Bid night a `happy ending`

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THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSIT Y OF PENNSYLVANIA
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011
127TH BOARD
Bid night a ‘happy ending’
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Crowds of sorority sisters gathered outside Houston Hall last night to welcome new members during bid night, the annual event culminating rush week. Although
registration closed early this year, the same number of students signed up for rush this year as in the 2010 rush season, which has increased since 2009.
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GREEK LIFE | Seven Panhellenic sororities
announced their recruits at annual bid night
BY EMILY SANCHEZ
Staff Writer
The thunderous cheers and
screams that could be heard
down Locust Walk last night
could only mean one thing: sorority bid night.
Crowds of members from
each sorority gathered in front
of Houston Hall to welcome new
sisters into their communities.
Some brandished bullhorns,
others had signs or cutouts of
their Greek letters in bright
colors and glitter. Singing kept
the spirit high, from rhythmic
chants to Ke$ha’s “We R Who
We R.”
No one could accuse these
women of lack of enthusiasm.
“It was fabulous,” College junior and Kappa Alpha Theta
President Jais Tollette said.
“We had so many girls carrying black and gold signs.”
College freshman Genevieve
Lamarr LeMee, who received a
bid from Sigma Kappa, called
the evening a “happy ending”
to the stressful events of rush
week, a feeling reciprocated by
many of her fellow pledges.
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Rushes were told to wait by
their phones Thursday evening in anticipation of a call
announcing their bid. The sorority offering a bid was still
kept a secret, however, until the
SEE BID NIGHT PAGE 9
$8.2M tobacco
study kicks off
HEALTH | Collaborative research takes both
‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ approaches
BY TAMARA deMENT
Staff Writer
A recent partnership between The Scripps Research
Institute and the School of
Medicine seeks to break new
ground in the treatment of tobacco addiction.
Scripps and Penn Med have
been given nearly $8.2 million
from the National Institute on
Drug Abuse (NIDA) to explore
new potential tobacco cessation
therapies.
The lead researchers in the
study are Paul Kenny, an associate professor in the Department of Molecular Therapeutics
on the Jupiter, Fla., campus
of Scripps Research, and Jon
Martin Lindstrom, a professor
of neuroscience at Penn. They
will be using the grant from
NIDA to develop novel compounds that could eventually
become drug candidates for
SEE TOBACCO PAGE 3
Alex Small/DP File Photo
Smoking is the target of a new $8.2-million study, in which researchers aim to target
a specific neuroreceptor to increase smokers’ chances of successfully quitting.
The ‘DP’
For some, grad
school starts early inaugurates
GRAD SCHOOLS | Select
Penn students earn two
degrees in 4-5 years
BY RACHEL WEINBERG
Staff Writer
In the time it takes some students
to complete one major, a few Penn
undergraduates are earning both
their graduate and undergraduate
degrees.
“Time and money are the greatest
benefits [of submatriculation],” according to College junior Ben Moskowitz, who is graduating with a master’s
in public administration from the Fels
Institute of Government . “But also
it’s a different environment and a different dynamic. This one has a professional, practical bend to it … It’s
new leaders
definitely interesting and worthwhile
to be able to interact with students
who have been in the workforce for a
while,” he added.
Most submatriculation programs
take four or five years. Options for
submatriculation are available to
students in all four undergraduate
schools and include a variety of programs ranging from biotechnology
in the School of Engineering and Applied Science to an accelerated English master’s in the College of Arts
and Sciences.
“You feel more comfortable because you’re already in the same
environment and you already know
the school,” added Engineering junior
Christine Kappeyne , who is pursuing a mechanical engineering degree
Over the course of the past year, The Daily
Pennsylvanian has written about many changes
— from the installation of a new men’s basketball
coach to the announcement of a new sorority.
This weekend, change will once again rear
its head as the DP inaugurates the 127th Board
of Editors and Managers and the 126th Board
takes its leave.
The transition will occur Saturday night at
the DP’s annual banquet at the Inn at Penn.
Speakers include Penn Executive Vice President
Craig Carnaroli and DP alumna Jean Chatzky,
financial editor for NBC’s Today and a 1986 College graduate. With just under 200 student and
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Despite recent fire, U. confident about safety
FACILITIES | Campus buildings, prevention
strategies in accordance with fire safety
BY JULIE XIE
Staff Writer
In light of the Jan. 10 fivealarm fire at the Windermere
Court Apartments at 48th and
Walnut streets— which sent up
a thick plume of smoke visible
from campus — the Division of
Public Safety is not concerned
about Penn’s fire preparedness
and prevention strategies.
Philadelphia fire marshals
are still investigating the building and have not officially announced the cause of the fire.
However, the building has been
deemed unsafe and structurally unsound, according to
Philadelphia Fire Department
Executive Fire Chief Daniel
Williams.
Philadelphia Fire Commis-
Study aims to
improve quit
chances
TOBACCO from page 1
the treatment of tobacco addiction.
The “ultimate aim,” Kenny
wrote in an e-mail, is to improve a patient’s chances of
“staying abstinent during quit
attempts.”
As it stands now, he explained, a person struggling
with tobacco addiction has a
very high chance of relapse
without medication — “typically 9.5 out of 10” quit attempts
end in relapse, he wrote.
“With medication you stand
about a 9 out of 10 chance of
relapse,” he added.
Recent studies have shown
that a certain subtype of nicotine receptor in the brain, when
blocked, increases nicotine intake, as opposed to decreasing it.
Kenny and Lindstrom will
sioner Lloyd Ayers said in a
press conference on the day
of the incident that the flames
traveled up shafts in the building to its roof. Because the
apartment supported a cockloft-style roof, the fire spread
quickly to different parts of the
building.
A cockloft is structural space
in a building above the ceiling
of the top floor and below the
roof’s rafters that connects adjacent rooms. According to Eugene Janda, chief of Fire and
Emergency Services at Penn,
cocklofts generally contain
wiring, heating and plumbing
fixtures.
Older buildings in the North-
try to develop drugs that boost
the activity of these particular
receptors.
According to Kenny, this approach “contrasts” with most
treatments available today,
“which are aimed at reducing
the positive impact of nicotine
on the brain’s reward centers.”
K im Menard, the senior
medical communications officer for Penn Med, spoke on
behalf of the research team at
Penn.
“The team believes that a
drug targeting this subtype
of receptor will hopefully ease
withdrawal symptoms,” Menard wrote in an e-mail.
“It’s a completely new para-
east tend to have wider voids,
and these voids accelerate
the fire’s spread, according to
Philadelphia Fire Deputy Chief
James Bonner.
In modern construction, cinderblock walls with a double
layer of sheet rock help to prevent travel of heat and flames
from one unit to the other, Bonner said.
“The cockloft is where things
happen — where the fire can
take off,” Williams said.
Janda said although some
buildings on Penn’s campus
contain cocklofts, they are constructed from noncombustible
materials, such as stone, iron
and steel high beams, as opposed to wooden rafters.
Fire sprinkler systems have
been installed in all living areas, especially fraternity and
sorority houses, which tend to
be older buildings with wooden
digm,” Kenny said. “We’re looking to enhance our knowledge
of how these systems work.”
Kenny expressed enthusiasm about collaborating with
Lindstrom, and claimed their
research scheme is “relatively
unique,” as they each approach
the study from different angles.
Kenny’s work will center on
the behavioral perspective of
tobacco addiction — what he
called a “top-down” approach
— while Lindstrom focuses on
the receptor — “bottom-up.”
“This is a wonderful example
of how basic academic science
can serve as the starting point
for translational research,”
Kenny wrote.
cocklofts, according to Janda.
The sprinkler heads serve as
heat detectors — once they
detect a certain temperature,
they open up with water to repel the flames. According to
Janda, the sprinklers are 97
percent effective.
