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A Presidential ‘promise’ to improve West Philadelphia Experts question how President Barack Obama’s Promise Zone plans will improve Mantua BY JILL GOLUB Staff Writer

orking in Mantua, West Philadelphia — which is just a mile north of Penn’s campus — isn’t easy. Dorothy Dicks, a church administrator, has been approached by many women in need of help, be it because of poverty, drug abuse or physical abuse. Fifty-one percent of that section of Philadelphia, which is home to 35,315 residents, is in poverty. The unemployment rate for Mantua is 13.6 percent, which is twice the national unemployment rate as of December 2013. Dicks, who works for the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church of Philadelphia , said that change in the area is “well needed.” Right now, she tries to help the area by working with her small church to provide clothes, after-school programs and counseling to members in need. However, Dicks hopes that President Barack Obama’s P romise Zone desig nation for this section of Philadelphia will be the engine that restores Mantua to its former glory. Obama’s Promise Zone designation was first mentioned in February 2013 as a place-based approach to fighting poverty. Obama proposed to invest $750 million in impoverished communities to provide a tax incentive to secure private investments that will foster jobs and build homes. However, some experts question what will result from these Promise Zones. For Mantua, which is one of five areas across the country that received this designation, the Federal plan is to aid the zone with tax credits

Photos courtesy of Creative Commons Map courtesy of Stamen Design Graphic by Vivian Lee designed to encourage investment and job creation and reduce crime and school dropout rates. Drexel University has been involved with the neighborhood for years, helping with grant applications and running other programs, and was instrumental in helping write the application for the Promise Zone designation. Penn is currently not involved in working with Mantua under the Promise Zone designation. Lucy Kerman, Drexel’s vice provost of university and community partnerships , said that this designation will “bring more people, more partners to the table,” which

would lead to “more expertise and more hands on deck to help address the goals of the community.” While this designation will not bring new money to this area, Kerman is optimistic about the attention it will bring to the community, which will hopefully increase grant funding by both the government and other organizations. “What’s so gratifying for the partners is that [the Promise Zone designation] does recognize the depth of

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SLAP endorses Democrat John Hanger for Gov. BY LAUREN FEINER Staff Writer

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John Hanger talks to activist Desi Burnette and emcee Koby Murphy at an event in Center City. .

The Student Labor Action Project is going on the campaign trail. SLAP recently announced its endorsement of Democratic candidate and Penn Law graduate John Hanger for governor, citing his progressive stance on labor, education and environmental issues. “It is a rare movement for labor groups to engage in electoral politics,” SLAP member and College sophomore Clara Hendrickson said. “But the state of affairs [in Pennsylvania] … has just been so awful that it’s a very strategic moment to back this progressive candidate.”

Hanger is the only candidate in this election to have been in a union himself and is calling his campaign “the People’s Campaign.” He recognizes that “the only way to reduce income inequality is to support unions,” Hendrickson said. SLAP supports Hanger because of his commitment to creating more jobs — specifically well-paying green jobs, something he did as secretary of the state’s Department of Environmental Protection. SLAP also supports Hanger’s plan to invest in public education by returning over $1 billion of funding cuts in this area. Part of SLAP’s goal with this campaign is to engage Penn students in

Columbia ‘breaks history’ BY FOLA ONIFADE Staff Writer Columbia University broke an Ivy League record previously held by Penn for highest capital raised in a fundraising campaign. Columbia raised a total of $6.1 billion — $1.8 billion more than Penn’s Making History Campaign, which raised $4.3 billion. “It’s really just a matter of timing,” Penn’s Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations John Zeller said, explaining that Columbia was originally scheduled to end its campaign last year, but it raised its goal and extended the time frame. Making History was a five-year campaign, while the Columbia Campaign lasted six years.

However, it looks like Columbia will not wear the crown for long. Harvard University launched The Harvard Campaign in 2013 with a goal of $6.5 billion. If successful, it will be the largest fundraising effort by any university in the United States, surpassing both Columbia and Stanford University, which raised 6.2 billion dollars between 2006-2011. According to Zeller, Penn is currently focusing on keeping its alumni engaged and involved as part of the Penn Compact 2020. “We spent a lot of time focusing on our nonfinancial objective, which was to make sure our alumni felt engaged with the institutions,” Zeller said. “There was an effort to reach out to young alumni and alumni in general, and that’s going to continue.” ■

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the greater Philadelphia community in a lasting way. “Most Penn students spend more than four years here in Philly,” Devan Spear, a College freshman and member of SLAP, said. “We have a responsibility to do more than just pass through.” On Saturday, the group joined several other activist groups from across Philadelphia for an event at the Arch Street Methodist Church in Center City, where the Point Breeze Organizing Committee officially endorsed Hanger’s campaign. The event was sponsored by Progressive Philly Rising , a new coalition of social justice groups like PBOC that are “committed to

putting front and center [the issues of] public education and economic inequality,” Dina Yarmus, a member of PPR and the emcee at the event, said. The event consisted of several speakers from many of the organizations in the coalition as well as prominent activists, including retired teacher and education activist Ron Whitehorne and labor activist Bill Fletcher Jr. The Media Mobilizing Project presented a video of the progress made by working people across the city throughout the past year. The event closed with PBOC’s endorsement of Hanger, and Hanger SEE SLAP PAGE 6

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Ming Zhong, a student in the course, proposed a design that would use wind energy to maintain a comfortable temperature for its residents throughout the year. Grid systems would naturally cool down the building during the summer months, optimizing energy usage. In the winter, energy from the Jersey shore’s dry, fast wind would be captured to heat the building. Zhong explained that Atlantic City is already implementing active wind energy strategies, such as windmills in their bay areas and proposals to create wind farms 20 miles off the coast in future years. This is in contrast to the passive strategies Zhong proposed for her building. “If we can combine both the city’s active energy strategy with our passive strategy for the site, it will be totally energy efficient,” Zhong said.

