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Reach-A-Peer RAPline’s new initiatives include reaching out to freshmen during NSO and teaching students how to speak to peers who need help

BY JILL CASTELLANO Staff Writer The members of Penn’s ReachA-Peer Helpline hope to expand the group’s presence on campus in an effort to let students know that they are

always open to talk.

RAPline’s new initiatives include reaching out to freshmen during New Student Orientation and teaching stu-

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Phila. Police might move headquarters to W. Phila.

BY SAMUEL BYERS & COSETTE GASTELU Staff Writers Pending City Council approval, the Philadelphia Police Department will be moving its headquarters to West Philadelphia.

Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell, who represents the city ward where Penn is located, proposed that police headquarters move to the empty Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company building, located at 46th and Market streets.

Blackwell’s plan, which was proposed last Thursday, calls for borrowing up to $250 million to acquire 15 acres of property at the location to develop into the new headquarters.

Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush expressed excitement at the prospect of the relocation, noting that the Philadelphia Police has outgrown the size of its present headquarters at Eighth and Race streets. “The current police administration building has been beyond its life-span for many years,” she said.

Rush added that since the relocation would result in “a constant flow of marked and unmarked police cars” shuttling back and forth between the headquarters and other parts of the city, the move could be a contrib-

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Controversial evangelist Ravi Usher-ing in a new era of Zacharias speaks on campus nonprofit management

BY SOPHIA WITTE Contributing Writer Usher needs help. And he is getting it from four Penn undergraduates.

Wharton junior Maria Jose Corella Carranza , Engineering and Wharton sophomore Chetna Johri , Wharton sophomore George Song and Wharton junior Kimberly Yao competed as a team against 1,200 undergraduate and advanced degree students across the country to win the opportunity to intern with Accenture this summer. They will provide pro-bono consulting to singer Usher’s nonprofit organization, Usher’s New Look Foundation.

During the 2013 Accenture Management Consulting U.S. Innovation Challenge, students applied their consulting skills to improve the effectiveness of Usher’s nonprofit. For three rounds of competition, the participants worked in teams to develop innovative solutions to real-world challenges confronted by the foundation.

Each round required the teams to quickly devise cutting-edge ideas in or-

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Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias spoke at Irvine Auditorium on Tuesday night. Zacharias’s visit, which was planned more than two years in advance, was preluded by student reactions both for and against his views.

Zacharias: “I have no desire to change your lifestyle or your values”

BY JESSICA WASHINGTON Contributing Writer Internationally renowned evangelical Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias spoke at Irvine Auditorium last night.

Zacharias, a native of India, has spent the past 40 years communicating evangelical ideology to crowds all over the world. Pastor Aaron Campbell, a 1997 College graduate, planned Zacharias’ visit two and a half years ago because Zacharias is in such demand. His talk “Is Truth Real?” explained several of his apologist views.

Zacharias started the talk by admitting that he is aware of the controversy sparked by his views on homosexuality, abortion and atheism. “I have been here long enough to hear some of the buzz … [and am prepared to] be standing in front of a hostile American

university,” he said.

The main idea of Zacharias’ talk was truth and its connection to meaning. He stressed that truth does exist and that both truth and meaning can be discovered through two processes. The first is the process of secularism — refraining from forcing “religious or world views on others.”

“I never go anywhere to change anybody’s mind,” Zacharias said.

“I have no desire to change your lifestyle or your values.”

The second “process” is pluralism. Zacharias believes that not all religions lead to the same conception of truth and morality.

Zacharias also stressed the importance of objective moral values and following Jesus’s teachings, since Jesus is the ultimate purveyor of truth, he said.

According to Zacharias, Jesus indicated three paths to living morally. The first path was to take responsibility for oneself rather than blaming one’s environment.

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guide Zacharias in his quest for meaning.

“God gives us hope that everything will not end in these short years,” Zacharias said.

During the question and answer session, one audience member asked Zacharias about his opinion on homosexuality. Zacharias did not give a direct answer. “I am not your judge, God is your judge,” he said. In his books, Zacharias says that he does not support homosexuality.

Another audience member asked whether or not reason was separate from faith. “Interplay between faith and reason is everywhere,” Zacharias said. “God has put enough in this world to make faith in him a reasonable thing”.

The reactions to Zacharias’ presentation were mixed. College freshman Cody Min felt having someone with “a different view point” like Zacharias speak on campus was exciting. “I want to see what he has to say first, but I SEE ZACHARIAS PAGE 5

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der to move on to the subsequent round.

According to the group members, the team only had about four hours to formulate a solution during the first round.

Carranza, Johri, Song and Yao had not met prior to the challenge. The team worked cohesively to achieve first-place standing in a competition dependent on collaboration. “It was fun because we didn’t know each other before, which is not normal for this type of competition,” Carranza said.

Founded in 1999, Usher’s New Look Foundation strives to empower youth with opportunities to create change in their own lives and become leaders of the future. The foundation implements mentorship and leadership programs to impact students from eighth grade through post-secondary education. According to the mission statement, the organization’s “four leadership pillars — talent, education, career, and service — [are] making a difference to solve today’s educational challenges.”

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Wharton alum third in Pa. Gov. race fundraising

BY SAMUEL BYERS Staff Writer Campaign finance reports filed with the Pennsylvania Department of State in the last week of January show that 1989 Wharton MBA graduate Rob McCord has raised over $6.2 million to finance his bid for governor, including a self-loan and a rollover of funds not spent in prior campaigns.

His opponent, 1984 Penn Law graduate John Hanger, has raised just over $1 million.

In a press statement released at the end of last month, the Hanger campaign criticized the necessity of money in modern politics and pundits’ focus on campaign contributions as a metric with which to measure a candidate’s chances of victory. “[The] orgy of political spending is proof positive of the need to rip out by the roots Pennsylvania’s terrible campaign finance laws and adopt public financing for gubernatorial elections,” the statement said. It noted that candidates could spend as much as $50 million in the Democratic primary alone.

