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Undercover liquor police ‘likely’ at Fling COUNTDOWN TO
FLING 2014 Last year, Bureau of Liquor Control undercover officers made an appearance at Fling BY KRISTEN GRABARZ Staff Writer The Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement for the District of Philadelphia will “likely” be on campus during Spring Fling again this year, continuing last year’s presence of
undercover officers, Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said. In addition to the undercover officers, Penn Police officers, Philadelphia police and fire department will also be on campus throughout the weekend of April 11. Last year, the Bureau issued 31 citations to students at two offcampus parties. All students either admitted to drinking or had an open container of alcohol in their hand.
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An underage drinking citation carries a $500 - $1000 fine for the first offense, as well as a 90-day driver’s license suspension — even if the license is from a state other than Pennsylvania — and in some cases, alcohol education and community service. Furnishing alcohol to minors carries a penalty of $1,000 for the first violation and a fine of $2,500 for each subsequent violation and up to a year in jail. While the undercover officers are
making a return appearance, Rush said DPS has taken a critical look at Fling security and may make some changes. Each year, the DPS puts together a program to critique the event for future reference. “Any special event — regardless of what the event is, annual events like Spring Fling, the Penn Relays and Commencement — we look at after ... Do we have enough officers, etc.? What would we change in the future?” Rush said.
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Last year, DPS focused on Quad security because there had been records of property damage in the college houses. Only Quad residents were allowed to enter the buildings. As part of a coordinated response, the college houses, with Penn Police, succeeded in reducing property damages in the Quad, Rush said DPS will also work cooperatively with the college houses and the Vice SEE FLING PAGE 6
Forty years of feminism at Penn today The Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies program and Women’s Center will celebrate their 40th anniversary at a two-day conference starting today BY MELISSA LAWFORD Staff Writer Carol Tracy remembers winning a major victory for women at Penn 40 years ago. For four straight days, she led a group of over 200 women at a sit-in in the President’s Office at College Hall in 1973. The women were protesting the University’s lack of response to the rape of five women over the course of three days. Tracy was one of the lead negotiators with then-Penn President Martin Meyerson in finding a suitable resolution where Penn women could finally feel safe on campus. Ultimately, these discussions led to the creation of the Penn Women’s Center and the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies program a year later. “We won and we won big,” Tracy said.
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Onda Latina brought its Latin dancing magic onto the basketball court at the Wells Fargo Center before the 76ers game as part of a guest performance yesterday. Founded in 1996, Onda Latina — which means “Latin wave” in Spanish — has more than 20 members. The Philadelphia 76ers went on to lose to the Orlando Magic, 101 - 90.
Sophomores help satisfy Penn’s sweet tooth BY ZAHRA HUSAIN Contributing Writer Three sophomores want to bake for you. College sophomores Alina Wong and Rachel Stewart and Wharton sophomore Roopa Shankar — all roommates — started baking for fun during their free time. The pastime became a regular activity, and soon the three were baking on a weekly basis. One night, Shankar shared one of their creations with
a friend, who told her it was good enough to sell. A seed was planted in their minds. Wong, Stewart and Shankar started meeting at the Starbucks under 1920s Commons on Locust Walk to talk about the business potential of baking. “We knew we wanted something quirky, something funky, something slightly nonsensical,” Wong said. NOMsense, their new venture’s name, was inspired by the word “nonsense” and the foodie phrase “noms.” The girls
even sign emails “NOMly Yours” and like to describe creations as “pheNOMenal.” Shankar said the bakery will aim for “weird desserts that work.” Cookie sandwiches with a twist are their signature item. According to Wong, each sandwich includes “two innovative cookies, a never-before done filling, a drizzle and a topping.” Wong, Stewart and Shankar spent hours playing around with recipes and ingredients to create the most unique product they could — they
wanted to give Penn students something they had never tasted before. After several small-scale tastings that tested several flavors and recipes, the girls settled on four they liked best and started a marketing campaign. The girls intend to run NOMsense like any small business. They created spreadsheets to track finances, made a Facebook page and spread the word through sorority
*** Today, the Women’s Center and the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies program are celebrating their 40th anniversary at a two-day conference, which will address the issues women still face in modern society. The conference will consist of a sequence of panel discussions and workshops. Keynote speaker Jessica Valenti, named as one of the 100 most inspiring women by The Guardian in 2011, will be speaking this evening.
