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STUDENT GOVT

GSC discusses funding, gets ASSU updateBy ANNA SCHUESSLER

STAFF WRITER

The Graduate Student Council(GSC) met briefly on Wednesdayto review upcoming events andstudent-group funding for winterquarter. ASSU President Angeli-na Cardona 11 brought news ofthe Undergraduate Senates ef-fort with GSC co-chair JustinBrown to address last ThursdaysFaculty Senate meeting.

Justin spoke about increasingthe stipends for graduate stu-dents, especially internationalgrad students with families,Car-dona said.I concentrated on up-dating the Faculty Senate on is-sues of mental health,sexual mis-conduct and relationship abuse onthis campus,and what were doingto address them, Cardona said.

Cardona asked GSC members

to inform their constituents aboutthe new ASSU Executive Action

Grant Program,the Undergradu-ate Senates measure to workmore directly with student groupson four specific areas: studenthealth and wellness, ending sexu-al misconduct and relationshipabuse, campus sustainabilitygrants and campus unity.

The GSC approved a fundingtransfer of a little more than $125for The Science Bus,a service-ori-ented student group that bringsStanford students into contactwith grade-school students at theEast Palo Alto Charter School.During a field trip last December,the group did not use all the fund-ing it requested for transporta-tion to and from the event,but didend up paying out of pocket forstudent lunches that were sup-

posed to be provided by the

school. Voting members lookedfavorably upon the groups re-

quest and approved the transferwithout opposition.Representing the Graduate Stu-

dent Programming Board (GSPB),Krystal St.Julien requested $375 fora lottery dinner at the Banana Leaf,a Thai restaurant in Milpitas,so gradstudents could mix and mingle.St.Julien reported receiving around100 responses with interest in at-tending lottery dinners,and expect-ed no fewer for this one.

GSC programming co-chairJoanna Lankester reminded theGSC of the Rains Karaoke Nightscheduled for Friday. The councilwas reminded that the event wasgrad-wide, meaning the eventwas not specific to Rains residents.

In the meetings closing mo-ments, a representative from

Stanfords Vision Earth group

told the council about plans forFuture Fest 2.0, a three-day con-

ference seeking to look at issuesof sustainability from a designperspective. The representativerequested input from the gradu-ate community on what sort ofprogramming the graduate stu-dents would like to see at such anevent. GSC members took noteof the opportunity and offeredsome suggestions.

Here at Stanford you have somany incredible resources, saidTom Spahn, the councils law rep-resentative.Spahn encouraged Vi-sion Earth to go beyond makingthe Stanford community aware ofsustainability issues and attempt tocreate a business model or policyto really make a difference.

Contact Anna Schuessler at annas7

@stanford.edu.

RESEARCH

Prof says U.S.

greentech rolewill change

By MARIANNE LEVINESTAFF WRITER

On the tail of recent research by Stan-fords Program on Energy and Sustain-able Development (PESD) examiningChinas evolving coal and power sectors,program director and economic professorFrank Wolak is stressing the changing roleof the U.S. in global sustainable develop-ment.

The United States should focus on in-novation in energy technology now andthen transition to a regulatory role oncethe technology has been sufficiently de-veloped,Wolak argued online in The NewYork Times this month.

He based his argument on the basiceconomic theory of comparative advan-tage, which states that countries shouldspecialize in those goods that they pro-duce most efficiently.

The U.S. has difficulty competing inthe global market for goods that are inten-sive in unskilled labor,because labor costsin the U.S. are high relative to those inChina and India,Wolak said in an e-mailto The Daily. The U.S. cannot competewith these countries in the production ofgoods that require workers to complete

relatively simple tasks that someone with-out a formal education can do.Wolaks Times argument helps frame

research published in December by PESDon Chinas efforts to restructure its coaland power industries. This restructuringwould create coal-power baseswith thepotential to produce more coal annuallythan all the coal produced in the U.S.

Although India and China may have anedge over the U.S. in labor production,Wolak believes the U.S.has a comparativeadvantage when it comes to developingknowledge-intensive goods.

Specifically, the U.S. should work ondeveloping new and innovative technolo-gies that rely on its educated workforceand well-developed institutions for foster-ing the development of new technologiesand industries,Wolak said.

During the initial stages of a products

development, Wolak said, it is cheaper tomake the product in the United Statesthan abroad since problems with the pro-

China, India may leadenergy production

E-records struggleto get off ground

Study of clinics shows little gainBy SAMANTHA MCGIRR

DESK EDITOR

Electronic health records do notimprove health care quality, evenwhen accompanied with decision-making software, according to a re-cent Stanford study.

In research published Jan. 24 inArchives of Internal Medicine, re-searchers found that outpatient clin-ics and doctors offices using elec-tronic health records from 2005 to2007 performed better on only one of20 quality indicators. Furthermore,doctors with clinical decision soft-ware performed better on only one

indicator compared to doctors whosesoftware gave no diagnosis tips.The study, authored by Max Ro-

mano 09 and professor of medicineRandall Stafford, compared physi-cian survey data on patient visits innonfederal offices and hospitals from2005 to 2007. The researchers thenexamined the relationship betweenelectronic records, decision software

and the quality of care provided,using a set of 20 quality indicators de-veloped by Stafford in a 2005 study.

