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Ride carefully: Bike safety on campus is a three-way street Pedestrians, motorists and cyclists should mind laws of the road

BY JENNIFER WRIGHT Staff Writer What constitutes safe biking depends on who you ask.

The reality is that the strained road relationship between motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians stems from inattention the laws of the road on all sides.

Graduate student Nikos Svoronos was involved in an accident with a car while riding his bike. A driver was making a turn at the intersection of 38th and Spruce Streets, and Svoronos was hit while trying to avoid the driver.

While Svoronos said that West Philadelphia is generally a safe place for cyclists, he called safety on the road “a common sense thing.”

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the Department of Genetics in the Perelman School Sadie Robinson — who co-founded the Penn Bike Commuters group with Health and Societies professor David Barnes — spoke to motorists’ lack of knowledge about the laws,

“There’s definitely a lot of aggression from drivers,” she said.

Vagelos professor David Christianson had a close encounter with a cyclist at the intersection of 34th and Walnut Streets. A cyclist was

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riding on the wrong side of the road riding on a sidewalk in a business district ignoring a stop sign ignoring a traffic light lack of proper equipment Source: Division of Public Safety Graphic by Sophia Lee

making a legal left turn, but nearly sideswiped Christianson while he crossed the street on foot.

“I would be scared to be a cyclist in the city partly SEE BIKES PAGE 5

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Nurses claim that they did not receive pay for overtime

BY ARIEL SMITH Staff Writer A group of registered nurses employed by the hospice division of the University of Pennsylvania Health System are engaged in a lawsuit that may become a class action suit.

According to a report by Law360, a legal news service subsidiary of LexisNexis, a cohort of nurses employed in Penn Medicine’s hospice division claim that they have not received pay for overtime work. Penn Medicine and the Board of Trustees are also involved in the suit.

Class action suits, which group together plaintiffs in a large single case to avoid several individual cases, pursue redress in an economical fashion.

Former registered nurse case manager at the Penn Wissahickon Hospice and named plaintiff Lesley Sayell claimed in a complaint filed on July 8, that she worked more than 40 hours per week during her time of employment at the hospice — but did not receive overtime pay for her labor.

This alleged failed compensation violates the Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act and the Wage Payment and Collection Law which require Penn Wissahickon SEE LAWSUIT PAGE 2

Penn Med ranked among top hospitals in the nation U.S. News also ranked it best in Philadelphia

The exhibit ‘Shared Vision: A Myron and Anne Jaffe Portenar Collection’ was recently installed at the Arthur Ross Gallery. The collection of late twentieth century prints, paintings, photographs and sculptures will be on display starting Saturday, July 19.

Nurses file class action suit against Penn

Penn Medicine hospitals remain no. 1 in Philadelphia region.

U.S. News ranked Penn Medicine as the 7th best hospital in the United States in its annual “Best Hospitals” survey. Penn Medicine hospitals — the only ones in the Philadelphia region — also made the 2014-2015 Honor Roll for the 16th year in a row.

Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of the University of Pennsylvania Health System Patrick Brennan explained his reasoning for the hospital system’s continued success. “I think the things that we do consistently are having a very clear agenda for quality and outcomes. We’ve got a strategic plan that we work on everyday that’s focused on making sure the patients get the right care and that it’s safe care,” he said.

U.S. News recently revised its methodology to diversify ranking measurements. For this year’s survey, it reduced

TOP 10 HOSPITALS NATIONWIDE 1. MAYO CLINIC

2. MASSACHUSSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL 3. JOHN HOPKINS HOSPITAL 4. CLEVELAND CLINIC 5. UCLA MEDICAL CENTER 6. NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLUMBIA AND CORNELL

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the weight on reputational score by ten percent while increasing the weight of patient safety by the same amount. Penn Medicine received a perfect score for patient safety, which played a major role in its increased ranking.

The survey combined results for the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.

According to Brennan, UPHS’ recent addition of Chester County Hospital and Health System did not impact ranking this year.

Graphic by Sophia Lee

Penn Medicine has held an average rank of 10 over the last five years, but according to Brennan, the hospital system focuses on the aspects that it can influence and matter most to the quality of its care.

“Whether patients live or die is really important, so we’re trying to prevent every death we can” he said. “We’re trying to deliver care that’s as safe as possible, so those are the aspects we focus on and we let the ranking system take care of itself.”

Interim director appointed to Office of Student Conduct Julie Lyzinski Nettleton directs the Office of Alcohol and Other Drugs

BY KRISTEN GRABARZ News Editor Director of the Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives Julie Lyzinski Nettleton has been named interim director of the Office of Student Conduct, replacing Michele Goldfarb.

Beginning her interim term on June 16, Nettleton will serve until Goldfarb’s permanent replacement is appointed. She will continue to lead the AOD — where she has worked since 2005 — while serving as interim director of the OSC. “As Director of Alcohol and

Other Drug Program Initiatives, Julie has demonstrated remarkable skill and sensitivity in understanding — and helping to navigate — the challenges faced by our students,” Vice Provost for Education Andrew Binns said in an email.

“This experience will be a great asset to her work in student conduct, as will her close connections to her colleagues in the Division of University Life and around the University, who partner with us every day in advancing student life at Penn.”

The OSC deals with matters of student discipline, including academic integrity issues and other student misconduct.

Currently a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Education, Nettleton holds a MEd

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in human services and counseling from DePaul University and a Bachelors degree magna cum laude in psychology and sociology from the University of Notre Dame.

Former OSC Director Michele Goldfarb held the position since 2012 and from 1996 to 2006. She has accepted a position as a staff attorney on the central legal staff of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Calling her recent post “challenging and new,” Goldfarb said that her thirteen cumulative years as Director of the OSC led her to a point where she “wanted to accept a new challenge with a different kind of job.”

During her time at Penn, Goldfarb also served as director of the Penn Women’s

Center, associate University ombudsman and as an instructor in the School of Law. “The OSC involved a lot of sensitive matters, a lot of confidential matters, and it was demanding in terms of being an educator,” Goldfarb said. “It was very interesting for a very long time. I felt I needed to do something new.”

Binns said that the administration aims to have a permanent director in place by the end of the fall semester.

Though Nettleton’s instatement as OSC Director is temporary, Binns has high hopes for her performance.

“She has begun the job with customary energy and insight, and we look forward to her contributions in the coming year,” Binns said.

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Julie Lyzinski Nettleton (center) will lead the Office of Student Conduct while serving as Director of the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives.

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Couple married in HUP one day before woman’s death Love defined Bill Carroll and Missi Wright’s relationship until the end

BY MADELINE MCCALLUM Staff Writer Marriage is a big step for most couples. For Bill Carroll and Missi Wright, it was a milestone at the top of a mountain.

