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November 3, 2010
Election Day
Local residents cast their votes Tuesday night at the Palo Alto Buddhist Temple. The temple was one of two polling sites featuring “Vote and Vax,” a cam-
paign spearheaded by the School of Medicine to make influenza vaccinations available to voters on Election Day. Vaccines were sold at-cost for $15 each.
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ELECTION
Prop. 19 falls
short with
Calif. voters
More than half of voters
reject pot legalization
By BRIANNA PANG
STAFF WRITER
Hopes for recreational marijuana
use went up in smoke on Tuesday after
California voters said no to a ballot
measure seeking the legalization of
marijuana. The measure was defeated
by 54 percent of voters with 80 percent
of precincts reporting early Wednes-
day.
Opponents feared passage of the
measure, which would have allowed
local governments to regulate and tax
marijuana use, would have led to a
growing problem with enforcement.
While California voters approved
medical marijuana use in 1996, this
year’s proposition would have further
strained the federal government’s en-
Please see PROP. 19, page 6
ELECTION
GOP takes House,Democrats hold Senate
Stanford observers weigh in on
future of Obama’s agenda
By MARY ANN TOMAN-MILLER
Republicans seized control of the House of
Representatives on Tuesday, gaining more than
50 seats, well ahead of the 39 needed for a ma-
jority.Although the Democrats retain control of
the Senate, the GOP has captured at least six
seats with gains in Indiana, Arkansas, South
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Brown, Newsom,
Boxer win office
By ERIN INMAN
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Democrats took over Sacramen-
to’s top spots as Attorney General
Jerry Brown won the California gu-
bernatorial race and San Francisco
Mayor Gavin Newsom won the lieu-
tenant governor’s race. Democrat
Barbara Boxer retained her Senate
seat in a tight race against former HP
chief executive Carly Fiorina ‘76, the
Republican nominee.
Brown Wins Gubernatorial Race
As of midnight, with 52 percent
of precincts reporting, Brown had
won 52.2 percent of the vote to for-
mer eBay CEO Meg Whitman’s
Courtesy of Max Morse
Meg Whitman
Dakota, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and President
Obama’s former Senate seat in Illinois. Repub-
licans will now have enough votes to sustain any
filibuster and forestall Obama’s legislative
agenda and judicial appointments.
“It was not a good night for the Obama agen-
da,” said political science professor Gary Segu-
ra.
“These elections results were based not so
much on what Obama focused on, but because
his policies were too far to the left,” said Greg
Hirshman ‘11, editor of The Cardinal Principle.
In a measure of just how vulnerable Democ-
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turns out
County turnout around 39 percent; local
parcel tax and bond measures pass
By IVY NGUYEN and
ELLEN HUET
is registered in Santa Clara, his or her
vote will be counted.
Provisional ballots from voters
Campus voters faced long lines at not registered in Santa Clara county,
the Graduate Community Center however, will not be counted. This
(GCC) as hundreds cast their ballot measure is taken in order to ensure
in Tuesday’s election, which saw a de- that voters are only counted once.
feat of California Propositions 19 “It’s a failsafe against people get-
and 23 and a shift in the House of ting counted twice,” Palm said. “We
42.9 percent. Representatives to Republican con- can’t be sure they didn’t vote in an-
Brown will take over from Re- trol. other county too.”
publican Arnold Schwarzenegger, The GCC was the sole voting cen- “Hundreds” of students filled out
who won a recall election with 1.3 ter on campus. provisional ballots, Palm said,
million votes in 2003. Schwarzeneg-
ger’s approval rating had dropped
below 30 percent by January of this
Courtesy of Phil Constantine
Jerry Brown
“We’ve been open since 7 and
have had lines since then,” said elec-
tion clerk Debra Dinatale on Tues-
though some misunderstood that
votes can only be cast within the
voter’s registered county unless by
year. day afternoon. mail.
Brown, a former California gov- Stanford and former state assembly “There was one guy earlier from
Albert Tomasso ‘14, a first-time
ernor, emphasized his political expe- member. Santa Monica,” Palm said. “His
Santa Clara county voter from Con-
rience throughout his campaign, While Whitman made more than vote’s just not going to count.”
necticut, said the large number of
while Whitman focused on her busi-
ness prowess.
Brown’s win “means that [Cali-
700 campaign appearances and
reached out to minorities, Brown’s
attempt to mobilize Democratic vot-
ers proved effective.
propositions and local measures
made voting difficult.
“It seems like it’d be really easy to
According to the Santa Clara
County voter registrar early Wednes-
day morning, county turnout was
fornia voters] are looking for experi- make mistakes,” Tomasso said. He about 39 percent.
ence and for someone who seems to
be extraordinarily enthusiastic
The California gubernatorial
race marks the most expensive polit-
had consulted Web references, but The following is a summary of key
was “disappointed that campus pub- election results as of press time.
about winning the job,” said Joe Na-
tion, professor of public policy at
ical campaign to date, with the bulk
of the money poured into advertis-
lications only looked at the bigger
propositions.” Santa Clara Voters Approve Bonds,
ing. Whitman spent more than $160 Parcel Taxes
Many voters were given provi-
million on her campaign, of which Santa Clara County Measure A
sional ballots if they were unsure of
$141.5 million was her own, accord- received the necessary two thirds of
which county they were registered in
ing to the Los Angeles Times.She ex- votes to pass.The measure imposes a
and did not appear on the Santa
ceeded New York Mayor Michael 10-year, $29 tax on parcels in the
Clara election roster, according to
Bloomberg’s personal $109 million county and will generate an estimat-
elections official Miriam Palm.These
investment in his reelection as mayor ed $14 million in funds to support the
ballots are not immediately counted
in 2009, according to The New York county’s “Healthy Kids” program,
on Election Day, but are sent to San
Times. which provides subsidized health in-
Jose for vetting. All ballots are re-
Brown raised $32 million in addi- surance for low-income children.
quired by law to be counted and
tion to the $28 million labor groups
processed within 28 days. If a voter
spent on his behalf, according to the
who filled out the provisional ballot Please see LOCAL, page 6
Los Angeles Times.
Brown will be sworn in on Jan. 3.
He will then begin addressing the es-
timated $19 billion budget deficit,
the state’s 12.4 percent unemploy-
ment rate and its stagnant economy.
Election Results Governor
Though Brown claims to be a pro- Jerrqw:rown
ponent of education, his influence as
governor is limited. Measures yes no California
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada 21 42% 58%
Mark`Y Feinland
was in a tight contest that ended with a slim vic-
tory over tea party candidate Sharon Angle.
22 61% 39%
Sen. Russ Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin and 23 39% 61%
a three-term incumbent, was defeated by new- 24 41% 59% Carly BarbarY
comer Republican Ron Johnson. Fifteen-term
25 55% 45% Fiorina Boxer
incumbent Barney Frank, chairman of the pow-
erful House Financial Services Committee and 26 53% 47%
architect of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street
Reform Act, prevailed in an unexpectedly tough 27 41% .(w
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Senate passes exec spending caps

By MARGARET RAWSON The bill’s original form capped the auditing process of the itemized

The movies’one-man
DESK EDITOR
The 12th Undergraduate Senate
passed perhaps its most divisive
piece of legislation yet Tuesday
spending at $750 for publicly funded
slates and $1,000 for non-publicly
funded slates.
Under the Cardona-Wharton bill,
slates would have to collect 300 peti-
budgets all slates will be required to
submit.
In the face of potential violations,
the financial manager would turn ev-
idence over to the solicitors general,

SYMPHONY
evening, approving a bill authored by
ASSU Executives Angelina Car-
dona ‘11 and Kelsei Wharton ‘12 in-
stituting an executive campaign
spending cap of $1,000.
The third annual attempt to cap
spending, the bill will become part of
the ASSU joint bylaws and affect
The Stanford Theatre is the per- spring 2011 elections if passed this
ByARMINE PILIKIAN evening by a two-thirds majority of
fect environment for Hegarty to ex-
plore his passion for musical scores the Graduate Student Council.
tion signatures, including 100 each
from the undergraduate and gradu-
ate student bodies, to be eligible for
public financing — an increase of
100 signatures.
Sachs recalled the 1999 ASSU
Constitutional Council case Hartke
v.Young, which resulted in the ruling
that campaign spending restrictions
abridge free speech, violating Article
I, Section 3.2, of the ASSU constitu-
who would present the case to the
ASSU Constitutional Council.
Bhandari outlined the difference
between exhaustive and sample au-
diting, saying the former would be
“out of the question.”
Cardona acknowledged that
more research is needed about the
auditing processes at peer institu-
tions to advise what will occur if
spending violations are suspected.

