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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2009
Student testifies to Senate
POLITICS | Piotrowski speaks to Senate members
at Temple about the importance of financial aid
PIOTROWKSI
Penn student
who testified
at Senate
financial
aid hearing
yesterday
BY PRAMEET KUMAR
Staff Writer
Moving
on to
Mountain
Hawks
Sixth-year Annenberg doctoral student Jessica Taylor Piotrowski testified before a U.S.
Senate committee yesterday on
the expansion of Pell Grants.
Piotrowski highlighted the
role financial aid played in her
education at a hearing titled
“Access and Affordability: How
Expanding Pell Grants Will Offer Higher Education to More
Americans.”
“If it wasn’t for the financial
aid I was awarded, there would
have been no way that I could
have attended the University
[of Pennsylvania],” she said at
the hearing, which Sen. Bob
Casey (D-Pa.) attended.
The Senate is in the midst of
considering a bill that would
overhaul the f i na ncia l-a id
program currently in place
by prohibiting private lenders from giving out loans and
expanding the Pell Grant program for needy students.
Last month, the U.S. House
of Representatives voted 253171 in favor of the bill, which
SEE PELL GRANTS PAGE 5
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nobody goes to a
museum for the veal
OPINION | Sam Bieler looks at the strengths and
weaknesses of the Museum’s current attempts to
re-brand itself.
>> PAGE 6
‘closet confessionals’:
COMING OUT ON CAMERA
Michelle Bigony/DP Staff Photographer
news | Penn students share their most
personal coming-out stories for the Lesbian Gay
Bisexual Transgender Center’s video, “Closet
Confessionals.” >> PAGE 4
Anthropology professor Peggy Sanday discusses her book, Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus, with a group of Sigma Alpha Mu brothers last night. Sanday’s talk focused on the social distinctions between “rape-free” and “rape-prone” societies all over the world.
Raising awareness on sexual assault
MAKE A
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Sanday discusses
social indicators for
the frequency of rape
in the U.S. with SAM
SPORTS |
Penn students
should go Line
up for men’s
basketball
season tickets
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BY NIKKI SELIGMAN
Contributing Writer
Last night, fraternity Sigma
Alpha Mu hosted Anthropology professor Peggy Sanday in
a discussion about the prevalence of rape in the United
States and specifically on college campuses.
Sanday spoke to a group of
events@penn
October 6 - October 7
SAM brothers about her book,
Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex,
Brotherhood, and Privilege
on Campus. She described
how her work on rape began in
1983, when one of her students
reported being raped by six
fraternity brothers on Penn’s
campus.
According to Sanday, the general attitude towards rape at
the time was that if the victim
was incapacitated at a party,
she “deserved what happened
to her.” Sanday said this stereotype and the reactions of the
University community to that
incident spawned her search
for justice for rape victims.
Her book focuses on the
social distinctions between
“rape-free” and “rape-prone”
societies. Sanday’s definition of
a “rape-prone” society is one in
which there is male social and
sexual dominance and a premium placed on male bonding
— for example, in college fraternities. Sanday emphasized
that she considers the United
States among these “rapeprone” societies
According to SAM President
and College junior Jordan Lu-
rie, the fraternity prides itself
on its members’ genuine interest in raising awareness about
the danger of rape in on-campus and off-campus houses.
SAM brother and Engineering junior Deepak Prabhakar
said the brotherhood believes
that raising awareness is crucial to the safety of Penn’s campus and stressed that the most
effective way to do so is to host
events that students can relate
to. He added that “the people
who really have a genuine inSEE SAM PAGE 5
OBESITY MANAGEMENT
Listen to Penn professors outline how what
they term as “a culture of obesity” can be
changed through community cooperation.
PENN BOOKSTORE, 6 p.m. Today
Encouraging alternative transportation
SENIORS FOR THE PENN FUND
SUSTAINABILITY |
Climate Action Plan
includes cutting back
on car commuters
Celebrate at the “2010 Loves Penn” Kick Off
Rally supporting the Penn Fund with great
food, giveaways, raffles and performances.
40TH ST. FIELD, 6 p.m. Today
sexual violence speak out
Come to an open mic speak out that gives
students the chance to share their reactions
and concerns related to sexual violence.
THE COMPASS, 8 p.m. Today
BY CALDER SILCOX
Staff Writer
The Climate Action Plan —
Penn’s long-term plan to become carbon neutral — and
the Office of Sustainability are
subtly urging Penn commuters
to leave cars at home.
The target as outlined in the
plan is to reduce the number of
commuters driving to campus
by 10 percent so that at least
one-half of Penn commuters
use alternative transportation.
Penn will encourage more
sustainable transportation
forms, such as public transportation, biking and walking.
A number of Penn employees
have already made the choice
BUILDING BRIDGES
Attend a panel that takes an in-depth look at
the history of Penn and West Philadelphia
collaboration.
ARTHUR ROSS GALLERY, 5:30 p.m. tomorrow
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to take public transportation
over walking.
Hispanic Studies professor
Stephen Bishop’s daily commute takes about 85 minutes.
From Princeton Junction, he
takes New Jersey Transit to
Trenton, the SEPTA R7 train
to 30th Street Station and then a
SEPTA trolley to campus.
In all, the difference between
taking the train and driving is
“a matter of a few minutes,”
Bishop said. However, he added, “you can’t beat a half-block
commute” from the trolley.
Bishop said he takes the train
because it is less stressful than
driving, he can work or read
on the train and because “it’s
probably cheaper,” he said — at
least “a little.”
Dan Garofalo, Penn sustainability director, also emphasized the low-stress nature of
public transit.
“You can take the train and
Anna Cororaton/DP File Photo
SEPTA trains are a more sustainable form of transportation than cars, the University
says. Part of Penn’s Climate Action Plan is to encourage public transit use.
read a book or drive and come
to school in a bad mood” due to
driving, he said.
However, Bishop does not
take part in the subsidy programs Penn offers for faculty
and staff who take the train,
which include a 10-percent
SEPTA pretax COMPASS program, as well as TransitCheks,
which are valid at a host of regional transit systems.
Though Bishop has looked
at the options, none are more
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Pink Is The New Blonde, Brown, Black, Red
Today, as part of Breast Cancer Awareness month, the Penn Women’s Center
will once again host Pink My Hair, a fundraiser for the Rena Rowan Breast
Center. To participate, all you need to do is pledge online or in person at the
Women’s Center or on the walk. You’ll have the option of a hair extension
($15), a temporary dyed streak ($15), or even complete color at Saturn Club
($100).
