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Engineering school names new dean The appointment will be effective July 1 ISABEL KIM Staff Reporter

Vijay Kumar has been named the new dean of The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He replaces Eduardo Glandt, who had previously

been dean for the past 17 years.

“Vijay’s superb academic judgment, compelling vision for the future of engineering and applied science, and proven track record as a leader and administrator make him the perfect choice to lead Penn Engineering,” Gutmann said in the press release.

Kumar is world-renowned for his work on the development of

autonomous robots and biologically inspired algorithms for collective behavior. He is the author of more than 400 papers and more than 20 books and book chapters and has received numerous honors and awards for his research and teaching.

Kumar “has the experience and vision — and the deep knowledge of Penn and Penn Engineering — that

are critical to moving our engineering and applied science programs to a position of global preeminence,” Provost Vincent Price said in the release.

Kumar is currently a UPS foundation professor appointed in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, SEE ENGINEERING PAGE 5

CONSENT WITHOUT WORDS Penn policy provides a more lenient view of sexual consent STEPHANIE BARRON Staff Reporter

According to Penn’s policy on sexual and relationship violence and stalking, consent can be given nonverbally. With the addition of new administrative positions and processes to combat sexual misconduct at Penn, student awareness of the definition of consent will be important in future cases brought to the attention of the University.

Consent is a “mutually agreed upon” decision that can be “given by clear words or actions,” Penn’s policy states.

“Students are often confused about consent and its definition,” sexual

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The researchers made an error in a paper on Alzheimer’s disease

Penn researchers burned a monkey and injured pigs

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USDA cites Penn for multiple counts of animal abuse

Two researchers banned from science journal Two Penn professors will not be able to publish their work in the Journal of Neuroscience until 2017 due to a mistake printed in an article four years ago.

John Trojanowski and Virginia Man-Yee Lee, both professors in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine, were among eight authors who tracked Alzheimer’s disease progression

violence prevention educator Jessica Mertz said. “In order to understand what sexual violence is, you must understand what consent is and is not.”

She explained that consent must be clearly affirmative and not coerced.

“Consent cannot be presumed because someone is not resisting or hasn’t verbally said ‘no,’” she added.

In addition to Mertz’s new position, Penn also created a position for a sexual violence investigative officer, now filled by Christopher Mallios.

Sexual misconduct cases are currently handled in the new Office of the Sexual Violence Investigative Officer, rather than through the Office of Student Conduct, where they were formerly handled.

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People gathered on Walnut Street in 2008 to protest animal research, a long-standing issue at Penn.

of the Animal Welfare Act that occurred in animal research programs.

JEFFREY CAREYVA The citations followed a USDA Staff Reporter inspection at Penn on Feb. 5, 2015.

Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! Penn could face $60,000 worth had complained to the USDA last of fines from the federal gov- December of a burn injury inernment for abusing animals in flicted on a primate after surgery the course of research. The U.S. and traumatic brain injuries done Department of Agriculture has of- to five pigs. ficially cited Penn, alongside Johns SEE ABUSE PAGE 7 Hopkins University, for violations

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Undergrads return to Wharton to pursue MBAs MBA oriented to real world learning BRYN FERGUSON Staff Reporter

Not all Wharton undergraduate alumni come back to campus just for homecoming weekend.

Some return for two more years to earn three more letters: MBA. 2009 Wharton graduate and now first-year MBA student Amanda Pagoulatos decided to pursue an MBA after she made the decision to switch fields from sports entertainment to brand management. After working with companies like Pepsi and Foot Locker and helping them create sports marketing strategies, Pagoulatos realized that her passion was for “working on the brand side and not being a consultant,” she said.

“Most brand managers that work for companies like Unilever, Colgate, Mars Chocolate — a lot of them have their MBAs. You need that to launch into [the industry],” she said. Pagoulatos chose Wharton because she “absolutely loved it in undergrad,” adding that her husband is

also a first-year Wharton MBA student.

Others choose to pursue MBAs to gain more credibility within their current fields.

Jennifer Meth, who received a Wharton MBA in 1998, worked in taxes at KPMG when the company sponsored her to get her MBA. Meth said the experience made her “a better business person.”

“I could normally just be looked at as an accounting and tax person, but [the MBA] helps me sit at the table with the traders and the people at the front office and execution side,” Meth, also a 1990 Wharton graduate, said. “I think having the MBA gives me a lot of credibility.”

Meth shares the mindset of some others, who return to Wharton for their MBA, even if they thought a Bachelor of Science in Economics would have been sufficient.

“Plenty of people who were in Wharton undergrad felt that they would not need advanced degrees,” Meth said. “I never expected to get an MBA.” Meth added that she had been accepted to Penn Law School

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Wharton freshman Fabian Hutter confirmed that the viewpoint of Wharton undergraduate students has remained much the same.

“I think many people think that way and to a certain extent it is definitely true,” he said referring to Wharton undergraduate alumni returning for their MBAs. But Hutter added that he is considering an MBA. “I will want to reorient myself in 10 to 20 years,” he said. “A lot of things will change in the business world. I want to get an update.”

2006 Wharton graduate and now first-year MBA student Brian Vo looks at his decision to get an MBA more philosophically. Vo said that his main motivation for returning to Wharton, after working in investment banking, private equity and management consulting, was to reflect on how he wants to move forward professionally.

“It was a natural pause in my career. I had worked so fast, so hard for eight years,” Vo said.

“I’m using the two year gap to fill in the blanks.”

For Vo, the difference between Wharton undergraduate and MBA is “like night and day.”

Vo said in the undergraduate

program he struggled to “find [his] niche,” adding that there was a “loud minority” who “thought they were better than everyone else.”