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FERPA permits parental notifications for alcohol hospitalizations Analysis | Penn’s policy lets U. contact parents after second hospitalization BY COSETTE GASTELU Staff Writer A little-known University policy, which was cited in a recent campus study, states that if a student is hospitalized twice for alcohol or other drug use, the student’s parents can be contacted. The policy, which was mentioned in last Tuesday’s Report of the Commission on Student Safety, Alcohol and Campus Life, said that “if a student is transported to the hospital a
second time (or more) due to alcohol or other drug use, the University reserves the right to notify his or her parents.” For minors — students under 18 years old — the University’s policy is to immediately notify parents. This policy comes in similar forms at colleges across the country. It’s legality stems from exceptions in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, commonly known as FERPA. At Penn, 36 parental notifications were made during the 2012-13 academic year, according to the Commission’s report. Julie Lyzinski Nettleton, director for the Office of Alcohol and Other
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student so they may be safe and successful at Penn.” While FERPA contains provisions that maintain the privacy of students’ educational records, it still guarantees Penn the legal right to notify students’ parents about hospitalizations under certain conditions. “FERPA [permits] a university to notify a student’s parents [if the student] is under age 21, if that student has violated any law or university policy related to alcohol or controlled substances,” Preston Green, a professor at the University of Connecticut who specializes in educational law said. Jacob Rooksby, a professor at Duquesne University School of
Law, explained that universities can disclose this hospitalization information if they believe that the “disclosure is necessary ‘to protect the health or safety of the student or other individuals.’” Penn can also apply the parental notification policy to students who are 21 or older, Rooksby said, because repeated hospitalizations for alcohol or other drug use could be “in connection with [a] health or safety emergency” for the student or other students, as outlined in FERPA. But these exceptions by no means require that institutions like Penn SEE ALCOHOL PAGE 7
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Penn alum named fifth Presidental Term prof
Wendell Pritchett helped make President Obama’s Promise Neighborhoods BY VICTORIA MOFFITT Staff Writer Pen n’s f i f t h P resident ia l Ter m P rofessorship will bring a former faculty member and student back to Penn’s campus. Wendell P r itchett , former professor at Penn Law School and current chancellor of Rutgers University-Camden, was named a Presidential Term Professor last week. Presidential Term Professorships were established at Penn in 2011, with the intention to recruit distinguished and diverse faculty to the University. Throughout his career, Pritchett focused on urban policy and redevelopment in the city of Philadelphia. He earned his doctorate in histor y at Penn and later taught at Penn Law from 2001 to 2009. “I’ve been around Penn forever ... I even took my SATs at Penn when I was in high school,” Pritchett said. “I grew up in Philadelphia. I had tons of friends whose parents taught at Penn, I had tons of friends who went to Penn, I did my graduate work at Penn, I taught at Penn - so it’s just been home for decades.” During his years at Penn Law, Pritchett taught classes on land-use controls and local government law, as well as seminars on urban policy and development.
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In 2007, Pritchett contributed to then-Senator Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) presidential campaign as chair of his Urban Policy Task Force. P r it chet t conduct ed r e search and analyzed existing economic development programs while also writing policy papers for the future president. He helped design a proposal for “P romise Neighborhoods,” an initiative to improve education a nd fa mi ly resou rces i n high-poverty communities. The program was approved and implemented dur ing Obama’s first term. “[ P r om ise Neig hb or hoods] a re urba n development neig hborhoods,” Pritchett said, describing them as “a new way of approaching and revitalizing disadvantaged neighborhoods.” On Jan. 8, Obama designated five areas across the country as Promise Zones — launching an initiative that stemmed from Promise Neighborhoods — to help create jobs, expand educational opportunities and in-
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crease economic security in poor areas. West Philadelphia is one of these new Promise Zones. P r it c het t h a s f o c u se d o n u r b a n i m p r o v e m e nt throughout his career. He cu r rent ly ser ves on t he Phi ladelphia School R e form Commission. He also chaired the Redevelopment Authority of Philadelphia and is the former president of the Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation. While practicing law, he represented various nonprofit organizations in the city. “ W hat I’ve been interested in is urban redevelopment , p a r t ic u l a rl y i n the city of Philadelphia,” Pritchett said. “What led me to nonprofits was that I was interested in rebuilding areas that had declined in the city.” His research in the area of urban policy included the publication of two book s — one on a neighborhood in Brooklyn that was subject to urban policy experimentation and a second on Robert Clifton Weaver, an urban reformer and the first African-American cabinet secretary. P ritchett w ill star t his new position at Penn Law on July 1. He looks forward to his teaching role after spending f ive years as a chancellor at Rutgers. “I taught some classes over the past f ive years, but I’ve really been an administrator,” he said. “The biggest thing I’m excited about is actually being in the classroom and teaching students.”
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In 1973, over 200 women led a sit-in protest at College Hall in light of a series of recent sexual assaults on campus. Conversations stemming from the protests eventually led to the creation of the Penn Women’s Center and the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies program the following year.
Center is a ‘haven for women’ WOMEN from page 1 Many of the activists who led rallies for women at Penn in the 1970s, including Tracy, who is now the executive director of the Women’s Law P roject , are retur ning to share their activist experiences at the conference. GSWS director Christine Poggi outlined the necessity of recognizing “the courageous work [the activists] did,” because these women addressed “struggles that are [still] ongoing,” such as sexual assault. One in five women will be sexually assaulted while in college.
Peggy Sanday, Penn’s first female tenured Anthropology professor, will be speaking on the “Activism Against Sexual Violence at Penn” panel today. She outlined the importance of bringing women together at the conference. For Sanday, the Women’s Center provided the first opportunity for her to speak about her experiences closely escaping rape when she was 14 years old. After being threatened by a group of men on a basketball court, “I ran and never told anyone until the environment was such that I could,” Sanday said. That time came when she was a professor at Penn. “The value that I saw in the Women’s Center was a voice for equality,” she said, “a voice for rape-free sexuality.” The Center is “a haven for women,” she added.
