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FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 2013
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Gutmann’s compensation exceeds $2 million
Penn’s Million Dollar Club: 2011 Compensation
Ralph Muller
CEO, Health System
Arthur Rubenstein
Former Executive Vice President, Health
System; former dean, Med School
Gutmann’s compensation is
almost 12 times greater than
the average full professor’s pay
in 2010-2011
BY SETH ZWEIFLER
Senior Staff Writer
Amy Gutmann
Penn President Amy Gutmann
has officially joined the $2-million club.
Gutmann received a $2,091,764
compensation package in 2011,
according to the University’s
most recent tax filing. That
total marks the first time
that her compensation,
long a mong t he t op
ranks of private univer sit y pr e sident s ,
h a s su r p a s s e d t he
$2-million mark.
Gut m a n n’s 2 011
compensation comes
as a 43-percent hike
from the $1,462,742 she
earned in 2010 — the
largest calendar year
salary bump she has received throughout her
presidency. Much of that increase was due to her base salary
growth, which rose from $914,724
in 2010 to $1,078,016 in 2011.
Apart from a slight drop in compensation in 2009, Gutmann’s sal-
President
Michael Sean Grady
Charles Harrison Frazier Professor of
Neurosurgery
Garry Scheib
Chief Operating Officer, Health System
Kristin Gilbertson
Former Chief Investment Officer
Paul Marcotte
Surgeon, associate professor of
neurosurgery
William C. Welch
Vice Chair, Department of Neurosurgery
Peter Quinn
Senior Vice President, Health System
Abraham Shaked
Director, Penn Transplant Institute
Joseph Serletti
Chief, Division of Plastic Surgery
Kevin Mahoney
Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, Health System
Elizabeth Johnston
Executive Director, Clinical Practices
Keith Kasper
Senior Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer, Health System
ary has increased steadily since
she came to the helm at Penn.
Her 2011 package marks a more
than 170 -percent increase from
the $767,030 she received in the
2005 fiscal year, her first year at
the University.
Because of lag times in Internal Revenue Ser v ice repor ting
requirements,
2011 is
the most recent year for which
Penn’s compensation totals are
available.
Compensation data for each Ivy
League institution in 2011 is not
yet available, but Gutmann has in
SEE COMPENSATION PAGE 9
President Amy Gutmann’s
compensation over the years
$2,091,764
$1,321,040
$1,462,742
$1,367,004
2008
2009
2010
2011
Penn China Center gets approval
The Penn Wharton China Center was originally
supposed to open in early 2013 but has been delayed
BY TVISI RAVI
Staff Writer
Penn is finally on its way
to open a center in China —
now set for January 2015.
O ver t he su m mer, t he
Universit y completed a ll
necessary registration with
the Chinese gover nment ,
including obtaining a business license, for the Penn
China Center. The center
was or ig i na l ly supposed
to be ready for use early
this year, but was delayed
because of uncertainty in
securing a location and donations.
T he Ch i na Cent er has
been an ongoing collabo ration between President
A my Gutmann, Vice Provost Vincent Price and all
12 school deans for the past
two years.
“Penn is deeply commit-
ted to its engagement in
China,” Gutmann said in
a press release. Penn has
over 15,000 alumni in Asia,
and in May, Gutmann travelled to Hong Kong to host
an alumni event.
The current timeline for
the project includes finding a permanent building
for the center by the next
month.
M a n a g i ng D i r e c t or o f
the China Center Jef frey
Bernstein added that the
University is looking for a
site that will include “some
classrooms, study rooms,
staff areas and a reception
area,” among other things.
Negotiation for a site is already in process.
The idea for the center
came about in light of China's growing economy and
Penn’s growing presence
in China.
“Penn is already doing
a lot in China, but it has
not been institutionalized,”
Ber nstein said. “ Tr ue to
Penn’s ver y cautious ap proach and concern about
qua l it y, we a re t a k i ng a
SEE BEIJING PAGE 3
Priscilla de Gachons/DP File Photo
The Penn Wharton China Center in Beijing is a project that President Gutmann has
worked on with other senior administrators for the past two years.
Funding cuts damage research Memorial service
Researchers may have to end life-saving
enterprises due to lack of monetary support
BY WILL MARBLE
Staff Writer
For researchers today,
perfect isn’t good enough.
“Even w ith a per fect
score, in a highly competitive world, we're still being
cut,” Chris Hunter said.
“Even if you get a perfect
score, that doesn't mean
you get what you ask for
or what they recommend.”
Hunter, the chair of the
Department of Pathobiology in the School of Veterinary Medicine, reapplied
for a grant that has funded
six graduate students in
his lab for over 15 years.
Despite receiving the highest score possible on the
grant application, the National Institutes of Health
grant was cut and can now
fund only five students.
Hunter ’s stor y is far
from unique. Nearly six
months after a package of
massive automatic spending cuts to the federal
budget — known as the sequester — went into effect,
the scientific community is
feeling the squeeze.
Stopping the bleeding
R esea rch at Penn is
heav ily relia nt on federal funding, which constituted 82 percent of the
University’s $874 million
in research grants in fiscal year 2012. Over half
of research awards come
from the Department of
Health and Human Services, which oversees the
The top three things you need
to know about the (serious lack
of) research funding:
Want to apply for a grant? Get
ready for a rewrite. The National
Institutes of Health is so tight on money
that it will only fund grants that have
been reviewed, revised and resubmitted,
so break out the red pens.
Private grants can't make up the
difference. As one of our very own
grad students, Shaun O'Brien, said,
"There's no stockholder that's going to
… give you $100 million to throw down
the drain, no strings attached."
All is not lost. People pushing for
funding say Congress is slowly
coming around — but don't expect it to
change anytime soon. Progress is moving at a "glacial pace," Dawn Deitch of
Penn's government office said.
