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The School District of Philadelphia is taking the next step in expanding the number of charter schools in the city. On Tuesday, the district announced that public hearings will be held on Dec. 11 at its headquarters for charter school applicants in West Philadelphia.

Thirteen applicants are included on the list of proposals to be heard for West Philadelphia.

Two applications are for schools proposed in Penn’s ZIP code. The hearings for the other proposed charter schools, a total of 40 applications, will begin on Dec. 8.

Applicants will make 15-minute presentations, and the public will have the chance to comment on any of the applications evaluated. A second set of hearings will take place in January, where the Charter School Office will present comments from application evaluators and the applicants will be questioned further, according to a district press release.

The applications are set to be reviewed by a panel of outside evaluators including some from area universities. As of November, the district had not released the names or affiliations of the panelists.

This is the first year since 2008 that the district has accepted charter school applications. A stipulation in the $2-a-pack cigarette tax that passed in September now requires them to be accepted annually.

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Fresh Grocer to start selling beer JODY FREINKEL Campus News Editor

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The Fresh Grocer will start selling beer before January 2015, an employee confirmed Tuesday.

An orange notice announcing the store’s application to sell alcohol was posted by the entrance at 40th and Walnut streets earlier this week. Beer should be in stock within the next few weeks, according to an employee who had spoken with supervisor Samira Syed.

It is unlikely that beer will be sold 24 hours a day, during all of the store’s operating hours, due to state restrictions.

Pennsylvania is one of 18 states that monopolize alcoholic beverage wholesale and retail. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in 2010 that grocery stores with established restaurant operations inside them can sell beer — up to two six-packs for take-out at a time. The Fresh Grocer’s new license is likely affiliated with its internal cafe.

General Manager Ed Wescott was not immediately available for comment on Tuesday evening.

Selling beer is not the only recent change to come to the Fresh Grocer.

The store joined the Wakefern Food Cooperative, whose members own and operate ShopRite stores, last fall.

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Penn lost grants this year because of a Pa. tobacco tax ruling KRISTEN GRABARZ Campus News Editor-elect

Cutbacks in state funding in 2013 depleted a portion of Penn’s research funds — but while the chunk of lost funding is relatively small, it represents wider struggles in the hunt for research funding.

In 1998, a 46-state lawsuit against the tobacco companies created a pool of funding for health-related research to be distributed by states. Pennsylvania’s allocation of funds was set to drop by $180 million in fall 2013, per an arbitration ruling, because of claims that the state did not adequately tax tobacco companies.

When the research fund consisting of tobacco-company money was frozen in 2013, Penn lost out on one source of its research funding.

From the perspective of overall research funding though, Penn receives 82 percent of its $870 million in funding from the federal government. Of the total funds, only about one or two percent comes from state funding.

The Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement Program funds grants for research in health fields. Established in 2001 with funds from the Tobacco Settlement Fund, the culmination of the 46-state lawsuit, CURE is run through the Pennsylvania Department of Health.

In response to the arbitration ruling, Pennsylvania froze all CURE funding in the state, a sum of what would have been over $40 million. Consequentially, Penn and the other institutions receiving CURE funding were not allocated funds during the 2013-14 fiscal year.

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ular and Cellular Oncogenesis program Jessie Villanueva has utilized CURE funds to further her research in melanoma.

Because Villanueva’s CURE funding has already been expended, she has not been affected directly by the depletion of funds, although she said other researchers’ work may

World tour for Wharton dean Geoffrey Garrett will make international trips to meet alumni COREY STERN Staff Writer

Move over, Taylor Swift.

Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett will also be going on a world tour in 2015.

The tour will be an opportu-

nity for Garrett to engage with Wharton and Penn alumni around the world. At the tour’s events, Garrett will lay out his plans for his deanship at Wharton and hold open discussions with featured alumni guests.

“I am looking forward to meeting as many alumni as I can in the next few months, to introduce myself, listen to our alumni all over the world and allow those conversations to

help shape how I look at the path of the Wharton School in the coming years,” Garrett said via email.

Garrett’s tour will kick off on Jan. 12, 2015 at the Four Seasons Hong Kong. Joining Garrett in Hong Kong will be 1989 Wharton MBA graduate Chang Sun, who is chairman of the Asia Pacific arm of private SEE TOUR PAGE 6

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be compromised.

“I think overall we are all concerned about the funding climate right now,” Villanueva said. “It’s very difficult to get funding from the federal government in general, so having resources from the state was a big deal for us.”

She noted she and her peers

must submit ten grant applications in order to receive a single grant.

In the 2008 to 2009 fiscal year, Penn received $8,975,120 of formula grants through the CURE program.

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Toying with your brand Fisher-Price Executive Vice President Geoff Walker shared his advice on creating a personal brand at a Tuesday lecture ABHISHEK RAO Contributing Writer

Whether it’s a multinational corporation or a recent college graduate, the challenge in creating a brand remains the same — riding the fine line between authenticity and adaptability.

