April 18, 2014

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Response to 1990s crime shaped today’s campus Facing high crime, there were two options: build a wall, or engage and invest

BY SARAH SMITH Senior Writer The day after a student was shot near the Dental School, Maureen Rush stood on College Green, trying to manage a crowd of angry students.

It was late September of 1996, and the shooting of then-College senior Patrick Leroy in an armed robbery gone wrong had come on the heels of a crime wave that left students in an uproar and administrators on edge. Rush, who wasn’t given a microphone, yelled in an unsuccessful attempt to be heard over the crowd.

“It felt like I was being fed to the lions,” Rush, who was the chief of police at the time and is currently the vice president for public safety, remembered in an interview Thursday. “Then this tall, black man came up to me and said, ‘Would you like me to

lead these people in prayer?’ I looked at them, I looked at him, and I said, ‘Sure.’”

The man was William Gipson, at the time the new University Chaplain, who is now an associate vice provost. He stepped forward and prayed.

In the wake of the Leroy shooting, the University announced several new initiatives. Leroy himself made a full recovery. But a month later, on Halloween night of 1996, a Penn research associate, Vladimir Sled, was stabbed to death on the 4300 block of Larchwood Avenue.

The murder early Tuesday morning outside Copabanana, at 40th and Spruce streets, is the exception that proves the rule: Serious crime at Penn is rare nowadays. But about 20 years ago, crime on campus hit its peak — prompting a series of changes that fundamentally shaped the University and how it interacts with the community.

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Vagelos: High intensity science,

but it’s not for everyone

The Vagelos programs train students to be scientists, but despite the prestige, some find science just isn’t right for them

BY LAURA ANTHONY Deputy News Editor

T

he Vagelos programs have a reputation at Penn.

They’re hard or cutthroat or prestigious or give students great research experience.

“This is the kind of thing that people will say after five or six years, ‘Well, that was a good thing to have done.’ Past tense,” said Ponzy Lu, chemistry professor and the director of the Vagelos Molecular Life Sciences program.

“I think most of them say it in the present tense, but I’m not sure if they’re being honest,” he added.

“If they say it’s fun to do, then we’re not working them hard enough.”

There frequently seems to be a joke lingering around Lu’s comments, but it’s never quite clear how much he means seriously.

That kind of uncertainty about the true nature of the Vagelos programs may be part of another common stereotype — that students often start

but seldom finish the programs.

“The program does have a notorious drop rate,” said College junior Josh Bryer, who was in MLS until halfway through his freshman year. The Molecular Life Sciences program focuses on chemistry and biochemistry within the College, with the vast majority of students opting to submatriculate for a master’s degree in four years.

Placed next to the image of the Vagelos programs as models of Penn’s interdisciplinary approach, an interesting juxtaposition arises.

Retention numbers are one way to look at student satisfaction with each of the three programs established through donations by 1950 College graduate Roy Vagelos and his wife Diana. The statistics aren’t the same across the board. Just as the three programs have extremely different academic focuses, they also have varying retention rates.

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The tweeting professor

For academics, Twitter proves a useful tool to promote research

BY YUEQI YANG Staff Writer

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On Sept. 26, 1996, then-Chief of Police Operations Maureen Rush talked to angry students and local media on College Green days after a College senior was shot in the thigh.

Prosecutors release motive for Tuesday’s Copbanana murder Murder may have been motivated by a comment the victim allegedly made about the suspect’s girlfriend

BY JILL CASTELLANO Staff Writer The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office has released a possible motive and more details in the homicide that occurred near 40th and Spruce streets early Tuesday morning.

The alleged shooter, 26-yearold Corey Gaynor of the 1200 block of South 54th Street , thought that 31-year-old Timothy Cary made a remark about Gaynor’s girlfriend while they were inside Copabanana, accord ing to the DA’s of f ice.

Gaynor then allegedly went outside to retrieve a gun, coming back and allegedly shooting the victim in his chest and torso outside the door of Copabanana at 1:30 a.m.

Gaynor was charged with murder Tuesday afternoon. Gaynor

was also charged separately for aggravated assault in Tuesday’s incident because he allegedly assaulted a police officer during his arrest after he attempted to flee the scene, the DA’s office said.

Gaynor’s preliminary hearing is set for April 30, when the DA’s office will reveal the evidence they have linking Gaynor to the crime.

Gaynor is also charged with altering identification marks on a firearm and carrying a firearm without a license, among other charges, and he has a history of criminal charges for possession of firearms and illegal drugs. He was sentenced to 11 and a half to 23 months of incarceration in 2009 for carrying a firearm in public in Philadelphia.

According to Philadelphia Police, Penn Police took the alleged shooter into custody near 40th and Pine streets, where Penn Police also found a semiautomatic gun that matches the ballistics from the scene. At least 10 shots were fired, police said.

Staff writer Cosette Gastelu ■ contributed reporting.

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When business economics and public policy professor Olivia Mitchell started writing for a Wall Street Journal blog on pensions and personal finance, her daughter suggested that she also tweet about it.

“It was the time to move into the 21st century,” Mitchell said.

The Wharton Marketing and Communications team recently started to offer informal training to professors like Mitchell who wish to use social media to disseminate research and academic work. During the training, Mitchell learned basic Twitter skills, such as completing setup of a profile and shortening URLs in tweets. “The

one thing I am not so comfortable with, just because I am not sure how to do it, is to use the hashtags,” she said. “So I have to get more training in that.”

Her most recent post embedded two hashtags and one URL. The training also educates professors on how to write more interesting tweets that appeal to the general public. “So it’s not sufficient just to put a title of a paper up. It’s better to say something about it,” Mitchell said.

“For faculty we are much more used to talking to traditional academic audience. So this is very much a new audience that we have to try to reach.”

With a limit of 140 characters, Mitchell considered tweets as a way to attract audience’s interest and get them to start thinking about an issue. “You have to assume [that] people who are following you probably SEE TWITTER PAGE 2

PROFESSORS ON TWITTER Eric Jarosinski @NeinQuarterly Assistant Professor of German, German 69.6K Followers Kevin Werbach @kwerb Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, 21.9K Followers Adam Grant @AdamMGrant Professor of Management, 20.7K Followers Anthea Butler @AntheaButler Associate Professor of Religious Studies, 19.8K Followers Jonah Berger @j1berger Associate Professor of Marketing, 12.5K Followers Kenneth Goldsmith @kg_ubu Faculty of the Creative Writing Program, 8861 Followers Salamishah Tillet @salamishah Associate Professor of English, 8199 Followers

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Painting a path from Rwanda to Penn

Emmanuel Nkundunkundiye, a Rwandan genocide surivivor, plans to study business

BY BRENDA WANG Deputy News Editor Emmanuel Nkundunkundiye’s vibrant paintings pulse with color, rhythm and life. Yet the newly admitted Penn student’s art emerges from much darker roots.

Emmanuel’s father was killed during the Rwandan genocide of 1994 when Emmanuel was two years old.

His mother was brutally gang raped a few days later, “abused and ripped” to the point where she has never been physically and mentally able to take care of him, he said. After the genocide, he was sent to live with his grandmother, Emertha, in a hut with

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no running water or electricity.

“Emma,” as he is known to his friends, relates the horrors he has experienced in slow but steady and perfect English, even though he only began learning the language in his teens. He saves his emotions for the canvas.

“I didn’t see any people who showed love or interest in me, and I also couldn’t talk much, so that’s how I started developing drawing skills,” Emma said during a Skype phone call. “I was using only a pencil and a pen to draw because that was the only way I could connect to the world.”

Emma started drawing in primary school. Although his grandmother was extremely poor, she never stopped supporting her grandson’s education. Emma was able to attend

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Emmanuel Nkundunkundiye will be a College freshman in the fall. He loves paiting and business.