T he i r d e c i sion t u r ne d Wr ig ht’s Hospit a l of t he University of Pennsylvania room into what could have been a scene from a Nicholas Sparks novel.

Throughout their 11-year relationship, 31-year-old Carroll and 36-year-old Wright opted out of an official marriage because it may have impeded Wright’s healthcare benefits.

“That was the most important thing, that she got the care she needed,” Carroll said.

On Ju ly 2 , Ca r rol l a nd Wr i g ht e xc h a n ge d v ow s in a ceremony in Wright’s streamer-draped hospital room, surrounded by a group of 20 friends and family members.

“It was a ver y touching ceremony,” Director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis program at HUP Denis Hadjiliadis said.

Wright had told her team of doctors that if she had no chance of getting better, she didn’t want to be on a machine all the time. “We discussed the fact that there was no way to make things feel better,” Hadjiliadis said.

On July 3, Wright was taken off the ventilator. She died around 10:25 p.m., holding her husband’s hand.

Wr ig ht w a s d i a g no se d w ith cystic f ibrosis at 7- mont h s old , ac c or d i ng

to her older sister, Rachel Gillis. The youngest Wright sister, Colleen, was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at birth and passed away in 2000 at age 18, only 26 days after her admission to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Hadjiliad is — who was one of the doctors on Wright’s team — called cystic fibrosis a “disease based

percussion treatments to loosen mucus in her daughters’ lungs.

Wright was admitted to H U P on Ju ne 10 a f t er a chest X-ray revealed patches of pneumonia in multiple areas of her lungs. Despite her lung transplant two and a half years ago, Wright’s health continued to decline, Gi l l i s s a id . D o c t or s put Wright on a bilevel positive

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Bill Carroll asked Missi Wright if she wanted to “make this serious, here, in the hospital,” where they posed to show off their wedding bands. on genetics.” However, the disease — which involves a buildup of sticky mucus in the lungs — does not run in Wright’s family. “[My family] didn’t know anything about cystic fibrosis when Missi was born,” said Gillis. “No one in the family had it...we had never heard of it.”

Gillis said that their mother, a single mom, along with other family members, familiarized herself with how to give pills and per for m

airway pressure, or BiPap machine, when she arrived at t he med ic a l i nt ensive care unit on the June 12 “Each day, [she] was gett i n g d r a m at i c a l l y mu c h worse,” Carroll said.

Soon after Wright’s hospitalization, the doctors expressed to Carroll and her family that Wright’s condition was “look ing a little more grim.”

Car roll recalled ask ing Wr ig ht i f she w a nt e d t o “make this serious, here, in

the hospital,” before proposing on June 30.

The couple met in 2003 at a friend’s graduation part y. Car roll said that they “started off slow,” doing the “kind of normal thing any couple would do” before taking their relationship to the next level.

A f ter about a year, the couple moved in together and Wright earned a Bachelor’s degree in healthcare ad ministration at St . Jo seph’s University, all while enduring her illness.

Carroll and Wright continued to live their life as a couple “in the midst of having to deal with her [cystic fibrosis] issues,” Carroll said. They went on trips to the beach and Niagara Falls and also volunteered at cystic fibrosis fundraisers and walks.

A s Wr ig ht’s hea lt h de c l i ne d , t hei r c on ne c t ion translated from romantic vacations to “time spent in the hospital.” Car roll recalled “sitting with [Missi] in the hospital for hours on end, just being there for her support.”

More than a final act of love, Carroll’s proposal was rooted in hope.

“We wanted to do it, but also in an attempt to help boost her moral a little bit, give her something to strive more...give her a little more pr ide in herself,” Car roll said. “ He wa nt ed t o l i f t her spirits and help her continue her fight in the end,” Gillis added. “We didn’t realize that it would be so short.”

Carroll asks that any donations be made to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation or to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

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Nurses in the hospice division of Penn Medicine claim that their employer has violated two Pennsylvania laws with its failure to pay them overtime.

Nurses say they worked over 40 hours LAWSUIT from page 1 Hospice to pay her one and a half times her regular rate for overtime work.

The complaint states that “Defendant Penn Wissahickon Hospice’s unlawful practices, in violation of the PMWA and the WPCL, include its failure to pay the plaintiff class overtime of not less than one and one half times the employees/plaintiff class’s regular rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of 40 hours in a workweek.”

According to the complaint, Sayell began working as a registered nurse case manager in September 2011.

Throughout her employment,

she worked overtime — over 40 hours a week. These hours are documented on time cards, other records and pay statements.

The proposed class of workers encompasses any registered nurse case managers who are currently working for Penn Wissahickon Hospice in Pennsylvania as well as those who worked for the Hospice for three years prior to the filing of suit. In the complaint, Sayell approximates that the proposed class will be greater than 82 individuals.

The plaintiffs are represented by Thomas More Holland of the Law Offices of Thomas More Holland.

T he c o m pl a i nt st at e s that “without a class action [lawsuit], defendant Penn Wissahickon Hospice will likely retain the benefit of its wrongdoing and will continue a course of action which will result in further damages to the plaintiff class.”

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Penn professor questions Christian college accreditation Peter Conn wrote an editorial in the Chronicle of Higher Education

BY ARIEL SMITH Staff Writer In the wake of the Hobby Lobby decision, Americans are ever more conscious of the wall between church and state.

Penn professor of English and Education Peter Conn recently addressed the topic of accreditation in an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education titled “The Great Accreditation Farce.” He argued that the accreditation of religious institutions “systematically undermine[s] the most fundamental purposes of higher education”, which he cites to be “skeptical and unfettered inquiry.”

Accreditation is a process in which agencies “develop evaluation criteria and conduct peer evaluations to assess whether or not those criteria are met,” according to the U.S. Department

of Education.

In postsecondary education, this means that universities must annually appoint diverse committees to conduct internal studies that gauge the quality of the institution in question. The committee assesses the university and recommends improvements in a lengthy, expensive and time-consuming process.

Once a university is accredited, it enjoys a certain level of legitimacy conferred with the title. Additionally, only accredited universities are allowed to offer financial aid to students.

The premise of Conn’s article hinges on the practice of some institutions prioritizing faith over academic freedom.

For example, Christian colleges such as Bryan College in Tennessee and Wheaton College in Illinois require faculty members to complete faith statements — statements that contain phrases such as “We believe that the holy Bible, composed of the Old and New Testaments, is of final and supreme authority in faith and life, and, being inspired by

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Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois requires faculty members to complete faith statements affirming their religious beliefs.

God, is inerrant in the original writings.”