T
from celebrated classics.The theater The bill passed Tuesday with 11 tion. After a straw poll and further
he curtain falls.The house
recreates a Hollywood picture senators in favor, two in opposition Cardona responded by citing questioning, the Senate moved to a
lights turn on. From the
palace,only screening films from the and two abstaining. Senators Rebec- Flint v. Dennison, a 2007 case in the roll call vote, passing the bill with 11
Stanford Theatre’s front
1920s to the 1960s. It first opened in ca Sachs ‘13 and Will Seaton ‘13 U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. senators in favor, slightly over the re-
stage emerges the Mighty
1925 and is currently operated by the voted in opposition while Khaled Al- The court ruled against Aaron Flint, quired two-thirds majority.
Wurlitzer organ, its
Stanford Theatre Foundation, run shawi ‘13 and Carolyn Simmons ‘13 a University of Montana student After the bill passed, Senator
sonorous tunes rising until music
by David Woodley Packard. abstained. who surpassed school campaign Robin Perani ‘13 suggested that cam-
captures the entire room.The music
“I love this theater because Cardona accepted several friend- spending limits, stating,“Educational paign spending caps also be consid-
is at once dreamy and immensely
Packard’s taste in movies is the same ly amendments to the bill through- interests outweigh the free speech in- ered for Senate elections.
powerful, so powerful it sounds as if
as mine,” Hegarty said. “It’s a real
Courtesy of David Hegarty out Tuesday’s meeting, most notably terests of the students who cam- Following the meeting, Zachary
an entire orchestra were on stage.
gift to this community to have a the- an amendment equating the spend- paigned.” Warma ‘11, a senator last year, not
But it is only one man, with his swift Hegarty said.
ater that specializes in classic ing caps for publicly financed and Senator Stewart Macgregor-Den- present for the debate, described the
gestures and dancing fingers, creat- Since the scores for most films
movies. The idea is to go back in non-publicly financed slates at nis ‘13 questioned current ASSU fi- bill as “a step in the wrong direction.”
ing this symphony. The star of the are not published, Hegarty has to
time.” $1,000. nancial manager Raj Bhandari about (Warma is chair of the Daily editori-
show is David Hegarty,prolific com- learn pieces by ear. He watches
The theater attracts Stanford stu- al board.)
poser and master organist.

Hegarty has worked at the Stan-
ford Theatre on University Avenue
for the past 12 years of his career as
a theater organist,playing on Satur-
day and Monday nights before and
after the 7:30 show. He is one of
three organists at the Stanford The-
atre. For the past 32 years, he has
also played at San Francisco’s Cas-
tro Theatre — these days, he serves
as senior staff organist there, per-
forming nightly.He plays more than
400 intermission concerts and
around 30 full-length concerts per
year.
One hour before the regular Sat-
urday night movie, Hegarty met me
under the red flashing lights of the
Stanford Theatre’s marquee. Seated
upstairs on the theater’s couches, he
appeared right at home. Dressed in
an elegant brown suit, with his full
white hair and handsome de-
meanor, Hegarty looked ready to
perform.
Hegarty is one of few organists
who specialize in theater music, and
he attributes the reason for his pro-
fession to Alfred Hitchcock. At the
beginning of his career as an organ-
ist, he concentrated on church organ
performances and religious music,
like most other organ players.Then,
one night while waiting to perform
between shows at the Stanford The-
atre, he felt deeply inspired by Mik-
los Rozsa’s music for Hitchcock’s
1945 mystery thriller, “Spellbound,”
and vowed to shift his specialty.
“The older I got and the more I
played for theaters, the more I real-
ized that that’s where my love was,
the theater,” Hegarty said.
dents, cinema lovers and older gen-
erations hoping to recapture the
past.
“My favorite part of this experi-
ence is the organ playing,”said Carol
Tan ‘13, a member of the Stanford
Film Society. “It’s so unexpected,
and so very powerful,” Hegar-
ty said he hopes to enhance the ex-
perience of the screenings by care-
fully choosing songs that relate to
the films. On Saturday night, for
Hitchcock’s 1946 film “Notorious,”
he played the “Notorious” theme
and a snippet from “Funeral March
of a Marionette,” the theme song for
the television series “Alfred Hitch-
cock Presents.”
“I’m particularly interested in
Hitchcock, so I’ve written out the
themes to most of his films to try to
set up his films appropriately,”
Hegarty said.
Carving a Niche
The theater organ is unique be-
cause it can precisely imitate the
sounds of other musical instruments,
including drums, cymbals, chimes
and wood harps. During the silent
film era (pre-1930), the theater or-
ganist played throughout the film,
providing the musical score. But
when “talkies”came along,organists
shifted to performing during inter-
mission,which is now Hegarty’s spe-
cialty. Currently, many theater or-
ganists choose to specialize in the
silent era.
“But I start where they leave off
— preferring music from symphonic
film scores by the great studio com-
posers of Hollywood’s golden age,”
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movies, absorbs the music and he Warma outlined his numerous
keeps a thick notebook of themes
concerns for the Senate last Tuesday
he’s sketched for numerous films.
when the bill was on previous notice.
He replays or transforms the music,
When ASSU elections “get more
often creating elaborate organ suites
muddled, the 12th Undergraduate
to capture mood of the film. Hegar-
Senate will have no one but them-
ty arranges movie themes for con-
selves to thank for it,” Warma said.
cert performances and actively re- Warma added that the Constitu-
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Woods builds green bridges

By ERIKA ALVERO KOSKI zation until the University granted prepare for my research both finan-
CONTRIBUTING WRITER their wish in 2004. cially and academically,”Lowry said in
“We’d always felt that we wanted an e-mail to The Daily. “With funding
something at Stanford that transcend- from the Woods Institute, Earth Sys-

