March 21, 2014

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SPEC announced the choice at an event Thursday night in Perelman Quad

BY KRISTEN GRABARZ Staff Writer This year’s Spring Fling headliner is better than gold — he’s “Titanium.”

Multi-Grammy award winning artist and producer David Guetta will be headlining Spring Fling on April 11, the Social Planning and Events Committee revealed last night at a climactic unveiling in Perelman Quadrangle.

Concert committee members held up posters reading “Girl Talk,” last year’s headliner, before

flipping them around to reveal David Guetta’s name, while speakers blasted his hit song “Titanium,” Fling will the first private college performance of Guetta’s career, according to SPEC Co-Director and College senior Ben Yang.

“I wanted to get somebody that no other college has brought [in for students] — that definitely stood out,” he said. The student population has

been asking for this and have rumored about this artist each year.”

Students attending the reveal responded to SPEC’s choice with cheers and excitement.

“What’s awesome is that everyone on Penn’s campus knows at least three of David Guetta’s songs. It’s a testament to the awesomeness of SPEC and its directors,” College freshman Rachel Erani said after the announcement.

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Office of Student Conduct investigates Theta

College junior creating ‘the no-stress black dress’

The investigation has postponed the initiation of Theta’s pledge class indefinitely

BY FOLA ONIFADE Staff Writer

BY MELISSA LAWFORD Staff Writer Penn’s Kappa Alpha Theta sorority is currently under investigation by the Office of Student Conduct.

The sorority, better known as Theta, was notified by OSC on Valentine’s Day that the office would begin investigating the sorority, according to Theta president and College junior Jane Bender. Members hope the investigation will be over by end of the semester, Bender said, although she does not know when the investigation will end.

The investigation has indefinitely postponed the initiation of Theta’s current pledge class. “Everyone’s upset,” Bender said. She declined to comment on why Theta is being investigated.

OSC Director Michele Goldfarb declined to comment on whether there currently is an investigation.

“The Office of Student Conduct neither confirms, nor denies, the existence of any investigations,” she said in an emailed statement.

OSC has given few details about the investigation, Bender said. She has not been notified of the specifics of the complaint that initiated the investigation.

OSC and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life are overseeing the investigation. OFSL Director Scott Reikofski declined to comment on the investigation.

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U. effort to promote innovation reflects larger trend

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College junior Sanibel Chai and a high school friend founded WICK, a clothing company designed to manufacture party apparel that will banish hassles such as sweat stains and panty lines.

The company’s clothes will be made from moisture-wicking fabric

BY JENNIFER WRIGHT Contributing Writer Picture the scene at any social event: people dancing, mingling, but most of all — sweating, right through their polyester party attire. College junior Sanibel Chai is out to change that.

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Chai said.

Chai and Lian f irst developed their business plan when Lian returned home from a particularly sweaty outdoor event last summer.

It is beyond just banishing sweaty dresses, though. The co-founders aim to eliminate the VPL — or visible panty line — and the hassle of wearing a stick-on bra, as well as SEE WICK PAGE 5

Barack Obama talks about it.

Amy Gutmann talks about it. Innovation has become a buzzword both in government and at universities.

“There’s a big move within universities on how to create a different career path for our students a rou nd ent repreneu r sh ip a nd startups,” Penn Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli said.

He listed the innovation community at Drexel University, Stanford University’s StartX and Harvard University’s innovation lab as just a few examples.

As a part of the Penn Compact 2020, the future Pennovation Center at the South Bank will be a hub for technology and innovation. The Center is not the University’s first venture into supporting new ideas.

The Weiss Tech House, a studentrun hub, provides educational programs and resources for students as they explore and develop their technologies.

Universities across the country are making similar efforts to foster innovation and entrepreneurship.

Courses and Degrees in Innovation Some universities are answering the demand for an increased knowledge of innovation by offering courses and degrees in entrepreneurship. The University of Colorado’s Innovation and Entrepreneur Degree Program offers a Bachelor of Innovation degree that offers an alternative to a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree. MaSEE INNOVATION PAGE 6

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A Qtopian paradise: QPenn returns to campus

BY LAURA ANTHONY Staff Writer It’s time for QPenn again.

Sunday marks the start of the annual celebration of LGBTQIA culture at Penn.

This year’s theme for the week of events is “Qtopia”, the idea of working toward “a more perfect world of acceptance and letting people really express their identities with all the wonderful intricacy and diversity that those include,” College sophomore and QPenn co-chair Andre Ficerai said.

“There needs to be some sort of perfect world that you’re always constantly striving for in order to critique the society you’re currently in to make it a better place,” College sophomore and QPenn financial chair David Lai added.

Each constituent group of the Lambda Alliance works with the eight-person QPenn board to plan an event for the week. Several organizations that aren’t part of the Lambda Alliance will also participate, including groups for graduate students, alumni and faculty, Ficerai said.

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also collaborating on events, like the Wharton Alliance and J-Bagel, who are hosting Queer Quizzo to bring together different parts of the queer community “for some casual queer fun,” College and Wharton junior and president of the Wharton Alliance Frank Wolf said.

