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While the concept of innovation might evoke images of computers, startups and engineers, it increasingly impacts faculty in all disciplines at Penn.

At the groundbreaking of the new Pennovation Center at the end of October, Penn President Amy Gutmann said innovation could come to play a role in faculty tenure decisions — a sentiment that Provost Vincent Price echoed.

“Innovation and impact are centrally implicated in faculty hiring, promotion and tenure,” Price said in an email. “Primary responsibility for developing and maintaining a high-quality faculty rests with the individual disciplines. But, across the diverse forms of scholarly activity at Penn, the schools share clear expectations that our researchers will both push forward the frontiers of knowledge and maximize the impact of that work.”

Some areas of academia — the hard sciences, health sciences, engineering and computer science — come to mind more readily when mentioning commercialization. For professors in the liberal arts, innovation is defined more loosely.

“Our deans want to take into account all the ways in which faculty’s research is impactful in the world.

Some of that research, like my own, is totally uncommercializable,” Gutmann — a political theorist — said.

“But it’s the impact that research has and potentially has that is something that we take into account.”

Classics professor Peter Struck said that in his field, innovation takes the form of reinterpretation of past ma-

Equality of Penn admissions called into question

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The college app process is unfair to minorities, speakers said Tuesday night HUIZHONG WU Staff Writer

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What makes Penn valuable is that it doesn’t admit anyone, Sean Vereen said. The school was proud to announce in spring 2014 that the admissions rate had dipped below

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10 percent for the first time, to a record low of 9.9 percent.

It was a mark of the exclusive meritocracy at work.

But a meritocracy is not fair, said Vereen, president of Steppingstone Scholars, an organization that helps minority students overcome inequalities in education to get to college. It’s not fair, he said at a United Minorities Council talk on Nov. 11, because it’s a system that rewards achievements that

those with privilege can accomplish and those without — such as those part of the black, Latino, Native American and other underrepresented minorities — will find much more difficult to do.

Vereen and the other speaker at the UMC talk, English professor Herman Beavers, also said that Penn students can push more to address some of this inequality.

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Sean Vareen, President of Steppingstone Scholars, Inc., (pictured) and Professor Herman Beavers held a discussion yesterday about diversity at Penn. The event was organized by the United Minorities Council.

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Wharton places second in Businessweek MBA rankings Wharton moved up from its third-place ranking last cycle COREY STERN Staff Writer

Bloomberg Businessweek’s biennial MBA program ranking for 2014 was released Tuesday.

And while Wharton triumphed over its usual competitors, it still took home second place.

For the first time since Businessweek began publishing MBA rankings in 1988, Duke’s Fuqua School of Business was given the top spot. Harvard Business School fell to eighth place, leaving it out of the top five for the first time.

That leaves Wharton as the only school to have been consistently ranked in the top five, including a first place ranking from 1994 to 2000. Wharton jumped from third to second — the school’s highest ranking since 2006. The University of Chicago’s Booth School of

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Businessweek’s methodology included student and employer surveys, which each comprised 45 percent of schools’ scores.

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school’s intellectual capital, which was measured by counting the articles published by faculty in 20 top business journals over the past five years and dividing that by the number of full-time faculty members.

Wharton took first place in the employer survey, which sig-

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Wharton’s performance varies across business school rankings.

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this year, including a tie for first in U.S. News and World Report’s list and a fourth-place ranking from Forbes. Internationally, the Financial Times ranked Wharton in fourth place, while The Economist gave the school 11th place. Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett is satisfied with Whar-

ton’s showing in the many rankings this year.

“It doesn’t matter which rankings you choose — and they all use very different methodologies — Wharton is always at or very near the top,” Garrett said via email. “We must be doing a lot of things right.”

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Plans for $75 million Perelman Center include auditorium, lounges and seminar rooms The center, at 36th and Walnut, is expected to be finished by Jan. 2018 JESSICA WASHINGTON Staff Writer

The new home of Penn’s political science and economics departments is on track to be completed by January 2018 and is currently almost halfway to being fully designed.

At Penn’s Board of Trustees meeting in late October, Facilities and Real Estate Services revealed new design plans for the exterior of the Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, which will be located on 336 S. 36th Street, right above the Anne Taylor Loft store.

The new design plans for the $75 million center include an auditorium, seminar and class rooms, lounge space and offices for the two departments and five programs that will call the new center home. Cur-

rently, the economics and political science departments are spread across campus, but the new center aims to bring them physically closer together to foster interdisciplinary work.

“The main intellectual purpose is to combine two interrelated, but currently dispersed disciplines under one roof, ” University Architect David Hollenberg said.

Political theory professor Nancy Hirschman is also excited to have all members of the her own department under one roof. “It will be terrific to have everyone together in one space,” she said.

“The fact that the centers are all going to be right there is great,” Hirshman added, “since it will produce collaboration between the departments.”

