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NEWS
Passing of a legend
By ELLEN HUET and
JANE LEPHAM
At a high-caliber research uni-
versity such as Stanford, professors
are often valued as much for their
scholarship as they are for their
teaching talents and personal rela-
tionships with students and other
faculty. In Stephen H. Schneider,
however, the University had a
member whose contributions to the
University spanned both, combin-
ing a shared passion for a cause
with highly respected scientific re-
search and influence.
Schneider, a biology professor,
Woods Institute senior fellow and
one of the world’s leading climatol-
ogists, died on Monday at 65 from a
heart attack while flying from
Stockholm to London.
Over his full and prominent ca-
reer, Schneider pioneered tirelessly
Professor Stephen Schneider (left) pioneered tirelessly for recognition and swift action to address the issue of climate change over his full and prominent career.
After Schneider’s passing on Monday, students, faculty and colleagues remembered his passion and dedication to making the world a better place.
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for recognition and swift action to
address climate change, pushing re-
search as well as public awareness
and leading many other scientists to
explore the issue.
Schneider, who came to Stan-
ford in 1992, had an influence that
reached far beyond the walls of the
Farm. His 40-year career included
advising the Nixon, Carter, Rea-
gan, Clinton, both Bush and
Obama administrations, as well as
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
He also played a pivotal role in the
2007 Nobel Peace Prize as lead sci-
entist on the United Nations Inter-
national Panel on Climate Change,
which shared the prize with Al
Gore.
As a researcher, Schneider was
well known for his vocal and wide-
spread approach to climate change.
Aside from more than 450 scientif-
ic articles and more than 200 book
reviews, editorials and other works,
he was a frequent contributor to
popular media such as “Nova” and
“The Today Show.”
But however prestigious his in-
volvement outside of the Universi-
ty, Schneider will be best remem-
bered at Stanford as approachable,
passionate and knowledgeable, and
as an invaluable mentor.
“Professor Steve Schneider was
a legend on campus,” wrote
William Anderegg, one of his grad-
uate students, in an e-mail to The
Daily.
“A brilliant, funny and indefati-
gable scientist, Steve was never
afraid to stand up for his beliefs, to
communicate science, and to en-
gage the media about the risks of
climate change,” Anderegg added.
“But more than that, Steve was a
great person — unflinchingly hon-
est, caring, passionate.”
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rod, whether you agreed with him
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 NEWS BRIEFS UNIVERSITY

Test can predict able, Yao’s group has founded a new

success of IVF
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Obstetrics and gynecology Profes-
sor Mylene Yao and her team of re-
searchers at the School of Medicine
have developed a formula to predict
whether fertility treatments will be
successful on couples, more accurate-
ly than through looking at age alone.
The test indicates whether a couple
would be successful in going through
in vitro fertilization (IVF).
In the past, doctors have had diffi-
culty accurately assessing success
rates using traditional tests, which
have evaluated patients based on age
alone. However, the new test involves
evaluating several factors, such as the
woman’s age, her hormonal response
to the IVF process, and the implanta-
tion and growth rate of the fetus.
The research team looked at past
data from more than 5,000 IVF cycles
performed at Stanford Hospital from
2003 to 2008, and compared how suc-
cessful each treatment was. According
to the team, collecting a vast amount of
data from one IVF attempt leaves use-
ful reference for future cycles.
In an interview with Reuters, Yao
said that two percent of all infertile
couples are treated with IVF, and that
the market is growing, with one per-
cent of newborns in the United States
born through the treatment.
To make the new test widely avail-
company called Univfy to commer-
cialize the test. The University has li-
censed the model test, and the team is
awaiting approval from the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration to market
the test by this fall.
— Buyan Pan
Study shows racial
bias among online
buyers
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
According to a recent Stanford
study, online shoppers are more will-
ing to buy goods from a white seller
than a black one, and will tend to pay
white sellers more money.
Researchers Jennifer Doleac and
Luke Stein, doctoral candidates in
economics, posted ads on classified
advertising websites to conduct the
yearlong study. Some of the ads fea-
tured a light hand holding an iPod
nano, while others featured a dark
hand holding the same product.
The ads with a black hand were 13
percent less likely to receive responses
and were offered from two to four per-
cent less than the ads with a white hand.
The study also found that the gap
depended on the geographic location
Please see BRIEFS, page 13
Random student audits a possibility,
says dean of Undergraduate Admission
By AN LE NGUYEN
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
This fall the Office of Undergrad-
uate Admission is expected to main-
tain the status quo — save for two
main changes. The office will bring
on board a newly revamped admis-
sions staff after losing seven admis-
sions officers this year, and will de-
cide whether or not to put a random
auditing system in place.
The latter change likely stems
from Stanford’s admission of Adam
B. Wheeler, the ousted Harvard stu-
dent who falsified his college appli-
cations and nabbed more than
$45,000 in scholarships and financial
aid. Stanford has since rescinded
Wheeler’s acceptance.
Richard Shaw, dean of Under-
graduate Admission, declined to
comment on Adam Wheeler’s con-
nection to Stanford, citing guidelines
that prevent the disclosure of an in-
dividual applicant’s personal infor-
mation. However, the Huffington
Post last month reported that Shaw
confirmed Wheeler’s admission to a
Harvard detective.
Shaw was more open about the
means by which Stanford plans to
prevent similar incidents from oc-
curring in the future.
“We are actually engaged in the
consideration of audits of our under-
graduate student body,” Shaw said
of the Office of Undergraduate Ad-
mission.
“The issue of dishonesty and
forgery on the national level is of
concern,” he added. “I don’t think
it’s widespread, but it certainly
brings our attention to the need to
implement [or] think about imple-
menting procedures that would re-
sult in random audits.”
Shaw said that his office is exam-
ining the merit of random audits this
summer and might “over the next
period of time implement something
like that — even through next year.”
The introduction of such precau-
tions, however, may prove to be a
double-edged sword. For Shaw, it’s a
balancing act between two princi-
ples: trust and vigilance.
The admissions office lives by the
tenet that most students tell “the
whole truth and nothing but the
truth” when they sign off on their ap-
plications, Shaw said. However, he
acknowledged that young people are
dishonest from time to time, and that
his office is cautious about stamping
out such behaviors.
“It’s an awesome task to hold ac-
countable 32,000 applicants,” Shaw
said.
Aside from the possibility of a
new auditing system, the Office of
Undergraduate Admission will also
welcome several new faces to its staff
this fall, following the departure of
seven admissions officers during the
2009-10 academic year.
The most publicized departures
were those of former Director of
Admission Shawn Abbott and for-
mer Assistant Dean of Admission
Dan Warner. Abbott left to serve as
the new assistant vice president for
undergraduate admissions at New
York University. Warner opted to
become the new director of admis-
sion at Rice University.
Of the remaining departures,
three elected to attend graduate
school, one chose to become a de-
partment chair at a secondary school
and one will serve on the administra-
tive staff of Semester at Sea.
Although losing seven staff mem-
bers is a higher-than-usual turnover
rate, Shaw noted that departures
are, in general, normal. Younger
staff members commit to a minimum
of two years with the Office of Un-
dergraduate Admission, oftentimes
to “determine whether they want to
go to graduate school or try some-
thing else,” Shaw said.
“I had a wonderful experience at
Stanford and enjoyed every aspect
of my life on the Farm,” Abbott
wrote in an e-mail to The Daily, sup-
Please see ADMISSION, page 6

Bird’s-eye view ENVIRONMENT

Univ. water
use eyed for
improvement
Stanford ramps up efforts to
conserve more water, be eco-friendly

By UTTARA SIVARAM
DAILY INTERN

Building on a history of sustainable lead-

ership, and in the wake of recent Bay Area
droughts, Stanford is ramping up efforts to
conserve water and adopt eco-friendly prac-
tices around campus.
Stanford, looking to be a role model for
the community, has set for itself a number of
key goals to preserve the valuable resource.
The University meets the restrictions of both
the General Use Permit (GUP) under Santa
Clara County and also the San Francisco
Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), which
allocates 3.033 million gallons per day to the
campus.
Currently, Stanford receives potable
water from the SFPUC, which in turn collects
water from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in
the Sierra Nevada and other local water-
sheds.
Stanford’s history of water consumption is
notable, as the University has made a marked
Courtesy of the 111th Aerial Photography Squadron effort to decrease the water usage in individ-
Performers won’t strike their first notes in the newly planned Bing Concert Hall for at least two years, but workers have broken ground on construction
for the state-of-the-art building, slated for completion in the summer of 2012. The Hall is expected to seat 844 attendees, and cost $110 million. Please see WATER USE, page 5

THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2010 THE STANFORD DAILY N SUMMER EDITION N 3