“T
his is a fight about
how we participate
in a revolution,” said
Tom Steyer M.B.A.
‘83. He spoke on
Oct. 20 at a weekly energy seminar
hosted by Stanford’s Woods Institute
for the Environment.That week,grad-
uate students interviewed private eq-
uity entrepreneur, Stanford trustee
and major donor Steyer, as well as for-
mer secretary of state and Hoover In-
stitution fellow George Shultz, about
their campaign against Proposition 23.
The measure, which failed in Tues-
day’s election, would have suspended
the Global Warming Solutions Act of
2006,and opponents said it could have
affected the spread of clean energy in
California.
Weekly energy seminars are but
one of myriad functions the Woods
Institute serves.The institute, founded
in 2004, focuses on interdisciplinary
research with the idea that only by
reaching across multiple disciplines
can environmental challenges be
solved.
“Whatever you want to pick,any of
those major environmental chal-
lenges, there’s no way you can just . . .
take the knowledge of one discipline
and apply it and come up with a solu-
tion,”said Woods co-director Jeff Kos-
eff M.S.‘78 Ph.D.‘83.“So our philoso-
phy is to bring people together who
have very different backgrounds and
disciplinary knowledge [and] put
them together to solve these prob-
lems.”
Before the Woods Institute was
founded, Koseff, along with several
other faculty members, felt an auspi-
cious absence of a group on campus
that could facilitate communication
and action on environmental work
among departments. Starting in the
early ‘90s, this small group of faculty
continued to push for such an organi-
ed the departments that we all had,”
Koseff said. “So we needed some
other entity that could pull the differ-
ent departments, departmental or dis-
ciplinary knowledge together.”
The Woods Institute focuses on
five areas of environmental research:
land use and conservation, fresh
water, climate change and energy,
oceans and estuaries and the human-
built environment.The group collabo-
rates within and outside of the Univer-
sity, and has forged alliances with or-
ganizations such as Stanford’s Pre-
court Energy Efficiency Center, the
Stanford Student Green Fund and the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
“A lot of what they’re trying to do
is leverage all these incredible intellec-
tual capitals that we have here at Stan-
ford to solve the world’s problems,”
said Woods program manager Leigh
Johnson, “and to do that you need
partners.”
Support for Student Research
One of the ways students get in-
volved with the institute is by taking
advantage of the student grants
Woods funds.
Ocean biogeochemistry graduate
student Kate Lowry ‘10 worked in
conjunction with environmental earth
system science professor Kevin Arri-
go this summer on a project funded by
the Woods Institute’s Interdiscipli-
nary Undergraduate Research Pro-
gram. The project took her research
group on a 37-day, NASA-funded
oceanography mission to the Arctic
with 50 other scientists and more than
80 Coast Guard members.
Lowry’s group was there to con-
duct fieldwork on the ecological im-
pacts of melting sea ice through the
Bering Strait and Beaufort and
Chukchi Seas. She helped with the
data collection.
“The Woods Institute helped me
tems, and the Undergraduate Re-
search Program, I was able to pay for
my plane ticket and many of the ex-
penses related to conducting field-
work in freezing Arctic tempera-
tures.”
The Institute’s Mel Lane Student
Program funds five to six student proj-
ects each year.With funding provided
by the family of Mel Lane, a deceased
Woods Institute council member, the
program gives out up to $10,000 a
year. Funded projects include last
spring’s Future Fest,Sustainable Fash-
ion Shows and Stanford Scientific
magazine.
Josh Chan ‘11, a human biology
major with a concentration in environ-
mental change and global health, has
worked with the Woods Institute in a
different capacity. Since this past sum-
mer, Chan has been a writing intern at
the institute, combining his science
background with writing. Much of
Chan’s work entails broadcasting the
Woods Institute’s work to the public.
“We know that there are a whole
bunch of scientists doing good re-
search here,” Chan said.“But, like my
boss has told me many times, it’s not
very useful if it stays with scientific
journals and doesn’t get out to the
community.”
Through his internship, Chan wit-
nessed political and social undertones
to environmental dilemmas as he at-
tended clean energy summits and pre-
pared briefs for Woods fellows, who
were heading to Washington, D.C. to
speak to senators about the public’s
perception of climate change.
“That was actually interesting, be-
cause when I signed up for the job I
never really realized how much of a
political aspect there was to Woods,”
Chan said.
Contact Erika Alvero Koski at
erikaa1@stanford.edu.
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That’s it, California. We’re done. Board of Directors Managing Editors Tonight’s Desk Editors
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re you serious? Are you serious? Cal- President and Editor in Chief Deputy Editor Columns Editor News Editor
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endure a constant assault of your smug self-
satisfaction, your condescension toward the
Midwest, your assumption that we’re what’s
wrong with America, your fallacious celebra-
tion of California as just “being a little bit
more progressive than the rest of the coun-
try” and your embarrassing lack of knowl-
edge of American geography.And you know
what? I could almost tolerate it if you guys
would just be consistent and live your princi-
ples. But now that you’ve voted no on Prop.
19, I’m not listening to a word you say.
California always thinks that it has a
trademark on the concept of chill. After all,
California is the place for relaxing, good
music, good times, beautiful nature, not al-
ways being in a rush and In-N-Out Burger.
Do I really need to spell out the subtext
here? For the love of God, the official
tourism slogan is “Find Yourself Here.” No
one has ever found him/her/perself trolling
through wine country. It’s that other sub-
stance that promotes the chillness and intro-
spection you guys shove down my throat.
The Riverside crew I can understand vot-
ing against it. I’ve been waiting for them to
die for a while, but for anyone who voted no
because it’s “a poorly written bill” or for eco-
nomic reasons about the price of weed, your
soul and any hope you had of not being an
absolute square is dead. You just couldn’t
stop your imaginary grown-up masturbatory
parsing of language or big-picture arguments
to actually think about the injustice that you
know is taking place. Barbara Boxer, the
Chronicle, Humboldt County industry heads
and anyone who’s ever enjoyed smoking
marijuana but voted against Prop. 19, you
people are savage hypocrites. When faced
with the chance to make history, you chose to
preserve the rule of law instead.
And I probably don’t need to remind you
that currently the law is institutionally racist
and classist. I’ve seen this one firsthand, hav-
ing been to the class they assign South Bay
Area residents who get possession citations.
There were four white people out of 40. A
solid 25 percent were straight-up pulled over
for driving while black/brown. I was by far
the most bourgeois person there, and I went
to an inner-city public high school. And for
you medical chaps, the current club-card sys-
tem just helps out the upper-middle class kids
who can afford a questionable referral and
dispensary prices.
Just as bad, I have had to suffer through
years of ignorant, patronizing media cover-
age (like the attitude promoted by Tuesday
columnist Jordan Carr) and inane weed- and
smoke-related puns in every news article
about this issue (editorial board, I’m talking
to you), all with the subtext of “Hehe, I can’t
believe we’re ACTUALLY TALKING
about this.” Support for Prop. 19 was never
going “up in smoke”, the issues aren’t
“sticky,” and the voters did not “just say no.”
Grow up, people.
McDonald
Now that you’ve
voted no on Prop.19,
I’m not listening
to a word you say.
Listen,there’s a reason that in every impe-
rialist country the only readily available in-
toxicant was alcohol, which research has just
shown to be the most harmful drug, by the
way. Society’s been getting fucked up ever
since it stopped hunting and gathering, but
when your only choices are drunkenness or
sobriety, you end up with historical periods
like Puritanism, the Dark Ages and the 1950s
instead of the Enlightenment, the Jazz Age
and Classical Greece and Rome. It’s not a co-
incidence.
Maybe finally we could celebrate all our
frequent-smoking heroes who aren’t Bob
Marley the same way we celebrate Ernest
Hemingway and Winston Churchill and their
alcoholism. Maybe in this high-powered in-
tellectual climate, we could publicly acknowl-
edge that weed does not make you stupid. In
fact, it’s partially responsible for the best
paper I’ve ever written. Maybe we could cel-
ebrate a model of weed smoking that doesn’t
involve Adult Swim and Taco Bell. After all,
it’s 40 percent of the goddamn population.
But no, California, you can’t see past inflat-
ed arguments about workplace regulations
that could easily be corrected, or exaggerated
fears about introducing a drug into society
that’s already been introduced into society.
You got rid of affirmative action with a
“Civil Rights bill,” you passed Prop. 8, you
created McDonald’s, and yet you still want to
position yourself as the land of forward
thinking.
I’ll take cold weather over this type of in-
tellectual hypocrisy any day. By the way, it’s
been decriminalized in Ohio since 1975.
Guess we’re not as backwoods as you’d like
us to be.
Any Californians who still want to try and de-
fend their state? E-mail petermc@stanford.
edu.
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L OOKING U P
It’s An Every Day Thing
A
s I write these words, with a sparkling strong conviction, because I’m here, living.
glass of lemon and Pellegrino at a cafe And sometimes I study my butt off, but the
off campus, I’m anticipating you read- quality of my every day is a much bigger deal.
ing them.Because by the time you do (presum- Shouldn’t it be?
ably Wednesday),I should be feeling much less To that end, while the best days have little
time-pressed than I do right now, what with all to do with any day’s actual events, there are
the familiar “important” deadlines front-load- definitely some small, reliably fabulous things
ing my week. This past weekend I was maxing in my Stanford-related life that I simply must
out on my productivity capacity, and the share. I hereby present it in list form. Take a
amount of completed work arising from my piece of it — seriously! It’s an important list.
waking hours was through the roof.And, even
with necessary stints of eight-hour nights of 6:45 a.m. workout, then 7:30 yoga class
sleep (a full eight often makes me more tired),
I was truly exhausted. I was exhausted . . . but Someone told me that for most,“early”means
not remotely unhappy.I wonder if this situation . . . TEN O’CLOCK. I don’t know what that
is more fortunate than I thought. feels like. But before you wave it away, briefly
On Sunday,I took one of my closest friends consider:The machines are gloriously free,the
to a favorite bakery of mine (The Prolific dumbbells are correctly placed, the mats are
Oven — please try their chocolate mocha open seas of blue, and the weight machines
cake) that he’d never been to.We were eyeing have observed an entire sweat-free night.And
the cookies, drinking coffee and talking about with a grand, muscle-toning, hand-standing
the exhaustion-depression phenomenon.And yoga finale? Namaste!
about how I ask so many of my friends if
they’re happy and all I get is “I mean . . . “ and Breakfast dates
hesitation. And about how for the past sever-
al quarters, my friend has felt so lost about One of my favorite things in the world. Actu-
what he’s doing here, even though he’s doing ally, all meals of the day are optimal potential
all of it, all at once, at breathtaking speed. I’ve rendezvous with my friends. But it’s spectacu-
been thinking a lot about the flawed idea that lar to start the day with someone who makes
basic, everyday joy — the kind independent of you smile. Meet at the dining hall, the Alumni
what happens or doesn’t happen — is a neces- Cafe (their $2.95 muesli is divine), Coupa by
sary sacrifice for a hypothetical great post- Green — it doesn’t matter. I’m a sentimental
Stanford future. I hardly hear it, but I see it on sucker for new beginnings (restarting my
my classmates’ faces: much confusion. Some Pokemon Game Boy game was my favorite
are driving themselves toward a future they part, all 20-something times), and a good
aren’t sure is what they really want or is worth friend is good company for that.
the current incurred cost of daily pleasure.
But I don’t consider the present-future re- Walking to class
lationship to be a trade-off thing. Feeling all
right isn’t contingent on anything outside “It takes too much time,” right? Yes, that’s
yourself, so if you currently don’t, you’re cer- what happens when you slow down.The little-
tainly not guaranteed to later. I have that known fact is that the biking-walking differ-
Tyler Brown
Features Editor
Anastasia Yee
Graphics Editor
Vivian Wong
Photo Editor
Esthena Barlow
Copy Editor
Nina M.
Chung
ence is worlds apart.While walking,the rate of
chance-encounters with people you haven’t
seen in months shoots through the roof. It’s
truly novel. I abandoned my bike last winter,
when I found myself collapsing amid my 9-5
schedule, and also got to ditch the mental rush
that accompanied it.
The second, open floor of the Bookstore
Because have you ever looked UP? There is
so much air up there! The slanted ceiling soars
with streams of sheer fabric that brighten the
entire space. I didn’t even notice them until I
was cafe-blogging about it. Then, looking
down, you have the greatest view of the huge,
awe-struck tour groups that pour in all the
time. Try studying up there. No outlets means
limited laptop use, and it’s refreshing.
The cafes off campus
I’m writing this all at Douce France, one of my
favorite cafes in the area, chatting with a
woman from the Netherlands (after handing
her kids some penguin stickers I had on hand).
You see, the best thing about adventuring off-
campus is remembering the world out here
that goes on and on, before, during and after
our finals, deadlines and assignments. Despite
the fact that most of us are driven for the ben-
efit of the world, sometimes it’s a healthy ben-
efit to each of us, personally, to remember
we’re free to the world two minutes away, too.
Nina has a mental library full of even more great
little things,and you’re welcome to it all! Meet up
with her there at ninamc@stanford.edu.