Ninety percent of fires in the
country are extinguished by
sprinkler systems, Williams
said. Pennsylvania state law requires all buildings to be up to
fire code and have sprinklers.
Williams said it is a good
idea for buildings to have fire
escapes that are separate from
the building itself.
Janda noted that other fireprevention techniques exist on
campus. In the high rises, the
fire-exit doors are constructed
from fire-rated material, meaning they are primed to resist
flames for a certain amount
of time. A fire-resistance rating measures the thickness of
constructional material and
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Janda explained that residential adv isors ser ve as
emergency coordinators in
residential buildings. In addition, there is a manual fire
alarm pull station five feet
from every exit in any campus
building, Janda explained.
He also noted that Penn’s
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later...
More morning mail
LAST CALL | Penn should have an official daily e-mail
service that lets students know about events on campus
This is the last issue by
the DP’s 126th Board of
Editors and Managers
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR | RACHEL BAYE
T
his is officially my last issue of The
Daily Pennsylvanian as an editor.
After 132 issues this year alone, it’s
finally time to hand over this amazing
company to a new group of editors
and managers and a new Executive
Editor. But what a year it has been.
From the start, the year was record-setting, with
never-before-seen depths of snow in Philadelphia
and Penn’s first consecutive snow days since 1994.
The community celebrated as Penn was named the
most gay-friendly campus in the country after record
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender participation.
And for the third time in history, Penn Football won
consecutive, undefeated Ivy League Championships.
The year was also a year of changes ranging from
large to small. First we saw The Fresh Grocer’s renovations (after the store’s closure due to health code
violations in February). The year progressed to bring
new men’s basketball coach Jerome Allen, a new direct-election process for the Undergraduate Assembly
President and Vice President and the announcement
of new Panhellenic sorority Zeta Tau Alpha. Even the
midterm election brought changes to national and local politics alike.
While I won’t spend any more late nights in the DP’s
windowless offices, the DP will continue to bring you
the news of the day, albeit under new leadership. I look
forward to seeing what records the new year sets and
what changes the new year brings.
A
friend at Brown University recently messaged
me about a great speaker
who had come to her campus. She told me that the
speaker was interested in traveling to
Penn and asked if I could get the event
published in our Morning Mail. Unable to admit my cluelessness, I drew
upon the trusted Google search for
assistance. Brown’s website explains
that Morning Mail is “an electronic
news digest sent to faculty, staff and
students each morning.” Faculty, staff
and student groups thus have the opportunity to submit major university
news and events each afternoon to be
e-mailed to the entire community the
following day. Needless to say, once I
knew of its existence, it seemed quite
odd to me that this service did not exist at Penn.
A ser vice like Morning Mail at
Penn would provide an excellent way
to aggregate the multitude of events
happening here each day. It would publicize events to the entire University
population and combat the recurring
theme of less-than-stellar turnouts for
fascinating speakers.
College senior Therlow Huntley was
surprised that a service like this did
not already exist. “Penn is not only an
academic institution but a community,”
Huntley said. “It is the duty of the community to provide information about
these opportunities for learning.”
While Penn is a much larger university than Brown, there are nonethe-
less many events that appeal to many
members of our community despite
their diverse disciplines and programs
of study. Even at Brown, the Morning
Mail goes out to faculty, staff and students and thus targets a large, varied
population.
Penn’s College of Arts and Sciences
does have its College-fyi listserv, but
many students — including Huntley —
find that it has become ineffective because of the repeated and unnecessary
single-event e-mails. In the absence
of an official University-organized announcement system, Penn students
have once again lived out the words
on the University’s gate by making
their own way. The Daily Pennsylvanian has done an excellent job of using
Events@Penn to publicize the daily
happenings on campus in both its print
edition and its website. However, this
resource is of use only to students who
actively read the DP.
The Student Committee on Undergraduate Education is making the
most progress toward a Morning Maillike listserv. It has developed Ben’s
List — a new academic events listserv.
SCUE has been working with the College Dean’s Advisory Board (of which
I am a member) and the Philomathean
Society to launch the listserv to provide students with information on the
academic events happening each week
at Penn.
Dave Frankenfield, College senior
and DAB co-chairman, said that this
listserv “fills a gap in the academic
SABRINA BENUN
grapevine at Penn. Nowhere else will
[students] be able to have easy, centralized access to this information.”
Unfortunately, the listserv is opt-in,
and because not many students have
heard about Ben’s List, it is not attracting the attention of the entire population just yet. However, its existence
demonstrates that other students have
recognized a clear need for an organized list of daily campus events.
“There is currently nothing put out
by the general Penn administration or
even departments that caters specifically to undergraduate interest in such
events,” Frankenfield said.
In the future, the University should
create and automatically add all undergraduates to a Morning Mail- or
Ben’s List-like listserv and make it optout rather than opt-in, which would
garner a much higher readership. It’s
time for the University to branch out
and take advantage of its massive address book. For those who don’t care,
it would only take one click to unsubscribe. For those who do, it will provide
a vast amount of information about
events and activities on campus.
SABRINA BENUN is a College senior from
Santa Monica, Calif. Her e-mail address
is [email protected]. Last Call appears
every Friday.
The (used book) shop around the corner
DULY NOTED | Buying used
books helps small business, the
environment and your wallet
I
li ke cozy things. Nubby sweaters, toosmall dorm rooms and buttered toast
make me content.
The figurative mecca of coziness is
the used bookstore. In the compactly,
often precariously, stocked shelves of these
faded, yellow-paged shelters, there is no harsh
florescent glow. Tom Clancy doesn’t crowd the
window. The commercialism and flashiness of
the book business is stripped away and what’s
left is a literary oasis.
All right, so maybe “oasis” is a bit excessive, but
I think you get the gist. Flowery language is justified. Used bookstores are kind of the best. Lucky
for us at Penn, there are two glowing beacons of
wordy wonder at either end of campus: The Last
Word Bookshop and A House of Our Own.
(Allow me to clarify that I am speaking here
exclusively about novels and nonfiction books,
not textbooks. That market has grown in so many
ways to make up for how crazy expensive textbooks have become and their expanding rent, buy
RACHEL DEL VALLE
and download options transcends this debate.)
Before I go on a You’ve Got Mail-style bashing
of the big bad chain bookstore, allow me to explore some other, newer avenues that have been
nibbling away at the traditional used bookstore
business.
The most looming and obvious of these is the
online bookstore. Websites like Amazon.com,
Abebooks.com and Books-A-Million allow customers partial to the gently worn to buy from
used sellers operating exclusively online as well
as bookstores looking to maximize their business
in the e-market.
A House of Our Own has expanded to biblio.
com, an online shop designed to “give local bookstores global reach.” According to the seller’s
description, the store — whose flagship is a
fragrant, richly wooden Victorian house — is
now selling “a small fraction” of its books online.
Websites like Biblio.com are the exception —
they allow independent booksellers who already
have an inventory and address to flourish. Other
options such as Barnes and Noble’s online used
book section and Amazon’s sprawling selection
allow individuals to sell — taking business away
from the bookstore on the corner to which, years
ago, they would have sold their books.
This elimination of the middleman may seem
like a good thing, subsequently eliminating cost
and hassle. But, without getting overly sentimental, I must argue that something is lost in that
cold, electronic process.
Take, for example, my experience earlier this
semester when I discovered the B&N used book
section. Thinking I had cleverly sidestepped
the inherent evil of the chain bookstore by purchasing from its supported independent sellers
instead of from the retail giant itself, I was bitterly disappointed upon the arrival of my scrappy
package.
Instead of Get Out the Vote! How to Increase
Voter Turnout, a book about voting strategies for
my political science class, I pulled back the bub-
ble wrap to find Get With the Program! Guide to
Fast Food & Family Restaurants by Bob Greene,
Oprah’s personal trainer. Needless to say, I was
not pleased. I ended up going down to A House of
Our Own and buying their last copy. Oh, irony.
