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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2015

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Fifteen students struck by credit card fraud Some lost up to $1,600 from their accounts at SFCU

members an advisory from the Division of Public Safety, alerting them of an investigation into the fraud. Rush said that accounts were robbed of anywhere from LAUREN FEINER City News Editor $400 to $1,600, with most cases involving a $400 to $500 loss. Rush deferred Since early January, 15 members of comment to SFCU about whether vicPenn’s Student Federal Credit Union tims were reimbursed. SFCU deferred have fallen victim to credit card fraud, comment to DPS for all specific quesVice President of Public Safety Maureen tions, citing the active investigation. Rush said. “We have no idea how this is hapOn Tuesday, SFCU forwarded pening,” Rush said. The unauthorized

transactions were mostly made outside of the area, as far and varied as Las Vegas, Florida and Canada. Most victims still have their physical credit cards, Rush said, but it is unclear whether the information was stolen online and whether the cases are connected. Rush added that DPS is working with Penn Information Security Officer Josh Beeman and SFCU to better understand the credit union’s security system. DPS is also encouraging SFCU to have its

system checked out by their own platform vendors. “We don’t have a lot of answers,” Rush said. However, she offered tips for students to ensure that their money is secure. She suggested signing the back of new credit cards and putting “ask for ID” on the back. Rush said that in her personal experience, most merchants adhere to this provision. SEE FRAUD PAGE 6

ONE SMALL STEP FOR DIVESTMENT UA referendum calling for divestment from fossil fuels receives requisite number of votes to be valid

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Why … should [it] be legally harder to expel someone for rape than for moving newspapers, or cheating or assaulting a police officer?”

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Only about 30 percent of applicants’ schools currently rank CAROLINE SIMON Staff Reporter

College applicants might have one less number to worry about on their applications. In recent years, the importance of class rank as a factor in admissions decisions has steadily declined, a phenomenon with meaningful implications for overstressed high school students. “We’ve noticed a pretty precipitous decline in the level of importance that colleges attribute to class rank,” said David Hawkins, the director of public policy and research at the National Association for College Admissions Counseling. Dean of Admissions Eric Furda confirmed that class rank is not an essential factor in Penn’s admissions process. “From a multidecade perspective, class rank has become less prevalent in secondary schools,” he said, adding that only about 30 percent of Penn’s applicant pool typically attends a school that ranks its students. “Class rank has become less prevalent in our pools, and therefore, less relevant,” Furda said. Hawkins cited two primary reasons for the decline in the importance of

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Law profs stand against sexual assault policy Issues include the standard of evidence in the new policy ANNA HESS Staff Reporter

On Feb. 18, nearly one-third of the Law School’s tenure or tenure-track faculty published an open letter criticizing the new sexual violence investigative procedures instituted by the University on Feb. 1. The letter argues that the new policy does not provide due process and leaves students accused of sexual misconduct at risk of being found wrongfully responsible. The new policy was adopted under pressure from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights to institute stronger disciplinary and investigative procedures for sexual assault allegations. However, the 16 Penn Law signatories fear that the new procedures infringe upon the rights of the accused. One of the main issues the letter raises is the low standard of evidence the new investigative process allows. If a sexual assault is brought to a hearing after the investigation, the person hearing the case need only be over 50 percent sure that a respondent is guilty to punish him or her. This preponderance-of-the-evidence standard, or “more likely to be guilty than not,” is the lowest standard of evidence in our legal system and is typically seen in civil disputes, said

It takes time to be both funny and horrifying 7,500 hours of work, all for one Mask and Wig production JOHN BARTLETT Contributing Reporter

Do you need more witty humor, tap dancing numbers and knockoff Ghostbuster costumes in your life? You may want to check out The Mask and Wig Club’s first ever horror-comedy performance. “A Comedy of Terrors” centers on the efforts of two

brothers who try to win over more viewers for their paranormal investigation TV show against a rival show. Other than Mask and Wig’s traditional feature of men dressed in women’s clothing, this year’s show has a human-ghost romance. Though the material is light, preparation for such an event is a serious undertaking. Members of the club begin brainstorming for their spring show at the beginning of the previous summer, soon after

school lets out in May. In fact, the whole show is written over a few weeks in late August before the fall semester begins. The script is then tweaked and improved countless times until the cast begins its first day of rehearsal on Jan. 2. From there, practices can range anywhere from four to 14 hours per day until the production’s first show in mid-January. “Collectively, we put in about 7,500 hours to make this happen,” said Mask and Wig Chairman Rishi Simha,

a Wharton senior. “I’m really proud of my guys.” Part of putting on the show falls into the hands of the business staff, which is responsible for publicity and selling tickets, often using advertising tactics and bringing in campus groups to sell out shows. Groups, like the sprint football team recently, attend shows as a bonding activity, Simha said. After weeks of rehearsal leading up to the first show, actors and musicians must have their parts down cold because

rehearsals stop after the first performance. Of course, changes will be made. “Sometimes there will be a line that doesn’t land, so we tweak it to make it more punchy,” Cast Director Joe Miciak, a College senior, said. But otherwise, few differences typically arise from show to show. Membership in Mask and Wig is a serious commitment, but a rewarding one. In addition to their shows in their SEE MASK AND WIG PAGE 7

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Magic comes to Penn in form of nanotechnology Singh Center develops invisibility technology EMILY OFFIT Staff Reporter

For those set on sneaking into the nonexistent restricted section of Van Pelt Library late at night, electrical and systems engineering professor Nader Engheta is working with materials that can bend light in a manner reminiscent of an invisibility cloak straight out of Harry Potter. Engheta works with materials known as metamaterials, which are engineered to have certain properties that are not currently found in nature. When these materials are manipulated, they can gain strange capabilities — like the ability to bend waves around an object, hiding that object from sight. “You can write down the theoretical equations that show that you can bend light around an object,” said professor Mark Allen, director of the Singh Center of Nanotechnology. “Then what I would see is what’s behind you. To me you would look invisible.” These metamaterials do not

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This diagram demonstrates how metamaterials can be manipulated so that if light is shined through layers of them, a complicated math equation can be solved.

only work with waves of light — they have also been used to bend heat around objects and reduce the scattering of electrons, which could increase the efficiency of electronic devices. “Waves are all around us — from radio stations, micro-ovens and light,” Engheta said. “We work with how to control these waves with materials and structures that might make them do something unusual.”