This Tuesday’s Wharton Leadership Lecture featured Geoff Walker, the executive vice president of Fisher-Price, the famous toy manufacturing company. Drawing upon his recent experiences in renovating Fisher-Price’s brand, Walker discussed how a brand name could impact both the global toy industry and a personal ca-

reer search.

Walker encourages people to brand themselves to get a leg up in the corporate world by looking over honest feedback and using it to create a list of defining characteristics. He suggested that while checking for corporate culture fit and taking general typology tests were important, a critical step in getting feedback was creating a personal advisory board. “Your personal board of directors is a group of people … mentors that guide you … bounce ideas off of you.”

Walker emphasized the importance of making a

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McKinsey director: Put critics on ‘loudspeaker’ Barsh shares advice on how women can rise in the business world ZOE STERN Contributing Writer

Despite the obstacles that some women face when trying to become leaders in the workplace, others are taking the initiative to train women to help women rise to the top of the workplace.

On Tuesday, the Women in Leadership Series hosted Director Emeritus at McKinsey & Company Joanna Barsh. At Penn, Barsh was an English major and fine arts minor. After college, she was a production assistant folding scarves at Bloomingdale’s and then at Macy’s, which is where she realized she wanted to go into Business School.

Throughout Barsh’s decades in business, she gained an awareness of the obstacles for women in leadership, starting with a lack of trust and acceptance. “When identifying incongruence in others, we must have it too,” she said.

“Many women can fall short on

this. Girls talk incessantly and judge each other. But really we are talking about ourselves.”

Instead, Barsh called on women to embrace criticism. “If you find that your critic is loud and holding you back, don’t stop listening to the critic,” she said. “The key is to hear other voices too, and put them all on loudspeaker.”

Interested in what enables some women to become leaders in their businesses over others, Barsh launched the “Centered Leadership” program in 2008 at McKinsey, an international consulting firm. The program was designed to help women better cultivate the skills and mindsets needed to become strong leaders.

Now, Barsh is retired and is traveling around the world giving talks about her work — mostly to older women — to see what is holding them back.

“I love hearing women say, ‘I am a good mother, I am a CEO and I feel good about it,’” she said. “Most of these women are strong and bold and entrepreneurial. They just need that fivedegree shift in order to change the world.”

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Geoff Walker, Executive Vice President of Fisher-Price, spoke as part of the Wharton Leadership Lecture Series.

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Director Emeritus at McKinsey & Company Joanna Barsh led an interactive dialogue focused on the idea of “Centered Leadership.”

personal brand genuine. “Getting that honest feedback will make or break whether you succeed in the long term,” he said.

Penn students in attendance were interested to hear that Walker encouraged people to find themselves in their personal brands. “I found his passion for his brand incredibly interesting and inspiring,” said Wharton freshman Julia Liu. Wharton freshman Dawit Gebresellassie agreed, stating, “He really walked the walk

regarding his personal brand.”

As Walker described how to apply and adapt personal brands, he also weaved in descriptions of his experiences at Fisher-Price. As he explained how one needed to constantly adapt or “go obsolete,” he used the example of FisherPrice’s transition from marketing to “Generation X” parents to “Millennial” parents. But even during this transition, the challenge lies in “being authentic to your brand.”

“It’s a fine balance — I want to lead a company to be great, I don’t want to tell them to be great,” he said.

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Getting s--- done and being happy KEEN ON THE TRUTH | The work-hard, play-hard mentality and blind religious faith are both just ways to distract oneself from tough WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 03, 2014 VOL. CXXX, NO. 122 130th Year of Publication

TAYLOR CULLIVER, Executive Editor AMANDA SUAREZ, Managing Editor JENNIFER YU, Opinion Editor LOIS LEE, Director of Online Projects HARRY COOPERMAN, City News Editor JODY FREINKEL, Campus News Editor WILLIAM MARBLE, Enterprise Editor GENESIS NUNEZ, Copy Editor MATT MANTICA, Copy Editor YOLANDA CHEN, News Photo Editor

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anye West recently commented that “the point of life is getting s--- done and being happy.” This boileddown philosophy is not a bad approximation of what appears to motivate the average Penn student. Some of us work harder than others; some of us play harder. But the overall point of life is to balance our craving for serotonin with the desire to get one thing done or another.

At 62, Ernest Hemingway was a best-selling author with a Nobel prize and a Pulitzer prize, which means he’d got a lot of s--- done. If wine and women have anything to do with the happiness hormone, he would have also had plenty of that. But around 1960, something had started to go wrong: He’d lost his ability to write, which meant that he wasn’t getting much done anymore. Happiness wasn’t happening enough either, so he put on his favorite dressing

gown and shot himself in the head.

Psychologists have also linked Hemingway’s suicide to other causes — including, in a vaguely Freudian style, an intense desire to kill his father which was transferred to his mother and finally to himself — but these ignore the fact that Hemingway got along in his own way for more than 50 years before the suicide attempts started.

In any case, the problem with West’s simple formula remains: The work-hard, playhard philosophy provides temporary distraction, not real meaning. And when something goes wrong — when you’re out of work or suddenly stop feeling the fun — it can all come crashing down.