Wind Energy Efficiency Illustration by Ming Zhong

REDESIGNING ATLANTIC CITY

Brittany Nargi’s design addressed social and environmental challenges of Atlantic City using a unique wedge-shaped structure.

As the Jersey shore is still haunted by the memory of Hurricane Sandy, Penn students are creating designs for more resilient housing structures along the Atlantic City boardwalk.

Her design extends the surface of the boardwalk through a gentle slope onto the roof of the building itself. The slope allows pedestrians to walk up the building and gain a better view of the sea while also serving as a floodwall that would protect the residential portion of the building in case of another hurricane.

Last semester, 13 graduate students in the School of Design proposed 50,000 square-foot housing units that would offer innovative solutions to the challenges facing Atlantic City, ranging from economic and social concerns to environmental and climate threats. “What’s interesting about Atlantic City is it not only is on the ocean, which makes it subject to all of the fallout from Superstorm Sandy, but it’s also a city that has a lot of urban challenges,” Brian Phillips, the professional architect who taught the course for second-year PennDesign graduate students, said.

The wedge includes open public space underneath where Nargi envisioned ice cream shops and retail venues.

Wedging the Boardwalk

At the end of the semester, students presented their ideas to representatives from Atlantic City’s Casino Reeinvestment Development Authority. Although the students’ designs were speculative and most likely will not be built, Phillips said, “it was interesting to see the students bringing up issues that [the CRDA] found extremely relevant and provocative.”

Illustration by Brittany Nargi

Stronger than the Storm Illustration by Taylor Burgess

Taylor Burgess, a design student pursuing a dual degree in landscape architecture and regular planning, focused his efforts on storm resilience. He incorporated coastal engineering structures called tetrapods – large, concrete wave detraction devices that resemble the children’s toy Jacks – among sand dunes to impede oncoming waves. Burgess said the tetrapods have more flexibility than a regular stormwall, allowing water to flow around and through the concrete arms instead of facing a solid barrier that often cracks under the force of water. BIORETENTION

John Lewallen also focused on social aspects, proposing a residential building with 20 floors. Permanent residences are located in the center of the structure, surrounded by hotel units at the bottom and top of the tower.

Burgess also suggested placing additional tetrapods off shore, providing an artificial foundation for a coral reef habitat.

“What happens currently with big box casino typology is that only visitors are able to live on the boardwalk,” Lewallen said. “By making the boardwalk a place for permanent residents to live, it creates more social mixing.”

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The height of his building insured that the structure would have a “delicate footprint” – it takes up a limited portion of the site so that the landscape is mostly free and clear of building foundation. The building is also lifted and structurally robust in defense against potential storms and flooding.

CORAL REEF HABITAT

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Do sore paws give you pause? There’s an app for that The Vet School and the Red Cross collaborated on a pet first aid and disaster preparation app

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BY BOOKYUNG JO Staff Writer The American Red Cross and the School of Veterinary Medicine are bringing a veterinarian to pet owners’ palms. Released on Jan. 16 , Pet First Aid gives users the tools to handle emergency situations and keep their pets from harm. As of Jan. 28, the application had 15,000 downloads. The application’s main features include 25 common first aid instructions, a nearest hospital and pet hotel locator and how-to videos with CPR techniques. “[The app] was a great way to get the information out there,” Deborah Mandell , a staff veterinarian and professor in the Vet School, said. “Pets are so critical to families and people don’t want to leave their pets behind.” The timing was perfect as well, since the CPR guidelines for dogs and cats has just been standardized, she added. Mandell has been working with the Red Cross since 2006 as a pet care advisor and took a leading role in creating the app. She came up with the idea about a year ago and began working on it. In addition to general first aid guidance, the app allows users to record their pets’ normal health conditions. The app also encourages people to be active users through its entertainment components. It has quizzes about dogs and cats with badges for getting all of the quiz questions correct. Users can also share these badges alongside their pets’ photos on social media to show how much they have learned.

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The app is useful in emergencies, providing how-to videos for dog and cat CPR and in every day situations, allowing pet-owners to monitor daily health patterns. The app has already received positive feedback , particularly from Red Paw, a nonprofit organization working with the Red Cross to save displaced pets. Before, the rescue team had to search for nearby hospitals and call the hotels to see if they are open. However, with the hospital and hotel locator, the team saves a considerable amount of time. Pet First Aid is one of nine mobile apps from the Red

Cross that helps people prepare for disasters like tornados and earthquakes and send out warnings. These apps “emphasize the Red Cross’ mission of being prepared for disasters,” Dave Schrader, spokesperson for the American Red Cross of Southeastern Pennsylvania, said. The app is available on both iTunes and Google Play for 99 cents. The money from the application is donated to the Red Cross.

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Editorial | Uncapping CAPS funding Ivies with best mental health staffer to undergraduate ratio

Columbia — 1:185

Yale — 1:208

Harvard — 1:216

Penn — 1:272

=1 mental health staffer

=50 students

or the last few years, a common concern of the student body has been the state of mental health services at Penn. Concerns have been brought to t he ad m i n i st r at io n mutliple times about the consistently long wait times to make an appointment at CAPS and the necessity of increased funding for a service that can not only improve but also save lives. In the past few months, the call for an improved mental health support system at Penn seems to have reached an all-time high. It seems that the

ad m i n i st r at ion h a s responded at last. We were pleased to hear of CAPS’ recent changes, from adding three new temporary staffers to extending hours. We’re glad that the University has listened to the voices and needs of Penn’s student body — which has made it quite clear t h at ment a l he a lt h services at Penn have room for improvement — and provided the funding to make these changes possible. However, we think that it’s fairly clear that this was a move spurred by the recent deaths in the student body. We’re glad that t he Un iver sit y h a s responded to t hese events, but we hope

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…We hope that events as tragic as the ones that have transpired since winter break will not be necessary to convince the University to take action in the future and fund continued improvements.”

that events as tragic as the ones that have transpired since winter break will not be necessary to convince the University to take action in the future and f und continued improvements. W hile Penn ranks si m i l a rl y t o l a r ger Ivy League universities like Harvard and Cor nell in ter ms of the ratio of CAPS (or the equivalent at the given university) staff to student population, it certainly has room t o i mpr ove. It lags leagues behind Columbia, for example, which has one staffer per 185 people. For comparison, Penn has approximately one staffer per 272 undergraduates.

