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One student aims to make his music both accessible and successful ELIZABETH WINSTON Staff Reporter

Wharton freshman Kayvon Asemani started his own business where the product is free.

Coming from a difficult background, Asemani believes that everyone should have the chance to experience the music that is part of his brand: Kayvon Music.

He says he practices “ethical capitalism,” so that even those who can’t afford his rap music can still enjoy it. He has made a profit selling T-shirts with his logo designed by College sophomore Adam Reid. He said the design — which is a blend of a lion, bear and wolf’s face wearing a crown — reflects the theme of his songs, which start with “a fierce dark element” and end in a hopeful tone, reminiscent of his own past.

By the age of nine, Asemani lost both his

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parents and was subsequently shuffled around to different family members. Eventually, he attended the Milton Hershey School, a free private school for underprivileged kids in Pennsylvania. He graduated as valedictorian of his class and was determined to pursue a degree in business as well as his artistic dream of making music.

Most of his music is about the struggle of social stratification. College freshman Roger Lee said that Asemani’s music “challenges the status quo and addresses the sickness within society.” Asemani describes his music as “serious, but it can also be funny.”

Asemani acknowledged that he did not start with the same resources that other Wharton students might have had, but he works tirelessly to compete at the same caliber.

“There would be days where we’d be up until 5 a.m. studying after he’d already had a full day of performing and writing new music,” SEE KAYVON PAGE 3

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A helmet ad blocker for real life Some networks interested in technology created by PennApps team EMILY OFFIT Staff Reporter

Solving police prejudice means somehow eliminating the unconscious biases of those we trust with exercising the state’s monopoly on legitimate use of violence.”

- Alec Ward

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One PennApps team has created an app which works like AdBlock for real life — and could potentially make them big bucks in the near future.

“Brand Killer” is aptly named for its ability to pixelate certain advertisements like Starbucks and Coke logos right in front of your eyes. The app was built by Engineering sophomore Reed Rosenbluth and College junior Jonathan Dubin, along with two students from Johns Hopkins University, Tom Catullo and Alex Crits-Christoph.

The device is put over the eyes like a “ski mask that fits over your head,” Dubin said. “Everything that the webcam sees is processed through a computer where the ads are blocked.”

“In the future, there is the idea that there might be a layer between reality and what people are

The Brand Killer helmet blocks out real-life advertisements by making them appear blurry to the viewer.

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Playing with pride LGBT athletes share experiences through student group

Community service, internships or research could count towards new credit

ALEXIS BLOCK Staff Reporter

Although the first gay National Football League athlete — Michael Sam — was drafted just last year, the student organization Penn Athletes and Allies Tackling Homophobia has been on campus since 2003.

PAATH is a constituent group of the Lambda Alliance, the queer advocacy umbrella organization on campus. Facilitated by the LGBT Center, PAATH’s goal is to provide a safe place for athletes SEE PAATH PAGE 3

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College considers out-of-classroom grad requirement JILL MOELY Staff Reporter

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PAATH hosted the Pride Games last year to promote acceptance of LGBT athletes on campus.

Forget Sector and Foundational requirements — the College of Arts and Sciences may soon require students to fulfill credits outside of the classroom.

This possibility was revealed in the recently released School of Arts and Sciences Strategic Plan.

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actually seeing,” Rosenbluth said. “This led us to the idea of AdBlock, which sits between the browser and the actual website — what if we could have that in real life?”

While this app does not have as much of a use as a consumer product until the technology needed for the device is cheaper and smaller, Rosenbluth said that some television networks have already contacted his team for the use of their software. As the device is currently, the team is unsure what the next step might be commercially until the hardware technology catches up.

“Some networks are interested in using the technology to blur ads that they aren’t licensed to show in stadiums,” Rosenbluth said. This app could be helpful for when networks need to pixelate brands they do not have the license to use on television.

Although “Brand Killer” did not make the top 10 in the competition in January, it has received a lot of media coverage from popular sites such like Wired. Rosenbluth attributes this to when he posted the project on the website Hacker News, which is “like Reddit for tech start-ups,” he said.

They came prepared to the PennApps event with the idea and the materials they would need, while sometimes teams and their ideas for PennApps

are formed that weekend.

This inspiration came from a British science fiction show called Black Mirror, which often analyzes the consequences that technology has on modern society. In a particular episode with Jon Hamm, the characters wear smart contact lenses that allow them to block people in real life like blocking someone on Facebook.

Due to time constraints of the competition that weekend, the device was put together with duct tape. The team explained that with smaller computers, they would not need to use a laptop to process the images and that is something they could implement in the future.

As it is now, “Brand Killer” is not necessarily meant to be a commercial product. Its purpose was “more to throw something out there for people to think about,” Rosenbluth said.

In terms of their hacking future, Rosenbluth and Dubin are unsure. “It takes a lot out of you. We had a good time at Penn Apps, but it’s draining.”

Engineering senior Chris Beyer, who was head of hardware for PennApps Winter 2015, is excited by the future prospects of this app.

“This could make a ton of money,” Beyer said. “They could even replace blocked ads with other ads. I think they should keep working to polish this up.”

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Student-staff interactions lacking Only 13 percent of students interact with guards

The study primarily focused on the interactions between students living in on campus dorms and Allied Barton Security Guards and found that the quality of the interactions decreased depending on the general age of students.

For example, the group found thatfreshmen living in Kings Court College House engaged in significantly more interactions with students and security guards than those living in Rodin College House, which houses only upperclassmen.

