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Online bullying among teens a growing concern

by Alexandria Rocha playground are being joined by quick and — or 44 percent — 10- to 18-year-olds own a er and I’m like, ‘What’s up?’” said eighth- accessible text messages utilizing cell phones, cell phone in the United States. The figures grader Colleen Clayton, 14. arlier this year, a local high school stu- e-mails, instant messages and Web blogs. are also staggering for youth instant message When asked how often they use text and dent was placed under a restraining “This is a new form of bullying that could use. According to a 2003 Pew Research instant messaging, Jordan Middle School Eorder for sending another teen hun- grow,” said Joe DiSalvo, principal of Jane Center study, about 13 million youths have eighth-graders Angelina Marriott and Grace dreds of instant messages via the Internet. Lathrop Stanford Middle School. “I think Internet accounts with instant messaging. Morrison locked eyes, laughed and in unison In a separate incident last June, a Gunn most parents would be surprised at what their In Palo Alto, where most kids grow up with said, “All the time.” High School teacher found thousands of racist children are saying and doing electronically.” computers and get their first cell phone in With the convenience of technology, kids messages crowding her work e-mail account. Cyberbullying messages range from sexual middle school, the risk of cyberbullying is are forgetting to think before they act, said Although the suspect was never identified, innuendos to name calling to flat out put- even greater — they’re technologically adept. Scott Laurence, principal of Palo Alto High school officials and police believe it was a stu- downs. Rather than pick up the phone or take a bike School. Cyberbullying, especially with Web dent disgruntled over a grade. Some experts say the phenomenon is ride to relay a quick comment to a friend, they blogs, has taken the place of “slam books” — Such incidences are examples of a new phe- expanding because of the widespread use of send a text or instant message or e-mail. In notebooks passed around a school where stu- nomenon called “cyberbullying.” The days technology among today’s youth. essence, it’s “instant” gratification. dents wrote answers to various questions, when adolescents and teenagers passed mean According to a NOP World Technology “Whenever I don’t feel like picking up the some defaming, others praising, he said. notes in class and picked on each other on the study released earlier this month, almost half phone, I use a text message because it’s easi- (continued on page 10)

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Last day of discount registration Arabic • English German Carol Hubenthal, Design Director Jordan Middle School had two visi- The Palo Alto students relaxed and Judith Alderman, Assistant Design Director tors last Wednesday morning. Katie warmed up as the morning went on, Meet our professional instructors, receive a free Diane Haas, Lynda Lumish, Sue Peck, Senior evaluation, and enjoy complimentary refreshments Designers; Cuevo and Priti Sanghani are Stan- getting used to having visitors. They Mindi Casillas, Ben Ho, Dana James, ford University students who are in- interacted easily with each other, Scott Peterson, Designers terning with Multifaith Voices for making small jokes. It was a mostly 650-321-1867 • www.languagego.com PRODUCTION Jennifer Lindberg, Production Manager Peace and Justice, the group started white class, 13 girls and 11 boys. Dorothy Hassett, Joan Sloss, Sales & Production by the Rev. 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Kathryn Brottem, Real Estate Advertising Sales Joan Merritt, Real Estate Advertising Asst. from a video called “Promises,” “There are cliques,” a girl said. 14th ANNUAL PHOTO CONTEST Linda Franks, Classified Advertising Manager about Israeli and Palestinian chil- “What do you do about those PALO ALTO WEEKLY Justin Davisson, Ana Gonzalez, dren, about the same age as Sano’s things?” Cuevo asked. Entry Deadline Friday, April 8 Evie Marquez, Maria Menche, Irene Schwartz, Classified Advertising Sales students. It’s a powerful video. The “The school has ‘mix-it-up’ days,” Palo Alto Weekly Blanca Yoc, Classified Administrative Assistant students watched it carefully. a boy said — when students are sup- PHOTOCONTEST ONLINE SERVICES In the video, two Israeli children posed to hang out with students they For more information call Lisa Van Dusen, Director of Palo Alto Online arrive to visit several Palestinian usually don’t. 650/326-8210, ext. 268 Shannon White, Assistant to Webmaster children in a camp. A Palestinian boy “Do people actually do it?” Sano BUSINESS says matter-of-factly to an Israeli: asked. Go to PaloAltoOnline.com Iryna Buynytska, Business Manager Miriam Quehl, Manager of Payroll & Benefits “Don’t speak Hebrew in the camp.” “No!” several students said. to view last years winners Claire McGibeny, AR Supervisor The boys play soccer, wrestle, eat Sano explained to me that “mix-it- Paula Mulugeta, Senior Accountant Sivanthy Siva, Business Associate dinner together. Then they sit around up days” are based on an idea from Tina Karabats, Cathy Stringari, Doris Taylor, and talk. what she called “teaching-tolerance Business Associates “I understand how they feel,” an Is- people,” the Southern Poverty Law ADMINISTRATION raeli boy says. “I would feel the same Center. The center tracks hate groups Amy Renalds, Assistant to the Publisher & Promotions Director; Nikki McDonald, Promotions way.” and publishes a semi-annual maga- Easter Egg Hunt & Online Coordinator; The visit becomes emotional when zine for educators. Janice Covolo, Receptionist; a Palestinian boy starts crying while Later, the students performed short Ruben Espinoza, Jorge Vera, Couriers telling of a young friend who was skits they were asked to put together EMBARCADERO PUBLISHING CO. Saturday, March 26 • 9am-10am William S. Johnson, President shot and killed by an Israeli soldier. based on what they heard that morn- (ages 12 and under) Robert A. Heinen, Vice President, Operations; Later, one Palestinian boy says to ing. The skits were just a few mo- Michael I. Naar, Vice President & CFO; Robert D. another, “Now we’ve become ments long each, but perceptive. Thomas, Vice President, Corporate Development; Franklin Elieh, Vice President, Sales & Marketing; friends, but will they forget us as One skit was about avoiding a stu- Frank A. Bravo, Director, Computer Operations & soon as they leave?” dent because he is different, another Webmaster Sano asked her students for reac- was about a schoolyard bully and a Connie Jo Cotton, Major Accounts Sales Manager; Bob Lampkin, Director, Circulation & Mailing tions. third was about two homeless boys Services “It didn’t seem fair that the (Is- panhandling for money but receiving Chris Planessi, Computer System Associates raelis) were in charge of everything,” food instead. “We didn’t give them a girl said. money because they might buy alco- The Palo Alto Weekly (ISSN 0199-1159) is published every Wednesday and Friday by Embarcadero Publishing “How would you feel if you were hol,” a girl explained. Co., 703 High St., Palo Alto, CA 94302, (650) 326-8210. one of those kids?” asked Sanghani. Cuevo asked the students to write Periodicals postage paid at Palo Alto, CA and additional “I am one of those kids,” a boy down what they learned. mailing offices. 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COURTS AAUTHORSUTHORS SSHOWCASEHOWCASE Police conduct takes Sunday, April 3, 7:00 p.m. Thursday, April 21, 7:30 p.m. center stage at trial Sunday Night Poets William Vollman Opening statements argue whether officers acted rashly Sign up at Podium at 6:45pm Reading and Signing Europe Central by Bill D’Agostino Monday, April 4, 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 22, 7:30 pm hen Palo Alto police officers Craig Lee and Spanish Book Group Sue Miller Michael Kan encountered Albert Hopkins on Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo Since the publication of her iconic first W July 13, 2003, did they have the legal right to do novel, The Good Mother, Sue Miller Thursday, April 7, 7:30 p.m. anything more than talk? has distinguished herself as one of our Francine Prose most elegant chroniclers of family life. This is one of the central questions raised Monday in Never before have Miller’s powers A Changed Man is Francine Prose’s been more transfixing than they are the police brutality trial against the two officers. greatly anticipated new novel, her first in Lost in the Forest,a novel set in The incident could be seen as a times, when Lee approached. But since the National Book Award final- the vineyards of Northern California clear-cut case of officers using ist, Blue Angel.With her customary Waite said Hopkins had acted sim- Sue Miller that tells the story of a young girl in escalating force as a situation acuity and psychological insight, Prose ilarly with other officers in the past the wake of a tragic accident. intensified. and was still treated respectfully. enters the world of a young white First, they ordered Hopkins out supremacist who publicly denounces Hopkins also vehemently Sunday, April 24, 7:00 p.m. of his gray Honda. Then they tried accused both officers of racially his racist past and joins a well-known to pull him out. Finally, they shot profiling him. He is black; they are Francine Prose human rights organization. Writing Workshop pepper-spray at his eyes and beat Asian-American. him with their steel batons. Attorney Craig Brown, who is Sunday, April 10, 7:00 p.m. But did Lee, 42, and Kan, 27, representing Lee, said the allega- Speculative Fiction Book Group Monday, April 25, 7:30 p.m. ever have enough “reasonable sus- tion of racial discrimination is the The Etched City by K. J. Bishop Kazuo Ishiguro picion” to lawfully “detain” “smokiest of smoke screens” and Hopkins that night? (Once police the “reddest of red herrings.” Michael Ondaatje says that Kazuo “detain” a suspect, officers have “It is thrown out by Albert Monday, April 11, 4:00 p.m. Ishiguro is “one of the finest prose styl- the legal right to demand identifi- Hopkins to avoid taking responsi- What’s New In Books ists of our time.” Kepler’s is thrilled to cation and force the person to stay bility for his conduct,” Brown said. present Ishiguro and his latest master- Join the San Mateo County Reading Association for their annu- piece, Never Let Me Go. Here, the in place.) The case has gained notoriety in al presentation of the best new offerings in Children’s books. In his opening statements Palo Alto as the flashpoint for the Booker Prize winning author presents a Monday, Deputy District Attorney community’s concern over subtly re-imagined world and vivid Peter Waite argued they did not. Tuesday, April 12, 7:30 p.m. characters that struggle with their pre- whether the local police depart- Kazuo Ishiguro Hopkins never committed a crime, ment has a racial bias. The City Fiction Book Group determined fates. so he could leave the area whenev- Council recently appointed a com- Desperate Characters by Paula Fox er he wanted, Waite noted. mission to act as the city’s police Tuesday, April 26, 7:30 p.m. The “incompetent” rookie offi- review board. Wednesday, April 13, 7:30 p.m. Jane Fonda cers beat and pepper-sprayed The two sides’ opening state- Fu-Tung Cheng Jane Fonda is an American icon. In Hopkins, 61, without just cause ments lasted most of the day her powerful and candid memoir, My and later “lied” and made up rea- Monday, the first day of the trail Reading and Signing Concrete At Home Life So Far, the Oscar winner, sons for the detention and subse- after last week’s jury selection. activist, and fitness guru explores quent assault, Waite argued. “They The trial is expected to last three Thursday, April 14, 7:30 p.m. let their emotions get away with the ups and downs that have made weeks. Numerous other Palo Alto Marc Barasch her the woman she is today. Please them.” officers, including Police Chief Kan and Lee are accused of bat- Reading and Signing Field Notes on the note this event will take place at the Lynne Johnson, will likely be store. Ms. Fonda will only sign tery and assault under color of called to testify, along with wit- Compassionate Life authority, a misdemeanor and Jane Fonda copies of My Life So Far. No para- nesses and police experts. felony respectively. They could phernalia. Tickets required: $26.95 Both officers were in court Sunday, April 17, 5:00 p.m. each face three years in prison if + tax: admission for two adults with the purchase of one Monday, wearing dark suits and Jonathan Safran Foer convicted. Hopkins was never copy of My Life So Far. The store will be closed from 7- looking pensive. In the audience charged with a crime, and said he Reading and Signing Extremely Loud and Incredibly 9 p.m. to admit those who have purchased a ticket. required knee surgery as a result of were a few local police watchdogs, Close Seating is first-come-first serve. Time permitting, follow- the beating. other fellow and retired Palo Alto ing Ms. Fonda’s presentation, the store will open for a In their own opening statements police officers supporting Kan and Monday, April 18, 7:30 p.m. book signing. Tickets on sale April 5. Monday, defense attorneys said Lee, and friends and family. Phil Lesh the two officers had a right to Ultimately, the eight-woman, Thursday, April 28, 7:30 p.m. detain Hopkins based on an array four-man jury will have to sift In Searching for the Sound, Phil Keith Devlin of relevant data: Hopkins was bel- through a number of different ver- Lesh, the bass player for The Grateful ligerent and seemed shifty; two sions of the evening’s events. Dead, tells the true story of his life, Reading and Signing The Math Instinct: Why You’re a Jerry Garcia, and the Dead. Phil Lesh residents complained to police All the people in the area that Mathematical Genius (Along with Lobsters, Birds, evening — the two officers, first met Garcia in 1959 in the clubs of Cats and Dogs) about his parked car; and the offi- East Palo Alto; it is said that they often cers knew of recent burglaries in Hopkins and two witnesses — have given various accounts of jammed at Kepler’s. We’re thrilled to Friday, April 29, 7:30 p.m. the area. welcome him back for this signing- Throughout the incident, the what happened. In fact, according to the attorneys’ opening state- Phil Lesh only event. Regulations: Mr. Lesh Stacy Schiff officers acted with discretion, will only be signing copies of ments, each man has contradicted starting with the “lowest level” of Searching for the Sound. No paraphernalia. In order to Reading and Signing A Great Improvisation: Franklin, force but eventually resorting to himself. enter the signing line, customers must present a receipt as France, and the Birth of America their batons when Hopkins refused After the conclusion of opening proof of purchase from Kepler’s. to hand over identification or listen statements, an emergency room Saturday, April 30, 5:00 p.m. to orders, their attorneys argued. doctor who treated Hopkins that Tuesday, April 19, 7:30 p.m. Steve Almond “If Albert Hopkins had obeyed night testified. Then Hopkins him- the reasonable commands, they self took the stand, and said he Philip Fradkin Reading and Signing The Evil B.B. Chow wouldn’t have used force,’’ said now works for Gunn High School, Reading and Paid Signing The Great Earthquake and attorney Harry Stern, who is repre- running a homework/tutoring cen- Firestorms of 1906 senting Kan. ter. The incident began around 10:30 When the district attorney asked p.m., when Lee spotted Hopkins Hopkins if he hated police, he parked under a tree on the corner replied “no” and chuckled. of El Camino Real and Oxford Hopkins’ testimony was expected Avenue in Palo Alto. Lee thought to continue on Tuesday, after the Hopkins was suspicious and Weekly went to press.■ An independent bookseller For updated information watched him for a while. Staff Writer Bill D’Agostino for independent minds. Both sides agree Hopkins was can be e-mailed at 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (650) 324-4321 quarrelsome, cursing numerous [email protected]

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(650) 375-5860 • www.stanbridgeacademy.org 650.813.9300 ‘‘ Since 1982 Stanbridge Academy does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, age, religion, sexual 3910 Middlefield Rd., Palo Alto preference or national or ethnic origin in the administration of its admission policies, scholarship and (Charleston Shopping Center) tuition assistance policies, and employment policies, except age qualifications for admission. www.bentonmedical.com Around Town LIFE HAS UPS AND DOWNS, weight, grown over about two BUT ... Two longtime Palo Altans, centuries, according to city architect John Northway and plan- Arborist Dave Dockter. He is con- ning consultant Carol Jansen, had sulting with other tree experts. public notice visions of permanent entombment Red Cross officials had to enter in an aged elevator in early March. the building Monday morning The two were inspecting a mostly under a large limb, and happily topic water utility enterprise report vacant apartment building for a found no interior damage. Red client in Belmont in early March Cross Director Trish Bubenik late who The Santa Clara Valley Water District Board of Directors and decided to take the elevator Sunday night had sent an urgent to the second floor. The door what public hearings on proposed water rates for 2005-06 fiscal year e-mail to Dockter, notifying him opened. They stepped inside the that police dispatchers had noti- when Tuesday, April 5, 2005, 9:40 a.m. smallish space, and pushed the fied the Red Cross Disaster Action where Santa Clara Valley Water District Board Room button. The door closed. Nothing. Team to notify them of the 5700 Almaden Expressway (one block south of Blossom Hill Road), San Jose After a few seconds they looked downed tree. A large limb prevent- at each other. They tried pushing ed it from landing fully on the Monday, April 11, 2005, 7 p.m. the door-open button, other but- building, and smaller branches Morgan Hill Community and Cultural Center tons, banging on the door, damaged a metal screen of a 17000 Monterey Road (at Dunne Avenue), Morgan Hill attempting to force it open. rooftop air conditioner. Bubenik why The Santa Clara Valley Water District has prepared a preliminary Water Utility Nothing. And no one seemed to asked if there is “any way to trim Enterprise Report documenting financial and water supply information which be anywhere around. Visions of and resettle our gorgeous old tree provides the basis for recommended water rates for fiscal year 2005–06. entombment, of missing-persons — our old friend and roost of our reports ... Finally, fully alert but “not resident hawk, and golden eagle.” The report includes financial analyses of the district’s water utility system; supply panicked,” yet, Northway decided and demand forecasts; future capital improvement, maintenance and operating to try to remove the small trap WOMAN OF THE YEAR ... requirements; and the method to finance such requirements. door in the ceiling. Jansen, sum- Longtime Palo Alto environmen- moning up her best Yoda-esque talist Nonette Hanko was among The water district will hold two public hearings to obtain comments on the report. willpower, managed to give him an The report will be available at the hearings. 80 women honored in interlaced-fingers stirrup boost Sacramento last week, for being and he was able to get up through Based upon findings and determinations from the public hearings, the water named “Woman of the Year” in the small square. The second-floor district board of directors will decide whether or not a groundwater charge new Assemblyman Ira Ruskin’s elevator door was within reach, should be levied, if so, at what level, in any zone or zones for the fiscal year district. Each legislator gets to and Northway banged on it. That beginning July 1, 2005. name a woman of the year from did something, perhaps to a sticky their district. The women were All operators of water-producing facilities within the District or any person interested switch, and the elevator jarred feted in the Capitol building. in the water district’s activities with regard to protection and augmentation of the into action, cables rattling above Maria Shriver — wife of Gov. water supply may appear, in person or by representative, and submit comments Northway’s head as Jansen regarding the subject. shouted at him to “get down.” Arnold Schwarzenegger — No panic, just extreme urgency. exhorting them to keep up the “My first thought was that build- good work to better society. ing codes require three feet of Hanko is best known for being a headroom above an elevator,” principal founder of the Northway recalled. “Then I won- Midpeninsula Regional Open dered whether the building Space District a third of a centu- codes were in force when the ry ago. She still serves on the SM elevator was built.” He started board. “Without her visionary down but got stuck part way. leadership, the Midpeninsula area With Jansen tugging from below, today would not have nearly he managed to drop down just 50,000 acres of permanently pro- Reasonable efforts will be made to accommodate persons with disabilities wishing to attend this public hearing. To RSVP for the as the elevator stopped. The tected open space,” Ruskin said hearing, request accommodations for disabilities or for additional information on attending this hearing, please contact the Clerk of her efforts. “ I accept this of the Board Office, Santa Clara Valley Water District, (408) 265-2600. Interpreters for this meeting can be arranged. Please door opened onto the second call (408) 265-2607, ext. 2881 at least three days prior to the hearing. floor, and they dashed into the honor for the thousands who Este aviso es para informarle sobre una reunión pública del Distrito de Aguas del Valle de Santa Clara (Santa Clara Valley Water hallway, hearts pounding and voted the Midpeninsula Regional District). Estamos convocando al público a que nos den sus comentarios para ayudarnos a planificar este proyecto. Si necesita Open Space District into exis- servicios especiales para personas con discapacidades, un intérprete en español o más información sobre la reunión, por favor breathing hard. They took the llámenos al menos tres días antes de la reunión al (408) 265-2607, extensión 2881. stairway down. tence in Santa Clara County in Ito ay isang paunawa tungkol sa pampublikong pagpupulong ng Santa Clara Valley Water District. Kumukuha kami ng kuro- 1972, in San Mateo County in kuro mula sa publiko upang tulungan kami sa pagpaplano ng proyektong ito. Makipag-ugnayan sa amin sa loob ng tatlong araw bago ang araw ng pagpupulong kung kailangan ng akomodasyon para sa may kapansanan, kung kailangan ng tagasalin OLD HERITAGE OAK SAGS ... 1976, and to the coast of San sa wikang Tagalog o kung kailangan ng karagdagang impormasyon. Mangyaring tumawag sa (408) 265-2607 extension 3714. City tree experts rushed to provide Mateo County in 2004,” Hanko Thoâng baùo cuûa Nha Caáp Nöôùc Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara Valley Water District) veà buoåi hoïp daønh cho coâng chuùng. Chuùng said of the award, acknowledging toâi ñang thu thaäp yù kieán cuûa coâng chuùng ñeå giuùp chuùng toâi laäp keá hoaïch cho döï aùn naøy. Xin lieân laïc vôùi chuùng toâi ít nhaát ba emergency care for a huge old ngaøy tröôùc buoåi hoïp neáu quyù vò caàn caùc giuùp ñôõ ñaëc bieät cho ngöôøi khuyeát taät, hay neáu quyù vò caàn thoâng dòch vieân tieáng “heritage” oak tree that started her children and grandchildren in Vieät, hoaëc neáu quyù vò muoán bieát theâm chi tieát veà buoåi hoïp. Xin goïi cho chuùng toâi ôû soá (408) 265-2607, soá chuyeån tieáp (ext) 2488. sagging during last weekend’s attendance. But, she added, heavy rains until it was leaning “This award is really for the heavily on the Red Cross building earth’s wild creatures and forests at 400 Mitchell Lane, near the and fields, who have no voice Caltrain station in downtown Palo and have no vote to protect the Alto. Some strategic major pruning wonderful creation they call may lighten the tree’s tons of home.”