SPEAKERS & EVENTS
Alumni flock to see professors at Stanford’s eDay
By JOSEPH BEYDA
DAILY INTERN
For Marissa Mayer ‘97, M.S. ‘99,
one of the most important things
about a job is working with intelligent
people.
“When you work with the smartest
people you can find,” she said, “it re-
ally challenges you to push yourself.”
And there was no shortage of
bright minds at the School of Engi-
neering’s 11th annual eDay, which
brought over 500 alumni and family
members back to campus on July 17 to
take classes on this year’s theme of
“Techxtravaganza.”
A number of Stanford professors
and Mayer, the keynote speaker and
vice president of Search Products and
User Experience at Google, taught
the “Techxtravaganza” classes, which
drew upon this year’s focus on electri-
cal engineering and computer science.
Tickets for eDay sold out two days
before the event started, which Nancy
Peterson, the school’s director of
communications and alumni rela-
tions, attributed to the amount of in-
terest from former Stanford students.
“People want to be lifelong learn-
ers,” she said. “They want to be famil-
iar with what’s going on with research,
and they’re interested in knowing
who the faculty [members] are.”
Some of those faculty members of-
fered groundbreaking ideas with the
potential for worldwide impact. Bala-
ji Prabhakar, professor of electrical
engineering and computer science,
explained the success that a lottery-
like system could have with waste re-
duction in a “Societal Network” such
as transportation or healthcare. Dan
Boneh, also a professor of electrical
engineering and computer science,
presented ways in which the technolo-
gy involved in social networking secu-
rity could be improved to reveal less
information to third parties.
Walk the line
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Other classes, geared primarily to-
ward the nearly 250 children at the
event, gave a basic introduction to en-
gineering and programming. Com-
puter science professor Mehran Saha-
mi taught simple programming skills
using a robot named Karel, while elec-
trical engineering professor Brad Os-
good used clips from “Lord of the
Rings,” as well as the sound produced
by his trombone, to help children un-
derstand the ways in which communi-
cation could work.
In her keynote address, Mayer en-
couraged the youth in attendance to
pursue a career in engineering.
“The amazing thing for me about
computer science,” she told the audi-
ence, “was that there was a new prob-
lem every day.”
Although children might not be
able to experience that sense of ex-
citement and discovery every day,
their parents hope that they will in the
future. Peterson said that a large part
of the event’s appeal each year is its in-
clusion of children.
“Those who have children are in-
terested in exposing them to the ex-
citement of engineering, and that re-
inforces the parents’ interest in en-
couraging the kids to study science
and math,” she said.
Stanford students presented the
products of such studies in the form of
demos during the event’s lunch break.
One stand allowed participants to
control robots using an Android
phone, while another featured a hap- Courtesy of Joel Simon Images
tic device, which works like a 3D The School of Engineering’s 11th annual eDay, themed “Techxtravaganza,” brought over 500 alumni and family
mouse for entertainment and medical members back to learn about new engineering technology. Marissa Mayer ‘97, M.S. ‘99, a vice president of Google,
purposes.
Each year, the School of Engineer- delivered the event’s keynote speech. Dan Boneh, Mehran Sahami and other professors also lent their expertise.
ing tries to find a theme that will in- neering and environmental engineer- fessors, many of them industry lead- hard for them to know what the expe-
volve more than one of its nine depart- ing. Although the idea of sustainability ers, also draws alumni back to the rience is to be on campus on a Satur-
ments, so as to include as many profes- was the primary focus last year, it still event. Although professors may not day with 500 people,” she said. “And
sors as possible in eDay. Last year’s had an influence on eDay 2010, as even initially know about eDay, they enjoy they tend to find it really enjoyable.”
event, themed “Planet Green,” com- the silverware, cups and plates were re- the event once they have been asked
bined the disciplines of materials sci- placed by compostable equivalents. to speak, according to Peterson. Contact Joseph Beyda at josephbeyda
ence, chemical engineering, civil engi- The caliber of the presenting pro- “If they’ve not participated, it’s @comcast.net.
AILEEN LU/The Stanford Daily
THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2010
SPEAKERS & EVENTS

Car start-ups talk technology

By AARON BRODER
DAILY INTERN
Representatives from six local automotive
companies and development teams came to-
gether at the Center for Automotive Re-
search at Stanford (CARS) last Thursday to
show off their prototype vehicles at the annu-
al Vehicle Concept Showcase. In a question-
and-answer session led by CARS director
Sven Beiker, a lecturer in mechanical engi-
neering, the teams discussed the innovative
technology that makes their cars unique and
said they hope to inspire major car manufac-
turers to take notice.
The center invited four teams in its extend-
ed network, as well as two of its own student-
run projects, to speak in the hope of giving vis-
ibility to alternative vehicles that might other-
wise go unnoticed. The five vehicles that made
an appearance at the showcase demonstrated
technology ranging from the standard combus-
tion engine to fully electric and solar-powered
systems.
Silicon Valley may not call to mind the same
images of car manufacturing that Detroit does,
but according to the teams that have made their
home here, the valley has benefits that Motown
does not offer. As the industry moves further
away from gasoline-powered vehicles and to-
ward electric cars, it is more useful for them to
be closer to the manufacturers of the chips that
gave the valley its name.
“The Silicon Valley has a lot to offer in
terms of innovation and self-starters and just a
can-do attitude,” said Christopher Heiser, the
co-founder of a local automotive start-up. “But
there’s a lot to learn, and this is really an oppor-
tunity for all of us to really work together and
innovate.”
The move to Silicon Valley has also helped
these businesses reach out to Stanford students
and alumni. Stanford students contributed not
only to the two all-student teams, but to other
projects at the showcase, too. Dante Zeviar, the
chief technology officer of KleenSpeed, whose
racecar placed first this year at the Refresh race
for electric vehicles, said that having students BRIAN NGUYEN/The Stanford Daily
on the team is one of their priorities. Apogee, the latest model of the Stanford Solar Car, was exhibited at the annual Concept Car
“[We] are about knowledge and learning, so Showcase on campus last Thursday. The team recently won the American Solar Car Challenge.
in that spirit, I like to bring in interns and peo-
ple from universities,” Zeviar said. “My objec- Optimotive, hope to use the data they’ve col- to filter back to Motor City, where the big car
tive in life is to bring in young people, the next lected and the new techniques they’ve pro- manufacturers would be able ensure much
generation. The world is full of young people, duced as a springboard for the future. Kleen- more widespread use.
and I’m starting to get a little old. So the pur- Speed even hopes to take what it has learned “We want to reach out to the start-ups in the
pose is to bring in very smart individuals and from race cars and apply it to a more familiar area to give them visibility they won’t get oth-
get them involved.” car, the Mazda Miata, so the company can fur- erwise, but we also want to get the incumbents
Although some of those who presented ther its knowledge of how electric vehicles inspired,” Beiker said.
hope to commercialize their products within might function in different scenarios.
the next year, others, such as KleenSpeed and One goal of the event is for such knowledge Contact Aaron Broder at abroder@stanford.edu.

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Continued from page 3
ual, day-to-day functions. Due to
Stanford’s constantly expanding
campus, it has implemented more
stringent guidelines for its new
buildings.
In new residential and public
bathroom faucets, for example,
Stanford aims to decrease its con-
sumption from 2.2 gpm (gallons per
minute) to 0.5 gpm with its newly en-
gineered water-efficient equipment.
The standard 1.6 gpf (gallons per
flush) of public toilets are expected
to reduce to 1.28 gpf with these con-
servational practices.
Stanford has additionally spon-
sored environmentally conscious
student-run organizations around
campus, notably Students for a Sus-
tainable Stanford (SSS). As both co-
president of SSS and head of the SSS
“Water Group,” Siddhartha Oza ‘11
has closely observed the Universi-
ty’s public water system and has
been impressed with its efforts to
conserve water around campus.
“The University has provided
funding in the past for student initia-
tives seeking to save water,” Oza
said. “As a result, Students for a Sus-
tainable Stanford was able to install
a rainwater catchment system for a
house on the Row, saving gallons of
usable water that would otherwise
have flowed into drains.”
In addition to student-run organi-
zations, Stanford has provided for a
24-hour maintenance hotline allow-
ing students to immediately contact
help about broken sprinkler heads
or unnecessary water waste that they
have noticed. Oza’s own experience
with the hotline was positive. He
said that a semi-leaky faucet in his
dorm was fixed within a day of his
call.
“Stanford is remarkably efficient
with its water supplies,” Oza said.
“[Stanford’s] water conservation
percent of the past eight years, and
that statistic is certainly believable.”
Oza also explained that Stanford
has implemented low-flow shower
heads in dorms, trayless dining halls,
dual-flush toilets and no-flush uri-
nals in restrooms, high-efficiency
clothes washing machines and sprin-
kler systems set to water plants at
night to limit evaporation.
Yashraj Narang ‘11 has also no-
ticed Stanford’s environmentally
conscious practices, including that
there were no water fountains in his
dorm, Crothers Hall.
“Crothers was renovated before
last year; I believe they had water
fountains before then,” Narang said.
“When last year began, Stanford
Housing told all of us that we should
get water from the sinks instead, and
they gave us free water bottles to
make it easier to do so.”
But these changes were not uni-
versally popular.
“Both the trayless policy and the
lack of water fountains met resis-
tance when students first found out
about them,” Narang said.
The inconvenience of constantly
having to buy or fill water bottles
irked many students, but Narang
said he was not fazed.
“I don’t see [it] as being a major
setback in my daily life,” he said.
“Honestly, if Stanford is saving
thousands of gallons of water by im-
plementing these changes, I think
they’re a good idea.”
By targeting individual depart-
ments and constructing realistic
guidelines that will still satisfy the
needs of particular buildings, Stan-
ford has earned awards such as the
Clean Bay Award and the 2009 Sili- AILEEN LU/The Stanford Daily
con Valley Water Conservation
Award in the Large Organization Due to Stanford’s constantly expanding campus, the University has implemented more stringent guidelines for its new
category. buildings. Much has been accomplished, but students say that there are still more opportunities to decrease water use.
However, Stanford has not al-
ways been successful in its attempts Building, was hailed as a major step ly projected by the building’s cre- portunities for the University to
to make the campus more eco- forward in recognizing and resolving ators was much lower than the actu- shrink its freshwater footprint.”
friendly — the Y2E2 building, also today’s ecological problems, but met al energy consumption.
known as the Jerry Yang & Akiko with criticism after a report stated In Oza’s words, “Much has been Contact Uttara Sivaram at uttaraps@
Yamazaki Environment and Energy that the energy consumption initial- accomplished, but there are still op- gmail.com.

