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The No. 2 Stanford women’s volleyball team
will take on No. 5 California at home tonight in
the 71st Big Spike. Although meetings with rival
Cal (17-1, 7-1 Pac-10) are always much anticipat-
ed, this weekend’s battle of the Bay Area teams
has an added element of significance, with both
teams currently ranked in the nation’s top five
and hoping to emerge as the sole leader of the
Pac-10.
The Card (16-1, 7-1), coming off a pair of
dominant victories last weekend against the
Washington schools, hopes to carry its momen-
tum forward into what could be its toughest chal-
lenge of the season yet.
“With the Pac-10 being as crazy as it is, with
everyone winning and losing big games, we can
never get comfortable,” said sophomore defen-
sive specialist Hannah Benjamin.“We know that
every game matters, no matter who the oppo-
nent,so we make sure to never allow ourselves to
let up.
“Also, Cal has the same record as us and has
been playing really well,” she continued.“We are
very pumped up for this match because it is one
step closer to our long-term goal of being the
best team in the country at the end [of the sea-
son].”
The Cal women’s volleyball team is off to one
of its best starts in program history. Until falling
at No. 8 USC in a 17-15 fifth set decision on Oct.
9 — coincidentally, the same day that Stanford
suffered its only loss of the season across town to
No. 11 UCLA — the Bears were 15-0, marking
the second-longest winning streak in the school’s
history.
The talented duo of senior setter Carli Lloyd
and junior outside hitter Tarah Murrey has been
instrumental to Cal’s success thus far. Both play-
ers posted double-doubles against No. 7 Wash-
ington last week — Lloyd with 33 assists and 13
digs, and Murrey with 19 kills and 14 digs — a
testament to their offensive and defensive
prowess.
Lloyd, just two assists shy of 5,000 for her ca-
reer, ranks ninth in the Pac-10 record books for
all-time career assists. This season, she is fourth
among the conference’s assist leaders, dishing an
average of 11.42 per set. Lloyd is also one of 10 fi-
nalists for the prestigious Lo!we’s Senior
CLASS award,along with Stanford outside hitter
Please see WVBALL, page 7
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possession of first place in the Pac-10. No. 2 Stanford’s
Alix Klineman ranks second in the nation in kills per set and
points per set. No. 5 Cal leads the conference in blocking
at just over three per set.
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STATE By JACOB JAFFE Cardinal up in the polls. A win on Saturday would also
(1-6, 0-4 Pac-10)
Stanford Stadium 2:00 P.M.
DEPUTY EDITOR
After seven straight seasons below .500, the No. 12
give Stanford its best start since 1970.
Like most Pac-10 teams, Stanford has had little trou-
ble with Washington State the past few seasons. Last
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the second consecutive year when it takes on Washing- over the Cougars in Pullman, Wash., and two years ago
TV: Versus RADIO: KZSU 90.1 FM, (kzsu.stanford.edu) ton State on Saturday. Stanford routed Washington State 58-0.
The Cardinal (5-1, 2-1 Pac-10) is coming off a bye The Cougars have struggled in recent seasons, partic-
UP NEXT WASHINGTON 10/30 Seattle week, which followed a thrilling last-second win over
USC on Oct. 9. Meanwhile, the Cougars (1-6, 0-4) have
ularly on the road.Washington State has not won a game
outside the state of Washington since 2006, a string of 20
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over FCS foe Montana State. against quality teams.Washington State’s last two games
In the first BCS standings of the year, which were re- were both against top-20 teams, Oregon and Arizona,
NOTES: No. 12 Stanford will become bowl eligible with its next victory.
The Cardinal enters this weekend’s game against Washington State as leased on Sunday, Stanford was ranked No. 12, as the and it lost both respectably, 43-23 and 24-7. This is in
Harris Poll put the Cardinal at No. 13, the USA Today stark contrast to the last two years, when the Cougars
35-point favorites, the largest spread of any college football game this
Coaches’ Poll at No. 14 and the computers at No. 10. lost by combined scores of 122-42 and 100-13 to the same
weekend. Washington State QB Jeff Tuel has thrown for at least 200
While playing Washington State will not help Stanford’s two teams, even though both the Ducks and Wildcats are
yards in every game this season.
strength of schedule, a big victory could help move the having better seasons this year.
Despite their improvements, though, the Cougars are
still among the worst teams in the nation in several sta-
tistical categories. Out of 120 FBS teams, Washington
State is 103rd in scoring offense, managing fewer than 20
points per game, and 116th in rushing offense.This pales
in comparison to the Cougar defense, though, which is
dead last in yards allowed, second-worst in rushing yards
allowed and third-worst in points allowed.
That defense will surely be tested against Stanford’s
offense, one of the most potent units in the country. The
Cardinal ranks fifth in scoring offense, averaging over 40
points per game. Perhaps even more impressive, and
tough to defend, is Stanford’s ability to spread the
wealth. Just six games into the season, 17 Cardinal play-
ers have scored a touchdown — the most in the nation.
To put this in perspective, Washington State as a team
has only scored 18 touchdowns on the year, and the
Cougars have played one more game than Stanford has.
Leading the Stanford offense is redshirt sophomore
quarterback Andrew Luck, who has been in Heisman
Trophy discussion all year long. Luck has lived up to his
Please see FOOTBALL, page 7
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No. 12 Stanford (5-1, 2-1 Pac-10) vs.
Washington State (1-6, 0-4 Pac-10)
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NEWS
RESEARCH

‘Big Oil’ goes to the Farm

Report spills on Stanford ties
between research, oil companies
By TYLER BROWN
DESK EDITOR
Corporate sponsors have too much control over pri-
vately funded research, according to a recent report
from the Center for American Progress (CAP).The re-
port, titled “Big Oil Goes to College,” named the rela-
tionship between Stanford’s Global Climate and Ener-
gy Project (GCEP) and its funders as one such offend-
er.
The report evaluated multi-million-dollar, long-
term funding agreements between universities and in-
dustry sponsors using questions report author Jennifer
Washburn developed based on Cornell University’s cri-
teria for a “strategic corporate alliance” and attempted
to illustrate the extent to which the corporate funding
contracts placed control of research agreements in the
hands of university faculty.
The report criticizes GCEP’s sponsor-directed Man-
agement Committee for allegedly “violating longstand-
ing university traditions of self-governance and aca-
demic autonomy from outside funders” because it con-
trols the annual budget and ultimately approves fund-
ing for research projects, leaving it the theoretical
power to veto a proposal.
“Traditionally, universities have fought very valiant-
ly to establish what we think of as ‘academic independ-
ence,’” Washburn said. “So they’re not supposed to do
mere corporate research for hire.”
GCEP director Sally Benson, however, said the
Management Committee has never rejected a propos-
al approved by GCEP’s earlier-stage peer review com-
mittees, leaving no precedent for that behavior in the
future.
The private sector’s support, Benson said, was a crit-
ical catalyst to GCEP’s founding.
“If you look at Stanford,industry support got this all
going before there was government funding for this
kind of research,” she said. “My basic view is that this
has been a good thing for the University and will con-
tinue to be a good thing.”
GCEP is backed by $225 million given over 10 years
by energy giants ExxonMobil, General Electric and
Schlumberger as well as Toyota Motor
Co. and parcels out up to 22.5 million in
green energy research grants each year.
Report: Sponsors ‘Unduly
Influence’
The CAP re-
port also took issue
with GCEP’s first
contract, an agree-
ment that allowed in-
dustry partners five years’
exclusive use of patents that ANASTASIA YEE/
emerged from GCEP research. The stipulation The Stanford Daily
was removed from the contract when it was revised in
2008. verse energy research areas” and reviewing “all the
“What we were finding was . . . other universities faculty research proposals that it receives in each grant
wouldn’t submit proposals to us because they didn’t cycle.”
like those [intellectual property] terms,so we went back However, the report also goes on to claim “the re-
to the sponsors and said, ‘You’re missing a chance to search selection process is very poorly delineated” as
support research,’” Benson said. the “GCEP agreements provide little exposition of how
The report isn’t all negative: it gives GCEP’s re- GCEP will evaluate and select which faculty research
search contract good marks for being “well drafted”
and applauds the program for funding “an array of di- Please seeOIL, page 6

STUDENT LIFE

Campus adapts
to package center
Students weigh pros
and cons of new center
By DEVIN BANERJEE
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
The Roble Package Center, which
opened this quarter to ease the bur-
den on individual residences of pro-
cessing students’ mail, is still ironing
out inefficiencies and adapting to stu-
dents’ needs. Meanwhile, Student
Housing awaits the formal permitting
and construction of the actual facility
while the system operates out of
trucks in a service lane behind Roble
Hall.
Rodger Whitney, the executive di-
rector of Student Housing, said in an
e-mail to The Daily that the permit-
ting and construction were delayed
because “other, more critical projects
involving spaces needed to house stu-
dents were prioritized higher.”
The package center processes
mail from private carriers such as
UPS and DHL. Students are instruct-
ed to list the address of the Stanford
post office as well as their individual
box numbers. The post office then
sends private-carrier mail to the
package center.
But many students have had little
patience as the system finds its foot-
ing.
Daniela Urigwe ‘13, who has used
Roble Package Center multiple
times, found that DHL was “not real-
ly on board with the system” yet. She
says DHL did not know or was not
told about the package center, so she
had to drive to the company’s San
Francisco office to retrieve her pack-
age.
The most common complaint by
students has been the absence of or
delay in notification of package ar-
rivals. Pablo Lopez ‘13, who received
a printer at the package center, said
he did not receive an e-mail notifying
him of the package’s arrival. He
walked over to Roble, where a center
employee found his package.
“The people were friendly, but de-
livering things straight out of the
back of trucks isn’t really ideal,”
Lopez said.
Whitney acknowledged early
problems with packages arriving at
the correct location for pickup — the
post office for packages sent via
USPS, the FedEx store in Tresidder
KANOWAN KULALERT/The Stanford Daily
Union for FedEx deliveries and the
package center for packages mailed Mike Srinawakoon ‘14 retrieves his new laptop from the back of a UPS delivery truck parked in a service lane near the package center behind Roble
by other private carriers — but said Hall. Housing chief Rodger Whitney says a brick-and-mortar facility will soon be completed.
“educational publicity” seems to be
“smoothing out” those issues. Housing not to talk to The Daily, increased under the new system. In to which mail was addressed. purpose.”
On a recent day at the package called a golf cart to deliver a stu- the past, private carriers often left Still, both students and Housing “It didn’t seem very well-organ-
center, which is open Monday dent’s package to Mirrielees be- packages outside of residences, are adapting to the system and to the ized,” Lopez said of his visit. “But I
through Friday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., cause the package was heavy and the where they subsequently could be package center itself.Whitney said he think they’re doing the best they
seven students received their pack- student was on a bike. stolen. Residence staff would also anticipates construction of the actu- can.”
ages without a problem. At one What all of the students inter- raise eyebrows at package-delivery ally facility “will be completed soon.”
point, the package center employee, viewed for this article agreed upon is staff who would enter residences and “It’s rather skeletal,”Aditya Singh Contact Devin Banerjee at devin11
who said she was instructed by that the security of packages has been walk the halls looking for the rooms ‘13 said of the center.”But it serves its @stanford.edu.

Research Symposium LOCAL

Google to test broadband

at Stanford staff homes
Google, University build
ultra high-speed network
By ELLEN HUET
MANAGING EDITOR
Google announced Thursday that it
will be partnering with the University to
implement a beta test of its fiber-optic,
ultra high-speed broadband network on
approximately 850 faculty and staff
homes.
The Mountain View-based company
announced in early 2010 plans to unleash
an experimental fiber-optic network on a
community of anywhere between 50,000
and 500,000 homes, setting off a wide-
spread rush from more than 1,100 com-
munities around the country to become
the chosen locale.
The eventual community of choice
will be announced at the end of 2010, but
in the meantime, Google plans to exe-
cute a small-scale version at Stanford to
test the project before it expands to full
size.
The mostly underground fiber-optic
network will provide residences with In-
ternet speeds of up to one gigabit per sec-
ond, approximately 100 times as fast as
JUSTIN LAM/The Stanford Daily most Internet connections today.
A student presents her academic project in the Symposium of Undergraduate Research and Public Service (SURPS) on Thursday at Arrillaga Google selected Stanford as a beta test
Alumni Center. Spanning topics in numerous disciplines, presentations featured current research and recently completed projects. location for its “relatively small size” and
because the company headquarters are
“close to campus, so we can keep an eye
on the project,” said Google spokesper-
son Dan Martin.“We also liked that Stan-
ford was very open to plans and experi-
mentation on location.”
Groundbreaking on campus is sched-
uled for early 2011. The exact date when
fiber optic access will be available to resi-
dents is yet to be determined.
Google will fund the entire project
with no cost to the University,Martin said.
“This project is to test things we hope
to scale up in the future,” Martin said.
“The focus is not immediately on turning
a profit. It’s an investment in future suc-
cess.”
Google and the University have a
three-year contract for the project, after
which details will be discussed as to the
network’s future.
The two organizations have been in
talks for “a number of months” since
Google first approached Stanford about
the project, said University spokesperson
Lisa Lapin.
“We’re treating Google just like an-
other Comcast or AT&T,” she said.
“They’ll be doing some digging and coor-
dinating work with campus utilities to in-
stall the system.”
“This will make Stanford one of the first
places in the country where you’d have this
Please see GOOGLE, page 8
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RESEARCH

GSB research reveals deception in corporate management

By PATRICIA HO
A company’s “fantastic earnings”
may not be so great after all, accord-
ing to a recent study co-authored by
David Larcker, finance professor at
the Graduate School of Business
(GSB) and M.B.A. student Anasta-
sia Zakolyukina. The study analyzes
CEO conference calls to shed light
on the linguistic methods used by de-
ceptive corporate managers.
“It’s an important thing for corpo-
rate governance to understand
whether people are dealing in a
truthful matter or not,” Larcker said.
“When someone releases their ac-
counting reports, you’d like to know
whether you actually believe those
numbers, or if they have been manip-
ulated in some form.”
According to the study, deceptive
executives tend to refer to general
knowledge while speaking, using
blanket phrases such as “as you
know” to boost credibility with lis-
teners. Deceivers also use signifi-
cantly fewer self-references while
speaking, substituting third person
pronouns for the word “I” to avoid
taking ownership of false statements.
Zakolyukina was surprised to
find that deceiving chief executives
and chief financial officers (CFO) ac-
tually use extremely positive lan-
guage — “fantastic” or “great” — to
describe earnings and avoid reveal-
ing mediocre results.
For example, in a March 2008
earnings conference call, former
Lehman Brothers CFO Erin Callan
used phrases like “very strong client
flows” and “a robust trading environ-
ment.” Such examples of extreme
positive language allow deceptive
speakers to sound more persuasive
while concealing the truth.
Furthermore, the use of swear
words, usually indicative of negative
emotions, only occurs minimally and
is not statistically significant.
“In our results, we only found
swear words in just one case, in a very
specific setting,” Zakolyukina said.
“But for some reason, perhaps be-
cause of the famous Enron case, the
idea of swear words [as an indicator
of deception] was developed and
propagated.”
To verify that CEOs were being
truthful during a conference call, the
study analyzes subsequent changes
to stated earnings from previous
quarters. A correction signified that
the call was deceptive.
“We have to assume that if the
company makes a restatement, the
executive at the time of the confer-
ence call knew about it and his lan-
guage will exhibit deception,” Za-
kolyukina said.
Unlike most research efforts to
predict company manipulation, Za-
kolyukina and Larcker chose to ana-
lyze the question-and-answer sec-
tion of earnings conference calls for
their spontaneous nature, which al-
lows less room for language manipu-
lation.
“Some papers try to look at the
language used in financial reports,”
Zakolyukina said.“But all the formal
reporting is screened through the
legal department of the company, so
they are well-prepared pieces of
text.”
Additionally, conference calls
have the added benefit of a quarterly
schedule, which added regularity and
specificity to Larcker and Zakolyuk-
ina’s long-term study of deceptive
language.
“We’ve seen that no matter how
the reports were manipulated, if the
manager knows about it at the time
of the conference calls, the more like-
ly the way he speaks will give out that
he’s hiding something,” Zakolyukina
said.
M.B.A. student Aaron Gelband
MBA, who is co-president of the
GSB’s Finance and Investment Club,
has investments in Perry Capital and
previously worked for Goldman
Sachs, said that while the study pro-
vided insight into the methods of de-
ception in corporate management,
the findings do not always indicate
dishonesty.
“I will caution that although the
results are statistically significant,
only 60 percent of instances in man-
agement statements would suggest
that they were actually being dishon-
est,” Gelband added. “Even if they
displayed signs that are typically in-
dicative of dishonesty, you still have
to treat that with a grain of salt.”