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for Wendy Shung to
be held Saturday
The service will be
at Chinese Christian
Church and Center, 1101
Vine St. in Chinatown
BY HARRY COOPERMAN
Staff Writer
A memorial service will be held
this weekend for second-year
Graduate School of Education
student Wendy Shung, who died
Aug. 19.
The service will be held at 6:30
p.m. on Saturday, at the Chinese
Christian Church and Center in
Chinatown at 1101 Vine St. A collection will be taken for Shung’s
family at the service.
Students received word of
Shung’s death in an email sent to
former Hill College House resi-
dents on Monday. Her death was
ruled a suicide by the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office.
While at Penn, Shung was president of GSE’s student government
and a graduate advisor at Hill.
In May, she received a Master of
Science in Education. Over the
summer, she began a program by
which she could obtain a Master of
Philosophy and become a licensed
professional counselor.
Before Penn, she received her
bachelor’s degree in mechanical
engineering and biomedical engineering from Carnegie Mellon
University.
Anyone who has any questions about the upcoming memorial service should contact Maria
Kim, one of Shung’s friends from
Carnegie Mellon, at myk28@
n
drexel.edu.
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We know what you engineered last summer
RHex
Inspired by the six-legged indestructible cockroach, RHex is a robot that can jump,
flip and climb, exhibiting a key set of behaviors known as parkour behaviors.
Created in engineering professor Daniel Koditschek's lab with the help of both graduate
and undergraduate researchers, RHex is important because of its ability to handle
diverse types of terrain, from rocky to sandy. RHex could one day be sent to sites with
too much radiation for humans, to war zones and even to outer space.
Wax Cell
Phone Chip
Milo Martin, associate professor of computer and information science at the School of
Engineering and Applied Science, and his students worked to create models for a wax cell
phone chip. Cell phones are more commonly used for short bursts of time to check texts or
email, so including wax in cell phone chips takes advantage of the way phones are used.
The wax allows the chip to do ‘sprints,’ meaning that it can remain hotter for longer than it
would normally be able to. This way a smaller chip can do more work. When the user puts
the phone away and the chip can stop ‘sprinting,’ the wax allows the heat to be released
more slowly — meaning the phone won't be as hot.
While the chips that Martin, his students and the University of Michigan collaborators are
now building are currently experimental, they hope to someday make it commercial.
Nanocrystals
Nanocrystals are mysterious, governed by both the laws of quantum mechanics and
Newtonian physics. But Engineering professors Christopher Murray and Cherie Kagan
have begun to understand these tiny particles more, so that they now can directly
control how the crystals are arranged. This may have a big impact on the future, as
being able to control the nanocrystalline structures might allow scientists to
"program matter" for custom uses.
Imagine a circuit powered by light instead of electricity. Engineering professor Nader Engheta
Engheta founded a field based around this idea of optical circuitry, called metatronics. This new technology consists of nanochips made of synthetic materials called
metamaterials, that have the characteristics of electric circuits, but instead of conducting electricity, they conduct light. Engheta, as part of a team that included
Engineering professor Cherie Kagan, experimentally confirmed that these circuits
can work in the same wavelength as telecommunications, opening vast possibilities
for information to be transferred more quickly and at a higher bandwidth.
Photos from top to bottom: courtesy of Aaron Johnson, Amanda Suarez, courtesy of Christopher Murray
Kagan
Metatronics
Graphic by Brenda Wang, Emily deLisle and Zoe Goldberg
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Penn opted
against campus
in Beijing
BEIJING from page 1
more deliberate approach.”
The center w ill prov ide
many resources, including
teaching students who study
abroad, creating more internship and job opportunities, allowing professors to
do more extensive research
and helping to strengthen
Penn’s brand in China.
“The center must be useful for our mission at Penn
a n d W h a r t o n ,” D i r e c t o r
of the Penn China Center
John Zhang said. “It has to
be something that can really ref lect the value that
we stand for and the brand
name we have in China.”
Unlike other U.S. colleges,
such as Duke University and
New York University, Penn
will not be offering a degree
program in China, nor will it
build a campus there.
“For Penn to offer a degree program in China, you
do have to tea m up w it h
someone else, and you lose
control over your branding.
You lose control over what
you can teach and the kind
of degree that those people
will get,” Zhang said.
Vice Provost for Global Initiatives Ezekiel Emanuel stat-
ed that having global campuses
is not something that the University wishes to pursue anywhere, and not just in China.
“We are in the education
a nd r ese a r ch busi ness ,”
Emanuel said. “Not in the
real estate business.”
For now, Bernstein and
Zhang continue to work with
University officials to finalize
and approve budget plans, find a
permanent site and redesign it.
‑“We’ve been working on
this for a long time to define
what the center is like and
why we need to go there,”
Zhang said. “It’s a huge effort, especially when you do
something in a totally different environment, but at
this point, it looks like everything is falling into place.”
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Summer of our discontent
Sorry to be Kurt | The reason you won’t see me dumping Russian vodka down the drain anytime soon
T
he gay and lesbian community
has been dumping Russian vodka this summer
to protest a curtailment of
rights in that country. But are
those efforts going down the
drain along with the vodka?
Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed
several anti-gay bills into law.
One essentially criminalizes
any pro-gay publication as
propaga nda. A nother a llows gays, lesbians or allies
to be arrested and detained
for up to two weeks. Finally,
Russian-born children can
no longer be adopted by gay
couples or in any country that
allows gay marriage.
As far as I can tell, these
developments went largely
unnoticed in the U.S. until
a polemic op-ed by Harvey
Fierstein was published in
The New York Times calling
for a boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi,
Russia. Subsequently, Queer
Nation called for a worldwide
boycott of Russian vodka,
and the #dumpstoli meme
was born.
So why vodka specifically?
Well, Russia is famous for
its vodka and anyone who’s
listened to drink orders at
Woody’s k nows that gays
have a proclivity for it.