While the creation of the 11,000 square foot center would move most political science and economics courses to this new building, some courses will still be taught in Stiteler Hall and the McNeil building.

However, “the intent is to have as many classrooms available to the departments as possible,” Hollenberg said.

Plans for the Perelman Center were announced last February, when Ronald Perelman made a $25 million donation to fund the creation of the new center. However, the creation of the new center displaced several on-campus organizations, including Counseling and Psychological Services and the Netter Center for Community Partnerships.

The Netter Center has already relocated from the location of the new Perelman Center, and a new CAPS office is set to open in January at 3624 Market St. However, other tenants still remain in the building slated to become the next Perelman Center, so construction cannot begin until those offices leave.

Construction on the center is expected to begin in December of 2015 and is set to be completed by January of 2018.

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“Just because you get to sit down with President Gutmann in a 5B meeting” — the 5B are a coalition of underrepresented and minority umbrella groups — and “have nice informed conversations across the boardroom table, it doesn’t work,” Vereen said. What does work, he implied, is direct action. “That’s the whole point of having this time.”

“You guys have much more power than you think,” Beavers said. “You guys can shut this

place down tomorrow.”

The inequality stems from situations like this: of about 100,000 black students who had taken the SAT, only 8,000 had scored above a 1200 in Verbal Reasoning and Math combined, Vereen noted. That 1200 marks the bare minimum to attend a school like Penn, he said. But college admissions officers also look at extracurriculars and personal development activities like volunteering or starting a nonprofit — things that require time and resources, which many minority students do not have. This all combines to make it harder

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Cordiality with Sheldon Hackney helped birth the Student Fed. Credit Union CAROLINA ZHENG Contributing Writer

Wharton MBA graduate Kenneth Beck spent Tuesday evening recalling the practical joke that played a role in creating the Ivy League’s first student credit union.

Beck, co-founder of Penn’s Student Federal Credit Union, spoke to an audience of about 120 Penn students at “Money Talks” on Tuesday alongside current CEO of SFCU and Wharton senior Mihir Jain.

As he spoke, Beck encouraged students to learn from his humorous pastimes.

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for these students to win in the “meritocracy.”

Breanna Martin, a College senior and a former UMC board member, agreed with this critique, saying there’s a “stagnation” which comes out of “feeling like since I was privileged enough to earn this seat at the table, I should cooperate” because students in the past had fought hard to establish these meetings with the president.

In her time on UMC board, some people felt “you can only get a small piece at a time, and you can’t say these are 20 problems, you have to say, ‘Here’s

things happen,” he said. “You have to understand how the system works and work within the system.”

As a Wharton MBA, Beck established a friendly relationship with Penn’s president at the time, Sheldon Hackney, after discovering that Penn had as many total employees as Wharton students.

Beck penned a humorous letter to the president asking for each Wharton student to get a personal Penn assistant, drawing attention to the school’s large administration.

Hackney enjoyed the letter enough to set up a personal meeting with Beck, and they became companions before long.

Later, Beck presented his concept for a student-run group that would provide a banking service and function as a “hands-on

one tiny problem and we have to chip at it until the hole is giant in 50 years,” she added. “But there are a lot of people who are trying to push that door.”

In response to criticism, current UMC chair and College senior Reggie Stewart acknowledged that activism on campus could go further. However, he believes UMC still does good work. “We do get a lot done. ...

A lot of what we do is to talk to administrators and voice the opinions of our community.”

During the conversation, Beavers stressed that it is important for minority students at elite in-

teaching tool” for its volunteers.

Not only did Beck get permission, but he also scored a $100,000 interest-free loan to establish Penn’s student credit union. SFCU has been running ever since.

Tuesday’s talk, organized by a Management 100 team, aimed to promote SFCU as a campus campus organization and to educate students about personal finance.

Jain, SFCU’s CEO, recommended that students create budgets based on their income and set aside a certain percentage as an emergency fund. He encouraged students to use their credit cards to build their credit histories, but to be wary of their budgets.

“The hardest thing to do is spend within your means,” Jain said.

stitutions like Penn to not act as gatekeepers — people who keep their accomplishments exclusive because they want to keep their special status. “If you guys want to protect how special this education is, and be gatekeepers, then nothing can change,” he said to the students in attendance.

What people should do, Beavers said, is go back and help people “over the wall.”

“I’m going to stand in the door as wide as possible to so that everybody can come in,” he said. “I want as many kids from West Philly High School as we can get.”

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New groups only have eight days remaining to apply for SAC recognition this year.

After the partial lift of the Student Activities Council moratorium on Oct. 23, new student groups can apply for recognition until noon on Nov. 20. Groups that wish to be recognized must fill out an application detailing their budget for the past year, board structure and constitution.