Professor Clauson from Bryan College engaged in the

debate when he wrote a letter to the editor of a campus publication, stating that “Academic freedom is not sacrosanct. It too

must submit to God in a Christian college.”

“Academic freedom is important in the sense that there should be almost nothing that cannot be discussed and analyzed in the classroom,” Clauson said in an email. In order for a Christian college to preserve and protect its values “there must be limits to what a professor believes or presents as ‘truth’”, he said.

Concerning the separation of church and state in federally recognized accreditation programs, Clauson saw no problem, stating that accreditation exists to guide the college in how it does its job, not in what it claims to be truth.

“If the accreditation agencies were to start telling colleges what they can or cannot teach as truth, then that is where there is a Church-State, or more specifically, a religious freedom issue,” Clauson said.

Clauson conceded that although Christian education bases truth on Scripture, it provides a holistic education by

including other ideas and works.

“Einstein was not a Christian.

Does that mean his work was all wrong and to be ignored?

Of course not. That would be absurd.”

Conn does not believe the practice of religious accreditation will change in the near future and sees this as a problem. “[The U.S. Department of Education] ... whether in the hands of Democrats or Republicans, is not about to start a fight with Christian zealots under any conceivable circumstances,” Conn said.

He believes that this wall is slowly but inevitably being dismantled. “Mr. Jefferson would be weeping,” he said. “Scalia and his extremist ideological allies aspire to turn the United States into a theocracy.”

Accreditation has not received much of a national spotlight in the past, but as it dredges up an age-old conflict and is tied to recent, prominent court cases, the involved conversation is likely only beginning to emerge.

Rising senior diagnoses his way down the Brazilian Amazon Luke Wittman spent a week on a medical boat in South America

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hopes to attend med school before pursuing a career in pediatrics.

BY KATHERINE CHANG Staff Writer While some traveled to Brazil to paint their faces and cheer for their home country’s soccer teams, one Penn student found himself floating far from the pitch.

Rising College senior Luke Wittman spent two weeks in Santarem, Brazil, providing free healthcare for impoverished local communities with the non-profit organization Amizade.

During the trip, he spent a week on a medical boat with about 25 students, nurses, doctors, crew members and translators traveling down the Amazon River, treating patients in over 10 different rural communities and sleeping on hammocks.

“It was a trilingual boat. The doctor’s were from Cuba, and so we had people speaking English, Spanish, and Portuguese,” Wittman — who didn’t speak the native language before his departure — said.

“The medical terminology was very different from what they were trying to say... It was frustrating at times, but for the most part, it was actually pretty smooth.”

Because the communities are scattered throughout the rainforest, the group took side trips to smaller communities via speedboat. Other times, groups came to them.

“The communities are extremely rural, poor and impoverished. It’s such a crazy juxtaposition to the cities in the south where they have wealth,” Wittman said of the Brazilian communities. “Every day, we would [visit] two

different communities.”

Because of the size of the staff and the shortage of doctors in Brazil, Wittman and the other students were able to take on tasks beyond their experience in the U.S. Wittman drew blood and performed lab tests for HIV and syphilis. He also served as a pharmacist and dental assistant.

“You [got to] work with the patient from start to finish, and you’re able to give them a diagnosis by the end of it,” Wittman said, noting that although he had to deliver news of HIV or syphilis, the patients’ knowledge of their diagnoses had a “huge impact on them.”

Nights were spent learning about tropical diseases prevalent in the area. Using this information, the group also checked children for trachoma, an easily cured disease that affects about 7 percent of the rural Brazilian population and eventually leads to blindness.

Working with the patients, Wittman was glad to see how appreciative they were to the care.

“There was just a mass of people lined up down the mountain waiting for us before we even got there,” Wittman said. “And that was just cool to see how many people truly appreciated what we were doing, and how vital and necessary it was for them that we were coming.”

Calling Brazil’s system of universal free healthcare something that “looks better on paper that it is in real life,” Wittman said that waitlists

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Wittman found that the sense of community easily overcame the language barrier. In one instance, he wanted to attend a Sunday church service, and had to communicate with the native Brazilians.

“The two biggest aspects of their culture are soccer and faith,” Wittman said. “So when I wanted to go to church that Sunday... I taught him how to say ‘church’ in English.”

In one community, the group came upon a dirt soccer field with crude goals made from

wooden planks and played a pickup game with local kids.

“There was a little fan section sitting on a hill with people from the community,” Wittman said. “It’s cool how you can play a whole game of soccer without knowing your teammates’ language... I felt really connected to the community, even though I was a complete outsider.”

Wittman said that the World Cup’s shadow loomed even in the rural communities he visited. Signs reading “Our kids need food, not futbol,” protested the massive national expenditure.

“Thirty billion dollars could have done a lot for Brazil, and it showed that they did have the money to fix the health-

care problem or the literacy problem,” Wittman said. “But instead, they used it all on the World Cup. There was a lot of controversy surrounding it.”

With that said, national pride was rampant, with each Brazilian game eliciting fireworks and celebrations. Wittman compared game days to “national holidays.”

Wittman — who hopes to go into pediatrics into the future — found his favorite part in the children he treated.

“Obviously I like working a lot more with kids when I can talk with them, joke with them, kid with them in English,” Wittman said. “It makes me very excited to get med school over with so I can actually practice. ”

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Bursting the comfort bubble A VET-TED MIND | The benefits outweigh the hindrances when considering traveling abroad

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ummer is in f ull sw ing — hot days, fireworks and friends traveling — which is why a recent thought began nagging at me.

Nearly everyone I know is doing one of three things this summer: internships, staying with family or working. I only know a handful who are doing any real traveling, and even then only one or two who have left the country. It seems more people are content to hide within their security blankets and pretend the rest of the world doesn’t exist. Listening to people respond to my inquiries made me realize it boiled down to a couple of issues: time, money and fear.

Time and money I understand. Time is a huge issue, since for most of us in the workforce, time off is time we’re not getting paid for.

However, that’s also a failure

of our country. The United States is the only industrialized nation that has no statutory right to paid vacations.

Canada and Japan both guarantee at least 10 days, while France gives a whopping 30.

Studies have even shown a cor relation bet ween paid time off and improved mental health and productivity, and still the States hasn’t changed.

L et’s say we a re luck y enough to have a job that gives us a week paid vacation. How are we going to afford it? Here is where many people — my father included — tend to rationalize staying in the country by saying, “Why should I go somewhere else when the U.S. has everything I need?” There is some validity to this point, as the nation has everything from forests to deser ts, mountains to beaches. That said,

I feel the decision is based more on fear than money.

