Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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SPORTS NEWS Women Win NCAA Swimming Crown Marybeth Linzmeier load the Cardinal swimmers to victory, breaking collegiate records in the 500 and 1650 freestyles. BY MARK ZEIGLER Daily Staff Writer Stanford's Women's Swimming and Diving team turned the tables on the Florida Gators in Lincoln, Neb., March 18-20 to win the NCAA crown. Last year, the Gators won the first-ever NCAA women's championships while swimming in their home pool. But at a neutral site a year later, Stanford was able to outscore Florida 418.5 to 389.5 and bring home the title. Since the NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships were started last year, the 1983 title marks Stanford's first NCAA title. However, the Card women won the former AIAW championship in 1980. Unlike a Florida team that features Olympian Tracy Caulkins, Stanford relied on a strong team effort, receiving scoring from 15 women to hold off a Florida comeback on the third and final day. The Cardinal, which led all tne way, got off to a fast start, scoring 172.5 on the first day to Florida's 150.5 and Texas' 110. After day two, Stanford had widened its lead to 66 points over the Gators and 110.5 over the Longhorns. Florida charged back on the final day of events to make it close, but Stanford's 800 free-style relay placed first to push coach George Haines and his Cardinal squad over the 400 point mark. Sophomore Marybeth Linzmeier paced the Cardinal with firsts in the 500 and 1650 freestyles, breaking collegiate records in both races with times of 4:39.95 and 16:03.76, respectively. Linzmeier, who won the 200, 500 and 1650 frees at last year's NCAA meet, also anchored the Card's victorious 800 free relay team. Stanford picked up the bulk of its points in the relays, which count double in a championship style meet. Of the five relays, Stanford won three (200-free, 800- Sports '82-'83 Sept. 25 — Quarterback John Elway tossed 63 passes, the last a 17-yard TD to Harry with -10 seconds left to lead Stanford over No. 12 Ohio State 23-20. Oct. 8 — The women's volleyball team surprised No. 1 San Diego State at Maples Pavilion 15-9, 13-15, 15-8, 16-14. Oct. 30 — The Cardinal upset the No. 2 Washington Huskies 43-31 on national TV. Mike Dotterer rushed for 106 yards and 2 TDs while Elway was 20 of 30 for 265 yards and 2 TDs. Vincent White's 76-yard punt return sewed up the win; Ceci Hopp, Alison Wiley and Kim Schnurpfeil finished 1-2-3 leading the women's cross country team to the WCAA championships. Nov. 3 — Stanford's No. 4 women's free and 200-medley) and was second in the other two (400-free and medley). But it was the consistent, non first-place scoring by the rest of Stanford's team that made the difference. On the first day, junior Sherri Hanna placed fourth in the 500 free with a 4:48.09 while Patty Gavin, Libby Kinkead and Kim Carlisle went 3-4-6 in the 200 back with times of 2:01.29, 2:01.56 and 2:02.74, respectively. In the 50 free, four Stanford swimmers finished in the top 12. Senior Barb Major was fifth at 23.53, Kelly Asplund eighth at 23.51, Krissie Bush ninth at 23.65 and Diane Zock at 23.81. Gavin came back later in the first day to place in the 200 individual medley, clocking a 2:02.00 in a race won by Florida's Caulkins in a collegiate record time of 2:00.34. Stanford's junior Anne Tweedy was ninth with a 2:05.10. The 200-free relay team of Bush, Zock, Asplund and Major got off to a fast start in the team scoring competition by clocking a 1:36.66, good for first place. Placing in the top three on Friday was Carlisle in the 100 back (third with a 56.50) and Linzmeier in the 200 free (second with a 1:46.64). All told, 15 Stanford swimmers achieved All-American status in one or more events: seniors Asplund, Major, Carlisle and Patty Spees; juniors Hanna, Tweedy and Bush; sophomores Jean Meyer and Isabel Ruess; and freshmen Gavin, Kinkead, Zock, Kathy Smith and Lisa Hazen. And 11 of the 15 scorers return next year, which should enhance Haines' repeat chances. With the Cardinal's first place finish in 1983, Stanford reasserted itself as probably the nation's No. 1 women's swimming school. In the last four years, Stanford has finished no lower than second place in the national championship meet and no lower than third since 1976. (This article appeared in the March 28, 1983 edition of the Stanford Daily and is reprinted with the permis-sion of its author and the Daily. spikers came from behind to stun No. 3 University of the Pacific at Maples, winning the fifth game 19-17 after losing the first two games of the contest. Nov. 20 — California captured the 85th and best Big Caine 25-20 with a chaotic and controversial 57-yard kickoff return on the last play. Nov. 23 — Big Game controversy raged on when a Pac-10 official admitted that Cal was lined up illegally before the game — winning kickoff return. Only tour men lined up within a 10-15 yard area from where the ball was kicked. Rules require that five men be in