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FEATURES
Cantor seeks to use technology and flexibility to evolve display design
By JAMES LANCASTER
T
here is more to visiting the Cantor Arts
Center than simply observing an isolat-
ed painting or sculpture.An imperative
part of the museum experience is some-
thing less tangible: the art of designing
and arranging exhibits.
Though largely overlooked, designing exhibits
to engage and interact with viewers is an essential
concern for any museum curator. And for Pa-
tience Young and Kristen Olson of the Cantor
Arts Center, the art of placing art might just be as
important as the art itself.
Young, curator for education at Cantor, ex-
plained how Cantor seeks to create a unique har-
mony in its exhibit design.
Saxophone players in the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band (LSJUMB) claim the
field, grooving to upbeat tunes.
“Our goal is to set the art off in the best envi-
ronment for it,” she said. “We want the setting to
work for each work of art.”
Designing exhibits is a laborious process, and it
involves a careful contemplation of many factors.
Wall colors, lighting, surrounding architecture and
even surrounding pieces are all considered by
Cantor’s curators in placing art.
“A work of art will speak very differently de-
pending on its context,” Young said. “Curators
think long and hard about what they’re going to
juxtapose.”
Young cited the placement of “Seaweed,” a
Georgia O’Keefe painting, next to Edward West-
on’s photograph of a cabbage leaf as an example
of the relationship between works of art in an ex-
hibit.
“The sinuous lines and curves speak to each
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other directly,” she said. “When that photograph
changes out, the new relationship will be com-
pletely different.”
Although Cantor has always experimented
with various components of design, technology
has become an increasingly important factor in
designing exhibits at Cantor.
Like many museums around the world, Cantor
is now turning to technology to enhance the view-
ing experience. The center is currently testing QR
tags, which allow visitors to access information
about a particular work of art by scanning an
image with a cell phone.
Users of most smart phones can download free
software that will allow them to scan QR images.
After scanning an image with a phone’s camera,
they are then directed to Web pages where they
can learn more about particular works for art.
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For Kristen Olson, Cantor’s academic and edu-
cational technology liaison, technologies like QR
tags are an integral component in designing in-
formative and engaging exhibits.
“The idea is to have the cell phone be another
tool to interact with the viewer,” she said. “Tech-
nology allows us to explore something that isn’t
necessarily explained by a label.”
Olson explained how Cantor uses technology
like video clips to educate and inform its visitors.
To accompany the work of Martin Blank, a con-
temporary glass artist, the museum created a short
video of the glass making process. Designed to af-
ford viewers a better understanding of Blank’s
work, the clip provides an engaging experience
that can’t be offered by the typical label.
Please see CANTOR, page 8
By CAMILLE BROWN
t’s a chilly, fall Monday evening, and most Stanford stu-
dents can be found pent up in the library or eating din-
ner in a quiet dining hall — that is, except for a cohort
of students jumping up and down, doing the pelvic
thrust in time to Styx’s “Blue Collar Man.”
Welcome to the typical weekly Leland Stanford Junior
University Marching Band (LSJUMB) rehearsal. Bright-or-
ange earplugs are issued to the members trickling in, and a
small whiteboard lists the agenda for the day scrawled in
green dry-erase marker: “Ignorance, Lovecats, Uptight,
Frankenstein . . . etc.”
The typical warm-up exercise involves losing one’s shoes
and grooving with instruments as if they are dance partners
while the Band familiarizes itself with old songs. The “Clair-
picks” section even strikes up a kick-line.
Some read their music off traditional stands, but many just
Please see LSJUMB, page 8
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ly speaking, with overall performance in life:

SAT scores, level of education, income and so
on. The patient child has already learned to
later category. S ENSE AND N ONSENSE
suppress his impulse for immediate gratifica-
tion, opening up many doors for him later in

The Meaning of Teaching

life. The impatient child’s will, on the other
hand, is like the marshmallow he has such sketch-comedy version might be even better.
trouble resisting: soft, yielding, insubstantial. The researcher could return and act very
His will be a life of indulging now and suffer- upset that the marshmallow is gone, then

ing the consequences later.
Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford neurology
professor, would likely say the predictive
power of the marshmallow marker is a clear
demonstration of the biological basis of per-
sonality. Marshmallow-now children are
more likely to fall into substance addiction or
lives of crime. And Sapolsky’s all about
showing that we punish people for things
they’re ultimately not responsible for (exam-
ple: burning schizophrenics at the stake for
witchcraft). But the armchair biologist in me
is more interested in the evolution of the
temptation than its underlying anatomy.Why
is it so darn hard (because even for the suc-
cessful kids, it is hard: their legs swinging like
little pendula, their eyes fixed ceiling-ward,
counting tiles and fiercely avoiding the plate
in front of them) to resist that marshmallow?
Once we’ve decided it’s better to defer our
gratification, why are we battling our bodies
at every turn until the matter is out of our
hands? How could twisting ourselves into
these knots ever be adaptive?
The answer I’ve reached is pretty straight-
forward. Before I spell it out, let me attempt
a convoluted illustration of my point: a new
variation on the Marshmallow Experiment.
A child is left in the room with the marshmal-
low and the same instructions as before. She
is left to hang there for a good ten minutes,
tugging at her braids, fighting her impulses.
Then a man in a gorilla suit bursts through
the door, gobbles up the marshmallow and
runs out. (Caveat: this will likely make many
children cry.)
I don’t expect this to yield any valuable
predictive measures, and I wouldn’t even
know how to start quantifying reactions, be-
yond maybe timing the ensuing tantrums. (I
do, however, think that this is fertile ground
for hilarious YouTube videos. The scripted
threaten some silly British penalty as his go-
rilla-suited minions seize the subject to carry
him away. Just a thought.) What this version
does do is provide us with a context in which
the marshmallow-now phenotype wins. The
body beats the will, and it turns out better for
everyone in the end.
Our bodies are adapted to an uncertain
world, one in which it is much more likely
that food will be snatched from under our
noses than it is that we’ll be awarded more
for merely waiting to eat it. I think that al-
most all of the children believe that the ex-
perimenter is prepared to uphold his side of
the deal. But here our bodies seem to know
what our minds so often forget: you can’t log-
ically predict the future. There’s no guaran-
tee that the first marshmallow will still be
here fifteen minutes from now, nor that the
experimenter will ever return, nor that the
building won’t collapse (and you’d definitely
be glad for the extra energy in the immediate
aftermath of an earthquake-induced apoca-
lypse). Your body wants to force you to take
the sure thing now rather than gamble on in-
duction — a hard-coded impulse to live for
the present.
As Stanford students, chances are we
were in the marshmallows-later category.
And Stanford is, in many ways, one big series
of marshmallow experiments.This is why our
bodies rebel when we spend a Friday night
coding instead of going out — it recognizes
that we’re investing in a future that just might
not be. If we’re going to win, we can never
forget the reality of that risk, and we should
always know just what it is that we’re waiting
for. Some marshmallows are sweeter or surer
than others.
Want your marshmallow sooner that than
later? Place an order at rcima@stanford.edu.
W
henever I reflect on the greatest
teachers in my life, the idea of dis-
cussing why we should value teach-
ing seems silly. It feels like devoting energy to
discussing why universities should admit
women or provide financial aid. To those
lucky enough to have had it, the value of
great teaching is felt everyday. The question
seems profoundly obvious.
But then I remember that, from the lens of
a major research university, things can look
different. When the growing knowledge pro-
duced at Stanford not only ups us in the rank-
ings, but also truly has huge, positive effects
on a wider world, it is easy to see how teach-
ing becomes something that we don’t just
forget to value, but really don’t think should
be valued too much.
I still remember a university administra-
tor informing me three years ago (naive
freshman that I was) that faculty members
with tremendous research but weak teaching
will probably still get tenure, but a phenome-
nal teacher with less than stellar research
never will. Great teachers at Stanford are
great because they want to be, often in spite
of an incentive structure that disincentivizes
their devotion to teaching.
The University’s justification is one of re-
turns. Fostering a faculty culture of taking
teaching seriously certainly won’t help us in
the U.S. News rankings, and if it comes at the
expense of pioneering research, it may actu-
ally bring us down. More significantly, some
believe the public service value of research is
much more profound than that of the person-
al dedication of a great mind to students, and
in this light, Stanford has a moral obligation
to skew the balance far in favor of research.
It is a reality that pioneering research has
the potential to provide profound benefits
for the world. Part of the excitement sur-
Aysha
Bagchi
rounding the idea of research is just that: the
results are not fully known and possibilities
can seem boundless. Through research, we
contribute to humanity everyday. But the
same is just as true — perhaps even more so
— when it comes to teaching bright young
students.
Almost anyone who makes a profound
difference in the world does so because
someone made a profound difference in her
life, and so often that person was a teacher. It
is difficult for a university to measure these
differences, especially because students
rarely develop in ways that match our hy-
potheses, but it should not be too difficult to
recognize that in capturing some of the best
students in the U.S. and around the world,
from a public service standpoint, Stanford
has an unbelievable chance to make us lead-
ers of a different sort, to help us shift our tra-
jectory and wrestle with all the wisdom and
guidance Stanford’s faculty could offer.
And, importantly, the biggest infusions of
motivation and moral awareness often come
in personal ways. They involve igniting a stu-
dent’s curiosity, taking her seriously, illustrat-
ing how what she learns relates to the world
and her experiences and helping her see a vi-
sion of her future self to work toward. They
involve passionate commitment to helping
students become all we can be. When that
commitment is there, the returns — though
they may be neglected in the rankings — are
huge.
Thinking about the returns of teaching is a
very important task, one Stanford should de-
vote more time to. But the truth is, when I
think about the value of teaching, my heart
isn’t in arguments about returns.They are im-
portant, but they fail to capture teaching’s
most central value. That value isn’t discov-
ered when we are always caught up in objec-
tives, in thinking about the next step and how
we are going to get there. It is discovered
when we slow down to reflect. In these mo-
ments, we begin to remember why a universi-
ty holds such enchantment in people’s imag-
inations, why, for example, the names “Ox-
ford” or “Harvard” inspire awe when uttered
on almost any corner of the globe. The uni-
versity is a site for something special.
The deepest meaning to be found at a uni-
versity — a place of growing knowledge
about the world — is in the sharing that takes
place between teacher and student when a
teacher helps a student expand her world. It
is experienced in the gratitude a student feels
when a teacher has helped her become her
better self and the gratitude a teacher feels in
being part of that development. The poten-
tial returns of such relationships are enor-
mous, but to find their deepest value we need
look no further than the present. The essen-
tially non-economic element involved in
teaching is about meaning, about the flour-
ishing that takes place when a teacher’s intel-
lectual firepower and guidance help foster
fruition; that element is part of a university’s
soul.
Aysha is feeling grateful for many wonderful
teachers. Send her your comments at
abagchi@stanford.edu.

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time for people, conversations with professors,
and exploring the beauty of the area. Make
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ear Class of 2014: Though we realize
that you are all amazingly talented
young adults who neither need nor
likely want advice from a bunch of people “old
enough to be your parents (and then some),”
as we now reflect on 30 years since our time at
Stanford, we couldn’t resist passing along
some observations.
First off, enjoy the weather. Take a few
classes that are interesting and off the beaten
path of your major. Make the most of your
friendships while at Stanford. Work hard and
play hard. Have a passion.
Stay flexible, but follow your dreams re-
lentlessly.Try to live debt-free.Listen to differ-
ent points of view and try to understand the
differences and similarities to your own. Get
involved. Even if you are shy, go out and make
friends and relationships.
Breathe the Stanford air deeply. Study
overseas for at least one quarter. Fall or spring
sure each day has a goal. Make sure each day is
let you travel more either before or after. Re- On “Zimmerman: Contact sports are On “Admission office moves forward with
shared with others.
member that life isn’t a sprint, it’s a marathon. causing too many head injuries” random audits”
Enjoy the full college experience.Go to Asia
Enjoy it as you go. “Complaining about the “wussification “Auditing to verify application infor-
or Africa; Europe is too comfortable.After you
Cultivate relationships with professors. Be of America” because people want to pre- mation is long overdue. More should be
graduate, keep in contact with at least five close
open to people who don’t seem to be “your vent paralysis is just another way of say- done than mere sampling.” — john, Oct.
friends.Get a job.Plan to work hard.
type.” Learn like a sponge. Try to be humble. ing, like a prehistoric caveman, “Me man. 18
Set yourself all kinds of goals — spiritual,
Marry the right person. Me hit hard. ::pounds chest::” — com-
physical,educational,fun,family,career,etc.Go
Audit as many courses as you can. Be opti- ment, Oct. 21
to the City. Study some economics and finance. On “Cross Country: Running to first
mistic.Envision your dream and go for it.Show
Have a passion. Don’t be afraid to change. place”
up every day.Tell the truth and keep your word.
Stretch yourself. Take advantage of every On “Sawhney: USC now Stanford’s “That’s some great running, men and
Make sure to volunteer somewhere. Find
opportunity. biggest rival” women! Good luck at the Pac-10 Champi-
your passion. Develop your creativity. Take
Remember that in 30 years, your advice to “Your hatred of us? It’s cute.Adorable onships.” — DistanceFan, Oct. 18
risks, both academically and socially. Believe
the Class of 2048 will be looked at with skepti- really. Because the fact of the matter is, we
you can change the world.
cism, perhaps even more than the skepticism don’t care if you hate us — and that inval- — Join the conversation at
Spend less time with your phone and com-
you greet our advice with! idates your ‘rivalry’ claim.” — LAJen, stanforddaily.com.
puter and more time experiencing life firsthand.
Enjoy it all, and good luck! Oct. 21
Learn something new each day. Don’t be in a
rush to grow up. Look at this time as an oppor- KATHRYN KANE
tunity to decide who you are, what you believe TAMARA RITCHEY POWERS
and what you want to contribute to the world. RICHARD WHITMORE
The decisions you make are not irrevocable. and 1,642 other classmates from the Class of 1980