Hanger has been vocal in criticizing what his campaign calls “the piles of cash that big money interests are unloading in Pennsylvania,” and has called for his opponents to respect a $3-5 million cap on campaign spending during the Democratic primary.

He hopes this will allow all the candidates to reach voters with their message, while preventing the candidate with the most money from buying the election.

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McCord, Pennsylvania’s State Treasurer, is currently third in fundraising among Democratic candidates, behind only businessman Tom Wolf and congresswoman Allyson Schwartz .

A spokesperson for the McCord campaign said that the treasurer believes the best way to raise money for a gubernatorial campaign is to reach out to Pennsylvanians across the state, rather than a few large donors.

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Tom Corbett in November’s election.

In a December poll by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic firm, Corbett lost hypothetical general elections against every major Democratic candidate by a wide margin. Both Hanger and McCord beat the governor by almost 20 percentage points each.

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Both men are vying for the party’s nomination to face incumbent Republican Governor

Democrat — 39 points.

The McCord campaign cites his repeated efforts to fight the governor on many issues in his role as State Treasurer — including the state’s liquor and lottery privatization schemes — as evidence that he is the most qualified candidate to unseat Corbett.

Interning for Audi AG, students drive transportation forward

BY COREY STERN Contributing Writer As our cities change in the future, so will our transportation needs.

Three Penn students have been awarded the opportunity to help solve the transportation problems of the future at Audi AG’s headquarters in Ingolstadt, Germany. Engineering junior John Doyle, College junior Martina Merlo and College junior and Engineering master’s candidate Edward Wu were among the 12 U.S. students recently selected to take part in the Audi Future of Mobility Practicum this summer.

The six-week program will allow participating students to analyze transportation problems that are expected as urbanization continues. They will have the opportunity to propose novel ideas to transform how people get from one place to another.

“Urban traffic is a huge problem in mega cities. So we need to find ways to solve that problem and make life more efficient,” Merlo said.

Wu highlighted the need for major advancements in the transportation industry. The self-proclaimed car enthusiast said that the industry is “stuck in the past” as society continues to rely heavily on cars.

“I want to influence the transportation world in a manner that will propel us into the future of mobility,” he said. “There’s a need for innovation in the industry. We’re not going to be designing the physicality of a car, but rather the technology and protocol for how cars communicate with each other and their surroundings.”

Merlo echoed Wu in explaining the bigger picture, which was beyond just Audi and their automobiles.

“What is interesting is that it doesn’t just encompass mak-

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(From left to right) College junior Edward Wu, Engineering junior John Doyle and College junior Martina Merlo will intern at Audi AG’s headquarters in Germany. ing cars, but everything about mobility,” she said. “I’m looking forward to being able to put the skills that I’ve learned to the test in a real life situation. This is my first real opportunity to test my skills and knowledge.”

Doyle, Merlo and Wu were among several hundred students from across the nation who applied for the selective program. The application process included a portfolio, and Skype interviews with representatives from Audi in Ingolstadt.

Penn and the University of Texas at Austin had the most selected students, with three each.

The three Penn students have backgrounds in very different fields of study, but all three are interested in the transportation industry.

Doyle is majoring in mechanical engineering and applied mathematics, while Merlo’s degree will be in visual studies.

She has concentrations in art practice and technology and architecture practice and technology. Wu is majoring in philosophy, politics and economics, and working towards a master’s degree in integrated product design.

All three expressed their excitement to visit Germany for

the first time this summer, and to work for a company that they all believe is an industry leader in smart technology. They are all eager to be working in a nation widely considered to be an automobile powerhouse. In addition to Audi, Germany is home to industry leaders like Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Porsche.

“I can’t wait to explore another culture and see what Germany has to offer, and how they innovate,” Doyle said. “I’m excited to be a part of Audi’s plans for the future and I’m looking forward to learning as much as possible.”

While all 12 selected students will have an exclusive opportunity this summer, two of them will leave the program with the grand prize. The two participants whose ideas stand out the most will be offered a sixmonth internship with the Audi Technical Development team in Ingolstadt after they graduate in 2015. Competing for the opportunity will make this summer even more exciting for Doyle, Merlo and Wu. “Penn’s going to have a great showing at Audi this summer,” Wu said. “I can only hope that one or both of the winners will come from Penn.”

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Wharton MBA a top program for women, ranking says

BY YUEQI YANG Staff Writer No o d le.or g r a n ke d t he Wharton School’s MBA program as one of the top seven MBA programs for women based on opportunities and support systems available to women.

The list also includes New York University Stern School of Business, Columbia Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Harvard Business School.

The website w rote that the Wharton School boasts the highest percentage of women among all business schools in the world — women comprise 42 percent of the Wharton MBA class of 2015. Noodle.org also mentioned Wharton Women in Business, a club that provides female MBA students with women-specific conferences and workshops.

Pa m F reed , one of t he three presidents of Wharton Women in Business, said the club strives “to understand the needs of Wharton women,” such as developing leadership capabilities and building negotiation skills. “ R e s e a r c h s how s t h at there is a difference in negotiation styles between men and women,” F reed said.

“We want to prepare women at Wharton for success in these types of situations.”

Wei Liu, a first-year MBA

student from China, added that many international female students face a language, culture and gender barrier.

“In our society [in China], women are generally considered less confident,” Liu said. “But those girls [who come to W har ton] are by selection the most entrepreneurial ones in their own culture. The transition takes them some time, but in the end they will get there.”

W he n L iu f i r st go t t o Wharton, she noticed that ma le students were ver y c on f id ent a nd h ad mor e leadership presence in general. She pushed herself to speak up. “ I ’ v e [c o m e t o u n d e r stand] that you have to be confident to be heard,” she said. “I think I am more confident, but I wouldn’t use the word aggressive.”

Diana Peng, a second-year MBA student, agrees that a W har ton education has made her more confident.

“It helps me to ref lect on what my strength[s] are and what I need to improve, and I am more confident that I can tackle various business situations,” she said.

Peng said that since leadership positions at Wharton are merit-based, talented and conf ident women can take on these roles. “Those who are successful are very good leaders,” she said.

