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Students question task force recs

Suggestions focused on cultural over structural change JODY FREINKEL Senior Reporter

Penn’s mental health task force recommendations have provoked students to question whether the administration is taking the right steps to promote mental wellness at all.

Cold calling that brings in millions The Red and Blue hopes to raise $2.6 million in donations this year DIA SOTIROPOULU Staff Reporter

In a nondescript house on Chestnut Street, the Red and Blue Call Center hardly bears the appearance of a fundraising center that brings millions to campus each year.

Inside the center, however, Penn students work around the clock soliciting donations from Penn alumni over the phone, with their efficiency advertised all over the walls. Their goal is a striking one — $2.6 million in donations by the end of the fiscal year, coming from 14,000 pledges and with 42 percent of donations made on credit cards.

The main room is decorated in the exuberant, peppy style of a classroom, with motivational quotes printed on neon paper and fundraising thermometer charts filled incrementally with red and blue magic marker. Banks of jet-black computers stretch from the front to the back, on which headset-equipped students cajole alums in persuasive, regulated cadences.

Christina Mattioli, the program center manager, periodically updates progress on goals on a glass pane separating her office from the main room. “I think this is all very doable,” she declared to the Wednesday evening callers as she made her adjustments in dry-erase marker.

On a given night, Mattioli weaves among the 28 stations offering feedback, with the air of an upbeat, relentlessly dedicated coach. Even from her office, she continued hollering encouragement: “Guys! Credit cards are awesome!”

Callers laugh and joke among themselves, and there always seems to be food lying around. “[I] train … all of the new callers we get on the phones,” she said, “and look at stats to see where we call on a given night.”

Mattioli added that callers have stories of alumni encounters both delightful and bizarre.

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The recommendations, released on Tuesday and created in the wake of six student suicides that spanned 15 months, focused on “cultural change rather than structural change,” Co-Chair of the task force Anthony Rostain said. While some students felt the report is a step in the right direction, others felt it came to the wrong conclusions and lacked specificity.

“This idea of ‘Let’s focus on

changing the culture of perfectionism and competitiveness’ is idealistic and unrealistic,” said College senior Elana Stern, a member of the Green Ribbon Campaign who met with members of the task force last spring.

The report stresses four key recommendations: making information about resources more accessible, educating and training the Penn community on mental health, increasing

communication about mental health resources and optimizing the resources devoted to Counseling and Psychological Services.

After Penn’s last mental health task force — a 2002 committee created in response to 9/11 — the University did not create an oversight committee to monitor the implementation of the SEE TASK FORCE PAGE 2

WOLVERINE, WONDER WOMAN AND VAN PELT One of 1996 College graduate Charles Soule’s comics depicts a scene at Van Pelt Library.

Alum writes for Marvel and DC Comics DAN SPINELLI Staff Reporter

Like the costumed superheroes he writes about in comic books, 1996 College graduate Charles Soule has a secret identity.

When he’s not writing for Marvel or DC Comics, he is practicing law in New York City.

Soule, who graduated from Columbia Law School in 2000, worked in corporate law for the

firm Ropes & Gray, LLP before starting his own practice in 2004.

At his firm, he practices immigration and transactional law.

Early in his writing career, Soule’s clients often did not know about his work in comics. His attorney profile on his law firm’s website does not acknowledge his creative work. Now, after completing high-profile projects at Marvel and DC, Soule’s clients more frequently know about his comics work.

“My profile is a lot higher now than it was when I started writing

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comics,” Soule said.

This past year, he penned titles for both major comic companies, including “Superman/Wonder Woman,” “Red Lanterns” and “Swamp Thing” for DC and the best-selling miniseries, “Death of Wolverine,” for Marvel.

The first two issues of “Death of Wolverine,” in which Soule killed off the popular X-Men character, topped the sales chart in September, more than doubling the sales of the next best-selling title.

“It says so much about Charles

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that they came to him to kill off one of [their] most powerful and iconic characters,” said 1995 College graduate David Toccafondi, one of Soule’s close friends from college.

Toccafondi had long urged Soule to include a scene in “Swamp Thing” at Van Pelt Library, where Toccafondi works as the coordinator of the Vitale Digital Media Lab. Soule obliged and brought “Swamp Thing” to Penn’s campus in the final issue.

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Provost calls for more active learning classes

Despite student dissatisfaction, proposals for new SAIL classes are due Feb. 20 SHOBA BABU Staff Reporter

turn our passion into business?’”

Each cookie sandwich has a distinct cookie, filling, crumble and drizzle, which gives them a lot of flexibility when coming up with new flavors. Last semesters’ offerings included chocolate marshmallow, lemon funfetti and matcha crunch.

“There are a lot of different components that we can play around with that as a whole is something we have never seen before,” Shankar said.

In order to create new flavors a wide range of consumers would like, NOMsense follows

It’s Wednesday afternoon right after calculus class, and problem 10 on this week’s homework is really giving you a hard time. It would be great if the professor was right there to explain it — this is what Structured Active In-Class Learning intends to fix.

In these flipped classrooms, students are asked to familiarize themselves with material before class, while class time is used for working on practice problems under the guidance of professors and teaching assistants.

There are currently about 20 SAIL classes at Penn, ranging from science and math to humanities, and the amount only seems to be growing.

The Vice Provost and the Center for Teaching and Learning have asked professors to submit proposals for new SAIL classes by Feb. 20.

Some students have expressed dissatisfaction with the active learning courses because they feel like they are basically teaching themselves.

However, professors and the CTL continue to believe in the benefits of active learning classes.

“There’s a student complaint that you have to work hard in these courses, and you can’t get away with not working hard,” said Executive Director of the CTL Bruce Lenthall, who also advises the Vice Provost on educational initiatives. “Thinking about it holistically, a class that asks you to work hard and get a lot out of it is a

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NOMsense will offer cookie sandwiches in variations of chocolate, caramel and lemon flavors.

Three students launched a business to make cookie sandwiches with a “NOMsensical” twist

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NOMsense Bakery is ready to put Penn in a food coma.

One year since its launch, NOMsense Bakery — which specializes in decadent cookie sandwiches — is no longer a justhobby three undergraduate students are passionate about.

The cookie sandwich business has concrete plans to serve Penn

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students.

“We didn’t set out to start a business but wanted to share our philosophy of dessert with everyone on campus,” College junior and a co-founder of NOMsense Rachel Stewart said.

The three co-founders, College junior Alina Wong, Wharton junior Roopa Shankar and Stewart used to bake for fun, but positive feedback from their friends and hall mates encouraged them to think twice about their hobby.

“There really wasn’t anything on campus that was offering the same thing,” Shankar said. “We thought ‘Is there a way we can

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PA considers legalizing pot

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State senators back bill supporting medical marijuana

A group of state senators have been working hard to make Pennsylvania the 24th state to legalize medical marijuana.

State Senators Daylin Leach (DMontgomery) and Mike Folmer (R-Lebanon) introduced Senate Bill 3 at the end of January. If passed, the bill would allow doctors to prescribe cannabis edibles, oils and tinctures.

“Thousands of people could benefit from this because of any given condition they have —cancer patients, HIV/AIDS patients, people suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the list goes on,” said Steve Hoenstine, press secretary for Leach who is one of the bill’s co-sponsors. “What really matters is that we are able to create the best medical cannabis protocol for Pennsylvania, something that is going to help as many people as possible and that is safe and controlled.”

A medical marijuana bill passed the Pa. senate in September on a 43-7 vote, but the House of Representatives did not vote on the bill, as former Gov. Tom Corbett threatened

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recommendations. Penn implemented only two-thirds of all the recommendations. Rostain, director of education for the department of psychiatry, also chaired that task force.

Plans are already in place for a cross-campus team to keep Penn on track this time with standards set by the Jed and Clinton Health Matters Campus Program, a program helping universities improve mental health and provide substance abuse resources. However, the report itself sets no firm deadlines and does not explain how it will track the implementation of its recommendations.

“The fact that the report does not include a timeline ensures no

to veto it. However, with Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf taking office in January, medical marijuana advocates are trying again.