‘‘
Parties where
people buy Russian
vodka only to then
pour it out are
absurd.”
But the notion of pouring out already purchased
Russian vodka is a bit silly.
Parties where people buy
Russian vodka only to then
pour it out are absurd — the
money has already gone to
the manufacturers.
While the boycott has succeeded in raising awareness,
the philosophy of it is misguided —the logic employed
by the supporters is that you
stop buying Russian vodka
because that will squeeze the
Russian government and coerce it to change its policies.
Let’s think about that for a
second.
Exports of vodka account
for a miniscule fraction of
Russian GDP — more than
half of which comes from natural resources. Is it realistic
to think that Putin or members of the Duma are going to
care about the boycott?
The people that end up getting hurt are the owners of
Russian vodka companies.
Yes, some of these people
are rich and may have some
influence in Russia. But past
experience has shown that
having wealth does not ex-
empt you from potentially
dubious prosecution in Russia. Is it fair of us to demand
that Val Mendeleev, the CEO
of Stolichnaya Vodka, put his
freedom on the line to protect
his company and speak out
for gay rights?
E ven if Va l Mendeleev
were anti-gay — and based
on a recent open letter he
wrote, there’s good reason
to think he isn’t — I wouldn’t
support the boycott of Stoli.
As a gay man I don’t mind
eating at Chick-fil-A even
though the chairman S. Truett Cathy gives money to antigay causes. Do I agree with
him? Of course not. But I fully
support the freedom in our
country that allows him to
waste his money on whatever
cause he wants — even if it’s
one that potentially would
have a negative impact on
my life.
On top of that, we don’t
know the political views or
causes supported by the vast
majority of brands or producers that we buy products
from. How do I know that
the proprietor at a mom and
pop shop doesn’t devote his
spare time to taking away my
rights?
So when should we be using our “dollar votes” to exert
influence?
Boycotts should be re served for when the production or manufacture of the
product itself involves something that we object to. The
classic example would be
the boycott of tuna that was
fished in a way that killed millions of dolphins. The boycott
successf ully changed the
purchasing practices of the
three largest tuna companies
in the world. Another clear
example would be manufacturing that involves child
labor — boycotting products
produced with child labor
could force the companies to
reconsider their labor policies.
Kurt Mitman
Of course we should do
something about the loss of
rights in Russia. But instead
of dumping vodka, maybe
we should be trying to get
President Obama or Secretary Kerry to engage with
Putin on the issue, instead of
shutting down lines of communication. Until then, I’ll
still drink my Stoli and chow
down at Chick-fil-A and be
happy that I live in a country
where we have the freedom
to do so.
Kurt Mitman is a 7th-year
doctoral student from McLean,
Va. Email him at kurt.mitman@
gmail.com or follow him
@SorryToBeKurt. “Sorry To Be
Kurt” appears every Friday.
That’s so Asian
The Casual Observer | All too often, society fails to appropriately toe the line between comedy and racism
G
row ing up, I
was always told
wa l k i ng away
was better than
p ut t i n g u p a
fight. When I encountered
Asian stereotyping — sometimes bordering on racism — I
would ignore it, trying to be a
model for “words will never
hurt me.”
But last week, a movie I
stumbled upon while on a long
transatlantic flight made me
realize the fatal flaw of my
aloof attitude.
I started watching “21 and
Over,” thinking that it would
be another trashy comedy
that I would get some decent
laughs out of; I was wrong. The
movie focuses on two friends,
Casey and Miller, who are taking their old buddy from high
school, Jeff, out for his 21st
birthday, which happens to be
the day before Jeff’s important medical school interview.
As you can already guess, Jeff
has to be Asian — duh.
I ended up staring blankly
at the screen while the movie
played. Instead of laughing, I
was horrified by what ended
up being such a one-dimensional depiction of an AsianAmerican in 2013.
You’d think that we would
have come a long way since
the infamous Long Duk Dong
from “Sixteen Candles” of
1984. But in some ways, Jeff
from “21 and Over” is just a
modernized version of Long
Duk Dong who speaks good
English.
Coming from a few generations of doctors, Jeff is a
pre-med student (of course).
He is shown as a weak-willed
student who only does what
his parents want him to do —
study science diligently and
go to medical school — and
who struggles to “enjoy” life.
As viewers, we aren’t laughing with Jeff. Instead, we’re
laughing at him as he strug-
gles to handle his alcohol
(that’s so Asian, right?), passes out and is thrown from the
third story of a building as his
friends try to get him home.
Of course, Hollywood creates a stereotypical version
of Jeff’s dad to vilify — here,
the soul-crushing, stern Asian
father who keeps his son on
track to be a doctor with intimidation.
When Jeff reveals to his
friends towards the end that
he doesn’t want to be premed anymore, they help him
gather the courage to tell his
father, who eventually retreats like a defeated villain
only after Jeff’s friend Miller
punches him for rejecting his
son’s lack of interest in medicine. The movie pits “Asian
culture” against “American
culture,” with American values ultimately emerging “victorious.”
Of course, some claim the
movie was just trying to be
funny — and maybe I do just
need to learn to enjoy life like
Jeff — but is it fair to allow a
movie to subtly ingrain racist
stereotypes into its viewers?
‘‘
In some ways,
Jeff from ‘21 and
Over’ is just a modernized version of
Long Duk Dong.”
This July, the band Day
Above Ground released a
song, “Asian Girlz.” While the
band would later say “We are
not racist,” dismissing the
song as a joke, a good chunk of
the lyrics are a laundry list of
stereotypically Asian things.
How many times can society
get away with labeling racism
as comedy?
Clearly, our views of AsianAmericans are still archaic
and undeveloped. If other minorities can have developed
characters — think Kurt
from “Glee” or Sophia from
“Orange is the New Black” —
why can’t Asian-Americans?