QPenn will kick off with the opening of “Proclaiming Pride,” an exhibit at the

LGBT Center looking back on 40 years of LGBT history at Penn, starting with the founding of the first LGBT student organization in 1973 at Penn, Director of the LGBT Center Bob Schoenberg said.

T uesday w ill feature QPenn’s keynote speaker Laverne Cox, a actress, writer, producer and transgender activist who plays Sophia Burset on the TV show “Orange is the

New Black.”

Last year’s keynote speaker for QPenn was Janet Mock, another well known writer and transgender activist.

“Right now they’re probably the two most famous trans women in the country and I think it’s really cool that Penn has brought both of these amazing women to this campus,” Androphy said. “It really shows that Penn is on the

forefront of bringing engaging LGBTQ speakers to campus.”

The Pennsylvania Youth Action Conference, which took place at Penn in February, focused on transgender justice and included speaking events about the transgender community.

Schoenberg said he has noticed a pattern of increased attention to the transgender population both on campus and on a national scale.

“There’s definitely and deservedly a greater amount of attention to the needs of noncisgendered people,” he said.

In addition to being a “pride booster” for the LGBTQ community on campus, Ficerai said QPenn is also collaborating with 15 other student groups that are unrelated to queer culture.

“I think this year particularly it’s adding a lot of visibility for a lot of Penn students outside the community,” he said.

Ficerai hopes that QPenn sparks a dialogue about LGBTQ issues that continues even after the event. “This week really exhibits all of the wonderful identities that the queer community has to offer and we don’t want it to stop there,” he said.

Wharton professor talks corporations’ legal rights

BY CHRIS WU Contributing Writer Corporations are persons, but not people.

Last night, legal studies and business ethics professor Eric W. Orts tackled this issue at an event co-sponsored by the Penn Undergraduate Law Journal and the Benja m i n F ra n k l i n Schola r s Program. In his presentation entitled “The F uture of Cor porate Personhood in American Law,” Orts, a

Guardsmark endowed professor, examined theories of the firm, its legal foundations and Supreme Court cases involving Citizens United and Hobby Lobby.

Or ts’ lecture discussed especia l ly releva nt lega l business questions that exist today, such as whether firms have religious liberties and how far the Constitution should apply Bill of Rights protections to corporations.

Orts is the author of “Busi-

ness Persons: A Legal Theory of the Firm,” a book published last year that examines the legal framework of businesses. He discussed parts of his new book throughout the presentation.

In his lecture, Orts said that economic theories are used too often when describing businesses, adding that law should play a more prominent role instead.

“Law is fundamental to understanding what the busi-

ness is,” he said.

Orts also proposed three main legal theories of the firm — the concession, participant and institutional theories. The concession theory is top-down view where political states allow firms to exist, while the participant theory is a bottom-up view where firms rest on individual people who run them. The institutional theor y is an intermediate view where corporations are run by individuals but adhere

to legal rules.

Orts also described corporations as “real fictions.” He said that although corporations do not exist in the physical sense, the law recognizes their existence and enforces their contracts. The nature of business is thus a man-made construct that can be changed over time, similar to the notion of countries, he added.

“Corporations are just as real as the United States of America is real,” he said.

Continuing on this theme, Orts said that even though business firms are actually relatively new from a historical perspective, they have already established themselves as clear legal entities.

Whether they are persons with guaranteed Constitutional rights, however, is debatable, he added.

At the end of the lecture, Orts said that he may discuss these issues further in a new legal studies course.

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SPEC-TRUM hosts hip hop artists The group’s concert will feature TY$, Topaz Jones and Travis Scott

BY COSETTE GASTELU Staff Writer As the Social Planning and Events Committee reveals the final details for this year’s Spring Fling, one of the organization’s sub-committees — SPEC-TRUM — is preparing to bring three of hip hop’s rising stars to campus next month.

SPEC-TRUM announced this week that on April 5 it will be presenting “The Owl

Pharoah Beach Honeymoon Concert,” a show featuring hip hop artists Topaz Jones, Travis Scott and TY$.

One of the main reasons that SPEC-TRUM selected this particular trio of musicians was their ability to appeal to a broad range of students with different tastes in music.

“In today’s pop culture, it would be hard to say that things aren’t diving into hip hop in one way or another,” said Wharton senior and SPEC-TRUM Co-Director Evan Booker. “We didn’t want to bring in artists who just appeal to minorities — we

wanted artists who have appeal across a wide span of demographics.”

Booker added that SPECTRUM usually aims to find up-and-coming musicians who demonstrate that they will “have some value in the future.” This strategy has certainly been a success in previous years — Miguel, The Roots and Kanye West are just a few performers that headlined SPEC-TRUM concerts early on in their careers.

The three acts for SPECTRUM’s upcoming event have been displaying their cutting-edge talent as of late: Travis Scott is currently tour-

ing with rapper Juicy J, Topaz Jones released his free album “The Honeymoon Suite” on the internet in January and TY$ will be the musical guest on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Friday night.