“When it passed the senate last year, Gov. Corbett was still the governor, and he never engaged on this issue with us and he was an outspoken opponent of what we were trying to do,” Hoenstine said. “Gov. Wolf is the total opposite. He and his staff have welcomed this. We’ve talked to them about this bill extensively.”

Equally importantly as Gov. Wolf’s support, the Pennsylvania House Majority Leader — who controls the agenda in the Republican-controlled House — has expressed support for medical cannabis. “The new majority leader, Rep. Dave Reed, is very open to this.

He seems to be very engaged with this issues,” Hoenstine added.

The new leadership and the new governor seem to be more closely aligning with public sentiment on this issue. According to a poll by Quinnipiac University taken in 2014, 85 percent of Pennsylvania voters support some form of medical marijuana.

“It’s overwhelmingly popular,” said G. Terry Madonna, director of Franklin and Marshall College’s Center for Politics and Public

Affairs, who has also polled voters on the issue. His poll also showed over 80 percent of voters supported medical marijuana. “I don’t think there would be a big blowback politically to vote for it, so really the problem has been the House.”

Specifically, Republicans in the state House have been skeptical and do not view the issue as a priority.

But for Sen. Folmer, a Republican co-sponsor of Senate Bill 3, medical marijuana aligns with his conservative values — something he hopes to prove to his Republican colleagues.

“To me it’s a freedom issue,” Folmer said. “My argument is this: I don’t believe there should be a government or anyone that gets between myself and my doctor in treating whatever illness I am fighting.”

Folmer added that a vote in the senate will likely happen sometime after a hearing on the subject on Feb. 25.

While the bill has major consequences for Pa., Penn’s Code of Student Conduct will continue to prohibit the use of any illegal drugs on campus. Because use of marijuana will remain a federal crime, it is unlikely that Penn will allow use on campus, regardless of whether the bill becomes law.

accountability on the part of the administration to make progress with any sort of urgency,” College junior Nate Stauffer said. CAPS Advisory Board representative Danielle Mohabir, a College senior, was satisfied with the report overall but also hopes to see a “timeline or concrete plan of action in the near future.”

After the 2002 report, there was no significant change in campus culture, according to former Nursing Professor Margaret Controneo, a member of the 2002 task force.

Though she could not immediately recall the task force’s specific recommendations, she said access to resources was a big concern. “We dealt with fairly standard mental health issues,” she said.

Stauffer, a psychology major, said the current report lacks depth.

“I’m not sure what I expected, but this is incredibly disappointing. A year has passed and we seem to be back right where we started,” he said. “The most infuriating part is that virtually any student grappling with mental health problems at Penn could have told the task force all of the information in this report a year ago.”

Stauffer was also bothered by the task force’s reluctance to identify what makes Penn and Penn’s culture different from other schools, rather than what makes it similar.

Peer institutions have launched task forces in the past year, though no other task force has focused on mental health and wellness.

Penn State President Eric Barron released a letter on Tuesday to the members of Penn State’s

Dean Ruger to assume office on July 1

Theodore Ruger, Penn Law School’s deputy dean since 2013, has been named the school’s new dean, effective July 1. He will replace Interim Dean Wendell Pritchett, who has lead the school since Dean Michael Fitts left to take the presidency at Tulane University last year.

Ruger, who has been on the Penn Law faculty since 2004, is known for his work in health law and regulation, food and drug law and constitutional law. At Penn, he has held numerous leadership positions, including serving as the advisor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

“It’s an incredible honor,” Ruger told The Daily Pennsylvanian regarding his appointment as dean. “I’m very excited to have this opportunity to lead Penn Law, which has been my professional home for a dozen years now.”

“Ted is a superb scholar and teacher of constitutional law and health law,” Penn President Amy

Task Force on Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment detailing plans for implementing the 18 recommendations it published on Jan. 29. The plans, which largely stick to a 12-month timeline, begin immediately with a search for a Title IX coordinator for the University, an entirely new position recommended by the task force.

In July, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Task Force on the Future of MIT Education published an interactive website, with data and selected idea submissions, after President L. Rafael Reif charged the force with compiling a plan to bring “disruptive change” to the university’s educational instruction.

Penn State’s task force took five months to compile its report, while MIT’s took about a year and a half.

“I’ve read [Penn’s report] more than once, and the first time I read it I honestly thought that I

Gutmann said in a press release announcing the appointment.

“He has a passion for helping students succeed and is someone who will work collaboratively with the faculty to ensure that Penn Law continues to stand as one of America’s preeminent law schools.”

Prior to joining the faculty at Penn Law, Ruger was an associate professor at Washington University’s School of Law for three years.

Ruger clerked for United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and United States Court of Appeals Judge Michael Boudin.

He also worked at Washington D. C. law firm Williams & Connolly, as well as Ropes & Gray in Boston.

“He also has a clear sense of Penn Law’s distinctive culture and strengths,” Penn Provost Vincent Price said in the press release.

“We are looking forward to working with him as he collaborates with faculty, staff, students and alumni to build on this incredibly strong foundation and leads Penn Law to the pinnacle of American law schools.”

Ruger received his BA from Williams College and his JD from Harvard Law School, where

missed something,” Stern, the force’s recommendations to focus Green Ribbon representative, said. on centralizing resources and inShe hoped to see data reflecting creasing communication, which changing in funding, staffing and she felt could help students more programming for mental health easily locate MERT’s contact inforresources but could not find any in mation for several types of crises. the report’s eight pages.

Jones added that the adminisMeanwhile, some student lead- trators who worked on the report, ers were happy to see mental health including Rostain and Co-Chair brought back into campus con- Rebecca Bushnell, “really do care sciousness. about students [and] really do want CogWell President and Col- students to get the best care poslege senior Joanna Heinz had sible.” mixed feelings about the report.

Mohabir, too, found the task “My only issue is that I think that force receptive when she met after one year of working on this I with them last year. “I think they find that the suggestions are very covered everything realistically preliminary,” she said. “From an possible to achieve,” she said. administrative standpoint I think Stern reflected that if circumit’s great that Penn has room to stances were different she might grow and change.” have been less disappointed in the “I really think it is a culture emphasis on cultural change over change that is needed,” said Chief tangible recommendations. “In of Medical Emergency Response an ideal world, it could be accomTeam and College junior Sara plished,” she said. “But this isn’t an Jones. She applauded WISDOM the task ideal world.” RESEARCH TEETH

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Entries may be left in the designated box at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing (CPCW), 3808 Walnut St. Entries should bear: student's name, school, year, address, email address, and category of submission. Do not submit the same piece for more than one contest.

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Wharton graduates think outside of the toy box in their careers Four Wharton graduates have made inroads in the toy industry BRYN FERGUSON Staff Reporter

It’s all fun and games for these four Wharton MBA graduates.

Each has taken a less conventional path after graduating from the school with a reputation for finance and has instead gone into the toy industry as inventors and entrepreneurs.

Michael Rinzler 1999 Wharton MBA graduate Michael Rinzler is not just a businessman, but also a toy inventor. His newest product is “a Girl Scout cookie oven — reminiscent of an Easy-Bake oven. For the first time you can create Girl Scout cookies,” he said.

Rinzler is the co-founder of Wicked Cool Toys, a company that designs, develops and markets all kinds of children’s toys.

Rinzler came up with the idea for this toy while working on his Field Application Project, a class offered to MBA students. “What’s so incredible is that the project I did I’m turning into a toy 16 or 17 years later,” he said.

The oven was released at the Toy Fair in New York City this past weekend. “It’s really exciting because it’s the first time that Girl Scouts is letting anyone do this,” he said. Girl Scouts of the USA is allowing this toy to feature mixes

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The comic stars a humanoid plant that interacts with various characters in the DC Universe.

Despite its niche subject matter, some of comics’ greatest writers

inspired by its popular cookies like Thin Mints and Trefoils.

Earlier this month, Wicked Cool Toys also entered a strategic partnership with Original Appalachian Artworks, the parent company of Cabbage Patch Kids.

“We are now the only ones who can make Cabbage Patch Kids in the world,” Rinzler said. With the exclusive rights to design and produce the dolls, Wicked Cool Toys will be releasing a new line of Cabbage Patch Kids products in fall 2015.

