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Grads vs. undergrads in Executive race; new coalition of 10 candidates in play for Senate race
D 38% By MARISA LANDICHO Dorsey-Harris, with 1534 votes, had 1,000 Senate Race the subsequent spending limit, though they
A SENIOR STAFF WRITER more first-choice votes from undergrads than In the Senate, a new coalition of candi- still plan on ordering T-shirts, which typically
the next highest slate, Gobaud-Goldgof. dates has formed. Anchored by current run up campaign costs.
13% Tonight at 12:01 a.m. marks the official However, Gobaud, the only grad student Senate Chair Shelley Gao ‘11, “Students for a Last year, Gobaud spent a reported total
C 25% start of campaign week for the ASSU elec-
tions, but there are already multiple stories
in the Exec race, earned nearly four times as
many graduate first-choice votes than the
Better Stanford” could change the way the
Senate race is run. Ten Senate candidates
of $3,768.55 on his campaign, including
$1787.81 on shirts. The winning Dorsey-
B shaping up before the clock starts ticking for ultimate winners, Dorsey and Harris. have indicated their participation in Harris slate purchased $2046.35 in shirts and
candidates to make an impression. Gobaud is now trying to rewrite history “Students for a Better Stanford.” spent a total of $3,597.31.
with current running-mate de la Torre. In previous elections, endorsements, pri- “The spending limit has encouraged us to
Executive Race This year, there is only one competitive marily from the Students of Color Coalition use our creativity to come up with ways of
A) Win the NCAA Championship
Next week’s ASSU elections will again undergrad slate: Bennett Hauser ‘10 and (SOCC) and The Stanford Review, have been campaigning that aren’t centered around
B) Lose in the final round feature a battle between Stanford’s graduate Matt Sprague ‘10. Last year, the Dorsey- very important. But with Gao’s new coali- spending money,” Gobaud said.
C) Lose in the semi-final round and undergraduate populations — David Harris slate split the undergraduate vote tion, the value of endorsements may change. The Hauser-Sprague slate, on the other
D) The other three Final Four teams Gobaud M.S. ‘08 M.S. ‘10, who narrowly came between four other undergrad slates — this hand, said they won’t be taking the public
forfeit after watching the in second place in last year’s Executive elec- time there will be far less competition for the Campaign Finance funds.
Jayne Appel highlight reel on tion, is running again this year along with Jay undergraduate vote. Financial reforms passed by the “While we value the principle of public
ESPNʼs SportsCenter de la Torre ‘10. Undergraduates Bennett Gobaud views his grad status as a strong Undergraduate Senate and the Graduate financing, we do not believe it is prudent for
Today’s Question: Hauser ‘10 and Matt Sprague ‘10 will be asset. Student Council (GSC) will also attempt to our slate to accept money from a weakened
Gobaud-de la Torre’s main competition. “If anything, running as a grad/undergrad change the playing field this campaign sea- ASSU in this time of economic crisis,”
Has the latest bout of anger with Wall Street
changed your career plans? Last year, under the slate Go Go Gobaud team with Jay is beneficial because it allows son. Hauser and Sprague wrote in an email to The
Goldgof, Gobaud and Greg Goldgof ‘08 fin- us to truly represent the entire student body,” This year, students running for Executive Daily.
a) Yes, I wanted to go into finance, but now I ished second out of five slates for the 2008 Gobaud wrote in an email to The Daily. “For are eligible to receive $750 in ASSU funds to “However, public financing is great for
wouldnʼt go near it
b) No, I think I can still make it big
Executive spot, earning 1880 votes to Jonny years, important issues such as grad mental subsidize their campaign. Candidates accept- those who would otherwise be dissuaded
c) No, populist anger excites me Dorsey and Fagan Harris’ 2150 votes. health, grad cost of living and the lack of ing public money are required to cap their from running,” they added. The slate has
d) No, I want to work for Barack Obama The breakdown of first-choice votes, how- dependent health care have been ignored at total spending at $1,500. agreed to cap their own spending at $2,000
e) Iʼm screwed anyway ever, revealed the divide between grads and the Executive level.” The Gobaud-de la Torre slate has said that
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ASSU ELECTIONS STUDENT LIFE

Senate discusses Students help

grad role in funding out in Big Easy
funding for IER be financed by
Senators question funds for the GSC and Undergraduate Groups pursue service and business
Senate in proportion to how
Student Services Division undergraduates and graduate
projects in New Orleans for spring break
students benefit, with the GSC
paying more for programs that
By ZOE RICHARDS primarily cater to graduate stu- By ERIC MESSINGER
CONTRIBUTING WRITER dents. DESK EDITOR
“Until I see something reflect-
As its term nears the end, the ing that, I’m not comfortable Most college students heading to New Orleans for
Undergraduate Senate discussed signing off on it,” Ilves said. CRIS BAUTISTA/ spring break used to arrive ready for a week of revelry
the budget for the new Student Senate Deputy Chair Patrick The Stanford Daily in a bustling city with an infamously wild nightlife. But
Services Division (SSD), which Cordova (‘09) agreed and said after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is attracting a
will act as an operational arm of “[The GSC has] great interest to different kind of attention from college students, includ-
the ASSU providing additional participate, but great hesitance to STUDENT LIFE ing those at Stanford.
resources for students. Among its contribute funding.” Since the death and devastation left by the hurricane
services are the Green Store, “It’s unfortunate and discon-

Students undeterred
in 2005, New Orleans has had to weather even more
Wellness Room, Airport Shuttles certing . . . I’m losing compas- misfortune, reeling from the flight of thousands of its
and Informational and sion,” he added. citizens and slow or ineffective responses to the dam-
Educational Resources (IER), Vice President Fagan Harris age. A group from Stanford’s Alternative Spring Break
which became a major source of ‘09 contended that because the program (ASB) went to the city for a busy week that
contention at Tuesday’s meeting. ASSU discriminates on pricing included meetings with local volunteers and hurricane

by Wall Street mess

IER would involve workshops for Airport Shuttles and Green survivors. Students sought primarily to gain a further
proposed by the Graduate Store products, by charging grad- understanding about the complex situation in the city,
Student Council (GSC), includ- uate students more for these and also to assist in educational and service projects,
ing tax aid, legal informational services, the Undergraduate divi- including planting wetlands to help decrease future
meetings and possibly seed sion of the ASSU ought to make storm surges.
money for student projects. a better effort to support IER “We wanted to get our hands dirty,” said Nick
Senator Luukas Ilves ‘09, the
Administration & Rules Chair,
that will help graduate and
undergraduate students alike.
Soon-to-be grads see he will have more opportunities for success
than many who were in the industry prior to
McIntyre ‘11. “We [tried] to expose ourselves to as
many of the major issues as we could.”
the recession.
explicitly rejected the proposi-
tion for significant
At the end of his term and
faced with a contentious funding
opportunity amidst downturn “The landscape has changed so much that,
The trip leaders were McIntyre and Jess Hawkins
‘11, both of whom had participated in the program the
Undergraduate Senate funding question, Harris did not take on if there’s any time to enter the industry, it’s previous year and found themselves excited at the
By ANDREW VALENCIA now,” Song said. “Three or four years from
on the grounds that the programs his typical role of mediation opportunity to return.