Alicia Harrwell, who has

worked in the Stouffer College Housing Office for nearly 30 years, also noted that freshman are particularly friendly.

Harrwell said she has grown rather fond of the students that she has helped, particularly when they come in as freshman.

“We have a lot of student contact,” Harrwell said, “The first year students make the most impression, and over the years I still keep in contact with some of them.”

Franklin Riley, the front desk attendant at Houston Hall, agreed that he enjoys working at Penn and seeing a diversity of students.

“It’s a good atmosphere to work in,” he said. “It’s good to see a mixture of race here.”

As a result of the group’s findings, the Management team later decided to create an annual Penn Employee Appreciation Week, which they began last semester.

Over 200 students attended the event.

The event occurred the week before Thanksgiving break and encouraged students through an online campaign to learn facts about and give thanks to staff at Penn by posting on social media with the hashtag #PennAppreciates.

“It’s really knowing more about them that helps.” Zaveri said. “This will definitely color people’s interactions by realizing that these are real people.”

would look in practice. It has not been determined whether the new type of credit would be required or merely honorary, and many details still need to be hashed out.

Unlike the Wharton Schoolwide email prank of last year, that claimed to require an hour of community service of all in the school, this requirement will actually be implemented in the coming years.

“Right now the idea is just in the ‘gleam in somebody’s eye’ stage,” College of Arts and Sciences Dean Dennis DeTurck said. “We’ll begin to frame a proposal later this semester, but it’ll just be the beginning. This isn’t something that will be happening next year.”

Regardless of how the idea takes shape, administrators say student opinion will be taken into account.

“It’s something that we’ll talk about with the Committee on Undergraduate Education, and eventually with the entire faculty and then we’ll get input from students too,” DeTurck said. “We don’t want to just impose this without consultation far and wide.”

So far, students have expressed a wide variety of opinions. “I definitely think the College should require community service, research or internship credits for graduation,” freshman in the Huntsman program in International Studies and Business Menelaos

Mazarakis said. “There are so many benefits associated with getting involved with those activities.”

Although some smaller colleges around the nation have required community service or internships, most of Penn’s peer institutions emphasize these activities, but do not require them.

Administrators believe that the requirement may give graduates out-of-the-classroom experience that will give them an edge in a changing job market.

“It’s a good way to emphasize the fact that the arts and sciences aren’t ‘the other,’ that they are pathways to practical things,” DeTurck said.

The importance of hands-on experience, for both employment opportunities and general skillbuilding, is reflected in other programs within the University.

Students in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences must complete a senior design project, Wharton students get an immediate taste of the business world with Management 100 and School of Nursing students build real-world skills through clinical work.

Requiring work that is not purely academic would allow the College to join the other undergraduate schools in their emphasis on the practical.

“This is something that makes the connection between theory and practice,” DeTurck said, “Between study and implementation.”

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To Wharton senior Shreya Zaveri, the security guard at her dorm in Kings Court College House was not only there for her protection. She was also a friend.

Her friendship with the security guard led her to wonder about the interactions between other students and staff at Penn.

She decided to pursue this interest through her “Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management”course project last semester and found that her interactions with staff were the exception, not the norm.

“Learning more about [Penn staff] really brought home for me that we don’t know enough about the people who work beside us,” Zaveri said.

The security guard who was the inspiration for the project expressed conflicting feelings about her interactions with students.

“When the students graduate, I cry. I love them like my own kids,” a Kings Court College House security guard said in the group’s report. “But honestly … some of them never even say hello.”

The study found that 87 percent of students do not interact with the security guards in any way.

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A Penn study last semester found that 87 percent of students surveyed do not interact with security guards in any way.

In addition, the study found that only eightpercent of students say “hello” to security guards and only onepercent of all students say “thank you.”

“We’re all very busy people,” Wharton senior Hari Joy, another member of the Management 104 team, said. “We aren’t trying to say that Penn students are unappreciative, but in my personal experience we could do more.”

Most students in the study seemed to view their interactions with staff as better, or more personal than the data showed.

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Plan’s Undergraduate Education section: “The College will explore instituting a requirement that students amass several such credits for graduation,” it reads.

This requirement would “include research, work/internship experience, or community engagement.” The Plan proposes to “put theory into practice through a new kind of credit on the transcript, distinct from academic credit.”

This new focus came about as a result of something administrators already see occurring in the student body.

“Our students do things that contribute in very valuable ways to their worldview and education, but are not necessarily worthy of a c.u.,” School of Arts and Sciences Dean Steven Fluharty said. “It’s more experiential, but it should be acknowledged on the transcript.”

However, it is still unclear how this type of requirement

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Campaign finance report shows close mayoral race Penn administrators are active donors JONATHAN BAER Staff Reporter

According to the 2014 campaign finance report released on Monday, several Penn administrators have donated to Democratic candidates seeking election in the city primary this spring .

In November, Penn’s Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli donated $1,660 to Paul Steinke, who is a candidate for city council atlarge . Two administrators from Penn’s Office of Government and Community Affairs donated to mayoral candidate Terry Gillen, who ultimately dropped out of the race in early January. OGCA Vice President Jeffrey Cooper donated a total of $575 throughout 2014, and Executive Director Dawn Maglicco Deitch also donated $100 to Gillen in June.