Rinzler emphasized how much he enjoys his work — “In today’s world, the most important thing is to do something because you love it, not because you will get financially rewarded. That comes in time,” he said. “Once toys gets into your blood you can’t get out it out. It is a lot of fun on a daily basis.”

Bernie Tenenbaum At the corporate level of the toy industry is 1981 Wharton MBA graduate Bernie Tenenbaum. He began his career in the industry as an outside director for Russ Berrie and Company (now Kid Brands, Inc.), which was then the largest gift company in the toy business.

One of its products was Trolls, the iconic plastic dolls with tufts of multi-colored hair. “We went from nothing to 400 million dollars with Trolls in a year. It’s a business with which you can catch lightning in a bottle overnight [and] be a success,” Tenenbaum

have written issues of the title — from Alan Moore to Scott Snyder and now, Charles Soule. The book’s current volume ends in March with issue number 40.

Even with his work on “Swamp Thing” ending, Soule will still have plenty to do. He has written

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said.

Tenenbaum later moved to the private equity firm The Jordan Company, which bought British toys and games manufacturer Vivid Imagination, which was responsible for the distribution of brands like The Simpsons and X-Men in Europe.

When Tenenbaum had had enough of the life of constant travel, he moved back to New Jersey, where he worked on the launch and ultimate sale of the Toys “R” Us website, helping the company break a billion dollars in sales.

As the Associate Director of the Entrepreneurial Center at Wharton for 10 years, Tenenbaum says it all comes back to his time at Wharton — “It cultivates the individual,” he said. “Wharton was

the place that supported the individual idea, despite its impression of feeding people to Wall Street.”

up to eight comic book scripts per month — some in vastly different genres — while still practicing law.

“He writes comedy, action, political thrillers, suspense — he can do all of that,” Toccafondi, who has a Swamp Thing figurine in his office, said.

In September, Soule signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, meaning that once he wraps up his series commitments with DC next month, he will write strictly Marvel titles, with the exception of stories he owns the copyright for independently. He also plans to devote time to finishing up a

novel.

However, comics were not always Soule’s main creative outlet. While at Penn, he was mainly involved in music.

Toccafondi “doesn’t remember talking to [Soule] about comics at Penn.”

“I was involved in the orchestra and jazz band,” Soule said. He also played at fraternity parties and coffee shops with his own bands.

He majored in Asian and Middle Eastern studies, leading to his interest in immigration law. Now, even as a comics writer, Soule remains actively committed to his legal practice.

Mary Beth Minton The idea for creating a dolllike stuffed bear came about from 1982 Wharton MBA graduate Mary Beth Minton’s experiences with her own daughters. “I noticed that my two daughters, when they were younger, played very differently: One would play with dolls and one would only play with teddy bears, but as if they were dolls,” Minton said.

Minton’s company Zylie & Friends features Zylie, a stuffed bear designed for children aged four to 11. Zylie is not a traditional teddy bear. She has a wardrobe and an elaborate backstory detailed in accompanying books;

she hails from Manhattan, has a brother named Theo and travels the world meeting other bears indigenous to the countries she visits.

Her product is intended to be “a hybrid between a doll and a plush, and giving it a backstory that would inspire children to get off the couch and play,” she said.

Minton was inspired by her 2006 Wharton class reunion. “I was amazed at how many people were entrepreneurs,” Minton said.

“I realized I had the skills and I realized that there was a network accessible.”

Since the launch in 2010, the product has been made into a cobranded line with FAO Schwartz and is sold in Toys “R” Us stores and online.“We’ve been amazed at the connection Zylie makes with children. The kids who have her love her,” Minton said.

Minton also advised aspiring toy makers to do research and test marketing. “Ultimately, the feedback you get from customers will guide how you move forward.

We’ve been refining the product every step of the way,” she said.

Michael Last 2005 Wharton MBA graduate Michael Last is the founder of Intellitoys, a technology company that partners with toy manufacturers, musicians, educators and publishers to create customizable toys.

Taking what he learned from one of his Wharton classes, Last

developed a product that allows parents to customize the toy to fit the needs of the family — something he believes is missing in the industry.

Last entered the Wharton Business Plan Competition in 2005 with the plan that eventually became Intellitoys in 2008.

“What we build is an endto-end platform that allows toy companies like ourselves or other partners to put customizable parts into toys to download content into the toys,” Last said. The parent can customize their child’s favorite animal with language programs or songs. “There are about 8000 songs to choose from in four different languages and 30 different learning games,” he said.

Last did not expect that he would enter the toy industry, though he definitely had an “entrepreneurial mindset” going into Wharton, he said. Last worked in consulting for two years before founding Intellitoys and said it was “tremendously helpful for getting some of the skills to run your own business.”

He also said it is important for students to follow their passions and not what others are doing.

“There is a lot of pressure [on students] seeing everyone around them interviewing for consulting and banking jobs,” Last said.

“You have to keep your focus and not get pulled along with the herd.

There are a lot of other industries out there than banking and consulting.”

“I’ve been building [my legal work] for almost 15 years now.

It’s tough to just leave it behind,” Soule said.

Furthermore, he said, the ability to write creatively for a deadline translates well into the legal practice.

“There is a creative element to lawyering that people don’t think of. You have to think into the future and visualize how things could turn out for your client,” Soule said.

Meanwhile, his status continues to rise in the comics industry as he puts his pen to exploring the Marvel Universe.

Even with the final issue of Soule’s critically-acclaimed series “She-Hulk” hitting shelves on Wednesday, Soule will exert a powerful presence among Marvel creators.

He will continue co-writing a weekly series, “Wolverines,” that explores the aftermath of Wolverine’s death. Additionally, Soule holds the reins over Marvel’s “Inhumans” franchise, which has expanded in popularity after the announcement of an “Inhumans” film for 2019.

Quite the busy workload, but Soule would not want it any other way.

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TALKING BACKWARD | Penn’s new disciplinary appeals process is insufficient for handling allegations of sexual assault

ve been looking into issues surrounding how colleges and universities address accusations of sexual assault for some time now. It is a much larger issue than I could ever hope to tackle in a responsible, comprehensive manner in one column.

Therefore, I intend to spend at least one more week exploring what I’ve become convinced are the deeply flawed methods which academia and government have come up with to handle allegations of sexual violence.

On the first of this month, an amendment to the University’s policy regarding how it handles disciplinary complaints of sexual misconduct took effect. The new policy differs from the old in two major ways: First, responsibility for the initial investigation of claims and the first finding of responsibility was transferred from the Office of Student Conduct to the newly-created Office of the Sexual Violence

Investigative Officer. Second, the hearing panel to which the initial finding may be appealed — which previously consisted of faculty and undergraduates — will now consist only of faculty who “have training

served by the IO and the panel might or might not be, at the end of the day, the decision of whether or not a student will be punished for committing sexual assault may rest with one man.

fairness that the judgement of a single individual, no matter how deeply we might trust that individual’s commitment to do what is right, is an insufficient basis upon which to decide that a person has committed a

It is a key tenet of our societal notions of justice and fairness that the judgement of a single individual … is an insufficient basis upon which to decide that a person has committed a criminal act.“ and experience in handling complaints involving sexual misconduct.”

The new policies, however, fall as far short of being able to render a just outcome as the old ones did. This is primarily due to the structure of the appeals process. The IO’s decision can be appealed by either party to the disciplinary hearing panel, whose decision may in turn be appealed, again by either party, to a Disciplinary Appeals Officer. This means that, no matter how fair the procedures ob-

I have no doubt that the DAO, a professor in the Biology department, is deeply committed to making the right decision in every case he reviews. However, under the University’s policies, he might very plausibly find himself in the unenviable position of having to single-handedly decide whether the University will hold a student responsible for actions which amount to a heinous violent crime.

It is a key tenet of our societal notions of justice and

criminal act. It is for this reason that every person accused of a serious crime has the right to have their case heard by a jury of their peers.