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THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

‘Undocumented and unapologetic,’ two years later

Q&A | Activist Tania Chairez is making headlines again

BY LAURA ANTHONY Deputy News Editor In 2012, Wharton senior Tania Chairez was arrested for blocking traffic in front of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Philadelphia.

An undocumented immigrant herself, Chairez was protesting the United States’ immigration policy.

Chairez has continued her activism at Penn, co-founding Penn for Immigrant Rights.

Now, about two years after her arrest, she is featured on Latina Magazine’s list of 12 Inspiring Latinas Under 25. The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with Chairez to see what she has been working on to keep pushing her message of “undocumented and unapologetic.”

D a i l y Pen ns y lv a n i a n : What was your reaction to being featured on Latina Magazine’s list? What does it mean for you?

Tania Chairez: So actually they never told me. They tweeted at me ... They legitimately just found my picture and wrote about me and I didn’t even know. So it was

Some profs have thousands of followers TWITTER from page 1 understand enough about the issue,” she said. “Short statements will at least pique their

kind of exciting. I opened the link when I was at La Casa Latina, the Hispanic resource center, so everyone around me quickly spread the news.

So it was fun. It was very out of the blue.

What it means for me is actually a lot less about me and more about the undocumented community. I think what it does is it brings a lot of awareness to an issue that oftentimes goes unnoticed, especially in big universities. So I think it helps in terms of getting the word out for undocumented students that they can apply to institutions like Penn and eventually be here and follow in my footsteps.

DP: Have you been involved in other activism work recently surrounding undocumented immigrants?

TC: I always tell people that I found myself in Philadelphia before I found myself in Penn. As in, the Philadelphia community really helped me grow as an individual, and once I found my identity and created my identity as an undocumented Mexican woman in Philadelphia, I then brought that identity with me and created it at Penn.

So from there I established Penn for Immigrant Rights ... with Angel Contrera, who is a 2013 graduate. Actually, my most exciting thing is that

interest to think about it.”

Some Penn professors are already big names on Twitter.

Legal Studies and Business Ethics professor Kevin Werbach has 21,800 followers on his Twitter account @kwerb.

M a nagement professor A d a m Gr a nt , M a rket i ng professor Jonah Berger and Religious Studies professor Anthea Butler also have strong presences on Twitter.

umented person. And we’re trying to make this a yearly sort of thing so that everyone is aware of the issues that some of their peers may be experiencing on campus.

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Tania Chairez is a senior in Wharton. Latina Magazine recently named her one of “12 Inspiring Latinas Under 25.” She is also the founder of Penn for Immigrant Rights. right now we’re working on a scholarship. So we’ve raised almost $3,000 I would say, and our goal for the semester is to raise another $2,000 to reach the $5,000 goal. We’re hoping that once it’s established we can put it into the Philadelphia Foundation and have it as a yearly scholarship available for Philadelphia immigrant youth regardless of immigration status in the hopes that undocumented students will apply.

DP: What’s it like doing this sort of activism at Penn?

TC: I’m glad that people talk about immigration now. I feel like four years ago when I got to Penn, there was very little discussion about immigration so at least I can say I’m proud of that. I think any discussion, whether it’s pro or con or whatever range of the political spectrum ... is actually very good and conducive to a learning environment. I

found people to be very supportive at Penn.

I think there is still a lot of growth potential and that’s what I’m kind of working on with Penn for Immigrant Rights. We do a lot of trainings. We call them “undocu-trainings.” We’ve really targeted either staff or administration, as well as student leaders. We’re working on just making sure as many student leaders as possible know what it even means to be an undoc-

“It’s extremely valuable for professors to have a presence on social media,” Werbach said. “We shouldn’t see ourselves either just talking to Penn alone, or academic communities, but also anyone who is interested in the topics we are working on.”

Professor Werbach tweets about his research in gamification as well as internet and telecommunications policy.

He also uses Twitter to interact with his students in his Gamification class on coursera.org, under hashtags like #gamification14 and #gamification12, but does not integrate Twitter as part of his teaching.

“The other thing I love about Twitter is that I go out of my way to find people who have different perspectives.

Twitter makes it really easy to

do that,” Werbach said.

Instead of building a Twitter account under a personal name, German Department professor Eric Jarosinski edits an account called “Nein” (@NeinQuarterly), a German word meaning “No” in English. He describes his account as “A Compendium of Utopian Negation,” and his critical and witty tweets have attracted 69,600 followers.

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DP: Looking ahead, what do you see as the future for Penn for Immigrant Rights and for yourself?

TC: Penn for Immigrant Rights was established only really as a forum for discussion, so I think in that sense it will be very very helpful in the years to come ... I do not think immigration reform will happen anytime soon but I do think the discussion around immigration reform will continue to be very lively.

So I think Penn for Immigrant Rights has a lot of work ahead of them to engage the Penn community and maybe even more so the Philadelphia community.

As far as myself, I’m actually returning to Phoenix.

So I was born in Mexico. Because I’m undocumented, and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, I’m returning to Phoenix to do Teach for America, and I’m really excited because this is going to be my opportunity to empower the undocumented population in Arizona and tell them that they can make it.

Because no one told me that when I was in high school, and I wish someone had.

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Crime cut in half from 1996 to 2012 DEVELOPMENT from page 1 Crime surge leaves campus in fear In the early 1990s, Penn was, in many ways, an exemplar of a crime-ridden campus.

In August 1994, graduate student Al-Moez Alimohamed was killed during a robbery at 47th and Pine streets — netting the robbers the $5 he had in his pocket. Then-president Judith Rodin, who had just begun her tenure at Penn, led a march that September to the sidewalk where he was killed, followed by a crowd of about 250. Just over a week later, Rodin told the University Board of Trustees that she hoped to develop a master plan to review campus safety in “the near future,” the Daily Pennsylvanian reported.

At the time, the University was a different place than it is today. Instead of walking, people would rush from their houses to take transit and then hurry to their doors after getting dropped off, Rush said.

Where the Penn Bookstore and Fresh Grocer now stand were asphalt parking lots. At night, the campus was less well-lit. And while West Philadelphia wasn’t a bad neighborhood, it was one that suffered from street crime.

Faculty and students took notice. While 60 percent of graduate students lived in University City in the 19881989 school year, the number dropped to 25 percent by the spring of 1996, according to a report from the Office of OffCampus Living published in a DP article. Faculty also fled from what they viewed as an area that had become too unsafe.

“We had a really serious crime take place in our house and there were house sitters at the time who were seriously injured,” history professor Drew Gilpin Faust — who is now the president of Harvard University — told the DP in September 1996. Faust had lived in the neighborhood for 22 years.

“After that, the whole situation never seemed the same. We had an 8-year-old child at the time and it made me worried.

I did not want to deal with that fear anymore.”

The events of 1996 left the University with no choice but to act immediately. The day after the Leroy shooting, Penn announced the hiring of 10 new police officers, the installment of 102 new blue light phones and more integration with the Philadelphia Police Department — upgrades that the DP reported would come at a cost of an additional $7 million over the next few years.

But then came the Sled murder — and soon after, the outrage. Penn Police hired AlliedBarton security guards in the wake of the murder to increase its visible presence, Rush said. But it wasn’t just a matter of hiring additional security forces. Penn had to redouble its efforts to get involved with the community, and Rodin and then-Executive Vice President John Fry knew it.

Not ‘a walled fortress’ Much of the community engagement now credited to Rodin had its roots in the administration of Penn President Sheldon Hackney, who was in office from 1981 to 1993 and saw crime rise under his tenure in the late 1980s.

“There were suggestions made at the time that you have a field perimeter,” said Linda Wilson, who worked in the president’s office from 1985 to 1994, first as the associate director and then chief of staff.

“Sheldon Hackney rejected that. He said that we weren’t going to become a walled fortress.”

Hackney instead responded by engaging with the community, living on campus and creating what is now known as the Netter Center for Community Partnerships. Rodin’s administration took a similar approach.