Because honestly, the extra money you’ll spend is insignificant to the experiences you’ll have. For instance, you could spend $1,400 on a trip to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park in California for some hiking and amazing scenery. Or you could shell out another $600 and go to Peru and take a tour to Machu Picchu, a 15th-century Inca site located 7,970 feet above sea level. And if you are lucky enough to make it up Huayna Picchu, neither the view nor the feeling of awe are something you’ll ever forget in your lifetime.

This brings me to fear. I believe this is the single most important reason people refuse to leave the United States.

What’s even worse is that this fear is due to Hollywood and the U.S. government. Between

the two you would believe that every country out there is either harboring terrorists who would like nothing better than

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By traveling outside our comfort zone we open ourselves to new experiences and cultures that may surprise us.”

to kill or kidnap you, or criminal organizations that will abduct you for money, put you to work in the sex trade or sell your organs on the black market. This is, of course, provided your plane makes it safely to your destination. From Jan. 9 to June 30, the U.S. Depart-

ment of State issued 34 travel advisories, covering countries on every continent except Antarctica. This fear mongering is ridiculous.

By traveling outside our comfort zone we open ourselves to new experiences and cultures that may surprise us. This leads to learning new things about the world, as well as ourselves.

When I was staying in Japan I went with some friends to a Shinto shrine. I hadn’t even heard of Shintoism before, but the experience stirred something w ithin me and over time I actually adopted Shintoism. It is these comf or t bub ble - bu r st i ng e xperiences that I find to be lacking in many Americans.

So I urge all of you to take advantage of your time here at Penn. There are a multitude of programs enabling students to go abroad. Make

SHAWN KELLEY friends with other students from around the world and see about possibly setting up house tours — where everybody stays a couple days or more at one friend’s house, seeing sites and lear ning cultures, before moving onto the next location. You would have something to talk about in essays and interviews for your entire life. Call or write your local senator or house rep and ask them why we’re behind the rest of the world in statutory vacation days.

Fair winds and safe travels, my friends.

SHAWN KELLEY is an LPS sophomore from San Diego studying English and Japanese.

His email address is skelley@sas. upenn.edu.

The rally behind equal pay BRITISH CURRENCY | How Wimbledon draws a spotlight on the blurred lines of sexism in sports

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t f inally happened.

Christmas came early.

Well, ish.

Basically, my father won two tickets to Wimbledon from a ballot he wasn’t aware he’d entered. He considered them fairly rubbish tickets, so he gave them to me. Last Thursday, I finally found myself doing “the wave” in the audience of No. 1 Court struggling to balance my time between applause and picnic.

They were fairly rubbish tickets, as it happened, but I was content.

The matches we got were all doubles. They were fastpaced and there were volleys galore. I sipped my cider and cheered and got sunburnt and was delighted.

Controversially, par t of my delight came from relief that the games we got were men’s. I really dislike myself for it but, generally, I’m not that interested in women’s

tennis. And it’s not just because Nadal has a tendency to take his shirt off when he wins.

Don’t get me wrong, women’s tennis can be great.

But, as a spectator sport, the game is less likely to deliver.

Take this year’s final. Kvitova played brilliant, breathtaking tennis, all credit to her. But, though the style was there, the match wasn’t.

Bouchard was hammered in 55 minutes of 6-3 6-0.

Honestly, if you were off e r e d a c ho ic e b e t w e e n watching an hour of pulverization, or the four hours and five nail-biting sets of the Djokovic/Federer final, which ticket would you pay for?

Well, I know what I would answer, so I have been struggling to work out my opinion on the equal pay debate.

For years, Wimbledon had argued that women’s matches held less com mercia l

value as they were only best of three sets, rather than best of five. Handing female players less prize money was therefore justifiable, they said.

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I believe that Wimbledon has a responsibility as a high-profile event to set an example for how things ought to be in the rest of the world.”

In 2007, meeting the standards of the U.S. and Australian Opens, they brought in equal pr ize money for men and women at all round levels. Feminism cheered wholeheartedly.

Women put in the same

amount of passion into tennis as men do. They dedicate their lives to the game in the same way as men; they pay for their trainers in the same way; they are charged the same amount as men to fly to the Grand Slams and to stay in hotels near the tournaments. They sacrifice as much in their lives — biology just means that they can’t play five-set matches. We’re not built for them, and surely women should not have to pay financially for athletic inequality.

Yet pay ment ba sed on ef for t rather than on re sults almost feels slightl y p at r o n i z i n g , a n d t h e rationalist within me really understands the counter-argument. Kvitova and Djokovic each received roughly $3 million this year; one played 15 sets of tennis in the entire tournament, the other played 27. The math doesn’t add up, and don’t we all want

to be judged by the same standards?

Now, however, I tell my inner rationalist to shut up.

I get the argument completely. I even find myself debating in line with it often enough. But the issue isn’t really a matter of argument.

Equa l pay shou ld not be about rationality. It is a matter of principle.

I bel ieve t hat W i mble don has a responsibility as a high-profile event to set an example for how things ought to be in the rest of the world. Equal pay ought to be the norm ever y where. We are all people; being judged by the same standards matters, but having the same opportunities matters more.

Well, speaking for equality is obvious; I think my main aim is to express my confusion over where to stand. I am disturbed by the fact that it even occurs to me to think in line with the rationale

MELISSA LAWFORD against equal pay.

But really, commercial value does have to be taken out of the question completely.

The debate is colored by discussions about sexism. And if it is going to be a conversation about gender divides, Wimbledon, as such a prestigious tournament, must consider this a matter of ethics.

A policy of equality must be the ultimate message. If we lived in a world where equal pay in everything was a complete and basic principle of day-to - day life, we really could all be judged on our results rather than our efforts.

MELISSA LAWFORD is an exchange College junior from the University of Edinburgh studying English literature. Her email address is melkalawford@ hotmail.co.uk.

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SUMMER SPOTLIGHT

Street: Any scandals between the high schoolers yet? I hope you haven’t witnessed many DFMOs...or worse...

RS: Scandals? Well, we look to avert any potential situations. We’ve found students in the basement doing “laundry” at 5:00 AM, and

BY CAROLYN GRACE Rising Sophomore Raina Searles is training the future wolves of Wall Street at the National Student Leadership Conference in New York. Oh, and she’s taming boa constrictors on the side.

awkward, but we generally put an end to any scandalous activities before they happen. Though, there was one kid with a hickey on the last day....

Street: LOL. Hormones are hilarious. So, what’s the coolest thing that’s happened to you so far?

RS: I have two answers to this! Easily, the coolest thing that happened to me was the chance to hold a boa constrictor around my shoulders in Battery Park and not pay any money to do so. Who doesn’t love free? The second—

Street: Heard you’re doing something cool this summer! What are you doing?