If you look at Penn’s Asian
student body, we may embody
some of the stereotypes, but
we also show how wrong they
can be. We really don’t look
alike, we aren’t all just biology or BBB majors, some of
us dance and sing and some
of us even write for the school
newspaper.
So what can we do to address pervasive stereotyping?
According to Jerry Liu, a 2013
Penn graduate and currently
a web producer at a Philadelphia TV station, preventing
more entertainment like “21
and Over” requires a two-fold
approach.
Standing up against stereotypical portrayals of Asian-
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Americans alone isn’t enough.
“We also need [to] support
Asian-Americans who want
to take the dive into … nonstereotypical Asian activities,” he told me.
My epiphany on my flight
made me realize the danger
of my apathy towards Asian
stereotyping in everyday life.
Relying on stereotypes for a
punch line isn’t funny, it’s lazy.
And so is failing to speak out.
Robert Hsu is a College and
Wharton junior from Novi, Mich.
His email address is rohsu@
sas.upenn.edu. Follow him @
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Penn offers online math
course to high schools
The initiative reaches
nine high schools,
including Friends Select
School in Philadelphia
BY BRYCE ARBOUR
Staff Writer
S t ud e nt s at n i ne h ig h
schools will have access to
a Penn professor and teaching assistants as part of a
new Massive Open Online
Course initiative which begins this school year.
The initiative, announced
by Provost Vincent Price,
will offer math courses to
seniors at d i f ferent hig h
schools across the country. The schools include the
F r iends Select School i n
Philadelphia, the Middlesex
County Academy of Science
in New Jersey and Stanford
Online High School in California, among others.
“We have teamed up with
nine high schools for them
to use Rob Ghrist’s Coursera Single Variable Calculus
course in their 12th grade
Calculus courses,” Edward
R ock , Pen n’s d i rector of
open course initiatives, said
in an email.
The online offering will
not completely replace the
schools’ existing Calculus
courses but rather supplement them. The plan is to
offer Coursera as a teaching
tool for high school teachers.
“In these courses, I will
not be actively teaching the [high school] teachers
w ill use my lectures and
materials in a ‘f lipped’ or
‘blended’ setting,” said Professor Robert Ghrist, who
teaches math and engineering at Penn, in an email.
“ T he st udent s w i l l get
individualized instruction
[from their teacher], but using a Penn professor for the
lectures. A Penn TA w ill
b e a ssist i ng t he cl a sses
through online forums, as
per Coursera,” he added.
Ghrist indicated that this
program is being instituted
as a crucial improvement
to existing Advanced Placement calculus courses.
“I — and many other professors — a m f r ustrated
with how poorly the AP Calc u lus pr og r a m pr epa r es
students for math,” Ghrist
said. “I have created this
on l i ne ver sion of M AT H
104 to help ‘undo’ the damage that the AP curriculum
does.”
However, online course
offerings like this are not
common nationwide, nor are
they expected to become
prevalent in the near future.
This pilot will run throughout t he 2 013 -2 014 school
year and will be evaluated
nine months from now.
“I doubt that this will become widespread,” Ghrist
sa id. “ This is a n ex per iment. But, fingers crossed,
we'll keep going.”
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NIH, one of the sequester’s
hardest-hit agencies.
Recent headlines have proclaimed doomsday scenarios
for scientific competitiveness
in the United States. A survey of scientists in the United
States, released Thursday by
the American Society for Bio-
chemistry and Molecular Biology, found that 64 percent of
scientists with grants in 2010
had their funding decreased
since then. University administrators nonetheless remain
optimistic about the state of
research at Penn.
“Sponsored research at
Penn, I’m proud to say, remains very robust,” Provost
Vincent Price said. But still,
he added, "The environment
for sponsored research has
been challenging, particular
in the National Institutes for
Health, and much of Penn’s
research draws f rom the
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to find new ways to monetize
research to blunt the impact
of federal cuts. Especially in
late-stage medical and pharmaceutical research, corporate partnerships can be a
bountiful source of scarce research dollars. And researchers have been applying for
more grants from nonprofit
foundations.
“Everyone's trying to diversify. Applying to foundations, applying for cancer
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the bleeding, but it can’t heal
the wound. Much of the University’s research portfolio
consists of basic scientific
research, several steps (and
many years) away from lucrative industry opportunity.
“In the present environment … a large company,
especially by needing to be
responsive to stockholders,
isn't able to do far-upstream
research,” Vice Provost for
Research Dawn Bonnell said.
“It used to be, 20 years ago,
there was a pipeline … and
they don't have the ability to
do that any longer.”
The model for privatelysp on sor e d r e se a r c h h a s
changed, w ith companies
now investing less in basic
research. Nowadays, companies are more hesitant to
support basic research and
want to be “more actively involved in how the research
progresses," she added.
Another shortfall of private
sponsorships is that they often do not include the same
level of overhead support
that federal grants provide
— which was up to 60 percent
of the grant amount — and
non-governmental grants are
often only a fraction of the
size of federal awards.
Although the University is
facing significant cuts overall, there is at least one school
that calls itself "sort of a happy story."
“Our research expenditures have been going up over
the past few years with significant growth,” said Kathleen
Stebe, deputy dean for research in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
“Our portfolios are diversified
over federal agencies, industry, private funds, and none of
them are drawn from any one
particular sector."
'The work will stop'
Ben Abella, a doctor who
resea rches resuscit ation
techniques for patients whose
hearts stop, often gets unexpected phone calls from all over
the country asking about the
techniques he has developed.
“About three or four years
ago, I got a call from Iraq,”
he said in his office Thursday morning. An army officer
had found Abella’s number on
the internet, and frantically
called him when one of his
soldiers went into cardiac arrest. Abella quickly explained
to the officer what to do to
prevent death and permanent
brain damages from setting
in. And it worked.
“The soldier made a full recovery," he said. “It's probably
the longest distance health
care I've ever delivered.”
