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Donors look into Penn Athletics’ future

University to create 50 new professorships over four years The President’s Distinguished Professorship Fund will create three kinds of positions

BY FOLA ONIFADE Staff Writer

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Penn is hoping to attract more professorial talent.

On Tuesday morning, President Amy Gutmann announced the creation of the President’s Distinguished Professorship Fund, which is part of a University effort to increase Penn’s recruitment and retainment of outstanding faculty. In order to create the 50 new professorships, the Fund will endow three new important types of faculty positions that will be named after their respective donors.

“It’s a virtuous circle,” Gutmann said. “The best students come because of the best faculty, and the best faculty come because of the best students.”

Penn Integrates Knowledge Professorships will be endowed to faculty whose research and teaching cross multidisciplinary fields. While there are currently 15 PIK professors, the fund will strive to increase that number while retaining current faculty.

Distinguished professorships will be created throughout all 12 schools for faculty whose fields of research have been deemed high prioritiesby the Penn Compact 2020.

Finally, the Presidential Professorships will endow facult y members who contr ibute to Penn’s diversity during five-year terms.

While there are current faculty members who hold Presidential Professorships, the Fund will SEE PROFESSORSHIP PAGE 7

Athletic supporters weigh in on Bilsky’s legacy and what the next AD has in store

Last night, SPEC announced “Parks and Recreation” star Retta Sirleaf as the spring Connaissance speaker. Instead of a guest lecture, the event will take the form of a comedy show.

‘Parks and Recreation’ star to speak at Penn

BY FOLA ONIFADE Staff Writer The Special Events and Planning Committee wants you to “Treat yo’ self” at its upcoming speaker event.

On Wednesday evening, SPEC Connaissance announced its spring speaker as Retta Sirleaf, who plays Donna Meagle in NBC’s “Parks and Recreation.” The event, which will take the form of a comedy show, will occur on Monday, March 24 at 8 p.m. in the Harrison Auditorium at the Penn Museum.

“This is something unique that we’re doing because SPEC Connaissance in the past has only done speaking events,” Wharton sophomore and Connaissance director Vicky Zhao said.

“We really wanted to expand to a dif-

BY MIKE TONY Senior Staff Writer

ferent field and thought that a comedy show would be something that the student body would be really interested in.”

Sirleaf, who goes by her first name Retta, graduated from Duke University and then worked as a chemist for GlaxoSmithKline in North Carolina. Although she planned to go to medical school, she instead moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a stand-up comedian.

The event will begin with a student performing arts group followed by Retta’s comedy performance. It will conclude with an audience questionand-answer segment.

“We’re expecting pretty substantial discussion because she’ll have very interesting things to say about

Penn’s search for Athletic Director Steve Bilsky’s successor, which started in earnest with the announcement of an advisory committee for the search in January, is narrowing after the deadline for all position nominations and applications passed last week. With Penn Athletics poised to name a new athletic director this semester following Bilsky’s 20-year tenure, The Daily Pennsylvanian reached out to several prominent donors and members of the Penn Athletics Board of Overseers for their perspectives on the athletic director search.

1987 Wharton graduate Tom Donatucci was a die-hard Penn basketball fan during his time as a student and continues to help plan events for the program, so he’s been around long enough to know that some crucial questions await the next athletic director.

“You’ve got a rapidly growing substantial portion of the student body that doesn’t care and will never care, it’s not part of their culture. You have passionate alumni from the ‘60s through the mid‘90s getting older and less involved,” Donatucci said. “Steve [Bilsky] hit home runs to get state of the art facilities like fencing built in that arena.

“Traditionally football and basketball are any

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Fried, ‘fancy,’ fresh, delicious: Federal Donuts to open over break

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Federal Donuts, located at 3428 Sansom St., will ofer “fancy” and “hot fresh” donuts once it officially opens on March 10. The store will be open seven days a week, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and will start serving fried chicken at 11 a.m. This will be the third Federal Donuts to open in Philadelphia.

Federal Donuts West will serve two donut flavors exclusive to the campus store

BY JENNY LU Staff Writer Federal Donuts will be officially opening its doors on campus on Monday, March 10.

The store, located at 3428 Sansom St., held a preview event on Wednesday, inviting student leaders and the press to sample the restaurant’s offerings, said Felicia D’Ambrosio, one of the partners for Federal Donuts.

She said this preview would account for the restaurant’s official opening during spring break. The restaurant originally planned to open in mid-February, but was unable to because city inspections were delayed by snow.

Like its other locations, Federal Donuts West will have “fancy” and “hot fresh” donuts, cold and drip-brewed coffee and five new flavors of fried chicken specific to this shop.

“Fancy” donuts, which are covered in a glaze and toppings, will be $2 each or $20 for a dozen.

Two new fancy donut flavors debuting at the new location are Marshmallow Marshmallow and Chocolate

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Covered Strawberry. Marshmallow Marshmallow is a donut covered in marshmallow glaze and topped with burnt mini marshmallows. Chocolate Covered Strawberry is drenched in a strawberry glaze and topped with a ring of chocolate glaze. Four other flavors, yet to be determined, will join these two at this location.

The “hot fresh” donuts are fried to order and rolled in a dusting of seasoned sugars. The two newest flavors at the Penn location are Chocolate Peanut Butter, a dense chocolate donut infused with peanut butter flavor rolled SEE DONUTS PAGE 2

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Race begins for new student gov’t leaders Current VP Delaney will face College junior Joyce Kim in presidential race

BY FIONA GLISSON Campus News Editor UA members may have failed to get enough signatures to impeach their president, but getting signatures to run for president seems to be a different story UA Vice President Gabe Delaney and UA representative Joyce Kim, both college juniors, turned in their petitions to run

for UA president today.

According to the UA Constitution, available on their website, UA reps interested in running for President must submit petitions “signed by 5% of the total number of undergraduate electors or signed by 3% of the total number of undergraduate electors and at least 5 sitting members of the UA, including one member from a constituency other than that of the candidate.”

The same percentage of the whole undergraduate population SEE ELECTIONS PAGE 3

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Women in war zones face more than bullets

BY CASSIDY LIZ Contributing Writer Soldiers on the front lines of war are not the only ones affected by it.

In celebration of International Women’s Day, several organizations together hosted a panel called Women, War and Peace at International House Philadelphia. Moderated by Raili Roy, assistant director of the South Asia Center, the panel focused on women’s issues in post-conflict, peace building efforts in several war-torn nations.

The event was organized in consortium with Peace Day Philly, the United Nations Association of Philadelphia, the Penn Women’s Center, International House and several cultural centers on Penn’s campus. It was also conducted as part of the “One Book, One Philadelphia” program, an annual promotion by the Free Library of Philadelphia. A performance by the Anna Crusis Women’s Choir, the longest standing feminist choir in the country, preceded the event.

Yasmin Saikia, the chair in peace studies at Arizona State University, brought her experiences from interview-

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Panelists at IHP’s Women, War and Peace panel discussed their research on women in wartime, including work with victims of sexual violence and refugees. ing stateless camp dwellers in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan to the panel. Saikia, mistaken for a journalist, was led to one of these camps during the beginning of her time in Bangladesh, which provided its residents the opportunity to tell their stories.

“I thought I was going to do research on something that connects India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, but I really didn’t know how to move beyond the maps we had been given,” Saikia said of the beginning of her studies.

Her research at the camp resulted in uncovering wom-

en’s personal histories with sexual violence. “There were women telling me that war had transformed their lives,” she said. “War had turned them from human beings into subjects.”

Matiangai Sirleaf, a fellow in international law at the Law School, recently returned to Liberia where she had experienced civil war as a young girl. Sirleaf took her research beyond Liberia to south and west Africa, particularly Sierra Leone.

Sirleaf struggled with the realities of the women in postwar Sierra Leone, many of

chicken come in dry seasoning rubs and glazes that are all-new to this location. The fried chicken seasonings consist of Furikake, a combination of seaweed and toasted sesame seed, Buffalo Ranch and Moussa, which is a mixture of falafel spices including cumin, coriander, parsley and saffron.

The featured fried chicken glazes are pad thai, an intensely tangy sauce with hints of roasted chili and topped with peanuts, and sweet soy garlic, which is flavored with sherry

and also covered in bits of garlic.

Customers can order half a chicken for $9, which comes with a split breast, thigh and drumstick, or a whole chicken for $17.

