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Members and supporters of SOUL have organized “performance protests” every Friday since Oct. 3 in response to the events in Ferguson that occured earlier this year.
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There’s one student dressed in an orange jumpsuit. Another with a noose around his neck and a third student wearing a chain. The three students, College junior Gina Dukes, College senior Breanna Moore and Wharton and Engineering junior Jamal Taylor, were each meant to represent a different era in United States history
where black people have been oppressed. They carried signs that read 1814, 1914, 2014. They stood on the Button, the statue in front of Van PeltDietrich Library, for hours on that October afternoon. A photo of that “Ferguson Friday” — as the members of Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation called it — has gotten over 13,000 notes on Tumblr and has been retweeted and shared on Twitter and Facebook many times.
“We wanted to make a bigger statement” than the discussions about race hosted by campus groups, Dukes said. “It arose out of the Mike Brown situation [in Ferguson] and us feeling fed up with the justice system. We felt like Penn was kind of silent on the issue. We wanted people to talk about it. We wanted people not to forget about it, like with Trayvon Martin.” Every Friday since Oct. 3, members of SOUL and their
supporters have protested on College Green. In their first “performance protest,” the students covered the LOVE statue with the names of people of color who have been killed by the police. Attached was a sign: “No More Martyrs.” At another Ferguson Friday, four students laid down for four hours in front of the Benjamin Franklin statue by College Hall on top of a red cloth symbolizing blood — a nod to how long Michael Brown’s body was
outside. At the most recent one on Nov. 14, they posted paper graves across College Green which represented people of color who were killed by police brutality. Meanwhile, cities across the country, including Philadelphia, are gearing up to respond to potential protests in anticipation of the verdict in the case of the police officer Darren Wilson, who shot 18-year-old SEE FERGUSON PAGE 6
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The new face of discipline at Penn
Pope Francis’ planned Phila. visit excites officials EUNICE LIM Staff Writer
JULIE LYZINSKI NETTLETON New director of Office of Student Conduct
Nettleton plans to increase educational outreach to prevent conduct violations LAUREN FEINER City News Editor-Elect
The new director of the Office of Student Conduct, Julie Lyzinski Nettleton, wants to become the face of discipline at Penn. Nettleton, who officially took over the role of OSC director this week after serving as interim director, left her previous role as director of the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives. “One thing I think I did very well [at AOD] — for better or for worse — I was the face of alcohol,” Nettleton said in an interview last week. “I don’t think anyone ever questioned who to go to, who to talk to, who made decisions about it. It was my face. I’m excited to do that same thing here.” Nettleton hopes that putting a friendly face on the office might help it become more relevant to the lives of students and faculty. One of her top priorities is building relationships with faculty in the same way SEE OSC PAGE 5
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Pope Francis will be visiting Philadelphia for World Meeting of Families in September 2015.
The leader of the Catholic Church will be coming to Philadelphia next year. And nearly everyone is excited. Pope Francis confirmed on Monday that he will be attending the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia in September 2015. His visit will include a public Sunday mass on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway on Sept. 27, 2015. NBC Philadelphia reported that officials estimate that up to two million people might come to see the pope. It will be the pontiff’s first visit to the United States since he was elected to lead the church in 2013. To date, he has traveled to the Middle East, Albania, South Korea and Brazil. Mayor Michael Nutter called the news “the largest event in the city’s modern history” in a statement made at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Senator Bob Casey called Pope Francis’ planned visit a “great
honor for the city.” Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia also commented in a New York Times interview that he is “overjoyed by Pope Francis’ announcement that he will join with us for the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia next year.” “A hallmark of his papacy has been a keen focus on the many challenges that families face today globally. His charisma, presence and voice will electrify the gathering,” Chaput said. Penn’s Catholic community anticipates his visit will have a tremendous impact on Catholics and non-Catholics alike. “We’re all very excited about his upcoming visit, and are working to see how best PCSA can collaborate with the archdiocese and other Catholic institutions in Philadelphia,” said President of the Penn Catholic Student Association and Wharton junior Ana Bautista. The Penn Newman Center could not be reached for comment Monday.
Push to establish resource center for veterans gains momentum Petition has over 375 signatures, University declined to comment YUEQI YANG Senior Writer
An online petition proposing a resource center for Penn students who are veterans is gaining significant support, amassing over 375 signatures as of Monday night. The petition, circulated by the University of Pennsylvania
Student Veteran Association last Tuesday, states that veterans are the only federally protected class that does not have a dedicated center on campus. In addition to establishing a center, the petition proposes creating a full-time staff position and a website dedicated to serve the military community on campus. The proposed center would serve not only United States military veterans, but also students in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and foreign
military veterans, such as students from South Korea, Israel and Singapore. The resource center would also connect students who are interested in joining the military with veterans. The 13-page proposal attached to the petition includes a detailed operating budget, which would amount to $89,500 in the first year for costs including the salary of one full-time staff member, office equipment and activity funds.