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than their neighbors. ty of them contribute to a locality’s COMMUNITY Complete coverage in 2002 — insurance rates, she said. including liability, property damage To avoid cases of mistaken identi- and collision insurance — was ty, the agents ask applicants for both Palo Alto, 94303 $1,130 a year for 94303, but $100 Zip code and county of residence less for 94301, Savage said. these days, she said. Unusual Zip-code area a no man’s land of mistaken identity In Reade’s case, the key question is The irritation over Zip code “Am I a different risk than before? by Jocelyn Dong seems to cover both East Palo Alto The answer is ‘no,’” Savage said. and Palo Alto residents. hen Palo Alto residents continues to create difficulties for Fulton Street, located a few blocks The Consumers Union and other In 2002, East Palo Alto residents Louis and Edith Zitelli people applying to get insurance for north of the old residence but with- advocacy groups have been trying advocated unsuccessfully for their W bought an Explorer SUV in their homes, cars and health — or in the 94301 area. to get state Insurance Commissioner own Zip code, citing among other Santa Clara a few years back, the simply trying to get an issue of When he called his auto insurance John Garamendi to close a loophole things a desire for a separate identity. salesman asked for their Zip code. Gentry magazine, which does not company, Reade was told his rates that allows companies to rank a per- Sometimes the mix-up creates When they gave “94303,” he told deliver free copies to the area as it had gone down. son’s Zip code or other factors as unforeseen problems down the them they lived in East Palo Alto does to most of Palo Alto. His reaction? “A: That’s cool. more important than his or her driv- road. The Zitellis accepted the dif- and would have to pay the San Mary Carlstead was exasperated What a bonus,” followed by, “B: ing record, miles driven per year or ferent tax rate when they bought Mateo County sales tax. when she opened a coupon pack That’s a little strange,” Reade safety record. their Ford, but the government No, they countered, we live in that arrived in the mail and looked recounted. He was, after all, still in The practice of charging poorer apparently did not. About a year Palo Alto. at an offer from the Blue Cross the same neighborhood as before. communities higher rates is known later, Louis Zitelli said the authori- The salesman didn’t believe them, insurance company. Reade figures one part of the and ended up charging the San “Think you can’t afford quality problem lies in the databases that Mateo County rate — which ironi- health coverage?” it read. At the companies use. His own office, for “I don’t mind sharing a Zip code with another cally was lower. bottom, it listed counties for which example, uses a database that iden- The Zitellis’ car-buying experi- the “affordable” coverage was avail- tifies only one city per Zip code. community. What I don’t like is being told I ence is but one of the peculiarities able, including Santa Clara County The practice of using Zip codes to don’t live in Palo Alto.” of living in the 94303 Zip code, — “except 94303.” determine residency and insurance —Edith Zitelli, which is shared by Palo Alto and “Why is 94303 excluded? Is this rates is not a mere annoyance. It has 50-year Palo Alto resident East Palo Alto and therefore Santa discrimination?” Carlstead asked in been sharply criticized by several Clara and San Mateo counties. an e-mail sent to the city’s mayor, civil rights and consumer groups as The Zip code serves 45,500 resi- city manager and county supervisor. a discriminatory practice. as “redlining.” dents according to the 2000 Census, Separate from the Blue Cross When the state Legislature pro- ties tracked them down and charged includes all of East Palo Alto and offer, Carlstead has experienced hibited race as a factor in setting But Tempe Javitz, an agent with State Farm, said her company is for underpayment of taxes. parts of Palo Alto stretching from trouble with her own health insur- insurance rates, “they could cross aware of the possible discrimination “I don’t mind sharing a Zip code San Antonio Road to Embarcadero, ance company, which keeps issuing reference demographic characteris- issues and that “we’ve been trying to with another community. What I east of Middlefield Road, and then her a card that says she lives in San tics by Zip code. It was one and the be very careful not to be redlining.” don’t like is being told I don’t live in east of Newell Road. Mateo County — even after she sent same,” said Mark Savage, senior Insurance companies do consider Palo Alto,” said Edith Zitelli, a 50- Residents in 94303 have grown them her property-tax bill stating her attorney with the Consumers Union. metropolitan areas — and cities clos- year resident. ■ accustomed, if not irritated, with county of residence, she said. Savage pulled up his database of er to them — as carrying a higher risk, Senior Staff Writer Jocelyn dealing with this identity confusion. Similar anomalies occurred when insurance rates at his San Francisco however. 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Page 8 • Wednesday, March 23, 2005 • Palo Alto Weekly Upfront “Fascinating, funny, and deeply moving” ShopTalk The London Daily Telegraph by Daryl Savage A “shoe-in” 35TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON for Stanford mall? STANFORD MALL’S expensive,” he said. What’s left ‘REINVIGORATION’ MIX . . . The is sparse inventory — dog food, departure of many familiar shops toilet paper and soft drinks. “It in the Stanford Shopping Center looks like there’s a war going on,” Vincent in Brixton (Signatore, PhotoTime, Boudin remarked one shopper who lives Bakery, Fresh Choice, to name a around the corner from the store. few) has made room for newer, Development plans call for the BY NICHOLAS WRIGHT trendier stores. store to be rebuilt with a more Mall officials are calling it a modern look while waiting for London’s Olivier Award—Best New Play of 2003 “reinvigorated tenant mix.” Some another market to express shoppers have less flattering interest, despite a tight size names. A group of women who restriction under terms of the sale routinely take early-morning by Albertson’s to developer, John Before madness, there was love. Soon-to-be artist Vincent Van Gogh is a raw, walks at the shopping center, McNellis, who formerly uncharted canvas in this engrossing drama filled with insight and unexpected long before it opens for the day, represented Albertson’s in its passion. A youthful sojourn to London in 1873 opens new vistas to his troubled say they miss the old standbys. dealings with the city. “It’s beginning to look like every soul, planting the seeds of genius that would someday shake the world. other mall in America, but more NAIL SALON, NAIL SALON, Acclaimed “Best New Play” in London, nominated for a Tony Award in New York, expensive than any other mall in POLISH DELI, NAIL SALON, HAIR this sensitive, improbable romance is a portrait of a disheveled visionary on the America,” one walker lamented. SALON . . . Pronounce it PO-lish, precipice of discovery. With the recent additions of the not POH-lish, as in nails. The tony retailer Kate Spade, the tiniest of restaurants has moved Tickets: $20–$50 tailored Anglo-Italian men’s into a kind of “salon row” in the apparel store Kuhlman Company California Avenue shopping and the high-end Sony Style district. A Polish deli, aptly named March 9–April 3, 2005 | Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto (which compares its customer- “Polish Deli,” has the distinction of handling to a world-class supposedly being the only true concierge service), the mall has Polish deli south of San Francisco 650.903.6000 theatreworks.org decidedly gone chic. and north of San Jose. Tucked Walkers take special note: The snugly in between a hair salon on trend to trendy will continue, one side and a nail salon on the especially with the two latest other, with others down the shoe stores soon moving in: the street, this littlest deli at 456 upscale Marmi, set to open April Cambridge St. operates the old- 28, and the international chain fashioned way: It’s a one-man store Aldo, to open this summer. operation for owner Martin That brings the total number of Klosek, who opened in late specialty shoe shops in the mall February. He sells 10 different to eight. Add in the shoe kinds of Polish sausage in varying departments at Macy’s, widths and lengths, and cooks Bloomies, Neiman’s and the sausage to-order on a grill Nordstrom and there is no outside in the back of his shop. paucity of footwear for the entire The diminutive Klosek, who Peninsula population. owned a restaurant in Poland, Doing a s-l-o-w burn: The escaped from his native country California Pizza Kitchen, which in 1987. “We pretended we were should have been open for going on a trip. We could only business already in the former bring one suitcase or they’d stop Boudin Bakery/PhotoTime us at the border. We were scared. corner, has not even started We knew if they caught us, we’d construction yet. They’re blaming go to jail,” he said. After a stint as the famous Palo Alto permit an electrician in Mountain View, process. The new opening date he was able to start the deli. “I is late summer, at the earliest. love to cook. When I cook for my kids, they eat. When my wife ALBERTSON’S CUPBOARDS cooks ...,” he quipped. Klosek ARE BARE . . . The Albertson’s in works seven days a week and Alma Plaza has just 24 hours to gets his authentic Polish food live. It officially closes it doors from Chicago, which has the forever tomorrow, (Thursday, largest Polish population outside March 24), but it’s virtually of Poland. “I call up my sausage closed already. “We’re all pretty person in Chicago, they’ll put my sad,” one longtime employee order on the plane. I drive to SFO said. “It’s the end. Most of us will in my truck the next day to pick it take jobs at other Albertson’s, up. I wait to drive until about one but it won’t be the same.” The or two in the morning because store has not been the same there is no traffic on 101 then. I since the announced closure last have no choice. I have to pay the month. Many shelves are rent here,” he said of his long completely empty. Shoppers hours. ■ dwindled to a handful, and there Heard a rumor about your is only one checker. “They favorite store or business moving (Albertson’s trucks) come here out, or in, down the block or across and take our items to other town? Daryl Savage will check it stores —things like frozen foods, out. She can be e-mailed at cereals, anything that’s [email protected].

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Because instant messaging — or up screen names regularly as a over the weekend. impossible to decipher if you’re out Cyberbullies “IM-ing” as most kids call it — is means to gossip anonymously Sheila Tabrizi, 13, and Monet of the loop. (continued from page 3) done with a screen name, it lends about their peers. Lane, also 13, said friends frequent- IM-ing and text messaging are Slam books, however, were sim- itself to anonymity. Screen names “It happens all the time. People ly play pranks on each other by central to this — there are hundreds pler to contain, he said. are often humorous and reflect make up screen names and say sending out messages from each of codes and acronyms used to “It’s becoming easier and easier some aspect of the person’s inter- stuff about other people,” said other’s phones and IM accounts. shorten the length of words and in society to use shortened mes- ests, such as music or sports. The Zernik, who was a victim of cyber- The difficulty in battling cyber- phrases. sages to get across our opinions, user’s identity, however, remains a bullying online last year. “It’s bullying is that it usually flies under For example, “GTH” is go to when in the past it took more pas- mystery. mostly just calling people bad the radar of parents and teachers. If hell, and “TDTM” is talk dirty to sage of time,” Laurence said. “The “I am confident that a situation names because they’re too scared a child is bullied on the Internet or me. speed of communication and the such as what happened last summer to do it in person.” through a cell phone, they keep “E-mail and IM-ing lend them- ease has all sorts of positive would not have occurred if the per- Asked to recall the nature of the quiet so they won’t be barred from selves to short snippy comments,” aspects, but it does have a down- son writing were not behind a com- bullying, Zernik said he couldn’t the computer or have their phone said James Steyer, a professor at side.” puter,” said Gunn High School remember. taken away. Since the kids are often Stanford University and founder of It’s also the anonymity of cyber- Principal Noreen Likins, regarding Alice Wertheimer, 14, said kids at nowhere near each other when the Common Sense Media, a nonprofit bullying that’s attractive, accord- the racist e-mail attack. “Somehow Jordan do not necessarily use text bullying occurs, it’s impossible for organization about media for kids ing to school officials. Adolescents the use of a computer seems to give messaging and IM-ing to bully each an adult to spot a conflict. and parents. who bully don’t have to witness a person the notion that he or she is other, but admitted it’s a popular Complicating matters, IM-ing Cyberbullying may be hard to the effects on their victims if it’s anonymous.” way to gossip or start rumors. For and text messaging employ short- identify, but there are ways to pro- done online. Adam Zernik, 13, said kids make example, who broke up with whom hand codes and acronyms that are tect against it.

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Page 10 • Wednesday, March 23, 2005 • Palo Alto Weekly Upfront Two of Pamela Hornik’s children, away entirely, say some school offi- “It happens all the ages 9 and 7, set up Web blogs or cials. Kids, however, don’t see online journals about five months blocking as solid protection. time. People make ago. Before allowing them, howev- “Even if you block someone, if up screen names er, Hornik and her husband bought they want to (bully you) badly software to keep the blogs private. enough, they can just make up and say stuff about “My kids’ blogs aren’t open to another screen name and still do it,” other people. It’s anyone to see. They’re for our fam- Zernik said. ily and for our friends,” she said. The biggest lesson in cyberbully- mostly just calling “Nobody else other than the people ing is for parents to communicate we give the password to can access with kids about the issue whether people bad names it. I have control over it.” or not they think it’s occurring, because they’re too The Horniks set the blogs up in Steyer said. this way mainly for safety, rather As Laurence puts it, “Our respon- scared to do it in than to guard against cyberbullying. sibility is to talk about responsibili- person.” Whether it’s a Web blog, person- ty. I have a 15-year-old and I tell al cell phone or instant message him, you’re responsible for what account, blocking certain users your words mean. I hope it trans- —Adam Zernik, 13, from sending messages is an easy lates to him on the phone, on the a victim of cyberbullying alternative to taking the media computer.” ■

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Page 12 • Wednesday, March 23, 2005 • Palo Alto Weekly SPRING COMPOST GIVEAWAY Transitions Palo Alto Residents Births, marriages and deaths “Complete the recycle circle”

