than 12million Americans that have hadcancer, a number that is growing.
Our health care system ismuch more geared to acute ratherthan chronic care, and we haventhad a good transition back to rou-tine care, Spiegel said. Peopledevelop significant issues after
cancer the question becomeshow to live with this for the rest ofyour life.
Kurt Chirbas
BRIEFSContinued from front page
Feb. 1.The tool allows contributors to
compile photos, social media in-puts and videos into a slideshow.The site currently supports Face-
book, YouTube, Flickr and Twit-ter, as well as user-uploaded pho-tos, videos and text. Tags identify-ing place, date and other informa-tion are then added to the stream.The final slideshow creates astory of the moment in a man-ner that allows for group story-telling, according to Mehta.
Its not the journalists whoare taking photos; its everyone,he said, explaining the focus oncitizen journalism and crowd-sourcing. Its kind of crazy howmuch media is being created.
The Tribeca Film Institute ofNew Media Fund awarded$100,000 to #18DaysInEgypt inOct. 2011. #18DaysInEgypt hassince launched a Kickstarter
campaign to fund fellowships forEgyptian journalists and stu-dents to travel through Egypt to
collect stories.Ive always been about mak-
ing a project that was accessible . .. that could be a place for Egyp-tians to tell their own stories,Mehta said. We can build whatwe think is the perfect product inSilicon Valley . . . but coming toCairo is like YouTube coming tolife.
Mehta outlined the next stepsfor #18DaysInEgypt as increasingthe number of contributors andretaining them, as well as recruit-ing high-profile media creators
to contribute streams.The next turning point for us
is how to get people to continually
use the site, he said, highlightingthe role of the local fellows in de-veloping this aspect of the project.
GroupStream, a private, beta,collaborative storytelling plat-form similar to Storify, powers theventure.
The interactive project has at-tracted the attention of tech mag-azines, while GroupStream hasbeen named one of the 50 finalists
for Start with Google, a Google-organized competition for thebest technology start-ups inEgypt.
Mehta, however, focused onthe iterative process of building abetter product based on userfeedback.
We understand that its [in its]early days, he said. Were reallylearning along the way.
At the same time, Mehta saidhe sees potential in documentingthe revolution through user-creat-ed media.
Egyptians are recording his-tory that theyre participating in,Mehta said. And thats some-thing that weve never seen be-fore.
Contact Marwa Farag [email protected].
EGYPTContinued from front page
and construction and meetingmultiple times each week. Theteam has already begun to planand design the house, a stage thatis scheduled to continue into win-ter quarter of 2013. Constructionwill take place on campus during
spring quarter of the same aca-demic year, before the Sept. 2013competition.
The team has received assis-tance from faculty from a varietyof departments and is currentlylooking to develop partnershipswith the Graduate School ofBusiness (GSB) for marketingsupport and with the School ofEngineering for facilities andfunds. Both University PresidentJohn Hennessy and Dean of En-gineering Jim Plummer wroteletters of support for the teamduring the selection process.
Richard King, director andfounder of the Solar Decathlon,noted that the overall cost ofcompeting for teams could rise to
multiples of the DOE seedmoney. Teams are expected to in-dependently raise funding for thedesign, construction and trans-portation to the testing site.
Its almost a small businessendeavor, King said. Not onlyare you designing the house andorganizing a team, but youreraising the funds and reachingout to corporations and other en-tities for support.
The Stanford team has al-ready identified potential finan-cial, material and mentoringpartnerships with large firmssuch as General Electric (GE)and Facebook.
Ouyang added that the teamintends to develop partnershipswith Silicon Valley companiesand local construction firms aswell as solar panel manufactur-ers. Ouyang emphasized that theUniversitys close ties with Cali-fornia firms may help provide acompetitive advantage. The
house will, however, be con-structed entirely by students.
The Decathlon assesses com-peting teams houses through 10equally weighted categories, withthe highest cumulative score de-termining the competition win-ner. Grading categories includemarket appeal, feasibility, con-cept presentation and perform-ance. The latter is assessed byhaving six team members live inthe house and perform tasks,
such as cooking or watching tele-vision, over a 10-day period whileonly using solar energy.
The DOE has credited thecompetition with workforce de-velopment in the energy sector aswell as educating the public. Kingnoted that teams concepts andblueprints are made available tothe general public and have in thepast sparked interest from theprivate sector, with some teamsfrom previous years going on toform successful companies in theenergy sector.
Brady and Ouyang noted thatthe projects future after the De-cathlon will depend largely onpublic reception and competitivesuccess, but they envision poten-
tially returning the house to cam-pus to serve educational, residen-tial and research functions. Pastcompetitors have toured theirprojects for educational andcommercial outreach or sold ordonated their houses to home-owners and museums.
Brady noted that the princi-ples developed and utilized in thehouses construction representthe future of the building indus-try. He highlighted the opportuni-ty for innovation and social im-pact provided by participation inthe Decathlon.
Stanford is in a great positionto excel at this competition, beingat the heart of Silicon Valley andan innovator in green technolo-gy, wrote Ouyang in an email toThe Daily. Weve built solar carsbefore; its about time we built asolar home.
Contact Marshall Watkins at [email protected].
SOLARContinued from front page
Its not the
journalists...
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everyone.