In addition, OGCA Director of Special Projects David B. Glancey donated $500 to City Controller Alan Butkovitz and $250 to City Council President Darrell Clarke, who were both potential candidates

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and allies to talk about their sexuality and any problems that occur within their athletic communities.

As the nation’s first LGBT athlete organization, PAATH also facilitates an optional safe-zone sensitivity training for coaches. The mission of this training is to create a culture of respect in the athletic environment.

While the club is open to all students — gay or straight — the current general body and board members all identify as members of the LGBT community and are on varsity sport teams. College junior and PAATH Chair Eliana Yankelev thinks that the makeup of the group appeals to members since LGBT varsity athletes have similar

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Wharton freshman Dawit Gebresellassie said. “And he does it all not for the grade, but for knowledge’s sake.”

Asemani’s music has gained recognition among the freshman class.

He performs at open mic nights and other events around campus and has created several albums and a music video, “Crying Out My Soul,” with the help of College sophomore Chaz Smith. His site, kayvonmusic.com, sells T-shirts and functions as a blog.

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who ultimately decided not to run.

Glancey also donated $250 to Councilman Ed Neilson in May. The report also showed that mayoral candidates have received fewer donations on the whole than the candidates in past election cycles. Compared to recent Philadelphia mayoral elections, donations have decreased significantly. The two frontrunners in the 2007 race for Philly mayor, Nutter and U.S. Rep. Bob Brady (D-Pa.), had at this point raised $1.7 million and $500,000, respectively.

In 2014, the frontrunners, State Sen. Anthony H. Williams and Former District Attorney Lynne Abraham, raised $554,106 and $195,968, respectively according to the report. However, Abraham released a voluntary campaign finance report that showed her fundraising had reached $424,677 as of Jan. 31 after receiving a large loan a few weeks prior.

In Philadelphia elections, campaign finance laws limit donations to $2,900 per individual and $11,500 per organization.

Since there is still no clear frontrunner to succeed Mayor Michael Nutter, donors have remained on

the sidelines.

While Williams and Abraham remain slight favorites to win the Democratic primary on May 19, other candidates aren’t too far behind.

City Councilman James Kenney raised $236,355 in 2014. Although this number might seem low compared to Williams and Abraham, Kenney will officially announced his candidacy for mayor on Wednesday, meaning his fundraising should surely spike in the next couple of weeks. Likewise, Former Court of Common Pleas Judge Nelson Diaz, who only officially announced his candidacy on Jan. 15, had $79,542 at the end of 2014.

Similar to Kenney and Diaz, other candidates are just beginning to dive into the race. Doug Oliver, Nutter’s former press secretary, only raised $1,470 in 2014, but isn’t expected to formally announce his candidacy until Saturday.

As the race enters its final few months, the rate and size of donations will surely increase. Although Williams currently holds the advantage in fundraising, any candidate has plenty of time to take the lead.

experiences.

“A huge draw to PAATH is the unique intersection of our members’ identities. Being a varsity athlete at a Division I school is one thing, but to be out as LGBT and a D-one athlete is another,” Yankelev said. “That’s what brings us together.”

Yankelev’s motivation to join PAATH was not due to facing homophobia within Penn’s track and field team, but due to the alienation she faced as a high school athlete.

“High school was not the ideal place for a gay athlete,” Yankelev said. “I felt emotionally judged because I didn’t want to date guys. In track and field there is the expectation and constant pressure to hook up at our state championships.”

Despite these problems in high school, Yankelev has not

experienced alienation at Penn due to her sexuality.

“All of my coaches know I’m out, and I’ve had really incredible feedback from them,” Yankelev, a 100-meter hurdles runner, said.

While Yankelev’s experience at Penn has been mostly positive, College freshman and PAATH advocacy chair Sean Collins has already heard homophobic slurs among his teammates. Still, coming from a rural community which he perceived as less-accepting of LGBT people, Collins felt empowered to come out when he came to Penn. He joined PAATH as an outlet.

“I think that, sadly, homophobia has been so ingrained in society that even the sports that are doing a good job about being inclusive still have episodes of homophobia,” Collins

said.

Currently, PAATH is planning its annual Pride Games, which will be hosted March 27, the final Sunday of QPenn, a week on campus devoted to LGBT activism. The Pride Games is a day of field day events with participants including both LGBT-identifying athletes and other organizations on campus.

While Penn has not had participants from all varsity teams in years past, members of the board are currently talking to members of the Penn football team to join in the event.

Yankelev also warned that while her experiences at Penn have been positive, not all gay athletes at the University are out and not all of them are activists in the club. Still, most current PAATH members have not

get discounts on merchandise, listen to music and share thoughts. There are currently 61 members.

Some have criticized Asemani for his views on Greek life in his songs. Although he attended rush events, he decided not to join a fraternity because he dislikes “the idea of manufactured adversity to bring people together.” He likes the idea of brotherhood, but not the process of getting there through pledging or hazing. “I’m not saying to destroy frats,” he added.

Asemani plans to release new merchandise and a new album

called U4IC (pronounced euphoric) on his website soon. In the coming months, he is looking to headline a show in Philadelphia.

“Kayvon Music is where it starts,” Asemani said. “The idea is Kayvon Enterprises.” He compared the Kayvon Music movement to Snapchat. “No one ever expected an app that started as just a way to send pictures to develop into something you could use as a news source,” he

said.

“Kayvon illuminates what entrepreneurship is,” College freshman Andrew Valdez said. “He’s not just making music, he’s making something real and tangible.”