“There is much more of a social camaraderie with the MBAs,” he said. “Everyone acknowledges that we have something to bring.”

Pagoulatos also noted strong differences between the undergraduate and MBA programs.

“Undergrad is more about understanding the concepts.

[The MBA] is more real world learning, having understood how these concepts apply in the workplace,” Pagoulatos said.

Fellow first-year MBA and 2007 Wharton graduate Jeremy Semble echoed Pagoulatos’ sentiments.

“At the MBA level, you have a lot of life experience and a better sense of who you are and what your goals are,” Semble said.

“The stuff you learn in Wharton undergrad is definitely enough in terms of the technical skills.

The decision to get MBA is more about personal growth.”

Vo said that, so far, one of the most important lessons the MBA has taught him is that he does not have to know the right answer to everything. “I know enough to ask the right questions and bring in the right people to solve the problem with or for me,” he said.

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nonverbally, but communicate nonconsent verbally. “If nonverbal responses are typically interpreted as indicating consent,” the study says, “then it is critical that nonconsent be communicated verbally and quickly so that misunderstandings do not occur.”

Another study, published in the Journal of Sex Research by Kristen Jozkowski et al. reported that there is a gender divide between college-aged students on perceptions of sexual consent. Men in the study tended to interpret nonverbal cues as consent, while women

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what the definition of consent should be, as well as how and when nonverbal consent can be given.

A study by Jason Burrow et al. at the University of the Pacific examined the perceptions college students have about how women give consent. The study, published in the Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality, reported that both men and women think most women communicate consent

tended to interpret verbal cues as consent.

Regardless, some form of affirmation must be given as consent.

“Consent may not be inferred from silence, passivity or lack of resistance alone,” Penn’s policy states.

Penn is not the only university to include nonverbal communication in its definition of consent.

Yale University’s policy defines consent as “the presence of an unequivocal ‘yes’ — verbal or otherwise — not just the absence of a ‘no.’ The category ‘nonconsensual

sex’ includes rape but is more expansive than rape.” Columbia University and Cornell University also outline in their policies that consent can be given both verbally and nonverbally, but must be given clearly and without intimidation.

Princeton University, on the other hand, defines consent as “voluntary, informed, uncoerced agreement through words and actions freely given,” rather than one or the other, “which a reasonable person would interpret as a willingness to participate in mutually agreed-upon sexual acts.”

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SLAP on PILOTs: Penn ‘should be held accountable’ Student groups clarify meaning of PILOTs ELIZABETH WINSTON Staff Reporter

PILOTs has become something of a buzz word at Penn following the protest at Penn President Amy Gutmann’s annual holiday party last December. The Student Labor Action Project held an event Tuesday night to clarify what the term really means for students.

About 30 people attended the Houston Hall event hosted by SLAP along with Penn Education Society, Penn National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Penn Democrats. Penn professor Mary Summers, who has spoken publicly in support of Payments In Lieu of Taxes before, spoke at the event.

PILOTs are contributions that nonprofit organizations can voluntarily make to local governments to cover costs of essential services like fire protection and road construction.

Before Summers spoke and answered questions from audience members, SLAP member Devan Spear gave a presentation about what PILOTs are and the state of Philadelphia schools. Attendees broke into groups to discuss their views on the situation in Philadelphia schools and the implementation of PILOTs. “The goal tonight is raise

awareness, but also provide real insight into an issue that at its core showcases many of the inequalities perpetuated today,” President of the Penn NAACP Keishawn Johnson said in a message.

The School District of Philadelphia has struggled with gaps in their budget over the past several years after decreased funding from the state level leaving schools in dire need of resources and the School Reform Commission, the school governing board, to have to look for new sources of revenue each year. “This state-led school budget cutting is inexcusable,” Spear said.

Because Penn is considered a nonprofit, Pennsylvania state law exempts the University from paying property taxes, which in large part go towards the funding of public schools in Philadelphia.

“Funding is a huge cause of many problems. Additional funds within the city of Philadelphia could always be a good thing,” Preisdent of Penn Education Society and College senior Melanie Young said. As a native Philadelphian, she said that she feels especially connected to the issues addressed in the discussion Tuesday night.

As one of the largest nonprofit organizations in Philadelphia, Spear said, Penn paying PILOTs contributions would pave the way for other nonprofits to pay them as well.

Penn, among many other things, cites its status as the largest private

employer in Philadelphia and their employees’ contributions to wage taxes as evidence of their impact on the community. “SLAP believes as the largest private land owner in the city, Penn has an obligation to contribute not just through the individual wage tax and the many individual school partnerships, but as an institution,” Spear said.

“SLAP believes [Penn] should be held accountable to pay its fair share.”

One student at the event inquired about the cost burden of PILOTs on the University. “It’s a teeny, tiny piece of our budget when you think of it compared to lawn care,” Summers said.

“Penn is part of a system that allows very wealthy people to set their own priorities,” Summers said.

Summers spoke to the growing income inequality in America over the past 40 years. “This growing inequality is serving the needs of only the most elite,” Summers

said. “Penn is becoming more and more dependent on its wealthiest alumni and the priorities it sets on what could appeal to very wealthy people.”

“I came to Penn because of the commitment to public engagement,” Summers said. She believes PILOTs would benefit the University as a whole and is not just about saving schools in Philadelphia.

“How the University functions and its commitment to keeping alive liberal arts and great things like research and all those things that Penn wants to achieve is threatened by a society where we have systematically told the very wealthy that they have more and more control,” Summers said.

Since the demonstration in collaboration with Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation at Amy Gutmann’s holiday part in December, this is SLAP’s first action towards the cause of PILOTs this semester.