The groups will meet with the SAC executive board on Nov. 13 or Nov. 20, the only dates the executive board is meeting before the December GBM. The SAC executive board will recommend certain groups for recognition to the general body and the body will vote on the recommendations on Dec. 3.

In order to be recognized, a

group should demonstrate fiscal responsibility, be sustainable and fit into a unique niche.

SAC Chair and College junior Renata O’Donnell said that because the deadline is soon, groups have to be proactive about applying. She hopes that this will prevent an influx of groups and only prepared groups will apply. However, there is not a cap on the number of groups that can be recognized.

“We are looking at each group as an individual entity,” O’Donnell said. “It would be great if we could accept every group. But if groups are not ready with their budget or if they do not seem like they should be SAC-recognized, then they won’t be. Potentially, every group [that applies] could be SACrecognized.”

Four groups have applied so far, and they will be meeting with the SAC executive board tomorrow.

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Unsmooth SAILing THE DANALYST | Flipped classrooms remove the key element of instruction at a university with some of the best faculty in the world

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ive a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a year — but what if you give him a how-to-fish video?

It’s no secret that technology has revolutionized education. My English teacher mother is told to emphasize technology in her high school classroom; my eight-year-old brother uses computers for research projects. When that technology seeks to take over actual instruction, though, things can get messy.

Enter Penn’s SAIL program: Structured, Active, inLearning courses. According to Penn’s Center for Teaching and Learning, “SAIL classes begin with the related premises that students benefit from learning by doing and that class time should be used to help students learn to work with material.

To that end, class time is built around highly structured activities, in which students work to

solve problems, interpret data or evidence or otherwise engage in real practices in the discipline.” In these “flipped” STEM courses, students learn material at home through textbooks or online videos and work through problems in class.

That’s the most troubling part of flipped classrooms — the idea that, with all the great faculty Penn has , they don’t spend time teaching.”

This idea is nothing new.

Professor Robin Pemantle, a math professor who teaches active learning classes at Penn, said, “It’s akin to an English class — you come to an English

class, you’ve read the book and you’re prepared. It’s like almost any class outside mathematics.”

However, Pemantle noted that there are certain topics on which students require in-person lecturing in order to really understand. “Some topics are very difficult for students to penetrate without me framing them first, but other topics they can plunge in,” he said. If that framing is so essential, then direct instruction should take precedence in the classroom.

Furthermore, students in anonymous feedback surveys for the course commented that spending so much time in class without any actual teaching seemed like a waste of time.

For me, that’s the most troubling part of flipped classrooms — the idea that, with all the great faculty Penn has, they don’t spend time teaching. A freshman in an active learning Math 103 course told me that she is required to watch online lectures. Once she is actually

in class, her professor puts her into groups and gives them worksheets.

“The professor and TAs walk around to answer questions, but they usually try and make us figure out the answer on our own instead of answering the question directly,” she said. “If you are confused, then it makes figuring things out a lot harder because there is very little teaching involved. It gets frustrating at times.”

Furthermore, so much of the justification for flipped classrooms is the claim that they force students to take initiative. But traditional Penn courses provide that same opportunity: Students take the initiative to go to office hours and meet with professors. I can’t see compromising the key instructional component. If one-onone instruction is most conducive, then we ought to embrace it. But before students can work through problems, they need to learn how to do them. There’s

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their own. If courses are glorified homework sessions, we’re not taking full advantage of the resources we have at Penn. That includes our professors. There’s a human element necessary in education — and once we lose that, I don’t know how we’ll recover it.

DANI BLUM is a College freshman from Ridgefield, Conn. Her email address is kblum@sas.upenn.edu. “The Danalyst” usually appears every Tuesday.

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a crucial step of instruction, and when we boast some of the best faculty in the country, we shouldn’t delegate that instruction to a computer screen.

There needs to be a balance.

The one marked upside I can see to flipped courses is that they allow students to develop closer relationships with professors. A friend in an active learning Math 104 course told me that, despite the extra work, she’s glad she took the class — which many people dropped out of at the start of the semester — because she can talk to other people and learn how the teacher wants her to solve problems. But students do have the opportunity to seek out professors for office hours, and a better solution to professor accessibility might be smaller — not flipped — classrooms.

Flipped courses seem like a waste of capital. I understand mixing problem solving classes into an overall course, but students can form study groups on

NICK MONCY is a College junior from North Miami, Fla. His email address is nickmon@sas.upenn.edu.

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hen I first told my mother I wanted to adopt kids, she didn’t believe me. Like many others I’ve told this to since then, she believed that I would change my mind once I was married — presumably to a man who wanted kids — which is a belief that is built on a lot of very big assumptions.

Similarly, much of the information I’ve read for adoptive parents focuses on a big assumption — that the parents want biological kids but can’t have them. The reasoning is obvious: We want to pass on our genes, continue our family name, be part of something larger.

