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On September 9, 2014, University of Pennsylvania hosted an event for the Mayor’s Scholars. The event served to introduce fellow recipients of the honor to one another as well as to faculty, whom honorees can draw upon for support. The reception had several speakers, each introducing different communities present, including Glenn Bryan, representing the office of Penn President Amy Gutman, and Mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter.
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In 2011, Holly Fetter joined Resource Generation after experiencing a conflicting sense of identity over her wealth. The apparent contradiction between her class background and political identity led Fetter to become involved with Resource Generation, a national nonprofit organization of wealthy young people who hope to create a more equitable distribution of resources and power. RG turns its ideology into practice by collectively donating to charities across the country. On Monday night, the Philadelphia chapter held a private meeting for prospective members. Kate Poole, one of the leaders of the local chapter, said that many of the 15 attendees identified as students from local colleges, including Penn. “The potential members wanted to learn more about how to leverage their resources for social justice, to talk more about issues of wealth and class and to find community,” Poole said. With 12 chapters across the country, RG is now looking to grow its membership base by targeting college students. Sarah Burgess, one of the leaders of the Philadelphia chapter, said that many college-aged people “start to question what it means to have wealth and deal with the possible guilt of not knowing what to do about it.” RG has begun reaching out to students at Brown University, Barnard College and Vassar College. Colleges are ideal places to center the organization, not only due to the concentration of ideological young people, Fetter said, but also because universities tend to be embedded in lowincome neighborhoods. “Universities like Penn that are next to these types of
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Task force targeted summer retail theft AlliedBarton guards were stationed outside of five campus retail locations JOE LI Staff Writer
Over the summer, store managers at American Apparel and Urban Outfitters finally had to worry a bit less about shoplifters. The Division of Public Safety established a retail theft task force to combat the typically high level of retail theft during summer months. There were five retails thefts in total this past summer, as opposed to 20 in 2013 and 13 in 2012, according to statistics from DPS. For the past few years, DPS had taken measures to fight against theft during the summer, but it devoted more resources to the effort this year. The retail theft task force was mainly made up of AlliedBarton guards standing in front of retail stores and Penn Police officers on patrol around the blocks near those stores. “Our world is about crime analysis every day,” Vice President of Public Safety Maureen Rush said. DPS conducted analysis on retail thefts in the past and chose five store locations to deploy guards: Blue Mercury and American Apparel, both near 36th and Walnut streets, Urban Outfitters on 36th and Sansom streets, and the two CVS stores, on 39th and Walnut and 34th and Walnut streets. The guards stood visibly at those locations from open to close, and they were required to sign in on a police patrol log kept by the store owner every day. Penn police officers on patrol also walked into the stores and signed the patrol log unannounced.
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City politicians strike deal on pot decriminalization Possession of small amounts would lead to $25 fine, not arrest ESTHER YOON Staff Writer
In the near future, having a little bit of weed in your pocket while strolling the streets of Philadelphia will not make you a criminal. Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, a 1979 Wharton graduate, confirmed Monday that he will sign a bill that will lessen penalties for possession of marijuana.
The bill would make possession of about an ounce of pot punishable only by a $25 fine, with the matter never entering the court system. Nutter and Councilperson Jim Kenney reached a compromise on the legislation — which Kenney first introduced in May — that calls for a separate offense for public use of the drug. While Nutter has previously criticized Philadelphia City Council’s efforts to decriminalize marijuana for neglecting larger issues such as jobs and education, he eventually agreed that the compromise “ends up
putting the city and our citizens in a much better place,” Nutter told CBS Philly. He added that decriminalizing marijuana possession was not the same as condoning its usage. The new bill will charge those caught using marijuana in public with a noncriminal summary offense and a $100 fine or up to nine hours of community service. Philadelphians caught possessing fewer than 30 grams will be issued a citation and fined $25. The offender will not face DP FILE PHOTO
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Despite U. obligations, Gutmann remains active with scholarly work Next book may be about bioethics, Gutmann says
Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson co-authored the book The Spirit of Compromise, which was published in May 2012.