A system which ultimately places such a decision in the hands of one professor might be sufficient for deciding whether a student has plagiarized a paper or cheated on a test, but in a matter as serious as sexual assault, it fails to serve the interests of either victims or those accused. A student who claims to have been assaulted has as

much ground upon which to object to a finding of “not responsible” rendered by a single party as does a student claiming innocence who is found responsible. By mere virtue of their humanity, any single individual is liable to have their judgement affected by prejudice, by their own experiences, by love, by a thousand other things which we would never fault a person for but which might hamper their ability to decide such a serious matter with true impartiality. Because of this, we do not believe in entrusting such decisions to one person. We do not believe in benevolent autocrats, we believe in juries, in congresses, in panels and procedures.

It might be argued that such protections are unnecessary, since the stakes are not as high in a university disciplinary proceeding as in a criminal trial. To deny that the stakes are high, however, is a statement of profound naivete. The inevitable risks are either that a person with a demonstrated capacity for sexual predation remains at

ALEC WARD large within the University community, free to victimize others or that an innocent person faces the devastating, lifealtering consequences of being expelled from a University for sexual assault. We should not be willing to tolerate the risk of either of these outcomes taking place if they might have been prevented by wiser policies.

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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il will be an integral part of the United States economy for decades to come. In 2013, U.S. oil consumption increased by 400,000 barrels per day and the trend in 2014 followed suit.

Securing a reliable supply of petroleum is a vital concern for the U.S. economy and national security, both in the short and long run. What’s keeping us from approving the Keystone XL pipeline?

After six years, five favorable environmental reports and numerous shifts in the construction path, the pipeline has been repeatedly cleared for construction. Our government needs to stop stalling. While preventing building projects of private corporations is permitted if there are great environmental or security threats, no such threats exist in this case.

The pipeline causes negligible environmental damage; indeed, it is most likely safer even than importing oil from

Venezuela or Nigeria on tankers. From the security perspective, the Keystone XL pipeline is solidifying a reliable source of oil from our democratic, environmentally regulated, close neighbor, Canada. Keystone XL hasn’t been delayed for environmental or security reasons — rather, the delay is the product of unproductive politicking.

This issue reveals the ugly side of government, and one that we should seek to minimize.

The Keystone XL pipeline has many benefits, with the most important being energy security. Over 250 million cars and trucks run on oil every day.

Thus, having a secure energy supplier is vital. Canada is currently America’s largest exporter, with 2 million barrels crossing the border each day. Over the past decade, the number of barrels coming from Canada has increased by 600,000 barrels per day, and imports have decreased by a similar amount from Mexico. The Keystone XL pipeline would allow the

U.S. to import 830,000 more barrels from Canada per day. It is in our interest to receive more of our oil from such a stable, friendly country. Constructing Keystone XL would allow us to access more North American oil at the lowest cost, with the safest transport method and in an environmentally conscious way.

We already have over 2.5 million miles of oil and gas pipelines in our country. Why is this particular pipeline so controversial? The Obama administration needs to stop politicizing a bill that will be good for consumers, the economy, national security and our overall national interest. We recognize the importance of remaining environmentally conscious and internally secure, but in this case, these concerns are unfounded.

Jennifer Knesbach C‘17 W‘17 College Republicans Representative

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fter six years of offering no substantial policy alternative to President Obama and his administration, the new Republican Congress has seemingly found its silver bullet: the passage of the Keystone XL pipeline by both houses.

The pipeline will travel from the oil fields of Alberta, Canada to Nebraska, traversing about 1,100 miles with most of it being built in the United States. So why shouldn’t Keystone XL be built? The answers are many.

The vast majority of pipeline jobs will last less than six months. Some State Department estimates show that fewer than 50 permanent jobs will be created due to Keystone XL, which is minuscule compared to the 213,000 private sector jobs created just last month.

The billions of dollars spent on building this pipeline will do next to nothing to catalyze American economic growth.

The construction of this pipeline would transport millions of gallons of tar sands oil throughout the nation, which in turn would have a potentially catastrophic implication if a spill were to happen. Tar sands oil, one of the hardest types of oil to refine, would devastate the air and water supply of countless communities if such an incident occurred. Building the pipeline on a potentially seismic area would not help the overall safety of the pipeline either. The Environmental Protection Agency has also released reports stating that the construction of this pipeline will increase carbon emissions, the crucial point which will lead to President Obama’s eventual veto of Keystone XL. The construction of Keystone XL will also violate the sovereignty of many Native American tribes who live in the pipeline’s projected path. Tribal leaders are concerned about the potential environmental and public health threats that

would occur during construction and in the case of a potential accident.

After taking control of Congress, Republicans are choosing to spend the political capital they earned in November to create a handful of jobs and put countless communities and the environment at risk.

Even Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), a supporter of the pipeline, said, “we need to think bigger than Keystone. We need an energy policy that goes beyond Keystone.” I agree with Sen. Cruz.

We need to think beyond a single pipeline as a cure to our nation’s economic and energy problems by investing in clean, renewable sources such as wind, solar and hydrogen fuel cell technologies. It’s time for Congress to look towards the future. It’s time to govern.

Sam Iacobellis C‘17 Penn Democrats Representative

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Visitors explored the “Basel Abbas and Ruanna Abou-Rahme: The Incidental Insurgents” exhibit at the ICA Winter Exhibition opening earlier this month.

Student work to be displayed year for New York-based artist Josh Kline’s exhibit “Living alongside new exhibit BOOKYUNG JO Staff Reporter

Ladders and wooden planks were strewn across the floor while the entire building had a light smell of paint. The Institute of Contemporary Art was getting ready for another season, preparing to hold four new exhibitions, including the first major survey of photographer Barbara Kasten’s work.

Yet the ICA is more than a landmark on 36th and Sansom streets.

A part of Penn’s campus under the Provost’s office, it collaborates with other schools for student involvement.

For students in Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw’s Art History seminar, the ICA is an extension of the classroom. Students spend the first semester of the yearlong seminar deciding on their exhibition’s focus. In the second semester, they work directly with the ICA staff in different departments to have first-hand experience curating works for their exhibits. Students frequently travel to places like New York City and New Orleans for exhibition ideas, and also work with personnel at the Philadelphia Museum of Art to learn how museums of a larger scale work.

“To have the context to be able to get recommendations from professionals in the art world makes an enormous difference in being able to move ahead,” Shaw said.

“One of the things students are exposed to is the complexity of doing exhibitions and the number of different kinds of careers that are possible in the world of art and culture.”

The student exhibits will be on display in the ICA in April.

The class was not the ICA’s first joint venture with Penn academics. The ICA also collaborated with the Biology department last

Wages,” an exhibit on the lives of Federal Express workers. Working with Penn microbiologists, Kline used clear plastic storage containers as petri dishes to contain genetically engineered bacteria and FedEx workers’ favorite snacks.

The ICA was the brain child of the former head of the School of Fine Arts George Holmes Perkins, who wanted the institution to be a non-collecting one. As the name suggests, the ICA focuses on what is “current” in the art world and tries to bring it to Penn’s campus.

The museum has displayed works from artists such as Andy Warhol.

“It’s a mix of more established national and international artists, and those who deserve greater recognition or a chance to push their work in new directions,” Communications Associate of the ICA Rebecca Hunter said.

For Whitney-Lauder Curatorial Fellow of ICA Liz Park, a normal day at the ICA is largely about checking emails, writing for ICA publications and — on the most exciting days — working with installation teams to coordinate new exhibits, choosing to feature varying amounts of artists depending on the size of the exhibition.

Shaw added that the ICA, as well as other art galleries on campus, including the Arthur Ross gallery, creates a very intimate and “doable” space to appreciate art without being overwhelmed by the large scale of other museums.

“ICA has been very focused on making itself part of the campus,” she said.

College junior and ICA student board member Elizabeth Barr said that her involvement with the ICA has been one of the most valuable parts of her Penn experience.

“The ICA has an amazing resource on campus but a lot of students have never been there,” Barr said.

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scholarships within the College of Arts and Sciences. Now, the program will include more opportunities in China for students STEPHANIE BARRON and faculty. Including the most Staff Reporter recent donation, the Fox family has now donated over $33 milThe Fox Leadership Program lion in total. will gain a global dimension fol“We want to bring an internalowing a $5 million gift from tional component to our events, Robert and Penny Fox, an- workshops and teaching,” said nounced Tuesday.