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or the past two weeks, I’ve been criticizing Penn’s new sexual assault adjudication policy and the institution of on-campus sexual assault handling in general.

As I’ve said before, when colleges take the place of police and courts, by investigating and trying to decide the truth of claims of violent criminal behavior, everyone seems to lose. Sometimes complaints get hushed up to protect athletes or reputations, sometimes accused students are subjected to absurd kangaroo-court hearings with almost predetermined findings of guilt. Either way, justice goes unserved.

But although colleges must get out of the business of investigating and adjudicating these matters, that doesn’t mean they have no role to play in responding to claims of sexual assault.

For better or worse, colleges have accepted some level of responsibility for their students’ well-being outside the classroom and there are, accordingly, appropriate actions a university like Penn could take

TALKING BACKWARD | What a fair-minded sexual assault response policy might look like to assist students dealing with these matters.

I’m not a lawyer, a doctor or a trauma expert, but in researching my last two columns, I think I’ve encountered most of the issues and concerns which arise around sexual as-

gation must be handled by police and adjudication by courts.

When there are muggings on Pine Street, burglaries in the Quad or a murder at Copa, we don’t ask the Office of Student Conduct to handle it — we turn to the police. Neither should

amination as an element of the criminal justice system which victims of sexual assault find particularly stressful, and yet it is vital to accurately determining credibility. A Universityappointed legal advisor could help prepare complainants for

A student who is found criminally or even civilly liable for any serious crime or civil rights violation … should not be allowed to remain on campus.” sault on campus. Accordingly I’d like to propose, based on what I’ve learned, what a sane, fair and compassionate sexual assault response policy might look like.

Such a policy begins with the involvement of law enforcement. As ever, a victim should never be forced to press charges if they don’t want to, and that decision shouldn’t limit their access to other resources like counseling and medical help. But if the complainant wants action taken against another party, investi-

we expect the University to handle rape. Instead, the University should play a part in lessening the stress associated with these processes. A student who comes to the University claiming to have been sexually assaulted could be given a team of advisors drawn from the pool of wide-ranging expertise the school has access to. An advisor from the Law School could be assigned to help assist with the process of pressing charges and participating in investigation and prosecution.

Advocates point to cross-ex-

this process with an eye toward mitigating stress. Someone from the health system could be assigned to help manage the complainant’s medical and psychological needs. An administrator could be assigned to help make any reasonable changes to classes and housing necessary for the student’s life to go on as normally as possible.

As for an accused student, the University should ensure that they have access to adequate legal assistance as well.

While this may strike some as

unsavory, a fair-minded student-assistance system must assume that the accused is innocent even as it assumes the complainant is telling the truth.

Without this, assistance provided to the complainant might simply amount to the University using its resources to tilt the scales of justice.

And of course, the University would act on the findings of the courts. A student who is found criminally — or even civilly — liable for any serious crime or civil rights violation, sexual assault certainly included, should not be allowed to remain on campus.

Academia’s role can extend beyond just assisting students involved in the criminal justice system, however. Colleges and universities have a critical role to play in developing best practices for police and prosecutors in areas ranging from community relations to forensic techniques. This certainly includes practices for handling sexual assault investigations in the most fair and compassionate way possible. Advocates often claim that law enforce-

ALEC WARD ment techniques are needlessly hostile to complainants.

These claims merit research and careful study. Penn, having its own private police force, is uniquely positioned to ensure that its students have access to investigative practices that are fair and optimized, and to be a laboratory of best practices which can be spread far beyond the boundaries of the Penn Patrol Zone.

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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n her column, “Inviting Quaker pride,” two weeks ago, Dani Blum argued that Penn should continue to admit a high percentage of the freshman class through the Early Decision program. This, she believes, will give Penn more students who are committed to the University, who will work to realize their specific Penn visions, academic and extracurricular, once they get here. “Admissions should try to find the most qualified and interested students, but we should also reward those who can truly see themselves here,” she writes.

The writer’s obvious Quaker pride is commendable. But Blum’s argument seems to omit an obvious but important point: As a world-class research university, Penn should admit candidates based on their merit, far above their apparent commitment to the college. The admissions rate among early decision applicants was 24

GUEST COLUMN BY DAVID BRITTO | Response to Dani Blum’s ‘Inviting Quaker pride’ percent for the Class of 2019, compared to 7.3 percent for regular decision the previous year. While the early decision pool might indeed be that outstanding, with students who would have other options if they were admitted through the regular cycle, I

contradictory to the principle of meritocracy that universities like Penn are supposed to stand for.

Frankly, I’m not even sure the early decision pool is as enthusiastic about Penn as Blum claims. Several of my closest friends were admitted

applied for positive reasons, the challenge is to separate out the frauds. Although application materials might give a sense of the truly committed candidates, any process where the admission rate is so much higher is bound to result in a distorted pool.

Should I have less of a shot at a great education because I didn’t apply early or show commitment, even with equal qualifications?“ find it difficult to believe that three times the proportion deserve places. An implication of Blum’s argument is that, faced with the hypothetical choice, we would rather have the less able, but more committed student. This strikes me not just as undesirable, but also categorically unfair: Should I have less of a shot at a great education because I didn’t apply early or show commitment, even with equal qualifications? That seems

early, and most of them confess that they committed in advance because they thought Penn was a “more realistic” Ivy to get into. Not only was their Penn spirit suspect, but they were also attracted by the more favorable odds of applying early: that sounds a lot like the admit-insecurity that Blum has elsewhere beseeched Penn students to push past — and rightly so. While I’m sure many early decision students, like Blum herself,

Admittedly, it doesn’t help that all of the Ivy League now practices some form of early admission, most with curiously lenient admittance rates. For example, Harvard accepted 16.5 percent of early applicants this cycle.