SENIOR STAFF WRITER now, people entering will have a much better
primarily serve the Graduate stu- between the Undergraduate “We knew there was so much more to be done,”
dent community. Others dis- Senate and the GSC. Harris advantage than other generations.” Hawkins said. “When we were there, I felt there wasn’t
Growing anger and frustration with Wall Evan Reas MBA ‘09 hasn’t changed his
agreed with Ilves. remained doubtful about success- enough time to explore everything.”
Street hit a high note this month, as mass pub- plans due to the current economic climate,
“We don’t want to see this be ful negotiations between the two Hawkins and McIntyre agreed that a key experience
lic furor with compensation in the finance sec- and plans to enter the business world after
completely nixed because it is a parties regarding proportional was tutoring for a day at the Sophie B. Wright Charter
tor, particularly with insurance giant AIG, graduation. Reas noted that the funding cru-
service to our students,” said shared funding for the new IER. School.There, they were able to observe the severe gaps
resulting in Congressional efforts to tax bonus- cial for starting a new business is harder to
Yvorn “Doc” Aswad-Thomas ‘11, “I’m utilitarian right now and I in learning evident in the education system, and attempt
es at all companies receiving significant bailout find than it was just a year ago, as investors are
who saw the mutual benefits of hate it,” Harris said. to help with fundamental skills.
funds. much less likely to trust a fledging company
tax aid and other programming He later deemed funding for “It seemed like we were plugging a serious gap,”
But despite watching the vilification of Wall with their capital.
for undergraduate students. the Green Store among the top McIntyre said. “Instead of helping explain who [19th-
Street over the last several weeks, many busi- “I’m looking all over the place,” Reas said.
After completing a pilot year priorities, moving funding for IER century Senator] Henry Clay was, we would be showing
ness and finance students at Stanford remain “You really have to show that you’re making
of the Wellness Room, the ASSU that primarily benefit graduate them how to use an index and glossary.”
optimistic about the market they will enter money before investors will get on board.”
eventually hopes that it can be students to the back shelf. “We put far more of a focus on how to learn, rather
after graduation. Reas came to the GSB with the long-term
moved to the Special Fees Ballot, The meeting concluded with a than teaching them a few facts,” he added.
Those students who plan to soon enter the plan of either founding his own business after
which will open up more funds decision to write what the Senate The ASB group prepared throughout winter quarter,
world of business and finance will do so amid graduating or joining a start-up. He has had to
for other ASSU initiatives within described as a “friendly amend- enlisting both knowledgeable students and professors
one of the worst economic downturns since alter his immediate business plans somewhat
the nearly $32,000 SSD budget. ment” to the bill, which subsidized to provide introductory lectures.
the Great Depression, and in an atmosphere in as a result of the times. In response to a grow-
However, the possibility did not the undergraduate student por- While the undergraduate students focused on their
which Federal Treasury bailouts, irresponsible ing reluctance toward risk within the invest-
seem to satisfy those in the tion of IER. The Senate also made efforts, Stanford GSB students also made their way to
investment practices and CEO bonuses have ment sector, Reas has had to look at safer,
Senate who demanded that dol- the decision to pass the remainder New Orleans for a different project. Second-year MBA
fed public animosity against big business. more traditional options for the company he
lars spent by the Undergraduate of the SSD budget. students Ashley Dayton and Luke Stewart worked with
Despite this climate, Stanford students seem hopes to begin.
Senate primarily benefit under- Reflecting on the divide the non-profit IDEACorps to help with local start-up
largely resilient, and even hopeful, for the “There’s a narrower selection of ideas that
graduate students. between undergraduate and grad- Feelgoodz, which produces eco-friendly flip-flops.
future. I’m going after right now,” he said. “It makes
Ilves emphasized the impor- uate interests that had dominated Dayton explained that the students focused on making
Alex Song ‘09, who is completing degrees it much tougher on which business models
tance of sharing burdens the meeting, Harris was somber. two main contributions to the two-man company they
in both economics and biomechanical engi- you can go after.”
between the Undergraduate “It’s going to require a culture aimed to assist.
neering, is still heading to the Street after The recession nonetheless could offer
Senate and GSC. change,” Harris said of the GSC’s “We had to make sure the company had the capaci-
graduation — he will be joining Morgan some benefits for Reas; layoffs, for example,
“If graduate students benefit, feeling of separation from the rest ty to fulfill sales, and to generate demand so people
Stanley’s fixed income division upon gradua- could mean that he will be able to staff his
I want them to pay something of the ASSU. “It’s frustrating our know this product exists,” Dayton said. “We ended up
tion.
commensurate to how they bene- efficacy.” giving [Feelgoodz] an action plan — tactical steps they
Song is hopeful about his chances of suc-
fit,” Ilves said. Please see WALL STREET, page 6 could take.”
ceeding during the recession; he believes that
The senator pointed out the Contact Zoe Richards at iamzoe
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2 N Wednesday, April 1, 2009 The Stanford Daily

FEATURES
Acabernet
glass of

sauvignon,
s’il vous plaît
Stanford cultivates new generation of
wine connoisseurs
By JENNIFER RABEDEAU by a master’s student interested in teaching
CONTRIBUTING WRITER people how to appreciate wine. The class
was immediately full and has been filling up

W
e’ve all seen “The Line.”
You know, the line of stu-
dents camping outside of
Building 30 at the beginning
of every quarter, vying for
one of the coveted spots in Frenlang 60D?
Officially “Viticulture and Oenology,”
but better known among students as the
“wine-tasting class,” this course is more than
a group of alcoholic seniors looking for an
excuse to binge-drink on a weekday
evening.
“Students really learn how to recognize
good wine from bad wine; that’s the point,”
said Patricia de Castries, assistant director of
the Stanford Language Center and faculty
affiliate for La Maison Francaise. “You learn
how to drink it, sip it, enjoy it. You don’t
binge.”
The viticulture class was founded in 1998
ever since. Although restricted to students
over 21 (they do check student records), the
class has remained one of Stanford’s most
popular classes.
Students cite a variety of motivations for
taking the course, but everyone wants to
learn about wine and appreciate it.
“The whole purpose of the class is to
enjoy wine more,” said A.J. Ferrari, course
instructor and bartender at Michael Mina in
San Francisco. “I’m trying to take away the
anxiety surrounding wine, to demystify it.
Wine is like art — if you don’t know any-
thing about it, it’s hard to talk about.”
Ferrari, who has spent 14 years in the
wine industry, lends his many insights to the
class, condensing a year or two of experience
in the industry into the nine weeks of the
course.