If you’re not corporately opposed to a business
like B&N, then consider a few other reasons to
buy used: it’s cheaper, it’s more sustainable, it
looks much cooler to be reading a vintage edition.
Picking up your copy of Great Expectations from
one of the two-dozen used bookstores in the city
instead of from a chain helps small business, the
environment and your wallet. Even purchasing
online used books can’t beat a walk to the local
seller because of the added environmental impact of shipping.
We’re college students. According to our stereotypes, we’re supposed to care about helping
the planet and saving money. So why stop at recycling aluminum cans and showing up to meetings
for free pizza? Let’s extend our college spirit and
buy used, locally — instead of new.
RACHEL DEL VALLE is a College freshman from
Newark, N.J. She hopes her appearance in this
column will stop people from asking her if she’s
12. Her e-mail address is [email protected].
Duly Noted appears every other Friday.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011 PAGE 5
THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN
This Saturday, there will
officially be a new sheriff
in town as a ragtag group
of editors and managers
takes the reins of The Daily
Pennsylvanian. Look out
for this unsavory band of
characters as they cavort
around campus this year.
Emily Kuo
Finance Manager
Roger Ou
Credit Manager
Aloha, our new Finance
Manager hails from the land
she refers to as paradise, and
boy is she ready to manage
the DP’s money. She is responsible, driven and a Whartonite that fully embraces the
Slytherin designation. With
creative book-keeping skills,
Kuo might be exactly what
the DP needs to avoid.
Remember: The DP can
only take so much Taylor
Swift.
Don’t be fooled by this southern
ranger’s charm — he’s a damned
Yankee now.
He is wanted for overloading
Google calendar with his scheduled
attempts to overthrow the Finance
department, prank calling all of
southeastern Pennsylvania’s debtors, impersonating law enforcement
and concentrating in statistics.
He’ll be as nervous as a long-tailed
cat in a room full of rockin’ chairs
if you send DP Operations Director
Katherine Ross after him.
Alex Yuan
Ad Manager
This Wharton sophomore
is wanted for eating interns
and for working like a horse.
Known as Alex “I bring
home the bacon” Yuan, the
suspect has been known
to feign a job selling ads to
worm his way into banks’
back rooms. Once there, their
money mysteriously disappears from their safes.
In lieu of a reward, the person who returns the suspect
to our custody will receive
commission on the recovered money.
Katherine Eisenberg
Ad Design Manager
Jessica Goodman
34th Street Editor-in-Chief
Heading up the 34th Street/Under The
Button family this year as Editor-in-Chief is
all-smiles Jessica “PennQuest” Goodman,
who is so incredibly bubbly that we can
hardly picture her without a big ol’ bow on
top of her head.
Cute as a button, this SDT late-night junior loves PennQuest, all things green,
WheatThins and the second-to-last booth
at Smokey Joe’s. It’s hard to get this raspyvoiced muchkin in a bad mood. Just don’t
bring up ketchup — she’s one of those weird
people that can’t stand condiments, even
when served at PennQuest parties.
From Guides to Ego, Food & Drink to a
full-blown Jolly feature, Goodman sure has
grown up since those days of PennQuestcest and not-so-graciously losing Street social chair elections.
She’s got big plans for bringing Street and
UTB to the Penn bubble masses in the coming year, so buckle your seat belts and get excited. Ever the all-star, she just can’t help living life like she’s at camp. Smell something
strange? It’s probably her.
Oh, and did we mention she’s a PennQuest leader? PennQuest? QuestPenn?
Quest? Penn!
This College sophomore
hails from somewhere in the
assless-chaps Midwest. She
is wanted, dead or alive or
asleep, for drinking Jack on the
job, eating BBQ and robbing
the sauce and identity theft
under mustache disguise.
Warning: if she challenges
you to a “Just Dance” draw,
don’t be fooled by her high
cholesterol and blood pressure genetics, hipster demeanor and enability to spel. She’s
dangerous with a Wii gun (just
ask her hitch).
Lance Gurewitz
Marketing Manager
This Wharton freshman
is wanted for antagonizing
students as they enjoy their
otherwise delightful strolls
Morgan Finkelstein
Under The Button Managing Editor
This College sophomore is wanted for stalking
Penn President Amy Gutmann and predicting the
decline of print media at age three.
Upon reviewing the newspaper from her high
chair, this Sarasota, Fla. native proclaimed early
and often, “I don’t like paper products!”
Contact her at [email protected] if Gutmann
goes missing or stacks of newspapers go up in
flames.
Kendall Haupt
34th Street Online
Managing Editor
Madison Hunt
Weekly Pennsylvanian
Be on the lookout for this tall blonde
College sophomore. We were shocked
to learn that this Salt Lake City native
committed any crime, but sources report
once hearing this preeminent good girl
curse (although they admit it may have
been while reading a passage aloud in
English class).
If you can catch this speed-walker, wash
her mouth out with soap and send her
back to studying organic chemistry. (That’s
right, she is a pre-med English major.)
to the David Rittenhouse
Labs at 9 a.m. for a math
recitation. He is also wanted
for shocking Wharton with
his emo-ness despite a clear
decree that all marketers be
perpetually happy.
Frida Garza
34th Street Design
Watch out, 34th Street’s new
Design Editor bounced from El
Paso, Texas — fresh from the
Alamo — armed with super
InDesign skills and a passion for
Christmas lights. Want to learn
how to dougie? Frida will teach
you how. She might even rap.
Caution:
If
there’s
a
microphone around, Frida will
use her Magic Mexican Lasso to
belt karaoke ‘til the cows come
home.
When Frida’s not designing
pages, she’s capturing hearts
with her Southwest charm and
stellar karaoke skills. Just ask
her, she knows she’s good.
She was last seen making
Eggo waffles with peanut butter
in the Quad.
Nick Stergiopolous
34th Street Managing Editor
Forging ahead to the
future as the newest
addition to the Street
family — the 34st.
com Managing Editor
— is that girl we all
wish we could be
[with].
With the fashion sense of the kind of
80-year-old woman that sometimes goes to the gym,
Kendall is a tornado of polka dots, bows, loosely
knit sweaters and athletic leggings. She’s got style,
she’s got grace — so much that her impeccable taste
won’t be contained to just Thursdays anymore.
Under Haupt’s tenure, look for 34st.com to develop
into a full blown 24/7 presence.
This College junior from
New Jersey is wanted for
attempting to hijack Jack
Bauer. Unsuccessfully.
Contact
him
at
[email protected]
if you need a buddy to go
with to Lady Gaga concerts
or advice on the perils of
Yellow Fever. He is an
expert in both.
You should also contact
him if you too have found
yourself proclaiming for
days on end that you are
“Dear Ashley...”
the
photos.the
own your memories
Caution: He is a known
Yankees supporter. This is
an offense punishable by
public stoning.
Contact gurewitz@theDP.
com if you know who keeps
stealing DP banners.
..com
com
Page 6 Friday, january 21, 2011
Lawless editors and managers have
planned hostile takeover of campus
media.
$127,000 REWARD
Lauren Plotnick
Executive Editor
Unnati Dass
Managing Editor
Dana Tom
Business Manager
She may be the voice of authority at The Daily Pennsylvanian, but this Executive Editor
was not always the diligent,
goal-oriented perfectionist that
she is now.
A less serious student in
high school, Plotnick has been
known to use humor to earn
A's, like in her World History
class, according to high-school
friend Eric Spies.
Her fun-loving attitude did
not disappear when she got to
Penn. At least, she certainly
had fun when she spent summer 2009 living with four girls
in a "brothel" at the beach.
Likewise, Plotnick's brother
Ben described a little sister
who is always the life of a party and "doesn't have an off button" — a "work hard, play hard
kind of girl."
The DP can at least be reassured that Plotnick devotes
Watch out for smudges on
your newspaper because the
DP’s new Managing Editor is
known for her tears.