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The University declined to comment on the proposal for this article. Sam Starks, the executive director of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Programs, deferred comment to University Communications, which in turn directed questions to the Provost’s Office. The Provost’s Office referred The Daily Pennsylvanian back to Starks. Wharton senior Timothy Kolb was stationed outside of Baghdad in the U.S. Army before coming to Penn. He is now
the president of the Student Veteran Association at Penn, which counts about 30 undergraduates as members. Based on Kolb’s rough estimation, there are about 120 veteran students across the University, excluding the Perelman School of Medicine — but he noted that the exact number is hard to pin down because being a veteran is a self-identified status and some may choose not to report. SEE VETERANS PAGE 6
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University group announces sexual assault campus climate survey The survey will be administered optionally to 60 member institutions
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The Association of American Universities, of which President Amy Gutmann is chair, announced on Friday that it will conduct a sexual assault climate survey of its members in April 2015. The association has contracted with Westat, a national research firm, to design and administer the survey to as many of its member universities that choose to participate. It is not yet known whether Penn will take part. In the past, top administrators have expressed skepticism at the calls for more comprehensive surveys on sexual assault on campuses. The AAU is a nonprofit organization consisting of 60 leading United States and Canadian research universities. All eight Ivy League universities are members. The survey — which will be administered to undergradu-
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ate, graduate and professional students but not to faculty or administrators — will measure the frequency and characteristics of campus sexual assault and sexual harassment across institu-
tions. The campus surveys will feature a uniform series of questions, except for five that will specifically reference campus programs to measure familiarity with campus resources and sup-
port services. “We hope that this survey will provide solid information on the incidence of sexual assault and sexual harassment on their campuses and on attitudes on the is-
sue among their students,” AAU President Hunter Rawlings said in a statement. While the AAU will publicly report the holistic results from its participating institutions,
Westat will provide each campus with its respective data, and individual universities will decide whether to release the results. According to an AAU press release, the organization is “deeply concerned” about the possibility of a federal mandate for campuses to conduct a government-developed survey about sexual assault climate. In September, the White House called on colleges to conduct sexual assault climate surveys. Legislation introduced earlier this year sought to require schools to administer such a survey created by the U.S. Education Department, although the Senate has yet to vote on it. “Such an initiative would likely be a one-size-fits-all survey that would provide potentially misleading data,” Rawlings said. Gutmann has posited a strong stance against violent assault at Penn. “One sexual assault is one too many on any campus,” Gutmann said in a meeting with The Daily Pennsylvanian at the beginning of the semester. “There has to be a fair and effective way of dealing with accusations of sexual assault.”
Free printing dominates UA agenda at weekly meeting SONIA SIDHU Staff Writer
At the Nov. 16 meeting, the Undergraduate Assembly discussed free printing and reducing the requirements for uncoordinated dual degree programs. Free printing The UA discussed free printing for College and Nursing students,
an ongoing deliberation triggered by inequality in access to printing across schools. Engineering and Wharton students have a certain amount of subsidized printing each semester. Wharton freshman and UA representative Jack Cahn, who is a contributing writer for The Daily Pennsylvanian, has been working on research related to free printing for the past few months.
Cahn said that in the past the UA has tried to procure free printing for everyone, but there have been some logistical issues. Because Wharton and Engineering are housed in Huntsman Hall and the Engineering Quad respectively, it is easier to determine what buildings should provide free printing. Different schools function independently, and a printing bud-
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school. College sophomore and UA representative Tunmise Fawole met with Director of Academic Affairs and Advising of Wharton Scott Romeika. Romeika urged the UA to get more quantitative data about the uncoordinated dual degree students forgoing other opportunities. College sophomore and UA representative Marc Petrine sug-
gested doing a comparison between the requirements of double majors in the same school and the uncoordinated dual degrees. Additionally, College freshman and UA representative Rahima Jamal suggested seeing if it was possible to graduate on time with an uncoordinated dual degree for students who decide to pursue the program after their freshman year.
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THE DANALYST | It’s okay to feel small at Penn
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ome time around the last Olympics, I sat around, pretended to be knowledgeable about sports and saw a mini-documentary on Maria Sharapova. There was a reel of tape I couldn’t get out of my head of Maria winning the Wimbledon: Her racket arched upward, the ball sailing in a perfect palabora, Maria punching the air. The announcer boomed over the scene, “How does it feel to have accomplished your life’s dream when you’re 17?” Cliche as it sounds, that’s how I felt when I got into Penn. It was a goal I’d had for a while — I devoted a large part of my high school experience to working to get into college. I could work through a massive checklist of applications and SAT prep to get each step closer to Locust Walk. More than that, though, was the ability to stand out in my
small suburban town. In high school, many of us defined ourselves by being big fish in our relatively small ponds. My Connecticut high school — “copy-and-pasted from Lizzie McGuire,” I’d tell people during NSO — had 1,800 kids; standing out was easy, or at least, possible. Now
vironment, but the fact is that it’s pervasive. That didn’t hit me until a friend, in the midst of failing a few midterms and struggling in classes, told me that he didn’t feel special anymore. He said he’d felt important before he came to Penn. Here though, he said, “everyone’s extraordinary.”