Asemani said he wants his words to be meaningful to listeners. “I want people to feel something even if my music pisses someone off,” he said. “I want them to feel some way about it.”

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OPINION Aiming first, asking questions later

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2015 VOL. CXXXI, NO. 10 131st Year of Publication

MATT MANTICA Executive Editor JILL CASTELLANO Managing Editor SHAWN KELLEY Opinion Editor LUKE CHEN Director of Online Projects LAUREN FEINER City News Editor KRISTEN GRABARZ Campus News Editor CLAIRE COHEN Assignments Editor STEVEN TYDINGS Social Media Director PAOLA RUANO Copy Editor RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor

TALKING BACKWARD | Use-of-force reform can help ensure equal treatment by police

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ast week, a black Yale undergraduate was held at gunpoint by a campus police officer outside the school’s main library after being mistaken for a burglary suspect. Once the mistake was realized, the student was released.

The story, though probably not particularly unique, received national attention because the student in question was the son of New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow, who recounted his son’s experience in his column.

Obviously the outcome was a bad one — an innocent student was put in fear of his life on his own campus. There are, however, two discrete critical narratives one might reasonably construct to address an incident of this type.

The first narrative is a story about police policies. Most police departments have codified “use-of-force” policies which govern what types of actions

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officers may take in specific circumstances. These policies theoretically address the question of what level of force is permissible when an officer encounters someone who he believes might be a suspect in a burglary — a nonviolent crime. A comprehensive policy either authorizes or forbids a drawn gun in this situation.

A right-minded policy should forbid the gun. A greater level of certainty than a potential match to an inexact description must be obtained to justify the inevitable dangers of drawing a gun. Police policies can and should be narrowly tailored to avoid placing innocent lives in danger.

Some might argue that drawn guns are necessary to ensure the safety of officers confronting potential suspects. This is nonsense.

Taking acceptable risks to protect innocent people is part of an officer’s job. A potential suspect is also a potential innocent whose safety deserves protection, even at some risk to officers.

The second narrative is a story about prejudice, rather than policy. Here, the focus is the student’s race, not the department’s rules. In this narrative, prejudice causes the officer to automatically fear the young black man and to assume his guilt, consciously or not. The officer in question was black, yes, but this does not necessarily immunize him from

those we trust with exercising the state’s monopoly on legitimate use of violence. If this is the problem, it’s hard to think of a solution which alleviates the risk to the safety of minority individuals in the short term. Retraining and diversity awareness have been proposed, but it’s extremely optimistic to think that classroom sessions can change the mental-

A potential suspect is also a potential innocent whose safety deserves protection, even at some risk to officers.” the prejudices and unconscious associations of young black men with crime which some argue permeate society in general and police departments in particular.

The solution to this problem is not so straightforward as rewriting a policy. Solving police prejudice means somehow eliminating the unconscious biases of

ity of those who must face the realities of policing the streets.

But how to reconcile the two narratives? In this case, it seems that the former can be used to address the latter. Whether or not the problem is prejudice, the answer is policy. If police policies don’t forbid holding people at gunpoint simply because they

meet an inexact description of a burglary suspect, they should be modified so that they do, and individual officers should be held accountable for breaching them.

If such policies exist but go unenforced — enforce them.

I say that this is the path to follow not because it’s necessarily the more important one, but because it’s the one which can be addressed concretely to increase the actual safety of citizens and reduce the number of situations in which people of any race find themselves liable to get shot by police. The human brain is hardwired to take shortcuts, to make assumptions based on broad categories. Such mental corner cutting is essential to the kind of quick thinking police rely on when making snap decisions in potentially dangerous situations.

Policies can eliminate the entire decision-making process, which is naturally biased and therefore flawed.

Such a proposal falls far short of solving every issue that

ALEC WARD exists between police and minority communities, but it’s the kind of practicable solution we can focus on in the short term to make life fairer and safer for everyone. If we can’t eliminate prejudice overnight, we can at least try to control for it.

ALEC WARD is a College sophomore from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is alecward@ sas.upenn.edu. “Talking Backward” appears every Wednesday.

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Obama’s State of the Union address: community college proposal

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n Jan. 8, President Obama announced his America’s College Promise proposal — a plan to make community college free for all American students as another step toward making a college degree the norm across the country. The administration pledged to work alongside state governments and responsible, hardworking students to make the first two years of college free. The proposal requires that students maintain a minimum GPA and remain enrolled at least part time at the college.

President Obama’s proposal comes at a time when states are investing less and less in higher education.

Both student debt and the necessity of a college degree are growing, and students who may have once had the chance to go to college are slipping through the cracks because of the financial burden of a degree. If the proposal was implemented

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nationwide, it would level the playing field by saving approximately 9 million students each an average of $3,800 per year.

In the coming years, the number of jobs requiring at least an associate degree are projected to grow twice as fast as jobs requiring no college experience. These are jobs that are often closed off to low- and middle-income students. Two years at a community college are uniquely able to prepare students for the fastest-growing jobs sectors because of their ability to partner with employers to tailor training programs to meet specific economic needs. These programs include nursing, health information technology and advanced manufacturing.

President Obama’s proposal helps to give a fair shot at these essential jobs and ensures that students who work hard and persevere will not be turned away from higher education because of the financial burden of the two to

four years of tuition.