The research, which formed thebasis of Romanos senior honors the-sis in human biology, found thatphysicians using electronic recordsperformed better in one indicator providing diet counseling to at-riskadults compared with physiciansnot using electronic records.Also,theuse of electronic records with deci-sion software led to improved per-formance in one indicator lack ofroutine electrocardiogram ordering compared to doctors without soft-ware capability.

The findings echo those of a 2007study,also published in Archives,thatshowed that electronic health recordsalone do not improve patient care.Romano was aware of the study buthypothesized that the availability ofdecision-making software might af-fect outcomes.

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Fireside Chat

JENNY CHEN/The Stanford Daily

Professor and alum Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, discussed his role in pro-moting democratic institutions during a fireside chat in Branner Hall on Wednesday night. Diamond is also faculty co-director of the Haas Center.

KOR VANG/The Stanford DailyStanford School of Medicine, above. A recent Stanford study by a medical professor and former Stanford undergrad-uate revealed that electronic records had no significant impact on patient care in cases they studied from between2005 and 2007. We thought maybe there were too many types of electronic health records and that we should lookat technology with advanced functions, said Max Romano 09, who contributed to the research. They also consid-ered the effect of clinical decision software when coupled with e-records. You could interpret the results in twoways, Romano said. One conclusion is that, in order to make electronic health records work, we have to put moremoney [into their implementation]. The opposite conclusion is that maybe theyre not all theyre cracked up to be. Please see RECORDS,page 2


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We thought maybe there weretoo many types of electronic healthrecords and that we should look attechnology with advanced func-tions, Romano said.

The study reports no consistent

association between electronicrecords, decision software and bet-ter quality. The findings come onthe heels of the federal govern-ments allocation of $20 billion in2009 to promote the use of elec-tronic health records.Romano saysthe results may prompt multiple in-terpretations.

You could interpret the resultsin two ways, Romano said. Oneconclusion is that,in order to makeelectronic health records work, wehave to put more money [into theirimplementation]. The oppositeconclusion is that maybe theyrenot all theyre cracked up to be.

According to the study, elec-tronic records were used in about30 percent of outpatient visits,while clinical decision software was

used in about 17 percent of visits.Romano views the move frompaper to electronic records as an in-evitability and suggests the resultsreflect this transitioning period.

In any industry, when a newtechnology comes out, theres a pe-riod of diversity in the marketplacebefore standardization, Romanosaid. The electronic-records tech-nology has not been around longenough to allow standardization.

He believes, however, that elec-tronic health records have tremen-dous potential to improve care.

One of the real benefits of elec-tronic health records is the [sys-

tems] ability to communicate witheach other, Romano said. MostAmericans see multiple health careproviders, and our health care sys-tem isnt set up to allow for commu-nication between them . . . we canuse electronic health records to im-prove comprehensive care.

Contact Samantha McGirr at [email protected].

Correction

Due to an editing error, the firstsentence of ROTC debate comesto Undergraduate Senate(Jan.26)contained a typo. It should haveread: The ASSU UndergraduateSenate heard from representatives

of the Faculty Senates ad hoc com-mittee on ROTC at its weeklymeeting Tuesday evening and dis-cussed the issue of ROTCs possi-ble return to campus.

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By CAMILLE BROWN

Hi , m y n am e i sAmanda. I like todiscuss poetryand politics overcoffee.

Way too high. Is there any way toadjust the pitch without changing thespeed and duration?

Pitch adjusted.Hi, my name is Amanda . . . Huh. Way too low now, but the

speed didnt change at all. Go with it.Meet Amanda.Amanda is one of

many synthesized voices currently

being used in an experiment conduct-ed by Omosola Odetunde 13, EmilySong 13 and Lorin Dole, a first-yeardoctoral student in communication.Their research question: if a robotgradually changes its voice to matchthe voice of the user, will the user likethe robot better? This question couldbe applied to everything from self-driving vehicles to kitchen appliances.

Their class, Communication168/268, started by Clifford Nass in2002, explores a wide spectrum ofquestions relating to human-computerinteractions, such as:does multitaskingwhile listening to music help one bemore efficient? Is it possible for a car topersuade its driver to become moreeco-friendly? Can new technology incars actually prevent drivers from suc-cumbing to road rage?

Given the rapid frequency withwhich social science and technology col-lide,Nass hasnt had any difficulty find-ing research questions for his course.While it may seem like a tall order,manyof the students in the class do find re-search solutions and even have the pub-lished studies to show for it.

The class works in groups to addressquestions about technology, allowingstudents to approach problems frommultiple disciplinary perspectives.

Everyone comes from differentbackgrounds and that variety makessolutions possible, Song said.

Nass wanted groups to span the

techie-fuzzy divide. Working sepa-rately is just not real life . . . in any jobvirtually everyone works in teams, hesaid.