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SCHNEIDER
Continued from page 2
bate the issue,” Koseff added.
“There were a lot of people who
disagreed with him, but now 75 per-
cent or more of Americans think
climate change a huge issue, and I
think people like Stephen Schnei-
der had a great role in influencing
their opinion and educating them.”
“His outgoing personality,
seemingly superhuman energy and
incredible intelligence made me
scared to have a conversation with
him,” wrote Lee Anderegg ‘11 in
an e-mail to the Sustainability e-
mail list. “But Steve was not just
well spoken, funny and smart. He
was dedicated to shaping a better
world, to education and science
and a sustainable future, on a level
that I can only hope to emulate.”
Sarah Chadwick, Schneider’s as-
sistant, wrote to The Daily on be-
half of his wife, biology professor
Terry Root, expressing a similar
take on his drive.
“Steve was relentless in fighting
misinformation and explaining the
need for policy action on numerous
fronts,” Chadwick said. “He was
determined to communicate mes-
sages that would inform the public
about the real risks that are in-
volved with a business-as-usual po-
sition and suggest concrete steps to
reverse the more ominous trends.”
Schneider’s dedication was par-
ticularly highlighted during a seri-
ous battle with mantle cell lym-
phoma, a rare cancer, which he
chronicled in a 2005 book titled,
“The Patient from Hell.” He con-
sistently fought for involvement in
medical decisions about his health
during the saga, which ended in his
successful victory over the disease.
“Steve dealt with his cancer bat-
tle as he did most issues in life — as
a climate scientist — and was his
own most diligent researcher,”
Chadwick said. “He was deter-
mined to get the best treatment
possible and bring awareness to the
current flaws within the system. He
continued to be his own best advo-
cate into his final days.”
Schneider himself saw the
lessons he drew from climate sci-
ence as applicable to other parts of
life, specifically his cancer struggle.
“Am I going to apply to my own
treatment the principles that I’m
advising government and indus-
tries to apply to deal with climate
change uncertainties?” he asked in
a 2005 interview with the National
Academy of Sciences, of which he
was a member. “Hell, yes.”
In both climate change and his
cancer struggle, Chadwick said,
Schneider knew where to draw the
line between scientific expertise
and personal value judgment, con-
stantly assessing risks along the
way of an uncertain route.
Aside from personal health
struggles, Schneider’s work in cli-
mate change was not always greet-
ed with open arms, even in recent
years. In the wake of the Universi-
ty of East Anglia leaked e-mails
controversy in November 2009 and
in conjunction with the Copen-
hagen conference, Schneider and
other climatologists came under
fire, which included receiving hate
mail and threats.
“The effect on me has been
6 N THE STANFORD DAILY N SUMMER EDITION
tremendous,” Schneider told The Seeing the news firsthand
Guardian earlier this month.
“Some of these people are mental-
ly imbalanced. They are invariably
gun-toting right-wingers. What do I
do? Learn to shoot a Magnum?
Wear a bullet-proof jacket? I have
now had extra alarms fitted at my
home and my address is unlisted. I
get scared that we’re now in a new
Weimar Republic where people
are prepared to listen to what
amounts to Hitlerian lies about cli-
mate scientists.”
Schneider’s long-held desire to in-
crease climate awareness for all peo-
ple, not just academics, can be seen in
his many contributions to popular
media and his outspoken qualities.
But his ability and eagerness to share
knowledge was best manifested in in-
teractions with students.
“In spite of his global renown
and accomplishment, he was will-
ing to explain, and re-explain, the
most minute details of climate
change to [even the] most unin-
formed students,” wrote Students
for a Sustainable Stanford co-pres-
ident Siddhartha Oza ‘11 in an e-
mail to the Sustainable e-mail list.
“His fight for climate change was,
and remains, an inspiration for all
of us.”
“He was an unbelievably good
communicator,” Koseff added.
“He had the ability to put such
complicated concepts into lay-
man’s terms and help people un-
derstand them.”
And apart from his scientific
ventures, Koseff recalled, Schnei-
der was “a New Yorker through
and through.”
“He played on the Columbia
football team, back when they had a
football team for people who
weighed less than 150 pounds — I
think he called it the 150-under
football team,” Koseff said. “He
loved football and was so proud to
have played on the football team at
Columbia.”
Although his scientific accom-
plishments speak volumes for
themselves, it is the final words of
the students he worked with that
do the best to sum up Schneider’s
lasting impact at the University.
“[Taking a class from Schnei-
der] was like having a living text-
book, except with better stories
and a whole lot more personality,”
wrote Brady Hamed ‘12 in an e-
mail to The Daily.
“Professor Schneider inspired
me and so many others to follow
our passion for protecting the envi-
ronment,” Oza said. “His impact on
SSS was, and remains, undeniably
rewarding. Indeed, if there was one
thing that he taught us by example
it was this: don’t back down from a
campaign you believe in.”
“He was fantastic mentor, and
an inspiration to his students, his
colleagues and the global commu-
nity,” Anderegg added. “He was a AILEEN LU/The Stanford Daily
leading light in the science of cli-
mate change and in communicating Diane Sawyer made a surprise appearance on Stanford’s campus on Tuesday. Sawyer’s exclusive interview with Facebook
the risks of climate change to the founder Mark Zuckerberg at the office’s Palo Alto headquarters aired yesterday on “World News with Diane Sawyer.”
media and the public. His legacy
will live on through those that he
taught, spoke with and inspired, as already at the top.” think they’ll all hit the ground run-
we try to carry on his great work of
protecting our planet’s climate.” ADMISSION Shaw said that losing seven of 25
admissions officers would not pose
ning.”
The admissions office, however,
He is survived by his wife Terry, Continued from page 3 any difficulties this upcoming school still is looking for Abbott’s replace-
two children, Adam and Becca, and year. ment. The search for a director of
one grandchild. “With 18 onboard who can pro- admission, Shaw said, is a longer
porting Shaw’s claim. “My move to vide continuity, I think we’ll be just one.
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stanford.edu and Jane LePham at to take on a more significant leader- spectacular new group . . . who are Contact An Le Nguyen at lenguyen@
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THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2010
OPINIONS
Listen, Summer, You Ain’t So Big
hough everyone will claim to have their
T personal preferences, it’s pretty much
unanimous consent that summer, out of
all the seasons, is top dog. Sure winter may
have Christmas, and spring may have its tradi-
tion of assassinations, but summer wins pre-
cisely because it never loses. Baseball, the best
sport, has its season during the summer. 100
out of 100 schoolchildren agree that summer is
like really the best vacation EVER! Summer
hits are the catchiest; summer movies are the
most enjoyable. Summer romances only
involve unfairly hot girls and are completely
drama-free. Shakespeare’s most famous play
is “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and the
most interesting female character’s name in
“The O.C.” was Summer. Seasonal affective
disorder only goes one way. Yeah, no one
works and no one has any problems. Why
can’t it just be summer all year?
Oh, that’s right. If we had summer the
whole year, then the entire country would turn
into the Greater Los Angeles Area (*audible
shudder*), and if I understand climate change
science correctly, then that might actually hap-
pen. And since I am most definitely NOT try-
ing to have the next version of “The Hills” set
Concept Art
hances are you, being the literate per-
C son you are, have probably read some
science fiction in your life. Or, less prob-
ably, a geometry text book. So you understand
that the zeroth dimension is a point, the first a
line, the second a plane, the third space, and
(through whatever exciting imagery) the
fourth is space-time. And you know what it
means when I say a group of points, or the
entities they represent, (the pyramids at Giza,
the price of a good versus the supply, the
descending quality of M. Night Shyamalan’s
movies), is linear. They lie on a line.
But what about when I say thoughts are lin-
ear? Linear thinking is a progression from one
thought (the conjunct of your premises), to its
logical consequence, then to its logical conse-
quence, and so on. A train of thought. This is the
skeleton of mathematical proof and any good
expository writing (hopefully your PWR paper).
The creation of documents representing linear
thought processes is both easy and useful. A lin-
ear argument, from a single point of view, is the
easiest to communicate. But linearity can also
be restricting. Imagine an ant walking along a
taut string as if he could only travel along that
line. Now imagine a multi-dimensional being
folding the string, bringing the two ends togeth-
er. All of a sudden the ant has teleported from
one point on the line to another.
It is a familiar story, I know. Personally, I’m
indebted to Madeleine L’Engle, and I’m sure
we’re both ultimately indebted to E. A.
Abbott. But until recently I hadn’t thought of
how these illustrations of spatial linearity
related to linearity of reasoning. Every step is
necessary when traveling in only one dimen-
THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2010
T HIS C OLUMN S ENT
in Columbus, Ohio, I think it might be time to
work out our issues with summer.
First, summer, you need to stop talking
about how easy you make living, when you can
be just as extreme as winter when it comes to
weather. Music industry, you largely take the
blame for this one. Ever since Gershwin’s
opera “Porgy and Bess,” summertime, you’ve
been tooting your own horn about how “the
livin’s easy” and repeatedly exhorting a scared
child not to cry as a result. Your pernicious
reach even caused the most emo band I lis-
tened to throughout all of high school,
Lostprophets, to construct an “Ode to
Summer” where they declare that “the last
good times of summer / are the last few min-
utes of warmth.” Jesus, summer. Cognitive dis-
sonance much?
After all, the original idea for summer
break — and you can thank the Midwest for
this one — came from schools needing to shut
down for some months so that the chillun’
could help out with the farm. Nowadays, since
there is far less tilling and hoeing to do in the
average American household, we just sit
around and watch news reports about how
freakin’ hot it is outside. Hey Gershwin, why
O H ! S WEET N UTHIN ’
sion, even when traveling between thoughts.
Without height as a dimension, there’s no way
to leap. Conversation is one place we might
look for instances of multi-dimensional ideas.
Consider two distinct linear arguments togeth-
er and you’ve outlined something that has to
exist on a plane. You’ve added a dimension.
This is one appeal of the dialogue as an argu-
ment structure.
It also seems like a lot of literature is dedi-
cated to transcending linearity. Through
metaphor you can run multiple trains of
thought on the same fuel. And by writing
down your thoughts, documenting your data
points, you lessen the cognitive load of keep-
ing track of them. This allows you to look back
and draw new lines, in different directions, on
what you’ve already created.
This is the premise of the game
“Sentences,” developed by George Hokkanen
‘12. Recommended for 2-3 players. Requires
pencil or pen, paper or whiteboard. The con-
cept is simple: start with a sentence, any sen-
tence, and think about it. A lot. Strip it down
so far it would make Derrida blush. Define
words, define their definitions, define how
they relate to one another, to the reader, to
you. Take notes. Notation is important.
Explore your concepts in this way until you
reach another sentence: another point you’d
like to plot. Build outward from that. Aim for
new sentences to tie into the existing sentences
in as many ways as possible. Stray from these
rules to taste. In the end, you should have a
structurally interesting thought-object.
Sound dull? It’s not. Because if you like to
think (and I’d like to think most of you do like
FROM MY I P HONE
don’t you ask all the heat stroke victims in
New York if they agree that summertime is so
goddamn easy? These stories happen every
year, and yet they always surprise the news
media. Maybe if you and your musical cohorts
would write more songs about how boring and
drippy summer is, then maybe society could
not be so flabbergasted when it turns out that
summertime living can actually be hard.
Movies and TV, you’re not off the hook for
propagating this rose-colored Ray-Bans view
of summer, either. Hey Hollywood, last time I
checked summer takes up one fourth of the
year, and throughout the course of a year most
people tend to have at least four problems.
Why you guys got to dump all your problem
stories into Oscar season and sweeps?
Summer is only for superficial enjoyment. Just
once can’t we have a funeral or a break-up or
a lesson about the importance of family hap-
pen on a beautiful day in July? Even worse is
your constant ignoring, with the exception of
Spike Lee’s masterful “Do the Right Thing,”
of the summer heat wave, even though Very
Reliable Sociology Studies indicate that sharp
increases in temperature, like ones that take
place during the summer, are correlated with
Roseann
Cima
It seems like a lot
of literature is dedicated to
transcending linearity.
Through metaphor
you can run multiple
trains of thought on the
same fuel.
to think), this is a fun way to do it. Even if a
certain sentence isn’t particularly potent by
itself, the game invigorates it, at least for the
players. This is a thinking game more than a
writing game: a systematized way to sculpt
ideas about anything. Philosophy. Operating
systems. Language. Psychology. I’d love to see
history or chemistry majors set loose on this.
The first time I played, things took a turn to
metacommentary. I saw the ultimate object of
THE STANFORD DAILY N SUMMER EDITION N 7
Peter
McDonald
increases in crime. Why isn’t the Freedom
Summer as well documented as the Summer of
Love? It’s quite possible that if you guys
stressed that narrative as much as the carefree
summer one, people might remember to chill
out in an effort to help them chill out more fre-
quently.
Vapidity, undocumented crime, disregard
for other people’s problems — these are as
much the legacy of summer as fried food,
habitual weed smoking, acoustic guitar circles
and feel-good hits are. Dear God, summer
really is Greater Los Angeles for a season.
Who can we turn to for hope then? Just like
always, leave it to the brave visionaries of
“South Park” to say what nobody else will, but
every one suspects might be true. Chiefly, it
just might be possible that “Summer Sucks”
(episode 208, easily locatable online), you
know, as least as much as winter does.
Want to defend the summertime? Make your
case at petermc@stanford.edu.
the game as to represent everything. Which is
the tenth dimension, of course, according to a
YouTube video I’d seen earlier that day.
Hokkanen remarked that this might be a good
guiding force and wrote on our note page: We
are going to everything.
But we needed a first sentence. Someone
suggested a boat. We liked the imagery.
Sentence (1): We are on a boat getting to a
place.
(2) Stock the yar vessel with fuel* and guid-
ance*. (3) Buoyed up on the sea of understand-
ing, pull up the anchor of convention. (4) Let
the wind* fill the sails*, and we’re on our way
into the unknown.
Our fuel was language, our guidance, struc-
ture. We were mapping the sea as we went, so
far as we could perceive from the bow. The
winds were ideas, our minds the sails. How
you get to everything:
(5) A rogue wind blows demanding whence
and whither. Whence? What’s land?
(6) We come from ignorance, a dry place . . .
Whither? “If we’re going to everything,
we’re mapping bounds of the ocean, right?
We’re seeking our limits,” I offer.
“Our limits, hm?” Hokkanen says, and squints
at me. “I wonder if we’d ever think to look
up.”
Sentence (6 (b)) . . . we are going to the end of
the page.
Want to test the depths of knowledge? Set up a
time with rcima@stanford.edu.
FEATURES
Stanford doctoral student in political science Christina “Chris” Chan M.S. ‘08, 31
years old, died in a climbing accident two weeks ago. Friends and family paid their
CHRIS CHAN By HONG VAN PHAM
respects at the memorial service on Sunday at Memorial Church.
‘FRIEND S
unday afternoon in the Main Quad was a famil-
iar scene. Tourists went through their usual
motions, moving in small groups that buzzed of
English, Chinese, Russian and other foreign
tongues. Their necks were outstretched, fascinat-
ed by the grand sights of Memorial Church and the repet-
itive arches that encircle the Main Quad. With cameras in
their hands, the tourists clicked away this fleeting
moment.
But the moment lingered for a man and a woman sit-
ting 10 feet away, separated from this whole scene. They
AND wore black, and their solemn composures were held
together by their entangled fingers. The woman tipped
her head upward to reveal her swollen, red eyes. The
two, like many more, had come for the July 18 memorial
service of Christina “Chris” Chan M.S. ‘08.
Just outside the steps of Memorial Church rested a
black-and-white photograph of Chan that captured her
radiant, soulful smile. She is the reason so many have
DREAMER’
traveled across the nation to express their tribute to her
life and their condolences to her loved ones.
Her friends and family trickled inside the church
before the service, filling up rows of wooden pews. A
curly-haired girl clutching her Winnie-the-Pooh bear
stumbled down the aisle. As she passed, the child
watched the adults through the lens of her round, brown
eyes, vaguely aware of the weight in the atmosphere.
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Courtesy of Andrew Burr
Nearby, two friends rose from their seats and reached
out to hug one another, only to end up in tears. The
woman’s cries were muffled into the man’s shoulders. As
he handed her a crumbled tissue, they both let out a bro-
ken laugh.
Then the service began.
Chan’s friend Paul Csonka, a Stanford doctoral stu-
dent in robotics, delivered the first reflection.
“Dear Chris,” he softly began to a stilled audience, “I
am humbled when remembering you.”
“‘You missed a spectacular storm on Saturday,’ you
wrote to me in an e-mail last summer,’” he said. ‘You
could see the falls starting up on the captain and middle
cathedral, the thunder was echoing against the granite
walls, and the mist quickly floated up from the ground,
like clouds hovering over the valley floor.’”
His heartfelt words then illuminated the rich layers of
Chris’s personality.
“What an incredible mix you are of poet, scholar and
athlete and comedian, and best of all for us, professional
friend and dreamer,” he said.
He moved on to recount the time they first met at
Stanford Alpine Club with a fond and nostalgic smile.
“She plopped down in a free seat, and just began enthu-
siastically talking with all of us total strangers. It was
obvious, literally on that day, that Chris was out of the
ordinary.”
Please see CHAN, page 10
THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2010
 Vegging Out