Joseph Tierney, executive direcFox Leadership, established tor of the program. In practice, in 1999 by its donors, ex- this means working with Penn’s panded in 2013 to establish new Fels Institute of Government to

organize a summer program, piloted last summer. In the pilot, 46 students of the Jiangsu Province of China spent three weeks on Penn’s campus.

FLI will expand and multiply its service-learning programs in Africa. It will also develop a program to place Fox fellows with the presidents, prime ministers or consul generals in nations in the European Union.

Tierney will visit China in March to further explore ways to develop higher education

programs in the country. FLI China also hopes to devise further initiatives to send Penn staff and fellows there.

“We’re starting with China and building on the positive experiences that we had last summer,” Tierney said. “So it’s a starting point.”

“FLI is a big leap,” John DiIulio, faculty director of the Fox Leadership Program told The Almanac. “But we have the information, experience and partnerships to make it work.”

ACTIVE LEARNING

Lenthall said.

In addition, many faculty members meet together on a regular basis to discuss strategies for improving their courses, and the CTL provides support for TAs. “This is how we learn. We learn from practice, we learn from making mistakes, we learn from talking,” said Economics professor Rebecca Stein.

Stein switched her popular Economics 001 to a SAIL class this semester. She was influenced both by numerous studies conducted about the effectiveness of active learning and by her own observations. Since 2010 she had used an opt-in, active learning

style program for her class called Groups for Greater Applied Economic Thinking. Stein said although reviews for GREAT were mostly positive, students wanted more time to solve problems with guidance, which prompted the switch.

Stein is not the only one who has implemented active learning into her courses. Professor Nakia Rimmer has incorporated aspects of it into his Mathematics 114 course. While it is not a SAIL class, he has replaced weekly recitation quizzes with active learning worksheets.

“Having faculty members who can understand the problems and

help students make connections with the challenges they’re having takes advantage of the faculty member and allows them to interact with the faculty member in a richer way,” Lenthall said.

Lenthall, Stein and Rimmer all pointed to studies that showed active learning has positive effects on student learning and grasp of concepts.

“These aren’t instant results.

At Penn we’ve been doing this for two or three years,“ Lenthall said.

“Just as if you take a brand new lecture course, the faculty member may improve it over the years, so I expect that all of these courses will improve over the years.”

his previous work experience in investment banking and private equity helped him deal with legal and financial aspects of starting his business, since the NOMsense co-founders are undergraduates, they would have less experience in these domains.

“He was so open and I think it goes back to the whole idea of Penn being entrepreneurial and fostering the environment,” Shankar said.

NOMsense is hoping to give back to the Penn community as a whole by offering a preceptorial this semester, “Nom with NOMsense Bakery: A Workshop on Food Entrepreneurship.” In this this seminar, the co-founders will tell their start-up story and talk to others interested in starting their own business.

College senior Charity Migwi, a preceptorial committee member who organized the NOMsense preceptorial, said her interest in entrepreneurial communities on campus led her to create this opportunity.

“It’s a chance for them to talk about their experience of being entrepreneurs as students,” she said.

Migwi added that food preceptorials are very popular in

general, and over 150 students signed up for NOMsense’s.

She said it is also her first time having undergraduate students lead a preceptorial.

“We want to be able to teach Penn students about NOMsense and make them a part of our journey,” Wong said.

All three co-founders are full-time students, and while juggling academics and extracurricular activities, they still find time for NOMsense.

“We knew from the start that it would be our priority,” Shankar said.

The three co-founders first invested their personal money in starting the business, but as expansion incurred higher costs, they launched a Kickstarter campaign to cover legal expenses.

For Franklin Shen, Penn was also the place to launch his hub for sweet treats. Shen is the cofounder of Sugar Philly, which brings macarons of flavors ranging from green tea to chocolate hazelnut to campus.

“The great thing about Penn’s campus is that people are open to new ideas and want to try something new,” Shen said.

He added that social media plays a huge role in getting the name out and creating a visual

experience especially through Facebook and Instagram.

The NOMsense co-founders agreed, saying that their growth started through social media.

After launching its Facebook page, NOMsense started a “World of NOM” campaign where it posted photos of customers’ reactions after buying cookie sandwiches. Tagging these people, Shankar said, helped spread the word about the business.

While they are looking to establish NOMsense as a certified food business, Wong, Shankar and Stewart are still considering careers outside of NOMsense.

“We’re considering pursuing other things right after we graduate, maybe getting some other experiences,” Stewart said. She added that even if they postpone NOMsense post-graduation, the long-term plan is to get back to baking a few years out.

Regardless of how long NOMsense continues its presence on campus, Shen said having the “Penn background” makes them part of the “Penn family.” “There’s some sort of comradery or network that happens,” he said.

“We are happy to see more and more dessert come to the Penn community.”

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told it to you or because you spent time working on it?”

Lenthall clearly notes, however, that there is a major difference between students being put in an environment where they are completely lost and have no guidance, and students being challenged, but given the tools to achieve.

“The CTL collects a lot of data from students about their experiences with the courses, about what works for them and what doesn’t and about their outcomes, and we try to share that with the faculty who are teaching the courses,”

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the trend in the dessert market and also uses focus groups, which helped them introduce their matcha flavor.

“Our goal for this semester is to sell wholesales to outlets at Penn,” Wong said. She said they aim to place their cookie sandwiches in Gourmet Grocer, Houston Market and at other oncampus retail spots. They are also hoping to become a vendor in Penn’s purchase order system so that they can cater for student organization events.

As soon as the co-founders decided to start their food business, they reached out to Joshua White, the owner of White + Wong Bakery and 2013 Wharton MBA graduate who also started his cookie business at Penn. Although Shankar said they did not expect him to reply back, White has provided a lot of guidance in terms of financial, legal and insurance procedures.

“He really knows the ins and outs of creating a cookie business on campus,” Wong said. “[NOMsense] had a lot of questions as far as how to proceed with the food business,” White said. He added that while

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Giang Nguyen appointed executive director of SHS He has worked extensively with immigrant communities ISABEL KIM Staff Reporter

The new Executive Director of Student Health Service Giang Nguyen cares about the health of students campus-wide, even for those who have no experience with SHS other than through a poster in a dorm hallway.

“I’m interested in the health of our students, but it’s not just the health of the students who walk into the doors of our office at 3535 Market Street. It is the health of students who never even think about walking into our student health clinic, but still could benefit from our outreach,” Nguyen said.

Nguyen was appointed to the position following the passing of previous SHS director Evelyn Wiener last spring. He will officially start on April 1, 2015.

While Nguyen’s new position will involve the oversight of all of SHS’ operations, he stated that he’s interested in working with and hearing the needs of students on campus.

“For many people, this is the first time you’re able to engage with health care without your parents there and this is a great opportunity for you to learn how to make the most out of interacting with the health care system,” Nguyen said, talking about SHS almost as a training wheels version for the United States health care system which he said “is incredibly complex and is hard to navigate, even if you have perfect English and you have a degree from an Ivy League university.”

Nguyen praised SHS, saying it “has a great national reputation among the Ivy League schools.” He added, “We have really shown ourselves as leaders in the college health arena, so I am going to be entering a very strong department.”

When asked about what he plans to do in his new position, Nguyen said that although he sees SHS as a model of college healthcare, change and evaluation are still on his radar.

“One of the things that I intend to do during the early part of my time as executive director is to do a needs

assessment. This will allow me to understand better what the health needs are of our students, what the strengths are of our programs at Student Health and areas where we could use improvement,” he said.

Nguyen came to the United States from Vietnam at a young age and draws on his personal experiences later in life working with immigrant communities.

He created the Penn Asian Health Initiatives in 2004 as part of the Perelman School of Medicine — a program that gave out 3,000 vaccines to underinsured Asian-Americans in Philadelphia.

“I have worked with a lot of community groups for the last decade, working with them to improve the health of largely immigrant communities, so that experience in terms of working with stakeholders in a real substantive way is something that I intend to apply as exec director.”