It seems like one of the most natural and innate acts. And that’s why it is such an insidious idea. I worry that we live in a society where so many people who have difficulty becoming pregnant are willing to spend thousands of dollars on fertility treatments and artificial insemination, all in an effort to conceive a biological child.

There are over 399,000 children in the foster care system in the United States.

Twenty thousand age out of this system every year, having never experienced familial stability. Many of them will be abused, physically, psychologically and/ or sexually. They may very

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well have resulting emotional scars from this. That does not make them any less worthy of a stable family environment.

Many people worry about the challenges of adopting, and there are challenges. It’s hard to know the child’s upbringing and how that affected their physical and emotional development.

There are very real fears about how the child will connect with others, including their adoptive parent(s).

How will they deal with knowing they were adopted?

Will they want to meet their birth family? Will their selfesteem and sense of stability be affected?

I will love an adopted child with the same deep, irrational and unconditional love my parents have given me.”

But I think that something pretty unique about adopting is that it forces you to think about all of these things and more. Good parenting is hard any way you slice it, but wanting to adopt pushes me to learn as much as I can about parenting, in general and for adopted chil-

dren in particular.

Another concern is that it would take more time before an adopted child and parent could feel truly at ease with each other, much less love each other. But this is the difficulty of forming any kind of emotional relationship — especially one as fundamental as a parentchild relationship — and it is odd that this love is simply assumed in biological families. Parental, or more largely familial, love is the only form of love we as a society expect to manifest as soon as or even before we are born. This love is supposed to be immediate and unconditional. For many of us, our parents love us simply because we exist.

Look, I took introductory genetics, I get it — this emphasis on blood ties makes intrinsic sense. But how much of our lives are still dictated solely by our biology? Much of our society is based on moving beyond our basic biology and towards higher ideals.

I hope that I will love my child the instant I know they are mine — as my parents felt with me. I will love an adopted child with the same deep, irrational and unconditional love my parents have given me. Just like my parents, I will then begin the lifelong process of getting to know who they really are, and loving them not just as

YESSENIA GUTIERREZ my child, but as their own person.

Adoption is often seen as a last resort for people who can’t have biological children, and I think there is something very wrong about this.

I believe that widespread adoption would require a fundamental transformation in how we think about familial love. It would require us to analyze how and why we form some of the most important bonds in our lives. It would require us to expand our conceptions and definitions of love — force us to love more broadly and more holistically, an almost literal redefining of the human family.

YESSENIA GUTIERREZ is a College fifth-year senior from Hollywood, Fla., studying biology and Latin American studies. Her email address is yeg@sas.upenn.edu. “Yessi Can” usually appears every other Monday.

hen it comes to student government, Penn does not have a participation problem. Participation with Penn Student Government has undoubtedly improved over the past few years, from higher voter turnout to increased student participation in various appointed committees.

Penn does, however, have an ownership problem. Some of our most pressing issues to this day remain unsolved because we, as a student body, have refused to take ownership of our student government. In many ways, we let our part in student government end once we submit our electronic ballot or attend an info session or two. However, that is not enough: Representation is only the beginning.

In order for Penn to truly change in ways that benefit us all on a personal level, we have to realize that just as much as we are all part of Penn, we are all part of student government as well. The initiatives and ideas that come from this partnership are on us to produce and push for. Perhaps it’s a bit controversial for us to say, but in every way that we might feel that student government has failed us, we have in that sense failed ourselves.

What does ownership look like? It means sitting in on University Council meetings to hear the sort of discourse that is occurring between the administration and students, attending general board meetings and lending your voice to the discussion or even just taking the time to attend events like State of the School where you get a chance to share your thoughts on topics that matter to you the most.

It is not enough to just be aware of these things, but also to be actively present and insert your voice.

As Penn Student Government, we have come to realize and value the difference between ownership and participation, and over the years, each branch has worked on ways in which we can encourage more ownership on the behalf of the student body. In the past year, the Nominations and Elections Committee has taken the task of not only appointing more students to University-wide committees but also encouraging each of those appointments within the committees to develop structures in place to make their work more visible to the public.

The Student Activities Council has partially lifted its moratorium in order to once again recognize new student groups, empowering these

important Penn communities to get funding that will allow them to carry out initiatives and programming. In addition, the Undergraduate Assembly has lent itself as a resource to help student groups find additional sources of funding through the creation of the Funding Steering Assembly, empowering them beyond the resources within student government alone. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education, and as they release their educational policy proposal — known as the White Paper — it is the input from all of the student body that will shape the course of that work. In other words, as much as the White Paper is a work of SCUE, it is a work of us all putting forth what we want the undergraduate educational experience to look like in the future.