Other explanations for this now widespread practice are less savory. Without the concern of retention, admissions committees can cherry-pick certain types of student to ensure a diverse class. Early

admissions typically attract better-informed middle-class students, who are conveniently less in need of financial aid. A higher acceptance rate also provides better odds for legacies or those with Penn connections, who are more likely to make substantial donations. These are not fair reasons for an admissions policy. Although Blum argues for increased access and awareness of the Early Decision program, having a single, later deadline would make admissions more equitable. At the very least, closer harmonization of the regular and early admissions rates would minimize some of the unfair advantages of applying early.

There are efficiency arguments for early admissions.

Restrictive early decision ensures that the same select group of students is not admitted to all the top schools, at everyone else’s expense.

It also gives colleges greater predictability. I don’t know

Penn Admissions’ specific policy, but I am sure they take painstaking effort over decisions, at least for students within their respective pools, early or regular. But to suggest that commitment to Penn is any way a substitute for merit makes a mockery of the admissions system. In fact, I think the best candidates, rather than the most committed, will make the greatest contribution to whichever institutions they attend, simply because they are highly industrious and curious people.

If Penn is really interested in moving beyond its “inferiority complex,” as Blum wants, admission on ability alone seems like a more sensible approach.

DAVID BRITTO is College and Wharton senior from the United Kingdom, studying PPE and economics management. His email address is dbritto@wharton. upenn.edu.

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Feb. 28 was a big day for Science Leadership Academy’s debate team and their coach, College and Wharton sophomore Andrew Gegios. The team will be sending its first pair to a national tournament.

Although he is busy deliberating on school issues with administrators at University Council, chatting in Arabic or hanging out at the Sigma Nu chapter house, few people may be aware that Gegios is deeply committed to a cause outside of Penn’s campus: coaching a debate team at Philadelphia high school, Science Leadership Academy.

Penn for Youth Debate is a club dedicated to working with debate teams at Philadelphia schools.

“Our organization provides student volunteer coaches for these debate programs so that students interested are able to engage academically outside of the classroom. We teach students argumentation skills, research skills and logic through these debates,” said Vice President of Penn for Youth Debate and College sophomore Evan Cernea, who is also an associate copy editor at The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Gegios works with students, most who have no previous experience with debate, teaching them to compete in various speech and debate events. Penn for Youth Debate requires Penn students to spend an hour a week with their respective teams, but Gegios took his involvement with his team far above and beyond the requirement.

Gegios runs four hours of debate practice per week at SLA and attends weekend tournaments with members of the team. However, the team’s increased dedication to debate has less to do with his own ambition andmore to do with that of his students, Gegios said.

The SLA debate team had 12 students last year when Gegios began coaching there as a

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At Penn, At Home | apartmentsatpenn.com | 215.222.0222 freshman. This year, the program has 30 students. Under his leadership, the debate team quickly became what he describes as the school’s “winningest team,” outperforming most of the athletic teams, he said. The team was such a success that this year the high school decided to make debate a class, which will be taught by one of the school’s teachers, so that students can practice during the school day for academic credit.

Gegios’ involvement with this debate team had very much to do with his own impactful experience on his high school debate team in Milwaukee, Wis. Gegios joined the debate team his freshman year of high school and eventually was ranked number one in Wisconsin and in the top 30 nationally by the National Speech and Debate Association.

“I remember when I was a freshman and my coach told me about nationals. I never pictured myself there,” Gegios said. “I thought maybe that was never going to happen, but that I would try really hard.” He went to nationals in his sophomore year.

However, for Gegios, the challenge of pushing through failure was an important part of his learning experience. “[Debate] gave me a lot of confidence. It tore me down at the very beginning — I felt like I was awful, like I couldn’t speak, unprofessional,” Gegios said. “But it turned me into someone I’m really happy to be.”

Although he did not want to commit to joining the Penn debate team, Gegios said he joined Penn for Youth Debate because he wanted to give back to the community. He wanted to make sure other students could have the same opportunity to debate like he did in high school.

“I loved it so much because it was like my community,” Gegios said. “It really changed my life.”

The SLA team travels to weekend tournaments more often than most Penn for Youth Debate teams, so they have to look past club funding and get more creative in looking for financial support, as costs can pile up quickly.

Since Gegios started coaching, the team joined three debate

leagues, each of which has a fee.

Additionally, there are entry fees for all of the tournaments on top of the fee for transportation.

One alternate source of funding has been the After School Activities Partnership, an organization that supports after-school activities for students in the Philadelphia School District.

“Students have to pay out of pocket [for transportation], but we try to limit that as much as possible. Sometimes I just pay out of pocket for an Uber or a cab as if I were just going somewhere for a weekend because it’s too much to ask them to spend that extra money,” Gegios said.

“Funding is a struggle, and it’s something we are working on.”

Gegios’ own rocky start in the debate world helps him work through challenges with students on the SLA team. Similarly to the team he now coaches, Gegios’ high school team started out at local tournaments and then became a national team.

SLA has had an incredible year so far, not only succeeding in local tournaments, but also competing on the national level. This year’s highlights includeteams that made it to the semi-finals at the George Mason University national circuit tournament, double-octofinals at Penn’s own Liberty Bell Classic tournament and elimination rounds at the Princeton University national tournament. Several members of the team also received prestigious awards from the National Speech and Debate Association.

However, getting the team off the ground was far from easy, since debate is a competition with a “high learning curve,” Gegios said.