JIGAR MAHTA,
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Almost all the South Africans I havemet here in Cape Town have beenfilled with a radiant energy and a will-ingness to share. This attitude wasclearest on our trip to Khayelitsha,
one of the poorest townships in the Cape Flatarea, a region outside of Cape Town. Our groupvisited Rosie, a local woman who runs a soupkitchen. She charges 60 cents per meal, but thosewho cannot pay this price can provide kitchenlabor in exchange for food. Even amidst the rows
of shacks and mounds of trash, there are initia-tives to provide ways in which the poor can pro-cure cheap but quality food.
When we got off the bus at Rosies, a group of20 to 30 children came to greet us. Some of theStanford boys playedsoccer with them, while agroup of 15 boys agedbetween 6 and 15 cameover and wrote theirnames down in my jour-nal, because they wantedme to remember them.This page of names isgoing to be one of mymost valuable posses-sions from this trip.
Seeing the childrenplaying and laughing re-minded me that childreneverywhere are happy
creatures: they need only guidance and a safe,loving environment. It saddens me that lack ofopportunity allows so many of them to fall preyto drugs, violence and teenage pregnancy.
There is, however, reason to hope for the chil-dren of Khayelitsha. We visited the Center of Sci-ence and Technology (COSAT), a school that hasbeen declared one of the best in South Africa.COSAT educates the poor children of Khayelit-sha free of charge, using funding from non-gov-ernmental organizations (NGOs). Adolescents
from grades eight to 12 are given rigorous educa-tional training they attend school from Mon-day to Saturday and receive subsidized trans-portation and free lunch. The funding, teacherdedication and student passion for learning, de-
spite parental apathyin many cases, ensuresthat these childrenhave a chance to at-tend tertiary educa-tional institutions oncethey graduate fromCOSAT. The schoolsmatriculation rate is 83percent! COSAT hasset an example in theregion, with otherschools attempting tocopy its model.
Irteza Binte-Farid
By CHRIS FREDERICK
Picture yourself in a li-brary. As you walk downrow after row of books,panic begins to set in. Ifthis were the moment
for a casual stroll through thestacks, breathing in the smell ofweathered pages and perusing anintriguingly titled volume, per-haps you would enjoy the sight ofsuch grandeur, but at this mo-ment, all you can think about isthe 10-page paper you have duetomorrow and how you have noidea where to find your nextsource.
This is where SearchWorks en-
ters the picture.One of the primary functionsof a library is to enable people todiscover information that mightbe useful, said Tom Cramer 94,associate director of digital li-brary systems and services atStanford.
This is an especially demand-ing job at Stanford, a universitywith collections made of 6,825,821information resources. To organ-ize such a vast quantity of infor-mation, librarians have needed tocollaborate and think creatively.The result is SearchWorks, Stan-fords next-generation library cat-alog.
At the heart of SearchWorks isBlacklight, a software project de-
veloped at the University of Vir-ginia. Blacklight is powered byApache Solr and Apache Lucene,the same open-source search en-gine software used by Netflix andTicketmaster. While Stanford wasthe first university outside of Vir-ginia to adopt Blacklight, abouteight other universities, includingColumbia, Johns Hopkins and theUniversity of Wisconsin, now usethe project.
At first, libraries relied oncommercial software, which oftensimply replicated the traditionalcard catalog in an online form.These commercial solutionsproved inadequate, however, so li-
braries decided to collaborate andcreate new software for them-selves. This approach matches thehistorical behavior of libraries, ac-cording to Cramer.
There are more books than li-brarians in the world, and labor isexpensive, so libraries have beenvery good about figuring out howto share and cooperate with eachother for centuries, he said.
SearchWorks debuted in thefall of 2010. It took three yearsand a team of about 16 people toproduce a replacement for theprevious catalog, Socrates. Whiledeveloping SearchWorks, theteam made a special effort to con-sider the unique needs of theStanford community. For exam-ple, Chris Bourg, assistant Univer-sity librarian for public services,drew from her experience work-ing with undergraduates while agraduate student at Stanford.
I represent the scholarspoint of view, the students pointof view, Bourg M.A. 98 Ph.D. 03said.
A feature SearchWorks hasthat Socrates lacked is relevancyranking, which makes results ap-pear in order of their relevance toa search. Because SearchWorks isopen-source, librarians can tweakthe ranking to suit an academicenvironment.
For example, journal titlesshow up higher in the list than
they would otherwise; they get alittle boost, Bourg said.A student who runs a search
using the keyword science,therefore, will find the journal Sci-ence included near the top of theresults.
Faceted search, another im-portant feature, allows users tolimit their search to particularkinds of items. For example, a usercan search only for videos locatedin the music library.
If you look at the interface, ithas a similar feel to Amazon orZappos, or other kinds of online
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Lets talk about entitlement. (Ihad about three paragraphsof witty humor and back-
ground on the issue of piracy in-cluding a killer Sir Francis Drake
joke to provide a topical and rel-evant introduction before I pulledthe ol bait-and-switch, as usual, butdue to my limited word count, I wasforced to reduce those paragraphsto this one, long, most likely run-onexplanatory sentence.)
We all place expectations uponothers and ourselves which colorthe way we operate and behavethroughout the day. These expecta-tions become our normative stan-dard for what is fair and deserved.If I give the lady at Chipotle $6.55plus tax, and she gives me a deli-
cious steak quesarrito (quesadilla +burrito) then everything is kosher(well, at least in the non-Jewishsense of the word; Im not sure bywhat dietary laws Chipotle pre-pares their meat).