Ferrari brings five or six different wines
AGUSTIN RAMIREZ/The Stanford Daily
Students line up at 10 p.m. last night for a spot in “Viticulture and Oenology” - the popular wine-tasting class. These hopefuls have been waiting
since 1 p.m., and many more are expected to wait throughout the night.
for everyone to taste at the weekly class themes, such as sparkling wines or Italian process in making their wines. Students also
meetings at La Maison Francaise.As student wines. These meetings allow students a more visited a wine-tasting event at Rosenblum
volunteers pour the wine, Ferrari talks about in-depth understanding of different wine- Cellars’ tasting room in Alameda, where
each label, explaining the process of making making processes and of specific regional they had the opportunity to try over 40
different types of wine or the flavors that wines. wines.
characterize each varietal. After inhaling the Ferrari also incorporates guest lectures By the end of the quarter, students
bouquet and tasting the wine, the students and a field trip into his syllabus. Last fall, understand the basic process of wine-mak-
discuss their impressions. Chris Benziger of Benziger Family Winery
Some of the course meetings have in Sonoma came to discuss the biodynamic Please see WINE, page 3
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WINE
Continued from page 2
ing and have a great deal of experi-
ence in wine tasting.
“You become more open-mind-
ed about different types of wine,”
said Katharine Wulff ‘09. “The goal
is to know what you like and what
you don’t like. The class gives you
more confidence and encourages
you to fully engage your senses and
be thoughtful about it.”
Brian Chavarria ‘08 emphasized
the importance of developing per-
sonal taste through the class.
“[Ferrari] told us that the most
important part of the class wasn’t to
all agree on what is a ‘good’ wine,
but to focus on finding what each of
us liked in wine, how to describe
that and to really build up our own
personal knowledge of wine so we
could enjoy it more,” he said in an
email to The Daily.
Although they might not remem-
ber every wine they taste, students
develop the confidence to purchase
a bottle or order a glass in a restau-
rant.
“One of my favorite wine experi-
ences was at a restaurant with
another friend from wine-tasting
class,” Chavarria said. “We decided
to go with the wine pairings for each
course. Having taken the course, I
was able to appreciate how well the
wine was paired with the food.”
“It was amazing to observe how
much food can affect the wine and
vice versa,” he added. “A wine that
originally smelled light and fruity
was transformed into something
totally different when paired with
the food.”
The course, however, is not sim-
ply about wine appreciation. For
many students the viticulture class
teaches a set of valuable skills for
life after graduation.
“It was one of the best classes I
took at Stanford . . . in terms of
actual learning,” said Owen Li ‘08 in
an email to The Daily.
Li, a trader for a hedge fund in
New York, goes out to dinner pro-
fessionally almost every weeknight.
“The lessons learned have defi-
nitely helped me navigate wine lists
confidently,” he said. “Last week,
there was a medium-sized wine list
at a restaurant with a modest set of
Napa [cabernet sauvignons]. I was
actually able to discuss each one.”
Although the material covered in
the viticulture class might not be
directly applicable to professional
life after Stanford, the course helps
develop the ability to talk about
wines, which many students have
found to be a useful social skill.
“The class definitely gave me
more confidence in picking wines at
dinner and talking about wine with
friends and colleagues,” Chavarria
said.
Niji Jain ‘08 agrees.
“I love talking to people about
wine now and definitely feel more
confident at social gatherings,” Jain
said in an email to The Daily. “I’ve
found that talking about wine is a
great conversation starter, and peo-
ple enjoy talking about it.”
And although Ferrari does not
recommend joining wine clubs, he
encourages students to be active in
educating themselves about wine.
“Go to a wine bar or wine shop,”
he said. “Beltramos in Menlo Park
has weekly tastings, and you can find
wines with an intriguing flavor or an
interesting history.”
“We’re so close to Sonoma and
Napa. It’s all about personal experi-
ence at the vineyard. The winery
creates an atmosphere for you to
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 N 3
fall in love with their wines,” he
added.
Jain also had advice for students
interested in developing their wine-
tasting skills outside of class.
“Experiment as much as possi-
ble with new varietals; don’t just
stick to one or two types you
know,” she said. “At restaurants,
I always ask to hear all
about the wine, so I
can learn new things
about a particular
varietal or region.”
Contact Jennifer
Rabedeau at rabe-
deau@stanford.edu.
CRIS BAUTISTA/
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he New York Times printed an article a wish to assert that every leader in the business Cris Bautista

T few weeks ago on the need to retrain

business schools and instill responsible
management and values in business students,
especially in light of the failures of so many
MBA-holding financial executives that led us
into the current financial disaster.
The Times’ description of the failures of
business executives to conduct moral reason-
ing or consider their responsibility when mak-
ing financial decisions was reminiscent of Mitt
Romney’s performance during his presiden-
tial run,which in many ways illustrated the po-
tential drawbacks of the business education
system and business reasoning. Few could
deny that Romney — who earned joint law
and business degrees from Harvard, graduat-
ed in the top five percent of his business school
class and amassed a fortune of several hun-
dred million dollars as a consultant — is a very
smart guy. But Romney’s business abilities
seemed to have left him short-handed as a
public servant during the presidential cam-
paign and reflected the deep and entrenched
failings of American business reasoning.
People can and often do change their mind
on many policy questions, but Romney
seemed to display no moral base at all — he
became notorious during the campaign for
flip-flops on positions from abortion to gay
rights to gun control. What he did display,
however, is the thinking of a business execu-
tive: he sized up the situation, calculated the
positions most likely to help him win the elec-
tion, and adopted them. Just as the business
world typically requires no normative ques-
tions of its CEOs — only empirical questions
about how to maximize efficiency and attain
narrowly defined corporate goals — Romney
seemed unable to ask himself normative ques-
tions about what was realistic, good and hu-
mane policy.
The business executives brought on the fi-
nancial crisis with their overly-risky maneu-
vers when they proved unable to ask ques-
tions beyond how best to maximize efficiency
and make money.The editorial board does not
community is morally corrupt, but there was
clearly some deep failing in the reasoning of
many of our nation’s business leaders.
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While infusing the business world with a Cris Bautista
stronger sense of responsibility could prove a Robert Michitarian Graphics Editor
difficult task, we believe that a renewed focus Glenn Frankel
on the humanities in both business schools
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Recently, a broad discussion has emerged
on the fate of the humanities, particularly as
the financial crisis has seemed to have a dis-
proportionate and dire effect on the humani-
ties departments at many schools when com-
pared to departments seen as more pre-pro-
fessional. Stanford, for example, cut funding
for its Interdisciplinary Studies in the Human-
ities program last month. In such moments of
economic crisis, perhaps it would be useful to
consider what the humanities can offer the
business world. What could a little more nor-
mative and ethical reasoning — a subtle skill
honed best through the study of moral ques-
tions and gray-area dilemmas characteristic of
the humanities — have done for the many
business executives who recklessly disregard-
ed the risks they were taking in the market-
place?
Rethinking the business school curricu-
lum, perhaps by introducing social and envi-
ronmental issues, as well as interdisciplinary
perspectives on complex problems, is neces-
sary in light of the great ethical failures some
of our MBA-holders have committed in the fi-
nancial sector. But this failure in ethical disci-
pline also points to a more far-reaching imper-
ative: to emphasize a foundation of normative
thinking in every discipline through funding
the humanities and increasing the interaction
between the humanities and the more pre-
professional disciplines.
The investment we make in humanities
“training” for our next generation of leaders
could pay off several-fold if it serves to avert
another economic crisis precipitated by
morally questionable practices.