Exploring the vegetarian lifestyle

By JESSICA LIEBERMAN
DAILY INTERN

S
omeone once said that it’s a rite of
passage to become a vegetarian while
in college. But for some Stanford stu-
dents, this switch doesn’t last only for
a couple of years — it becomes a
lifestyle change with long-lasting effects on
their health and beliefs.
While many students decide to become
vegetarians during college, there are also
some that have been practicing some level of
vegetarianism for years. According to Vivian
Crisman, a nutritionist with Health
Promotion Services at Vaden Health Center,
some students decide to completely eliminate
meat when they come to school.
“National data seem to indicate about 10-
20 percent of college age students report
being vegetarian,” she wrote in an e-mail to
the Daily. “When away from home and dining
at Stanford, students find it easier to adopt a
vegetarian lifestyle. So they might have been
‘partial’ vegetarians when at home in high
school and now have gone completely vege-
tarian at Stanford.”
Because of this, Stanford dining halls have JING RAN/The Stanford Daily
been providing students with more vegetarian
food options.
To meet the needs of vegetarian and vegan students, Stanford dining halls provide meat-free options at each meal time, including tofu, bean and
“For the most part, I think Stanford Dining lentil dishes. But Stanford Health Promotion Services nutritionist Vivian Crisman warns that going vegetarian will not necessarily fix a poor diet.
does a very good job accommodating vegetar-
ians,” Hannah Belitz ‘13 wrote in an e-mail to ving force is ecology and animal welfare rea- lifestyle,” Belitz said. “This is simply the was enough,” Balasubramanian said. “But
The Daily. “I do think certain dining halls are sons,” Crisman said. “My concern is when I lifestyle I’ve always had. However, I do think this thought prompted me to do further
better than others, though. A lot of the dining counsel students who choose to be vegetarian I eat healthier and I’m more aware of what I research. I looked into factory farming meth-
halls tend to just offer tofu as a meat alterna- for ecology reasons but still have a lousy diet eat as a result.” ods, not only for animals that were raised for
tive, which gets really tiring, but Wilbur, — having a lousy diet before means their diets Ethics also play a major role in the decision slaughter, but also for animals raised for milk,
where I ate most of my meals last year, also could be even worse as a vegetarian.” to adopt a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle. After eggs, wool, etc. It was heartbreaking.”
had a lot of bean and lentil dishes, as well as a But for other students, a vegetarian diet researching the cruel treatment of animals, “I decided then that since I had the
great selection of whole grains, fresh fruits has been a part of their lifestyle for as long as Janani Balasubramanian ‘12, decided to com- resources, willpower and compassion to
and vegetables.” they can remember. For those like Belitz, pletely eliminate animal products from her become vegan, I should do so,” she added.
Students choose to eliminate meat for a making smart food choices comes naturally. diet. Graduate student in math Simon
variety of reasons. “I’ve been eating this way for most of my “I used to think, quite simply, that vegans
“Most commonly, students tell me the dri- life, so I don’t really feel like it’s affected my were extreme and that vegetarianism itself Please see VEGGIE, page 10

LOST? LOOK NO FURTHER

Learning the campus

sign language
Stanford street signage evolves to meet
community and visitor needs
By DAVID BALLANTINE Warning: the following escapade
is not for the faint of heart, and my