This is the perfect time to live out your eighth grade fantasy of walking into
Hot Topic to pick out the perfect Ramones tee without feeling like a total poser because your hair is still a natural color and you don’t know all the words
to that new Dashboard Confessional song and your mom is right across the
mall in Eileen Fisher. Oh and also, it’s a good way to show your support of the
cause, and that’s important.
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Did you all see how, on Facebook, our school is now called Penn? It’s not
everywhere – it still says “UPenn” under Education – but it does seem to
indicate a shift away from the school being known as “UPenn” in the cyber
world.
Maybe they named the website “upenn.edu” under the assumption the
whole internet thing wouldn’t take off. Like, whatever intern the school assigned to pick out the url figured everyone else in the world had the same
VHS collection of cute cat tapes that he did, so why would anyone feel the
need to spend any time online? UPenn, Penn, Penn State – doesn’t matter,
no one’s going to look at it anyway. A fair opinion at the time.
But the internet became huge, the nickname stuck, and the school hates it.
There are no official references made to the school using “UPenn,” the name
isn’t on apparel, and it’s not anywhere on the website other than the url bar.
It’s unclear whether they pushed for this Facebook change or if this was a
Zuckerberg-driven decision, but the shift back to just Penn is clearly in place.
— Posted Thursday, October 1st, 2009, at 2:37 pm by Ben Rosen
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ROLE OF ARTS IN PHILLY
Join the Penn Institute
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symposium on the role of arts.
HUNTSMAN F92, 3 p.m.
J.C. HALLMAN READING
Come to the Kelly Writers
House for a reading by author
J.C. Hallman.
KELLY WRITERS HOUSE, 6 p.m.
DAVID CARR LECTURE
Listen to New York Times
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media issues.
CLAUDIA COHEN HALL, 7 p.m.
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Listen to a talk by Terry
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in the ways people made sense of their worlds, from a world of powerful sounds to the more familiar
visual culture of today, and the emergence of plural American identities and new forms of governance.
Rath argues that similar processes are underway today, and that by attending to processes of mediation
we can better understand the potential and possibilities of contemporary new media.
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Learning to engineer business
ACADEMICS | School of Engineering’s new
degree combines business with engineering
BY TRISHULA PATEL
Staff Writer
Soon Jerome Fisher Program in Management and
Technology students won’t
be the only ones integrating
business with engineering.
The School of Engineering
and Applied Science’s new
Market and Social Systems
Engineering program will integrate systems engineering
with the study of social sciences such as economics and
finance.
First available to students
in fall 2011, the program will
be “the first academic program of its kind anywhere,”
said Joseph Sun, the School of
Engineering and Applied Science’s director of academic
affairs.
Jointly-directed by Computer and Information Science
professor Michael Kearns
and Innovation in Electrical
and Systems Engineering
professor Ali Jadbabaie, the
program will enroll about 20
students in its first semester.
It will focus on the ways in
which networking systems
such as Facebook and Google
work, both in terms of social
and economic incentives, as
well as the engineering systems behind these networks.
For example, a case study
might look at the engineering
system behind a model of a
networking market like eBay,
as well as economic incentives of using that market.
Another consideration of
the program might be to look
at what motivates people to
update websites like Wikipe-
freshmen eat and campaign
dia.
“This program will offer a
lot of topics and material that
students can’t find at the undergraduate level at any university right now,” Kearns
wrote in an e-mail.
MKSE will be “an elite program for people with the right
academic background,” said
Jadbabaie. The Engineering
School plans to hire new faculty for the program, in addition
to enlisting the resources of
current faculty from the Engineering School, the School
of Arts and Sciences and the
Wharton School for its crossdisciplinary requirements.
Since 2003, Kearns has also
taught a course called “Networked Life,” which engages
students in explorations of the
networks most of them use on
a daily basis. The course will
now serve as a foundational
basis for the larger MKSE
program.
“We expect many outstand-
BRIEF
Anne Ryan trial
postponed half a day
Alex Remnick/DP Senior Photographer
Members of the Class of 2013 attend Sunday night’s Midnight Breakfast.
Voting for freshman positions is taking place on Penn InTouch until Friday.
ing applicants for the limited
number of MKSE program
slots, and more generally
across the Universit y for
MKSE classes,” said Kearns.
He added that the rapid annual enrollment growth in
“Networked Life” “is an early indicator of student interest.”
The prog ra m has been
named after Rajendra and
Neera Singh, owners of Telcom Ventures L.L.C., a private
investment firm specializing
in telecommunications and
infor mation technologies,
who donated $8 million to fund
the program. It is anticipated
to attract “the most brilliant
students in the world from all
walks of life,” Singh said in a
statement last week. “These
are the young people who can
best take this new form of education — one that combines
analytical skills with intuitive
thinking — and make a big
difference in society.”
The medical malpractice
trial concerning Anne Ryan,
a College sophomore who
died of bacterial meningitis
on Sept. 9, 2007, has been delayed by half a day.
The trial will begin at City
Hall today, with opening arguments at 1 p.m.
The delay in the tr ial’s
start time is due to the continuation of the jury-selection process and arguing of
legal motions, both of which
took place at City Hall yesterday.
Jury selection was scheduled for completion on
Friday, but continued into
yesterday.
Ryan’s older brother Jed
filed a lawsuit against the
Hospital of the University
of Pennsylvania in January
ONLINE
An interactive timeline of
the Ryan malpractice case
at dailypennsylvanian.com
2008 alleging that HUP departments and doctors acted negligently in performing
a lumbar puncture on Ryan
that caused her brain to herniate.
The procedure, which is
meant to test spinal fluid for
the presence of the meningococcal bacteria that cause
meningitis, was the second
lumbar puncture Ryan rec ei ve d at H U P w it h i n a
three-day period.
The suit alleges that this
additional treatment was
unnecessarily risky.
The Rya n fa mily seek s
$600,000 in compensator y
damages.
— Elizabeth Gormisky
Preston: health care
is not the problem
HEALTH | Prof says
smoking, not health
care, is responsible for
low life expectancy
BY MEG BEVILACQUA
Staff Writer
D e mo g r a p hy p r o f e s s o r
S a mu e l P r e st o n s a i d he
supports healthcare reform
— but unfortunately, his research doesn’t.
Two of Preston’s recent papers suggest that the United
States’ low life expectancy,
when compared to that of
other developed nations, is
not due to problems in the
medical system but to the
high rates of smoking in the
past.
Both papers have been cited by numerous media outlets, including the Wall Street
Journal and the Washington
Times, as potential ammunition for legislators who oppose healthcare reform.
The first paper, which was
written by Preston and 2009
College graduate Jessica Ho,
who is now a Demography
graduate student, indicates
that the U.S. medical system
ef fect ively ident i f ies a nd
treats heart disease and cancer, despite the country’s low
life expectancy compared to
other developed nations.