RS: I am working as an Assistant Team Advisor with the National Student Leadership Conference for their business and entrepreneurship programs. Basically, I help lead a team of 14 to 16 high school students through a business simulation and a product pitch. I also take students on various NYC tours like Wall Street and Times Square, plan super fun socials, and then act as an RA at night since we are staying in college dorms.

Street: What kinds of business simulations do your teams do?

RS: We have two big simulations: CapSim and the product pitch. For CapSim, the students act as a management team for a cell phone company and have to make executive decisions for Research and Development, Marketing, Production, and Finance. As a TA, I help them out and make sure they understand the material, but my focus is on them learning for themselves. I’ll ask questions and try to get them to think through their decisions, especially if I see them going down the wrong direction. For the product pitch, the students devise their own product (whether an invention or an innovation), write up a business plan, and present their full pitch in 10 minutes to the entire group as potential investors. In a “Shark Tank” type of situation, we ask them sure they all understand their product as well.

Street: What socials do you plan for the students?

RS: We do the same socials for each session of students. First, there

Street: Wait. Stop right there. A boa!? How did this happen and how were you not strangled to death??

RS: I love to try to new and exotic things! We passed by this guy is Birthday Cake and Board Games (more fondly known as Cake and Games). The title basically says it all – there are assorted games to play, we sing “Happy Birthday” to whoever has a birthday that session, and blast dance music that the kids are into these days. Then, there’s Casino Night, complete with mocktails and a small roulette wheel. My favorite is the Light Up the City Social on the last night. It is just dancing and good music. All the students are super close by the end of the program, so everyone just lets loose and has fun!

Street: I want the deets: are the dorms at Yale and Fordham nicer than the ones at Penn? a schnazzy basement complete with a huge TV room, computer lab, laundry machines, and a buttery! Fordham’s basement is less exciting, but the rooms have carpet and are pretty nice.

when we walked back the same way, I asked if it cost money to hold the snake. The guy called it a donation of $5, but he said I could hold it for free. Sounds sketch, but I was with a group. The snake was so chill, but I wasn’t exactly moving around a lot because I didn’t know how he’d react.

Street: Have you learned anything new about business and entrepreneurship through your position?

RS: I have! At Yale, our lecture professor was Dr. Steven Rogers from and shared his own business experiences. At Fordham, we have Professor Regis Clifford from St. John’s University lecturing on the basics of business, social media, and management. We also have leaderand how to be your best self. I learn so much from the simulations and lectures, but more than anything, I learn every day from the students and my fellow staff members!

From Eagle and Raven to Shared Vision The Arthur Ross Gallery, located inside of the Fisher Fine Arts Library, worked on the deinstallation of their exhibit, “On the Wings of Eagle and Raven” to make room for the installation of “Shared Vision: The Myron A. and Anne Jaffe Portenar Collection”. The exhibition will open on Saturday, July 19.

Upper Left: Students from the Penn Museum check to make sure that all of the artifacts from “Eagle and Raven” are in good condition as part of the deinstallation process.

Upper Right: Arthur Ross Gallery Director, Lynn Marsden-Atlass looks over the art from the Portenar Collection.

Bottom Right: The “Shared Vision” entryway is painted Bottom Left: A student from the Penn Museum checks the condition of an artifact from “Eagle and Raven”.

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WORD ON THE STREET: Sometimes I Go to the Movies By Myself And you can, too.

BY CASSANDRA KYRIAZIS Every now and then, something terrible happens. I see a trailer for a movie, and I become obsessed with seeing said movie. I then text everycares enough to see the movie in theaters.

This realization leaves me at a crossroads: I can either suck it up and not see the movie until it ies end up these days, or I can go alone. Alone, as in buying a ticket by myself, sitting by myself, and watching the movie by myself.

Except going to the movies by yourself is considered a weird and socially stunted thing to do.

Especially here. Going to The Rave by yourself?

Talk about the opposite of SABS-ing.

Then, one day while facing this dilemma in regards to seeing “The Amazing Spider-man 2,” I started to take apart the issue. Why is going to the movies by yourself such a weird thing to do?

People aren’t supposed to talk during movies.

Going with someone else usually just means you three hour window.

So I’ve started doing this new thing: sometimes I do go to the movies by myself. I get to pick the time because I don’t have another person’s sched-

ule to work around. I like to go around lunchtime if I can. Usually I stop and grab some cheaper food, hide it in my bag, and then sit where I want in the theater.

And then this great thing happens; everything about being at the movies suddenly seems easier.

I don’t have to look for two seats together, or worry about someone else’s armrest, or pretend to care about the commentary of the person I came with.

So just hear me out, maybe going to the movies time you see them, are supposed to be personal experiences where you get lost in the story, become friends with the characters, and forget about where you are. You don’t need other people to do that.

And even if you do run into someone you know, just act like you haven’t done anything strange. don’t let some illogical social stigma stop you from enjoying the magic of the movies.

It’s okay to go to the movies by yourself, goddammit.

(Unless you’re trying to see that new Transformers movie, you should lie and say someone else made you see that s***.)

ALBUM REVIEW: “NO FOOLS, NO FUN” – PUSS N BOOTS

BY CAROLYN GRACE Sometimes the best ingredients don’t make the best product, and Norah Jones’ forgettable debut album as part of indie girl group Puss n Boots is no exception.

Meet Puss n Boots – not the fairytale character, but the band comprised of Grammy award-winner Norah Jones, singer-songwriter Sasha Dobson, and The trio formed back in 2008, playing informal gigs in Brooklyn bars and other small venues around New York. Their debut album, No Fools, No Fun, is a mixture of their live performances and studio recordings, be it original songs or covers by Tom Paxton and Neil Young.

Although the band has casual origins, the talent of its musicians is far from blasé. From the opening track “Leaving London,” Jones, Dobson, and Popper demonstrate a great blend of voice and instrument.

It is unfortunate that the album plateaus from there. Even in the mere transition from slower to faster songs, No Fools, No Fun fails to capture the listener’s attention. The tracks all have a similar crooning melody, tight harmonies, and strumming guitars. It sounds lovely, but not distinguishable.

Perhaps the lack of a clear-cut genre is what waters down the album’s intrigue. A confused iTunes categorizes No Fools, No Fun under Americana, Jazz, Alternative Country, Rock, Adult Alternative, Jones is as wonderful to listen to as ever – especially on “Jesus, Etc.” – her soft, jazz style seems out of

place on tracks that veer more towards twangy folk.