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Some other applications for this technology could include blocking electromagnetic radiation and guiding cellphone tower signals. However, this technology is not quite from a J.K. Rowling novel. It only works over a narrow range of light, which means that only light of a particular color shown from a particular direction can be bent. So if someone or something

positive atmosphere among students, Hawkins said. Given concern over student mental health, particularly during the college application process, decisions like this could be a step in the right direction. “At the educational level, high schools might feel that class rank is a counterproductive thing to measure,” Hawkins said. “They want them to do the best that they can and let their academic record stand on its own.” College freshman Wai Wing Lau, whose high school calculated class rankings, believes that the measure can be useful. “I certainly do think it can be used for importance when it comes to applying to colleges,” he said. However, Lau also acknowledged that class rank can contribute

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class rank. The first deals with its limitations in comparing students across different high schools. “Clearly class rank only means something in the context of the school where the student attended high school,” he said. “Rank is a relative indicator to begin with.” Hawkins also said that other parts of the application — like test scores and grade point averages — yield more useful information about the applicant than class rank. “Its value is derived from other factors that are known during the process,” he said. The second reason is a general trend among high schools of choosing not to collect and report class rank in order to promote a more

to a stressful student environment. “Portraying students as a number can really create this huge competition and societal pressure on the kids to do well,” he said. “It just leads to stress.” Wharton freshman Tiffany Yung, on the other hand, attended a high school that did not rank. Although she said that her school was still competitive, she believes that calculating class rank would have made the competition even more intense. “I think it would be more cutthroat because then our grades would be out there for the rest of the school to see,” she said. “And then the competition for Ivy Leagues would be greater.” Yung also said that class rank can be a skewed measure of an

Electrical and Systems Engineering professor Nader Engheta is working with materials that can bend light in a manner that could theoretically make objects invisible.

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Food recovery program expands to Hill dining hall

Initiative grew out of an ABCS course JEFFREY CAREYVA Staff Reporter

Spare food at the Hill College House dining hall will no longer go to waste. Wednesday marks the expansion of Penn Dining and Bon Appétit’s food recovery program, an operation that donates unserved food to hungry locals in Philadelphia. At the start of the 2014 fall semester, 1920 Commons was the first dining facility to practice food recovery, a process of preserving unused food instead of throwing it away. All perishable food prepared in Commons not served in a given week is frozen, put on a truck and donated to a Philadelphia charity. Bon Appétit’s food recovery program now includes Hill, and the program

will likely expand to include other dining facilities in the future, Resident District Manager of Bon Appétit Stephen Scardina said. The idea for beginning food recovery at Penn came in spring of 2014, when a group of students in the academically based community service course “The Politics of Food” proposed such a program to Penn Dining and Bon Appétit. The course was taught by political science professor Mary Summers, who specializes in the subject. College senior Joyce Kim was a member of the group that made the original proposal. Summers and the group worried about leftover but recoverable dining hall food being thrown away “while students in West Philadelphia are starving,” Kim, who is also president of the Undergraduate Assembly, wrote in an email. “Bon Appétit and Penn Dining

were receptive but it took much work — this includes working with the UA to show that this is something students were invested in and culminating in a comprehensive 40 page report that we presented to Penn Dining,” Kim added. The group worked with Bon Appétit fellows Claire Cummings and Nicole Tocco to orchestrate a food recovery program for Penn Dining. Fellows make campus visits once a year to educate Bon Appétit staff and support increased sustainability practices, Bon Appétit Marketing Manager Beth Baryd said. They determined how best to go about food recovery to support the local Philadelphia community. “Bon Appetit is doing food recovery in other accounts across the country,” Scardina said. “We were happy and excited to bring something similar to Penn last

fall.” Bon Appetit works nationally with an organization called Feeding America, which helped identify the local food bank Philabundance to manage Penn’s food recovery program. Philabundance identified Salvation Army Pioneers to ultimately receive recovered dining hall food from Penn. Any food that is not served is properly labeled, frozen and donated. Salvation Army Pioneer Corps will pick up frozen food from Commons and Hill once a week. Commons currently donates approximately 30 to 35 pounds of frozen food every week, and Scardina expects that Hill will donate 25 to 30 pounds weekly. “In the fall semester, we donated 2,600 pounds of food that

could be recovered from 1920 Commons alone,” Scardina said. With the addition of Hill to the program, the food recovery efforts will nearly double. As Bon Appétit closed down operations on campus for this past winter break, the perishable food that was left was sure not to go to waste. “We took all the perishable food that we had left and donated it to Philabudance to serve in their kitchens throughout the city,” Scardina said. The food donated before winter break amounted to over 300 pounds. While it is unclear exactly how many people are fed with Penn’s recovered food, the Salvation Army of Greater Philadelphia serves food from Penn twice a week. Food recovery comes at virtually no cost to Bon Appétit and

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Teams will build a Rube Goldberg machine, an overcomplicated contraption that performs a very simple task—in this case, a challenge which will be announced at the event. Creations will be judged by faculty and staff, many from the School of Engineering. Prizes will be awarded to the top three machines!

WHEN: OPEN SHOP HOURS PRESENTATION AND JUDGING

PROFESSOR KENNETH L. SHROPSHIRE Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

SPORT MATTERS: Leadership, Power, and the Quest for Respect in Sports

Tuesday March 3, 2015 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, February 28, 2 PM – 9 PM Sunday, March 1, 11 AM –2 PM (Participants do not need to be present the entire time)

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REGISTER AT: www.stwing.upenn.edu/rgb/register.php Open to all Penn students. Teams of up to four will be formed. Team preferences or general questions can be emailed to beeker@stwing.upenn.edu. Necessary tools and materials will be provided.

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Penn Dining. “The only thing that costs us are the tin foil pans we give the food in,” Scardina said. “And we are even looking to replace those with reusable crates to be as sustainable as we can.” “We are happy to be working through Philabudance, because despite what you might think, there are a lot of restrictions placed on donating food,” Director of Communications for Business Services Barbara LeaKruger said. Any donated food must be approved to be safe, healthy and properly labeled. She said the organization has provided Penn with clear guidelines for food storage and labeling. “That was always the stumbling block for Penn to donate food in the past, but Philabudance makes it easier for us.”

3601 Walnut Street This event is being held in conjunction with the Penn Bookstore. Light refreshments will be provided.

In the new book, Sport Matters: Leadership, Power, and the Quest for Respect in Sports (Wharton Digital Press), Wharton professor and frequent media commentator Kenneth L. Shropshire takes a sober look at the unique leadership challenges facing sports organizations today, and in the process offers a snapshot of where we are as a society in terms of comprehending and healing destructive ideas about race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and perceived “difference.” Kenneth L. Shropshire is the David W. Hauck Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Faculty Director of its Wharton Sports Business Initiative and Professor of Africana Studies. He has consulted with the NCAA, Major League Baseball, National Football League, and the United States Olympic Committee. Follow him @KenShropshire.