Preston and Ho found that
the U.S. is above average
a mong i ndust r ia l i zed nations in screening for cancer,
treating cancer and cardiovascular disease with high
survival rates and treating
high cholesterol and cardiovascular disease with medication.
Preston and Ho attribute
these successes to the aggressive treatment of these
diseases in the U.S. and state
that their findings are inconclusive regarding whether
the U.S. medical system is
cost-effective and whether it
does a good job of preventing
PRESTON
Penn professor
who wrote two
papers on the
causes of the
U.S.’ low life
expectancy
disease.
Both Preston and Ho said
they support healthcare refor m and hope their work
will not be used to undercut
reform attempts.
“There are plenty of good
rationales [for healthcare
reform] left, but this is one
t hat I don’t t h i n k shou ld
have been invoked to justify
healthcare reform,” Preston
said.
“Inefficiencies in the system, doctors’ incentives that
are not properly aligned with
patients’ well-being and fundamentally, a lack of healthcare for 47 million people,
seems extremely problematic.”
A second paper by Preston and researchers f rom
the University of California,
Berkeley show that this low
life expectancy may instead
be caused by for mer high
rates of smoking in the United States.
According to the paper, removing smoking-attributable
deaths for all countries increases the life expectancy
of U.S. women at age 50 by
2.6 years and improves the
ranking of U.S. women’s life
expectancies from 17th out
of 20 industrialized nations
to seventh.
For men, life expectancy
increases by 2.8 years and
me n’s r a n k i n g s i m p r o v e
from 14th to ninth among 20
industrialized nations.
Preston and Ho are working on a follow-up paper on
mortality rates for specific
age intervals among developed nations. Preston said
they hope the follow-up will
also help inform healthcare
reform attempts.
news
Speaking out on coming out
MINORITY AFFAIRS | New video features
students’ tales of coming out of the closet
BY MOHANA RAVINDRANATH
Staff Writer
W it h no sc r ipt a nd no
prompts, 12 current and former Penn students volunteered to share their most
personal coming-out stories
for the Lesbian Gay Bisexual
Transgender Center’s video,
“Closet Confessionals”.
The video’s first segment is
slated for release on the LGBT
Center’s web site in October,
which is also LGBT History
Month. It is filmed in the style
of a video-diary.
Not all participants selfidentified as LGBT — those
who didn’t recounted their
experiences having LGBT
friends and family.
“It was phenomenal to see
individuals open up,” said
LGBT Center Building Coordi-
nator Ninah Harris, who filmed
“Closet Confessionals.”
According to Harris, the videos are particularly geared toward people who are closeted
or questioning their sexuality,
a population that is “difficult
for [the center] to reach out
to.”
“We wanted to create a
space where people felt that
they could share their experiences,” she added.
Engineering senior Matt
Feczko, who founded Queer
Undergraduates in Engineering, Science and Technology
last year and is featured in
the video, has talked about
coming out many times on
various LGBT-related panels.
As a result, he said, his story
has evolved, but when he was
speaking into the camera, he
“told it the way [he] had told it
the first time, which was kind
of emotional.”
“I don’t remember ever having told my story on the same
emotional level,” he added.
Col lege ju n ior Ja son
Goodman, who also participated, said his segment was
a “stream of consciousness
about what it was like to come
out.”
He added that while filming,
he wasn’t really thinking about
how it was going to be broadcast to campus, but just spoke
naturally about coming out.
Goodman and Fezkco both
believe the film isn’t a promotional technique aimed
to recruit prospective LGBT
students, but instead an effort
to relate to LGBT or ally communities around the world.
“This is new media that is
personal and out there, and
people can access it from anywhere,” Goodman said.
College senior Marianne
Mondt, a member of Penn’s
LGBT community who participated in the project, said she
mostly talked about how even
though she came out in high
school, she didn’t come out at
Penn for a long time.
Mondt, who is half-Filipino,
said she also discussed racial
and religious stereotypes relating to the LGBT community. She explained that it is
particularly important for ethnic minorities and religious
people to come out in order
to break any stereotype that
LGBT people are religiously
immoral.
“Anyone questioning can,
from the privacy of their own
computer, listen to what other
people went through,” she
said, “and understand that
they’re not the only ones going through it.”
Penn Police launches hiring campaign
CRIME | Department
will hire three new
officers and keep a
list for future hires
BY JARED McDONALD
Staff Writer
The University of Pennsylvania’s Police Department is
the largest private security
force in the state with 116 fulltime sworn officers. With its
new hiring campaign, the Division of Public Safety plans
to maintain this number.
The campaig n focuses
on creating “a police force
representative of our community,” according to Capt.
Gerald Leddy, who organizes
staff and administrative services at Penn Police.
In addition to filling three
current vacancies, said Penn
Police Chief Mark Dorsey,
DPS plans to create a list of
potential officers that will
not be hired now, but could
immediately f ill vacancies
as current officers retire or
are other wise lost through
“natural attrition.”
Hiring campaigns such as
this one occur about once
ever y t wo ye a r s , D or sey
added.
DPS attracted potential
applicants through a posting
with Penn’s Human Resources, said Leddy.
Recent graduates of local
police academies and former
Philadelphia Police officers
are the main applicant pool,
he sa id , add i ng t hat DP S
also advertises the openings
in small community-based
newspapers.
Leddy explained that
once applica nts have met
DPS’ basic prerequisites —
a high-school degree or its
equivalent and a police certification — they are called in
for a panel interview, featuring a current officer as well
as a member of the broader
Penn community.
Such community members
are chosen from leadership
positions around the University. Dorsey gave the example of people involved with
Makuu — Penn’s black cultural center — and the College House system as prime
candidates.
The general question
asked of community members, Dorsey said, is: “Is this
person someone that I’m going to respect wearing the
badge?”
“We know what we’d like
to see in a police of f icer,”
Leddy said, but members of
the broader community know
what they’d like to see in a
police officer responding to
emergencies.
Candidates that clear the
first round of interviews are
asked back for second interviews, this time with Dorsey
and Vice President for Public
Safety Maureen Rush, Leddy
explained. From there, he
said, of f icers are hired in
accordance with current vacancies, and a list is created
to fill vacancies that might
arise in the future.
Officers that are hired are
then put through a threeweek training process to integrate them into the police
force, Leddy said.
Dorsey added that a probation period follows the training in order to ensure that
recently-hired officers are
“acclimating” to the community.
He also said even long-time
officers are subject to ongoing education and training.
“We continually work to be
the best we can be — all 116
of us,” Dorsey said.