Abella, the vice chair of research in the Department of
Emergency Medicine at the
Hospital of the University of
Pennsylvania, is now at risk of
having to shut down some of his
life-saving research operations.
He estimates that he receives
about one-half to two-thirds
of his funding from the NIH.
One of his largest projects
focuses on CPR tra ining
in the community, and has
already demonstrated lifesaving results, according to
surveys he administers to
study participants. However,
the type of grant that funded
the research has been eliminated from the NIH’s repertoire, leaving Abella with few
options.
“It will literally be impossible,” he said. “Unless we are
able to repackage our work
into different formats that
will be interesting for other
parts of the NIH, the work
will stop.”
Abigail Cohen, the assistant dean for research in
the School of Nursing, also
said there were significant
research undertakings that
have been cut due to a loss
of sponsorship from the NIH,
and opportunities for new faculty have dwindled because
generally only grant applications that have already been
submitted and rev ised at
least once are getting funding.
“The rookies are going to
have a much harder time,”
she said. “They're going to
have to go twice because everyone else has to go twice.”
Advocating for a cure
Staff at the University’s
Washington office routinely
meet with Congress members and their staff to persuade them of the importance
of research funding to institutions of higher education and
the economy as a whole. The
process, however, moves “almost like a glacial pace,” Director of the Office of Government
and Community Affairs Dawn
Deitch said.
The Penn Science Policy
group, spearheaded by graduate students in biomedical
sciences, has also undertaken initiatives to promote
science funding. Group members met with staffers from
Sen. Pat Toomey’s office over
the summer.
“We're just trying to raise
the engagement of faculty and
students on campus because
last January, a lot of people
didn't know what was going
on,” Shaun O’Brien, a sixthyear immunology graduate
student, said in reference to
the “fiscal cliff” that first introduced the sequester.
“I've never been involved in
advocacy before,” Abella said
of the meeting with Toomey
staffers. "I've just kept my
nose in the grandstand of biomedical research. But I can't
stay silent.”
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Penn Alexander School waitlist system will change
School District will
contact parents directly
with a letter explaining
new admissions protocol
BY SARAH SMITH &
WILL MARBLE
City News Editor & Staff Writer
After several days of speculation, the School District
of Ph i ladelph ia of f icia l ly
confirmed that the waitlist
system for the Penn Alexander School will be undergoing significant changes.
“There are changes to the
practices of maintaining …
a histor ical waiting list ,”
said district spokesperson
Fernando Gallard. The waitlist will expire every year on
June 30, he said, and will be
repopulated each year during registration. Each year,
students will be placed on
the waitlist in the order that
they register for the school.
Students who were on the
waitlist before July 1 of this
year will retain their place
in the future ahead of students who register later.
Gallard said the school
district will officially communicate the decision to
residents by sending a letter
to parents of students on the
waitlist to see whether they
wish to remain on the list.
“We want to make sure
that we have the same practices in all our schools,” Gallard said. “There were a lot
of things in Penn Alexander
that were different from all
of our other schools.”
The new system w ill
m at c h s y st e m s at ot he r
schools in the district with
waitlists, such as J.R. Mast er ma n H ig h School a nd
Central High School.
A n employee who answered the phone at Penn
Alexander declined to comment on the cha nge. She
gave declined to give her full
name, identif y ing herself
only as Mrs. Johnson.
The West Philly Local report's sole source was Terrilyn McCormick, chair of
Pen n A lex a nder 's School
Advisor y Council. McCorm ic k d id not r esp ond t o
messages left on her home
phone over a period of two
days.
T he a lt erat ion is Pen n
A le x a nd er 's se c ond t h i s
year — the school suddenly
changed to a lottery system
on Jan. 18 af ter its f irstcome, f i rst-ser ve system
caused parents to line up
days in advance to register
their children for k indergarten.
In Januar y, school of f i-
cials made the announcement the Friday night before
Penn A lexander 's of f icial
registration date as parents
lined Locust Street, some
huddled in tents and others clustered around small
t or ches t o b e at t he cold
weather. Later in the night,
Gallard himself came down
to the school to speak to the
parents and take questions.
Even before the Jan. 18
lottery change, Penn Alexander's admissions policies
had sparked ire. In 2011, the
school announced it would
no longer accept all students
Amanda Suarez/DP File Photo
within its geographical zone
due to overcrowding. The Parents line up outside Penn Alexander School in January before the system
following October, parents changed to a lottery. The school’s admissions policies have long drawn ire.
submitted a petition w ith
over 450 signatures to the crowding.
the University decided to
Pen n ad m i n i st r at ion a r Penn currently provides fund an additional kinderg uing that the University $1,330 per student to Penn garten class.
should take a more active Alexander — a total of about
Staff writer Bryce Arbour
role i n solv i ng t he over - $700,000 per year. Last year, contributed reporting.
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Penn Atma
FPAN
Penn Atma is Penn’s all-female South Asian Fusion a cappella
group. Atma has a unique sound fusing various musical
styles, including classical, R&B, soul, reggae, and pop. In
addition to our annual spring show, we perform extensively
outside of Penn at events such as a reception at President
Amy Gutmann’s house for Madeleine Albright.
Sunday 9/1, 8PM-11PM or Monday 9/2, 7PM-12AM, IGT
on the stage
Counterparts
Counterparts is UPenn’s premier co-ed a cappella group.
Musically, the group focuses on jazz and soulful pop, with
its origins rooted in the vocal jazz tradition. Famous alumni
include John Legend (CP ‘99) and Kate Jennings Grant (CP
‘92).
Sunday 9/1, 6PM-12AM or Monday 9/2, 6PM-12AM, Bishop
White Room (Houston Hall 217)
Full Measure
Full Measure is Penn’s premier Christian a cappella group
that seeks to not only sing Christian songs but to spread the
Gospel on Penn campus and the West Philly area.