Unnati has been known to
cry at restaurants and parties,
as well as when she hears the
word goodbye. It is rumored
this former News Design Editor shed a tear after sending
a favorite page — a particularly graphics and typography heavy number — to the
printer.
Given her emotional nature, 5-foot-4 stature and her
penchant for short skirts, this
native of New Delhi, India is
not your typical gun-slinging
deputy sheriff.
But the times, they are a
changin’, and this Wharton
and College junior is all set
to rule the DP’s editorial
roost.
It has been said that crimi-
Don't let Dana Tom fool you
with her color-coded lists — this
sheriff’s deputy hasn't always
obeyed the letter of the law. With
a Hello Kitty disguised as Darth
Vader by her side, this sophomore
is surprisingly deceptive.
When she’s not sneaking
around the casinos and streets of
Las Vegas, she’s pretending to be
disabled in Disney World so she
can be chauffeured in a wheelchair and cut in lines.
You might also see this Samurai Jack disturbing the peace at a
movie theater in Los Angeles or
catch photos of her in Lady Gaga
fairy wings and a chastity belt.
Tom's days of delinquency
began as early as middle school
when she began stealing traffic
patrol signs, as well as bright orange pylons, police barricades
and stop signs.
The Menlo, Calif. native has
also been suspected of killing en-
the same intense energy to all
aspects of her life, something
that became apparent at a
young age.
"When [Plotnick] was super
young, she would just sit and
stare at puzzles," Ben recalled.
"We all thought, 'God forbid,
she's slow.'" But Grandma reassured the family: Little Lauren
was just "processing."
Still, some things took a bit
longer to process than others.
Like her gender.
Always the tomboy, fiveyear-old Plotnick was tired of
Anjali Tsui
Campus News
Victor Gamez
City News
This Hong Kong native is wanted
for uncontrollable giggling and for being too nice — even to the bad guys.
This could get interesting given that
her new job is to uncover the dirt
around campus. But we're sure she'll
kill them with kindness.
The suspect can be spotted by an
old-fashioned bicycle with poetry
books in the basket and her bob hair
cut.
Contact this convict at tsui@theDP.
com if you've got the scoop on a student group or University official.
This College junior hails from Virginia
and is wanted for mispronouncing the
word pizza as "pik-sa" for 19 years. Sources say the mispronunciation came to light
when the suspect was heard singing the
Bagel Bites jingle.
Gamez has been known to drink honey
straight from the bottle when he feels a
cold coming on.
He may be recognized by his tendency
to run 20 minutes late at all times.
Once found, contact Gamez if you hear
gunshots, see someone get arrested or
smell smoke at [email protected].
Sarah Gadsden
Assignments
Prameet Kumar
Editorial Page
Overseeing The Daily
Pennsylvanian's
opinion content seems like a
natural fit for this former
columnist and longtime
opinion board member.
But our resident "Political Penndit" wasn’t always
so good at speaking up.
His mother and brother
described him as a quiet
kid. His softspoken demeanor was a reason why
Kumar was in ESL despite
speaking English fluently
when he moved from India to New York at age 6.
In high school, Kumar
used his then super-developed language skills to
show a creative side, like
when he recited slam poetry at an open mic event.
Last fall, Kumar took to
the microphone again to
cohost a weekly WQHS
Friday, january 21, 2011 Page 7
The daily Pennsylvanian
radio show called Pennatonics
with fellow editor Jared McDonald. The program was an hour of
emo music. But what else would
you expect from a guy who wore
jeans and a blazer to his DP election interview?
Friend Andrew D'Agostino
defended his wardrobe choices
(if not his music preferences).
Kumar “actually dresses much
nicer than the typical hipster,”
D'Agostino said. Let’s just hope
the DP’s editorials don’t start to
resemble indie lyrics.
Have something to say? Contact
Kumar at [email protected]
Nadine Zylberberg
Senior News
This College sophomore is wanted for
attempting to abduct Justin Bieber and
hold him hostage in her Rodin apartment. She is particularly dangerous because she has the ability to change her
hometown at will. One minute she's
from Florida, the next she's from Vancouver or Argentina.
Suspect should be approached with
caution. She is currently experiencing
an identity crisis.
If found, Zylberberg will be able to
help gay men realize their hidden heterosexual desires.
If you have a tip or any questions
about DP news, e-mail zylberberg@
theDP.com.
This College sophomore and New
Jersey native is wanted for biting.
In particular, she has been known to
attack owners of Easy Bake Ovens out of
jealousy. Her sister Emily experienced
Gadsden's wrath firsthand — and her
arm may never be the same.
The suspect may also be provoked
by poorly written or under-reported articles, as well as by having her photo
taken. Daily Pennsylvanian photographers and general assignment reporters
should approach with caution.
If you would like to write for the DP,
this suspect can be reached at [email protected].
Megan Soisson
Sports
Kevin Esteves
Sports
Brian Kotloff
Sports
Calder Silcox
Senior Sports
From Mechanicsburg, Pa. — instead of dropping a ball on New
Year's, they drop a 10-gallon
wrench — Megan seems to have
missed a turn on the Oregon Trail.
As a kid, she dreamed of becoming
Celine Dion. She instead finds herself showing off her penmanship to
football coach Al Bagnoli.
Dark and mysterious, this
Bronx, N.Y. native professes to
have a black belt in Brazilian jiujitsu.
But martial arts is just one of his
strengths. The suspect — whose
footwear is legendary — is also a
lethal master of irony, having given
his pet turtle the name "Speedy."
Called "Ocho Cinco," this College junior is wanted for crying
when the Phillies won the World
Series.
The suspect is known to be dangerous behind the wheel, having
failed his driver's test four times.
He can be bribed with animal
crackers or fruity pebbles.
With a name like Calder, it's no
surprise this College junior is a
master of disguise.
Wanted in three states for violent listserv abuse and running
over tourists on Segways, Silcox is best friends with his mom
and makes a killer banana bread.
Sweater enthusiasts beware.
being the only girl on her soccer team. She assumed that
she would one day become
like all her other teammates
— a boy. Poor Mom and Dad
had to break the news that nature would need a little help to
make that dream come true.
If nothing else, Plotnick's
tomboy tendencies led her to
DP's self-proclaimed "Only
Section That Matters" (better
known as Sports), and she now
takes her place as the latest in
a rapidly expanding line of female head honchos of the DP.
Megan Falls
Sports Photo
A perky newbie, this
spunky freshman is now
taking over as Sports Photo Editor.
nals drop their guns when
they hear her humming. We
can't tell if her off-key singing
is a tick or a leadership tactic,
but either way it works.
With a heart of gold in place
of a badge, we have faith this
sheriff will have no problem
wrangling her large herd of
over-caffineated editors —
even if she can’t keep her
tears in check.
She seems to have a
knack for composition
and Photoshop down. But
most impressive is her attitude — always ready for
fun.
Falls has already proven
she has what it takes. Even
when she tripped down
stairs and could walk,
she made it to the DP on
purple crutches, ready to
expose, brighten and contrast to greatness.
Christina Wu
Photo Assignments
Alex Fleischman
News Photo
Known as "Wu-Tang," this
College freshman from Ellicott City, Md., is wanted for
claiming that ultimate frisbee
is a sport and taking too long
to finish a meal.
The suspect needs to be
caught to protect the DP
from photo-bare pages and
the world from her atrocious
beat-boxing.
Wu may be recognized by
her her horrible sense of direction. If encountered, she
should be spun in circles
until she is facing the DP's
direction. Contact the suspect at [email protected] if you
want to take photos.
Known as "The Evil
Twin," this College sophomore hails from Lexington,
Ky. She is wanted for shooting the sheriff.
The suspect is also believed to have shot professors, puppies and half-naked
fraternity brothers, including the Big Man on Campus himself. Her weapon of
choice is a Nikon D300.