These are just a few of the many ways in which you can take ownership of your student government. At the end of the day, we were all elected or appointed to serve you. In the end, the greatest impact will come from not just engagement but also from ownership over the initiatives and ideas set forth by the organization. We encourage each and every undergraduate at Penn to take advantage of the new course that Penn Student Government has decided to take by making a government that is not only for you but by you.

One way students can begin to take ownership is by attending our annual State of the School this Wednesday, where you will get the opportunity to shape the discussion and scope of the event. No longer will it be a night of the student government telling you what we have done. Rather, it will be a prime opportunity for you to guide where we are to go in the coming months.

Whether you love what we have done over the year or are disillusioned with Penn Student Government as a whole, we encourage you to actively involve yourselves with student government this year. Know that not only is Penn Student Government for you, but it is also something you can be a part of as well. Take ownership of that fact.

ELIZABETH OPPONG is the vice chair for education of the NEC. She is a College junior studying economics and Chinese. MIKIE SAKANAKA is the vice chair for publicity of the NEC. She is a College sophomore studying cognitive science. They can be reached at education@ penn-nec.org.

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terials. He noted that societyaltering insight — female suffrage, for example — stemmed from the revelations of leaders in the humanities.

Struck said that in his field of study, tenure is acquired through intensive peer review, and he thought a push for innovation would have little effect.

“That’s the way it’s always been, and that’s the way it’s going to continue to be,” Struck said. “Never have I received a cue or even an inclination from someone in another place at the University saying I should explore a particular idea. Knowledge is not produced hierarchically.”

But technology has contributed to the evolution of the humanities, said Vice Provost for Research Dawn Bonnell. In 2012, the School of Arts and Sciences launched the Digital Humanities Forum to explore how computer technologies impact scholarship and teaching in the humanities.

In the social sciences, there are many examples of research that can be commercialized directly — such as “research on increasing political participation, best polling practices and the analysis of political risk,” political science professor Marc Meredith said. “But, in the aggregate, I would expect less political science research to be commercialized than in fields like computer science or engineering.”

Meredith received tenure earlier this year, after being an assistant professor at Penn for five years. He said the process is relatively opaque, but involves having one’s work evaluated by all levels of the University.

Opinions of senior professors in the field and current and former students are also taken into account.

“Commercial impact is one of many forms of impact that should be considered as part of the tenure process,” Meredith said.

Penn also offers institutional resources — in the form of the Penn Center for Innovation — to help researchers transform

their ideas into marketable products.

“This is for faculty who want to do so, and to enable them to do so,” Gutmann said. “We value social impact at the University across the whole spectrum of intellectual creativity, and sometimes some forms of intellectual creativity can be brought into the marketplace.”

In the past six years, the number of Penn-affiliated commercialism agreements has exploded by 600 percent to 327 agreements this year, and over 20 new start-up companies based on faculty ideas have attracted $20 million of outside investment, according to the University.

The Engineering Entrepreneurship Program, founded in 1999, has grown in enrollment by over 5,000 percent since its inception. The program consists of two courses intended to introduce students to the knowledge and skills they would need to commercialize their work.

While some of the program’s students — including the creator of Venmo — have gone on to start successful entrepreneurial ventures, others have not. “[Commercialism] isn’t our objective,” said professor of practice Tom Cassel, the program’s director. “You never know at what point in your career the opportunity is going to cross your path.”

As a professor of practice, Cassel — who spent years prior to Penn as co-founder and CEO of an independent electric power company — is not tenured faculty, nor is he on the tenure track.

Despite the program’s focus on students, however, Cassel said that faculty from across the University have approached him seeking entrepreneurial advice into how to commercialize their research.

In recent years, privatesector companies that used to invest in basic research are looking to universities to make discoveries that can be turned into products.

“Universities and medical systems have become the economic engines of the country, much more so than we were 50 years ago,” Gutmann said.

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American Defamation League to honor Penn JODY FREINKEL News Editor

President Amy Gutmann will be honored Wednesday for Penn’s successful partnership with the American Defamation League.

The ADL is a civil rights organization that advocates against anti-Semitism and all other forms of discrimination. Its Americanism Award, which will be awarded to Gutmann and Penn at an event tonight in Center City, recognizes leaders whose orga-

nizations promote “diversity and respect,” according to a press release.

This year, Penn hosted Holocaust education for Philadelphia school teachers and participated in Philadelphia’s WALK Against Hate, which raised funds for

ADL programming.

Last year, the Americanism Award was presented to TD Bank’s Michael Carbone and in 2012 was presented to UPS. The event will take place at the Wanamaker Building starting at 5:30 p.m.

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Penn security tops rankings for eighth year JILL CASTELLANO Senior Writer

For the eighth year in a row, Penn’s Division of Public Safety was ranked the number one university on Security Magazine’s “Security 500� list, an annual security ranking of various corporations and institutions.