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T HE D UDE A BIDES Zack Warma

The bums will always lose T HE V OICE OF E XPERIENCE David Goldbrenner

W
hile the climate around this column
seems to be that I have a penchant
for rambling incoherence (thank
you again, Chappie), every so often, certain
campus issues are of such import that my
myriad of colloquialisms must be temporar-
ily put aside.The almost total absence of stu-
dent influence over campus life, though cer-
tainly not a new problem, is a continuing
flaw of the Farm that merits a serious discus-
sion (not unlike USC’s problem of having
too many morons).
For all those — and there are many of
you — who have ever had a valid complaint
ignored or disregarded by a University de-
partment, it is all too apparent that Stanford
University does not value or prioritize stu-
dent input, consultation, advising — hell,
even a shred of student autonomy. While I
am not asking for students to manage the en-
dowment or beginning architecture students
to build the next material sciences building, I
do not believe it is unreasonable for such a
talented and engaged population to have
some influence over our student life.
And given that so often the decisions
made by administrators affect students in
less than positive manners (White Plaza’s
$4,000,000 price tag, anyone?), it takes little
thought to realize we have a giant issue. The
most recent act of top-down imbecility has
been delivered to us, courtesy of Housing
and Residential and Dining Enterprises.
Swirling around the co-ops has been the
proposed plan to re-do “priority.” The sys-
tem, which is used by themed houses and co-
ops to make the residences accessible to
for some reason,our administration does not
seem to truly appreciate our capacity to
make informed decisions that affect our
time at Stanford.
In no way do I mean to insinuate that
there is a vast conspiracy to subjugate the
student body being perpetrated by Greg
Boardman or Chris Griffith, because this
school does employ some pretty spectacular
administrators.
While we do live in virtual paradise, our
Eden is one where any semblance of deci-
sion-making power is decidedly out of our
reach. Dining monopolizes our dining op-
tions and limits/hinders the proliferation of
independent retailers (Fraiche no longer
takes dining hall meal points as of two days
ago, for example). The OSA tells us how
many damn sober monitors and EANABs
our parties must have, lest the VSO forever
fall out of favor with the current regime.
And if you care to raise a legitimate issue,
your options consist of a) ignored emails; b)
sitting on a Nominations Commission-ap-
pointed board whose power and effective-
ness is non-existent; or, my personal favorite,
c) callous indignation from particular stu-
dent affairs administrators. In short, what we
are left with is a gargantuan bureaucracy
that does not want our input and provides
minimal avenues for students to effectively
articulate their beliefs.
This column may very well be written off
as some needless whining on the part of an
overly pampered brat, that my concerns are
beyond trivial, and that my time raging
against the man is misguided and misplaced.
Happiness is a warm credit default swap
hen I was an undergraduate at Har-
W vard in 1995, John Kenneth Gal-
braith spoke to my introductory eco-
nomics class. Galbraith, who died in 2006 at
age 98, was a leading liberal economist of the
20th century. I have to admit, I don’t remem-
ber much from the speech, but one anecdote
stands out in my memory.
Galbraith joked about the title he had
given to one of his books, specifically his 1954
bestseller on the 1929 stock market melt-
down. Apparently, he said, the title had cost
him sales in one major retail channel — be-
cause you can’t sell a book called “The Great
Crash” in an airport. Well, times have
changed.I was hunting for reading material in
SFO last week, and there it was, in full splen-
dor, in an airport bookstore.
But what caught my attention even more
was the book sitting literally right next to it, a
book that perhaps explains better than most
pundits why Galbraith’s cautionary tale of
markets separated from reality is now making
an unfortunate comeback.
“The How of Happiness,” by Sonja
Lyubomirsky, is a truly unique work I would
recommend to almost every individual on the
planet. Lyubomirsky, who earned her PhD
here at Stanford, is a professor of psychology
at UC-Riverside. Her career has been devot-
ed to studying human happiness, and her
book is a rigorously researched treatise on
the science of contentment.Transcending an-
freshmen show that those who expressed ma-
terialistic goals as freshmen were less happy
two decades later than their peers.And my fa-
vorite statistic:Americans earning more than
10 million dollars annually report levels of
personal happiness only slightly greater than
blue-collar workers.
It’s too bad for all of us that the executives
at Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, Citigroup,
AIG and so many other financial companies
didn’t get the memo. Because the systemic
dysfunction we now face results from more
than lax regulations or sub-prime mortgages.
It’s also the result of an unrelenting focus in
this country on material wealth at all costs.
Last week in The New York Times, colum-
nist Paul Krugman remarked how, up to the
1980s, the finance industry accounted for
roughly four percent of GDP. In the three
decades since, that number has risen to eight
percent. According to Krugman, the explo-
sion of financial wheeling and dealing set off
by the deregulatory mindset of the Reagan
years “attracted many of our sharpest minds
and made a select few immensely rich.”
It’s not surprising that given a zeitgeist that
lauds and rewards legal but incredibly risky
financial wizardry, our college freshmen
would show the dramatic swing in their values
and attitudes toward money that Ly-
obomirsky reports. When you couple this
with an inviolable sense of entitlement —
that because I’ve gone to the right schools and
hundred people in the financial products divi-
sion brought the company down. Those bets
essentially involved selling vast, reckless
amounts of insurance policies (called credit
default swaps) on mortgage-backed bonds
and hoping they would never need to be paid.
Joseph Cassano, who led the FP group, made
$280 million in the past eight years — all of it,
as is now apparent, pulled out of thin air.
America’s greatness was built by those
who built — roads, computers, software, med-
icines, companies, educational systems, non-
profits — in other words, goods, services or
institutions that helped drive productivity
growth and create real value.
Cassano and his ilk, on the other hand,
abandoned value and responsibility in the
name of profit. But even if they had gotten
away with it, would it be worth it? I’m willing
to bet that those who build — who measure
their accomplishments in lives touched, in
products created, in infrastructure laid — are
much happier than those who measure it in
dollars.
David Goldbrenner has some nice credit de-
fault swaps to sell you . . . cheap. Email gold-
bren@stanford.edu.

those interested in their respective benefits,
is going to be “revamped” such that co-op
staffs will be allotted half of the available
slots to choose whom they wish (see: their
friends), both dashing away the preferred
“two-tiered” priority system and adding to
the nepotism and muddled joyousness that
currently dominates Mayfield Avenue. And
for the grimly unsurprising, but nonetheless
disturbing kicker: Other than the incredibly
representative contingent of three or so stu-
dents on the Draw Reform Board, THERE
WAS NO REAL STUDENT CONSULTA-
TION THAT WENT INTO THE DECI-
SION-MAKING PROCESS!
Housing’s edict is merely another act of
bureaucratic closed-mindedness that short-
changes the undergraduate population. I
think there is not a single undergrad that
does not realize their peers are some of the
more engaging, innovative and dynamic
people they have yet come upon in life. But
I am not trying to fool myself; I realize these
individual concerns are essentially meaning-
less once you step onto University Avenue
and out into the real world.