Tickets for the SPECTRUM concert, which will take place at 7 p.m. in Harrison Auditorium at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, will be available on Locust Walk and online at upennspec.ticketleap.com starting this Monday. Tickets will cost $15 for Penn ID holders and $20 for non-students.

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Last night, SPEC announced David Guetta as the Spring Fling headliner in Perelman Quad. Before revealing Guetta as the Fling artist, they held up a sign reading Girl Talk.

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Dr. Jacobs is head of Americans for Peace and Tolerance, which he co-founded in late 2008.

Jacobs also co-founded The David Project Center for Jewish Leadership in 2002, which he led until July 2008. Jacobs is also co-founder of the American Anti-Slavery Group (1994), which campaigns against slavery worldwide, and co-chair of The Sudan Campaign (2000), a coalition calling for an end to slavery in Sudan. Dr. Jacobs has appeared on the major U.S. television networks, on National Public Radio and has been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal.

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A hollow prize?: Rethinking affirmative action

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his time last year, Penn (along with t he rest of t he higher education community) was anxiously awaiting the decision of a Supreme Court case that had the potential to seriously alter current admissions practices: Fischer v.

University of Texas.

At the time, there seemed to be a lot at stake in the pending decision. Opponents of race-conscious affirmative action thought that the practice would finally and rightfully be put to an end.

P roponents wor r ied t hat if this were to happen, the campuses of selective colleges and universities would become significantly less diverse, as would the ranks of those who occupy spaces of leadership and power as the result of their elite education.

The Cour t’s r uling lef t race - conscious pract ices untouched, and the world remained intact. But last fall,

WILLING AND ABEL | Structural inequality has changed since the 1960s — why haven’t our policies? the Supreme Court accepted a new, more obscure challenge to affirmative action: The justices agreed to decide whether or not state voters could ban race-conscious affirmative action via the referendum process.

Now, I’ve come to see that race-based affirmative action is not the panacea most proponents seem to think it is.

Dogmatically clinging to such policies not only obscures our understanding of how they actually work, but also ignores the pressing need to reevaluate and update them. The mechanisms that produce structural inequality today are different from those of 50 years ago, and our efforts to address them need to reflect this evolution.

Born in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement, raceconscious policies were said to uphold equality of opportunity, prevent discrimination, redress disadvantages associated with historical discrim-

ination and help to insure that public institutions accurately reflected the diversity of the communities they serve.

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Now, I’ve come to see that race-based affirmative action is not the panacea most proponents seem to think it is.”

As President Lyndon Johnson said in 1965, “You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring up to the starting line of a race and then say you are free to compete with all the others.”

Race-conscious affirmative action in education and employment has always been controversial, and over the pas 50 years its definition and utilization have been

more carefully defined and restricted. In the late 1970s, explicit quota systems were deemed unconstitutional, and in 2003, point systems were as well.

Currently the consideration of race is constitutional so long as it allows institutions to enroll a “critical mass” of underrepresented students if they consider doing so an institutional pr ior it y; the Fischer case reaffirmed this decision.

Most arguments against race-conscious affirmative action do not really hold water. Compared to underrepresented minorities, students who benefit from athletic and legacy affirmative action programs are more likely to leave school and have lower grades.

Race-conscious affirmative action beneficiaries at selective institutions are more likely to graduate from college than are their peers at less selective institutions.

There are also not enough

underrepresented minority students admitted under such programs so that significant numbers of seats are actually “taken away” from white and Asian applicants.

But race-conscious affirmative policies today have become too dislodged from the provision of opportunity to those who truly lack access.

Affirmative action played a great role in the expansion of a black middle class, but today it’s most beneficial to those in a position to take advantage — students who come from more affluent families.

Numerous articles have shown that large numbers of students enrolled in selective institutions that identify as black are not African-American (who affirmative action was designed for) but Caribbean or African, who statistically are more educated and aff luent than the average American.

Discussions about diversity have become disconnected

ABEL MCDANIELS from those of opportunity and inequality. Diversity rightfully seeks to celebrate differences, and over the past half-century, numerous categories of difference have come to be celebrated: race, gender, geographic location, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status.

Under our current conception of diversity, looming and growing disparities are not a problem as long as those at the top come in all the right shades and hues. As it stands now, affirmative action abets in the reproduction of such inequalities.

ABEL MCDANIELS is a College sophomore from Lawrenceville, N.J. His email is mcabel@sas. upenn.edu.

Let’s discuss sensitivity GUEST COLUMN BY SHANA FRENKEL

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n c a mpu s , we must speak with politica l cor ect ness. Ca n’t of fend anyone, right? It is the same mantra of being sensitive to the various cultures on campus. My problem is this: If it is important to be sensitive to different cultures on campus, why do I, as a religious Jewish student, feel marginalized in my college experience?

When I go to an event advertising food, do I think, like others in my cohort, “Oh, pizza! Yum?” The answer is no. My first thought is, “Is it worthwhile going to this event when I cannot eat anything here because I keep kosher?” I know I am not the only one who feels this way.

People who are vegetarian, are allergic to certain foods or have other dietary restrictions feel the same way as I do. This may seem small, but when you are constantly unable to eat food at events, socializing becomes uncomfortable when people start inquiring as to why you are not eating; explaining that I cannot eat the food served because it is not kosher tends to elicit the inquiry as to why there is no kosher food provided at the event.