The Universit y should look for ways to continue improving mental health resources at Penn, from ra ising awa reness about the services offered at CAPS to expansion of the services themselves. It should prov ide the f unding necessary for CAPS to hire the three temporary staff members full time. While the changes made by the University and CAPS last week are certainly steps forward, the University should aim to be more proactive than reactive when it comes to expanding its mental health support services in the coming months and years.

Ivies with worst mental health staffer to undergraduate ratio

1:280 — Dartmouth

1:292 — Princeton

1:354 — Cornell

1:511 — Brown

Reframing religious dialogue THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE | The diversity of beliefs at Penn is wasted if we simply pretend to agree with each other all the time

enn’s promoters and advertisers loud ly t r u mpet our diversity as a c a mpus. T he University’s website has an entire subdomain dedicated to the subject. This is a wor thy cause, but it only amplifies my disappointment with how our religious diversity is squandered by the current interfaith culture at Penn. Penn is dominated by a form of interfaith event I will call a “summit.” Like their diplomatic namesakes, summits are structured events where various parties put aside their dif ferences in hopes of achieving a common goal. Summits of ten overflow with phrases such as “coexist” and “can’t we all just get along?” While generally creating a tepid yet strangely pleasant atmosphere, any serious disagreement or dispute between faiths is consciously suppressed in favor of em-

phasizing the tenuous similarities between religions. D o not m i su nd er st a nd me: Su m m it s h ave v a lu able roles to play. Programs in Religion, Interfaith and Spirituality Matters, Penn’s interfaith umbrella group, and CHORDS often do great community service work and are experts at bringing disparate groups together for a common purpose. My concern is rather that they seem to have a monopoly on the interfaith culture at Penn. Serious issues of religious div ision such as abor t ion, sex ua l it y, ma r riage equality and women’s health are rarely topics of discussion in a culture that avoids confrontation or conflict at seemingly any cost. On the scattered occasions when such difficult questions are posed to an interfaith panel, panelists rarely challenge each other’s assumptions or positions. Instead, they voice their own opinions in the most muted and least

potentially contentious form feasible and conclude with a hearty “agree to disagree.”

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I find the debate format to be more of a performance art than an intellectual tool.” The milieu such discussions create seems to be in conflict with academic ideals; beliefs should not be held out of reach of honest inquiry and skepticism. It may seem that the perfect antidote to this condit ion is t o orga n i ze mor e formal debates around campus. However, this is also the wrong approach. I find the debate format to be more of a performance art than an intellectual tool. Debates intentionally force

spea kers to alter natively voice their own opinions and refute their opponents. Admitting they are wrong on any point is seen as a failure rather than intellectual honesty. As an extreme example, take tomorrow’s debate between Bill Nye the Science Guy a nd cre at ion ist K en Ham, the founder and CEO of the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky. The glorified theme park features vegetarian velociraptors, trained triceratops with saddles and dinosaurs surviving a global f lood by hitching a ride on Noah’s A rk. Ham believes the Earth is less than 10,000 years old, an egregious error equivalent to downscaling the distance between New York and Los Angeles to under three meters. Yet Ham still stands a very strong chance of “winning” the debate, because he has the distinct advantage of not being bound by facts. A debate puts two viewpoints on

even footing, regardless of merit. Somewhere between the extremes of summits and debates must lay a compro- COLLIN BOOTS mise. Allow me to suggest a few guidelines for reach- to stick w ith it. Dialog ue requires a delicate balance ing it: 1. Avoid debates, aim for and can very easily devolve dialogue. By ask ing ques- into debate. Some campus organizations instead of asserting beliefs, both parties will get tions like Penn Secular Societ y, The Ver itas For um closer to understanding. 2 . W hen approachi ng a and the Christian Associadialogue, your primary goal tion are already beginning should be to change your to provide spaces for this own mind, not your neigh- k i nd of d ia log ue throug h bor’s. Go into the discussion panel discussions and coffee hoping to have your mind chats. I hope that in the fuchanged in some way. Even if ture more interfaith groups you only learn how to better will expand their horizons defend the beliefs you came with similar initiatives. Penn’s religious diversity in with, you have grown intellectually and the dialogue is incredible, so why squander it by glossing over the has achieved its purpose. 3. All people should be wel- beliefs that make us unique? come and all beliefs open to question. However, not all COLLIN BOOTS is a master’s beliefs or questions need be student studying robotics from considered germane. Pick a Redwood Falls, Minn. Email him specific and focused discus- at cboots@seas.upenn.edu or sion topic, and work hard follow him @LotofTinyRobots.