But I will not shy away from these issues,
because they speak to a culture of blind sub-
mission, of unwillingness to stand up to re-
strictive forces, regardless of their benevo-
lence, and make a case against them. If Stan-
ford is, as our hired propagandists make the
world believe, filled with the future leaders
of the free world,yet we cannot argue for our
beliefs and concerns, then perhaps the god-
damned plane has indeed crashed into the
mountain.
Zack wants to see students installed on the
Board of Trustees with full voting rights, and a
student review board for the OSA. Any other
ideas for making the University administra-
tion less controlling? Email Zack at zwar-
ma@stanford.edu.
ecdotal self-help, she explains what her work
and others’ say about what makes us happy or
unhappy.
Lyubomirsky has much to say on the rela-
tionship between material wealth and happi-
ness. One fact shouted particularly loudly at
me, given the tenor of the times. In 1967, an
annual study of college freshmen reported
that 42 percent believed it’s important to be
“very well-off financially,” while 86 percent
thought it was essential to “develop a mean-
ingful philosophy of life.” In 2005, those num-
bers had swung to 71 percent and 52 percent,
respectively.
This, of course, has occurred despite the
fact that there’s very little connection be-
tween wealth and contentment. As
Lyubomirsky reports, research shows that
“we think money will bring lots of happiness
for a long time, and actually it brings a little
happiness for a short time.”
Moreover, longitudinal studies of college
Write to us.
landed the right job and worked hard, I de-
serve this huge bonus, despite the circum-
stances — it’s easy to understand what’s
going on.
I’m not arguing that finance is evil or that
we should all move out to the country and
grow rice in agricultural collectives. Our soci-
ety needs a functioning financial system as We want to hear
much as we need a legal system or a physical
infrastructure. And even the much-maligned
derivative products we’ve heard so much
about lately may have a constructive role to
from you.
play.
The problem is when these tools fall into
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GAME NOTES: The men’s volleyball team will take its last
road trip of the season this weekend as it travels down to
Southern California to take on No. 7 Cal State-Long
Beach and No. 10 UC-San Diego. The Card is on a
three-game winning streak after defeating Cal State-
Northridge and UC-Santa Barbara, both by a score of 3-
1, and then sweeping Pacific 3-0 yesterday at Maples.
By JEFF LU
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
This past weekend, the Stanford men’s vol-
leyball team reached new heights in its pursuit
of the national championship.In spite of having
its historic, six-game winning streak abruptly
snapped by Cal Baptist, the Cardinal proved it-
self unwavering in its determination to engi-
neer a late-season surge: The men swept two
more conference opponents, No. 2 Cal State
Northridge and No. 12 UC-Santa Barbara, in
two of their strongest offensive performances
thus far.
Two Saturdays ago, Stanford’s hopes of ex-
tending its winning streak of six games — its
longest in 11 years — were cut short by a 30-27,
30-26, 30-28 loss to the NAIA’s (National Asso-
ciation of Intercollegiate Athletics) top-ranked
Cal Baptist. Despite a strong effort by No. 5
Stanford (16-8, 9-6 Mountain Pacific Sports
Federation), the Cardinal had no effective re-
sponse to the 23 kills put up by the Lancers’ out-
side hitter, Adiel Tiedjop, and the 10 team
blocks put up by the Cal Baptist players.
What may have been a disastrous blow to
Stanford’s momentum, however, turned out
only to be a lull in fortune. On Friday, the Car-
Track
switches
gears
Team finishes indoor
season, begins outdoors
By ANARGHYA VARDHANA
STAFF WRITER
After a successful indoor season, the Stan-
ford men’s and women’s track and field teams
returned to action this past weekend, racing on
home turf for the first time this year.
Freshman Chris Derrick highlighted the
Cardinal performance at the NCAA National
Indoor Championships in College Station,
Texas,with a fourth-place finish in the 5,000 me-
ters. His finish, with a time of 13:48.26, provided
Derrick with his second All-American title
after earning the first one during the fall cross
country season. Redshirt freshman Elliot
Heath also displayed his prowess in the dis-
tance events, placing third in the 3,000 meters
with a time of 7:54.59 and earning his first ca-
reer All-American.
“Championship meets are where you see
amazing performances.I know we’ll have many
amazing performances this weekend,” said sen-
ior team captain Myles Bradley prior to the
meet. His prediction did indeed hold true.
Bradley was the only representative for
Stanford in the sprints. The Stanford hurdling
record holder held true to his title and had two
fast runs, securing his first All-American title.
Bradley competed in the 110 meter hurdles and
won his heat during prelims, entering the next
day’s finals as the No. 2 seed and placing fifth in
the event with a time of 7.58 seconds.
The women were led by the All-American
title-winning distance medley relay consisting
of seniors Alicia Follmar,Idara Otu and Lauren
Centrowitz, as well as freshman Mia Lattanzi.
The team finished fourth with a school record
time of 10:58.49.
Centrowitz returned the next day to com-
pete in the 3,000 meters,along with Follmar and
freshman Laurynne Chetelat. Centrowitz fin-
ished third with a time of 9:14.35, earning her a
seventh All-American title. Chetelat finished
seventh with a time of 9:16.12, earning her first
All-American, and was closely followed by
Follmar, who finished eighth with 9:16.48, se-
curing her fourth All-American title.
The final top finish for the Cardinal women
was provided by sophomore Whitney Liehr,
who set the school record 4,063 points in the
pentathlon. Liehr finished in 10th place, earn-
ing her first All-American title.
The track and field teams barely had time to
rest, as they were immediately thrown into the
exciting beginning of an outdoor season. The
Junior outside hitter Evan Romero rises for a kill against the Pacific Tigers in yesterday’s match. Romero, now the school record-holder for career
kills in the rally-scoring era, helped Stanford sweep Pacific 30-22, 30-23, 30-18 to bring the team’s current win streak to three.
dinal faced Northridge for the third time this
season,with both past encounters having ended
in 3-1 losses for Stanford. A huge defensive ef-
fort by the Cardinal players helped turn the ta-
bles as the men edged the Matadors 30-27, 34-
32, 30-32, 30-22, bagging their second victory of
the season over a second-ranked team.
Freshman outside hitter Brad Lawson led
Stanford with 18 kills, supported by junior set-
ter Kawika Shoji, who totaled 43 assists. Sopho-
more outside hitter Spencer McLaughlin also
chipped in 12 kills.
Junior outside hitter Evan Romero knocked
in 17 kills against Northridge to set a school
record for career kills, moving him into first on
Freshman Josefine Kvist competes in the hurdles for the Stanford track and field team last week-
end. The Cardinal competed in the National Indoor Championships in mid-March.
Cardinal faced off against numerous teams
from all over the country this past Friday and
Saturday, offering several spectacular perform-
ances.
“The Stanford invite was littered with a lot
of personal records and great performances,”
said one of the senior team captains, Kyle
Davis-Hammerquist. “It was an excellent op-
portunity for Stanford Track and Field to show-
case not only the new facilities, but also the ex-
cellent outdoor coaching staff and young fresh
outdoor team.”