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Amy Gutmann puts her signature on more than just Penn paperwork. While rising to the top of the administration at two universities, Gutmann has published books on topics across the sphere of political science. This is in addition to a diverse collection of articles, book chapters and reports from the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, which she chairs. While she doesn’t have any books in the works right now, she is interested in writing a book on bioethics, drawing on her work at
the commission. “The main themes of my corpus of works have been, I would say, the importance of deliberation and education and democracy,” Gutmann, who was also the provost at Princeton University before she came to Penn, said. “I’ve been very intrigued by how important it is for a democracy to flourish, that it have a strong system — and a diverse system — of education.” Her most recent book, “The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It,” was released in 2012. Written with Harvard professor Dennis Thompson, a frequent collaborator, the book assesses a dearth of compromise in the SEE GUTMANN PAGE 7
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CRIME LOG AUGUST 29 - SEPTEMBER 3 DISORDERLY CONDUCT:
Aug. 29, 2014: Two unaffiliated men, one 26 years old and the other 27 years old, were engaged in a fight on the highway at 9:07 p.m. They were given citations on the intersection of 39th and Market Street. Sept. 2, 2014: An affiliated 46-year-old man and an unaffiliated 27-year-old man were arrested after they were involved in an altercation at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania at 7:46 a.m. Both suspects became loud and a crowd gathered.
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Sept. 1, 2014: A 21-year-old affiliated woman reported personal items missing from her shared apartment at 12 p.m. There were no signs of forced entry. Sept. 2, 2014: A 43-year-old unaffiliated man was arrested at 2:35 p.m. at 4017 Baltimore Ave.changed from Avenue after police observed him entering an unlocked residence and exiting with a cardboard box. Upon investigation, the man was found to have removed the package from the premises without the package owner’s permission.
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Aug. 30, 2014: A 51-year-old unaffiliated man was arrested at 7:54 a.m. on the 400 block of South 40th Street. The suspect was observed loitering on the highway and, upon investigation, the police found the manchanged from male to be carrying a handgun without a license to carry a concealed weapon.
PUBLIC URINATION:
Aug. 30, 2014: An 18-year-old male student was cited on 37th and Locust streets at 2:33 a.m. for urinating in public.
FRAUD:
Aug. 29, 2014: A 41-year-old affiliated man reported an unauthorized purchase made from his credit union account at 9:27 a.m. from the University of Pennsylvania Credit Union on 3900 Chestnut St.
SEX OFFENSE:
Aug. 29, 2014: A woman reported being aggressively touched on her buttocks by a stranger, without her permission at 10 p.m. on the intersection of 38th and Walnut streets.
DUI:
Sept. 2, 2014: An unaffiliated 27-year-old man was arrested after being stopped for careless driving on the 3700 block of Walnut Street at 9:41 p.m. Upon observation, the officer observed the smell of marijuana coming from the vehicle and the offender. The suspect appeared intoxicated and had trouble keeping his balance.
ASSAULT:
Sept. 3, 2014: A confidential assault was reported from Harrison College House. Harassment: Sept. 1, 2014: A confidential report of harassment was made from Fisher Hassenfeld College House.
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Bike Thefts: 8 Thefts from Building: 12 Retail Theft: 1 Theft from Vehicle: 1 Other Theft: 2
ARRESTS FROM THEFT:
Aug. 29, 2014: A 21-year-old unaffiliated man was arrested for a theft from the Penn Tower Hotel (399 S. 34th St.). Aug. 30, 2014: A 48-year-old unaffiliated man was arrested for retail theft from the CVS at 3409 Walnut St. - Joe Li Staff Writer
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Borrowing books from the school library is a thing of the past for many Philadelphia pubic school students these days, but one nonprofit organization is hoping to change that. Penn Medicine awarded a $1,200 grant last month to the West Philadelphia Alliance for Children, or WePAC, a nonprofit that staffs libraries on a volunteer basis. Thanks to the grant, West Philadelphia’s Samuel Powel Elementary School will have a larger library collection to borrow from. Recent budget constraints make it difficult for district schools to employ librarians, but WePAC is making attempts at reversing that grim reality. About 125 WePAC volunteers work a few days a week to staff 12 elementary school libraries in the West and Southwest sections of the city. A nurse in the trauma department at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Janet McMaster, applied on behalf of WePAC for a Penn CAREs grant, which provides funding to projects and organizations where employees of the hospital donate their time. While the direct connection between books and healthcare is not obvious at first, McMaster situated reading with the motivation to continue pursuing education and outcomes later in life. “If you can get kids motivated to read, they are less likely to drop out and become a trauma patient,” she said. WePAC works to renovate the district’s unstaffed libraries before opening them again. Last summer, students from PennCORP, a pre-freshman
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Participants of PennCORP, a Penn pre-freshman program, volunteered for the West Philadelphia Alliance for Children, which recently received a $1200 grant from Penn Med.