It’s strange how people rise differently into the consciousness of the world, or at least the Internet, whether it’s a teen boy just doing his job or Kim Kardashian showing skin.” that we’re at Penn, we still want to be significant, to do something important. But in a crowd of 10,000 overachievers, that’s easier said than done. We’re all sick of hearing about Penn’s high-pressure en-
I understand where my friend is coming from. Part of my selfish, pre-frosh fantasies about Penn was making something more of myself, of standing out somehow in the massive crowd. I didn’t know how that would manifest or what I
would do to achieve that, but I wanted to be different. I think we all did. A few weeks ago when I was Skyping a friend from home, she commented on how well-settled I seemed. She asked about my friends, and I flipped through the taglines on their LinkedIn profiles. A state tennis champion. A former NASA employee. An awardwinning poet. A volunteer for AmeriCorps. We’re here because some admissions official thought we were different. Sitting around a table in Commons, though, it’s hard not to feel dwarfed by the friends we love and hang out with. And when the inevitable question of, “Have you looked at internships yet?” comes up, it’s difficult to think our resumes would stand out in any way. I was tossing this around in my head when I stumbled upon a New York Times pro-
file of “Alex from Target,” a 16-year-old from Texas who became Internet famous when various people started posting a photo of him on Twitter. As a friend told me, “People only know him because some girls think he’s cute. That’s it. And now the world knows him.” It’s strange how people rise differently into the consciousness of the world, or at least the Internet, whether it’s a teen boy just doing his job or Kim Kardashian showing skin. The truth is, we can’t predict what will make us stand out. A lot of that is out of our control. What we can do is take a breath, stand back and be happy where we are. That’s the comforting thing about a venture like Humans of UPenn — it’s a nice reminder on our news feeds that everyone here has their own story. Penn makes us feel small, but we don’t have to make that a bad thing. We don’t need to
THE DANALYST constantly prove we deserve to be here. Last Wednesday, I felt like I needed to get out of Penn. I grabbed a book, pointed myself towards the Schuylkill and just walked, one foot in front of the other. I went by the river and read while the sun was setting. I felt small. And that was okay.
DANI BLUM is a College freshman from Ridgefield, Conn. Her email address is kblum@sas.upenn.edu. “The Danalyst” appears every Tuesday.
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s I’ve scrolled through my Facebook news feed recently, I’ve stumbled every so often on emphatic promotional blurbs urging me to “beat Harvard.” With a “like” to The Daily Pennsylvanian’s Facebook page, apparently, I can stick it to those sneering Cambridgeites and help overtake the popularity of their altogethertoo-revered Crimson. The DP page’s count stands currently at a rather anemic 5,437, despite enticements of hot chocolate, with The Crimson sitting ever-pretty at 30,084. It did not take long for Harvard to respond, dryly and without fanfare, to this rather clunkily calculated campaign, scraping it off like a fly off a boot. The lack of drama with which this was accomplished demonstrated how tiny and desperate these attempts seem to the remainder of the world, and how they characterize a broader, significantly entrenched cul-
GUEST COLUMN BY DIA SOTIROPOULOU tural problem at Penn that bears revisiting. I am more than pleased having wound up at Penn, and in my first year, circulating as a freshman and taking stock of other new arrivals, I noticed a puzzling and troubling attitude. There was a serious resentment at Penn’s comparative lack of recognition present among some I encountered. True, the painfully generic “University of Pennsylvania” invites regular confusion with a far less glamorous state school. The name is cumbersome to wrap around a mug and is crunched to an unsightly, dense bar of text on sweatshirts — it lacks the elegant name-brand concision of a Stanford, a Yale, a Dartmouth. On the United States college rankings lists composed by various sites, we tend to hover in the top 10 somewhere south of five and have roughly one-tenth the likes on Facebook of Harvard. However, these metrics of
cachet should be considered exactly that — measures of the superficial glamour and marketability of a school, its likelihood of impressing everyone down to your building’s super who probably heard it namedropped on TV. These should not matter in an actual evaluation of Penn’s merits. But matter they did, and do. Big Three envy regularly manifests itself here, most recently in the form of this impotent Harvard tail-chasing. One promo, in which students were photographed holding signs declaring ways in which Penn is better than Harvard, included declarations ranging from the obviously defensive and insecure (“[We] are less pretentious” — one could argue otherwise) to the completely insubstantial (“I go here” and “Philly is awesome” among them). Of the “pretentious” schools, Princeton, which sits conspicuously at the summit of the U.S. News and World
Report rankings, seems to hold a special place in Penn’s complex. I suspect that the oddly rabid sports rivalry Penn stokes with that school — one which hardly seems reciprocated to an equal extent on the Princeton side — is a manifestation of a strange determination to take down Princeton in a forum where
Yet I don’t think Princeton spends much time licking its boo-boos after these matchups any more than Harvard spends up at night worrying about the DP’s advances over the social media field. Penn’s inferiority complex is unappealing, petulant and makes us seem delusional and dismissible.