the area or the play cannot proceed. Nov. 28 — Stanford's No. 2 water |X lo team lost to No. I UC-Irvine 7-4 in the NCAA finals at Long Beach after winning the Pac-lOs for the 3rd straight year. Dec. 4 — Coach Tom Davis led the basketball team to its 1st tournament win in 11 years as it beat Temple 77-70 for the Stanford Invitational championship. Dec. 17 — Stanford's women spikers finished 4th in the national after losing to eventual NCAA champion I Jawaii in the semifinals. Jan. 3 — Athletic Director Andy Geiger announced that Stanford will host live first Bay Area NFL Super Bowl in 1985. Feb. 4 — The men's swimming team knocked off No. 1 and defending NCAA champion UCLA 66-47. .March 12 — The nven's basketball team completed its best season in 10 years, finishing at .500 with an 88-75 upset of Oregon State at Maples Pavilion. March 18-20 — The? women's swimming and diving team won the NCAA crown. The men trxik fourth tk following week after winning the Pac-lOs. April 6 — The men's volleyball team blasted No. 1 Hawaii at Maples 15-12, 15-12. 10-15, 15-3. Coach Fred Sturm called the win the single biggest in Cardinal men's volleyball history. April 15-17 — Stanford's men's golf team won tlx? U.S. Intercollogiates by a single stroke over USC on Lew Dickers three-foot putt on the 18th lx le; Tne baseball team took 4 out of 5 games from UCLA at Sunken Diamond to stay in 1st place in the 6-Pac. April 26 — All-American Quarterback John Ehvay told tk Baltimore Colts to trade him or he'd play baseball for the New York Yankees after the Colls selected him as tk No. I |xck in tk National Football League draft. April 26-May 1 — The men's tennis team defeated No. 2 Pepperdine, No. 3 USC and No. 4 UCLA, clinching its first Pac-10 title since 1980. John Elway signs with the Denver Broncos of the NFL after a trade was made with the Baltimore Colts. 28 Sports !o» 0 W Jt

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CAMPUS NEWS Storms soak campus BY TIM GRIEVE Daily Stiff Writer In the words of one Bay Area newspaper columinst, 1983 was the year we met the enemy, and he was wet. By mid-April Mother Nature had dumped over 35 inches of rain on the peninsula, beating records going back 25 years. When rain greeted freshmen on the first day of orientation, many students who came to Stanford specifically for the California sunshine wondered if they could get tuition refunds. But fall quarter was mild compared to what the campus saw in the winter. What seemed like one continous storm from January until March caused wet feet, flooded basements, and a surge in the umbrella business. The massive amounts of water soon saturated the ground and filled University drainage systems until, in the words of many administrators, the drains just couldn't take any more”. Flooding occurred in buildings all over campus, including Hoover Tower, Memorial Church, and the then underconstruction Braun Music Building. Students in Wilbur Hall had to wade through six inches of rainwater in the basement to do their laundry. I was just putting my clothes in the dryer when this wall of water rushed into the laundry room,” said one Wilbur resident. I ran back to get my last load, but it came in really fast. I was marooned by the washers.” When five feet of water in Tresidder's basement knocked out power there for three days, students had to adjust to banking without computers and a life without frozen yogurt. With the rains came 50 mile per hour winds strong enough jo blow down eucalyptus trees all over the campus. Students could expect to find trees blocking streets every morning during winter quarter. When winds blew down a large oak tree in Tresidder's parking lot, a rented Ford was completely destroyed while two other cars suffered lesser damage. Falling trees crashed onto power lines near Lake Laguni-ta, leaving both Roble and Lagunita Halls without power for an afternoon. A Great Works class meeting in Roble continued nonetheless. We were studying the Dark Ages, so it was very appropriate.” £ When students returned from f spring break, ready for suntan £' weather. Mother Nature finally cooperated — but not for long. By mid-April, another round of showers hit the Bay Area, bringing back the cliche of the winter: I just want to see the sun for a day — not for myself, but for my kids.” HELL .. The storms often made travel on campus precarious as eucalyptus trees tumbled across roads and sometimes onto cars .. AND HIGHWATER: Mark Wilson shows in Gradepoint that the rains didn't stop during spring break. ASSU Recycling $ 10,000 to help subsidize the service but refused to fund recycling on a lone-term basis despite ASSU claims that the University saves money it would otherwise spend on trash disposal. Dec. 5 — Pranksters kidnapped the film Personal Best from the ASSU Sunday Flicks at Memorial Auditorium, demanding that the audience be allowed to see the movie free. Jan. 2-4 — 260 students moved into the new suite houses in Governor's Corner. Jan. 3 — Asst. History Professor Estelle Freedman was denied tenure