L ETTERS TO THE E DITOR

Can Stanford discuss academia,
class and race?
Dear Editor,
On Thursday, Oct. 7, the Daily editorial
board ran an article about the remarks of Vic-
tor Davis Hanson, a research fellow at the
Hoover Institution. Hanson was essentially
bashing the trend towards cultural studies at
American universities, mocking the narratives
of oppression put forth by students of color. Ig-
noring the ignorance in Hanson’s comments
for a moment, let us investigate what he was
getting at by suggesting that Latin Americans
“add an accent and a trill”to take on a Chicano
identity or that the children of an “Asian op-
tometrist”seek victim status.He is (perhaps in-
advertently) dealing with the substitution of
race for class.This subtext is important.
In our various pursuits of social justice,
armed with the multi-culti mantra of anti-dis-
crimination (race, sex, gender, sexual orienta-
tion and so on), do we forget “class”? Perhaps
this deliberate blindness is a result of our
(with “our” referring to Stanford academe as
a whole) awareness of our current situation
— that we are indeed in a bastion of material
privilege by virtue of attending a private uni-
versity, that despite our diverse individual so-
cioeconomic backgrounds, we’ve “made it” to
a certain position by virtue of being at Stan-
ford, that maybe we’re not quite equipped to
deconstruct class politics to the same extent
or with the same fervor as we take on other
categories of oppression. Or is it simply that
socioeconomic status is too real, too ground-
ed in materiality for us to deal with? Obvious-
ly, we cannot isolate class oppression, but that
is not a reason to subsume it. Is there a reason
we have all manner of cultural studies and
feminist studies departments, but none focus-
ing specifically (I didn’t say exclusively) on
class?
If we turn back to Thursday’s Daily, we see
another example of class erasure. Just south-
east of the editorial, we encounter Shane Sav-
itsky’s piece on his difficulties of declaring a
major in political science, or the humanities
more generally. He posits that the humanities
are ideal for him because “as a white person, if
you’re not majoring in something semi-relat-
ed to the humanities, then you’re making
things too hard on yourself.” Now I’m curious.
Why are white people in techie fields working
too hard? Because, as Savitsky admits, engi-
neering and the sciences aren’t a bad bet if one
wants to earn a steady income (or even better,
found Google).So what Savitsky means to say
is that rich people don’t need to put in so much
effort as to major in the techie fields (I know
the humanities majors are not “easy” — I’m
just following Savitsky’s logic). So let’s substi-
tute the word “rich” in this article: “As a rich
person, if you’re not majoring in something
semi-related to the humanities, then you’re
making things too hard on yourself.” Ouch.
That sentence has gone from pseudo-hipster
to pretty offensive with that simple switch.
And I wonder if The Daily or Stanford as a
whole is equipped to really have the conversa-
tion on academia, class and race.
JANANI BALASUBRAMANIAN’12
Atmosphere and Energy
6 ! Friday, October 22, 2010 The Stanford Daily

OIL LYING
and research and public-interest obli- nary view of corporate deception.
gations to protect.” “We found some results, but
For Benson, that’s not unusual at there’s plenty of work to do,” Larck-
Continued from page 2 all. Continued from page 3 er said. “The idea of using language
“To me, if I just do my work and it to understand behavior is a very ac-
ends up on a shelf,I’ve failed,”Benson tive research area and it requires
proposals are most meritorious and said. “An ideal relationship [with in- Despite its relevance in language skills across various areas.”
deserving of GCEP funding.” dustry] would involve people who research, Gelband said the study But he is optimistic that despite
“The industry sponsors are in a po- have the capacity to take information will not have any substantial effects the difficulties of analyzing an inter-
sition to unduly influence the type of technology and scale it on a way that it on his post-graduation plans be- disciplinary subject, added research
research that is being funded and can make a meaningful impact on cause of its limited professional and may eventually apply these findings
what research questions are being greenhouse gas emissions reduc- practical implications. to situations outside of a corporate
asked,”Washburn said. tions.” “I don’t think it’s going to sub- setting.
“I think it’s always understood that stantially change the way I do any- Since deceptive-language re-
Sponsors, Researchers Explain Fund- the endgame is getting something to thing after business school,” Gel- search is new, “it’s going to be risky
ing Process market that can provide better servic- band continued. “But it will make as well,” Larcker said. “But presum-
Benson and several sponsors pre- es to lower environmental impact and me a little more thoughtful and ably, that’s what we’re supposed to
sented a different view. lower costs,” Benson said. aware about the type of language do with our research.”
“The sciences by nature . . . build that management uses.”
upon what somebody else does,”Ben- Contact Tyler Brown at tbbrown@stan- In fact, Larcker cautioned that Contact Patricia Ho at pho14@stan-
son said. ford.edu. the study only provides a prelimi- ford.edu.
For Schlumberger, funding re-
search doesn’t necessarily mean dic-
tating its direction or outcome.
“From the company’s point of
view, research has to be bounded
enough that it’s of interest to us,” said
Schlumberger Vice President for
Communication Rod Nelson. “If it
isn’t, that doesn’t mean we’re going to
stop it. We just might not fund it
again.”’
Nelson added that GCEP hosts an
annual research symposium to pres-
ent and spread insights gleaned from
its work. Researchers are required to
produce annual technical reports on
their projects, which are then made
public.
“Clearly researchers need to have
the ability to publish their work with-
out coming back to the [management
committee] board all the time,” Nel-
son said.
ExxonMobil echoed those senti-
ments.
“We hope scientists and compa-
nies will use GCEP’s findings to de-
velop broad-based, commercial ener-
gy systems with significantly lower
[green house gas] emissions,” wrote
Cynthia Bergman, a spokeswoman
for ExxonMobil, in an e-mail to The
Daily.
Spokespeople for Toyota and
General Electric could not be reached
by press time.

An ‘Unusual Relationship’?
According to Washburn,the differ-
ent natures of academia and industry
make any relationship between the
two somewhat suspect.
“What’s unusual about these aca-
demic-industry relationships is that
you’ve got an explicitly for-profit enti-
ty, then you’ve got an entity that is not
driven by profit,” Washburn said.
“Universities have other academic
The Stanford Daily Cardinal Today Friday, October 22, 2010 ! 7

SPORTS
Men look to stay Jacob
Jaffe

in playoff race
By MILES BENNETT-SMITH
CONTRIBUTING WRITER MEN’S SOCCER
Card football
The men’s soccer team currently
sits third in the Pac-10 standings be-
hind co-leaders UCLA and Cal, but
10/17 vs. SAN DIEGO
STATE W 1-0
has come a
a southern California road trip this
weekend gives Stanford a chance to
continue its climb towards the post-
season.
UP NEXTUCLA long way
(9-3-1, 4-1-0 Pac-10)
Tonight, the Cardinal (7-6-0, 3-2-

T
0 Pac-10) squares off against No. 11
10/22 Los Angeles 7 P.M.
hree years ago this month,
UCLA (9-3-1, 4-1-0) in a rematch of GAME NOTES: No. 11 UCLA is undefeated at Stanford football defeated
last Friday’s thrilling 2-1 victory on home this season. Stanford has never defeat- USC,24-23,in one of the most
the Farm. Then on Sunday after- ed UCLA in Los Angeles in the 43 years the shocking outcomes in sports
noon, the squad will have to deal teams have squared off. The Cardinal current- history. The Cardinal came
with a tough San Diego State squad ly ranks third in the Pac-10 after beating both into the Coliseum as a six-touchdown
that has been ranked in the top 25 UCLA and San Diego State last weekend. underdog and left as a program reborn,
this year, but has started off Pac-10 having just completed the Biggest Upset
play with a disappointing record of Ever.
the 43 years that both schools have
1-4. Just 39 games later,Stanford is now a
kept full records, Stanford has
UCLA has yet to lose at home five-touchdown favorite against Wash-
never defeated the Bruins on the
this season, going a perfect 6-0 thus ington State. For those of you who are
road.
far and outscoring its opponents 13- unfamiliar with point-spreads and Vegas
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily In order to get a positive result,
4 in Westwood. Further adding to odds,these are huge numbers.USC’s 41-
The Stanford men’s soccer team heads to Southern California this weekend to square off with UCLA and San Diego the challenge is Stanford’s histori-
State. Goalkeeper Galen Perkins, above, has filled in well for injured keeper Jason Dodson. Please see MSOCCER, page 9 point (depending on who you ask, 40.5-
cal difficulty playing at UCLA. In to 41.5-) spread over Stanford in 2007
was one of the biggest spreads ever,
meaning it was expected to be one of the
MEN’S WATER POLO Continued from front page most lopsided contests of the decade and

Stanford revists SoCal in WVBALL|Conference lead on the line

certainly of the year.This week,the Car-
dinal’s 34.5-point margin in Vegas is the
biggest point-spread in the country.
Let that sit for a moment.In less time

matchup with Pepperdine

By DASH DAVIDSON
After a long trip down to southern
California last weekend in which the
Stanford men’s water polo team split
games against UCLA and UC-Santa
Barbara, the No. 4 Cardinal (8-5, 2-1
MPSF) has another busy weekend to pre-
pare for.
On Saturday, in honor of Homecom-
ing weekend for Stanford alumni, the
water polo team hosts the Alumni Game
at Avery Aquatic Center. The team then
heads back to work with yet another trip
to southern California and another road
game against a tough opponent, this time
No. 10 Pepperdine (8-10, 0-3).
Stanford is looking to gain ground in
the tight Mountain Pacific Sports Feder-
ation (MPSF) standings, where it cur-
rently stands at No. 3. Ahead of the Car-
dinal, which holds a 2-1 record in league
Continued from front page
play, are UC-Irvine and California, both
with 2-0 records. Pepperdine is currently
in last place in the conference, with a
record of 0-3.
The Waves are in the midst of a severe
cold streak, having dropped nine of their
past 13 games heading into Sunday’s
matchup with Stanford. In their most re-
cent outings, the Waves defeated UC-
Davis, 7-5, in a non-conference game, be-
fore losing to Pacific by the same score to
run their conference record to its current
state.
The Waves have been a low-scoring
team this year, and this fact is reflected in
the modest totals of their top three goal
scorers: Danny White, James Perry and
Spencer Hamby, who have scored 23, 18
and 17 goals, respectively. In the net, the
Waves employ a goalie platoon featuring
Please see WPOLO, page 9
Alix Klineman and Washington setter Jenna Hag-
glund from the Pac-10.
Murrey’s powerful hitting has put her, like
Klineman, among the nation’s premier attackers.
She currently ranks fifth nationally in kills per set
(5.21) and points per set (5.84);Klineman is second
in both categories with 5.76 and 6.3, respectively.
Murrey and Klineman are also the only two out-
side hitters to place in the conference’s top 10 hit-
ting percentages — Murrey has the Pac-10’s sev-
enth-best hitting percentage (.361), while Kline-
man is third (.397).
The Cal squad has displayed stellar blocking
abilities, leading the conference with an average
of 3.15 blocks per set. Two sophomore middle
blockers, Kat Brown and Shannon Hawari, are
one-two in the Pac-10’s individual blocking sta-
tistics with averages of 1.38 and 1.25 per set, re-
spectively. Sophomore opposite Correy John-
son, the third Bear in the conference’s top 10
blockers, ranks 10th on the list with 1.04 blocks
per set.
Stanford boasts a 62-8 historical edge over Cal,
but the series was split last season with each team
winning in five sets at home. Although the Cardi-
nal squad is hesitant to declare any one match
more significant than others, tonight’s meeting
with the Bears comes with high stakes and a fierce
tradition of rivalry.
“We never like to consider certain games more
important than others because all of them have
equal importance in the end, but Cal has a very
strong team this year and we are currently tied
with them in the standings,” Benjamin said.“Our
games versus Cal are always very emotional and
intense games, so we hope to get a lot of support
from students, families and friends.”
The match will start at 7 p.m. tonight in Maples
Pavilion.
Contact Caroline Caselli at carolinecaselli@stan-
ford.edu.
than it takes Brett Favre to retire, Stan-
ford went from being one of the biggest
patsies in the nation to one of the “big
boys.”For a team that won one game all
year in 2006,a team that had just broken
a nine-game home losing streak, a team
that hadn’t even finished .500 since 2001,
the thought that just a few years would
separate the Cardinal from being a five-
touchdown favorite would have been lu-
dicrous in 2007.
The Cardinal’s
34.5-point margin
in Vegas is the
biggest point-
spread in the
country.
Three years ago, Stanford fans were

FOOTBALL|Stanford faces WSU

billing, ranking ninth in the country in
passing efficiency while leading the Pac-
10 in total offense. The Cardinal running
game has not particularly slowed down
this season, even without Heisman run-
ner-up Toby Gerhart. Stanford averages
210 yards per game (the same as its aver-
age at this time last year) and over five
yards per carry, led by sophomore running
back Stepfan Taylor. Taylor is averaging
about 80 yards per contest on the ground,
but since he was given the role as lead
back against Notre Dame three games ago
he has eclipsed 110 yards in each game.
The more interesting battle in this game
will likely be the matchup of Stanford’s de-
fense and Washington State’s offense. De-
spite their struggles, the Cougars are only
celebrating their long-awaited first victo-
ry at the new Stanford Stadium,even if it
was against San Jose State.Now the Car-
dinal faithful are busy discussing possible
BCS bowl scenarios and weighing the
still alive in the conference race, and Stan- team’s strength of schedule for the com-
ford could also go to the Rose Bowl as an puters.
at-large team if it wins out and Oregon So,Stanford supporters,on the eve of
meets Boise State, TCU or Utah in the an expected gimme, before you worry
BCS National Championship Game. about how this game will affect the Car-
dinal’s spot in the polls, have some per-
spective. Only 159 weeks ago, you were
Just six games probably waking up ready to cringe at
yet another impending beatdown. This
morning,no one unrelated to a Washing-
ton State football player or coach can
into the season, reasonably expect the Cougars to beat
Stanford.
The turnaround engineered by head
coach Jim Harbaugh and these classes of
17 Cardinal players has been truly remarkable. Be-
fore last year, the Cardinal had failed to
qualify for a bowl game for seven straight

players have
two spots below Stanford in passing yards seasons. Stanford had had only one
per game, due in large part to the strong major individual award winner (Troy
play of sophomore quarterback Jeff Tuel. Walters won the Biletnikoff Award in
Tuel has passed for over 200 yards in every 1999) since Elway.