I
n a typical jaunt down the
postcard-famous Palm Drive,
it is easy to get lost in the
serene quality of an endless
row of palm trees. Less notice-
able, however, are the small direc-
tional signs that might point to, say,
the Stanford Visitor Center.
A real journey begins for the
ambitious traveler trying to locate
the bookstore, one of the most pop-
ular destinations for campus visitors.
It can be mind-numbing to navigate
your way across the largest universi-
ty campus in the United States by
contiguous area, so I embarked on
such an adventure.
hunt one evening for textbooks was
a stressful and frustrating quest.
Putting myself in the shoes of a
tourist, I enter the campus driving
south on Palm Drive.
At the intersection of Palm Drive
and Campus Drive, a sign points left
for the bookstore — my first clue.
But then finding the next sign is
an odyssey.
Approaching the intersection at
Galvez, I find no signs for the book-
store, so I just keep going straight.
Next intersection at Serra Street and
still nothing.
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Continued from page 9
I don’t find another sign for the
bookstore until Lane A, 1.3 miles
later. Two signs in quick succession
and mission accomplished, I’m
parking in Tresidder.
It can be easy to take for granted
the maintenance of street and
pedestrian signs on campus, but it is
a very complex job that involves
architects and planners. All the sig-
nage at Stanford is overseen by
University Architect/Campus
Planning Design (UA/CPD), which
is tasked with both designing signs
and also keeping maps and directo-
ries up to date.
“In the last five years we’ve start-
ed to evolve to a different system,”
said Cathy Blake, the associate
director of UA/CPD. Colors are
being used to distinguish between
different types of signs, such as for
campus parking.
More parking garages are spring-
ing up — or down if it’s under-
ground — and traditional surface
parking lots are becoming less com-
mon, said Blake. In the new system,
there are more green signs which
indicate where the nearest parking
garages are located.
One of UA/CPD’s goals is to give
more identity to streets such as
Campus Drive for them “to become
as memorable and clear as Palm
Drive,” Blake said.
But Blake added that this isn’t a
total revamping of the signs on cam-
pus. “It’s evolving, it’s not a redo,”
she said.
Blake also described a new cam-
pus entries project, which aims to
analyze and improve the entrances
to the campus, and better define the
entrances themselves, using both
signs and landscapes. And UA/CPD
say they’re engaging with the public
by way of focus groups.
“We’re asking the community to
give us input,” Blake said.
In recent years there have been
improvements. The pedestrian sign
system didn’t even exist five years
ago and is being developed on a by-
need basis, according to Blake.
Updating signage for massive
building projects is one of UA/CPD’s
most important tasks. Strolling
around campus, a casual observer
will find construction everywhere,
with projects like the Knight
Management Center southeast of
Hoover Tower and a new extension
to the Stanford Law School.
Signs for new buildings and struc-
tures will be updated right before
they open to avoid as much confu-
sion as possible, Blake said.
For now, if someone from Cal
asks for directions, point them
toward Kresge.
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Contact David Ballantine at david- Street signs, like the Stanford Bookstore sign pictured above, lead the way for confused tourists and new students. The often-
bal@stanford.edu. ignored signage on campus has been designed and strategically placed by University Architect/Campus Planning Design.

CHAN voice broke, struggling to contain

Continued from page 8
“By far, climbing wasn’t her
greatest strength. Friendship was
her greatest strength,” Csonka told
the audience.”I learned from Chris
that we should live our own ways, in
a way that’s fitting to ourselves, no
matter how unusual it looks to oth-
ers. Chris, you never ceased to show
us to be honest with ourselves.”
“From you I learn to live as
though all my friends and every-
thing that was happening were a
dream come true,” he continued.
His voice became softer, the loss
surfacing in the subtle droop of his
smile.
“My heart is sad when I think of
how I won’t ever see your trade-
mark smile anymore, or hear your
grand laugh or feel happy just being
in your company,” he said.
Chan’s friend from her under-
graduate years at Harvard
University, Jeremy Gaw, echoed
the same sentiments felt by many in
the room.
“Chris was different. She was a
breath of fresh air,” Gaw said.
“For Chris, college was a time to
explore, to discover . . . and most
importantly, to develop lifelong
friendships,” Gaw added.
Chan’s friend shared some of
their memories together, revealing
more facets and layers of Chan’s
life.
“When we weren’t playing
Frisbee, we were running around
the Charles River . . . We also had
many bike trips, rain or shine — of
course rain or shine for Chris — to
Walden Pond,” Gaw said.
“Chris, wherever you are, we
miss you and we love you,” Gaw’s
tears. “When I am running or biking
or trying something new, I know
you’ll still be with me, cheering me
on.”
Angie Heo, Chan’s roommate
from her freshman year at Harvard,
described Chan as a visionary.
“She had a strong sense that she
wanted her life to count, and want-
ed to do it with ours,” Heo said.
A musical interlude follows with
“Amazing Grace,” performed by
Stephen Henderson on the guitar.
Up front, a young man in a mili-
tary uniform sat with his head low-
ered in deep contemplation. To the
left of him, a man wrapped his arms
around a woman’s shoulders in gen-
tle comfort. A bright glow seeped
through the church’s oculus, casting
a light on the lowered heads and
stilled eyes and bodies of those
immersed in their own thoughts.
For this moment, time graciously
stayed put in remembrance of Chris
Chan.
The reflections resumed with
Stanford graduate student in energy
resources engineering Sarah
Inwood, Chan’s friend. She
described Chan’s enthusiastic
appreciation for life.
“She saw beauty in every
moment, in every person, in every-
thing . . . Some people can live a
long life and not live to the extent
that Chris did,” she said.
“Those of you who know Chris,
you know she suffers from a syn-
drome known as ‘overly generous,’”
Inwood continued. The audience let
out a light laugh.
“Everything about her was infec-
tious,” Inwood said. “Now that
she’s gone, I just see a gaping hole.”
Peter Chan, Chan’s older broth-
er, gave the final reflection at the
service. He slowly made his way to
the podium and began, “For the
past week I’ve struggled to figure
out how to express tribute to an
amazing person I’ve known my
entire life.”
Peter Chan moved on to remi-
nisce of his sister’s fearless nature
that had surfaced at an early age.
“She would swim out to the
ocean so far that the lifeguards
would frantically wave for her to
come back to shore,” he said.
He described Chris Chan as “the
true trailblazer through life,” high-
lighting her gift “to inspire you to
do things you never thought you
could, to climb higher and farther
than you thought you could, to feel
like you’re at the top of the world.”
In his closing remarks, Peter
Chan left these fond words for his
sister: “Chris, you’ve climbed high-
er than all of us . . . thank you for
being the best of friend, sister and
inspiration.”
As Chris Chan herself had so
eloquently described her climbing
experience on her Stanford website,
“To climb upward into the starry
night and finally reach the top of the
climb under a moonless sky was a
beautiful experience. It reminded
me of the end of Dante’s Inferno:
My guide and I came on that hidden
road / to make our way back into the
bright world; / and with no care for
any rest, we climbed / he first, I fol-
lowing until I saw, / through a round
opening, some of those things / of
beauty Heaven bears. It was from
there / that we emerged, to see once
more the stars.
Chris Chan, daughter, sister,
friend and inspiration — a bundle
of life that will continue to resonate
with the lives of those she’s
touched.
Contact Hong Van Pham at
htpham@stanford.edu.
VEGGIE
Continued from page 9
Rubinstein-Salzedo, another vegan,
said he has found the lifestyle actu-
ally quite enjoyable.
“I have learned so much about so
many different things by being
vegan, ranging from facts about
food production to learning how to
stand up for myself to being a good
host,” he said. “Vegetarians are also
generally much better and more cre-
ative cooks, and we generally eat a
much wider variety of delicious
foods.”
Whether vegetarian or vegan,
students agree that the decision to
eliminate meat and animal products
has had a major impact on both
their health and morals.
“My ethics and praxis are more
in line,” Balasubramanian said. “I
have a real way of effecting change
at every meal of the day. I’ve also
improved my health by moving
away from processed foods and
more toward whole vegan foods. I
suppose I also eat much better food
after being motivated to learn to
cook more proficiently.”
They students interviewed also
believe that the greatest downfall of
the lifestyle is the malicious com-
ments they get from non-vegetari-
ans.
“The cons, to be honest, are
being pegged as an elitist or preten-
tious because of my food choices, or
being scrutinized because my back-
pack might have a leather patch on
it,” Balasubramanian said. “I do not
see these descriptors as fitting of
veganism. I think veganism is about
compassion, not perfection, and ulti-
mately it’s about the animals —
including human animals — and the
“Even cutting
back on meat
consumption
a little is
better than
nothing.”
— Allison Fink ‘12
planet, not personal purity.”
Allison Fink ‘12 believes stu-
dents thinking about adopting a
meat-free diet should learn as much
as they can about the issues sur-
rounding vegetarianism before they
fully commit.
“If you are becoming a vegetari-
an for environmental reasons, for
example, read up on the issue, be
able to explain why you’re doing it
in a coherent, informed and non-
judgmental way,” she said. “People
will listen, and you may convince
some of them to at least cut back on
their meat consumption.”
“I also think that if you love
meat, you don’t have to go the
masochistic route and give it all up
at once,” she added. “Even cutting
back on meat consumption a little
bit is better than nothing.”
Contact Jessica Lieberman at jlieberm@
stanford.edu.