Sunday 9/1, 6:30PM-11:45PM or Monday 9/2, 7PM-12AM,
Williams P4
Off the Beat
Off The Beat is Penn’s premier modern pop/rock co-ed a
cappella group. OTB has won over 25 CARA awards and
records a new album every year. Check us out on Facebook,
Twitter, offthebeat.net or on iTunes!
Sunday 9/1, 12PM-7PM, Houston Hall Class of ‘47 or
Monday 9/2, 11AM-6PM, Platt 176
Pennchants
A veritable all-male a cappella avalanche, the Pennchants
have drawn praise from audiences all across the country for
their inventive arrangements, inspired choreography, and
alarmingly rugged good looks.
Sunday 9/1 or Monday 9/2, 6PM-12AM, Platt 176
Penn Masala
Penn Masala, the world’s first and premier Hindi a cappella
group, was formed here at Penn in 1996. After performances
at Bhangra Blowout in 1998 and SASA 1999, the group
performed for sold-out crowds in cities including New York
and Los Angeles.
Sunday 9/1, 5:30PM-11:30PM or Monday 9/2, 5:30PM11:30PM, Terrace Room in Cohen Hall
Pennsylvania Six-5000
Penn Six is UPenn’s only all-male comedy a cappella group.
We are the perfect blend of parodies and a cappella covers.
Come audition! We bite.
Auditions: Williams, time and location TBA
The Penny Loafers
The Penny Loafers were founded in 1986 as a co-ed a
cappella group who perform anything from modern rock and
pop hits to jazz to indie selections.
Sunday 9/1, 3PM-9PM or Monday 9/2, 5PM-11PM, Houston
Hall Brachfeld Room
PennSori
PennSori is an A Cappella group dedicated to serve as a
cultural bridge between Korean and American cultures. In
order to meet this goal, we sing various Korean and American
songs A cappella style.
Sunday 9/1, 6PM-10PM, Griski Room (Houston Hall) or
Monday 9/2, 6PM-10PM, Irvine G16
Quaker Notes
Quaker Notes is Penn’s premier all-female a cappella group,
singing everything from rock and pop to jazz and country.
Sunday 9/1, 7PM-12AM, Houston 313 or
Monday 9/2, 5PM-12AM, Irvine G16
Shabbatones
The Shabbatones are a premier Jewish a cappella group,
specializing in English and Hebrew popular music. We
recently released our sixth studio album and we’re currently
planning our annual tour in Florida!
Auditions: Sunday 9/1, 6PM-10PM and Monday 9/2, 5PM9PM, Platt 177
Inspiration
The Inspiration is a co-ed a cappella group founded in 1989,
celebrating the legacy of music written and/or performed
by artists of African descent in order to both educate and
entertain our audiences.
Auditions: Sunday 9/1, 8PM-10PM or Monday 9/2, 8PM10PM, DuBois College House (Seminar Room B)
Penn Dure
Pan-Asian Dance Troupe
Penn Jazz Ensemble
PENNaach
Penn Sargam
The Pan-Asian Dance Troupe seeks to celebrate and educate
the community on Pan-Asian culture through traditional,
modern and fusion dances.
Sunday 9/1, 5PM-7:30PM or Monday 9/2, 3PM-5:30PM,
Emily Sachs Studio (Irvine)
Penn’s premiere all-female South Asian Fusion Dance troupe,
PENNaach fuses classical South Asian dance forms with
modern South Asian and Western styles. Naach performs
on and off campus, and put on our own annual show each
spring. Visit our website www.pennaach.com or email us at
[email protected].
Auditions: Wednesday 9/4, 10PM-12AM or Thursday 9/5,
8PM-11PM, Platt 175
Penn Dance Company
The university’s first performing dance company, Penn
Dance incorporates a wide range of styles—including ballet,
jazz, lyrical, tap, hip-hop, and Latin—into its primary focus
of modern dance.
Monday 9/2, 6PM-8PM or Wednesday 9/4, 8PM-10PM,
Platt 175
Soundworks Tap Factory
Soundworks Tap Factory is Penn’s only tap performing arts
group! Our members have diverse dance backgrounds such
as rhythm tap, softshoe, and step dancing, as well as ballet
and modern.
Open Auditions: Monday 9/2, 3PM-6PM, Platt 175 or
Thursday 9/5, 9PM-12AM, Houston Hall Platt Rehearsal
Studio
Sparks Dance Company
Sparks Dance Company was founded in 1989 as Penn’s
premiere dance company dedicated to both performing and
to community service, specializing in many styles of dance
including ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, modern, lyrical, and
character.
Open Auditions: Sunday 9/1, 11AM-3PM, Platt 175 or
Tuesday 9/3, 8PM-12AM, Emily Sachs Studio (Irvine)
Strictly Funk
Strictly Funk is an avant-garde fusion dance group that
seeks to explore hip hop, jazz, free-styling, lyrical, breaking,
locking, and funk. It has developed a performance culture of
its own.
Open Auditions: Sunday 9/1, 6PM-10PM, Platt 175
West Philly Swingers
West Philly Swingers is Penn’s only swing dance troupe,
focusing on instruction, social dancing and performing all
types of swing. WPS competed and won first place in the
2009 American Lindy Hop Championships College Division.
Monday 9/2, 6PM-9PM, Emily Sachs Studio (Irvine)
Yalla
Yalla is Penn’s premiere belly-dance and drum troupe and is
the only Middle Eastern performing arts group on campus.
They perform various forms of belly-dance that incorporate
traditional techniques from Middle Eastern cultures, fusion
with styles like Latin and hip-hop, and movements from
American Tribal Style. Yalla’s drummers perform a range of
traditional and original beats in their own pieces as well as
accompaniments for dancers. Audition for the troupe to join
the fun!