G UEST C OLUMN James Chu

ORGAN
theater organ, before he took lessons
from Hegarty.
Hegarty patiently showed him,

What should I do this summer? Continued from page 2

active theater organ teacher in north-

step by step, how to make the piece
suitable for a theater organ and how
to transform the work “into some-
thing truly beautiful,”Garland added.

B
etween midterms and parties,
applying for summer opportu-
nities seems a consideration for
next quarter. However, now in my
final (fifth) year at Stanford,I thought
it worthy to share one hard-earned
lesson: autumn quarter is the perfect
time to think about what’s out there.
There’s no need to actually apply for
anything just yet. However, being de-
liberate about seeking opportunities
can yield a wealth of options, and
you’ll be much better connected and
prepared come winter quarter.
Starting now helps you get con-
nected. Some of the best opportuni-
ties are off the beaten path. Indeed,
especially in the nonprofit sector,
roughly only one out of five jobs or in-
you pursue, thinking about your sum-
mer before the deadlines start rolling
helps you to avoid the frenzy later and
the potential for taking a job “because
there was nothing else.”Especially for
summer fellowships, being able to
plan for deadlines, ask for recommen-
dations and develop solid proposals
requires effort comparable to two or
three units — so spread out the work!
Finally, you’ll definitely want to know
what you want when the winter quar-
ter slew of “calls for applications”
starts flooding your inbox. Applying
selectively keeps you sane.
Most importantly, being thought-
ful and reflective about your summer
plans at this time of year helps you de-
velop personally as well as profession-
only if you plan ahead to find the right
fit.
Luckily, there are multiple av-
enues to learning about summer op-
portunities on campus.
First, actively reach out to friends
who had summer experiences you ad-
mire. Human beings love talking
about themselves.Alumni — perhaps
some reading this newspaper right
now — are generally willing to offer
support if they have time. Professors
are frequently crunched for time but
are almost always willing to help you
have some sense of what you want.
Whether returning from an intern-
ship or a public service project, your
friends are likely to have a wealth of
ideas about their experience. Even
generally have officers or members
who are happy to direct you to oppor-
tunities. For example, the new Educa-
tion and Society Theme House col-
lects education-related opportunities
both on and off campus.The Stanford
Premedical Society can connect you
with research opportunities.
Last, I make especial mention of
fellowship programs on campus. Fel-
lowships are designed to give passion-
ate students an opportunity to ex-
plore a field before they have devel-
oped significant skills to be hired.Fur-
thermore, if you are cash strapped or
on financial aid (as I am), a fellowship
allows you to explore options that are
otherwise limited to those who can af-
ford to volunteer. For example, sum-
ern California.
“It’s a craft that is not taught in col-
leges,” Hegarty said. “The skills and
traditions have been passed along
from organist to organist through the
years.”
One of those students, former en-
gineering professor Harry Garland
Ph.D. ‘72, now plays as one of Hegar-
ty’s assistants at the Castro Theatre.
Garland describes Hegarty as a bril-
liant, kind and supportive teacher.
“I’ll never forget my first lesson,”
Garland said.
Garland had prepared film music
for a classical organ, but not for the
Hegarty demonstrates his passion
for music and devotion to the craft
through his performances. Garland
sees Hegarty’s energy night after
night, in hundreds of performances
each year.
“He has an enormous repertoire
of film music at his fingertips, and al-
ways plays in a way that enhances the
theater experience,” Garland said.
“He has fun playing the instrument,
and the audience is able to share in
that joy.”
Contact Armine Pilikian at arminep@
stanford.edu.