Several Stanford athletes qualified for re-
gionals, but the distance runners truly set the
pace for the Cardinal’s performances on the
Stanford’s all-time list in the rally-scoring era
(since 2001). Romero’s 1,155 career kills edges
out Curt Toppel’s 1,143, set in 2003.
“I’m honored,” Romero said. “I came here
not knowing what I was doing, but what I’ve
done is a testament to the team. [Setter] Kawi-
ka Shoji helped me, [assistant coach] Al
Shibuya got on me all the time, and Coach
[John] Kosty gave me the confidence to learn.”
“Evan’s just a good physical player, and
that’s what you need at the opposite position,”
Kosty said.
Despite Romero’s record-breaking per-
formance, it was the Stanford team’s defensive
effort that helped absorb Northridge’s line of
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first day of competition. Chetelat, fresh off a
successful indoor season, placed fourth in the
5,000 meters with a regional qualifying time of
15:43.31, putting her in the sixth fastest all-time
for Stanford and second fastest all-time for
freshmen. Other female distance runners who
earned regional marks were freshman Georgia
Griffin, freshman Emilie Amaro, sophomore
Stephanie Marcy, sophomore Madeline
Duhon, Centrowitz and also middle distance
runner redshirt senior Claire Cormier Thielke.
“All in all, it was a fantastic meet,” said
Cormier Thielke.“We had more than 10 region-
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big hitters and gave the Cardinal the breathing
room it needed to convert its offensive play into
a victory. Overall, Stanford put up 13 team
blocks to the Matador’s five, with six blocks
coming off of Romero and five off of freshman
middle blocker Gus Ellis.Together they helped
limit Northridge opposite hitters Nua Tanner
and All-American Eric Vance to a .229 hitting
percentage for the night.
“We worked on stopping their outsides,”
said junior middle blocker Garrett Werner,who
contributed four blocks of his own.
On Saturday, Stanford completed its week-
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MEN’S TENNIS
Cardinal
men suffer
spring slump
Men drop three matches
in a row, all 4-3
By DANNY BELCH
STAFF WRITER
Spring break wasn’t kind to the Stan-
ford men’s tennis team, as the Cardinal
lost three matches in the past week, all to
highly ranked teams and all by scores of 4-
3. The team did bounce back yesterday
though, beating Cal Poly 6-1.
A week ago, No. 8 Stanford (13-4, 0-2
Pacific-10 Conference) traveled to Waco,
Texas to play No. 10 Baylor.The match was
tight the whole way through, with Baylor
capturing the doubles point, but Stanford
fighting back in singles. After No. 13 Alex
Clayton’s loss to Baylor’s sixth-ranked
Denes Lukacs at No. 1 singles, it came
down to senior Blake Muller at No. 6 sin-
gles, with the match tied 3-3. Muller lost
the first set, 7-6, but came back to win the
second set, 6-4. But Muller was not as for-
tunate in the third set, falling 6-1. Baylor is
the only team that Stanford has never
beaten in its long history.
Over last weekend, the Cardinal hosted
No. 11 UCLA and No. 8 USC in confer-
ence matches. Again, Stanford played
tough both matches, but could not come
away with wins, falling 4-3 in both.
Against UCLA, the doubles point was
tightly contested.After a loss at No. 3 dou-
bles, Stanford rallied hard to win at No. 1
and 2 doubles to capture the first point.
After trading off victories in singles play,
the match again was tied 3-3 with the No. 6
singles match yet to be decided. This time,
it was sophomore Greg Hirshman taking
on UCLA’s Amit Inbar. Hirshman won the
first set 7-6 and lost the second set 6-3. In
the final set, Inbar clinched the overall win
for the Bruins with a 6-4 victory.
“We could not pull out three singles
matches, something we’ve been doing all
year long,” head coach John Whitlinger
said.
On Saturday against USC, it was yet an-
other nail-biter. The Trojans captured the
doubles point with a clean sweep of the
three spots. Stanford suffered a bit of bad
luck when Clayton rolled his ankle during
his singles match against USC’s Jaak Pold-
ma. After taking a medical timeout, Clay-
ton elected to continue playing, but could
not perform at his best and lost the match.
Freshman Bradley Klahn won his
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Daniel
Bohm
On My Mind
Don’t sleep
on Appel,
Cardinal
I
t would seem almost criminal to
write about anything other than
Jayne Appel and the Stanford
women’s basketball team this week.
After all, riding the junior center, the
Cardinal is headed back to its second
consecutive Final Four in search of a
National Championship.
But that isn’t even what makes
this so special. The performance
Appel put on during the champi-
onship game of the Berkeley Re-
gional on Monday against Iowa State
was truly legendary.The Pac-10 play-
er of the year scored 46 points,
grabbed 16 rebounds and blocked
three shots in her herculean effort.
The numbers alone don’t do the
performance justice. Appel
outscored the entire Iowa State team
in the first half, 27-25. The game
marked the third-highest scoring
performance by a player in NCAA
tournament history, and the most
ever by a Stanford player.
Iowa State head coach Bill Fen-
nelly opted to single-cover the sec-
ond team All-American throughout
the game, a bold strategy that didn’t
exactly play out well for him. When
the two teams met earlier in the sea-
son, double and triple teaming Appel
only led to her kicking the ball out to
open three point shooters, which
killed the Cyclones.
You would think that after Appel
scored 15 points in the first 7:44 of
the game, Fennelly might have given
other Stanford players a chance to
beat the Cyclones. Instead, the Car-
dinal supporting cast was left feeding
Appel, who consistently established
great position, leading to a barrage of
layups and hook shots.
The Stanford win has deeper im-
plications for both Appel and the
team. This was the junior’s coming
out party. For two years, Appel was
great for the Cardinal, yet often over-
looked. Coming off the bench as a
freshman and then starting as a soph-
omore,Appel was always a solid con-
tributor, but was often times stuck in
the shadow of hallowed Stanford
great Candice Wiggins.
This year has been Appel’s time
to shine, and Monday night she
showed the world that she is one of
the best players in the game, and
that Stanford has the ability to beat
anyone.
Speaking of beating anyone, Stan-
ford’s next opponent, the Connecti-
cut Huskies, hasn’t lost since Stan-
ford beat them in the Final Four a
year ago. Not only that, but UConn
has won all of its games this season by
double digits and has been anointed
by many as the greatest women’s col-
lege basketball team ever.
Maybe, just maybe, Appel’s game
on Monday will strike some fear into
the Huskies and the Cardinal will be
able to be the David to UConn’s Go-
liath this coming weekend.
If Stanford wins its first game, it
will have a chance to do what it fell
one game short doing last year —
win a National Championship. The
Cardinal has unfinished business in
the Final Four, but the way the team
has played in the tournament, it
looks very determined to sew up old
wounds.
If it is able to win the national title,
the women’s basketball team will be
overcoming a hump that has haunted
Stanford sports teams all year.
The women’s volleyball, soccer,
synchronized swimming and men’s
water polo teams have all come with-
in a breath of a national champi-
onship year, but each has fallen one
game or two short of eternal glory.
The women’s basketball team could
be poised to stop that trend.