“It’s a wonderful presence for Penn to have.” Sanday also emphasized the importance of feminism on campus today, citing the need for continued change as “the fact of the matter is the one in five still stands.” “Ca mpus is not a sa fe place,” she said, specifically noting that issues like acquaintance rape are problems college women still face. *** This is the first year GSWS and the Women’s Center are collaborating to celebrate their shared anniversar y. Women’s Center Director Felicity Paxton said this is the chance for them “to really tell this story” of their shared history. It’s “about the connectedness of women’s lives,” Paxton said. While for some, modern feminism is all about the individual, the conference will look back to a time of “immense collaboration,” where students, staf f and faculty protested together, to celebrate an “earlier, more connected vision,” she explained. The conference’s panels and workshops will address discussions ranging from the history of feminism to wider conversations about women’s relationship with race, literature and religion. The conference has also “opened ... up in some new ways,” Poggi said. Following from GSWS’s 35th anniversary conference, this will be the first time graduate students will be participating in the panels. Poggi hopes that Valenti’s talk will encourage undergraduate presence, she said. *** Forty years after the protests, women w ill f ill the center of campus again — this time, to recognize past successes while still moving forward. It’s a “really uplifting historical trajectory,” Paxton said. However, “there’s still a lot to be done for women, Paxton said, noting that women still face the problems of pay inequity and employer control of health plans, which can restrict their decisions regarding birth control. She is excited to witness the “inevitable energizing,” which will come from the conference. Tracy, who became director of the Women’s Center in 1977, feels that the era of protesting has died down. “That sense of what can be accomplished is a bit missing today,” she said. Dur ing the sit-ins, “we looked to ourselves for solut io n s ,” s he e x pl a i ne d , outlining how the protest presented a series of concrete demands, which included the creation of a Women’s Center and a Women’s Studies program, in a way “which hasn’t been replicated since.” Tracy, who will be speaking on two of the panels, said she is looking forward to the conference. “It’s very important to me,” she said. “My life changed here, who I am and what I do all developed here.”
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New app pays you to have advertisements on your android BY BOOKYUNG JO Staff Writer A new app, designed by Whartonites, lets users earn money by looking at advertisements on their Android phone. Once users create an account on Slidejoy, which was released a few weeks ago, using their Facebook account or email, the cellphone shows different advertisements on the screen when the phone is locked. Users can either slide to the right to unlock their phone and go to the home screen or slide to the left to go to the advertiser’s website, watch the advertiser’s video or go to Google Play to download an advertised app. According to the founders, the app has gotten a little over 10,000 downloads so far. Users are paid every time they slide to unlock their phone. They do not earn more money if they go on an advertiser’s website. The app has an algorithm that detects users who constantly lock and unlock their phones to earn more money and lowers the payment amount. P hone u s e r s a r e p a id through their Square Cash or Paypal accounts, or can choose to have their earnings
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Slidejoy pays users to have an advertisement on the homescreen of their android phone. Users are paid every time they slide to unlock their phone. donated to either the Jericho Project, which helps homeless people, or Got Your Six, which connects veterans and the entertainment industry.
If they want to disable the advertisement, they can log out of the app and return whenever they want. Some of the participating advertisers
are Macy’s, Nike, Sephora and Groupon. Slidejoy co-founders 2012 W har ton M BA g raduates Robert Seo, Jay Chung and
current Wharton MBA student Sanghoon Kwak, got the idea from a similar app in Ko-
rea called “Cashslide,” which shows advertisements, shopping information and news and pays its users accordingly. Advertisements through Slidejoy are almost 60 times more effective than Facebook, which is one of the most powerful outlets for advertisements, the founders said. “It’s really surprising because users are usually weary of advertisements,” Seo said. “They don’t see it as spam.” Seo attributes the app’s popularity to the “virtuous cycle” it creates. People will download the app to earn money and advertisers will have a larger audience pool to reach. He added that users have provided much positive feedback for being “a clean looking and creative app.” Slidejoy is currently available only on Android smartphones but plans to expand to tablets and iOS eventually. The app is trying to make more nonprofit organizations, such as Habitat for Humanity, American Red Cross and Teach For America, available for donation. It will also introduce another cash-out option in the form of digital gift cards in a few weeks.