But expectations and entitle-
ment become messier than a deli-cious steak quesarrito when we viewit within the context of relationships.Everyone has their own subjectiveexpectations of reality that createtheir definition of fair and deserving.European imperialists may have un-derstood their actions in the 19thcentury as fair. (The take-what-is-yours mentality is extremely ap-pealing when you are the one thatdefines what is yours.)
And this is the problem. Wevebeen imprisoned within in a worldof entitlement. Some fail to see thedoors are locked. Others fail to seethe bars at all. But we all, to somedegree or another, have becomeslaves to our own sense of fairnessand what we believe we deserve. I
would argue that living your life ac-cording to fairness and entitle-ment, for both yourself and others,is captivity rather than freedom.
I see a great example in roman-tic relationships. Lets say one per-son gives loving gestures, reaches a
certain level of honest vulnerabili-ty or even lets the other personsmistakes slide over and over.These are very normal and neces-sary things to maintain a relation-ship, and if they are done purelyout of love and appreciation,everything is fine. But, sometimesthey are done less out of love andmore out of an unspoken expecta-tion that things will be reciprocat-ed because that is what is fair.The first person will begin to feelthey deserve the actions to be re-ciprocated, and if they are not,then the person grows resentful.
Ultimately, our desire to alwaysget what we deserve is an attemptto grasp an illusion of control onthe world around us. If I study so
many hours, then I will get a goodgrade, because that is what I de-serve. If I sacrifice my time helpingothers or go to church or am a goodperson, then good things will hap-pen to me, because that is what Ideserve. But it is just an illusion of
control.I have a good friend from high
school that was recently involved ina serious car accident. Brokenbones, collapsed lung, internalbleeding and signs of brain dam-age. He didnt deserve that. He wasa great person, but regardless ofmoral characteristics, no 21-year-old deserves that. No person de-serves that. But it happened. Be-yond anything that he or I or any-one could control, it happened.
Suddenly, even the little thingsseem like a blessing an act ofgrace.
I believe there is a world free ofentitlement if only for momentsand instances at a time. If I wake upevery day feeling entitled to a cer-tain career, a certain quality offriends and a certain level of happi-ness for whatever reason, then any-thing less is the taunting cry of dis-satisfaction.
But, if I wake up everyday andtear up the scorecard of the thingsIve done and the things I deserve,then the act of waking up in itself isalready more than I am entitled.Everything else is icing on the cake.The good things are that much bet-ter, and the bad things dont seem asbad. I can do the really hard things,like forgiving and being grateful andsacrificing and loving in the most dif-
ficult of times. You know, the thingsthat are worthwhile the thingsthat are, by definition, unfair.
I have the words nothing is al-right written on the cover of the
journal I carry. Sometimes noth-ing is alright is my answer to howthings are going with the world, andsometimes, if Im lucky, nothing isalright is my answer to what I amexpecting of the world. In the end,we are beggars all . . .
And ladies, Chase knows that yourebegging for his love. In this case, hethinks reciprocation is fair. So whynot email him at [email protected].
We all remember the firsts.Pasted into scrapbooks,framed on the wall, docu-
mented in writing, they surround uswith memories of the beginning. Firstword, first step, first day of school,first kiss, first love, first loss. These arethe stuff of stories, easily recalled atfamily reunions and dinner parties.
But how often do we rememberthe lasts?
Whether I like it or not, my timefor firsts at college is coming to aclose. Halfway through senior year,the moment I never thought would
actually come graduation isbarreling toward me. Where did allthat time go? I remember thinkingabout high school graduation in asimilar way: one of those oh-so-dis-tant events that I knew would haveto happen in theory but couldnt pic-ture in reality. Only this timearound, college graduation is thatmuch more of a surreal milestone;its practically hitting me betweenthe eyes, and I still cant fully processthe reality.
The thought of my last day of col-lege is a little terrifying. But what re-ally scares me, more than gradua-tion itself, are all the other laststhat get lost along the way. At least Ican ready myself for my last day as aStanford undergraduate. But will I
really remember the last time I walkthrough the Quad? Or buy coffeefrom the Bookstore? Or say hi tothose same two cashiers at TresEx?Those are the little moments that Iwont realize are happening untiltheyre over.
Where do all the lasts go? Theyare elusive, hard to pin down oridentify. Theres no way to knowwhen the last time we see our par-ents will be. Or the last time we kissour boyfriend or girlfriend goodbye.Or the last time well sit down forcoffee with a best friend. Or the lasttime well think of ourselves as chil-dren.
Certain lasts are out of ourcontrol. But there are others wehave more of a say in. As hard as it is
to know that the end point is ap-proaching, at least we have more op-portunities to make each precedingmoment count. We can choose to fillour time with more firsts and moremeaning. We can take advantage ofevery moment on hand, so thatwhen the last is finally here, werecontent with what came before.
Its a challenge, to say the least.
Ill be the first one to admit notbeing particularly adept at it. Imean, lets be real: once I finish mycolumnist stint, my sanity will morethan likely go down the tubes with-out these obligatory weekly re-
minders. As much as Ive gripedover deadlines and column ideas, Illactually be sad to let this huge timesuck go. Now that I only have onelast shot, I cant believe I was ever ata loss for words. Theres so much Ileft unsaid.