10 N THE STANFORD DAILY N SUMMER EDITION THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2010

SPORTS
From Cardinal to Cardinals: former Stanford infielder Colin Walsh, above, started all 56 games at second base last season. He’s now lending his talents to the St. Louis Cardinals’ farm system.
Card alumni step into MLB
Taking the game from a
passion to a career
By JOSEPH BEYDA
DAILY INTERN
The success of Stanford’s baseball program
has carried over to the pros, where several re-
cently graduated Cardinal players are starting
to make their mark. Pitcher Drew Storen,
catcher Jason Castro and infielders Colin
Walsh and Adam Gaylord are among the no-
table Stanford players making the transition to
professional baseball this season.
Storen and Castro have earned widespread
acclaim playing in the MLB for the Washington
Nationals and Houston Astros, respectively.
They’ve done well to this point; Storen has
THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2010
posted a 2-1 record and a 2.28 ERA in 25 ap-
pearances, while Castro got a hit in his first
major league at-bat and has recorded two
home runs in 19 games. For him, the biggest dif-
ference between playing professionally and at
Stanford has been the travel.
“Playing on the road every week or so in dif-
ferent cities has been challenging, as well as the
amount of games played consecutively,” Cas-
tro wrote in an e-mail to the Daily.
Walsh, playing Single-A ball with the St.
Louis Cardinals subsidiary Batavia Muckdogs,
agrees that the professional schedule was hard
to get used to.
“You play every day here, no breaks, no prac-
tices,” Walsh said. “Even five days a week [at
Stanford] is real different than seven days a
week, every week, so that’s the hardest transi-
tion to make.”
Walsh, who grew up in San Diego before
coming to The Farm, had to adjust to the cli-
mate and size of his new setting as well.
“I’m used to California weather and cities,”
he said. “Now, we’re in small towns in upstate
New York, so the atmosphere’s a little differ-
ent.”
So far, the Cardinal’s former second base-
man has been able to adjust fairly well. He’s
batting .320 through 12 appearances.
Also playing on the East Coast is Gaylord,
with the Baltimore Orioles affiliate Aberdeen
IronBirds at the Single-A level. He has played
in 31 games, batting .309 and knocking in 13
runs.
Gaylord points out that players moving to
the pros have to master a new technical aspect
of the game as well, as they begin playing with
a wooden bat for the first time.
“Wooden bats are a little bit more top-
heavy,” he wrote in an e-mail to the Daily. “So
you have to alter your hand path through your
swing a bit to keep the barrel of the bat from
THE STANFORD DAILY N SUMMER EDITION N 11
Stanford Daily File Photo
dragging under the ball and inducing a pop fly.”
“You have to spend more time stretching
and treating possible injuries proactively so
that you can stay healthy,” Gaylord added.
“Besides that, it’s the same game that I’ve been
playing since I could walk.”
These adjustments have to be made while
advancing through the farm system with the ul-
timate goal of reaching the MLB, a journey that
took Castro two years and on which Walsh and
Gaylord have only just embarked.
Walsh claims that Stanford has prepared
him well for the road ahead.
“Playing in a conference like the Pac-10, and
playing some of the best teams in the nation
year in and year out facing the best players that
college baseball has to offer [...] consistently
makes you a better player,” he said.
Gaylord, Walsh’s teammate for four years at
Please see BASEBALL, page 12
Sexual orientation
gossip has no place
in sports journalism
By TOM TAYLOR
I
n the aftermath of the World Cup, one controversial news
story in particular caught my eye. Michael Becker, the agent
of Michael Ballack (the German captain, who was notably
absent from the tournament after breaking his leg in a warm-
up game), allegedly gave an interview to the magazine Der
Spiegel in which he claimed several members of the German World
Cup squad were gay.
Now the question I have to ask is: Is this really newsworthy? Is
this something sports fans, and real sports journalists, should really
be interested in?
No, and yes.
No, because this has absolutely nothing to do with sports. Some-
one’s sexual orientation has nothing to do with their skills and ath-
letic ability on the field. Trying to turn this into news simply turns
news into gossip.
As a real fan, I don’t care what race or religion those who play for
my club are, so why should I mind if they are gay? I will support the
team regardless of who it is made up of.
If pushed to set any requirements, first and foremost I want them
to be great players who can work together and win lots and lots of
trophies. Second to that I’d rather they weren’t doing anything ille-
gal (either breaking the rules of the game or the laws of the land) and
were reasonably friendly and down to earth. Thirdly, I would like
them to entertain me a little and at least look like they’re enjoying
themselves while doing a job that millions of us would kill for.
Sexual orientation has nothing to do with a person’s physiology
and won’t make them a worse (or better) athlete. It also doesn’t
make you a cheat or a criminal, or in fact make you any different in
any other way. But, ironically, that is exactly why this sort of story
matters.
It is a particularly difficult statistic to measure, but the proportion
of people who identify with being gay, lesbian or bisexual seems to be
around 4 percent. Using this we can estimate how many players in dif-
ferent sports are likely to have one of these sexual orientations. For
example, in the NFL there are up to 100 players in each team and 32
professional teams. We might therefore expect around 100 current
players to be gay, but the reality seems very different. A basic search
throws up just three people, none of whom are current players.
And this is not just a quirk of American football. There seem to
be only about a hundred professional athletes who admit to belong-
ing to one of these groups out of the tens of thousands of sportsmen
and sportswomen around the globe. Of these, many came out only
after retirement.
When Lewis Hamilton became the first black driver in the histo-
ry of F1, there was nowhere to hide. Even before driving a single lap
in anger there was phenomenal media attention on him, enough
pressure to make many people crumble. Pioneering black athletes,
people like Lewis and Tiger Woods before him, never had any-
where to hide — the color of their skin is there for all to see. They
simply had to overcome any prejudices, and in doing so have cleared
the way for others to follow.
The situation is different for gay players, partly because they can
actually hide this part of their identity. Faced with the possibility of
career threatening prejudices from within and the inevitable media
feeding frenzy from outside, any athlete to become one of the first
to openly admit they are gay from a big team in a major sport would
need nerves of steel. When anyone’s personal life is dragged
through the press, it must be tough for them to stay focused on work.
For an athlete it is doubly difficult, because this creates a feedback
loop where a drop in form due to this distraction only serves to in-
tensify the media pressure.
People’s prejudices come to the fore when things are going
badly, not because they are valid, but because in these situations it is
always easier to find a scapegoat than to solve the real problems.
Any bigoted opinions of the existence of a gay player in a team could
become a self-fulfilling prophecy. As the player, and thus the team,
struggle under the weight of the attention, it would suddenly seem
that they are a divisive and destructive presence.
Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be an easy solution. Some
players are probably going to have to take it upon their shoulders to
endure all this and lead the way — to inspire others that they are
free to be honest and to overcome prejudices so that this career path
is open to absolutely anyone with the right skills and athletic ability.
And hopefully then we can finally stop talking about people’s
private lives, and get back to what really matters: the sport.
Tom Taylor is taking a break from the headlines and getting back to
what’s important. Talk about real sports news with him at tom.taylor@
stanford.edu.
12 N THE STANFORD DAILY N SUMMER EDITION
SPORTS BRIEFS
Cardinal gymnasts
honored for achievement
team finals appearances and an NCAA
individual championship. She also
earned the Pac-10 Scholar Athlete
award.
Cardinal in 2009 and will return to Stan-
ford as a sophomore next year. Her per-
formance gave Mexico a tie in points
atop Group C, which Mexico won on
For the 2009-2010 season, seven
Stanford gymnasts were named to the
Scholastic All-America team by the Na-
tional Association of Collegiate Coach-
Stanford has been represented by 47
gymnasts, earning 90 honors in total, on
the Scholastic All-American team.
goals scored.
Meanwhile, three of her Stanford
teammates helped the U.S. team to a 1-0
es/Women. The seven consisted of three victory over South Korea to advance
Garciamendez lifts past the group stage. Rising sophomores
seniors — Carly Janiga (fourth honor),
Blair Ryland (second honor) and Mexico in U-20 tourney Rachel Quon and Courtney Verloo,
Tenaya West (second honor). Shelley along with rising junior Teresa Noyola,
Stanford soccer player Alina Garcia- each made contributions to the victory
Alexander and Danielle Ikoma, two ju-
mendez kept Mexico in the FIFA Under- on Wednesday, which clinched first
niors, were selected for the first time
20 Women’s World Cup on Wednesday place in Group D. Quon was a starter,
while sophomores Nicole Pechanec and
with a 78th minute strike against Nigeria. while Verloo and Noyola were substitut-
Jenny Peter also received the honor.
The goal gave Mexico a 1-1 draw and put ed in during the second half.
For Janiga, this marks the end of an
the team through to the knockout stages
illustrious career as a stellar student ath-
of the tournament. — Joseph Beyda and Kevin Zhang
lete. Her collegiate career consists of
Garciamendez, captain of the Mexi-
nine All-American honors, five Pac-10
can team, has started all 26 games for the
individual titles, three NCAA Super Six
Competitive cheer can stand
on its own
By KEVIN ZHANG ences in order to help teams win. Nowadays, we don’t just
have women competing for teams. We have women owning
teams. Nowadays, we don’t just have women surviving in
E
ach year during football season, it is the cheerlead- sports. We have women thriving in sports. Nowadays, we
ers — not the players themselves — who are don’t just have women athletes. We have genuine heroines.
putting themselves in more danger. According to a Despite the great social progress that women’s sports have
2008 report by the National Center for Cata- made in recent years, however, controversy remains. Just yes-
strophic Sport Injury Research, cheerleading terday, U.S. District Judge Stefan Underhill ruled that com-
made up 65.1 percent of all catastrophic sports injuries among petitive cheerleading is not a college sport because of the un-
high school females over the past 25 years. derdevelopment of cheerleading.
I find the current status of cheerleading, particularly high The ruling was in response to a case brought by Quinnipi-
school cheerleading, in serious need of improvement. Why ac University volleyball players and a coach because the uni-
are diligent, athletic girls risking their future well-being only versity replaced volleyball with competitive cheerleading. Ac-
to be relegated to the sidelines of a bigger show? Why are cording to the university, the switch is in compliance with Title