Since most of the class researchquestions are fairly straightforward,students who have no experience incomputer science can do meaningfulresearch and learn as they go. In otherwords, the goal of the course, as Nassput it, is to not let their ignorance be abarrier. Unlike pure academic disci-plines like math and physics, whichhave been more uniformly researched,changing technology means many sim-ple, new, unanswered questions arewaiting to be explored.

The combination of group workand opportunity makes discovery soclose students can almost taste it, andmany do. Students with successfulstudies from in the class often havetheir papers published, sometimes be-fore they complete their undergradu-ate degrees. Basically, students donthave to be experts to make huge con-tributions, according to Nass.

Comm 168 . . . makes research ac-cessible for a huge number of stu-dents,Dole said.

A typical example of how researchin the class is conducted is the Aman-da experiment.Their group meeting,which was typical of the classs format,consisted of brainstorming possibleproblems the study might encounterand finding solutions to address them.

In the case of Amanda,the pitch vari-ants of male and female voices werevery problematic.

Most the meeting consisted of lis-tening to synthetic voices and playingthe statements at warp speed and slow-er speeds on the computer, analyzingthe different factors that pace and vol-ume play in speech.

The famous Stanford entrepreneur-ial spirit feels present in Nasss course,where two heads may be better thanone.

Contact Camille Brown at [email protected].

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THIS COLUMN IS IRONIC

The other day, I took an econmidterm. We were tested onhow well we knew the con-

cepts and whether or not we coulduse the methods. Painful to studyfor, stressful to take. Contrast thatwith a computer-music class Imalso taking: instead of tests, we usewhat were shown in class to com-pose cool computer-music pieces.At the end, we dont just have agrade,but a little portfolio of inter-esting recordings.Which method doyou think is more enjoyable and ul-timately more effective? This peda-gogical example is just one illustra-tion of something broader I want to

get at: the awesomeness of creation.Why do I bring it up? I think we

often let originality go to the way-side. It takes time and effort tobuild things. In societys school-to-career-to-retirement pipeline, wecan easily find ourselves simplygoing with the flow. You take theclasses,study for the tests,apply forthe jobs, do the work and do fine.But wouldnt you want to createthings along the way?

Creativity is a powerful type ofsatisfaction. Sure, some people in-novate to satisfy their ego: theywant the immortality of leaving amark on the world.But I think morefundamentally, it makes us feel effi-cacious. We have this life force should we just use it to eat, sleep

and be entertained, or can we use itto grab the universe and turn it intosomething?

I usually use these columns tofocus on improving the music situa-tion at Stanford,and there are plen-ty of avenues for creativity there.Earlier, I wrote about guerrillamusicians, practicing their instru-ments in random places to liven upthe atmosphere.And Ive discussedhow musicians are usually trainedto regurgitate music rather thancompose their own, so instead,every music lesson should includesome improvisation work.

But improving music on campusdoesnt have to be done exclusivelyby the musicians. Engineers couldbuild interesting sonic installmentsaround campus, for example. Ive

seen videos of places where peoplehave built piano staircases whereeach step is a note. Or, to borrow afriends idea, imagine if there werelittle speakers in White Plaza thatplayed snippets of music recordedfrom the practice rooms in Braun.

Recreational musicians too cancome up with something satisfying.Dust off the instrument under yourbed and play around for a few min-utes. Get a friend and write a littlesong.Open up GarageBand and hitrecord.You might think its terrible,but think of it as a doodle. Withenough doodles, occasionally youdraw a cool picture.

And for those who arent into

writing music, you have plenty ofoptions for creation too. Instead,when you write that paper, dontthink of the teacher as the only au-dience. Or with that econ class,maybe write about economics in astudent publication. Develop thatscreenplay youve been talking

about. Build a DIY bookshelf.Whatever. Make things that youllfeel satisfied about dont just gothrough the paces of education.

With so much said about a con-sumerist culture, I think its timewe realign towards a creationistculture.Not how we got herebib-lical creationism,but where shouldwe go nextcreationism.

If we want that kind of creativeworld, well need more forgiveness.Because when we hold high expec-tations on quality, we can find our-selves being mean critics. Givingconstructive feedback is fine, but itshould be coupled with enthusiasticencouragement; originality is foreveryone. Google famously givesemployees 20 percent of their timedevoted to passion projects.What if

Stanford, or even all of society,worked like that? Instead of justweekends to relax,we took a wholeweek off each year to go out andcreate things.

Now, this is my last column. Itsbeen a good quarter for me of op-edcreativity aboutmusic.But before Ireturn to writing music itself,I wantto encourage anyone else who caresabout music on campus to not waituntil senior year (like I did) to getmore involved.Theres always moreto do.

But most of all, enjoy the music.

Last chance to send hate/love mail [email protected].

With Volume 238 of TheDaily coming to a close, Ithought I would finally get

a little bit introspective. Over mypast 11 columns, Ive tried to make

you laugh. Hopefully, I succeeded.If I ever slightly offended you, thenI think I did my job, too. This col-umn is (usually) ironic. However,because this may be its final edi-tion, Im going to pass up the jokesabout sororities to touch on some-thing important to me. Indulge me

just this once while I try to provemy worth as a political sciencemajor by passing along a life lesson.

