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Cady Hine dies at 24


Junior English major led mental health initiatives on campus
By ALICE PHILLIPS
DESK EDITOR

The Stanford community lost its second undergraduate in recent weeks when undergraduate Cady Hine died April 1 at her home in Palo Alto. Hine was born in Whittier, Calif., and grew up in Seal Beach, Calif. She later lived in San Francisco before beginning her freshman year at Stanford in the fall of 2005. After taking time away from the University, Hine returned to Stanford in winter 2012 as a junior majoring in English. Hine is survived by her father, Jim; stepmother, Martha; and brother, Andrew.

Hine co-founded Stanford Peace of Mind, a group whose mission is to address mental health issues on campus, reduce the stigma surrounding mental illness and connect students to mental health resources on campus. She was really honest about the struggles she had been through in life, both things she had dealt with personally and things she responded to, Koren Bakkegard, associate dean in the Office of Undergraduate Advising and Research, said to The Daily. Hine was a frequent presence in the grief group organized by the Office for Religious Life, Residential Education and Counseling and Psychological

Services (CAPS) following her mothers death by suicide in the summer of 2006. She also volunteered with Track Watch to patrol the Palo Alto railroad crossings after four local high school students committed suicide. We came to know and admire her as a brave and forthright advocate for student wellness, literally putting her body where her mouth was, said Rabbi Patricia Karlin-Neumann, senior associate dean for Religious Life, in a letter to the Stanford community published in The Daily. I think we started a conversation that theres still some remnants of with student wellness

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STUDENT LIFE
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Required spring RA class begins


By MARY HARRISON
STAFF WRITER

WNBA President Laurel Richie posed with former Stanford forward Nnemkadi Ogwumike 12, who was drafted No. 1 overall by the Los Angeles Sparks during the 2012 WNBA draft Monday.

OGWUMIKE GOES NO. 1


STAR FORWARD TAKEN WITH TOP PICK IN WNBA DRAFT
By TOM TAYLOR
SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Two-unit class is part of ResEd RA hiring revisions

The LA Sparks selected senior forward Nnemkadi Ogwumike, the face of Stanford womens basketball, as the No. 1 pick in Mondays 2012 WNBA draft. Ogwumike becomes the first Cardinal player to be taken first overall in school history and the 10th to be picked in the first round. Five of those first round

picks are active WNBA players, including three of her former teammates: forward Jayne Appel 10 (San Antonio Silver Stars), forward Kayla Pedersen 11 (Tulsa Shock) and guard Jeanette Pohlen 11 (Indiana Fever). The other two are guard Candice Wiggins 08 (Minnesota Lynx) and forward Nicole Powell 04 (New York Liberty).

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Starting in the 2012-13 academic year, all new resident assistants (RAs) will be required to take a class in order to be qualified to work for Residential Education (ResEd). This spring, 185 students are enrolled in an optional, pilot twounit class, called Interpersonal Learning and Leadership: An Introduction to the RA Role. The class is offered through the School of Education and is taught by professional ResEd staff members, including residence deans, program associates and the area residential coordinator, according to LaCona Woltman, a resident fellow (RF) in Freshman Sophomore College. ResEd Assistant Director Cisco Barron told the Stanford Report that the department decided to implement the class to make RAs feel more comfort-

able in their leadership roles in residences, not as a reflection of something wrong with the existing RA program. ResEd has been evaluating the RA training process for the past five years, with research largely led by Barron. Based on the results of this assessment, the department decided that RAs would only benefit from a new training program that seeks to improve a functioning system. In ResEds assessment, according to Barron, it became clear that although RAs felt that they were adequately trained to handle crises, they were less certain of their ability to lead in their respective houses. The course material includes a variety of articles and video segments spanning topics such as emotional intelligence, identity development . . . conflict management, [and] decision-making skills, Woltmon wrote in an email to The Daily. Under the new program, RA hiring will happen in winter quarter and students selected as RAs will enroll in the class during

spring quarter. RAs enrolled in the class will participate in exercises to discuss the materials learned in class and participate in weekly journaling to reflect on their learning. Woltmon added that the class will also give RAs the opportunity to have a discussion with Deborah Golder, Dean of ResEd. Any aspiring RA who does not pass the class will be ineligible to work for ResEd during the following school year. Woltmon said that she has even had requests from non-RAs to enroll in the class, although she added that this is not currently possible. The ASSU Community Action Board was also heavily involved in the revision of RA training. Community Action Board Chair Holly Fetter 13 described the groups goal as bridging the gap between residences and identity-based communities on campus. Fetter said that initially she was concerned about how resi-

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Study shows HIV prevention drug cost effective for men at high risk
By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF Stanford researchers have determined that a preventative medication for HIV could be a cost-effective investment for men at high risk of contracting the virus. The drug under evaluation was tenofovir-emtricitabine, which a 2010 study found could reduce an individuals chances of contracting the virus by between 44 and 73 percent, according to an article from the Stanford School of Medicine. The study, which focused on an economic model for treating men who have sex with other men, or MSM, found that a technique called pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), which entails medicating an entire population daily, could prove economically efficient. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, MSM patients comprise more than half of the new HIV infection in the United States each year. The treatment, however, is still an expensive undertaking. Targeting only the high risk in the MSM population, the treatment would cost $85 billion, according to the study. Previous economic studies have even returned conflicting results by making fewer assumptions. The Stanford study, for example, assumed that patients would stop the medication after 20 years. Even though it provides good value, it is still very expensive, said Jessie Juusola, primary author of the study and Ph.D. candidate in management science and engineer-