A c h i e v i n g a w o r k- l i f e balance is another major concern for female MBA students.

“A lot of [the female students] are already married.

S o me w o me n h av e c h i l dren already, or are thinking about having children,” Freed said.

During its annual conference in the fall, W har ton Women in Business invited women key note spea kers who became executives during various stages of their life. Some were married or had children as they rose in rank .

“I want to see women succeed. In whatever company I join, I want to see women in leadership. If they can have it all, then that’s something I can strive for,” Peng said.

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GUEST COLUMN BY ROB GURNEE WITH THE CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION STUDENT BOARD

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o say a buzz has been building on c a mpu s a b out Ravi Zacharias would be an understatement. In the cacophony of voices, is another opinion really necessary? I believe it is, especially when the media has played up the controversy as some kind of dichotomous Christian vs. atheist throwdown. It’s not that simple. Ready for a third way?

By all accounts, Zacharias has an incredibly strong faith and has dedicated his life to spreading the Gospel. I have not studied Ravi Zacharias intently, but even a quick review of his website tells me that his beliefs and methodology are very different from mine. For example, I do not believe in the infallibility and inerrancy of the Bible, that homosexual behavior is aberrant or that the evidence for evolution is lacking. Typically, these stated positions

are just the tip of the iceberg on deep foundational issues that tend to divide Christians, such as whether to read the Bible literally, whether accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior is the only path to salvation and whether evangelizing is necessary to get people to know God.

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People make judgments about what it means to have faith based on presentations like [Zacharias’].”

I realize that for many devout conservative Christians, it appears I have just attacked the very essence of their faith. This not my intent, nor is Ravi Zacharias’ theology necessarily the reason

why I am writing. I can’t sum up in a neat package who God is and then try to convince others to believe as I do. But I do know that Christ’s example of love and inclusiveness is how we are called to treat others, and is at the heart of Christianity.

Finding grace in the search for understanding and believing that there is more value in questioning than in absolutes prevents me from putting God in a box and keeps me humble. Knowing that I am deeply moved by Christ’s example and strengthened

by God’s presence in my life is powerful. I know that as a Christian, I am called to strive for peace and justice, to protect the environment and to show Christ’s love by witness and example. In a strange sort of way, the fact that I don’t have it all figured out makes me feel like I am on the right track.

Presentations like Zacharias’ tend to bring about a

predictable clash between believers and non-believers.

People ma ke judg ments about what it means to have faith based on presentations like this. Moreover, media coverage based on limited review reinforces perceptions of what it means to be Christian. In fact, Christians are not a homogeneous group. The Penn community needs different expressions of Christianity and the DP needs to do its part in understanding the richness of the faith landscape at Penn when writing on the subject.

Relationships and dialogue grounded in love, not vitriol, are what is needed to understand and appreciate these different narratives and have a better understanding of what Christianity can be.

ROB GURNEE is the executive director of the Christian Association at the University of Pennsylvania. His email address is rgurnee@pobox.upenn.edu.

Penn, where dreams go to … lucrativeness?

FROSH OFF THE BOAT | Our penchant for practicality may make us the hipsters of the millennials — but is that really so bad?

Despite the misconceptions, there is nothing wrong with pursuing a practicality-focused education.

n founding the University of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Franklin wished to instill his education philosophy of a “pragmatic unity of theory and practice.” It comes as no surprise, then, that for an East-Coast, Ivy League institution, Penn is an anomaly due to its departure from traditional liberal arts and focus on pragmatism and preprofessionalism.

Having grown up in the cosmopolis of Hong Kong, I suppose that it is only natural for me to value an education that is pragmatic and has a clear application within society. Yet I have foregone the more traditional route of studying at home or in the United Kingdom in favor of a Penn education because I find their higher education systems to be too pre-professional and focused in comparison.

One of the overarching adjectives I would use to describe Penn is “diverse,” and I think the diversity that exists within our curriculum is sometimes lost to us. We are provided the opportunity to find a balance and pursue our best fit, where a humanities buff can pursue

anthropology or the classics, while a student with concrete dreams of becoming an aeronautical engineer or hedge fund manager can focus on making them a reality.

Furthermore, driving the concerns and criticisms of this pre-professional culture is a common misconception that pre-professionalism connotes the pursuit of achieving financial success. There is no doubt that disciplines with more immediate real-world impact are generally valued more by our laissez-faire driven society; yet this is far from the point or purpose of a practical education.

Instead, we should recognize that Franklin aimed for Penn students to have the mentality and skill set to make realistic societal contributions.

While there’s often stigma attached to OCR and the mass migration of Wharton students toward the financial industry, I doubt many would criticize the fact that Penn is home to the East Coast’s biggest Hackathon “PennApps” and possesses a rich culture of entrepreneurship and innovation that has given rise to the likes of Venmo

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Interestingly, our vocationally obsessed Quakers seem to form a unique stratum among generation Y.

enn, and Warby a s Pa rker. the Many of prethese critiprocisms do fessional university not fundapar excellence, is a ment ally WILLIAM ZHANG & JASON CHOI magnet for the stereoconcern pretypical Eastern Asian: professionalan arguably cutthroat ism itself but academia, a vocationinstead stem ally inclined educafrom our tion and a decent bias against engineering school. particular Having grown up professions in Hong Kong, I am (like bankno stranger to the ing). radical pre-profesThere is sionalism displayed no doubt that at Penn. More than half a culture of preof my friends back home professionalism are on inexorable courses to exists at Penn, but debecome lawyers, doctors and spite the misconceptions, there businessmen, and my resolve in is nothing wrong with pursuing pursuing an English major has an education focused on practisince been swayed. I have lost cality. And if that’s not the flavor count of the times my friends for you, Penn holds an abunback home looked at me as if I dance of opportunities for those have a third nipple on my face pursuing the liberal arts. after I informed them of my proUltimately, Penn is about spective major. pursuing your own dreams, A friend once told me that whether they are of educational Penn is not where dreams go enrichment, vocational prepato die, but where dreams beration or yes, even of lucrativecome lucrative — aspiring ness. — WILLIAM ZHANG

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authors become copywriters and painters become graphic designers because they learn of more financially sound ways to apply their skills. Interestingly, our vocationally obsessed Quakers seem to form a unique stratum among Generation Y — the millennial generation, a generation supposedly characterized by wild ambitions, an inflated sense of self-worth and contempt for banality. My generation’s tendency to have quixotic aspirations seems to be contradicted by Penn students’ eagerness to dive head first into the work force and sit behind a desk. As a self-proclaimed millennial who would probably study what he likes instead of what is deemed “useful,” I find my incompatibility with Penn’s overarching culture a bit frightening.