Econ majors not
up, despite trend
BY OLIVIA JUNG
Staff Writer
Almost one-quarter of the
student body at Penn is pursuing a business or economics
major.
Although college admissions experts are saying that
business and economics are
in high demand because they
are considered disciplines that
will help students land jobs,
it is uncertain whether this
trend holds true for Penn.
Business has always been a
popular area of study at Penn,
with 23 percent of the student
body majoring in it, followed
by social sciences with 16 percent and engineering with 9
percent, according to Collegeboard.com.
College Confidential Senior
Advisor Sally Rubenstone
agreed that the struggling
economy is the “key catalyst
that has prompted more students” in choosing their major. Rubenstone said students
who choose to study business
or economics believe their degree “will boost their job prospects after graduation more
than a major in French literature or philosophy might.”
On the other hand, Educational Consultant and Admissions Strategist Steven
Goodman said the notion of
students preferring business
to other majors for its being
practical is true, though “not
the whole story.”
“It’s not an either-or situation — it’s not like you have
to study poetry or finance,”
he said. “There are things between poetry and finance, and
you can do both.”
He explained that “good
schools not only help students prepare for their careers but to think broadly for
what might be their careers
20 years down the road.”
Wharton School and College
of Arts and Sciences freshman Jessica Ng agreed with
Goodman, seeing the study
of business as an opportunity
that is more than just about
making money.
“Understanding the basics
of economics and business”
helps her gain better knowledge of issues such as developing trade agreements and
aiding corporations to invest
in lesser-developed countries. Ultimately, she said,
“business makes the world
go around.”
Furthermore, students who
choose not to pursue a degree
in business or a related field
do not need to completely negate the idea of work in the
financial sector.
Numbers published by Career Services show that in
2008, 55 percent of students
from the School of Engineering and Applied Science have
a career in financial services
and consulting.
“There are no Wharton[specific] jobs,” Career Services Director Patricia Rose
said. “You don’t have to be in
Wharton to get a job in business.”
U. promotes
more public
transit use
the summer when not commuting to campus frequently.
“A flexible subsidy probably
would encourage more [people]
to take the train,” Bishop said.
At the moment, Penn’s
Business Services is working
on short-term solutions and
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Currently, the University is
emphasizing education about
transportation options, said
Business Services spokeswoman Barbara Lea-Kruger.
According to Garofalo, about
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of a parking sticker on campus
is so high already, those who can
afford it will probably continue
to drive regardless.
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capturing flags and fun on Locust Walk
Penn Pecha Kucha
20 slides. 20 seconds per slide.
What could you say in 400 seconds?
What could you learn in 400 seconds?
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Chris Sha and Ben Oshlag, a second-year student in the School of Medicine, show off the trophy signifying their
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Grad student testifies at Peggy Sanday
Senate Pell Grant hearing talks rape in
the U.S.
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would be the largest restructuring of the financial-aid
system in several decades.
The bill awaits approval
from the Senate.
P iot r ow sk i , t he old e st
of six children, grew up in
Northeast Philadelphia in a
family that struggled financially but valued education.
She completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees
at Penn, able to attend because of the financial aid she
received from the University as well as city, state and
federal funds. Her siblings
also received grants to help
with their higher education
costs.
“I a m so t ha n k f u l t hat
there were financial aid resources available that have
allowed me, and my siblings,
to reach for our dreams,”
she said. Without the f inancial aid, “I would not be
who I am today — a young
woman pursuing a doctoral degree at one of the top
communication schools in
t he country.”
P iot r ow sk i w a s one of
three students to testify at
the field hearing of the Senate Committee on Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions, held at Temple University.
Ada lena Ba xter, a student at Cheyney University
spoke about having to work
4 0 hou r s a week to ea r n
money because she had not
received enough aid to cover
the cost of college, according to Piotrowski.
D.J. Ryan of Pennsylvania State University spoke
about learning the value of
financial aid after the funds
he had set aside for college
were depleted.
A pa rent a nd three experts on college costs also
testified.
Although Piotrowski said
she felt a little anxious before testifying, Casey “put
ever ybody right at ease,”
she said.
A representative of the
Senate committee contacted
Piotrowski’s advisor at the
Annenberg School for Commu n ic at ion , who r e c om mended the Ph.D. candidate
for the hearing.
“They were interested in
telling my story,” Piotrowski
said.
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terest in the issue are the only
ones who can really get the
message out there.”
In response to the recent
incidents of rape on campus,
one of which took place at a fraternity party on the 3500 block
of Locust Walk, Lurie said, “I
personally know the people in
that frat and I know that they
too pride themselves on being a
safe place for women to socialize … it is really shocking that
an event like that would occur
at their house.”
However, he added that at
the beginning of the year, it is
difficult to know who belongs
at a party and who doesn’t, because there are so many unfamiliar faces.
Lurie said it is important
to increase security within
on- and off-campus fraternity
parties — for instance, having
brothers check PennCards to
prevent unwanted attendees.
“We really take pride in having a comfortable environment
for both men and women,” Lurie said. “Our aim is to show
our reputation as a house that
people can trust.”
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A matter of
substance
EDITORIAL | It’s tough to find
substance in campaigns, and we hope
governance is approached differently
E
ver y year, when freshman elections roll around, we’re reminded
of the same thing — freshmen
don’t know Penn yet. That’s not a
criticism of the candidates or even
the process; it’s just a fact.
Last year, we endorsed freshman candidates,
hoping to find the few who ran on platforms
that covered issues beyond dining-hall food and
school spirit. The year before that, we urged
student government to hold freshman elections
in December so freshmen could get acclimated
before figuring out how to leave their mark on
campus. Neither were even close to being perfect solutions.
Ultimately, the substance of freshman elections worries us — and it worries the rest of
campus. The campaigns will come down to
the catchiest raps and the most memorable
YouTube videos. While we’re not surprised
— all elections, at any level, echo high-school
homecoming contests more than most politicos
would like to admit — we do admit that our
hopes were up a little bit this year. Idealism is
hard to quash.
To the freshmen running: Good luck to all of
you. If you don’t win your election, stay plugged
in to campus and its issues — you will find yourself a stronger candidate sophomore year if you
wish to run again and affect change through
student government. To those who win, congratulations, and remember that campaign
season is only two weeks out of your time at
Penn. Penn is not simple, and you’re going to
have to learn its ins and outs very quickly. We
hope you take your job with more seriousness
than is displayed in your campaigns.
Time for improvement
ON A ROLL | A relatively tight passing time often forces
students to choose between leaving class early or arriving late
O
nce a week , I face a
d i f f ic u lt c ho ic e: i n
which course do I need
a better grade, Class A
or Class B?