If these past two and a half yearsat Stanford have taught me any-thing, its that you can truly accom-plish anything you want to do here.Actually, I take that back. Imenough of a cynic that I cant get en-tirely behind that Lythcott-Haim-sian worldview. Let me rephrase itthis way: this university offers youall of the opportunities you could

possibly want to succeed in whatev-er your initiative may be, so try.Youmight fail sometimes disastrous-ly but at least you tried. Youreonly going to be in this place oncein your life, so make the most of it.

I find myself thinking back to aconversation I had with someonetruly important to me at the foot ofthe Eiffel Tower a few months ago.We talked about making a differ-ence in the world, and I argued arather cynical view at the time that one person alone simply could-nt change the world,so why bothertrying? There was definitely a copi-ous amount of French rose in-volved, but that alone cant make

up for how blatantly wrong I wasthat night. Granted, I still think myfirst point is potentially valid.Hon-estly, Im not sure that one personcan change the world.Yet it was inthe second part where I was sotremendously wrong the whybother?

Its a good question; Ill give itthat. If I dont think a person cansinglehandedly change the world,then why even waste my time try-ing? Heres my big revelation: itsnot all about changing the world.That conversation in July helped tospur a complete reformation of myworldview.Sure, Im still pragmatic

to the point of cynicism,but Ive re-alized an important point:one per-son doesnt necessarily have tochange the world, but one personcan easily change someone elsesworld and that might be just asimportant.

So how can you accomplish this?Just how can you change someoneelses world? Start small; start per-sonal. Be a good friend. Have ameaningful conversation. Be therefor somebody when they need you.Ask out that cute girl youve spot-ted around campus. Call your par-ents a little more often. Fall in love.There are more than a few ideas toget you started.

Or you can take the route mosttraveled by Stanford students: dosomething crazy. Thats how Ivedecided to make the best use of thisnewfound energy. This summer, Ill

be embarking on the Mongol Rally.Whats that, you ask? Ill just bedriving from southeast England toUlaanbaatar, Mongolia. Itll befour weeks,13 countries,and 10,000miles all to support a Stanfordstudent-founded nonprofit, Gum-ball Capital. I know how crazy thewhole venture sounds.Why shouldI take a month out of my summer todo the insane trip by a college stu-dent for charity thing?

Ill tell you: because I want tochange someones world. Maybe Ican change the world of the personin poverty somewhere in the ThirdWorld who will be the namelessbeneficiary of the money I raise.Maybe I can change the world ofsomeone I meet on my journeyalong a third of the worlds circum-

ference. Maybe I can change theworld of one of you by inspiringyou to do something to make thisworld a better place for someoneelse in it.I know you can do it.Itswhy were all at this school in thefirst place.

That conversation under theEiffel Tower and many othersbefore and after helped tochange my world. This column ismy little attempt to change yours.

Shane is sorry he had to get all superserious on you there,so e-mail him at [email protected] and hell bemore than happy to give you theusual dose of wit and charm.

Fall quarter, I decided to trysomething I hadnt done inyears, for as long as I can re-

member. I started to wear a helmetwhenever I rode my bike.I got a freehelmet my freshman year, and yetfor three years, I never wore it. Be-cause no one did.I didnt want to bea nerd, I didnt want to look like asketchy grad student and I didntwant the helmet to screw up my hair,which is admittedly temperamental.

But my three-year stint suc-cumbing to peer pressure haltedwhen two friends were hospitalized

after serious bike accidents in whichthey were not wearing helmets.Both incidents were legitimatelyscary. The pain my friends experi-enced wasnt an hour getting a cast.It was days in the ICU clinging toconsciousness. It was weeks adjust-ing to normal life after a life-threat-ening accident. It was months oftherapy trying to regain not justtheir strength but their basic neuro-logical functioning. And it will beyears remembering the day theycould have lost their lives.

When I came back to school thisyear, I brought my helmet. But Icouldnt wear it.I just felt so ridicu-lous. Even though I knew it wassomething I should do, and thoughin theory I was comfortable withmyself,the act of putting the helmeton made me feel unbearably self-conscious. Helmets are just notsexy! I just knew that if I wore myhelmet,everyone would see me and

judge me. Wow, lame. Haha,Bens such a nerd.

But then I realized . . . I am anerd. And thats fine! I thoughtabout every judgment people couldmake about me, and realized that

they were all ridiculous. And really,am I the kind of person who wouldprioritize what people think of meover my own safety and well-being?Absolutely not.

I see this as an issue of self-re-spect, something I find much sexierthan slightly-crumpled helmet hair.I would admire people much morefor respecting themselves enoughto care about their safety than forcaring about what people think ofthem. By wearing a helmet, yourenot making a fashion statement;youre making a personal state-

ment.Helmets are never going to becute in and of themselves, but theconfidence you exude by wearingone is exponentially sexier than anyhat you could wear. Thinking thatyou wont get into an accident is ar-rogant. Thinking that safety mightinterfere with your hair is vain.Notwanting to resemble a nerd is inse-cure. None of these to me is an at-tractive quality in a person,yet theyall scream at me when I see some-one riding a bike without a helmet.I cant help it! So yes, nowIjudge

you for notwearing a helmet. My,how the tides have turned.