Then most of us, it would seem, pick up the pieces, grit our teeth and keep going. Life may feel meaningless, but it’s better than death. And so we live it the best we can. If failure persists, of course, a few

— like Hemingway — may commit suicide. But the majority stick to West’s formula — getting done what they can and trying their best to be happy.

Still others — when faced with too much pain to cope — turn, according to their own testimony, to an irrational belief in a higher meaning, often based upon the religion they happen to have been raised in. For example, a few weeks back I attended a Fox Leadership Lunch featuring a New York Times best-selling author. He claimed that the heart-wrenching experience which inspired his book had also created in him a deep, irrational belief in God. He told the room full of bright-eyed students that we just needed to have faith — never mind if it’s in God, goodness or a benevolent Big-Foot — so long as we could get ourselves to really believe in something transcendent; something bigger than getting stuff done and

being happy.

It’s hard to argue with someone who openly admits that he builds the meaning of his life on irrationality, so I didn’t raise my hand at the time. But I could see a little smile go around the room, and I guessed what many of us were thinking. We grew out of Neverland a few years back,

tenets may help us feel better about the world for a time, but if at bottom you know that your faith isn’t backed by fact or even logical coherence, it ends up serving as nothing more than a distraction. And — as many who left the religion they were raised in might testify — the distraction often fails when faced with a little

The work-hard, play-hard philosophy provides temporary distraction, not real meaning. And when something goes wrong — when you’re out of work or suddenly stop feeling the fun — it can all come crashing down.” and in the regular universe — even if the whole room full of us got to yelling and clapping and shouting, “I do believe in fairies” — very few of us would believe that Tinker Bell was coming back to life. Fanatical allegiance to religious

bit of rigorous education.

To be sure, there will always be people who can get through life quite satisfied with a baseless belief. There will also be people who die happy at 90, looking back on all kinds of s---- they got done.

JEREMIAH KEENAN But these are not people with answers; they are just a lucky bunch good at ignoring tough questions. As time consuming as it may be to seriously study the rational arguments surrounding worldview and religion, at least it provides a chance at finding some real answers — answers more compelling than “getting s--done and being happy.”

JEREMIAH KEENAN is College sophomore from China studying math. His email address is jkeenan@ sas.upenn.edu. “Keen on the Truth” appears every Wednesday.

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at a cheeseburger,” you say. If only you knew the fear and guilt I might feel if I obliged; a fear of gaining weight, of losing the thin-buttoned figure I’ve worked over a year to attain. It can be a constant, nagging stream of thoughts — I shouldn’t have eaten that, I’ll probably be bloated tomorrow, how many calories was in that? After the mental battle, I accept what I’ve just eaten and move on, reminding myself that one unhealthy meal won’t change the way I look.

I have never been diagnosed with an eating disorder, but as you can see, my relationship with food is anything but normal, and probably best characterized as “intense.” I love to cook and bake, spend-

GUEST COLUMN BY VERA KIRLLOV ing my weekends and evenings challenging myself with ever more sophisticated recipes and adventurous ingredients. I love food, I just hate the effect it could have on my body — depositing fat where I don’t want it. Spend a day with me, and you might just see me as a girl who likes to eat healthy but has got a killer sweet tooth. Spend a week with me and you’ll start to pick up on my bordering-on-obsessive aversion to fatty, starchy foods. Red meat, cheese, potatoes, bread? Only on special occasions, please.

I never used to think my four-times-a-week gym schedule and refusal to eat fatty meals more than a couple times a week was unusual or unhealthy. Freshman year at Penn, I gained 15 pounds, and my new habits were just part of a healthy lifestyle helping

me shed that weight. A year later and 35 pounds lighter, I struggled to shift from weightloss to weight-maintenance.

When I looked in the mirror, I still saw a version of my old self and still picked apart my “problem” areas, like my stomach. It took seeing a photo of me for the first time in months to realize just how drastically my body had changed — my arms now thin and lanky, my collarbone clearly visible from the neckline of a loose-fitting XS T-shirt. Shopping for new jeans was a pleasant surprise — I fit into a size 2?! — and a wake up call. Finally, I’d lost the weight. Finally, I’d achieved a new-and-improved version of me.

I recognize that I have an unhealthy body image, but it’s a difficult one to shake. I don’t weigh myself, but I do

keep close track of my figure.

I look in the mirror, inspecting my stomach to see if it looks like it’s protruding more than usual. I fixate on these perceived flaws, not every day, but enough to recognize that

days when I feel incredibly guilty after eating a cheeseburger, though, I just wish I had someone with similar experiences to talk to. Someone who could empathize, not sympathize.

I never used to think my four-times-a-week gym schedule and refusal to eat fatty meals more than a couple times a week was unhealthy. Freshman year at Penn, I gained 15 pounds, and my new habits were just part of a healthy lifestyle helping me shed that weight.” it takes a toll on me. Happily, there are many days when I look at myself and see someone beautiful, with a body that needs no changes. On those

Perhaps selfishly, my hope for this piece was to create that dialogue I so crave on my darker days. I haven’t been able to find any student group

to discuss these issues with at Penn, despite the prevalence of eating disorders on a campus filled with countless perfectionists like myself. I know that this is a personal issue that is incredibly difficult to divulge to others, but I hope it will incite more dialogue on this self-destructive disease that seems so stigmatized among people our age. Penn’s competitive environment discourages us from divulging our flaws, but acknowledging a quietly prevalent issue such as this is key to addressing the larger, oft-discussed mental health problems at our university.