Do not be fooled by
Fleischman's innocent appearance, bubbly personality and inviting smile. She
should be approached with
caution. E-mail her at [email protected].
dangered species, such as the
polar bear whose pelt she used to
furnish her new office floor.
Though she won't gamble
away the DP's money, she will
bait you with candy into playing
a game of Pin-the-bow-on-HelloKitty.
But above all else, this former Ad Designer should be arrested for her lack of keyboard
shortcut knowledge. Control+C
is for Copy — and no, you can't
Control+Z your past discretions.
Jared McDonald
Online Managing Editor
Anyone who knows this College junior from Dever Colorado can tell you
about all the things he likes to do on the
internet. So it seems only natural that after a year as City News Editor he would
move up to Online Managing Editor.
This year he will be overseeing theDP.
com, bringing new features and making
it your source for 24/7 campus news.
That’s when he’s not blogging, tweeting or facebooking from inside the cozy
confines of the DP's Pink Palace. Sorry
Jared, we know why you were always
the last one to write your headlines.
At least he’ll be able to post with a
purpose now, managing facebook.com/
dailypenn as well as the DP’s twitter (@
dailypenn). And if he gets his way, there
something involving Foursquare may
come to the site.
“Jared is obsessed with being the may-
or of places around campus, like he ACTUALLY thinks it means something,”
Jenn wrote in an e-mail.
His friend Mckenzie said over break
Jared was worried "he would lose his
mayorship at Greek Lady." This caffeine
addict is also the mayor of both Metro
and Capogiro. With the great work we
know he’ll be doing on theDP.com, it’s
only a matter of time before he steals
that covitted DP mayorship (watch out
Dana!).
Todd Duboff
News Design
This College freshman
from Los Angeles is wanted for owning a MuggleNet
account, for attempting
to squeeze onto the green
couch in the Managing
Editor's office and for liking the Photo department a
little too much.
The suspect was last seen
at McDonald's where he attempted to steal a 50-piece
McNuggets and Diet Coke.
Contact at duboff@theDP.
com if you want a tall designer to add color to your
life. (Just kidding — he's
color-blind.)
Leslie Krivo-Kaufman
Sports Design
This freshman hailing from Columbus, Ohio is wanted for her refusal to be
tangled up in the "Ivy Roundup" lasso.
The suspect has been spotted channeling her inner geriatric as she sips tea
and eats kugel (without raisins).
She was last seen at Woodstock wearing a long flowing skirt, no shoes and a
mismatched top.
She can be recognized as the designer
who can see color and can be reached at
[email protected].
Ben Schneider
Copy
Rachel Easterbrook
Copy
This Engineering sophomore from Connecticut is
wanted for being too smart.
Not only does Schneider
know all about the molecular structures of atoms, but
he can explain the difference between Bio, Chemistry and Biochemistry.
He also knows his English. In fact, he’s so good
he’s trying to teach himself
Hebrew.
Schneider was last seen
feeding editors latkes with
no shoes on. E-mail [email protected] if you
find his shoes or a Hebrew
newspaper for him to edit.
This South Carolinian College freshman is wanted for
vandalizing a McDonald's.
She was last seen leaving the
premises while brandishing
a Sharpie, which we assume
was used to copy edit the
menu. Although the menu
advertised "Sweet Tea," the
suspect found the offering to
be factually inaccurate.
The suspect has also been
known to abuse her skills on
signs and billboards.
Easterbrook can be recognized as the only Copy Editor without a Y chromosome
and can be reached at [email protected].
Dan Nessenson
Copy
This New Jersey native
is wanted for reinventing
“copy candy,” especially
with those pretzel-Hershey’s Kiss things. They
probably have a name,
but we were too busy
eating them to come up
with one.
Dan was last spotted sharing his treats
with other chemical and
biomolecular engineers.
Try saying that three
times fast (he probably
could, given his skills
in the English language.)
Three semesters in copy
will do that to you.
Kyle Hardgrave Levi Gikandi
Liz Jacobs
Web Developer Video Producer Multimedia
For a College freshman,
this Potomac, Md. native
has a colorful past. He is
wanted for performing
dark magic with computers. He was last seen
in N.M. screaming, "No
one else can climb these
trees like me!" and running into those trees.
The suspect bears a
striking resemblance to a
Berenstein Bear. He has
also been seen criticizing the typography on
his "Wanted" posters.
E-mail
hardgrave@
theDP.com with questions about theDP.com.
This College sophomore is wanted for constantly losing his dorm
key and for abusing his
meal swipes to create a
frozen yogurt heart on
girl of his dreams' floor.
Apparently nothing says
romance like strawberry
yogurt.
The Kenya native is believed to be hiding under
his afro. He has recently
been spotted making a viral video about cats.
If found, he will be happy to engage in a pointless
argument. Contact him at
[email protected].
Shumita Basu
Video Producer
This
College
sophomore is wanted
for 21 counts of public
intoxication,
three
counts
of
filming
intoxicated individuals
without their consent
and one count of
bootlegging footage of a
This College sophomore is wanted for incessant smiling and for
contributing to the death
of newspapers with
her informative online
graphics.
Be warned, this former sports designer and
Flash-er is a repeat offender.
She was last spotted
wearing a T-shirt that
says "Tuesday," but may
have hired impersonators to cover her tracks.
Contact Jacobs at
elizabethjacobs@theDP.
com.
rap concert.
Basu was last seen
acting in a Passion Pit
music video in Charles
Addams Hall.
Once found the
suspect
can
be
contacted at basu@
theDP.com
if
you
want your crimes (or
other campus activity)
documented on video.
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Eco-Reps subtly green campus
Faculty and staff have spearheaded initiatives
that promote a more sustainable community
BY GRACE ORTELERE
Staff Writer
T h ree ye a r s ago, Pen n
was using 24 tractor-trailer
loads of copy paper each
year. In 2010, that amount
was reduced by three tractor loads.
The change was in part
thanks to Penn’s faculty and
staff Eco-Reps — environmentally conscious faculty
a nd st a f f represent atives
from across all schools and
departments — who started
an initiative to print doublesided pages.
T he E c o - R e p s st a r t e d
meeting last January to influence Penn’s environment a l i mpact . Meet i ngs a re
monthly, and, similar to the
College House Eco -R eps,
faculty and staff Eco-Reps
act as ambassadors encouraging sustainable initiatives
in their offices.
Penn’s over 20,000 employees can g reatly inf luence
Penn’s energy use because
they might be on campus for
eight hours a day, “but they
could have a 24/7 impact”
if they’re not diligent about
turning off lights and computers, explained Jen Rizzi,
spokeswoman for Facilities
and Real Estate Services.
“[ E c o -R ep s] c a n m a ke
a ver y large difference by
adopting energ y-sav ing
practices a nd conv i nci ng
their fellow staff members to
do so,” Penn President Amy
Gutmann said.
Some of Eco-Reps’ recent
innovations have been “awesome,” said Dan Garofalo,
Penn’s environmental sustainability coordinator. For
example, the Law School’s
staff lounge stopped using
styrofoam cups, and many
offices installed Quench machines, which provide purified water — reducing the use
of disposable plastic bottles.
The Eco-Reps also made
guidelines for Penn caterers
other than Bon Appetit Management Company, Penn’s
d i n i n g p r o v i d e r. A m o n g
other goals, the guidelines
include standards for lowering the use of disposable
plasticware.
Eco-Rep Karen Leary, who
works for Wharton Computing, was already a member
of the Wharton Computing
Green Committee, but joined
Eco-Reps because she wanted to “see what ever yone
else was doing and get ideas
from other people.”
Leary helped design a pilot for desk-side recycling,
and as a result, saw a huge
increase in recycling rates in
her office. She also organized
an ice cream social for the
June 17 Power Down Challenge this past summer.