Penn’s pre-professionalism and its emphasis on vocational practicality seem to go against the very zeitgeist of our generation, let alone the interests of our contemporaries. During an entrepreneurial boot camp in New York, I had the pleasure of meeting with students from Fordham University and man-

aged to talk to them amid the roars of beer-pongers during a house party. While the budding entrepreneurs from Fordham talked to me about how their ideas were going to change the internet-using world, my friends from Penn discussed how Facebook could acquire their company for millions.

Perhaps that is why I was shocked when my former bandmate decided to major in music even though he has no plans of pursuing music as a career.

Perhaps that is why I was confused when a Saudi Arabian friend told me he was willing to skip school for one semester to go on a biking trip around the world. Perhaps that is why I was impressed when a columnist for The Daily Pennsylvanian dropped out of the prestigious M&T program to read literature and philosophy because the latter two “resonated with [his] soul.”

As of now, I have yet to decide on a millennial dream to pursue. The dream might be ambitious, it might be big — whatever it might be, however, I have a feeling it will at least be lucrative. — JASON CHOI

WILLIAM ZHANG AND JASON CHOI are a Wharton freshman and a College freshman, respectively, from Hong Kong. They can be reached at willz@wharton.upenn.edu and jason.choi.ht@gmail.com.

YOUR VOICE In response to “Please, stop changing your profile pictures”

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his week, a member of the Penn community wrote a guest column about the recent Facebook movement started

by Eve Bowers. It can certainly be difficult with the stigma surrounding depression and mental illness to speak out as she did. Nonetheless, in her earnest attempt to critique society’s misunderstanding of the etiol-

ogy of depression, she propagated a reductionist view of the illness: that the cure to mental illness lies in a single pill that modulates a single dysregulated neurotransmitter (I’m not putting antidepressants down — I take them myself, and they have undoubtedly saved my life).

I only bring this up because I feel that many readers struggling with depression can best help themselves with a multifaceted treatment plan, as depression is not just one thing.

The claim that depression is simply a neurochemical imbalance is false. We don’t know exactly what causes depression partly because there isn’t one answer. The illness

stems from a mixture of genetic susceptibility, neurobiological dysfunction, cognitive style and exposure to environmental stressors.

It’s natural to be upset when people seem to claim Facebook is causing depression — because that’s obviously not true. It is a sensitive topic. I know my struggle with this illness has been trivialized far too many times to count. For some, depression may largely stem from a neurochemical imbalance, but for others, social media can play a big role in aggravating negative ideation.

We seem to project our “best selves” on Facebook — we can be exactly who we want to be. We can

project an image that may diverge from who we really are. Who could ever be as cool as their Facebook depicts them as? Or be as consistently witty as their Twitter? And so on and so forth.

Browsing Facebook, in my opinion, can aggravate depressive, selfdefeating ideation.

Facebook invites us to share our highlight reels.

But real life is not a highlight reel.

Real life is messy. And when one unconsciously compares their real life with a “Facebook life,” the dissonance produces disillusionment.

This is obviously not uniformly the case for everyone. Some people really benefit from Facebook and

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are unencumbered by the aforementioned phenomenon. But for many depressives who are prone to filtering stimuli through a negative light, social media can be a dangerous thing. So to discredit it as a mediating factor (amongst many other factors) would be unfair.

And in terms of the slacktivist change-your-profile movement, I admit at first I was skeptical: yet another transient Facebook fad that isn’t going to produce any tangible social change. But it looks like it has gotten people talking. And that’s the point anyway, right?

CAMERON KIANI College ’15

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‘Tasty’ soul food truck to move to U. City

The new food truck will open on 40th and Market in March

BY CLAIRE COHEN Deputy News Editor

Barbara Devan has big plans.

In the next five years Devan plans to open a branch of Tasties, her soul food restaurant, in the five biggest cities in the United States. For now, though, Tasties is expanding to a University City food truck, which will open on 40th and Market streets in March.

Tasties already has locations in Germantown and West Philadelphia that serve Devan’s signature soul food.

Devan defines her soul food as “baked macaroni, … fried chicken, charbroiled salmon, chicken and waffles — southern food,” she said.

“With our food, the flavor is just different.”

The food truck coming to University City will also serve chicken fingers and buffalo

wings in addition to her soul food platters. The truck will be open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Saturday and will be closed on Sundays.

When not in the kitchen, Devan uses her cooking skills to give back to the community. Every Wednesday, she donates food to feed 125 to 200 people on 48th Street next to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. On Thanksgiving last year, Devan closed her West Philadelphia Tasties for the day, instead providing free food to more than 300 people.

“We’re always looking for a way to give back,” Devan said.

For Devan, Tasties has always been a family business. She said that her passion for cooking began as a child, when she helped her mother and grandmother in the kitchen. Today, her sister and son join her in the Tasties kitchen.

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I’m their co-worker and we all work together,” she said.

She stressed the importance of teaching her son her recipes so that he can carr y Tasties into the future. “[ I’m] always teaching him ever y day,” she said.

“This is something I want [him] to carry on when I’m no longer here, so you have to know your family business.”

Devan first opened Tasties in 2007, but closed the restaurant less than a year later.

In 2012, she re-opened it as part of Jollies West on 38th Street and Lancaster Avenue and launched a food truck on 48th and Market streets.

A year later, she opened the Tasties in West Philadelphia and has been successful ever since. In a year, Devan hopes to open a Tasties location inside the Philadelphia International Airport.