VERA KIRILLOV is a Wharton junior studying marketing from Madison, Ala. Her email address is verak@wharton.upenn.edu.

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RAs create communities on and off res. halls

Applications to become a residential assistant opened yesterday JESSICA WASHINGTON Staff Writer

For College senior Stamati Liapis, being an RA did not end when his residents left his hall.

Liapis has stayed in contact with his former residents and continues to maintain a close mentoring relationship. This year, his residents from last year’s Huntsman Hall in Kings Court, where Liapis is an RA, made him a video for his birthday.

“It was really touching,” he said.

The relationship between Liapis and his residents goes both ways.

Earlier this year, a former resident approached him to talk about issues with his current roommate.

The two went on a walk to talk out the problem, which helped the student resolve the issue, Liapis said.

With RA applications now available online as of Tuesday, more students like Liapis can help lead and create a community in their College Houses. Current sophomores and upperclassmen with at least a 2.5 GPA are eligible

to apply. The application deadline is immediately after winter break, on Jan. 15, and students can interview as early as today.

Applicants can choose to apply to one or more of the College Houses, which each have their own individual process.

In Ware College House, after applicants apply online, they are interviewed by a panel made up of the House Dean, 2-3 RAs and a GA. This interview is followed by a mixer between potential and current RAs. All applicants are notified of their acceptance for the following year by Jan. 30.

While the position of an RA comes with several perks, such as free housing and a free meal plan, the opportunity to be a mentor is the main attraction for some applicants.

“I was interested in being an RA because it is the most formalized mentor role you’ll have in your life,” Engineering senior Amit Pujari said. “Getting to know freshman and helping them grow is really cool.”

Despite thoroughly enjoying his role as a mentor, Pujari admits that sometimes it is hard to strike the right balance in his relationship

with students on his hall.

“Balancing being the enforcer and a friend is the hardest part,” Pujari said.

“You’re not the cop, or the mom, or the dad,” Phil Davis, an RA and College senior in Ware added.

“The goal is to try and bestow on them some sense of personal responsibility.”

RAs face other challenges as well when working with students in their hall, particularly those who suffer from mental health issues.

Davis said that for him, this was the hardest part about being an RA. All RAs are required to go through rigorous mental health awareness training, which includes meeting with CAPS and outside consultants and participating in several simulations.

“I felt really prepared going into it, but nothing can really prepare you for it when you’re faced with a real person,” Davis said.

In addition to helping residents adjust to the stress of university life, RAs must also keep up with the other responsibilities in their lives.

“Sometimes you can get so consumed in the RA job, you can start losing track of your own stuff,” Liapis said.

Earlier this year, balancing responsibilities became more of a challenge for fourteen RAs who had their work-study either reduced or eliminated. These RAs were not notified of this change until October.

“You get a free meal plan being an RA, but the meal plan doesn’t cover an entire semester’s worth of meals, so if you don’t have a kitchen in your dorm room, which most RAs don’t, I feel like it would be really hard,” Liapis, who was not one of the RAs who had his workstudy cut, said.

Despite the pressures of being an RA, Liapis said it is still worth it.

“The experience is incredibly meaningful, you don’t even realize how cool it is until you’re there planning activities, and helping build a community,” Liapis said. “I would highly recommend it.”

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hough we all know the Internet is for porn (thanks Avenue Q), the bedroom is no longer the only area being ceded to digital territory. For every girl with daddy’s AmEx, window browsing on Fifth Avenue has been replaced with online shopping. And FYEs everywhere have virtually been rendered useless (pun intended) with the existence of the multifarious iTunes store.

Things are no different here at Penn, where the Rave gets nearly half the traffic for the midnight screenings of blockbuster hits like Twilight as Hulu does the day after the newest episode of 30 Rock airs. This makes sense. We Penn students are too busy procrastinating on Penn InTouch andBRENNAN designCOURTESY OF EMILY 70 students laid in silence on the floor of Penn Law in solidarity with protestors around the country after ing funny lacrosse pinnies for the events in Ferguson. the clubs we’re involved in to leave the comfort of our beds to

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equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC, as well as 1990 Wharton Ph.D. graduate Gang Yu, co-founder and chairman of Yiahodan, an online Chinese grocer.

In addition to Hong Kong, stops have been announced for Philadelphia on Jan. 28, New York on Feb. 10, London on March 4, Miami on April 27, San Francisco on May 4 and Seoul on June 10.

“We have started with a few cities and will continue to add more throughout 2015-16,” Garrett said.

In his five months as dean, Garrett has already been around the world on Wharton’s behalf. He has met with alumni in cities that have included Beijing, Shanghai, London, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.