This year’s annual Power
Down Challenge saw a reduction in Penn’s energy use
two times the amount it saw
in 2009, according to Rizzi—
a change she attributed almost completely to the staff
and faculty Eco-Reps.
Though the effects of the
Eco-Reps are currently difficult to measure, the task
will become easier by summer of 2013, after meters to
measure energ y use have
been installed in every Penn
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See an interactive timeline
of the Eco-Reps program
at theDP.com/multimedia
building, according to Garofalo.
The actions of the Eco Reps are all tied to the goals
of the Climate Action Plan,
released in September 2009,
about which the faculty and
staf f Eco-Reps learned in
their first meeting.
“Hav ing staf f Eco -Reps
multiplies the effectiveness
of our becoming a leader in
sustainability as a university,” Gutmann said.
A n o t h e r a d d e d b o nu s ,
noted Garofalo, is that these
initiatives “do save money.”
This month, for the first
time, the staff and faculty
program accepted applications for new members in the
coming year.
A lthough he said he is
pleased by the evidence that
the program is thus far a success, Garofalo believes making
the University more sustainable is an ongoing task.
“There’s always another
horizon,” he said.
Activist takes on gay rights in Uganda
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Wharton Marketing Professor Eric Bradlow moderates “Creating New World
Greenomics,” a panel about sustainable business practices.
Wharton pushes
for ‘green’ business
Despite the focus on ‘greenomics,’ business
ultimately takes precedent among students
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Frank Mugisha, one of Uganda’s leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists, visited Penn’s campus on Thursday evening to share his experiences
living with the homophobia in his home country, where homosexuality is prohibited by law. He is the executive director of Sexual Minorities in Uganda.
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Features Editor on the 126th
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P rovost Vince P r ice said.
Student interest in sustainability and the environment
at W ha r ton has spiked in
the past four years, Schiller
agreed in her e-mail.
However, not a l l W ha r t on st ud e nt s h av e f ou nd
“g reenom ics” to be a big
part of the undergraduate
program.
“ It ’s n o t e v e r y w h e r e ,”
W ha r ton f reshma n Pawel
Uchman said. The “environment is good, being green is
great, but ultimately, Wharton is about business,” he
said.
Although the undergraduate popu lat ion i nterested
in “greenomics” is “not the
majority,” according to Orts.
“Business needs to be part
of this solution — a lot of
students are starting to see
that.”
However, “sustainability
has proven itself to be more
than a fad — in a world of
limited resources with unequal distribution we cannot
continue forward in the same
way we always have,” Schiller wrote.
In fact, there are better
business practices that may
not only “reduce (or eliminate) environmental impact
[and] improve communities,”
but may also be “more profitable long term,” Schiller
added.
Regardless of its implications for business, helping
the environment is a “high
priority for this institution,”
Price said. “We are proud of
what we’re doing.”
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only goal for Wharton School
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Now, there is increased
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“g reenom ics” — t he eco nomics of being environmentally friendly. The Wharton
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G r e e n o m i c s ,” d i s c u s s e d
t hese issues i n M ay, a nd
in light of the recent BP oil
spill, W har ton has tur ned
its attention toward environmentally conscious business
practices.
Although the term
“greenomics” is trendy, it is
no different from “standard
economic principles,” said
Eric Orts, director of the Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership.
“It simply puts a value on
env i ron ment a l fact or s as
well, which today often does
reflect real dollars and cents.
Using less energy, less packaging, costs less. Reducing
transportation miles of products, improving logistics efficiency, ultimately costs less.
Improving indoor air quality
increases productivity and
reduces sick days,” Emily
Schiller, associate director
of Sustainability and Leadership, wrote in an e-mail.
F o r a t l e a s t 10 y e a r s ,
Wharton has offered an undergraduate concentration
in environmental policy and
management and a minor in
sustainable management.
It was “palpable that there
was tremendous student demand interest for this minor,”
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Tukufu Zuberi, chairman of the Department of Sociology, spoke as the annual
Founder’s Day Faculty Senate Symposium on Thursday. The topic of this year’s
lecture was “Human Rights: Contested Principles and Practices.”
Rising
interest in
B.A./J.D.
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with a concentration in robotics and microelectromechanical systems.
Molly McGlone, assistant
dean for advising in the College,
explained that submatriculation is beneficial in terms of
expanding students’ intellect.
She said she hopes students are
submatriculating to “get more
knowledge in their field and
decide if they want to pursue
graduate study outside Penn.”
“You get really close contact
with faculty members, you get
to try out graduate school both
intellectually and socially, and
you can do it within the price
of a bachelors,” she added. It’s
also an ideal option for students
who ultimately hope to continue
their education and earn a doctorate, she continued.
An increasing number of
students have shown an interest in a joint Bachelor of Arts/
Juris Doctor program with the
Law School in recent years —
possibly because of the current
economy, according to Hocine
Fetni, assistant dean for academic advising in the College.
“Students are mainly interested in this program because
if admitted, a student can complete both degrees in 6 years
rather than the usual number
of 7 years,” Fetni wrote in an email. “This will save them one
year worth of tuition.”
However, he added, the
B.A./J.D. program is a “very
competitive program for highly
qualified and motivated students.” The requirements for
the program are “rigorous”
and students must take the
LSAT during their junior year.
Currently, only one Penn student is scheduled to graduate
this spring with a B.A. and a
J.D.
For those students who do
pursue the B.A./J.D. program,
the benefits are worthwhile,
according to Steve Barnes,
associate dean of communications for Penn Law.
“Recent graduates have
worked at global law firms, in
investment banking, and have
pursued judicial clerkships,”
he wrote in an e-mail.
In general, the number of
submatriculating students has
been small but steady. During
the 2009-2010 academic year,
54 College students submatriculated. McGlone pointed to the
rigorous nature of submatriculation programs as a reason for
these low numbers.
Engineering junior Michelle
Sherrott, who is pursuing a
joint BSE and MSE in materials science and engineering, explained that while her
course load is “decently more
challenging” than if she were
just studying for a bachelors,
she feels submatriculation is
worthwhile.
“Taking more upper-level
classes is really helpful in figuring out what I want to do once
I graduate because it has exposed me to a lot of new ideas
and fields of study,” she said.
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in shouts and hugs when the
newly minted pledges entered
Wynn Commons.
“This year a lot of girls are
happy with our choices and
excited to be here,” College
senior and Sigma Delta Tau
sister Jessica Heidenberg
said. SDT extended 51 bids
to potential pledges this year,
consistent with bid numbers of
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“There were definitely a
lot more girls,” Tollette said.
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year.
Despite closing registration
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the same number of students
signed up for sorority rush as
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Office of Student Affairs/Fraternity Sorority Life has not
yet released this year’s bid
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“Greek life is growing on
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Sorority sisters welcome new pledges into their communities during Thursday night’s bid night. Rushes were told
to wait by their phones for their bids, which were kept secret until they met their new sisters at Wynn Commons.
sororities and fraternities has
increased in the last decade
after a slight decline in the
late 1990s, according to Daily
Pennsylvanian archives.
New sorority Zeta Alpha Tau
will begin officially marketing
itself on Jan. 31, ZTA extension director Marlene Conrad
told the DP on Jan. 11.
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Kaplan has planned a number of events to get
business students thinking about the test
BY HAYLEY BROOKS
Staff Writer
With the lacking job market causing anxiety, test prep
agencies are encouraging
Penn students to get an early
start on graduate school entry exam preparation.
Next week, K aplan Test
Prep and Admissions will
conduct a f ree prog ra m ,
“Business School Blueprint
2011,” to help students get a
jump start on their Graduate
Management Admission Test
(GMAT) preparations.
On Jan. 23, K aplan will
run its first live online event,
“Business School — Why and
Where To Go.” Online events
will follow the next three
nights, with a specific focus
on the application process
and constructing and tweaking resumes. Building personalized step-by-step plans
to assist potential business
school applicants will also be
on the agenda.