Although at one point in time the United States had the best educated workforce in the world, other countries are now catching up. In order to once again lead the world in education, the U.S. must provide students with the higher education that can and will meet the demands of the growing and changing global economy. The administration’s proposal is a strong step in helping the country meet these new challenges.

The President himself put it best during his State of the Union address as he discussed the proposal, saying, “Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spectacularly well? Or will we commit ourselves to an economy that generates rising incomes and chances for everyone to make the effort?”

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n fo r t u n a t e ly, progressives in this country still believe that the perfect society is just one government program away from becoming a reality. If we make enough things “free,” everyone will live happily ever after. Sadly, this is not the case.

To be clear, community colleges and promoting equal opportunity are good things.

While Obama’s program is well intentioned, it is also pernicious. It is tailored toward an America that simply doesn’t exist. In our America, high schools are failing. In our America, more than a third of college graduates work jobs that do not require college degrees. The problem isn’t that Americans don’t have enough degrees. The problem is that the degrees Americans do get aren’t worth much. The solution, then, is not to make community college free. This would not enhance — and would arguably hinder — the quality of our educational sys-

tem. Rather, we must improve our elementary, middle and high schools. Improving the quality of these schools would do more to address the educational problems we face than simply tacking on more years of schooling to the end.

That being said, community colleges deserve our support. They provide valuable services to many, from students in need of remedial help to adults wishing to learn a new skill. The success of local community colleges should be celebrated. Yet Obama’s program would undermine much of what makes community college valuable. For one, it would lead to extensive grade inflation, as community colleges look to retain their rankings. Second, it would discourage innovation. Many community colleges already have large waiting lists; with even higher demand, there would be little incentive to innovate.

Further, it is not clear that an inability to pay tuition is an issue for potential commu-

nity college students. Comprehensive subsidies exist already. What less advantaged students cannot pay for — namely necessary non-tuition expenses — is not covered.

Finally, Obama’s program could encourage well-qualified applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds to “settle” for community college. This already occurs — it is known as “undermatching” — and the program would only exacerbate this phenomenon.

In all of this, I have not even mentioned the economic cost of this program. Even if Obama’s program did have merits, the economic realities should not be overlooked.

Despite suggestions to the contrary, “free” government programs are never really free. Education is worth our time and our money, but our solutions must address the problems, not just sound nice in speeches.

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Research budget resilient in face of cuts Penn Med anticipates growth in research JACK CHAN Staff Reporter

For research institutions, it’s publish or perish — and Penn certainly isn’t perishing.

The White House Office of Science and Technology announced plans Monday to increase research funding across the board for the 2016 fiscal year. This would bolster Penn’s research efforts.

It would also deepen Penn’s pockets — research funding makes up one third of Penn’s revenue.

Penn’s Office of the Vice Provost of Research, however, is skeptical that the federal gover nment will actually increase funding. “The realistic picture is that once this gets through Congress, those increases aren’t going to be across the board,” Director of Research Initiatives Marc Rigas said.

Even without increased federal funding, however, Penn is positioned to expand its research at an unprecedented rate over the coming years.

Despite recent cuts in federal funding promoted by the government sequester, Penn received more research grants in 2011 — $707 million — than any other Ivy League university. In 2012, Penn had the second highest total research and expenditures among the Ivies, ranking in the top 2.8 percent of American universities.

Penn has been so successful at securing research dollars that gains were highlighted as a source of financial boon for the University in the 2014 Annual Financial Report.

“Despite downward pressures on federal sponsored research funding, researchrelated revenues totaled $881 million and for the first time since FY 2010 — the height of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

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stimulus program — new award dollars exceeded expenditures,” Vice President for Finance & Treasurer Stephen Golding wrote in the report’s introduction.

These gains haven’t happened by chance.

“If the pie is shrinking, one of the things we can do to remain a meaningful participant in the research realm here is to grow our market share,” Golding said. To do so, Penn has realigned its efforts to spur research at Penn in three ways.

First, Penn has invested in infrastructure development.

Since 2008, it has spent heavily on new research buildings, equipment and translational research centers and launched the Singh Center for Nanotechnology, among other new facilities. It has also invested in research faculty to bring the best and brightest to Penn labs.

Second, Penn has pivoted its research strategy away from relying entirely on government funding and is now focusing on attracting funding from nonprofits a nd corporations through commercialization efforts.

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“The other way is to diversify our funding sources,” Golding said. “A big part of what helps us support our resea rch infrastr ucture is actually funded through commercialization of some of the intellectual property that emanates from some of the research that we do.”

Finally, Penn is building the South Bank campus in an effort to promote innovation.

“The acquisition of what we call Pennovation Works gives us the lynchpin to promote some of Penn’s research and commercialization, invest in some Penn’s startup technologies and companies,” Golding said.

While Penn’s research program has f lourished, those of other Ivy League universities have f loundered. At Brown, the total pool of research funds at the University decreased by 13.7 percent between 2013 and 2014, the Brown Daily Herald reported in an article on Tuesday.

Following the sequester, Yale professors scrambled to find funding, as well. “We don’t fully know the effect yet, but it seems like it’s harder to get grant applications

accepted, and grant approvals are being reduced in what they award,” Provost Benjamin Polak told the Yale Daily News.

These schools are not alone.

“Candidly, other big research institutions, I’ll use the word competitors, have seen their success rate on grant proposals fall significantly,” Golding said. “We seem to be doing a good job in making the kind of investments that are going to create good, strong research that has appeal to peer reviewed panels.”