Federal Donuts West will be open seven days a week from 7 a.m. until sell out or 7 p.m., whichever comes first.

The restaurant will serve fried chicken starting at 11 a.m.

The only seating in the shop is stools along a counter in the middle of the space, framed

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Penn Bookstore 3601 Walnut Street

FREE & Open to the Public For more information, contact the Center for Africana Studies at 215-898-4965 or africana@sas.upenn.edu

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.

whom were victims of sexual violence and economic stagnation.

“What I seek to do in my work is ... [talk] to [people] about their own experiences,” Sirleaf said about her research.

Marianne Elias, the senior program officer for international programs at the American Friends Service Committee, focused on her expertise in peace education with the Quaker-based institution. The AFSC seeks to obtain “lasting peace and justice in worldwide communities,” Elias said.

During her time in the Middle East, Saikia was told that sexual violence was “a Western topic of discussion” and therefore irrelevant. Originally a medieval historian, she has now been moved to continue speaking about her interviews with victims.

“Every time I get an invitation - it doesn’t matter how big or small that organization is - I accept that invitation despite all my other duties and responsibilities because I think I owe it to the women and the men who suffered this war, who fought this war, who were victimized in this war - and who survived this war and had the courage to tell me their stories.”

by eclectic lighting from overhead.

D’Ambrosio explained that a store in West Philadelphia was the next logical move in Federal Donuts’ expansion across the city. The first Federal Donuts opened in South Philadelphia in 2011 and a second location opened in Center City at 16th and Sansom streets in October of 2012.

She noticed the chain has been popular with Penn students at other locations and explained the move was made in part so that Federal Donuts could be closer to students.

Alum offers ‘real’ alternative to meal plan

The Real Meals is a catering company and meal service

BY ALISON ELLIOTT Contributing Writer

Andy Tekriwal, a 2013 College graduate, has created a “truly remarkable” alternative to the meal plan.

Tekriwal is CFO of The Real Meals, a local catering company that often provides food for Penn sorority and fraternity events. It also operates as a meal service, allowing customers to pick up quality prepared meals for around $10 each.

The concept for The Real Meals began at a party for Tekriwal’s fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon, where he was introduced to two students attending the The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill. Tekriwal offered to pay the students, Steven Van Niel and Kevin Adams, to cook for his fraternity brothers several days a week. This arrangement quickly turned into a business.

With Tekriwal handling the business side and Van Niel and Adams doing the cooking, by Spring 2013, their business provided an alternative to Penn’s dining plan.

“I had always had a problem with the meal plan at Penn and saw this as a cool opportunity to meet the need that I thought the community had,” he said.“You could get a truly remarkable daily dinner delivered to your door.”

After graduating, Tekriwal continued his work with The Real Meals, delivering meals regularly to fraternities and catering larger events including a 1,300 person dinner for

PennApps.

Currently, Tekriwal and his business partners hope to expand to areas in D.C. and New Jersey with large populations of college students.

“The beautiful thing about the college market is that you get new blood into it every year replacing the graduating class,” he said.

To handle managing the company, Tekriwal took inspiration from the business tactics taught at Penn. He explained that his decision to attend Penn as an undergraduate was because of the Wharton business mentality and used Wharton ideals to establish connections and maintain a steady client base.

“We wouldn’t have survived as a company in the first few months if we didn’t have people in the university community giving us a chance,” Tekriwal said.

“The ability for them to look at what we’re doing and try to take a chance on us is why we’re still here.”

Although Tekriwal today is an entrepreneur, he is actually on the path to becoming a doctor. The biological basis of behavior major plans to hand over his position as CFO so he can attend medical school next year. Still, he appreciates the experience, he said.

“It went from being a cool idea that we all had to something very real,” Tekriwal added.

Tekriwal v iews his experience over the past few months as incredibly valuable and encourages Penn students to follow his example.

“I think it’s important to try something different and make your own way,” he said.

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From Locust Walk to the Academy Awards Morgan Neville’s path to winning an Oscar started with journalism

BY VICTORIA MOFFITT Staff Writer He could only describe it as an “out-of-body experience.”

In front of hundreds of the nation’s most famous faces and 43.7 million TV viewers, 1989 College graduate Morgan Neville walked onto the stage of the 86th Academy Awards on Sunday to receive the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.

Neville was the director and co-producer of the winning documentary, “20 Feet from Stardom.” Released nationwide last June, the film shares the untold stories and struggles of backup singers who sang behind the pop music industry’s biggest stars.

Promises include culture reevaluation ELECTIONS from page 1 or one third of the UA would have been required to jumpstart the unfulfilled impeachment threat that loomed over current UA President Abe Sutton, a College and Wharton senior, last week.

Now, UA members say they are willing to forgive and forget last week’s petition episode - where Delaney temporarily signed the petition but then removed his name.

He was not responsible for organizing the petition, sources said. Kim was not approached to sign the petition.

Still, impeachment will be fresh in the minds of voters and changing UA culture is on the lips of all candidates this election cycle.

Both of the candidates and their running mates - UA representative and College sophomore Julie Bittar is

“I was thrilled ... but in a strange way I felt oddly solemn,” Neville said. “I didn’t know how it would be to get on stage in front of a billion people, but it was actually really great.”

It was Neville’s first time at the Oscars, but he had been nominated for three Grammys for past documentaries and won an Emmy for a television special he produced in 2004 on country music star Hank Williams.

Before he started creating award-winning documentaries, however, Neville studied American history at Penn.

“I was a kid from California who went to Philadelphia and fell in love with the city and fell in love with the school and immersed myself in it,” he said.

“My great loves were really journalism, film and music.”

During his years at Penn, Neville was a columnist for The

Daily Pennsylvanian, a member of the St. Elmo Fraternity and played in a band called “Diphthong.” He described it as a “geeky band” whose title was comprised of an obscure linguistic term - a diphthong is a single sound created by two adjacent vowels.

After graduating, Neville worked as a journalist for four years. He expanded his career when he began working on his first documentary, which focused on the history of Los Angeles and was released in 1995.

“I love journalism, but I really love filmmaking,” Neville said. “Within two weeks of starting my first documentary, I remember calling my parents and telling them, ‘This is what I’m going to do for the rest of my life.’”

Over the past two decades, Neville directed and produced 25 documentaries on music, language, art and Hollywood.

“[Making documentaries] is 3-D journalism,” Neville said. “It’s everything that I like about journalism but held on a grand scale with images and music. It allows you to be a storyteller, which is what I ultimately love.”

In 1999, Neville founded his own documentary production company, Tremolo Productions. Along with 1983 College graduate Robert Gordon, Neville co-directed a film in 2007 on soul music and the civil rights movement in Memphis.

The documentary, “Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story,” was nominated for a Grammy.

Despite his past success, Neville’s greatest claim to fame is the documentary that earned him an Oscar this week. In the two years that he spent working on “20 Feet from Stardom,” he didn’t realize how popular it would be.

“You just try to make the film that you want to see and the film that speaks to you the most, and you hope the audience likes it too,” Neville said. “But from the moment we premiered this film, it just exploded.”

“20 Feet from Stardom” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2013, and it received a 99 percent aggregate approval rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

Neville said that he first got involved with the film when a producer approached him asking if he’d be interested in investigating the world of backup singers.

“It was a corner of the music industry that I didn’t know anything about. And once I started thinking about it, it revealed itself to be a secret history of pop music,” he said.

“It was a whole new way of

listening to music we’ve all heard before.”

As he learned about the lives of the singers featured in the film, the documentary became a very personal experience for Neville.

“The currency of documentaries is intimacy, and it’s all based on relationships and trust,” he said. “I have ongoing relationships with everyone in the film. ... It becomes part of your life and part of who you are.”

A lt houg h Nev i l le has formed many valuable relationships and enjoyed incredible success since leaving Penn, he hasn’t forgotten about the value of the years he spent at the University.

“When I think about [my experience at Penn], I just think about the people and how much we all got from each other,” he said. “It was just a really special time.”

campaigning with Delaney and UA Speaker Joshua Chilcote, a College junior, with Kim - say they will change the culture of the UA so no more “open and honest looks at UA culture” will interrupt the already-tardy budget proceedings.

A restructure of the UA and a leadership style makeover is also a common theme in candidates’ petitions - albeit an unsurprising one given that that anonymous sources accused Sutton of abusing his power and making other members feel “emotionally distressed.”