In appreciation of citizen’s participation in the curbside composting Deaths program, Palo Alto residents will be allowed up to 1 cubic yard of com- Barbara Finberg happy life together until his death ana University in Bogota in 1950. Barbara Finberg, 76, Stanford in 2004. She later did post-graduate work in post (equivalent to six full garbage alumna and former member of the A professional manicurist, she immunology and biochemistry at university’s board of trustees, died worked for many years at La Belle Michigan State University under a cans), free of charge. Bring shovels, March 5 of breast cancer. Day Spa and other local salons. She scholarship from the International gloves, containers and proof of Palo She was born and raised in had a loyal following of clients, Cooperation Administration and the Pueblo, Colo. She received her many of whom became dear United States government. She be- Alto residency. bachelor’s degree in international friends. came an American citizen in 1973. relations from Stanford and a mas- At her request, her ashes will be During her 42-year career as a bi- ter’s degree in international rela- scattered at sea by the Neptune So- ologist, she worked at the Weiz- tions in 1951 from the American ciety. Memorial contributions may mann Institute of Science in Israel, Saturday, March 26 University of Beirut, Lebanon. She be made to the Samaritan House Columbia University in New York; then studied for a year in Beirut on Medical Clinic of San Mateo. A cel- UCLA; Stanford University School or Sunday, April 3 a Rotary fellowship, the first from ebration of her life will be held at of Medicine and the department of her Colorado district. the British Bankers Club in Menlo biochemistry and department of at the Palo Alto Landfill She worked for the U.S. State Park. Please e-mail [email protected] molecular biology at Syntex Cor- Department from 1949 to 1953 and for more information. poration of Palo Alto, where she 2380 Embarcadero Road for the Institute of International Ed- was co-inventor of a technique for ucation from 1953 to 1959. She Carol C. Hoyt the expression of the human nerve then joined the Carnegie Corpora- Carol C. Hoyt, 91, long-time res- growth factor in the baculovirus tion and worked in various posi- ident of Palo Alto, died March 9. system. Syntex received a patent tions until her retirement. She was born Carol Emily Chap- for this achievement in 1993. 1 cubic yard for event In 1965, she initiated a Carnegie man in Seattle in 1913. After grad- She was an author or co-author grant in early childhood education, uating from Queen Anne High of many research papers that are which included the planning and School, she studied at the Cornish now at Iowa State University in the launching of “Sesame Street” for School. She began her career in the Archives of Women in Science and PBS. She was vice president of jewelry and silver business at Engineering. MEM Associates, a consultancy for Robinson’s in Los Angeles. She Before her illness, she and her philanthropy and nonprofit organi- subsequently settled in San Francis- husband traveled extensively in the zations. co, where she met her husband, United States and Europe and She was an active alumna of James Hoyt, a gemologist. They shared a common interest in art, online coupons • transportation • non-profits • sports • restaurants • com- Stanford, where her mother, aunt were married in 1942, and when music and theater. They celebrated munity resources • real estate • archives • class guide • open home guide and brother also studied. 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Palo Alto Weekly • Wednesday, March 23, 2005 • Page 13 Editorial ‘Cyberbullying’ must not be tolerated Increased anonymity from electronic technologies offers a screen for the cowardly and makes harassment easier, SpectrumEditorials, letters and opinions but school officials and police need to pay heed ullying and harassment in schools and among children and Defending Hopkins Erik Bowman, Martha Cartwright, people with easy access to guns to young adults is as old as humanity. Editor, Ron Cooper, Sharon Cooper, kill each other on our streets, be- B In some cultures, light teasing can release tensions and Upon reading the various arti- Kimberley Cowell, Soni Culver, cause they see no better option lighten natural hostilities. In others, or at other times, teasing can be- cles chronicling the trial of Albert Dave Deggeller, than joining gangs? Why are we come cruel, malicious and deeply hurtful — damaging the targeted Hopkins, many of us who work Lynne Derrick-Navarro, allowing electricity companies to person for years. The fact is that teasing and its sharp-edged defen- with Albert at Henry M. Gunn Darlene Feldstein, burn coal and contribute to the sive cousin, sarcasm, are almost always rooted in unexpressed anger High School are distraught at Robin Francesconi, Kristy Garcia, asthma epidemic and global or resentment. what we feel is a misrepresenta- Diane Gleason, Kristina Gossard, warming? It’s a recognized sign of maturity when people are able to grow be- tion of his character in the Palo Paul Gralen, George Green, If life were truly precious, Con- yond such devices and learn to express themselves openly and di- Alto Weekly. He has been present- John Hebert, Kerstin Helbing, gress would enact laws to limit rectly — the first step toward resolving issues between people, or ed as a suspicious and untrustwor- Peter Herreshoff, Yukie Hikida, guns and would find peaceful clarifying misunderstandings. thy man. Faith Hilal, Diane Ichikawa, ways to resolve international con- In prior generations, targets of severe teasing or bullying at least But to know Albert on the Gunn Marc Igler, Terry Jacobs, flict and would work to end mass knew, for the most part, who their tormentors were: often someone campus is to know a dedicated, Nik Kaestner, Dawna Linsdell, starvation and suffering caused by lacking fully developed social skills, or sometimes a “popular” stu- faithful, mild-mannered, soft-spo- Alice McCraley, Claudia Medina, poverty and hunger. We would dent who resorted to put-downs as a way to shore up their own social ken gentleman. He has gone above Angela Merchant, find compassionate ways to sup- position or ego. and beyond his job description as Deanna Messinger, port our elderly and sick. We coordinator of the Academic Cen- Karen Oppenheim, Josh Paley, would strive mightily to prevent But times change, even if human nature doesn’t — as outlined in ter by staying well beyond work Daisy Renazco, Allison Rockwell, global warming, whose severe this week’s lead Upfront story by Alexandria Rocha (page 3). hours for those students who need Jason Roberts, Kim Sabbag, storms, rising sea levels and Today’s universal use of high-tech communications devices and extra time to study, research or Karen Salzer, Tom Saults, changes in agriculture will result systems has created a new medium where some students can un- finish a test. Chris Schulz, Jim Shelby, in many early and agonizing leash their cruelty on others without anyone knowing the perpetrator. He has spent extra hours coor- Jamie Shepard, Sonia Stroessner, deaths. Even when the originator is known, malicious messages can be dinating tutors for students in Carole Stroud, Todd Summers, Death is part of the contract we spread instantly to dozens, even hundreds or thousands of others need, whether it is finding a fel- Isabel Tagle, Chris Waters, take on when each of us is born. without the victim’s awareness or ability to do anything to defend low student, teacher, parent or Lettie Weinmann, Our society has strangely se- himself or herself. community volunteer. In addition, Tarn Wilson, Lisa Wu questered death by isolating old And students aren’t the only ones victimized, as in the case of a he has orchestrated a mentoring people and the chronically ill, Gunn High School teacher who last year was targeted by an anony- program between a Stanford Uni- If life if precious ... while at the same time desensitiz- mous person — presumably a disgruntled student — and received versity fraternity and students of Editor, ing ourselves by watching tens of thousands of automated e-mails all with the same racist subject line. color on the Gunn campus. He has If life is precious, and I believe thousands of simulated deaths on “I am confident that a situation such as happened last summer also been a mentor himself to stu- it is, why are we clamoring for the television and in electronic games would not have occurred if the person writing were not behind a dents through his work with the death penalty but lamenting the and movies. computer,” Gunn Principal Noreen Likins said of the electronic as- Black Student Union. death of Terri Schiavo? Why are People who are calling for Con- sault, initiated just after school was out from a computer in the Adding to his advocacy for all we retaliating for the 9/11 tragedy gressional action to protect Terri school’s science lab. Neither school officials nor police were able to students, regardless of back- by slaughtering Afghans and Schiavo are describing in great de- trace the person responsible, although the investigation remains open, ground, Albert has many times Iraqis (not to mention our own tail what death from starvation is theoretically. over been a staff representative at and “allied” soldiers)? like. Why are they standing by Camp Anytown, a three-day stu- Why are we allowing young JLS Middle School Principal Joe DiSalvo called electronics-en- dent and staff retreat/workshop (continued on page 16) hanced harassment “a new form of bullying that could grow,” adding designed to break down gender, that “most parents would be surprised at what their children are say- race, and socioeconomic class YOUR TURN ing and doing electronically.” stereotypes. In his spare time, Al- In addition to text messaging on cell phones, omnipresent e-mail bert has coached basketball in the The Palo Alto Weekly encourages comments on our coverage or on issues of local messages, and the easy ability to create “screen names” or “spoof” e- community. interest. mail addresses, there are online forums where young persons com- Because Albert can be seen municate with each other: real-time chat rooms, blogs (short for Web everywhere on campus and in the What do you think? Have you ever been “cyberbullied”? logs, often openly shared online), instant messaging and other forms community, students and staff that would boggle the minds of prior generations. alike have come to know and ad- Finding a technological solution to anonymous bullying is proba- mire this man. Albert is the first Letters: Address to Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or hand-deliver to 703 High St., (at Forest Avenue), Palo Alto. bly not feasible now — and may not even be needed or desirable. person some students think of Voice mail: (650) 326-8291 (then press 1) But such “cyberbullying” is no more acceptable in a school or when they need someone to talk Fax: (650) 326-3928 community today than any form of bullying or cruelty ever was — to. He is always there to lend an E-mail: [email protected] even though schools historically have had a spotty record of han- objective ear and let the kids know dling such matters effectively. that he truly cares about them — No anonymous letters or “open letters” to other organizations or individuals will and he most definitely cares about be printed. Please provide your name, street address and daytime telephone Yet while it may never be eliminated entirely, bully behavior can number. Please keep length to 250 words or less. We reserve the right to edit be severely curtailed and in many ways mitigated or neutralized by them on a genuine level. contributions for length and style and for factual errors known to us. bringing it out into the open and discussing it in the context of basic Many of our staff also feel Al- human and social values. Victims of such attacks can be counseled bert’s generosity. He is often the first to join in on a personal cele- and taught ways of responding that depersonalizes the assault, sooth- bration or the first to notice when ing the hurt. something is amiss. One can al- Just as in other forms of behavior, parents, teachers and school of- ways count on Albert for an en- ficials need to recognize that children can be mean to each other — a couraging word, a warm smile, situation that requires guidance and, when necessary, discipline. and a bountiful spirit. In his per- There have been many studies of the root causes of such behavior, sonal life, he is a dedicated father and just sharing the results of such studies can have both a protective who always speaks lovingly of his and a healing effect. children. He is a man who has im- But it’s time for all involved — from students themselves to par- pacted many lives around him in ents, teachers, school officials and police — to recognize the impor- a truly profound and positive way. tance of this new form of bullying and find ways to respond quickly The following staff at Henry M. and effectively, not brush it off as a “kids will be kids” kind of phe- Gunn High School would like to nomenon. show our support for Albert Hop- The real danger of using hurtful words without consequence when kins and his family now and al- young is that words too often become actions as one grows older. ways: Unless a strong values-based response is made when teasing is at the Anne-Marie Balzano kids’-stuff level, there is no foundation for adult values later. Carole Biemer, Stacy Bissell, Josh Bloom, Kristi Bowers, Page 14 • Wednesday, March 23, 2005 • Palo Alto Weekly Guest Opinion Why we came back to Palo Alto ... by Jeremy Weinstein Gunn, lit up when asked about her teachers. t had been 12 years What brings us all together is the desire to maintain what “Of course, I remember Tim Farrell. He since I last lived in brought Shakespeare to life.” She has third IPalo Alto. Then, I was makes Palo Alto distinctive — its superb and unparalleled and fourth graders at Duveneck. a pimply teenager, trying schools. The prospect of further cuts to PAUSD programs “These are the magic years,” she said of her to figure out my pas- puts all of our kids, even those not yet on the way, at risk. kids’ experiences. “The school has really sions, my goals and my great teachers, kids, and parents ... the whole place in the world. It is our schools that made me (and countless others) who we package!” I graduated from Gunn are. For many of us, it is also the schools that brought us home. While Carol, Linda and Jane are already High School in 1993 giving their kids the best education they could ready to break away hope for, my wife and I are not yet parents. from all that I loved joy, in everyday life, has made my experience of all the communities in which I have lived We don’t feel quite ready for that ultimate re- about my childhood — of the world so much sweeter, and helped put was forged in Palo Alto. sponsibility. to discover a world beyond Palo Alto. This me on an academic path. The thread linking these three aspects of But we do feel ready to take on the respon- year, I returned with a Ph.D. and a purpose: to It was in Palo Alto that I discovered the im- my life — and a central reason we decided to sibility of supporting the Palo Alto schools: I make a life here, raise a family and give to portance of connecting what I learn in the come home — is the Palo Alto public-school recently joined the Campaign for Excellence my kids what I had growing up. classroom to the real world around me. Com- system. And it turns out that I am not the only — the community-wide effort to approve As my wife and I grappled with the deci- munity-service programs in middle school and one who came back for exactly these reasons. Measure A, a new parcel tax for our schools sion about where to live, there were some ob- high school exposed me and my classmates to Carol Mullen has two boys in the Palo Alto on the June 7 ballot. vious reasons for choosing to come home. As the harsh inequalities that existed (and still ex- schools, one in second grade at Walter Hays Amazingly, I serve with parents who were a young academic starting my career, Stan- ist) in our own tight-knit community. and the other in the Young Fives program. active in the PTA when I was a student, a so- ford University offered unparalleled opportu- Many of us dedicated weekend days to so- She grew up in the school district, graduating cial studies teacher who attended my Bar nities for research, teaching and intellectual cial events with the elderly in Casa Olga, tu- from Palo Alto High School in 1983. stimulation. The place that offered me room toring programs for struggling kids, and When she and her husband were ready to Mitzvah and a former mayor who encouraged to skateboard as a child now looked quite dif- clean-up, painting and construction efforts in leave Seattle, Palo Alto was the obvious my activism when I served on the city’s ferent, with its rich academic resources. East Palo Alto. My passion now to address choice. “The schools were 90 percent of the Youth Council 12 years ago. Together, we are But as we looked at a variety of university issues of global poverty had its origins in my reason we came home,” she said. “The spreading out across the city to speak to par- towns and cities around the country, there was first experiences as a community activist in schools are so great you don’t even need to ents and future parents about the urgent need a deeper pull that made Palo Alto the right Palo Alto’s middle schools. think about it.” to support Measure A. choice for us. And it was in Palo Alto that I experienced Linda Stebbins Jensen and her husband What brings us all together is the desire to It was in Palo Alto that I was turned on to first-hand the value of community engage- Eric were high-school sweethearts at Paly. Al- maintain what makes Palo Alto distinctive — learning, and not just for achievement’s sake. ment. Gunn High School was an amazing though both went away for college, they its superb and unparalleled schools. The Tim Farrell, my English teacher at Gunn, place, not only because of the teachers and quickly moved back to the community — so prospect of further cuts to PAUSD programs used to read aloud to us from his favorite the students but also because of the commit- quickly that both feel as if they never left. puts all of our kids, even those not yet on the works of literature once a week — tea and ments of untold numbers of parents through Linda, now executive director of the Winter way, at risk. cookies provided in the back of the room. the PTA, Site Council and sports boosters. Lodge, remembers her experience of Green- It is our schools that made me (and count- Karen Antoun, my freshman biology The school district back in 1993 was al- dell elementary school: “It was like a little less others) who we are. For many of us, it is teacher, took biology from the book and made ready grappling with the challenges faced by one-room schoolhouse. My mother always also the schools that brought us home. ■ it come alive, challenging us to grapple with Palo Alto’s stressed-out teens. Conversations said it was like being at a private school.” Jeremy Weinstein, a Gunn High School the identification, dissection and discovery of between the Youth Council, the City Council Now, with twin 7-year-old daughters at El graduate and former chair of the Palo Alto how plants work. and the School Board helped to bring these Carmelo, she says they couldn’t be happier Youth Council, is an assistant professor of These early experiences helped me discov- issues to the fore. with the education the girls are receiving. political science at Stanford University. He er the joy of learning new things. Finding that My commitment to being an active member Jane Alhouse Gee, a 1973 graduate of can be emailed at [email protected] Streetwise What do you think should be done about Terry Schiavo? Question and interviews by Carol Palinkas. Photographs by Kevin Hagen. Asked on Middlefield Road in Palo Alto.

Eliot Klugman Clara Rice James Sakols Laurae Valentine Barbara Geibel None given Retired school administrator Retired engineer Gardener Retired librarian Ventura Street, Palo Alto Fielding Drive, Palo Alto Webster Street, Palo Alto Dartmouth Street, Palo Alto Central Avenue, Menlo Park “I think the courts have acted on this “I really think it should be up to the hus- “It’s ridiculous. Pull the tube. You don’t “It would be nice to know what she wants. “If someone is on a feeding tube for and a judge has managed this case for band. I was in a similar situation, and I keep someone alive like that — she I think about this all the time. I have a 14- years and years, and suddenly it is a number of years, and I accept his ac- think it’s the husband’s prerogative.” wouldn’t want it. If I were in that condi- year-old son. If it were my son, I’d feel the withdrawn, that’s murder. I don’t think tions.” tion, I wouldn’t want to be kept alive.” way the parents do. If it were my spouse, that what her husband is proposing is I’d feel like the husband does.” fair.”

Palo Alto Weekly • Wednesday, March 23, 2005 • Page 15 SPECTRUM VALLEY WEST COAST GLASS VILLAGE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY FAMILY Guest Opinion ATMOSPHERE Pet Friendly ‘Granny units’ jeopardize R-1 neighborhoods materials CALL DOTTIE FOR 10% off by Tom Wyman MORE INFORMATION 4020 FABIAN WAY PALO ALTO 408-241-7750 493-1011 he Zon- ing Ordi- ASK ABOUT OUR STUDIO RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL One of Palo Alto’s chief attractions is its lovely Family Owned since 1929 T nance & 1 BDRM APARTMENTS residential neighborhoods, and it is essential Update to be * 8 1/2 ACRES JOE BAXTER discussed and that firm lines be established to protect these * LOVELY TREES Contractor License #227972 & GARDENS voted on by vulnerable low-density areas. If this is not done, * MEALS AVAILABLE Mon. - Fri., 8:00 - 5:00 the City Coun- INSULATED & BROKEN WINDOWS cil on April 11 it’s a short step to the point where neighborhood In community dining room REPLACED, MIRRORS * HEALTH CENTER HEAVY GLASS TOPS & BEVELS would permit integrity and quality of life are lost to greater * PRIMARY CARE CLINIC the construc- density. This is unacceptable. * POST OFFICE & LIBRARY tion of 450- * ELEVATORS square-foot * WEEKLY EXERCISE second living units on R-1 lots. not consistent with reducing re- Given the possibility that hundreds PROGRAMS & ACTIVITIES 14TH ANNUAL Predictably, this is proving con- liance on the automobile. The plan of such units might be built each * COMPUTER troversial. It was controversial when emphasizes that it is important to, year, the fundamental character of WORKSTATIONS & P ALO ALTO WEEKLY the city’s Comprehensive Plan was “Locate higher-density development Palo Alto’s residential areas could CLASSES being drafted some 10 years ago. along transit corridors and near be seriously compromised. This State-mandated plan provides multi-modal transit stations.” The economic impact on our PHOTOCONTEST INN UNITS a guide for the future development 2) The natural-environment ele- schools has not been addressed. SINGLE PRIVATE ROOM of the City and was adopted by the ment calls for “clean, healthful air” Surely, more secondary units would AND BATH SMALL FRIG City Council in July 1998. noting that “motor vehicles are the have the potential of adding to our AND MICROWAVE As a member of the Comprehen- primary source of pollution in Palo school age population with the re- INCLUDES 3 MEALS sive Plan Advisory Committee, I Alto.” Another goal calls for mini- sult that taxes on increased property HOUSEKEEPING AND participated in drafting the plan that mizing the adverse impacts of noise. values would not cover the cost of UTILITIES was submitted to the Council. Even Increasing density in single-family educating those youngsters. $1088 per Month! ENTRY DEADLINE as we drafted the 400-plus-page residential areas would defeat both The objective of Palo Alto’s FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 5:30PM document, we recognized that it in- of these environmental objectives. Comprehensive Plan is to offer a visit our website@ cluded some elements that were 3) New zoning ordinances that in- coherent vision for the city’s future www.valleyvillageretirement.com For more information call contradictory. A key conflict is now crease automobile traffic would be based on the input of residents. It is 390 NORTH WINCHESTER BLVD 650.326.8210 ext. 268 apparent as city staff recommends contrary to Council priorities to not a mandate for change. SANTA CLARA 408-241-7750 Go to zoning changes purportedly to im- calm traffic and to encourage the One of Palo Alto’s chief attrac- The apts and premises comply with plement the Comprehensive Plan. use of alternative transportation. tions is its lovely residential neigh- Federal and CA Fair Housing Laws www.PaloAltoOnline.com to view last years winners Program H-4 of that plan recog- The Comprehensive Plan speaks borhoods, and it is essential that firm nizes the need to encourage the de- repeatedly to the importance of lines be established to protect these velopment of affordable and market- maintaining the integrity of Palo vulnerable low-density areas. If this rate housing, but it also recognizes Alto’s residential areas. For example: is not done, it’s a short step to the the need to maintain Palo Alto’s at- 1) The first goal of the Land Use point where neighborhood integrity WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A tractive neighborhoods and to avoid and Community Design element as- and quality of life are lost to greater actions that would diminish quality serts “... the need to protect the density. This is unacceptable. of life. The Comprehensive Plan qualities that are important to Palo Residents did not invest their life MEDIATOR does not mandate, nor even recom- Alto.” Policy L-4 calls for maintain- savings to buy homes in attractive mend, placing second dwelling units ing the character of Palo Alto’s ar- neighborhoods only to see those in single-family areas. It simply pro- chitecturally varied residential neighborhoods deteriorate by ill-ad- FOR THE CITY OF PALO ALTO? poses that the city “evaluate” the neighborhoods. Down-zoning R-1 vised re-zoning ordinances. possibility. There is no basis for pro- neighborhoods is not consistent The recommendation by staff to ceeding if this evaluation and public with maintaining the character of legalize construction of second units support prove wanting. those areas. on R-1 lots will compromise the “Granny units” should not be dis- 2) Policy L-5 reads: “Maintain fundamental character of many allowed, and current provisions the scale and character of the City. neighborhoods and be in direct con- governing such units should remain Avoid land uses that are over- flict with key elements of the Com- in place. However, to increase the whelming and unacceptable due to prehensive Plan. City of Palo Alto permissible size of units that could their size and scale.” In spite of strong vocal opposition Human Relations Commission be built in R-1 areas from 200 to 3) Policy L-12 deals with the need to this proposal during public hear- 450 square feet would undercut ex- to preserve the character of residen- ings conducted by staff, this appears If you live, work, or own property in Palo Alto and would like to help isting zoning restrictions and be a tial neighborhoods by encouraging to be yet another instance where resolve disputes in your community, consider becoming a VOLUN- de facto rezoning of R-1 areas. new or remodeled structures to be City Hall is not listening to resi- TEER MEDIATOR with the Palo Alto Mediation Program. There is no assurance that these compatible with the neighborhood dents but instead is moving ahead units would be “affordable.” The re- and adjacent structures. unilaterally with its own agenda. ■ The Mediation Program assists people in resolving disputes under terms sult would be greater density, more The assumption by city staff that Longtime Palo Alto resident Tom on-street parking, more neighbor- the proposed ordinance would have Wyman is a former member of the they control, instead of going to court or doing nothing. The service is hood traffic and more noise and air little effect on the construction of Library Advisory Commission, im- free to anyone who lives, works, does business, or owns property in Palo pollution — all in direct conflict second units in R-1 areas is entirely mediate past president of the Palo Alto. Our cases typically include disputes involving tenant/landlord, with objectives of the city’s Com- unfounded. Alto Historical Association, a neighbor-to-neighbor, consumer, and workplace issues. prehensive Plan, as in the following: Increasing the allowable size of board member of the Palo Alto 1) The first goal of the transporta- second units from 200 to 450 square History Museum and author of Mediators spend six to ten hours each month working on various aspects tion element is, “Less reliance on feet enhances the economics signif- several papers on Palo Alto history. of the mediation process and are required to attend a program meeting single-occupant vehicles.” Locating icantly and would clearly increase He can be e-mailed at ellenand- on the third Thursday of each month. additional housing in R-1 areas is the incentive to build such units. [email protected].

Applications must be postmarked by April 8, 2005. For more informa- gress are truly concerned about Enron and Palo Alto tion or to request an application, please contact: Letters untimely death, they have their Editor, (continued from page 14 work cut out for them. Perhaps Palo Alto wouldn’t be Palo Alto Mediation Program Marianna Grossman Keller facing a budget deficit if it got 430 Sherman Avenue, Suite 308 while millions of people around Corina Way some of us back the money Enron Palo Alto, CA 94306 the world die of starvation from Palo Alto over-charged us so we could go (650) 856-4062 famines, genocidal civil wars and spend some of it locally. [email protected] inadequate programs for repro- I recall my 2001 utilities bills ductive choice? were $8,500 more than usual and If our representatives in Con- I’d dearly love to see some of it in

Page 16 • Wednesday, March 23, 2005 • Palo Alto Weekly Spectrum my pocket and those of local mer- tive editor’s chair at the Daily responsiveness. Professional This intense focus on advertis- Jonathan Angel chants rather than Enron’s and News. However, I take issue with newspapers have ombudspersons ing did its job, positioning the pa- Ashton Court their traders who so gleefully two points raised in her March 17 whose job it is to resolve citizen per’s founders to make a fortune Palo Alto ripped us off while the Valley lost column. First, excusing the pa- complaints about errors, real or by selling out to Knight Ridder. 20 percent of its jobs. per’s occasional typos, bad gram- perceived. This would clearly be Nothing wrong with that; it’s the Draconian cuts Perhaps Palo Alto negotiators mar and spelling by citing the appropriate for the Daily News, American Way of doing business Editor, could take the lead in getting us Daily News’ small staff — and especially given its reputation for (and at least newspapers, bless Republicans are pushing back some of the money they stole how many papers it must put out slanted news stories and its knee- ‘em, can’t be moved to assembly through the budget this week be- while the Federal Energy Regula- — is disingenuous. jerk disdain for public employees. plants in Mexico or China). fore critics and the media can tory Commission and our gover- Expanding the company’s pub- Some years ago, when there Quality could, to paraphrase the point out huge program cuts and nor do nothing to help us? lishing empire without an ade- was only one Daily News, I was old Ford commercials, have been corporate giveaways. And on the general subject of quate number of journalists was a told by Dave Price (via e-mail) job number one; it wasn’t. The Republican budget ex- deficits, perhaps if the city wasted deliberate management decision, that it was a wee little paper that So here’s a toast to the new plodes the deficit — adding more less money on its ridiculous and nothing more and nothing less. couldn’t afford a luxury such as regime: May the Daily Newses than $400 billion to our national expensive traffic studies, resulting Second, the suggestion that the an ombudsperson. Yet at this time, continue to be profitable, while at debt, when you include the extra in $80,000 traffic-calming flower- executive editor meet with citizens the paper was hiring ad salespeo- the same time morphing them- money requested for the Iraq War. pots and $260,000 studies of 24- regularly for coffee is, though ple via help-wanted ads suggest- selves into positive, professional (continued on page 19) hour bicycle safety lanes, it welcome, an inadequate route to ing potential six-figure incomes. community assets. wouldn’t be in the hole. Jo Ann Mandinach Middlefield Road Palo Alto

El Palo Alto goals? I applaud the stated aims of the new group, El Palo Alto. However, by starting from the premise that any program they don’t like — for instance “the Ju- nior Museum is glorified day care (Weekly Around Town March 16) — is an example of waste, it appears that the focus of their research will be to confirm their opinions rather than inform them. Julie Jerome Greer Road Palo Alto

Bogus news Editor, Our democracy and unimpeded access to reliable TV network news has now been severely compromised by the advent of pre- packaged TV segments mas- querading as real news on our local stations. These “video news releases” (VNRs) have been prepared by public relations firms under contract with major federal agencies to put a positive spin on government policy decisions — all paid for by our tax dollars. A free and vigorous independent media is a critical component of a healthy democracy. It is ap- palling that the major TV net- works are willing participants to this charade to mislead the Amer- ican people. At least 20 federal agencies, including the departments of transportation and the Pentagon have used VNRs to advance their agenda and blunt any opposition to their policies. These pervasive actions by the government must be vigorously opposed by the Ameri- can people. Failure to do so will be the death knell of a free, independent and reliable source of news. I urge readers to call their local TV stations and their elected representatives and demand a halt to this in- sidious, crude form of covert propaganda. Jagjit Singh Louis Court Palo Alto Congratulations Editor, Congratulations to Diana Dia- mond as she ascends to the execu-