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We agree: Vote yes to divest WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2015 VOL. CXXXI, NO. 22 131st Year of Publication

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EDITORIAL

o you hate the environment? The answer is probably “no.” Of course, a select few may respond affirmatively, just as different minorities may confess their ardent passion for Mother Earth. Considering that our admissions office strives each year to assemble the most diverse, balanced incoming class from the highly competitive pool of aspiring applicants, we probably have a solid representation of both extremes at Penn. But for the rest of us that align ourselves somewhere in between, our relationship with the environment is one of vaguely positive, ambivalent apathy. We recycle. We turn off the lights. We go along with ecofriendliness as long as it doesn’t disrupt our normal lives, but we don’t often go out of our way to advocate sustainability. Currently, the voting period for a referendum to divest Penn’s endowment from fossil fuels and to reinvest at least a portion of that money into clean energy is underway. Although voting is open until 5 p.m. on Friday, most people who care enough about the issue to go out of their ways to vote probably have already

done so. It is time for the vast majority of Penn that remains inactive to vote on divestment as well. While most will agree to the moral good of caring for our environment, some may question whether divestment is even effective. Penn’s investment in the top 200 fossil fuel companies is valued at around $315 million — a seemingly sizeable sum, but in reality a mere four percent of Penn’s total endowment, which reached $9.6 billion in 2014. Thus, divesting from fossil fuels will have minimal impact on our finances, and even less on those of the companies from which we divest. In terms of money alone, divestment is not going to make much of a difference on either end. The true importance of the divestment movement, aside from its moral good, is therefore symbolic. Divestment from fossil fuels by high-profile, prestigious institutions such as Penn sends a strong public message that we do not condone the environmental destruction being wreaked by fossil fuel extraction and consumption. If enough institutions join in divesting, this will eventually build up enough social stigma

against fossil fuels that it will pressure the rest of the world to move away from non-renewable energy. The method has been proven to work before — a prime example would be the worldwide shunning that ultimately brought an end to the apartheid regime in South Africa. But times like these often require an institution with a reputation and clout like Penn’s to stand up and take the lead. Penn’s reputation is not just academic. Our University has a lesser-known reputation to uphold as the leading college institute in green energy investment. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ranks Penn as the number one university in green power usage as part of its Green Campus Partnership, with an annual consumption of 2,183,000 kWh of wind power, which makes up about 51 percent of our total energy use. Among national organizations and corporations, Penn clocks in at 29th. All this is in addition to the various efforts undertaken by the University to keep our campus environmentally sustainable as part of Penn’s Climate Action Plan enacted in 2009, which includes such programs

as the Green Acorn Certification Program, the student-run green entrepreneurship PennOrb and the currently ongoing Power Down Challenge. For an institution with such a tradition in sustainability, divestment from fossil fuels is a logical next step. If you remain unconvinced about your need to vote, here’s another motivator, one which doesn’t necessarily even tie into the issue of divestment: This referendum is an exceedingly rare opportunity for the mass student voice to actually be heard by the University administration. The last such referendum at Penn was six years ago. While divestment winning the vote guarantees nothing more than a discussion of the issue by the trustees, it is still a worthy chance of showing the administration, which frequently seems inattentive to student opinion, that we do in fact have voices and are eager to use them en masse. Simply put, all of Penn’s undergraduates should turn out to vote on divestment, whether it be for yea or nay. After all, it’s both responsible and easy to do. So why not?

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n your “Open Letter”of last week, you set aside your own political disagreements to denigrate policies that could lead to safety and educational equality. By conflating the extensive procedural protections rightly afforded to criminal defendants with “fundamental fairness” in the context of a school disciplinary proceeding, your letter perpetuates the harmful myth that survivors of sexual violence should be disbelieved, silenced and denied non-criminal relief unless they seek and obtain criminal conviction of their assailant. No, “due process of law is not window dressing,” and you have misstated the law of due process in the university setting. It is generally established that public universities owe students minimal due process rights, and private universities owe them none. While you critique the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights’ guidance that the evidentiary standard used should be a “preponderance of the evidence” standard instead of “clear and convincing” evidence, as a legal matter, private universities can discipline students with no process whatsoever. They

must only adhere to the contract set forth by their own policies. Thus, the “Open Letter” must be seen for what it is: a disagreement with Title IX’s mandate that sexual assault survivors not be made to struggle through grievance procedures that specially insulate those accused of sexual assault. This policy, and the OCR’s guidance, was designed to fight the pernicious effects of sexism — including sexual harassment and assault — on our campus. Title IX, a civil rights law, mandates this policy for the purpose of ensuring that people are not denied the ability to pursue and enjoy their education on the basis of sex. The proceedings required are not criminal-light proceedings, despite your attempts to portray them as such. Although Penn’s data on discipline is sadly lacking, grievance proceedings are generally remarkable for the lack of consequences for those found to have committed a sexual assault. Few students found responsible for sexual assault in university adjudications are even expelled — between 13 percent and 30 percent by a recent count. Furthermore, perhaps because you know full well that Penn students have no

claim to due process in this setting, you failed to explore what your arguments mean in the context of actual due process at state universities. If you had, you would know that it is well established that due process allows state schools to expel students for any misconduct using an even lower evidentiary standard than that at issue here, that of “substantial evidence.” Why do you think it should be legally harder to expel someone for rape than for moving newspapers, or cheating or assaulting a police officer? The answer again is that your “fairness” standard has a basis — it’s just not in the law. And when 16 esteemed professors of law opine in a public forum, the general public will take your policy rhetoric as law, especially if it is cloaked in false appeals to the Constitution. Do you also think that people facing criminal rape charges should get special protections not afforded to other criminal defendants? Or is your concern only for Ivy League men accused of rape? One thing is certain: Your concern in this “Open Letter” is not for those of us who have been and will be sexually assaulted. Your collective signatures should carry with them

not just the gravitas of your well-earned reputations, but also the weight of sound legal theory and academic rigor. Unfortunately, you are correct that the “concerns about fundamental fairness” expressed in your open letter are “not academic or theoretical in nature.” Rather, they are anxieties born of uninformed and unexamined sexism. This attempt by sixteen learned law professors to — unwittingly, it seems — cover your sexist policy preferences with a patina of legal authority exemplifies the pervasive bias against women that Title IX was enacted to address.

The full response letter, with supporting citations and signatures, is available on the DP website. To date, 36 Penn Law students have joined her in signing this response.