If this was just a food problem, I would probably stay qu iet . Yet t he st r uctu ra l marginalization continues, which is why I speak up.

Penn’s policy on religious and secular holidays is to give students the possibility

of making up missed work, to not have exams or assigned work on the more observed a nd wel l-k now n hol id ays

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I should not be placed in the position of choosing between my religious practices and my education, nor should others.” and, for less well known and observed holidays, to let professors know at the beginning of the semester that we have to take off for the other less known holidays as well.

Some professors are great

about letting me miss classes for the second day of Passover and some professors ask if I am making up holidays to get out of class. Some of my professors are great at remembering to postpone due dates, and other professors forgot about the clause of not assigning work to be due on the holidays. I should not have to defend my need of missing class due to my religious observance.

My point of contention with this process is the process itself. Ask ing for time of f from class when I am spending nearly $50,000 a year in order to get an education is marginalizing. Why am I at a disadvantage in my education for missing classes due to my religious observance?

There are other students, who, in fear of missing class time, sacrifice their holiday

celebration for going to class.

I should not be placed in the position of choosing between my religious practices and my education, nor should others.

Yet hope is not lost. It is p ossible t o c r e at e sm a l l changes at Penn that will ma ke more students feel more accepted. At events, when food is offered, present a kosher, veget a r ia n and/or gluten-free option for students with food restrictions. Similarly, in order to prevent students from needing to explain why they need to take time off from class to celebrate a religious holiday, the administration should not only send out a reminder email about policies on religious holidays, but should also offer a seminar for professors to both learn about the different religious holi-

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days and to be sensitive to students who ask to be excused from class due to religious observance. Lastly, for the holidays on which students, such as myself, will be missing class, professors could record their lecture and offer that lecture to students who missed class.

W it h t he nex t w ave of holidays approaching, I ask for professors and students a l i ke t o d ispl ay c u lt u r a l sensitivity toward those celebrating religious holidays and for recognition that being politically correct means being sensitive to dietary restrictions and religious practices.

SHANA FRENKEL is a master’s student in the School of Social Policy & Practice from Silver Spring, Md. Her email address is shanafrenkel@gmail.com.

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WICK’s targets are college-aged women because they will be most receptive to the idea, Chai added. After listening to feedback from friends, the partners decided to add functional pockets to their apparel. The pieces in the line can be cleaned in a washer and dryer which is why their slogan is “the nostress black dress,” she said.

“These are all very simple fixes and easy solutions that no one has employed yet,” Chai said.

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Things are no different here at Penn, where the Rave gets nearly half the traffic for the midnight screenings of blockbuster hits like Twilight as Hulu does the day after the newest episode of 30 Rock airs. This makes sense. We Penn students are too busy procrastinating on Penn InTouch and designing funny lacrosse pinnies for the clubs we’re involved in to leave the comfort of our beds to

Magazine has ranked Guetta, a multi-platinum artist and winner of two Grammys, among the top five DJs every year since 2008. He held the top spot in 2011.

Guetta has also sold over six million albums and 15 million singles worldwide. His role in the music industry encapsulates far more than a set of disks: producer, writer, artist and philanthropist.

Guetta has worked with such artists as Jay-Z, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Ke$ha and countless others throughout his career, building one of the most varied music repertoires in the EDM genre.

watch Hugo in theaters. And we fit this mold of overworked Ivy League students well, with only about 17% of Penn undergrads watching movies at the Rave every semester.

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An opinion column by Deborah Raiees-Dana in John Brown University's student paper the ‘Threefold’ wrote a column titled "Rethink Yoga" that sought to to highlight the place of yoga in American culture. The author claimed that the meditation form "has its roots in the worship of demonic Hindu gods." The Hindu community, upset and offended, urged the University to take action. So far, The Arkansas university’s president Dr. Charles Pollard has not apologized, and the column has not been removed from the online edition. While Dana's position within the University is not revealed, a response article

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Yale University suspended all funding, credit and scholarship to undergraduate summer activities in Uganda following the countries' recent passage of anti-gay legislation.

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Georgetown University On Wednesday afternoon, a white powdery substance found in a student's dorm room tested positive for ricin according to the Georgetown police chief. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has taken over the case, and the identified student has been taken in for questioning. Ricin is a highly toxic, naturally occurring poison produced from castor oil that can kill an adult human with less than a two-milligram dose. Students in the residence hall were evacuated and others were kept overnight at a nearby hotel.

Contractors who specialize in the decontamination of biological threats cleaned the room where the substance was found. The student has not yet been charged with a crime or been identified as a subject in the investigation of a crime.

The Cornell Daily Sun reported that reports of sexual assault at the University had risen to a 23-year high.

From 1990-2007, the university average three reports of sexual assault per year. In 2012, there were 17. Administrators credited the rise to awareness campaigns and university efforts to educate the community on sexual assault and considered it a positive indication of successful education. Now students who had once chosen to be silent are receiving the support they needed, they argued.