Delaney promised not to tolerate coercion in the UA. “It was a problem [this year],” he said. “If I ever saw it [as President], I would confront the member and ask them to resign.”

Delaney said several UA members are leaving because “they don’t have strong ties” to the other members. He suggested the creation of a social chair and more BYOs to create more community.

“I want to make the UA more of a sorority- or fraternity-type feel,” he said. “I’d

like them to be tied to us.”

He is also suggested more horizontality in the way the UA is run.

Kim suggested making the UA a safe space where members can approach each other about grievances. “There are a lot of miscommunications,” she said. We need to be able to work together. Clearly, that’s not happening.”

Still, UA candidates’ races are coinciding with the budget negotiations this year because of the postponement.

Amendments will be added to the budget at a meeting on March 16. The UA usually avoids budget and elections overlap because a candidate could potentially win votes by advocating budget amendments for key constituencies within in the UA. “I really hope it doesn’t happen,” said Kim, “I really, really hope.”

Delaney and Bittar have vowed to introduce no amendments. Kim and Chilcote are also keeping their hands clean. A s speaker, Chilcote does not have a vote.

The final vote - essentially “a rubber stamp” according

to Delaney - will take place on March 23. Before then, the candidates are charged with rehabbing a UA shadowed by scandal and seen as irrelevant by the student body.

“Many Penn students are pretty apathetic about the UA,” Kim said. “Many Penn students don’t know the difference between the UA and Class Board.”

For Bittar and Delaney, t h i s me a n s t h at t he UA should be “exter na lly a ll about service” to students, Delaney said. He suggested that UA members deliver free hugs, cookies and chocolate and help clean up in the dining halls instead of holding the second meeting of the new term after elections.

Bittar also discussed accessibility. “I want to change the UA to be more receptive and transparent to the student body,” she said. “The body is an action group. It needs to meet the needs of students.”

Kim and Chilcote are focusing on building ties with student groups. “It’s up to us to

do a better job of reaching out to student groups,” Kim said.

“It’s up to us to go to student groups and say ‘What can we do for you?’”

Delaney and Bittar promised extensive work related to mental health. Kim also plans initiatives regarding mental

health, accessibility, financial aid, sexual violence and international students’ integration on campus.

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Something worth smiling for GUEST COLUMN BY ALLYSON ZUCKER

I

remember walking into my friends’ dorm room in 10th grade.

The girls were looking in the mirror with disgust, taking turns saying parts of their bodies they didn’t like. For a second, I thought I had walked onto the set of “Mean Girls.” Within a few moments, I noticed myself inching toward the mirror, my reflection staring at every flaw, judging every imperfection.

Years later, I walked into my freshman dorm room at Penn. Two girls stretched out on their small twin “XL” beds in Hill debating who did worse on their chemistry midterm. “I’m not good enough.” “Why do I even want to be a doctor?”, “I’m not going to get into any med school.” Their anxiety was contagious, and it took me a few minutes to snap out of the

back and forth. By that time, I had remembered my midterm last week that I didn’t do so well on and my writing seminar essay due that night that no matter how long I sat in front of my computer, still didn’t seem like English.

Penn breeds and depends on competition. Sometimes the competition is good. It drives us. But to what extent can we let competition permeate into every part of our lives? The last thing we need is to compete over who we are as opposed to what we do. More and more often, I find myself questioning if our fear of failure ultimately motivates us to accomplish great things or paralyzes us more.

Each of us has walked into a “med school existential crisis” or “Regina George” setting all too many times in one way or another. Yet, we

don’t need a physical mirror to find plenty of other ways to put ourselves down. It starts with “Who still has the most acne” or “Who has the biggest love handles?” Yet it all too quickly transitions into “Who has pulled the most allnighters? Who feels the most overwhelmed? Who has an eating disorder? Who goes to the gym the least?” The context may vary, but the question remains the same: What are you best at saying you’re the worst at?

The truth is, we have become all too comfortable in a perpetual state of stress and self-degradation. If we aren’t anxious, we feel something is wrong. If we aren’t drowning in a sea of bio labs, accounting “quizzes” or status reports, we aren’t swimming fast enough. At a certain point, we have to question how healthy it is to be endlessly assaulted by anxiety. Are we supposed to constantly beat ourselves up

in fear of someone else beating us to it? “You’re not good enough”, “You’re a failure,” “Why are you so stupid?” If our self-talk were a fighter, Rocky wouldn’t stand a chance.

I don’t have the answers to these questions - I struggle with them everyday - but I think it’s important to question how comfortable we are with our negative self talk to the point that it has become unconscious. We think that by taking our problems lightly - by turning our insecurities into just another competitive game - we can minimize whatever is really going on. We mask our real fears and bury them in a sea of school work and inflated anxiety.

Perhaps, by constantly undervaluing ourselves, we’re attempting to give ourselves the leeway to screw up.

The only way to handle the pressure at Penn is to be kind to ourselves. How can

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we expect to take in others’ kindness if we can’t even accept our own? The first step is to notice when we are having these self-deprecating conversations, these counterproductive back and forth “I am more stressed”, “No, I’m more stressed” competitions. To make the unconscious conscious and to challenge ourselves to squirm a little, to not be so comfortable in negative selftalk.

Once we acknowledge our real fears and pain, we allow ourselves to celebrate our real successes and joys.

The norm shouldn’t be selfdegradation, but self-love.

Give yourself a break. Accept compliments, as all you have to say is “Thank you.”

Laugh a little. And the next time you step in front of the mirror, smile just because.

ver the past year, UA President Abe Sutton has been a significant proponent for the environmental community at Penn. After last spring’s open forum raised a myriad of concerns on Penn’s tackling of its sustainability goals, Abe worked with both us and administrators to form a panel at University Council that would allow more members of the Penn community to become educated on these pertinent topics. Additionally, Abe has offered unparalleled support on our projects and initiatives, helping us find ways to engage with students not usually invested in sustainability. He’s a trustworthy advocate and ardent enthusiast for our interests.

The Student Sustainability Association at Penn stands by Abe and praises his unselfish and devoted leadership to both our constituents and to the student body as a whole.

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ALLYSON ZUCKER is a College sophomore. Her email address is zuckera@sas.upenn.edu.

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or my last column, I wanted to describe why the laws being introduced around the country allowing discrimination on religious grounds were wrong. While writing though, I found myself struggling to come to terms with exactly why I thought that.

I was unable to resolve my inner conflict between my desire to protect religious liberty and freedom of conscience and my desire to see discrimination of all kinds relegated to the dustbin of history.

I managed to narrow my focus to the question on religious freedom justifying discrimination, but the wider question of how we balance conflicting rights and desires still weighs heavily on me. So, I want to share with you some of my reservations through a series of thoughts I have wrestled with this week.

The historical parallels between legalized segregation

and anti-gay discrimination are tenuous, but the similarities between the arguments supporting both cannot be ignored.

Theodore Bilbo, two-time governor of Mississippi and proud member of the KKK, regarded racism as more than an opinion or ideology. For Bilbo, it was a religious duty. He called racial purity a “gift from God” and said that interracial marriage was a direct attack on “the Divine plan of God” and against divinely ordained natural law.

Sound familiar?

Racial discrimination is just one example. The United States Supreme Court ruled in U.S. v.

Lee that religious objections to the employer social security mandate should not be upheld: “When followers of a particular sect enter into commercial activity as a matter of choice, the limits they accept on their own conduct as a matter of conscience and faith are not to be superimposed ... on others in that activity.”

Clearly we have decided as a society that, in principle, the government has a compelling interest in disallowing certain religious observances when they counteract the public good.

But is that the same as compelling service in all instances?

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There is a significant difference between a legitimate business interest and arbitrary discrimination.”

If a church opposing gay marriage offers its fellowship hall for public rent, should they be allowed to turn away a gay wedding reception? What about a church opposing interracial marriage? Could a gay rights supporter turn away Westboro Baptist Church members from their restaurant?

Places of public accommodation are subject to special requirements, but there is a significant difference between a legitimate business interest and arbitrary discrimination.

As such, businesses are prohibited from arbitrarily discriminating on the basis of race, religion, gender, nationality or disability. I think sexual orientation should be included in this list, but for the moment it isn’t.

For example, Arizona law permits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation, as do laws in 28 other states in the United States. The Arizona law that received so much attention in recent weeks would not have legalized discrimination because discrimination was already legal.

So why add this new law?

Proponents pointed to Elane Photography v. Willock as inspiration.