The people of Penn are sound testaments to its quality, and it would reflect well upon us as an institution to show that we can respond with grace to frequently prestige-pedding metrics that do not favor Penn.” our schools are recognized as competitive. Penn isn’t spontaneously usurping the first slot on U.S. News any time soon, but goodness knows we can at least wallop their striped asses on the court Saturday.
I am not by any means saying that every student at Penn consequently walks around with a chip on their shoulder. I meet many extraordinarily talented people each day who are more than satisfied to make their home
at Penn and don’t harbor illusions that they are anywhere else. One comment in the photo campaign stood out to me for its genuine validity — a girl wrote that Penn has a top-tier nursing program, while Harvard lacks one entirely. Something to be proud of indeed, I’d say. This is precisely why I think this diseased mentality of insufficiency I’ve described should be addressed. The people of Penn are sound testaments to its quality, and it would reflect well upon us as an institution to show that we can respond with grace to frequently prestige-pedding metrics that do not favor Penn. It is inelegant and petty to grasp at such prestige while disregarding the excellence we possess ourselves.
DIA SOTIROPOULOU is a College sophomore from Brooklyn, New York. Her email address dions@sas.upenn.edu.
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Ed Lewis talks ‘king’ cash and Essence magazine JACK CAHN Contributing Writer
Like many Penn students, founder and former CEO and Chairman of Essence Magazine Edward Lewis took the Wall Street route to his true passion. “If there’s one thing to remember from my talk today it’s that cash is king, queen, jack, spade and everything else,” Lewis said. Lewis spoke about his journey from the South Bronx to investment banking to magazine racks and how he became a symbol for the empowerment of black women. “My mom was a factory worker.
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she worked with other areas of the University during her role at AOD. In doing so, Nettleton aims to make OSC a more proactive office. While she acknowledges that the reactionary element will always exist since the office must respond to complaints, she believes there is room to expand the educational outreach side of OSC. Nettleton’s background is in counseling, rather than law or discipline — she holds a master’s degree in human services and counseling, is licensed in professional counseling in the state of New Jersey and has worked in an adolescent psycho-social rehabilitation agency. But she says that her experiences will translate well to her new job. “At my role in Alcohol and Other Drugs, I didn’t always play good cop,” said Nettleton, who is also a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Education. “A large part of my job was to engage students to make them understand not just how their actions mattered, but how they could be held responsible for those actions.” Nettleton was chosen from a pool of national candidates, some of whom direct disciplinary offices at other college campuses, and was ultimately chosen over an unaffiliated finalist because of her “strong experience as a campus leader around important issues related to conduct and community,” said Rob Nelson, executive director for education and academic planning in the Provost’s Office. “What I think she brings to the position is that ability and skill set to lead campus discussions,” Nelson said. Nettleton said she is committed
My dad was a janitor at City College,” Lewis said. “Every summer my mom sent me to work on my grandma’s farm.” There, he and the children of his mother’s 13 other siblings worked and bonded. “The work ethic was part of my upbringing.” After graduating high school, Lewis attended the University of New Mexico on a football scholarship, where he studied political science and international relations. “I was accepted to Georgetown Law School but flunked out,” Lewis said. “If that had not happened, I might never have started Essence.”
After returning to New York, Lewis worked at Citi Bank. “There was a lot of desire to get the blacks into the capitalist business world,” Lewis said. His chosen path was not on Wall Street, but to launch a magazine targeting black women. In 1968, he met his three future business partners and Essence was born. “Blacks were underserved. We thought we could make a difference,” Lewis said. With only $130,000 out of the $1.5 million they needed, he and his partners built a magazine that now serves 12 million monthly.
“Our philosophy is that all black women are beautiful,” Lewis said. Lewis’s talk was the culmination of the United Minorities Council’s annual Unity Week. Earlier in the week, the UMC showed a documentary about human trafficking and hosted a discussion about cultural climate, an Open Mic and a community service event. “There are few events to discuss issues that unite minorities,” UMC Vice Chair and Wharton junior Tanya Jain said. “The purpose was to bring different people together.”