“When teams start out, they might lose all their rounds and that’s what happened to me, that’s what happened to almost everyone on our team, and so you’ll want to quit, you feel stupid,” he said.

However, for Gegios, seeing growth in his team makes the entire experience that much more rewarding. His favorite part about being a coach is “seeing them grow and seeing them get so much better — seeing them when they work hard and they finally win some rounds.”

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Changes to 2015 MCAT exam Students react to exam that will last more than six hours BLAKE PITTELL Contributing Reporter

Pre-med students may be spending more time in the library this semester.

The Medical College Admission Test has been significantly altered for students taking the exam from 2015 onwards. The new version of the exam is longer and will cover more subjects.

The new MCAT will be almost twice as long as the previous version. While the pre2015 version of the test was 144 questions in three hours and 20 minutes, it will now consist of 230 questions and last six hours and 15 minutes.

More topics will be tested on

the new edition of the MCAT. The old exam previously required only eight semesters of coursework. The new version tests on three additional semesters of classes, as well as college-level biochemistry, introductory psychology and introductory sociology.

“This can be a real game changer for pre-meds who are already extremely busy in completing their academic coursework,” said Eric Chiu, Kaplan Test Prep’s executive director of pre-med programs.

However, many pre-med Penn students are welcoming the changes to the exam.

“Well, even though the new MCAT requires new material for sociology and psychology, I think knowing that material could be very useful in the long run, especially since I’m

planning on majoring in biological basis of behavior and want to concentrate in neurology in the future,” College freshman Maggie Heller said.

College freshman Adam Christenson agreed.

“Overall I would have to say that the additions to the MCAT are going to be beneficial in making better medical students by giving them perspectives on different areas like psychology rather than solely learning the traditional pre-med courses,” he said.

Registration for the April to June MCATs has been open since Feb. 11 and registration for the other exams later in the year will open in late April. Juniors who plan to attend medical school in Fall 2016 are likely to take one of the MCATs offered this year in April, May or June.

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Indego bike share offers flexibility and accesibility LOWELL NEUMANN NICKEY Contributing Reporter

Coming soon to a street corner near you — bikes for rent.

The city of Philadelphia will be launching its very own bikesharing program this spring, akin to those already running in New York City and Washington, D.C. Unique to Philly will be the pricing scheme and, hopefully, the incomes of the customer base.

Official pricing and final locations are set to be announced in the coming weeks. Currently the expected on-campus locations are at 36th and Sansom streets, 40th and Spruce streets, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia on 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard and at Clark Park on 44th Street and Baltimore Avenue.

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said Aaron Ritz, the Bicycle Programs manager for the Mayor’s Office of Transportation and Utilities.

Unlike New York’s Citi bike program, which charges an annual rate of over $100 and requires a credit card deposit, Philly’s Indego will provide daily, weekly and monthly options, with the latter two payable by cash.

Organizers are hopeful that multi-tiered pricing will allow for both leisure rides and the use of the bikes as a way to commute. “One thing we’re doing that other cities have not is promoting bite-sized chunks that are affordable,” Ritz said.

“Say you were like me when I was at Penn and you live in South Philly and want to get to campus. I was commuting three to four times a week. I would’ve bought the monthly membership and rode when I needed to.”

As for Penn students, many of whom are infrequent commuters around Philadelphia, the program will compete against other low-cost transportation options like SEPTA and personal bikes.

“I guess it depends on how

the program is ultimately structured,” College senior Chris Black said. “If it’s like a personal transit system, I think it makes more sense to buy a cheap bike. That said, I don’t have a bike in the city and could see myself using a day pass from time to time.”

Another socially conscious innovation is the program’s use of private sponsorship to avoid the need for a credit card deposit, a requirement in many other bike sharing programs in the United States. The name Indego was chosen by the program’s primary sponsor Independence Blue Cross after an $8.5 million contribution. The city will provide $3 million for bikes and stations, and any remaining costs will be covered by state and federal sources.

Local businesses are enthusiastic about the program. “I’d like to think it will allow people to see how bike-friendly Philly has become,” Jordan Czajka, the service manager of Keswick Cycle said. “The more people riding, and the safer they are, the better. If cars see more bikes, then that’s good advocacy”

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Alum, author of ‘Friday Night Lights’ to teach new class Bi-weekly seminar requires students to apply for seats ZOE STERN Contributing Reporter

A lucky group of students will be taught by the author of “Friday Night Lights” in the upcoming fall semester.

After visiting Penn last spring, Buzz Bissinger, a 1976 College graduate and long-time Philadelphian, was inspired.

Bissinger will be teaching a nonfiction creative writing course at Penn next semester.

During his time at Penn, Bissinger wrote for The Daily Pennsylvanian and looks back on it fondly.

“The DP was a center piece of my life at Penn. This provided me with incredible opportunity and was seminal in my professional development,” Bissinger explained.

After Bissinger graduated, he came back and wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1981 to 1988, which he considered his “pinnacle of journalism.” Then, he returned in 1992 to write “A Prayer for the City.”

In spring 2014, as part of the Kelly Writer’s House Fellows Program, students read and studied all of Bissinger’s books.

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in genetically modified mice. The paper in question included a pair of images that purported to show the progression but instead included the same image twice, Lee told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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At the end of the course, Bissinger came in for an interactive discussion with many of the students.

Upon his arrival, Bissinger said he was overwhelmed by how great it was to be back at Penn, where writers are nourished and where they have many resources available.

“I was blown away by the opportunities [at Penn] and just by the students in general,” Bissinger said.