ternships is found through resume
submission and formal recruiting.
Your chances of being hired or ac-
cepted to a fellowship depend in large
part on your connections.In exploring
your options, you inevitably will con-
tact people that will be your future
aides and advocates. But developing
relationships takes time.
Starting now also helps you pre-
pare. Scouting around now will allow
you sufficient time to comfortably
apply for desired options. Whatever
ally. I seem to be advocating “net-
working,” but in honesty I’m calling
for the exact opposite: build genuine
relationships with people by learning
what they care about and what drives
them! Don’t wait till the last minute to
call people just to ask them for help.
The difference between resume
padding and authenticity is ultimately
in how well you know yourself. But
knowing yourself takes concerted ef-
fort and time. A fulfilling summer
placement can be life-changing, but
ask someone in your class about their
summer experience, and if something
clicks, follow up for coffee! I mean,
there can be other incentives in-
volved, especially if they’re cute.
Second, several organizations
want to help you. The Career Devel-
opment Center has a great job data-
base, for starters. Departments fre-
quently advertise funding opportuni-
ties to conduct summer research —
just ask the student affairs staff in the
department. Pre-professional groups
mer research fellowships frequently
lead to longer-term projects. If you
desire to serve and learn more about
service, I highly recommend the Haas
Center Fellowships, ranging from
LGBT rights and working in Africa to
arts education and curriculum design.
Most participants return with life-al-
tering experiences.
In any case, start exploring!
JAMES CHU
Sociology M.A.‘11
HOUSE
Continued from front page
challenge in his Massachusetts dis-
trict from first-time Republican
candidate Sean Bielat.
Many Democrats, however, re-
main hopeful that Obama will con-
tinue his agenda despite the power
shift in the House.
“I don’t think that the strong
showing by Republicans will signif-
tion and Affordable Care Act a key
plank in their “Pledge to America,”
they are unlikely to have the votes
needed in either chamber to over-
ride a presidential veto of such a
measure.
“It will be difficult for Republi-
cans to repeal ‘Obamacare,’” Segu-
ra said. “They could try a variety of
procedural mechanisms to defund
it.”
A key question to emerge from
these elections is whether Obama
will move more toward the center
as Bill Clinton did in 1995-1996 or

SENATE
Continued from page 2
tional Council only has the power to
adjudicate cases concerning the con-
stitutionality of actions by members
of ASSU governing bodies, not the
average Stanford student, calling any
other conception “insane.”According
to Warma, the Constitutional Council
should deal only with issues concern-
ing constitutionality, not elections.
Elections Commissioner Stephen
Trusheim ‘13 said in an e-mail to The
Daily that “Article VI of the Consti-
tution . . . gives overall authority to
determine whether any type of elec-
tion is valid to the [Constitutional
Council],” citing sections 2.D.4 and
2.E.4.
Nominations Commission and Sen-
ate Committees
The Senate approved the Nomi-
nations Commission’s second and
final round of nominees to Universi-
ty committees Tuesday, also appoint-
ing this year’s solicitors general —
Adam Adler ‘12, Sam Corrao
Clanon ‘13, Lily Dinh ‘12 and Steve
Morris, Jr. ‘12.
The Senate passed a bill yester-
day shifting internal committee
membership, following the resigna-
tion last week of Senator Ben Jensen
‘12 as deputy chair of the Appropria-
tions Committee. Pat Bruny ‘13 will
replace Jensen on the Appropria-
tions Committee, while Deputy
Chair Madeline Hawes ‘13 will fill
Bruny’s position on the Student Life,
Housing and Education Committee
(SLHE). Jensen will continue to
serve on SLHE only.
Bruny was named internal devel-
opment chair for the Senate in a sep-
arate bill.
The Senate appointed Lina Hi-
dalgo ‘13 to the executive cabinet as
co-director, alongside Hawes, of the
ASSU Leadership Development
Program.
The Senate passed all funding bills
for the evening.
Contact Margaret Rawson at marawson
@stanford.edu.
icantly change the president’s
agenda,” said Andy Parker ‘11,
president of the Stanford Democ-
rats. “He is committed to getting
the economy on track, creating jobs
and taking action on issues such as
climate change and immigration.”
Segura predicts that in the com-
ing months, “the Republicans will
make the wrong move if they try to
balance the budget during a reces-
sion like the Japanese did in the
1990s.”
Although Republicans have
made the repeal of Patient Protec-
whether the president and Con-
gress will be unable to cooperate,
Hirshman said.
In the first of the changes to
come, Rep. John Boehner, Republi-
can of Ohio, is slated to replace
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of Califor-
nia, as speaker of the House.
Visit stanforddaily.com for a synop-
sis of some of Tuesday’s key Con-
gressional races.
Contact Mary Ann Toman-Miller at
tomanmil@stanford.edu.
The Stanford Daily Wednesday, November 3, 2010 ! 5

SPORTS
Agents and athletes: the concern over cash The ethics Kabir
Sawhney
of quoting Follow the Money

By BILLY GALLAGHER
Harbaugh Here’s exactly what was in the col-

W
ith college football’s constant The NCAA determines the maximum umn:

shake-ups, the NFL’s endless
drama, early glimpses of the
NHL and NBA seasons and
MLB playoffs underway, mid-
October is always ripe with sporting news and
excitement. This October was no exception, but
it was one much darker sports story that stole the
national spotlight.
“I will never forget the first time I paid a play-
er,” read the stark black and white Oct. 18 cover
of Sports Illustrated,“Confessions of an Agent.”
In the story, Josh Luchs, a former NFL agent,
detailed improper gifts he gave collegiate foot-
ball players in an attempt to sign them when they
turned pro. While his tale spanned from 1990 to
2005, recent sanctions like those at USC, Florida
and North Carolina, among others, show the
issue of agents on college campuses is still seri-
ous today.
Stanford is home to some of the best athletes
in the country. This fall, the Red Zone has
watched potential NFL first-round pick Andrew
Luck and the No. 13 Cardinal football team
steamroll opponents, and the athletic program
as a whole has won the Directors’ Cup for 16
straight years. It is those elite athletes particular-
ly in football and men’s basketball — think
Luck or the Lopez twins — who can face pres-
sure.
But is there a chance that someday these
years of success and national accolades will be
tainted by ineligibility due to agents and im-
proper benefits?
Differences between Stanford and other ath-
letic powerhouses may be a factor. Although
Stanford houses an elite group of student-ath-
letes, its recruiting process differs from other
schools. While elsewhere, athletes are held to
significantly lower academic standards for ad-
mission, Stanford’s student-athletes have to fill
out the complete application just like every
other applicant. Furthermore, the Office of Un-
dergraduate Admission, not the athletic depart-
ment, has final say over whether an athlete is ad-
mitted or not.
Aside from the plethora of blatant NCAA vi-
olations, Luchs’ article raised several valid con-
cerns held by collegiate athletes who decided to
accept improper gifts. For example, former USC
receiver R. Jay Soward said he took the pay-
ments because USC’s scholarship didn’t provide
enough money for rent and food. Senior Associ-
ate Athletic Director Beth Goode said this is not
as much of a problem here at Stanford.
“Full grant aid under NCAA rules can cover
tuition, room, board, required textbooks and
fees — all the standard things,” she said.
In addition, the cost of attendance includes
“personal expenses” as calculated by the school
— at Stanford, this amount hovers around
$2,000 — and a secondary fund can reimburse
students for a variety of expenses, from course
supplies to emergency travel.
But not all student-athletes receive the same
financial benefits. Stanford has around 850 ath-
letes, but there are 340 full-scholarship equiva-
lents divided among 500 student-athletes. Some
students are here on full rides, others are on par-
tial scholarships and some receive no athletic
scholarship money at all.
“What we call ‘head count sports’ are foot-
ball, men’s and women’s basketball and
women’s volleyball,” said Associate Athletic Di-
rector for Development Karen Recht. “What
‘head count sport’ means is that [if] you give $1
of scholarship money, it counts for a full [schol-
arship]. So you might as well give the athlete the
full ride.”
W
number of scholarships that can be given “‘Dominating!’ Harbaugh hooted
in each sport. This equates to 85 full schol- hen I sat down to at his players.‘We kicked their ass every
arships for football, 13 for men’s basket- write this column, which way! One hell of a job on both
ball, 15 for women’s basketball and 12 for my thoughts initial- sides of the line! Dominant,dominant!’
women’s volleyball. Stanford tends to give ly went straight to Then Harbaugh referenced Pete Car-
close to whatever the NCAA maximum is, the Giants.After all, roll, Lane Kiffin, Steve Sarkisian and
according to Goode. they are a great story, bringing San the UW head coach’s defensive coordi-
Goode said the athletic de- Francisco its first World Series champi- nator, Nick Holt, and said, ‘What are
partment advises athletes onship since the team has been located you guys, 5-1, 6-1 against that group (in
before meeting with in the city. his four-year tenure)? That’s the high-
agents, and she envi- However, too much has been writ- est-paid coaching staff around!’”
sions an improved ten about this band of “castoffs” and When he was speaking to his team,
program with a more “misfits” by others to justify another Harbaugh did not know he was on the
proactive approach sentimental column from yours truly. record, and would likely not have con-
that targets particular As I scanned Twitter for the latest sented to being quoted.He was also not
student-athletes trends, I stumbled on a feed from Bob speaking in a public setting. To put it
based on their profiles. Condotta, one of the Seattle Times’ simply, there are some unwritten rules
“An Andrew Luck is correspondents for Washington foot- by which coaches conduct themselves
probably going to be ball. Condotta linked to a story by a when speaking with the media,and one
more attractive to Seattle Times columnist, Bud Withers, of them is that you don’t publicly belit-
an agent than who quoted Stanford head coach Jim tle or degrade your opponent. Even if
some other Harbaugh as part of his story. you win a game 100-0,you at least have
third-string Where this gets tricky, however, is to make a public show of respect.
player who’s that Harbaugh’s words may or may not It’s noteworthy that Harbaugh did
probably not have been ethically acceptable to pub- not make similar comments 10 minutes
going to get lish. later, when he came outside to talk to
drafted yet by In postgame press conferences at the microphones; he talked a lot about
the NFL,” she Stanford Stadium, the media is not al- his team’s great performance,but came
said. “So we lowed into the press conference room nowhere close to saying, “We kicked
could do more of (which is adjacent to the locker room) their ass every which way!” That’s the
a targeted ap- until after Harbaugh has finished giv- type of talk that’s permissible in a lock-
proach instead of ing his postgame speech to his team er room, but not in front of a micro-
a blanket generic- and the players have had a chance to re- phone.
type education.” move their pads before coming out for Sarkisian, the Washington head
She hopes cash interviews.This is done so that the team coach, responded the next day, saying,
offers do not be- can have a private moment before “I guess when you win 41-0 you get to
come more at- coming out and facing the media, a say what you want to say, but I have a
tractive, even for right to which it is most certainly enti- firm belief that the football gods get
less affluent tled. you in the end.”
students, and However, at Husky Stadium this Clearly, Sarkisian was unhappy be-
that some past weekend,the setup was somewhat cause Harbaugh had broken that un-
personal ex- different.The media was funneled into spoken rule — no matter how big you
penses should an area next to the basketball arena, win, you still must publicly show re-
be expected in right next to the route the players took spect for your opponent. It’s the same
a college set- into the locker room. The Stanford reason coaches get unhappy and spout
ting. players stopped in an area separated by off in press conferences when their op-
“While the resources we provide them with a curtain from the press conference ponent was “running up the score”; it’s
are pretty comprehensive . . . there should be an area, where other media members and just not very sportsmanlike.
expectation that going to college, going away ERIC KOFMAN/The Stanford Daily I were standing. Harbaugh gave his So I don’t think Bud Withers acted
from home, probably costs anybody something,” postgame speech here, just six feet ethically in printing those statements
she said.“Hopefully, at least at Stanford . . . they away from a slew of cameras, micro- from Jim Harbaugh.Taking statements
know the resources are available and utilize awareness.” phones and notebooks. that were meant to be private and air-
them.” This is an especially difficult area to monitor As I stood in the tunnel listening to ing them publicly is not respected jour-
The athletic department requires all agents to because a lot can happen that is outside of the that speech,I was gripped by an ethical nalism and breaks the trust that exists
register with the compliance department and to athletic department’s watch. dilemma, the first in my time covering between sportswriters and the athletes
provide their credentials, where they’re licensed, “A runner in the dorm is just something we Stanford sports — should I record and coaches we cover.
by which organizations they have been ap- can’t control, and we hope that through educa- what was being said and quote Har- Of course, I suppose it helps that
proved, and other information. tion and other resources that effect is mini- baugh afterward as having said it? Withers writes for the Seattle Times
However, Goode said, there is nothing the mized,” Goode said. “It’s a tough area and it’s While he wasn’t terribly inflammatory, and doesn’t have to bother with Har-
athletic department can do if an agent doesn’t tough for students because they’re trying to I’m fairly certain that,had he known he baugh again for a whole year. Har-
register. make ends meet.” was being recorded and was not speak- baugh knows the Bay Area press corps
“Once we know about it, we can send them She is hopeful that financial support for stu- ing in a private setting, he would have that covers his team (including myself),
information saying, ‘Here’s what our policy is,’” dent-athletes will become more expansive in the changed what he said. I chose not to since it’s the same set of correspon-
Goode said.“We haven’t taken any steps to offi- future, making the temptations of agents and record the speech, and limited myself dents at every game and practice; thus,
cially ban an agent or anything like that if they their improper gifts less relevant in the future. to what Harbaugh and his players said he could make a reporter’s life very dif-
don’t follow those procedures.” “I think the NCAA has been doing some new in the press conference, when they had ficult if he wanted, by refusing to an-
She said NCAA enforcement officials at things,” Goode said. “They won’t help Stanford full knowledge that they were speaking swer that person’s questions.However,
Stanford are more concerned with the issue of students quite as much right now, but there are “on the record.” a reporter tasked with covering the
agents on campus in the wake of recent scandals some proposals in the legislative process to pro- However, Withers didn’t seem to Washington football team is not under
at other schools. vide students-athletes a little more access to uni- wrestle with the same sort of dilemma any such constraints; the coach doesn’t
“I would say there’s a little heightened versity, federal or state need-based or merit- that I did. Since he has already pub- know who he is, and the reporter (in
awareness to it in terms of trying to find the av- based scholarships.” lished quotes from Harbaugh’s this case, Withers) doesn’t have to get
enues for education and controls,” Goode said. “[They’re] not necessarily driven by agents in postgame speech on the website of the quotes from Harbaugh again any time
“It obviously tends to go with the ebb and flow that type of discussion, just doing what’s right,” Seattle Times, I will republish those soon.
of the student athletes too. Right now we’re she added. quotes here; however, I did not publish
blessed to have some pretty amazing student- them in my original game recap, and Kabir Sawhney only has 23 followers
athletes who have some very legitimate pro Contact Billy Gallagher at wmg2014@stanford. would not have published them unless on Twitter. Make him feel popular at
prospects. That’s going to have to heighten our edu. they were already “out there.” ksawhney@stanford.edu.