The case arose after a New Mexico wedding photographer refused to photograph a gay

commitment ceremony for religious reasons. The New Mexico Supreme Court disagreed, layCOLLIN BOOTS ing out several very compelling arguments: However, a sentiment ex1. Compliance with public accommodation laws does not re- pressed by Justice Richard strict First Amendment rights. Bosson in his concurring opinFor example, they could “post ion should not be ignored: “[The arguments offered by a disclaimer on their website ... advertising that they oppose the court], I assume [are] little same-sex marriage but that comfort to the Huguenins, who they comply with applicable now are compelled by law to compromise the very religious antidiscrimination laws.”

2. The free exercise clause beliefs that inspire their lives. requires evenhanded applica- Though the rule of law requires tion of neutral laws, not affirma- it, the result is sobering.”

People who harbor objections tive accommodation of religious to the increasing acceptance of beliefs.

3. New Mexico’s laws do con- gay rights merit our sympathy, sider discrimination on basis of even when it may be difficult to sexual orientation unlawful, so grant, but they do not deserve the decision to refuse service our leniency in the marketplace of ideas or in the courts. was arbitrary.

I think these principles should guide our thinking in COLLIN BOOTS is a master’s this period of transition from student studying robotics from inequity to equality, and I en- Redwood Falls, Minn. Email him at courage everyone to read the cboots@seas.upenn.edu or follow him @LotOfTinyRobots. full opinion.

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Wharton-rooted app gets millions in seed money

Blend allows users to post pictures based on the theme of the day

BY SOPHIA WITTE Contributing Writer

Two Penn students received a multi-million dollar investment this week to transform their start-up into real world success.

Former Wharton student Matt Geiger and Wharton senior Evan Rosenbaum co-founded Blend, a college-exclusive app that allows users to share photos and win gift cards based on a daily theme. The two originally met during Management 100.

Blend will become more prominent in the app world due to a seed investment of $2.7 million from global venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates.

In May 2013, Geiger left Penn

after finishing his junior year to pursue the start-up with high school friend Akash Nigam.

Blend strives to create a space exclusively for college students since Facebook’s users have expanded far beyond its initial college base, Geiger said.

“We wanted to build a social network where the students can relate in a targeted and cohesive way without it being diluted by parents, siblings and people from different demographics,” he added.

Blend operates on the model of “Share, Snap, Score” to benefit its users and partner brands alike. In response to daily themes such as Tailgate Saturday and Library Shenanigans, users can share photos to receive “snaps” — the Blend equivalent to Facebook “likes.”

The accumulated “snaps” serve as virtual currency to “score” gift cards for college-focused

brands that advertise on the Blend newsfeed.

Blend’s partners gain direct access to their targeted consumers by offering discounts — an attractive business alternative to paying for generic advertisements. As the app’s reach has extended to over 1,000 campuses, the co-founders uphold selective criteria for accepting companies. Blend sustains an online environment linked to the college lifestyle by promoting brands like Uber, EatStreet and Alex & Ani. “It has to be trendy and relevant to the college student,” Geiger said.

Blend secured the $2.7 million seed investment less than a year after its conception. The team is starting to grasp the magnitude of the deal as they move their headquarters from a one-room office with a “dormroom feel” to the hub of San Francisco’s hottest tech com-

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Yesterday was the first “Wellness Wednesday” event, part of a month-long series by the Class Boards to cultivate mental wellness at Penn. The events’ activities included performances by spoken word group The Excelano Project and the Penny Loafers.

being a woman in [the] very male-dominated industry of comedy,” College junior and Connaissance Director Gabriel Jimenez said.

Tickets are currently available online and will also be sold on Locust Walk after students return from spring break.

“She’s a great find because she is hilarious and relatable,” College sophomore Twenewaa Adu-Oppong said.

Adu-Oppong also shared her optimism about SPEC’s choice.

panies, Geiger said.

The investment will enable Blend to broaden its scope for the future. The acquired assets equip the team with resources to enhance the app in terms of publicity and concept development. Over the next few months, Blend plans to give out over a million dollars in gift cards and escalate its branding effort to include several videos and photo shoots.

The size of Blend’s team will drastically grow as the cofounders focus on finding the best developers to advance the app. In addition to its monetary support, NEA’s commitment boosts Blend’s potential for innovation. “[Investors] can just sit down with you and give you great advice, product ideas and help with talent identification,” Geiger said. “So there’s a whole host of ways that [Venture Capitalists] help beyond the check.”

“People tend to think of black women as this monolithic group so they will look at her and make snap judgements, but Retta will definitely keep you on your toes,” she said.

Last year, Connaissance hosted Jason Sudeikis, along with other comedians as a part of a larger spring speaker series. The success of last year’s comedy show, along with committee member suggestions and campus-wide surveys, influenced this year’s choice.

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HISTORY OF WOMEN AT PENN

This year marks a significant point in the history of women at Penn with the 40th anniversary of the Penn Women’s Center, but many other years throughout the University’s history have brought notable advancements for women as well. The Daily Pennsylvanian takes a look at how women have progressed to equality and leadership since the University’s start.

Graphic by Laura Anthony and Peter Waggonner

The Graduate School of Arts and Science was established as the first part of Penn to allow women to take courses on track for a degree at the time of its establishment.

The first women’s residence hall at Penn was established, the Wood Memorial Nurses Home at 34th and Spruce streets.

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While Penn existed in various forms before the revolution, the newly established State of Pennsylvania chartered the University of the State of Pennsylvania in 1779. The new University was not open to women.

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Six women established Penn’s first sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma.

Women petitioned the Trustees to hire a Dean of Women, but no action was ever taken. The Alumnae Association of the University of Pennsylvania was established.

Penn Women organized their own Class Day and Ivy Day events and created Women’s Hey Day. In 1926 male students made it clear that women were no longer welcome at the general Hey Day, an event they had participated in for the previous 10 years. The two events were combined again in 1968.

All 13 schools were open to women and they were enrolled in every degree program at Penn.

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An editorial in The Daily Pennsylvanian expressed strong opposition to making Penn a coeducational institution. “We are absolutely opposed to co-education at the University of Pennsylvania. Note well that we do not say we are opposed to co-education in general. And we do not say we are opposed to the higher education of women. In many cases we are not even opposed to Co-eds.”

The College of Liberal Arts for Women was founded especially for female students. The standing faculty did not include any women.

Alison Elizabeth Accurso became the first female president of the Undergraduate Assembly, which was founded 7 years earlier.

Judith Seitz Rodin is elected the 7th president and chief executive of Penn, making her the first woman to be president of any Ivy League institution. The Board of Trustees that elected her had 14 women holding seats.

The Women’s Residence Hall, renamed Hill House five years later, opened to become the first building designed and built just for female students at Penn.

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President Amy Gutmann becomes Penn’s second consecutive woman president.

Josephine Feger Ancona became the first woman to complete a bachelor’s degree at Penn.

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The College of Thematic Studies established the first Women’s Studies program.

This same year, women staged a “Stop Rape” sit-in at College Hall, asking the University to improve security, education and support resources related to rape, which spurred the creation of the Penn Women’s Center.

Charlotte Marie Hugo became the first Superintendent of Nurses and Directress of Nurses in the Training School, the precursor to the School of Nursing which did not grant degrees, and was elected the Superintendent of the Hospital. These positions made her the first woman officer of instruction at Penn, the first female academic administrator, and the first woman to be a chief administrative officer at the University.

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Katharine Elizabeth McBride, who was President of Bryn Mawr College, was the first woman elected to be a Trustee of the University.

Sharon Lee Ribner was the first woman to join the Daily Pennsylvanian. There was also a women’s newspaper at the time.

1890

Emily Lovira Gregory was hired as a teaching fellow in the department of biology, making her the first female member of Penn’s faculty.

Photos courtesy of The University of Pennsylvania Archives

The School of Arts and Sciences was created from the merge of the College of Liberal Arts for Women with the College of Arts and Sciences (for Men), the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and four departments in Wharton (Economics, Political Science, Regional Science and Sociology).

The student body elected Barbara Berger the first woman president of Penn’s student government.

Berger was also the first female president of any Ivy League student government.

Women held tenured positions within every standing faculty at the University.

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The Trustees’ Council of Penn Women was established.

The Penn Women’s Center moved from Houston Hall to its current location on Locust Walk.

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The Penn Women’s Center and the Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies program celebrate their 40th anniversary.