Nanoparticle may advance surgery


By MATT BETTONVILLE
DESK EDITOR

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Nanotechnology may soon help brain surgeons navigate to the molecular level when treating brain tumors. Medical researcher and nanotechnology professor Sam Gambhir and his research team have devised a way to use goldbased particles to image cancer cells in the brain. Although years away from practical use in humans, the research has the potential to advance the abilities of brain surgeons, who currently remove tumors while observing with the naked eye. The nanoparticle the team is studying capitalizes on a tumors disruption of natural blood flow in the brain to collect around cancerous cells, enabling imaging of the areas. The imaging abilities developed by Gambhir are threefold. First, gold particles create a distinctive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) signal that shows the precise tumor location in the brain. Second, a method called photoacoustic imaging exploits the sounds that gold emits when exposed to certain frequencies of light to create an image of the tumor. Last, a method called Raman spectroscopy employs a technique borrowed from counterfeit detection that monitors

light emission spectra from the particle. Although their origins are in entirely different fields in this case counterfeit detection what were doing is taking these gold-core particles and making them work in a biological system, Gambhir said. These imaging methods could eventually serve the purpose of allowing surgeons to see tumors up close during surgery. Imagine that a surgeon eventually would have on molecular goggles, and those goggles let the surgeon see where the tumor is at the molecular level, thereby maximizing removal of just the tumor and sparing most of the healthy tissue, Gambhir said. The imaging could hold benefits both before and after surgery, as well. According to Gambhir, molecular-level awareness of cancer cells could also streamline treatment through more precise planning and more accurate evaluation of results. Many obstacles still remain before these ideas can become a reality. The imaging has so far only been tested on human cancer cells growing in animals. Gambhir said that before the studies can move to a human brain, researchers would have to evaluate possible effects that

Courtesy of Sam Gambhir

Researchers have created gold-core particles that gather around brain tumors (shown in red) and emit three different types of signals, which may lead to precise, molecular-level imaging in the future.
gold particles could have on a person. Gambhir noted that he is already working with the Food and Drug Administration to approve testing in a human bowel. He estimated that the first human pilot of a nanoscale-imaging procedure is around three years away, and if that pilot is successful, routine use could be around five years away. Why should surgery be limited to what the human eye sees? Gambhir asked. What you really should be seeing are microscopic molecular events. The study is significant not only for its potential medical applications, but also as collaboration between nanotechnology engineering and medicine, which are often disconnected fields. Work like this inevitably involves multiple disciplines, and

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2 N Tuesday, April 17, 2012 SPEAKERS & EVENTS

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Fadi Quran returns to campus


By AARON SEKHRI
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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ing. In the current health care climate, PrEPs costs may become prohibitive, especially given the other competing priorities for HIV resources, such as providing treatment for infected individuals. Still, the study shows that even at a 20 percent adoption rate among high-risk individuals, the PrEP treatment could prevent 41,000 HIV infections over 20 years.
Matt Bettonville

Fadi Quran 10 returned to campus Monday for the first time since being arrested during a protest in Israel. Quran, a rising leader supporting non-violent protest in the Israel-Palestine conflict, spoke to students alongside U.S. Civil Rights movement lawyer Clarence Jones and international conflict expert Allen Weine. We wanted to regain our rights, our ability to move freely, and to secure justice for ourselves and for our people. We wanted to use nonviolence to challenge the balance of power and bring awareness of the injustice of our situation, said Fadi Quran 10, noted activist and self-proclaimed Palestinian Freedom Rider Monday night. So, he continued, we got on a bus. Quran, who Time Magazine hailed as the face of the new Middle East, spoke as part of a talk held by Students for Palestinian Equal Rights (SPER) titled, Freedom Rides in Palestine, which brought together a diverse group of individuals to speak about nonviolent activism and its role in bringing a solution to the lingering IsraeliPalestinian conflict. Joining Quran were Jones, Martin Luther King Jr.s lawyer and close confidant, and Weine, co-director of the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation. The event took its name from an act of nonviolent resistance orchestrated by Quran several weeks ago that drew inspiration from the activism of the Freedom Riders of the

early 1960s. Quran was arrested for his resistance, leading to outcry for his release. The actions of the 1960s Freedom Riders, who rode interstate buses to the segregated South to further the cause of desegregation, were the impetus for Qurans own activism and philosophy, which he elaborated on during the discussion. Referring to the burgeoning Palestinian rights movement, Quran spoke of his universal principles of justice, which he described as the foundation for his nonviolent approach to activism. Citing large imbalances of power in the region, Quran elaborated on the various matrices of control legal, infrastructural and military which he argued were imposed on the Palestinian people by the Israeli government. Recounting the sometimes humorous and sometimes tragic narrative of his experience illegally taking a bus to Jerusalem, he spelled out the aims of his nonviolent activism as demonstrating to the opposition that you are human and as making the oppression of the other side more costly. Quran promised that more is to come and articulated his goals as the pursuit of freedom, justice and dignity. The arc of the moral universe is tending towards justice for the Palestinians, Quran said, paraphrasing King. Jones praised Quran, calling him a young hero fighting for legitimate universal aspirations. Jones described the challenges to the Palestinian liberation movement as being whether or not they can awaken the conscience of the

world, showing that peace is the mutual interest of both parties. Jones shared his experiences from the Civil Rights movement and said that with discipline, durability and unwavering morality, one can challenge the impossible. He praised Qurans use of technology in broadcasting the events of his detention to shock the conscience of those watching and stated his confidence in the supremacy of nonviolence. Weine provided a theoretical underpinning to the talk, discussing his work in the field of international conflict, and posited an idea that for the movement to be successful it must incorporate and engage Israeli voices. Weine praised the activism as speaking to the Palestinian community and giving agency and power to young Palestinians. He offered advice to Quran, his former student at Stanford, using empirical research to assert that any movement that brands itself as requiring justice, and not engaging the goodwill of the opponent has little chance of success. He concluded with the notion that any peace would have to emerge from arriving at a mutually-bearable future. The various perspectives of the panel members resonated with the audience. The historical allusion was incredibly pertinent and useful because the reference points of both activities are the common values of freedom, justice and dignity, values that are understood and cherished dearly by all, said Sahar Kahn 13. Contact Aaron Sekhri at asekhri @stanford.edu.