Penn group’s symposium thinks about Ukraine The symposium brought reps from 38 think tanks to Barcelona

BY MELISSA LAWFORD Staff Writer The second-ever Penn-organized European Think Tank Summit addressed the Ukrainian crisis over spring break.

Penn’s Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program brought representatives from 38 think tanks across 21 countries to a conference in Barcelona that took place between March 10 and 12. In light of recent developments in Europe, the schedule of the summit was changed to open with a focus on the Ukrainian crisis.

The summit opened with a panel discussion titled “Perspectives on the Current Economic, Political and Security Crisis in Ukraine,” between representatives f rom the Ukrainian and Russian think tanks in attendance.

A representative from a Ukrainian think tank said

that Russia had undermined Ukrainian sovereignty and argued the necessity of demilitarization and a legal solution regarding Crimea. A Russian think tank representative argued that the situation is not a conflict between Russia and the Ukraine, but Russia and the European Union.

Russian think tank representatives described this conflict as rooted in the 1990s, stemming from the West’s obsessive fear of the creation of a new Russian empire.

The discussion provided a “more on-the-ground viewpoint,” said 2011 College graduate and Transatlantic Fellow at the German Ecologic Institute Sydney Baloue. The discussion also “showed how think tanks can act as a hallmark of open society and greater dialogue,” she added.

T TCSP director James McGann also outlined the conversation’s importance in demonstrating the role think tanks can play in the “eye of the crisis.” He said the debate was a “heated exchange, but

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He added that the two Russian and Ukrainian think tank representatives sat next to each other amicably on the bus the following day.

The conference, which had a total of 67 participants, consisted of six discussion sessions and addressed many other

issues relating to the role of think tanks in Europe.

College senior and TTCSP intern Fadwa Kingsbury explained that one key emphasis of conversation was on think tank networking. Due to the problem that many think tanks compete for funding on a national level, the conversation

explored new emphases on international cooperation.

Another key point of discussion was the balancing act think tanks face between conducting in-depth research and needing to respond very quickly to developments, such as the Ukrainian crisis, Kingsbury said.

A reas that think tank s agreed should be prioritized were diversification, identifying best practices and mobilizing resources, McGann said.

Emphasis was also placed on engaging policy makers and the public and increasing impact, he added.

Several propositions were made following these ideas.

Plans for European Union commissioners to attend parts of future summits are now being developed, for example, Kingsbury said.

She added that the think tanks also discussed developing a legal framework for the organization, such as exists currently in Israel, to increase government involvement with think tanks.

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THEY SAID IT Alyssa Baron

“What I said last year was definitely true, that we are a team to be looked out for.� — On Penn in the NCAA Tournament

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Sunday vs Texas

THE EDGE The Quakers face off against the Longhorns— who’s got the advantage?

OFFENSE: The Longhorns average over 35 percent from threepoint range and are just as solid in the post, dominating the boards.

Edge goes to Texas.

Advantage: PENN DEFENSE: Texas has been solid on the defensive end this year, allowing 59.7 points per game.

But the Quakers led the Ivy League in scoring defense and freshman center Sydney Stipanovich is a difference maker in the post.

Advantage: PENN OVERALL: Penn has the better record between the two squads but Texas is the No. 5 seed for a reason. The Longhorns are battle-tested this season and they will be favored on Sunday.

Advantage: PENN

Penn using last year’s playoff experience

“Playing last year in the WBI also prepared us for this, knowing that if we lose, then our season is done,� Baron said. “That is just extra motivation, and we don’t want to be done yet.�

In the WBI, Baron provided the Quakers with a signature moment, hitting a buzzer-beating three-pointer to defeat Fairfield, 49-48, at the Palestra.

Yet Penn’s captain isn’t looking for something quite as dramatic in the NCAA Tournament and simply is looking for a victory. “Hopefully not,� she said. “That was a little nerve-wracking and it’s funny because last year that happened on my mom’s birthday and this Sunday is her birthday again so she was asking me [if I had any plans to do it again]. “Hopefully it won’t be too nerve-wracking at the end of the game but we still get the win.�

W. HOOPS from page 10 four games. “It just gives us a lot of experience playing those high caliber teams, especially Notre Dame, who is a No. 1 seed and a possible contender for the title,� Baron said, “and then the Big 5 games. Those are always tough competition as well. “So I think it just prepares us, knowing that we can go in and play against some top teams.�

And the Quakers also have postseason success on their resume, having won two games in last year’s Women’s Basketball Invitational to cap off a strong season.

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begins in earnest, as Ancient Eight doubleheaders begin on March 28. K ing expects the Hawks to be an adequate test for her squad. “ They are athletic, they pitch well, they f ield well, they hit well, they are coached well and that’s what we expect out of them every year,� she said.

In Penn’s last meeting with the Hawks, the Quakers fell 5-0 in a particularly rough afternoon . Star pitcher Alexis Borden picked up the loss despite striking out four batters and sur render ing just one earned run in five innings.

However, King is not discouraged by the path of history. “If we could win one game against them or even sweep them, that would be a statement,� she said.