Vice President of Budget and Management Analysis Bonnie Gibson says this has more to do with the efforts of individual schools than overall University policy. “The budgets are actually bottom up. So each school is looking at its portfolio and saying what’s going to happen to research and how am I going to compensate,” she said. “If you don’t get the grant, you don’t get the expense,” and each school has to manage accordingly, she said.

One school has dealt particularly well.

“The School of Medicine, which does the lion share of our research has done a remarkable job of maintaining a pretty solid base of research and actually are anticipating research growth even in the face of declining federal funding,” Gibson said.

Other schools including the School of Engineering and Applied Science and School of Arts and Sciences have also been particularly resilient, according to Provost Vincent Price, because researchers have been able to tap into an increased national emphasis on material science engineering and energy-related research and tailor their proposals to win those new grants.

Penn plans to continue their emphasis on research. It can only hope that Congress will follow suit.

Navigate through Penn with a single app PennMobile includes dining menus and bus routes JILL MOELY Staff Reporter

An app that combines all the essential Penn sites in one attractive platform sounds too good to be true, right? But PennMobile, an app launching Wednesday, does just that.

The app for both iOS and Android has the potential to make Penn students’ lives much simpler. It was developed by the Undergraduate Assembly and Penn Labs, an initiative funded by the UA and the Provost’s office to develop tech projects.

PennMobile will have an array of convenient and appealing features. Users can, for exa mple,browse dining hall and cafe menus, search professor directories and classroom information, read The Daily Pennsylvanian and other campus publications and call safety services.

The app also has potential to familiarize students with traditionally underused yet highly useful services.

“Penn Transit is underutilized. A lot of people haven’t used it,” saidCollege and Wharton sophomore Andrew Gegios, who is the UA secretary and coordinator of app development.

The app shows the location of shuttles, routes and even traffic patterns. “Before this app I didn’t even know where Penn Transit went, so we’re hoping this will make people want to use it much more,” he said.

In releasing PennMobile, Penn has finally caught up to other colleges and universities — most other Ivies have had apps like this for years. The app is modeled from similar apps at Princeton and Stanford, Gegios said.

“There’s the Yale app, the Harvard app. Penn’s actually behind on this,” said Wharton and Engineering senior Dhruv Maheshwari, who is the Penn

Labs co-director. “So it’s exciting to see students taking the initiative to make this happen.”

The app is not perfect, but it is a work in progress. Maheshwari does not foresee PennKey services such as Penn InTouch being added for at least six months, due to the University’s confidentiality standards and some practical limitations within the coding process.

Leading up to the Wednesday launch of the app, PennLabs encountered its fair share of obstacles.

Other than technical difficulties with syncing up servers for app functions, the release day was pushed back several times.

Gegios said Apple app regulations held the app back, while Maheshwari said recent updates to the app took additional time to be approved by the Apple App Store.

Penn Labs is opening up PennMobile’s development to public opinion. Students can suggest features they would like to see through a page within the app.

“We really hope a lot of people download it and give us feedback,” Maheshwari said. “I think what’s going to happen is we’re going to launch it, people will download it and then they’ll say ‘Oh, there are these bugs, and we want these features.’”

Although the app will inevitably change and improve over time, Penn Labs and the UA believe even the first version will fill a major need.

“We wanted a one-stop shop for all of the students at the University of Pennsylvania, with things they could use every single day,” Gegios said. “On this decentralized campus there are a few things that should be all together and that students should be able to access in one place.

“It simplifies life at Penn,” he added. “It really has everything you would want.”

The app is available for download at Pennlabs.org/mobile.

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2015

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Former Penn star Onyekwe named to Big 5 Hall of Fame

BY RILEY STEELE From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ Ugonna Onyekwe had one of the most illustrious careers in Penn basketball history and was a leading star on the last Red and Blue squad to capture the Big 5 title.

Now, the former two-time Ivy League Player of the Year is about to add another accomplishment to his already decorated trophy case.

Twelve years after Onyekwe took the court for the last time with the Quakers, the Big 5 announced on Monday that the two-time firstteam All-Big 5 selection will be

inducted into the organization’s Hall of Fame in April.

Few players were more effective under former coach Fran Dunphy than Onyekwe.

As a freshman, the six-footeight forward averaged 11.7 points per game and six rebounds per game en route to being named Ivy League Rookie of the Year. After Penn won the Ivy title, Onyekwe was named second-team All-Ivy and scored 17 points against Illinois in the NCAA Tournament.

T houg h t he Q ua ker s missed the NCAA Tournament in 2001, Onyekwe continued to thrive as he was named second-team All-Ivy

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Despite Auger’s efforts, the Quakers faded late in that November game against Lafayette. The 83-77 loss was emblematic of a season that has been filled with its fair share of ups and downs.

But, much like Auger’s slam was a glimmer of hope in an otherwise forgettable game, the play of Auger — along with the breakout success of fellow freshman Antonio Woods — has provided a bright ray of optimism in what has been an otherwise subpar season for Penn. “I’m really excited,� Allen said of the program’s future. “We still have everything in front of us. I’ve been really impressed with [Auger’s] poise, his pace and his understanding of the game.�

As for Auger, he has some pretty lofty goals for the years to come. “Obviously I want to win an Ivy championship, that’s always the goal,� he said. “I know this program has so much history and so much culture. “There’s a fan base just waiting for a team they can jump on board with.�

So, perhaps the roar in the crowd on that November night as Auger soared high above the rim was more than just a brief moment of optimism and joy.