orientation program at Penn, helped WePAC unpack, shelve and categorize about 40 boxes of books for the Heston Elementary school library. Budget issues for the School District of Philadelphia over the past few years have forced almost all of the professional librarians employed by the district to be laid off. Only five employees on the district’s SD Employee Information sheet, published this summer as public data, were listed with titles related to library jobs. Volunteers with WePAC work with classes from kindergarten to 4th grade in the school libraries, and one school until 5th grade, for about 30-45 minutes once a week. They read aloud to the students and help them check out books for a week at a time, Deputy Executive Director Mica Navarro Lopez explained. “They get to come in and choose the books themselves, and that’s really powerful,” Navarro Lopez said.
McMaster explained that it is a fair amount of work to use a library without a computerized library catalog. Volunteers check books out by hand, and students carry “library card” index cards with stickers indicating their rentals. “Many of these kids have never borrowed books before,” she said. “You should see how excited they get.” Many of the books at Powel’s library are also outdated, but McMaster said that doesn’t curb student enthusiasm. “The books are old, but it doesn’t matter — kids will still read old books,” she said. However, the grant money will work on updating the collection with a new set of books related to science and technology subjects and another set of about 60 books geared specifically toward black students. Lea Elementary’s library was reopened by WePAC, but only worked with students in the lower grades, leaving the older students without library
access. Penn librarian Ancil George serves as the Community Outreach Librarian, a position created by Penn Libraries last spring to work on establishing library access for all the students at Lea and and getting Penn students and community members involved. WePAC has been around since 2004, but in 2009 it decided to focus on literacy in schools. They are funded through donations from individuals, private foundations and corporate sponsors and that money goes directly to maintaining the libraries, like creating wish lists of books they hope can be added to the libraries. The books they choose are intended “to meet kids’ needs, be relevant and be really interesting to them,” Navarro Lopez said. Recently, WePAC also received a $10,000 LEAP grant from BetterWorldBooks that will help fund another local school library, expected to open in January of 2015.
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Guards and police officers communicated with store owners on a daily basis. Jackie Nevin, the store manager at American Apparel, recognized the effectiveness of the task force. She mentioned that the expected goal for “shrink of sales” due to thefts from June to August for the store was about $2,900. The actual number ended up being about $900. Henry Wong, owner of the Furniture Campus Home Store next to Urban Outfitters, also appreciated the presence of the task force. He said that the number of thefts in his store per month dropped down from four to one because of the task force. The task force’s summer operations lasted from June 11 to Sept. 7. As the fall semester starts, DPS will continue normal police patrol around those retail areas. “We slightly scaled back the patrol hours dedicated to these stores, but we are still maintaining a high level of police patrol around the area,” Rush said.
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criminal charges or arrest for either possession of under 30 grams or public use. This is a significant softening from the previous penalty package of a $200 fine, drug abuse class and an arrest record. Kenney said to CBS Philly that this approach will spare more than 4,000 people from being arrested each year and will save the Philadelphia Police Department about $4 million a year. The law, if passed, will make Philadelphia the largest city in the United States to decriminalize marijuana possession. The bill will be amended this coming Thursday, when City Council returns from its summer recess. The bill will undergo a final vote a week later, where it is expected to pass, and will then be sent to Nutter for his signature. Regardless of Philadelphia or Pennsylvania law, Penn’s Code of Student Conduct still prohibits use of marijuana on campus and is unlikely to change as long as mari73092 juana is outlawed on the federal level.
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emotional commitment is detrimental to long-term fulfillment
or 10 years now, one of my mom’s high school friends has been in continuous, debilitating pain. Whiplash in a minor car crash pinched a nerve, and all the surgery and opioids in Michigan couldn’t get it to stop screaming. The pain was so relentless that eventually her husband didn’t trust her to be alone in the house with rope and knives. His life became a bewildering storm, trying to raise their three children, work a full-time job and care for a full-time invalid. Sleep ceased early on; later he very nearly lost his business and, finally, his sanity. But through it all, Mr. M carried on. And when things got too hard for a moment to do anything else, he would just hold his wife and the two would cry together — rocking back and forth a little, perhaps, but never letting go. The couple was in the back of my mind growing up, and they have always represented certain words for me. Words like pain, endurance, commitment, love and, later on, monogamy. Yes, monogamy — that exclusive sexual relationship, that promise to be faithful for better or for worse, that vow to stick it out till death do us part — all sorts of things, in fact, that are considered outdated at Penn. At Penn, two things are demanded for sexual union: mutual consent and a condom. The problem with random hook-ups is that they achieve, in one leap, a physical intimacy that we afterwards realize was based on a hormone rush or too much alcohol — not a real relationship. And you get up the next morning and wonder, what were we doing? Having a good time together? OK, good. We both agree we were having a good time. So all this meant — nothing more…? And the funny thing is, though we might succeed in
thinking this way intellectually, few can think this way emotionally — the first time. Most people require repeated sexual encounters to overcome the desire for something more. That’s why last night’s hook-ups often look so sheepish when they run into each other the next day. That’s why you can “cheat” on your boyfriend but not on your favorite substance of intoxication. The two just aren’t the same. Having sex means something more than having a good time.