After all, this team has continual-
ly been overlooked, yet still exceed-
ed expectations. Despite being
ranked second in the country before
the tournament, Stanford was not
given a number one seed, even
though it played one of the most dif-
ficult schedules in the country.
With Wiggins’ graduation last
spring, nobody expected Stanford to
be where it is today, but as we all saw
Monday night, Appel stepped into
Wiggins’ very big shoes, and Stanford
is headed back to the Final Four.
Dan Bohm does not fear UConn. Let
him know if you share his confidence
at bohmd@stanford.edu.
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Dayton observed that New
Orleans is providing many opportu-
nities for new businesses.
“I would say there’s a burgeon-
ing community,” Dayton said. “It’s
really supporting businesses, mak-
ing sure that it’s easy for entrepre-
neurs. Right now it’s still a chal-
lenge, but it’s getting better.”
Stewart emphasized that busi-
nesses face significant challenges
operating out of New Orleans.
“There is not a lot of the infra-
structure, both on the capital side
and the legal side, to build a big
business,” Stewart said.
Stanford students from New
Orleans have kept an eye towards
the volunteer efforts, both those of
their classmates and the larger vol-
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company much more cheaply by
offering lower wages. Reas hopes to
be able to capitalize on these kinds of
effects. Those starting businesses at
this time, he said, have the potential
to wind up on top when the economy
recovers.
Even with their optimism for the
future, both Reas and Song noted
that these are undoubtedly risky
times for those entering business and
finance. Song also added that, on
Wall Street, the demand for finance
jobs right now greatly surpasses the
actual supply available. Yet both felt
comparatively secure taking their
first steps in their respective sectors,
and for the same reason — they will
have Stanford degrees.
According to Reas, having a
Stanford MBA means that the
“opportunity cost” of starting a new
business from scratch will be better
for him than for other young entre-
preneurs. For one thing, he will
already have an impressive contact
network of fellow GSB graduates,
which could make it easier for him to
find funding sources. Song believes
that his degrees will help to make an
impression on Wall Street.
“In New York, there’s not actual-
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unteer network present in the city.
“I think it’s exciting,” said
Richard Futrell ‘10. “I really do feel
like these college and religious
groups are doing unequivocally
good work.”
“I sometimes feel like the city is
being rebuilt by volunteers,” he
added.
ly that many people from the West
Coast,” he said. “I think coming from
Stanford gives me the advantage of
setting me apart from the Harvard
and Princeton [crowd].”
Alex Wu ‘09 is also confident that
his Stanford economics degree will
give him an advantage over many
others.
“Being at a place like Stanford,
there is still going to be a demand for
you,” Wu said.
It remains to be seen how much
their degrees will wind up helping
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and have taken steps to limit their
expenditures, such as spray-paint-
ing the designs onto their campaign
shirts.
As the rules stand, there are no
spending caps for the class president
races or the Senate race. Although
the Elections Commission
Handbook recommends candidates
to limit themselves to certain
amounts ($1500 for Executive, $200
for class president slates and $150
for Senate candidates), the amounts
are not enforced.
One sophomore class slate,
Hardcore as a Sophomore, attempt-
The Stanford Daily
Sarah Woodward ‘09 added that
the volunteers provide a much-
needed energy to the city’s efforts to
recover from the tragedies of 2005
and beyond.
“It’s a hard thing for the city,
where there are only pockets of
leadership,” Woodward said.
“There’s a lot of pessimism on the
part of many of the people, where
it’s hard to persist.”
Hawkins felt that the people she
met within the city were, in their
own right, an inspiration for volun-
teer efforts.
“Outside of New Orleans a lot of
people have given up,” Hawkins
said. “People see it as destined for
failure.”
“But people really are invested,”
she added. “A huge majority of the
city doesn’t feel like the rest of the
world. They want to rebuild.”
Contact Eric Messinger at messinger
@stanford.edu.
those students entering the business
world after graduation. What does
seem to be clear is that, for many stu-
dents at Stanford, the recession does
not present a hardship so much as an
opportunity for analysis and future
gain.
“It’s rare that you actually get to
live through an economic downside of
this magnitude,” Wu said. “It’s been a
really great learning environment.”
Contact Andrew Valencia at andrewv1
@stanford.edu.
ed to establish their own spending
cap in early March, but no consen-
sus was ever reached between the
three slates running and the plan
fizzled.
Some senators have expressed
worries that the lack of a cap will
result in an explosion of spending
during this election season.
Hardcore as a Sophomore, lack-
ing a spending cap, said they would
spend around $800 on their cam-
paign depending on the actions of
other slates, far exceeding the $200
guideline advised by the Elections
Commission.
The Daily will have complete
coverage of the 2009 ASSU Elections
throughout campaign week.
Contact Marisa Landicho at landi-
cho@stanford.edu.
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al qualifiers on the women’s side,
which is super exciting considering
that this is our real season opener.
This means that we’re ready to fly and
will be in excellent position coming
into Pac-10s and regionals later in the
season.”
The men were led by an interest-
ing and exciting race between the
Heath brothers, redshirt senior Gar-
rett and redshirt freshman Elliot in
the 5,000 meters. The brothers began
the race together,but Elliot soon took
the lead and began to push the pace in
the next few laps. Despite Elliot’s
lead, experience and seniority took
over as Garrett overtook him at the
“... it was a fantastic meet”
— CLAIRE CORMIER THIELKE, redshirt senior
last minute to edge out his younger
brother at the finish. Both had per-
sonal bests — Elliot ran a 13:42.59
and Garrett finished milliseconds
earlier at 13:42.27.
In the field events, the men were
led by Davis-Hammerquist, who fin-
ished second in the discus with a toss
of 159-10. Junior Carter Wells placed
third in the hammer throw with a re-
gional qualifying mark of 188-1.
A particularly heated event for the
men was the 4x400 A relay.The relay,
consisting of junior Zach Chandy,
sophomore Andrew Dargie, fresh-
man Amaechi Morton and junior
Durell Coleman was an exciting but
heart-wrenching race.Chandy got the
team off to a good start, followed by a
powerful run by Dargie.
Morton, the third runner, grabbed
the baton in a close second or third
place, but was pushed by another run-
ner upon receiving the pass. Regard-
less of the minor squabble, Morton
provided an incredible race, overtak-
ing the other teams on the first turn of
the 400 and easily striding way ahead
of the competition.
Seizing the baton as the last and
final runner, Coleman easily main-
tained the lead, even increasing it.
Unfortunately, as Coleman turned
right before the last 100 meters to the
finish, he stumbled to a stop as his
hamstring cramped painfully.
The Stanford crowd moaned in
disappointment, but applauded as
Coleman was able to hobble off the
track assisted by his teammates. Still,
the race proved that the team has the
ability to outdistance its opponents
and provide excellent times in up-
coming meets.
The Cardinal will be sending a
small group of runners to Texas this
upcoming weekend for the Texas Re-
lays, where the 4x400 and other relay
teams will have the opportunity to
prove themselves once again.