In early November 1996, just after the Sled murder, Fry formed the 40th Street Task

Force, charged with improving the area between Locust and Walnut streets to revitalize the western edge of campus.

The task force, which Rush cochaired, was later extended to look at Baltimore Avenue and Sansom Street. Just before the task force was announced, the University worked with local businesses to stay open until 8 p.m. every Wednesday, offering special deals, in an effort to increase safety and business.

In the mid-1990s, Rodin introduced the West Philadelphia Initiatives. In addition to more policing, the initiatives centered on improving incentives for employees to purchase homes in University City, attracting commercial development and buying locally.

“President Rodin stepped up local hiring,” said 1965 College graduate Ed Rendell, the mayor of Philadelphia from 1992 to 2000. “They always hired from the city, but they started preferencing those ZIP codes.”

Another of Rodin’s West Philadelphia Initiatives was building a public school in partnership with the city — the Penn Alexander School, located at 43rd and Locust streets and now supported by Penn with a donation of $1,330 per year for each student.

In 1997, the University helped establish the University City District, partnering with local institutions such as Drexel University and the University of the Sciences, as well as private companies. UCD, still in existence today, helps homeowners and renters, provides basic services and enhances the area’s public safety.

But in the wake of the crime wave in the 1990s, particularly the fall of 1996, the community had its own interests. Barry Grossbach, a long-time West Philadelphia resident and current zoning committee chair of the Spruce Hill Community Association, hosted a meeting with Rendell, other local politicians and community members in his house soon after the Sled murder to discuss what the community wanted from the city.

“We made sure nobody in the meeting had a relationship with the University of Pennsylvania,” Grossbach said. The community, he said, wanted to make clear that it was not a part of the University and had its own unique needs.

The community members discussed basic services and had several more meetings with Rendell in his City Hall office.

But Grossbach said Penn’s investment in the area was a considerable improvement. “I

give them credit for stepping up,” he said.

It wasn’t always a welcome process. There were protests — in the early 2000s, led by a group calling itself Neighbors Against McPenntrification — and in recent years, tension has come to a head over enrollment caps at Penn Alexander.

But in Grossbach’s mind, the tension is to be expected.

“There’s always been a tug of war between the town and the gown, it’s nothing new.” he said. “I think you’re going to find that in most places.”

‘Incremental changes’ The impact the investment and outreach had on crime didn’t come quickly.

“It took a good eight years,” Rush said. “There were incremental changes.”

All crime in the Penn Patrol Zone — a boundary stretching from 30th Street to 43rd Street and Baltimore Avenue to Market Street — has dropped by 50 percent from 1996 to 2012, according to statistics provided by the Division of Public Safety.

The last fatal shooting so close to campus before Tuesday took place in 2010, when a police chase of a carjacker ended in a shootout on High Rise Field, leaving one of the suspects dead. In 2006, thenEngineering sophomore Mari Oishi was shot in the thigh near 38th and Sansom streets — an incident she recounted in a video shown each year during New Student Orientation.

But compared to the 1990s, there is relatively little crime in the area — a result that has gone hand in hand with increased commercial development. Retail square footage has increased by 37 percent in the last decade — which “has added more vibrancy and activity to the street, which is also a deterrent to crime,” Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli said in an email.

“The stability of the western edge of campus has enabled us to focus on the campus as a whole and grow east and south,” Carnaroli said. In recent years, the University has turned what used to be Postal Service land into Penn Park, and it is currently building an innovation hub at the South Bank — across the Schuylkill River.

While campus safety has undoubtedly improved over the past 20 years, Rush emphasized that ensuring that the trend continues is an ongoing process.

“There’s no end to this story,” she said.

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EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 20th THE FEAST OF THE RESURRECTION 11:00 am in the Church Choral Eucharist with Renewal of Baptismal Vows Reception following.

The Great St. Mary’s Easter Egg Hunt gather on the sanctuary steps (Locust Walk side) promptly at 12:45PM. All children & their families are welcome.

This is a BYOBasket event sponsored by St. Mary’s Church & Sunday School.

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A call to end the ban on MSM blood donation GUEST COLUMN BY EDWARD SCOTT

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he first time I was given the opportunity to donate my O-positive blood w a s at a h i g h school blood drive hosted by an organization for students interested in the health professions. I went to fill out the form. Then, the technician came to me and gave me the policies regarding donation.

While reading, I hit the question asking if I had ever had sex with a man since 1977.

My first thought: “Why are they asking?”

As I continued to read, I realized that the protected sexual experience I had with my boyfriend — my first — disqualified me from saving a life.

Although the thought of lying crossed my mind, in that instance, I chose to leave. As I grew older and entered my college years, I ignored the

conversation I had with myself about lying being wrong, and I rationalized giving my blood with statements like “How would they know?” or “Wouldn’t they rather me save a life?” The truth is that they would rather I not.

Since 1983, if a person is a man who has had sex with another man since 1977, then he is ineligible to donate blood per FDA guidelines.

His name is put under what is called “lifetime deferral,” which is just another phrase for banned forever.

Originally, the policy’s intent was to limit the potential for HIV-infected blood to be given to a blood transfusion recipient. It was written during the earlier stages of HIV research, back when the nation still had a rudimentary understanding of HIV. The fear- dr iven media propagated a supposedly inherent

connection between the queer community and HI V, and there was little sex education in all communities.

I like to think of myself as an honest person, but the truth is that every time I go to a blood drive and donate, I lie. Some might call it a little white lie, but it still is a lie.

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I am branded as the poster child for immorality — a homosexual liar.”

Het erosex ua l pr iv i lege eliminates the ultimatum: Tell a lie and save a life, or tell the truth and be banned for life.

Since 1983, straight people have had the privilege of not

needing to have an internal conversation about whether their blood is worthy. They will not have the experience of being in a student organization’s meeting where a blood drive is chosen as the next philanthropic event, knowing they cannot participate due to their sexuality. They have the privilege of never experiencing the two tiers of moral persecution that come with giving blood as an MSM. I am invisible amongst potential lifesavers. I am branded as the poster child for immorality — a homosexual liar.

While I cannot change the gay part, I refuse to lie again.

For the past few weeks, I have gotten calls from a blood bank about opportunities to save a life, tempting me to respond to the need with just another little white lie. The sad part is that I am sure the organization does not realize the impact of those calls — its request for my self-rejection.

I am confident the organization calling and other blood collecting organizations do not realize the internal conversation prompted ever y time that automated voice comes through the telephone, or I see signs for a blood drive or I roll past a car crash. In that conversation thr ives cognitive dissonance, identity crisis and loss of self-value.

Those outcomes surely are not the intent. Blood collecting organizations simply want me to answer the call.

In June 2013, the Red Cross, America’s Blood Centers and the American Association of Blood Banks released a joint statement in response to an event known as “The National Gay Blood Drive.” Those organizations took a public stance against the lifetime donation ban for MSMs. While they actually called for the FDA to change the ban to a one-year deferral, their progressive posturing and on-the-record

advocacy is a tremendous step in the right direction.

It speaks to the fact that the “H” in HIV stands for human, not homosexual, as LGBT activist Blake Lynch says.

It speaks to the reality that transmitting HIV through blood transfusion is about one in two million. It speaks to gays’ status as being human first. It speaks to progress.

The truth is that blood collecting organizations like the Red Cross always are out for blood because the need is always there. It is time the FDA follows suit and changes the policy. The FDA should answer the call, and end the ban on MSM blood donations.

I want to save a life without the lie. I am confident that the patients in need will not care that I am gay.

EDWARD SCOTT is a student in the School of Social Policy & Practice. His email address is scote@sp2.upenn.edu.

Not-so-happy hour

WHAT’S THE T? | Drinking can be fun — but it doesn’t have to be the only fun we have

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rigger warning: alcoholism mention There was a lot of discussion about alcohol consumption at this year’s Fling.