Researchers identify genes connected to bone weakness


By THE DAILY NEWS STAFF Chief of the Stanford Preventative Research Center John Ioannidis and a worldwide research consortium have identified 32 genetic regions associated with osteoporosis and susceptibility to bone

fracture. The expression of the genetic regions was previously unknown. The study is significant for several reasons. Directly, the information could help identify high-risk individuals. However, the spread of factors across 32 regions also indicates that a variety of factors combine to contribute to disease, rather than a single disordered gene. Were learning that the genetic architecture of disease is very complex, Ioannidis said in an article published by the Stanford School of Medicine. Ioannidis also noted that even more contributing genetic regions may remain unidentified, and it took a consortium of researchers to find even 32. Its likely that our expectations have been too high in terms of what single studies can accomplish, Ioannidis said.Each one of the many teams identified at most only one or two markers; many found none. Because so many factors, both genetic and environmental, contribute to the development of bone disease, the study is unlikely to produce any changes in patient care.
Matt Bettonville

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dences can be unsafe spaces for certain students. We were really impressed with the work that LaCona and her colleagues had done and are very excited to see the positive impact that this new class will have on Stanfords residential

communities, Fetter wrote in an email to The Daily. However, the Community Action Board still sees room for improvement. The Community Action Board is currently creating a guide to Stanford communities to educate RAs about the richness of resources for minority students, Fetter wrote. Contact Mary Harrison at mharrison15@stanford.edu.

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HINE| Undergrad dies in Palo Alto


work with BeWell at Stanford and iThrive, Karlin-Neumann said. Karlin-Neumann added that she thinks the most significant thing is to try to instigate another conversation about student mental health on campus in the wake of Hines death and that of student-athlete Sam Wopat. Wopat died at Stanford Hospital after attempting suicide during the last week of winter quarter this year. According to University administrators, Hines father informed the University of his daughters death. Administrators said they are not aware of Hines cause of death. According to the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroners office, the public record of Hines death, includas many healthy cells behind as possible. In this work, what we showed was that by properly modifying these gold-based particles, were able to create three kinds of imaging signals that home very nicely and surprisingly to brain tumors of multiple types in animals, Gambhir said. Theyre very effective at not getting into the normal brain. Contact Matt Bettonville at mbettonville@stanford.edu. ing cause, may not be released for up to 10 weeks. An online guestbook has been created in Hines memory at Legacy.com. Donations in Hines name can be made to Bridge Peer Counseling Center, 581 Capistrano Way, Stanford, CA 94305. Contact Alice Phillips at alicep1 @stanford.edu.

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Correction
In The lure of Wall Street (April 10), The Daily incorrectly cited Otis Reid 12 as an example of a student choosing finance as a career path. In fact, Reid will be working for consulting firm McKinsey & Company following graduation. In addition, the selection of one quote lacking context in the article inaccurately portrayed Reids tone in his interview with a Daily reporter. The Daily regrets the error.

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so Stanford with its strength in both engineering and medicine . . . allows for technologies like this to appear and then eventually to be translated into humans, Gambhir said. This engineering precision is key in dealing with brain tumors because surgery requires leaving

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FEATURES CROSSING BOUNDARIES


Saldvar explores ethnic identity through literature
By STEPHEN COBBE
anging in Ramn Saldvars office, across from his many shelves of books, is a framed poster of The Last Supper of the Chicano Heroes. The mural, painted on the walls of Casa Zapatas dining hall, bears the solemnity of a Da Vinci painting, but also brings to mind the Beatles Sgt. Pepper album cover with its medley of colorfully garbed icons including Che Guevara, Bobby Kennedy and Frida Kahlo. As a winner of the 2011 National Humanities Medal presented by President Obama, Saldvar belongs to a distinguished group that includes writers such as Toni Morrison, John Updike and Elie Wiesel. Last September, Saldvar became director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE) at Stanford. For Saldvar, engaging in ethnic studies is a way of fostering a sense of commonality among Americas many different cultural identities. Growing up in the border town of Brownsville, Texas, Saldvar was exposed to different cultures at an early age. He vividly remembers seeing the portraits of his uncles in their U.S. military uniforms standing in front of the crossed flags of Mexico and the United States. In a very natural way, these pictures represented our binational allegiance, the transnational identification that my family was both Mexican and American, he said.

When Saldvar left home to attend the University of Texas at Austin, he entered a world characterized by a lack of diversity and a monolingual environment fundamentally different from the one in which he grew up. However, as a graduate student at Yale, he found himself in an experimental atmosphere in which new ways to think about literature were developing. It was at Yale that he became well versed in European modernism and the Anglo-American tradition, which would later culminate in the publication of his first book, Figural Language in the Novel: The Flowers of Speech from Cervantes to Joyce, in 1984. Inspired by the momentous events and movements of the 1970s, such as the Vietnam War, feminism, labor struggles and the civil rights movement, he chose areas of study in which the canonicity of literature was being radically rethought and reformed. According to Saldvar, this experience had a profound impact. When he returned to the University of Texas to assume his first teaching position, he felt it was his duty to open up our sense of why certain kinds of writing are important and to explore under-recognized works by minorities and women. Saldvar explored minoritycentered writings in his second book published in 1990, Chicano Narrative: The Dialectics of Difference, which explored the narratives of Chicano communities. The book pioneered the field of Chicano literary studies and really helped to recognize the importance of that literary tradition

Courtesy of Stanford News Service

English and Comparative Literature Professor Ramon Saldvar was awarded a National Humanities Medal by President Obama for his research and teaching on globalization, transnationalism and Chicano studies.
from a hemispheric perspective, said English Department Chair Gavin Jones. Prior to this book, there was no definitive account of Chicano literature, which Saldvar found astonishing, considering the fact that certain Chicano communities had already been established for almost 180 years. Since childhood, Saldvar had wanted to help his community in Brownsville and others like it by representing their unheard voices. He reflected that, in a way, writing Chicano Narratives afforded him that opportunity. Saldvar said he felt that the writing process was even more meaningful because of his incorporation of the books material into his classes. In addition to his extensive archival research for his third book, a biography on MexicanAmerican folklorist Americo Paredes, Saldvar used insights obtained from his students to help shape the final product. This was a book that sprang from conversation. Id put out ideas to my students, and theyd respond, Saldvar said. I thought it was important to add this interactive aspect to the whole process. Saldvars target audience included young readers he hoped would take ownership of a grand tradition of creativity and proud history not as discussed but still belonging to this younger generation as Americans. For Saldvar, much of the satisfaction he received from his work inside and outside of the classroom came from opening new avenues for student exploration of literature by allowing students to study writers that they might otherwise never encounter. Saldvar connected this awakening of literature-induced awareness to his description of his own childhood. When youre young the world