these potential stars sacrificing so much only to be left off the IX, a 1972 federal law that mandates equal educational and
field when society has fought so hard to bring them onto it? athletic opportunities for students of both genders.
There is no doubt cheerleaders can be amazing athletes. Underhill, however, rejected Quinnipiac’s reorganization
But with the current status of cheerleading, these guys and on the basis that competitive cheer isn’t yet a proper sport in
girls are not reaching their potential. the same way as volleyball.
Cheerleaders go through classic routines with the same I agree with one part of his statement and disagree with the
arm movements and clichéd cheers each year. They put Vase- other. I disagree that competitive cheerleading is not a sport
line on their teeth in order to plant smiles on their faces, even and believe that it is a sport — one of the most difficult sports,
when the team they are cheering for is down 49-0. They look at that. It is truly amazing to see a team of athletes perform
at the crowd with these fake smiles, when the crowd isn’t even giant acrobatic stunts. However, I couldn’t agree more with
looking at them. Underhill’s assertion that cheerleading is undeveloped and
Why do cheerleaders with giant egos work so hard to try to needs improvements.
be on the squad, constantly in fear of losing a spot or making There is no doubt that improvements have been made to
a mistake in front of a crowd? Why are these young girls wear- the sport of cheerleading. With the addition of men providing
ing skirts in freezing weather and wearing no protective gear solid foundations for pyramids, cheerleading has become
when they are participating in gravity-defying stunts? safer. The adoption of certain requirements, such as a certain
The underlying point is that the current goal of cheerlead- GPA and community service hours, has encouraged cheer-
ing — to raise the spirits of the crowd and try to help the foot- leaders to be active in their school or community as leaders,
ball team win — is misguided. Cheerleading, especially in not just followers. It is fantastic that competitive cheerleading
high school, does not focus enough on competitions. It defi- has gained popularity and that it has become significantly
nitely has great potential to be an amazing activity for young more co-ed. Also, many cheerleaders have become extreme-
girls and boys, but today cheerleading is not where it should ly influential leaders in society.
be. However, there are just too many cheerleaders, especially
Instead, today’s high school cheerleading is an activity of in high school, who are not accomplishing what they can and
athletic girls and some guys, showcasing the same old routines should. Advancements could help cheerleading to be seen as
and yelling the same cheers, which ultimately accomplishes as a legitimate activity of its own — whether it’s a “sport” or not
much for the football team as the vendors selling hot dogs in — and less of sideshow for something else.
the crowd.
Cheerleading was put in place to get girls involved when Kevin Zhang wants you to help him make a human pyramid.
girls weren’t active in sports and enable them to excite audi- Volunteer at kevinzhangle@gmail.com.
BASEBALL History suggests that baseball has a
good chance of working out for the new
pros; Stanford players have represented
a consistent force in the majors in recent
ent leagues and for different teams, they
have been sure to stay in touch. When
they meet on opposite sides of the dia-
mond, however, things are as competi-
Continued from page 11
years. Pitcher Mike Mussina was one of tive as ever.
the league’s dominant pitchers from “I actually just played against my old
Stanford, agrees, and noted another 1991 to 2008, and outfielder and desig- roommate at Stanford, Brandt Walker,”
benefit of his time at the Farm. nated hitter Carlos Quentin has been a Gaylord said. “He got me to ground out
“Having graduated from Stanford, I stellar hitter as of late, with 90 home to the shortstop.”
feel like I have a great backup plan if runs in under five seasons.
baseball doesn’t end up working out,” Though Stanford’s graduated players Contact Joseph Beyda at josephbeyda@
Gaylord said. are playing at different levels, in differ- comcast.net.
THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2010
Rooftop construction
POLICE BLOTTER
By AARON BRODER
DAILY INTERN
This report covers a selection of incidents
from July 13 to July 20, as recorded in the Stan-
ford Department of Public Safety Bulletin.
A series of bike thefts and medical emergen-
cies occurred during this period. Bike thefts oc-
curred at Lane Hall, Wilbur Hall, the School of
Education and the Sterling Quad.
TUESDAY, JULY 13
I At 6:51 a.m. at the Center for Clinical Sciences
Research, the reporting party received a
threatening e-mail from an unknown person.
I At 3:30 p.m., an injury, bike-vs.-pavement col-
lision occurred on Lasuen Mall north of Es-
condido Mall.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 14
I It was reported that between 3 p.m. and 3:15
p.m. on July 13, two unknown suspects seen in
the Stanford Field Sites may have been pos-
session of firearms and may have fired the
firearms in the area of Old Page Mill Road.
IAt the Black Community Services Center, an
individual reported that she had received two
fraudulent money orders on July 13 from an
address in Florida.
ITwo individuals were arrested for stealing a vic-
tim’s unattended purse at Lagunita Court and
taking items from within. Both were taken to the
THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2010
San Jose main jail and booked for grand theft.
FRIDAY, JULY 16
I In an incident that occurred between June 22
and 23, but was only reported on July 16, an
unknown suspect stole the victim’s unattend-
ed backpack from Cubberley Auditorium in-
side the School of Education. The backpack
contained, among other things, the victim’s
passport.
I At 1:45 p.m., on the corner of Campus Drive
and Via Ortega, an individual was cited and
released for driving without a license.
I At 3:40 p.m., on the corner of Santa Teresa
Street and Campus Drive, another individual
was cited and released for driving without a li-
cense.
SATURDAY, JULY 17
I At 9:20 a.m., on the corner of Campus Drive
and Roth Way, the arrestee was transported
to the San Jose main jail and booked for pub-
lic intoxication.
I At 1:45 p.m., the reporting party’s son found
currency on the lawn of Koret Park. They
turned it in, where it was booked as found
property. The reporting party also put in a 90-
day claim on the found items.
SUNDAY, JULY 18
I At 6:40 a.m., the reporting party received an e-
mail stating that the sender had been paid to
AUDREY WU/The Stanford Daily
kill her. Investigations proved that it was, in
fact, a hoax.
I At 8:05 a.m., in an event shrouded in mysterty,
an unknown suspect, using unknown tools,
stole unknown items from the victim’s vehicle
parked in Parking Structure 6.
MONDAY, JULY 19
I At 4:40 p.m., a non-injury, vehicle-vs.-fixed
object collision occurred on the corner of Es-
condido Road and Comstock Circle.
TUESDAY, JULY 20
I Between 11 a.m. on July 12 and 8 a.m. on July
20, an unknown suspect broke the passenger
side windows of two victims’ vehicles at Park-
ing Structure 6 and stole their GPS systems.
I At 1:45 p.m., an individual was cited and re-
leased on an outstanding warrant from Santa
Clara County.
I Between 4:30 p.m. and 4:45 p.m., another ar-
restee was transported to the San Jose main
jail and booked on two outstanding warrants
from Santa Clara County and San Mateo
County.
I In an incident that occurred between 5:30 p.m.
on July 16 and 9 a.m. that was reported on July
19, an unknown suspect stole a medical instru-
ment from an unlocked lab at the Medical
School Lab Surge building.
Contact Aaron Broder at abroder@stanford.edu.
THE STANFORD DAILY N SUMMER EDITION N 13
BRIEFS
Continued from page 3
of the ad. While black sellers got 32
percent less offers than whites in the
Northeast, there was little discrepan-
cy in the West. Other factors, such as
crime rates and racial separations in
the given area, had an effect on the
amount of money offered to each of
the hands.
“The fact that we found this much
evidence of racial discrimination in this
population of people is striking,”
Doleac told the Stanford News Service.
Doleac also expressed concern
that the effect is smaller with the well-
educated, young group of people that
would be likely to stumble upon the
Internet ads, and that the disparities
would be greater in the general popu-
lation.
— Joseph Beyda
Palo Alto ranks
high in both wealth
and educational
attainment
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF
Two new recent surveys depict
Palo Alto as one of the wealthiest and
most educated cities in the nation.
According to CNNMoney.com, Palo
Alto was ranked as the third top earn-
ing town in the United States. With a
population of over 60,000, the medi-
an family yearly income was reported
to be $153,615 and the median home
price was $1,180,000. Palo Alto was
noted for its high-tech prosperity and
proximity to Stanford.
Another study done by the Brook-
ings Institute proclaimed that the San
Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metro-
politan area, which includes Palo
Alto, was ranked third in America in
educational attainment. The study
was based off of a 2008 survey that ac-
counted for the amount of schooling
of adults, enrollment in higher educa-
tional studies and several other fac-
tors. The San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa
Clara metro area had 43.5 percent of
adults age 25 and over with a bache-
lor’s degree in 2008.
— Kevin Zhang
CORRECTION
In “Chris Chan M.S. ‘08 dies”
(July 15), The Daily incorrectly re-
ported Ms. Chan’s age as 33. In fact,
she was 31.
In “Student proposes streetcar
plan” (July 15), The Daily incorrect-
ly reported that Daniel Jacobson be-
lieved the city of Oakland could have
a streetcar system implemented in 15
years. In fact, he believes it could
happen in five years.
In “Nadeem J.Z. Hussain to be-
come new dean of FroSoCo” (July
15), The Daily incorrectly reported
that Professor Hussain served as a
residential fellow. In fact, he had only
worked with Residential Education
in its central office.
The Daily regrets these errors.
ENTERTAINMENT
MOVIE REVIEW
Inception brings
summer thrills
S
ummer is a time when mediocre,
action-packed blockbusters, so
worn out that plot lines and char-
acters get to feeling repetitive and
drab, fill the screen. However,
Christopher Nolan’s latest film,
“Inception,” promises and delivers a
summer thriller that will both enter-
tain you and have you thinking like it’s
fall quarter finals.
The key to the uncontested success
of “Inception” is the utter depth of the
film. It starts with an all-star lineup
including Leonardo DiCaprio
(“Shutter Island”), Ellen Page (“Juno”),
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (“(500) Days of
Summer”), Marion Cotillard (“La Vie
en Rose”) and Cillian Murphy
14 N THE STANFORD DAILY N SUMMER EDITION
Courtesy of Warner Bros Pictures/MCT
(“Batman Begins”), who more than do
their part living up to their previously
acquired acclaim. Then add in great
action sequences where the audience is
on the edge of its seat, praying for the
lives of brilliant characters that make
you smirk from the minute they walk
on screen. Finally, sprinkle on a good,
complicated love story to satisfy all the
romantics in the audience and you
have a killer film. What really makes
“Inception” stand out, though, is its
ability to go beyond great plot, charac-
ters and cast. This film will literally
blow you mind and change the way
you think about your life. Courtesy of Warner Bros Pictures/MCT
Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Page star in Christopher Nolan’s thriller about the inner workings of the human