game this year — something Luck has not
done — even though the talent around
him is significantly worse than most of the
defenses he has faced. Tuel’s favorite tar-
get has been freshman wide receiver Mar-
quess Wilson, who is 14th in the country
and second in the Pac-10 with 92 receiving
yards per game.
Meanwhile, Stanford’s defense, which
was a surprise bright spot in the first four
games, has regressed the past few weeks.
After ranking 11th in total defense and
12th in scoring defense through four
games, the Cardinal defense was shredded
by the two best offenses (statistically) that
it will face all year. Stanford’s defense sur-
rendered 626 yards, including 388 rushing,
in a loss to No. 2 Oregon. The next week,
the Cardinal struggled against USC’s aer-
ial assault, allowing Trojan quarterback
Matt Barkley to throw for 390 yards, in-
cluding 224 to freshman wide receiver
Robert Woods. The combined 87 points
and 1124 yards allowed in those two
games dropped Stanford to 56th in total
defense and 58th in scoring defense.
New Stanford defensive coordinator
Vic Fangio implemented a hybrid 3-4 de-
fense starting this year, and that unit will
likely have to regroup and revert to its
early form if Stanford is going to contend
for a possible BCS bowl. The Cardinal is
scored a
touchdown.
Last year, Stanford came out of its bye
week by shocking then-No. 8 Oregon 51-
42.That game made the Cardinal bowl-el-
igible and propelled it into the AP Top 25
for the first time in eight years. This week,
Stanford can again become bowl-eligible
by winning after its bye week.
The contest against Washington State is
also the Cardinal’s annual Reunion
Homecoming Game, so Stanford alumni
from several decades are expected to be in
attendance at Stanford Stadium. The Car-
dinal’s last game, a 37-35 nail-biting win
over USC, set an attendance record for
the remodeled Stanford Stadium with
over 51,000 fans on hand.
The Cougars and the Cardinal will kick
off at 2 p.m. on Saturday at Stanford Sta-
dium.
Contact Jacob Jaffe at jwjaffe@stanford.
edu.
After just six games this year, a bowl
is seen as inevitable, and the entire year
has been about fighting for Pac-10 su-
premacy. Stanford writers and fans, in-
cluding yours truly, still bemoan Heis-
man voters passing over Toby Gerhart
by a razor-thin margin last year, even
though Gerhart still won the incredibly
prestigious Doak Walker Award as the
nation’s best running back. And many
fans follow Andrew Luck’s Heisman
campaign religiously, obsessing over his
stats each week,regardless of the game’s
outcome.
All this is not to say that Stanford
should be happy to get here and no fur-
ther, or that this is the peak for this Car-
dinal team.Plenty of achievements (win-
ning a bowl game, going to the Rose
Bowl, national title contention, etc.) re-
main ahead for the program. But it’s
worth a look back to remember where
this team was.
After all, this isn’t tennis, swimming
or women’s volleyball. Stanford isn’t a
perennial No. 1 team looking to add yet
another title to its trophy case. This is
football,where the Cardinal has won just
two bowl games in the last 32 years.
SIMON WARBY/The Stanford Daily
It’s easy to get caught up in Stan-
The No. 2 Stanford women’s volleyball team faces No. 5 Cal in the 71st annual Big Spike tonight at
Maples Pavilion. The winner of the match will secure sole possession of the Pac-10 lead. Please see JAFFE, page 9
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UNIVERSITY
CANTOR
“Over time, curators have come

Profs urged to focus on athletics

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Cantor’s use of technology has
even expanded to reach visitors
when they aren’t at the exhibits. One
can learn more about Cantor and its
exhibits by watching guided art tours
on Cantor’s website.These multime-
dia podcasts consist of commentary
on selected works of art by Mark
Feldman, a Program in Writing and
Rhetoric lecturer.
Although Cantor has already
substantially changed the way it ap-
proaches the design of its exhibits,
Young said that design at Cantor will
continue to evolve.
around to a better understanding of
what visitors are interested in and
how they approach works of art,”
Young said. “Even the way curators
approach art is changing immense-
ly.”
A willingness to experiment with
new methods of design is something
that Young said is essential to ap-
pealing to Stanford’s wide range of
interests.
“In designing exhibits, we en-
deavor to reach all Stanford stu-
dents,” Young said. “We hope to
offer something for everyone, what-
ever their disciplines and interests
are.”
Contact James Lancaster at jamesl2
@stanford.edu.
COIA delegate reports
to Faculty Senate
By DEVIN BANERJEE
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Thursday’s meeting of the Faculty
Senate featured a report by Stan-
ford’s delegate to the Coalition on
Intercollegiate Athletics (COIA),
philosophy professor Tom Wasow, on
the activities of the eight-year-old or-
ganization.
The purpose of the “grassroots”
a member of the Senate.
During his presentation, Wasow
said Etchemendy was initially skep-
tical of Stanford’s need to join
COIA, as student athletes face rela-
tively few academic challenges at
Stanford compared to those at other
colleges and universities. But
Wasow’s intent was for Stanford to
be a “role model” in the coalition.
“Stanford has great athletics
teams without sacrificing academic
values,” Wasow told the Senate on
Thursday. “There are no special ad-
mits, no special dorms for athletes, no
canceling of classes for football
knowledged at its last meeting that
the admission office may, under its
current policies, give special consid-
eration to “those with highly devel-
oped specific talents.”
Athletics Director Bob Bowlsby,
who also was in attendance Thurs-
day, chimed in to say the breakdown
of academic majors among athletes
is no different from that among the
undergraduate population.
But both Wasow and Bowlsby ac-
knowledged that student athletes at
Stanford face academic challenges.
Bowlsby said science courses with
afternoon laboratory sections fre-
that Stanford remains the model for
athletic programs in the country.
“There is still very little faculty over-
sight of athletics,” he said. “I encour-
age the Senate to take more interest
in athletics and to remain the model
that we are.”
Bowlsby took a question from
electrical engineering professor
Olav Solgaard about how often ath-
letes are tested for drugs and by
whom. Bowlsby said Stanford “does
not do any institutional-based drug
testing, but the NCAA runs a year-
round drug testing program. They
test for both performance-enhancing

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mimic others around them, not really
caring if they play out of tune.As Ar-
ianna Vogel ‘14 nonchalantly put it
after admitting she has no idea how to
play her trombone, “You have to
learn not to care that you’re making a
ented lives.
So how did the LSJUMB get to be
so wild? Apparently, the Band was
once as reverent as its full name sug-
gests, until a restructuring of the
music department in 1963 resulted in
the dismissal of the then- director
Jules Schucat. To protest what it saw
as an injustice, the Band went on
strike and refused to play at the first
two football games of 1963.
Finally, Schucat’s replacement,
group of representatives from Divi-
sion 1A schools is to “provide a fac-
ulty voice on issues related to athlet-
ics,” said Wasow, who was appointed
by Provost John Etchemendy Ph.D.
‘82 to be Stanford’s delegate when
the University joined during the
2003-04 academic year.Wasow is not
games.”
(Philosophy professor Ken Taylor
interjected: “We can’t even cancel a
Faculty Senate meeting for a Giants
game.”)
While Wasow claimed athletes do
not receive special consideration in
admission, the Faculty Senate ac-
quently conflict with practices and
training. He also said athletes have
constant access to four academic ad-
visers from the Office of the Vice
Provost for Undergraduate Educa-
tion.
For Wasow, Stanford faculty does
not show enough interest in ensuring
drugs and so-called recreational
drugs.”
The meeting adjourned early for
an off-the-record executive session
on University accreditation.
Contact Devin Banerjee at devin11
@stanford.edu.

fool out of yourself.”
To say the least, this is not a typical
college band rehearsal. In fact, com-
pared with any traditional marching
band, the Stanford Band could very
well be construed as utter chaos.
Discipline and dignity may seem
like the natural pillars of a marching
band, but the LSJUMB is just plain
fun.After all, it’s run by Stanford stu-
dents for the sheer purpose of enter-
taining other Stanford students.
Peter “Shotgun” McDonald, the
Tööbz Sexion Leader for the Band,de-
scribed how the LSJUMB sees its role.
“There is a lot of arbitrary follow-
ing of authority and doing what
you’re told in the marching band
process,” said McDonald, who is also
a Daily columnist.“And at more aca-
demically prestigious universities like
Stanford, people see through the au-
thority and see that their purpose is to
entertain.”
And entertain they do. From the
traditional Band Run to its quirky
halftime shows, the Band captures all
the suppressed energy Stanford stu-
dents have building under the surface
of their otherwise academically ori-
Arthur P. Barnes, thought of a com-
promise to get the Band back on the
field:Barnes would allow the Band to
be a student-run organization and the
Band would play at football games
again. The freewheeling 1960s plus
the student direction of the Band
gave it the rambunctious spirit it still
has today.
The 1960s rebirth of the LSJUMB
is still seen in both the pictures on the
wall the Band Shak and the alumni
who come to jam with the band every
so often. And as the Band’s faculty
advisor, John Giancarlo, said over the
deafening roar of “Turn the Beat
Around,” “This year the Band is bet-
ter musically than ever before.” Half
the Band members openly admitted
they started Band not being able to
read sheet music.
Despite its cult-like mystique, the
Band offers a tight-knit community
where any Stanford student who
wants to be a musician can be consid-
ered one.As junior Kevin “Yogi” Fis-
cher put it,“Anybody can rock out.”
Contact Camille Brown at cam-
icb14@stanford.edu.
GOOGLE
Continued from page 2
kind of speed,” Lapin added.
James Sweeney, management science and
engineering professor and chair of the Stanford
Campus Residential Leaseholders (SCRL)
board, also felt the potential benefit from the
state-of-the-art connections was the main at-
traction of the collaboration.
“It keeps us on the absolute cutting edge of
connectivity technology,”Sweeney said.“We’re a
community that includes a broad range of highly
educated people, all of whom consider informa-
tion flow very important.” ANASTASIA YEE/
Sweeney noted that some residences on cam- The Stanford Daily
pus that will be included in the project currently
have lower-speed connections like DSL, and that
the increase in speed would greatly change the Although Sweeney admitted “construction is tive,” he said.“But, of course, it’s not an absolute
resident’s Web experiences. always a nuisance,” he said Google intends to ex- guarantee.”
“The experience of everything we do regard- periment with new and potentially less invasive The faculty and staff residences included in
ing the Internet will be enhanced,” he said. construction techniques, including “micro- the project are located near Peter Coutts Road,
“Once you start getting this out to people at this trenching,” which would dig a narrow trench less Stanford Avenue and Junipero Serra Boulevard,
speed, there are going to be new applications for than an inch wide and several feet deep in which as well as southwest of Mayfield Avenue.
this technology, and we’ll be positioned to take to lay the fibers.
advantage of it.” “We anticipate that this will be less disrup- Contact Ellen Huet at ehuet@stanford.edu.

Reunion Homecoming Weekend

ELLEN HUET/The Stanford Daily

Organizers set up for a Thursday evening event on the Quad for returing alumni. More than 5,000 are expected to re-
turn to the Farm this weekend for Reunion Homecoming. Activities include roundtables, talks and several “mini reunions.”
The Stanford Daily Cardinal Today Friday, October 22, 2010 ! 9

MSOCCER
Continued from page 7
the team will need to really stick to
the game plan and forget about the
past, according to head coach Bret
Simon.
“The most important thing is to
forget about last week’s win, forget
about the other results, and get
ready to give everything for this
one game,” he said. “It is a big
game, but their field is the same size
as ours, we’ve played games at 7:00
before, and we will do it again.
From the outside this game is no
different.”
The players have reiterated that
stance all week long.
Senior defender and captain
Bobby Warshaw said that each
match is a battle of its own.
“It’s all kind of the same game
plan for us no matter who we’re
playing. It comes down to how we
are going to execute,” he said.
Stanford’s execution has been
improving from its initial four-
game losing streak that saw the
Cardinal fall from the national
rankings. The scoring load has been
shouldered mainly by senior for-
ward Dominique Yahyavi, with five
goals, and Warshaw, with four. That
said, six players have combined for
Stanford’s 16 total goals.
In the back, Simon has settled on
a defensive quartet of veteran play-
ers — seniors Cameron Lamming,
Warshaw and Ryan Thomas, and
junior Tommy Ryan. Redshirt fresh-
man Galen Perkins has stepped up
to replace injured goalie Jason Dod-
son, and together the unit has only
allowed seven goals since starting off
0-4 and just one goal in the past three
games.
The defense will be hard-
pressed to stop UCLA again, espe-
cially given the red-hot play of
freshman Kelyn Rowe. The mid-
fielder scored the lone goal in Fri-
day’s loss, and added to his impres-
sive young career with a golden
goal in the Bruins’ upset win over
Cal on Sunday. Rowe leads UCLA
WPOLO
with six goals and five assists, and riod, the Waves ended up prevailing, year. He came up huge last week- player of the week honor with con-
his point total ranks second in the 7-5. end, scoring twice in both contests. sistently stellar play. He is third in
Pac-10. Stanford will look to continue The Stanford attack has been re- the conference in saves-per-game
Perkins is eager for the chal- Continued from page 7 the gritty play that has resulted in markably consistent all year, using average with a mark of 7.23.
lenge against a good team with a lot five of its past six games being de- the contributions of many different This weekend will mark the
on the line. cided by two goals or less. In those players, both veterans on the squad fourth and final Stanford trip down
“With them being at home, Bence Valics and Bryce McLain, five tight affairs, Stanford has man- and newer faces, all adding up to the the coast for games in southern Cal-
under the lights, they’re going to who together have accumulated 127 aged to go 3-2, including its win fourth-highest scoring average in ifornia. The Cardinal has fared well
come out with a ton of energy,” he saves. against previously undefeated USC. the MPSF, at 11.23 goals per game. in its final region, to the tune of a 5-
said. “They came into our game ex- The Waves’ victory over UC- On offense, the Cardinal has been On defense the Cardinal has re- 3 mark.
pecting to beat us, so I’m sure losing Davis this past Saturday was filled led of late by the resurgence of sen- mained stingy, holding four of its Stanford takes on Pepperdine in
was a sore subject. The main thing with drama, as top goal-scorer ior team captain Sage Wright, who past five opponents under the 10- Malibu, Calif., this Sunday at noon.
will be who brings the most energy. Danny White netted a shot with one has successfully battled back this goal barrier. Senior goalie Brian
I wouldn’t expect too many second left in regulation to send the season from the ACL injury that Pingree has continued to excel in Contact Dash Davidson at dashd@
changes tactically, so I think it game into overtime. In the extra pe- kept him out of the action all of last the net, backing up his recent MPSF stanford.edu.
should be a really tight game.”
The rematch Sunday against San
Diego State will feature the offen-
sive talents of Aztec Raymundo
Reza against Stanford’s backline.
Reza was frustrated last game by
the Cardinal defense — the senior
managed only three shots and
played just 51 minutes.
The Aztecs are expected to
come out firing in hopes of revers-
ing their cold spell.
Just five regular season games
remain, and at 7-6-1, an NCAA
Tournament berth is still within
Stanford’s reach. Unfortunately,
the schedule is not exactly favor-
able from here on out.
After the road trip through
southern California, the Cardinal
comes home to face Washington
and Oregon State before finishing
on the road at No. 12 Cal.
Warshaw and the rest of the team
don’t have any interest in looking
ahead. “The only thing that mat-
ters is that UCLA will be a tough
place to play this weekend, and we
have to keep getting better at prac-
tice,” Warshaw said. “It’s the same
old answer as every week, but it
makes me proud to say that we
don’t talk about winning out, Pac-
10 titles or the NCAA Tournament.
In the locker room we’re talking
about how we’re going to work
hard at 7:45 tomorrow morning at
practice.”
Kickoff from Drake Stadium is
tonight at 7 p.m., and the Card will
face the Aztecs on Sunday at 1 p.m.
ZACK HOBERG/The Stanford Daily
Contact Miles Bennett-Smith at miles- The No. 4 Stanford men’s water polo team has relied on a scoring committee to produce its 11.23 goals per game. The strength of the Cardinal lies in its
bs@stanford.edu. defense, which, led by senior goalkeeper Brian Pingree, has held four of its past five opponents under 10 goals. Pingree is averaging 7.23 saves per game.