The Red and Blue certainly have the defensive talent to pull off such a win. Just consider Borden’s performance thus far: In just six games she has already racked up an impressive 49 strikeouts, not surprising given her status as the program’s all-time strikeouts leader.

King notes that Penn’s offense, on the other hand, is still a work in progress. “We just have to continue to develop good quality at bats. We need to have a plan when we go in the batters box.�

T he R ed a nd Blue have made a plan beyond the batters box as well, and that plan is to win.

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Despite a schedule full of daunting opponents, Penn softball’s fiercest competitor thus far in the 2013-2014 season has been the weather.

First, the Quakers’ home o p e n e r a g a i n st S t . Jo e ’s on March 3 was postponed because of heav y snowfall.

Later, due to torrential downpours on Tuesday, Penn (4-7) was only able to squeeze in two innings against Lehigh.

Ironically, when the Red and Blue were finally able to catch some sun, they struggled, dropping four of f ive ga mes at t he UCF Spr i ng Fling in Orlando, Fla., before splitting six contests at the USF Under A r mour Showcase in Tampa.

The Red and Blue are hoping to catch a break f rom Mother Nature as they finally make up for opening day’s postponement in a doubleheader against St. Joe’s (1312) on Sunday at Penn Park.

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Penn pitcher Alexis Borden will have to deal with a tough St. Joseph’s lineup this weekend when she takes the Penn’s first full doubleheader of the season at home.

According to coach Leslie K ing, the team spent most of its Florida training trip “[ building up] the stamina that you need for a college Division I doubleheader. That’s something the freshmen have never experienced.�

That is especially pertinent this year, given that 10 of the team’s 21 players are from the class of 2017.

The games mark one of the last chances the Quakers will have to whip their game into shape before Ivy League play

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Si nc e E r n st t o ok over Georgetown (5-7) in 2006, the two programs have gotten a lot closer. Before his arrival, the two teams had not faced off against each other in recent memor y. Since then, they’ve met four times. “I knew Mark [Riley] who took over after me, and obviously I know Dave Geatz very well,� Ernst said, referring to Penn’s current coach. “When you have the relations, and you’re in close proximity ... it’s a no-brainer. We’re both looking for good matches.�

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16-14 in the breaker, Adam beat him, and then went on to win the second set.� “That hurt,� he added.

Just last se ason , Pen n again edged out Georgetown for a narrow 4-3 win. Down three matches to one, the Red and Blue rallied to take the last three and capped their win off as then-freshman Vim De Alwis — whom Ernst tried to recruit to no avail — won a come-from-behind three-set match against Shane Korber.

There could very well be a dramatic rematch for De Alwis and Korber, as both athletes have played at the No. 2 position this year.

This time around, Ernst will have a little home court advantage — for the f irst time, Penn will travel down to D.C. to tr y to tame the Hoyas while coming off of a 1-3 spring break excursion to California.

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Penn Sr. F Courtney Wilson When junior forward Katy Allen went down with a foot injury, Wilson stepped up off the bench, including a strong four-point, threerebound and two assists effort against Princeton on Mar. 11. Wilson will need to play a big role against a tall Texas squad if Penn is going to take down the No. 5 seed.

Coach Mike McLaughlin has led Penn women’s basketball to its third Ivy League title and NCAA Tournament appearance in program history, going 22-6 this year.

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Quakers look to get over hump in long-awaited home opener

BASEBALL | Having dropped nine of its first 11 games, Penn hopes to increase scoring

BY COREY HENRY Staff Writer

After competing in its first 11 games on the road, Penn baseball will finally be in familiar territory this weekend.

Penn’s Meiklejohn Stadium will get its first action of the season as the Quakers will host Lafayette in their home opener. The home and home series should help the Red and Blue get more comfortable playing in their own stadium for the first time.

“We’ve been doing a decent job pitching and playing defense,” coach John Yurkow said. “It’s a matter now of us getting a big hit when we need one.”

Both teams will be looking to rebound after some tough losses in the state of Virginia.

The Leopards (5-7), dropped three straight in Richmond, Va. against VCU, Buffalo, and Rutgers while Penn (2-9) lost all three games in its series against Richmond.

Recent weather patterns have brought plenty of wind into the Philadelphia area which could make for a low-

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scoring af fair. Penn is 0 - 5 when scoring less than four runs and has lost eight of its nine games by either one or two runs.

“It’s been kind of crazy how many one or two run games [we’ve had],” Yurkow said.

“We need to do a better job in the close games.”

The coaches and players are approaching their struggles in close games with different mindsets.

“We get too uptight in tense situations,” junior catcher Austin Bossart added. “If we just play loose and have fun we’ll do well.”

“We’ve gotta do a better job getting people on base earlier in innings,” Yurkow added. “We haven’t done a great job getting our leadoff guy on base.”

After 11 games at the helm, the Yurkow era has begun with a rock y star t recordwise, but the team sees it as a positive rebuilding process.

“I feel good about [the transition]” Yurkow said.

“It’s taking some adjustment, that’s for sure,” Bossart added. “We really appreciate the atmosphere this year.”

The change in coaches has allowed the team to play without the fear of messing up.