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Making the election process work for ‘her’

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BY DIVYA RAMESH Online Associate Editor W hen women succeed , America succeeds. At least that was President Barack Obama’s sentiment in Tuesday’s State of the Union address. And Penn feels the same way. On Saturday, the American Association of University Women brought a workshop titled “Elect Her — Campus Women Win,” to campus for the first time. Elect Her is the only national program that encourages college women to run for public office. T he Women’s Pol it ic a l League and Running Start coordinated the workshop with the AAUW. The workshop, which had more than 30 attendees, was held in the Terrace Room of Claudia Cohen Hall. “I started my career as a chef,” New Jersey Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt and director of Business Services at Penn said. “[But] I didn’t like the way Cherry Hill looked so I joined the zoning board.” “As a woman, you have to wait for the right time,” Lampitt said. She said that she waited until her children were grown to get involved in politics, a restriction that Penn President Amy Gutmann acknowledged earlier this week in an interview with U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill. “Women learn very early on about relationships and they’re caregivers … [They learn] that the way you get satisfaction and the way you make progress is sometimes giving other people credit for what your idea was,” Gutmann said. City Representative and spokesperson Desiree Peterkin Bell also spoke. As Peterkin Bell detailed her roles in Cory Booker’s Newark mayoral campaign and in Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter’s campaign, she too admitted that the job was a new one for her. “Mine was a baptism by fire in communications,” Peterkin-Bell said. “When your work speaks for itself [and] you are invested in the purpose, people will hire you.” The Elect Her workshop also featured a session with female panelists from stu-

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New Jersey Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt spoke at the American Association of University Women-sponsored Elect Her workshop on Saturday. dent gover n ment , where Class Board 2015 President and College junior Ariel Koren encouraged the women in the room not to allow lack of experience to deter them from running for leadership positions. College freshman Mackenzie Bortner said the workshop had changed her views. “Before I felt like politics would make me compromise my values,” Bortner said at the end of the workshop. “It’s not about changing your view but about [sticking] to yourself.” “I know now I definitely want to do advocacy,” said College junior Shakele Seaton. “This workshop reinforced for me as long as you try, at least there’s a foot in the door.” Wo r k s ho p c o o r d i n at o r Christine Hernandez , who now works for the A AUW,

encouraged The Women’s Political League to apply to host Elect Her training after reading an article in The Daily Pennsylvanian about the lack of female representation in student government at Penn. “The problem with Penn is not that we’re not electing women,” College junior and WPL President Madeleine Stevens said. “It’s that Penn women are not stepping up … [and are] going out for lower positions.” Stevens hopes that the training will change that phenomenon and motivate Penn women to apply for leadership positions in college and in the future. Lampitt added that female progress in leadership is not without obstacles. “You can get claws on your back from other women. There are few positions at the top,” she said.

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Promise Zone designation not yet passed PROMISE ZONE from page 1 our partnership and that, for us, the strategy is to work in deep partnerships in a particular neighborhood so that you really leverage all the investments,” Kerman said. A lt hou g h K e r m a n a nd Dicks are optimistic about what this designation can br i ng t o M a nt ua , Joh n Landis, a professor of city a nd reg iona l pla n ni ng at PennDesign , is less certain of what is to come. “If you look at the historical record, it’s hard to be optimistic,” he said. “I don’t know the specifics since they haven’t released them so I can’t say it won’t succeed, but if you look at similar past efforts … the ability of the federal government to stimulate economic development and jobs is very limited and there’s a very poor track record of it, particularly in cities.” L a nd is speci f ic a l ly r e ferred to the government’s Enter pr ise Zones, fede r a l u r b a n d e v elo p me nt pr og r a m s st a r t e d u nd er President Ronald Reagan’s administration, which Landis said were relatively unsuccessful in creating jobs

in Philadelphia. One of the programs that Landis believes successfully brought jobs to Philadelphia was the Keystone Opportunity Zones program , a statewide program that reduced proper t y ta xes and other business taxes for tenants, making office spaces more att ract ive to com mercia l renters. He noted the program succeeded in the Cira Centre in University City, as many law firms moved there from Center City. However, he doubts the f e d e r a l gove r n me nt w i l l implement similar strategies in the P romise Zone designation. “The feds have never done anything like that — which is to make it cheaper for the tenants to occupy the space that will attract cert a i n t y pes of busi nesses to certain spaces,” Landis said. “Either you subsidize developers or you subsidize tenants, which the federal gover n ment does not do. Anything else, it is hard to see how it would have an effect.” Robert Stokes , an associate professor of sociology at Drexel, is also unsure what this designation will bring, but believes that Mantua is a good place to try out the idea. “Bet ween Drexel and Penn, they picked the right place,” he said. “They picked the worst performing neighborhood adjacent to two pri-

vate research universities.” However, li ke L a nd is, he said that “it’s still sort of a mystery to me in terms of how it is actually going to work.” Wit h t he det a i ls of t he Promise Zones still being hashed out by Cong ress, which has not yet approved the designation, it is hard to predict the future of the Mantua section of West Philadelphia. However, one of the major benefits of this program would be that Mantua would receive more points when applying for federal grants. For example, if a grant from Mantua is equally competitive to that of one from a community in another part of Philadelphia, Mantua will likely receive the grant money or aid. The exact amount of extra points Mantua will receive on their applications is still not clear. The other four communities that have received this desig nat ion t hus f a r a r e San Antonio, Los Angeles, Southeastern Kentucky and Oklahoma. Ultimately, this initiative is supposed to target 20 areas. Dicks remains optimistic about the future of her neighborhood. “I’m glad that we can all come together to build the Mantua area back up, from the schools to the business to the homeowners,” Dicks said.