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Wednesday, December 3, at 5:30 PM, Penn Professor Dr. Heather Williams, “American Slavery: A Very Short Introduction.” This addition to Oxford’s Very Short Introduction series draws upon the rich recent scholarship of numerous highly-regarded academics as well as an analysis of primary documents to explore the history of slavery and its effects on the American colonies and later the United States of America.

Thursday, December 4, at 6:00 PM, Local Author Yanatha Desouvre, “Savor the Moments: Inspired by True Stories.”

In this collection of short stories, we meet Grayson Goodman, a traveling businessman who encounters people dealing with challenging situations. Discover how they cope with the circumstances they face and how Goodman touches their lives with words that ring with simple, honest clarity.

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Saturday, December 13, at 10:30 AM, Naomi Shihab Nye, “The Turtle of Oman: A Novel.” Aref Al-Amri does not want to leave Oman for Ann Arbor, Michigan where his parents will attend graduate school. He especially does not want to leave his grandfather, Siddi. Through a series of eye-opening adventures in his beautiful country with his beloved grandfather, Aref learns he can always carry little pieces of home with him.

watch Hugo in theaters. And we fit this mold of overworked Ivy CLAIRE COHEN Assignments Editor-elect League students well, with only about 17% of Penn undergrads About 70movies students in silence watching at laid the Rave evon the floor of Penn Law on Tuesery semester. day afternoon.

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peak CURE allocation during the 2009 to 2010 fiscal year, when it was allocated $9,897,440 in formula grants, although the quantity was still a mere one percent of its current total research funds.

Yet, although the lost funds quantify a small chunk of Penn’s total funding, the decrease illustrates greater challenges arising from uncertainty in research funding.

Director of Research Initiatives in the Office of the Vice Provost for Research Marc Rigas said that his office often receives calls from faculty members who fear struggles to find funding — both from the CURE program and otherwise — may implicate the future of their research.

“Any time you have funding uncertainty, it’s detrimental to the university,” Rigas said, stressing the fact that individual researchers field the hardest hit. “If you’re the

person who’s lab is receiving those funds, it’s a big portion of your budget.”

But, in April, a Court of Common Pleas judge ruled to restore an estimated $120 million of Pennsylvania’s $335 million tobacco settlement funds for 2014.

Penn will receive about $5 million in funding from the CURE program this fiscal year, Rigas said. Most of the funds will go to the Abramson Cancer Center.

The reduction of CURE funding comes amidst a difficult time for researchers seeking funding, with the federal government cutting back on research funding in general.

“Penn’s in a good position because we are a well-respected university with top researchers,” Rigas said. “Compared to other institutions, we’ll be okay, but because the pie is getting smaller, top universities are going to be competing more and more for these funds.”

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In 2004, the National Institutes of Health, one of the largest funders of science research, received 40,861 grant applications with an overall success rate of 24.6 percent.

Nine years later, in 2013, the NIH received 49,581 grant applications, and the funding rate dropped to 16.8 percent — meaning researchers are roughly 32 percent less likely to obtain funding.

“Faculty members are spending more time writing applications for grants than doing actual research,” Rigas said.

The Wistar Institute, Penn’s cancer-focused research neighbor, has also received less funding than expected due to CURE program cuts.

According to Wistar’s website, the institute expected to receive approximately $1,403,000 in CURE funding in 2014. Wistar will now take on a “substantial deficit” this fiscal year in order to continue funded research projects.

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• Nov. 22: An unaffiliated 51-yearold man was cited for public drunkenness on the 200 block of S. 40th Street at 10:23 p.m. The suspect was visibly intoxicated, with bloodshot eyes and smelled of alcohol. He caused a disturbance by yelling loudly and causing a crowd to gather.

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• Nov. 21: An unaffiliated 19-yearold man was arrested for a DUI at the intersection of 38th and Walnut streets at 11:49 p.m. The suspect was stopped for a traffic violation, and the police smelled a strong odor of alcohol and marijuana from the suspect. The suspect had difficulty keeping balance and following directions.

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The Rave is renovating he concession and ticket booth stands, after which the cinema plans to do more renovation work.

The Rave Cinema located at 40th and Walnut streets is currently being remodeled.

The theater, which the Rave took over in 2010, has been under construction since before Thanksgiving break.

The Rave is working to renovate the concession and ticket booth stands, after which the cinema plans to do more renovation work.

The theater itself is still open, but patrons must use the side door entrance, a Cinemark representative said.

Cinemark, the company that owns the Rave, did not comment on when construction will be completed.

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Students gathered for Campus Happiness Day Meditation, an event that aimed to spread inner happiness through meditation and a spirit of celebration among the Penn community. The event included interactive activites, a breathing technique and guided meditation led by global humanitarian and spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

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Melting the pot of American art DIA SOTIROPOULU Contributing Writer

A tall, stylish woman commanded the petite stage of the upper level of the World Café, a white pane projected to her right.

Penn professor Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw dove right into her presentation on American art as part of the Lighbulb Café public lecture series. The series welcomes

Penn faculty from the School of Arts and Sciences to give free presentations on diverse topics. Shaw, an associate professor of art history at Penn, tackled the question of defining American art.