He attended Johns Hopkins, where he originally studied engineering, but changed his major to public health and went on to medical school afterwards, earning both a medical degree and a Masters of Public Health. He did his fellowship, faculty development and primary care research at Penn and has since stayed as a faculty member in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health . He feels that his varied roles in and around public health care and family medicine, along with working with immigrant communities, will be beneficial in his position as executive director.

He previously ser ved as the Medical Director of Penn Family Care . “Family medicine is very focused on keeping people healthy, developing strong relationships between providers and patients,” he said. ”[Family medicine] really works well in conjunction with public health, my other area of interest, because public health is very focused on preventing disease and keeping people healthy and maximizing wellness.”

“What was truly exciting to me about the opportunity to come to the Penn Student Health Service is the fact that I’m able to use all of those skills within a single position.”

Seniors party like it’s NSO

Class of 2015 may be most dedicated senior class ELLIE SCHROEDER Staff Reporter

For seniors who may have regrets about their first week of college, the Class Board 2015 is letting them do it “NSOver Again.”

Feb Club is the annual senior class tradition that consists of events throughout the entire month of February. Next Thursday, seniors will get to relive their New Student Orientation experience with a party at the Penn Museum, a nod to the traditional NSO toga party.

New Rodin dean announced the Rodin House Dean since 2010, but left to become the director of Four-Year Houses and Residential Programs at Penn.

JEFFREY CAREYVA “As I pass the metaphorical Staff Reporter baton to Tommy Murphy and On Monday, Raymond Tommy move into a new role for the colMurphy accepted the position lege houses,” Keytack said, “I am of house dean of Rodin College thrilled to know that Rodin House House, according to Rick LaRosa, will be in the hands of such an endirector of Upper Class Houses & thusiastic professional with years Paraprofessional Selection. of residential education experiAnother high rise saw a change ence.” in house dean earlier this year.

Rodin College House launched Suhnne Ahn, the former dean a search for a new house dean of Harnwell College House, left following Keytack’s decision to Penn in January to become dean pursue his new position. Students of Residential Life and Student living in Rodin College House Activities at the Colburn School, participated in the search, and a performing arts school in Los Murphy was selected from three Angeles. Ryan Keytack has been interviewed candidates.

Harnwell also lost a dean earlier this year

City for a night of clubbing, gambling and great food.

However, for those students more interested in a sophisticated experience than partying, Feb Club offers plenty of options.

The Senior Perform ing Arts night will showcase talent in the senior class with performances by musicians, writers, comedians and more.

Additionally, seniors will receive Feb Club credit for attending a special Penn Glee Club performance and a night at the Philadelphia orchestra.

Students scan their Feb Club cards at each event to record their attendance — different levels of attendance earn

prizes.

Additionally, students can buy tickets to the Vagina Monologues on Feb. 27 with an after-party at a bar with proceeds supporting Women Organized Against Rape.

“There’s a diverse lineup so that there’s something for everyone,” Koren said.

The Class of 2015 is on track to possibly become the most dedicated senior class in Penn’s Feb Club history. Although she wouldn’t say the exact number, Koren said that close to 100 people have not missed a single event, so far.

On average, 20 students per senior class typically attend every single Feb Club event.

with me and you’ll see a lot of previous mayoral runs before assistance from Pennsylvania’s Jim Kenney focused on marijuana, race and education white, suburban people smok- deciding to enter the current state government, Kenney beDAN SPINELLI Staff Reporter

Former City Councilman and mayoral candidate Jim Kenney visited Penn tonight for a Q&A session hosted by Penn Democrats.

Penn Dems reached out to all the Democratic mayoral candidates to invite them to speak at Penn. Kenney was the first to accept the invitation, with former District Attorney Lynne Abraham scheduled to speak next week.

He add ressed hot-button issues including LGBT equality, marijuana decriminalization and education in his typical witty style.

“83 percent of people being arrested for marijuana possession are black or brown,” he said. The law’s racial disparity particularly disturbed Kenney.

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NSO and Feb Club are “the book ends of our Penn careers, so it makes sense to relive some of the best experiences that we’ve had,” senior class President Ariel Koren said.

Seniors will also get to party old-school style with a night at Dave and Busters featuring discounted arcade games and a happy hour special. The arcade night is one of several events, including the museum party and the 80s-themed roller skating night, designed to let seniors relive childhood memories, Koren said.

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“There was one time I called, and the person picked up and was trying to sell me something,” student supervisor and College senior Amira Yeiser said. She added that another time she was cursed out.

Bruce Watson spends his time at the Center shadowing Mattioli and taking note of her tactics as he trains to be a Program Center Manager at the University of

ing weed. Any arrests? No, because it’s all white people.”

Race has proven to be a point of distinction in the mayoral election, as Philadelphia voters frequently vote along racial lines. Kenney believes he can attract a multiracial electorate.

“The response I have been getting anecdotally from black communities in the city is awesome,” he said.

Kenney emphasized his 20 years of work in city politics as a way of distinguishing himself from the other candidates.

“Anthony Williams is a great guy,” he said of the fellow candidate and state senator, “but he hasn’t been in city government.” As for Abraham and fellow candidate Doug Oliver, Kenney praised their personal qualities, but doubted their abilities to be mayor.

Kenney admitted that he had talked himself out of two

race. Penn Law adjunct professor and former candidate Ken Trujillo’s exit from the race solidified Kenney’s decision to run.

“Once Ken Trujillo got out, his entire campaign apparatus was available for me,” Kenney said. “His staffers said, ‘Ken thought you would be a good choice.’”

Even so, Kenney and Trujillo hold different views with regards to education. While Trujillo co-founded his own charter school in Philadelphia, Kenney doubts the efficacy of charter school expansion.

“The education issue in Philadelphia is a prominent creator of poverty and misery,” Kenney said. He spoke especially critically about the School Reform Commission — the five-member body that oversees the Philadelphia school district. While the SRC was meant to facilitate

lieves it has decreased funding from Harrisburg to Philadelphia schools. He referenced the state gove r n m e n t ’s previous policy of reimbursing the school district fo r c h i lJIM KENNEY d ren who opted to go Former to cha r ter Philadelphia City schools, Councilman which was changed under former Republican Governor Tom Corbett.

While Kenney did not expressly discount the value of charter schools, he believes they should not compete with successful district schools.

“There should never be a charter school placed in a neighborhood where there’s a high-performing [district] school.”

Delaware call center. His enormously tall frame moves with ease and humor from station to station; he may stop to offer callers a cupcake — if they meet their credit card threshold.

The callers themselves are a mixed lot — in addition to the clutch of undergraduates the Center employs, “[We have] a few [students] from GSE, one from Engineering. We’ve had Law students before, we’ve had nursing students before,” Mattioli said.

Mattioli, a graduate of Bucknell University, also started as an undergraduate caller, and said her experiences were overwhelmingly positive. She loved having the opportunity to connect with alumni and hear their stories, she said, in addition to persuading them to make a donation. Watson agreed, adding that it is the wonderful interactions you remember and share later with your friends, and a caller finds no shortage of them.

However, donations must

be elicited efficiently as well as pleasantly — Mattioli and Watson hit the floor, together this time, in full fundraising mode. They circulated alertly as phone receivers clacked into place and callers’ voices rose and fell in a chorus of courteous tones. “You’re hanging up that phone harder and harder every time,” Watson quipped, as one caller finished soliciting a donation. “She’s gonna make five-thousand dollars,” rebutted Mattioli, “and it’ll be amazing.”

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Looking at the biggest factor in Penn’s quest for a repeat SPORTS EDITORS From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ When the men of Penn lacrosse won the Ivy League championship last year, it came as a bit of a surprise. The same cannot be said of their female counterparts.

Penn women’s lacrosse is an Ancient Eight institution — it has won eight consecutive Ivy League regular season championships. It has gotten to the point where it would be more of a surprise if the team didn’t finish atop the conference than if it extended its streak to ninestraight titles.

As the highest ranked team in the Ivy League, the No. 14 Quakers look to be prepared to come out on top once again. But with Princeton just behind at No. 15, it won’t be a cake walk.