EMILY TURNER is a third year law student at Penn Law. Her email address is emturner@ law.upenn.edu. She is a Toll Public Interest Scholar and a senior editor on the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

Myths about divestment GUEST COLUMN BY CONNIE CHEN, WILL JOHNSON AND THOMAS LEE

ossil fuel divestment is often misunderstood by opponents, so we’re here to debunk common myths. Myth One: “Divestment hurts Penn’s portfolio.” In the short-term, excluding fossil fuel stocks does not meaningfully lower returns or increase risk. Three studies conducted independently by MSCI, Impax Asset Management and Advisor Partners — with a combined $75 billion under management — confirm that portfolios excluding fossil fuel companies perform as well or better than nondivested benchmark portfolios. Accordingly, there are fossil-free investment instruments, such as World Bank-issued green bonds, that offer many reinvestment opportunities for Penn’s Investment Office. The referendum includes a five-year window for the Investment Office to explore such options in order to divest pragmatically. Even if short-term portfolio returns were slightly affected, this would not inhibit Penn’s capacity to provide important programs. In FY2009 Penn’s endowment suffered a negative return of 15.7 percent, while financial aid increased 13.6 percent. Yearly changes in endowment returns do not translate to poorer-funded University programs. The more important question then becomes whether divestment harms the portfolio on a longer horizon. In the long-term, continuing investments in fossil fuel companies is financially unwise. Due to the finite carbon budget, either 86 percent of their fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground and the valuations of our fossil fuel assets evaporate, or the world suffers global warming beyond two degrees Celsius and our whole portfolio is damaged by climate change’s harms on all businesses. These business fundamentals are incompatible with the future; a failure to divest can permanently damage Penn’s future portfolio, which would actually affect school programs from financial aid to Skimmerfest. Myth Two: “Fossil fuel companies invest a lot in clean energy.” The largest players have actually been quitting renewables en masse. Chevron exited its solar and geothermal business in 2014, along with units that performed solar and efficiency installations. Similarly, Shell exited the solar industry in 2006, with BP following in 2011. Exxon Mobil never invested much in renewables, preferring to actively fund climate change denial. Reinvesting in clean energy companies, where all investments directly support clean energy, has a much higher impact on improving the climate compared to the lip service and abandonment by oil companies. Myth Three: “Shareholder engagement is better than divestment.” Shareholder engagement alone cannot solve stranded assets or carbon bubble risks. Proxy resolutions that sought to fundamentally challenge these companies’ extraction-combustion business model have failed repeatedly. The slow shareholder

resolution process additionally means our endowment would continue funding these corporations’ immoral practices for many years before any hope of altering their practices. Finally, each dollar that remains in fossil fuels has an opportunity cost of a dollar directly invested in clean energy technologies, which have a much higher marginal benefit to the climate. Myth Four: “We should focus on other causes like research or energy efficiency.” Sasha Klebnikov’s guest column mentions that instead of divesting we should be “incentivizing more fuel efficient cars [and] switching to more efficient light bulbs.” He’s right that such initiatives are important —- but divestment and these initiatives are not mutually exclusive. In fact, divestment combats the funding source of fossil fuel lobbyists who actively obstruct incentives for quicker, wider adoption of these exact same forward-looking technologies. Myth Five: “Voting yes is useless.” Penn’s financial clout extends beyond the dollars it directly holds. According to a University of Oxford report, university divestment movements lead the way for other funds such as pensions to divest, increasing pressure against the targeted companies and ultimately causing multiple compressions in the stock price. For example, in 1977, U.S. universities spearheaded divestment campaigns, which spurred cities and states to divest, culminating in federal action and the fall of South African Apartheid. Tobacco divestment campaigns were also successful — smoking in the U.S. has decreased dramatically, largely due to divestment’s diminishing of tobacco companies’ lobbying power, which ended sciencedenial and allowed proper laws to be passed. The fossil fuel divestment movement’s power is to revoke the fossil fuel industry’s social license and minimize its ability to spend millions of annual lobbying dollars on attacking science and economically sensible climate policies. Currently, Penn sanctions and literally finances these lobbyists. Voting yes means you want that to change. If you are an undergraduate, please go to penn-nec.org/referendum. Your vote matters.

CONNIE CHEN is a Wharton junior studying environmental policy and management, finance, operation & information management. Her email address is cochen@ wharton.upenn.edu. She is the co-founder of Environ Group. WILL JOHNSON is an Engineering sophomore studying mechanical engineering & applied mechanics. His email address is wij@seas. upenn.edu. THOMAS LEE is a Wharton and Engineering sophomore studying computer science. His email address is thomlee@wharton.upenn. edu. He is a writer for Penn Sustainability Review.

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New finance courses offered Finance department expands undergraduate offerings JOE LI Staff Reporter

With the introduction of two new classes, the Finance Department proves it is on the cutting edge of business evolution. Undergraduate advisor for the Finance Department David Musto is teaching a course entitled “Strategic Equity Finance” for the first time this semester. The class focuses making strategic decisions in actual business situations and is largely oriented to students who are looking for careers in banking or planning to start their own ventures, according to the course syllabus. “Energy Finance” is also relatively new to Penn InTouch’s course registration page. First offered last year, the class teaches about corporate structures and risk management of firms in the energy industry. Next year, a new class based on Finance 251, which is offered currently and entitled “The Finance of Buyouts and Acquisitions,” will be made

available. Many classes have been revised and rebuilt over the years, according to finance professor Bilge Yilmaz, who led the depa r tment before Musto took over. Business classes in general have evolved over the years. “I got here in 1995,” Musto said. “And back then there were no classes about venture capital, no private equity, no behavioral finance … Commercial banking was the big thing back then, but nowadays it’s obviously different.” The Wharton School and the department actively adapt to changes in the business industry so students can stay ahead of the competition with students from other schools, according to Yilmaz. “We want our students to be successful in the marketplace,” he said. “We think about what is the competitive advantage of Wharton students, which usually involves putting ourselves in the shoes of the employers to see what they want and need.” Musto and Yilmaz said that the process of deciding which classes to create involves a lot

of communication with alumni who have firsthand experience working in all sectors of the business industry. Wharton and College sophomore Han Tian said that having new course offerings definitely benefits students. “Even though I might not be taking these classes right now, it’s always better to have more choices,” he said. Tian needs to take four classes for his finance concentration in Wharton , and he said he hopes to fit one of the new classes in his schedule. He also takes advantage of finance-related learning opportunities outside of the classroom. Musto and Yilmaz both emphasized that the Finance Department has been encouraging students to hone their skills through such extracurriculars. “I would often go to these alumni lunch events if I have time. When I talk to them, the things I learn are less about the theories I study in class, but more about how these theories actually work in the real life,” Tian said. “They may not be that systematic, but [they are] very useful in the workplace.”