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ford’s success,and that’s not necessarily
a bad thing.Wanting and expecting the
most from your football program is
what fandom is all about. But before
you check midseason Heisman polls,
gripe about the coaches’ poll or worry
about the national perception of Stan-
ford fans, take a second to reflect on
how far the team has come.Remember
the days of blowing a 24-3 lead with 7:04
to play, punting on third down and los-
ing to UC-Davis.
So this weekend, don’t overlook
Washington State. No, I don’t think the
Cougars will pull the shocker. After all,
they haven’t won a game outside the state
of Washington since 2006, and they cur-
rently rank last in the nation in total de-
fense.ButWashington State is everything
the Cardinal was a few years ago, and
everyone remembers what happened
then.And even if it is a blowout,enjoy it to
the very end. You never know when
you’ll go back to being on the other end.
Jacob Jaffe lives life on the “other end.”
Go visit the dark side at jwjaffe@stan-
ford.edu.

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10.22.10
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VO LU M E 238 . ISSUE 5
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EVENTS
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page 5
TELEVISION
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inside

Prof. Ian Morris Reviewing LINES Ballet’s Liz Stark explores the feminine
unveils new book 2010 fall program side of ‘Mad Men’
Shakespeare lands Voudoun & ‘It’s Kind of a Funny Story,’
on prison isle Impressionism ‘Life As We Know It’

THEATER
page 4 ARTS
page 8 MOVIES
page 9
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F Sa Su M T W Th
7 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 9 a.m.
Stanfunk 2010: 11 a.m. Stanford Jazz Fusion of Art and 8 p.m. 6 p.m.
The Diaspora Vodoun/ Workshop Jazz Science Nilaja Sun’s “No Sacred Waters:
Monologues Vodounon: 9 a.m. Jams Cummings Art Building Child...” Arts for Mami
Dinkelspiel Portraits of Theta Breakers CoHo Lobby Nitery Theater, Old Wata and Other
Ft.Talisman, the Initiates Pac-10 Plaza Bring instru- Free Union Divinities in
Stanford Steppers Cantor Arts Center ments! Free Africa
CAMPUS 8 p.m.
8 p.m. 9 p.m. Cantor Arts Center
2 p.m. Sunday FLiCKS 9 p.m. “Trimpin: The 8 p.m. Free
CCRMA Cabaret Homecoming: Cubberly Full Moon on the Sound of Coyote Grace
2.0: Rinde Stanford vs. “Dinner for Quad Invention” CoHo 7 p.m.
Eckert Washington State Schmucks” star- Old Union, Main Quad Kimball Hall Lounge Jam with this Toshi Reagon
CCRMA Stage Stanford Stadium ring Steve Carell Featuring Super Peter Esmonde’s bluesy, down- Vocal Workshop
Free Go Card! and Paul Rudd
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Mash Bros. documentary home duo Roble Hall Theater

7 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 3 p.m. 2 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 12 p.m.
10.22- 10.28 Aziz Ansari “Giselle” Silicon Valley “La Mission” Taco Tuesday/ Rain — A Tribute One City, Four
The Fillmore San Jose Center for Jewish Film Peninsula Jewish Live Music to the Beatles Films: The Wrath
Performing Arts Festival Community Center Golden Gate Park San Jose Center for the of Katrina
7 p.m. $30 and up Camera 12 Theater, Film about SF Free Performing Arts SF Public Library
“The Exorcist” San Jose
CA MP U S Mission district; Free
The Retro Dome, San 4 p.m. $11 student, $13 gen. $3 8 p.m. 7:30 p.m.
Jose United Nations Sheng Wang Eric Schwartz 7 p.m.
$7 student, $10 Association Film 4 p.m. 8 p.m. Improv Comedy Club, (Smooth-E) Justin Bieber
general Festival “Heritage” Exhibition: San Jose Tommy T’s Comedy HP Pavilion
Aquarius Theater Oshman Family Jewish Fernando Reyes Steakhouse, Pleasanton
Purchase tickets at Community Center Veterans’ Memorial
Tresidder Indian dance; $15 Senior Center
students Art demonstration