Many students took to social media to lash out against Penn’s efforts to crack down on drinking during Fling. They proclaimed that forcibly attempting to regulate students’ drinking during the weekend’s festivities is an inappropriate act that actually makes the situation less safe for students.

Although many of these arguments overlooked the already extravagant privileges that Penn students have in being protected against underage alcohol consumption, I agree with the sentiment. Attempting to so strictly regulate students’ alcohol consumption will have more negative effects than positive ones. I encourage the students who share these ideas to take this discomfort with forcing students’ alcohol

intake into all situations. Particularly, I hope that we will all consciously remind ourselves that not everybody is able to or wants to drink alcohol, myself included.

I want to preface this by saying that I do not feel any disdain toward people who drink alcohol. The arguments that I am making here are not directed toward any individual(s), but rather are my observations and frustrations from my experience as a person who does not drink.

While people who don’t drink are often written off as prudish or feeling that they are better than everyone else, it’s important to remember that many choose not to or are unable to drink for a variety of reasons. Some may not drink for religious reasons, personal discomfort, complications with medical conditions and medication (particularly with mental illnesses and anti-depressants) or a personal and/or family his-

tory of alcoholism. For me, it’s a combination of several of these factors. However, the reasons — although they may help to illuminate why people don’t drink — aren’t important in order for others to respect those who don’t drink.

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While I have had some amazing experiences with my friends while they were drunk, I have had just as awesome times while everyone was sober.”

At Penn, I have been lucky to surround myself with friends and peers who do not actively try to pressure me into drinking alcohol. Unfortunately, I

have still felt this pressure due to the alcohol-centric nature of parties and social interaction that I’ve found at Penn.

From the first moment that I was offered a beer at a party to this very day whenever people around me are drinking, I have felt at least a little bit uncomfortable and have had a sense of dread. I can’t quite explain it, but it’s very real.

Being one of the, if not the only, sober person at an event or party can be extremely overwhelming. College sophomore Shan Choudhri has encountered this many times throughout his time at Penn. “Naturally, as someone who goes to parties and events where I might very well be the only sober person, there are times when I feel a bit out of place,” he said. “Additionally, sobriety sometimes brings the added, and usually unwanted, responsibility of looking after drunk peers or taking care of matters that others are too inebriated to take

care of, which has the potential to manifest itself as a punishment for not drinking.”

It’s important for those who do enjoy getting drunk and letting loose (which is a completely valid and enjoyable activity for some) to remember not to assume that people who aren’t drinking are going to be completely comfortable and willing to take care of those around them. While we all need to look out for one another when things get rough, it’s important not to use the presence of a non-drinking person to justify getting to the point where we cannot take care of ourselves anymore. It’s dangerous for everyone involved.

For me, this issue boils down to a frustration that I have with the opportunities for fun that present themselves at Penn.

While I have had some amazing experiences with my friends while they were drunk, I have had just as awesome times while everyone was sober. Un-

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RODERICK COOK fortunately, many people see these types of situations as incomplete without alcohol.

We need to remember that people can and do let loose and be carefree with one another without the aid of alcohol. For some, it’s fun to go hard every once in a while, but not everyone is comfortable with those types of situations. When these forms of partying are held up as the “most legitimate” and only type of “real” fun, we can alienate people who (for whatever reason) feel unsafe, unwelcome and unseen in those situations.

RODERICK COOK is a College sophomore from Nesquehoning, Pa., studying gender, sexuality and women’s studies. Their email address is rodcookdp@gmail.com.

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Chez Yasmine Before Chehimi opened Chez Yasmine, he worked in a research lab and enjoyed lunch from food trucks for 20 years.

His familiarity with food trucks inspired him to take a different approach.

“Healthy, clean and different. I didn’t want to sell hotdogs,” Chehimi said.

Chehimi offers a Swedish Berry Salad, which earns its finishing flair from fresh mint and rose water. He also serves quinoa, a grain that is “the best you can eat in terms of health.”

Healthy usually doesn’t describe food trucks.

About the Healthy Food Truck Initiative The Healthy Food Truck Initiative, which is Penn-affiliated through Campus Health Initiatives, was launched by Hsu and Chen last March. The panel was the first campus event for HFT, which collaborated with MUSE and PGN and received funding from the Social Impact Advisory Board of Wharton Social Impact Initiative. The event was to feature Magic Carpet as well, but the owner was unable to attend.

According to Ashlee Halbritter, Health Educator of Campus Health Initiatives, Hsu was volunteering with Campus Health when he developed the idea to improve eating habits by targeting local food trucks.

“Robert really took an idea to an actual thing. He started out doing surveys on his own and figuring out how often Penn students eat at food trucks,” Halbritter said.

Hsu then presented data to the truck owners. Respondents’ top three suggestions for healthy eating at food trucks were healthier meals and options, displayed nutritional information and cleanliness. Three quarters of survey respondents stated that they would perceive a food truck more favorably if nutritional information was posted.

Yet the masterminds behind local food trucks Chez Yasmine and Schmear It convened last night to discuss the challenges and rewards of serving healthy fast foods.

The Healthy Food Truck Panel was held in Huntsman Hall and drew in nearly 75 students. College and Wharton junior Robert Hsu and Wharton sophomore Jessica Chen organized the panel as part of the Healthy Food Truck Initiative, which they co-founded. The two food trucks, along with Magic Carpet, have been working with Philadelphia Healthy Food Initiative to offer and advertise healthier options since fall.

Over the past year, HFT fostered relationships with Chez Yasmine’s owner Jihed Chehimi and Schmear It’s owner Dave Fine, a 2011 College graduate. HFT does not have specific criteria for the food trucks that they partner with, but according to Chen, “We do all the reaching out. We have an idea of which food trucks are healthy.”

Schmear It When Chipotle and Sweet Green became successful on Penn’s campus, Schmear It's Fine noticed that people were willing to pay more for quality food. Fine had found a niche for Schmear It and envisioned it as part of Penn’s array of food trucks. However, both Chehimi and Fine admit that the biggest challenge is balancing cost with fresh, healthy ingredients.

“I think when you’re trying to offer healthy options, they are more expensive. Sometimes they are reflected in the prices, but [the customers] recognize it as a special offering they can’t get elsewhere,” Fine said.

Schmear It offers vegan cream cheese, a “veggie delight schmear” and Greek yogurt cream cheese, but the cream cheese is not the only ingredient that can get a healthy makeover. Customers can `request that bagels be scooped out – or have the bulk of the dough removed to reduce calories while maintaining the shell, as well as the idea, of eating a bagel.

Fine said that the option to scoop out a bagel is “polarizing, like to toast or not to toast.”

Innovative marketing strategy brings success to Mercedes-Benz The company wants to market its CLA-Class to young buyers

BY JOE LI Contributing Writer Selling to the young can be really profitable. And Mercedes has figured out how to market to them.

Mercedes-Benz’s Nathan Tan, a supervisor of advertising, was hosted on campus last night by MUSE, Penn’s undergraduate marketing club. He discussed

Mercedes’ strategies for survival as a luxury car brand in a slowly recovering economy.

According to Tan, bringing in younger customers has been one of Mercedes’ goals. Mercedes recently surveyed 21- to 29-year-old potential consumers and found that 59 percent of them had a satisfactory first impression of Mercedes vehicles. However, only 50 percent expressed a willingness to purchase one. Mercedes’ largest competitor, BMW, saw 56 percent favorable impressions and 64 percent willingness to purchase within the same age group.

The discrepancy in numbers was largely because many young people have stereotyped opinions of Mercedes cars. Young customers tend to view the cars as “stuffy” and “more for their fathers than for themselves,” Tan said. Appreciation for Mercedes comes more from the prestige associated with the brand than from the cars themselves.