Fossil fuel referendum reaches checkpoint KRISTEN GRABARZ Campus News Editor

Penn is a small step closer to divesting from fossil fuels. A referendum calling for the University to divest from the fossil fuel industry has received votes from 15 percent of the undergraduate population, the requisite percentage of total eligible voters to be valid, according to the Nominations & Elections Committee, which is

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overseeing the referendum. In order to pass, at least 50 percent of voters must favor divestment, though that will not guarantee divestment. Even if the referendum passes, the motion must pass six additional steps of approval, ending with the Executive Committee of Trustees, which has the final vote. Initially launched by a petition from Fossil Free Penn, the referendum calls for Penn to stop

new investments in the fossil fuel industry, remove direct and commingled holdings in the top 200 fossil fuel companies within five years and reinvest a portion of the extricated funds into clean energy assets. Penn does not publish a breakdown of its specific investments, but members of Fossil Free Penn estimate that $315 million of Penn’s $9.6 billion endowment is currently invested in fossil fuel companies.

Voting is open until 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 27.

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Penn’s chapter of Nourish International wants to do rural development work in Ecuador this summer — and it’s going to get there using Krispy Kreme Donuts. Nourish International is a nonprofit group that helps college and high school students worldwide run business ventures on their campuses to support local community organizations. They currently run 60 chapters in the United States and Canada. Penn’s chapter is selling Krispy Kreme donuts to raise funds for the Arajuno Road Project in a remote village in Ecuador. Last year, students from the Penn and Cornell chapters of Nourish went to Chuya Yaku, Ecuador to build sinks and bathrooms at the local school. They combined that with health-related courses on sanitation and hygiene for the children there. They also helped build a greenhouse in the surrounding area. Program Director for Nourish International Chancey Rouse said that Nourish gives students the freedom to decide the kind of ventures they want to undertake and the partner organizations they want to work with.

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“We want this to be a very studentled experience and the majority of conversations take place directly between the students and the partner community,” she said. Those conversations include deciding how much money each chapter needs to raise for its partner community and what projects each community needs the chapter to focus on. “We don’t think it’s our role to say what a community needs,” College senior and President of Penn’s chapter Brandon LaBarge said. This summer, LaBarge plans to

go back to Ecuador, and he is actively fundraising for it. In fact, Penn’s chapter is currently competing with all the other Nourish chapters in an annual fundraising contest Nourish organizes called the Giving Challenge on Crowdrise, a fundraising platform. “[The Giving Challenge] is not only a cool opportunity for our chapters to raise money for their partner organization in a short period of time, but it’s also an opportunity for them to learn valuable fundraising skills for the rest of their lives,” Rouse said. Although the challenge

formally ends on Feb. 25, people can continue to donate to each chapter until June. About the skills that participation in Nourish provides, LaBarge added, “We’re very much involved about training you and giving you the tools to build off that.” Fundraising might be the focus of the Penn chapter of Nourish, but Wharton senior Jane Suh, financial advisor of the chapter, said the chapter caters to a diverse range of Penn students. “Whatever interests you have,” she said, “we can plan our trip around that.”

Student Disabilities Services receives mixed reviews

SDS assists students beyond the classroom BOOKYUNG JO Staff Reporter

Receiving emails from Canvas for note takers is nothing unusual for Penn students. For some, sign language translators at lectures are not surprising either. While Student Disabilities Services is more than willing to provide necessary assistance, some students feel it hasn’t been able to reach aspects of college life outside the classroom. SDS assists students with every University-sponsored program, which includes not only classes but also student clubs and events organized by the University. Last year 906 students identified with the SDS office as having disabilities,

including temporary conditions such as broken limbs. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder was the largest category with 325 students, followed by learning disabilities, psychological disorders, chronic medical conditions and mobility and sensory impairments. “It seems like for academic or general university services, SDS will be able to take care of it,” Wharton senior Bart Stawicki said. Stawicki, who has a physical disability, starts his day with help from Nursing freshman Laura Ng, the personal care assistant he personally employs. “They don’t provide or pay for anything [customized], that was very clear when I was applying,” he said. He added that while he is generally satisfied with SDS assistance, “there are times when I wish there were more services offered.” Ng’s day begins with the daily challenge of navigating Stawicki’s wheelchair through his dorm room. “[The room] is meant for students with disabilities, but oftentimes I’m doing a million turns to make the lift work,” she said Susan Shapiro, the director of SDS, said the office provides various resources to accommodate each student’s needs in campus life. For students with physical disabilities, SDS provides transportation or ways to access classes. For students with sensory disabilities, it offers different accessible formats for class materials such as auditory text, realtime captioning and sign language interpreters. Electronic texts are also available for students with reading disorders, and there is even a musical scale in Braille for blind music students. “It is really critical that we

provide access to academic and non-academic University-sponsored programs,” Shapiro said. She added that SDS also uses technological devices as assistance tools. For example, under professor’s permission, students with learning disabilities can use Smartpen, which will record a lecture and afterward play back the parts of the recording that correspond to a particular section in a student’s notes. While Stawicki agreed that SDS has a lot of resources for academic support, it may not be the case for other aspects of campus life. “There would be a sheet of ice, and no one would do anything about it for two or three days,” he said. Because he can go out of his residential building only through its ramp, Stawicki said he had to miss classes for the days that the ramp was not cleared. He said he was also unaware that SDS is supposed to provide assistance for all Universitysponsored events. “One of the main reasons why I didn’t rush was because there are only three accessible fraternities on campus,” he said. Engineering senior Camille Davis, Stawicki’s close friend and a former note taker for SDS, said that while SDS was strict about protecting students’ personal information through the anonymous system, assistance outside of academics was lacking. She said for Feb Club, a series of events for seniors organized by the Class Board, Stawicki was unable to attend some of the events because the venues were not accessible for him. “Even though it is open to all seniors, he can’t come to the event,” Davis said.

Out of many non-academic assistance that students might want, SDS is working to provide more career opportunities. It introduces students to Lime Connect, a nonprofit organization that sponsors talented students with disabilities for job positions in many corporations. Companies partnering with Lime Connect include IBM, Google, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. Wharton senior Alexa Ellman found her job through Lime Connect. As a Lime fellow, one of a handful of students selected to be sponsored by the program, she was able to go to a Super Day for an interview. “To my experience, there really isn’t a really tight partnership with somebody at SDS and Career Services,” Ellman said. She said although it is a “two-way street,” where students will have to put in effort toward getting job opportunities, she would like to see more integration with Career Services or clubs for students who don’t know where to go for help. “A lot of students don’t even realize how nuanced disability is in their recruitment,” Ellman said. Stawicki added that while he understands that confidentiality is important for students with disabilities, he would like to see more community fostered within this group of students. “There is every single ethnic community on campus, but there’s nothing like that for students with disabilities,” he said. Shapiro said SDS is deeply committed to providing active assistance for students with disabilities to make sure their needs are met. “We want to hear from students,” she said.