Al Filreis, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House, and Bissinger are good friends and often grab oysters and beers together in the city. While discussing Bissinger’s excitement to be back at Penn, they began thinking about the idea of Bissinger teaching his own course.

“After many years, Bissinger felt warm to Penn and wanted to give back to the smart and young people that read his work,” Filreis said.

Bissinger currently resides on the West Coast but will fly in every two weeks to teach the course. Students will have to apply to get into the class.

“I’m happy to give a tiny piece back to the writing center and to my alma mater,” Bissinger said.

Bissinger has never taught writing before, but is eager to

teach his students about storytelling, plot and journalistic integrity.

“My own writing is not perfect. But by examining it, I can pinpoint what does work and what does not work,” he added.

Bissinger’s warm feelings and generosity towards Penn does not end here. Bissinger and his wife Lisa Smith, in collaboration with the Kelly Writers House, will be sponsoring a writer’s residency this upcoming spring break at their guest cottage on the Long Beach Peninsula in Washington State. The winner, College junior Alina Grabowski, will live and write in this idyllic setting for ten days.

“Having this chunk of time to work on revisions is huge,” Grabowski said. “I’m also looking forward to being able to ask Buzz and Lisa questions about creating a life as a writer, as well as picking their brains about the writing process itself.”

As he prepares to teach his first writing course, Bissinger keeps in mind the importance of continuing to read and write voraciously.

“Writing is like anything in that it requires a certain bedrock of talent, enthusiasm and passion,” he said.

similar results to those in Trojanowski and Lee’s paper, the Journal of Neuroscience has retracted the paper and barred Trojanowski and Lee for two years.

An internal review committee at Penn reported to the Journal in June that the error was unintentional.

“It was basically a sloppy postdoc who was basically careless,

not intentionally,” Lee told the Inquirer.

Currently, Trojanowski and Lee are trying to clear up the discrepancies between Penn’s ethics committee and that of the Journal of Neuroscience.

“We hope some good will come of this,” Trojanowski wrote in an email.

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Animal research at Johns Hopkins involved the strangulation of several primates and the death of a rabbit that had been left in a cage while it was sterilized, “literally boiling the rabbit alive,” according to SAEN’s press release following the citation.

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Offensively, star sophomore outfielder Leah Allen will provide the main spark in the Red and Blue’s lineup. As a freshman, she unanimously earned Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors and rewrote Penn’s single-season record books with 13 home runs and 43 RBI. In the season’s 20 conference games, Allen was good for .458 at the plate — a staggering statistic given that she will only get more powerful and more adept in the batter’s box as she grows older. “She’s a very strong hitter,� coach Leslie King said. “I don’t foresee her seeing as many strikes as she may have seen last year, especially in the league, so we’ve been working with her on being super patient and making sure she’s swinging at strikes.�

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with games against St. Joseph’s and Bowling Green and doubleheaders against Syracuse and Central Michigan.

Although these games are important for setting the tone for the season, they are little more than a warmup for the Quakers’ whirlwind spring schedule against Ivy foes.

Now is where the bubble metaphors come in, as what was a freshman-heavy roster last year has now blossomed into a more mature, more aggressive squad. Penn looks poised to burst through the barrier separating good teams from truly dominant teams.

Despite starting off the 2014 season 4-11, Penn was able to snap its losing tendencies and finish the season in second place behind a powerhouse Dartmouth team. This year, the Quakers are looking for redemption — when asked what game she was most looking forward to for the 2015 season, Turchin blurted out “Dartmouth� without even a half second’s hesitation.

Why? For one, it’s the Ivy opener. And it’s the rematch of 2014’s Ivy League championship game. “You can’t get much better than that!�

Turchin exclaimed.

Beating Dartmouth will be just one step of many on Penn’s path towards achieving its goals. This year, there are three: win the South Division, win the Ivy title and win games at NCAA Regionals.

However, those games that determine the South Division Champion, the Ivy Champion and beyond are still months in the future — and the season technically hasn’t even opened yet — so, for now, the Quakers are taking things one play at a time.

Beyond Allen, the Quakers can look to a batting order filled with skilled veterans in sophomore Alexis Sargent and junior Korinne Raby. “We’ve got very good team speed, so I feel good about our lineup,� King said.

On defense, King expects junior Kanani Datan and Turchin to “set the table� for Penn, lending a veteran presence to the Quakers’ outfield.

It is probably still too early to make anything close to an accurate prediction about the end of the season, but with the team’s strong core of returners and surging confidence, it seems like Penn might just be the team to beat in the South Division.

Perhaps King puts it best: “I’d like to think everything is our biggest strength.�

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The Quakers — who had dropped two in a row to No. 11 Maryland and unranked Penn State in a disappointing start to the season — badly needed a win to put their first-ever Ivy title defense back on track.

Penn will get one final tune-up in its nationally broadcast home opener against No. 19 Villanova on Saturday, before hosting Cornell to begin its Ancient Eight campaign on March 14.

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ahead and again with 2:26 left in regulation to provide some insurance. Down by two, Lafayette pulled its goalie in desperation, but Penn junior Pat Berkery put the game away by scoring on the empty net, cementing a 9-6 victory for coach Mike Murphy’s Quakers.

Lafayette took slightly better care of the ball than Penn on the day, turning it over 16 times to Penn’s 19, but the Quakers made

up for it in the face-off battle.

Freshman midfield Chris Santangelo worked hard in particular to win his team precious extra possessions, winning 13 out of 15 draws. The Red and Blue won 14 out of 18 overall.

Penn was bolstered by some standout individual performances. To say that Moriarty had a career day would be an understatement — the senior had only scored three goals for his entire tenure playing for Penn before doubling that total on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, three other players

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premier race at the annual Henley Royal Regatta.