Clearly, Puss n Boots has some decisions to make about what type of band it wants to be. ate summary of it all. No Fools, No Fun is an easylistening album that you will like in the moment, but soon forget once it stops playing.

Grade: B Download: Jesus, Etc. Sounds best when: You’re sitting in a waiting room.

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A glass of wine a day won’t keep the doctor away Study contradicts findings that alcohol can be healthy

BY EMILY OFFIT Staff Writer Penn faculty contributed to a study that found that a glass of wine with dinner may not be as healthy as most people believe.

The study, which was published on July 11, in the British Medical Journal, was led by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine along with University College London and Penn.

Researchers analyzed 56 d if ferent epidemiolog ical studies and examined over 260,000 individuals of Euro-

pean descent. They found that reducing alcohol consumption is actually beneficial for cardiovascular health.

The study looked specifically at a variation in the ADH1B allele, a variation which leads people to consume 17 percent less British units of alcohol per week. A British unit of alcohol is about eight grams of pure alcohol per drink, compared to 14 grams per drink in the United States.

The authors found that people with the distinctive allele were less likely to binge drink, had a smaller body mass index and had 10 percent less of a risk of coronary heart disease. From this information, they concluded in the abstract of the study that the “reduction of

alcohol consumption, even for light to moderate drinkers, is beneficial for cardiovascular health.”

Co -lead author Michael Holmes, a research assistant professor in the department of Transplant Surgery at the Perelman School of Medicine, hopes that people will change their drinking strategy after reading this study.

“It is important to take our understanding to the next level,” Holmes said. “For those of us who have one glass of wine or beer thinking that it is good for their heart, perhaps will change their approach because evidence now suggests otherwise.”

Some were hesitant to apply the assumption that this study made to the entire pop-

ulation. By taking a statistical approach rather than performing a randomized trial, this study only looks at people with this allele variation and many argue that these individuals might have healthier hearts for a different reason.

Yet, Holmes assures that they did look into other DNA markers for all possible explanations for this decrease in the risk for heart disease.

“There is a limitation in observational studies, that people might actually be healthier in other perspectives” Holmes conceded. “But with this study, we also looked across the DNA to see if there could be an alternative explanation and we didn’t find any evidence of that, so we are very confident in our results.”

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Bike safety is a shared responsibility BIKES from page 1 because of the cars and partly because of the other cyclists,” Christianson said.

When Christianson filed a concern with the Division of Public Safety about the incident, Penn Police maintained that they issue citations to cyclists violating traffic laws.

Fines range from $55.50 to $137.50.

“It’s a lawful order that’s meant to protect the community,” Vice President of Public Safety Maureen Rush said of the laws in place for cyclists, adding that DPS enforces traffic laws for everybody on the road. “When there are people parked in the bike lane, we will ticket them and we will chase them.”

It’s easy to turn bike safety into a blame game, but DPS said that safety is a shared responsibility.

“In an accident, the car is going to be the one to blame and that’s not always necessarily true,” Wistar Institute research assistant Patricia Reyes — who cycles between campus and Fairmount — said.

“A lot of cyclists have to defend themselves against rules that they believe target them unfairly,” Robinson said.

As the laws stands, bicycles are considered vehicles and held to the same traffic laws as motor vehicles — apart from being banned from highways.

In Philadelphia it is illegal to ride a bike on the sidewalk if you’re under 12 years old — an infraction carrying a fine of $57 in a business district, according to the Division of Public Safety On Penn’s campus, bikes are not allowed on Locust Walk and other campus walkways during the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Robinson said that the restrictions placed on campus biking are not productive for encouraging ridership, however. She suggested either including a bike lane on the campus walks or just allowing bikes and creating clear sig-

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Bicycles are safer parked than on the streets. Even though bike safety can turn into a blame game between motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians, DPS said that safety is a shared responsibility. nage to instruct pedestrians and cyclists.

DPS expressed their commitment to issuing warnings first and actively educating everyone in the community about bicycle safety practices.

Cyclists driving recklessly and repeat offenders may face more aggressive penal actions like traffic tickets.

“We give a ton of warnings out, we try to educate people,” Rush said.

Pennsylva nia passed a law in April 2013 mandating a 4-foot buffer be given to cyclists when vehicles pass them on roads. Additionally, by law bikes are allowed to use the entire road lane even if a bike lane exists, and cars must yield to both pedestrians and bikes traveling straight when attempting to turn right.

Robinson noted a marked improvement in road behavior during her six years biking in the city, crediting the growing number of cyclists and awareness in Philadelphia.

DPS, in collaboration with groups like the Undergraduate Assembly, PennCycle, MERT and the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, among others, hosts the Share the Road campaign that kicks off annually in the fall.

The UA has a committee dedicated to bicycle safety that has worked with Student Health Services on their re-

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search involving concussions from bike accidents. They have also advocated to extend the bike lanes on campus. “[The UA] is serving as a facilitator for efficient communication between these organizations,” rising College junior Aidan McConnell — who worked extensively on bicycle safety initiatives on the UA this past semester.

University City is a part of Philadelphia’s bike share program, which is expected

to begin in 2015, according to the city’s website. With the expected increased population of cyclists, DPS has increased their efforts to educate the public about safety issues in tandem with the growing number of accidents.

“We could have a thousand police officers out there and it wouldn’t be enough,” Rush said, saying DPS would rather encourage people to take their personal safety seriously than issuing traffic tickets.

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O’Bannon lawsuit raises issues HIGGINS from page 8 In statements made at the hearing, Emmert acknowledged the need to “d r ive much-needed refor m a nd address many of the concerns that surround intercollegiate athletics.” In his opinion, these reforms, however, do not include revising student-athletes status as employees.

Emmert said that he disagreed with this principle on the basis that the students are pr imar ily enrolled at their respective institutions to receive an education. He estimated that if Division I football and men’s basketball players were to receive benefits it would likely be between “$120,000 to $180,000 or more” per year.

Penn’s new Athletic Director, Grace Calhoun, agrees.

“I have never been in favor of [paying collegiate athletes],” she says.

While a ruling in favor of O’Bannon would certainly be groundbreaking for Division I athletics, of which Penn is a part, not much will change for Penn student-athletes.

As a member of the Iv y League, Penn does not offer athletic scholarships. Thanks to Penn’s hefty endowment, all students, athletes included, receive the same needblind financial aid.

“It’s a question that we don’t have to worr y about here without having scholarships and with the approach we take to athletics,” said Calhoun.

In all of the hullaballoo surrounding the O’Bannon trial, the storyline of the college athlete seeing their jer-

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Calhoun hopes to improve branding

sey being sold for upwards of $100 in the campus bookstore while they can’t afford their next meal has become almost a cliche. If anything, this trend proves that there is a real gap between the reward given from athletic scholarships and the actual cost of attending a university.