to the notion of accountability, but recognized that “holding a student accountable does not take place in a vacuum.” She said her experience in the mental health field would help her monitor students’ stress when they come into the office to make or respond to a complaint. “There’s going to be stress involved,” Nettleton said. “Being investigated isn’t always a fun place to be, being found responsible can be really difficult, but navigating the process in a way where we’re also supporting students and making sure students are being cared for, I think is extremely important.” College senior Michele Fletcher — the co-chair of the University Honor Council — said Nettleton’s dedication to accountability and caring for students was obvious when she met with the Honor Council several weeks ago. The Honor Council is the undergraduate group that educates students about University codes of conduct and academic integrity and sends representatives to sit on student conduct hearing panels. “She’s so easy to talk to and very accessible,” Fletcher said. “That’s exactly what this office needs.” During her tenure at AOD, Nettleton made connections with other offices and staff, including Counseling and Psychological Services, Student Intervention Services, Student Health Service and the college houses. “She really has a very thorough understanding of how this campus works,” Associate Director of AOD Noelle Melartin said of Nettleton. Still, Nettleton will encounter new challenges during her time as OSC director. On Jan. 1, Penn will officially open a new office
to deal exclusively with sexual violence cases. Nettleton said that while she will be open to playing a consulting role in the office’s launch, the opening should free up much-needed time for OSC to focus on its outreach and internal initiatives. One of her first tasks will be to issue reports for the past four academic years detailing the cases that have been brought to OSC and the sanctions the office has administered. The Daily Pennsylvanian reported last month that the office has failed to produce annual reports for the last four years. OSC will issue those reports no later than Jan. 9, according to a letter to the editor printed in the DP from Vice Provost for Education Andrew Binns. The reports for the 2014-15 academic year will be available by July 31. Nettleton does not anticipate reporting in the future to be prob-
lematic, since the office is now fully acquainted with the database that was installed four years ago. While Penn is less transparent than peer schools in reporting disciplinary outcomes, Nettleton said the new reports will not include much more detailed information than in past years due to privacy concerns. However, she said she would keep tabs on trends. “I think data is very helpful, and I definitely plan on using key data sets, whether they’re part of the annual report or completely different,” Nettleton said. Now that Nettleton is officially out of her role as director of AOD, the search for her replacement can commence, Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs Hikaru Kozuma said in an email. The administration aims to have a new director in place next semester. In the meantime, the role will be left open.
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Kolb believes that a resource center for veteran students will help them to navigate through common problems. “There is a general sense of loneliness among veterans,� especially among undergraduates, Kolb said. “They were in the military in this incredibly structured, team-focused environment. No action is done independently and everything is based on the team. Then you come to a broad university, then suddenly you are kind of on your own.� Another common problem that U.S. veteran students have is applying for educational and financial benefits. “Between the bureaucracy of the [Department of Veterans Affairs] and coming to Penn trying to figure out who processes anything, it is definitely a hurdle,� Kolb said. The proposed employee would be informed about the resources available for veterans and would help connect students
with scholarships. “Penn stacks up fairly poorly against the other Ivy Leagues for the most part,� Kolb said. “There’s a certain number of services that Penn does not offer yet, but the other schools do.� Columbia and Brown universities have resource centers for veteran students. At Brown, a former military officer serves as a full-time point of contact for students interested in military service and veterans coming to Brown from the military, said Michael Webert, a 2014 Graduate School of Education alumnus and one of the authors of the proposal. At Penn, there is a Veterans Upward Bound program that aims to prepare veterans for college and falls under the Vice Provost for University Life. The selective program serves about 160 students annually, but they come from places throughout the Philadelphia area. The Wharton Veterans Club also has about 60 members, Kolb said. Kolb said the College of Liberal and Professional Studies is
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preparing to launch a veterans’ resource page on its website, since most veterans are in an LPS program. However, there is no centralized support center that provides all the information, and many resource centers do not offer specific help for veterans. For example, Career Services website has specific assistance for LGBT students, students of color, students with disabilities and international students, among other populations, but it has no specialized services for veterans. Webert mentioned the difficulty of translating military experience to the professional world. “How do you describe what happened in a bootcamp — for 100 or 80 hours a week, where you are not allowed to sit down or lay down for 18 hours a day?� Webert said. “Broadly at Penn, when you have a need affiliated to military, it’s not clear where you go, who you talk to, and that’s really what we want to accomplish,� he said.