Please see REVIEW, page 15 mind. In the film, DiCaprio’s Cobb leads Page’s Ariadne and an expert team into a target’s subconscious.
THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2010
REVIEW
Continued from page 14
Without giving away too much
of the plot, I will say that
“Inception” is one of those defin-
ing movies that deals with theories
of perception, dreams, and the
mind in such a way that everybody
walking out of the theater is
secretly asking themselves if they
really exist. Much like “Vanilla
Sky” or “The Matrix,” “Inception”
uses science fiction to make the
audience think deeply about living
in the “real world” and what
morality really means. It even
ends with one of those great ambi-
guities where everyone has their
FOOD REVIEW
A guide to summer food
I
t’s summer. If you’re at
Stanford, you’re probably
reveling in the lack of home-
work, the beautiful weather (no
more rain!) and the unbelievably
awkward on-campus parties.
Unfortunately, odds are that
you’re also still reveling in Stern
Dining. Or perhaps more terri-
fyingly, you’ve ended up some-
where with your own kitchen,
thrown into the dangerous
experiment of cooking for your-
self for the first time ever.
Bummer. On the flip side, this is
definitely the best season for eat-
ing in Northern California. So
many things are in season and
◆ SALT
(PG-13) 12:01am
◆ MET SUMMER
ENCORE: TURANDOT
(NR) 10:00am
◆ INCEPTION
(PG-13) 10:00am, 11:50am, 1:10, 2:00, 3:20,
4:40, 5:30, 6:50, 8:10, 9:00, 10:20
◆ THE SORCERER'S
APPRENTICE
(PG) 10:40am, 12:00, 1:30, 2:50, 4:20, 4:20,
5:40, 7:00, 8:20, 9:40, 10:55
DESPICABLE ME
(PG) 12:10, 2:35 , 5:00, 8:00, 10:25
DESPICABLE ME 3D
(PG) 10:50am, 1:15, 3:40, 7:05, 9:30
PREDATORS
(R) 11:10am, 12:30, 1:50, 3:10, 4:50, 6:15,
7:30, 8:50, 10:10
I AM LOVE
FRI , SAT
1:45, 4:30, 7:15,
ONLY 7/23 - 10:00
7/24
I AM LOVE
SUN - TUES
7/25 - 7/27
1:45, 4:30, 7:15
THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2010
own little interpretation of what
happens. I would even suggest
looking at back-to-back showings
so you can see it twice in a row.
So what makes “Inception”
stand out from the other great,
similarly themed movies that have
come before it? Well first of all,
unlike “The Matrix,” the romantic
aspect of “Inception” adds to,
rather than weighs down, the rest
of the movie. The pacing is also
well done. There’s enough intrigue
to keep you riveted yet not so much
mystery that you get frustrated, or
confused . . . or need a sequel.
Even though it runs 142 minutes,
the movie does not feel long at all.
There is not a dull moment of dia-
logue in the film.
So if you haven’t seen
the weather’s perfect for picnick-
ing, grilling and endless outdoor
dinners. So here’s a guide to my
favorite easy-to-find summer
foods around Stanford:
Draeger’s Potato Salad: Potato
salad is the quintessential sum-
mer food — fluffy, light, impos-
sible to hate. My favorite is the
potato salad sold at Draeger’s, a
super yuppy grocery store in
downtown Menlo Park. This
stuff might not be the smartest
thing to eat during bikini season,
but it’s too good to pass up.
Draeger’s also has awesome
chocolate chip cookies (but
maybe steer clear of the gro-
ceries themselves — they make
Whole Foods look bargain base-
ment).
Sprinkles key lime cupcakes: I’m
not always super partial to
Sprinkles cupcakes; I think the
THE LAST AIRBENDER frosting can be way too sweet
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and tar-like, but their seasonal
THE TWILIGHT SAGA:
ECLIPSE flavor right now is key lime and
(PG-13) 11:20am, 2:15, 5:10, 7:55, 10:50 it’s addictive. These cupcakes are
GROWN UPS light, slightly tart and perfect for
(PG-13) 11:40am, 2:30, 4:55, 7:35, 10:35
KNIGHT AND DAY summer afternoons in the office.
(PG-13) 12:40, 3:50, 7:40, 10:40 Plus, flexible summer schedules
TOY STORY 3 are totally conducive to
(G) 12:20, 3:00
Sprinkles’ amazing daily give-
TOY STORY 3 3D
(G) 11:00am, 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 aways. If you “like” the Sprinkles
THE KARATE KID Facebook page, you get access to
(PG) 6:45, 9:55 “secret words” posted each day,
WINTER'S BONE
(R) 1:00, 4:00, 7:20, 10:05
which you can whisper at any
location for a free cupcake (but
hurry — they usually sell out of
freebies early in the day!).
Shaved ice from L’Amour: A lot
of people associate shaved ice
with run-down carnivals; I defi-
WINTER’S RESTREPO
BONE 4:45, 9:45 nitely did before I tried this.
2:15, 7:20
Sweetened with condensed milk
WINTER’S RESTREPO and topped with fresh fruit,
BONE 4:45
2:15, 7:20 L’Amour soaks its ice with more
sophisticated flavored syrups
“Inception,” get on it fast. You’re
better off getting the most out of
the film knowing nothing about
the plot going into it. And consid-
ering the fact that you’re going to
want to see it a second or third
time anyway, there is no point in
wanting to know anything before-
hand in order to “understand
what’s going on.” Most of all, all
your friends will be talking about
this movie all summer and you’re
not going to be part of the conver-
sation until September or until
you go see it for yourself. So put
down this paper, take a breath and
go get incepted.
— laura MALKIEWICH
contact laura: lmalkiew
@stanford.edu
TIM LEE /MCT
FOOD REVIEW
than you’d find at the county
fair. Perfect for when the tem-
perature reaches triple digits. A Bar-Be-Question —
What’s the Best
“Fred Steak” from Schaub’s
Meats: This is an institution in
my family, tri-tip steak coated in
a top-secret marinade named for
BBQ Around?
the market’s founder, Fred.
Fred Steak has been around for
fifty years (Fred himself is sadly
no longer with us, though his
image lives on in Schaub’s “Fred
Steak” t-shirts and aprons), and
A
the exact ingredients are still a s a Southerner, I take etors have attempted to add a
mystery — I think it might be my barbeque seriously. Southern flair to the eatery,
some mix of brown sugar, pome- Coming to California for but it falls flat, too new to feel
granate and soy sauce but we’ll college, I didn’t know what to homey. The ceilings are too
probably never know. Anyway, expect — no sweet tea, a high and the facility too new to
it’s unbelievably yummy. Added dearth of chicken & dumplin’s really feel like a “down-home”
bonus: Schaub’s Meats is just and no Cracker Barrel for restaurant. The strip mall
around the corner from hundreds of miles. parking, however, is plentiful.
Sprinkles Cupcakes at the Fortunately, I’ve survived, Rated the best BBQ in
Stanford Shopping Center (now thanks in no small part to San Silicon Valley by the Metro, an
if only they also gave away free Jose’s barbeque scene. area weekly, several times over
steak everyday via secret words What follows is a decidedly the past few years, Blue Rock’s
on Facebook . . . ). personal account of one man BBQ food is indeed delicious.
and three barbeque places, a My pulled pork was succulent
Anything from a local farmers’ story of adventure, generous and scrumptious and the mac-
market: Summer is go time for portions and numerous sets of aroni & cheese was thick,
farmers’ markets. So much ribs for my pleasure. It’s a tale gooey goodness. Menu choice
amazing produce is in season of intrigue and personal dis- is somewhat limited, but you
covery. should stick to the pulled pork
and it’s perfect weather to walk
from booth to booth sampling or ribs. I really liked the baked
everything. Three pretty great Blue Rock BBQ — 3001 beans, the best part of the
farmers’ markets operate near Meridian Ave. meal.
campus: California Ave. in Palo 7.5/10, $ All in all, Blue Rock is a
Alto (Sundays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.), The Blue Rock BBQ brings solid choice for a BBQ
downtown Menlo Park me back. Similar to a barbeque evening.
(Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.) and joint I enjoyed in Auburn,
East Palo Alto (Saturdays, 2 Alabama, the Blue Rock has Sam’s BBQ — 1110 S. Bascom
p.m.-5 p.m. — this one is small- diners order at a counter, Ave.
er, but going here supports a greatly raising the levels of 1/10, $-$$
really critical community asset). anticipation. You can see into Sam’s tries too hard to be
Right now, mission figs, cherries, the kitchen. You know your Southern. My brother and I
peaches, heirloom tomatoes and food is coming. Should you were excited by the restau-
strawberries are all in season. wait and watch — no, the wait rant’s “country” flair, com-
is too much.
— evie DANFORTH The decor of the place feels
contact evie: edanforth a little industrial. The propri- Please see BBQ, page 16
@stanford.edu
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Continued from page 15
ordered, both by saying “the
baked beans, please.” One type
was virtually inedible and the
other was decent, not good.
Our waitress at the counter-
style restaurant hovered over us
plete with a toy train running
the entire meal, staring and
throughout the eatery’s trim of
cleaning in our vicinity. This
the ceiling. They had sweet tea,
made us not only feel unwel-
plain chairs and tables, and a
come but nervous, especially as
solid ranking in the Metro’s
we did not like any of the food
“best of BBQ” section.
presented.
Disappointment enveloped
our excitement for the accou-
Henry’s Hi-Life — 301 W St
trements as the waitress at the
John St.
counter was positively rude.
9/10, $$$
When asked if we could substi-
Profiled on the Travel
tute onion rings as a side for our
Channel’s “Man v. Food,”
rib combo meal, she not only
Henry’s Hi-Life is a rib-lover’s
said no and stared at us as if we
dream. Tucked behind the HP
idiots but also blurted, “Onion
Pavilion, Henry’s is a great place
rings come in their own basket!”
to grab a drink and watch the
We thought she was joking, a lit-
Sharks. Their front area has a
tle Southern-style sarcasm, but
loud, homey sports-bar. But it’s
the silence for the next 20 sec-
also more than that — it has
onds confirmed that she was
become a place for my brother
serious.
and me to relish in our love of
In short, don’t waste your
BBQ.
money or time at Sam’s BBQ. I
You walk in, take a number
simply cannot fathom why Metro
and order from the host. The
ranked them so high. Of course,
menu is written on a wooden
I may be an idiot — I didn’t
board at the entrance to the sit-
know that onion rings required
down portion of the restaurant.
their own sovereign basket.
This is not the kind of place to
The food was gross. The tea
order fettuccini alfredo — it’s an
was oversweet. The barbeque
unbridled meat-lover’s paradise.
sauce tasted like Burger King
You wait as they prepare your
Bronco sauce from years ago.
food, then you get ushered into
There were two types of baked
the back and presented with an
beans that we had inadvertently
16 N THE STANFORD DAILY N SUMMER EDITION
over-dressed salad. This is a very
casual restaurant, no need to
over-dress.
Henry’s ribs are simply
incredible, served wet to whet
your appetite and prepared with
brown sugar. The bones come
clean out of the rib, leaving you
with a heaping helping of rib-
meat to chow on. The half-slab
should fit most people’s
appetites, about 6-8 inches of rib.
For the adventurous, the full
slab is gargantuan, about 12
inches of ribs. Each order is
pared with garlic bread and a
baked potato.
Henry’s BBQ sauce will keep
you coming back for more. Not
only is it a good dip for the gar-
lic bread, but it is fascinating to
determine its component parts.
My guess is that it is a ketchup-
based sauce.
True, the place is on the
pricey side, approximately $20-
$25, but it’s worth it for both the
challenge of eating so many ribs
and the melt-in-the-mouth fla-
vor-packed punch of the meat.
Henry’s Hi-Life allows me to
reconnect with my Southern
BBQ heritage out here in
California. The ribs have kept
me coming back for more — at
least fifteen times!
— tommy TOBIN
contact tommy: ttobin@
stanford.edu
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