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Major goal for minority center

The Center for Minority Serving Institutions will improve MSIs through research and resources

Huey Elementary School received a new library for its students, thanks to a local community group

BY MELISSA LAWFORD Staff Writer A Graduate School of Education professor recently opened America’s first center that studies organizations that serve underrepresented student populations. Penn’s Center for Minority Serving Institutions will study MSIs, which are colleges and universities that prov ide education to under represented students of color, typically from low income backgrounds. GSE Professor of Higher Education Mar ybeth Gasman is the first person to establish a research and support center for all the types of MSIs in the United States. The new center is located at St. Leonard’s Court on 39th and Chestnut Streets and had its grand opening on Jan. 21. It works to serve MSIs by providing resources, conducting research and expanding the scholarship around them, Gasman explained. She emphasized the importance of this work, as MSIs ser ve 20 percent of America’s undergraduate population, enrolling a total of 3.6 million students in 2012. The Center is partnered with Educational Testing Ser vices, an organization which works to improve quality and equity in education. Senior Vice President Michael Nettles outlined how Gasman’s work is the first of its kind to include Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions and institutions that serve Asians, Native Americans and Pacific Islanders.

West Philadelphia elementary school ‘books’ new library BY CLAIRE COHEN Deputy News Editor

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Marybeth Gasman, a professor of higher education at the Graduate School of Education, will take the helm of Penn’s new Center for Minority Serving institutions, which had its grand opening on Jan. 21. Gasman explained that the center enables people to collaborate across ethnic and racial divides, as “these institutions have the same strengths and challenges.” Gasman prev iously researched MSIs in her work at GSE, but after a planning grant from the Kresge Foundation and funding from the Office of the Provost, the center was able to physically materialize in January. Having the actual space has given Gasman’s work “the opportunity to develop an identity,” Nettles said. Alongside a core of professional staff, both undergraduate and graduate Penn students work at the center researching a variety of topics related to MSIs. College sophomore Melanie Wolf f, the youngest member of Gasman’s team of eight research assistants, is cur rently researching

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics education at HBCUs, specifically how HBCUs teach these subjects. Her ultimate goal is to improve STEM education across all MSIs. Desmond Diggs, a masters student studying international education development, is also a research assistant at CMSI working with HCBUs. Having studied at an HBCU himself — Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia — he has always been aware of MSIs, but he stressed the fact that there is “an immense need to learn so much more.” Another example of a research area the center is examining are the LGBT communities at MSIs. And rés Cast ro Sa mayoa , a doctoral student at GSE, is working at the center to examine what it means to institutionalize LGBT services at

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MSIs nationwide. The opening of the center was accompanied by an extensive social media campaign, Gasman said. Wharton senior Oscar Cullen, the center’s social media specialist, has been managing the campaign since September. The response from MSI faculty across the country has been “really crazy,” he said, describing how they are “asking for more [information] all the time.” Alongside research and increasing awareness, the center also provides tangible resources for MSIs. These include downloadable media kits, data sets and MSI directories. Gasman also has plans to host think tanks to discuss challenges facing MSIs, such as leadership. “I want to have a significant impact and I want my students to have a significant impact,” Gasman said of her work.

Samuel B. Huey Elementary School Principal John Spencer first met Barbara Smith, a volunteer for one of the kindergarten classes, in 2011. Smith was on a mission to restore the school’s library, which had been closed for more than 20 years. Three years, 3,300 books and one unforgettable partnership later, she achieved her goal, and children were able to read in the Huey library once more. Smith is a volunteer for the West Philadelphia Alliance for Children, an organization dedicated to reopening school libraries in West Philadelphia. Since it reopened its first library in 2009, the program, more commonly known as WePAC, has opened 17 school libraries and is currently running twelve. “We do it because the graduation rate in Philadelphia is around a little over 60 percent and that’s just not acceptable, and we know that early reading skills and early writing skills are crucial,” Executive Director of WePAC David Florig said. “Giving [children] access to books and independent reading helps children achieve in school — and go on to graduate.” Students at Huey were excited to experience their library for the first time. “All the way up to third grade, the kids were wonderful,” said WePAC Volunteer R ecr uitment Coord inator

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Morgan Rogers Burns, who read her favorite children’s book, “The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy," to the students. “They were completely interested, engaged and displayed a lot of emotional intelligence,” she said. After the thrill of the opening, Huey students experienced a typical day at the school librar y last Thursday. Smith, the volunteer for WePAC who led the project to revive Huey’s library, began by reading “Corduroy” to the children, had them color in a picture of Corduroy and finished the session by helping them select books for independent reading. From now on, WePAC volunteers will staff the library one to two school days per week. “It’s an orientation to a new experience, and we want them to be successful at it,” Smith said. WePAC st a f f memb er s hope that opening libraries will foster a love of reading in children, thus improving their reading abilities. Florig said that a child’s reading and writing skills in the third grade can predict whether or not they will graduate. “To not have a library, to me, is criminal,” Huey reading specialist Sharon Bryant said. “If we can nurture that love of reading, this will trigger them to go to the public library.” Bryant added that having a library has created a “positive psychological climate” at the school. Spencer said that he is “eternally grateful” for Smith’s persistence in opening the library. WePAC staff said, however, that their efforts are simply a temporar y measure and that their ultimate goal is to ensure that every school has a professional librarian. “Every school, like every prison, should have a library staffed by a paid librarian, and that’s not happening,” Smith said. “The kids that are in kindergarten, first, second and third grade — that time cannot be made up for them.” In the future, WePAC hopes that the school district will provide a professional librarian that could assist children with books for research and provide afterschool access to the library. In the meantime, WePAC is looking for more volunteers and book donations. “A second-grade girl said that this is the best library in the world, ” Florig said. “She checks out books not just for her to read but so she can read them to her little brother — that’s what we’re trying to do.”