Ive been thinking a lot aboutthis last column. Number 13 to beprecise. What I wanted it to say, andwhat I wanted to leave you with. So,in the spirit of lasts, please indulgeme in a short take-away moment. Ifyou (or I!) get anything out of thiscolumn, I hope its this:
Life isnt a constant trajectory.It has its ups and downs. It zigzags.It bobs and weaves and traversesshaky terrain. We can never knowfor certain where well be 15 years
down the road or where were ulti-mately heading. But every mo-ment is a step in a given direction.And as long as you take each stepwith purpose, chances are thatyoull end up where you want tobe. When you live a life of satisfy-ing moments, youll end up with asatisfying life.
I feel like this column has beena bit of a downer, but that reallywasnt what I intended. The pointwas that its never too late to turn ayear of lasts into a year of morefirsts. I dont have a choice aboutgraduating on June 17. That date isset in stone. But I do have a choicein how to live my life up until thatpoint. There may only be half a yearleft at Stanford, but what a half a
year it will be.So, until then, wish me luck on
the journey! I wish you the same.Lets see if we can both follow myown advice.
Luckily for you, this isnt the last timeyoull have to hear from Leslie. Youcan always email her at [email protected].
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shopping, Bourg said. Were
making the library catalog expe-rience similar to other experi-ences that people have online.
Features particularly useful tostudents include the cite thisbutton, which produces a biblio-graphic citation in MLA, APA orChicago format. Users with smartphones can also store informa-tion about a book by taking aphoto of its QR code or sendingan automatically generated textmessage to their cell phone.
Some may argue that the effi-ciency of SearchWorks takesaway from the library browsingexperience.
Theres this [lost] notion ofserendipity, where if Im walkingdown the library stacks I can finda book just by looking at thebooks to the left or the right,Cramer said, highlighting thespark of discovery.
However, the reception fromusers of the new catalog has beenpositive, as students usually needto find sources immediately forprojects.
SearchWorks is not a one-timeproject but rather an ongoing pro-gram. One new aspect of theSearchWorks team is the additionof more images to the catalog.
By the end of this year, therewill be something like 50,000 [dig-itized images] in there, Cramersaid.
Another area of future devel-
opment would enable users tosearch in non-Roman scripts, suchas Chinese, Japanese and Korean.This addition would benefitspeakers of foreign languages andallow the catalog to be more user-inclusive. The key to the continuedimprovement of SearchWorks, ac-cording to Cramer and Bourg, isfeedback from users.
What I hope students andfaculty know, is that [Search-Works] evolves based on whatsneeded by students and faculty,Bourg said.
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So when the opportunity camein the spring of 1961 for studentsto protest racial discrimination,the Singletons and Patton decidedto join.
When the [first] bus got
burned and the second bus gotbeat up and the third bus got beatup and they called for more be-cause they wanted the Rides tocontinue and show that violencewould not overcome non-vio-lence, it was a no-brainer for me,Helen Singleton said.
Little deterred the panelists ortheir fellow activists from contin-uing the Rides.
Each group that was arrested,they would be put in the paddywagon, Patton said. And theywould sing We Shall Overcome.
The panelists also had words ofadvice for young idealists seekingto change the injustices they wit-ness in the world.
Theres no love in iPods;theres no love in computers. We
didnt have those things . . . wehad each other, we had love, Pat-ton said. We need to get awayfrom [the gadgets], either getaway from them or learn how touse them to find a way for thiscountry to move forward.
What was overt at that time iscovert now. Many of the discrimi-nations, we could stare themdown. Now, theyre hidden, BobSingleton said. They still discrim-
inate . . . [so] you have to get to-gether and ask yourself, How dowe combat [this]?
His wife had a more direct ad-vice.
Whatever pisses you off,thats your issue, she said tolaughter and applause.
Finally, the speakers called onyoung people to remember thatmuch remains to be improved inracial equality.
Dr. King didnt die getting acivil rights bill, Carson remindedthe audience at the end of thepanel. He died fighting for sani-tation in Memphis. And those areissues we still havent dealt with.
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By DASH DAVIDSONSTAFF WRITER
At No. 6 in the nation, the Stanfordmens tennis team heads into its mostimportant weekend of the young seasonwith a lot of momentum. This weekendpromises to be full of action as two of theCardinals biggest rivals UCLA andUSC visit the Taube Family TennisCenter. Stanford is coming off two dom-inant wins against Saint Marys andSanta Clara, but No. 1 USC and No. 9UCLA will surely provide a fierce early-season test for head coach JohnWhitlingers team.
Stanford (4-0) is still awaiting the re-turn of its two-time All-American No. 1player Bradley Klahn, who is out for thenext couple of weeks with an injury, sothe Cardinal will be without some of itstop firepower against the tough South-ern California teams. Klahns absencehas, however, provided an opening in thelineup for a couple of the teams newfaces: freshmen John Morrissey andRobert Stineman.
The two freshmen have alreadyproved that they are not players to betrifled with, regardless of their age.
Our freshmen played awesome. Youwouldnt have known it was their firstdual matches, sophomore Jamin Ballremarked after last weekends wins.Surely the mental resolve of these rook-ies will be tested against by far the Car-
dinals toughest opponents of the youngseason.