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Penn basketball practice notebook

BY IAN WENIK Sports Editor Penn basketball is hard at work preparing for its opener against MEAC foe Delaware State on Saturday night. Here are some notes and quotes from the Quakers’ Tuesday night practice: Touches for all Penn coaches have been talking all preseason about the possibility of rotating in Tony Hicks, Darnell Foreman and Antonio Woods into the point guard role, creating a committee of primary ballhandlers.

But Tuesday, it was revealed that the Quakers could make use

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also be his last campaign on the Quakers’ sideline, Bagnoli made it perfectly clear before the year started that he never wanted his impending retirement to overshadow what his players did on the field.

All season long, the coach at the helm of Penn football since the Bush Sr. administration has said and done the right things. He has always been deferent, humble and positive, even as the Red and Blue have struggled mightily for the second consecutive season.

For Bagnoli, excluding the win total, 2014 has been the same as each of the other 22 years he spent in University City. And it’s impossible not to respect the hell out of someone who realizes that it is not — and has never been —

of an old staple of coach Jerome Allen — the three-guard lineup.

“Those three guys that could play point guard are three of our better players, and we’re gonna have to find ways to have them on the floor,” assistant coach Nat Graham said. “And I think sometimes that’s going to mean all three of them are on the floor at the same time.”

In the interim Delaware State coach Keith Walker and Allen enter Saturday’s contest sharing a curious connection — both were former assistants that shed the “interim” designation from their job titles after taking charge following a midseason firing.

Allen inherited the Red and Blue when Glen Miller was dismissed seven games into the 2009-10 season, while Walker

all about him.

So yes, Bagnoli was right all along. For the first eight weeks of this season, the focus rightfully should have been on his players, and it was. Retirement tours can become obnoxious — you’re lying if you say you didn’t once get fed up hearing about Derek Jeter’s final series in Minneapolis, Toronto or Milwaukee.

But Athletic Director Grace Calhoun and her counterparts in Penn Athletics need to realize one undeniable truth: This is the last time most anyone on this campus will have the opportunity to honor Bagnoli. And it’s about damn time someone does it.

In three home games thus far this season, Penn has put forth no effort to honor Bagnoli in any fashion. While that may have been in line with the coach’s wishes, there was absolutely no

coached Delaware State for the last 11 games of 2013-14 when longtime coach Greg Jackson was fired.

“I think our experiences are somewhat similar,” Allen said.

“But I think they’re different in the sense that he had been there for a while [since 2000]. He’s been in the business for a number of years, and it’s a different school, different players, different setting, different culture, different atmosphere.

“But I’m confident that coach Walker has his guys prepared and ready to play.”

Crash the boards One of the Red and Blue’s biggest struggles last year came in the offensive rebounding department. Penn averaged only 9.6 boards per contest on the offensive glass and lost the overall

reason not to generate some sort of presentation or ceremony for Bagnoli against Brown during Homecoming when a number of former players were on campus.

Other conference opponents have taken advantage of the chance to acknowledge not only the coach’s accomplishments at Penn but his contributions to the Ivy League at large.

Penn Athletics has already acknowledged that “the University and Athletic Department will honor the school’s all-time winningest football coach” on Saturday in addition to his players.

And if there is one way to please Bagnoli while also honoring him, the answer is simple: keep in line with what he has repeatedly said throughout the season.

Honor the seniors before the game begins. Allow the Quakers

rebounding margin by a solid 3.0 boards per game.

It was no surprise that Allen had his squad devote a significant amount of time during Tuesday’s practice to offensive rebounding drills, with every available player from top to bottom on the roster getting in on the act.

The waiting game Sophomore guard Matt Poplawski didn’t practice Tuesday night — and with good reason.

A call-up from the JV basketball team last year, Poplawski is perhaps best known as a midfielder for Penn men’s soccer.

With his fall sport still in season until the Quakers close out their season against Harvard this Saturday, it might be a little while before we see whether or not Poplawski can crack the rotation.

to play Harvard while Bagnoli — as he has done for 23 years — does his job.

Once the game is over, there should be no restrictions. Let Bagnoli sing the alma mater with his players before they carry him off the field on his shoulders. Notify students that, despite the fact that the Red and Blue are 1-7, this is a game worth attending.

More importantly, the University needs to show Al Bagnoli what we have all known for decades: That he truly is one-of-akind and, despite his objections, that he is the person on campus most deserving of an illustrious send off.

RILEY STEELE is a College junior from Dorado, P.R. , and is sports editor emeritus of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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Coach Jerome Allen is just three days away from beginning his fifth full season at the helm of Penn basketball with his Quakers facing Delaware State at home.

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he plays, he puts in a proper effort each in every time.”

The next step for Neumann to become the leader for Penn men’s soccer and Fuller thinks he is up to the task.