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make sure you see these attractions. For the two classes that have yet to DRAMA BOOKS
experience this unremarkable tradition, no there won’t be any werewolves
(sorry, Team Jacob), but you can expect to find these FMOTQ staples. ARTS FASHION
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FROM PARTY
ON THE EDGE
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ast Thursday’s “Party on the
Edge” was exciting and classy
— a definite highlight of the
quarter thus far. A good change
from the average sticky and sweaty
frat party, the annual festivities
held in the beautiful Cantor Arts
Center offered a new way to be
entertained, socialize and, of
course, get dressed up.
The jugglers and musicians
who welcomed attendees waiting
outside were just hints of what
entertainment waited indoors.
The night’s line-up of acts was
tight; every 10 minutes a new stu-
dent group would perform in one
of three locations. Walking
STYLE
watch
Merissa Ren/Staff Photographer
introducing
Alex Simon ‘14
I’m wearing:
Shoes found on eBay, Seven for All
Mankind jeans, Target scarf and
Urban Outfitters T-shirt.
My style:
Comfortable with an edge.
through the galleries, it was easy
to hear the sounds of a cappella in
a nearby gallery or get a good
view of a dance performance from
the balcony.
Groups such as Alliance
Streetdance and Stanford
Swingtime were instant crowd
pleasers, and their music set an
energetic mood outside on the
lawn.
Singing groups, including
Mixed Company, performed in the
Rodin Rotunda — a circular room
with Rodin’s smaller sculptures and
good acoustics.
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Prof. Ian Morris debuts new book
A
t 7 p.m. on a Wednesday,
the back of Kepler’s Books
was packed. Most of the
crowd was older — people who
likely never had the good fortune
to take a class with classics and
history Prof. Ian Morris — but
upon cracking his new book,
“Why the West Rules — For
Now,” one could see why they
came. And upon hearing him
speak, one could see why they
stayed. The event was reminiscent
of the days when “Ancient
Empires” was one of the most
popular IHUM classes; Morris is,
as ever, a maestro of the lectern.
Morris opened with a
thought experiment: what if
China had colonized Britain,
rather than Britain colonizing
Hong Kong? He read from the
first chapter of his book, where he
envisions an alternate history in
which the Emperor of China dis-
patches the governor Qiying to
accept Queen Victoria’s fealty and
to administer Britain. (Morris
later confessed an obsession with
science fiction, which is apparent-
ly a source of consternation in
certain academic circles.) He chal-
lenged the audience to consider
why history unfolded as it did in
reality, with the Western world
coming out on top. After all, from
about 550 to 1750 A.D., he said,
China was significantly more
advanced than any of the various
post-Roman Western states.
He spoke about his experi-
Helen Villalobos/The Stanford Daily
Students enjoy the annual tradition “Party on the Edge” at Cantor Arts Museum last Thursday night.
ences teaching at the University of tive of Eurasian history in 600 archaeology and classical history,
Chicago, where he found enough pages and devotes the rest of the manifest in the extraordinary
problems with the prevalent doc- book to similarly vivid projections scope of his work, it comes as no
trine of intrinsic Western superi- of the world as it might become. surprise that Morris can see very
ority (he was careful to note that Morris confessed himself much far indeed.
the mentality of the time was very enamored with the Winston
much influenced by the Cold Churchill quotation, “The farther —sarah GUAN
War) that he decided to make up backward you can look, the far- contact sarah:
his own answer. ther forward you can see.”
sguan@stanford.edu
Morris proposed, in “Why Given his background in
the West Rules,” that a combina-
tion of biology, sociology and
geography could explain all of
human history, calling it, in that
particular British accent of his, a
theory of “chaps and maps.”
Geography drives society, he
argued, but society changes the
significance of geography; even
today, even now, the meaning of
geography is changing, which is
why the title ends in “For Now.”
Morris told a rapt audience that
he predicted — by means of pro-
jecting each side’s “social develop-
ment score,” a calculation he
devised especially for this project
— that the East would catch up
with the West in 2103. He also
argued that, perhaps more signifi-
cantly, the distinction between
East and West would no longer be
important then — an especially
relevant idea in this age of
increasing globalization.
The book is equally engaging
(his particular brand of humor
translates well onto the page) and Sarah Guan/The Stanford Daily
makes equally grand, cosmic pre- Classics and history Prof. Ian Morris.
dictions about the future of our
world. He spins a cohesive narra-
friday october 22 2010
3
CCRMA Cabaret
series kicks off
C
omposer, performer and director
Rinde Eckert will take center stage at
the Center for Computer Research in
Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) Friday night.
Eckert’s one-night show marks the return of
CCRMA Cabaret 2.0, a series put on by
CCRMA and Stanford Lively Arts.
In its second year, CCRMA Cabaret
places boundary-defying performers hired by
Lively Arts on the CCRMA stage for smaller
solo sets. For the events in winter and spring
quarter, students will work with the artists on
the technical side of the production.
“The initial idea was that artists who
were performing with larger acts for Lively
Arts, who had an interest in electronic or
experimental music, would be able to come
up to CCRMA for one night for a more inti-
mate gathering with students, and make their
music up here,” said CCRMA technical coor-
dinator Sasha Leitman, one of the event
organizers.
‘HAMLET’ TRAVELS TO ALCATRAZ
Scott D. Phillips plays Claudius in the We Players’ production of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet,’ uniquely staged on Alcatraz Island.
S
hakespeare’s “Hamlet” is one of the
most well-known plays in the world and
has been performed in hundreds of dif-
ferent venues by a variety of actors. However,
it is safe to say it has never been performed
like the We Players performed it on Alcatraz
Island. By using the island itself as a set,
4 and the rocky paths surrounding it, and also
intermission
With a long history of one-man shows,
Eckert was a logical first choice of performer,
according to Leitman. Eckert, who received
The Alpert Award in the Arts in 2009, started
off as a composer in the 1980s before
branching out into more experimental the-
ater. In his career, he has composed dance
scores, staged solo acts and had his work pro-
duced by the New York Theatre Workshop,
American Repertory Theatre and The
Foundry Theatre and Culture Project in New
York.
Eckert is involved with two other proj-
ects on campus this year: he will perform in
composer Steve Mackey’s “SLIDE” with the
Grammy Award-winning eighth blackbird
(March 5) and direct sound-sculptor
Gerhard Trimpin’s “The Gurs Zyklus,” a per-
formance piece based on the Nazi-era intern-
ment camp (May 14).
Friday’s show will include elements from
previous works, “Highway Ulysses” and “And
director Ava Roy transformed Shakespeare’s
well-known play into a fresh and unexpected
artistic experience.
This production of “Hamlet” was not set
on a traditional stage. Instead, the audience
followed the actors around to different loca-
tions on Alcatraz Island to watch the scenes
play out. The scenes occurred outside in
places like the old exercise area of the prison
inside locations such as the old hospital wing.
Minimal set pieces were used to guide the
God Created Great Whales,” based off of the
book “Moby Dick.” In addition, the audience
can expect pieces from his in-progress solo
work, “An Idiot Divine.”
“It’s a one-man show that mixes theater
and music,” Leitman said. “Guitars, some
piano, small percussion, flutes, accordion —
and he’ll play all of them.”
During winter quarter, students may
sign up to take MUSIC 250B, where they will
participate in the sound and control design
Courtesy Peter Merts
scenes, but the island served as the main
backdrop. Even the characters’ costumes
echoed this minimalist scheme, made with
mostly gray or dark colors and simple
designs.
The acting in the play was mostly strong.
The character of Hamlet, played by actress
(yes, actress) Andrus Nichols, however, was
somewhat flat. Throughout the play, the
actress focused on the more manic aspects of
Hamlet’s personality, playing the character as
extremely depressed, dramatic and flustered.
events
Rinde Eckert, Courtesy CCRMA
of two 40-foot teeter-totters with rolling
wheel speakers to be used in the CCRMA
Cabaret series.
Eckert performs tonight at 8 p.m. on the
CCRMA stage. Admission is free.
—marisa LANDICHO
contact marisa:
landicho@stanford.edu
theater
Although the performance was certainly
attention-grabbing, by leaving out the more
nuanced aspects of Hamlet’s character, the
play suffered in quality.
Scott D. Phillips, playing Claudius, was a
firm counterpoint to Hamlet. Equal parts
menacing, creepy, confident and tormented,
the actor brilliantly conveyed Claudius’s char-
acter while still communicating that he is,
without a doubt, the villain. Misti Boettiger,
playing Ophelia, was also strong, especially
during the character’s descent into madness.
She showed all of the vulnerability and inno-
cence of the character while lending her a
confident, self-assured edge in the first part of
the play, offering a stronger interpretation of
Ophelia’s character. Laertes, played by
Benjamin Stowe, also offered a convincing,
tragic performance as Ophelia sank into
madness.
The setting of Alcatraz Island was perfect
for “Hamlet.” The island is very bleak, usually
cold and famous for the old prison structure
that dominates it. The various unkempt ruins
around the island also contribute to its bleak,
decaying image. All of this perfectly mirrors
the atmosphere in “Hamlet,” which is set in
the coldest, darkest months of the year in
Denmark, a country Hamlet refers to as “a
prison.” Walking around the island with the
characters, it is easy to understand Hamlet’s
growing despair. The action of the play is so
much more real and engaging when it takes
place just feet away from you, rather than up
on an isolated stage. Roy makes excellent use
of various features of the island, as well as
minimal set decoration, to enhance themes in
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dance
LINES Ballet stretches its
limbs for the fall season
A
lonzo King’s LINES Ballet, based in
San Francisco, is well known for its
jaw-dropping collection of sinewy
limbs and impossible virtuosity, offering the
ideal vehicle for a choreographer’s every
whim and creative impulse. And King’s are
plenty.
LINES Ballet’s 2010 fall program opened
with “Dust and Light,” drifting through
Baroque instrumentals and choral odes.
Aided by partners, dancers skimmed the sur-
face of the floor and slid across it, suspended
over a shoulder or spun upside down, only to
be placed back on the ground without a
moment’s hesitation. A seamless continuity
of motion unfolded, one moment blending
effortlessly into the next, as the beautiful
fused with the extreme and even the slightly
awkward.
Simply adorned in dresses, skirts or
shorts in muted tones (costumes not always
segregated as expected by gender), bodies
traversed the stage and filled its three dimen-
sions with shapes and shadows. Women’s
skin-colored pointe shoes became natural
extensions of the human body; they quietly
magnified the scope of physical capacity
rather than acting merely as instruments to
don at show time.
Dancers frequently entered and exited
the stage, and the audience’s gaze fell upon a
quick succession of newly occupied spaces.
Only in the final stretch of the 30-minute
piece did the entire company return as a
group for the most eloquent passage of uni-
son, canonized and independent voices of
“Dust and Light.” Darkness descended upon
a last dancer, turning, back arched toward his
leg bent high behind him, as his silhouette
faded into black for intermission.
A provocative tale of adultery and mur-
der, “Scheherazade” shocked Parisian audi-
ences with a spectacle of the exotic and the
erotic, a bold and colorful display capitaliz-
ing on society’s predilection for Orientalism.
“The Book of One Thousand and One
Nights,” or “The Arabian Nights,” inspired
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s composition
loosely based on the tale of the Persian queen
“Scheherazade,” and provided source materi-
al for the ballet. Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes
exported a Russian vision of the East to cul-
tural centers of the West.
One hundred years later, King re-imag-
ined the 1910 collaboration among Michel
Fokine, Leon Bakst and Rimsky-Korsakov for
the 21st century, forgoing most literal aspects
of the original production.
King’s “Scheherazade” was performed to
live tabla music in a stunning architecture of
fabric and lighting. The set’s design
ensconced the stage in rich yellows and reds,
light ebbing and flowing against its solid and
translucent surroundings. Dancers rippled
their torsos and leapt through the air, draped
in billowing costume pieces that extended
their movement in time and space.
Ballets that lack explicit narrative ele-
ments are not uncommon, especially in the
U.S., whose tradition was shaped by George
Balanchine, master of the plot-less ballet.
Balanchine’s deep understanding of musical
qualities and their aesthetic repercussions, as
well as the inherently dramatic effect of plac-
ing bodies on a stage, produced work that
was both purposeful and compelling.
Fleeting moments in King’s choreogra-
phy evoked a captivating atmosphere, but at
times, it erred on indulgent rather than
inspiring. On the surface, the dancers’ unnat-
ural facility tapped physical expression to its
fullest potential. But the movement some-
times strayed from emotional and dramatic
cohesion that would give depth and reso-
nance to the beautiful shapes.
Still, LINES is a superb company of
international renown, home to artists of
exquisite talent. “Dust and Light” and
“Scheherazade” offered a feast for the eyes, an
evening of visual rapture to be enjoyed by
dance enthusiasts and novices alike.
LINES’ home season extends through
this Sunday, Oct. 24 at Yerba Buena Center
for the Arts in San Francisco.
—stav ZIV
contact stav: sziv@stanford.edu
CONTINUED FROM “HAMLET,”
PAGE 4
the play while remaining true to its
original meaning.
The roaming play was also accom-
panied by a small group of musicians,
who added a subtle soundtrack to cer-
tain scenes and played for the traveling
audience. The haunting trumpet
melodies and eerie cello tunes perfectly
accentuated the play’s mood. Also,
sometimes the chorus members would
sing along with the musicians to accen-
tuate certain moments, which worked
effectively at times, but sometimes
drowned out the actors’ lines, hamper-
ing the flow of the play.
Overall, this production of Hamlet
was extremely well done. The perfect
setting of the island coupled with
strong acting and flawless creation of a
somber, brooding mood made for a
unique theatric experience.
—halle EDWARDS
contact halle: halle@stanford.edu
Courtesy RJ Muna
Billowing fabric extends dancers’ move-
ment in time and space in LINES Ballet’s
performances of “Scheherazade” at
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
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CONTINUED FROM “PARTY ON
THE EDGE,” PAGE 3
“Singing inside Cantor was exciting
and different, especially early on in the
year as we’re trying to figure out our
group’s sound,” said Mixed Company’s
Jessica Asperger ‘13. “The acoustics were
great, and the audience was supportive
and energetic. I think the group had a
wonderful time singing for their friends
and various Rodin statues.”
Other solo performers could be found
around the museum in quieter galleries.
The party also encouraged apprecia-
tion for visual art with an exciting gallery
show on Mami Wata (mother water), an
African mythological spirit of a mermaid-
snake charmer, portrayed in vibrant mixed
media art including sculptures and masks.
The bright teal color of gallery walls
accentuated the water imagery in the
pieces, and made the exhibit very attrac-
tive overall. “Mami Wata: Arts for Water
Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas” contin-
ues through Jan. 2, 2011.
The main focus of the night, however,
was the Student Arts Grant Program. Each
grant recipient displayed his or her work
with an explanation of their project and
intentions as artists, using paintings, pho-
tography, film or mixed media art to con-
vey a message. The pieces were diverse —
a highlight being an interactive “Hit the
Lights” piece by Charity Fluharty ‘10. Most
of the artists studied visual art extracurric-
ularly — many were biology majors, in
fact.
Another crucial factor helped make
the event a success — the refreshments.
The free food was an immediate attraction
for most people, making the lawn a popu-
lar and social location.
Analogous to a classy garden party,
Cantor filled its tables with bite-size chick-
en and cranberry sandwiches, an assort-
ment of chips, fruit and warm churros for
dessert. To top it off, there was an endless
supply of Hot Tamales candies that could
be found on tables throughout the build-
ing.
Though mainly intended for student’s
enjoyment and appreciation of the arts,
the event seemed to benefit the museum
as well — tables with student membership
forms were packed. It seemed that every-
one, especially those for whom this was
their first “Party on the Edge,” wanted to
get involved in more such activities.
“Party on the Edge” was enjoyable for
the whole three hours, yet its open house
feel made it easy to come and go as one
pleased. What a pleasant experience it was
to walk through a vibrant exhibit with
friends, live music in the background,
churros in hand.
—nairi STRAUCH
contact nairi: nstrauch@stanford.edu
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Ninja, one third of South Africa’s Die Antwoord, spewed some of the most expletive lyrics of the entire Treasure Island Music Festival. Ranging
from “Evil Boy” to “Rich Bitch,” the adrenaline-jacked threesome embarked on a mixed-language rap journey Saturday afternoon.
W
e realized a couple things
after the fourth annual
Treasure Island Music
Festival this weekend:
1) Everything is much the same
as years past. There’s still the solid
network of free shuttle transporta-
tion to get you to the island. There’s
still the same layout: two stages,
Ferris wheel and assortment of art
and fashion stops. And there’s still
the spectacular sunset over the Bay,
framed by the Bay Bridge and that
beautiful fog-shrouded city skyline.
2) The wind blows. On an island
rising out of the San Francisco Bay,
there’s no hiding from the elements.
Plenty of festival-goers sporting their
skimpiest outfits for Saturday’s dance
party were forced into submission by
the cold. But it’s fall. In the Bay.
What could you expect?
3) The split-genre, with elec-
tronic Saturday and chill Sunday,
works. Round two’s indie-thon was
mellow and cozy compared to its
trip-the-light-fantastic predecessor,
giving something for everyone.
The festival, keeping to its for-
mula of small-scale, high quality acts
can count this year in its win col-
umn.
6 ness South Africa’s next great cul-
intermission
Intermission recaps TIMF2010
below.
Saturday
Within the first beats of Holy
Fuck’s opening Saturday afternoon,
lead keyboardist Brian Borcherdt was
simultaneously playing an antique
film strip — yes, that stuff used for
movies — and swallowing a mic. The
almost-electronic band avoided the
laptops and loops of their more digi-
tal compatriots, incorporating
instead a 35-mm film synchronizer, a
slew of kids’ keyboards and a top-
notch live bassist and drummer. The
result was four Canadians hunched
and enthusiastically bobbing in uni-
son over whale screeches and crash-
ing melodies.
Jamaica was a wildcard for festi-
val organizers. They had only played
two previous shows in the U.S.
before their TIMF2010 appearance,
and the duo’s bassist Florent Lyonnet
was temporarily M.I.A. due to
injury. But all fears were erased with
the first throwback chords of “Cross
the Fader.” Antoine Hilaire, the other
half of Jamaica, pulled it together
with his touring members to pro-
duce a jamming 40 minutes of head-
banging material off their debut,
“No Problem.”
Eager festival-goers gathered at
the Bridge Stage at 3 p.m. to wit-
tural creation, Die
Courtesy Brian Valdizno/Treeswingers
Antwoord. What they were treated to
was simply a mindfuck of antics. Yo-
Landi Vi$$er complimented her heli-
um-powered voice with bouts of
water-spitting into the crowd, sug-
gestive dancing and a knack for bar-
ing her butt for all to see. Ninja fol-
lowed up with his own debauchery,
displaying his infamous hip thrust
and getting intimate with the crowd
with an impromptu stage dive. “Be
happy!” Yo-Landi said as they exited.
We’re just happy we’re not that nut-
ters.
Following the guano-jacked Die
Courtesy Brian Valdizno/Treeswingers
France’s Jamaica played songs off their debut “No Problem” for
their Saturday set, singer Antoine Hilaire (left) praising the small
crowd’s dedication in the chilly conditions.
Antwoord, the New York duo
Phantogram brought a more ethere-
al and brooding intensity to the early
afternoon. Gliding through this
year’s “Eyelid Movies,” keyboardist
Sarah Barthel’s breathy and haunting
vocals wove in and out of Josh
Carter’s guitar. The pair’s lush
cadence had girls swaying in the
Treasure Island breeze, only inter-
rupted by the flashes of feedback
that organizers were eventually able
to tame.
Halfway through the windy day,
energy for many in the crowd began
Music, music, everywhere
to dwindle. Brooklyn-based !!! (pro-
nounced “chik-chik-chik”) stepped
up to the challenge and then some.
With a funk-infused sound, the boys
got the crowd dancing, doing its best
to imitate the moves of charismatic
lead singer Nic Offer, who gyrated
every chance that he had and yelled
to the crowd and the group of pho-
tographers, “I was made for the cam-
era!” Performing their collective
heart out to hits like “Me and
Giuliani Down By the School Yard”
and “The Hammer,” !!! left the audi-
ence with no doubt that they were,
in fact, made for the camera and
made for the dance floor.
Perhaps the biggest surprise of
the day was Austrian super-duo
Kruder and Dorfmeister. Playing a
live set after a 10-year hiatus, the
founders of G-Stone were dressed
sharply in slick suits, standing
behind and below what looked like
an immense desk of light, a veritable
wall of electronic fireworks, Jackson
Pollock-esque lights looking like
splashes of paint and an otherwise
constant assault on the eyes. With
two equally well-dressed MCs to
hype the crowd up, dauntingly
describing “the bass line that is
sweeping the nation,” Kruder and
Dorfmeister stood coolly over the
turntables, with a bossanova dub
sound that kept the audience danc-
ing and simultaneously in a hypnotic
trance.
Indisputably the biggest rock
star at the festival, Canadian-born DJ
Joel Zimmerman, the man behind
Deadmau5, has created a cult of per-
sonality behind his sinister Mickey
Mouse head. With countless atten-
dees present just to witness his hour-
long set, Deadmau5 did what he
does best and let his mau5 cube and
music speak for itself. With one song
supported by hype-woman SOFI, the
rest of the set left the crowd
entranced and dancing to hits like
“Some Chords,” “Sometimes Things
Get, Whatever” and “Ghosts N’
Stuff,” the latter of which had
Zimmerman step out of the LED
Mau5head and throw on a minimal-
istic sheet to engage with the crowd.
Departing memorably with a middle
finger to the crowd, the too-short set
further proved that house music and
inspired branding has created the
biggest dance superstar since Daft
Punk.
Miike Snow was slotted at the
Tunnel stage behind Deadmau5, and
fans had to decide whether to relin-
quish territory for LCD or be con-
Intermission reports from Treasure Island
tent with hearing the Swedish outfit
from afar. The latter folk missed a
fog and light, wall of sound display
that boasted six masked men
arranged on equipment eerily similar
to the film “Metropolis.” The set,
minus the kick-ass closer, was drawn
from the band’s eponymous album,
though the live songs abandoned the
gloss and cheerful recorded elements
and instead turned up the lurking
bass lines to full sonic tilt. Favorites
“Silvia” and “Animal” produced the
expected dance pits, but it was the
quirky closing cover of Vampire
Weekend’s “The Kids Don’t Stand a
Chance” that lit up the San Francisco
skyline, singer Andrew Wyatt inton-
ing, “Kids . . . don’t . . . stand . . .
chance” to exit the night.
LCD Soundsystem’s Saturday
set proved to be a set of contradic-
tions. Closing out the Bridge Stage
on day one, they were the only head-
liner on the main stage not to use
the massive LCD display behind
them, opting for a simpler approach
with flashing spotlights. On the
audio front, the band opted to play a
smattering of offerings from newest
album, “This Is Happening,” opening
with the popular “Dance Yrself
Clean” and later playing “You
Surfer Blood’s 45-minute set on Sunday night was by no means enough for the gathered fans, a large
contingent of whom stayed by the stage afterward begging for an encore. The fest’s rigid schedule
Courtesy Brian Valdizno/Treeswingers made extended sets impossible, to the consternation of the girls who threw their bras to the young
band.
Belle & Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch (top) stole Sunday night’s closing
show with his delicate running man and hypnotic dancing. Between
songs, the singer pulled up lucky fans to dance on stage for “There’s
Too Much Love” (spotted among them: Surfer Blood singer JP Pitts).
Wanted A Hit.”
From Murphy playing a double
cowbell to Pat Mahoney’s frenetic
drumming to Nancy Whang’s key-
board command, these seasoned vets
created music that’s inescapable and
infectious in a style that’s unmistak-
ably their own. Who else could write
a song which has the crowd scream-
ing “Yeah” for 10 minutes? And for
the final contradiction of the night,
the band played the beautiful
“Home” when no one really wanted
to head for the exit, unable to play
an encore and eventually walking off
stage into the cold San Francisco
night.
Sunday
Ra Ra Riot took to the Bridge
Stage early Sunday — so early that
many festival-goers, discouraged by
the rain, hadn’t shown up yet. Still,
the band managed to pull it off,
trekking through the showers to try
newer songs like “Boy” and
“Shadowcasting.” And there was a
little something new for everyone.
Lead singer Wes Miles — who had
some vision problems without his
glasses — took over guitar duties
from Milo Bonacci, cellist Alexandra
Lawn tested her pipes on “You and I
Courtesy Brian Valdizno/Treeswingers
friday october 22 2010
music
Know” and some of the crowd was
watching their first set of the day in
ponchos.
The members of 90s punk-rock
Superchunk may kind of resemble
suburban parents, but hey, at least
they seem like cool suburban par-
ents. The band, touring for “Majesty
Shredding,” their first album in near-
ly a decade, were self-deprecating
between and exuberant during
songs, from their ridiculous self
introduction to the kick-drum bust-
ing bridge of new “Digging for
Something” to the squeaky-clean
guitar line of “Hello Hawk” off
1999’s “Come Pick Me Up.”
Highlight “Crossed Wires” had a
jump-right-in chorus that appealed
to all generations assembled.
The perpetually adorable Zooey
Deschanel and effortlessly cool M.
Ward of duo She & Him were a fun,
saccharine blast to the overcast skies
— call it suffocation by cotton
candy. The producer-actress combo’s
“Volume One” and “Volume Two”
provided pleasant Beach Boys-tinged
material for the afternoon set, tightly
toeing the line between uplifting and
cutesy in the almost-heartbreaking
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“Avleketenon” and “Avleke,” Courtesy Fifty One Fine Art Photography
Meet the Vodounon
F
or the opening of its new
exhibition,
“Vodoun/Vodounon:
Portraits of Initiates,” the Cantor
Arts Center has literally been
blessed. On the opening night of
the exhibition last Wednesday, Oct.
13, local Bay Area Vodoun practi-
tioners blessed the space, enacting
an hour-long ceremony outside the
museum. This display of religious
significance is in line with the larg-
er exhibition, which features the