Auditions: Monday 9/2, 3PM-7PM, Harnwell Dance Studio
SMAC (Singers, Musicians, and
Comedians)
Bloomers
Bloomers is Penn’s all female musical sketch comedy troupe.
Our sassy performers, rockin’ band, savvy tech staff, and
super smooth biz gals write and produce an original show
each semester - so check us out!
Cast auditions and interviews for tech, business, and
costumes will be Tuesday 9/3 and Wednesday 9/4, 5PM10PM, Platt Rehearsal Room in Houston Hall
Band auditions will be Tuesday 9/3, Wednesday 9/4 and
Thursday 9/5, 7PM-9PM, Platt 176
The Excelano Project
African Rhythms Drum and Dance Troupe
Penn Glee Club
Student-run and student-choreographed, AHDC is known
for its high level of performance and technique in styles
including jazz, lyrical, tap, contemporary, modern, pointe,
and hip-hop. Visit www.artshousedance.com for more
information!
Open Auditions: Monday 9/2, 8PM-11PM or Tuesday 9/3,
6PM-9PM, Platt 175
Destination Hip Hop
Penn’s first and only hip hop dance group is dedicated to the
expression of hip hop culture through dance. DH2 performs
at various events including an annual spring show.
Open Auditions: Monday 9/2, 8PM-11PM or Wednesday
9/4, 9PM-12AM, Harnwell Dance Studio
Dhamaka
Penn’s premier all-male South Asian dance group, Dhamaka
fuses elements from western dance styles, such as hip-hop,
with South Asian styles like Bhangra and Bollywood.
Sunday 9/1, 1PM-5PM or Monday 9/2, 9PM-12AM,
Emily Sachs Studio (Irvine)
Enjoy performing? With the Glee Club you will routinely
perform around campus, around Philadelphia and around
the world! Check out http://www.PennGleeClub.com for
information regarding auditions.
Auditions: Sunday 9/1, 6PM-12AM, Houston Hall Class of
‘49 or Monday 9/2, 4PM-10PM, Platt 179
The Mask and Wig Club
The nation’s oldest all-male collegiate musical comedy troupe
writes and performs two original shows a year: sketchcomedy in the Fall and a book-musical in the Spring. We
have four distinct sections: the cast, band, crew, and business
staff.
Auditions: Monday 9/2, 4PM, Class of ‘49 (Houston Hall)
New Spirit of Penn Gospel Choir
New Spirit of Penn Gospel Choir is a dynamic group
working to spread the work of the Lord through song to
Penn and the greater Philadelphia community.
No auditions necessary. First Open Rehearsals: Wednesday
9/4, 8PM-10PM, College Hall Room 200
Penn Band
Hello! We are the Penn Band, the source of good times
around Penn’s campus since 1897. Come join us as we play at
games and countless other events around school.
First Open Rehearsal: Monday 9/9, 6PM, Platt Band Room
Penn Jazz consists of an entirely student-run 18-piece jazz
big band and smaller accompanying ensembles that play
songs from a variety of styles and backgrounds.
Open auditions to students of the university. Sunday 9/1,
10AM-5PM, Platt 177
Penn Sargam is America’s very first university group
dedicated to promoting Indian classical music. With
Carnatic and Hindustani vocals, as well as instruments
ranging from sitar and tabla to guitar and drums, Penn
Sargam presents to you a memorable journey through the
music cultures of India.
Auditions: Sunday 9/8, 6PM-8PM, Williams 812
Penn Singers Light Opera Company
Penn Singers is a musical theater company that produces
a Broadway-style show in the fall and a Gilbert & Sullivan
light opera in the spring. Email pennsingerspublicity@gmail.
com with any questions!!
Auditions: Sunday 9/1, 3PM-6PM or Monday 9/2 4:30PM6:30PM, Platt 180
Penn Sirens
Penn Sirens is a female vocal ensemble. We sing anything
and everything, including pop/rock, folk, jazz, and classical
music. Each semester we write our own original show.
Auditions: Tuesday 9/3, 5PM-10PM, Morris Seitz (Houston
Hall) and Wednesday 9/4, 5PM-10PM, Bishop White
(Houston Hall)
Simply Chaos
Simply Chaos is the University of Pennsylvania’s first and
only stand-up comedy club. We perform at open mic events
around Philadelphia, sponsored campus events, and produce
our own show every semester. More information on our
website www.simplychaoscomedy.com.
First round auditions: Saturday 9/7, 5PM, Radian Lounge
Without a Net
Without a Net is Penn’s resident improvisational comedy
group. All our performances are made up on-the-spot
based on audience suggestions. We hope to see you at
auditions - no experience necessary!
Open Auditions: Tuesday 9/3 or Wednesday 9/4, 4PM7PM, Annenberg 209
TAC-e (Theater Arts Council)
Front Row Theatre Group
Front Row Theatre Company is a student theatre group
dedicated to fun, socially-relevant theatre. Each semester
brings a completely student driven show which is exciting to
watch and work on.
Auditions: Tuesday, 9/3 and Wednesday, 9/4, 7PM-11PM in
Harrison College House (Basement)
Show: “The Lion in Winter”
iNtuitons Experimental Theatre
iNtuitons is Penn’s only student-run experimental theatre
group, chartered to “attract people with diverse artistic
interests to provide an outlet for ideas too classical or avantgarde for existing groups.”
iNtuitions will be holding auditions for its fall production
on Tuesday, 9/3 and Wednesday, 9/4, 7PM-11PM, in
Annenberg 209
Show: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
PenNaatak is a student-run theatre group at Penn that
focuses on issues relevant to the South Asian community.
We welcome anyone who is a student of the University of
Pennsylvania to join; no prior experience is necessary. For
more info, email [email protected] with questions.
Open Auditions: Tuesday 9/3, 7PM-11PM or Wednesday
9/4, 7PM-11PM, Houston Hall Class of ‘49
Penn Players
The Pennsylvania Player is Penn’s only professionallydirected student theatre group.