The problem with r a n d o m h o o kups is that they achieve, in one leap, a physical intimacy that we afterwards realize was based on a hormone rush or too much alcohol — not a real relationship.” But what about the importance of sleeping around before you settle down? After all, for more than two decades, it has been popular to advise extensive cohabitation before marriage. Jezebel.com — to take one example from many — states flat-out that “having [sex] before you get married, is associated with longer, more stable marriages” and advises that women experiment with a variety of men before settling down. A major rationale for this is that potential spouses, like used cars, are on the market caveat emptor. So you had better “take that car out for a test drive” to make sure it feels good. And if the baby doesn’t roll like she shines, “move along. Someone else will be happy to drive that car.” While perhaps you don’t
JEREMIAH KEENAN view your significant other as a used car, you might concede the “try-before-youbuy” argument is valid. The surprising fact is: It’s not. Try typing “premarital sex and marriage” into JStor or Google Scholar. It’s virtually uncontested that “those who cohabit prior to marriage have been shown to be significantly lower on measures of marital quality and to have a significantly higher risk of marital dissolution at any given marital duration.” Scholars stumble all over themselves suggesting reasons for this “surprising” outcome (women who try out more than one man are persnickety to begin with, traditionalists care more about preserving their marriages, intact families produce virgin brides, etc.). But to me the answer seems obvious: having sex means more than mutually consenting to have a good time. Something else has got to be there. What? Love, I’d say. Real love. Committed love. The kind of love that kept Mr. M going when months stretched into years and there was no light at the end of the tunnel. The kind of love that still keeps him going as you read these words. The kind of love that goes deeper than mutually consenting to have a good time.
JEREMIAH KEENAN is a College sophomore from China. His email address is jkeenan@sas.upenn.edu. “Keen on the Truth” appears every Wednesday.
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hile Darren Wilson has not been formally indicted in the shooting death of Ferguson teen Michael Brown, a trial of another sort has already begun to take shape among the American public — the trial against Michael Brown’s character. On the eve of his funeral, New York Times columnist John Eligon wrote an expose on the teen’s life describing him as “no angel.” Despite Brown’s promise as a recent high school graduate and his nonexistent public record, the media has searched for every detail that would prove the Ferguson PD’s narrative — that Michael Brown, unarmed, was an inherent threat to his community. Within the black community, another discourse has also emerged to uncover why these unarmed shootings continue to occur. In the wake of the George Zimmerman trial and murder of Trayvon Martin, CNN host Don Lemon held a segment on what he believed to be the most prominent issues for black Americans. Instead of noting the institutionalized racism and power structures within our nation’s political, economic and justice systems, Lemon elaborated on the “real” issues, such as the need for blacks to “pull our pants up” and “stop littering.” While Lemon’s views may seem irrelevant to the structural challenges that many people of color face, his segment is a clear example of the emerging belief and support of respectability politics. This ideology holds that if minorities would simply “respect themselves” by adopting the social and cultural standards of the dominant class, then and only then would they be privy to the full benefits and “respect” of all American society. This fallacy is not only wrong in that it puts the onus of racism on those stripped of power,
but it is also elitist in its belief that pulled-up pants and collegiate degrees will somehow protect one from legalized suspicion and police violence. The myth of respectability as a cure for racism is reflected in the daily experiences of black students here at Penn. While the blatant discrimination of the prior decades has lost its prominence, there are still the subtle micro-aggressions that reinforce the sentiment that “you are not supposed to be here.” From being stopped and questioned by Penn Police to being frequently asked to show one’s PennCard at campus frat parties, these reactions to black students’ presence on campus show that regardless of how “respectable” an Ivy League student may be, brown skin can at any time deem one a threat.