Belgian photographer Jean-
Dominique Burton’s photographic
series from 2007 of initiates into
the Vodoun religion of the
Republic of Benin in West Africa.
The exhibition features 25
photographic diptychs that pair
black-and-white portraits of
Vodounon, the priest and priest-
esses of the Vodoun religion, with
color photographs of their conse-
crated shrines. In these pairings,
the photographic series provides an
intimate look into the aesthetic
beauty and sacred significance of
both practioner and religious
object. Taken together, we come to
understand the Vodoun religion as
one of both people and practice.
Before entering the exhibition
gallery itself, the first diptych of
“Vodoun/Vodounon: Portraits of
Initiates” makes an appearance in
the Cantor Arts Center’s monu-
mental entrance hall. In this lobby,
a photograph of the elderly
Combethe Andee
Doulolougba/Dan Heke Cotonou is
paired with her sacred shrine, both
large-scale hanging prints on linen.
The considerable scale of this pair-
8 stepping into Paul Gauguin’s space,
intermission
ing gives the Vodounon and her
shrine a force that is larger than
life.
Though much smaller, four
similar hanging-linen life-size
prints comprise the center space of
the exhibition gallery’s interior.
Along the space of the walls, even
smaller photographic pairings
round out the exhibition’s display.
In the varying sizes of these paired
photographs, we encounter the
Vodounon and their shrines as
both grandiose emblems of reli-
gious potency and intimate por-
traits of religious earnestness.
Two particular striking pairs of
Vodounon and their shrines are of
note. A stunning portrait of
Allognikin Touna De Souza
Marcelle/Shango-Yalode Pahou is
paired with the Vodounon’s shrine,
comprised of ceramic pots, bowls,
mortar and cloth. The Vodounon
sitter’s solemn beauty shines in the
medium of black-and-white pho-
tography, which highlights the con-
trast between the figure’s dark skin
and her white headdress.
Interestingly, this Vodounon’s
shrine, with its anthropomorphic
shape and clothed top, bears strong
resemblance to the head-dressed
Vodounon herself. In a similar
manner, the photograph next to
this series features Odjouman
Monlade/Chango Pobe, whose pat-
terned headpiece visually rhymes
with the dynamic patterned cloth
of his shrine. In the similarity
between religious practitioner and
religious object, the inextricable
connection between communicator
and conduit with the gods is made
explicit.
Further, the thorough wall
labels throughout the space of the
gallery elucidate the various tenants
of the Vodounon religion. It is
through one of these wall labels
that we come to understand the
significance of Mawu-Lisa as the
god of the Vodoun religion, com-
prised of the Mawu female princi-
ple and Lisa male principle. As a
result, one sees the near-equal
number of Vodoun priestesses and
priests pictured here as a reflection
of the equal reverence for the femi-
nine and masculine in the Vodoun
religion.
From these wall labels, we also
learn about important figures of
the Vodoun religion, such as
Sakpata, Shango, Dan and Ogou.
After reading about these legends,
significant aspects of the shrines
come in to focus, such as the cen-
trality of materials from the earth,
as well as metallurgy.
In the vast display of Vodoun
shrines on view in the exhibition,
we come to see these objects as
bricolage of a wide-ranging variety
of materials, including jewelry, can-
dles, feathers, shells, books and cig-
arettes. Moving past aesthetic beau-
ty, these are not simply art objects
as we are perhaps normally accus-
tomed, but also highly charged
symbols of spiritual worship.
The question becomes, with
what does one walk away from
these portraits of religious initiates
and their objects of worship? In
describing the exhibition’s stakes,
curator Barbara Thompson writes:
“The Western myth of ‘voodoo’ —
as it has been widely popularized
by Hollywood films and other
media — has painted a dark vision
of a world filled with occult prac-
tices, black magic, zombies, voodoo
dolls and witch doctors. Far
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IMPRESSIONISM ON DISPLAY
T
he second of two installations
from Musee d’Orsay’s perma-
nent collection of
Impressionist works, “Van Gogh,
Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-
Impressionist Masterpieces,” was dis-
played in only one museum in all of
North America — the de Young
Museum in San Francisco. This
might explain the seas of observers
who have swarmed de Young’s halls
since Sept. 25. These late 19th-centu-
ry paintings have been drilled into
our generation’s understanding of art
and history — whether through text-
Van Gogh’s “Bedroom at Arles,” Courtesy Musee d’Orsay
book covers or oversized prints deco-
rating your roommate’s wall, you
know a Van Gogh and can recognize
a Cézanne.
The first room displayed seven
incredibly famous Van Gogh paint-
ings, including his vibrant blue-green
“Bedroom at Arles”(1889), a prickly
self-”Portrait of the Artist”(1887) and
of course, some flowers. Van Gogh’s
“Starry Night Over the Rhone”
(1888) had the most heads floating
around it, making it nearly impossi-
ble to zoom in on the shimmering
painting. In the same room hung the
works of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,
an artist whose color palette and
stroke pattern intimately reflected
Van Gogh’s.
Developing chronologically, the
next room housed Paul Cézanne’s
masterpieces, depicting onions in his
self-explanatory “Still Life With
Onions” (1896-98), handsome nudes
(“Bathers”) and some fruits
(“Kitchen Table”). Another distin-
guished presence in the room was
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, displayed in
several large works, including his
famous “A Dance in the Country”
(1883).
And then the world got brighter
portrayed in 10 works, from the yel-
art
low Christ “Self-Portrait” (1889) to
various paintings of exotic Tahitian
women. This signified the shift into
Cloisonnism, a style of post-
Impressionism defined by flat and
colorful forms, boldly contoured and
highly abstracted. Several artists, such
as Paul Sérusier and Émile Bernard
helped create this form, having
worked closely with Gauguin. One of
the most striking pictures is Bernard’s
“Madeleine in the Bois d-Amour,” a
painting of Gauguin’s sister, who
Bernard later fell madly in love with.
The final movement in the
exhibit showcased Les Nabis, a group
of avant-garde artists highly influ-
enced by Impressionism. Their works
ranged from a decorative style to
Japanese prints, from miniature can-
vases to panoramic paintings cover-
ing entire walls. Two artists, Pierre
Bonnard and Jean-Édouard Vuillard,
explored emotionally charged scenes
of domestic life; Bonnard’s “The
White Cat” was the most famous of
these decorative paintings (perhaps
because the cat is both perfect and
fluffy). Their works mirrored the
brush strokes and vague, dream-like
feel of early Impressionist works. But
artists such as Henri Rousseau, in
works like “The Snake Charmer,”
explored divergent color schemes and
symbolic, unrealistic imagery.
The images in the exhibit had
both vivid reactions to Impressionism
and subdued reflections, so the over-
all experience felt both cohesive and
dizzyingly impressive.
“Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne
and Beyond” runs through Jan. 18 at
the M.H. de Young Museum in San
Francisco.
—armine PILIKIAN
contact armine:
arminep@stanford.edu
 movies
P
art teen movie, part serious
look at the lives of the men-
tally ill, “It’s Kind of a Funny
Story” explores what would happen
if a typical high school student had
to stay in a psychiatric hospital. The
film is based on the novel of the
same name by Ned Vizzini and
directed by Anna Boden and Ryan
Fleck, who previously collaborated
on 2008’s “Sugar.”
The film revolves around Craig
(Keir Gilchrist), a depressed 16-
year-old high school student strug-
gling with typical teenage troubles:
pressure to get into a good college,
the vital stats
Life As We
Know It
A
ON
“Life as We Know It” is a com-
edy/drama that explores the possi-
bility of what it feels like to wake
up one day and find that “life as
we know it is never the same,” as
tagged in the trailer. The movie
follows a classic romantic TV
drama plot, except it is a bit more
unexpected, more dramatic and
more grown-up. But while the
movie gets a round of applause for
its sweetness and its seemingly
awesome suspense in the title, it
simply falls flat on viewers’ expec-
tation of a solid, funny, romantic
drama.
The movie starts with an awk-
ward first date that kills whatever
love seed is planted between the
two main characters Holly
Berenson (Katherine Heigl from
“Grey’s Anatomy” fame) and Eric
Messer (Josh Duhamel, mid-
”Transformers” run). But life never
happens the way you want it to,
and of course, this time life does
Courtesy Focus Features
fear of disappointing his parents
and angst over the fact that he is in
love with his best friend Aaron’s
(Thomas Mann) girlfriend Nia
(Zoë Kravitz). Coupled with his
depression, these problems cause
Craig to seriously contemplate sui-
cide, prompting him to check him-
self into a psychiatric hospital.
Most of the movie centers on
Craig’s five days in the psychiatric
ward. There he meets patients like
Bobby (Zach Galifianakis), a trou-
bled man who has been in and out
of the psychiatric ward for years,
and Noelle (Emma Roberts), a fel-
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its trick as well, bringing the two
rivals back together by throwing at
them a life-size baby. And this is
where all the fun starts.
The baby’s arrival is explained
in true Hollywood fashion. Holly’s
best friend and Eric’s best friend
are married, so at every get-
together and every party, the pair
engages in countless sarcastic
fights. Soon, their best friends have
a daughter, Sophie. Both Holly and
Eric rejoice in this little precious
thing, but not for long. A car acci-
dent makes Sophie an orphan, and
compounding Holly and Eric’s
grief is the news that they both are
the newly appointed guardians for
little Sophie. Dumbfounded, Holly
and Eric now have to work hard to
raise Sophie and to figure out their
personal lives.
The movie has all its elements
right: the hilarious adventure with
changing baby diapers, the frus-
trating but not heart-wrenching
low teenager who struggles with
self-injury.
During his stay, Craig starts to
put his problems in perspective
with everyone else’s and realizes
that his problems pale in compari-
son with his blessings — a good
family, a great school and amazing
prospects. This realization spurs
Craig to reach out to his fellow
patients while embracing some of
his neglected hobbies, like drawing.
Although Gilchrist carries the
movie well, Galifianakis is the real
acting standout. He balances a
calm, witty persona with occasional
dramatic outbursts to create a char-
acter that is funny, realistic and
troubled without being melodra-
matic. Roberts is also charming and
likeable as Noelle, Craig’s eventual
love interest.
Even though the film is well-
acted, the plot is predictable and the
ending feels a bit cliché, despite the
narrator’s attempt to break the
fourth wall and convince the audi-
ence it is not. The movie also relies
on breaking the narrative with short
montages highlighting the many
facets of Craig’s life, which begin to
feel overdone as the film wears on.
Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
misconceptions and the sad but
not tear-teasing pursuit to the air-
port. The adorable baby Sophie
easily brings about happiness to
create the necessary light-hearted
atmosphere. In addition to that,
the snippets of big and small fights
between the “single status” couple
are fun to watch.
However, maybe the touch of
classic is too heavy or the landed-
with-a-baby idea is just not new
enough. The movie is cute, but not
enough to send people flying back
to watch it a second time like the
movie “Knight and Day” does. The
commonplace humor of dealing
with babies manages to induce
some giggles but never whole-
hearted laughs; the classic love plot
succeeds in producing a love
drama but largely fails to grab the
audience’s emotions.
The whole movie lacks the
cohesiveness that builds a memo-
rable love story. Maybe it’s the way
However, the film over-
comes its predictable plot
and montage-heavy
structure with clever,
witty writing. There are
plenty of hilarious one-
liners and jokes, usually
courtesy of Galifianakis’s
Bobby. The awkward
tension between the
patients of the ward also
makes for some good laughs, as
does the love triangle between Nia,
Noelle and Craig.
A lot of the fun of “Funny
Story” comes from the classic teen
movie tropes it employs — an
inserted musical sequence (com-
plete with sequin-heavy costumes),
high school drama and illicit
escapes from the psychiatric ward
set to an upbeat indie soundtrack.
However, through Galifianakis’s
character, the film also provides a
serious glimpse into the life of
someone who has a chronic mental
illness and how that can affect his
family, home and happiness.
Along with this insight, “Funny
Story” offers an interesting perspec-
tive about the lives of overachieving
high school students and how the
the movie is portrayed; maybe it’s
the plot itself. The love is just not
deep and attractive enough to etch
itself into your memory instead of
straying into oblivion when the
movie is over.
So, in a word, no serious
action, no love at first sight, but
more ups and downs of raising a
baby, more balancing work life
with a baby and more “life as we
know it.” It would be most suitable
for dating couples and a senior
audience, since it is warm, mostly
gentle and glowing with love.
—cindy NI
contact cindy: hni@stan-
ford.edu
friday october 22 2010
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pressure to succeed can overshadow
the simpler joys of being a teenager.
This is underscored when, in a seri-
ous moment, Bobby tells Craig that
he would give anything to walk in
his shoes for just a day, because
Craig has so much going for him.
It’s a message that will certainly be
well-received by the average high
school or college student.
“It’s Kind of a Funny Story”
takes a typical teen movie and sub-
verts it with a serious storyline
about mental illness. Boosted by
strong acting and solid writing, it
makes for a fun — if slightly pre-
dictable — movie-going experience.
—halle EDWARDS
contact halle: halle@stanford.edu
CONTINUED FROM
“VODOUNON,” PAGE 8
removed from this Westerner mis-
conception, the Vodoun religion
places primacy on calmness, intro-
spection and order.” In our
encounter with these intimate por-
traits of “calmness, introspection
and order,” we develop a reverence
and respect for the practitioners
and their objects.
As another helpful wall text
describes, the religion of Vodoun is
“an ever-growing pantheon of new
and foreign spirits,” which, as a
result of the African Diaspora, has
circulated throughout the world to
Benin, Togo, Ghana, Haiti, the
Dominican Republic and the
United States. Practiced by over 60
million people, Vodoun is a diverse
and vibrant set of religious prac-
tices, and the photographs in
“Vodoun/Vodounon: Portraits of
Initiates” do well to bring this reali-
ty to light.
“Vodoun/Vodounon: Portraits
of Initiates” runs until March 20,
2011.
—alex FIALHO
contact alex: afialho@stan-
ford.edu
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Treasure Island
CONTINUED FROM “TREASURE ISLAND,” PAGE 7
“Thieves” and lonely pick-me-up
“Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?”
Maybe the world isn’t ready for
Monotonix yet. Actually, the world
will never be ready for the three-
piece freak punk act from Israel.
The band set up their gear in the
middle of the crowd (ignoring a
perfectly serviceable Tunnel Stage),
stripped down to their colorful
boxers and spit on everyone
around them, unleashing a flurry
of pandemonium and starting the
first mosh of the weekend. One
moment singer Ami Shalev was
free-styling in Hebrew about pot,
and the next he was singing the
Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night.” One
moment he was climbing on audi-
ence members, and the next he was
banging his drum held atop peo-
ple’s heads. It was a daze, a set that
will probably go down as the crazi-
est ever at any TIMF and one that
should have come with a warning
from the Surgeon General.
Broken Social Scene, with a
lineup led by Kevin Drew and
Brendan Canning, came prepared
for the elements. Even though the
weather was unforgiving — winds
blustered across the Bay and
around the stage — the band was
forgiving, playing a number of
songs off their newest LP,
“Forgiveness Rock Record.” From
10
intermission
fashion finds
Merissa Ren/Staff Photographer
“All to All,” which featured the
beautiful voice of Lisa Lobsinger, to
“Chase Scene,” the songs sounded
exactly like the recorded cuts. Yet it
wasn’t all new, as tunes like “Fire
Eyed Boy” and “Anthems for a
Seventeen-Year-Old Girl” were
thrown into the mix with dramatic
effect. With that many people on
stage pulling the strings, you always
knew nothing could go wrong.
Excited for headliners Belle &
Sebastian later in the day, Surfer
Blood came out swinging. The
band, led by singer JP Pitts, broke
out into “Twin Peaks” and later
crowd-favorite “Take It Easy.”
Sporting a screw-it-let’s-just-jam
attitude, Pitts led the way, testing
out the crowd-surfing waters, hold-
ing nothing back — including a
cover of Pavement’s “Box Elders”
— in a 45-minute set.
Keeping the Bridge Stage
classy, The National aired out the
excellent “High Violet,” released
earlier this year, for a packed-in
crowd. Singer Matt Berninger
delivered his desperation-grasping
lyrics in a baritone loaded with
ennui and poise. Their full sound
reached its raw and transcending
pinnacle at the closing “Terrible
Love,” inspiring an island of waving
lighters and cell phone screens. But
the band wasn’t all seriousness,
I
t was wet. Security had forbid-
den my newly purchased
umbrella (it has umbrellas on it
— super meta), and as much as I
loved the undeniable sex appeal of
garbage bag ponchos, I was oh-so-
relieved when the sun finally start-
ed to peek through the Bay Area
gloom Sunday afternoon. As miser-
able as standing ankle deep in mud
surrounded by clear plastic-bag
people was, Treasure Island Music
Festival was definitely a fascinating
study in the intersection of hobo
and hipster.
Luckily, the fashionably
adamant few braved the rain in
their Salvation Army coats and best
boots. Joking aside, I managed to
meet some incredibly cool girls
who managed to balance the pre-
tension with unique pieces and gra-
ciousness. Each of my three sub-
jects created great looks around her
coat. From the perfect camel find
to a voluminous bat wing blanket
to that aesthetically definitive green
lyrics aside, considering the oddball to Belle & Sebastian, the iconic
dedications — one to Berninger’s indie band that provided the
manhood — and laughs between soundtrack to the assembled
songs. crowd’s adolescent and gawky
Post-National, Oakland rock- years. The five-piece string accom-
ers Rogue Wave closed out the paniment and rotating instrument
Tunnel Stage with their brand of roster filled the bleak island with a
handclapping, harmonizing, not- luscious soundscape, but the TIMF
quite-lo-fi rock. Backed by the finale was ultimately made great by
familiar Bay, the band pulled out the experienced musicianship of
the fake punches, bells and waltz the veteran performers. Every
beat for “Bird On A Wire,” while agony-dripping, soul-gazing word
their “Solitary Gun,” dedicated to of singer Stuart Murdoch was audi-
Oscar Grant, the man shot by an ble all the way back to the glowing
Oakland BART police officer last Ferris wheel, recreating classics
year, was the most timely barb of “Lord Anthony,” “The Boy with an
the festival. Arab Strap” and “Get Me Away
The night, however, belonged From Here, I’m Dying” in their
Monotonix, Courtesy Brian Valdizno/Treeswingers
fashion
coat that radiated her personality,
each created the ensemble.
That’s not to say that each girl
was just a well-selected coat; I was
most impressed by the little details
that they described as little treas-
ures. One girl smiled and swished
her feather drop earrings from a
boutique she works at, and another
had a statement ring per grandma
and some not-so-swishable ear-
rings made of authentic rattlesnake
fangs. I usually find that festival-
wear tends to blend into some mass
reduction of an Urban Outfitters
catalogue, but despite the occasion-
al tight-pants-flannel-flock, I was
impressed by the personal style
statements that shined through the
rain and the wind.
—merissa REN
contact merissa:
merissar@stanford.edu
undiminished, self-conscious glory.
Fittingly, the band ended on
“Sleep the Clock Around,” ending
the fest with Murdoch’s call,
“Everybody is happy, they are glad
that they came/Then you go to the
place where you’ve finally found/You
can look at yourself, and sleep the
clock around.”
— annika HEINLE, marisa
LANDICHO, ryan MAC
A version of this review appeared at
Treeswingers.com on Sunday, Oct.
17, and Monday, Oct. 18.
 television
The maidens of ‘Mad Men’
A
s with the first three seasons
of the now-canonical epic
tale of Dick “Donald
Draper” Whitman, last week’s sea-
son finale was both an ending and
a beginning. Thematically, we saw
the end of Don’s alcoholic, single
purgatory as well as the definitive
end to the Drapers of Ossining.
More important, however, as
implied by the episode’s title
“Tomorrowland,” we saw a begin-
ning that attempts to ignore har-
bingers from Sterling Cooper
Draper Pryce’s first year while try-
ing to reinstate the veneer of peace
from seasons past. Things are about
to get explicit in the most literal of
senses, so don’t read on unless you
prefer my words to producer
Matthew Weiner’s (and if you do,
why are you reading this column?).
In the finale, we find the main
cast of “Mad Men” forced to actual-
ize their plans to reinvent them-
selves — through a proposal of
marriage, through relocation,
through lies or through sheer
pluck. Dick Whitman has premised
his entire life on this phoenix-like
process of rebirth and new begin-
nings, but, now that his two identi-
ties have begun to converge, he
must redefine Don Draper rather
than recede into Dick Whitman.
Dr. Faye Miller represents the latter,
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as she proves time and time again
that she knows and understands
Dick; for this very reason, Don
chooses to propose to Megan
instead of Dr. Faye.
The reborn Don, who swims
daily and speaks in voice over to
The Stones’ “I Can’t Get No
Satisfaction,” needs to sustain that
veneer with someone like Megan,
fragile and unnatural as it may be.
When Don tells Betty he’s marrying
Megan on the final night in
Ossining, it’s a return to season
two’s penultimate episode, “The
Mountain King,” in which Dick
tells Anna about Betty. “I met a
girl,” he says. “She’s so beautiful and
happy . . . I just like the way she
laughs, the way she looks at me.”
These sentiments are implied in all
of Don’s California interactions
with Megan — from her adage
about no use crying over spilled
milkshakes to her glamorous L.A.
clubbing look. And just as Dick gets
a divorce from Anna to marry
Betty, he gets a ring from Anna to
propose to Megan. With Anna
gone, Betty is the new, knowing ex-
wife — a title we never expected to
see her wear so well.
While Don has the masculine
luxury of dumping Faye over the
phone (with Megan presumably lis-
tening in), Betty is the captain of
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Pizza-maker Victor Hernandez spins pizza dough in preparation for
an order at Howie’s Artisan Pizza in Palo Alto.
her own Titanic. Despite her mini-
mal onscreen presence this season,
we have seen Betty lose all her
power to her husband, her daugh-
ter, her therapist and even Glen.
Don’s seemingly ambivalent adul-
tery, for all the trauma it caused
her, gave Betty the upper hand in
their relationship, eventually result-
ing in the knowledge of his true
identity as Dick Whitman. Now,
Betty, surrounded by adults as
opposed to being alone, tells Henry
Francis, “I wanted a fresh start,
okay? I’m entitled to that.” To
which he replies, “There is no fresh
start! Lives carry on.” His wise
response is a warning to the view-
ers of the show — any argument
that beginnings are not without
baggage is misguided, particularly
about a show helmed by a man as
complex and character-obsessed as
series creator Weiner.
Take, for example, Joan. Joan is
literally carrying in her uterus the
baggage of her affair with Roger
Sterling, which predates even the
show’s pilot. As much as this is a
show about the revolutionary
1960s, Joan reneged on her abor-
tion — for reasons personal more
than moral — and will try to con-
vince her husband Greg that the
white-haired baby is his. In the
same way that Don invests in
Megan in part to secure a good
future for Sally, Bobby and Gene,
Joan hedges her bets with the next
generation in order to save her
marriage. For Joan, the new direc-
tor of agency operations, the new
era means a change in semantics
and nothing more.
Among the show’s four
leads, Peggy exemplifies change
achieved through merit. The
other women manipulate their
way, with babies and tantrums for
Joan and Betty respectively, into
power, and Don wants nothing
more than to relinquish some of
his onto the innocent Megan, but
Peggy is ready to carpe diem. She
embodies the Topaz stockings she
books as a client: the same Peggy
Olson underneath it all, donning
the skins of girlfriend, boss,
apprentice and modern woman.
| continued on page 12 |
“Pizza” can mean very different
things to different people. From the
ultra-thin slices of New York-style
pizza to the heart-clogging donut with
cheese that Chicagoans call pizza, it is
not always clear what you are going to
get when you walk into an independ-
ent pizza operator. Perhaps the confu-
sion stems from the fact that the his-
tory of the plate is uncertain. The dish
has roots that appear to span at least
ancient Greek, Roman, Babylonian
and Egyptian cultures, although at
least in name it might be most closely
associated with the Romans, who
contributed the word “picea,” mean-
ing “the blackening of bread in an
oven.”
Fortunately for visitors to Howie’s
Artisan Pizza, you can be fairly cer-
tain that you will find something to
enjoy. In general, expect a dough
roughly on par with something New
York-style and a light approach to
cheese and sauce that lets the other
toppings shine through well.
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“Mad Men,” Courtesy AMC
REMOTE
WHAT TO WATCH NEXT
WEEK
Sunday at 10 p.m.: Kristen
Wiig continues her guest star
stint on “Bored to Death”
(HBO)
Monday at 10:30 p.m.: “The
Big C” enters the home
stretch, having improved
markedly since its August
premiere (Showtime)
Wednesday at 8 p.m.: If you
care about “Undercovers,”
get your friends together to
watch it live to amp up the
show’s Nielsen rating (NBC)
food
Howie’s has a casual sit-down
vibe. The venue could function well
for lunch or dinner with friends. The
décor gives off a bit of a sense of
“chain restaurant,” but it fits overall
with the Town & Country Village air.
Many of the pizzas at Howie’s
were excellent. The “Sun-Dried
Tomato Pesto & Scallion” pizza was
absolutely fantastic. The sun-dried
tomato pesto was perfectly sweet, and
the dish was refreshingly light. “The
Works” was interesting as well. The
pizza was a great mix of sweet (red
onion and sweet peppers) and savory
(pepperoni, sausage and salami) that
balances an otherwise motley crew of
ingredients. The same wonderful bal-
ance was achieved with the “Cherry
Tomato, Smoked Mozz’, Salami” pizza.
The plate also effused a particularly
pleasing aroma that is difficult to for-
get.
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Other pizzas were good but not
great. The “Broccoli Raab & Bagna
Cauda” pizza was extremely heavy on
the garlic, which is wonderful for
those that love garlic (like myself) but
made it difficult to eat alongside other
dishes or pizzas. The “Baked Potato
Pizza” had an amazing rosemary fla-
with the pepper in the sausage com-
ing through at just the right strength;
the onion, however, was not as sweet
as it could have been. The “Pizza
Margherita” was crisp, light and fla-
vorful with a beautiful aroma, but it
was a bit lacking in basil content.
The only disappointment was the
rant.
Pizza is not the most complicated
dish. When looking for pizza, what’s
needed is a restaurant committed to
fresh ingredients with interesting
combinations of toppings, and
Howie’s generally succeeds on those
dimensions. There is certainly still