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It’s not always about sex
WHAT’S THE T | It’s great that mainstream campus feminism has an amplified voice, but not when this voice excludes people
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t Penn, there is a growing respect for feminism. Issues of gender equalit y are on their way to being given the attention they deserve, and there is no denying that this is an important step in the right direction. However, a lot of mainstream feminist activism on this campus has centered on rhetor ic a nd t actics that actually hur t people who would otherwise be included in these important discussions. One of the major problems t hat has caused this rift is the inability of mainstream campus feminism to move beyond sex positivity. Sex positivity is a movement within feminism that aims to promote the importance of women embracing their sexuality and reclaiming agency over their bodies and their sex lives. This is ultimately a reaction to a long history of women’s sexuality
being ignored and demonized. While it is important that feminists advocate for women’s ability to express themselves sexually, the extreme focus on sexuality tends to alienate many people, including those who are asexual, transgender, non-straight, non-white, belonging to various religions, sexual assault sur v ivors or not seen as “conventionally attractive.” College sophomore Liz Barr, who identifies on the asexuality spectrum, notices that activists at Penn often forget that not everyone is comfortable engaging in feminist discourse that is overwhelmingly focused on sex. “We live in a sexual culture, and lack of sexual desi re/i nt erest /act iv it y a re stigmatized, too. There’s this undertone that obviously everyone likes and wants sex, it’s just a matter of who you’ll consent to having it with. Not every feminist issue should be
seen through the lens of sex positivity, and not every event should be centered around genitalia and orgasms.” One of the most visible manifestations of this is the prevalence of the phrase “consent is sexy.” While well intentioned, this phrase takes something that is a fundamental part of sex (obtaining a partner’s consent) and makes it into something that people should do because it can be seen as fun. Feminists should stress that obtaining consent is a way of expressing basic respect for other people. Consent is not sexy. Consent is mandatory. When feminist spaces focus so heavily on intimate discussions of sex, they can very easily do a lot of harm to the same people for which they claim to be advocating. One Penn student, who w ished to rema i n a nonymous, recalls a situation at a meeting with a feminist group in which the icebreaker required participants to
recall the strangest place they ’ve had sex or fantasized about having sex. “I felt that this was a very i nappropr iate a nd potentially triggering question,” she recalls. “There were so many better ways to ‘break the ice’ in that situation that wouldn’t have been potentially harmful and alienating for a group of people that was even more statistically likely to include victims of sexual assault than the general population.” While it is tr ue that reclaiming women’s sexuality is something that is extremely important, talking about personal or general sexual experiences can be very triggering for sexual assault survivors, especially when combined with the fact that they are supposed to be in a safe space. College sophomore Jade Huynh believes that this extreme focus on sex positivity reflects a greater problem with Penn’s feminist activ-
ism: a lack of intersectionality. She notes that it is extremely important that we are sensitive to the fact that the greater feminist movement has historically put forth a single narrative of a white, cisgender, heterosexual, middle-class and able-bodied woman and has thus silenced those that don’t fit this model. “It is incredibly important to celebrate female sexuality, champion consent and promote women in leadership, but we shouldn’t concentrate on just these areas. Let’s champion consent while accounting for what consent means to our asexual sisters. Let’s help our fellow women rise to positions of leadership, paying special attention to women of color facing discrimination on multiple grounds. Let’s celebrate a womanhood that’s inclusive of women with and without vaginas. We’re so privileged here at Penn to have such a diverse community. Let’s have our feminism reflect it.”
RODERICK COOK I want this to be a call to action for feminists on campus. Continue to fight for women’s right to express their sexuality in the ways that they want. But please remember those in the asexual community, those who are survivors, those with dysphoria and the many more who feel more alienated by this sex positivity than included. Expand your discussions and your outreach so as to go beyond sex positivity, and your activism will help many more people. RODERICK COOK is a College sophomore from Nesquehoning, Pa., studying gender, sexuality and women’s studies. They can be reached at rodcookdp@gmail.com.
Action For Academic Freedom GUEST COLUMN BY MICHALE GOLDBERGER
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o the administration, I am proud to be a student at the University of Pennsylvania. I am proud that my esteemed university publicly denounced the boycott of Israeli Universities by the American Studies Association (ASA) as an affront to educational freedom. Yet, Penn is a university of more than words, and thus, I encourage you to take more action in this situation. This past December, the ASA came out with a statement boycotting Israeli academic institutions on the grounds that such action supports social justice and denounces discrimination. However, the boycott actually suppresses academic freedom by excluding an academic group based upon an
arbitrary political standard that is not consistently applied. Despite the fact that Penn denounced the boycott, University funds are still being used to cover travel costs to ASA conferences. Due to the University’s leading role amongst academic institutions, it is necessar y that Penn remove itself from the ASA, lest we undermine our value of academic freedom. The ASA’s boycott undermines the pursuit of education by limiting academic freedom, and therefore, by continuing to support the ASA, Penn is directly opposing its academic purpose by being part of the ASA. The ASA’s mission states: “The American Studies Association is the nation’s oldest and largest association devoted to the interdisciplinary study of American culture and his-
tory.” H o w e v e r, t h e b o y c o t t it sel f supp or t s t he Boyc ot t , S a nc t ion s a nd D i vestment movement, thus highlighting its political, not academic, nature. This i ncong r u it y bet ween t he
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freedom aligns strongly with the ASA’s stated goals, but diverges sharply from their actions. Continuing to support ASA conferences undermines our University’s support of pursuing education.
Continuing to support ASA conferences undermines our University’s support of pursuing education.”
ASA’s stated purpose and realized actions should not be ignored because it undermines Penn’s academic reason for being a part of the ASA. President Gutmann’s statement demonstrates that Penn’s pursuit of academic
I recently read a powerful article written by two Har vard students, urging their university to withdraw from the American Studies Association. As leaders in the academic community, we must address this issue
too. Actions speak louder than words. Therefore, it is difficult for me to reconcile the fact that our university, which holds such a c le a r p osit ion on t h i s issue, is not leading academic institutions in acting upon our beliefs. For two months, we have watched as other universities , including Brandeis University and Penn State University at Harrisburg among others, withdrew their membership from the ASA. We need to be among them. I would expect nothing less from a leading institution such as Penn. As students, one of the most important lessons for us to learn is that in life, we can make as many statements as we want and denounce all wrong in the world, but the only way to accomplish anything is through action.
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The Women's Center is celebrating 40 years on campus tonight in Houston Hall. Its staff is active in women's issues ranging from sexual violence prevention to gender equity. Keynote speaker Jessica Valenti is a current writer for The Nation and a self-described "feminist evangelist." Her speech — "Purity, Sexism and Activism" — is just one part of the 40th anniversary conference, which will last through Friday.
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Houston Hall Thursday, 7:00 p.m.