Shaw highlighted American art’s long under-recognized status and proposed a number of factors that shape perceptions of it, including geography and the origins of its artists. “Does what we have

here in this country, this melting pot, with all of these different cultures coming together ... is that what makes American art?” she asked. “Art that reflects a cultural affinity that’s all connected with the American experience?” She described new modes of curation that depart from typical race- and gender-based categorizations.

The visual aids in her presentation ranged from an iconic Paul

Revere print of the Boston Massacre to images of an innovative exhibit curated by artist Fred Wilson at the Maryland Historical Society.

The exhibit incorporated previously “neglected” artifacts from the museum’s holdings — a set of metal cuffs echoing a legacy of slavery were placed alongside decorative silverware — to propose a new way of perceiving the past.

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“I knew that Dr. Shaw was curating [an] exhibition [on African American art] at the Philadelphia Museum of Art,” Posey said. She later reached out to Shaw to invite

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Despite her role in realizing it, Shaw turned a critical eye to the upcoming exhibit, called “Represent: 200 Years of African American Art.”

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Originally in a zone defense, the Quakers struggled to contain Homan, who finished with 29 points, as Stipanovich and senior forward Kara Bonenberger both found themselves in foul trouble.

McLaughlin acknowledged the team’s difficulty with guarding Homan. “It was definitely a factor that we had to protect [Stipanovich and Bonenberger] in the first half,� McLaughlin said. “We tried to double her at times and do some other things. I give her a lot of credit, because she made a lot of difficult shots.�

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BY CARTER COUDRIET Associate Sports Editor Sometimes, talent runs in the family. Sometimes, it swims.

For the two sets of siblings on Penn swimming and diving’s roster, the term “teammates� takes on a new meaning. The Alexander sisters and Hurwitz twin brothers add strong bonds to the team, both in and out of the pool. “Immediately, it gives you someone you know on the team, so you have somebody who’s your biggest ally,� sophomore breaststroker Cole Hurwitz said.

Cole and brother Jordan Hurwitz have known this bond would exist from the start. When recruited, the identical twins made

it clear to colleges that the pair from Portland, Ore., were a package deal. The brothers ultimately decided on Penn, which they believed would provide them a solid academic atmosphere while accepting two freshmen of the same event with relatively similar times. “When we talked to schools, we told them that we wanted to come together, so we were a package deal,� Jordan said.

For freshman Ryan Alexander, the idea of joining her sister, junior Megan Alexander, was less enticing, as she approached swimming with her sister with mixed emotions. Recently, Ryan found the pro and con list she made of colleges before selecting for which school she would swim, and, as she explained, “one of the cons said ‘half-Megan.’� “I had to decide whether I wanted to be with her or not,� said Ryan, who then continued, “Now

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Those mistakes led to a 64-61 defeat and a wasted 11-point, eightrebound performance from NelsonHenry.

The Quakers know they can’t afford to continue to shooting themselves in the foot. “We’ve got guys going in spurts,�

Allen said. “It was good to see Darien have some effectiveness inside ‌ but with that being said, we got 55 possessions for the game. We shoot over 57 percent. But yet we turn the ball over 22 times. It’s counterproductive. “We were able to be effective and score the ball when we took good shots and took care of the ball, but with that being said, if you only get 33 shots at the basket, you’re probably not going to win too many ballgames.â€?

Facing a slower, half-court oriented team, the Quakers could easily wind up in another tight situation late in the second half.

So far, those scenarios have not been kind to the Red and Blue. Penn lost its opener to Delaware State by a two-point margin, and was within three points of Temple with 1:15 to go last Tuesday before falling by nine.

With three freshmen currently entrenched in Allen’s regular rotation — a fourth, forward Mike Auger, is currently sidelined with a foot injury — the Red and Blue are still figuring out how to close out a game in the final minutes.

Part of that winning formula will develop naturally with experience, but some will come from the team’s game-by-game attitude after a stretch of tough early failures. “You’ve got to make sure [the freshmen] stay confident,� said Nelson-Henry, a veteran of numerous close losses early into his third campaign. “You can’t be too hard on them after a loss like that, because then the next time they’re in that situation, they’re not gonna have the confidence to execute the way that they need to.�

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Similarly, the Hurwitz twins have strengthened their relationship through Penn swimming and plan to be roommates the rest of their college careers. Racing with each other has made them closer — though their teammates may argue that they were already close enough, especially physically. “At first, they definitely couldn’t tell us apart,â€? Cole said. “Now ‌ it’s very rare for them to make a mistake.â€?