On Friday afternoon, the highly con-tested rivalry between Stanford andUSC will resume. Last season, the teamsplayed twice in some of the fiercestmatches of the season. USC escapedboth times with victories, but during theteams second match, the Cardinal hadseveral chances to win before ultimatelyfalling 4-3.
USC is the three-time defending na-tional champion including last yearsnational championship victory on theFarm. This will be the Trojans first tripback to Taube since winning the nation-
Quiz time. Whats thebest way to removeall questions aboutthe future stability ofyour program when
youve got a first-year head coachand your three best players headedto the NFL? Answer: sign the best re-cruiting class in school history.
By signing the nations fifth-best
class (and the countrys best class ofoffensive linemen) on NationalSigning Day, the Stanford Cardinalannounced to the college footballworld that its recent success will notbe short-lived.
But perhaps the most interestingthing about Wednesday, other thanthe Cardinals massively successfulday, was the Cal Bears rapid fallfrom the top of the nations recruit-ing rankings. Together, the rise of theCardinal and the fall of the Bears re-vealed something interesting aboutthe Cardinals recruiting andhow much more stable the Cardi-nals future is when compared toevery other program in the country.
Less than a month ago, Cal wasexpected to bring in the best recruit-ing class in the Pac-12 and one of thetop 10 classes in the country. After se-curing commitments from safetyShaq Thompson, defensive tackleEllis McCarthy and receiver JordanPayton, head coach Jeff Tedford andthe Bears were the talk of the Pac-12.
Then it all came crashing down.When Cal head recruiting coordi-
nator Tosh Lupoi left to take a job onSteve Sarkisians staff at Washington,the Bears started losing top recruitsfaster than a snake sheds its skin. OnWednesday, Thompson followedLupoi to Washington and McCarthyand Payton both went south toUCLA. High school athletes arefickle, and they didnt want to be apart of a program that didnt have the
guy that recruited them still on staff.Meanwhile, across the Bay, theCardinal also saw its recruiting co-ordinator head off for greener pas-tures this January. Brian Polian, theStanford special teams coach andchief recruiting coordinator, joinedthe Texas A&M staff in January, but,unlike Cals recruits, the Cardinalsprospects didnt stay away. Instead,they flocked to the Farm. At thesame time that the Bears recruitingclass fell apart, the Cardinal crystal-lized the best class in school history.
When asked if the Cardinalcoaches had to change their ap-proach to recruiting when Poliandeparted, head coach David Shawsanswer contained some interestingrevelations.
No offense to Brian, who did anoutstanding job here, but there wasabsolutely no change to our recruit-ing, Shaw said. Thats becausethese kids are attracted to this place,to Stanford University, to our styleof football, and thats not going tochange. A lot of things happen likethat at other places, but for here,what weve got going here, if one ortwo guys left, theyre not going todeter what weve got going and thestyle that we play.
All year long, Shaw said that Stan-ford was the only place that had a top-five BCS team and a top-five educa-tion, and thats what set the schoolapart from anywhere else. And ifWednesdays recruiting results areany indication, that top-five educa-
tion coupled with a top-five footballteam was such a big advantage thatlosing a critical coach didnt make anydifference to the Cardinals recruitingclass. In essence, Stanford can nowclaim something that no other schoolcan claim: it is impervious to losing re-cruits strictly because of coaches.
Every year, coaches like Lupoiswitch schools and recruits followthem. But as Shaw said, that samekind of exodus from the Farm isntlikely to occur just because one guymoves along. While it might not besmart to draw grandiose conclu-sions from just one recruiting class,instead of no longer being a schoolwhere you can get a great educationand, oh yeah, theres a football teamtoo, Stanford is now a truly great
football school where you can get agreat education and no one guycan make or break a recruiting class.That makes it different from anyother place in the country.
Make no mistake, college foot-ball world as weird as it mightseem, Stanford is a football schoolnow. And its going to stay that wayfor a long time.
Brian Polian may have left, but JackBlanchats columns are staying on theFarm. Ask Jack how he singlehand-edly convinced so many top recruitsto attend Stanford at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter at@jmblanchat.
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The Stanford womens tennis team reap-peared on the Taube Family Tennis Centercourts to kick off its 2012 campaign without ahome winning streak, without former No. 1player Hilary Barte and without holding thetop spot in the ITA national rankings. Even
with the new flavor, however, the No. 2 Cardi-nal (1-0) breezed past No. 58 UC-Davis (1-3)to capture the win, 6-1. The match had sever-al firsts, with sophomore Nicole Gibbs debut-ing at No. 1 on the ladder, top-recruited fresh-man Ellen Tsay participating in her inauguralcollegiate dual match and three doublesteams consisting of completely new pairings.
First didnt translate into foreignthough, as Stanford demonstrated its familiarpowerful doubles play with three straight vic-tories to gain the first point of the match. TheNo. 1 team of junior Mallory Burdette andGibbs pumped up the Cardinals spirits as theduo crushed the Aggies Chui/Heneghan 8-1in the first match.
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Weve had great results together so farand were looking forward to improving ourchemistry and match play, Gibbs said. Its a
privilege to be on court with her, and Imgoing to continue to work on getting closer tothe net, finishing points more effectively andmaking more returns.
The other two courts followed suit, as jun-ior Stacey Tan and Tsay defeated Koehly/Za-mudio of UC-Davis 8-5, and sophomoreAmelia Herring and senior captain VeronicaLi also beat Curry/Edles 8-3.