Philadelphia Flower Show opens downtown The Flower Show, an annual Philadelphia event, opens this weekend at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. The show is "the world's longest-running and largest indoor Flower Show," according to its website. This year's theme is ARTiculture and is meant to celebrate the intersection between art and horticulture. Tickets are $28.00 online.
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Immigration Action Week brings attention to policy and ideology Penn Democrats and Penn for Immigrant Rights are co-sponsoring a week of events on "immigration, identity and policy." Former Pennsylvanian Governor and Penn alumnus Ed Rendell spoke about the current state of immigration reform earlier in the week, and tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Huntsman Hall, representatives from Puentes de Salud — a clinic downtown that serves Philadelphia's Latino immigrant community — will discuss disparities in public health.
Locations around campus Feb. 24 - 28, 2014
For College senior Meher Rehman, microfinance is an imperfect method of empowering women in developing countries. She learned this lesson the hard way. Last summer, Rehman, who was born in Pakistan and raised in Michigan, interned at a leading microfinance institution in Pakistan. She arrived optimistic about this method, which provides small loans to people who do not have access to financial institutions, but left “disillusioned and energized.” During her tenure, she found that women receiving loans from the nonprofit were treated as intermediaries for money by the men in their families. “Just because they had access to loans didn’t mean they had control over them,” Rehman said. To combat this problem, she helped the organization implement a micro health insurance program that included the option for a maternity and pediatric package. Rehman is writing her senior thesis in International
Relations on how a country’s culture effects the impact of microfinance programs on the women who take part. She also hopes to return to Pakistan after graduation and before attending law school, so that she can work with a smaller nonprofit on a project that will evolve to fit the culture of the nation. “If we don’t critically look at [the] flaws [of using microfinance to empower women], we aren’t going to be able to see how it can be improved,” Rehman said. Isa Camyar, an International Relations professor and Rehman’s thesis advisor, noted that in Nepal, where the status of women is higher than in Pakistan, microfinance programs tend to be more effective, which supports Rehman’s thesis. “There is something deeply personal about [her topic of study],” Camyar added. For Rehman, the people she seeks to help “are not a faceless people,” she said. Rehman’s desire to empower women of her native Pakistan has been an integral part of her life. Although she grew up in the United States, she feels a deep connection to the girls of the country her greatgrandparents helped found. In high school, Rehman founded a nonprofit called “One Step Forward,” which
helps fund a training center in rural Pakistan to teach women vocational skills to earn income.She carried this notion with her to Penn, aiming to figure out the best way to utilize the new resources available to her to implement a program that could fulfill her hefty undertaking. R eh ma n v isit ed I nd ia through Penn’s Center for the Advanced Study of India in the summer of her sophomore year to work with Dasra, the country’s leading strategic philanthropic organization. “It was a soul-altering type of summer,” she recalled. She worked with sanitation nonprofits at slums in Bombay, some of which had only one toilet for every 10,000 people. “I never thought of going to the bathroom as privileged,” she said. Despite the difficult conditions of the slums, Rehman was surprised by the “determination and humor” with which the women there lived their lives. Her own determination was fueled by this experience. Frank Plantan Jr., co-director of the International Relations Program, recognized how she has been able to integrate herself into her field of research. “She’s a good example of how being cheerful, positive and applying that personality to work can make a difference,” he said.
Conference brings contemporary China to forefront The Penn Symposium on Contemporary China is annual event that brings graduate students together to present on topics from politics and economics to culture. Keynote speakers from the United States Naval War College and Stanford University will also present. Two separate panels will take place in Bodek Lounge.
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Africa in Stereo Africa in Stereo analyzes how Africans have engaged with African American music and its representations in the long twentieth century (1890-2011) to offer a new cultural history attesting to pan-Africanism’s ongoing and open theoretical potential. The book shows how such transnational ties fostered what Jaji terms “stereomodernism.” Attending to the specificity of various media through which music was transmitted and interpreted---poetry, novels, films, recordings, festivals, live performances, and websites---stereomodernism accounts for the role of cultural practice in the emergence of solidarity, tapping music’s capacity to refresh our understanding of twentieth-century black transnational ties. Dr. Tsitsi Jaji is an assistant professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Jaji has been a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, a Society for the Humanities (Cornell) Mellon Graduate Fellow, and a Penn Humanities Forum Junior Faculty Fellow. During the 2012-13 year, she was the Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Her primary research interests continue to be transnational black cultural relations and exchanges, the relationship between music and literature, theorizations of listening, and Africana expressions of feminism. Dr. Jaji earned her Ph.D. (2009) in comparative literature from Cornell University. This event is being co-sponsored by the Department of English and held in conjunction with the Penn Bookstore. Light refreshments will be provided.
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Both the Medical Emergency Response Team (left) and the Penn Police (right) will be on duty during Spring Fling in April. Undercover officers from the Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement are likely to be on campus during Fling too.
MERT also making Fling preparations FLING from page 1 Provost for University Life and the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives this year, Rush said. Penn’s Medical Emergency Response Team has been planning their Fling strategy for several weeks. “There are lots of components to Fling, and it is very
important that we plan well in advance to ensure smooth operations and adequate coverage,” MERT Captain and College junior Omar Sobh said in an email. In addition to outreach events in the days leading up to Fling, the team will work alongside DPS, the Social Planning and Events Committee, Student Health Services and several other organizations. MERT will expand their normal service hours and be in ser v ice 24 hours a day from April 10 to 12, and multiple crews will be on duty at all times to minimize
response times. All MERT volunteers are required to volunteer for at least one shift during Spring Fling. Penn’s alcohol amnesty policy ensures that students will not be penalized when they call for medical assistance for themselves or a friend who is severely intoxicated. “As we know spring fling over the years has had its challenges. I have to say it’s gotten much more organized and less chaotic than it has been in past years,” Rush said. “The main concern here is to make sure everyone Flings safely.”