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present their final business plans to investors and Penn stakeholders in September. Philadelphia’s Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Alan Greenberger and Graphene Frontiers CEO Michael Patterson, whose company participated in PCI’s UPstart program, both spoke about the power of Penn I-Corps to drive entrepreneurship and growth in Philadelphia. “NSF tells us that the I-Corps program is intended to help you bridge what unfortunately is that little ditch on the way to the valley of death for an organization, to get you over the hump from applied research to small business grant,” Patterson said. And they’ve been incredibly successful. Sixty percent of I-Corps participants nationally win NSF Small Business Innovation Research grants, compared to 14 percent among all applicants. It’s not surprising then that students and faculty flocked from all across the University to the reception. At one table, fourth year Engineering Ph.D. student Bilwaj Gaonker pitched his business, a hands-free system surgeons can use to view images while conducting surgery called MotionView and answered questions about its viability in the market. Not everyone came to the event with an idea. Four undergraduate students — who were in the minority among the diverse group of graduate students — said they wanted to explore their options. “I’m sick of seeing everyone go into investment banking and consulting,” Wharton junior Ernest Tavares said. “I could see myself going into entrepreneurship.” Fortunately for Tavares and others, PCI will be holding other I-Corps Site events throughout the

Mitchell Berman, a Penn Law professor and letter signatory. “Criminal law has a very heightened standard of proof, called ‘beyond a reasonable doubt,’” Berman said. Criminal justice procedures utilize this higher standard because of the belief that “while it is bad if the jury says you’re innocent when you’re guilty and it’s bad when they say you’re guilty when you’re innocent, that second mistake is much worse.” The letter expresses that this lower standard of proof is especially problematic when combined with the majorityrules process of the disciplinary hearing that follows the investigation. The new system uses a hearing panel that consists of three people drawn from the University faculty to decide the outcome for the respondent. A 2-1 vote determines whether the

respondent is found responsible or not. “I think that the requirement should be unanimous,” Penn Law professor and letter signatory Stephen Burbank said. “I would certainly be less bothered by the non-unanimity requirement if there were a higher standard of proof.” The letter also raises the point that that the Penn process does not allow for cross-examination during the hearing process, although the Department of Education does not forbid this practice, said Penn Law professor and letter signatory David Rudovsky. “We think that Penn could have provided significantly more due process than it does and still be compliant with what the DOE has mandated.” “An essential tool in determining the truth is crossexamination,” Rudovsky added. However, Claire Finkelstein, a Penn Law professor and Faculty Senate chair who helped shape

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the new procedures, said that the procedure allows for a modified version of cross-examination in which both parties can submit written questions to the hearing panel. “The Office of Civil Rights has been extremely discouraging of cross-examination in these proceedings, because the history has been that the complainant has been very harassed, and the fear has been, rightly or wrongly, that this discourages the potential victims of sexual assault from coming forward. “The concept of due process does not apply to a campus disciplinary hearing,” said Finkelstein, who did not sign the letter. “Reasonable minds can differ over the usefulness and appropriateness of cross-examination in a campus disciplinary hearing.” Penn Law faculty member Anita Allen said she declined to sign the letter because she did not feel that it was appropriate

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As music pulsed in the background, over 100 young entrepreneurs walked around World Cafe Live, laughing and drinking. They were not there for a party or concert, but for the inaugural reception of the Penn Innovation Corps Site, a tech entrepreneurship accelerator. For the first time in its history, the University has received a prestigious three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to establish an I-Corps Site to support translation of research into the marketplace by providing educational programming, financial support and strategic guidance, the Penn Center for Innovation wrote in a press release. I-Corps is a national NSF program with established sites at universities across the country. This grant comes at a time when the University is putting an increased emphasis on commercialization. The Penn Center for Innovation, which focuses on commercialization, has recently received increased funding from the University and plans to expand its staff to 60. The I-Corps program is divided into three phases. In phase one, participants, including Penn students, faculty and mentors, form teams of up to five people and pitch a business idea to PCI staff. In phase two, which takes place during the spring, teams participate in customer discovery workshops where they conduct research to determine where their product has a strong enough market to be successful. In phase three, 30 selected teams spend their summers working on their businesses and

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Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; impressive run last season, which ended abruptly with a onegame playoff loss to Columbia. Several preseason changes were critical to Bossartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contributions to a surprisingly successful Penn season in 2014. For one, Bossart jumped from the six-spot in the lineup to the two-hole and didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss a beat. The Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Fallon, Ill. native improved his on -ase percentage to a teamleading .397, batted a solid .297 and finished second on the club in both hits (47) and runs (29). Those numbers alone were worthy of Bossartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first-team All-Ivy selection, but the job he did behind the plate was just as impressive. The Red and Blueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pitching staff pieced together stellar outing after stellar outing last season. Bossart was a constant part of that success, and he fully understands his responsibility on the defensive side of the ball. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I personally take a lot of

responsibility, because a lot of strike calls have to do with how the catcher frames it,â&#x20AC;? he noted. Bossart was able to utilize previous experience with veterans like Connor Cuff and Ronnie Glenn, and he quickly established rapport with younger arms such as Jake Cousins and Mike Reitcheck. Building off of his success last seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stellar working relationship with the pitching staff, Bossart has put in the work once again this offseason to take control behind the plate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We definitely do most of [our work] before the season, just working here in the bubble,â&#x20AC;? he said of his relationship with his pitchers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re able to work out the kinks and really work with our pitching coach.â&#x20AC;? A big part of Bossartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success working with the pitching staff can be attributed to the new attitude John Yurkow brought to Penn last season. The more relaxed and playercentric approach Yurkow established enabled Bossart to improve as a leader and a field general behind the

plate. In his third year, now a captain again and having proven himself as a performer and a leader, Bossart â&#x20AC;&#x201D; along with the rest of the squad â&#x20AC;&#x201D; has set his sights on one thing this spring: an Ivy title. The Quakers lose some offensive firepower with the departure of Rick Brebner and Mike Vilardo, but the core of Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deep, dynamic pitching staff remains intact. And perhaps just as critically, Bossart and company now have legitimate experience in win-or-go-home games after last seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intense playin game against Columbia. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have the capability this year. We have great talent,â&#x20AC;? Bossart said of the more experienced squad. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking forward to great things.â&#x20AC;? With their surprise success last season, the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; biggest challenge this spring could be living up to unusually high expectations. With Bossart in command, however, that shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be an issue. Additional reporting by Tommy Rothman.

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In 2014, then-senior outfielder Rick Brebner paced Penn baseball with eight home runs. Because Brebner was the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; premier power hitter last season, the current crop of veterans will be forced to find ways to make up for his departure.