“It would only be natural,” Fuller said. “He’s been a really important player for us for his first two years. He’s been through the Ivy schedule twice and knows what to do to be successful.”

While Neumann was neither a captain nor a senior leader on the team this year, he says he has taken on an articulate role on the field. Such a role will lighten the transition to being an older leader on the team.

“I try to be pretty vocal on the field, to direct traffic almost, to try to implement what we have seen in scout, what we’re trying to do that game, kind of keep everyone focused on that during the game,” Neumann said.

The sophomore forward knows that the team’s success hinges on empowering his teammates. He also understands the different personalities on the team and how to

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Penn football’s four senior captains — Evan Jackson, Mitch King, Conner Scott and Dan Davis — will all be honored on Saturday after a strong career with the Red and Blue that saw them capture an Ivy title. They will be the last senior class that Al Bagnoli gets the opportunity to coach in his long Penn career.

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Academy where he was a runnerup at 119 pounds in the 2011 National Prep tournament.

That’s why it was no surprise when Richardson fought his way into Penn’s starting lineup as a freshman. The ambitious lightweight also managed to get eighth place at the prestigious Southern Scuffle tournament at Chattanooga in early January.

On top of that, he marched his way to a berth in the NCAA tournament. Unfortunately for Richardson, his freshman success would come to an abrupt end when he lost both of his matches at NCAAs. Last season the 125-pound weight class was one of the most competitive and highly touted weight classes in the country.

On top of that, Richardson was cutting a significant amount of weight.

This year, he hopes to be revitalized as he moves up to 133 pounds.

“It’s right where you should be, a little bit to feel it but not too much,” Richardson says of the seven pound cut he is making this year.

Richardson will not only make his debut at 133 pounds this Sunday at the East Stroudsburg Open but will also make his debut for the Quakers’ new wrestling coach Alex Tirapelle.

Tirapelle is excited to see his sophomore in action for the first time.

“I haven’t seen him compete too much,” Tirapelle said.

“That’s the great thing about competition is it sheds a lot of light on what you need to work

on as a team and as individuals. “[Richardson] is young enough that we can still make changes.”

While Richardson says he had a great relationship with Rob Eiter, he looks forward to working with two-time All-American Tirapelle this season. “[Eiter] showed me a lot of technique and I’ll carry that with me for the rest of my career. Tirapelle has come in and really changed the culture. We’re more organized. He’s also got good technique … and I’m learning a lot from the new coaches,” Richardson said of the transition.

With a new weight class and vision coupled with techniques learned from two accomplished coaches, Richardson will have all of the tools to succeed come March.

And Richardson will have re-

depmption on his mind after last year’s NCAA performance.

“That tournament has left a bad taste in my mouth,” he said of last year’s NCAA tournament but added that this year, “I won’t be surprised.”

His first test will come Dec. 6 at Lehigh where he will face junior Mason Beckman, who is ranked eighth in the country and whom Richardson has beaten twice.

Still, Richardson can’t help but look ahead to the year’s final test.

“I have that vision in my head of what it really is like and so I’m going over that,” he said, “and when you get there (NCAAs) it’s like I’ve been here before. I’ve wrestled this match 1,000 times.”

Richardson is training with one goal in mind: “National Champion.”

not have the history of the Palestra, it’ll definitely get louder than the Palestra has been at any time in recent memory.

Steven Tydings: You said it right there: Nothing has quite the history of the Palestra. And I am excited to see a new Penn basketball squad write a new chapter in that history against Delaware State. As you will read in our basketball supplement, this squad looks much different than last year’s team and that is a good thing, considering last season’s results.

After watching practice the last couple weeks, it is clear that junior Tony Hicks has the potential to do some special things this year. Fans remember Hicks as inconsistent, but starting on Saturday, I think they may see a new side of the now-captain for the Red and Blue.

While women’s hoops is facing the bigger name opponent, there is one thing that Penn fans are much more likely to see from men’s hoops this

treat each of them most effectively.

“Everyone has something that makes them tick, and a leader’s trying to get that out of everybody,” Neumann said. “Some guys, you gotta get right on their back about something or [they] need more encouragement than others, but collectively, you just have to figure out what makes guys go.”

Neumann will miss this year’s senior class, including fellow forward and current captain Duke Lacroix, but is looking forward to playing with and mentoring younger players. At the same time, he still has a few things he wants to work on this offseason.

“I’d like to up my speed and agility, and focus on when the ball is at my feet and I’m taking players on,” Neumann said. “Duke does a really good job of that and that’s something I really want to pick up from his game, and I think it would make us pretty dangerous up top next year.”

With a new and improved Neumann leading the way, the Quakers could reclaim their spot at the top of the Ancient Eight.

weekend: a win, as the Quakers face a struggling Delaware State program.

HM: You’re certainly right, this is a new Tony Hicks, but Penn men’s hoops isn’t the only team this weekend with a whole new look.