Now, a lot of these thoughtscame about when I first startedwearing my helmet. I still felt un-comfortable, so literally every bikeride was spent justifying to myselfwhy it was worth how weird I felt.And it did feel weird, for about aweek. Now I feel naked without it.Its no longer something Im mak-ing myself do its something Iwant to do. Its common sense.

And you know what? People re-ally dont care. Ive only had twocomments from friends whoveseen me wearing a helmet.The first

sarcastically yelled Ben?? Nicehelmet . . . to which I coolly af-firmed Thanks! I like it too! Thesecond friend was one who hadbeen hospitalized. As she rode byme, her mouth erupted into a hugesmile. Blau! Nice helmet!! Andher smile wasnt just a friendly

hello. It was a smile of pride. Shewas proud of me for defying idioticsocial norms and caring about my-self. And you know what? I wasproud of myself,too.

So even if you dont have friendswho have been injured from bikeaccidents, and even if you still feel a

little insecure about it, I encourageyou to try wearing a helmet. Just fora week,and then see how you feel.Itwont kill you. In fact, it might saveyour life. And the very least, Illthink youre sexy.

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THE CAMPUS BEAT

Wouldnt you

want to createthings along

the way?

Lucas WillJohnson

Shane

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A Creation Story

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duction process can be easily iden-tified and there are benefits tousing a more educated workforceduring the early stages of a productcycle.

After the product has been de-

veloped, however, producers willmost likely shift production tolower labor-cost regions of theworld, like China or India.Produc-tion in these regions, in the laterstage of a products development,tends to be cheaper, making goodsmore affordable to the averageAmerican consumer.

Wolak suggests that althoughthe United States should focus onthe development of new greentechnologies, challenges remain.One of the major challenges to thedevelopment of green technologyin the United States is,according toWolak,the lack of a price of carbon.Coal,natural gas and oil remain thecheapest energy sources cheap-er than lower-carbon sources of en-ergy. Producers of environmentally

friendly sources of energy, likewind, solar and other renewables,are primarily being funded by fed-eral subsidies and tax credits.

Given the increasing scarcity ofgovernment revenues, it is becom-ing more difficult for governmentsto maintain the levels of these sub-sidies,Wolak said.This means the

green technology industry is goingto have an increasingly difficulttime finding buyers for its productsunless they can make them cost-competitive with conventional fos-sil fuels or find some way to get con-sumers to pay more for energy fromthese sources.

According to Wolak, StanfordsPESD is attempting to resolve thisproblem.

A major area of research at

PESD is identifying mechanismsfor lower carbon sources of energyto become financially viable in aworld without a price of carbon,hesaid, as well as finding ways to in-troduce carbon pricing in a mannerthat does not create significant po-litical resistance, yet encouragesless environmental damage andmore investment in low carbon en-ergy technologies.

Contact Marianne Levine [email protected].

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STANFORD SCOREBOARD

Im sick. Frequent cough,clogged ears, no appetite,lack of energy,trouble sleep-ing, the whole nine yards.When this happens, there is

very little for me to do other thanwatch sports and complain aboutbeing sick (ignore the fact that Idbe doing the same thing even if Iwas healthy, except Id find some-thing else to complain about).

Now, no one (and I mean noone) likes listening to me com-plain about being sick, so letsconcentrate on the sports. Well,when youre a casual sports fan,

you can look up when big gamesare going to be on and plan aheadso that you can watch thosegames and only those games.When,as one of The Dailys edi-tors said to me the other day,You watch way too muchsports,you broaden your scope alittle bit. Sure, youll watch theNFL playoffs, but youll alsocheck out that Horizon League

basketball game if it seems inter-esting.

It was in one of these situations,when I was virtually a part of thecouch from setting up shop therefor so long,when I stumbled upon atennis match that I never expectedto care about.I like tennis,and I cancertainly appreciate good tennis,

but Im never going to be someonewho follows it regularly.Other thanthe Stanford tennis teams,the onlytennis Ill watch is the Grand Slams,which I guess makes me the equiv-alent of a C&E Christian (anAFWU tennis fan?).

Anyway,the Australian Open iswell underway,which,coupled with


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NO PLACE LIKE HOME

By JACK BLANCHATCONTRIBUTING WRITER

After completing a strong weekendagainst the Los Angeles schools lastweek, the No. 4 Stanford womens bas-ketball team (16-2,7-0 Pac-10) heads toOregon this weekend to kick off a four-game road trip.

The Cardinal has captured 10straight wins, and the trip up north

could help separate Stanford from theremainder of the pack.Oregon (12-6,3-4) has had a consis-

tently unusual season in the Pac-10 sofar.The Ducks dropped both games tothe Arizona and southern Californiaschools,but remain undefeated againstthe Washington schools and rival Ore-gon State.