When youre young,the world you live in is the world. You dont know other ways of being.
RAMON SALDVAR, English and comparative literature professor
you live in is the world, Saldvar said. You dont know other ways of being. Saldivar said he has found that when students discover these other ways of being in his classes, the discovery has a meaningful impact on them. Sometimes two, three or four years after a student graduates, Ill get a letter from them saying one of the books we read changed their life, he said. In 1994, Saldvar led a committee at Stanford that recommended bringing together the African and African American Studies Program and new programs in Asian American, Chicano and Native American studies. This led to the creation of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE) a year and a half later. The CSRE program has since grown into a model of ethnic studies for universities across the country. According to Saldvar, it is critical that different ethnic studies be studied in concert with one another to emphasize not only the uniqueness of each culture, but also the overarching commonality that makes them all American. Where ethnic studies programs are not done as well is where they break down into isolated pockets, where there is no sense of each groups relationship to a bigger set of shared issues, goals and ideals, he said. Here at Stanford, the ethnic studies program pays full attention and respect to the independence of individual communities, but also creates opportunities for them to work together and communicate across ethnic lines. Saldvars own work does not sit in isolation in academia. Instead, his ideas continue to profoundly affect those around him. As a Chicana who aspires to become a literary critic one day, I was quite moved when I watched the live stream of Professor Saldvar receiving the National Humanities Medal from my laptop, said one of his former students, Guadalupe Carrillo, a sixth-year English graduate student. At that moment, I realized what makes Professor Saldvar a true intellectual leader is that he not only produces good ideas, he produces ideas that touch the lives of many people in this country. Contact Stephen Cobbe at scobbe @stanford.edu.

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Dear Friends, As we are absorbing the shock and sadness of Sam Wopats death, holding one another close and trying to hold conversations about what it means to be a community, we learned of another poignant loss in our Stanford family. With great sadness, we learned from her father that on the day she was to return for spring quarter, Cady Hine died. Cady entered Stanford in 2005 and having stopped out several times, she had returned to major in English. We came to know and admire her as a brave and forthright advocate for student wellness. Cady was frequently in attendance at the grief group organized by the Office for Religious Life, Residential Education and Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), to provide a time and space for students who are mourning to be together, to acknowledge their struggles, to help one another through the parallel universes of sunny Stanford and dark loss. Cady came to the grief group following the suicide of her mother. She did not sugarcoat the circumstances of her death. On the contrary, she was passionate about reducing the stigma associated with mental illness. Cady co-founded Stanford Peace of Mind to expand awareness about mental health issues, to create dialogue about the cost of high achievement and perfectionism and to enable those struggling with mental illness to thrive. She was forthright about her own bipolar diagnosis and hospitalization. Raising awareness and decreasing the stigma of mental health distress was one significant part of her commitment. Literally, putting her body where her mouth is, was another. When four high school students in Palo Alto took their own lives at the train tracks a short distance from Stanford, Cady became a volunteer with Track Watch, patrolling the railroad crossing to be a visible manifestation of the communitys concern for young people. She understood that restricting the most available means to die by ones own hand is a significant way to

reduce tragedy. Many of us admired how passionate Cady was about making Stanford and Palo Alto a better, safer, more humane place. It was not always easy to listen to her. We prefer the airbrushed picture to the untouched close up. Cady sometimes made people uncomfortable by her honesty, yet, even as she named the shortcomings of our community and our culture, her generous soul and inspiring intentions always shone through. In her honor, as part of the legacy of her brief but passionate life, let us become the community she envisioned one that is unafraid to acknowledge our imperfections, one that reaches out to those in need with generosity, one where reaching out is welcomed as a sign of strength and health and not as a measure of weakness. We will miss you Cady, but we will try to become a Stanford where students, staff and faculty can indeed feel and foster peace of mind.
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Chase Ishii
But, whatever. It happens. Life moves on. That answer blew my mind. College is supposed to be the best years of your life, and there he was so honestly and casually dismissing it. It shook me up. For my first two years at Stanford, I wasnt always completely happy either. I enjoyed some things and made friends, but I didnt really feel like I had a purpose for being here, and I spent a lot of time looking for excuses to take time off and be in the real world. I felt like I didnt really fit in, and, to be honest, I didnt want to fit in with what I understood a typical Stanford kid to be. I didnt like these feelings of discontentment, but they were there nonetheless. Rather than addressing them, I decided to fake it. I put on a smile and exaggerated how great everything was out of some absurd fear of failing the college experience. But the brutal honesty and selfawareness of my friend encouraged me to be really honest with myself, and I started being honest with others. When asked, I would say that college was alright, and I describe both the good and bad. My impossible expectations were lowered, and Ive actually enjoyed myself much more since then. Fake it til you make it may fool others, but I prefer to confront, embrace and make the best of the truth. You wont have to fake it with Chase. Email him at ninjaish@stanford.edu.

Why are the women better?

ake a look at Stanfords sports performance, and youll notice a striking disparity: The women outperform the men. When we tracked performance over the past decade in six sports for which we could easily find reliable data, women won more than the men in all four sports measured by W-L record basketball (87 percent vs. 63 percent), tennis (96 percent vs. 84 percent), baseball/softball (71 percent vs. 65 percent), and soccer (79 percent vs. 52 percent) and were ranked higher on average than the men in the two sports without W-L records golf (18.3 vs. 28.0) and track and field (12.5 vs 16.3). Ten of Stanfords last twelve NCAA championships have come from womens teams. It isnt that the men are bad and were not just saying that to forestall assaults by the basketball team, its just that the women are better, and by a highly statistically significant margin. Why is this? A first hypothesis involves the football team and Title IX. To comply with Title IX, Stanford spends comparable amounts of scholarship money on its mens and womens programs. Because the football team funds go only to the men, the remaining womens programs should be better funded than their mens counterparts. More scholarship money means more competitive success. But this hypothesis doesnt hold up under examination. Virtually every school Stanford competes with has a football team, and should experience the same effect; the womens advantage will cancel out. And if this effect were responsible for Stanford womens success, you would expect to see the same effect in other schools with large football programs, which you dont. So maybe its because mens sports pay better? Stanfords recruiting advantage comes in large part from its academics. But the salary bonus conferred by a Stanford degree isnt that economically valuable to a male basketball star, who if he goes pro will make on average $3 million a year; on the other hand, its extremely

valuable to a female basketball star, who will earn $55,000 a year. This isnt to say, of course, that Stanford athletes are materialistic moneygrubbers, but on the margins people do respond to economic incentives, and Stanfords are more alluring to female recruits. This theory is plausible but not borne out by the data. If it were true, you would expect Stanfords womens winning advantage to be largest in sports with the largest male/female salary discrepancy. In fact, the reverse is true: Womens teams do best in sports with less salary discrepancy.