Tan’s presentation focused on the new CLA-Class cars, which are Mercedes’ solution to resolving its relatively low popularity among the young. The CLA cars feature a compact design and

a relatively low price — models start at less than $30,000. Tan thinks the huge success of CLA cars since their release has largely been due to Mercedes’ effective marketing strategies.

Although CLA cars were first sold in the United States in September 2013, they were advertised starting in February of that year during the Super Bowl.

Mercedes’ Superdome Stadium hosted the game and the company put up a commercial starring Kate Upton two weeks before the game.

On game day, before the fourth

quarter, Mercedes aired another commercial. The commercials’ high quality generated enough buzz to successfully sell CLA cars, Tan said.

In the next few months, Mercedes put its main marketing focus on social networking. Mercedes first established a partnership with famous filmmaker Case Neistat. In exchange for a CLA car, Neistat made four videos showing his personal experience with Mercedes’ vehicles.

Mercedes also invited Instagram’s five most popular photographers to drive CLA vehicles

and post photos to the site. The photographer whose post garnered the most attention won a car.

Tan said that the effort paid off in September. The average age for CLA buyers was 46 — 11 years younger than Mercedes buyers in general. Mercedes ended up with an 82 percent conquest rate, or percentage of new buyers who had previously chosen another brand. Seventy percent of new buyers had never previously bought a luxury car. “It was the greatest advertising in Mercedes’ history,” Tan said.

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Emma partipated in Bridge2Rwanda FACES from page 1 the overcrowded local school with funding from a stranger who paid his tuition.

He managed to excel academically, while also helping his grandmother keep house and eke out a living by farming a small plot they owned. His good scores got him into high school.

Then, in 2008, Emma’s life took an unexpected turn when he was accepted into the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village, a nonprofit residential community that nurtures and educates Rwandan orphans. Founded by 1982 College graduate Anne Heyman, the school is set on the top of a hill where the approximately 500 students are often reminded of Heyman’s motto, “If you can see far, you can go far.”

At ASYV, Emma learned English and started painting for the first time. As a child he’d often drawn but had never heard of paint. “I started draw ing my ow n stor ies and other people’s stories, [which] I could present [to other] people,” he said.

He says his biggest moment arrived when he was selected to be the speaker during his class’ graduation and Rwandan president Paul Kagame was in attendance.

Emma gave Kagame one of his paintings, which now hangs in the presidential office.

Yet during this time of success, Emma would experience one of the greatest personal tragedies of his life — the death of his grandmother.

Although Emma was aware his grandmother had been seriously ill for a while, “She didn’t get treatment because she couldn’t afford that. We all couldn’t afford that,” he said.

“We didn’t know she had cancer until the last week of her life.”

The day Emertha died was the first time Emma had ever cried. “When my grandma died, I felt terribly depressed and lost courage to keep going, because I was going to keep my grandmother proud,” Emma remembered. “When she died, I was hopeless.”

He turned to Heyman, who had become his mentor, and his church for help. They gave him a new purpose — to help Rwanda heal. “They told me that my mission is beyond being to my family but being to my country.” Although many in his situation might want to leave the country that had caused so much

pain, Emma has a lot of love for his homeland. “Running away? That’s not a solution,” he said. “We can develop our country so we can flourish again ... the only thing I can do is contribute.”

Emma threw himself into his studies. By then he had been accepted into a program called Bridge2Rwanda, which helps exceptional Rwandan students apply to international colleges. Emma set his sights on Penn because it was Heyman’s alma mater. She is his “great hero and inspiration,” said B2R’s Country Director Tom Allen. Heyman died in February, before she could see Emma accepted to Penn.

Students from countries like Rwanda face significant obstacles when applying to colleges, and Emma was no exception — he first heard about the SAT and TOEFL, both required tests for admissions, last year.

Although his first set of SAT scores were not good enough, Emma was determined to get into Penn. “It’s where my dreams make sense and where my stories make sense,” he said. Sleeping only three hours a night to study for the SAT, he managed to increase his score by 600 points and was accepted into the College.

Once at Penn, he hopes to transfer to Wharton. “Business is my passion. I want to come back and ... create jobs for many people so we can be able to have at least the majority of people in the middle class,” he said.

Jonathan Iyandemye, a B2R classmate who will be attending Harvard University next year, believes that Emma is part of the new generation of Rwandan youth that can help Rwanda develop. “I think Emmanuel will be a great leader and change maker in Rwanda ... I would like to see him in business, owning a big company and employing many people so that they may all learn from him.”

Emma’s mother is now the only family he has left. “She’s very proud that I’m going to study abroad, but that’s it, because she doesn’t know what going to Penn is or going to America is,” he said. “I tried to explain that America is the most powerful country in the world, but she never went to school so she doesn’t know.”

Emma is the only one in his family who has ever graduated high school or knows how to speak English. He finds it hard to imagine what attending Penn will be like, although he has done extensive research on American culture. However, he knows that, “I want to adapt myself in every situation.

I want to be challenged and I want to learn ... And I’m looking forward to meeting new friends.”

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Retention rates poor indicator of quality of program VAGELOS from page 1 But, as usual, the numbers don’t tell the whole story.

With a retention rate of 100 percent, the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research would appear to have the highest customer satisfaction. Out of the 10 sophomores and 15 freshmen in VIPER, none have switched out, VIPER Faculty Co-Director Andrew Rappe said.

But since the program is only two years old, managing director Kristen Hughes said that retention is “a tough question to answer right now.”

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The Life Sciences and Management Program, a joint degree program between the College and Wharton that focuses on the intersection of business and bioscience, has both a small starting pool and a low dropout rate.

Since the start of the program in 2006, 28 of 209 students have dropped out, including some who have not yet graduated, for a drop rate of about 13 percent, according to Director of Administration and Advising for LSM Peter Stokes.

LSM Faculty Co-Director Philip Rea said that out of a class of 25 students, two or three students generally decide to leave the program.

“I would say the dropout rate for LSM is relatively low,” he said.

Apart from being the oldest of the Vagelos programs, MLS is also the largest and the one with the lowest retention rate. From 2002 to 2013, 162 students graduated from MLS, which is an average of 13.5 per year out of a typical freshman class of between 50 and 60 students — about a 77 percent drop rate.

Lu said that over the past three years, about 15 of the 50 to 60 students have typically graduated. This year, 14 will complete the program, and in future years he expects the numbers to be closer to 20.

In general, though, the leaders of the Vagelos programs don’t see retention rates as being reflective of the programs’ success.

For Lu, MLS is an opportunity for students to see if scientific research is the right field for them.

“The problem [with focusing on retention] I see is that, of the people who start, a large fraction of them really didn’t want this, but we give them a chance to see if they like it,” Lu said.

Incoming freshmen may request an interview at the time of their acceptance to discuss admission to the MLS program, and anyone who indicates an interest in chemistry or biochemistry on their application is automatically considered for the program. For the other two Vagelos programs, on the other hand, students must explicitly apply to be considered.

Most of the students interviewed said they were offered acceptance into MLS along with their admission to Penn. Many were focused on science in high school, so acceptance into a specialized and prestigious science program seemed like a perfect opportunity. They decided to give the program a try.

College junior Peter Yin , who was in MLS for a year and a half, said that the non-traditional style of joining the program might impact its retention numbers.

“I think it’s easier to drop MLS because you didn’t apply for it,” he said.

While the retention statistics themselves are telling in some regards, they don’t necessarily show the truth behind the numbers. The reputation that the Vagelos programs foster extreme competitiveness and aim to weed out those who can’t keep up doesn’t match up

with many students’ experiences in the programs.

While the retention rate isn’t high in MLS, often the choice to leave the program is due to a shift in academic interest rather than an inability to keep up with the courses.

“A very small percentage just don’t do so well, but that probably would’ve happened with anything,” Lu said.

The same is true for LSM. “Some people do drop out, but it’s almost always their choice and it has to do with their priorities and their interests changing over their time in college,” Stokes said.