again as the Committee on Appointments and Promotions and the Dean of Humanities and Sciences reaffirmed the controversial decision made last April, Jan. 10 — Members of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity gave up their national charter and began a new fraternity. Alpha Sigma. Jan. 13 — The local chapter of the Alpha Phi sorority was granted recognitionjoining Delta Gamma and Sigma Delta Tau as the only sororities on campus. Jan. 27 — The latest in a series of winter storms caused flooding, blackouts and the shutdown of Tresidder Union. Jan. 28 — Tresidder Union, as pari of its 20th anniversary celebration, sent two winners of a suitcase party on a paid weekend trip to New York City. Feb. 2—Students found their post office box windows painted black but discovered that a little scratching would allow a peek as they rode by. Feb. 3 — An anonymous $1 million donation was made to resurface the Inner Quad to help fulfill plans originally drasvn up by Frederick Law Olmstead. Feb. 7 — About 15 faculty and 280 staff members at SLAC signed petitions opposing the proposed construction of beam lines at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) which would help in the development of nuclear weapons. Feb. 8 — It was announced that the basic room rent for 1983-84 will rise a hefty 14.5% largely because of costs incurred from construction of Governor's Corner, but tuition will increase only 9.8% — less than the 12% forecasted and less than the 15.1% hike for '82-'83. Feb. 25 — Anthropology graduate student Stephen Mosher was expelled from the University for research behavior inappropriate for an anthropologist . His work angered both the Chinese government and American scholars. March 1 — Students across the campus said good-bye to Hawkeye. B.J. and Hot Lips as they watched the last episode of the popular television series M A S H; University President Donald Kennedy blasted proposed federal regulations on student aid, saying they will impose a very heavy and wholly unjustifiable burden on colleges and universities and will almost surely penalize students who had already registered with the Selective Service Administration. .March 4 — Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip of England lunched at Hoover House with the Kennedys and their guests. March 25 — San Jose deliveryman Donald Amos was convicted of second-degree murder for the brutal stabbing death of Stanford honors student Angela Arvidson last October. March 31 — An ad hoc committee appointed by the Faculty Senate recommended that individual departments experiment with 15-week classes but that the University in general stay with the quarter system rather than switch to the semester system or 5-week Golubs. April 1 — Hargadon to leave Old Union for Harvard Post was the headline on the April Fool's issue of the Daily. April 7 — After meeting with Acting Dean of Student Affairs Norm Robm-son and Assistant Dean of Residential Education Alice Supton, the manage- ment of Frog Pond decided to require proof of age for all campus deliveries and to refuse to deliver alcohol to all freshman dorms. April 8 — COP member .Mark Epstein sparked debate on the Honor Code when he charged Chemistry Professor James Collman with having TA's proctor exams. April 11 — In a speech at the Law School, former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt said that Europeans were irritated at voices coming out of this country that talk of limited war or the possibility of winning a nuclear war or even regionally limiting a nuclear war ... April IS — Despite numerous complaints with the reformed election process, ASSU elections drew a voter turnout of 43%, the highest in more than a decade. April 19 — The ASSU Senate passed by a 14-3 vote a resolution opposing a recommended project at SSRL that would aid research on nuclear weapons; Psychology Prof. Phil Zim-bardo was voted The Ugly Man on Campus in a contest sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega to raise money for the Special Olympics at Stanford. Dean of Admissions Fred Hargadon was first runner up. Dean Norman Wessels was third and University President Donald Kennedy was fourth. News Review 27

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SPORTS NEWS Man with the Golden Arm BY SID SPAETH Daily 5taff Writer John Elway is tall, strong, blond and blue-eyed, and he controls his surroundings with such apparent ease that it is difficult to imagine him not as the quarterback or the captain. Fittingly, Elway dealt the cards when the National Football League, the United States Football League and the New York Yankees played high-stakes poker for the strong-armed golden boy. Elway is perhaps the single most identifiable member of the Class of 1983. Whether he is firing another downfield spiral, loping through right field in the pigion-toed strut that only he could make look graceful, or just flashing his toothy smile and brushing the hair off his forehead with his left hand, El way's presence is unmistakable. On the football field, Elway