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last seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disappointing conclusion. Picked by Baseball America as the 2015 Ivy League team to beat, Penn returns key players on both offense and defense. Catcher Austin Bossart (.297, four HRs in 2014) and first baseman Jeff McGarry â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Baseball Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s preseason pick for Ivy Player of the Year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will supply pop in the middle of the lineup, while pitchers Ronnie Glenn (5-2, 3.46 ERA in 2014) and Connor Cuff (5-3, 1.77) will anchor the pitching staff. The team will also be infused with young talent, notably freshman RHP John â&#x20AC;&#x153;JTâ&#x20AC;? White, who can hit 92 on the radar gun and will compete for the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s closer role. With one season under his belt, Yurkow feels more comfortable as the leader of the program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This year, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just a bit more at ease,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel like I can trust my guys a little bit more, since they have a better idea of what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to do.â&#x20AC;? Yurkow took over a program that had finished last in the Gehrig Division in 2013 after going 7-13 in Ivy play. That led to the firing of then-coach John Cole. Yurkow,

Coleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s longtime assistant, was tasked with the chore of bringing the Quakers their first Ivy title since 1995. The coach credits a shift in team atmosphere for last seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quick turnaround. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Changing the culture was big,â&#x20AC;? Yurkow said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something that you have to work on every day. A year and a half in, you can see a big change in the mindset of our guys, both on and off the field.â&#x20AC;? So, after a season in which he saw success uncommon for firstyear coaches, Yurkow will have a chance to take things even further with this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deep and experienced Penn squad. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our team thought we were going to win the Ivy championship [last season],â&#x20AC;? Yurkow admits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hoping that that motivated the guys all through the summer, fall and into the spring. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope they never forget it, because I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want them having that same feeling walking off the field this year.â&#x20AC;? The season starts Friday. If Yurkow has it his way, it will end with that elusive Ivy title in hand.

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put balls in play, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re putting pressure on the defense,â&#x20AC;? Yurkow said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Also] I think our team speed is a little bit better than it was last year.â&#x20AC;? Especially after the tough loss to Columbia that ended the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 2014 season, Yurkow is impressed with the enthusiasm with which the team is entering the season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They came in, they practiced with a ton of energy, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good group,â&#x20AC;? Yurkow said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They like being around each other.â&#x20AC;? Glenn believes that team chemistry is still ticking upwards, thanks to the playersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; relationships with Yurkow. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To have that personal relationship and good coaching that he has brought, it allows for us to relax,â&#x20AC;? Glenn said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s done, with our culture, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really allowed us to become a closer team.â&#x20AC;? Apart from the adjustments on offense, it appears the biggest differences between this and last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Red and Blue teams will be new leadership and even better team chemistry, which are as strong as ever. So despite a few key losses, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t count out Penn baseball this season.

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younger players. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[They are] only being positive, having a good environment in the locker room,â&#x20AC;? Glenn said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These younger guys, they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know any other way. And hopefully, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to continue.â&#x20AC;? Despite returning many players, the Quakers will not attempt to replicate the exact production of some of the graduated players, especially outfielder Rick Brebner, who was Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best power hitter and paced the team with eight home runs in 2014. Outfielder Brandon Engelhardt, also graduated, was one of the top threats to get on base. Although some might think that, given these losses, the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; offense will face a down year, Yurkow is optimistic. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think from one through nine, we could have a more consistent lineup,â&#x20AC;? Yurkow said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of what hurt us last year. We would swing-and-miss a little bit, hit home runs, but we werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t consistent.â&#x20AC;? Yurkow added that two goals at the plate this year are to work the count and make more contact. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Obviously, if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to hit for as much power, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hoping the strikeout numbers come down, because if you can

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Three games into the young season, Penn men’s lacrosse is undefeated no more. In easily their toughest test thus far, the Red and Blue came up short against No. 11 Maryland on the road Tuesday, losing the contest ,11-7.

The Quakers (2-1) came into the matchup ranked 16th in the nation, but much like their previous game against St. Joseph’s, they fell behind early in the contest. However, unlike their game against their inter-city rivals — one in which the Red and Blue came back to win in dramatic fashion — they were not able to dig themselves out of their early hole against the talented Terps (2-1). Maryland took a 3-0 lead off of goals from three different scorers in

the first quarter, taking advantage of a balanced offensive attack. The early outburst proved to be enough for the Terps, as they held off various Penn scoring runs throughout the game. Senior midfielder Joe McCallion led the Red and Blue with four goals, but his individual effort was not enough to overcome Maryland’s superior overall performance. Penn will look to bounce back when it travels to face Penn State on Saturday.

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Joe McCallion had four goals for Penn men’s lacrosse, but the senior midfielder’s heroics weren’t enough to prevent the Red and Blue from suffering their first loss of the season in an 11-7 road defeat at the hands of No. 11 Maryland.

has numerous all-conference and all-league selections between them — and even includes one MLB draftee. Penn’s head coaching position was still open while the staff recruited the rookie class of players in the summer of 2013. Head coach John Yurkow was involved with the process the entire time — albeit in a different role. “I was still an assistant coach at the time,” Yurkow said. “We started bringing guys through the process, not knowing who the head coach was going to be.” The staff finalized nearly half the class 10 days after Yurkow was named head coach. Despite the added difficulty of the coaching transition, Yurkow doesn’t see that as having hampered their process at

all. “So far, I think it’s a solid recruiting class,” he said. Two Penn freshmen that figure to compete for time on the mound are John “JT” White and Russell Rhoads. White, who hails from Ingram, TX, hit 89 miles per hour with his fastball the summer before his senior year of high school and now tops out at 93 miles per hour. White also features a two-seam fastball, slider and changeup. White will serve double duty in 2015, as Yurkow plans to use him in the infield as well. “He’s a talented kid, he’s got a really good arm on the mound, and he can play pretty good defense and hit a little bit as well,” Yurkow said. Yurkow is cautious, however, to overburden White as a freshman. “You’ve got to be careful with those two-way guys,” Yurkow said. “Especially as freshmen. You don’t

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want to pull them in too many different directions, because there’s just not enough time in the day. But I think he’s capable of doing it.” White enjoys being a two-way player and looks forward to the challenge of having to work both as a position player and a pitcher. He has no preference for one over the other. “I really couldn’t pick just one. If you made me, I wouldn’t be able to,” the burly Texan said.

Rhoads, a native of the Philadelphia area, will try to pitch his way into the Quakers’ mix in 2015. Like White, he will make the trip to Florida when the Red and Blue take on Stetson this weekend. Rhoads throws a four-seam fastball, a twoseam fastball, a circle changeup and a slider. When asked about his velocity, Rhoads answered that he sits around 87 to 89 miles per hour. However,

his teammate, freshman infielder Ryan Schroth, chimed in. “He’s being modest,” Schroth said while laughing. “It’s more like at 91.” Neither Schroth nor Rhoads see their having practiced inside all winter as a disadvantage against Stetson, who has had the luxury of playing outside in the warm Florida weather. “Baseball’s baseball, wherever

you play,” Schroth said. The team, which includes 10 seniors on its roster, is heavy on talented older players, so Yurkow will not be forced to overuse the freshmen this spring. However, he still sees this class as having an impact this season. “We won’t have to lean on them so much,” Yurkow said. “But we will have a few who will contribute this year.”