The 1955 crew that had emerged victorious under Burk — John Weise, Harry Parker, Bart Fitzpatrick, Chuck Shaffer, Tom Friend, Frank Betts, Bruce Crocco, Fred Lane and coxswain J.L. “Fox� DeGurse — would go down in Penn rowing history as one of its finest.

Earlier in the year, they had broken Navy’s 31-race winningstreak in impressive fashion by taking home the Adams Cup. At the Eastern Sprints in the same season, the Quakers had initially been behind, but emerged with the win after a rare watery comeback.

Indeed, the 1955 crew was special. Burk himself captured its character in his description from a quote in Peter Mallory’s “Evolution of the Rowing Stroke.� “There were no stars, no magnificent hulks of manhood, no poetry of motion — just a wellintegrated crew with a tremendous desire to win.�

The spirit of the crew and its coach had pushed them to defy the winter that year, and had — rather than rowing indoors in tanks — spent the winter practicing on the frigid Schuylkill.

According to a particularly indicative anecdote shared by Lane, coach Burk once dove into the freezing water in late December to make a point to comfort his rowers, showing that they would be okay should they fall in during practice.

After the academic year was over, Penn’s crew headed to England to go oar-to-oar with some of the world’s best at the Royal Henley Regatta.

In the Grand Challenge Cup, the

most prestigious race of the lot, the Red and the Blue managed to best the Thames Rowing Club — then considered the top crew in all of the British Isles — in the semifinal. The Quakers had won by a half-length, and the win shocked the crowds of spectators who had gathered to cheer on their national front-runner.

On the other side of the bracket, the combined forces of the Vancouver R.C. and the University of British Columbia had upset the Krasnoe Znamia crew from the Soviet Union after a powerful comeback. A novel but formidable force, the Vancouver crew would represent Penn’s opposition in the grand final.

In the final, Penn found a comfortable lead early on, and was able to maintain it throughout.

Vancouver closed in, but in the last stretches of the race, Penn was once again able to pull ahead. In the end, Pennsylvania — as it was often referred to back then — won by 20 feet in a time of 6:56.

It was a triumph on the Thames for the Red and Blue, in what had been described as a race between the two premier eights in the world.

After the historic win, the rowers and the coach would go on to have successful subsequent careers. Burk would remain as the coach until 1969, and Parker would go on to become one of Harvard’s most successful rowing coaches.

Though both passed away in recent years, they are, along with the others of the crew of 1955, immortalized in not only the history of Penn rowing, but in the history of the sport.

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SPRING BREAK STATE BY STATE

New Hampshire

New York

Gymnastics — at New Hampshire (3/7) in Durham, N.H.

Women's Hoops — at Columbia (3/6) in New York, N.Y., at Cornell (3/7) in Ithaca, N.Y. Women's Lacrosse — at Georgetown (3/14) in Manhasset, N.Y.

Rhode Island

Women's Lacrosse — at Brown (3/7) in Providence, R.I.

Nevada

Women's Tennis — at UNLV (3/11) in Las Vegas, Nev.

Pennsylvania

Wrestling — at EIWA Championships (3/6-3/7) in Bethlehem, Pa. Men's Hoops — vs. Columbia (3/6) in Philadelphia; vs. Cornell (3/7) in Philadelphia; vs. Princeton (3/10) in Philadelphia Women's Hoops — vs. Princeton (3/10) in Philadelphia Men's Tennis — vs. Radnor (3/7) in Philadelphia Women's Tennis — vs. Akron (3/6) in Philadelphia Men's Lacrosse — vs. Villanova (3/7) in Philadelphia Women's Lacrosse — vs. Saint Joseph's (3/10) in Philadelphia Men's Lacrosse — vs. Princeton (3/14) in Philadelphia

Arizona

Women's Tennis — at St. Mary's (3/8) in Tempe, Ariz.; at Arizona State (3/9) in Tempe, Ariz.

Virginia

Baseball — at Old Dominion (3/6-3/8) in Norfolk, Va.; at VCU (3/10-3/11) in Richmond, Va.; at Richmond (3/13-3/15) in Richmond, Va.

New Mexico

Men's Tennis — at Georgia State (3/8) in Albuquerque, N.M.; at New Mexico (3/10) in Albuquerque, N.M.; at New Mexico State (3/12) in Las Cruces, N.M.

Florida

Softball — USF Under Armour Showcase (3/6-3/8) in Clearwater, Fla.; USF Spring Tournament (3/8-3/12) in Clearwater, Fla. AMARIS KOBOLAK | DESIGN ASSOCIATE

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That’s not to say that she hasn’t overseen her fair share of success in her first year in charge of Penn Athletics: Gymnastics and women’s squash

both won team Ivy titles in the winter season.

Unfortunately for Calhoun, a significant number of Penn students aren’t even aware that those team exist, let alone care enough to discuss them on Locust Walk.

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Senior attack Tory Bensen — who led the Red and Blue in goals last year — will help try and lead Penn to a ninth-straight Ivy title.

If the stars align, women’s basketball could still take home the title, but with Princeton still undefeated, it’s looking pretty unrealistic.

That leaves Calhoun heading into the bulk of the spring season without an Ivy title from a recognizable program.

She will have several shots at changing that this spring, as softball, baseball and men’s and women’s lacrosse were all ranked highly amongst their competition in the preseason.

However, neither softball nor baseball are defending Ivt titles, and men’s lacrosse has sputtered out of the gates. An Ivy title for either is far from the expectation.

Meanwhile, at this point, anything less than an Ivy title would be an objective failure for women’s lacrosse.