Devan attributed Tasties’ success to its superior food.

“Our taste is going to take us a long way,” she said.

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Mixed reactions to Zacharias ZACHARIAS from page 1 generally agree with his ‘God exists’ theory,” Min said before the talk.

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date and Director of Outreach for Penn Secular Society Collin Boots, who is a columnist for the Daily Pennsylvanian, was frustrated by some Penn students’s excitement. “I want to make people aware of the darker side of [Zacharias’] ideologies,” Boots said.

College sophomore Roderick Cook, who also writes for the DP, had a similar view as Boots.

Cook protested outside the event holding a sign that read

“Ravi Zacharias thinks I am an aberration and a violation to God.” The protest was inspired

by Cook’s homosexuality.

College and Engineering sophomore Aardra Rajendran, the spirituality chair for Hindu Student Council, felt Zacharias respects others’ beliefs. “It is good for people to be passionate for what they believe in,” she said. “People have to make their own decisions.”

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January crime sees slight decrease from 2013 Theft from auto rose by 12 incidents from last January

BY COSETTE GASTELU Staff Writer

The robbery of an Insomnia Cookies truck was one of the 71 crimes reported in the Penn Patrol Zone last month.

Total crime for the month in the Penn Patrol Zone — which spans east to west from 30th to 43rd streets, and north to south from Market Street to Baltimore Avenue — dropped by one incident from 72 in January 2013.

Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said the overall statistics for the month of January 2014 were fairly average. “It’s been a pretty

flat month,” Rush said.

In addition to the Insomnia Cookies truck robbery, the PNC Bank at 35th and Market streets was robbed by a suspect who issued a note threatening to shoot. However, he did not show a weapon, Rush said.

The suspect was subsequently arrested within a half block of the establishment, making the PNC Bank incident one of three robberies which resulted in an arrest.

Theft from automobiles rose by 12 incidents as compared to January of last year.

Rush noted that the jump in incidents of this type last month was consistent with a larger trend relating to thefts from auto that carried over from the end of 2013.

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Last month also saw zero reported forcible sex offenses, as compared to the four which were reported in January of last year.

“It is hard to predict how forcible sex offenses will be reported,” Rush explained.

“Just because the number is zero, can we say nothing happened? We can’t really say that.”

Thef t f rom buildings dropped last month by 15 incidents from the previous January, for a total of 27. Rush attributed this drop to the success of DPS’ Operation Building Safe campaign, along with

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Pretty Lights: MBA student creates luminescent sweatshirts

BY BOOKYUNG JO Staff Writer What do Grouplove, T-Pain and Juan Pablo from ABC’s The Bachelor have in common?

They all were spotted in hooded sweatshirts with luminescent edges made by electricMVMT, a company cofounded by a Wharton MBA student.

Scott Lehman, a secondyear Wharton MBA student, co-founded the company last fall. Shaun Bluethenthal — another co-founder who is currently running electricMVMT in North Carolina — originally made the hoodies for friends.

He and Lehman wore the luminescent hoodies in different colors to a concert and other concert-goers expressed in-

terest in them. This prompted Lehman to think of starting a business.

Bluethenthal and Lehman first attempted to manufacture the clothes by themselves with light-emitting chemicals and wires, but they had trouble connecting the wires to the hoodies. They then found a partner who has factories in China. Currently, the company has three factories in China and El Salvador for mass production and in North Carolina for sampling works.

Coming up with an appropriate name was another challenge. Lehman had several ideas including “neon codes,” and “night owl initiative,” but decided on electricMVMT after receiving help from logotournament.com, a website for

logo and name creation.

ElectricMVMT has several marketing strategies to “hit people from multiple directions.” They post targeted advertisements on Facebook and reach out to potential customers in person by wearing the hoodies at concerts.

“He really focused [not just on] marketing, but also on [the product] as well to make sure of its quality,” said Ashish Patil, a master’s student in Wharton and Engineering who helped Lehman hold a promotional party.

Bluethenthal and Lehman also sell electricMVMT on Fab.com, an online shopping site with two million users.

ElectricMVMT appeal lies in its “uniqueness,” Lehman said. “People want to stand out

and to be seen.”

Lehman also discussed how the community of people he met at Wharton has helped him advance the company.

“It’s the students that made the biggest impact,” he said.

Through an MBA student, Lehman contacted the drummer of the band Grouplove, whose members now wear the hoodies.

The company sells its products on six continents, approaching approximately 7,000 sales.

This year, electricMVMT will release new products, work to make the hoodies easier to clean and hire staff.

Lehman has other product ideas as well, such as clothes for athletes who exercise at night.

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Students to consult for Usher’s org.

USHER from page 1 ture hoped to inspire the revitalization of nonprofit management through the i nc o r p o r at io n o f s o c i a l t r e nd s a nd t e c h nolog y.

While the group members were unable to give specific details about their winning solutions, they attributed the foundation’s core setbacks to its rapid growth.

“We give them suggestions a nd ways to use I T a nd ways to restructure their organization and leadership to be better able to recruit, train and retain all these mentors,” Johri said.

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ready have begun to communicate with Accenture ab out how t hey pl a n t o implement their solutions.

During their summer inter nships, they w ill help solve some management inef f iciencies present in Usher’s New Look Foundation.

All four members had an interest in consulting before the competition. They are excited to further explore the field by collaborating with Accenture and Usher’s New Look Foundation to expand upon their ideas for management reform.

“One of the most exciting parts was being able to help out a nonprofit in a way we haven’t before,” Yao said. “Usually when you work with nonprofits you do volunteering or something, but this is a much bigger picture with strategy. You can really see the changes you make.”

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RAPline hopes to provide chat, text service RAPLINE from page 7 dents how to speak to peers who are stressed or might need help.

Issues surrounding mental health have become prominent on campus following four undergraduate deaths, two of which were ruled suicides.

“We want to keep that momentum growing and make a change,” said Mary Cerulli, a College freshman and the covice president of marketing for RAPline.

RAPline members emphasized that their new initiatives are not a response to the recent events, but they’d like to be involved in the current conversation.