Both the team and coach are working together to improve, which has helped the squad grow closer.

This relaxed demeanor will be key to snapping its losing streak and getting the team pointed in the right direction.

“Just play to have f un,” Bossart stressed as the key to success this weekend.

The L eopa rds have had their struggles as well in their most recent losing skid, losing two games by one-run margins. Lafayette, however, has won two games by one and two run margins as opposed to the Quakers who have lost these types of games.

If the Quakers want to get their big hits, they probably won’t have ma ny cha nces against the Lafayette pitching staff, which has only allowed more than five runs once this season. Despite the challenge, Penn baseball remains optimistic. “ I l i k e o u r c h a n c e s ,” Yurkow added. “Seems like they’re pitching well so far.”

With four ga mes in t wo days, the Red and Blue will hope to show that they can be clutch and move the Yurkow era forward on a more positive note.

With big upset chance, Penn is sick of losing to Cornell M. LACROSSE | Quakers aim to shift balance of power in Big Red-dominated league

BY IAN WENIK Sports Editor No. 3 Cornell 7-0, 1-0 Ivy Saturday, 1 p.m.

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For years, Cornell lacrosse has dominated the top of the Ivy League standings.

But if the vastly improved Penn program has anything to say about it, there could soon be a power shift at the top.

Saturday, the No. 13 Quakers (3-2, 0-1 Ivy) will host the No. 3 Big Red (7-0, 1-0) with rea listic hopes of beating their Ivy rivals for the first time since 2006.

Offense has been the name of the game for the Red and Blue in recent weeks. Penn has scored at least 12 goals in four straight contests, winning three.

Leading the charge for the Quakers has been junior attack Isaac Bock. Bock leads the Quakers with 14 points

this season and had a career game on Saturday against Princeton, scoring four goals in a 15-12 loss to the Tigers.

A spotty defense proved to be Penn’s downfall in its matchup with Princeton on Satu rd ay, as t he Qua kers were able to close within one goal of the lead three times before allowing a four-goal Tigers run that put the game away.

With Cornell’s third-ranked scoring offense (13.83 goals per game) coming to town, the Quakers know they will need to avoid surrendering those big runs if they want to have a shot at the upset.

“There are a lot of ways to stop [a run], and you have to do some combination of score a goal, get a stop on defense and win a face-off or ride the ball back,” coach Mike Murphy said. “And we weren’t really able to do any of those, unfortunately, at the right time [against Princeton].”

Despite losing NCAA Division I all-time scoring leader Rob Pannell to Major League Lacrosse, Cor nell’s attack hasn’t missed a beat this season. Stepping into Pannell’s throne has been junior attack Matt Donovan, who has scored 18 goals this season

while getting 66 percent of his shots on net.

Penn’s defense will likely not be intimidated by Donovan’s presence on the field, though.

“He’s a good player, we’ve seen him before,” senior defense Maxx Meyer said. “[He] doesn’t scare us, I don’t think he’s as talented as Rob Pannell was, but he’s the quarterback of their offense.”

Meyer was on the field the last time the Quakers came close to knocking off the Big Red, a 13-12 overtime loss in Ithaca back in 2011. The Red and Blue came back from a 7-2 halftime deficit, but fell after Cornell’s Roy Lang converted in the extra session.

With this season being his last shot at the traditional class of the Ivy League, Meyer is aching to give the Big Red a rude welcome to Penn Park.

“I want to beat them for the first time in my four years,” he said. “They’ve been historically one of the best teams in the Ivy League, and I think this year we’re poised to become one of those. It’s kind of been Princeton and Cornell [at the top].

“And frankly, we’re kind of tired of it. I’m definitely sick of it.”

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One of Penn’s captains, junior catcher Austin Bossart has put together another strong season so far for the Red and Blue, batting .295 while providing solid defense from behind the plate. Bossart and his teammates look to get over the hump against Lafayette.

Red and Blue take matters outdoors for the spring TRACK AND FIELD Quakers will host inivitational at Franklin Field on Saturday

BY COLIN HENDERSON Associate Sports Editor Penn track and field was p r e t t y muc h s now e d i n throughout the winter, sheltered from almost all public attention during the indoor season.

Now, as spring begins, the Quakers are set to break out and show their opponents what they’re made of.

This Saturday afternoon, Penn will host the second annual Philadelphia College Classic at Franklin Field, a meet in which the team will compete against several local schools — including the other members of the Big 5.

Despite some solid individual performances — especially from underclassmen — throughout the winter, both the men’s and women’s teams finished second-to-last at the indoor Ivy Championships. But the program has chosen to focus on the positive aspects of the season in its transition to outdoor competition.

Last week, many of Penn’s athletes traveled to Florida to open the outdoor season at the USF Invitational. It was a small step, but coach

Steve Dolan was enthusiastic about what his athletes accomplished.

“I thought Florida went really well,” Dolan said. “One of the main goals was to do some of the events where having warmer weather is helpful, so a lot of the longer throwing events went really well for us.”

Dolan’s athletes echoed that sentiment.

“It was a really good opportunity for us all to bond,” freshman distance runner Ashley Montgomery said. “It was cool for us all to come together and have some team bonding where it wasn’t as intense of a meet.”