In the same vein that telling women how to dress and act will not p r e ve n t s e x u a l assault, we cannot propagate the belief that pulling up our pants or not listening to hiphop will be enough to save us.” While the question of how to prevent police brutality against people of color persists, what must be clear is that respectability politics will not adequately address the core of this issue. In the same vein that telling women how to dress and act will not prevent sexual assault, we cannot propagate the belief that pulling up our pants or not listening to hip-hop will be enough to save us. It won’t. Historically, cases such as Michael Brown’s and Tray-
THE VISION von Martin’s are not new and remind us that these injustices are historically cyclical. In 1955, teenager Emmett Till was lynched while visiting family in Mississippi on suspicion that he flirted with a white woman. His gruesome death shocked the nation and was a launching point for the civil rights movement. His mother Mamie Till Bradley notably said, “Two months ago, I had a nice apartment in Chicago. I had a good job. I had a son. When something happened to the Negroes in the South I said, ‘That’s their business, not mine.’ Now I know how wrong I was. The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of us all.” Regardless of the respectability standards placed on people of color, we are all deserving of justice, due process, and most of all, respect. Michael Brown did not die because he wrote hip-hop lyrics, wore baggy clothes or simply didn’t “respect himself” enough. Darren Wilson gunned him down because his very presence elicited an excessive fear and therefore excessive force by the police. Let this tragedy be a reminder that despite the fact that we all, by definition, are “no angels,” some of our lives are colored and continue to be less valued than others.
NIKKI HARDISON is a Wharton senior from Buford, Ga. Her email address is chardi@wharton.upenn.edu. “The Vision” appears every Wednesday.
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Donna Cooper may be best known on campus for calling for Penn to pay $1.8 million to the City of Philadelphia as part of a Payment in Lieu of Taxes program, but her speech Tuesday night in the Terrace Room of Claudia Cohen Hall took a different focus. A 1997 Fels graduate who is the Pennsylvania Secretary of Policy and Planning and Executive Director of Public Citizens for Children and Youth, Cooper spoke about how increased government oversight could improve public school students’ performance. Cooper cited her experience serving in the Ed Rendell’s cabinet in Philadelphia and then Harrisburg. She also drew on research about student proficiency rates, which shows that students who must meet county-wide, state-wide or national standards, are generally more proficient. She also addressed Pennsylvanians’ resistance to imposing state-wide standards and removing schools from the control of small school boards in favor of larger city or county governments. Cooper recalled that it was easier to pass legislation that would affect large business interests like coal and natural gas than to replace traditional smaller school districts with county-wide districts. When she and others suggested
replacing smaller districts, those interests acted like “we should have been chained — we should have had our thumbs nailed to a wall and chained,” she said. Cooper’s talk also addressed how the political process affects student success. She stressed the importance of policy makers and elected officials thinking outside the political process and making better use of education research. She recalled how she was mocked at a Harrisburg roast for compiling binders of research about education best practices and distributing them to lawmakers. “In the political process it’s very hard to have an abstract conversation about preschool,” Cooper said. ”[Lawmakers] live and breathe in reference to the political process.” The Government and Politics Association, a relatively new nonpartisan political organization on campus, planned the event. The organization has multiple branches including the Polybian society, which hosts weekly discussions, and the political publication The Spectrum. Co-president and co-founder Louis Capozzi, a College junior, said the Association invited Cooper because she would express a progressive point of view, something not often found at Penn. “Donna Cooper is a rare example of someone who is a progressive and has been politically powerful,” Capozzi said “We believe [our mission] means not just finding people on the right side of the political perspective but are more to the left than Penn politically.”
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Burgess said. On a local level, the Philadelphia chapter has focused its attention on improving the unbalanced quality of education throughout the city. The organization specifically critiques the unsettling influence of private funds in an education system that should be based on public consensus. “The fact that we’re relying on private money means that wealthy people are the ones who get to make the decisions in communities,” Burgess said. “It should be a democratic system of government that is making that happen.” Back when Fetter started the first college chapter of RG at Stanford, she hoped it would spark a dialogue over what it means to be wealthy and politically progressive — a goal that her national efforts to engage college students could achieve. “We recognize that we have a unique position in the struggle for social justice, and we want to continue talking about how we can use our resources to shift the balance of power,” Fetter said.