“Since there has been increased awareness about mental health recently, it’s a good time to make people aware that this resource is available,” said Antonia Diener, a College sophomore and the president of RAPline. “Whether you’re worried about a test tomorrow or having problems at home, this could be the resource for you.”

Throughout the past year, RAPline has had “a really internal focus,” Diener said.

RAPline members gave presentations to students in the lecture halls of psychology classes and similar disciplines whose students might be interested in becoming members, which has helped to almost double the number of staff members.

“This is the year to get new material and to push to increase visibility,” Cerulli said.

RAPline’s biggest push will be reaching out to freshmen during NSO, which might include a skit in the Penn Life Sketches or another type of presentation to the incoming class.

They also hope to add RAPline to the list of campus resources freshmen learn about, pass out more merchandise and speak to residential advisors and graduate associates in the college houses about what RAPline is.

“You should know that talking about your problems is not a fire alarm. It’s totally normal and really healthy,” Cerulli said.

In addition to NSO initiatives, RAPline is planning a training program in which students can learn how to create a safe space for peers who might be stressed or struggling.

“It’s important for us to help establish safe environments outside of [RAPline],” said Jibreel Powell, a College sophomore and the vice president of training for RAPline.

“Whether it’s fraternities and sororities, performing arts groups or something else, they should know how to create a space where you can share your thoughts and be open with each other.”

Many LGBT student groups have implemented safe space initiatives in the past. Like the LGBT safe space programs, RAPline hopes to give out stickers to students who complete training sessions.

“There are a lot of myths

about how to help someone who is having a tough time, and training can help change that,” Cerulli said.

“The biggest thing is that people aren’t ever looking for advice. That’s not an effective way to help someone,” Diener said. “It takes away their own choice and empowerment, so instead it’s more effective to cooperatively come up with a solution. You can say, ‘OK, these are some options, what do you think?’”

RAPline will run a trial training program by the end of the semester and hopes to implement a full training program sometime during the next school year, Cerulli said.

As a more long-term project, RAPline hopes to provide a text or chat service for students, which would require more accreditation and training.

Since RAPline was founded in the early 1990s, the group has had difficulty making students aware of it as a resource.

“It’s hard because only board members and seniors can be a public face,” Cerulli said. All other members of RAPline must remain anonymous and can’t put up posters, attend activity fairs or promote the organization in any way.

The advisor of RAPline is Bill Alexander, the director of Counseling and Psychological Services. He runs a training session on suicide protocol, and members can contact him with any questions or issues.

RAPline hopes to work more closely with Alexander in the future.

“Whether you need someone to vent to or you need help finding other resources, it’s feeling like you’re helping someone else find a piece of mind that we all kind of need, especially at this point,” Powell said. “It’s just a group of people who genuinely want to provide support to a community we all love.”

The RAPline phone number is 215-573-2727. Students can call from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. any day of the week. For students with questions or who’d like to become staff members, contact training.rapline@gmail.com.

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game against Columbia on Feb. 8. “It’s been a big adjustment. But I just started working harder and harder to be able to play in big games like this and be able to contribute.�

Howard felt that growth beg i n to happen about a month ago. He f reshma n spent long hours working on his ball handling and shooting so he could become a viable option for Allen coming off of the bench as the season progressed.

Howard’s work ethic was so strong that Allen could do nothing but root for his freshman to continue to grow. “[Allen] always told me to keep working hard, to keep pushing myself,� Howard said. “Because my time will come.�

That hard work finally paid off this past weekend, as Howard’s efforts were instrumental in getting Penn back into the Ivy race.

Allen told Howard heading into the game against Cornell that he would get minutes, and after his strong play on Friday night, Allen trusted him again on Saturday.

After posting seven points against the Big Red, Howard was all over the floor against Colu mbia . T he sig nat u re moment of the nig ht saw Yuzhong Qian/DP Staff Photographer Howard drive to the right, feel contact and finish for In his first season on the Penn men’s basketball team, freshman Matt Howard put forth a dynamic work ethic in order to earn an and-one that may have a place in Jerome Allen’s rotation. Howard managed seven points against Cornell and an emphatic rejection against Columbia. been the most acrobatic play made all year by someone in of Howard. “We didn’t have tonight, we ran plays for him. conference championship a Penn uniform. enough scouting. Really good He had the right reads, defen- last year. But, more than anyHis ability to handle con- athlete that could make a shot. sively, on the glass. thing, this past weekend was a tact was one of the reasons “He’s a real good player “Without Matt, I’m not so sign that there are even wider Brunson believed Howard with a bright future.� sure we win today, or yester- smiles and bigger moments on would succeed at the next Allen wasn’t shy to admit day.� the horizon for this talented level so long ago — a memo Howard’s impact either.

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a “synergistic connection� between recreation and the student body, as the department of recreation made clear at the meeting.

On top of that, Price was clear that, while Penn doesn’t expect whomever is chosen to stay for 20 years like Bilsky, the job will “not be a stepping stone� to a bigger institution.

The for um also outlined some of the key qualities the committee will look for in a candidate. The abilities to manage the athletics budget, achieve transparency, develop coaches and staff as well as delegate tasks were mentioned by those in attendance.

The meeting closed with the topic of the current volatility in the NCAA and its effect on Penn. Whoever takes over the AD position will have to deal with an ever-changing landscape over the next decade and the issues of lawsuits currently facing the NCAA. There will be another open forum today at 5 p.m. in Houston Hall for students interested in the AD search.

Search who has been retained as a consultant for the search, has visited campus several times and toured facilities.

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Sabre-rattling: a closer look at Penn fencing REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK | A new perspective on a littleknown sport

BY DANIEL RICH Staff Writer Clanging like pots and pans, the blades crackle and flick as two fencers vie for a chance to catch an opponent off guard.

To their left, another fencer repeats a series of lunges to improve footwork. On the opposite side, coaches work with individual players to sharpen technique.

In a state-of-the-art fencing center sporting electronic target simulators and championship banners, the Penn fencing team meticulously prepares for an upcoming tournament.