ake it til you make it! Its a pretty common phrase, especially in the business world and entertainment industry. Ive heard many guest writers and business leaders attribute their success to this mantra. Its a pretty simple concept: If you pretend to be confident and successful for long enough, you will eventually become confident and successful. Buy expensive clothes even if youre getting paid minimum wage; they will think you are rich and capable. Never let on that you dont know about whatever is being discussed. Just say things like, Youre so right, and thats what the (insert: Conservatives/Liberals/ French) will never understand or I liked their first album better, and then inconspicuously exit the conversation. It doesnt matter if youre sad on the inside be happy on the outside. Basically, just be yourself, but a better yourself . . . so actually, not yourself at all. But it still works, right? The people who swear by the fake it til you make it mentality all seem so successful and happy. For example, take that one guest speaker from a couple weeks ago. He had a fancy suit and was super nice to everyone. He even told me my views on health care reform were genius, but they would never get passed in this country because the conservatives are too . . . oh, wait, now I get it. There are some major problems with this mentality.The line of when a person has made it is pretty arbitrary because there is always

more to make. Why quit what has worked in the past? And then theres the fear of what kind of effect faking it has on others when it spills into other areas of your life. Imagine one of your parents saying, We never really cared for you that much, but we pretended to, hoping that we might eventually grow to love you or your favorite professor saying, Yeah, that stuff I taught the class that nobody understood I dont get it either. But Im glad you thought my suit looked good. But the greatest damage is in what faking it does to the person constantly playing pretend. Im not a huge John Mayer fan, but he has a song called Tracing that describes the loneliness of faking emotions in an empty relationship. He describes the song as saying, When is this going to kick in? Cause this feels like its never going to kick in. When is this sex going to turn into love? You think one runs into the other; it really doesnt. Theres a bitter hollowness that comes from lying to yourself and everyone around you. You get the feeling that no one really knows you, or that you dont even know yourself. Even if you make it on the outside by lying to yourself, you never really make it where it counts. About a year ago, I was talking with one of my friends about to graduate. He described his college experience by saying,It was alright. There were some good moments, but I was pretty unhappy for the last three years. College kind of sucked.

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When pleasure causes pain

The University cares about all sports, not just mens powerhouses.
Ultimately, we think the reason Stanford does better in female sports is the same reason it brings home so many championships: The University cares about all sports, not just the stereotypical mens powerhouses, football and basketball. (While the football team has lately been excellent, in general it is not: Over the past decade, it has won 47 percent of its games.) So while other schools focus on their mens teams, Stanford puts comparatively more resources into its female teams, and enjoys more success. It also started building its female programs earlier, during an era when most schools couldnt have cared less, creating a foundation that built on itself. (Stanford womens basketball, founded in 1898, actually predates mens basketball, and Stanford womens tennis has been around since 1903.) Stanfords differential success is testament to the gender inequality that still persists in sports and to how well you can do when you value both genders equally.
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here are still a few chocolate bunnies hanging on in the kitchen. Ever since an unfortunate childhood experience involving what appeared to be a chocolate Easter bunny but was in fact a bunny-shaped piece of chalk, Ive been a bit wary of the treat. That doesnt mean I think chocolate is anything less than the food of the gods, which is the translation of its genus name, Theobroma. Ive just always had a bit of a chalky feeling in my mouth at the sight of Cadbury eggs and Lindt bunnies. But you dont have to bite into a bunny chock full of chalk to get a bad taste in your mouth about the chocolate industry. In a globalized economy, treats consumed purely for pleasure can still bring great suffering in other parts of the world. Before delving into chocolates dark secrets, its useful to start with a little history. Cacao has been an important food ingredient in Mesoamerica for several millennia. If you took out the milk and sugar from Coupa Cafs Spicy Maya hot chocolate, it might not be all that different from the Aztec drink xocolatl, which is a spicy concoction of cacao, vanilla, chile powder and achiote. Milk and sugar did not become part and parcel to chocolate until Europeans decided to market this New World drink in their own realm. But unlike the Mayan drink, chocolate in Western cultures has almost always been reserved for sweets and desserts. Its never been a daily staple. Despite chocolates dispensability as a foodstuff, our love of this product has led to a history of exploitation to increase production. Once the Spanish conquered the Aztecs, chocolate exportation to Europe began in bulk. As demand grew for the newly sweetened

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cacao plant, the Spaniards began enslaving Mesoamericans to ensure adequate supply. Sadly, slavery still exists on cacao plantations. Currently, two-thirds of the worlds cocoa is produced in West Africa. In recent years, human rights activists and journalists from CNN and the BBC have exposed cases of child labor, human trafficking and slavery on cacao farms. Yet Nestle, Mars and Hersheys huge players in the chocolate industry continue to source their cocoa from Ghana and the Ivory Coast. More than 10 years ago, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) tried to pass a law mandating the use of a labeling system for chocolate. Following heavy lobbying by the billion-dollar chocolate industry, this law was reduced to a voluntary protocol whereby industry leaders would voluntarily certify that their chocolate was free of child labor. Despite three deadline extensions for the establishment of an auditing system, these provisions have not been met. A study from Tulane University suggests industry leaders have failed to contact 97 percent of Ivory Coast farmers to even begin a dialogue about child labor, much less end trafficking and establish promised poverty remediation programs. So, are independent certification programs an answer to the chocolate industrys failed promises? Sadly, even Fair Trade Certified farms in West Africa have been