Class A often ends late, swallowing up
a good chunk of the prescribed 10-minute
passing period with a mandatory quiz. If
I leave early, my quiz grade will probably
drop by a point or two. But Class B takes
place six blocks away, and lateness earns
a penalty on my final grade.
Rock, meet hard place.
I’m not the first student to confront
this dilemma, and I know I won’t be the
last. While some insist that students
can easily cover the distance between
any two classes in fewer than the allotted 10 minutes, the experimental
data disagrees. Our sprawling campus,
ideal for long jogs (we love you, Penn
Relays!), poses a problem for those of
us who begin the day in DRL and end it
in McNeil, or Huntsman or the Solomon
Laboratories.
College senior Madeleine Schnur faced
this uncomfortable experience last year
with a schedule that necessitated a quick
departure from a neuroscience course
in order to reach a second class on time.
Besides finding it stressful, she lost a
valuable resource, since she couldn’t ask
her professor questions after class. The
student-professor relationship probably
suffered as well.
“I definitely felt disrespectful,” she
reflected, “trying to pack up before [the
first professor] had finished speaking,
and then to the other teacher, when I
walked in right after he had started
class.”
That’s frustrating.
I don’t mean to sound dramatic —
clearly the school won’t collapse if someone shows up to class a few minutes late,
and I’ve never heard of a class that students can fail based on tardiness alone.
However, the more students I’ve spoken
to, the more I realized that lateness constitutes a source of stress for a surprising
number of my peers, and it is often out
of their control. As I see it, two solutions
exist to this problem.
First, students need to leave class
on time, which depends largely on professors. Professors want to finish their
lectures, a more-than-understandable
sentiment, but those extra minutes can
deprive students of the time to reach
their seats in their next course. Sure,
we often look like the lazy, ill-mannered
ingrates that we are, shuffling papers
and zipping our backpacks five minutes
before class ends, but sometimes we actually have a legitimate reason to sprint
out the door. When reaching the next
class involves two flights of stairs, a set
of crowded double doors, six blocks of
walking, and somewhere between two
and 40 minutes lost in Steiney-D, you
lose the end of class just dreading the
commute.
Another solution would involve lengthening the passing period. Five more
minutes could reduce the minor panic
that ensues at 10 till (or 20 after) each
hour, allowing students plenty of time
to pack up, walk (or bike!) to their next
LINDSEY STULL
class and settle into a seat before the
professor begins speaking. Contrary to
what some may believe, students don’t
enjoy offending professors — fun activities include “partying” and “eating
full meals,” not “wondering if I’m losing
participation points in one or more of
my classes.”
This semester, as in previous semesters, I’ll alternate weekly between leaving one class early and arriving to the
next late. I’ll avoid eye contact with my
professors, slink out of or in the door and
try to participate as much as possible, attempting to prove that I’m not the slacker
I seem to be.
My dilemma isn’t apocalyptic, but
it qualifies as something that student
government or the administration could
definitely begin to solve, which I hope
they will. Robert Nelson, director of
Undergraduate Education in the Provost’s Office, told me that he has never
received a complaint about the time between classes; as Schnur told me, “I’m
willing to go on record that it sucks.” In
our fast-paced lives, a few more minutes
— to collect our thoughts and finish our
commutes — would go a long way.
lindsey stull is a College senior from
Oklahoma City, Okla. Her e-mail address is
[email protected].
‘Destination’ doesn’t have to be destiny
BIELER’S DAY OFF | The U.
Museum’s efforts to attract more
tourists don’t highlight its best assets
T
here is a fundamental difference between partying in your
f r iend’s house and at a club
downtown. Though you can do essentially the same thing at either
place, a club is a destination, a place that people travel to, that they seek out. But that does
not mean you should try to turn your house
into a club. This is something the University
of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology would do well to remember as
it considers the addition of dining and other
facilities in order to turn itself into a “destination.”
The University Museum has been undergoing a bit of a transition, first brought to attention last year when 18 researchers were
laid off, though about half were later rehired.
Recently, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported
the Museum intends to add enhanced dining
facilities, possibly along the lines of White Dog,
as part of an increased effort to draw tourists
SAM BIELER
to the museum. If the museum hopes to draw
more visitors, though, this is not the route to
take.
Before I go into that, let me say that whatever
changes are made, the University Museum is an
incredible institution. Director Richard Hodges
is correct when he says, “We [the museum]
are probably better known outside of Philadelphia than we are in it.” The museum is home
to unique and groundbreaking research. It has
an excellent set of permanent exhibitions, and
(more importantly) these collections were acquired fairly, not whisked away during a colonial
adventure. (You think this doesn’t happen? Ask
Greece if they ever got the Elgin Marbles back.)
But all this does not a destination make.
An ideal “destination” museum would be
something of the caliber of the Smithsonian
Institution, but not every museum can have a
Ben Stiller movie set there. Hodges suggests
the Fitzwilliam Museum of Cambridge University as a good model for Penn. With 300,000
yearly visitors it is certainly a closer match to
the Penn Museum’s 160,000. An even closer
sibling in attendance levels is the Harvard Museum of Natural History, with 175,000 this year.
These museums certainly don’t have better collections than Penn — I challenge you to name
one specific piece that you would just HAVE to
see at either of those, one famous piece around
which you could plan a visit. If you are coming
up blank, it’s with good reason. Their locations
give them an edge.
According to Elisabeth Werby, the Harvard
Museum’s executive director, Harvard’s museum benefits “from tourist interest in Harvard generally, as well as easy accessibility
by public transportation.” Hodges noted that
the University Museum’s location and parking
woes make travel difficult. To this I add that it is
located next to a massive hospital complex and
lurks in the shadow of the Palestra — not quite
aesthetically pleasing.
Though it pains me to say it, Harvard, located
in lovely Cambridge, has a little more grab then
Penn, the DMZ between West Philly and the
rest of the city. As for the Fitzwilliam, go ahead
and Google map that place. Note the verdant
fields, and the fact that Britain’s Cambridge is
also nicer than West Philly. The locales of these
two museums are tourist-friendly in a way that
the Penn Museum cannot match.
Nor should it have to. The Harvard Museum,
Penn’s closest relation in this mix, had its best
year yet and beat Penn only by about 15,000 visitors. Werby credits this success to a mix of additional exhibitions and an edgier photo collection.
One of the Penn Museum’s other initiatives is
to reach out and highlight itself more skillfully,
along the Harvard line, and this is a move to be
applauded. Online initiatives and more aggressive promotion, already in the works, should
easily be able to make up the difference in visitors between Penn’s museum and Harvard’s if
done right. But nobody visits a museum to try
the veal.