Oregon is a perfect 3-0 at home inconference play thus far,and most of itssuccess this season can be attributed tothe powerful J-Team. Junior forwardAmanda Johnson and redshirt juniorguard Nia Jackson are both averagingover 16 points per game this season,and junior Jasmin Holliday contributes8.3 points per game as well.Altogether,the three players make up 50 percent of

the Ducks scoring this season.Although Oregon has some scary

scorers,history has not been so kind tothe Ducks when they have taken onStanford.The Cardinal has won 11 in arow against the girls in green,and Stan-ford hung 100 points on Oregon bothtimes they played last year, winning100-80 in Eugene and 104-60 in MaplesPavilion.

Oregon State (7-11,0-7 Pac-10) has

found itself in the cellar of the Pac-10this season. However, the poor recordcan be deceiving,as the Beavers mar-gin of defeat in Pac-10 games is only 6.4points per game.

Like Oregon,the Beavers rely heav-ily on a trio of players that all averagemore than 30 minutes of playing timeper game.Freshman guard Alyssa Mar-tin, who averages 14.9 points per game,sophomore guard Sage Indendi, whoaverages 10.8 points per game and sen-ior forward El Sara Greer,who adds 8.4rebounds and 9.5 points per game.

Stanford heads north playing someof its best basketball of the season.After dominating UCLA and USC,theaccolades came flying in for the secondweek in a row, as senior forward Kayla

Pedersen was named Pac-10 player ofthe week for the fourth time in her ca-reer.

Pedersen, the only player to rank inthe top three in assists, points and re-bounds for the Cardinal, was alsonamed a finalist for the Lowes SeniorCLASS Award on Wednesday, anaward given annually to seniors withoutstanding academic and athleticachievements.

Additionally, Pedersen will have achance to make history this weekend,as she needs to play only eight moreminutes to eclipse Virginia Sourlis 25-year-old Stanford record of 4,148 min-utes played.

I think it will all hit me at the end ofthe season, the fact that,Wow, I spentfour years playing in a Stanford uni-form,she said.But until then,its justone game at a time.

Pedersens pursuit of history wasbriefly derailed earlier this year, whenshe had to sit out a road game againstDePaul, in which Stanford suffered itsfirst loss of the season,a 91-71 defeat.

However, the senior from Fountain

By LAUREN TAYLORSTAFF WRITER

Following a disappointing week-end in southern California, the Stan-ford mens basketball team is back onthe Farm. Currently plagued by athree-game losing streak, the Card

(10-8, 3-4 Pac-10) now enters a four-game conference homestand a rarescheduling occurrence that could pro-vide the team with a favorable oppor-tunity to pick up a few key wins andget back on track.

Tomorrow night,Stanford will faceOregon (9-10, 2-5), who heads to

Maples Pavilion coming off a close 63-59 win against rival Oregon State lastSaturday. The victory was the teamsfirst road win of the season,and it wasa much-needed morale boost after theteam suffered a month-long losingstreak and 1-5 start to the conferenceseason.

However, Oregon opened up itsbrand new arena two weeks ago with aclutch 68-62 win over a tough USCsquad.The upset put the Ducks youngteam on the map,although it was pre-dicted to finish last in the Pac-10 pre-season media poll.

But if location is any indicator ofthe Ducks success, they will have arough time against the Card theyhave not won a single game on theFarm in 25 years.Though Stanford hasdefeated Oregon at home in 24 con-secutive matchups, the team will haveto learn from its mistakes in Los Ange-les and revert back to its early-seasonstyle in order to capitalize on its home-court advantage.

Despite a 14-point lead overUCLA at one point in the first half,theCard was not able to produce nearlyenough of an offensive effort duringthe remainder of the game. Headcoach Johnny Dawkins is optimisticthat this can change in tomorrowsgame.

Our looks were very good, and ifwe take those looks again, theyre

going to [fall]. We need to come outand do the same things we did in thefirst half, Dawkins said. Were agood shooting team and a good scor-ing team,so we have to get back to thebasics and make it happen.

In fact, the Card has been stayingalive almost solely because of its de-

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By WILL SEATONSTAFF WRITER

Taking center court in itsregular season home opener,the defending national cham-pion and current No. 1 Stan-ford womens tennis team (1-0) dominated UC-Davis (1-2)with a 7-0 score.

Stanford was able to run

through the doubles matchesfairly quickly. Out with a soremuscle in her stomach, sopho-more Mallory Burdette was re-placed on the No.1 team by fel-low sophomore Stacey Tan.Tan and senior captain HilaryBarte won 8-2. Senior CarolynMcVeigh and junior VeronicaLi paired up at the No. 3 spot,also winning 8-2.

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Perhaps most interestingwas the No. 2 match, showcas-ing two fresh faces on the teamin freshmen Kristie Ahn andNicole Gibbs. In their first reg-ular season match at home,thetwo combined for a dominat-ing 8-1 performance that dis-played the talent many havebeen expecting them to bringthis year.

First of all they have a lotof experience together, saidhead coach Lele Forood.