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On a campus famous for its student entrepreneurs, the Penn Center for Innovation wants to shift the spotlight to faculty ideas. On Monday night, President Amy Gutmann and Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter headlined a marquee launch event for the PCI. The event featured a performance by the a cappella group, Off the Beat, and took place in the Harold Prince Theater of the Annenberg Center. The PCI unites various innovation programs at Penn under one umbrella. One such element of the innovation center, the PCI Ventures program, promotes “entrepreneurial activities and new company around Penn’s leading research and inno-
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vations,� according to its website. A highlight of the PCI Ventures program is UPstart, which serves as a virtual incubator for faculty and staff and helps startups grow. Since its inception in 2010, UPstart has helped over 100 faculty and staff members translate their ideas into startup companies. Penn-sponsored companies run the gamut from information technology to healthcare management. The common link is a Penn affiliate transforming his idea into entrepreneurial success. Contrasting with the significant undergraduate entrepreneurial presence in such groups as The Dining Philosophers through the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and The Penn Social Entrepreneurship Movement through the Wharton School, the PCI Ventures program is unique in its focus on
faculty-led projects. Penn faculty members have long sponsored the flourishing culture of student startups. “The startup culture at Penn is driven by students but facilitated by faculty, creating an ecosystem where students can collaborate with one another but receive mentorship from experienced entrepreneurs,� Wharton sophomore David Greenstein said. Earlier this month, Greenstein founded LaunchQuad.com, a website that facilitates connections between student entrepreneurs at Penn and other universities and offers information about Penn startups. Greenstein noted the mutual benefit of student-faculty interactions, saying, “This creates an ideal combination of meshing past experience with present grit of current Penn startups.�
ing it in the consciousness of the student body to basically make a statement that it hasn’t stopped,� Dukes said. But the question is, have they impacted people? Moore, who is one of the core members in the demonstrations, said the response has been “mixed.� “We definitely have supporters and people who stop by to thank us for what we’re doing, [but] I feel like a lot of the response has
been apathetic,� she said. Some of the positive responses include students from Temple University who have expressed interest in helping with the demonstrations, as well as recognition from other activists and bloggers. As for the Penn reaction, many people took photos of the group’s display on Friday, but would quickly move on. A graduate student in the design school, Zhang Ge, who stopped to read the signs at the demonstration, said the demonstration was “crucial.� One student walking by said “What is this?� to a friend and the friend responded “Ferguson Fridays!� without hesitation. The responses are not always that good. Dukes recalled that at the protest where they lay on the ground for four hours, many passersby did not even stop. “It was funny because they were just sitting on their laptops and unfazed by what we were doing,� she said referring to people who were sitting on the benches on College Green. Regardless of the response, the group plans to continue their demonstrations. “It won’t stop until we do something about it — the injustice lives on beyond Penn’s campus, and it’s something that we should care about,� Dukes said. Staff Writer Jennifer Wright contributed reporting.
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nets, making only one field goal in the 8:30 of regulation, and surrendering 12 points in overtime. “Hopefully from the two-point loss in overtime, [players] really buy in to the fact that it’s a summation of one-possession games,” Allen said. “The opportunities that we have in the first half and we turn the ball over seven times — or at the 17-minute mark in the second half when we don’t come up with the defensive rebound … those things come back to haunt you.” Some of the opportunities that ultimately fell into Hicks’ hands on Saturday may become chances for Darien Nelson-Henry on Tuesday. The junior center received 28 minutes of action on Saturday and grabbed eight rebounds — four offensive, four defensive — in his
The Ancient Eight opens its season with relative success BY Anna Dyer Associate Sports Editor
Harvard The first Ivy League team to claim a top 25 spot in the preseason polls in 39 years opened up its season with a 73-52 victory against crosstown rival MIT. Although these schools may be more used to competing in the academic world, both teams showed they could compete on the court as well. Senior guard Wesley Saunders led the way for the No. 25 Crimson (1-1) to pick up the victory with 15 points, 10 rebounds, six assists and two steals. However, Harvard could not follow up its performance on Sunday, falling to Holy Cross in a close battle, 58-57. With the loss, Harvard’s days in the top 25 are numbered. Dartmouth In the first ever meeting between Dartmouth (0-1) and St. Bonaventure, the Big Green fell, 77-57. The loss didn’t come as much of a surprise as Dartmouth has failed to win an opener away from Hanover since 1999. Dartmouth stayed in the game in the first half, facing only a one-point deficit at the beginning of the second half, but the Bonnies ran away with it, forcing a total of 19 turnovers on the night. Yale Yale (0-1) opened its season with a thrilling yet disappointing double-overtime loss to Quinnipiac, 88-85. The game ultimately came down to rebounding as Quinnipiac dominated on the boards, finishing with 54 rebounds including 22 on the of-
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their own.” While my fellow editor Holden McGinnis pointed out that both will need to adjust to the pace of the college game, they have more than enough time to do so with a plethora of games before Princeton in January. And on the men’s side, there didn’t seem to be any lack in confidence from the freshmen. Point guard Antonio Woods publicized his athleticism with his open court handles while draining some key three-pointers. Fellow guard Darnell Foreman was one of the loudest players on the hardwood while playing solid onball defense. Forward Sam Jones’ propensity for the three-ball shone through within 10 minutes of the opening tip. And while Mike Auger wasn’t able to find a basket, he was active on the glass and made his presence known despite three turnovers. Sure, each of them had their flaws, just like Ross and Brzozowski. And it may be a while before all of Penn men’s basketball’s freshmen are playing to their true potentia — that room for improvement makes this weekend that
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fensive end while the Bulldogs only had 38 on the night. Despite the loss, senior guard Javier Duren notched 26 points while junior forward Justin Sears posted a double-double. Princeton Princeton (1-1) split the games on its opening weekend, beating Rider 64-58 on Friday but falling to George Mason 6360 on Sunday. Overall, the team showed perseverance, overcoming a nine-point deficit against Rider to tie the game at 43 and go ahead with three minutes left. However, on Sunday, a cold first half in which the Tigers went 2-for-17 on field goal attempts spoiled the chance of a weekend
much more impressive. “I definitely see a lot of room for improvement, but to the team’s credit and especially the young guys, we get down double digits early and … they didn’t panic. They stayed poise and kept competing,” coach Jerome Allen said. “We don’t use our positional timeline as a cheap crutch not to win the basketball game but … I did like some of things I saw out of the young guys.” This year isn’t going to be smooth sailing from the start. That hasn’t been the modus operandi for either basketball program in recent years and they don’t need to start now. Nonconference play will be useful to work out the kinks and get this freshmen class to have the confidence of upperclassmen. And because of these growing pains and the eventual maturity of each freshman, there is tremendous upside on the horizon for Penn’s basketball squads. STEVEN TYDINGS is a Wharton junior from Hopewell, N.J., and is senior sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at tydings@thedp.com.