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Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration Dan Tangherlini spoke about how his education at Wharton tied into his work in the public sector at an event organized by the Penn Wharton Public Policy Initiative Staff yesterday.
Law prof: Penn’s policy ‘a good idea’ ALCOHOL from page 1 disclose this information to parents, and each institution can exercise its discretion in determining its own policies. While Penn’s policy states the University can notif y parents after two incidents, Rooksby said that FERPA “does not establish a magic number of hospitalizations before disclosure to one’s parents without consent is permitted.” Policies like Penn’s exist at other institutions as well, but have their nuances. At Cornell University, for example, a “Judicial Administrator” determines whether a certain alcohol or drug related incident warrants a parental notification. Incidents that get referred to this official can include underage possession of alcohol or possession of other drugs or an illegal ID. Parents aren’t notified after a student’s first offense. After a second offense, though, Cornell may send a letter to parents, if the university thinks it’s necessary. However, the university might consider mitigating factors, like if the incident concerns Cornell’s medical amnesty policy, when determining whether to contact parents. For a third offense, it is clear that parents may be contacted. If Cornell officials decide to carry out a parental notification, however, the student would “be informed of planned communication in advance,” would be “encouraged to communicate with parents” before the university contacts them and would be “provided ample opportunity to express concern” before the contact occurs, according
to Cornell’s policy. In Rooksby’s opinion, policies like Penn’s are “a good idea.” “Institutions should always be concerned about student health and safety,” Rooksby said. “Even though FERPA never obligates them to disclose without consent, if a disclosure ... could help the student overcome a drug or alcohol problem, institutions face a moral imperative to act.”
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Day has helped out Penn in the post W. HOOPS from page 12 WNIT victory in 2012. But Day saw himself managing his own college basketball program. So he headed to the cradle of college basketball at Bloomington, Ind. “I left St. Joe’s because I wanted to be a head coach, and I felt like there was one more stop, being at a BCS-level and being in the Big 10 for a couple years there,” Day said. Back Home to Philadelphia “It started with just a friendly conversation, and then when he said he was starting to look [for a job] because he wanted to get his family back to Philadelphia,” McLaughlin said. “We talked about [what] we
need, what we had going and how we can continue to build on it ... I knew his basketball background, his reputation, I knew the type of man he was — all that was seamless. It was a pretty simple process having known him and having known why he wants to come back here.” After a season at Indiana, family reasons — a fifth child on the way — helped bring Day back to Philadelphia. After initial conversations, he agreed to take over the position once held by Kara Cassidy — who left before the beginning of the school year due to personal reasons. McLaughlin and Cassidy even met with Day before the position became open. “That’s what we are trying to build here,” McLaughlin said. “Someone who is leaving the program for family reasons ... cared enough to make sure that not only I got the best person, but we got the best coach.” With Day on the bench, the Quakers have a high-quality post
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Cotton got to play with Carmelo M. HOOPS from page 12 He’s the real deal. Thanks to Cotton’s tremendous growth on the basketball court, the Bulldogs are in position to earn a postseason appearance for only the second time since the 2002 team earned a trip to the NIT after finishing second in a three-team playoff. It’s easy to draw parallels between this 2014 squad - which currently sits a game behind Harvard for first place in the Ancient Eight — and the 2002 one. That 2002 squad was cohesive and unified under coach James Jones’ message. This year, Cotton — along with leaders like Justin Sears and Matt Townsend — is what’s holding the Bulldogs together in a similar vein. “I think I would attribute that [team chemistry] to our intensity in practice,” he said. “And I think that extends to all guys that we play with. We use a lot of bodies on the team, so I think that chemistry has to prevail throughout so there’s not a letdown.” With Cotton on the floor, there haven’t been too many letdowns. After bursting out of relative obscurity last year to
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coach, which has been instrumental in the Penn’s success down low this year. Both Kara Bonenberger and Sydney Stipanovich are in the top five in the Ivy League in rebounding and Stipanovich is leading the league in blocks. “He’s a little bit different than our other coaches because he doesn’t sugar coat anything and he’s to the point,” senior captain Kristen Kody said. “He’s very serious in telling you what he thinks, which is good because it’s sometimes a reality check.” Nevertheless, Day’s lessons have not fallen upon deaf ears. He is quick to point out though, that it was McLaughlin, Cassidy and fellow assistant Bernadette Laukaitis who built the foundation of the program and got it to where it is today. “We just work together,” Day said. “I’m not trying to bring anything new, just being able to help this team from where they started get to the pinnacle.”