On a typical weekday afternoon, both the men’s and women’s teams progress through workouts, technical work and one-on-one bouts as the sun sets. The teams practice in a beautiful new space known as the Dave Micahnik Fencing Center, located across from the Hutchinson Gymnasium.

The practice begins with warm-ups including light jogging and other cardiovascular exercises. Then, the team circles up to stretch to prepare for the rest of the session.

The team lines up across the entire black and white padding of the floor and proceeds to work through a series

Allen, Busch lead talented Penn reserves MCGINNIS from page 10 victory over Harvard earlier this month. In that game, the bench combined to contribute 20 points en route to a 67-38 victory.

While some may note that those points came in a Penn blowout, the final score doesn’t tell the full story. Eleven of those 20 points came in the first half, as Busch knocked down three huge three-pointers to keep Penn ahead in a defensive battle.

And the junior guard is just one of the talented weapons that coach Mike McLaughlin has stored away on his bench.

First, there’s freshmen talent.

Guard Melanie Lockett has been a key contributor in relief of senior guard Meghan McCullough. The rookie has grown as the season has progressed, showing off her potential as a point guard who can both drive and distribute the ball.

Additionally, forward Stephanie Cheney’s role of has expanded, particularly after she saw meaningful minutes against Big 5 opponents. Cheney hit key game-tying free throws late against St. Joseph’s and a pair of early baskets against Temple.

It wasn’t long ago that Stipanovich was coming off the bench to provide important

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In his fourth year, Penn fencing head coach Andy Ma and his fellow coaches consistently put together engaging practices for players on both squads.

Training in the Dave Micahnik Fencing Facility, filled with new, state-of-the-art equipment, Ma has Penn fencing ready to continue its tradition of success. of footwork drills. One of the coaches gives commands, such as “three steps forward and lunge,” that the fencers imitate as they move vertically down the floor. Many of these movements are common maneuvers in actual fencing bouts, including retreating, lunging, squatting and feinting. Some of the exercises even involve pairs of

teammates.

As two fencers face each other, one squats, takes three steps forward and parries (blocks) with her arms before facing a return attack known as a riposte.

Elsewhere, senior Corey Novich feints, while sophomore Leland Bernstein scuttles backward with four quick steps. The

process is repeated as the pair moves down the floor, and upon reaching the end, the partners switch places and return back to the starting point.

While drills carry on, head coach Andy Ma, along with assistant coaches Randall LeMaster and Mickey Zeljkovic , work with specific fencers off to the side of the floor where two train-

ing lanes are located. These seasoned instructors are never afraid to suit up for one-on-one training with the athletes, and each coach specializes in one of the three weapons used in the sport: the epee, the foil or the sabre.

Ma dons a white mask and black forearm protector for a one-on-one sabre session with

minutes for the team. Over the course of the season however, the 6-foot-3 center has excelled and been moved into the starting lineup as a result.

There’s also a bevy of veteran shooters coming off the bench.

In addition to Busch, junior forward Katy Allen has also done her part to help the Quakers succeed this season. Though Allen moved to the bench to make way for Stipanovich in the starting lineup, she has still seen her fair share of minutes as a forward capable of stretching the floor.

Allen’s experience off the bench will continue to come in handy in close situations, espe-

cially after the forward showed off her clutch scoring abilities earlier in the season against Miami.

The list goes on and on.

When it comes down to it, this may be the deepest team of McLaughlin’s tenure, one where any and all players have succeeded in their designated roles while coming together to provide exactly what this team needs.

Penn’s success this season isn’t limited to the stars at the top of the lineup. Instead, every player fits perfectly into the jigsaw puzzle that is Penn women’s basketball.

McLaughlin saw what he

was working with last year and recruited an excellent class of freshmen who have filled holes in a way that has propelled this team to the top of the Ivy League.

As Penn hosts Yale and Brown this weekend, one of these reserves may need to step up and

make a game-changing play.

It might be a three-pointer from Busch. Or a nifty lay-in from Lockett. Or a silky smooth jumper from Allen.

And in the event that any of those things happen, there should be no reason for surprise.

It’s what these players have

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senior Michael Mills , the NCAA champion in sabre last season.

Ma advances to strike but Mills blocks the blow. The veteran goes for a touch on Ma’s torso and out-speeds the coach’s defense. The two back up and continue to work through progressions.

The team soon puts on its gear and splits up into pairs for one-on-one practice bouts.

Fencers hook themselves to flexible wires that run from the ends of the floor to the backs of their uniforms.

The “white gowns” the team wears are actually made of wired mesh that register touches electronically to a scoring system. In the Micahnik Center, above the dozens of narrow, numbered strips where bouts take place, are a series of electronic scoreboards that track the points as they are scored.

Wielding epee, freshman Adil Khan achieves a touch on sophomore Ayyub Ibrahim, causing the scoreboard to light up in yellow bars. With a foil in her hands, senior Wendy Zhao notches a touch on junior Luona Wang.

On this day, the team won’t lift weights as it recovers from the Philadelphia Invitational the previous weekend and prepares to travel to Evanston, Ill., for the Northwestern Invitational.

But with every repetition and training exercise on this day, the Penn fencing program works to maintain its storied tradition of success.

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Upset city! After a big win by the Elis over Harvard, it doesn’t look like the Crimson are running away with the conference anytime soon. Could Yale — gasp — steal a bid? And how about Penn coming to life and grabbing a big weekend sweep? Check out all of the moving and shaking in this week’s rankings:

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H a r va r d (18-4, 5-1 Ivy) Are the Crimson crumbling?

Those are the whispers being bandied about after Harvard fell at home to Yale on Saturday, snapping a 20 game winning streak at Lavietes Pavilion. The suddenly-vulnerable Crimson need senior guard Laurent Rivard to get back on track to maintain their inside positioning for an NCAA bid.

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B R O W N (12-8, 4-2) The Bears made up for blowing a big chance on the road at Harvard Friday by beating up on Dartmouth, 75-62. Sean McGonagill made up for his 2-for-11 shooting performance against the Crimson by nailing four three-pointers in the matchup against the Big Green. A weekend homestand against Princeton and Penn will be a big opportunity.