If Auger has it his way, it will have simply been a sign of things to come.

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After a career in which he won Ivy League Rookie of the Year and was twice named Ivy Player of the Year, Ugonna Onyekwe will be inducted into the Big 5 Hall of Fame in April.

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Along with Onyekwe, former Temple guard Pepe Sanchez, Philadelphia Daily News columnist Stan Hochman and broadcaster Bill Raftery all comprise the Big 5 Hall of Fame Class of 2015. The quartet will be formally inducted on April 13 in a ceremony to be held at the Palestra.

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Penn squads sweep Brown, split with Yale SQUASH | Stakes will be

high on final Ivy weekend

BY TOMMY ROTHMAN Associate Sports Editor

GARRETT GOMEZ | STAFF WRITER

Junior Augie Frank and the rest of the men’s squad secured a split over the weekend, defeating Brown and losing to Yale. This coming weekend, the team will need to put on an impressive perfromance to make a run at qualifying for the CSA men’s national championships.

TRACK & FIELD >> PAGE 8

runners.”

Most of Penn’s other distance runners will compete this weekend, but Awad will next compete in two weeks, where he hopes to register an NCAA-qualifying time in a 3,000-meter race.

With such an impressive performance from Awad this early in the indoor season, it is easy to get excited about his prospects for the indoor and outdoor seasons. There is almost a month left until indoor Heps, and outdoor season begins in late March. With a mile time of 4:00.20 already on the board, it will be an exciting spring, and only time will tell what heights he has reached by this year’s Penn Relays.

It was an action-packed weekend on the road for Penn squash, as the women’s team swept Yale and Brown while the men’s team split against the two schools.

The No. 2 women’s squad beat No. 4 Yale 6-3 on Saturday before topping No. 11 Brown 8-1 on Sunday.

The Quakers (11-1, 5-0 Ivy) were led by junior Yan Xin Tan, who earned a clean 3-0 victory over her opponent in the match against Yale (8-3, 2-2) and repeated the feat against Brown (5-5, 0-4). Penn won each of its matches against the Bears — losing a point on default in the seventh slot — and has now won four straight after a close loss to No. 1 Trinity on Jan. 14 — its only blemish preventing a top national ranking.

Meanwhile, the No. 10 men’s squad lost, 7-2, to No. 4 Yale (8-3, 3-1) on Saturday before bouncing back to shutout No. 13 Brown in a 9-0 romp on Sunday.

The Red and Blue (7-5, 2-3) lost

only one game as a team against the Bears (5-5, 0-4), as freshman Marwan Mahmoud won in the top spot while the other eight Quakers cruised to 3-0 triumphs. The win was Penn’s third shutout of the season.

This coming weekend will be crucial for both teams, as they look to wrap up their regular season action with home matches against Cornell and road battles with Columbia.

The men will look to put on an impressive showing and jump into the top half of the Ancient Eight.

Nationwide, the men will need to be in the top eight to qualify for the CSA men’s national championships at Trinity.

The women’s squad appears to be locked in for a bid to the CSA women’s national championships at Harvard, but with an Ivy title (and an undefeated Ivy campaign) hanging in the balance, the stakes will certainly be high this weekend.

The women’s team championships will be played from Feb. 13 to 15, while the men’s event will take place from Feb. 20 to 22. The individual championships on both sides will be held from Feb. 27 to Mar. 1 at Princeton.

M. TENNIS >> PAGE 8

Championships, receiving firstthe No. 51 spot with Purdue. team All-Ivy honors and being The Nittany Lions, on the crowned 2014 individual Heps other hand, did not fare as well.

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Due to last weekend’s loss to “We took some time after the Red and Blue, Penn State cross country to gather ourslipped to No. 22. selves a little bit, [had] a Although the Quakers were tune-up for everyone [at intermittently ranked throughLehigh],” Awad said. “And out the 2011 and 2012 seasons, then we started racing hard this the current ranking is the highweekend.” est the squad has climbed since With Dolan preaching the the end of the 2006 season, coimportance of building a founincidentally the same year that dation of fitness and strength Penn last beat Penn State. early in the indoor season, Furthermore, the No. 51 Awad focused on developing ranking is only the second time a base during December and in coach David Gaetz’s tenure January, before taking on a that Penn has received top-75 heightened training regimen. recognition from the ITA. “I’m just trying to gradually up my level of intensity,” he said. “So this year, I’m douGROUP TOWNHOUSES AVAILABLE bling (running twice a day) more often. So for cross [counNOW LEASING FOR JUNE 2015-2016 try], I was doubling two or three 5 BEDROOMS times a week, and now I’m doubling just as often but now with cross-training.”

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PUSHING AHEAD

BIG 5 HALL OF FAME

Penn men’s squash split its weekend matches, setting up an important final Ivy weekend

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Awad looks to reach new, elite heights TRACK & FIELD | Expectations

high after strong Armory run

BY JACOB ADLER Staff Writer

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With a four-minute mile under his belt, junior Thomas Awad looks to eclipse his 3:58 Penn Relays mile run.

At the 2014 Penn Relays, now-junior Thomas Awad posted an astounding 3:58.34 mile time. That was after months of arduous training for the event.

At the Armory Invitational on Saturday, he almost broke a four-minute mile again. But this time, it was only his first individual indoor race of the season.