Singles matches began soon after, asGibbs remained on court one to compete inher opening match as the Cardinals top play-er.
It was definitely an honor to be playing atthis spot in the lineup, but in terms of strate-gy, it was the exact same, Gibbs said. I was
just trying to put a win up on the board for myteam as I tried to do all of last year.
Gibbs gave her team more than just a winas she delivered a devastating blow to DahraZamudio of the Aggies, 6-0, 6-1. She finishedat about the same time as Li, who blankedNicole Koehly, 6-0, 6-0. The two victories col-lectively gave the Cardinal the morale boostit needed to close out the match. Although
junior Natalie Dillon fell to Ellie Edles in atight, three-set match, 6-0, 4-6, 1-0 (7), Stan-ford managed to pull out the victory withwins from Burdette on court two, 6-7 (6), 6-2,1-0 (8), Tan on court three, 6-3, 6-1, and Tsay,in her first dual singles match, on court four,6-1, 6-2.
We were all really impressed with herperformance and her constant positive out-look throughout the match, Gibbs said ofTsays triumph. Its tough to step into yourfirst dual match as a freshman, but she defi-nitely took advantage of the opportunity.
Stanfords victory over the Aggies was the
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Junior Stacey Tan (above) won both her singles and doubles matches in the No. 2 Stanford womens tennis teams season-opening 6-1 winover No. 58 UC-Davis on Wednesday. Tan lost just four games in her singles match as the Cardinal had no trouble dispatching the Aggies.
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Junior Denis Lin (above) will need to step up this weekend as the No. 6 Stanford mens tennis teamwelcomes No. 1 USC and No. 9 UCLA to the Farm. The Cardinal is still without senior Bradley Klahn.
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Shaw said he and the coachingstaff knew long ago that this crewof linemen would be more thancapable of replacing NFL-boundoffensive linemen Jonathan Mar-tin and David DeCastro.
[The coaches] had a conver-sation last spring that Ill neverforget . . . The comment wasmade in the room that this couldpotentially be one of the best of-fensive line classes in modernfootball history, Shaw said. Its just the combination of size, ath-letic ability, toughness . . . its rarethat you get that many guys thatcan play this well.
Shaw said that getting a bigclass of offensive linemen was theCardinal coaching staffs numberone goal this year and that theCardinals ground-based offen-sive philosophy made it easy to se-cure such a good class.
We have a great offensive linehere, but we havent had the vol-
ume of guys that we needed in thelast two classes, to be honest,Shaw said. We needed to make abig push this year not just forquality, which you always want,but for quantity as well.
I think weve got outstandingteachers here in [offensive linecoaches] Mike Bloomgren andRon Crook, as far as the tech-niques that help these guys to besuccessful on this level and thenext, Shaw continued. We play ascheme that translates very wellto the NFL. I think thats extreme-ly attractive [to recruits].
In addition to the Cardinalsbig commitments along the offen-sive line, Stanford got a boost toan already-solid defensive classwhen defensive end Aziz Shittu,the third-best defensive end in thecountry, became the third five-star player to sign with the Cardi-nal. Shittu committed to the Car-dinal last year, then decommittedin June 2011, but finally wound upback where he originally startedon Wednesday.
While Peat, Murphy and Shittustole the show and the headlineson Wednesday by choosing theCardinal, Stanford also (finally)officially secured the services ofplayers like Barry J. Sanders, NoorDavis and Alex Carter, who allcommitted to the Cardinalmonths ago.
Sanders, the son of football leg-
end Barry Sanders and the nationsninth-best running back, will bringhis 4.4 speed and shifty moves to analready-deep backfield.
We didnt need a runningback, weve got a great group ofrunning backs, so [the coachingstaff] said, if were going to takeone, were going to take a guythats a difference maker, a guythats special. And we found onein Barry Sanders, Shaw said.
Davis, the nations fourth-bestlinebacker, adds to a corps of line-backers that is already stacked fornext season.
Weve got a really good groupof inside linebackers and outsidelinebackers, but when you runacross a guy like Noor Davis, youcant pass him up, Shaw said.Hes that good as a football play-
er, and the high character as an in-dividual that you want to surroundyourself with guys like that.
Finally, Carter, the nationsthird-best defensive back, couldfill in right away in the defensivebackfield for the Cardinal, whichwill lose three senior starters from2011.
Were always looking for de-fensive backs, theres been yearswhere weve gone through classeswithout a single one, Shaw saidBut to get a guy like Alex Carter,whos that big physical corner thatNFL teams are looking for.
While the Cardinal already hasone of the nations finest groupsof recruits assembled for 2012, itcould get even better this Fridayor next Wednesday if Jameis Win-ston, the nations top quarterback
prospect, decides to switch hiscommitment from Florida Stateand come to the Farm instead.Winston committed to the Semi-noles some time ago but recentlyhas wavered in his commitmentsince learning of his acceptance toStanford and decided to delaysigning his letter of intent to laterthis week.
Altogether, Shaw assembled aclass that topped the Pac-12 in hisfirst-ever recruiting class as ahead coach and a class that faroutranked any of the recruitingclasses of his predecessor, JimHarbaugh. However, Shaw didnthint that his new group of playerswould come in with any specialprivileges in 2012 some willearn their way onto the field, oth-ers will be redshirted.
