THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSIT Y OF PENNSYLVANIA
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2014
Penn price tag to rise above $60,000 3.9%
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the largest allocation for financial-aid in the University’s history
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BY KRISTEN GRABARZ Staff Writer There is a reason Beyonce is unlikely to ever headline Spring Fling. The Social Planning and Events Committee would have to spend more than 11 times its $175,000 Spring Fling grant to afford Queen Bey’s reported $2 million dollar fee. SPEC uses its entire $175,000 Spring Fling budget to pay for the concert artists, College senior and SPEC concerts co-director Ben Yang said. Expected ticket and floor ticket revenues of $230,900 pay for all other production costs, which vary widely depending on the genre and artist, said College
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and Wharton senior Ethan Jones, who is co-chair of SPEC’s Concerts committee. At $2 million per appearance, according to the Huffington Post, L ad y Ga ga i s a l so out side of SPEC’s price range. Pitbull, who charges $300,000, is also not a fiscally plausible Fling headliner. All hope is not lost for pop culture enthusiasts. At around $50,000 per appearance, Fergie lies w ithin SPEC’s budget. Despite financial constraints, students do have a say in who SPEC picks. SPEC releases an annual survey seeking student input for headliner and opener suggestions. This year’s survey collected SEE BEYONCE PAGE 8
Drexel University to purchase University City High School Some were upset with the lack of transparency in selecting who would purchase the space BY CLAIRE COHEN Deputy News Editor University City High School, which enrolled 655 students last school year, closed last June along with 22 other Philadelphia schools. However, Drexel University plans to develop this currently unused space into a conglomerate of educational and commercial organizations. The School District of Philadel-
phia announced at a community meeting on Wednesday night that Drexel was the highest bidder in the competition to purchase UCHS, located at 36th and Filbert streets. The official announcement came after indications that Drexel was looking to purchase the space. “Drexel is absolutely delighted to be chosen as the finalist and is looking forward to the next step in the process,” Drexel Vice President of University Facilities Robert Francis said. Many of the meeting’s attendees, though, felt that the selection proSEE DREXEL PAGE 7
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$175,000 Spring Fling grant is used to pay for the artist
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The new dean of the Penn’s School of Nursing will be Antonia Villarruel, currently the associate dean for research and global affairs at the University of Michigan School of Nursing.
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The cost for a Penn undergraduate education will cross the $60,000 mark for the first time in the 20142015 academic school year. The University announced at Thursday’s Board of Trustees’ winter meeting that tuition and fees will increase by 3.9 percent to $61,132 from $58,812 for the next academic year. This marks the fifth year in a row that the University has raised the cost of a Penn education by 3.9 percent. The $61,132 figure includes tuition, fees and room and board. Undergraduate tuition will increase from $40,594 to $42,176, room and board
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The next academic year’s tuition and fees will amount to
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The announcement was made at yesterday’s Board of Trustees’ meeting
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V i l l a r r u e l ’s a p p o i nt m e nt will go into effect July 1, 2014, Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price announced in a press release on Thursday. She will replace current Nursing Dean Afaf Meleis, who was appointed in 2002. “Well I’m not always sure that being a dean was in my career trajectory, but when the opportunity came up it just seemed like I needed to check it out,” Villarruel, a 1982 Nursing graduate, said in an interview. Villarruel taught at the Nursing School between 1995 and 2000 and has written books with several other Penn faculty members. “I have fond memories of Penn both as a student and I had such an incredible experience there as a faculty, so I know what a great school Penn is,” she said. Villarruel has spent years building and maintaining a research program around interventions for Latino, Mexican and Puerto Rican populations, with a particular focus on reducing sexual risk among Latino adolescents. Villarruel is Mexican American herself. Her father was born in Mexico, and her mother was born in the United States. Her mother’s parents were also born in Mexico. Many administrators, faculty members and students have been looking to the current dean searches to include and promote diversity in the University administration. The administration came under fire in January 2013 following the selection of former Vice Provost for Research Steven Fluharty as the dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. A group of Africana Studies faculty members criticized Gutmann in a strongly worded Daily Pennsylvanian guest column, arguing that “her commitment to diversity does not include her own administration,” citing that up to that point Gutmann had never appointed a person of color as a dean at Penn. Much of Villarruel’s past work has dealt with minorities and diversity. She served on an advisory council to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for minority health and was president of the National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations. Villarruel hopes to continue her efforts in Latino communities as the new Nursing dean. “I still have an active grant that’s taking place in Puerto Rico right now. I’d like to be able to build on that,” she said. “I started those initial interventions when I was here at Penn as faculty, so it’s almost like full circle,” she added. Beyond her extensive work SEE NURSING PAGE 7
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