Penn has an exciting group of freshmen that will come in and contribute from the getgo. Against Tennessee, we’ll get our first look at freshman guard Anna Ross — who missed the Red and Blue scrimmage — as she takes over the point. This is a program that’s been on the upswing over the past four years and the game against Tennessee is just its latest exciting matchup.

ST: Let’s quit talking about the guards and talk about the forwards. With a relatively small Delaware State squad coming to the Palestra, it is time to see what junior center Darien Nelson-Henry can do.

Let the games begin.

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Sophomore stud offers hope Time to honor Al Bagnoli RILEY STEELE

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ike any other team, Penn football will hold a ceremony before its final home game of the 2014 season to honor its senior class, a group comprised of key contributors from the Quakers’ most recent Ivy title team in 2012.

And like any other Senior Day, Saturday is going to be an emotional day for everyone

involved. Veterans including wide receiver Conner Scott, linebacker Dan Davis and defensive backs Evan Jackson and Dan Wilk will be honored for their contributions to the Red and Blue over the past several years.

Throughout the duration of this season, coach Al Bagnoli — who you may have heard will retire following Penn’s final game of the year against Cornell next weekend — has placed an emphasis on his players, particularly his seniors. Although this will SEE STEELE PAGE 7

Richardson primed for leap

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Sophomore forward Alec Neumann had a breakout season for the Quakers. His eight goals and five assists rank second and third, respectively, in the Ancient Eight. With the impending graduation of star player Duke Lacroix, Neumann has firmly established himself as the future of the Red and Blue.

M. SOCCER | Secondyear forward ready to take the torch

BY JACOB ADLER Staff Writer As old leaders depart, new ones arise. With Penn men’s soccer graduating five seniors, the team is looking for players to step up into that role.

Sophomore forward Alec Neumann — one of the Quakers’ top players — has been able to focus on his game, but as he becomes an upperclassman, he will try to add ‘leader’ to his impressive list of accomplishments at Penn.

As a freshman, Neumann logged five goals — tied for fifth in the Ivy League — and four assists. This season, his eight goals are second in the Ancient Eight,

and his five assists rank third.

He has been honored twice with Philadelphia Soccer Six awards with a Rookie of the Week in 2013 and Offensive Player of the Week in 2014.

“I like to play as a target center forward,” Neumann said.

“My strength is back to goal, where I’m getting the ball in, playing it off, getting in front of goal and trying to score.”

What makes Neumann tick?

He believes his preparation paves the way for his success on the field. He treats every practice like a game, with the goal of entering games with unmatched confidence.

Coach Rudy Fuller praised Neumann’s approach and dedication to the game.

“He does everything the right way,” Fuller said. “He trains like SEE M. SOCCER PAGE 7

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Jumping into a higher weight class after a strong freshman year, sophomore Caleb Richardson is hungry for some major results after falling in NCAAs.

WRESTLING | Sophomore ready for higher weight class

tournament as a 125-pound freshman.

And while he may not have succeeded in his go-round, his eyes are set on not only qualiBY THOMAS MUNSON fying for NCAAs again but on Associate Sports Editor finishing on top of the heap.

Richardson was a standout Sophomore 133-pounder in high school. The two-time Caleb Richardson has been Virginia state champion transunder the bright lights of col- ferred to New Jersey’s Blair lege wrestling’s biggest stage SEE WRESTLING PAGE 7 when he went to the NCAA

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Which hoops game are you most excited for?

BY HOLDEN MCGINNIS AND STEVEN TYDINGS The beginning of basketball season is right on the horizon (aka this weekend) and both programs will take to the court with plenty of fresh faces. Our editors will be making the trip down to Tennessee on an epic #roadtrip, but the Palestra always hits close to home as well. In a rivalry as heated as Ali vs. Frazier, sports editor Holden McGinnis and senior sports editor Steven Tydings take to the ring once again to debate it out over which season opener has them more excited.

Holden McGinnis: For me, the choice is simple, and it’s not just because I love a good old-

fashioned road trip. Women’s basketball’s opener at Tennessee will be the toughest matchup of the season for the Quakers, and it isn’t one coach Mike McLaughlin and crew expect to win. But what’s more exciting than opening up in a packed arena against a top-five program? The fact that the Red and Blue are coming off an Ivy League title just adds to the excitement.

This is a team that has postseason aspirations once again, and however the box score looks after Friday night, the experience of playing against a toptier team on the road will be invaluable to this squad. While Thompson-Boling Arena may SEE MANO A MANO PAGE 7

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Junior captain Tony Hicks is ready to bring a new aspect to his game this year: Leadership. Against Delaware State on Saturday, Hicks will have a chance to show his new and improved game while taking on a bigger role for the Red and Blue. He led Penn in scoring last season with 14.9 points per game but was inconsistent at times.

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