T he P r i nc et on R ev iew
will run free GMAT testing
Feb. 5, Mar. 12, and April 9
in its testing center at 36th
and Chestnut streets. However, according to ser vice
700+ scorer prepares 100
hours for the GMAT. That
means two hours per day for
two or three months,” Kaplan
spokesman Russell Schaffer
wrote in an e-mail.
representative Brian Jacobs,
Kaplan will conclude the
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at this time.”
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ketball and still be a part of a
team,” Higgins said. “That’s
when I decided to be a manager.”
Helping three years with
everything from putting out
balls and water, to rebounding or passing in drills, Higgins
applied for and was selected to
the position.
“There were some nerves involved,” Higgins said. “I knew
there were some long hours of
training ahead of me.”
Required to flap whenever
wearing the suit, the new Hawk
had to prepare for a 30-game
schedule with roughly 3,500
flaps per contest.
“Getting ready for the season involves a lot of running
on the treadmill and then just
putting the costume on and
standing there flapping,” Higgins said.
He put in hours on the court
too, running the Hawk’s trademark figure-eights in his costume after team practice.
“The Hawk clearly has some
talent with his shoulders,”
said Penn’s Quaker, who like
most mascots, remains anonymous.
The Quaker cited the famous flapping as impressive
but was quick to note that representing the Red and Blue
has its own challenges: he
must deal with the hot suit,
losing several pounds of sweat
every game.
But the Hawk’s effort goes
beyond physical exertion.
In addition to every game
and pep rally, the Hawk is a
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THE LAST TIME: Monday, Jan.
25, 2010, 85-64 St. Joe’s, at
the Palestra. For the second
consecutive year, the Quakers
closed a winless Big 5 season
with a contest against the
Hawks at the Palestra. Though
the game was tied after 15
minutes, St. Joe’s closed the
first frame with a 13-0 run.
Helped by a dismal 27 Penn
turnovers, the Hawks led by as
much as 31 in the second half.
THE EDGE
The Quakers face off against the
Hawks — who’s got the advantage?
EVEN
Penn and St. Joe’s each enter
tomorrow’s contest averaging 64.5
points per game, and while the Red
and Blue have a higher shooting
percentage from the field, the Hawks
have performed better at the line.
Defense: EVEN
Both teams have allowed the same
number of points this season and
have a negative turnover margin, but
the Hawks are averaging over twice as
many blocks.
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mainstay at graduation, charity events and special receptions to welcome faculty.
And outside the university?
“Weddings are common,”
Higgins said. “One family
wanted me to really be a part
of the wedding dinner and everything. They had me come
out onto the dance floor.”
H ig g i n s s ay s h i s most
memorable moment is yet to
come, citing the upcoming
Eggleston was on
the verge of tears
after Wednesday’s
loss when
asked about the
significance of the
St. Joe’s game and
leaving Penn without a Big 5 win.
While Eggleston usually puts up
a solid but quiet performance for
Penn, he’ll have more motivation
than ever — expect a performance
on par with last year’s upset of
Cornell when Eggleston had a
career night.
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young team after losing 11 of
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SPOR T S
Penn seeking to stay perfect
W. Tennis | After
season-opening 7-0
win over Drexel,
Quakers head to VCU
BY ZAcHary KOWALSKI
Copy Editor
A fter an impressive 7- 0
sweep of crosstow n r ival
Drexel in its spring debut,
the women’s tennis team will
look to take their momentum
on the road as they travel to
Richmond, Va., to compete
in the VCU Invitational this
weekend.
L e d b y f r e sh m a n C on nie Hsu, who is ranked No.
14 in the nation and No. 1
in the region, the Quakers
have learned from the fall
season how to mentally and
physically prepare for a full
match. After dropping only
one set against Drexel, the
women’s team never looked
back.
“We’ve all been work ing
hard during practice and I
know my game has definitely
improved,” junior Daniela
DePaoli wrote in an e-mail,
“but there are always things
to improve on.”
It is this attention to detail
and dedication that has the
Quakers sitting pretty going
into their weekend tournament.
I n or der t o prepa re effectively for three matches
in two days, coach Sanela
Kunovac stressed teamwork,
d iscipline a nd conf idence
during practice. With freshmen making up two thirds of
Quakers open with
home advantage
VCU Invitational
Tomorrow
vs. VCU, 10 a.m.
vs. Norfolk State, 2 p.m.
FENCING | Playing in front of a home crowd,
men ready to make a statement early on
Sunday
vs. UNC Wilmington, 10 a.m.
BY BRANDON BELL
Staff Writer
her roster, one would imagine Kunovac would have to
stress patience and playing
within themselves, but that is
not the case with this group
of Quakers.
Despite their youth, the
Quakers are not lacking in
confidence. While the upperclassmen are few in number,
they make up for it with their
experience.
“My f reshman year I
looked up to the upperclassmen on our team so I hope I
can help our freshman out
when they need advice,” DePaoli wrote.
Freshman Stephanie Do,
DePaoli’s doubles partner,
as well as fellow freshmen
Jaime Yapp-Shing and Connie Hsu will need to play well
in order for the Quakers to
have a successful year. As
the top three singles seeds,
these girls have nowhere to
go but up.
The Quakers will start the
tournament off with a Saturday matinee against host
Virginia Commonwealth, followed by an afternoon showdow n w it h Nor fol k St ate.
Lalita Clozel/DP Staff Photographer
Before retur ning to Penn
they will finish Sunday with Junior Emily Wolf played doubles with freshman Stephanie Do as the
Quakers swept Drexel 7-0 Wednesday in the spring season opener.
UNC Wilmington.
Fencing may not draw the
same crowds as the men’s
hoops squad, but that does not
mean the Red and Blue aren’t
looking forward to playing at
home.
The Quakers will host the
Philadelphia Invitational Saturday for their first official
tournament of the season.
T houg h fenci ng is not
known for large crowds and
raucous fans, the advantage
of hosting a tournament at
Hutchinson Gymnasium will
still have tangible benefits.
“The fact that you don’t
have to travel far definitely
helps, and possibly having
your classmates and friends
come out and support you is
great as well — really just like
any other sport,” junior Zane
Grodman said.
Players will be more relaxed and will have their only
opportunity of the season
to compete in front of classmates, fellow Penn athletes,
friends and family members.
According to head coach
Andy Ma, “it will help because we are familiar with
the surroundings and always
feel comfortable fencing at
home.”
The home advantage also
means that the entire men’s
team will be able to compete.
“With everyone involved,
I definitely think it will raise
our team morale and spirit,”
Ma said.
Sophomore Evan Prochniak
echoed Ma’s sentiment and
said he sees this tournament
as a stepping-stone to next
weekend’s Penn State Invitational.
“This tournament we fence
some good teams, but I know
[that] the sabre guys and I are
looking forward to next week …
We want to do well this weekend so we can hopefully beat
Penn State,” Prochniak said.
But before the Quakers can
take on their in-state rival,
they’ll have to win at home
first.
Freshmen
stepping up
for squash
SQUASH from page 12
sports event if [we win],” senior
co-captain James Clark said.
“You have to come in confident.
Our goal is to keep at them at
every number.”
The numbers that matter have
been on Penn’s side lately. After
dropping their first three matches, the men won four straight to
maintain their No. 10 ranking,
recently relying on contributions
from the entire roster.
“ T he f r esh men over a l l
have done well,” Clark said.
“John Dudzik has been one
of the people who have been
really successful so far this
season. Daniel Judd won his
first match and without that
match we wouldn’t have won
as a team. It’s a good indication of where the program is
headed.”
On the Penn women’s (5-1,
2-1) side, the freshman factor
has been even more significant. Rookies Chloe Blackerok,
Courtney Jones and Hyland
Murphy have all gone 5-1 individually so far and given No.