Smooching to victory vor to it; however, the potato and

bacon made the dish a bit heavy, and
the starchiness of the potato made it
“Pepperoni” pizza. The dish was
incredibly mundane. Nothing made it
standout from any other pepperoni
room for other pizza places in the
rolodex, but Howie’s is “definitely
worth trying.”

Y
our eyes meet. The light of
the Quad delicately outlines
the features on his or her
face. The intriguing stranger steps
forward; you step forward. While
most encounters such as this con-
tinue with both parties making
casual small talk, tonight, the lips
are being put to a different use.
Ah, Full Moon on the Quad.
Roxy’s a classy lady, apart from
a few smoothed-over scandals in
her past. As such, she knows better
than to reveal her true age — but
it’s safe to say that this lip-locking
initiation is not new territory for
the Sass. And a few years under her
belt have certainly left Roxy with
some foolproof strategies to make
the most of your mouthful.
So those who can: do. Those
who can’t, pay attention — then go
out and kiss like it ain’t nobody’s
business.
First, the preparations: fresh
breath and reinforcements are a
must. For the sake of public health
and general happiness, Roxy wants
to remind everyone that Listerine
is, at least for tonight, man’s (and
woman’s) best friend. Also be sure
to bring a trusted companion along
for the ride — not for smooching
(why stick to one when you can
have many?), but for wing-man-
ning. Someone’s gotta jump on that
grenade.
Another oft-overlooked tip:
don’t bring anything you could eas-
ily drop. Roxy speaks from experi-
ence here — no one, especially
Roxy, wants to miss out on 15 min-
utes of make-outs while searching
for a dropped phone in a crowd of
legs. It’s less exciting than it sounds. difficult to really appreciate the pizza and is likely only on the menu —josh GLUCOFT
In terms of technique, a few gruyere underneath. The “Sausage & to please those who were dragged into contact josh : glucoft@stanford.edu
pecks of advice go a long way. Roasted Red Onion” pizza was solid, coming to an “artisanal” pizza restau-
When it comes to tongue, the word
of the hour is “refined.” Holding
back might not go hand-in-hand
with the Four Loko you chugged
earlier that night, but no one likes a
kiss after which a tongue brush is
needed. In defense of balance, how-
ever, Roxy has to add that an empty
mouth with no tongue is nothing
less than disconcerting. Moderation
is sexy.
As for teeth, there’s a time and
a place, and it’s not here. Roxy has
been caught in the traps of “chom-
pers,” and the experience was both
figuratively and literally scarring.
Avoid.
The bottom line is: if someone
sucks at kissing, assess — can it be
fixed with a quick tip for a more
pleasurable rendezvous? Then drop
a hint and be nice about it. If
someone literally sucks, run away.
Roxy’s goals for Monday night
are simple. Show the freshmen
(and sophomores) for whom this is
the first Full Moon that kissing
randos can be all in good fun,
assuming you don’t emerge from
the fray with a disease, a traumatiz-
ing experience or a creepy grad
stalker. The thrill of the chase in
this night’s environment is one
unlike any other — so join Roxy
and suspend your judgment, close
your eyes and dive in, lips first.
—roxy SASS
contact roxy: inter mis-
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Ironically, her success and Don’s are
related like sine and cosine waves,
converging only in moments such
as “The Suitcase.” Peggy arguably
also has the most consistently good
material on the show, from the pre-
viously mentioned episode to her
delightful exchange with Joan in
the finale.
My final impression of this
season is that it has been delicious-
ly difficult to locate in that it’s not a
workplace melodrama like season
three or a domestic tragedy like
season two. Season four saw the
rise of Sally, Don’s fall from grace,
the death of Anna and hell for
SCDP; the only prediction I have
for season five, the last one guaran-
teed under Weiner’s original con-
tract, is great joy attended by disil-
lusionment, or what you will.

— l i z S TA R K
contact liz: estark12@stan-
12 ford.edu
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