NEWS
Taylor Enjoys Solid Season
RESEARCH

Obesity program lowers cholesterol

By ELLORA ISRANI
Researchers at the Stanford School of
Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s
Hospital have developed a new health-im-
provement program shown to have posi-
tive effects on cholesterol levels, diabetes
risk and depression symptoms in obese
African-American girls.
A group of 261 8- to 10-year-old girls
was recruited from Oakland, Calif., all of
whom self-reported as African-Americans
and were obese according to their body
mass index (BMI).They were randomly di-
vided into two groups. The experimental
group received daily dance classes at Oak-
land community centers and in-home edu-
cation programs on reducing television
time,while the control group got a mail-out
health education program.The goal was to
reduce BMI and obesity among the girls.
Although this specific goal was not met,
the benefits of the study relating to choles-
terol levels, diabetes and depression seem
promising,especially considering the initial
health of the participants — for example,
one in five had high cholesterol at the be-
ginning of the study.
“Reducing depression really helped be-
cause many of them do live in pretty rough
circumstances in Oakland,so to make them
feel better about themselves, that’s a really
good step in the right direction,”said co-au-
thor Donna Matheson, senior research
scholar at the Stanford Prevention Re-
search Center.
Many study participants came from
families of low socioeconomic status,which
created several challenges for the re-
searchers.
“Just getting the kids to the dance pro-
gram is what really traumatized us,” Math-
eson said.“They don’t have moms that are
going to pick them up after school and drive
them all over.”Researchers finally combat-
ed the issue by buying a van and transport-
ing the girls themselves.
Another obstacle faced was the avail-
ability and usability of various community
centers — for example, a shooting oc-
curred outside one of the centers — which
caused the daily dance classes to move loca-
tions several times.
According to a press release for the
study, the dance programs were “culturally
relevant to the children participating.”
“They were learning about the history
of dance and the important contributions
traditional African dance has made to con-
temporary hip-hop dance,” said lead au-
thor Thomas Robinson in the press release.
The dancers put on several performanc-
es for their parents and friends.
“To see the number of parents that
would come out and watch their kids per-
form, that was really heartening,” Mathe-
son said.“That’s a really special moment . .
. I think they didn’t have it as often as many
of the upper SES [socioeconomic status]
communities probably do. I think that
brought real pride in what these kids were
doing.”
According to co-author Darrell Wilson,
professor of pediatrics at Lucile Packard
Children’s Hospital, future studies could
potentially provide clues as to how these
programs could be implemented effective-
ly.
“The goal is to find likely combinations
of interventions that can keep children’s
and adolescents’ weights under control so
we can avoid some of the complications
that are associated with obesity,specifically
in young adults,”Wilson said.
The study, conducted by researchers
from the Stanford Prevention Research
Center and Department of General Pedi-
atrics,was conducted over two years.Fund-
ing came from the National Institutes of
Health as well as the National Institutes of
Heart, Lung and Blood.
“The next step in the research is to trans-
late the connection between fun and health
promotion to many other settings,” said a
press release for the study. “Robinson’s
team is now evaluating a variety of ‘stealth
interventions’ for weight-gain prevention
and control: ways to tap people’s intrinsic
motivations to engage in behaviors that
also happen to be healthy.”
“You always learn a lot of stuff about
the community,”said Matheson.“The good The Daily of the University of Washington
part is the parents really care . . . they feel Sophomore running back Stepfan Taylor, above, has been a pleasant surprise for the Stanford
proud of their kids.The hard part is the time offense. Prior to the season it was unclear which running back would be tasked with filling the
and the energy it takes to get them there is
sometimes overwhelming.” shoes of departed star Toby Gerhart. Taylor has been up to the challenge, running for 750 yards
in eight games.
Contact Ellora Israni at ellora@stanford.edu.
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ELECTION
PROP. 19
“Legalizing it would make it a con-

Prop. 23 defeated by large margin

By ELLEN HUET
MANAGING EDITOR
California voters voted down Proposition 23 on
Tuesday night by a sound 61 percent, with half of
precincts reporting at press time.
Proposition 23, largely backed by two Texas oil
companies, Valero and Tesoro, sought to suspend
California’s AB 32, which was signed into law in
2006 and requires that state greenhouse gas emis-
sion levels decrease to 1990 levels by 2020.
The proposition would have postponed imple-
mentation of AB 32’s regulations until the
statewide unemployment rate — currently 12.4
percent — dropped to or below 5.5 percent for
four consecutive quarters.
“It’s great that Prop. 23 failed,” said public poli-
cy professor Joe Nation, who co-authored AB 32
when he was a state assembly member. “It means
California will march forward, not backward.”
Nation said that had the proposition prevailed,
it would have set the state back and hurt the morale
of those working for climate and energy change.
Proponents of the proposition argued that the
state’s weak economy couldn’t handle further reg-
ulations on businesses,but Nation said tying the en-
vironment to the economy was less than helpful.
“It was the only move they could make,”he said.
“They saw the opportunity to blame the economy
on AB 32, but the great irony is that most provi-
sions of AB 32 have not yet been implemented.”
Proposition 23 was trailing in the polls before Elec-
tion Day, and Nation said he was “always confident
that Prop. 23 would fail.”
Student sustainability and climate groups on
campus spent the weeks leading up to the election
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forcement efforts,which the U.S.attor-
ney general vowed to uphold.
campaigning against the proposition and helping In a debate sponsored by Stanford
with voter registration drives. NAACP on campus on Monday night,
“This is a huge win, and we’re very excited to proponents of “No on 19” and “Yes on
have been a part of the campaign,” said Molly 19”debated the pros and cons of legal-
Oshun ‘11, co-president of Students for a Sustain- izing marijuana.
able Stanford. The group participated in phone “The main argument is principle,”
banks and voter education, while Stanford Solar said Zaki Manian,regional director for
and Wind Energy Project (SWEP) also helped the “Yes on 19” initiative. “And the
with voter registration. main principle is the idea of limited
Oshun said that California, as the first government.”
state to have passed and upheld a law like Arguing that governments should-
AB 32,will be viewed as an example by the n’t have jurisdiction over personal life
rest of the country for its greenhouse gas choices,Manian emphasized the “basic
regulation. American ideal of liberty.”
“There’s no question that all eyes will be “What is the government even pro-
on California in the next few years to see tecting us from?” Manian said. “It
how it goes,” she said. seems that they’re protecting us from a
“California’s the only state with legislation to relatively innocuous drug. They’re get-
control CO2 in the future,” said SWEP president ting a lot of power over our lives without
John Ten Hoeve,a doctoral student in environmen- showing that there’s real benefit to us.”
tal engineering. “If the proposition had passed, it Manian said marijuana wasn’t nec-
would have hindered other states’ efforts to enact essarily harmful.
similar legislation.” “Alcohol is probably the most
Both Oshun and Ten Hoeve said that Califor- lethal intoxicant when done in combi-
nia’s overturn of the proposition was an uplifting nation with motor vehicles,” Manian
action. said. “Very few substances affect your
“It’s hugely encouraging to see people focus- brain in this lethal combination. I
ing on the environment even in times of econom- wouldn’t encourage anyone to drive
ic trouble,” Oshun said. while stoned, but most scientific stud-
Concerns over the cost of AB 32’s implementa- ies have shown that people under the
tion aren’t without basis, however. influence of marijuana are not nearly
“The fact is, it’ll probably cost a bit upfront, but as dangerous as people under the influ-
will benefit the state long-term,” Nation said. ence of alcohol.”
Manian argued that too many re-
Contact Ellen Huet at ehuet@stanford. sources were wasted on marijuana of-
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fenders who “probably needed the
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drug to get through the day.”
trollable substance,” he said.
Daniel Khalessi ‘13 spoke in oppo-
sition to the proposition on the two-
person panel. Agreeing on the “rela-
tively innocuous effects of marijuana,”
he instead emphasized the conflict it
would present with the federal govern-
ment.
Comparing marijuana legalization
and the controversial Arizona immi-
gration law, SB 1070, as parallel move-
ments, Khalessi looked at the struggle
between state and national power.
“Voting ‘yes’ on Prop. 19 would
strengthen the people supporting the
Arizona immigration law,” Khalessi
said. “It undermines the authority of
the attorney general.”
“It would essentially show that Ari-
zona’s laws would be fine,” he added.
But it’s important to realize that the
challenge to federal authority that gay
marriages present is distinct from the
Arizona immigration and marijuana
legalization struggles, Khalessi said.
“The difference between gay mar-
riages and Arizona and Prop. 19 is that
with Prop. 8, you don’t get prosecuted
for it,”he said.“It’s an unalienable right
that you have or don’t have. People
who do marijuana or get caught in the
immigration laws can be thrown in jail,
deported and be actually punished for
it. But, you can’t be punished for mar-
rying someone of the same sex. You
just can’t do it.”
Even after the proposition’s failure
to pass,“Yes on 19”proponents plan to
contend the issue further.
“The movement doesn’t end here,”
Manian said.
Contact Brianna Pang at bkpang@stan-
ford.edu.