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The No. 4 Stanford womens basketball game hits the road in search of its 11th straight win this weekend. The Car-dinal has reached the 80-point mark in five of its last six games and currently sits alone atop the Pac-10 standings.

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Senior Hilary Barte, above, led the No. 1 Stanford womens ten-nis team to a 7-0 victory over UC-Davis in the Cardinals regu-lar-season home opener. The team faces Cal Poly this weekend.

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Freshman forward Anthony Brown, above, and the rest of the young Cardinalhope to snap a three-game losing streak tonight when the team faces Oregon inMaples Pavilion. Stanford hasnt reached 60 points for six consecutive games. Please see MBBALL,page 7

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fense,as the team has failed to reachthe 60-point mark in six consecutivegames. Stanford hopes to see a re-vival of the explosive offense it dis-played in the Pac-10 season openeragainst Cal when the Card shot a

season-best 57.4 percent.We have to look at our kids and

have them understand that itsgoing to be a process, Dawkinssaid of his young lineup.We needto take the positives away and lookat the negatives to see how we cancorrect them.

Fortunately for Stanford, bycontinuing to enforce a solid de-fense and adjusting the previouslystruggling offense, the team couldbe able to hold off the Ducks, whoare averaging only a 41.1 overallshooting percentage.

Senior Joevan Catron, sopho-more E.J. Singler and junior Mal-colm Armstead round out Oregonsoffense and pose the most notablethreat to the Cardinal defense.

Oregon is a good, hard-nosed

team, Dawkins said. Theyrescrappy, and theyre playing with alot of confidence.

Several Stanford players haveparticularly strong career showingsagainst Oregon. Junior guard Jere-my Green has shot 46.4 percentfrom the field and averaged 12.0points per game, while junior for-ward Jack Trotter is 7-for-11 fromthe floor when facing the Ducks.

Dawkins expects these players

to be key contributors, and alsohopes that the team will come to-gether and produce enough mo-mentum to overcome Oregonsquick style of play.

Theyre playing with a stylethat fits their young players andsmaller team, Dawkins said of theOregon lineup.They get after youdefensively and mix up their de-fenses. Offensively, theyre con-stantly in attack mode with guyswho are looking to drive and pitch,and that fits well with their person-ality.

Tipoff against Oregon to kickoff the four-game homestand is to-morrow at 7 p.m.

Contact Lauren Taylor at [email protected].

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said illness and sports fandom,meansits Jacob Jaffe the Tennis Fan time. Ihad already watched some Imissed my favorite meal of the week,

ribs, because I was watching the firstset of Andy Roddick vs.Igor Kunitsyn(nope,I hadnt heard of him either,butit was a good set) but I hadnt satdown for a full match yet.

Then I flipped to a seeminglyrandom and boring match RobinSoderling, seeded fourth, vs.Alexandr Dolgopolov, whose facelooked like that of an acne-riddledhigh school girl. He appeared to beplaying like one, too, as Soderlingwas doing whatever he wanted withthe unknown Dolgopolov. As thefirst set finished 6-1 in favor ofSoderling, the announcers were rav-

ing about how Soderling was de-stroying his opponent and seeming-ly counting down the minutes untilthey could stop trying to say thename Dolgopolov (pronounced, asfar as I can tell,Dole-go-POLE-off).

Despite the blowout and the factthat I had no connection to this match(Soderling was clearly going to winand Id never heard of this guy with a

funny name),I kept watching.Even asSoderling got a quick break in the sec-ond, I stuck with it, because . . . whynot? Ive got nothing better to do withmy life. The AFC ChampionshipGame was at least as much of ablowout (24-3 Steelers) and it washalftime anyway.Theres no way Imgetting up and doing anything useful.Why not watch some random tennis?

It was sure lucky I did,because thematch turned upside down. This 22-year-old Ukrainian suddenly decidedto do his best Roger Federer impres-sion and started pummeling thestunned Soderling. Down 2-1 in the

second set and facing Soderlingsserve, Dolgopolov looked reborn,winning 11 of the next 13 games totake a two-sets-to-one lead.He pulledoff some absurd shots,and he certain-ly won me over.The announcers kepttelling the story of how he almost lostto a local club player just a month ago,and here he was holding his ownagainst one of the worlds top five

players.So naturally, Dolgopolov wascoasting toward one of the biggest up-sets of the year so far.Or not.Soder-ling went on to win the first fourgames of the fourth set and hold onfor the 6-4 win, forcing a decisive fifthset. By this point, the Jets-Steelersgame was well into the fourth quarterand the Jets were threatening to makea game of it. Football is my favoritesport,and this game is obviously huge.Yet I couldnt help but flip back to thetennis match,because I was honestlymore interested in this Swede facingthis Ukrainian in Australia than any-

thing going on in America at the time.I did see the Jets get within five

near the end of the game, and I sawBen Roethlisberger make a few playsto clinch the game for the Steelers.But what Ill remember much morefrom that day is watching Soderlinggo up a break in the fifth,only to seeDolgopolov win six of the next sevengames to take the set and the match.