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Sports Editor Colin Henderson: Penn has always been known for its defensive prowess, and given some of the top-tier players the squad has

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Defense has been the calling card for Penn women’s lacrosse, but senior attack Tory Bensen will look to pack some punch on the other end for the Quakers.

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Willenborg, Vim De Alwis and Austin Kaplan in 2012-13 to help cultivate the team’s youth movement. It’s that group of players that is currently leading Penn’s resurgence this season. “We’ve seen a lot of improvement from many of our guys since they first came,� Geatz said. “Jeremy Court [especially] is having his best year. He’s just a really good tennis player right now.�

Last year’s team looked just about ready to make the leap into the top-75, with Geatz telling Senior Associate Director of Athletics Tony Vecchione, “There’s no way we’re not going to be a top-40 team this year.�

However, the Quakers missed those expectations as they were ravaged by injuries to some of their top players.

Geatz believes last year’s injuries — and the failure to meet expectations — were a fluke.

He praised the team’s weight program for helping with injury prevention, as the team has had a clean bill of health since this fall. “I just think we haven’t been unlucky this year,� Geatz added.

If Penn’s best players can stay on the court, they should continue to be a formidable force in the Ivy League. Led by freshman Nicolas Podesta, the Red and Blue’s most recent recruiting class has been strong this season with Podesta taking the Quakers’ No. 1 singles spot as of late.

returning on the backline, this season should be no different.

However, if the Red and Blue want to repeat, they’ll need to hold their own on the offensive side of the ball as well.

The Quakers were by no means lacking — by most definitions of the word — on the attack last year, and with star attacks Tory Bensen and Nina Corcoran returning this year, they have a solid base of leadership up front. But in order to change their perception as a defensive-minded squad, the Red and Blue will need some other complementary players to chip in.

This help could come from a pair of veteran players — junior attack McKenzie Hunt and former Ivy Midfielder of the Year Shannon Mangini — coming back from injury. Or it could come from upstart attack Iris Williamson, who has impressed in practice thus far this year. But it needs to come from somewhere.

Associate Sports Editor Tommy Rothman: What? “In order to change their perception as a defensively-minded squad?� If I had won eight

championships in a row, I certainly wouldn’t be looking to change anything. If defense has actually won championships without fail since 2007, then defensively-minded it is.

To put that date in perspective, the last time a team other than Penn won the Ivy title, “Crank That (Soulja Boy)� hadn’t been released yet.

And the defense should once again be solid, led by reigning Ivy Defensive Player of the Year and preseason first-team AllAmerican Meg Markham. Sure, it would help if the offense improved — and as Colin said, it’s not like the offense was bad last year — but the onus is certainly not on the Quakers to make improvements. Penn just needs to keep up the status quo; it’s the other seven teams in the Ancient Eight who need to bring about a change. If not, we should be discussing the possibility of a double-digit streak around this time next year.

Sports Editor Laine Higgins: Honestly, more than it is about just the offense or the defense, I think the key to the Red and Blue repeating once again lies in maintaining the team’s

tremendous culture of winning.

For most of the Quakers’ roster, winning is simply a habit. Not only have none of the current players on the Penn squad experienced a sub-.500 season in their careers, but none of the current players have experienced anything close to a sub-.500 conference record.

Since 2012, the Red and Blue are 24-3 against Ivy foes. And with 11 players who started in 12 games or more in 2014 returning for the 2015 season, this year should be no different.

The veterans of women’s lacrosse are particularly impressive on the defensive side of the field, with Markham leading the charge. The senior defense was unstoppable last yea r, taking home Ivy League Defender of the Year and IWLCA first-team All American honors.

Junior goalkeeper Lucy Ferguson and senior defense Taylor Foussad ier have si m ila rly impressive lists of accomplishments, each earning pre-season All-American honorable mention nods by Inside Lacrosse.

With such a loaded defensive lineup, Penn’s opponents should be trembling in their boots.

“Any time you can get a freshman to come in and be No. 1, that’s great,� Geatz said.

The Quakers had an opportunity to move into the top-25 at the ECAC tournament hosted at Harvard last weekend. However, the Red and Blue lost a heartbreaker to No. 68 Brown and dropped a spot in the rankings this week to 52. Geatz isn’t fazed by the slight step down, however, as it is the Quakers’ first loss of the season.

In order to ensure a spot in the NCAA tournament, Penn will need to achieve a rank in the low forties by the end of the season.

So, how close are the Quakers to that goal?

According to Geatz, “We’re right there, knocking on the door.�

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COURTESY OF PENN ATHLETICS

As Penn men’s tennis has improved this season, the Quakers’ success is due to players from every class. Freshman Nicolas Podesta, sophomore Matt Nardella and junior Vim De Alwis have all been integral to Penn’s top-75 ranking in 2014-15.

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two goalies in recruiting SAM ALTLAND Sports Reporter While every team has reason to miss its graduating class of athletes after a season ends, that loss can sometimes be less painful when countered by the promise of incoming new talent.

And with the recruiting class that the program has pulled together this offseason, Penn men’s soccer has every reason to be smiling.

Coach Rudy Fuller and his staff recently announced the Quakers’ group of recruits for Penn’s Class for 2019, and the eight men who will join the Quakers next fall comprise one of the best classes the Red and Blue have put together in recent memory.

Featuring several players that have spent time at Under-18 National Team camps and with many accolades attached to all the athletes, Penn boasts the 12th-ranked incoming class in the nation according to CollegeSoccerNews. com, coming in just behind perennial powerhouses Stanford and North Carolina.

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recruits, an absurdly high portion of their roster. Their most notable recent alum — Joey Bosa — has made a name for himself on Ohio State’s national championship winning defense. Bosa was Parchment’s teammate for two seasons, and they won the state title together in 2012, proving that Parchment is used to playing with the big boys.

With two players in his class bound for Florida and another headed to Ohio State, Parchment was not the most high profile star of his team. However, the threetime varsity letter winner has the passion and experience to become

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Hilburn made a key clear to keep Penn in the game.

Then, with 2:07 left in overtime, Doktor netted the game-winning goal off of an assist from sophomore attack Kevin Brown.

“I just happened to be at the end of it,” Doktor said. “It could have been any one of our guys that really won the game for us.”

The senior’s quote rings true when you look to the box score: each of the six goals scored by Penn in the fourth period were scored by a different player.

Eight Quakers in total contributed to the Red and Blue’s 11 -goal total, with senior midfield Joe McCallion pacing the team at three goals. “ Ever yb o dy cont r ibut e d to this win tonight,” Doktor said. “I might have scored the

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Thanks to coach Rudy Fuller and his staff, Penn men’s soccer has put together a strong recruiting class this offseason.

With several players set to graduate in the near future, the Red and Blue have retooled with new goalkeepers and defenders.

“Over the past few years we have had tremendous support from the athletic administration and from our alums, and that has really allowed us to go out and

really try and recruit the best in the nation,” Fuller said. “We were very fortunate to identify some of these guys very early, and we were able, right from the onset, to begin

showing them what Penn really had to offer them.”

The incoming class boasts four defenders, two of whom have spent time at U-18 National

a force in the Ivy League. He excelled in his senior season and started in all 15 of St. Thomas Aquinas’ games.

Parchment also looks to his favorite player — J.J. Watt — for influence, and tries to play with the same aggression as the NFL star.

“On the line, it’s whatever happens happens,” he pointed out.

“Once you’re down in the pile, once you’re engaged with that person in front of you, you have to be aggressive, and you have to be able to manhandle the person and throw them aside.

“Or just pancake them into the dirt and keep on protecting your quarterback, and protecting your running back and running down

Penn recruit Phil Parchment wasn’t the most heralded member of his high school football class, but he still managed a tremendous career at St. Thomas Aquinas.

game-winning goal but there was so much that went into it. The defense made two huge stops, both at the end of regulation and in overtime, to even give us the chance to have a chance to win it in overtime.”

And if history is any indication, all the Quakers need is just that small glimmer of “a chance” to be deadly to their opponents.

Maybe the Red and Blue haven’t been pulling off second half resurgences “for years,” as the famed LL Cool J lyric riff goes; but heart-stopping rallies are nothing new for Penn. Last year in the Ivy League semifinal game against perennial nemesis Cornell, Penn came back from a four-goal deficit to stun the Big Red and advance to the conference championship game against Harvard.