College and Engineering sophomore David Lim, who is currently in the VIPER program, said that although he and his friends have discussed the challenges of the demanding coursework of the program, none of them have considered quitting VIPER. There was a time when he considered pursuing a pre-med track instead of VIPER, but ultimately, he said, “I realized that I have too strong of an interest in basic science to be a pre-med.”

Rea said that if LSM students decide to go in a different direction, the most common choice is to pursue a single degree within Wharton.

“I think that it’s partly because they can see the sort of obvious use that they’re going to be able to use of their Wharton education, whereas to a few of them, it’s a bit less clear what they’ll do with their science education,” Stokes said.

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“The other factor is that at this point in time, LSM is housed in the Wharton building,” Rea added, which he said will change in 2016 when the program moves from Steinberg-Dietrich Hall to its own space in the Neural and Behavioral Science building.

He said that other students opt for a science degree in the College, usually choosing to study biology, biochemistry or biological basis of behavior.

Engineering and Wharton junior Ashwin Baweja said the entrepreneurial aspect of the program was attractive as he was applying to Penn, but he decided after the first semester of his sophomore year in LSM that a different academic track was a better fit for him.

“For me, it was more of my interests changing throughout college,” he said.

For many students originally in the MLS program, their academic interests diverged over time from the focus of the program.

When she took her first philosophy class at Penn, College junior Sara Chodosh realized that her academic interests were broader than pure hard science, so she switched her double major to neurobiology and philosophy and science outside of MLS. For students who want to take a wider range of classes or aren’t entirely committed to the research component, MLS often isn’t the right fit.

The MLS freshman seminar requires students to read science-related articles from the past week to keep abreast of emerging scientific research and trends.

But that emphasis on the research com-

ponent showed College sophomore Kevin Pan that his academic interests lie elsewhere.

“It’s the perfect program for someone who is dedicated to having a career or at least researching the physical sciences,” said College sophomore Aziz Kamoun, a former MLS student and an economics and history double major. “Otherwise, I think that if it’s a program that you do half-heartedly, I think there’s a risk of not making the best use of your time.”

Other MLS course requirements are often indicators that the program isn’t the right choice. But it’s the content, not the academic rigor, that often drives that decision. The focus of the high-level theoretical physics and chemistry classes isn’t always appealing, pointing students in another direction.

Lu and Stokes described their programs as being intended to find the students who are truly committed rather than actively trying to weed out the others. “We’re not interested in retention, we’re interested in finding people who want to do this stuff,” Lu said. “So we’re actually looking for people, we’re not trying to screen people out.”

Chodosh, who left MLS after her freshman year, disagreed with that assessment of the program, saying that she felt that Lu “took pride in being able to weed people out.”

But for the rest of the students, Lu’s description of the program’s approach was fair.

“Is there somewhat of a sense of, ‘If you’re not doing well, you should probably leave?’” College junior Sarah Murray, who was in MLS, said. “Yeah, but generally it’s the people who stay in it that are the ones who want to be in it.”

Many praised Lu’s supportiveness when they informed him of their decisions to leave the program, and Bryer said he was particularly helpful in putting him in contact with another faculty member for his new classics major.

But for some students, the decision to leave the Vagelos program wasn’t just academic.

“There’s a very competitive nature to the program and, at least for me, that made it hard for me to feel like I fit in,” Chodosh said of MLS. Chodosh said the program lacked a sense of community, one of the driving forces behind her decision to leave MLS. That’s not the case for all students, however.

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“There was definitely a little bit of a sense of competitive nature around people, but there are also groups of people in Vagelos who are more laid back and more friendly,” said Yin, the junior who was in MLS until midway through his sophomore year. “So it’s not like everyone’s cutthroat.” Murray, too, found a community of “immediate friends” within MLS. Baweja, who left the LSM program, said that it fostered a great sense of community and that people tended to be very friendly, especially compared to his experiences with other students in Wharton and Engineering. “[LSM students] were some of the first students I met at Penn and they’re some of my best friends today,” he said.

Still, there seemed to be a looming feeling that not everybody in the MLS program would stay all four years, said 2013 College graduate Jake Robins, who switched out of MLS in his sophomore year.

He said that as a form of “quiet intimidation,” Lu would joke that there was only enough funding for 15 students to complete the program.

But Pan, who left MLS in the beginning of his sophomore year, said he thinks that having few graduates each Maundy Thursday • 17 April year is an inherent part of the program and is not neces7.00 pm Joint service at St. Mary’s at Penn, 3916 Locust sarily a flaw. “I think part of Walk the program is to have really strong graduates of the proGood Friday • 18 April gram, and it makes sense that only the best students actually 7.00 pm Service with solemn reproaches make it through,” he said.

Some students view staying The Great Vigil of Easter • 19 April in the program as a source 10.00 pm Blessing of fire and light, service of readings, of pride, given its rigor and intensity. and communion “I found the most difficult part of dropping out of the proAll are welcome in this house and at this table! Please join us also on gram was my ego,” Yin said.

Easter Sunday, 20 April, for a 9.15 AM breakfast followed by a 10.30 He said that he had to remind AM festival service with holy communion. himself that his decision was based on a different academic interest, not an inability to keep up with the work.

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by consistency in the field In Wednesday’s 6 -2 loss to Drexel, two errors hurt the Quakers significantly.

With the stakes as high as they are this weekend, all the Quakers can afford to do is improve themselves in the field. And if Penn can continue to raise the level of its play, they may just have a shot at a second-consecutive Ivy League championship.

Quakers still looking for first Ivy win W. TENNIS | Penn will finish off its regular season against Columbia and Cornell

BY DANIEL RICH Staff Writer With the collegiate tennis regular season coming to a close, Penn women’s tennis has just two matches remaining to right its losing streak and put a positive stamp on the 2013-2014 season.

Still looking for its first win in Ivy League play, coach Sanela Kunovac and the team will travel to New York on Friday to take on No. 37 Columbia before returning home for a match against Cornell to close out the regular season.

The Quakers (7-9, 0-5 Ivy) recently dropped nail-biting 4-3 matches against Dartmouth, Yale, and most recently, a 4-3 loss in the tiebreak to Harvard.

Riding a much different wave of late, No. 37 Columbia (15-3, 4-1) had won 11 straight matches dating back to late February before losing to Yale on Sunday, 5-2. The Lions easily won the last four matches of the streak by the same score

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Junior pitcher Alexis Borden is turning in her usual stellar performance this season. The school’s all-time strikeouts leader currently holds a 2.35 ERA.

Bears boast fearsome offense W. LACROSSE from page 12 by more than one goal.

Brown boasts a pair of highscoring offensive players in senior and freshman attacks Da n iel le M ast ro a nd Bre Hudgins. The pair are both ranked in the top 10 in the Ivy League in points, with Mastro leading the league with 54 and Hudgins in sixth with 42.

On the defensive side, the Quakers will also have their hands full attempting to get past junior goalkeeper Kellie Roddy. Roddy has improved in each of her three seasons, and is currently posting the thirdbest goals against average in the Ivies (7.88).

“Brown has definitely gotten a lot better, I really respect their team. They have a lot of great players and we can’t take them lightly,” Martin said.

“Last year we came out thinking that we had it, so this year especially with it being Senior Day and what it means for us, we’re going to come out with a lot of fight.”

For the Quakers, this game will be a chance to honor a

very impressive senior class and to continue their quest for an eighth-straight Ivy League regular season title. All they need to do now is execute.

“The bottom line is our defense needs to be cleaner than we were [against Princeton].

We have to play smart, disciplined defense,” Corbett said.

“Our attack has to score, we have to put points on the board and win the game on the offensive side.”

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Gautieri looks to rebound vs.

Princeton BASEBALL from page 12 eight of its last nine, the young squad cannot be overlooked.

The Tigers have a small but potentially significant amount of momentum after snapping their losing streak on Wednesday with a late rally against Harvard.