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Major changes come to College Board’s SAT A test prep partnership with Khan Academy is among the changes

BY BRENDA WANG Deputy News Editor A major overhaul of the SAT will drastically change the testing experience of future Penn applicants.

On Wednesday the College Board announced several major changes to the standardized test, which aims to make the SAT “more focused and useful than ever before,” according to the College Board website.

The essay portion of the exam is now optional, once again making the SAT graded on a 1600-point scale. Students will no longer be penalized a quarter of a point for getting the wrong answer and obscure vocabulary words will be replaced in favor of words relevant to college courses, according to The New York Times. Calculators will no longer be allowed on some parts of the math section.

The changes will go into place in the spring of 2016.

Professor of Higher Education in the Graduate School of Education Marybeth Gasman supports the changes. “I ... applaud the College Board for dropping the guessing penalty as this penalty worked against students who took educated guesses,” she said in an email.

She also lauded use of less “arcane” words, which are sometimes absent from the daily life

Professorships to diversify faculty PROFESSORSHIP from page 1 be used to further Penn’s commitments to diversity.

of test takers across races and socioeconomic classes.

The new SAT is also more socially minded. The College Board will partner with Khan Academy, a non-profit educational website, to offer free test prep, which will “make SAT prep a little more accessible to all students that are taking the test,” Michael Goran, founder of IvySelect and 1976 College graduate, said. The SAT has faced criticism for favoring wealthier students in the past.

Every test will also require students to engage with a “founding document” crucial to United States history, like the Bill of Rights. This change does not bother international student Oranda Hou, a College and Wharton sophomore.

“If you want to go to college in the States, it’s a good thing to know the basic knowledge

of the society to live there and make friends there,” she said.

Hou sees the changes as testing students’ “ability to make a logical argument,” not necessarily their depth of knowledge.

Bev Taylor, the founder of Manhattan-based consulting firm The Ivy Coach, sees the changes as mainly a business decision because “the College Board felt like they lost bragging rights in 2013 when over 2,000 more students took the ACT,” she said. “That’s enough to do something drastic.”

Taylor believes the changes will not affect the decision process for college admissions. She pointed out that most top colleges have been considering the essay portion of the exam as an SAT Subject Test, not as a part of the real SAT. “Ever since College Board changed it to 2400, nobody in admissions really understood that score,” she said. However, Taylor finds it likely that top colleges will make the optional essay section required, just as they do for the essay part of the ACT. While Goran agrees that the changes will not significantly impact the admissions process, he believes they will “make the SAT more student friendly.”

“The point of the exercise is really about college readiness [and] being able to analyze material ... in a way that will work to your benefit when you get to college,” Goran said.

“Anytime changes in the test can result in more inclusive practices, that’s a definite good,” Gasman added.

“The Presidential professor sh ips w i l l ex pa nd t he pipeline for these prestig ious professorships at Penn and it’s truly unique,” Gutmann said. “All of these professorships will help us d iversi f y ou r facu lt y, but t he P r e sid ent i a l P r of e s sorships are explicitly directed to rising stars who we can give named profes-

sorships to a nd w i l l help our push towards an even more eminent and diverse faculty.”

The creation of the Professorship Fund is currently the second initiative of the Penn Compact 2020, following Friday’s announcement of the Challenge Fund to raise $240 million for undergraduate financial aid.

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Penn group’s Africa think tank summit, ‘groundbreaking’

Courtesy of Institute for Security Studies

Penn’s Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program helped organize the first-ever African Think Tank Summitt in February. Frannie Léautier (center), executive secretary of the Africa Capacity Building Foundation, praised the conference for its collaboration.

The conference led to plans for future panAfrican collaboration

BY MELISSA LAWFORD Staff Writer The f irst- ever A f r ican Think Tank Summit, organized by a Penn group, brought substantial results that are currently being implemented across the continent.

Penn’s Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program organized the first ever continental think tank conference in partnership with the Africa Building Capacity Foundation in early February.

Perhaps most significantly, the conference produced plans for annual think tank meetings and the establishment of a Pan-African Think Tank Network.

“Their collective voice and collective efforts are what’s needed to mobilize resources,” Director of TTCSP James McGann said.

Plans are also being made for a think tank cooperative, which will share resources between African think tanks in staff recruitment and make joint purchases of computer hardware.

The conference also pro-

duced plans for the creation of a media and public engagement training program and an Africa Media Network to communicate think tank news and connect further with the African population. Discussions also brought forward new strategies to engage private funding resources.

The results “far exceeded my expectations,” McGann said, explaining that Africa both has greater needs than other continents and a very different starting point from which to work.

Over 45 of the leading think tanks in Africa participated in the productive discussion in Pretoria, South Africa, between Feb. 3 and Feb. 5.

McGann described the event as a “landmark conference.” It was both the first of its kind and produced “groundbreaking recommendations,” which “will have a far reaching impact,” he explained.

TTCSP Global Summit Intern Coordinator Erin McCabe, a graduate student in the School of Social Policy & Practice, said a key feature of the summit was “a unify-

ing desire to come up with a concrete network.”

“People really connected with each other,” she added.

TTCSP, which releases the annual Go To Think Tank Index Report - the most comprehensive universal rankings of global think tanks - “cataly[zed]” the conference.

However, the think tanks are “taking the lead,” McGann said.

Hussein El-Kamel, senior advisor at the International Corporation of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, appreciated the pragmatism of the summit.

“I was happy that this Summit meeting would not be like many other conferences that give recommendations and [do] not turn them into working plans,” he said in an email.

Frannie Léautier, executive secretary of the Africa Capacity Building Foundation, said in an email that the summit combined “the best of collaboration and competition for effective results.”

The work of TTCSP is “a real product for engaging in dialogue and transformation Africa-wide,” she said.

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Feed us one last time PENN WOMEN’S HOOPS SENIORS This weekend, like many others, will be spent playing backto-back games in the Palestra as we defend our spot in first place. Our final season is coming to an end and we wouldn’t want to spend our spring break any other way.

For us four seniors, the memories and wins have been adding up, the number of games are quickly dwindling, but we still have an Ivy League championship in sight. For those who are sticking around for spring break, come see what you have been missing in the Cathedral of College Basketball. Here is Contributed by Penn Athletics a snapshot of us four captains: Starting with the tallest of the Penn women’s basketball’s senior class has been a part of a major turnaround in bunch, standing at 6-foot-3, is the program, with the Quakers improving their win total every year. our team librarian, #50, Courtney Wilson. She can often be gal of many talents, when she’s special and who have supported found sitting in the locker room, not knocking down game win- us these four years. The Twitter reading her Kindle and eat- ners, she can be found provid- love has been very appreciated ing sour gummy worms. She’s ing entertainment in the form along with the growing student famous for her turnaround of bus tours and beauty tips. section. Shout-out to the Penn jumper and rocking the knee- Whether it’s the pregame sour Band, the best sixth man we pads. Her alter-ego name is Skittles or sharing of extensive could ask for. You make the PalCharlotte. knowledge on pandas, she truly estra come alive!

Next in the lineup is our is one of a kind.

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Rutgers (3-2) opened the scoring when an obstruction call against Penn goalie Lucy Ferguson forced her to start outside of the eight-meter arc on a free position start. After the restart, she raced back into the box but collided with a Penn player and was unable to prevent Rutgers’ Jenny Vhlahos from converting.

Penn would respond within 30 seconds, as senior midfield Tory Bensen scored her ninth goal of the year on a pass from sophomore Nina Corcoran. Sophomore Iris Williamson then drew a free-position shot with one of her patented runs from the 20-yard line and was able to convert to give Penn a 2-1 lead. But Rutgers was equal to the task, with Halley Barnes scoring just over two minutes later.

At 2-2 going into the half, the game was reminiscent of last year’s low-scoring affair that was played in near-

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nor’easter conditions — a game that Penn ultimately lost, 6-5.

However, the second half brought more purpose and a direct approach from the Penn attack. Five minutes into the half, Corcoran used a jab step to get by her defender and finished just five meters from goal.

Then, Smith scored two consecutive goals to put the Quakers up 5-2, the second a free position conversion after a three-second violation. She emphatically threw down her stick, and the game was all but won. “The key for us is to really control the tempo and I think we did that today,�

Smith said. “We played with composure and even when it was a close game, we stayed in control and confident.�

Penn and Rutgers traded goals in the last three minutes, but it would do little to affect the outcome of the game, as Penn’s defense held stout. “I thoug ht the defense played as a great unit,� Corbett said.