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making well-informed decisions about their potential college choices. Dr. Michele Hernandez, president of Hernandez College Consulting, said that students should use the rankings for their data,
rather than at face value. When international clients come to her for college advice, she said, they all say they want to get into a top-ranked school. But the problem is that they don’t look at the other information, like average
SAT scores, often making their expectations unrealistic. “They’re not looking at the correct data or the best fit, but simply putting the ranking above everything else,” she said. Hernandez added that there
are no radical changes in this year’s list. “Most of the changes year to year are when the methodology shifts, and this year it hasn’t.” Hernandez believes there isn’t a big overlap for a lot of the top-
ranked schools — it is difficult to compare programs offered at the California Institute of Technology with all the programs offered at Penn. “Number one in what?” she said.
Gutmann said she hopes readers are left with a sense of resiliency in political participation, reiterating that individuals — particularly young people — should “stick with it” in order to make a difference. “I remember saying to Penn students during the last presidential election that no matter who you’re supporting, whomever
gets elected, you’re going to be disappointed in them,” Gutmann said. “Campaigning is uplifting — governing is the time you have to make compromises.” Her scholarly work is reflected in the recent introduction of the President’s Engagement Prizes, which will sponsor recent graduates “to develop and implement a promising local, national or glob-
al engagement project during the year after graduation.” Gutmann cited another of her books, the 1987 “Democratic Education,” as her favorite among her books. This book explores the democratic theory of education. “I wrote it long ago, and it’s still assigned in courses, and it’s still very relevant to my leadership of Penn,” Gutmann said.
Gutmann’s collection of books may not be complete, she said. Drawing from her experience on the bioethics committee, Gutmann said she is considering following her chairwomanship with a book on the importance of bioethics for the future of society. Although books titles comprise a small portion of Gutmann’s publications, she said
that writing a book is a distinct experience. “It’s the difference between a sprint and a triathlon. Writing a book is like a triathlon: you have to do the research, get a whole framework and then you actually have to write it and rewrite it,” Gutmann said. “So it’s actually a long-term process. It’s a little like a reflection.”
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in Big Five play last season, with their only two losses coming by a combined 10 points. Penn’s win over La Salle was its first at Tom Gola Arena since 1973-74. In addition to the usual lineup of Philadelphia schools, Penn will face off against UMBC, New Hampshire and Hampton — a fellow 12-seed in last year’s NCAA Tournament — in the Palestra. The game against Hampton will provide the Quakers with a strong nonconference test in early December. Penn also added Navy and Lafayette as road games for the season. With three NCAA Tournament foes and a handful of programs that played in the WNIT, the Quakers now have nine games against teams that played in the postseason last
From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ After releasing the key opening game of its 2014–15 schedule midway through the summer, Penn women’s basketball released the rest of its slate Tuesday afternoon. And rather unsurprisingly, it’s fairly similar to last year. The nonconference schedule features plenty of familiar faces, as the Quakers will go up against the Big Five — against whom they finished 2-2 last year — and local rival Drexel once again. The toughest of those matchups will likely be St. Joe’s, who finished 23-10 on the season and earned a No. 9 seed in the NCAA Tournament. The Red and Blue had one of their most impressive seasons
year. The Ivy slate begins and ends with double-headers with the men’s team against Princeton, starting with a Jan. 10 trip to New Jersey. If this season plays out at all like last year, the season-ending matchup against Princeton at the Palestra will hold plenty of weight in the Ivy League standings. For those who have somehow already forgotten, last year saw Penn travel to Princeton for a de facto Ivy League championship game, which the Quakers won. Bookended by two exciting games and filled with some interesting nonconference matchups, the schedule for Penn women’s basketball will provide the challenges necessary to prepare the team for the late season push in their Ivy title defense.
Punter won’t be the only position filled by a freshman, as the Quakers will feature some young blood at a few other positions as well. Bagnoli said that Tre Solomon, a running back from Brooklyn, N.Y., will factor into kick returns, while Justin Watson will be
a part of the first group of receivers Penn sends out on the field. On the defensive end, Louis Vecchio — one of Penn’s many recruits from California — will play a role on the defensive line early in the year. Fellow California native Zach O’Leary will handle long snapping duties in his freshman season. With O’Leary taking snapping
duties, senior wide receiver Spencer Kulcsar will be freed up for other jobs on the field after snapping the last couple years. Bagnoli said that Kulcsar could get the chance to return kicks with the lightened load. And with just 10 days to go, the team won’t have long to wait before seeing what Kulcsar and others can do.
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Senior captain Mitch King (middle) will be part of a fast-paced new-look offense for Penn football this season. The Quakers return a wealth of experienced players at the skill positions, including King and senior receivers Conner Scott and Spencer Kulcsar.