GOV
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“Education is driven as much by
the legislature as by the governor,”
Nation said.“The governor is very im-
portant, but only one of 120 voices
there” in Sacramento.
Newsom Is New Lieutenant Governor
With 52 percent of precincts re-
porting, San Francisco mayor Gavin
Newsom won 58.9 percent of the vote
over incumbent Abel Maldonado in
the race for lieutenant governor.
Newsom spent $2.4 million in his
campaign, while Maldonado spent
$1.5 million, according to the Califor-
nia secretary of state.
Newsom’s success coupled with
Brown’s can be seen as a shift in the
political climate of California as vot-
ers favored the Democrats.Addition-
ally, Nation said it could be reflective
of people voting more for a party than
for an individual.
Newsom will leave his mayoral
post in San Francisco, where he was a
major proponent of gay rights.As lieu-
tenant governor, his ability to affect
gay rights in California is limited as
the issues are driven more now by the
courts than the legislature or the gov-
ernor, Nation said.
Boxer Beats Fiorina for Senate
Barbara Boxer,a three-term Demo-
cratic senator, was
also the projected
winner late Tuesday
over her opponent,
Republican busi-
nesswoman Carly
Fiorina ‘76.
With 52 percent
of precincts report-
ing, Boxer won 50.2
percent of votes. Barbara Boxer
While Fiorina
personally spent $6.5 million on her
campaign, her total expenditure of $17
million was less than that of Boxer’s $26
million.
Kabir Sawhney contributed to this re-
port.
Contact Erin Inman at einman@stan-
ford.edu.
LOCAL
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Voters also approved Measure B,
which adds $10 to fees associated
with registering a vehicle in Santa
Clara County. Funds generated from
this fee increase will go toward re-
pairing and maintaining local streets
and improving traffic flow.
Both Santa Clara County Mea-
sure E, which establishes a parcel tax
to support Foothill and De Anza
community colleges, and Measure G,
a bond measure allowing San Jose
City College and Evergreen College
to borrow $268 million, passed. Cali-
fornia community colleges have suf-
fered large budget cuts in Califor-
nia’s ongoing budget crisis. De Anza
College, serving roughly 22,000 stu-
dents each year, is the largest com-
munity college in the area.
Funding Props Pass, Marijuana Fails
Proposition 19, a ballot initiative
that would have made California
the first state to legalize and tax
recreational marijuana consump-
tion and production, failed.
Proposition 23 was also voted
down. The proposition would have
suspended AB 32, an act requiring
California to reduce its carbon emis-
sions to 1990 levels by 2020, until the
state employment rate dropped to
or below 5.5 percent for four consec-
utive quarters.
Voters rejected one tax-related
initiative: Proposition 24, which
would eliminate three business
taxes. Proposition 26, which would
require a two-thirds supermajority
vote in the legislature to pass certain
state or local fees, passed.
Proposition 21, which would
have increased vehicle license fees
by $18 to fund state parks, failed.
California state parks have faced
the threat of reduced funding and
closure in previous years due to
statewide budget cuts.
Proposition 27, which would re-
turn the task of redistricting to the
California legislature, failed to pass,
while Proposition 20, which allows
congressional district lines to be re-
drawn by a committee, passed.
The residents of a state riddled
by years of budget crises and stalled
state budgets also voted to allow
budget and related legislation to be
passed with a simple majority, rather
than the current two-thirds majori-
ty, through Proposition 25. Voters
also approved Proposition 22, which
prohibits state government from
taking designated types of local
funds.
Strong GOP Showing Nationwide
The Republican Party had a
strong showing nationwide Tuesday
night as it gained at least 60 seats in
the House. Local incumbents Mike
Honda, Anna Eshoo and Zoe Lof-
gren, all Democrats, were re-elect-
ed.
Though the GOP gained six
seats in the Senate, the Democrats
held control of the Senate with at
least 51 seats. Incumbent Democra-
tic Sen. Barbara Boxer beat Repub-
lican rival Carly Fiorina ‘76 in Cali-
fornia to retain her seat, while long-
time Sen. Russ Feingold, Democrat
of Wisconsin, lost to Republican
challenger Ron Johnson. Despite
facing intense criticism for his sup-
port of Obama’s agenda and predic-
tions of failure, Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid, Democrat of
Nevada, won re-election. In Flori-
da, Republican candidate Marco
Rubio won, beating former Gov.
Charlie Crist, who ran as an inde-
pendent, and Democrat Kendrick
Meek.
The GOP took the governor’s
mansion in 10 states. As of press
time, two potential Democrat pick-
ups, Oregon and Connecticut, re-
mained too close to call. In New
York, Attorney General Andrew
Cuomo, a Democrat, beat Republi-
can opponent Carl Paladino by a
30-point lead.
California saw Democrats re-
turn to Sacramento as Attorney
General Jerry Brown beatformer
eBay CEO Meg Whitman after a
long, nationally scrutinized cam-
paign. San Francisco Mayor Gavin
Newsom, a Democrat, won the lieu-
tenant governor’s race, defeating
Republican incumbent Abel Mal-
donado.
Contact Ivy Nguyen at iknguyen@
stanford.edu and Ellen Huet at
ehuet@stanford.edu.