did more than rewrite the record book. He fashioned it in his mame. A lengthy and stellar list of great Stanford quarterbacks erected a team passing chart that was historical in itself — only to see Elway prance roughshod over the figures as if they were mid-season stats. Elway set 17 conference records and passed for nearly five and one-half miles of yardage and 77 touchdowns. He set career NCAA records with 774 completions and 1246 attempts. His paltry 3.13 percentage of passes intercepted was a now low. Yet, Elway never won the Heisman Trophy — an award that UCLA coacn Terry Donahue said, He can't miss. He also never achieved his most important goal. He never played in the Rose Bowl. He never played in any bowl except the all-star type. He never played on a winning team and his teams had a combined record of 19-24-1 in four seasons. Personal records are always nice, he said. But I'd rather win games. Such is the attitude of the man to whom nothing comes difficult. Such is the attitude of the man, who despite the shortcomings of his team records, would come to Stanford all over again. Perhaps it was the moments that were so magic — the come-from-behind 21-21 tie with USC in 1979, the cakewalk in a driving rainstorm against Oklahoma in Norman in 1980, the punishing victory over Cal in the 1981 Big Game, or the dominating up- set of No. 2 Washington in 1982. For these and all else that Stanford offers, he feels it was worthwhile. Elway's cannon arm made Sunken Diamond's right field a garrison for two years, and his bat was just as explosive. One conference coach said, Elway could throw a runner out at third base with a football. Coming from Stanford, I was able to play both sports, Elway said, after being picked first int he 1983 NFL draft. I'm grateful that I've been able to excel in both. But Elway never lost sight of what he was to Stanford — just another student and just another athlete. After being taken out of a game against Oregon State when he was on track for even more records, he said, There are plenty of guys who go out and work five days a week just like me and can do the job. Elway finally left Stanford for the money and glamour of professional sports, but he admitted savoring every minute of his life at Stanford. I'm just trying to be a regular student. I'm having so much fun just being a kid. Next year? Heck, I'm going to be an adult. Dr. Tom's Rx BY STEVE ODELL Daily Staff Writer When first-year Stanford basketball coach Tom Davis ventured West from Boston College, he did not have the promises of an unspoiled land to greet him. What greeted him instead were nine straight losing seasons. A 6-40 road record since 1978. The school's worst mark (7-20) in 11 years and a last-place Pacific-10 Conference finish the previous season. The Cardinal had finished either in the cellar or next to it eight straight years. David changed all that upon his arrival with a youthful, aggressive style of play as radically different from years past as the results it reaped. Stanford finished at .500 for the first time in 10 years, closing out the 1982-83 season with an impres- sive crushing of defending conference champion Oregon State, 88-75, in Maples Pavilion. The Cardi-nal's 14-14 record was the best for a Stanford team since Howie Dallmar's 1972-73 squad went 14-11 and its 6-12 league mark was good for seventh place in the Pac-10. It was the attitude of the players, Davis said in citing reasons for the dramatic improvement. And not just of the players, of the community and the campus. Everybody was very receptive, willing and open and therefore we were able to accomplish things on the court. Players were willing to push harder and did what we asked them to do. The thing I really like about it is that we didn't make any promises about a great team we would be, he continued. We just took it day-by-day and tried to improve. All we were looking for was for people to take a fresh look at Stanford basketball and accept that we're trying to improve. We have made some improvements, but geez, we've got a long way to go. There is no reason to believe that Davis will not be able to go the rest of the way. A native of Rideway, Wise., he has never had a losing season in 11 years at the collegiate level, possesses a lifetime record of 230-105 and he led Boston College to the NCAA tournament two consecutive years including taking the Eagles to within one game of the Final Four in 1982. Davis is hoping to push the Stanford program to its greatest potential by increasing one variable above all others — work. It takes a long time to turn that around, Davis said, referring to the losing stigma associated with Stanford basketball. It's a tremendous losing thing they've had here that permeates the fans, the community, as well as the players. To change those habits and thoughts of expecting to lose all the time, it's tough. But we're on the right track and we're not that far away. I tell the players that everyday, we're not that far away that we can't reach for it. Sports 29 Keller Strirther