SAM BIELER is a College sophomore from Ridgewood, N.J. He is a member of the NEC. His e-mail
address is [email protected].
N e ws
Students fight for labor rights
Student Labor Action Project held a rally Friday
to protest the University’s investment in HEI
BY JOHN BANG
Staff Writer
“No more union busting,”
read one of the banners at the
Student Labor Action Project’s rally in front of College
Hall and Steinberg-Dietrich
Hall Friday.
The rally was intended to
levy pressure on the administration, particularly Penn
President Amy Gutmann and
Wharton Dean Tom Robertson, to withdraw the University’s investments in HEI, a
hotel management corporation.
HEI is involved in a labor
dispute with its employees
while they are working to organize a union. SLAP fliers
at the rally alleged employee
harassment and intimidation,
as well as compensation lower
than living wages.
SL A P has been supportSara Ma/DP Staff Photographer ing HEI employees’ efforts to
A student participates in a rally Friday to pressure the Penn administration to unionize and obtain acceptwithdraw the University’s investments in HEI, a hotel management company. able working conditions since
UA reviews SFS and housing
STUDENT GOVT. | Two new proposals are
geared toward helping international students
BY JENNY CHUNG
Staff Writer
Sunday night, the Undergraduate Assembly convened
for the first time at the newly-renovated DuBois College
House.
Representatives from the
5B, Penn’s five minority coalitions, and the Penn Consortium for Undergraduate
Women were in attendance to
speak about issues relevant
to their groups.
Prior to voting on any resolutions, UA members listened
to presentations f rom 5B,
the minority groups’ representatives outlined upcoming objectives and events.
After ward, attendees were
given the opportunity to present their proposals, followed
by a question-and-answer
session and a final vote.
The first resolution the UA
voted on was the Student Financial Ser vices Feedback
Proposal, introduced by Latino Coalition Vice Chairwoman and College junior
Wendy de la Rosa and Nursing junior and UA member GJ
Melendez-Torres in response
to the current absence of a
feedback system by which
students who visit SFS can
evaluate their experiences.
Once put into effect, the
proposal would implement
a student feedback system
to monitor and assess the
quality of ser vice provided
by SFS counselors. It would
a l so m a nd at e a n a n nu a l
student relations training
session for SFS staff members to standardize service.
De la Rosa said the measure will identify the counselors who perform their jobs
exceptionally well, as well as
expedite counseling sessions
and enhance the efficacy of
the overall process.
This proposal was passed
unanimously, with no abstentions.
The second resolution, advanced by UA member and
College sophomore Amanda
You ng , ad vo c at e d w i nt er
break housing for international students who live in
low-rise college houses. During past winter breaks, international students who did not
live in high-rise dormitories
had to live in the rooms of
friends who did.
In addition, the International Student Housing Resolution
aimed to provide a summer
mailing system for international students who lack U.S.
addresses while abroad over
summer break, resulting in
lost mail and problems with
loan applications and monthly
bill payments.
Lastly, the proposal advocated the abolition of the
International Student Orientation fee which charges ISO
participants $25 to $50 more
per night, in addition to the
New Student Orientation fee
they are already required to
pay for the extra two days
they live on campus before
NSO begins.
Because ISO is already optional, the resolution argued,
this additional expense may
deter international students
from attending the program.
A f ter much debate, t he
resolution was tabled to the
Housing, Sustainability and
Facilities Committee to be
discussed further.
T h e f i n a l it e m o n t h e
agenda was a request for
permission to print a letter
of support addressed to the
East Coast Asian American
Student Union in a press kit.
The proposal passed with a
unanimous vote and one abstention.
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Though at times raucous,
the protest was peaceful and
efficient. Within minutes of
its initiation, College sophomore and SLAP coordinator
Rosie Brown led a group of
students, as well as current
and former HEI employees,
inside College Hall. The delegation’s aim was to express
the employees’ grievances to
Gutmann and put pressure on
the administration to divest
from HEI.
“Although we welcome and
respect the right of the students and other members
of our community to voice
their concerns about labor
and other social issues,” University spokeswoman Lori
Doyle wrote in an e-mail, “the
resolution of this labor issue
... is between HEI and their
employees and we, as a University, do not get involved in
such disputes.”
Though Gutmann was not
in her office at the time of the
rally, the delegation left a letter signed by numerous employees with Secretary of the
University Leslie Kruhly.
Severa l H EI employees
were at the rally. An employee
of the HEI-owned Crystal City
Sheraton in Virginia drove
up to deliver the microphone
and took part in the chants to
show his support.
The chants ranged from “si
se puede” — meaning “yes,
we can” in Spanish — to “stop
giving our money to HEI.”
Breaks between the chants
lasted no more than 30 seconds.
Mark Gonzales, a self-ascribed humanitarian and a
speaker at the event, highlighted the personal importance of the rally to him,
saying it is “important to not
only look at human rights in
other countries, but also in
our own.”
“ We ju st w a nt a l iv i ng
wage,” he added.
After leaving the letter with
Wednesday, October 7, 7:00PM
Houston Hall, Class of ‘49 Auditorium
3417 Spruce Street
Kruhly, the group proceeded
down Locust Walk to gather
in front of Steinberg-Dietrich.
Again, a delegation of current
and former employees formed
within minutes to engage in a
discussion with Robertson.
Like Gutmann, Robertson
was not at his office at the
time of the rally, leaving the
group to deliver an additional
letter at the dean’s office.
Ferdi Lazo, one of the fired
employees present at the
rally, said he was laid off five
months ago for being an hour
late to work.
“We’re organizing and fighting to have a fair process,” he
said, adding that if HEI does
not respond to worker complaints in the next six months,
“we’ll have a boycott.”
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Injuries made
Bagnoli stay
with the run
ROSENSTEIN from page 10
heed of their hard work and
recognize the magic of the
Palestra. I urge you all to purchase season tickets and go to
The Line this season.
* * *
I’ve been lucky enough to
hear many alumni’s stories of
attending basketball games in
the Palestra when the historic
arena was packed with students and shaking with their
energy.
Some of them were former
Daily Pennsylvanian sports
writers; many others were average students that had little
interest in sports when they
got to Penn.
All of them say the Palestra
is the best place in the world to
watch a basketball game.
Most students aren’t lucky
enough to hear the stories I’ve
heard — the last-second victory over Saint Joseph’s in the
1979 Final Four season, the
84-80 victory in 1982 over thenNo. 10 Villanova, the renewal
of the streamers tradition
against St. Joe’s in 1993 (until
a 1985 NCAA ban, fans threw
streamers on the court after
their team’s first basket of
every game), and then-Brown
coach Glen Miller’s memorable gesture in 2003 when he
couldn’t hear the refs.