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According to the bipartisan Con- gressional Budget Office, the deficit is due mostly to the gigantic tax-cut legislation and Iraq spending — two things Congress and the president want to make worse, not better. The Republican budget gives the wealthiest Americans permanent tax breaks, while cutting programs for the middle class and poor. The Republican budget would make gigantic cuts in health care especially for Medicaid — which are unconscionable. Medicaid prin- cipally serves two groups: senior citizens and the working poor. Most seniors in nursing homes count on Medicaid. The Republican budget slashes education funding, especially funds for middle-class and low-income Americans. The budget leaves out the needed funding for No Child Left Behind and funds to help mod- erate-income Americans afford college. Pell Grants are dramatically hurt in the budget. Please bring this information in the interest of democracy and truth to your readers. What is the point of having a newspaper if it doesn’t preserve the very democracy that gives you your First Amendment rights? It is in your better interest. Harry White E. Weddell Drive Sunnyvale Baseball brouhaha Editor, I find it bemusing and inexplica- ble — this great outrage over baseball and the use of steroids. Is all this really so important that the Congress must take part in it — with so many serious problems be- setting our great country? How about the Enron situation: Ken Lay is still untouched and surely that cheating and lying had much more effect on people. And then I think of Halliburton, Cz!hjwjoh!up!Mvdjmf!Qbdlbse!DijmesfoÖt!Iptqjubm! Dick Cheyney’s bailiwick, and the scandal of the overcharging of millions (billions?) of dollars, affect- uispvhi!b!Dibsjubcmf!Hjgu!Boovjuz-! ing our economy much more than the baseball situation. Am I just thick, or is there really ÞÕÊV>Ê i«ÊwÊ`ÊVÕÀiÃÊvÀÊV `ÀiÊiÊÀ>>]Ê a difference in importance? Tibby Simon Oberlin Street >`ÊÀiViÛiÊÌ>ÝÊLiiwÊÌÃÊ>`Ê>Õ>ÊViÊÊÀiÌÕÀ° Palo Alto online coupons • transportation • non-profits • sports • restaurants • community resources • real estate • archives • class guide • open - * Ê,/ -Ê",ÊÊfÓä]äääÊ/Ê * Ê,/ -Ê",ÊÊfÓä]äääÊ/Ê 1/9Ê" ÊÊ- Ê home guideFind • rentals an • community event calendar • movies • restaurants • community resources • }iÊ>ÌÊvÌ real estateList • online an coupons event • lodging • things Èx Çä Çx nä nx to do • transportation • non-profits • same- ÕÌÞÊ,>Ìi È°ä¯°ä¯ È°x¯°x¯ Ç°£¯°£¯ n°ä¯°ä¯ °x¯°x¯ day classifiedsSave • teens a &date kids • seniors • photo reprints • shopping • best of palo alto • >ÀÌ>LiÊ home & garden • personals • sports • arts & fÈ]ÈÇxfÈ]È]ÈÇx fÇ]xx{fÇ]xx{ fn]xÎfn]xÎ f]Èäxf]Èä]Èäx f£ä]ÎxÇf£ä]Î£ä]ÎxÇ entertainment • archives • class guide • open i`ÕVÌ home guide • transportation • non-profits • sports • same-dayMaster classifieds • community Õ>Ê*>ÞiÌ f£]Óääf£]Óää f£]Îääf£]Îää f£]{Óäf£]{Óä f£]Èääf£]Èää f£]ääf£]ää resources • real estate • online coupons • lodging • things to do • transportation • non- profitsCommunity • shopping • best of palo alto • home & garden • personals • sports • arts & entertainment • archives • movies • lodging • best of paloCalendar. alto • home & garden • personals • sports • arts & entertainment • archives • class guide • open home guide • rentals • community calendar • movies • restaurants • communitywww.PaloAltoOnline.com resources • real estate • online coupons •seniors • photo reprints • shopping • best of palo alto • home & garden • personals • sports • arts & entertainment • archives • class guide • open home guide • rentals • community cal- Palo Alto Weekly • Wednesday, March 23, 2005 • Page 19 Lytton Plaza, the center of an ongoing civic debate, is downtown Palo Alto’s most visible public square. But it’s also unattractive, with the constant presence of gum, graffiti and pigeon droppings. Downtown developer Roxy Rapp and former Mayor Le Levy are hoping to convince the city to completely rebuild the .2-acre plaza, replacing the circular planters with a fountain and other amenities. They’ve agreed to contribute $250,000 to the cause, half of the project’s estimated cost. However, members of the city’s Public Art Commission, who had already decided to place an egg-shaped sculpture entitled “Digital DNA” in the plaza, oppose the plan. The artwork was destroyed in a fire last year and is now being rebuilt. The City Council will have the final say on the plaza’s future.

Old buildings face possible redevelopment by Bill D’Agostino by diverting tax dollars and using imminent domain. n aging supermarket shuts down. A former To capture the landscape before it changes, Palo low-income hotel could become an office Alto Weekly Staff Photographer Nicholas Wright used photos by Abuilding. A tattered public plaza is the center a modified Holga 120S camera. of a remodeling battle. The small plastic camera was altered to create In some towns, the physical landscape stays nearly square images on 120mm film. The images’ dark cor- the same for decades. Not Palo Alto. ners and soft focus are a feature of the camera, not a Over the next few years, another round of transfor- creation of the photographer in the post-production mations could remake some of the city’s most visible process. — and run-down — properties. None of the locations featured on these pages are nicholas Some development is the source of immense public guaranteed to be torn down or remade. Developers and scrutiny — the Hyatt Rickey’s Hotel and Elk’s Lodge landowners frequently change their plans or run into in south Palo Alto could both be torn down to make bureaucratic entanglements — that’s one way build- room for housing in coming years. Neighborhood ings eventually become dilapidated. groups are following them closely. But in a city like Palo Alto, change is the one guar- The city itself is hoping to aid the conversion of nu- anteed constant. So here are a collection of “Before” ■ wright merous decrepit properties near the Fry’s Electronics images in a city captured in constant transition. Store by marking the area a redevelopment zone. That Staff Writer Bill D’Agostino can be e-mailed at would give the city power to help make improvements [email protected]

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(Right) The City of Palo Alto first considered using the powers of its relatively new Redevelopment Agency at Edgewood Plaza. Nothing significant has happened to the properties here since that idea ended prematurely in early 2003, but there are rumblings the associated landowners might put forth a new proposal soon.

(Below) The land housing the long- closed Combos Auto Repair on El Camino has bucked the trend of change for decades. According to Bob Moss, from the nearby Barron Park neighborhood, “It’s been vacant forever. It’s been vacant since we moved here 30 years ago.” It’s unknown whether the property, on the corner of Matadero Avenue, is close enough to Fry’s Electronics to be considered as part of the city’s possible redevelopment zone.

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(Left) Albertsons at Alma Plaza closed down on March 24, less than a month after the grocery chain sold the property to local developer John McNellis, who said he’s interested in finding a new small grocer to assume the spot. Other tenants are concerned about the future of the property, which also includes mostly vacant office space, a Gnostic church and a few small eateries and retailers.

(Bottom left) The hamburger joint on this El Camino Real spot closed last year. The owner, Dr. Thomas Tayeri, applied to rebuild the property in Jan- uary, but is now reportedly trying to sell it, according Palo Alto Planning Director Steve Emslie.

(Bottom right) Auto dealers are one of the city’s largest sources of sales tax. So when this Nissan dealership located on El Camino Real closed, city leaders expressed concern. The city is now considering labeling it and surrounding properties — including the Fry’s Electronics store — “blighted” to make the area a redevelopment zone, hoping to boost tax revenue and help create affordable housing.

Palo Alto Weekly • Wednesday, March 23, 2005 • Page 23 Cover Story

The Craig Hotel, long a transitional home to help low-income residents stave off homelessness, closed in June 2004 after a new owner, Eric Willis, came into the picture. At the city’s urging, homeless advocates tried to find funds to purchase the building and reopen the hotel, but failed. Willis is now applying to build offices at the site.

About the cover This weathered garage, a relic of Combos Auto Repair at the corner of El Camino real and Matadero, continues to deteriorate. According to a local resident, the site has been abandoned for more than 30 years. Photograph by Nicholas Wright.

Page 24 • Wednesday, March 23, 2005 • Palo Alto Weekly Weekend Preview the Los Altos History Museum. The ret- rospective covers the life and influence of Stegner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, teacher, environmentalist and Peninsula treasure. Regular viewing hours are Thursday through Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. Admission is free. The museum is located at 51 South San Antonio Road in Los Altos. For more information, please call (650) 948-9427 or visit www.losaltoshistory.org Stanford Art Spaces presents construction/paintings and mixed-media collage by Gerald Huth, photographic art by Dennis Kohn and ethnographic photography by Dennis Lau through April 14. The Center for Integrated Sys- tems Art Spaces is located on the Stanford University campus. Admission is free. The center is open weekdays “Untitled,” (2004) a collaged wood and foam by Joseph Zirker, is from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more in- currently on display at Smith Andersen Editions. formation please call (650) 725-3622 or visit http://cis.stanford.edu/~mari- gros. The Palo Alto Art Center presents three new exhibits: “The Gift: Surimono Prints from Bay Area Collections,” “Spring Pool/Floating Sky: In Praise to Indigo” and “Moving Cabinetry: Tansu From the Zentner Collection.” The Palo Alto Art Center is located at 1313 Newell Road in Palo Alto. For more information please call (650) 329-2367. Dennis Kohn’s photographs are currently on display at Stanford Art “Color and Light,” is currently on dis- Spaces. play at the Palo Alto Junior Museum & 30. The gallery is located at 440 Pep- April 24 at the Palo Alto Main Library Zoo, 1451 Middlefield Road. For more per Ave. in Palo Alto. For more infor- (1213 Newell Road) and Children’s information, please call (650) 329-2111 mation please call (650) 328-7762 or Library (1276 Harriet St.). The Main or visit www.pajmzfriends.org. visit www.smithandersen.com. Library will showcase 4th-8th grade Friday “Two x 20,” featuring the work of 20 art inspired by Georgia O’Keefe, local photographers, will run through Andy Warhol and Wayne Thiebaud. Pear Slices II will open tonight at the The Children’s Library will spotlight Pear Avenue Theatre, 1220 Pear Ave. March 31 at Modernbook Gallery. The exhibit is a culmination of a Stanford K-3rd grade students, who were in- Unit K in Mountain View. This produc- spired by Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo tion will feature new plays by local play- Continuing Studies course taught by Katy Boggs’ hand-painted photography can be seen at Modernbook photographer Brigitte Carnochan. Picasso and Paul Cezanne. The ex- Gallery in Palo Alto. Boggs is one of 20 photographers whose works are wrights of the Pear Playwrights Guild. hibit is presented by Art in Action, Tickets are $10-$20. Tickets for Modernbook is located at 494 Univer- on display. sity Ave. in Palo Alto. For more infor- which provides school programs, af- tonight’s opening-night gala will be ter-school enrichment programs and ets are $18-$28. For information and mation please call (650) 327-6325 or Thursday $20-$25. “Pear Slices II” will run summer ARTcamp opportunities for reservations please call (650) 941-0551 visit www.modernbook.com. through April 10. For more information students in San Mateo, Santa Clara “Vincent in Brixton”will run through or visit www.busbarn.org. April 3 at the Lucie Stern Theatre, please call (650) 254-1148 or visit Saturday and San Francisco counties. For 1305 Middlefield Road in Palo Alto. “On the Edge: Contemporary Chi- www.thepear.org. more information please call (650) Written by Nicholas Wright, the play nese Artists Encounter the West” will Smith Andersen Editions presents Art works by St. Elizabeth Seton 566-8339 or visit follows a young Vincent Van Gogh , as run through May 1 at Stanford’s Cantor prints by Joseph Zirker through March students will be on display through www.artinaction.org. he arrives in London in 1873 as an art Arts Center. The exhibition explores the dealer in training. The play will be pre- artists’ position in the art world and sented by TheatreWorks. Show times China’s position in the world. The Can- COMING UP IN FRIDAY’S WEEKEND EDITION are Wednesdays through Fridays at 8 tor Arts Center is located off Palm Dri- p.m., Saturdays at 8 p.m. (additional 2 ve, at Lomita Drive and Museum Way. p.m. performances March 26 only), It is open Wednesday through Sunday Art Theater Eating Out Sundays at 2 and 7 p.m. (2 p.m. only from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday until April 3). Tickets are $20-$50. For tick- 8 p.m. Admission is free. Docents will A feature on a program called A review of “Picasso at the A review of Ramen House Ry- ets and information please call (650) give free tours of the exhibition on “Cultures in a Box,” which edu- Lapin Agile,” the latest produc- owa in Mountain View. 903-6000 or visit Thursdays at 12:15 p.m. and Satur- days and Sundays at 2 p.m. cates children about global cul- tion from Bus Barn Stage Com- www.theatreworks.org. tures. pany. Wallace Stegner: Throwing a Long “Picasso at the Lapin Agile”will run ON THE WEB: Comprehensive entertainment listings at www.PaloAltoOnline.com through April 16 at 8 p.m. at the Bus Shadow” will run through June 12 at Barn Theatre, 97 Hillview Ave. in Los Altos. Written by Steve Martin, the play imagines Pablo Picasso and Albert Ein- stein meeting in a Paris bar circa 1904. Performances will take place Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sunday, April 3 at 3 p.m. and April 10 at 7 p.m. The play will run through April 16. Tick-

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Editor’s Note: Screenings are for Wednesday through Thursday only. Showtimes were still unconfirmed at press time. For up-to-date movie times please visit www.PaloAltoOnline.com. The Aviator (PG-13) ✭✭✭ Century 12: 3 & 6:55 p.m. Be Cool (PG-13) ✭✭✭ Century 16: 11:25 a.m.; 2, 4:45, 7:25 & 10 p.m. Century 12: 11:15 a.m.; 1:55, 4:30, 7:25 & 10:10 Enjoy a highly-favorable tax climate including no state income tax p.m. blended with a casual Western lifestyle, stunning mountain scenery and Born into Brothels Aquarius: 7:30 & 9:30 p.m. year-round recreational opportunities. Excellent daily jet service. (R) ✭✭✭ Bride & Prejudice Century 16: 11:30 a.m.; 1:55, 4:25, 6:50 & 9:10 FOR A REVIEW OF THE ENTIRE JACKSON HOLE REAL ESTATE (PG-13) ✭ p.m. PICTURE, CALL FOR REAL ESTATE PACKAGE #110 KG Constantine (R) ✭✭✭ Century 16: 6:55 & 9:35 p.m. Diary of a Mad Black Century 12: 11:45 a.m. & 10:20 p.m. K EN W.GANGWER Woman (PG-13) ✭✭ Associate Broker Downfall (R) ✭✭✭ CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 3:45, 7 & 10:15 p.m. 800-954-9009 or 307-739-8142 Gunner Palace Century 16: 5:35 & 10:15 p.m. [email protected] (PG-13) ✭✭✭ Hitch (PG-13) ✭✭1/2 Century 16: 11:45 a.m.; 2:30, 5:10, 7:50 & 10:25 p.m. Century 12: 11:50 a.m.; 2:30, 5:05, 7:40 & 10:15 p.m. Hostage (R) ✭✭✭ Century 16: 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55 & 10:30 p.m. Century 12: 11:40 a.m.; 2:15, 4:45, 7:20 & 9:55 p.m. Ice Princess (G) Century 16: 12:05, 2:25, 4:40, 7 & 9:20 p.m. Not Reviewed Imaginary Heroes (R) ✭✭ Aquarius: 7 p.m. Melinda and Melinda Guild: 7 & 9:30 p.m. (PG-13) Not Reviewed Million Dollar Baby Century 16: 1, 3:55, 7:15 & 10:05 p.m. (PG-13) ✭✭✭✭ Century 12: 1, 4, 7 & 10 p.m. The Pacifier (PG) ✭ Century 16: 11:15 a.m.; 1:25, 3:35, 5:45, 8:05 & 10:20 p.m. Century 12: 11:20 a.m.; 1:45, 4:25, 6:50 & 9:15 p.m. The Ring Two (PG-13) ✭✭ Century 16: 11:50 a.m.; 2:20, 4:50, 7:20 & 9:50 p.m. Century 12: 11:30 a.m.; 2, 4:35, 7:05 & 9:35 p.m. Robots (PG) ✭✭✭ Century 16: 11:20 & 11:55 a.m.; 12:30, 1:10, 1:40, 2:15, 2:50, 3:30, 4:05, 4:35, 5:05, 7:05, 7:30, 8, 9:25 & 9:45 p.m. Century 12: 11:25 a.m.; 12:20, 1:10, 1:50, 2:40, 3:30, 4:15, 5:15, 6:45, 7:30, 8:15, 9:50 & 10:25 p.m. Sideways (R) ✭✭✭✭ Century 12: 9 p.m. Up and Down (R) ✭✭✭1/2 Aquarius: 9:50 p.m. The Upside of Anger Century 16: 11:35 a.m.; 12:45, 2:15, 3:25, 4:55, (R) ✭✭✭1/2 6:15, 7:35, 9 & 10:10 p.m. Walk On Water CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 2:45, 5:10, 7:35 & (Not Rated) ✭✭✭1/2 10 p.m. The Wild Parrots of Aquarius: See www.PaloAltoOnline.com for show Telegraph Hill (G) ✭✭✭ times

★ Skip it ★★ Some redeeming qualities ★★★ A good bet ★★★★ Outstanding

Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (266-9260) Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View (960-0970) Century Park 12: 557 E. Bayshore Blvd., Redwood City (365-9000) CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (493-3456) Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260) Spangenberg: 780 Arastradero Rd., Palo Alto (354-8220) Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700) Internet address: For show times, plot synopses trailers and more information about films playing, visit Palo Alto Online at http://www.PaloAltoOnline.com/

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14th ANNUAL PHOTO CONTEST P ALO ALTO WEEKLY Entry Deadline Friday, April 8 Palo Alto Weekly PHOTOCONTEST For more information call 650/326-8210, ext. 268 Go to PaloAltoOnline.com to view last years winners Page 26 • Wednesday, March 23, 2005 • Palo Alto Weekly Sports NCAA BASKETBALL Shorts March LOCAL RUNNERS SHINE...Stanford on for alum Lauren Fleshman led the U.S. women’s team to a bronze medal Sunday in the 4K race at 2005 World Cross Country Championships in Stanford Saint Galmier, France. The 14-time All-American at Stanford finished Cardinal women 11th to pace the Americans, who finished behind Ethiopia and Kenya. “I easily advance got some really good advice from to Sweet Sixteen some athletes who ran yesterday to stay conservative and stay within by Nathan Kurz myself,” Fleshman said. “I had a really strong kick home and passed f there was any lingering doubt some people in the last 50 meters about why Stanford has been (to finish where I did).” Stanford I able to regain its seat at the table freshman Lindsay Flacks felt right at of women’s collegiate basketball home in the balmy France weather, powerhouses, the Cardinal provid- and it showed in her performance: ed a resounding answer Monday in she placed 30th in the junior Fresno. women’s 6K race. “I got close to the On a night when Pac-10 Player back of the back in the of the Year Candice Wiggins was beginning...but I love this weather, it’s held relatively in check, five Stan- definitely California weather, so I’m ford players — led by Brooke used to that,” said Flacks, who’s Smith’s 20 points — scored in dou- from Calabasas. “People started ble figures to lead the No. 2 Cardi- dropping off the last two kilometers nal to a convincing 88-62 victory and it felt great picking people off over 10th-seeded Utah and a spot one at a time.” Fellow Cardinal fresh- in the Sweet Sixteen for the third man Hakon DeVries and Menlo- time in four years. Atherton grad Jeremy Mineau from “Brooke has been doing this all the University of Washington, fin- season,” said Stanford coach Tara ished 50th and 67th, respectively, in VanDerveer. We give her the ball the junior men’s 8K race. Mineau ad- and she delivers. She’s a go-to post mitted after the race that he’s adjust- player. I love it. When our Stanford ing slowly to the rigors of running in- teams have had great runs, that’s ternationally. “This is totally different what we’ve had. from a collegiate field,” he said. “It’s “This is a big win and we’re real- intense the entire way.” Fatigue was ly excited to be going to Kansas a factor for DeVries as well. “It was City.” probably one of the hottest races Sebnem Kimyacioglu had a sea- I’ve run temperature-wise I’ve run in son-high 13 points, Kelly Suminski my life,” he said. “There’s no shade and Azella Perryman chipped in 12 on the course and it just got to me.” apiece and Susan King-Borchardt Former NCAA 1,500-meter champi- added 11 points for Stanford, on and Stanford alum Donald Sage which won its 22nd consecutive ran his way to 60th place in the game and has not lost since De- men’s 4K race. Stanford senior Ian cember.