(11-9, 5-1) Justin Sears strikes again. The sophomore forward tore up Harvard on Saturday in the Bulldogs’ 74-67 win, scoring 21 points and tacking on 11 rebounds. If the Elis can keep up their efficient inside-out play between Sears and guards Javier Duren and Armani Cotton, Yale could very well find a way to outshoot Harvard and capture the Ivy title.

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(6-13, 3-2) They live! Needing a weekend sweep at home to maintain any semblance of a postseason chance, the Quakers delivered, burying Cornell and Columbia with a surprisingly efficient offensive display. Penn shot better than 54 percent from the floor in both matchups, and got 20+ point performances from both Tony Hicks and Fran Dougherty.

(14-9, 3-3) The Lions keep on moving one step forward, one step back. Columbia’s comeback from an eight-point halftime deficit to beat Princeton at Jadwin Gym, 53-52, was impressive. However, an eight point loss to a Penn team that sometimes can’t get out of its own way is simply unacceptable for a team that claims to have postseason aspirations.

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(9-11, 2-4) Welcome back to reality, Big Green. Back-to-back 13-point losses was the last result Dartmouth wanted out of its homestand against Brown and Yale, but that’s what it got, despite having three starters score in double figures against the Bulldogs. The Big Green may be back on track after they’re done playing Cornell and Columbia on the road this weekend.

(13-6, 1-4) A win is a win, even if it’s against Cornell. The Tigers may be putting on one of the most disappointing in-conference performances of any Ivy team in recent memory, but not even they were inept enough to fall to the Big Red, winning by 21. A road trip to face Brown and Yale may provide a fresh dose of suffering, though.

(1-19, 0-6) Did you expect anything else?

Coach Bill Courtney’s nightmare season continued last weekend, as the Big Red let themselves get shot out of the Palestra by Tony Hicks and Penn on Friday night, and then followed that up by not bothering to show up at Jadwin Gym at all in a 69-48 loss to Princeton on Saturday. Nothing new to see here.

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Freshman forward steps up for Penn

M. HOOPS | Matt Howard has faced his fair share of growing pains in his first season with the Quakers, but he’s made an impact when it mattered most

BY JOHN PHILLIPS Senior Staff Writer Matt Howard sprinted down the court, poised to finish off a fast break that would push Penn closer to an upset of Columbia and cap off the best weekend of the rookie’s young collegiate career.

But Columbia’s Luke Petrasek swatted the ball out of Howard’s hands as he went for the lay-in, ruining the moment and briefly killing the energy in the Palesta.

Rather than get down on himself, Howard kept working. On the Lions next possession, he hustled back down the court, used his fantastic vertical leap to reject a shot and sent the ball flying into the stands.

It’s that passion and athleticism that made Howard appealing to so many schools coming out of high school.

But with offers from Stanford and Virginia Tech on the table, Howard ultimately chose to play for Penn, providing coach Jerome Allen with a player boasting an incredible basketball IQ. The freshman from Columbia, S.C., has never had any problems with his basketball knowledge.

Even as a young player at A.C. Flora High School, Howard knew the game well.

Instead, the aspect of Howard’s game that needed the most development was his leadership ability.

“Matt never had a problem working at the game of basketball, but I believe his matriculation as a person is one that cannot be measured,” Howard’s high school coach, Leon Brunson, said.

“As each year passed, I began to see him embrace the leadership role. That was the defining moment of his basketball career.

“He not only took responsibility of his actions but the actions of his team as well.”

That growth as a leader paid off, as Howard guided his squad to a regional title his senior year, leading the team to a 22-7 record and setting an example for the rest of the team.

“My biggest Matt Howard moment was seeing his smile after we won the school’s first conference championship in 25 years,” Brunson said.

Since coming to Penn however, Howard has faced the typical freshman struggles, as the college game was a little too fast for him at first.

“It’s been tough,” Howard said after Penn’s

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Provost Price continues to lead Penn’s AD search AD SEARCH | In open forum, Price fields questions about process from faculty, staff and alumni

BY STEVEN TYDINGS Senior Sports Editor Phase one of the Penn athletic director search is on its way.

In an open forum for faculty, staff and alumni, Provost Vincent Price — the chair of the search committee to find outgoing-AD Steve Bilsky’s replacement — answered questions and outlined plans for the search process.

According to Price, the first part of the process consists of reaching out to the community to find out what the committee should be looking for in a candidate, which was the stated purpose for the forum.

Running concurrently is phase two, Price said, which will involve seeking out a large and diverse pool of candidates. But Price insisted that this phase will be kept confidential.

The forum, which took place in Claudia Cohen Hall, had 20 attendees, including five members of the search committee. Penn men’s soccer coach Rudy Fuller, women’s lacrosse coach K arin Brower Corbett and Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli were among those in attendance from the committee.

A few head and assistant coaches also came to the meeting — including coaches from gymnastics and swimming — each hoping to add input to the search process.

Before taking questions, Price mentioned that Daniel Parker, the member of Parker Executive

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Red and Blue’s deep bench complements star players perfectly

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n every successful team, it’s easy to give credit to star players for the squad’s overall success.

With Penn women’s basketball this season, much of the attention has been given to the trio of senior captain Alyssa Baron, freshman Sydney Stipanovich and junior Kara Bonenberger.

Arguments have been made that the team wouldn’t be in the hunt for an Ivy League title without them, and that may very well be true.

But it isn’t just the play of those three players that has carried this team.

Renee Busch and a number of unsung heroes off the bench have also provided much-needed support for the Red and

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Joshua Ng/Staff Photographer Junior guard Renee Busch has provided a spark off the bench for Penn, most notably in a clutch 11-point performance against Harvard. The bench will be key for the Quakers down the stretch as they look to capture the Ivy title.

Blue as of late.

Simply put, when the team is playing at its best, it’s likely because players off the bench are thriving in their respec-

tive unique roles.

Take, for example, Penn’s enormous

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