There is a possibility thatthese guys can come in and com-pete, Shaw said. But at the sametime, guys that come in ready toplay, those are the guys that aregoing to play. I tell the guys all thetime, I dont care what year theyare. True freshmen, fifth-year sen-iors, the best guys going to get onthe field.
With a recruiting class this tal-ented and deep, Shaws biggestproblem might just be findingenough spots for his best players.And with the new precedent hesset in the recruiting game, that jobmight get even harder when thefax machines start screechingagain next February.
Contact Jack Blanchat at [email protected].
MENS SWIMMING AND DIVING
Card preps for California tri-meet
MENS VOLLEYBALL
Stanford travels to face No. 1 BYUBy MIKE SCHWARTZCONTRIBUTING WRITER
A year that began with nationaltitle aspirations hasnt gone ac-cording to plan recently for theStanford mens volleyball team.After suffering an early-season lossto No. 3 UCLA, the Cardinaldropped another match to the No.5 Penn State Nittany Lions last Fri-day. However, the No. 7 Cardinalredeemed itself with an impressivewin over the defending nationalchampion No. 9 Ohio State Buck-eyes at their arena. The Cardinalwill look to take this momentuminto Provo, Utah, as the team getsset to face off against a very toughBYU squad.
After losing to UC-Irvine in thefirst game of the year, the No. 1BYU Cougars (6-1, 4-0 MPSF)have been nearly unstoppable.
They have won their last six match-es in a row, most recently beatingUSC 3-1 and 3-2 in a pair of week-end matches. This streak includestwo payback wins over the former-ly No. 1 Anteaters. The Cardinal (5-2, 2-1) will look to hand theCougars their second and thirdlosses of the year this weekend in ahighly anticipated matchup be-tween two mens volleyball jugger-nauts.
Leading a balanced offensiveattack for the Cougars are sopho-more outside hitter Taylor Sanderand senior opposite Robb Stowell.Sander is posting an unprecedent-ed 4.90 kills-per-set mark, while the6-foot-7 Stowell is not far behindwith 3.58. The pair has wreaked
havoc on opposing defenses, usingtheir above-average height andathleticism to overwhelm their op-ponents. In their last match againstUSC, the duo combined for 46 kills.
Stanford will need to step up ondefense to stop the talented BYUattack. This daunting task rests pri-marily on the shoulders of Stanfordmiddle blockers Gus Ellis andDenny Fells. However, the teamwill also need a strong effort fromsophomore outside hitter EricMochalski, who leads the team inblocks this season with 15.
While the Cougars are knownfor their offensive firepower, theyboast one of the nations best de-
fensive units as well. Junior middleblocker Russ Lavaja leads the teamwith 42 blocks and a 1.45 blocks-per-set average. Lavaja is one of thenations best defensive middleblockers, and he will not makethings easy for the Stanford of-fense.
Still, the Cardinal players liketheir chances. Senior captain BradLawson summed it up, saying,weve been watching them on filmall week. We know they have greatblocking, great attacking, but wereready for the challenge.
Lawson, who has easily beenStanfords most dominant playerthis year, will lead the offensivecharge. Lawson leads the Card intotal kills (170) and kills per set
(3.52). He is clearly looking to earna spot on this years AVCA All-American First Team, just as he didlast season. A strong effort againstthe No. 1 Cougars would certainlyhelp his case, but Lawson is moreconcerned with his team. Pitchingin for the Card is sophomore out-side hitter Brian Cook. He leadsthe team in hitting percentage at asolid .350 mark and is not far be-hind Lawson in kills per set with3.20. Both Cook and Lawsonrecorded 17 kills in their last matchagainst USC, propelling Stanfordto a much-needed victory. The pair
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FOOTBALL|Cardinal inks 22 recruits on National Signing Day
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The Stanford football team, fresh off the best two-season stretch in program history, welcomed 22 members of the recruiting class of 2012 onWednesday. The Cardinal signed the highest-rated class in school history, including multiple five-star recruits and one of the best offensive lineclasses in college football history. Head coach David Shaw expects many of the incoming freshmen to compete for jobs in all three phases of the game.
first step in its journey to fulfill anobvious season goal: winning theNCAA Tournament.
I think we see our goals interms of the big picture, Gibbssaid. We are narrow-minded inthat we are looking for a champi-onship. We wont be perfect onday one, but we hope to be asclose to perfect as possible comeMay.
The Cardinal heads north this
weekend to face Oregon and will
have its second opportunity to de-velop and improve. Even thoughStanford cleaned up last year witha 7-0 win against the Ducks, thewomen are not entering thematch with a lackadaisical men-tality.
Our expectation is always towin, and I think well be able to dothat, Gibbs said. Individually,though, we always have to expecta battle. Im looking forward tomatching up to a higher-rankedteam and continuing to build.
The action continues in Eu-gene this Saturday at 12 p.m.
Contact Chrissy Jones at chrissyj@
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al championship over Virginia.On the court, USC is led by de-
fending NCAA singles championSteve Johnson, who played as anamateur on the pro tour in thefall, making him ineligible for thecurrent collegiate rankings. John-son and Klahn are old rivals andhave played several scintillatingmatches against each other overtheir college careers, but withKlahns injury, the task of neutral-izing Johnson will now fall to Car-dinal senior Ryan Thacher,ranked No. 46 nationally.