Ill remember a crazy back-and-forthshowdown that saw the No.46 playerin the world beat the No.4 player,andDolgopolov go from having a one-percent chance of winning (accordingto ESPNs spiffy match win likeli-

hood calculator) after trailing by abreak in the second set to pulling offa 6-2 fifth set for the win.

Dolgopolov went on to lose toAndy Murray in the next round, andhis match against Soderling will prob-ably have almost no lasting impact.But for one afternoon, I was trans-fixed.

And really,isnt that what sports are

all about?

Jacob Jaffe is one of three Americanswho can correctly pronounce Dolgo-

polov.Applaud his pronunciation at [email protected].

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Hills,Ariz.,found that sitting out hashelped her.

Obviously,I didnt choose to sitout, but it made me realize how touse all five players on the floor,Pedersen said.It showed me some

things on offense and defense thatyou cant really see when youre outon the floor trying to make a play.

Since the DePaul game whichsnapped her streak of 121 consecu-tive starts dating back to 2007 Pedersen has averaged 12 pointsand nine rebounds a game, in addi-tion to three double-doubles.

However, Pedersen insists that

the individual achievements are sec-ondary this season to the teams as-pirations.

Being named to the Lowes Se-nior CLASS award is very cool, forsure,but right now,were motivated towin this Pac-10 season first,she said.

After Saturdays game at Maples,USC head coach Michael Coopersaid that he thought the Cardinalwould be the next national champi-on, and Pedersen admits that a

unique sense of purpose has beendriving this years team.Just the way this team is spe-

cial is the perfect word to describeit,she said.For us seniors it has tobe this season, and I think were alltotally dedicated to that goal.

Contact Jack Blanchat at [email protected].

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They won a pro tournament lastyear,so theyre used to [playing] to-gether. They played well in the fall

at regionals and theyve taken somelosses since then, so were trying toget back on the track of how wellthey played in the fall.

The two debuted well in singlesalso.Gibbs started at the No.2 posi-tion while Ahn played No. 3. Afterserving five double faults in a row inthe first set, Ahn settled down torecord a 6-3,6-1 victory. She admit-ted to nerves afterwards, saying shehad been too excited to play on thecenter courts in her first homematch. Gibbs was a dominatingforce in her match, running downevery ball and displaying a powerfulreturn game. She breezed throughthe first set, dropped the first twogames of the second set and thenfinished her opponent off,6-0, 6-2.

They bring a lot of energy,which obviously picks everyoneup, Barte said.Nicole is super in-tense and really competitive so Ithink that brings the fire out in all ofus. Kristies a little goofier, but sheturns it on when she needs to.Theyre going to do great andtheyve added a lot to the team.

Wednesdays match proved tobe the first chance for fans to get aglimpse of Stanfords recruitingclass, ranked No. 2 by The TennisRecruiting Network. Highlightedby Ahn and Gibbs, the freshmanclass also includes touted players inAmelia Herring and ElizabethAiyi Ecker.

Weve got a lot of talent there,Forood said.Thats a lot of players[in the freshmen class] so I think it

bodes well for the future, no doubt.Theyre all good players.Seeded No. 8 in last years

NCAA Tournament, Stanford wasable to upset both No.1 Baylor andNo.4 Notre Dame on its way to win-ning its first NCAA national cham-pionship in four years with a nail-biting 4-3 victory over No.3 Floridain the championship match.

With the graduation of senior co-

captain Lindsay Burdette, a majorpart of that championship run, theCardinal was forced to watch onehalf of its best doubles pairing walkaway. Burdette paired with currentsenior Hilary Barte to claim Stan-fords 13th overall doubles title inschool history in Lindsays lastmatch in school colors. Taking her

place is her younger sister, sopho-more Mallory Burdette.

Lindsay was a little more ag-gressive, Barte described. Weboth served and volley,and we kindof took it to them. Mallory is thesame thing,but we take it to them ina different way in that she puts a lotof pressure on them from the base-line and then gets in when she hasthe opportunity.

So far this season, Barte andMallory Burdette have combined toplay in the USTA/ITA National In-door Championships and All-Americas in the fall, taking homethe trophy at All-Americas in Octo-ber. At Indoors, after losing in thefirst round, they made a run to theconsolation final before beingedged by Barbora Kritickova andAlida Muller-Wehlau of ArmstrongAtlantic State,8-6.

Theyre not quite as dominant[now] as they were at All-Ameri-cans when they won it in October,Forood said.But you know winninga national tournament their firsttime together is pretty impressive.

A core of veteran seniors, Barte,McVeigh and Jennifer Yen,will leadthis years young team. Because ofthe large contingent of freshmen onthe team, this senior leadershipcould prove essential for the Cardi-nals success.

Its definitely an honor [leadingthe team], Barte said. I cant be-lieve were seniors first of all, butIm excited to show them the ropesand try to be a model by action

more than anything else.The team will next put its talentson display this weekend, hoping toqualify for National Indoors withmatches against Cal Poly and eitherOklahoma or UNLV. Match time is2 p.m.Friday and Saturday at TaubeTennis Stadium.

Contact Will Seaton at [email protected].

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