Last weekend in New York City, Awad clocked in at 4:00.20 in the mile, besting Penn’s indoor mile record held by current Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance, Denis Elton Cochran-Fikes. In 1973, CochranFikes set the then-record at 4:02, a mark that stood for 42 years.

In his first individual race of the season, Awad finished first out of three student-athletes and defeated a few professional runners.

He wasn’t surprised that he managed to break the record, but he said it wasn’t one of his specific goals.

“The record wasn’t really on my mind, it’s just something that comes with running fast,” he said.

Awad, along with many other distance runners, had abstained from individual indoor competition prior to the race at Armory.

Meanwhile, coach Steve Dolan was not expecting such a high-caliber performance from Awad this early in the indoor season.

“Well, that was sort of the surprising thing,” he said. “He hasn’t done a lot of quality workouts to indicate that he’s ready to run a four-minute mile.

Even [so], in my mind, I knew he’d run well.”

Prior to the Armory Invitational, Awad spent December and parts of January recovering from a strenuous cross country season, where his achievements included serving as team captain, receiving All-America honors, qualifying for NCAA Cross Country SEE TRACK & FIELD PAGE 7

M. HOOPS | Rookie forward

provides spark for Quakers

BY TOM NOWLAN Associate Sports Editor The play started with a turnover.

Before the Palestra crowd knew it, freshman forward Mike Auger was streaking down the court, eventually finishing the breakaway with an emphatic one-handed jam. The Red and Blue faithful went crazy. Penn — after trailing by as many as 17 points — was within just two points of Lafayette with under ten minutes remaining.

That Nov. 22 game was just the third of Auger’s career, but the powerfully built Boston native made it clear that he was already a force to be reckoned

with. The emphatic dunk accounted setback mentally,” coach Jerome Allen for two of Auger’s team-high 18 said of Auger’s ability to stay fresh points, notched along despite an extended with a game-high nine absence. “Whatever rebounds in only 14 the trainers allowed minutes of playing him to do, he did it to time off the bench. the utmost.”

The game was not Despite averaging He really leaves entirely full of positives just 20.8 minutes per for Auger. He suffered game — six Quakit on the floor. a foot injury in the ers’ players have It’s just a part contest, a frustrating higher average playof who he is. setback that sidelined ing time — Auger ” him for the next six has been able to games. However, upon make the most of - Jerome Allen his time on the his return on Dec. 30 Penn coach against La Salle, Auger floor. Featuring a picked up right where relatively modest he left off, notching six-foot-seven frame, nine points on perfect 4-for-4 shooting. the freshman is second on the team “He didn’t allow the injury to be a — behind only junior center Darien

Nelson-Henry – with 5.3 rebounds per game.

“It’s just always how I’ve played,” Auger said of his remarkable efficiency. “A lot of the times when I come into the game, we’ve needed a little bit of an energy boost. I just try to bring that energy as much as I can.”

“He really leaves it on the floor,” Allen agreed. “It’s just a part of who he is. Very rarely do we run plays for him, but he always finds a way to be a part of the action. It’s really something that we desperately need.”

Auger attributes his breakout success to the collective support and guidance of the team as a whole.

“Tony [Hicks], Darien, Greg [Louis] … I can’t key in on just one [positive SEE M. HOOPS PAGE 6

Penn takes down in-state giant M. TENNIS | Quakers upset No. 16 Penn St.

BY LAINE HIGGINS Sports Editor

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Sophomore Matt Nardella came through for the Quakers on Sunday, contributing match points at No. 4 singles and No. 3 doubles with junior partner Vim De Alwis.

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Armed with rackets instead of rocks, Penn men’s tennis got its chance to play David last weekend to No. 16 Penn State’s Goliath. After fighting through four back-and-forth sets, the previously unranked Quakers toppled the Nittany Lions 5-2 on the road.

The victory was no small task —in a press release, the

Intercollegiate Tennis Association called the match the “biggest upset of the year.” Moreover, Sunday marks the first time the Quakers (3-0) have emerged victorious from a battle with the Nittany Lions since the ECAC Championships in 2006.

Penn entered last weekend’s match undefeated, with wins over Drexel and St. Joseph’s in the City 6 Tournament on Jan. 24.

With the victory over Penn State, the Quakers extended their winning streak to three matches, the team’s best start in four years.

And with home games against unranked Furman and William &

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Mary next on the docket for men’s tennis, on Feb. 6 and 7, respectively, it is likely that the Quakers will continue their hot streak.

Although Penn State (3-1) took the first point of the match at No. 2 doubles, the Quakers quickly rallied, capturing the doubles point. The pair of juniors Vim De Alwis and sophomore Matt Nardella tied the match at 1-1 with a 6-2 set victory at No. 3 doubles.

Senior Jeremy Court and freshman Nicolas Podesta followed their teammates’ lead, putting Penn up a set over its opponent with a 7-5 win at No. 1 doubles.

The Nittany Lions were only

able to capture two more points at the No. 2 and No. 3 singles positions. Behind the racket power of Nardella, Podesta, Court and freshman Josh Popman, Penn took four match points. The last Red and Blue player to finish up on the courts was junior Blaine Willenborg at No. 6 singles, who sealed Penn’s upset in three sets, 7-5, 3-6, 1-0.

As a result of the road victory, the Quakers broke into the ITA’s top-75 ranking for the first time since 2012. Thanks to the upset in Happy Valley, Penn now shares SEE M. TENNIS PAGE 7 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640