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himself accepted that endorsement in his keynote speech. “The tone of it was really upbeat,” Hendrickson said. “People were dancing between speakers.” She estimated that about 250-300 people attended. After the event, Hendrickson and other SLAP members met briefly with Hanger, who recognized their organization and applauded them for their work in unionizing Bon Appetit employees on campus. Penn Democrats has yet to endorse a candidate for the gubernatorial election and is waiting for all of the leading candidates to visit campus before making a decision. Both Penn Democrats and SLAP look forward to Hanger’s visit to campus on Feb. 12th. Penn College Republicans have not formally endorsed a candidate either but is working with the campaign of Gov. Tom Corbett (R-Pa.), the incumbent.

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THEY SAID IT Jerome Allen

“I just think, this weekend in general, we didn’t compete.” — On the 0-2 weekend

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M. HOOPS | After falling to Dartmouth, the Quakers were blown out by Ivy-leading Harvard

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Har vard’s three - point shooting percentage for the entire game. The Crimson buried the Quakers from long range, led by senior guard L aurent Rivard’s 6 - for- 9 shooting from beyond the arc.

Minutes played by sophomore center Darien NelsonHenr y. Nelson-Henr y was effective early on, recording eight points in the first nine minutes of the game, yet saw limited action when the game was close.

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vs. Harvard BOSTON – Penn men’s basketball may have shipped up to Boston this weekend, but it couldn’t right the ship. After hanging tight early, the Quakers let high-powered Harvard run away with an 80-50 victory, losing their second Ivy contest in as many nights after falling to Dartmouth, 67-58. Penn (4-13, 1-2 Ivy), a team desperately needing to wash away its nonconference woes, failed to do so on Friday and Saturday night against a struggling Big Green (9-9, 2-2) and the Ivy-League leading Crimson (17-3, 4-0). The Quakers led Dartmouth at the half but their offense struggled while sophomore guard Alex Mitola took over, scoring 23 second-half points to pace the Big Green. A nd vs. Har vard — in a similar fashion to its loss vs. St. Joe’s — Penn was done in by halftime, largely thanks to the three-ball. The Quakers were outscored beyond the arc, 36-3. Penn has now been outscored 111-36 from three in its last three losses. The Red and Blue’s bench effort also closely mirrored its underwhelming performance against the Hawks two weekends ago, with Penn’s bench players failing to score in the first half and then playing the majority of the second half. Sophomore g uard Tony Hicks paced the Quakers with 14 points, but he only shot 5-for13 from the field. Senior guard Laurent Rivard led the scoring way for the Crimson, with a season-high 22 points on six threes.

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AT A GLANCE Star of the game: Harvard Sr. G Laurent Rivard

Rivard was unconscious from behind the arc on Saturday, as usual. He hit six of his nine three-point attempts on the night to lead all scorers with 22 points.

Play of the game: Rivard catches fire in the second half

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The scoreboard says it all for Penn basketball, which was completely and utterly dominated by Harvard on Saturday night. The Crimson buried the Quakers’ lagging defense, burning the Quakers with 12 three-pointers to build a 30-point advantage. “He does an excellent job of moving without the ball, having the right spacing,” Penn coach Jerome Allen said of Rivard. “When he’s open, he’s not gonna miss.” Penn came out with defensive intensity, not allowing Crimson any easy buckets for the first nine minutes of the game. Penn sophomore center Darien Nelson-Henry had four buckets in the same span, all assisted by different players. The Quakers were exhibiting the inside-out game, which they have been so effective at, for stretches of games this season. But then things changed for good. Harvard went on a 14-0 run — aided by three Penn turnovers — from 11:07 to 7:18 to gain a 29-18 lead it would not relinquish. Penn started taking long,

contested jumpers that failed to fall, while the Crimson started to vigorously attack the rim. Junior guard Wesley Saunders had seven first-half points for the Crimson, repeatedly slashing to the rim and drawing fouls. Harvard three-point specialist Rivard also converted on back-to-back three point plays during the run. Harvard senior forward Kyle Casey had eight points in the first half as well. After picking it up on offense, the Crimson ended the half shooting 57 percent to Penn’s 37 percent. The Red and Blue struggled to climb back, missed a bevy of close looks and allowed the Crimson to lead at the half, 44-23. “Harvard’s a solid team,” Allen said. “They probably play the best brand of selfless basketball in our league.”

The game did not get any closer in the second half, and the Crimson led by as many as 32. “We try to talk to the guys about playing until there’s zeroes on the clock — playing hard, playing the right way, competing,” Allen said. “I just think this weekend, in general, we didn’t compete.” Hicks and senior guard Miles Jackson-Cartwright had some success driving to the rim midway through the second half, but it was too late at that point. “Right now, we don’t have what it takes to compete for an Ivy League title,” Allen admitted after the humbling defeat. “Things are going to have to change.” The Quakers will look to reverse their Ivy fortunes at home against Cornell and Columbia next weekend.

After the under-eight media timeout, Rivard put Penn’s hopes of a comeback to bed, hitting threepointers on back-to-back-toback possessions to stake the Crimson’s lead to 73-41 and leave the Red and Blue ready to just go home.

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MIKE TONY BOSTON — “Some things are going to have to change.” So said Penn basketball coach Jerome Allen after his team lost, 80-50, to Harvard Saturday night. He said this solemnly, a man who was not going to quit fighting for his program but was more audibly tired of losing than I have ever heard him. So said his players after the nationally televised defeat, not in words but in their actions. Apart from the occasional clapping and encouragement from senior captain Miles Jackson-Cartwright, Allen’s players showed little signs of engagement throughout the blowout. Just a lot of hands on hips and jumpers pulled over heads in frustration. So said countless Penn basketball supporters on various social media forums after Harvard’s 30-point win went in the books. Specifically, they want Jerome Allen gone as the John R. Rockwell Head Coach of Penn basketball. After watching Penn suffer deficits exceeding 30 points in three of its last six games, two of them Big 5 matchups at the Palestra, they too want the embarrassment to stop, and they’re all pointing at Allen. And so is Allen. “It’s all on me,” he said. “I take full responsibility for it.” That makes sense. There are