Several signs are pointing in the right direction for the Tigers as well.

After failing to deliver big hits in tight games for much of the conference season, the Tigers saw freshman bats come up big in the late innings in their recent nightcap with

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Following Friday’s match, Senior captain Stephanie Do will play her final match in a Penn uniform on the team will return to Philly Sunday, as her team continues to search for its first Ivy win of the season. and prepare to face Cornell League-leading Princeton.

(7-8, 0-5) at the Hamlin Ten- niors out on a positive note.

Penn’s two seniors, StephaAt No. 1 in doubles, junior Sol nis Center. Also winless in the conference, the Big Red are on nie Do and Jaime Yapp-Shing, Eskenazi and freshman Kana a five-game losing streak, in- will play their final home match Daniel picked up wins against cluding four straight 6-1 losses. in Quakers uniforms on Sun- both Harvard and Princeton.

The Quakers and Big Red day. A team captain, Do won The duo looks to continue their are tied for seventh place in the her singles match at sixth new winning streak after losing Ivy League standings. Princ- singles in three sets against to Dartmouth last Saturday. eton is currently in first place, Harvard. Yapp-Shing fell in Eskenazi has won at first followed by Columbia in second straight sets at fourth singles singles in her last two matchand Yale in third. but won while playing with es, handling her Har vard The Big Red won last sea- sophomore Sonya Latycheva and Dartmouth opponents in straight sets. son’s match against Penn, 4-3, in doubles play.

Both Friday and Sunday’s but Sunday’s match should see Latycheva was the only Penn two evenly-matched teams player to win in singles while matches are scheduled to beboth looking to send their se- playing at No. 3 against Ivy gin at 2 p.m.

Harvard.

On the other end, Princeton’s arms delivered solid outings against the Crimson — allowing six runs over two games — after being shelled by Columbia the previous weekend for 33 runs in four contests.

Senior lefty Michael Fagan, the Ivy leader in strikeouts, will give the Tigers their best chance to win this weekend in the series opener, which he typically starts.

Having opened their recent series with Cornell with a 9-0 defeat, the Quakers have plenty of incentive to come out in attack mode early Saturday afternoon, starting with junior Dan Gautieri taking the mound.

Gautieri struggled his last

time out against Cornell but will look to rebound and regain the success he had early on in Ivy play, having given up just six runs in his previous 21 innings.

The rest of Princeton’s starting staff is comprised of underclassmen who have struggled to find a rhythm and shut down opponents.

If the Quakers jump on Princeton’s young guns early, it could be a long series for the Tigers.

Penn’s offense is coming off a strong performance against Division II University of the Sciences, scoring 16 runs in a big outburst. While Princeton’s staff is markedly better than the one the Red and Blue faced

on Wednesday, Penn’s offense will still have a major impact this weekend.

The Tigers’ offense, which has struggled to score in stretches this season, is led by senior Alec Keller and sophomore Danny Hoy. Keller is hitting .364 with 14 RBI, while Hoy holds a .301 batting average and leads the team with three homers.

The Quakers’ pitching staff, featuring league-best depth and backed by a stellar defense, should be able to keep the Princeton offense in check as long as it keeps the ball in the park.

But we’ll see what happens when the two teams take the field in New Jersey.

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Marcoux has advantage as Princeton grad STEELE from page 12 which the new ADs were brought into the fold, to discount the notion that it’s too early to praise Princeton’s hire.

Though this period represents an opportunity for Penn and Princeton to navigate their athletic programs in different directions, both schools arguably followed the same patterns during the search for Bilsky and Walters’ replacements, culminating in each school taking the progressive step to hire the first female AD in program history.

Clearly, Penn and Princeton aren’t operating that differently at all.

But as they say, you only get one chance at a first impression.

And based on the atmosphere surrounding her hire, it’s clear that Marcoux has already won over the Princeton community in a way Calhoun has not.

To be fair, a lot of Marcoux’s appeal to the Tigers fan base stems from her time as an athlete at Princeton. The 1991 graduate played varsity soccer and ice hockey and was named first team All-Ivy all four years in hockey.

While Calhoun should not apologize for the fact that she didn’t play sports at Penn, let

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alone graduate from the University, that distinction between Calhoun and Marcoux isn’t doing the former any favors.

After all, Bilsky was not only successful in fundraising for Penn, but also had the ability to connect with and appeal to a variety of fellow alumni. While Marcoux likely won’t have trouble doing the same at Princeton, it’s fair to wonder whether or not Calhoun can follow in Bilsky’s footsteps in that regard.

And though this will be Marcoux’s first experience as an AD, her in-depth knowledge of Princeton from her time as a student-athlete will help her connect with the causes of those she represents.

Calhoun has emphasized that she wants to go on road trips to understand each team at Penn.

Already endowed with the mindset of what it takes to be a Princeton athlete, Marcoux likely faces half the battle.

All of those factors combined likely give Marcoux an advantage over other Ivy ADs in her quest to continue the development of Princeton Athletics.

And while it’d be unfair to disparage Calhoun’s hiring before she’s even served one day on the job, it’s clear that Princeton’s new direction is one positive advantage it has over Penn in each schools’ AD search processes.

TRACK AND FIELD Penn looks to travel to Princeton and extend positive momentum

BY COLIN HENDERSON Associate Sports Editor Penn track and field has a lot on its plate this time of year.

The prestigious Penn Relays are just a week away, and the Quakers have their hands full preparing to host and compete in one of the biggest track events on the East Coast.

Oh, and they have a meet this weekend.

The Red and Blue will travel to Princeton this weekend to compete in the Larry Ellis Invitational, their last competitive tune-up before the 120th running of the Penn Relays.

With the impending presence of the Relays casting a shadow over the program, this weekend’s meet may seem like an afterthought. However, there are several reasons that it is important in its own right.

First of all, the Quakers want to continue riding their current trend of positive momentum into the postseason.

Last weekend’s George Mason Invitational provided the stage for possibly the strongest overall team per formance from Penn all season, with stars like sophomores Thomas Awad and Kelsey Hay rewriting the school record books.

These individual performances have earned some of Penn’s top athletes places among the nation’s elite.

Meanwhile, the overall program is getting increased recognition, with both the men’s and women’s squads moving into the top 10 of the regional rankings for the first time all season.

However, men’s coach Robin Martin is not one to rest on his laurels. “I think our best overall per-

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Penn Athletic Director M. Grace Calhoun is no longer the most recent AD hire in the Ivy League as Princeton hired Mollie Marcoux to take over for Gary Walters.

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M. LACROSSE from page 12 14 Princeton, as junior midfield Jake Weil netted four goals in a 13-10 loss. “[Dartmouth’s] a well-coached team, they just don’t seem to be able to get over the hump in some of those games,� coach Mike Murphy said. “They might be able to do it against us. I feel like they dig themselves a little bit of a hole in the first half, and then kind of mount a little bit of

a comeback but not be able to finish it off.�

Finishing off comebacks has been the Quakers’ specialty of late.

Earlier in the season, the Red and Blue were able to top Yale, Denver and Villanova with fourth-quarter comebacks, but Saturday’s contest against Ivy League-leader Harvard stands alone in that regard.

Facing a 7-5 deficit midway through the fourth quarter, Penn tied the game on a goal from senior midfield Drew Belinsky with just 19 seconds to play, then finished the rally in overtime with a dramatic strike by freshman attack Kevin Brown. “It was pretty emotional, Senior Day and an Ivy League

game and all the rest of it,� Murphy said. “But it wasn’t the first time we’ve done that. You look back at the Denver game and the Villanova game and the Yale game, we’re pretty comfortable playing from behind, I guess.�

The spark behind Penn’s recent run, though, has come from its back line.