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Brown Brown (1-0) was the only Ivy League team to escape the weekend with an undefeated record, beating St. Peter’s, 70-58, at home. Junior forward Cedric Kuakumensah had a stellar performance on both ends of the court, shooting 7-for-9 from the field and blocking three shots, pulling him just one block shy of the Brown record. Cornell Cornell (1-1) accomplished what Princeton couldn’t this weekend, taking down George Mason, 68-60, with an impressive defensive showing. Senior forward Shonn Miller, who
missed all of last season, led the Big Red with a double-double while senior guard Devin Cherry nearly posted a triple-double. However, Cornell could not keep up the momentum on Sunday as it fell to Loyola (Md.), 76-71. Columbia Columbia (0-1) joined the list of other Ivy teams that fell by a slim margin this weekend with a tough 57-56 loss to Stony Brook in its season opener. Stony Brook scored the go-ahead basket with only seven seconds remaining. However, there were several bright spots for the Lions, who shot 50 percent from floor in the first half and 43.8 percent for the game.
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in the final game of his career. However, the Quakers had faced adversity all year. Over the course of the season, the Red and Blue never won by more than nine points, and a mid-season loss to Yale did not bode well for their title hopes. They were able to fight through each time, and they entered the game against Cornell with the same attitude, full of confidence. “I’ve been so blessed to be a part of this class and have the opportunity to win three championships,” Holland said. “It’s a special group.” The Quakers came out slow, falling behind 13-7 early in the game, but it didn’t take long for them to gain control. Led by the efficient play of Holland — who completed 18 of his 22 attempts for 255 yards on the game — and an explosive 55-yard third quarter touchdown run by then-senior running back Lyle March, Penn scored 21 unanswered points. The Quakers took the 15-point lead into the fourth quarter, but they would not be able to coast to victory. “It wouldn’t be us if we didn’t make it interesting,” senior defensive lineman Brandon Copeland said. Cornell brought it within eight, and after converting 4th-and-10 and a Penn picksix negated by a penalty, the
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Big Red were able to tie it up with 2:57 to go on a score and two-point conversion. “They scared the living hell out of you,” Bagnoli said. However, after getting good field position from a short Cornell squib kick, the Quakers
were able to keep their cool. “We were actually pretty calm in the huddle,” Holland said. Holland overcame his inexperience and marched Penn down the field, leading to a three-yard score by then-sophomore running back Spencer Kulscar.
The defense was able to hold on and earn Bagnoli his ninth — and final — Ivy title. “It wasn’t easy, it wasn’t perfect or pretty at all,” Copeland said, summing up Bagnoli’s brand of winning football. “We all stayed together.”
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first game since offseason surgery but missed a pair of layups in the final three minutes of the second half. Most importantly, though, Nelson-Henry feels that he’s finally healthy, welcome news considering the fact that he missed four games last year — including the Rider matchup — due to injury. “My wind was better than it had been in previous years, actually,” he said. “I felt pretty good. Obviously it’s something I’m still working on and trying to improve, but physically, my body felt great — no real pain, no nagging injuries. It’s just a matter of working back into it, getting my feet under me and just trying to work back into basketball feel.” The faster Nelson-Henry gets his legs under him, the better Penn’s offense will be in pressure situations, all the better for eliminating any lingering memories of last year’s loss on Tuesday night.
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Penn football sent off coach Al Bagnoli with an appropriately classy ceremony during his final home game on the sidelines, featuring a congratulatory video message from Philadelphia Eagles coach Chip Kelly.
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Coming off an All-American season last year, Penn wrestling’s Lorenzo Thomas has gotten this season off to a strong start. At this weekend’s East Stroudsburg Open, he went 5-0, coming out on top of his 184-pound division.
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At NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regionals, junior star Thomas Awad finished third overall and will represent Penn at Nationals for the second straight year. Senior Conner Paez was also strong, finishing his collegiate XC career with All-Region honors.
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One last triple-double Junior right side hitter Alex Caldwell has been Penn volleyball’s most versatile player all year, and she displayed this skill once again over the weekend. She notched her fifth and final triple-double of the year during her team’s penultimate loss to Brown.
Hicks goes off Penn men’s basketball did not get the result it was looking for against Delaware State on Saturday, but junior guard Tony Hicks showed a lot of leadership. With 31 points on 45 percent shootshoot ing, he earned Big 5 Player of the Week honors.