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Top freshmen to watch BY SPORTS EDITORS From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ With the opening weekend come and gone, a number of freshmen had the chance to show why they were so heavily recruited by the Quakers. With the rest of the fall season in mind, these freshmen figure to have some of the largest impacts on the outcomes of their respective teams. Sports Editor Holden McGinnis: While the performance of freshman midfielder Austin Kuhn earned him Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors this past weekend, the men’s soccer freshman who stood out to me on the pitch was back Luka Martinovic. The Bayville, N.Y. native earned the start in both matches this weekend and provided solid defensive play from the back line. Though he only tallied one assist on the weekend, Martinovic was involved in creating a number of opportunities for the Quakers on the attack and should prove to be a key cog moving forward. As Penn works out the opening weekend kinks on defense, the freshman appears to clearly be part of the solution. Sports Editor Ian Wenik: Since you’ve set me up so nicely, I’m going to shout out a freshman attacker on a different sport. How about Alexa Hoover on field hockey? I watched her at both of Penn’s games last weekend, and she was one of the most energetic players on the field. Against Lehigh on Friday, she scored a hat trick and added an assist for good measure. That last goal, by the way, was a particularly impressive display of athleticism. Hoover batted down a high pass with her stick and then performed the field hockey equivalent of a one-touch goal in soccer. Sure, last year’s freshman star Jasmine Cole is gone, but if Hoover can keep up her scoring touch, the Quakers should be just fine.
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Columbia athletic director to resign
M. Dianne Murphy will step down after the 2014-15 academic year BY STEVEN TYDINGS Senior Sports Editor
A year after both Penn and Princeton replaced their longtime athletic directors, another Ivy League school is about to begin the search for its next AD. In an email to the school’s student body, Columbia President Lee Bollinger announced that M. Dianne Murphy, the school’s athletic director for the last decade, will resign from her position at the end of the 2014-15 academic year. Bollinger’s announcement
said that Columbia will have time to form a search committee to find her successor. Last year, Princeton AD Gary Walters announced his retirement in September and was soon followed by Penn AD Steve Bilsky announcing his own retirement in November. Grace Calhoun was named Penn’s new AD in March 2014 before Princeton gave its AD position to Mollie Marcoux in April. In his email, Bollinger was highly complimentary of Murphy’s time at Columbia, saying that she had “led the transformation of our athletics program and overseen an unprecedented record of success in the modern history of Columbia Athletics.”
The Lions won five Ivy League titles during the last academic year, something only done once before in Columbia history — the 2006-07 season, when Murphy was also the AD. Columbia won 26 Ivy League team titles over the course of the last decade, which ranks sixth in the Ancient Eight behind, in order, Princeton, Harvard, Cornell, Penn and Yale. Penn has won 31 titles in the same span. Bilsky also praised Murphy in a statement after her announcement. “Dianne has been an outstanding administrator, and an even better friend and colleague,” he said. “What she has done at Columbia is unprecedented. She’s a
constant voice for all that is right in Ivy athletics.” However, Murphy’s tenure as athletic director has been met with some harsh criticism from those surrounding it. In November 2013, the Columbia Spectator published an editorial titled “Fire M. Dianne Murphy” that advocated for Bollinger to “bring in new leadership to the department.” The Spectator’s editorial board detailed her unsuccessful hirings of two football coaches — Norries Wilson and current coach Pete Mangurian — while also criticizing the lack of improvements to on-campus resources SEE COLUMBIA AD PAGE 8
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Columbia Athletic Director M. Dianne Murphy will resign at the end of the 2014-15 year, becoming the third Ivy League AD to leave in a 12-year span.