Ari Friedman/DP File Photo
Penn star Jewel Clark, who played on two Ivy champion teams from 200004, will be inducted into the Big 5 Hall of Fame today at the Palestra.
Michael Chien/DP File Photo
Penn senior James Clark says he wouldn’t bet his house on an upset Saturday of the top-ranked Trinity men’s squash
team. The Bantams haven’t lost a match since 1998, winning national championships every year along the way.
5 Penn strength in the bottom
half of the ladder. They will
have to face off against Trinity’s third-ranked women (6-0),
who have shut out their past
two opponents.
Both sides will certainly
have their hands full on Saturday, but will the men’s bright
future take Trinity’s legend-
M. Hoops gets
one final Big 5
shot Saturday
final Big 5 game of the year.
tage. But the magic of a Big 5
win — or better yet an upset — Saturday’s match against
still hangs thick in the swelter- St. Joseph’s will be the last
ing Palestra air when two local chance for Penn’s seniors to
foes convene at the Cathedral get a first taste of the magic.
Since the Big 5’s inception
of College Basketball.
For Penn students, it is try- in 1955, no class of Quakers has graduated without a
ing to watch their Red and
SILCOX from page 12
single win in the series.
Blue go an entire four years
Will Saturday be the night
without a Big 5 win. The fans
around the entire Palestra
a woeful record is set? Not if
lose appreciation for the siglooking at all the history,”
history has anything to say.
nificance of the rivalry.
freshman guard Alyssa Baron
And if that fails, there’s alFor the players, however,
said after the win. “They stress it is the elephant in the room, ways the magic.
the importance of the Big 5.”
a weight they will carry for
Important it is. More NCAA the next day as they enter the CALDER SILCOX is a junior
championships have come
home to Philadelphia than
any other city in America.
The Big 5 schools play in the
Ivy League, the Atlantic 10
and the Big East. But for a few
weeks each year, it is bragging rights, plain and simple,
that rule the courts of Brotherly Love.
Love, however, has been
hard to come by for the Quakers lately. In addition to the
women’s six-year skid, the
men have gone almost four
95
years to the day since winning a Big 5 game.
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and Temple, teams that constantly show up in national
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Clark holds
records in
scoring
CLARK from page 12
en’s basketball scoring list
with 1,743 points. The 554
points she scored her senior
year were the sixth-highest
season total in program history. She also recorded 29
double-doubles in her collegiate career, including 12 in
her final season.
The induction ceremony
w i l l t a ke place du r i ng a
luncheon today at the Palestra.
The most recent Quaker
to be inducted into the Big 5
Hall of Fame was men’s basketball coach Jerome Allen,
who was recognized in 2009.
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ST. Joseph’s (5-13, 0-1 Big 5) Vs. Penn (5-8, 0-3)
Tomorrow, 7 P.m. | THE PALESTRA
Wingin’ it
The St. Joe’s Hawk
takes the peculiar
world of mascot-dom
to another level
By joe sanfilippo
senior staff writer
CALDER SILCOX
T
he congratulations rolled in for the
women’s basketball team.
It was a triumphant moment. The
team that won just two games last
season had picked up its sixth victory
only halfway through the season. It was the 400th
program win.
But most notably, it was a Big 5 win. Rarer than
a Van Pelt carrel in December, a Big 5 win for
Penn is a moment worth commemorating.
It had been exactly 22 games — more than six
years — since the women had last felt that satisfaction.
Coach Mike McLaughlin had said a win over a
City opponent was one of his goals all season, and
the man charged with rebuilding the program
appears to be doing just that, one check mark at
a time.
“Before our first Big 5 game, we walked all
SEE SILCOX PAGE 11
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Michael Chien/DP Senior Photographer
After dropping Wednesday’s contest to Temple, senior forward
Jack Eggleston (left) has one final shot to win a Big 5 game.
Mascots are mysterious —
their performers often more
so.
And while most revel in anonymity, the St. Joseph’s Hawk is
a rarity in today’s sports world,
not only because he reveals his
identity — his name is Tim Higgins — but also because of his
level of involvement with the
program.
“He’s seen by the players and
by myself as a full member of the
team,” head coach Phil Martelli
said.
He’s at every game, home or
away, and will be flapping his
wings at the Palestra Saturday
when the Hawks (5-13, 0-1 Big 5)
take on the Quakers (5-8, 0-3).
As much as any of the players competing in tomorrow’s
matchup, Higgins has worked
diligently to earn his spot on the
court.
Martelli and St. Joe’s Athletic
Director Don DiJulia are part of
the final selection process each
year for the Hawk.
Applicants must write an es-
say, have a staff or faculty sponsor, and go before a selection
committee comprised of former
Hawks, an assistant coach and a
member of the Gallagher family, which endows a full scholarship for the selected student
each year.
“They might have eight, 10, 12,
16 candidates that they choose
from,” Martelli said. “They’re
brought down to about a group
of four ... and Mr. DiJulia and
I basically end up with veto
power.”
Higgins’ path to becoming the
Hawk was a long time coming as
a life-long St. Joe’s fan.
His father — a 1976 St. Joe’s
graduate — had season tickets
that exposed the younger Higgins to the basketball program
as a kid.
In high school, Higgins played
a year of hoops himself and
coached grade school teams.
“That’s when I realized I
wanted to stay involved in basSEE M. HOOPS PAGE 10
Red and Blue’s crown Jewel Quakers face off
against The Streak
W. HOOPS | Three-time All-Ivy
selection to be inducted into Big 5
Hall of Fame at the Palestra
Squash | Penn hosts
Trinity squad that
hasn’t lost a match in
12 straight years
BY ALYSSA KRESS
Associate Sports Editor
Former Penn women’s basketball star Jewel
Clark is returning to the Palestra floor one more
time.
Today, however, she will not be stepping on the
court to augment her strong numbers in the Penn
record books. Instead, she will go down in a different record book when she is honored by the Big 5
for her prolific career.
Clark, a 2004 College graduate, is one of this
year’s five inductees into the Big 5 Hall of Fame,
which recognizes players, coaches, broadcasters,
sportswriters and others who have made significant contributions to the Big 5.
As a rookie, Clark led the Quakers to an Ivy
League title and their first-ever appearance in
the NCAA tournament. She was selected to the Ivy
League All-Rookie team — only the fourth Quaker
to do so at the time.
She was a three-time All-Ivy first-team selection and won the Ivy League and Philadelphia Big
5 Player of the Year honors in 2003-04 — when she
also led her team to another Ivy League championship.
Clark remains second on Penn’s all-time womSEE CLARK PAGE 11
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No. 1 Trinity
6-0
Tomorrow,
Noon
Ringe Courts
BY Mike TOny
Staff Writer
Former Penn guard Jewel Clark (left), shown here in her junior year, was the
fourth Quaker to ever be selected to the Ivy League’s all-rookie team.
M. squash
When the Trinity men’s squash
team was last defeated, most
current college squash players
were still in elementary school.
Since February 1998, the No.
1 Bantams have won a stunning
229 consecutive matches and 121
national championships. Penn
(4-3, 1-2 Ivy) will try to stop that
streak Saturday afternoon at
Ringe Courts.
While admitting that he hadn’t
begun playing squash yet when
Trinity’s men (6-0, 1-0) last lost,
Penn junior co-captain Porter
Drake insisted that the team’s
preparation for the Bantams
hasn’t been any different than
usual.
“We’ve just worked hard in
practice every day,” Drake said.
w. Squash
No. 3 Trinity
6-1
Tomorrow,
Noon
Ringe Courts
“It’s more about consistently being prepared rather than one
match.”
With Trinity placing six players among the College Squash
Association’s top 25 national preseason ranking and outscoring
opponents 51-3 so far this year,
the Quakers know the daunting
challenge that faces them.
“We’ll definitely make quite a
SEE SQUASH PAGE 11
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