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2014 IN REVIEW

Penn men’s lacrosse fell for the first time this season with a loss to Maryland on Tuesday

As Penn baseball prepares for its 2015 season, take a look back at its successful 2014

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Bagnoli introduced as new Columbia boss FOOTBALL | Coach left

Penn after 23 seasons

RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor

NEW YORK — One day after confirming the hiring of Penn football’s all-time winningest coach, Columbia’s athletic department introduced nine-time Ivy League champion Al Bagnoli as the new head coach of its football program at a press conference on Tuesday. Seated next to recently hired Athletic Director Peter Pilling, Bagnoli addressed a crowded room of media members and returning players, speaking at length about his excitement to be back on the sidelines in 2015. “Ironically, 23 years ago, my family and I started on our first adventure,” Bagnoli said. “I had my first opportunity to work in the Ivy League with some tremendous student-athletes at an elite academic institution. You fast-forward 23 years, and now — while some people don’t ever get a chance to do it once — I feel very fortunate and very blessed that I get to do it a second time.” One of the greatest winners the Ancient Eight has ever seen, Bagnoli is now tasked with righting the ship for the least competitive program in the conference. While the 62-year-old had three undefeated seasons and six unblemished conference marks between 1992 and 2014 with Penn, the Lions have not won an Ivy title since 1961. To make matters worse, the program has seen its ugliness on the field paralleled off of it. Mired in the nation’s longest losing streak — Columbia has lost 21 consecutive games dating back to November 2012 — former coach Pete Mangurian resigned in December amid allegations of player abuse and

mistreatment. “My first goal is to make football fun again,” Bagnoli told the crowd of players. “You’ll hear me say this all the time, but practice has to be the best two hours of your day. “At Penn, the players called it ‘adult recess’ or ‘adult play time.’ I want that to be the case here too.” For Pilling, who was hired three weeks ago and did not officially start his tenure with the Lions until Monday, the hire is undoubtedly a win for both him and the football program. “This is a wonderful moment for the university and the football program,” Columbia President Lee Bollinger said. “I have seen in my life some truly outstanding coaches. I’ve just had only a limited amount of interaction with Al, but it is clear to me that he is in that league of really great coaches.” Surprisingly, it was the leader of one of the Quakers’ most-talented nonconference foes that floated the idea of hiring Bagnoli to Pilling. “I called Andy Talley, the coach at Villanova who I worked with [when Pilling was the Wildcats’ assistant athletic director] and I gave him a list of some people,” Pilling said. “So when we reached the end of that list, he said, ‘You know, Al Bagnoli may be looking for a job.’” "[Bagnoli] and I started a dialogue, and when I was appointed athletic director three weeks ago, the next day I got on a train and went down to Philadelphia and we met in person to continue the dialogue.” After Bagnoli elected last April to retire following the 2014 season, it was announced that the 148game winner would move into a role within the athletic administration while handing over Penn football’s reins to then-defensive coordinator Ray Priore. However, after only three months on the job,

a combination of a desire to get back into coaching and dissatisfaction with his new role led Bagnoli to accept the position with the Lions. “When I retired, I was given some administrative duties and they weren’t as challenging as I hoped they would be,” Bagnoli said. “And it’s nobody’s fault. I really didn’t have any idea what administration was, I’ve never been in the administrative world. So, three months in, I realized it probably wasn’t for me. “I had the title of ‘Director of Special Projects.’ I’m not exactly sure what all that means. I guess I was kind of like the catch-all — I did everything from writing recruiting protocols and financial aid explanations to equipment inventory procedures and football scheduling.” Despite the separation between him and the Red and Blue, Bagnoli insists that he was open about his intentions to move on to Columbia with Penn’s Director of Athletics and Recreation Grace Calhoun. “She’s been great,” Bagnoli said. “I think she’s in a difficult scenario because she inherited me. She had to create a position, plus she had to learn Penn. It’s one of those scenarios where there is nobody to blame. “She did the best she could, I did the best I could, and when the smoke cleared I was more meant for coaching.” Entrenched in his new position, Bagnoli has already scheduled interviews with potential candidates for his new coaching staff. Remaining focused on the immediate future, when asked about whether he could guarantee a win for Columbia next season, Bagnoli preached patience. “I learned a long time ago to never get into the prediction business,” he said. “If you like challenges, this is it.”

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Former Penn coach Al Bagnoli was introduced as the new head coach of the Columbia football program on Tuesday. Addressing members of the media and returning players, Bagnoli expressed excitement about the next chapter of his career.

Bossart set to guide staff Leading from behind the plate SEAMUS POWERS Sports Reporter

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Austin Bossart is hoping the fourth time’s a charm.

for with the Quakers, Bossart has his sight set on an elusive championship. Both an offensive and defensive stalwart, Bossart was integral to the SEE BOSSART PAGE 8

Seniors seek strong finish

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Clock is ticking for 10 veterans JACOB ADLER Sports Reporter

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The 2014 season left something to be desired.

In 2015, the Red and Blue’s veterans want to leave it all on the field. With 10 seniors on this year’s team, Penn baseball expects to build upon last year’s strong showing that resulted

in a second-place finish in the Lou Gehrig Division. After all, the squad enters the season having lost only eight players to graduation and other SEE SENIORS PAGE 8

Second shot at first place

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succeed, try, try again. It wouldn’t exactly be fair to say that John TOM NOWLAN Yurkow failed to succeed Associate Sports Editor in his first season as the coach of Penn baseball. In Everyone knows the old 2014 — his first year at the adage: If at first you don’t helm — Yurkow guided

the Red and Blue to a 24-17 record, going 15-5 in Ivy play, a mark that tied for best in the league. A program-record nine Quakers earned all-Ivy SEE YURKOW PAGE 8

Quakers get a ‘frosh’ start Penn boasts impressive ’18 class STEVEN JACOBSON Sports Reporter COURTESY OF PENN ATHLETICS

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Through three years as the Red and Blue’s starting catcher, Bossart has enjoyed one of the most impressive careers in recent Penn history. But, entering the 2015 season, his final behind the plate

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Baseball is known as “America’s national

pastime,” a sport with a ton of history. However, despite the sport’s roots in the past, Penn baseball has set itself up for the future with a solid youth contingent for the 2015 season. The Red and Blue will

see 10 freshmen grace the diamond of Meiklejohn Stadium this spring. The group, which is especially heavy on right-handed pitchers and outfielders, SEE FRESHMEN PAGE 9