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his or her sibling, which ratchets up the excitement of each race, especially when the siblings are in the same heat. “It’s great for competition purposes,� said Jordan, who faces off against Cole in breaststroke events. “I’m definitely most competitive when I’m facing my brother.�

For the Alexanders, the age gap exacerbated the sibling rivalry in the past. The two described the intensity as heating up four years ago, when Megan was a high school junior in Marblehead, Mass., and Ryan was a freshman. “I used to cry when she beat me,� Megan said. “Now it’s more, we’re on the same team, and I want her to be scoring points for us as much as I want to be scoring for the team.�

The shift to a more team-oriented outlook has not only helped the siblings grow as teammates,

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In the second half, McLaughlin continued to switch between man and zone defenses, but not to the same success he had. “We got a little bit spread out [on defense], [and] they were hitting the high post on us. I thought we did a good job when we went to man, [and] we broke their flow in the first half, just not the second half.�

Penn and Lafayette often traded leads in the second half, with no team holding a lead larger than Penn’s five-point advantage THOMAS MUNSON/DP STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER with 10 minutes left. The Quakers claimed the lead with 2:19 Senior guard Kathleen Roche scored 10 points against Lafayette on Tuesday. Her remaining in the game on a layup layup off a fast break with 2:16 put the Quakers up, 57-56, their final lead of the game.

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THE BUZZ: MANO-A-MANO

Biggest surprise in Ivy League men’s hoops

BY DP SPORTS EDITORS From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ Ivy League basketball has seen some surprises early in the 2014-15 season. Harvard lost to Holy Cross on a neutral court.

Columbia lost its top scorer from a year ago before the season began and hasn’t missed a beat.

Cornell has already won more games than last season.

Senior Sports Editor Steven Tydings and Sports Editor Holden McGinnis talk about what has been the biggest surprise in the Ancient Eight this year.

Steven Tydings: I’d say Harvard’s early defeat, but the Crimson bounced back. What has thrown me off guard has been Princeton’s early season struggles. The Tigers lost a lot with the graduation of T.J. Bray but with freshman Amir Bell coming in to run the point and other players like Spencer Weisz set to step up, most people expected Princeton to hold it together.

But so far, the Tigers surely haven’t. After taking down Rider to start the year, they lost five straight games before a win on Sunday. Those losses included some stronger opponents like UTEP but there is one loss that is truly inexplicable: Incarnate Word.

Seriously, Incarnate Word? A program that has been in Division I for just two years won at Jadwin Gym. This was a shocker to say the least. Princeton may bounce back but the Tigers early season struggles are pretty surprising, at least to the extent they’ve been hurting so far.

Holden McGinnis: Sure, Princeton’s loss to Incarnate

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(No. 2), Murphy (No. 3), Larson (No. 4 and 5) and Watson (No. 5 and 6) all went 3-0. The

Word was surprising, but the Tigers weren’t particularly a title contender to begin the year — placing 4th in the preseason poll. The Tigers were a bit of a wild card, particularly after the graduation of Bray and a strong crop of seniors, and they could very well turn things around.

For me, I think the biggest surprise has to come from Co-

lumbia. When we heard that Alex Rosenberg was going to miss the season and withdraw from school due to injury, it seemed clear that Columbia was no longer going to be the same threat to knock off Harvard and Yale as it was last year. It’s tough to replace an elite scorer like Rosenberg, especially given the talent the Lions graduated, but

Columbia has barely missed a step.

Sure, Tuesday’s loss to lowly Loyola (Md.) was ugly, but this is a team that most analysts wrote off a few weeks ago, yet its started the season 4-2. They may not have the chops to hang with Harvard and Yale atop the conference, but the Lions aren’t a team to sneeze at this season.

When you lose a first-team AllIvy talent and can still pull off some nonconference wins in the aftermath, it says a lot about the coaches and the program.

ST: The Lions simply haven’t played a very tough schedule so far. I have a tough time seeing Columbia excelling in Ivy play without Rosenberg to draw fouls on every opponent and take the final shot. There is an awful lot riding on the shoulders of junior

Maodo Lo and I’m not sure he’s up for the task.

HM: They may be unable to handle the very top of the conference, I grant you that, but Columbia is still ahead of around half the Ivy League. For something that’s supposed to be a lost season, that’s more than enough.

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Quakers come up painfully short W. HOOPS | Tying three-pointer rims out at the buzzer

BY JACOB ADLER Staff Writer It was a nail-biter, but Penn women’s basketball could not pull through on a rare down defensive night.

Penn fell to Lafayette on Tuesday night, 60-57. The Quakers (3-2) were unable to execute on offense in the sec-

ond half to overcome an overpowering performance by Lafayette forward Emily Homan.

The Red and Blue’s final opportunity — a three-pointer as time expired by freshman Beth Brzozowski — bounced off the rim to end the game.

Lafayette guard Jamie O’Hare hit a go-ahead jump shot with 27 seconds left, putting the Leopards up, 58-57, and the Quakers took over with a full clock to retake the lead. Freshman Anna Ross ultimately missed an off-bal-

ance layup, and the Quakers fouled Lafayette forward Ashley Lutz, who made both of her foul shots with four seconds remaining to secure the final three-point margin.

“We had an opportunity to put us up one late and it just didn’t fall,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “Anna Ross put up a good shot.”

Sophomore center Sydney Stipanovich led the way for the Quakers with 13 points on 6-for-15 shooting and added seven rebounds to a game-

high three blocks. Senior guard Kathleen Roche contributed 10 points, all in the second half.

“We would have liked to have more intensity early on to set the tone,” Roche said.