“We’ve been in that position before,” Murphy said. He recalled last year’s game against the another city rival, Villanova, in particular, where the Quakers initially trailed the Wildcats 7-3 before pulling off a 12-11 win.

In fact, Penn has stormed back from scoring deficits so many times that Doktor was not even fazed by Tuesday’s five-goal deficiency at the half. “We were comfortable in a sense despite the deficit that we had,” the senior said.

Doktor’s response is a testament to Murphy’s coaching mentality: in each practice, he stresses that players think about the game on a micro-level.

“We try to take things one faceoff at a time, one goal at a time,” Murphy said. “And that’s what we did.”

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Team camp in Gavin Barger and Nigel Blackwood. Defender Eremuse Momoh and midfielder Erik Swenson — both ranked in the top-150 of all seniors by CollegeSoccerNews.com — will also join the Quakers, giving Penn a solid collection of back line players moving forward.

“We definitely had a very focused approach when building this class, and the back half of the field was something that we specifically targeted,” Fuller said.

“Between this year and next year, we are going to be graduating a large number of defensive players, and we wanted to make sure we had talented guys ready to step up for us in the back line.”

Penn will also welcome two freshman keepers next year to compliment rising seniors Max Polkinhorne and Nick Savino.

Florida native Etan Mabourakh joins Penn as the 13th-best goalkeeper recruit in the nation, and Scott Forbes — the New Jersey state record holder for most-consecutive shutout minutes — adds yet another talented keeper to Penn’s growing collection.

“In my time with Penn, I have been blessed with some really talented keepers,” Fuller said.

“And with both Max and Nick

graduating next year, we wanted to make sure we addressed that position.

“We are thrilled to have Scott and Etan joining us, and they both are going to benefit a lot from our keepers and I’m sure both of them will be in there fighting for time in net.”

Rounding out Penn’s recruits are two Red Bull Academy players. In addition to Swenson, midfielder Gideo Metrikin and forward Jerel Blades will join the Quakers in the hopes of giving the team some of the attacking firepower it lost with the graduation of Duke Lacroix.

While none of these players may be ready to take the field just yet for the Red and Blue, Fuller and his staff are confident that they have a group of players that will usher in nothing but a bright future for the Quakers.

“What these guys have accomplished up until this point in their careers is significant, but the jump to collegiate soccer is still significant for everyone,” Fuller said.

“These guys are going to provide us with a ton of depth, and day in and day out they are going to compete for those minutes which is exactly the type of players we want.”

the field trying to make another block.”

However, Parchment isn’t all football all the time. In fact, it was the University itself more than the football program that attracted him to West Philly.

“I dreamed of going to the Wharton School of Business, and I truly believe that football won’t last forever,” he said. “I love the game, but education is more important later on in life.”

Still, Parchment had to be sold on the program. He credits Penn coach Ray Priore with walking him through the recruiting process and speaking to him numerous times, both in person and on the phone.

The coaching change doesn’t

phase the soon to be Penn athlete.

He’s ready to head into battle with his new teammates in hopes of being part of a group ready to lead Penn football back to heights seen at times during the Bagnoli era.

“I’m most looking forward to winning four Ivy titles in four straight years once I head up there with the new class ... and bringing back the traditions that Penn holds,” he added.

With big-time matchups against Princeton and the rest of the Ancient Eight on the horizon, look for Parchment to show up ready to perform. After all, he’s played on the big stage before, and he’s hungry to clear the path to the end zone for the Red and Blue.

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Overtime win for Penn | Quakers overcome seven-goal deficit

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Senior attack Joe McCallion led Penn’s second-half offensive charge with three goals.

relationships with DeVore by the end of his tenure.

Once Geatz came into the fold for the 2011-12 season, however, the team’s fortunes immediately improved. Led by a core of young players that included then-freshman — and current senior — Jeremy Court, the Quakers improved by two games against the Ancient Eight, bettering their record from 1-6 to 3-4 against Ivy opponents.

Court, who compiled a 16-4 singles record in his rookie campaign, was joined by current juniors Blaine

Don’t call it a comeback.

But in the case of the men’s lacrosse team’s game at Saint Joseph’s last night, a comeback is exactly the right word to use.

In the first two periods at Sweeney Field, the Quakers (2-0) allowed seven unanswered goals from the Hawks (1-2) before clawing back to win 11-10 in overtime.

“Obviously we dug ourselves into a little bit of a hole at the start of the game,” senior attack Nick Doktor said.

Despite ramping up the intensity of their play after a mid-game locker room pep talk by the team’s crew of seniors, according to Doktor, the Quakers still looked sluggish throughout the third period. The score remained locked in a five-point spread, with each team scoring one goal in the third period, bringing the score to 9-4 in the 45th minute of play.

But that all changed in the first minute of the fourth period when freshman defense Connor Keating picked up a ground ball and charged the net, scoring Penn’s first of six consecutive goals in the fourth period.

“That really just set us in motion and really gave us some energy and led to more riding and plays with ground balls,” coach Mike Murphy said.

Penn would go on to take the lead 10-9 with five minutes left in the fourth period.

However, Kevin Forster of St. Joe’s tied the score with 3:45 remaining on the clock.

The Quakers nearly saw the win slip through their fingers in the third minute of overtime, but sophomore midfield Chris

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COURTESY OF PENN ATHLETICS

As Penn men’s tennis continues its strong play to begin the 2015 season, the Quakers are led by senior Jeremy Court. Having been on the team since coach David Geatz first arrived with the program, Court has been a constant winner for the Red and Blue, and is having one of the best seasons of any player on the roster this year.

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75 after years on outside STEVEN JACOBSON Sports Reporter

Earlier this month, Penn men’s tennis returned to a place that it hadn’t been in several years.

The best mark for the program in nearly 10 years, the Red and Blue reached No. 51 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings on Feb. 2, the highest the team has been since 2006. The ranking came after the Quakers defeated No. 16 Penn State

on Feb. 1 in what the ITA termed the since Geatz first took over in June “biggest upset of the year” in a press 2011. Following stints at Minnesota release. a nd Cor nel l, “T he th ing he inherited a about this year’s team that had team is that won only six of we’re solid at their 28 matches ever y si ng le The thing about this year’s in Ivy League sp ot ,” coa ch team is that we’re solid play in the preDav id G eat z at every single spot. vious four years ” said. “You hear under coach Nik that every team DeVore, who - David Geatz Penn tennis coach has a soft spot had resig ne d or a weakness, that April. but I rea lly Additionally, think that we have a lot of depth.” the team was in flux off the court Penn tennis has come a long way — multiple players had contentious

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COURTESY OF PHIL PARCHMENT

Hailing from St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Florida, offensive tackle Phil Parchment has competed with some of the best athletes in the nation. A soon to be freshman for new coach Ray Priore, Parchment is now prepared to take on Ivy League opponents.

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As a Florida native, Phil Parchment hasn’t had the pleasure of playing football on the frozen tundra of the northeast.

But the 6-foot-4, 280-pound offensive lineman welcomes the new challenge with exuberance.

“Hell yeah I’m ready,” the Red and Blue recruit exclaimed. “Honestly, the weather does not bother me one bit. I’m ready to take on the cold.

“If it’s 20 degrees, I don’t

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care. I’ll still get in my stance.

I’ll still pancake a player to the ground.”

Parchment is no doubt a dominating force given his frame, but his confidence also stems from the environment that he was a part of at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale. The football powerhouse — which holds claim to seven state titles and two national championships — breeds superstars.

The Raiders produce the most Division I and NFL players in the nation. Supported by an impressive coaching staff that features Hall of Fame wide receiver Chris Carter, Parchment and his teammates know what it takes to make it

to the big time.

Parchment credits his soonto-be alma mater with treating its students like collegiate athletes, thus preparing them to make the jump to the next level.

“Every single day in practice they treat it as business.

There’s no fooling around, everybody’s focused,” the high school senior said with the eloquence of a veteran college player.

“We’re jumping around excited but we are all focused on one goal, one game at a time,” Parchment added.

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