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Penn women’s basketball started off the season with a road loss to No. 4 Tennessee. Despite the loss, sophomore Sydney Stipanovich impressed with six first half blocks, and the game should be a valuable learning experience moving forward for the Red and Blue.
Starting strong The women’s fencing team opened its season this weekend at the OSU Invitational where the squad went 3-1 in team duals, beating Ivy rival Princeton. For the individual competition, freshman Stephanie Wolf had an impressive performance and advanced to the women’s semifinals.
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Sophomore twins Cleo and Clarissa Whiting led the way for the Red and Blue at Mid-Atlantic Regionals, finishing 19th and 20th, respectively. The finish meant a lot for Cleo, who has battled injuries since the offseason.
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Despite the OT loss for Penn men’s basketball, the freshmen offered a glimmer of hope for what’s to come. Darnell Foreman started the game and three other freshmen, Antonio Woods, Mike Auger and Sam Jones also got playing time off the bench.
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Freshmen show promise The freshmen of Penn women’s basketball exhibited strong play against a tough Tennessee team this weekend. Both freshman guards Beth Brzozowski and Anna Ross scored their first collegiate baskets in the game, including a team-high 11 points for Brzozowski. Graphic by Laine Higgins
Growing pains inevitable for Penn STEVEN TYDINGS
On Friday and Saturday, 600 miles apart, Penn men’s and women’s basketball took the court, facing wildly different opponents and producing two dissimilar losses. But the one constant between both teams are the growing pains that come with young squads. The women’s squad had inevitable issues of inexperience at the point after the graduation of Alyssa Baron and Meghan McCullough, the team’s primary ballhandlers that each averaged north of 32 minutes per game during the 2013-2014 season. So of course there was going to be a learning curve, and when the Quakers took on the
No. 4 team in the country, it was going to be displayed for everyone with a subscription to the SEC Network to see. Yet while the Red and Blue’s freshmen point guards displayed their youth at times, both Anna Ross and Beth Brzozowski were also two of the bright spots during the Quakers’ defeat. Each had a solid handle of the offense and exhibited their ability to make plays on the drive, scoring at the rim or dishing out. Each gained confidence as the game went on, as Brzozowski began to take control on play after play down the stretch. She even pulled up and drained a three right in front of a Lady Vols defender. “I give them a lot of credit,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “They challenged themselves. They played against a tremendous opponent, and they held SEE TYDINGS PAGE 7
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A blown 14-point lead. Two missed chances at the game-winning shot. A fifth consecutive loss. Suffice it to say, Penn basketball’s 89-88 loss to Rider last year was one of the low points in a tough season. But as the Quakers (0-1) gear up for Tuesday’s rematch against the Broncs (0-1), coach Jerome Allen insists that his team isn’t exactly out for revenge. “I don’t think so,” he said when asked if he thinks his players still think about that loss. “As a staff, we try to look at last year’s game to see if we can pick up any pointers, but with that being said, we’ll just focus on [Rider’s] first game this year, how they finished last year in terms of tendencies, and that’s it.” Penn fans should be quite familiar with Rider’s season-opening opponent. The Broncs travelled to Jadwin Gym Friday and fell 64-58 to Princeton, despite receiving 16 points from junior guard Teddy Okereafor in his debut. Okereafor — who started his career at VCU but sat out 2013-14 due to NCAA transfer rules — is one of three new players in the Broncs’ starting lineup relative to their last matchup versus the Quakers, who have dealt with some significant rotation changes of their own. Of the 11 Penn players who received floor time in the Quakers’ 2013 game against Rider, only three remain — senior forward Greg Louis, junior guard Tony Hicks and sophomore forward Dylan Jones. Hicks went off in Penn’s season opener against Delaware State on Saturday, a 77-75 overtime loss at the Palestra. The newly-minted captain dropped in 31 points and hit five three-pointers on 9-of-20 shooting. But the Quakers couldn’t make the plays on either end of the floor they needed to coming down the stretch that would have closed out the Hor-
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Although freshman guard Anna Ross showed moments of youth, she improved as the game went on, notching six points in Friday’s game against Tennessee.
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It’s no secret that things have not gone Penn football’s way this year, but for the man at the helm of the program — coach Al Bagnoli — this season has been the outlier, not the norm. Over his career, Bagnoli has led the team to nine outright Ivy championships and became the winningest coach in program history. In preparation for the Quakers’ season ending matchup with Cornell and — more importantly — Bagnoli’s final game on the Penn sidelines, let’s turn back the clock two
years to another significant matchup with the Big Red. On Nov. 17, 2012, the Red and Blue traveled to Ithaca, N.Y. with one thing on their minds: an Ivy championship. At 5-1 in the league and a game up on second-place Harvard, Penn needed only a win to clinch its third outright Ivy title in four years — a dynasty in the eyes of many onlookers. Matched up against a Cornell squad that sat at 2-4 in the league, the Red and Blue were clear favorites. But the Quakers were a man down. Then-senior quarterback Billy Ragone was out with an injury, forcing senior Andrew Holland to make his first start SEE TURN BACK PAGE 7
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