Mike Tony/Staff Photographer

Coach Jerome Allen (center) took full responsibility for the devestating loss the Quakers suffered this weekend at Harvard after another loss the previous eventing against Dartmouth. After this weekend, the Red and Blue has recorded 13 losses to only four wins, which is not where Penn wants to be in the middle of the season. few more visible employees at the University of Pennsylvania than Allen, the face of the school’s marquee varsity sports program, one rich with a winning tradition that he helped contribute to substantially as one of the all-time great players in school history. But since that program is failing, it all comes back to him. I asked Allen if he learned anything about his team this

weekend. “I learned that we don’t have what it takes to compete for an Ivy League title.” Allen added that that could change, but positive long-term change hasn’t graced this program in a long, long time. Since last year’s roster lacked seniors, the core of this team has been together for the better part of two years now. It was experienced enough to merit a No. 2 projec-

tion in the Ivy Preseason Media Poll. It intended to be a club that punished you in transition with its athleticism. Now it only punishes itself, turning the ball over more than any other league foe and failing to even crack 60 points in either game of its first Ivy weekend. Allen admitted that losing is contagious but refused to blame Penn’s slide on that. But it’s clear that Penn basketball is defined

now by a culture of losing. In the last two seasons, Penn is 7-10 in Ivy play, 0-8 in Big 5 play and 13-35 overall. Nineteen of those 35 losses have been by doubledigits. There’s been no change in the lack of discipline that this team plays with on a game-bygame basis. In fact, this team is even less consistent at both ends of the floor than it was a year ago, with its defense more suspect and its constant fouling

even more prevalent. “I just think this weekend, in general, we didn’t compete,” Allen said. “It wasn’t a good weekend for us from a competitive standpoint.” This hasn’t been a good four years for the Allen regime from a competitive standpoint either, as the Quakers have gone just 43-66 since he took over as permanent head coach in March 2010. That’s why his seat is so justifiably hot. It’s imperative that Penn Athletic Director Steve Bilsk y’s successor is in place early enough to evaluate the Penn basketball program and decide whether Allen remains the right person to be head coach beyond March 2014. It’s not too late for Penn to salvage its season with an improbable winning streak to finish Ivy play, but the damage has already been done. Four straight graduating classes w ill have failed to watch the Quakers win an Ivy title and students and alumni alike will continue to be more disappointed than engaged by this program.Penn basketball is a pale, listless shadow of what it used to be, and that cannot stand any longer. So the choice is clear: Penn basketball can transform itself in the dwindling time it has left this season or it can stay lifeless and numb. Either way, a change must come.

MIKE TONY is a senior English and history major from Uniontown, Pa. and senior sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at tony@thedp.com.

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A (literally) negative afternoon for Red and Blue

WRESTLING | Penn canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get on the board vs. Big Red as final score falls below zero BY IAN WENIK Sports Editor Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been 12 years since Cornell wrestling lost an Ivy dual, its last one being a 21-9 loss to Penn at the Palestra in 2002. The streak doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t appear to be in danger of stopping any time soon. Saturday, the No. 4 Big Red returned to the site of their last Ivy loss and dealt the Quakers a smackdown, 32-(-1). Cornell (8-0, 3-0 Ivy) subdued the Red and Blue (4-5, 0-1) early, using a series of major victories in the lighter weight classes to

weightclass that the Red and Blue began to show signs of life. Junior Steve Robertson hung in against No. 7 Brian Realbuto

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nearly dealt the Big Red a stunning defeat. 165-pound sophomore Casey Kent wrestled fearlessly against

No. 10 Dylan Palacio, neutralizing Palacioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skill with his own size. But with the score tied at two and time running out in the third period, Kent let Palacio pick up the winning points while on the ground to give Cornell another 4-2 win and push the overall match edge to 20-0. As time hit triple zeroes, a distraught Kent laid on the ground for several moments, knowing he had let a tremendous opportunity literally slip from his grasp. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Today, [Kent] was a little lackadaisical, kind of feeling out Palacio,â&#x20AC;? Eiter said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In a situation like that, Caseyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got to [make the winning move] in the first minute, not the last minute.â&#x20AC;? The Red and Blue had another close call against a top individual foe just two matches later. At 184 pounds, junior Lorenzo Thomas was undeterred by neither the golden pre-match record of No. 2 Gabe Dean (252), nor the ranking next to his name. Thomas was able to remain within striking distance much of the match, but his third-period rally wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t nearly enough, as he fell, 7-5. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lorenzo hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wrestled well since we came back from break,â&#x20AC;? Eiter said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even in this match, he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the spark he needed to have â&#x20AC;Ś itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s frustrating, because you can see how close he is to these topranked kids.â&#x20AC;? A 3-1 win at 285 pounds by the Big Redâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jacob Aiken-Phillips over Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Steve Graziano â&#x20AC;&#x201D; his second in the pairâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last three meetings â&#x20AC;&#x201D; was the final near-miss of the day, giving Cornell what appeared to be a 32-0 winning margin. But, to add insult to injury, the Quakers were docked a team point for receiving a pair of bench warnings during the match, pushing their score into the negative numbers. Now, Penn can only forget the negatives and try to focus on the positives of a much-improved effort, albeit against a superior opponent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we came out with a much better attitude and fight in us,â&#x20AC;? Eiter said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Little, tiny mistakes, little things that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re working on right now, were really the factor in the match.â&#x20AC;?