This week’s invitational is Penn’s home opener and the first outdoor meet in which the Quakers will field close to a full competitive roster. But the stakes have only been marginally raised.

“It’s cool to be in a historic stadium in a meet that’s not the Penn Relays, in a more low-key environment,” Dolan said.

After a couple weeks of outdoor training, the meet will provide another opportunity for the Quakers to transition from indoor to outdoor competition, where they will compete in events like the 4x100-meter relay for the first time all year.

With that in mind, Dolan has largely downplayed the idea that his team will need to work

its way back into top form after a series of significant indoor meets.

“The indoor season builds to the outdoor season, so I don’t really feel like we were at the top at the end of indoor,” Dolan said.

This weekend’s meet will also provide Penn’s many freshmen with their first opportunity to compete at Franklin Field.

Montgomery is one of these freshmen and she is not taking the occasion lightly.

“We put so much work and time in that it’s nice to be able to ask people to come out and watch us,” she said.

Despite a breakout performance throughout her first career — high school or college — indoor season, Montgomery is looking forward to the opportunity to improve as her time at Penn progresses.

“It was exhilarating for me to do well [in indoor]. I know that with outdoor ... there’s even bigger things that I can try to achieve,” she said.

His athletes may be ready to go, but instead of focusing solely on results, Dolan has taken a more pragmatic approach to the weekend.

“We want to compete hard,” Dolan said. “But it’s early in the season.

“We want to come out of the meet healthy and ready for the weeks to come.”

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2014 NCAA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT PENN QUAKERS JR. F KARA BONENBERGER

Averaged 11.1 points and 6.5 rebounds per game

JR. G KATHLEEN ROCHE

SR. G MEGHAN MCCULLOUGH

First on the team with 36 made threepointers

Started all 28 games and posted a 1.9 assist to turnover ratio

JR. G RENEE BUSCH

Led Quakers with a 40.3 percent mark beyond the arc

COACH MIKE MCLAUGHLIN

Improved win total each of his five years at Penn

FR. C SYDNEY STIPANOVICH

SR. G ALYSSA BARON

Ivy League Defensive Player and Rookie of the Year

Ivy League Player of the Year and unanimous first-team All-Ivy

GONE TEXAS LONGHORNS SO. G CELINA RODRIGO

Leads team in assists and steals for the second straight season

JR. F NNEKA ENEMKPALI

SO. C IMANI MCGEE-STAFFORD

Longhorns’ leading scorer and rebounder for the season

Averages 10.6 points and 7.2 boards in 20.8 minutes per contest

NO. 5 TEXAS (21-11)

SR. G CHASSIDY FUSSELL

First-team All-Big 12 in 2011-12, leads team with 41 three-pointers

COACH KAREN ASTON

Second appearance in NCAA Tournament as a head coach (2009)

NO. 12 PENN (22-6)

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BY STEVEN TYDINGS Senior Sports Editor After falling to Princeton in last year’s season finale, thenjunior captain Alyssa Baron knew her team was close to breaking through, proclaiming that Penn would be “a team to look out for” in the Ivy League soon enough.

A year later, the Quakers hope to be that team to look out for once again, but this time on a

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national stage, as they prepared to face Texas this Sunday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in College Park, Md. The winner of the Penn-Texas matchup will face the winner of the Maryland-Army game taking place on the same court.

“What I said last year was definitely true, that we are a team to be looked out for,” Baron said. “We showed that in Ivy play and even in our nonconference play that we’re a good team and I think we’ll be able to show that this year in the tournament.”

Penn (22-6, 12-2 Ivy) comes into Sunday on a five-game winning streak, culminating

in an 80-64 victory over Princeton on March 11 to clinch the Ivy title. The Quakers, a No. 12 seed, will now have to play an even larger win-orgo- home matchup against the No. 5 seeded Longhorns (21-11, 11-7 Big 12) while trying not to let nerves get the best of them.

“We’ve played on big stage,” coach Mike McLaughlin said.

“They played the biggest game of their career last Tuesday and they handled it really well.

So I expect them to be anxious, to be excited, but I also expect them to be able to flow into the game and put [themselves] in the best position possible.”

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Tournament to West Virginia, but the Longhorns have looked solid all season, especially in the post. The team has a string of strong forwards and has significant depth to challenge the Red and Blue, as coach Karen Aston has given 11 different players at least 10 minutes per game.

With junior forward Katy Allen recovering from a seasonending injury, Penn will need to get the most out of its post players, particularly junior forward Kara Bonenberger and freshman center Sydney Stipanovich.

“They’re big, they’re strong and we’re going to need all

four post players to contribute,” McLaughlin said. “We’re going to have to show that we can rebound the basketball because they’re big but they’re athletic and that’s what they do. They really rebound the ball well.”

But Penn is no stranger to big conference teams like Texas. The Quakers hung with ACC Champion and No. 1 seeded Notre Dame in their second game of the year while pulling off an upset of fellow ACC squad Miami on Jan. 1. They also played well in a tough Big 5, picking up two victories in

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