UCLA is 4-0 in the early sea-son and will play Stanford on Sat-urday at 1 p.m. The Bruins are aperennial top-10 squad and have
been worthy rivals of Stanford forseveral decades. Last year, how-ever, the Cardinal easily handledthe Bruins, defeating them 6-1 atTaube.
The Bruins are led by a core ofunderclassmen that are supple-mented by more seasoned play-ers at the lower singles positions.Their top three singles players No. 72 Clay Thompson, No. 86Marcus Giron and No. 94 AdrienPuget are two sophomoresand a freshman. Before playingStanford on Saturday, UCLA willdo battle against Cal on Friday.
Historically, whenever theseSouthern California schools ven-ture up the coast to the Farm, greattennis matches are waged at theTaube Family Tennis Center. Thisyear promises to be no different.
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By GEORGE CHENDESK EDITOR
Three of the top six mensswimming and diving teams in thecountry are set to compete at theUSC McDonalds Swim Stadiumthis weekend with regular-seasonbragging rights on the line. In thismatchup of California schools, No.3 Stanford (6-1), No. 5 USC (3-1)and No. 6 Cal (3-1) will have thechance to display some fast swimsand also make a case for the Pac-12to be the best mens swimming anddiving conference in the country.
Conference pride aside, Stan-fords main priority will be tobounce back from a close lossagainst No. 1 Arizona, anotherPac-12 foe, two weekends ago. ThisFriday, Cal will square off againstUSC while Stanford will swim ex-
hibition, meaning that the Cardi-nals swims will not be officiallyscored. The day after, it will be theCardinals turn to battle the Tro- jans with Cal swimming exhibi-tion. This means that Stanford willnot officially compete against Calat this quasi tri-meet. The much-anticipated matchup between thetwo cross-Bay rivals will not comeuntil Feb. 18, the last meet beforethe Pac-12 and NCAA Champi-onships.
Looking at the possiblematchups against USC, the Cardi-nals strongest events also seem tobe the Trojans forte. Both teamshave already posted some speedytimes earlier this season. In the 200backstroke, Stanford has three ofthe eight fastest swimmers in thecountry, with freshman DavidNolan leading the way. But the
Trojans also have three top-12swimmers in that event. One ofthem is junior co-captain AlexLendrum, who owns the second-fastest time in the country about a second faster than Nolanstime.
The same scenario holds truefor the 200 individual medley.Stanford has four swimmers in thetop 12, but the fact that two USCswimmers have the third- andfourth-fastest times in the countrymay very well nullify the Cardi-nals strength in that event. Stan-fords best bet seems to be in thedistance events, which have alwaysbeen a consistent source of pointsfor the team. In the 500 freestyle,Stanford has five of the nationstop-10 fastest swimmers compared
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to USCs two. In the 1650 freestyle,the duo of senior Chad LaTourette and freshman BryanOffut has made it difficult for op-ponents to outscore Stanford indistance events. On top of that,
veteran La Tourette is arguablythe countrys most reliable dis-tance swimmer in dual-meet situ-ations he hasnt lost a dual-meet event since his freshmanseason.
Stanford may also be able toexploit USCs weakness on thediving board. The Trojan divingsquad consists of two freshmenand a junior competing in his firstcollegiate season. Cardinal fresh-man Kristian Ipsen will look tolead the way in capitalizing offUSCs inexperience. Ipsen is un-defeated in the springboardevents so far this season, oftendominating his opponents byover 50 points. While Ipsen is notoverlooking his collegiate dualmeets, he is also preparing forbigger international meets at thesame time. Hell be competing in
one of them, the London WorldCup, starting on Feb. 20.
USCs most powerful weaponmay be sophomore Vladimir Mo-rosov, the fastest sprinter in thecountry. As a freshman last year,Morosov was the 2011 Pac-10Newcomer of the Year, a four-timeAll-American and a top-six finish-er in both the 50 and 100 freestyles
at the NCAA Championships.Morosov has continued to pushdown on the gas pedal this season,as he currently owns the countrysfastest times in the sprint events byabsurd margins. Given that theCardinals sprinting duo of juniorAaron Wayne and senior GeoffCheah will at least push Morosov,there are bound to be some eye-
popping times in the sprint eventson Saturday.
Stanford will swim exhibitionagainst USC and Cal at 2 p.m. onFriday and swim dual against USCat noon on Saturday. Both meetswill be at USC.
Contact George Chen at [email protected].
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The Stanford mens swimming and diving team will take on USC this weekend at a tri-meet with Cal. The Cardinalwill start off with exhibition on Friday while Cal faces USC, and then Stanford will battle the Trojans on Saturday.
will need to bring their A-game ifthe Card wants to upset BYU.
Its a test, but I think [we] areexcited to play such a talented vol-leyball team, Lawson said.
As far as tests are concerned, a
midterm exam may more accu-rately describe this contest. Stan-ford has yet to play a team as tal-ented as BYU, and might not forthe rest of the year. Still, the Cardi-nal has the discipline and talent tobeat any team in the country, in-cluding the Cougars, and a sweepof BYU this weekend would cer-tainly turn some heads in theworld of mens volleyball. Thesetwo matches start a stretch of 18-straight conference matches to fin-ish the regular season, so position-ing in the MPSF will be on the lineas well.
The Cougars and Cardinalsquare off on Friday and Saturdaynight. Both matches will begin at 6p.m. P.T.
Contact Mike Schwartz at [email protected].
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