found using child labor as recently as 2010. This certification program and others like it, including Rainforest Alliance, continue to source their cocoa from West Africa. The Food Empowerment Project, a nonprofit organization based out of San Jose, urges consumers to purchase fair-trade chocolate made from Latin American cocoa. Their website has a list of suppliers, such as Equal Exchange, Sunridge Farms, Theo Chocolate and Vivani, who source only from Latin American countries. Favorites like Trader Joes, Lindt and Ritter still source from West Africa. Clif Bar owners refused to even offer transparency about a country of origin. While it is impossible to guarantee that cocoa from Latin American farms is free of child labor, this list is a step in the right direction. Luckily, many houses on the Row source from Sunridge Farms, and Stanford Catering uses TCHO chocolate, which is actively working to improve its sourcing chain. Its time for my inner chocoholic to realize that, contrary to popular belief, chocolate is not a category on the new USDA food pyramid. It is fundamentally a luxury good. And if we realized the suffering caused by our consumption of this luxury, we would understand that it is worth spending a few dollars more for a slave-free product. Farmworkers are mistreated on many farms not just cocoa plantations but this is one area in which we can achieve a definite change through our purchasing decisions. We cannot continue to support a corporate system that views child labor and slavery as the norm. Curious about becoming a conscientious chocoholic? Let Jenny know at jrempel@stanford.edu.

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Fabulous Finale
account: the home team came to play. The No. 5 Stanford mens volleyball team (20-6, 17-5 MPSF) dominated the third-ranked UCLA Bruins (22-7, 16-6) in straight sets, 25-18, 25-21, 25-18, to lay claim to the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament and, in the process, complete the teams best conference record since the national championship season of 1997. We felt extremely prepared going into UCLA, said sophomore middle blocker Eric Mochalski. We had a great game plan and were confident in our preparation. Sophomore Brian Cook had 12 kills, eight blocks and five digs, while senior Brad Lawson and sophomore Steven Irvin each added 11 kills for the Cardinal, which hit .397 as a team and never trailed later than 9-10 in any set. Excellent serving and passing helped Stanford avenge its worst loss of the season, when it was swept for the first and only time this year at the hands of the Bruins in Westwood back in Jan-

y the time you read this, it might all be over. At noon today, my soccer team kicks off a crucial match that could all but secure a return to arguably the biggest stage in the entire world. Reading FC has turned a season that once threatened relegation into one that looks almost certain to return it to the Premier League for the second time in its history. As I write this, the team sits three points clear of second place in the Championship and six points ahead of third, with just three games remaining. To understanding how remarkable this is, consider that at the end of November, with over a third of the season already completed, Reading sat 15 and 13 points adrift of the leading teams Southampton and West Ham, respectively. Since the turn of the year, though, it has won 15 of 18 games, and with recent road victories over both aforementioned teams, Reading leapfrogged them to the top of the table. I am a little wary of saying anything that could jinx this phenomenal resurgence, but it is hard to imagine that the team in best form in the Championship, and perhaps even in all of English soccer, wont finish among the top two and secure automatic promotion. And with that, everything changes. People will suddenly have heard of my hometown (when I wrote my second-ever column for The Daily back in 2009, the copy editor cut Reading FC down to the meaningless FC), it will be acceptable again to support the Royals and I might even be able to watch them play on TV while in the United States. If the team does move up, life will quickly get a lot more difficult. The Championship is an incredibly tough place to play soccer, but the playing field is at least reasonably level. In the Premier League, you have to contend with the playthings of oil sheikhs and bored billionaires, clubs that can afford to buy the worlds elite players for extortionate sums and then just sit them on the bench. The sports world will be looking elsewhere this week, with the soccer giants disputing the UEFA Champions League semifinals today and tomorrow. When ranking the superpowers of world soccer, three of the four remaining teams would surely sit near the top. But if anyone can ever truly claim to be the greatest team, maybe and I know this is a huge leap Reading in its current guise should be able to throw its name into the hat. Most famous clubs have illustrious histories and superstar players Reading really has none of those but right here and right now, it is what few organizations can call themselves: a team. Its two remaining opponents for automatic promotion have two players each among the top-20 goal scorers in the division, while the Royals have none. In fact, Reading only has a single player who has broken into double figures this season. It sold perhaps its best attacking player in the 2009-2010 season, Gylfi Siggurdsson, at the start of the next year, and 12 months later, at the beginning of this season, it again sold the previous seasons star, Shane Long. The apparent result of both those sales was a significant dip in form, but both times the team pulled together, and both times it turned a poor start into an impressive finish. The key to this, something that has been stated by the club itself, is that players are not just signed according to raw talent. Character and ability to fit in with the rest of the squad are crucial.There are no divas. And perhaps the best statistic of how well a team plays together is not goals scored, but goals conceded. By that measure, Reading tops the league. In 2012, it has even conceded fewer goals per game than Premiership leader Manchester United, 0.68 compared to 0.81. Fans of more prominent clubs moan about insignificant little Reading potentially getting the chance to play in the Premier League while they remain stuck down in the leagues below, but in their complaints I see grudging admiration. Without the resources, money and talent of the big guns, the Royals have squeezed out every ounce of potential, and for that deserve more than anyone else to be in the situation in which they currently are. Fans across the country often sing one particular song from the

On a Senior Night that featured the final regular season match of 50-year UCLA head coach Al Scates and major seeding implications for the upcoming Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) tournament, drama was the expectation on Saturday. Instead, the only thing the seasonhigh 1,730 fans attending the Stanford mens volleyball match received was an emphatic statement as plain as the online play-by-play

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The Stanford mens volleyball team put on a show Saturday night, using a perfectly balanced attack to sweep No. 3 UCLA in front of a packed Maples Pavilion. The Card now prepares for the MPSF tournament.