But Penn’s bookstore does not sell a single player’s jersey, nor do any of our sports generate the same level of revenue as the nation’s marquee prog rams. F rank lin Field and the Palestra are rarely — if ever — full on game days, the Ivy League does not have its ow n cable sports network, nor are the majority of the Ancient Eight’s athletic endeavors ever televised.

Quite frankly, that’s okay.

Penn is, first and foremost, an academic institution. Athletes here do not use their time playing for the red and the blue as a stepping stone to the pros. Rather, athletes come to Penn to be studentathletes.

And Calhoun is okay with this too. “My interest in getting into athletics was always from the standpoint of how it develops young men and women and offering these educationally rich experiences,” she said.

“Certainly when you look at BCS programs and the revenue sports, it’s clearly a very challenging environment right now with what’s coming in and what’s coming out and how they feel they’re caught,” said Calhoun.

“I’m happy to not have those issues.”

CALHOUN from page 8 disposal, Calhoun is optimistic about the change she can help enact in her first year at Penn.

“I think what I can say at this point is that I do want to make some visible statements that we will be moving ahead,” Cal-

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Former Athletic Director Steve Bilsky leaves behind freshly renovated facilities and a wealth of succesful programs to successor Grace Calhoun.

DP: What was the reaction from the rest of the coaching staff when you told them you were moving on?

JP: They were thrilled for me. I told them a little bit after the season ended that

DP: What was it like working with Jerome Allen as part of that new staff of assistants he brought in?

JP: It was fantastic. I knew coach Allen before because I coached his son and taught

his daughter at Friends’ Central. So I knew him in more of a non-professional setting, so getting an opportunity to coach – as he would say with him, not for him -with him was great. From an Xs and Os stand-point, I learned more than I think I had in the previous six years coaching high school basketball in the two years I was there. He’s a really good person and he really just wants what’s best for the guys at the end of the day. I learned a whole lot.

DP: What’s your relationship like w ith Coach Pera and Coach Bow man since you went through that same experience together?

JP: I still talk to them every week, if not every other week.

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Student apathy has been a nationwide issue in the past decades and Penn has been no exception.

The Line, one of Penn basketball’s traditions in which students sleep overnight outside the Palestra to get season tickets, has seen great decline in recent years after being one of the defining events for Penn basketball during its heyday.

Though just like the rest of the challenges she faces in her first year as Athletic Director, Calhoun plans to take a measured and patient approach.

“One thing that I know from having been through a transition once before is that you don’t want to come in and ‘ready, shoot, aim’,“ Calhoun said.

The opening weeks of Calhoun’s reign are now coming to an end and there has been very little opportunity for change to be made, yet the new Athletic Director’s goals are clear.

“Much as President Gutmann is doing with the campus and trying to elevate things to a higher level of excellence, we want to do the same things with athletics.”

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While that ‘flaw’ doesn’t make Bilsky a failure, it could be exactly where Calhoun excels. She will need to fundraise just as well as Bilsky did (if not better) but creating a connection with the student body is what fuels an athletic department years down the road.

It’s simple: make a lasting impression on current students and student-athletes now by making athletics an essential part of their time at Penn and they become your donor base in the future. Fail to reach them now and athletics will slowly lose donations down the road.

So if Calhoun can get athletics back to being a definitive part of the Penn experience, she will have done her job as well as made her successor’s job a lot easier.

It is impossible to make true judgments on Calhoun from her short time at Loyola nor will we know if she is truly a success or failure at Penn within the next few years. But with her early focus on the student experience, it is hard not to be optimistic about what lies ahead for Penn Athletics.

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DP: Did any of the events surrounding the team around the time of your departure involving Tony Bagtas, Julian Harrell and Henr y Brooks have anything to do with your decision?

JP: No, that was separate.

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houn said. “We will be elevating the caliber of our programs and certainly looking to contend for championships in all sports.”

In doing so, Calhoun sees the branding of Penn as one of the primary areas that the Athletic department can improve.

The numerous facilities renovations in the past handful of years have served to improve the overall appearance of athletics at Penn, though Calhoun acknowledges that there is work to do in terms of improving the relationship between the student body and the student-athletes.

Involvement key to new AD’s legacy

I was interested in becoming a Division-III head coach and they fully supported me in my decision. Coach Allen made a phone call for me to Earlham and said some great things that I can only assume helped my position to get the job. They’re still helpful, still recommending players to me and making connections for me. They were great. Again, it was a win-win because it gave Mike [Lintulahti] an opportunity to step into a role with a little bit more responsibility and a role that we think he’s going to be great in.

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Calhoun views it as “a national issue” and that is very true. But on something that affects many schools, how do you address it at one school in particular?

“It’s certainly something that’s going to require creativity and a concerted effort,” Calhoun said.

“Gone are the days when you can say we’re going to announce an event and people will come.”

But Calhoun’s mindset seems to be the perfect one to reverse this startling trend.

“I continue to say that for me, I believe it starts with getting students educated and exposed from their first days on campus,” she said, “so you can certainly expect that we’re going to have a presence around freshman orientation.”

Bilsky had all the talent in the world at reaching out to donors and getting big renovations underway (It’s no wonder Penn Athletics surpassed its fundraising goal for FY14) but he didn’t make the necessary connection with the student body that any

STEVEN TYDINGS is a rising Wharton junior from Hopewell, N.J., and is the senior sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

I think the players that are coming back combined with the players who are coming in is the exact fit and the exact kind of culture that they’re trying to create. These are the guys for it. I really do think they’re going to surprise a lot of people. There’s some people, coming into this season, with a negative outlook or two on Penn basketball because it’s been down the past few years. I really do think this is going to be a great group of guys who are moving in the right direction.

I’m going to be upset when I wasn’t there for the ride when they’re on their way to an Ivy League championship.

I’m going to be upset that I missed it, but I’m going to be cheering for them every day.

ing away from coaching in the Ivies, what do you think of the balance of power the past few seasons? What do you think Harvard has done the past few years to take that next step forward?

JP: It’s the ebbs and flows of the Iv y Leag ue. At one point it was Cornell, for the longest point it was Penn and Princeton. It’s just what’s the f lavor of the week, I guess you could say. Right now it’s Harvard, but in my eyes it’s only a matter of time before it’s someone else, and I think it’s going to be Penn. I’m a little biased, but I think it’s going to be Penn. Credit to them and obviously to coach Amaker for what they’ve been able to accomplish, but I truly believe that every program has their time and this has been Harvard’s time.