Dobson placed 61st overall in the Kyle Terada Stanford will likely face three- men’s 12K race. time defending champion Con- necticut in the regional semifinals CARDINAL CORNER . . . The de- in Kansas City this Sunday. The fending national champion Stanford Stanford’s (L-R) Clare Bodensteiner, Jessica Elway, Markisha Coleman (sitting) and Kristen Newlin provide women’s volleyball team opens its the cheers during the Cardinal’s 88-62 victory over Utah in the second round of the NCAA tournament. (continued on page 33) spring schedule on April 9 against San Francisco. The Cardinal host the Stanford Spring Fling at Maples, April STATE BASKETBALL 30 . . . The Stanford crew program will again host the Windermere Colle- It’s another giate Crew Classic, an invitational rowing regatta held at Redwood Shores on Saturday, April 9 from banner year 9am to 5:30pm, and Sunday, April for Pinewood

ON THE AIR by Keith Peters Friday aniela Roark remembered Baseball: Sacramento St. at Stan- walking into the Pinewood ford, 6 p.m., KZSU (90.1 FM) D gym her freshman year and Prep sports: High School Sports Focus, 11 p.m., KICU (36); rebroadcast seeing the 1999 state championship Sunday at 7 p.m. banner won by the girls’ basketball Saturday team. Baseball: Stanford at Sacramento Roark said to herself: “I want St., 2 p.m., KZSU (90.1 FM) one of these before I leave here.” Sunday On Friday, Roark walked out of Women’s basketball: Stanford vs. ARCO Arena in Sacramento. Her Connecticut, ESPN2; KZSU (90.1 FM) mission was accomplished. The Prep sports: Cal-Hi Sports Bay Pinewood gym will have another Area, 6:30 p.m., KRON (4); rebroadcast Monday at 7 p.m. on Fox Sports Net state championship banner following the Panthers’ 61-39 romp over Pacific Hills in the CIF Division V SPORTS ONLINE state finals. For expanded daily coverage of college “This is the perfect way to end Keith Peters and prep sports, please see our online it,” said Roark, who scored 12 Pinewood senior Daniela Roark (right) high-fives sophomore teammate Sami Field-Polisso after the Panthers edition at www.PaloAltoOnline.com won the Division V state title Friday with a 61-39 romp over Pacific Hills in Sacramento’s ARCO Arena. (continued on page36) Palo Alto Weekly • Wednesday, March 23, 2005 • Page 27 Sports

NCAA SWIMMING STANFORD ROUNDUP Bruce Gilmore’s pitching continues a relief for Cardinal His seven innings of important relief pitching helps a tradition Stanford rally for a 9-6 baseball victory over Pacific Stanford freshman sweeps by Rick Eymer Abbi Hills, the second-leading all- breaststroke events time scorer with 112 goals, is an as- ith pitching ace Mark Ro- sistant coach with the Big Red. at the national finals manczuk struggling, Stan- Cornell scored first but the Cardi- W ford turned to No. 2 starter nal responded with four goals to by Rick Eymer Jeff Gilmore to get things right. gain control of the contest. Gilmore had his share of struggles Keith Peters Stanford goalkeeper Laura Shane tanford freshman Caroline but managed seven innings of relief Bruce has entered the school’s recorded 10 saves, two in the final to help give the Cardinal a 9-6 minute. S record books and established come-from-behind victory over The Cardinal travel to Nashville herself as one of the greats in Cardi- host Pacific in a nonconference nal women’s swimming with an im- next weekend, where they will meet Stanford freshman Caroline Bruce clocked personal records while win- baseball game Sunday in Stockton. No. 5 Duke and No. 16 Vanderbilt pressive showing at the NCAA ning the 100- and 200-yard breaststrokes at the NCAA finals. Stanford won for just the second Championships over the weekend at on Saturday and Monday. plishments. She swam the 200 1/2 points to beat defending cham- time on the road in seven games. Against Colgate, juniors Sarah Purdue University in West Gilmore would have been the Lafayette, Indiana. breast in 2:08.67, the fifth-best pion Auburn (492). Bach and Megan Burker each mark in the event. Her 59.55 effort Arizona (440 points) and Florida normal starter on Sunday had Satur- scored four goals to lead Stanford. Bruce not only swept the 100- day’s game at Stanford not been and 200-yard breaststrokes in per- in the 100 breast was the third- (355) also finished ahead of Stan- fastest time ever, and is just off ford. rained out. Wrestling sonal bests, but her third-place fin- “It was an uphill battle every sin- ish in the 200 IM was also accom- Kirk’s school mark of 58.41, which “I thought our team swam really Third-seeded Matt Gentry lost was achieved during Kirk’s junior well throughout the entire meet,” gle pitch for me,” Gilmore said. “It two straight sudden victory deci- plished in a personal-best time. She took a lot of things from all of our compiled six All-American honors year. Stanford coach Richard Quick said. sions and Imad Kharbush also lost “It was a great experience and re- “We would have liked to have fin- guys to get this victory.” two matches on the second day of while scoring 56 points, second Gilmore overcame six hit batters most among individual swimmers. ally exciting to sweep both of the ished higher but given everything it competition at the NCAA tourna- breaststroke events in my freshman was probably about the best we and did not allow a run over his fi- ment in St. Louis and were elimi- Auburn’s Kirsty Coventry was nal six innings as Stanford (12-7) named the NCAA Swimmer of the year,” said Bruce, who was within could do.” nated. 1.54 seconds of the 200 breast Lacey Boutwell, who announced rallied behind Jed Lowrie, who hit Gentry, the defending champion Meet after earning Individual High his team-leading eighth homer, a Point honors by scoring the maxi- American mark of 2:07.13 set by her retirement from competitive at 157 pounds, leaves Stanford with Kirk at last year’s Pac-10 champi- swimming after the meet, was sixth three-run shot, which highlighted a the only national championship in mum 60 points. four-run fourth that put the Cardinal Bruce merely stepped in where onships. in the 100 free in 48.96. She swam the school’s history, and he holds She also swam the 200 IM in a personal-best 48.75 in Saturday’s ahead to stay. the all-time win record for the Car- fellow Olympian and former Stan- “We were able to do enough to ford star Tara Kirk left off. 1:57.66 and picked up All-Ameri- prelims that improved the time on dinal. can honors in three relays - the 400 her ranking as Stanford’s fourth- win and that’s important,” Stanford Gentry and Kharbush (174 Kirk won the previous four 100 coach Mark Marquess said. “We breast national titles, and the last free, 200 medley and 400 medley. best all-time performer in the event. pounds) won twice during the first Bruce and other members of the Boutwell has reached the finals of got some great pitching from Jeff day to advance. three 200 breast titles. Gilmore after a tough start and “Tara Kirk was an amazing colle- swim team will compete at the the 100 free in each of her four World Championship trials begin- years at Stanford. came up with a big inning when we Softball giate swimmer,” Bruce said. “Tak- needed one. I’m proud of our guys ing after her by winning my first ning April 1 in Indianapolis. “It was great to finish this way,” Stanford beat the rain, and Utah, Stanford finished fifth with 313 Boutwell said. “There’s not a mo- for the character they showed.” 6-0, on Sunday in the weather- one and following in her footsteps Jim Rapoport matched his career- is quite an honor.” points, its 23rd consecutive top six ment I regret. My time at Stanford shortened Stanford Round Robin finish at the national meet. Georgia with coach Quick and all of the high with three hits while John tournament on Sunday. And doing so with impressive Mayberry, Jr. had two hits and performances added to her accom- won its fourth team title with 609 girls in our program has been won- The Cardinal (19-3) lost to derful. I’ve been swimming since I drove in two runs, and John Hester Princeton, 2-0, earlier in the game was five years old, so obviously it is added a pair of hits and an RBI. after having two games rained out a bit sad as well.” Mayberry, Jr. recorded his fifth on Saturday. Boutwell completed her career consecutive multiple-hit game, and Stanford had a 45-minute rain de- Foundations with 19 All-American honors - five has a team-high 11. He leads the lay before knocking off the Utes as this year — to rank ninth on Stan- team with a .360 batting average Meghan Sickler and Erin Howe Through ford’s all-time list. She also won a “It was really rewarding to get each hit a home run. pair of NCAA titles on Stanford’s this win,” Lowrie said. “Our offense Freshman Becky McCullough (4- winning 200 and 400 medley relay showed some character in the way 0) picked up the win for Stanford, Beauty teams as a freshman in 2002, as it came back.” allowing only one hit over six in- well as nine career Pac-10 crowns Pacific had had the tying run at nings of work with eight strikeouts. and a total of 61 collegiate races the plate with one out in the bottom Stanford hosts Hawaii at 5 p.m. Arts and overall. of the ninth before Gilmore retired and St. Mary’s at 7 p.m. on Thurs- “Lacey Boutwell is the kind of the final two hitters. day. Crafts Show person you can build a team around, “The best teams are those that because she will do anything to can score a lot of runs if the pitch- Women’s gymnastics have the team be successful,” Quick ing is shaky or can shut down an Stanford junior Natalie Foley May 21, 2005 said. “She has been a great competi- opponent when you aren’t hitting, placed second in the all-around and 10 am to 5 pm tor and great leader for four years. and we did both things at times,” freshman Tabitha Yim placed first 500 East Meadow Dr. She’s been fantastic and Stanford is Gilmore said. “That’s what good on the uneven bars and balance going to miss her a lot.” teams do; they pick each other up.” beam as Stanford finished second in Palo Alto Dana Kirk was fifth in the 200 fly Stanford was scheduled to meet a tri meet at San Jose State on Fri- (650) 856-0845 (1:56.17) while competing in the host San Jose State on Tuesday day night. night. Fairmeadow PTA invites all artists and vendors to participate. championship finals of the event for The host Spartans won the meet the second straight year. She was with a score of 194.325, while the Participation Fee: $74 (Includes space reservation, table and Women’s lacrosse general marketing.) also fifth in the 100 fly while com- Cardinal had 192.750, and Califor- peting as a championship finalist in Freshmen Megan McClain and nia scored 176.450. Artist will donate 20% of proceeds to Palo Alto Partners in the event for the third straight sea- Daphne Patterson each scored two The Cardinal took first place on Education to benefit all Palo Alto schools. son. goals as Stanford completed a two- vault, as Foley and freshman Application deadline: March 21. Olympian Kristen Caverly also game sweep over the weekend with Stephanie Gentry tied with San Jose Details and application forms: had an outstanding showing. Both- an 8-4 victory over visiting Cornell State’s Michelle Minotti for first http://www.fairmeadow.pausd.org/PTA/art-show.html ered by back problems for the past on Saturday. place. or Alejandra Chaverri at [email protected], (650) 493-2657 two years, she still managed to The Cardinal (5-2) beat visiting Stanford travels to Berkeley for Heidi Maier, [email protected], (415) 794-5236 swim a personal best 2:11.13 in the Colgate, 12-7, on Friday. the Pac-10 championship on Satur- Stanford beat Cornell for the first This space donated as a community service by the Palo Alto Weekly. 200 breast. She’s fourth on Stan- day. The Cardinal are the defending ford’s all-time list.■ time in six games. Stanford grad Pac-10 champion. ■

Page 28 • Wednesday, March 23, 2005 • Palo Alto Weekly Peninsula Easter Services

Trinity Evangelical Unitarian Easter Services Passover Seder Lutheran (LCMS) Universalist Christ Episcopal Church Sunday, March 27 Saturday, April 23 1295 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto Church of 9:30 & 11 a.m. 5:30 p.m. Nurturing Minds and Hearts Palo Alto (650) 853-1295 Alleluia! 505 East Charleston Road, Palo Alto (650) 494-0541 www.uucpa.org Maundy Thursday Holy Week and Easter Services Holy Communion, Noon & 7:00 p.m Good Friday FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH PALO ALTO March 24 Maundy Thursday 6:00pm Tre Ore, Noon – 3:00 p.m. Vespers, 7:00 p.m. 305 N. California at Bryant • 327-0561 • www.firstbaptist-paloalto.org March 25 Good Friday 12 noon March 20, 10AM Palm Sunday Worship Holy Saturday Easter Vigil,7:00 p.m. March 24, 6PM Soup supper & Maundy Thursday Communion Service March 26 Easter Vigil 7:00pm with Congregations from Jerusalem Baptist Church March 27 Easter Sunday 8:00am and 10:15am Easter Sunday and Covenant Presbyterian Church at First Baptist Holy Communion, 6 a.m., March 25, 12-3PM Good Friday, Sanctuary Open for Prayer and Meditation Please call or visit www.ccla.us for service details 8:15 a.m., 11:00 a.m. March 27, 10AM EASTER WORSHIP CELEBRATION 11:30AM Easter Brunch & Children’s Easter Egg Hunt 1040 Border Rd, Los Altos (650) 948-2151 www.ccla.us Trinity_Lutheran_Church.homestead.com

Holy Week Services holy trinity Episcopal church TRINITY PARISH at Christ Episcopal ST. MARK’S Church 330 Ravenswood, Menlo Park EPISCOPAL CHURCH (650)326-2083 Maundy Thursday — March 24 815 Portola Road, www.trinitymenlopark.org ❖ 6:30pm Monastic Meal & Portola Valley Liturgy of the Word fol- 650 851-0224 lowed by Holy Eucharist Wednesday, March 23: 7:30 pm -Tenebrae & Stripping of the Altar Maundy Thursday, March 24: 4:00 pm - Holy Week Family Service Good Friday — March 25 Maundy Thursday 7:30 pm - Holy Communion and March 24th 7:30pm ❖ Noon The Passion & Stations Foot Washing of the Cross Good Friday Service Good Friday, March 25: Noon-3 pm -Good Friday Liturgy & Stations ❖ 2:00 Stations of the Cross: A March 25th 12 noon of the Cross Walking Meditation Easter Eve, March 26: 8:30 am - Holy Saturday Liturgy ❖ 7:30 Everyone’s Way of the Easter Sunday 8:00 pm -Traditional Easter Vigil Cross: Interactive Visual Meditation & WorshipServices Easter Sunday, March 27: 6:30 am - Sunrise Eucharist in March 27th Reflection Memorial Garden Easter — March 27 8:00am, Rite I, Holy 8:00 am - Festival Choral Eucharist, Rite I ❖ 5:30am Easter Vigil, Eucharist Eucharist 9:30 am - Family Service Eucharist with & Baptism Easter Play ❖ 10:00am, Rite II, Holy 8:00am Festive Breakfast & 10:30 am - Festival Choral Eucharist, Children’s Activities Eucharist, Choir Rite II ❖ 10:00am Festive Holy Eucharist 11:30am, Children’s 5:00 pm - Contemporary Easter 600 Colorado Ave, P.A. Easter Egg Hunt Celebration (650) 326–3800

Holy Week Services March 24 6:00 pm Seder Meal March 25 Noon & 7:30 pm Good Friday Services March 27 9:30 am Easter Festival Service (Children’s Easter egg hunt follows) 11:15 am Informal Praise Service

Bethany Lutheran Church 1095 Cloud Avenue, Menlo Park 650.854.5897

Palo Alto Weekly • Wednesday, March 23, 2005 • Page 29 Peninsula Easter Services

Los Altos Lutheran Church Holy Week and Easter Schedule Valley Presbyterian Church ST. NICHOLAS Worship in the Redwoods 3/24 Maundy Thursday Service: 7:30 pm HOLY WEEK SERVICES 3/25 Good Friday Services: 2:00 pm & 7:30 pm CATHOLIC CHURCH PALM SUNDAY March 20: Worship at 8:15 am 3/26 Holy Saturday Great Easter Vigil: 7:30 pm 473 Lincoln Ave., Los Altos, CA March 20: Worship at 10:30 am with Rutter Requiem 3/27 Easter Services: 9:00am and 11:00 am (650) 948-2158 MAUNDY THURSDAY March 24: Dinner & Worship at 6 pm Easter Breakfast beginning at 10:00 am GOOD FRIDAY March 25: Worship at 7:00 pm Sunday School Egg Hunt & Activities EASTER SUNDAY March 27: Sunrise Service at 6:30 am 2005 HOLY WEEK SERVICES (meet in VPC parking lot at 6:15 am) Pastor David K. Bonde Worship at 9 am & 11 am 460 S. El Monte Ave, Los Altos (at the corner of Cuesta & El Monte) (650) 948-3012 www.losaltoslutheran.org MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER - 945 Portola Rd., Portola Valley, CA 650-851-8282 MARCH 24 7:30 pm STANFORD MEMORIAL CHURCH GOOD FRIDAY - MARCH 25 Noon - 3:00pm Celebrate Life’s Renewal Holy Week Ecumenical Services HOLY SATURDAY - MARCH 26 Vigil Service - 8:00pm Maundy Thursday • March 24, 8 p.m. Good Friday, March 25, 12:00 Noon No Reconciliation on Saturday Tenebrae Service with Choir Christian Ecumenical Service EASTER - MARCH 27 8:00am, 9:15am, 10:45am, Easter Sunday • March 27 All are welcome. 12:15pm - Church Sunrise Service, 6:25 a.m., on the hill University Public Worship above the church garden. Easter Sunday, Refreshments to follow. March 27, 10:00 a.m. Easter Sunday • 9:30 a.m. Service “The Goddess Eastre and in the Sanctuary Jesus’ Resurrection Day” The Rev. Scotty McLennan, Dean for Religious Life Ladera Community Church Special music provided by Ragazzi, The Peninsula Boys Chorus. 3300 Alpine Rd., Portola Valley Christian Ecumenical service with eucharist. (650) 854-5481 All are welcome. www.ladera.org For more information about these services, please call 650-723-1762.

Covenant Presbyterian Church Holy Week Services FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Passion/Palm Sunday, at March 20 at 10:45 am United Church of Christ Worship will include a special communion service, St. Bede’sEpiscopal Church Children's Procession of Palms, and the Covenant 2650 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park 1985 Louis Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303 Choir's presentation of selections from Blessed Beatitudes, an African American spiritual setting of the Beatitudes, composed by Rev. Dr. Isaiah 650-854-6555 Celebrate Easter Jones Jr. Good Friday, March 25 from 12 noon to 3 pm March 20 ✥ PALM SUNDAY with worship at 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. The sanctuary will be open for prayer. Carol and Kevin Holsinger will play 8 am Eucharist Enjoy special music by the Oxford Street Brass the harp from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. 10 am Blessing and Procession Easter Sunday, March 27 Glory in the sound of the “Hallelujah Chorus” 6:30 am. on the patio of the Palms Participate in an Easter Egg Hunt after the 9:30 service Sunrise Service led by Covenant's youth and followed by breakfast in the 10:15 am Holy Eucharist Fellowship Hall. All are welcome! Nursery available 9-11:30 am 10:45 am in the Sanctuary Rev. Dr. Sandra Hulse, Transitional Minister Celebration of the Resurrection, Easter Sunday. Join us for a joyous Rev. David Howell, Christian Education celebration in the sanctuary, concluding with our traditonal congregational March 24 ✥ MAUNDY THURSDAY singing of the "Hallelujah" chorus from Handel's Messiah 11 am School Chapel Rev. Elena Larssen, Asst. Minister for Outreach & Youth Covenant Presbyterian Church, 670 East Meadow Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94306 No Noon Service (650) 856-6662 (650) 494-1760, [email protected], www.covenant.palo-alto.ca.us 7:15 pm Footwashing in Narthex 7:30 pm Holy Eucharist First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto ✥ Grace Lutheran Church March 25 GOOD FRIDAY An inclusive community of faith HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE 3149 Waverley Street • Palo Alto, CA 94306 • (650)494-1212 12 noon Noon Service of music, Rev. Randall K. Wilburn reflection, and prayer Palm Sunday – Sunday, March 20 Holy Week & Easter 9:30 am – Adult Education Class in the Fellowship Hall 7:30 pm Meditation on the 11:00 am – Worship Celebration in the Sanctuary Passionof Christ March 24 — Maundy Thursday Maundy Thursday – Thursday, March 24 12:00noon Eucharist 6:30 pm – Passover Seder Meal – Communion – Tenebrae 7:30pm Eucharist March 26 ✥ HOLY SATURDAY This special service combines a Jewish Passover Seder Meal with a 9 pm Great Vigil of Easter, Holy Christian Communion and Tenebrae Service, all held in our March 25 — Good Friday Baptism & Eucharist Fellowship Hall 12:00noon The Seven Last Words Good Friday – Friday, March 25 12:15 pm – Selected Readings from “A Woman Wrapped in Silence” March 27 ✥ EASTER DAY 7:30pm The Seven Last Words “Sharing our Witness” in the Sanctuary 8 am Eucharist with Hymns Festival of the Resurrection – Sunday, March 27 March 27— Easter Sunday 10:15 am Sung Eucharist 6 am – Easter Sunrise Service in the Courtyard 8:00am Festival Worship 11:30 am Easter Egg Hunt in the 8:30 am Meditation Service in the Chapel 9:00-10:15am Easter Breakfast, Brown Hall Courtyard 11 am – Easter Service in the Sanctuary 10:30am Festival Worship Nursery available 9-11:30 am 1140 Cowper St (between Lincoln and Kingsley) (650) 325-5659 www.fprespa.org