Perhaps most notable was
another night of streamers at
the Big 5’s 50th anniversary in
2006. The list goes on and on.
Today’s students don’t realize the profound impact the
Palestra can have on the college experience at Penn.
I don’t profess to know any
more about it than the rest of
you, except insofar as the stories I’ve mentioned. But I do
know that if you heard these
stories for yourself, you would
feel compelled to create your
own memories.
* * *
I know that students nowa-
Ted Koutsoubas/DP File Photo
Penn students receive their season tickets at The Line last year. The 2009
event is this week and the Quakers could use a better turnout.
days lack interest partly because the team has struggled
the last two seasons. The
average attendance rose from
5,167 during the 2006-07 Ivy
title season (22-8, 13-1 Ivy) to
5,508 in 2007-08 (13-18, 8-6 Ivy).
Undoubtedly the high morale
boosted the numbers, which
then dropped off after 07-08 to
4,018 last season (10-18, 6-8 Ivy).
The even worse record
in 08-09 does not bode well
for this year’s turnout, even
though the squad should be
improved.
But in reality, students
should be drawn to the Palestra regardless. The Cathedral of College Basketball is
the best place on campus to go
crazy after a stressful week.
Penn fans used to be the Ivy
equivalent of Duke’s Cameron
Crazies, and a packed Palestra
can be louder than Cameron
Indoor Stadium (which was
actually modeled after the
Palestra).
And without a doubt, a more
rowdy student section would
aid the team’s performance,
like it did during the hey day
of Penn hoops, and even as
recently as winter 2007.
“Everyone who’s ever
played in the Palestra believes
that our fans make a difference,” former Penn hoops
star and now Athletic Director
Steve Bilsky told the DP last
year after the announcement
of the new ticket policy.
* * *
Last year’s new policy attempted to revamp student interest. Among other changes,
it eliminated assigned seats
and provides various incentives for students to arrive at
games early. It also requires
students who turn out for The
Line Announcement to actually attend The Line in order
to sit directly behind the west
basket. This year they’ve also
added a $25 discount to Line
participants.
The numbers show it: the
policy did not bring out more
students. Although exact statistics on student ticket sales
were not available, the overall
numbers declined last season.
Now the Athletic Department has turned to the students themselves — even to a
former rabble-rousing blogger
— but Chang and the rest of
the Red and Blue Crew leaders are doing what they can.
Take notice. Keep an eye out
for The Line Announcement
this week, and spend this Friday night at the Palestra. Get
to know the place.
You’ll thank me later.
Noah Rosenstein is a junior political
science major from Hollywood, Fla., and
is Sports Editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. His e-mail address is rosenstein@
dailypennsylvanian.com.
Penn had thrown six completions on 13 attempts averaging
less than six yards per try.
The imbalanced playcalling
in the second half — 26 runs to
seven passes — does not immediately indicate a limited playbook, but rather capitalizing on
an effective ground game.
FANAROFF from page 10
Bagnoli shouldn’t have been
surprised that running the ball
confidence among the playworked. Dartmouth entered
ers.
the game giving up more than
Though the Quakers met
280 rushing yards per game,
and overcame their fair share worst in the Football Champiof obstacles Saturday — I can onship Subdivision.
personally attest to the fatigue
Quite frankly, the injuries
a drive to Dartmouth can
to quarterbacks just forced
instill — many of the aspects
Bagnoli to re-emphasize what
Bagnoli called “adversity” ac- he had been doing all along —
tually gave the Red and Blue a keeping it on the ground.
slight edge in the contest.
Other adversities also
Penn entered the game with- turned out to be more of an
out starting quarterback Keadvantage for the Quakers.
iffer Garton, while backups Kyle The rain pushed Dartmouth
Olson and Billy Ragone suffered to try and attack Penn’s stout
injuries that made it difficult for front seven and limited its
the Quakers to throw the ball.
ability to exploit the injury to
But how much did this really ef- cornerback Chris Wynn.
fect Penn’s offense?
What the Quakers faced
At halftime — before the
were obstacles, ones which
Ragone injury — the Quakers
in some ways actually led to
had run 18 times, averaging
a more effective gameplan.
more than 7.5 yards per carry.
If Bagnoli truly believes that
what the Quakers overcame in
Hanover was catastrophic —
and I’m not claiming that he is
also saying this privately to his
team — then he and his players
are in for a rude awakening.
Circle Nov. 14 as a day when
the adversity will likely be very
real. Penn will travel to Boston
to take on the Crimson in a
game that could have Ivy title
implications. There will surely
be more injuries in the secondto-last week of the season, the
drive is second in length only to
that of Hanover and the crowd
at Harvard Stadium should be
raucous.
Until then, Bagnoli, tone
down the extreme language.
Sure, a road win against a
much-improved Dartmouth
team is something to be proud
of. But to act like the fates
aligned against your squad will
lead only to false confidence and
further struggles as this squad
aims for an Ivy championship.
Neil Fanaroff is a senior economics
major from Potomac, Md., and a former
Design Editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian.
His e-mail address is dpsports@
dailypennsylvanian.com.
Katie Rubin/DP Senior Photographer
Bagnoli thought his team faced adversity in the passing game, especially with freshman QB Billy Ragone and senior
Kyle Olson banged up in the second half. Stil, the first-half pass-run ratio was 18-13 in favor of the run.
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m. soccer from page 10
achieved the same feat only
twice all season, as Mountain
Hawks goalie Jonathan Nydell
boasts a 1.06 goals against average.
Lehigh’s leading scorers,
freshman Austin Decker and
sen ior Ad a m Welch, have
only eight points apiece, but
Penn is not overlooking the
Mountain Hawks’ attack.
“They ’ve got some g uys
that are a handful on restarts
and they’ve got some guys
that can hurt you in the run
of play,” Fuller said.
Brandt mentioned that a
key for the Quakers will be
to compete for a full 90 minutes — or more if the game
reaches overtime — which
they have not done consistently of late.
“It’s just [about] a lot of
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heart,” he said. “It’s a lot of
just wanting to win and just Junior forward Tobi Olopade (25) and the Quakers lost to Lehigh, 2-1, last season, and haven’t beaten the Mountain
Hawks since 2005. Olopade will have to lead the Quakers’ attack against a stingy Lehigh defense.
refusing to lose.”
Lions make
history in
38-0 shutout
playing time with junior back
Senior quarterback M.A.
Gino Gordon injured and a Olawale spurred on the mofreshman as the Crimson’s mentous win, turning in a
third runner.
career-high 201 yards passing, two touchdowns and no
Surprise, surprise. Sat- interceptions.
u r d ay ’s 3 8 - 0 v ict or y over
Another senior stepped up
hapless Princeton (1-2, 0-1) for the Lions in Princeton,
was a ver y historic one for N.J., but on the other side of
the Columbia football squad the ball.