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THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2014

Dilemma of studentathletes

Dawn of a new era New AD Grace Calhoun hopes to make a statement for Penn Athletics

BY HOLDEN McGINNIS Sports Editor It’s a new era for Penn Athletics.

For the first time in nearly two decades, the office at the end of Weightman Hall has a new tenant.

Nearly three and a half months after her position was announced, new Athletic Director Grace Calhoun began her term at the beginning of July. Calhoun had previously been the Athletic Director at Loyola University Chicago and is Penn’s first female athletic director.

With the departure of Steve Bilsky, Calhoun’s predecessor, Penn Athletics finds itself at a unique crossroads. While some sports have been highly successful, others find themselves in funks unbefitting of Penn’s tradition.

Calhoun is now tasked with finding the right direction for the athletics program and navigating it into a new age.

As one of very few non-Penn-affiliated athletic directors, Calhoun believes she will have a different perspective, but also a unique set of challenges in transitioning to the new environment.

“As a non-alum, there’s a lot more that I need to observe and understand, but yet one of the things I made clear in exploring the job is that I think it’s a real advantage for me that I’ve been at seven institu-

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tions,” Calhoun said.

“I’ve seen a lot of different ways of doing things. I’ve been sensitized to the fact that certain things just can’t be cookie-cuttered and smacked down in a different environment and be made to work.”

Calhoun’s experience and attitude toward student-athletes will be an important aspect in defining her presence as athletic director.

The Brown graduate has worked in assorted roles in athletics since graduating, with roles at Florida,

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n July 1, Penn Athletics underwent the proverbial ‘passing of the torch,’ with Dr. Grace Calhoun taking over for Steve Bilsky as Athletic Director.

There was no fanfare. No big overpriced ceremony. But there was no need for any of that. That’s because Calhoun doesn’t seem to be seeking

the spotlight and instead is simply getting down to work.

While it is hard to deny that her predecessor has left his mark at Penn — all you need to do is look around and see renovations to the Palestra and Franklin Field or the scenic Penn Park to know that — Calhoun seems ready to bring a good kind of change to the University.

For many people, Calhoun’s legacy, at least in the early going, will be inexorably linked to her decisions on Penn basketball and coach Jerome Allen in the next couple years.

And while this is an overly simplistic view of her tenure (men’s basketball is just one of 33 sports and has fewer than two dozen athletes), how the new AD handles a program whose struggles are well-

documented will be an important test, especially after how swiftly she dealt with similar problems at Loyola University Chicago.

While talking with the DP, Calhoun seems to have a solid grasp on what she, and Penn Athletics as a whole, needs to do to turn things around while placing the pressure on whom it belongs: coach Allen.

“At the end of the day, that’s going to be up to coach Allen to [position the program for success],” Calhoun said. “But certainly he understands that there will be a top-down commitment to doing everything we can to position the program.

“To his credit again, he certainly knows that most of the weight will fall on his shoulders.”

As it should. While Penn should be

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throwing strong support behind its program, the coach of any program is the person responsible for its success at the end of the day.

But Penn basketball is ultimately a small part of what Calhoun should and will be focusing on as the head of a department that can have a widereaching effect on Penn student’s lives.

In reality, as much as this writer would wish otherwise, there are very few people on campus that seem to care about Penn basketball … or Penn Athletics in general. And what will truly define any AD coming into a job at this point in the 21st century will be how they deal with this issue of student apathy.

s of July 11, the fate of amateurism in Division I collegiate athletics rests in the hands of one woman: U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken.

Wilken is expected to issue her ruling on the O’Bannon v. NCA A antitrust lawsuit within the month. If she rules in favor of the NCAA, collegiate athletes will maintain their status as amateurs.

If she rules in favor of the plaintiff, former UCLA basketball player and 1995 national champion Ed O’Bannon, the case will open the door for athletes in major revenue-generating sports, namely men’s basketball and football, to receive monetary compensation.

A ruling in favor of O’Bannon would allow players to profit from licensing deals with their schools, telecasters, athletic conferences and v ideo game manufacturers for using their names, images or likenesses. The nature of such a ruling has different consequences than those of Northwestern v. National Labor Relations Board, in which the plaintiff argues that student-athletes in Division I football and men’s basketball should be treated as paid employees.

The compensation that could result from a favorable O’Bannon ruling could help defray the actual cost of attending college, which many student-athletes claim is much higher than the value of their athletic scholarship.

This disparity in cost was hotly debated last Wednesday when NCA A President Mark Emmert testified before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee chaired by Sen. Jay Rockefeller.

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Though she had to wait a few months to take office after her position was announced in March, Athletic Director Grace Calhoun has now started to adjust to her new role. Calhoun hopes to enact significant change during her first year, primarily in terms of campus involvement.

Dartmouth and Indiana.

Though her first few weeks on the job have been filled with meetings with coaches and familiarizing herself with the personnel at her

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Calhoun ready to bring positive change

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THE BUZZ: Q&A

Q&A with former men’s hoops assistant Jason Polykoff

BY HOLDEN MCGINNIS From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ After spending the past two years as an assistant coach for Penn men’s basketball, Jason Polykof f is moving on to become the head coach at D-III Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. The Daily Pennsylvanian caught up with Polykoff to discuss his move to Earlham, his time with Penn Basketball and the future of the program.

Daily Pennsylvanian: How would you describe your time on the Penn coaching staff and how that helped you develop as a coach?

Jason Polykoff: It’s hard to say in a few lines all the things that I think I learned from coach Allen and the rest of the coaching staff. As far as tangible items, I could go on and on, but at the end of the day, it was just an invaluable experience to get to coach at a Division-I school in my home town and an Ivy League school with such history. It’s an experience that I would never

have passed up in a million years.

Even though we didn’t see a ton of success on the scoreboard — because I get that question a lot, would you still have done it? I was fortunate enough to have some success in [the] high school [level]. I say every time in a heartbeat. I would not have passed up that experience for anything.

DP: What was the reasoning behind your move to Earlham?

JP: It was a couple reasons.

One, you can only remain an unpaid volunteer assistant for so long. That was part of it, but not at all the biggest reason. I played Division-III basketball and I have a strong connection with the Division-III philosophy.

I wouldn’t say it was the ultimate goal when I came to Penn, but it developed into a goal of mine to become a Division-III head coach. Of course, I wanted to run my own program again like I had in high school and this opportunity came about and it presented itself. I applied for it and I got it so I was really excited.

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With the opportunity to achieve his goal of becoming a Division-III coach, Jason Polykoff (left) moved on from Penn basketball to take a job as the head coach at Earlham College. Polykoff was a D-III basketball player for Haverford College and has always felt strong ties to the philosophy at that level.

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