“They did a great job of controlling the game initially, but we could have brought a little more energy and forced more turnovers.”

In the shooting frenzy that was the first half, the QuakSEE W. HOOPS PAGE 10

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Sophomore center Sydney Stipanovich had a typical day at the office against Lafayette on Tuesday, dropping 13 points while adding seven rebounds and three blocks.

Scouting the Midshipmen: Taking a look at Penn’s mid-week opponent 11/14/14 vs. Michigan St. • L, 64-59

11/20/14 at Providence • L, 88-51

11/16/14 at Notre Dame • L, 92-53

11/23/14 vs. Binghamton • W, 70-68

11/26/14 vs. Penn St. Harrisburg • W, 67-42

The Leading Scorer Brandon Venturini #2, 6-foot-0

• Averaged 11.5 points in 30 games last season • Led team in assists & threepointers made in 2013-14 • Leads Midshipmen in points, three-pointers and steals per game this year • Shooting 41 percent from beyond the arc

11/22/14 vs. Northeastern • L, 68-44 11/29/14 vs. Saint Francis • L, 85-68

The Man in Charge Ed DeChellis 4th Season as Navy Head Coach

• Penn State Grad ‘82

Penn vs. Navy by the numbers Record Points per game Opponents ppg Rebounding margin Turnovers per game Pomeroy Ranking

Penn 0-5 67.4 74.6 +5.2 16.8 275th

Navy 2-5 58.9 72.4 -2.6 15.4 323rd

• Spent seven seasons as East Tennessee State head coach.

Won at least 18 games each of his last three seasons and made one NCAA Tournament • Coached Penn State for eight seasons, winning the NIT title in 2009 • Made NCAA Tournament in 2010-11, his final season

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Penn faces half-court test M. HOOPS | Navy’s slow pace could vex Red and Blue

scoring contests through their willingness to shorten the game and total number of trips down the floor for both sides. “[Navy does] such a good job

BY IAN WENIK of executing, and they make you Sports Editor pay for every mistake,” coach JeNAVY rome Allen said. “You’ve got to 2-5 mix your patience and your focus Tonight, together in terms of trying to play 7 p.m. out a full 35-second shot clock Annapolis, Md. possession.”

After Penn basketball’s blown By and large, though, the second-half lead and loss to Wag- Midshipmen have been unable ner on Saturday, people around to capitalize on their limited the program were likely thinking possessions. By Ken Pomeroy’s at a mile a minute. metrics, Navy ranks 323rd out Wednesday, the Quakers will of 351 Division I teams in total tone things down a few notch- adjusted offense, averaging only es — though it may not be by 91.7 points per 100 possessions. choice.

For Penn, the key to getting The Red and Blue (0-5) are its all-important first win of the slated to travel to Annapolis, season may lie in forcing the Md., to take on Navy, one of the disciplined Navy squad out of its slowest-paced teams in the entire comfort zone. country.

“It’s gonna be a good test for Winners of two of their last us, because we haven’t done a three, the Midshipmen (2-5) SEE M. HOOPS PAGE 10 have a tendency to produce lowSEND STORY IDEAS TO DPSPORTS@THEDP.COM

Quakers look to build on hot start in home opener M. SQUASH | Penn has won its first three contests of 2014

BY GARRETT GOMEZ Staff Writer No. 16 Navy 12-0 Tonight, 5 p.m.

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Junior center Darien Nelson-Henry has impressed as he works his way back into game shape following offseason surgery.

As Penn men’s squash prepares for its first home match of the season, it will look to build upon its hot start.

The No. 9 Quakers will take on No. 16 Navy on Wednesday evening at 5 p.m. at the Ringe Squash Courts and hope to improve to 4-0 to begin the year.

Penn looked dominant in its first weekend of play

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when it traveled to Maine for a three-game road trip. The men defeated a solid Bates team 7-2 before beating both Colby and Bowdoin in dominant 9-0 fashion.

However, the Red and Blue face a strong challenge on Wednesday as Navy has also gotten off to a hot start this season and proven they can play with top-ten teams.

The Midshipmen also stand undefeated, currently boasting a 12-0 record, with their most noteworthy win coming against Penn’s Ivy League rival, Princeton.

Navy won each of its first 11 matches while holding the opponent scoreless, topping each 9-0. Last Tuesday was the Midshipmen’s first real test as they faced the No. 10 Tigers and battled to come away with the 5-4 victory,

their first win over a top-ten team since February 2012.

Navy will likely take this confidence and momentum into their match at Ringe Courts. They are led by senior Andrew McGuinness in the No. 1 position and senior Jim Kacergis in the No. 3 position.

A key to Penn’s success thus far and certainly one for Wednesday’s matchup is the play from the freshmen in the Quakers’ ladder. In the season opening weekend in Maine, the Red and Blue featured five freshmen in the top six spots in the ladder; Marwan Mahmoud, Derek Hsue, Hayes Murphy, Anders Larson and James Watson.

Mahmoud went 2-1 in the No. 1 position, while Hsue SEE M. SQUASH PAGE 11 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640