Contact Anarghya Vardhana at vard-
hana@stanford.edu.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 N 7
SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING
Women win silver at
Collegiate Nationals
Undefeated streak
ends behind Ohio State
By CLAUDIA PRECIADO
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
In an impressive showing by the
Stanford synchronized swimming
team at Collegiate Nationals, the
Cardinal placed second amongst 23
teams, finishing on a strong note
from a previously undefeated sea-
son.
This past weekend in San Anto-
nio, Texas proved to be a nail-biter
for the Cardinal, as it competed
against every collegiate synchro-
nized swimming team in the nation.
Having defeated Florida, Arizona
and the University of the Incarnate
Word previously, the Card’s main
competition came from Ohio State,
which boasted three Olympians
from Beijing.
The Buckeyes took the overall
win on 98 points. Stanford came in
second with 80 points, followed by
Canisius College with 76.5.
“I feel really happy and proud
about the way we performed,” said
junior captain Taylor Durand.
“Every time we went out and swam,
we did the best we have all year. At
this point, I am really proud that we
placed second.”
In the ‘A’ Elements portion of the
competition, Canisius College swept
first and second place, while Incar-
nate Word placed third. Stanford’s
elements were led by junior Debbie
Chen, who placed eighth with a
score of 82.986. Senior Erin Bell
placed 11th at 82.209, and Durand
took 12th with a score of 81.659.
Sophomore Corinne Smith closed
out the Stanford scoring in 17th with
80.816.
In ‘B’ Figures, Stanford climbed
to the top, with all of its swimmers
placing in the top 10. Freshman
Olivia Morgan was crowned the ‘B’
Figures champion with the highest
score, 72.033. Teammate and fellow
freshman Maria Koroleva helped
keep Stanford on top with her sec-
ond-place finish (71.981). Although
Incarnate Word took third, Cardinal
swimmers sophomore Michelle
Moore, freshman Koko Urata and
freshman Alex Bollaidlaw placed
fourth, seventh and eighth with
scores of 70.576, 70.184 and 69.705
respectively.
Canisius College triumphed in
the solo competition with a 95.000.
Stanford, however, did not swim in
the solo competition.
In duets, Stanford’s veteran duo
of Chen and Durand performed an
exceptionally artistic routine to take
third place, scoring a 93.167. Morgan
and Koroleva — first-time duet per-
formers at collegiate nationals —
gave an enthusiastic and strong per-
formance, putting them in the fifth
spot with a 92.000.
“It was really tough to compete
against Olympians, but another year
of experience will help us learn and
know what we’re competing
against,” Durand said. “I think we
can improve on our swims for next
year, but each Stanford duet per-
formed their best.”
The trio competition proved to
be intense, yet Stanford placed third
and fourth. The Cardinal’s Durand,
Koroleva and Morgan scored 93.500
with their high-energy routine. Be-
hind them were teammates Bell,
Chen and Moore, whose strong rou-
tine scored a 91.833. Ohio State’s
trios tied for first with a score of
94.667.
Please see SYNCHRO, page 8
8 N Wednesday, April 1, 2009
TENNIS
Continued from page 5
ninth match in a row at No. 2 sin-
gles, and senior Matt Bruch rallied
from behind in the third set to win
7-5 and win his match. But USC had
an answer to the Cardinal tough-
ness, capturing the match when Ab-
dullah Magdas outlasted freshman
Ryan Thacher at No. 3 singles, 7-6,
6-7, 7-5.
“It’s just the way it’s going to be
this year,” Whitlinger said of the
three close losses. “We just came up
on the wrong end.”
“All of them [were] winnable
matches,” he continued. “We had
chances and couldn’t quite pull it
out.”
Though losses are tough to han-
dle, the Cardinal battled throughout
every match and was in a position to
SYNCHRO
Continued from page 7
Lastly, in the team competition,
Stanford performed a captivatingly
original routine that should have
been worthy of first place. Swim-
mers Bell, Bollaidlaw, Chen, Du-
rand, Koroleva, Moore, Morgan and
Smith swam hard to score a 96.333.
The scoring placed them in second,
however, once again behind Ohio
State. Ohio State also entered a sec-
ond team, which took third place.
“It was definitely our best one so
far,” Durand said of the meet. “The
whole team felt very confident;
everyone was on the same page as to
where we needed to be. We all felt
the trust that everyone was going to
do their part, and that’s exactly what
happened. We were very consistent
and composed under pressure.”
“In the prelims of the team com-
petition, our music shut off halfway
through our routine, so the amazing
part was that nobody was shaken by
it,” she continued. “We just got out
of the pool and were ready to go
again. We still felt confident that we
were going to do our best. We were
mentally prepared for this competi-
tion.”
Stanford synchronized swim-
ming looks to defend its piece of the
win every single one. Matches like
this, early in the season, are neces-
sary if the team is going to make a
deep run in the NCAA Tournament.
The two home matches against
UCLA and USC were highly at-
tended, and the crowd provided a
great tennis atmosphere.
“It was so much fun to be a part
of,” Whitlinger said. “The crowd re-
ally helped the team.”
Stanford returned to the court
yesterday, getting off the losing
track by beating Cal Poly. Stanford
swept the doubles matches and
Klahn made his first appearance at
No. 1 singles, earning a straight-set
victory for his 10th straight win.
With a win back under them, the
Cardinal men will travel to Tucson,
Ariz. this weekend to take on the
No. 20 Arizona Wildcats in another
Pac-10 match.
Contact Danny Belch at dbelch1@
stanford.edu.
U.S. National Title from April 29 to
May 2, as it hosts both club and col-
legiate teams from around the na-
tion. Last year, Stanford became the
first collegiate team to take home a
national title after it tied for No. 1
with the Santa Clara Aquamaids.
“I’m definitely looking forward
to another month of training with
such a great meet behind us,” Du-
rand said. “The collegiate nationals
have given our team more confi-
dence and more fire for training.”
Contact Claudia Preciado at claudi-
ap@stanford.edu.
VBALL
Continued from page 5
end sweep by beating UC-Santa Bar-
bara, 30-27, 30-19, 23-30, 30-24, and
extending its conference winning
streak to five. Four Cardinal players
reached double-digit kills on Kawika
Shoji’s 57 assists, with Romero’s 19
leading the pack. McLaughlin and
Lawson contributed 12 kills apiece,
and Werner chipped in another 11.
Romero’s .359 hitting helped
bump his overall career hitting per-
centage to .272, which began the sea-
son at .191. This incredible improve-
ment is undoubtedly a result of the
.310 average hitting Romero has
maintained throughout the previous
nine matches, eight of which Stan-
ford has won.
“Any time your opposite hits .300,
you’re scoring a lot of points,” Kosty
said.“That’s what we’re looking for.”
On the defensive end, Stanford
put up nine team blocks to the Gau-
chos’ five, and freshman libero Erik
Shoji picked up 21 digs to give the
Cardinal 47 digs for the night.
With expectations mounting,
Stanford moves into the final seven
matches of the season, all of which
are to be played against conference
opponents. Yesterday, the Cardinal
swept Pacific at home,winning 30-22,
30-23, 30-18. This weekend, the team
will take its last road trip of the sea-
son,where it will visit No.7 Cal State-
Long Beach and No. 10 UC-San
Diego.
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