The program is used to

defending titles, and with a veteran squad led by seniors Tory Bensen and Meg Markham, the Quakers can rely on plenty of experience. But until this year, they have never been looked upon to redeem an entire year for Penn Athletics.

That’s an awful lot of pressure for any program, but as it has demonstrated for eight consecutive years, Penn women’s lacrosse is no ordinary program. It’s an Ivy institution, and it just might be the bridge between Bilsky’s past successes and Calhoun’s successes in the future.

The pressure’s on — now it’s time to watch the throne.

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With so many sports in action, we take a look at where all teams will be over spring break

at Rutgers New Brunswick, N.J. 4 p.m.

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It’s time to watch the throne

BURSTING THROUGH THE BUBBLE

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Sophomore outfielder Leah Allen had a phenomenal freshman season, leading the team with a .383 batting average — the second-best mark in the Ivy League. With such a dominant performance in the batter’s box, Allen cemented herself as one of the biggest offensive threats in the Ancient Eight.

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open season in Florida LAINE HIGGINS Sports Editor

The 2015 season is on the verge of opening, and the women of Penn softball are eager to break out of their bubble, both in the literal and metaphorical sense.

Literally, the team has been holed up inside Penn

Park’s temporary inflatable dome, colloquially known among Penn athletes as “the bubble,” for the last month due to inclement weather. But in just four days the team will jet to Florida for two tournaments on fields of real grass underneath blue skies.

“We’re just really excited to get out on the field,” senior outfielder Sydney Turchin said.

Farmer’s tans aren’t all that await the Quakers in the

Florida sunshine, though.

The team will play 11 games in six days against teams from around country.

First up is the USF Under A r mour Showcase from March 6 to 8. Penn will face Bowling Green, Toledo, Dayton, Wagner and Central Michigan.

Then, from March 8 to 12, Penn will compete in the USF Spring Tournament, SEE SOFTBALL PAGE 8

How Softball Stacked Up in the Ivies in 2014 Pitching Hitting 1st in Runs

3rd MOST Hits allowed

2nd in Hits

4th LEAST runs and ER allowed

T-1st in HR

2nd LEAST Walks allowed

1st in RBI

2nd in Hits

1st in BB

4th LEAST Ks

1st in AVG

4th LOWEST ERA 3.34

Penn women’s lacrosse has been perched atop the Ivy League throne for so long that it’s the only view any player on the current roster has known in her collegiate career.

It’s mind-boggling to look at the Quakers’ continued string of success.

There are any number of statistics that could quantify Penn’s complete and utter dominance over all other Ivy programs in recent memory, but one number easily manages to stick out above all the rest: eight. As in eight straight titles.

Just to put that in perspective, Penn men’s basketball currently sits at seven wins overall. With only three games left, it is a very real possibility that the team doesn’t reach eight wins on the season.

And yes, right now, the Red and Blue are eighth in the Ancient Eight.

It’s a completely different story for women’s lacrosse, which — unlike men’s hoops — looks fully prepared to take home the Ivy League title once again after having won it eight years in a row.

Once again the most highly ranked Ivy squad in the preseason, the Red and Blue have looked solid in the early stages of the season. In fact, with two tough victories in their first two contests over respectable Delaware and Vanderbilt squads, the Quakers have gotten off to their best start since their 2010-11 campaign.

Business as usual, right?

Wrong.

It goes without saying that nobody has meant more to the program over its astonishing title run than coach Karin Corbett — the former National Coach of the Year’s resume speaks for itself. But there is one other individual in the same ballpark: former Penn Athletic Director Steve Bilsky.

For each of the past eight years, if women’s lacrosse was the royal family sitting atop the Ivy throne, Bilsky was the trusted advisor standing behind it.

He was the man responsible for the longterm success or failure of the program, the man to whom Corbett had to answer.

In other words, he was the program’s safety net.

But all of that’s in the past now.

Bilsky’s out, and first-year Athletic Director Grace Calhoun has replaced him.

Calhoun inherited an athletic department in an unenviable position, one in which its two flagship programs — football and men’s basketball — were both set up for historically poor seasons (at least in recent memory) and followed through with appropriate results in their respective seasons.

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Quakers snap losing streak against Lafayette M. LACROSSE | Senior

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Despite the slippery conditions on Tuesday night, senior attack Nick Doktor slid one goal into the Leopard’s net and recorded two more assists in the Quakers 9-6 win over Lafayette.

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In the slushy Lehigh Valley weather on Tuesday night, Penn men’s lacrosse snapped a two-game skid.

The Quakers pulled out a 9-6 win over Lafayette with some unexpected help from senior midfielder Chris Moriarty, who tallied the first-ever hat trick of his collegiate career.

Penn (3-2) got a solid effort in goal from junior Jimmy

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Sestilio, who made 10 saves and strengthened his case to win what appears to be an upfor-grabs position in net.

Jason Sands scored the first goal of the game for the Leopards, but the Quakers struck twice in quick succession with goals from Moriarty and senior Chris Hupfeldt. After Lafayette evened up the game in the second quarter, Penn struck twice yet again, with Hupfeldt and junior Nick Doktor each finding the net within a minute of one another. Senior Joe McCallion scored just before the half to give the Red and Blue a 5-2 lead heading into the intermission.

The second half started much like the first one ended, with McCallion firing in his second goal of the contest. But the wheels soon came loose for Penn. Sands scored for the second time to make it 6-3 going into the final quarter, and three quick Lafayette goals early in the fourth turned what had been a comfortable Penn lead into a 6-6 tie.

But Moriarty’s heroics would save the Red and Blue from an epic collapse and a third straight loss.

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