The strong defensive performance will provide momentum heading into Penn’s first Ivy game of the season against Harvard at Franklin Field on Saturday. It will also mark the first day of spring break, a time the team will use to bond and focus on preparation for the rest of the season. “[Harvard’s] good, they just came off a win against Cornell ... they’re going to come here to play,� Corbett said. “We are just excited to play our first Ivy League game.�

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Senior midfield Lindsey Smith salted away Penn’s Wednesday night contest against Rutgers with a pair of second half goals, her first of the season.

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If the Quakers win their two home games, they will go into their matchup with the Tigers at least tied for first and guaranteed of a bid into either the NCAA Tournament or Women’s National Invitation Tournament.

So the Red and Blue aren’t looking past any of their op-

ponents, trying to give themselves the chance to win the Ivy title for the first time in 2004. “We’re taking it the same way as we have all the games, knowing that, in the Ivy League, every game is a championship game,� Baron said. “These games are no different and we just need to get wins in all of them.�

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Quakers hope that Florida trip leads to hot start

SOFTBALL | Penn to take part in pair of tourneys to kick off its Ivy title defense

BY LAINE HIGGINS Staff Writer When Penn softball departs for Florida on Thursday, it won’t be looking to just soak up some much-needed sun; the Quakers are hoping to pick up some W’s along the way.

The Red and Blue will head down to the sunshine state over Spring Break for a whirlwind of games, competing in the University of Central Florida Spring Fling Tournament from March 7-9 and the University of South Florida Under Armour Ellen Frierson/Staff Photographer Showcase from March 11-14.

Due to the snow-induced Junior pitcher Alexis Borden is hoping to repeat her outstanding 2013 effort in 2014. The unanimous first team All-Ivy postponement of Tuesday’s selection set program records last year for career strikeouts and victories as the Quakers captured the Ancient Eight crown. season-opening doubleheader against St. Joseph’s, the train“The girls are hungry to get trips to Florida during her time ers honored as first team AllIvy selections last year, only ing trip marks the first glimpse outside to Florida,� said as- playing with the Quakers. of competition this season for sistant coach and class of 2011 Following the 2013 season, junior pitcher Alexis Borden the defending Iv y Leag ue graduate Alisha Prystowsky, the Quakers graduated seven returns to take the field for the champions. who made four early-season seniors. Of the five Penn play- Quakers in 2014.

Big chance for win over Princeton M. HOOPS from page 12 that, even though we’re eliminated from contending for the Ivy title, we’re still playing for something,� coach Jerome Allen said. “In no way are we packing things in and assuming this season is over.�

Penn’s road trip will kick off on Friday when the squad vis-

its Columbia. The Quakers (718, 4-7 Ivy) will follow up that matchup the next night with a visit to their other New York rival, Cornell, before wrapping up the season against Princeton on Tuesday night.

And in a season where very little has gone right for the Red and Blue, coach Jerome Allen’s squad may be able to take solace in one fact: Penn is 3-0 this season against the teams it will face.

I n t he t e a m’s f i r st Iv y League contest, the Quakers pulled off a stunner, knocking off a Princeton squad that entered the game sporting

an 11-2 record. Though the Tigers have sputtered since then, the victory was the highlight of Penn’s season.

Four weeks later, the Quakers picked up their second and third Ivy wins of the season with victories over Cornell and Columbia. Penn knocked off Cornell in a high scoring affair before riding Fran Dougherty’s 23 points and 12 rebounds to a win over the Lions the next night.

Now the Quakers are back to do it again. “More so than anything, we want to finish the season as best as we possibly can

regardless of what has happened up to this point,� Allen said. “We need to get the guys to pay attention to detail until it’s all over and see this thing through to the end.�

Though Penn has already had success with this trio of Ivy foes, Allen knows nothing will come easy over break. “This time around, all three t e a ms a re play i ng prett y good basketball,� Allen said. “We need to take a strong approach and respect them enough ... because every team is better than they were when we last saw them.�

The Lions (18-11, 7-5) are

Thus, Penn’s team is youthful to say the least. Of the 21 Red and Blue players on the roster, 10 are freshmen. “Their work ethic, their competitiveness is really high, so we’re excited to see them outside and see what they can do,� coach Leslie King said.

The team’s trip to Florida will be a learning experience for everyone. “We’re just trying to figure out the best combinations, both in the batting order and defensively, and just treating [the trip] as preparation for Ivy League [competition],� King said.

The Red and Blue play their first tournament, the UCF Spring Fling, in Orlando. Penn will play Troy, Western Carolina, Central Florida, Bowling Green and Colgate. Later in the week the Quakers travel to Tampa for USF’s Under Armour Showcase, playing games against Seton Hall, Quinnipiac, Providence, South Florida, Butler, Maine and the Netherlands national team.

Penn’s toughest game of the week will likely be against South Florida. The Bulls were Big East tournament champions in 2013 and nearly advanced out of their region in the NCAA championship. “They’ve been to NCA A’s each of the last five years, and they have been in the top 20 for the past couple of years, so they will be a good test,� King said.

The coaches don’t seem too nervous. Even though it is early, Prystowsky predicts that Penn will finish the season with a trip the NCAA tournament. If the Quakers can pull it off, this will be the second time in school history that Penn has advanced a squad to the tournament.

The road ahead is long, and the trip to Florida is the first test of the Quakers’ might on the diamond. “A lot of ending up in a championship is expecting to end up in a championship,� Prystwosky said. “And we have that.�

one of the toughest home teams in the Ivy League, having only dropped two games at Levien Gymnasium this season. Though Alex Rosenberg struggled in Columbia’s last outing against Penn, the junior is fifth in the Ivy League in scoring at 16.1 points per game.

W hile Columbia has improved, Cornell (2-24, 1-11) has failed to piece together much success since the beginning of the year. The Big Red’s victory over Dartmouth is their only win over a Division I opponent.

After completing its games

in the Empire State, the Quakers will head to Princeton (178, 5-6). Having already ruined the beginning of the Tigers’ Ivy season, Penn now hopes to send its rival into the offseason on a bitter note by spoiling Princeton’s Senior Night.

And though the season is ending, Allen has preached to his team that nothing has changed since the last time Penn played these opponents. “We don’t need to look for added motivation,� Allen said. “For the most part we’re just trying to win the three games we play this break and do it one at a time.�

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EIWA race to heat up on campus Can Red and Blue grab a lead?

WRESTLING | NCAA bids are up for grabs as Palestra hosts conference championship

M. LACROSSE | Quakers aim to stop falling behind early as key matchups loom

BY KARL BAGHERZADEH Senior Staff Writer

BY ALEXIS ZIEBELMAN Associate Sports Editor

The big day has finally arrived for Penn wrestling.

This weekend, the Quakers will compete in the 2014 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) ChampionMichele Ozer/Sports Photo Editor ships at home in the Palestra.

This year’s tournament will be Sophomore 165-pounder Casey Kent is in strong position to capture an NCAA the biggest yet, with 18 teams tournament bid as the EIWA championships come to the Palestra. in the mix and 47 spots at the NCAA Championships up for avenge losses from earlier this Red and Blue’s talented roster grabs. year to the probable No. 1 seeds. have a reasonable shot at pullDespite an uneven season Cornell’s Dylan Palacio, ing off what he called “an upset so far, Penn has been peaking ranked 14th in the nation, de- just on paper.” Amongst them recently, winning three straight feated Kent twice this season, are junior Jeff Canfora (141) duals over Columbia, Princeton 4-1 and 4-2. Meanwhile, the last and the freshman pair Frank and Drexel. The Quakers will person to defeat Thomas was Mattiace (197) and Caleb Richlook to take advantage of being No. 3 Gabe Dean — also of Cor- ardson (125). under the radar to make a big nell — by the score of 7-5.

“I think Jeff and Frank are showing in front of their home “Fortunately for both Loren- probably the two worst draws crowd. zo and Casey, they’ve already you can have ... they definitely “I think the guys are in a re- wrestled the guys that are seed- have the potential to beat anyally good physical and men- ed number one,” Eiter said. “If body,” Eiter said. “Especially tal state right now, we’ve had they go in there and just wrestle Frank’s weightclass is pretty some really good workouts and as well as we know they can — wide open, everybody’s kind of they’re pretty excited,” coach and they can — there’s nobody beaten everybody, so that’s goRob Eiter said. “I expect them that’s heads and above some- ing to be very interesting. to go out and wrestle their body else right now in those two “Caleb’s going to get overbutts off. If they give every- weightclasses.” looked and he has a ton of talthing they’ve got I think we’ll “I just need to wrestle smart ent. His skill set is super high so do pretty well.” against [Dean]. The last time he easily could be in the finals The favorites for the Red and it was close score-wise, but he for us.”