Page 30 • Wednesday, March 23, 2005 • Palo Alto Weekly ALL SAINTS’ EPISCOPAL CHURCH Everyone Is Invited to An extended family for everyone ...with Christ at its center March 24 - Maundy Thursday Celebrate Easter with us! 7:30pm Holy Communion & Footwashing March 25 - Good Friday Easter Sunday Schedule: 12:05pm-3:00pm Liturgy of Good Friday & Sunday, March 27th Reflection on the 7 Last Words of Christ 8:30 AM – Breakfast@Union with Breakfast and a Attend when you are able 10:00 a.m. - Children’s Egg Hunt 5:00pm Stations of the Cross for Families more casual worship around our tables in Bailey Hall. 6:00-8:00pm Candlelight Labyrinth Walk Great for families! March 26 - The Great Vigil of Easter And Light Brunch 8:00pm Begins in the courtyard; lighting of the 10:30 AM – Easter worship with brass quintet and the new fire; stories of God’s people; Holy 11:00 a.m. - Worship Celebration singers in the Sanctuary. Communion Nursery & Children’s programs all morning. March 27 - Easter Day 8:00am Holy Eucharist with hymns Nursery care and children’s activities provided during the service. Visitors warmly welcomed! 10:30am Festal Holy Eucharist with wind quintet; followed by egg hunt and brunch First Baptist Church of Menlo Park Los Altos Union PC 555 Waverley Street at Hamilton 858 University Ave. off El Monte Ave. in downtown Palo Alto 1100 Middle Ave. • 650.323.8544 (650) 948-4631 – www.unionpc.org (650) 322-4528 www.asaints.org ST. TIMOTHY’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH Wesley Methodist 2094 Grant Road, Mountain View, CA 94040 (650) 967-4724 www.sttims.org Church Holy Week & Easter Services Easter Day, March 27 of Palo Alto Maundy Thursday, March 24, 7:00 pm Traditional Eucharist, 7:45 am Holy Week Services Good Friday, March 25, 12:00 noon Children’s Eucharist, 9:00 am Easter Vigil, March 26, 8:00 pm Contemporary Eucharist, 10:30 am March 24 He is risen, Alleluia! Alleluia! Maundy Thursday - 7:30pm March 25 ST. LUKE’S CHAPEL IN THE HILLS Good Friday - 7:30pm Anglican Episcopal Church • The 1928 Book of Common Prayer Tenebrae MAUNDY GOOD FRIDAY, EASTER SUNDAY, March 27 THURDAY, March 25 MARCH 27 Easter Sunrise - 7:00am Inspirations March 24 Noon - 3:00 pm: 10 am: Holy Communion Easter Service - 11:00am 7:00 pm Solemn Liturgy of The Passion Family Service A resource for special events and ongoing religious 7:00 pm: Holy Communion 12 pm: Holy Communion 470 Cambridge Ave. Service services. For information, call Blanca Yoc 26140 DUVAL WAY • LOS ALTOS HILLS • (650) 941-6524 650.327.2092 Where 1-280 Passes over Robleda A United Methodist Congregation 650•326•8210 ext. 239 St Thomas Aquinas Parish Holy Week First Presbyterian Church of Mountain View HOLY THURSDAY GOOD FRIDAY MARCH 24, 2005 MARCH 25, 2005 1667 Miramonte Ave, Mountain View Morning Prayer Morning Prayer 7:15 AM at St. Thomas Aquinas Church 7:15 AM at St. Thomas Aquinas church 8:15 AM at Our Lady of the Rosary Church 8:15 AM at Our Lady of the Rosary Church Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper Celebration of the Lord’s Passion Come join us — 5:30 PM (Gregorian) at St. Thomas Aquinas Liturgy of the Word, Veneration of the Cross. 7:30 PM at Our Lady of the Rosary Church Holy Communion and Taizé Prayer March 23, 7pm Movie Night, “The Passion of the Christ” (age discretion) From 12 NOON to 3:00 PM at St. Thomas Aquinas We join as a parish family in one bilingual celebra- Church March 24, 7pm Maundy Thursday Communion Service, Chapel tion of Eucharist. All are invited to witness the wash- 5:30 PM (Gregorian) at St. Thomas Aquinas ing of the feet during Mass and to watch and pray Church March 25, 12-3pm Multi-Church Good Friday Worship Service, Sanctuary with Jesus at the Chapel of the Reservation until 7:30 PM (Spanish) at Our Lady of the Rosary 11:00 PM Church March 27, 6:30am Easter Sunrise Service, Outdoors Night Prayer 7:30 PM at St. Albert the Great Church 10:45 PM at Our Lady of the Rosary Hall March 27, 10:30am Easter Worship Service, Sanctuary Stations of the Cross (Reservation Chapel) 3:00 PM at Our Lady of the Rosary Church 6:45 PM (Spanish) at Our Lady of the Rosary Church

Palo Alto Community Church HOLY SATURDAY EASTER SUNDAY MARCH 26, 2005 MARCH 27, 2005 Easter Week Services There are no regularly scheduled confessions or St. Thomas Aquinas – 7:30AM, 8:45AM, 10:30AM, Masses at any church today 12:00 NOON (Gregorian) Palm Sunday, March 20th, 8:45 am & 11:00 am Our Lady of the Rosary - 9:30 AM (Spanish), A Healing Journey: The End of the Beginning – Rev. Roger Goodwin The Easter Vigil March 26, 2005 7:30 PM at St. Albert the Great Church 10:30 AM with Michael Taylor & The Unity Choir 11:00 PM (Gregorian) at St. Thomas Aquinas St. Albert the Great - 9:00 AM Communion Service, Wednesday, March 23rd, 7:30 pm Church Good Friday Service, March 25th, 7:30 pm We bless the new fire and the baptismal water, hear with Michael Taylor & The Unity Choir the story of salvation, celebrate the Sacraments of Initiation, and welcome new members into our Easter Sunday, March 27th, 8:45 am & 11:00 am church and parish family as we celebrate Easter with The Light of a New Day – Rev. Roger Goodwin joyful and glorious ALLELUIAS!!!!!! with Michael Taylor & The Unity Choir

3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto (650) 494-7222 (between Loma Verde & East Meadow) St. Thomas Aquinas St. Albert the Great Our Lady of the Rosary www.unitypaloalto.org 751 Waverley Street, Palo Alto 1095 Channing Ave., Palo Alto 3233 Cowper Street, Palo Alto

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NCAA BASKETBALL NCAA women (continued from page 27) third-seeded Huskies, winners of Stanford five straight, were heavily favored Tuesday night to beat sixth seed Florida State on their home court in should Storrs, Conn. “We’re really excited about what’s to come,” Smith said. be better “What’s really great about us right now is we’re not expecting to win, Cardinal men likely but we’re excited to win.” won’t have as many The Cardinal has to be feeling misfortunes next season good heading to Missouri after being reassured that the sparkplug Wiggins doesn’t also need to pro- by Nathan Kurz vide the fuel for the engine to keep s the Stanford men’s basket- it running. ball team prepares to regroup After all, Stanford won despite A after its most difficult season the fact that their star guard failed in more than a decade, there are to reach double figures for only the plenty of reasons to believe Trent fourth time all year. She scored Johnson’s second year on The Farm only eight points, nine below her will yield a far greater outcome. average, on 4-of-7 shooting and For starters, the Cardinal will be was hampered somewhat by first- hard-pressed to duplicate the series half foul trouble. of misfortunes and disasters that “A goal of ours was to limit whittled their roster to a mere eight (Wiggins’) points,” Utah guard players by the end of the season. Shona Thorburn said. “We did that, While the departure of last year’s but someone else from their team nucleus put Stanford behind the stepped up when they needed to. Kyle Terada eight ball before the season even That’s what good teams do.” Senior Sebnem Kimyacioglu started, the injuries (to Dan Grun- In past years, Stanford would scored a season-high 13 points. feld and Carlton Weatherby), defec- have crumbled in the tournament pulled away to build a 37-24 half- tions (by Evan Moore and Mark Norbert von der Groeben without a monster game from All- time lead. Smith scored 13 points, Bradford to football) and academic Trent Johnson’s first season as Stanford’s head coach seemingly had too American Nicole Powell on the drawing several triple-teams later in blunders (courtesy of Tim Morris many headaches to overcome as the Cardinal finished 18-13. score sheet and on the glass. At any the half, and Perryman added six as and perhaps his advisor) forced the crucial juncture, the Cardinal play- Stanford shot behind 54 percent the offense. The prospects for a bright future, ers would tense up, hand the ball to team to play with the slimmest mar- It appears the Cardinal will not though, won’t help erase Stanford’s from the field. gin for error. Powell, stand around and, well, Similar to their first-round victo- have the same interior presence next 93-70 loss to Mississippi State last hope for the best. “There is not a team in the coun- year unless either Haryasz bulks up Friday, the Cardinal’s first first- ry, an early second-half Cardinal try who had to face as many obsta- But instead of cowering, the Car- surge put the game beyond reach. _ his lean 230-pound frame leaves round loss in 11 years. dinal simply embrace the challenge cles and overcome as much as we him often overmatched inside — or (In fact, the last time Stanford lost When Kimyacioglu and King-Bor- did,” junior forward Matt Haryasz and spread the burden around. chardt nailed back-to-back treys 6-foot-10 freshman Peter Prowitt in the first round, they were disman- If it wasn’t Smith executing a said. “People were talking about us improves rapidly. tled by future NBA players Latrell with just over 13 minutes remain- not even making any tournament, perfect hook in the lane, then it was ing, Stanford’s lead had ballooned Freshman forward Taj Finger Spreewell and Robert Horry of Al- Kimyacioglu and King-Borchardt and making the NCAA’s was (sup- showed a strong basketball IQ at abama.) to 19 and its ticket to Kansas City draining a three-pointer from the punched. posed to be) a joke. We always be- times but at 6-8, 185 pounds is After building a 39-27 lead in the perimeter or Perryman slashing her “The game was tough,” Utah lieved, and we fought.” hardly an intimidating force inside. first half against the Bulldogs, way to the hoop for an easy bucket. coach Elaine Elliott said. “Stanford The initial transition to a new The incoming freshman class is low things simply fell apart for Stanford coach and philosophy that ham- “We had huge contributions from is great. They have no weaknesses. on height but high on talent. Two (18-13) the rest of the way. different people,” VanDerveer said. They’re so powerful. They shoot pered Stanford in the early portion guards _ 6-4 Anthony Goods and 6- “It wasn’t as much our offense as of the schedule also won’t be a fac- “Along with that, the fifth senior the ball so well. They showed that, 1 Mitch Johnson _ and 6-8 forward our inability to stop them,” Johnson (T’Nae Thiel) didn’t have to play, and they’re my pick.” tor. The Cardinal started 6-7 overall, Lawrence Hill should make the said. “There was a period where we 0-3 in the Pac-10, forcing Stanford which was critical for us.” Stanford improved to 8-0 all time Cardinal even that more athletic lost our poise.” to win 12 of its final 16 games just Thiel, sidelined in the postseason against Utah and beat the Utes for come next fall. The Bulldogs (23-10) bounced to qualify for the postseason for the by a fractured foot, now has a few the second time this season. The Hill, by all accounts, is the most back to take a 44-43 halftime lead 11th straight year. more days to rest her injured foot Cardinal won 63-57 in Salt Lake highly touted of the three. He was a and never slowed down, outscoring Next year roles will be solidified and likely will be ready to play this City on Nov. 19 in the season open- first-team all-Arizona selection out Stanford 66-31 over the final 25:28. and systems fully installed by the weekend. er for both teams, though Borchardt time Stanford engages its non-con- of Deer Valley H.S. (Glendale, Az.) “I think the difference was our Utah hung tough in the first 15 or didn’t suit up and Smith played ference foes. (Plus, they won’t have and boasts a body that bears an un- defensive effort,” forward Nick so minutes, matching Stanford bas- only 20 minutes. to wait until mid-December to play canny resemblance to that of Josh Robinson said. “We got a lead and ket-for-basket and staying within Stanford’s first-round win last their first true home game.) Childress his freshman year. At a we relaxed a little bit. I think they five points until Stanford gradually Saturday had a similar end but dif- Perhaps most importantly, Stan- mere 205 pounds, he projects as a just wanted to win this one more.” ferent means. Wiggins scored 16 of ford’s identity will already be estab- small forward. Friday’s loss sealed the end of the her 29 points in an overpowering lished. Johnson, a left-handed point careers of seniors Rob Little and second-half outburst that carried For the first time in recent memo- guard, led O’Dea of Seattle to back- Robinson. Stanford to a 94-57 spanking of ry, the Cardinal’s best players will to-back state championships and Little tied former Cardinal great 15th-seeded Santa Clara. She was be perimeter players. Juniors Chris possesses similar offensive skills as Arthur Lee for fifth all-time in 8-for-14 from the field and added Hernandez and Grunfeld — ar- Stanford’s own Hernandez, accord- games played (126) and finished five rebounds, two steals and con- guably the nation’s most improved ing to scouting website TheBoot- among the top 10 in school history verted each of her 11 free throws. player — will undoubtedly start and leg.com. in career field goal percentage “This is how she plays,” Van- Morris might sneak his way into the Goods, out of Centennial H.S. (.550) and blocked shots (81). Derveer said. “She brings great en- lineup given his surges before be- (Corona), is a prolific scorer and The ever-versatile Robinson ergy. She is a very special player coming ineligible. could emerge as the surprise of the played in game number 110 and and a very special person.” Jason Haas, Fred Washington and group given his gradual improve- forever etched his name in Stanford Stanford led by only 10 at half- Kenny Brown will provide the most ment at the prep level. basketball history with his memo- time, mostly due to Santa Clara’s depth Stanford has had at the guard By 2006, Stanford will certainly rable buzzer-beater against Arizona prolific three-point shooting in the position in years. have the usual inside presence, hav- last season. first half. The Broncos made 7-of- The big question mark, then, being already received oral commit- While they won’t be around to 12 from three-point range — and comes, what of Stanford’s front- ments from 6-11 twins Brook and see how the Johnson era plays out, was only 5-for-18 from inside the line? Robin Lopez. The Cardinal also they can certainly take a little credit arc — in order to keep things close With the likes of Adam Keefe, have an outside shot at Brian for the way they helped make what for a while. Tim Young and Curtis Borchardt Zoubek, a 7-1, 255-pound center could have been a rocky transition But the Cardinal surged to start dotting the Cardinal history books, out of New Jersey who is also con- smooth. Kyle Terada the second half with a 31-3. Stan- Stanford has seemingly always had sidering Duke, Wake Forest and Hopefully the building process Freshman Candice Wiggins (11) ford doubled its 10-point lead in the a post player from which to initiate Notre Dame, according to reports. will be a little easier next year. ■ was limited to eight points. opening two minutes.■ Palo Alto Weekly • Wednesday, March 23, 2005 • Page 33 Sports

SCOREBOARD BASEBALL Roberts 8-14 7-9 23, Power 4-8 4-5 14, Stanford 9 (Hernandez 4). Technical foul - Maryland 40; 23, Iowa 36; 24, Tennessee First round - Gentry (Stanford) technical Nonconference Harper 2-6 4-4 8, Ervin 2-4 1-2 5, Frazier 7- Stanford coach Johnson. Total fouls — Mis- 32; 24, Notre Dame 32; 26, Virginia 21; 17, fall over Clum (Wyoming), 15-0 (5:00); Sec- Stanford 102 400 200 — 9 11 0 9 0-0 20, Rhodes 1-1 2-2 4, Begley 0-0 0-0 sissippi State 19, Stanford 19. A — 23,207. Miami 19; 28, Richmond 15.5; 29, Rutgers ond round — Gentry (Stanford) technical fall Pacific 123 000 000 — 6 9 3 0, Edmondson 0-2 0-0 0, Cannon 0-1 0-0 Records: Stanford 18-13; Mississippi 13; 30, Virginia Tech 12; 31, Florida State over Hall (Edinboro), 15-0 (3:29); Third Romanczuk, Gilmore (3) and Hester. 0, Boler 1-1 2-2 5, Slater 3-4 0-0 6, Morgan State 23-10 11; 32, Ohio State 10; 33, Cincinnati 9; 34, round — Paulson (Iowa State) d. Gentry Stolp, Pena (4), Manning (5), Schmidt (7) 0-0 0-0 0, Stelmach 0-0 0-2 0, Campbell 4- WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Clemson 6; 34, South Carolina 6; 36, Har- (Stanford) 8-6 SV; Elimination — Lebe (West and Gottier. WP - Gilmore (3-1). LP - Pena 7 0-0 8. Totals: 32-57 20-26 93. vard 4; 36, Northwestern 4; 38, New Mexi- Virginia) d. Gentry (Stanford), 5-3 SV. Kansa City Regional (0-1). co 2; 39, Illinois 1. STANFORD (70) First round 174 pounds HR - Lowrie (S); Baum (P). 3B - Glasgow Washington 4-5 4-8 12, Haryasz 5-17 4- at Fresno 200 free relay - 1, Georgia (Joyce, First round - Kharbush (Stanford) d. (P). 2B — Jackson, Brindza, Kovacs (P). 3 Kearns, Georoff, Weir) 1:28.10; 2, Arizona 5 14, Little 6-11 2-3 14, Hernandez 5-12 4- SANTA CLARA (57) Robertson (Eastern Illinois), 4-1; Second hits - Rapoport (S). 2 hits - Mayberry, Jr., 4 17, Robinson 2-9 0-0 4, Finger 1-2 0-0 2, 1:28.50; 3, Auburn 1:29.33. 6, Stanford round — Kharbush (Stanford) d. Herbert Hester (S); Harper, Brindza (P). 3 RBI - Haas 1-5 2-2 5, Prowitt 0-2 2-3 2. Totals: Gonnerman 0-3 0-0 0, Cronk 0-3 0-0 0, (Bishop, Boutwell, Jones, Stahley) 1:30.87. (Northwestern), 16-7; Third round — Maz- Lowrie (S); Baum (P). 2 RBI - Mayberry, Jr. 24-63 18-25 70. Thomas 1-8 0-0 3, Y. Kimyacioglu 0-0 0-0 500 free - 1, Mason (Arizona) 4:37.11; 2, zurco (Cornell) d. Kharbush (Stanford), 15-4; (S). 0, Huss 1-4 1-2 4, Cozad 9-13 2-4 23, Foy Halftime — Mississippi State 44, Stanford Burckle (Florida) 4:38.89; 3, Hill (Georgia) Elimination — Hancock (Central Michigan) Records: Stanford 12-7; Pacific 10-14 0-0 0-0 0, Walker 2-8 2-6 8, Michalski 0-0 4:39.25. 17, Hentzen (Stanford) 4:46.31; d. Kharbush (Stanford), 3-2. 43. 3-point goals — Mississippi State 9-17 0-0 0, Graham 3-4 0-0 8, Markey 0-3 0-0 0, MEN’S BASKETBALL (Frazier 6, Power 2, Boler), Stanford 4-18 18, Durot (Stanford) 4:46.41. 21, Stahley NCAA Tournament Monteith 2-10 4-6 8, Martin 1-1 1-1 3, Ma- (Stanford) 4:47.11. 52, Costella (Stanford) (Hernandez 3, Haas). Fouled out — None. jors 0-0 0-0 0. Totals: 19-57 10-19 57. SCHEDULE at Charlotte, N.C. Rebounds — Mississippi State 39 (Roberts 4:53.99. First round 14), Stanford 30 (Haryasz 9). Assists — STANFORD (94) 200 IM - 1, Coventry (Auburn) 1:54.37; WEDNESDAY MISSISSIPPI ST. (93) Mississippi State 13 (Harper, Power 3), S. Kimyacioglu 3-5 2-2 11, Smith 5-8 9-9 2, Myers (Arizona) 1:56.43; 3, Bruce (Stan- Baseball 19, Suminski 2-6 0-0 5, Wiggins 8-14 11- ford) 1:57.66. 10, Caverly (Stanford) College - Pacific Lutheran at Menlo, 1 11 29, Borchardt 3-8 2-3 9, Rappahahn 0-2 1:59.43; 11, Davis (Stanford) 1:59.43. Liu p.m. 0-0 0, Coleman 0-2 2-2 2, Pierce 2-3 0-0 4, (Stanford) disqualified; Kirk (Stanford) dis- Tennis Newlin 3-5 4-4 10, Perryman 1-2 3-4 5. To- qualified. College men - Stanford at Baylor, 6 p.m. tals: 27-55 33-35 94. 50 free - 50 free - 1, Joyce (Georgia) Halftime — Stanford 43, Santa Clara 33. 21.97; 2, Wanezek (Texas) 22.27; 3, Weir College women - Stanford at UNLV, 2 3-point goals — Santa Clara 9-17 (Cozad 3, (Georgia) 22.28. 7, Boutwell (Stanford) p.m. Walker 2, Graham 2, Huss, Thomas), Stan- 22.57. 11, Bishop (Stanford) 22.74. 58, Track and field ford 7-20 (S. Kimyacioglu 3, Wiggins 2, Jones (Stanford) 23.58. College - Stanford at California Multi- Suminski, Borchardt). Fouled out — None. 1-meter diving - 1, Huang (Hawaii) Events Invitational, Berkeley Rebounds — Santa Clara 25 (Cozad 6), 327.00; 2, Hartley (USC) 324.90; 3, Under- THURSDAY Stanford 45 (Smith 12). Assists — Santa wood (Iowa) 321.40. 14, Krug (Stanford) Basketball Clara 12 (Huss, Monteith 3), Stanford 14 267.50. 18, Rosenthal (Stanford) 262.45. (Suminski 6). Total fouls — Santa Clara 24, College men - NCAA Regional Stanford 18. A - NA. 400 medley relay - 1, Georgia (Arse- nault, Poewe, Descenza, Weir) 3:33.89; 2, Softball Records: Stanford 30-2; Santa Clara 17- Florida 3:34.73; 3, Stanford (Bishop, Bruce, College - Hawaii at Stanford, 5 p.m.; St. 14 Kirk, Boutwell) 3:34.82. Mary’s at Stanford, 7 p.m.; Highline at Men- WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS 200 medley relay - 1, Georgia (Arse- lo (DH), 1 p.m. Nonconference nault, Poewe, Descenza, Joyce) 1:37.81; 2, Swimming at San Jose State Texas 1:38.06; 3, Arizona 1:38.41; 4, Stan- College men - Stanford at NCAA cham- Team scores - 1, San Jose State ford (Wagner, Bruce, Kirk, Bishop) 1:39.38. pionships, Minneapolis 194.325; 2, Stanford 192.750; 3, California 400 IM - 1, Coventry (Auburn) 4:04.48; Track and field 176.450. 2, Mason (Arizona) 4:08.09; 3, Retrum College - Stanford at California Multi- Vault - 1, Foley (Stanford) 9.800, Gen- (Florida) 4:08.32. 10, Caverly (Stanford) Events Invitational, Berkeley try (Stanford) 9.800, and Minotti (SJSU) 4:13.81. 13, Davis (Stanford) 4:15.76; 30, 9.800. Costella (Stanford) 4:21.80. Water polo Bars - 1, Yim (Stanford) 9.875; 2, Foley 100 fly - 1, Descenza (Georgia) 52.11; 2, College women - UC Santa Barbara at (Stanford) 9.850; 3, Pintchouk (Stanford) Myers (Arizona) 52.74; 3, Weiman (Florida) Stanford, 6 p.m. 9.750 and Szutu (Cal) 9.750. 52.75. 5, Kirk (Stanford) 53.16. FRIDAY Beam - 1, Yim (Stanford) 9.925; 2, Leach 200 free - 1, Hoelzer (Auburn) 1:44.60; Baseball (SJSU) 9.875; 3, Foley (Stanford) 9.850. 2, Weir (Georgia) 1:45.07; 3, Burckle (Flori- College — Sacramento St. at Stanford, Floor - 1, Minotti (SJSU) 9.800, Leach da) 1:45.95. 21, Durot (Stanford) 1:47.73. 6 p.m. 27, Boutwell (Stanford) 1:48.68. 38, Stahley (SJSU) 9.800, and Jay (SJSU) 9.800. Gymnastics (Stanford) 1:49.73. All-around - 1, Minotti (SJSU) 39.150; 2, 100 breast - 1, Bruce (Stanford) 59.55; College men — Stanford at Mt. Pacific Foley (Stanford) 39.075; 3, Leach (SJSU) Sports Federation Tournament, Norman, 38.950. 2, Ertter (Georgia) 59.85; 3, Poewe (Geor- gia) 1:00.19. 41, Liu (Stanford) 1:04.34. Okla. WOMEN’S LACROSSE Softball Nonconference 100 back - 1, Smith (Arizona) 52.82; 2, College — Northwestern at Stanford, 1 Friday Hoelzer (Auburn) 52.99; 3, Gresdal (Arizona) p.m.; Illinois at Stanford, 3 p.m. Colgate 3 4 — 7 53.33. 22, Bishop (Stanford) 54.87. 43, Stanford 4 8 — Wagner (Stanford) 56.29. 46, Jones (Stan- Swimming 12 ford) 57.00. College men - Stanford at NCAA cham- Colgate - McVeigh 3, Carey 2, Janson, 3-meter diving - 1, Hartley (USC) 586.15; pionships, Minneapolis Coomber. 2, Underwood (Iowa) 561.84; 3, McCam- Tennis Stanford - Burker 4, Bach 4, Parasco 2, bridge (Purdue) 558.90. 7, Rosenthal (Stan- College men — Stanford at Washington, Patterson, Parham. ford) 476.30. 10, Krug (Stanford) 470.55. 1:30 p.m. Records: Stanford 4-2; Colgate 5-3 800 free relay - 1, Georgia (DeScenza, Track and field Saturday Joyce, Hill, Weir) 7:01.03; 2, Arizona Cornell 1 3 — 4 7:02.80; 3, Auburn 7:03.75. 9, Stanford College — Stanford Invitational, 2 p.m. Stanford 4 4 — 8 (Durot, Boutwell, Stahley, Hentzen) 7:14.38. Volleyball Cornell — Moore, Smith, Simmons, 1,650 free - 1, Rigamonti (SMU) College men — Stanford at Pepperdine, Dowd. 15:46.84; 2, Peirsol (Auburn) 15:52.48; 3, 7 p.m. Stanford - McClain 2, Patterson 2, Twist, Conway (Georgia) 15:54.97. 6, Costella SATURDAY Bach, Pantano, Parham. (Stanford) 16:05.94. 10, Durot (Stanford) Records: Stanford 5-2; Cornell 1-2 16:15.32. 14, Stahley (Stanford) 16:19.56. Baseball SOFTBALL 22, Hentzen (Stanford) 16:27.97. College — Stanford at Sacramento St., Stanford round robin 200 back - 1, Coventry (Auburn) 1:50.54; 2 p.m. Sunday 2, Hoelzer (Auburn) 1:52.14; 3, Hayes (Ari- Crew Stanford 000 000 0 — 0 2 0 zona) 1:54.56. College — Stanford vs. UC Davis at Princeton 100 001 x — 2 4 0 100 free - 1, Joyce (Georgia) 47.50; 2, Redwood Shores Nydam and Nelson. Snyder and Reis. Nymeyer (Arizona) 48.56; 3, Kolukanova Gymnastics WP - Snyder (7-2). LP - Nydam (6-1). (Auburn) 48.71. 6, Boutwell (Stanford) College men — Stanford at Mt. Pacific 2B - Finley (P). 48.96. 26, Bishop (Stanford) 49.90. Records: Stanford 18-3; Princeton 14-6 Sports Federation Tournament, Norman, Utah 000 000 0 — 0 1 0 200 breast - 1, Bruce (Stanford) 2:08.67; Okla. Stanford 110 040 x — 6 9 1 2, Poleska (Alabama) 2:09.63; 3, Ertter Softball (Georgia) 2:09.97. 9, Caverly (Stanford) Nielsen, Gourdin (5) and Durrance. Mc- College — UNLV at Stanford, 1 p.m. Cullough, Dukes (7) and Nelson. WP - Mc- 2:11.13. 48, Liu (Stanford) 2:21.37. Swimming Cullough (4-2). LP - Nielsen (3-7). 200 fly - 1, DeScenza (Georgia) 1:54.19; HR - Sickler, Howe (S). 3B - Morris 2 2, Mason (Arizona) 1:54.79; 3, Vandenberg College men - Stanford at NCAA cham- (3B0. 2B - Howe (S). 2 hits - Howe, Morris (UCLA) 1:55.08. 5, Kirk (Stanford) 1:56.17. pionships, Minneapolis (S). 2 RBI - Howe (S). 13, Davis (Stanford) 1:58.98. Tennis Records: Stanford 19-3; Utah 9-14 Platform diving - 1, Cardinell (Indiana) College women — Oregon at Stanford, WOMEN’S SWIMMING 501.45; 2, Kiess (Houston) 478.95; 3, Wang noon NCAA Championships (Hawaii) 466.15. College men — Stanford at Oregon, 1 at Purdue, West Lafayette, Ind. 400 free relay - 1, Georgia (Joyce, p.m. Team scores - 1, Georgia 609.5; 2, Kearns, DeScenza, Weir) 3:13.56; 2, Track and field Auburn 3:13.94; 3, Arizona 3:14.30. 10, Auburn 492; 3, Arizona 440; 4, Florida 355; College — Stanford Invitational, 9 a.m. 5, Stanford 313; 6, Texas 218; 7, SMU Stanford (Bishop, Bruce, Kirk, Boutwell) 170; 8, California 149; 9, Indiana 112; 10, 3:20.83. Volleyball USC 108; 11, Wisconsin 107; 12, Arizona WRESTLING College men — Stanford at USC, 7 p.m. State 90; 13, Penn State 87; 14, Texas NCAA Championships Water polo A&M 84; 14, Michigan 84; 16, Hawaii 68; Savvis Center, St. Louis College women — USC at Stanford, 1 17, Purdue 59; 18, UCLA 52; 18, Kentucky 157 pounds p.m. 52; 20, Houston 47; 21, Alabama 44; 22, Page 34 • Wednesday, March 23, 2005 • Palo Alto Weekly Sports