THE CAREER OF PENN ASSISTANT COACH CHRIS DAY
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finish fifth in the Ivy League in rebounds per game (5.3), all of the New York City native’s key peripherals have improved this season. The numbers are gaudy. Cotton’s rebounding totals are up to 5.6 per game, and his scoring average is inching closer to double figures after scoring at least 13 points in four out of his last five contests. But Cotton thinks his game still has room to change more under Jones’ tutelage. “I pride myself on being versatile. Being able to get rebounds, shoot, obviously, and do a lot with my height (6-foot-7),” he said. “But to be able to make other players better, I think
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that’s probably some of the most impressive things you can do as a player, so that’s one facet of my game that I definitely want to improve upon.” And if you want to find some players that have made Cotton better, all you need to do is change the channel to any NBA game. Playing in the pro-am Nike Pro City League back home in the summer after his quiet freshman campaign, Cotton put himself up against some of the league’s best while leading his Dyckman/NYAC team to the league finals. Cotton knew how valuable it was to play alongside and against NBA players like Car-
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Assistant coach Chris Day (right) brings years of big-time experience to the Quakers staff. Before arriving at Penn, Day spent time as an assistant coach at both St. Joseph’s and traditional basketball powerhouse Indiana.
melo Anthony, Mike Dunleavy and J.R. Smith before suffering an MCL sprain. “It’s a really great privilege that I had to play against guys of that caliber,” Cotton said. “I’ve been really, really lucky and fortunate to play with these guys and learn from them — really pick their brains in terms of how they take care of their body and
how they approach the game.” Cotton’s a quick learner. Long gone are the days of three-minute stints back in freshman year and the rough patches of last year’s 14-17 campaign. Now, after being steered into the right position by Jones and the NBA’s best, Cotton has the Bulldogs poised to take the next step — back into the NIT or
perhaps, with a little luck, even farther than that. “It’s been a maturity process,” he said. “It’s something that I really appreciate, because with any team that you play with, you’re going to have to make adjustments to your game for the benefit of the whole.” Yale is reaping those benefits now.
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Upset over Yale would be fitting finish ROUNDTABLE from page 12 ing rally against Temple? MJC is one of the biggest fighters on this Penn roster, and is an unquestioned leader. The Quakers w ill have plenty of work to do next year to make up for the absence of his scoring touch and tenacity on the ball. Senior Spor ts Editor Steven T ydings: Watching this team for a while, it is hard not to admire the effort that this senior class puts in, f rom Jack son- Ca r t w r ight , Dougherty and Rennard in the starting lineup to Jok and Gunter of f the bench. The moment I am looking forward to the most over the weekend is when the starting lineup is announced on Saturday night, and we get to see all five that came into the program together get recognition from the Palestra crowd for the final time. With underclassmen dropping like flies with injury after injur y, these f ive g uys have stood steady, playing game in and game out and not missing a beat . W hile Dougherty said that this isn’t how he imagined his senior yea r going a f ter losing to Harvard on Friday, the team has a chance for redemption in an important way, looking to close things out at home and get revenge on a Yale squad that beat them in New
Championship win caps off perfect season W. HOCKEY from page 12 to this year’s championship run, was also a member of Penn’s varsity rowing prog r a m a n d pl ay e d c i r c u it hockey in her time in high school. L a st se a son , t he Q u a kers fell short in the DVCHC tour nament due to key injuries across the board. At one point, Dominguez recalls t hat t here were only fou r
Haven, Conn. A nd t o t hat f i na l poi nt , w ith postseason hopes all but gone, the Quakers have to relish the opportunity to play the role of spoilers. What better way to go out than to take down some rival foes with you? Sports Editor R iley Steele: I couldn’t agree with you more Steven; Saturday is going to be an emotional day when all five seniors take the court together, and it would be fitting to send the group out with an upset over Yale. But I think it’s impossible not to focus in on Dau Jok in his final home game with the Red and Blue. While not a superstar nor a player who get s a s muc h c ou r t t i me as fellow seniors JacksonCartwright and Dougherty, Jok has represented Penn basketball off the court better than anybody else on the roster. Jok is a humanitarian, somebody who has been rewarded multiple times over the past several months for his community outreach to children in his native South Sudan. He’s overcome plenty of obstacles to get to this point in his career, and it’s difficult not to root for Jok to succeed. Jo k w a s n e v e r a b l e t o capture an Iv y title during his four years at Penn. As a result, the basketball program’s fan base never got t o appl aud a nd com mend Jok t he way he deser ves. Hopefully, someone as genuinely humble as Jok will be honored on Saturday, and I look forward to the Palestra crowd g iv ing him a wa r m embrace.
Senior forward Fran Dougherty has seen his ups and downs over the course of his Penn career, with highs as high as a game-winning overtime bucket against Columbia at the Palestra in 2012 and lows as low as an injury-plagued 2013 season that included a bout with mononucleosis.
defensemen in the rotation for an entire game — and anyone who’s played hockey knows that anything north of 25 minutes of ice time is taxing, to say the least. “S ome of t he new g i rls have been really positive and have been a key addition to the team,� team president and center Jennifer K ang said. “We’ve ... developed a better sense of coherence and unity.� This year, the tight nucleus of hockey players stormed through their season, scoring the second-most goals in the league with 63 tallies and yielding a league-best 15 goals through 10 games. No ot he r t e a m’s d e f e n se
compared to the Quakers, as the next best defensive team gave up 20 goals through its 10-game regular season. In light terms, it was easy pick i ng s for t he Q u a ker s heading into the tournament. The three-day tournament was played in Har rington, Del. T he Qua ker s ea r ned a first-round bye thanks to their No. 1 seed in the tournament and took on St. Joseph’s in the next round. “We played our semifinal game Sunday, which was too close for comfort,� Dominguez said. “We weren’t really expecting that. But then we won the game and played on that Monday for the championship.�
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W. HOOPS | Day has learned from his time as an assistant for La Salle, St. Joe’s and Indiana BY SUSHAAN MODI Senior Staff Writer As Penn worked through its halfcourt sets on Wednesday, coach Mike McLaughlin stood patiently at midcourt with plans for the day in hand.