Blue will be sophomores Casey kind of controlled the match For Kent, the key to success Kent (165 pounds) and Lorenzo for the most part,” Thomas is simple.

Thomas (184), who are ranked added. “I need to wrestle my “I [have] just got to wrestle No. 19 and No. 10 at their re- match and not let him do what like I’ve been wrestling the spective weightclasses. In order he wants to do.” whole season, not worry about to conquer the EIWA crown, Beyond the obvious duo, Ei- what happens and just go out both of them might have to ter thinks most grapplers on the there.”

Overseers hope to reverse student apathy DONORS from page 11 Are they going to die a slow death? By the time they vanquish and the new alumni base has become the core and returned home, will anyone even care?”

Many donors and overseers share Donatucci’s perspective, grateful for the many facilities such as Penn Park that Bilsky helped secure for the university while still hoping to see Penn Athletics make a bigger impact in the Penn community going forward.

“Next time you are enjoying Penn Park, say ‘Thanks Steve,’” Penn Athletics Board of Overseers member and 1972 College graduate H. Elliott Rogers Jr. said. “[Penn Athletics needs] greater involvement from the student population as buyers of the various services Penn Athletics can offer as participants and spectators,” 1973 Wharton graduate Bob Johnson, one of 15 Penn basketball donors in the $10,000$24,999 range for 2013-14, said.

“Any engagement of students comes from two things — winning and an administration that actually cares about those results,” fellow Penn basketball donor and 1983 College graduate Daniel Wallick said. “Winning cures many ills.”

Penn basketball’s 78-128 overall record since 2007 and Penn Athletics’ last-place finish among Ivy League schools in the 2012-13 standings of the Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup, a measure of

Donors baffled by program’s problems BASKETBALL from page 12 coach [Ira] Bowman were playing, no one missed a game,” Barrett Freedlander , a Class of 1962 graduate and longtime supporter of the program, said.

“They themselves started every game during their Penn careers.”

Freedlander, a donor in the $10,000-$24,999 range for Penn basketball a season ago and contributor this year as well, said he is disappointed that in-

collegiate institutions’ overall athletic success for a given year, have troubled some Penn Athletics supporters. But many donors and overseers still sense that Bilsky is leaving behind a culture of winning.

“Steve has set a precedent and expectation that our teams win and are competitive,” said 1996 College graduate Jed Walentas, one of eight alumni donating $25,000 and above to Penn basketball this past year.

What’s more concerning for many supporters of Penn Athletics is Penn President Amy Gutmann’s commitment to a culture of winning for the organization. Many of these supporters have noted that Gutmann is not a frequent presence at athletics events on campus and that Penn Athletics has not seemed to be a priority under her administration, which dates back to 2004.

“I would hope the next athletic director has enough stature to be able to successfully advocate for the value of athletics within the administration,” Wallick said.

“The biggest challenge for the next athletic director is whether or not President Gutmann actually values athletics enough to

Athletic Director Steve Bilsky leaves behind a legacy of improving Penn’s athletic facilities during his tenure.

support the athletic director’s vision for developing successful athletic programs at Penn.”

“I believe most students see their involvement with Penn Athletics as an afterthought from the view of the athletic department and the administration,” Johnson said. “A major factor in addressing these challenges will require a clear understanding with the highest levels of the administration that Penn Athletics be given the latitude to establish and earn its position within the Penn community.”

“The real deep and important purpose of our athletics is not to win more than everybody else,” Gutmann said in August. “It’s the experience of teamwork, of strong competition, of discipline.

It’s the education and creating of character as well.”

Donatucci agrees that that is what athletics are about.

“Where the rubber meets the road is in the fact that Division I athletics isn’t about the same principles,” he said. “It’s not about our 14 traveling across town to play their 14. It’s multichannel, 24-hour-a-day, website, countless blog coverage.

So you’re the athletic director.

What wall do you prefer to bang your head against?”

And with Penn Athletics now a 24/7 enterprise, the majority of its major contributors believe that the next athletic director will have to lead Penn Athletics like the multimillion dollar business it is.

“The most important thing is that the new director as chief operating officer has the top management skills as well as a love of sports,” said Alan Aufzien, a member of the Penn Athletics Board of Overseers.

“The athletic director needs to be an excellent manager, much

dividual players have not improved over the course of their careers and that the team also does not seem to improve over the course of seasons.

“Players recruited with excellent credentials do not seem to be able to translate their high school star status to the college level. I also do not understand why certain freshmen have a decent game or weekend and then disappear,” Freedlander said. “Next year, with the loss of [senior captain Fran] Dougherty, improvement is unlikely.”

Alan Aufzien , a member of the Penn Athletics Board of Overseers, said he did not believe that the program has improved under Allen. Aufzien added that although he was not qualified to judge, the program’s

problem could be a combination of recruiting and coaching.

Three other members of the Board of Overseers declined comment on the Penn basketball program.

“A good coach does not have to have been a good player,” Aufzien said.

Most supporters of the program just want a coach that can restore an expectation of winning for the program. Whether that coach is Allen is open to interpretation, but supporters of his program are getting increasingly restless for a change in fortune and direction.

“Obv iously the tea m is struggling,” Freedlander said.

“Whether it is because of any one coach or two or all three, I don’t know.”

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This weekend, Penn men’s lacrosse will take on a familiar foe ­— in both proximity and in style.

The No. 13 Red and Blue are gearing up for their third game of the season against Villanova in hopes of earning their first road victory.

Last weekend Penn (2-1) and the Wildcats (1-2) both had the same style of play. Both squads fell victim to their opponents early in the game and tried to take back control and make a run from behind in the fourth period.

“Every day in practice we emphasize starting out fast, and that’s kind of hard because we are playing a lot of good teams,” junior defense Matt McMahon said. “Your tendency is to hesitate a little in the beginning, but I think we are working on that every day.”

“To start a little bit faster, we’re going to do more live work with our first group on offense against our first group on defense further into the week which is a slight adjustment,” coach Mike Murphy added.

“Then hopefully just stick to our fundamentals as well in the early part of the game.”

However, there was one critical difference — Penn succeeded while the Wildcats did not.

The Quakers rallied back to beat

like a CEO, who can represent and coordinate amongst the various stakeholders of Penn Athletics,” Johnson said.

One thing almost universally agreed upon among supporters of Penn Athletics is that Bilsky’s successor need not be an alum.

“I do not think that we should constrict our universe,” Barrett Freedlander, a Class of 1962

then-No.6 Denver, 12-10, while Villanova came up short against Delaware, 11-9.

“Playing hard in the fourth quarter is something we are good at because of the many guys that we play, so that’s more a stylistic thing,” McMahon said. “I think we just play more players than most teams, and it plays off in the fourth quarter.”

Penn has faced fourth quarter deficits in two of its three contests this season.

And if there was ever a time to stop that risky trend, it will be right now.

Saturday will be the Quakers’ final game before they begin their Ivy season against Princeton on March 15, where there is no margin for error.

“Our goal every year is to win the Ivy championship, so if we lose this game it doesn’t put us any closer or further than that, but in terms of momentum, it’s definitely huge,” McMahon said.

But the Wildcats are a familiar foe to many of the Quakers.

“We know a lot of these guys, especially since I’m from Jersey and a lot of the Villanova guys are from Jersey,” McMahon said. “A lot of us know each other, grew up playing each other and it’s kind of fun to play your buddies.”

In addition to the plethora of social connections, Philadelphia teams enjoy playing each other in every way.

“It’s a pretty significant local rivalry,” Murphy said. “We are both in the top 20 most of the time when we are playing them, and we recruit a lot of the same kids and obviously they are close by, so there’s a little bit of excitement behind this.”

As Penn continues to finetune its lineup and settle itself, Saturday will be the final chance to hone crucial skills before the games that affect the Quakers’ dream of an Ivy title begin.

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Junior defense Matt McMahon will be relied upon to shore up a Penn defense that has allowed the likes of Duke and Denver to build early leads.

graduate and longtime supporter of the Penn basketball program, said.