HIGH SCHOOL SCOREBOARD PREP ROUNDUP BASEBALL All races in yards (PA) d. Lou-Chu, 7-5, 6-3. 100 — Carter (Valley Christian) 11.97 SCVAL El Camino Division 200 medley relay - Sacred Heart Prep Records: Palo Alto 4-2 (7-2) (ties meet record); 3, Kapitulnik (Gunn) 12.91; 5, Dixon (M-A) 13.03; 800 - Jenke Standings: Gunn 4-0 (5-2), Homestead (Bausback, Wigley, Flores-Maxfield, Ang) Private Schools Athletic League 1:44.96; 200 free - Navarro (SHP) 1:50.12; (Menlo) 2:11.88 (meet record); 1,500 - Wing Paly girls 4-1, Santa Clara 3-1, Fremont 2-2, Sarato- At SH Prep 7, Woodside Priory 0 200 IM - Flores-Maxfield (SHP) 2:03.66; 50 (Valley Christian) 4:40.38; 2, Jenke (Menlo) ga 2-3, Mountain View 0-4, Lynbrook 0-4 Singles — Davison (SHP) d. Dixit, 7-6 free - Ang (SHP) 23.02; Diving - Gustafson 4:40.67; 3,000 - Follmar (Saratoga) SCVAL De Anza Division (7-4), 6-2; Hutter (SHP) d. Waylonis, 6-1, 6- (M) 132.28; 100 fly - Flores-Maxfield (SHP) 10:17.54; 100 hurdles - Van Vlasselaer Palo Alto 020 000 0 — 2 4 1 3; D. McCall (SHP) d. Hefrich, 6-0, 6-0; B. (Woodside) 16.38; 2, Connet (M-A) 16.54; on track 55.26; 100 free - Mobley (SHP) 51.04; 500 Milpitas 011 000 1 — 3 6 2 McCall (SHP) d. Szoke, 6-0, 6-0. 6, Chandler (Palo Alto) 17.60; 400 hurdles - White, Wismann (7) and Ford; Chew and free - Navarro (SHP0 4:54.98; 200 free relay - Sacred Heart Prep (Navarro, Mobley, Ang, Doubles — Snell-Blumenkranz (SHP) d. 1, Aronson (Mills) 1:09.42; 3, Chandler (Palo Creech. WP - Chew (3-2, 10 strikeouts). LP Kwong-Chan, 6-1, 6-0; Lim-Kokubun (SHP) Alto) 1:10.10; 400 relay - 1, Menlo-Atherton - Wismann (0-1). Browne) 1:34.40; 100 back - Del Rio (M) this year d. Kovachy-Mellethin, 6-1, 6-1; Chambers- 51.15; 1,600 relay - 1, Saratoga 4:07.13; 3B - Gapuz (M). 2B - Ginanni (PA); Zuni- 59.39; 100 breast - Deggelman (SHP) 1:04.46; 400 free relay - Sacred Heart Prep Derwin (SHP) d. Capelle-Ckerman, 6-1, 6-1. 4x1600 relay - Palo Alto (Cummins, Ivahoe, ga (M). 2 hits - Ginanni (PA); De Jesus (M). Lundy, Feng) 232:01.20; 1,600 sprint med- Vikings win team title Records: Palo Alto 2-2 (4-4), Milpitas 2- (Kristofferson, Navarro, Flores-Maxfield, Records: Sacred Heart Prep 4-0 (8-0) Mobley) 3:35.36. ley relay - 1, Aptos 4:25.76; 2, Gunn at West Valley Relays, are 2 BOYS TRACK & FIELD 4:26.84; 4, Palo Alto 4:32.05. Records: Sacred Heart Prep 2-0 (5-0) SCVAL De Anza Division NorCal Tournament High jump - 1, Roberts (M-A) 5-6; 3, 2-0 in dual meets PAL Bay Division Palo Alto 84, at Los Gatos 43 Thursday Wanner (Palo Alto) 5-0 1/4; 5, Laird (Gunn) Menlo-Atherton 118, at Carlmont 39 Carmel 034 000 1 — 8 7 0 400 relay - Palo Alto 44.4; 1600 - Siller 4-10; Pole vault - 1, Anthony (Castilleja) 10- All races in yards by Keith Peters Menlo 300 100 0 — 4 6 3 Jr. (PA) 4:42.06; 110 HH - Yee (PA) 17.04; 6; Long jump - 1, Sullivan (Harbor) 18-0; 3, Kretchmerer, Kleinkopf (4), Lyons (6) and 200 medley relay - Menlo-Atherton (Ja- 400 - White (PA) 52.48; 100 - Meloty-Kapel- Fields (Palo Alto) 16-9; 5 (tie), Ryu (Castille- aul Jones is looking forward Zealear; Suiter, Cavan (7) and Bouvier. WP - cobs, Borcich, Morton, Kadvany) 2:03.07; la (PA) 11.63; 800 - Petrillo (LG) 2:02.9; 300 ja) 16-3 1/4; Triple jump - 1, Wanner (Palo Kretechmeyer. LP - Suiter (10 strikeouts). 200 free - Hage (MA) 2:00.99; 200 IM - IH - Lefebrve (PA) 44.15; 200 - Meloty- Alto) 35-2; 5, Ryu (Castilleja) 32-9; Shot put to Sunday, when he can final- HR - Suiter (M). 3B - Wolff-Smith (Car). Welsh (MA) 2:25.17; 50 free - Lippi (Carl) Kapella (PA) 24.29; 3200 - McQuitty (PA) - 1, Dufresne (Harbor) 41-6; 6, Oseso (Palo P ly put his feet up and relax. It 2B - Schmidt (Car). 2 hits - Foudy, Wolff- 24.33; 100 fly - Kadvany (MA) 1:09.84; 100 10:39.26; 1600 relay - Los Gatos 3:42.3. Alto) 31-2; Discus - 1, Hadley (Soquel) 97- will mark the end of a hectic two- Smith (Car). 3 RBI - Suiter (M). free - Ryan (Carl) 53.36; 500 free - Jacobs Long jump - Rutledge (LA) 19-10; Shot 11. Records: Menlo 5-6 (MA) 5:33.03; 200 free relay - Menlo-Ather- put - Lopez (LG) 48-1; High jump - Rut- week period for the Palo Alto High Serra Knights of Columbus ton (Morton, Welsh, Kadvany, Hage) ledge (LG) 6-4; Discus - Jugant (PA) 133-7; girls’ track and field coach. First round 1:39.14; 100 back - Lippi (Carl) 1:02.59; Triple jump - Rutledge (LG) 40-3. SCHEDULE During that time, Jones and his Palo Alto 010 000 0 — 1 4 5 100 breast - Morton (MA) 1:11.93; 400 free Records: Palo Alto 1-1, Los Gatos 0-2 WEDNESDAY fellow coaches will have overseen Bellarmine 150 225 x — 15 10 0 relay - Menlo-Atherton (Jacobs, Borcich, Lynbrook 65, at Gunn 43 Baseball Nigro, Smarzo (2) and Ford; Shannon, Welsh, Hage) 3:51.86. two dual meets and two big invita- PSAL — Sacred Heart Prep at Harker, Goeddel (3) and Medica. WP - Goeddel. LP 400 relay - Lynbrook 45.29; 1600 - tionals, including the annual Stan- Records: Menlo-Atherton 1-1 (2-1) 3:30 p.m. - Nigro (0-2). Krigel (G) 4:59.39; 110 HH - Pham (L) 16.2; ford Invitational this Friday and GIRLS SWIMMING 400 - Teng (L) 53.70; 100 - Thadani (L) Nonleague — Menlo-Atherton at Wood- HR - Medica, Pappenhause, Canha, West Catholic Athletic League Saturday. And, picture day at Paly. Jauch (B). 2B - Koepfgen, Martin (PA); 11.93; 800 - Wang (L) 2:12.87; 300 IH - side, 3:15 p.m.; Menlo at El Camino, 3:15 At Mitty 112, SH Prep 61 Pham (L) 41.06; 200 - Teng (L) 24.18; 3200 p.m. Helping make this busy schedule Jauch (B). 2 hits - Wismann (PA); Madden All races in yards (B). 3 RBI - Pappenhause (B). 2 RBI - - Gupta (G) 10:33.1; no relay. Golf easier to deal with is the fact the 200 medley relay - Mitty 1:54.57; 200 Jauch, Medica (B). Shot put - Juratovac (G) 42-3; Discus - Nonleague — Menlo, Los Altos, Gunn, Paly girls’ team is a downright joy free - Cisar (M) 1:59.09; 200 IM - Simonds Records: Palo Alto 4-5 Kemp (L) 128-7; High jump - Fine (L) 5-4; Mountain View at Shoreline GL, 3 p.m. for Jones to coach this season. The (M) 2:11.87; 50 free - Isaacs (M) 25.74; Div- Long jump - Yu (G) 19-2 1/2; Triple jump - GIRLS BASKETBALL Softball ing - Holcomb (M) 132.45; 100 fly - Liu (M) Yu (G) 40-3. Vikings are 2-0 in SCVAL De Anza CIF State Championship 57.71; 100 free - Cisar (M) 55.88; 500 free - Nonleague — Sacred Heart Prep at Records: Lynbrook 2-0, Gunn 0-1 Division dual-meet action, includ- at ARCO Arena, Sacramento Sutherland (SHP) 5:29.34; 200 free relay - Castilleja, 3:30 p.m. Division V West Valley Relays ing a 75-52 victory over host Los Mitty 1:42.77; 100 back - Liu (M) 57.80; PA Ocean Division — South San Fran- Pacific Hills 4 13 8 14 — 39 100 breast - Simonds (M) 1:09.09; 400 free at West Valley College, Saratoga Gatos last week. Pinewood 9 14 20 18 — 61 cisco at Menlo-Atherton, 3:15 p.m.; El relay - Sacred Heart Prep (Jollymour, Team leaders — 1, Bellarmine 102; 2, Camino at Menlo, 3:15 p.m. The Paly girls also produced a PH - White 0 0-0 0, Magbuana 2 6-6 10, Sutherland, Sheridan, Mordell) 4:03.49. San Benito 56; 3, Palma 49; 4, Evergreen El Camino Division — Saratoga at Palo solid team effort at last Saturday’s Suarez 4 2-3 12, Shellmire 1 0-2 2, Lewis 0 36; 5, Gilroy 30; 6, Los Gatos 28; 7, Milpitas Records: Sacred Heart Prep 1-1 (4-1 Alto, 3:30 p.m.; Gunn at Wilcox, 3:30 p.m. West Valley Relays at West Valley 5-6 5, Ray 2 5-5 10, Rascon 0 0-0 0. To- 26; 8, Watsonville 25; 9, Monterey 23; 10, PAL Bay Division tals: 8 18-22 39. Menlo-Atherton 22. 17, Palo Alto 12; 19, Boys tennis College in Saratoga, where the Menlo-Atherton 95, at Carlmont 69 P - Field-Polisso 2 0-0 6, Geppert 0 3-4 Gunn 10. Nonleague — Los Gatos at Menlo, 3:15 Vikings won the team title with 43 3, Roark 5 0-0 12, Beck 2 1-2 7, Koshiya- All races in yards 100 - Hunsucker (Valley Christian) 11.10; p.m.; Sacred Heart Prep at Palo Alto, 3:30 points. ma-Diaz 2 1-2 5, Lippe 6 0-0 12, Morin 0 0- 200 medley relay - Menlo-Atherton 800 - 1, Gaspar (Los Gatos) 1:57.62; 2, An- p.m. 0 0, Mapes 0 0-0 0. Totals: 23 7-10 61. (Eaton, Cleary, Hildebrandt, Fero) 2:04.28; Paly accomplished that without derson (M-A) 1:58.10; 1,500 - 1, Anderson Three-point goals: Suarez 2, Ray (PH); 200 free - Eaton (MA) 2:07.04; 200 IM - THURSDAY standout sprinter/jumper Katrina (M-A) 4:01.31; 5,000 - 1, Corres (Seaside) Beck 2, Field-Polisso 2, Altmaier 2, Roark 2 Tana (Carl) 2:19.79; 50 free - Fero (MA) Badminton 15:55.16; 110 HH - Robinson (Santa Clara) Zawojski, who was in Colorado (P). 26.89; 100 fly - Cleary (MA) 1:09.00; 100 15.03; 5, Wheeler (M-A) 15.89; 400 IH - De Anza Division — Palo Alto at Gunn, competing with a club volleyball Records: Pinewood finishes season 26- free - Eaton (MA) 56.36; 500 free - Fero Robinson (SC) 56.62; 400 relay - 1, San 3:30 p.m. 5 (MA) 5:45.74; 200 free relay - Menlo-Ather- team. Benito 44.20; 1,600 relay - 1, Sacred Heart PAL Ocean Division — Menlo-Atherton ton (Cleary, Eaton, Dorst, Kadvany) 1:48.99; “We have a pretty good group,” BOYS GOLF Prep 3:31.68; 4x1600 relay - 1, Watsonville at Burlingame, 3:15 p.m. 100 back - Hildebrandt (MA) 1:07.84; 100 SCVAL De Anza Division 18:45.90; 1,600 sprint medley relay - 1, Jones said. “I think it will be a pret- breast - Tana (Carl) 1:15.02; 400 free relay - Baseball at Palo Alto Muni (par 36) Evergreen Valley 3:41.08. ty good track season around here.” Homestead 207, Palo Alto 213 Carlmont 4:08.09. El Camino Division — Fremont at Gunn, High jump - Valadez (Gilroy) 6-2 1/4; Pole That could be for both Paly and Records: Menlo-Atherton 2-0 (2-1) 3:30 p.m. H - unavailable vault - 1, Merrigan (San Benito) 13-9; Long the other local squads, who distin- Steve Yamamoto Memorial Nonleague — Menlo-Atherton vs. St. Ig- PA - Haydon 36, Rausch 39, Bair 43, jump - Mirabeau (Bellarmine) 22-0 1/2; natius at Flood Park, 3 p.m. guished themselves in last week’s Juarez 47, Cady 48 At St. Francis Triple jump - Davis (Milpitas) 44-3; 5, Yu All races in yards Golf dual-meet and invitational action. Records: Palo Alto 4-1 (Gunn) 41-2; Shot put - 1, Best (Gilroy) 49- Team leaders — 1, Mitty 310; 2, Caron- 11; Discus - Gomez (Pioneer) 153-3. De Anza Division — Palo Alto vs. Cu- In the girls’ division of the West At Palo Alto Muni (par 36) delet 302; 3, Valley Christian 243; 4, St. pertino at Deep Cliff GC, 3:15 p.m. Mountain View 197, Gunn 220 GIRLS TRACK & FIELD Valley Relays, for example, Menlo Francis 206; 5, Leland 129; 6, Menlo Boys lacrosse Medalist: Ichikawa, Sakamoto, Fletcher SCVAL De Anza Division School senior Libby Jenke official- School 129; 7, Menlo-Atherton 115; 8, Palo Alto 75, at Los Gatos 52 Nonleague — R.L. Stevenson at Menlo- (MV) 39 Aragon 97; 9, Santa Teresa 88; 10, Gunn ly opened her outdoor season in the 400 relay - Palo Alto 51.1; 1600 — Atherton, 3:30 p.m.; Campolindo at Menlo, 800 meters with a meet-record win- Records: Gunn 2-3 55. 3:30 p.m. Goodwin (LG) 5:23.25; 100 hurdles - Chan- ning time of 2:11.88. She came PAL Bay Division 400 free relay - Mitty 3:40.44; 400 IM - dler (PA) 17.07; 400 - Lattanzi (PA) 59.13; Girls lacrosse at Burlingame CC (par 36) Monsees (Leland) 4:29.91; 100 IM - Kucera 100 - Reed (LG) 13.38; 800 - Cummins (PA) back to finish second in the 1500 Burlingame 198, Menlo 215 (MA) 1:00.40; 200 back - Liu (Mitty) Nonleague — Menlo-Atherton at R.L. 2:27.46; 300 hurdles - Reed (LG) 48.47; Stevenson, 3:30 p.m. meters (4:40.67). M - Booth 40, Nguyen 42, Kriebel 43, 2:04.79; 50 back - Eaton (MA) 28.31; 200 200 - Seedman (PA) 26.51; 3200 - Nice- PAL — Pioneer at Menlo, 4 p.m. Paly junior Katy Wanner pro- Hawkins 44, Han 47 medley relay - Carondelet 1:54.22; 1,000 wonger (LG) 12:18.43; 1,600 relay - Palo free - Monsees (Leland) 10:21.99; 50 free - duced her team’s lone victory in the B - Allen 37, Tierney 38, Maltz 38, Garcia Alto 4:15.06. Softball Liu (Mitty) 24.33; 200 breast - Freeman relays, winning the triple jump at 41, Anders 44 Long jump - Fields (PA) 15-7 3/4; Triple El Camino Division — Mountain View at (Carondelet) 2:19.36; 50 breast - Isaacs Palo Alto, 3:30 p.m. 35-2, while Menlo-Atherton senior GIRLS LACROSSE (Mitty) 30.97; 400 medley relay - Carondelet jump - Wanner (PA) 32-7; High jump - John- Peninsula Athletic League 4:06.38; 200 fly - McGowan (Carondelet) son (LG) 5-8; Shot put - Oseso (PA) 30-5 Swimming Laurie Roberts won the high jump Gunn 3 3 — 6 2:11.48; 50 fly - Liu (Mitty) 26.13; 200 free 1/4; Discus - Oseso (PA) 107-1. De Anza Division — Gunn at Mountain at 5-6, Castilleja sophomore Tori Menlo 3 2 — 5 relay - Valley Christian 1:42.69. Records: Palo Alto 2-0, Los Gatos 1-1 View, 3:15 p.m.; Palo Alto at Homestead, Anthony was an easy winner in the G - Kosco 3, Wynn 2, Tisdale BOYS TENNIS At Gunn 67, Lynbrook 59 3:30 p.m. pole vault at 10-6, the Menlo- M - Teixeira 2, Swanson 2, O’Reilly PAL Bay Division 400 relay - Gunn 53.23; 1600 - Huang PAL Bay Division — Carlmont at Menlo, Records: Gunn 2-0, Menlo 2-1 (3-3) Atherton girls’ 400 relay won in At Menlo 6, Carlmont 1 (L) 5:47.6; 100 hurdles - Zhang (L) 17.26; 3 p.m.; Menlo-Atherton at San Mateo, 3 p.m. 51.15 and Paly took the 4x1600 re- SOFTBALL Singles — Morrill (Carl) d. Diehl, 6-0, 6- 400 - Feeley (G) 1:02.68; 100 - Kapitulnik West Catholic Athletic League 2; Kaufman (M) d. Rojas, 6-1, 6-0; Gold- (G) 13.26; 800 - Huang (L) 2:39.21; 300 Boys tennis lay to help win the team title. SH Prep 000 00 — 0 2 2 stein (M) d. Low, 7-5, 6-0; Pryzbyla (M) d. hurdles - Moroz (L) 52.20; 200 - Kapitulnik De Anza Division — Palo Alto at Cuper- “Usually you don’t go into these Presentation 300 (13)x — 16 13 0 Schmitt, 6-0, 6-1. (G) 27.34; 3200 - Wiley (G) 13:16.0; 1,600 tino, 3:30 p.m. (invitationals) with the idea you’re relay - Gunn 4:25.7. WP - Gillette (1-1). LP - Erwin. Doubles — Castor-Sum (M) by default; going to win,” Jones said. “But, I’m 2B - Staggs, Guillermo (P). 3 hits - Stag- Sun-Star (M) d. Peterson-Ting, 6-3, 6-1; Shot put - Periera (G) 28-6 1/2; Discus - excited about the girls’ team this gs (P). 3 RBI - Staggs, Guillermo (P). Serrurier-McPherson (M) d. Daniel-Somers, Periera (G) 96-9; High jump - Doughty (L) 5- Records: Sacred Heart Prep 0-2 (1-5) 7-5, 6-1. 0; Long jump - Laird (G) 15-5 1/2; Triple Sports Photos Online year.” jump - Gardner (L) 31-4. Nonleague Records: Menlo 7-0 (9-0) Palo Alto boys’ basketball team in five Paly’s Ranecia Fields is just one Castilleja 000 101 0 — 2 6 1 Records: Lynbrook 0-2, Gunn 1-0 postseason games are available to of many athletes giving Jones rea- King’s Academy 200 020 x — 4 6 1 SCVAL De Anza Division view and/or purchase at www.PaloAl- At Palo Alto 4, Saratoga 3 West Valley Relays son to be optimistic. She was third WP - Schulenberg (5-4). LP - Chang- at West Valley College, Saratoga toOnline.com . Click on Photo Graham. Singles — Gast (S) d. Shoolery, 6-0, 6- Reprints. in the long jump at 16-9, a huge im- 2B - E. Henderson (KA). 4 hits - E. Hen- 1; Fong (S) d. T. Shulman, 6-4, 6-0; E. Lin Team leaders — 1, Palo Alto 43; 2, Val- provement over her marks last sea- derson (KA). 2 hits - Schulenberg (KA). (S) d. Snyder, 6-4, 5-7, 11-9; Tantry (PA) d. ley Christian 42; 3 (tie), Harbor and Menlo- son; M-A senior Jennifer Connet Daniel, 6-4, 6-1. Atherton 32; 5, Cupertino 31; 6, Aptos 29; Palo Alto BOYS SWIMMING 7, San Benito 26.5; 8 (tie), Saratoga and online was second in the girls’ 100 hurdles Doubles — Taylor-Robin (PA) d. Wyatt- West Catholic Athletic League Los Gatos 26; 10, Gunn 25. 13, Castilleja SH Prep 113, at Mitty 62 D. Lin, 6-1, 6-1; Gordon-Severson (PA) d. www.PaloAltoOnline.comwww.PaloAltoOnline.com 21.5; 14, Menlo School 18. An information service of the Palo Alto Weekly Dru-D’Costa, 6-1, 6-1; K. Shulman-Wagner If it’s local and useful, it’s on Palo Alto Online! (continued on page 39) Palo Alto Weekly • Wednesday, March 23, 2005 • Page 35 Sports