uary. The difference between this time and last time was our serving and passing games, Cook said. When we are on, we get into a rhythm that can be hard to stop. This time, we got the advantage early and were able to control their middles, who are their primary (offensive) weapons. All credit is due to the passers, because they played a great match, he added. Senior setter Evan Barry dished out 40 assists, improving his national-best 12.02 assists-perset average, while fellow senior Erik Shoji added 11 digs. It was the fourth-consecutive match with double-digit digs for the reigning MPSF Player of the Week. Stanford seized control of the match early behind a brilliant offensive barrage that saw the Cardinal hit .591 in the first set, featuring six kills by Lawson. Although UCLA trailed for most of the second set, Stanfords lead was only 20-19 until Cook registered three kills in a span of four points to give Stanford some breathing room and set the stage for Irvin, who tallied consecutive kills to close out the set at 25-21. Stanfords magnificent offense turned into brilliant defense in the third, when the Cardinal rose up for eight blocks, four of them by senior Gus Ellis, en route to holding the UCLA attack to a negative hitting percentage for the set. Fittingly enough, the match would end on a block as Mochalski and Cook combined to stop UCLAs Weston Dunlap to seal the victory. We felt like we were a step ahead of them and knew what they were going to do, said Mochalski, who assisted on five of Stanfords 14 blocks in the match. As great as the Stanford performance was on Saturday, it wouldnt have come as a surprise to those who witnessed the teams match Friday against UC-Santa Barbara. The Cardinal dominated the Gauchos (7-19, 5-17) from start to finish, registering a 25-19, 25-14, 25-20 victory to set up the clash with UCLA. Stanfords hitters were again beneficiaries of great passing, as Barry tallied 45 assists in the three sets in guiding the team to a .394 hitting percentage while Shoji added 14 digs. That made life easy for Lawson and Irvin, who combined for 30 kills on just 46 attempts.

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Mosbacher Minute

Time for baseball to start having fun again


By JACK MOSBACHER
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Jack Mosbacher was a member of the Stanford baseball team from 2008-2011. Each week, hell take a look at the Cardinals ups and downs on its road to the College World Series. As I paced around Sunken Diamond on Sunday, nervously waiting to see if No. 5 Stanford could hold on to a 4-2 lead and avoid a sweep at the hands of the visiting No. 10 Oregon, I heard a profound statement uttered by a nearby fan. Scanning the field, wearing a Stanford cap and a concerned expression, the fan

said, These guys just dont look like theyre having any fun. The comment reminded me of a favorite scene from the iconic sports movie Remember the Titans, when Coach Herman Boone asks running back Petey Jones if he enjoys playing football. Do you still think football is fun, Petey? Not anymore. Zero fun, sir. Watching the Cardinal over the past few weeks, it is blatantly obvious that no fun of any kind is being had by anyone. In the midst of a devastating slump, Stanford has lost six out of its past nine games in Pac-12 play and fallen to seventh place in a league that it

was unanimously picked to win. This once-spirited team has, quite literally, fallen flat. It might sound childish, but I believe it to be true: this Stanford baseball team is underperforming because it stopped having fun. Moreover, until this team can remember that its playing a game that was invented for enjoyment, I doubt it will return to playing at the high level we know it can. You dont have to be a brilliant leader or a psychology major to know that people inherently perform better when they are having fun. Facebook employees work amid foosball tables and video game consoles;

large televisions broadcast every March Madness game at Google. Is Mark Zuckerberg just a funloving guy? Do Sergey Brin and Larry Page just want everybody to have a good time for good times sake? Maybe so. The more likely story is that these geniuses of entrepreneurship and management have realized and accepted a fundamental truth: a happy employee is a more productive employee, and a team of happy, inspired workers has a better chance of achieving a companys goals. Right now, the Stanford baseball team isnt functioning like a

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WOMENS TENNIS
By CHRISSY JONES
STAFF WRITER

Home win streak snapped by No. 1 UCLA


UCLA handed the Stanford womens tennis team its first loss of the season on Saturday, shattering the Cardinals undefeated season with a 5-2 victory. More importantly, the match ended the Cardinals regular-season homewinning streak at 157, with the last defeat on the Farm dating back to Feb. 27, 1999. It was not all bad news for Stanford, however, as the loss came one day after the team routed No. 4 USC (18-2, 7-1 Pac12), 4-2. Despite falling to the No. 1 Bruins (21-1, 8-1), No. 6 Stanford (16-1, 7-1) is viewing the loss as a positive, something that will help take the pressure off in its quest to win a team title in May. It was very much needed for all of us to play an incredible, high-level team at this point in the season and see where we are, senior captain Veronica Li said. We did so well against USC and came up short yesterday, but I think its good to point out that there hasnt been a single season where weve gone undefeated and then won the national championship. This match gives us motivation and shows that everyone has to work harder. It was only two years ago that the Cardinal won the national championship, and it was in that same year that Stanford was beaten 6-1 by the Bruins. A lot of us agree that this is the best thing that could have happened to us at this point in the season, Li said. The day started off on a bad note for Stanford when it dropped its first doubles point of the year. Junior Stacey Tan and freshman Ellen Tsay flew by UCLAs Courtney Dolehide and Pamela Montez in the No. 2 spot, beating them 8-2. However, the duo of junior Mallory Burdette and sophomore Nicole Gibbs lost to Robin Anderson and Skylar Morton 8-6 on court one, and junior Natalie Dillon and Li also were defeated on court three. Stanford needed to come out strong in singles after losing the doubles point, and it did so as Burdette crushed UCLAs McCall Jones 6-1, 6-1. After this victory, however, the Cardinal lost four matches, only picking up a victory on court three. Gibbs, Tsay, Li and Dillon all lost to UCLAs four freshmen in the lineup. Li, who was swept by Chanelle Van Nguyen, 6-1, 6-3, commented on the strength of UCLAs re-

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cruiting class. Their freshmen are definitely playing really well, she said. At the same time, were still only in the regular season, and theres less pressure. They dont have a lot of experience playing college tennis yet. They might have less of an advantage going into the postseason and NCAAs. Tan captured a 7-5, 7-5 victory over Montez, recording Stanfords second and final point of the match. On Saturday, Tan and Dillon were the only two players to falter in the matchup with USC. Doubles were not played because of a threat of rain, but Stanford held on to clinch four of the six singles matches and grab the victory. On court one, Gibbs played a close first set against USCs Zoe Scandalis but ran away with the second, winning 7-6 (4), 6-2. Burdette, Tsay and Li also came out with victories. Looking ahead to this weekend, the Cardinal will be facing Cal in a rematch of a meeting earlier this season in which Stanford won 5-2. However, that match didnt count for the conference standings, which reveal no clear top seed as of now. Even though we beat Cal last time we played, that doesnt guarantee a win again, Tsay said. Cal beat UCLA, UCLA beat us, we beat USC and USC beat Cal. That just goes to show that it really depends on each teams performance that day. In preparation for their last regular season match before Pac12s and NCAAs, the Cardinal looks to be more focused in practice. Personally, I want my practice to have a more specific focus, Tsay said. I need to keep my feet moving after every shot and have targets in mind for each ball that Im going to hit. If what Im working on can come naturally, then all I have to worry about is staying mentally tough. As a team, were looking to add more structure to this weeks practices, too. Stanford takes on the Golden Bears this Saturday at noon at the Taube Family Tennis Stadium. Contact Chrissy Jones at chrissyj@ stanford.edu.