Since giving up 17 goals in an embarrassing blowout loss to Cornell, the Quakers’ defense has regrouped, surrendering an average of 6.67 goals per contest in its three games since. “We knew our backs were against the wall after the first two [Ivy] losses,� said senior goalie Brian Feeney, who won co-Ivy Player of the Week honors for his 13-save effort against

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The Larry Ellis Invitational will provide an opportunity for the Quakers to keep moving forward as they approach the end of the season.

This weekend’s meet will also be an important factor in deciding who will make up the relay team at next weekend’s Penn Relays.

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A win on Saturday would all but clinch a spot in the four-team Ivy League tournament for the Red and Blue, which currently sit tied for third place. A little bit of outside help could lead to an even better seed.

But that’s the last thing on the Quakers’ minds right now. “Literally all we’re focused on this week is Dartmouth,� Feeney said. “None of the postseason stuff at all. None of the rankings.

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As a result, many of the Quakers will enter the meet in their best condition all season and will accordingly look to put up strong performances. “At this point in the season, the goal is always to run a season best,� Webb said. “We’re getting ready to run fast and feel rested and well,�

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But there is also quite a bit of uncertainty for both coaches and athletes. “I think half of the relays are determined ... but the rest is yet to be decided,� Martin said. “[The lineups] are never set. It can always change week-to-week,� sophomore middle-distance runner Kirk Webb added.

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T

he athletic departments at both Penn and Princeton have always been incredibly similar over the past few decades.

To outsiders, the Ivy League championship numbers do all of the talking.

But look closer, and the similarities run even deeper.

For the past 20 years, Penn Athletics has operated under the direction of Steve Bilsky, a former basketball player for the Red and Blue. The scene has been nearly the exact same at Princeton, where Gary Walters, a guard on the Tigers’ 1965 Final Four team, has served as athletic director since 1994.

As the seasoned ADs prepared for the end of their respective tenures, for the first time in two decades, both Penn and Princeton had the opportunity to steer their athletic departments onto different paths.

And on Tuesday, less than a month after M. Grace Calhoun was hired to replace Bilsky, Princeton announced the hire of Mollie Marcoux as Walters’ successor. With that decision, Penn’s main rival sent a clear message to its Ivy League counterpart: it is ready to make the bold moves, that Penn is not.

Some will say that it’s too early to judge the hires of Calhoun and Marcoux.

Neither one will assume her position until this summer, and Bilsky and Walters remain the schools’ respective top decision makers. I don’t disagree.

Those people will also look at the hires themselves, as well as the manner in

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It will be an odd Senior Day on Saturday for the likes of senior defense Addie Martin. Though nine players on Penn’s roster are listed as seniors, only five will actually be graduating at the end of the season. During its time at Penn, Martin’s class has seen the Quakers win three consecutive Ancient Eight regular season titles and make three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances.

W. LACROSSE | Penn faces uphill climb to capture Ivy regular season crown after loss to Princeton

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to try to have a share of this title. It’s a driving force for us.”

After Wednesday night’s loss to Princeton, the No. 10 Red and Blue’s streak of Ivy League regular season championships is in jeopardy as the Quakers fell into a first-place tie in the loss column with the Tigers.

The rest of their Ivy League slate continues over the next two weekends as the Quakers (7-4, 3-1 Ivy) host Brown (9-4, 2-3) on Saturday

BY HOLDEN MCGINNIS Associate Sports Editor They’re all must-win games from here on out, but that’s nothing new for Penn women’s lacrosse.

“We’ve felt that way since the beginning — with what we set out to do this year, every Ivy is a must-win game,“ coach Karin Brower Corbett said. “We have three more chances

Red and Penn heads to N.J. with Blue taking division crown in sight it one game at a time M. LACROSSE | With Ivy tournament berth in sight, Quakers focus in on matchup with last-place Big Green

BY IAN WENIK Sports Editor Dartmouth 1-8, 0-4 Ivy

BASEBALL | Sitting in first place, the Quakers will try to add to their division lead against the Tigers

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BY SEAMUS POWERS Staff Writer This weekend, Penn baseball has a division title in sight for the first time in seven years.

Visiting Princeton for a four game series, the Red and Blue (20-12, 11-1) will need to focus on the task at hand

despite a looming showdown with second-place Columbia just a week away.

Up two games on the defending Ivy champion Lions and facing the skidding Tigers (10-20, 5-7 Ivy), it is Penn’s division to lose.

Even though Princeton has lost

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Penn men’s lacrosse is on the cusp of a coveted spot in the Ivy League tournament, perhaps even the NCAA tournament.

But if you ask any of the Quakers, they’ll tell you there’s only one game on the schedule.

Saturday, the No. 9 Red and Blue (6-3, 3-2 Ivy) will travel north to take on lastplace Dartmouth, mindful of avoiding a potentially disastrous slip-up.

On the surface, all signs point to a runaway Penn victory. The Big Green (1-8, 0-4) rank last in the Ancient Eight in both goals per game (7.89) and goals against average (14.11).

But those statistics hide a deceivingly talented Dartmouth squad. Last week, the Big Green kept it close against No.

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Junior starting pitcher Connor Cuff continued his strong season on Sunday, throwing a complete game to beat Cornell. Cuff brings his Ivy League-leading ERA into Princeton this weekend.

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afternoon at Franklin Field for their Senior Day. “[The seniors] were a very strong class coming in, unfortunately they’ve been plagued with a lot of injuries,” Corbett said. “With their competitiveness and their fight and how they’ve stuck together, it is really impressive how much they’ve given of themselves and how much they love this team.”

Though the seniors will certainly garner plenty of attention, the team is focused entirely on the task at hand — defeating a Brown team that is having one of its best years in recent memory.

“It’s going to be interesting because there are nine of us, but only five are graduating,” senior defender Allie Martin said. “Right now every single game means, so much because the Ivy League title is on the [line], so that’s what we’re really focusing on.”

The Bears started the season to the tune of a 7-0 record, even defeating Princeton in overtime. It might seem like the Bears have fallen off with a 2-4 record over their past six games, but only one of those losses, a 10-4 debacle against Harvard, was

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Ivy South up for grabs as Penn faces Tigers SOFTBALL | Quakers a game up on Princeton with all four teams within three games of the lead

BY LAINE HIGGINS Staff Writer A historic rivalry. An Ivy South division title. A conference championship appearance. These are the stakes for Penn softball as they take on the Princeton Tigers in its second division series of the season.

The Quakers (12-16, 7-4 Ivy) will head to Princeton (14-21, 6-6) this weekend to take on their top rival in the South Division.

Given that Princeton is only a game and a half behind Penn in the division standings, the winner of the four-game series will likely determine which team gets the division’s top seed when the Ivy League Championships roll around in May. Heading into the weekend, Penn leads the Ivy South with a 7- 4 conference record. The only teams with better records against Ancient Eight foes are undefeated Dartmouth (12- 0) and Harvard (9-0) in the North division.

Princeton is led by coach Lisa Sweeney, a for mer assist ant coach at Penn. Sweeney specializes in pitching and helped nurture junior pitcher A lexis

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Borden during her first season with the Red and Blue.

Though Sweeney has only been at the helm of the Tigers’ softball program since 2012, her pitching expertise is clear. Princeton’s top pitcher — freshman Erica Nori — sits at a 1.90 earned run average for the season, the third best in the Ivy League. Nori’s fastballs will test the Quakers at the plate.

Luck ily for Penn, this season’s young roster has turned the the team into an offensive powerhouse. In four of their last five wins, the Red and Blue have scored eight or more runs.

Excluding last Saturday’s loss against Cornell when the Red and Blue were held scoreless, Penn’s bats have been on fire.

Penn’s hitting brigade is led by freshman right fielder Leah Allen. After hitting two home runs in the doubleheader against Cornell last Sunday, Allen leads the Ivy League with an absurd .404 batting average.

The Quakers’ defense looks lackluster compared to Penn’s offense. Freshman Alexis Sargent and Borden bolster Penn’s defense with ERAs of 1.62 and

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