AESTHETIC AND Pinewood ENERAL (continued from page 27) G points, grabbed six rebounds and ERMATOLOGY dished six assists while helping the D Panthers cap a 26-5 season in dreamy fashion. Pinewood junior Liz Altmaier would have to agree. Altmaier was

LASER HAIR REMOVAL a fifth-grader when she and fourth- grader Veronica Mapes watched the BOTOX • LASER VEIN THERAPY Panthers win the 1999 state title. On LASER RESURFACING • COLLAGEN Friday, Altmaier scored a team-high AGE SPOT REMOVAL • OBAJI PEELS 16 points and Mapes was a vocal PHYSICIAN DESIGNED SKIN CARE supporter on the bench as the Pan- thers finished their season with 19 CUSTOM BLEND MAKE UP straight victories. “It has been a long journey,” said 10 YEARS EXPERIENCE Pinewood coach Doc Scheppler. IN BOTOX INJECTIONS “It’s a nice chapter at the end of the book, to win the state champi- FREE COSMETIC CONSULTATION onship.” Pinewood junior Hannah Lippe JEAN GORDON, M.D. PH.D. wrote her own storybook ending to STANFORD-TRAINED, BOARD-CERTIFIED the championship season. She missed all three NorCal playoff games after suffering a hairline 2660 SOLACE PL, SUITE C. MTN. VIEW fracture of her right wrist during the 650.938.6559 Panthers’ victory in the Central Coast Section finals. Despite the fact the injury was to her shooting hand, Lippe was not about to sit on the bench with so much at stake. “I was not going to miss this game,” Lippe said. Where Pinewood assistant Sarah Foster put Lippe on a program of Advil and ice. Lippe shot layups with her left hand during practice was can you? deemed ready to play. Despite playing only 14 minutes, Lippe made six of 11 shots and scored 12 points while shooting Take a fitness class left-handed. She also grabbed a team-high eight rebounds in addi- without mirrors? tion to blocking two shots. “She shouldn’t have really been playing,” Scheppler said. “The main thing that I wanted for her was par- Talk to a counselor ticipation, just to be a part of it - es-

pecially after missing the three Nor- Keith Peters Cal games. I wanted her to be effec- Pinewood’s Daniela Roark (left), Thea Morin (center) and Hannah for free? tive when she was out there . . . but Lippe celebrate the Panthers’ CIF Division V state title. what she did in 14 minutes was amazing.” Pinewood had made only eight of Equally important during that Lippe’s contribution was two- 32 shots and held a 23-17 advan- time was Pinewood’s defense, Learn about tage. which held the Bruins scoreless for fold. With her, Pinewood had eight solid players to rotate. Lippe also “In the first half, we missed a lot more than six minutes and without incontinence and was a major factor in the Panthers’ of shots,” Scheppler said. “I thought a field goal for 8:33, spanning the pressure defense. we played too fast.” third and fourth quarters. “I didn’t want fatigue to be a fac- Scheppler, however, wasn’t too “It was a combination of locking insurance? tor,” Scheppler said. It wasn’t, at concerned. In the locker room at into them defensively, getting hands least not for Pinewood. Pacific Hills halftime, Scheppler looked at his on a lot of balls and limiting them wore down quickly as Pinewood team and asked one question: “Are to one shot,” said Scheppler, whose poured it on just after halftime. we having trouble getting shots?” team forced Pacific Hills into 25 Hire an affordable During Pinewood’s 17-0 run just The unanimous answer: “No!” turnovers and just .214 shooting for into the third quarter that pushed the “We know if we’re not having a the game. “I thought we did a terrif- and trustworthy Panthers to an insurmountable 40- hard time getting shots, that eventu- ic job of wearing them down.” 19 lead, Lippe made three straight ally they’ll fall, even in a big arena,” And an even better job of bring- layups. Scheppler explained. “As time went ing home the school’s second state handyman? “Hannah did a great job of finish- on, we became more comfortable, championship banner. ing plays,” Scheppler said. “What hit our threes, got inside . . found The goal now is to earn a third can you say about someone with a easy ways to score. We did a good banner, and Pinewood is equipped hairline fracture of her right, domi- job of finding people.” to do just that. Catch a nant hand who played the game she After Pacific Hills opened the “We have six players coming had and hasn’t played in a week and second half by scoring and getting back from our top eight players,” bus to Reno? a half. It was wonderful.” to within 23-19, Roark and her Scheppler said. “We’re excited to be Pinewood’s performance early in teammates took over. They drove in a position similar to this year.” the game wasn’t so wonderful. Pa- and dished off, finding the open Helping Pinewood’s return to the cific Hills, playing in its first-ever player for easy baskets. Fourteen of top next season will be a Private state final, showed its expected the points in the 17-0 run came on Schools Athletic League scheduled nervousness and made only one of layups, most off pick-and-rolls. reduced to a single round robin. 12 shots in the first quarter and was Lippe had three layins while Roark “We’ll have only five league only four of 21 by halftime. and Altmaier had two apiece. games, so we’ll be able to schedule Battle-tested Pinewood, however, Sophomore Sami Field-Polisso fin- extra, more-competitive games that 450 Bryant Street, Palo Alto • (650) 326-5362 wasn’t much better. A 2-for-15 ef- ished off the run - and Pacific Hills get us ready for CCS and NorCal,” - with a three-pointers and a 40-19 Scheppler said. “It should be an ex- www.avenidas.org fort in the first quarter left the Pan- thers with a 9-4 lead. By halftime, lead with 2:35 remaining. citing year.”■ Page 36 • Wednesday, March 23, 2005 • Palo Alto Weekly Sports Keith Peters Keith Peters Pinewood coach Doc Scheppler was rewarded with a hug from senior Daniela Roark (left) after junior Hannah Lippe (right) provided plenty of vocal support during the Panthers’ state-championship victory. Keith Peters

Pinewood junior Liz Altmaier scores two of her game-high 16 points in Friday’s CIF Division V state title-winning game. Keith Peters Pinewood’s players were all smiles after defeating Pacific Hills, 61-39, in the Division V state championship Junior Hannah Lippe (24) scored 12 points and grabbed eight rebounds game last Friday in ARCO Arena in Sacramento. It was the Panthers’ second state basketball crown. despite playing with a hairline fracture of her right wrist.

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Page 38 • Wednesday, March 23, 2005 • Palo Alto Weekly Sports Stratford School is opening Prep roundup (continued from page 35) a new preschool and elementary (16.54); Paly junior Elissa Chandler was third in the 400 hurdles and school in Palo Alto! Gunn’s Orlie Kapitulnik was third in the 100 in 12.91. To learn more about Stratford or to schedule a tour, In the boys’ relay action, Gunn senior Evan Anderson duplicated please call (650) 493-1151 or email [email protected]. Jenke’s feat (in reverse) by winning the 1500 (4:01.31) and taking second in the 800 (1:58.10). Anderson’s effort helped the Bears finish 10th in the team scoring, while Palo Alto was 17th and Gunn 19th. The Sacred Heart Prep boys’ 1,600 relay team, featuring 2004 state meet qualifier David Jackson, won going away in 3:31.68. In dual-meet action last week, the Paly boys and girls swept Los Gatos while the Gunn girls won the final 1,600 relay to beat Lynbrook, 67- 59. The Gunn boys fell to Lyn- brook, 65-43. Pierre Meloty-Kapella won the 100 (11.63) and 200 (24.29) to help the Paly boys beat Los Gatos, 84- 43, while a balanced effort led the www.stratfordschools.com Viking girls past the Wildcats. Kapitulnik (100, 200) and Audrey Periera (shot put, discus) sparked the Gunn girls in their win. The Stanford Invitational at Cobb Uncompromising Quality, Track & Angell Field will get under way Friday with high school events Signature JJ&F Service starting at 3 p.m. “Family Owned & Operated Since 1948” Girls lacrosse Gunn (2-0) pulled off a big upset by edging host Menlo, 6-5, in a Clover Peninsula Athletic League match last week. The loss for the Knights Organic FRESH PRODUCE MEAT, POULTRY, SEAFOOD was their first ever in league play. Whipping 10 lb Bag Potatoes ...... $1.49 bag Featuring USDA Choice Harris Ranch Kate Kosco scored three goals for “Natural Beef.” No artificial ingredients. the Titans while Maggie Wynn Asparagus ...... $1.99 lb Cream Order your Easter Hams, Legs of Lamb, added two and Becka Tisdale had Medium Size Artichokes ...... 99¢ ea Turkeys, Roasts NOW!!! won. Menlo juniors Megan Teixiera Seedless Muscat Grapes ...... $1.99 lb and Erican Swanson each scored Strawberries ...... $1.49 bskt Boneless Center Cut Pork Loin Roast $3.99 lb twice to pace the Knights (2-1, 3-3). Boneless Fully Cooked Hams ...... $4.99 lb “It was a very intense game,” said .19 Menlo coach Jen Lee. “Gunn $ pint USDA Choice Standing Rib Roast . . .$10.99 lb played very well.” 2 The game was a rematch of last season’s PAL championship game, GROCERY won by Menlo. Big Jim Montcheure Goat Cheese Plain, herb, & 4 pepper goat logs. 4 oz...... $2.49 Boys lacrosse Navel Near East Rice Pilafs & Couscous Entré Mix & match. All varieties. 5.4-10 oz. pkg...... $1.99 Menlo-Atherton won the third an- Oranges Princella Cut Yams In Light Syrup 15 oz. can ...... 89¢ nual Carmel Tournament, posting a Maltagliati Imported Pasta From Italy Long & short cuts. 1 lb. bag ...... 79¢ 5-0 record last weekend. The Bears defeated Bella Vista, 7-2; Lick- ¢ Fresh Cut Tulips Large 10 count bouquet ...... $8.49 Wilmerding, 10-1; Leland, 8-2; Carmel, 7-0, and Santa Cruz, 11-3. 3 lb. Goalies Justin Lazar and Matt We- 99 BEER & WINE ber were among the standouts for Anchor Steam Beer and Liberty Ale 6 pk. 12 oz. bottles ...... $7.49 + C.R.V. M-A. USDA Choice Vigneron’s Ardechois 2001 Merlot Vin de pays des coteaux de l’ardeche. 750 ml...... $6.99 / $82.50 case Swimming California Legs McWilliams Handwood Estate 2003 Chardonnay South Eastern Australia. 750 ml. . .$7.99 / $95.50 case Menlo, Menlo-Atherton and Schmitges 2003 Erdener Treppchen Riesling Kabinet Off-dry style. 750 ml. . . .$15.99 / $190.50 case Gunn all finished among the top 10 of Lamb at the annual Steve Yamamoto Memorial Invitational at St. Francis on Saturday. .99 520 College Avenue, Palo Alto (650) 857-0901 M-A juniors Kelly Eaton and $ lb. Prices good 3/23/05 through 3/29/05 Heidi Kucera were the only individ- 5 ual winners among the local entries. Eaton won the 50-yard backstroke in a school-record 28.31, breaking 14th ANNUAL PHOTO CONTEST the previous mark of 28.36 by Beth P ALO ALTO WEEKLY Entry Deadline Friday, April 8 Irwin in 1997. Kucera won the 100 Share a part of your life – IM in 1:00.40. Palo Alto Weekly PHOTOCONTEST Mitty, which swam away with the Give blood team title (310 points), earlier in the For more information call week snapped Sacred Heart Prep’s 650/326-8210, ext. 268 1-888-723-7831 dual-meet win streak with a 112-61 Go to PaloAltoOnline.com West Catholic Athletic League tri- Stanford Medical School http://BloodCenter.Stanford.edu umph. ■ to view last years winners Blood Center

Palo Alto Weekly • Wednesday, March 23, 2005 • Page 39 ATHERTON – Wonderful updated 4BD/3BA home in ATHERTON — Park-like 1.16 acre lot with approxi- ATHERTON — Incredible value on approx. one level acre excellent west Atherton cul-de-sac location. Dramatic vault- mately 3,600 square feet of living space. 6 bedrooms, 4 in Atherton. Spacious 4BD/5BA home of nearly 4000 s.f., in ed ceiling living & family rooms. Spacious, formal dining baths, expansive gardens. Entrance off cul-de-sac. sought after Lindenwood. Open floor plan features high room, fabulous remodeled kitchen w/huge informal din- Excellent Las Lomitas schools. ceilings, oversize rooms, & expansive picture windows ing area. Gorgeous professionally landscaped gardens fea- BARBARA SILVERBERG $3,995,000 w/garden views in the living, family & dining rooms; turing expansive lawns, mature shrubs, specimen trees & detached bonus room behind the 2 car semi-detached redwood grove. Sparkling pool. Outstanding Las Lomitas garage; private treed yard, outstanding Menlo Park schools. schools. 1+ acre lot, superb for development. REBECCA PICKART/ELIZABETH DASCHBACH $2,895,000 ELIZABETH DASCHBACH/KRISTIN CASHIN $3,995,000 ■ ATHERTON ■ ■ SAN CARLOS ■

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