build a commanding lead. Wrestling in his first match since January 2, 125-pound freshman Caleb Richardson didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have enough to hang with No. 1 Nahshon Garrett â&#x20AC;&#x201D; his former sparring partner at the Finger Lakes Wrestling Club â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and fell in a tone-setting 10-2 major decision. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s frustrating for [Richardson], Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure,â&#x20AC;? Penn coach Rob Eiter said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He felt really good going into the match. He kind of got away from the game plan a little bit, and against the No. 1 kid in the country, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to stick with what we have put.â&#x20AC;? It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until the 157-pound

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vs. Harvard who went 4-for-5 on shots from three-point range. “Our ball movement in the first half was really great against their zone,” Baron said. “Credit to Kathleen — she’s been practicing every day on her shot, and she was able to knock them down today.” The main event of the weekend, though, was Penn’s Saturday matchup against Harvard (13-5, 3-1), who were coming off of an impressive win against Princeton. However, it turned out to be even more of a laugher than the previous night’s game, as the Quakers blew out the Crimson, 67-38. The win included the largest margin of victory against the Crimson in program history, and the 38 points allowed marked the fewest Penn had given up in three years. Penn was led by a near triple-double that included a program-record nine blocks from freshman center Sydney Stipanovich. “I just tried to stay straight up,” Stipanovich said. “I think we had a great team effort on defense today.” The Red and Blue started off

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for years, braving the cold and waking up in the early hours to marvel at this gauntlet of eating, gluttony and fun. You may not agree with what Wing Bowl is or what it does, but it’s certainly a quintessential part of Philadelphia.

JIMMY LENGYEL is a College sophomore from Pensacola, Fla. and an associate sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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22,000 people packed the Wells Fargo Center at 6 am for the annual eating competition, Wing Bowl 22 BY ALEXIS ZIEBELMAN Associate Sports Editor Before the sun rose on the morning of Jan. 31, while most were still in bed or perhaps preparing for work, 22,000 inebriated Philadelphia fans covered the parking lot of the Wells Fargo Center, tailgating and beginning to enter the stadium for the main event. When the Eagles don’t make the Super Bowl, Philadelphia gets its entertainment on Super Bowl weekend in a different form. For the unfamiliar, Wing Bowl is a chicken wing eating contest put on by radio station WIP where competitors eat as many wings as they can, as fast as they can, in two 14-minute rounds followed by one two-minute round. In addition to the professional competitors was a special competition for 14 minutes between the Big 5 schools. A brave competitor from La Salle, St. Joseph’s, Temple, Villanova and our very own Quakers duked it out for bragging rights and a Chrysler 200. Penn football’s Sebastian “The Polish Punisher” Jaskowski downed 78 wings in those 840 seconds. The senior defensive back can now add to his two Ivy League titles, 2012 first-team All-Ivy and academic accolades with a Big 5 Wing Bowl championship. While the average commuter got into their car to go to work, these competitors paraded around the home of the 76ers, accompanied by scantily dressed women. While the wing eating is part of the spectacle, it is certainly not everything. The women are just as big of an attraction, and it’s not just those on the floor of the event. In commercial breaks the camera pans around the audience selecting a female to zoom in on, and the expectation is for her to flash the camera (which results in cheers), but if she doesn’t, the audience boos her. This was the scene at a sold-out Wells Fargo Center this past Friday morning. But by 10 a.m., the contest was over and Wing Bowl newbie and mother of four Molly Schuyler had eaten 363 wings in a span of 30 minutes. This 5-foot-7, 125-pound contender was the only female entered in the competition and the first in its twenty-year history to take home the crown. She also set a new record, surpassing Takeru Kobayashi’s 337 wings in 2012. Last year’s champion, James “The Bear” McDonald was competing to defend his title but could not keep his wings down long enough to stay in the competition. Extravagant, bold and boisterous, the Wing Bowl gives off an in-your-face vibe that could scare off those with weaker sensibilities — or stomachs. But for others, the event is as much engrained into Philly culture as cheese steaks and the Eagles that such questions don’t even enter their minds. Either way, Wing Bowl XX came and went, satisfying Eagles fans for another year, until they get to do it all over again.

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Penn football DB Sebastian Jaskowski (center and right) downed 78 wings to win the Big 5 Wing Bowl champion for collegiate competitors at the Wing Bowl.

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here are few places that make a person’s jaw literally drop and even fewer that can stuff your agape mouth with buffalo wings, beer and cash. However, Philadelphia’s 22nd annual Wing Bowl left me entertained, exhilarated and vicariously full of poultry. This year’s Wing Bowl featured a number of Philadelphia sports figures, like 76ers head coach Brett Brown, Phillies world champion Matt Stairs and most importantly, competitor and Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce. My adventure at the Wing Bowl began around 2:30 a.m. on Friday, when I awoke to the ear-shattering yelps of my alarm clock. I dragged myself out of bed, met up with a few friends and make the pilgrimage to this chicken wing Mecca. Upon arrival, thousands of peo-

ple were already out and about, yelling, screaming and, of course, drinking. There were battle cries that ranged from “E-A-G-L-E-S, EAGLES!” to “Show us your tits!” With the Eagles’ season over, fans still want competition. Even Penn had a presence in the festivities. Red and Blue football safety Sebastian Jaskowski entered with a fire in his eyes and an entourage the size of his appetite to try and take the crown against other representatives from the rest of the Big 5. His name for the competition? The “Polish Punisher.” “We got about 15 guys here, we are ready to see him take home the car,” a member of his entourage exclaimed. “Look at his competition, he’s got no one out here!” In dramatic fashion, the “Punisher” did in fact take home a brand new Chrysler 200 by downing 78 wings in 14 minutes, a moment he described as “the best thing that has ever happened to me.” There’s an aura around this event that’s filled with decadence and raw emotion. As women were put on the “can cam” and showed their breasts for an almost full Wells Fargo Center, the crowd cheered and jeered in perfect uni-

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