(2-1, 1-0), which is currently
Linebacker Corey Cameron
tied atop w ith conference notched a team-high six solo
with Harvard and Cornell.
tackles on his way to helping
The v ictor y ma rked the the defense post its first Ivy
first time since 2003 that the shutout since 1998.
Lions have won their League
Cameron has been rewardopener.
ed handsomely for his efforts,
And 38 points is the largest getting not just the win on his
margin of victory Columbia has team’s record but Ivy League
produced since a 44-0 trounc- Defensive Player of the Week
ing of Fordham in 1972.
honors also.
Ivy football from page 10
Murphy got the most out of
the third-string tailback who
started in 2007.
“We certainly rode him [in
the win over Lehigh],” Murphy told The Crimson. “He
gave us a lot of juice on offense.”
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Tuesday, october 6, 2009
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Last loss forgotten
M. Soccer | Having graduated 12 players,
Quakers making a new statement against Lehigh
BY ARI SEIFTER
Staff Writer
Lehigh
5-3-2
Tonight,
7:30 p.m.
At this time last year, the Penn
men’s soccer team entered a
matchup at Lehigh with an undefeated 7-0-3 record.
The Mountain Hawks prevailed, 2-1, in double overtime,
but after the Quakers graduated
12 seniors, they aren’t consciously seeking revenge in tonight’s
7:30 p.m. rematch at Rhodes
Field.
“It’s a new group of guys, so
we kind of just need to make
a statement for ourselves this
yea r,” sophomore defender
Thomas Brandt said. “Just to
get a win under our belt would
be really good getting back into
Ivies.”
Penn has not defeated Lehigh
since 2005 — before any of the
current Quakers were on the roster — and their in-state foes will
likely provide a stiff challenge
again this season.
As a barometer, the Mountain
Hawks lost, 1-0, to Princeton and
tied Brown, 1-1, in the first week
of September.
But since then they have
recorded several impressive
performances, including a 3-2
victory over then-No. 24 College of Charleston and a 1-1 tie
against Penn State, who crushed
the Quakers in Happy Valley, 5-0,
just last week.
“They’ve been a very good
Rhodes Field
team for a number of years now,”
Penn coach Rudy Fuller said.
“It’s always a very big regional
game for us, and hopefully we’ll
be up for the challenge.”
Fuller said his team straightened out its defensive kinks
against Cornell Saturday. Now
the challenge for the Quakers
will be to break the unyielding
Lehigh defense.
The Red and Blue have recorded at least two goals in
six of nine games this season,
but Lehigh’s opponents have
Sophomore
defender Jake
Levin is one of
the returning
players from last
year’s squad
and is a leader
on the Quakers’
defense. He will
be responsible
for stopping Lehigh’s talented
freshman Austin
Decker.
Andrew Townley/DP
Senior Photographer
SEE M. SOCCER PAGE 9
Bagnoli exaggerated adversity
Countdown
to the Line
3
M. SOCCER
Friday, October 9
The Palestra
At The Line,
students spend
a night in the
Palestra to earn
lower-level
season tickets.
NEIL FANAROFF
A
Hey Penn
students:
get in Line
NOAH ROSENSTEIN
A
n alarmingly large percentage of
current Penn students are on track
to graduate having never attended a
basketball game nor even seen the
insides of the Palestra, “College basketball’s
most historic gym,” as the great PA announcer
John McAdams famously coined it.
You don’t know what you’re missing.
Thankfully, a small group of dedicated students, led by former Fire Glen Miller blogger
Justin Chang, has worked hard to improve
turnout at this year’s Line (Penn’s traditionlaced season-ticket event which takes place
Friday) and boost overall student attendance
at sporting events, especially basketball
games.
I commend Chang and company for their efforts — chalking the walk, passing out flyers,
hanging banners and even e-mailing freshmen with a “Line Survival Guide” — but they
still have to prove they can be effective. I hope
all Penn students (especially freshmen) take
Katie Rubin/DP Senior Photographer
Junior running back Bradford Blackmon and the Quakers’ backfield powered their way to 288 yards on the ground as Penn
was in control throughout its 30-24 victory over Dartmouth, yet coach Al Bagnoli insisted they overcame much adversity.
fter three years of interviewing coaches,
you begin to recognize buzzwords
for the misleading mediadirected language commonly
referred to as “coach speak.”
Understating the importance of losses and talking up
inferior opponents are two of
the most recognizable directions this language can take.
So is the term Al Bagnoli kept
returning to in the postgame
press conference Saturday
after the Quakers defeated
Dartmouth, 30-24.
“We had to overcome a little
adversity,” he said with regards to having his top three
quarterbacks injured.
Talking in such extreme language can prevent a team from
analyzing its faults and moving
in a positive direction. If Bagnoli and the Quakers truly believe that they had to overcome
adversity to gain this win, they
have a tough road ahead.
Bagnoli came back to the
word “adversity” repeatedly.
For the sake of the Quakers’
season, however, I hope he
didn’t mean that term literally. Look up “adversity” in
the thesaurus, and you’ll find
synonyms like “catastrophe”
and “disaster.”
That said, it’s easy to see
why any coach would talk
about his team overcoming
adversity. Crediting your team
with winning in the face of adversity makes every win seem
more impressive and inspires
SEE FANAROFF PAGE 8
SEE ROSENSTEIN PAGE 8
Crimson Ho-pping
back on the field
Ivy Football notebook | After last season’s
injury, Harvard halfback puts up big numbers
Pete Lodato/DP Senior Photographer
After spending his junior season in obscurity when injuries
forced him to the sideline, Harvard senior running back Cheng
Ho is once again taking center
stage.
The Taiwan native racked up
145 total yards, 132 on the ground
and 13 in the air, while leading
the Crimson (2-1, 1-0 Ivy) to a 28-
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PENN at Dartmouth
30
24
Lafayette at Yale
BY eli cohen
Staff Writer
The Red and Blue Crew is working hard to promote The Line
with new initiatives like dressing Ben Franklin’s statue.
IVY football WEEKEND at a glance
Saturday, October 3
14 win over Lehigh (0-4) this past
Saturday.
Ho got a chance to come off
the bench after two of Harvard’s
highly-rated backs couldn’t play
— one because of an injury and
the other because of a funeral.
And Crimson head coach Tim
31
28
14
Cornell at Colgate
14
Rhode Island at Brown
20
Harvard at Lehigh
28
23
45
Columbia at Princeton
38
0
SEE IVY FOOTBALL PAGE 8
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