Running through the motions, asking for crisp pick-and-rolls and demonstrating how to cut to the basket was assistant coach Chris Day. As McLaughlin calmly watched, the Quakers ran through their sets — crisp and clean. Day, who was announced as the newest assistant for Penn women’s basketball in September, has brought a wealth of knowledge and helped push the team to another level. But it is the path that led him to Indiana and back again that’s
most impressive. Getting into Coaching Day, who grew up in West Philadelphia, never played high school basketball, but that doesn’t mean he was not intimately involved with the game. “Although I didn’t play basketball in high school, me and my best friend, who’s now an assistant at Quinnipiac, managed the [high school] girls team,” Day said. “So we were behind the scenes with the coaches and working out the players ... we sat with the
coaches and learned the game at 14 years old.” In between playing football and running track at West Chester, he began to coach AAU girls’ basketball. Upon graduating, he became an assistant and then a head coach at Widener in Chester, Pa. After a season as an assistant, he took over as the head coach, leading Widener to its first winning season in 17 years by going 14-11 in 2002-03. It was at Widener where McLaughlin — who was then at Holy Cross — first
met Day and was impressed by what he saw. “I’ve known Chris for 12 years,” McLaughlin said. “I got to know him on the recruiting trail and he has an unbelievable reputation and [is] just a really good family guy.” Day then moved to St. Joe’s — Penn’s Big 5 rival — where he was an assistant for seven seasons, helping the Hawks to a 128-94 record, including 22 wins and a
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After late drama, Red and Blue are true ice queens
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Though there has never been an equivalent varsity program, the Penn women’s ice hockey club is doing just fine on its own. The Quakers won the Delaware Valley College Hockey Conference championship after taking down St. Joseph’s in the semifinals and the North Jersey Phoenix in the finals. One of Penn’s star players is sophomore Elizabeth Hitti, who is perhaps best known for her exploits as an attack for the Penn field hockey team.
W. HOCKEY | Penn’s dominant season results in championship glory thanks to two-goal comeback BY JIMMY LENGYEL Staff Writer It should’ve been easy. It should’ve been a simple, come-in-and-getthe-job-done kind of game. But the Delaware Valley Collegiate Hockey
Conference Champions, down by two goals heading into the third period, realized that this was a championship that had to be earned. When forward Sascha HughesCaley took a pass from for ward Elizabeth Hitti and snapped the goal past the North Jersey Phoenix’s netminder, it was all over and the “beautiful” goal all but sealed the deal for the Quakers. Penn’s women’s ice hockey club walked away with the hardware
after a grueling 5-3 victory and an undefeated season for the third time in program history. Despite its lack of financial support, the program has proven itself to be a legitimate contender in the realm of collegiate hockey. The hockey prog ram at Penn have struggled to establish itself after the men’s varsity team was cut in the 1980s. While the University cut back its funding for golf, g y mnastics and hockey, hockey
Without Cotton, Yale would be left threadbare in the Ivies M. HOOPS | The lanky guard has been a key figure in the Bulldogs’ ascendance to the top of the standings
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What will be the biggest factor on Penn’s Senior Day? From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ
Though Yale junior guard Armani Cotton is best known for his scoring and rebounding abilities, the Bulldogs’ leader is laser-focused on improving himself as a passer and distributor.
man and Brett Torgan have built a consistently dominant club, one that also prides itself on its ability to enjoy the game. “It’s a lot more laid back ... and I think in a lot of ways a lot more fun,” senior captain and defenseman Meredith Doming uez said. “But we still take it pretty seriously obviously.” Dominguez, a key contributor
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BY IAN WENIK Sports Editor It’s not Gucci. That’s the Twitter handle of Yale junior guard Armani Cotton. It’s not the first sartorially-inspired pun about the swingman’s name — Armani Exchange is an old favorite — but it’s got a certain truth behind it. See, Armani Cotton isn’t the basketball equivalent of some cheap fake handbag that you can get for eight bucks on a lower Manhattan street corner.
was the only sport to lose its varsity accreditation. The women’s ice hockey club got its start in the DVCHC — an ACHA Division III league — in 2003 with only four founding members, but found immediate success by winning the championship in 2004 and 2005. But being a club team diminishes the pr ide of play ing hockey for neither former varsity athletes nor new players. Coaches Brett Kauff-
Penn basketball’s Senior Day i s c o min g u p t hi s S at u r d ay against Yale, which will mark the final games for Cameron Gunter, Miles Jackson-Cartwright, Fran Dougherty, Steve Rennard and Dau Jok on the Palestra hardwood. At the same time, the Elis will be fighting for their Ivy title dreams after dropping a crucial contest with Columbia last weekend. With no shortage of story
lines, our editors discuss what they’re looking forward to seeing most on that evening. Sports Editor Ian Wenik: I’m going to have to argue in favor of seeing Jackson-Cartwright leave it all on the floor for one final evening. Jackson-Cartwright has a commitment to winning, a deep, internal drive that you don’t see too often these days. Who could forget him shouting, “We ain’t going nowhere!” at the top of his lungs towards press row in the midst of that huge season-open-
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