The next step awaits
Delaware disposes of Penn quickly
Quakers prepare for Fla. trip
VOLLEYBALL | Blue Hens capitalize on Quakers’ mistakes
FOOTBALL Jacksonville opener is gift to Florida players
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BY STEVEN TYDINGS Sports Editor The countdown is coming to an end: Penn football is nearing a
He knows that won’t fly in his first full season as the starter. “I’ve gotta work on that a little bit,” McCurdy said. “Maybe making more reads on the fly, knowing when to take the shot and knowing when to play it safe and keep the ball in our hands.” The transition to a passing game that mixes in the short and intermediate throw may also ultimately open the door up for McCurdy to make some more plays with his
field near you ... or your Florida relative. There is just a week and a half until the Red and Blue head to the Sunshine State to take on Jacksonville, a Pioneer League squad. Penn’s trip to Jacksonville will be its first time playing outside of the Northeast since a matchup at San Diego in 2004. The Quakers don’t have many players from the Jacksonville area specifically — sophomore defensive lineman Tyrone Quarterman and freshman offensive lineman Gerhard Williams IV are from nearby cities — but many from Florida. “We were looking for what I would consider to be attractive games,” Bagnoli said. “We had San Diego back in the mid-2000s. That was attractive because we were playing the right team. It was in the right setting and we have a ton of California alums. “We were trying to give our Florida recruits, our Florida players, our Florida alums somewhat of a home game.” Yet even the players who aren’t from Florida are excited about the upcoming trip. “The team is pretty pumped for the start of the season,” senior tight end Mitch King said. “Many of the guys haven’t gotten on a plane — I know I haven’t — to travel for something at Penn. We’re two weeks away but we feel like we’re a couple days away. Everyone wants to get this thing going.” Bagnoli did not have an update on the punter situation as two freshmen — Hunter Kelley and Brock Elmore — were still firmly entrenched in a battle for the spot. “We’ll probably make a decision early next week,” Bagnoli said. “We’ve tried to put as much stress as we could [on them]. We had two intersquad scrimmages with officials and we did an indepth kicking segment in both. They’ve both acquitted themselves pretty well. “And even once we decide for the first week, the situation will be pretty fluid and could change in week two, week three, week four — they’re that close together.”
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AT DELAWARE Tuesday night, Penn volleyball made the 45-minute drive to Newark, Del. to take in Delaware in hopes of keeping up the momentum from their 2-1 showing at the season-opening Crowne Plaza West Philadelphia Invitational. The Blue Hens sent the Quakers packing almost as quickly as they had arrived. On the first stop of their fourmatch road trip the Red and Blue (2-2) were obliterated by Delaware (5-3) in three straight sets. The Red and Blue seemed poised to win following takedowns of Colgate and Cleveland State this past weekend at the Palestra. After Penn dropped the first set to Delaware by a 25-22 margin, it seemed as though the Quakers could pull out a victory in the nest of the Blue Hens. A kill by junior Ronnie Bither gave the Quakers a 15-12 lead, but the hosts would dominate the rest of the way. That was close as the Red and Blue would get to victory. The second set saw Delaware dominate, 25-9, and as the point differential grew, so too it seemed did Delaware’s confidence. The Blue Hens recorded 11 kills in the second set compared to just two errors. Meanwhile, the Quakers couldn’t get out of their own way, committing 10 errors and managing only six kills. After what could only be described as a fluke of a set, Penn attempted to mount a comeback in the third set. Despite their best efforts the Red and Blue couldn’t stop the ego blown Blue Hens and fell, 22-18, in the final set. Delaware put the Quakers away with a whopping 17 kills, which made the fact that Penn only committed four errors in the third set irrelevant. On a night that saw 21 errors on the part of the Red and Blue and had three Quakers hitting in the negatives, there was one Penn player that stayed strong throughout the entire match. SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 9
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After taking the CSFL by storm his freshman year, sophomore quarterback Mike McCurdy won’t sneak up on anyone in his first full season as a starter. McCurdy and coach Bill Wagner are both looking to emphasize shorter, simpler throws instead of the deep balls that characterized the signal-caller’s 2013.
SPRINT FB | QB Mike McCurdy aims to change mindset BY IAN WENIK Sports Editor
By the end of the 2013 season, Penn sprint football thought it had found a gunslinger in quarterback Mike McCurdy. And as the 2014 campaign dawns, the time is now to develop the strong-armed sophomore into a pure passer. McCurdy was a deep ball
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specialist in 2013 — eight of his 14 touchdown passes were longer than 20 yards — which thrilled fans but wasn’t enough to lift the 3-4 Quakers to a winning record. This year, he’s aiming higher. “[The CSFL] championship is what’s on everyone’s mind,” McCurdy said. “However we get there, we’ve got a lot of weapons on offense we can use.” Some of those weapons are familiar names. Mike Beamish — Penn’s leading rusher the
last three seasons — is back. So too are junior wide receivers Jack Epstein and Brendan Dale, who combined for nine touchdowns last year. But the Red and Blue’s most dangerous weapon in 2014 may be the new and improved mindset of McCurdy himself. By his own admission, McCurdy forced plenty of throws in 2013, much of that stemming from a commitment to relying on pre-snap reads and deciding where the ball would go before the snap.
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