Ultimately, then, it’ll be up to Bilsky’s successor to keep Penn Athletics’ momentum with facilities going and create more momentum with regard to student engagement and winning.

“Our university has set the tone that athletic programs need

to be able to stand on their own via athletic development. At the same time, you have an aging donor base and the replacement base is detached as the composition of the student body has changed,” Donatucci said. “Penn has a very unique set of challenges, and the new athletic director has to be able to navigate those waters.”

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THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2014

COLUMBIA

PENN

CORNELL

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A TITLE WITHIN PENN’S REACH W. HOOPS | With Penn’s seniors playing their final regular season games, Quakers try to topple Tigers

ing won just two games the year before.

But now the Quakers stand in first place, tied with Princeton and just three games away from a possible Ivy League title.

On Friday and Saturday, the Red and Blue (19-6, 9-2 Ivy) will host Columbia and Cornell, the latter of which will be Senior Night, before finishing their regular season against the Tigers (18-7, 9 -2) on Tuesday night.

BY STEVEN TYDINGS Senior Sports Editor When Penn women’s basketball’s cur rent senior class joined the program, coach Mike McLaughlin’s squad seemed in sorry shape, hav-

With the Quakers struggling, donors speak about the program and coach Jerome Allen

All in all, it seems like a pretty exciting way for seniors A lyssa Baron, Kristen Kody, Meghan McCullough and Courtney Wilson to finish out their respective careers.

“We just know that it is a huge weekend for us,” Baron said. “Definitely an emotional weekend with it being senior weekend and the last two home games for the four seniors. We’ve just been through so much, some ups and dow ns, through our career, and it is just a

great ending to it.”

“It is a f ul l ci rcle for t hem,” McLaughlin added. “This is a special class. This is the first group I brought in. I asked them to come in and help create a better culture here and they invested in us just by listening to us.”

Penn has both improved its win total and moved up the Ivy standings each of the last four years and after Princeton’s loss to Brown, the team controls its destiny.

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Supporters weigh in on Penn basketball

BY MIKE TONY Senior Staff Writer Penn basketball coach Jerome Allen is facing heightened criticism after amassing a 16-40 record the past two seasons. Most longtime supporters of the Penn men’s basketball program are displeased with the program’s results, and some are actively calling for his firing or resignation on social media. In light of the mounting pressure on Allen and his program, The Daily Pennsylvanian reached out to several prominent donors and members of the Penn Athletics Board of Overseers for their reactions to the state of Penn basketball.

1996 College graduate Jed Walentas considers Jerome Allen a friend.

He was a classmate of Allen’s, and although he doesn’t follow Penn basketball as closely as he once did, he still cared about its well-being enough to be one of eight alumni donating $25,000 and above to the program this past year. And he’s not really sure how to evaluate his former classmate as coach of the Quakers.

“My limited sample size has shown a lack of energy and discipline, which is maybe the most concerning aspect to me,” Walentas said. “[Allen] is young as a coach, not in age but in experience.

Everyone learns as they go and I can only assume the same is true for him.”

Allen was indeed young in coaching experience upon taking over as interim head coach after his predecessor, Glen Miller, was fired on Dec. 14, 2009 after a 0-7 start to the 2009-10 season. Allen had been originally hired in August 2009 as a volunteer assistant coach before taking the reins of the program just four months later. On March 30, 2010, Allen was named permanent head coach.

“The grass is not always greener and many good things take time,” Walentas said. “At the same time, it is possible that Jerome was a great, great player and a world-class person and that he is not the right fit to be our head coach.”

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After finishing second in the Ivy League in his second full season, coach Jerome Allen has found wins harder to come by during the last two years, going 16-40 while winning just 10 of 25 games in Ivy play. This has led to mixed reviews from supporters of the program, with some willing to chalk up the problems to Allen’s predecessor, Glen Miller, while others have been less forgiving.

Still, Walentas said that he doesn’t know enough to make an informed opinion on what to do about Allen.

Class of 1973 Wharton graduate Bob Johnson, one of 15 Penn basketball donors in the $10,000-$24,999 range for 2013-14, has watched many Quakers games on the Penn Sports Network over the last few years and feels more strongly, assessing the current state of the program as one of “significant underachievement.”

“The potential that everyone identified last year has completely disappeared,” Johnson said.

Penn was projected to finish second in the Ivy League Preseason Media Poll after returning all of its players from a season ago but is currently in sixth place in the conference with a 4-7 league record.

“The inability to build on the 2012

results has to fall on coach Allen,” Johnson said, referencing the Quakers’ second-place Ivy finish in 2011-12.

“His role as the leader of the program has only grown during that time.”

Johnson sees three options for Penn basketball: retain Allen and give him measurable metrics as to how the program can return to prominence, fire him or watch him voluntarily resign.

Johnson expects the latter option to occur, which would be bad news for Class of 1983 graduate Daniel Wallick, a donor in the $5,000-9,999 range for Penn basketball in 2013-14. Wallick, an attendee at every home game as well as several away games, thinks the program is still recovering from what he calls the “disappointing tenure of coach Miller.”

“Without a doubt the program is better under coach Allen than under

his predecessor,” Wallick said.

Miller helmed the Quakers from 2006 to December 2009, amassing a 4552 overall record, including 27-15 in Ivy play. Penn won an Ivy championship in Miller’s first season but his demanding coaching style rankled both players and alumni, resulting in a dejected fan base and several players transferring out of the program.

Allen’s overall record (55-83) and conference record (33-34) are both worse than Miller’s, but Allen is more popular among Penn basketball fans because of his vital role in leading the program to three Ivy championships as a player from 1992-93 through 199495 and what most consider his more likable personality.

“I would agree that the past two seasons have been disappointing,” Wallick said. “No one would choose to

Meaningless games? Penn disagrees

M. HOOPS | Red and Blue have plenty left to fight for in final three Ivy games despite end to postseason hopes

Columbia 18-11, 7-5 Ivy Friday, 7 p.m.

Cornell 2-24. 1-11 Saturday, 7 p.m.

Princeton 17-8, 5-6 Tuesday, 8 p.m.

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Senior forward Fran Dougherty’s inside presence will play a big role against a Columbia squad he torched earlier this season.

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Smith’s goals sink Scarlet Knights

BY SUSHAAN MODI Senior Staff Writer

Ithaca, N.Y.

“The biggest thing is that these guys are mature enough and they respect the game enough to know

be below .500. But last year, there were no seniors on the roster and this year, half the team is injured.”

Injuries have plagued the Quakers this season, with Patrick Lucas-Perry, Cam Crocker and Matt Howard all suffering season-ending injuries, Julian Harrell playing just 12 of 25 games in 2013-14 and several other Quakers being relegated to the bench due to injuries as well. The many injuries Penn has sustained the last couple of seasons have left supporters of the program dumbfounded.

“Are we missing injuries in the recruiting process? Are our practice techniques overly physical or do our training programs not properly prepare these young men for Division I basketball?” Johnson asked.

“When coach Allen and [assistant]

W. LACROSSE | Senior midfield contributes pair of goals, defense does the rest

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BY RILEY STEELE Sports Editor Senior Night? Over. The Iv y League title race? Eliminated from contention. Nothing left to play for?

Perhaps.

But don’t tell that to Penn basketball.

Com i ng of f a d isappoi nt i ng weekend sweep, the Quakers will hit the road for the final three games of their 2013-14 campaign over spring break. But despite the Red and Blue’s subpar record, the squad knows just how valuable these three games could be.

Columbia (6 -20, 3-9) is Penn’s first roadblock for the weekend.

But contrary to their record, the Lions are a formidable opponent, as they are one of only two teams to score more than 60 points against Penn in Ivy play.

“We had a battle with them up there [at Columbia],” McLaughlin said. “We pulled away later in the second half but it was a very close

For Penn women’s lacrosse, stingy was the word of the day.

On Wednesday night, the Quakers’ defense held Rutgers without a goal for nearly 40 consecutive minutes, and senior midfield Lindsey Smith scored two second-half goals as the Quakers pulled off a 6-3 win heading into their first Ivy

vs. Rutgers weekend.

“We had some really great defensive stances and we take pride in that, that’s something we really want to keep moving forward with,” Smith said.

The game took some time to get going as Penn (2-1) controlled the tempo, but couldn’t find a way to score. With a lot of movement and possession and very little to show for it, it

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