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vibrant start-up. Instead, the roster looks more like the disgruntled employees of a frustrated, struggling venture, working away quietly in their cubicles and slowly disconnecting from the groups original mission and purpose. There is no fun. There is no inspiration. Instead, it feels like these guys are clocking in and out simply because they refuse to bow out and let their teammates down. Like a business, Stanford baseball has a mission every year: to win as many games as possible and compete for a national championship. In the end, it is the responsibility of the coaching staff to set the tone for the team they oversee. Right now, there is just no way to argue that Stanford baseballs management is doing a satisfactory job. Just look at the faces of the players on the field. They are not inspired. They are not enjoying the task at hand. They are simply not having any fun. And their recent record shows it. This teams underperformance is particularly shameful because of how undeniably talent-laden and experienced it is. Five to seven years from now, there is a legitimate chance that half a dozen of these guys could be playing every day in the majors. If this team (and this coaching staff) cant turn the sinking ship around, this could go down as perhaps the most embarrassing season in the past 30 years of Stanford baseball. Simply put, this team is too good to accept

They are not inspired. They are not enjoying the task at hand. They are simply not having any fun.
anything other than success. There is an easy solution to this long-term malaise: someone needs to make playing baseball for Stanford fun again. If the coaches wont do it, the players have to take it upon themselves. These guys need to remember how fun it is to play this game particularly, how fun it is to play this game well. It is directly in the interests of the coaches and players to find a way to start appreciating where they are and what they are blessed to be doing. As a team with a common goal, these guys need to be reminded that they are among the few adults who are still playing games every day and that games were created, first and foremost, for the enjoyment of those playing them. I, for one, know that Ill enjoy watching these guys rediscover their passion in time to make a run to Omaha in July. They may need to do it all by themselves, but, somehow, they need to remember how to have fun. Contact Jack Mosbacher at jackmos@stanford.edu.

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The Stanford womens tennis team lost at home for the first time in 157 regular-season matches, a streak that dated back to 1999. The loss to No. 1 UCLA also represented the No. 6 Cards first of the 2012 season.
coaches and my teammates have really helped me make myself a better player. Barely a month after the disappointment of losing to Baylor at the NCAA Final Four in Denver, Ogwumike may soon be back in action, as the Sparks are due to take on the Chinese and Japanese national teams in preseason games in early May before launching the 2012 season on the road against the Seattle Storm on May 13. With star forward Candace Parker sidelined for much of the season, the Sparks finished second to last in the Western Conference last year and did not qualify for the playoffs. Although head coach Carol Ross will be starting her first year at the helm, the team, with two stars in Parker and Ogwumike, will be expected to perform. I know for one that coach Carol Ross is an amazing coach, Ogwumike said of her new team. Ive heard so many good things about her. Obviously you have Candace [Parker], Ebony Hoffman and so many other people on that team, and I just want to come in and contribute. Im not looking to do too much; Im just looking to do me. Back on the Farm, Stanford head coach Tara VanDerveer must now plan for a future without this seasons star player. Ogwumike won four straight Pac-12 conference and tournament titles, went to four straight NCAA Final Fours, never lost at Maples Pavilion and dropped just a single game to Pac-12 opponents, a contest against Cal in January of 2009. With the standard set by recent Stanford classes, there will be some big shoes to fill by returning and incoming players. One of those players, Nnekas younger sister Chiney Ogwumike, will be counted on to handle the scoring and rebounding load after averaging 15.0 points and 11.2 boards in her sophomore season. Fortunately for the Cardinal, Pac-12 opponents will still have to contend with at least half of the sister act. Contact Tom Taylor at tom.taylor@stanford.edu. from the Madejski stadium: And its Super Reading, Super Reading FC. Were by far the greatest team the world has ever seen. Although inexperienced soccer fans,Tom Taylors editors now think hes delusional. Give him necessary support at tom.taylor@stanford. edu.

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Ogwumike had a stellar career at Stanford, joining the exclusive 2,000-point and 1,000-rebound club, but perhaps stands out most for her senior season. Ogwumike set the single-season scoring record with 809 points and placed second behind Wiggins on the career-scoring list with 2,491 points. She also was named the Pac-12 Player of the Year, the second time she won the conferences top honor, and was selected to the All-America teams of the WBCA Coaches, Associated Press, USBWA and John R. Wooden Award. She also took home the Lowes Senior CLASS Award. I think I realized that, as the competition and the challenges in basketball in college got harder, I needed to do more, and I had a lot to learn from, Ogwumike said. I learned from Kayla, Jayne and even Candice. I didnt get to play with her, but every year my

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The second set was particularly impressive, as the teams balanced attack hit .538 and saw kills from six different Stanford players, including redshirt senior Charley Henrikson in what turned out to be the final regular season match of his career. Stanford has now registered five straight wins, the secondlongest streak in the conference heading into next weeks MPSF tournament. The team is peaking at the right time and must continue to play if it hopes to snare the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. We are playing great volleyball at the right time, Mochalski said. We are looking to be equally prepared physically and mentally for Pepperdine and hopefully have another great performance. Stanford will host the seventhseeded Waves, a team they defeated twice this season, on Saturday at 7 p.m. The winner advances to play the winner of the BYU-Long Beach match, which Stanford would host if it wins on Saturday. Contact Daniel E. Lupin at delupin @stanford.edu.

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