Open Auditions: Tuesday 9/3, 7PM-11PM, Annenberg 511
or Wednesday 9/4, 7PM-11PM, Platt 180
Show: Assassins
Quadramics
Quadramics is Penn’s first student directed and produced
theatre organization. Our mission is simply this: to allow
Penn students to create an atmosphere that emphasizes
quality in every aspect of production.
Open Auditions: Tuesday 9/3, 7PM-11PM, Irvine G07 or
Wednesday 9/4, 7PM-11PM, Annenberg 516
Show: The Idiot Box
Stimulus Children’s Theater
Stimulus Children’s Theater is a children-oriented
community service theater group. We perform on campus
and tour our productions across the city. Stimulus also
hosts theater workshops to supplement our performances.
Casting Auditions: Tuesday 9/3, 7PM-11PM, Annenberg
516 or Wednesday 9/4, 7PM-11PM, Platt 179
Show: You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown
Penn Theatre Techies
We represent tech members of the Theatre Arts Council
Community. We spend time in various areas of tech such as
costume, lighting, sound, makeup, set, stage management,
etc. Becoming a member of our community affords you
opportunities to work on many shows at once, and we love
to teach, so no experience necessary!
All auditions: Tuesday 9/3 and Wednesday 9/4, 7PM-11PM
Front Row and Quadramics: Harrison Lobby
Penn Players and Stimulus Children’s Theater: Rodin Lobby
PenNaatak and iNtuitons: Harnwell Lobby
Freshman Performing Arts Night
Whom to contact with questions:
[email protected] (A Capella)
[email protected] (Dance)
PennDure is a Korean Pungmul club, playing Korean
traditional music with drums and gongs. We spread joy and
excitement, encourage people, and wish them luck with our
music.
Auditions will be in the first week of September.
PenNaatak
DAC (Dance Arts Council)
Arts House Dance Company
Your Guide To
Freshman
Performing Arts Night
Onda Latina
Onda Latina is Penn’s Latin Dance Troupe! Onda performs
styles such as salsa, mambo, meringue, tango, and many
others! We bring together various ethnic backgrounds,
unique talents, and fresh ideas, with a Latin twist!
Open Auditions: Friday 9/6, 3PM-8PM, Platt 175
EP is Penn’s premier spoken word collective. Since its
inception, EP has won numerous national championships
and has been featured at the White House, on HBO and all
around the world.
Auditions: Monday 9/9, 7PM, Kelly Writers House
As a student-run African Drum and Dance Troupe at the
University of Pennsylvania, African Rhythms, affectionately
known as “AR”, represents the strength and beauty of
African culture. Ultimately, the group aims to perform dances
from Africa and the African Diaspora, specifically: West
Africa, the Caribbean, and South America.
Tuesday 9/3, 5PM-7PM, Emily Sachs (Irvine) or
Wednesday 9/4, 5PM-7PM, Platt 175
[email protected] (Theater)
[email protected] (Singers, Musicians, Comedy)
Friday, August 30
6 p.m.
Zellerbach Theater, Annenberg
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Ne ws
Compensation
report likely to
draw criticism
compensation from page 1
recent years placed consistently as the third-highestpaid Iv y president, behind
only Columbia University’s
Lee Bollinger and Yale Univer sit y ’s R ic h a r d L ev i n .
Lev in stepped dow n from
the presidency earlier this
year; when 2013 Ivy League
tax filings become available,
some compensation consultants said, it is likely that
Gutmann will take the second spot on the Ivy list.
In discussing Gutmann’s
c o m p e n s at i o n , B o a r d o f
Trustees Chair David Cohen, who heads the committee that determines the
president’s annual salar y,
has consistently said he believes that Penn has the best
University president in the
country, and that she should
be paid accordingly.
“By any measure,” he said
in an email, “President Gutmann has had an incredible
tenure at Penn, and her salary justifiably reflects that.”
Much of Gutmann’s annual compensation is
per formance based —
ac h ie ve me nt s l i ke f u nd raising success and faculty
recr uitment increase her
bonus package and incentivized pay each year. Penn,
and
compared to its peer institutions, places a high degree
of emphasis on incentiveladen pay.
In 2011, the year in which
the University hit its $3.5-bill ion go a l i n t he M a k i ng
Histor y f undraising campaig n, Gutmann received
a $235,000 increase in her
bonus payout as compared
to 2010, Cohen said.
In 2010, Gutmann was the
12th-highest-pa id pr ivate
university president in the
nation, according to a report
last year by The Chronicle
of Higher Education. After
seeing that report, Cohen
said, the compensation committee was struck that Gutmann had not placed in the
top 10. Given the scale and
complexity of Penn, as well
as Gutmann’s performance,
he said, the compensation
committee believed it needed to adjust Gutmann’s compensation to bring it more in
line with her peers.
In the Chronicle’s report
on 2010 compensation, five
private university presidents
received compensation packages of $2 million or more.
The next report on presidential compensation, which
will contain data for 2011, is
expected later this year.
Some compensation consultants said they found Cohen’s rationale unusual. “It
seems odd for a company to
approach its compensation
on the basis of saying, ‘We
want a cer tain indiv idual
to be compensated in a way
that would put them in the
360 Dance
Company
and
and
top 10 nat ionw ide,’” sa id
Mark Borges, a principal at
Compensia, Inc., a compensation consulting firm. “It
would seem to me that you
compensate not on what the
year-end ranking is going
to be, but on the quality of
the performance by the individual.”
At a time when President
Barack Obama is trumpeting the cause of lower college costs, Gutmann’s most
recent compensation report
is likely to provide fodder to
critics of executive pay inflation, who argue that highereducation of f icials should
not be receiving seven-digit
salaries. In the fall of 2011,
at the height of the Occupy Wall Street movement,
Gutma nn’s compensation
became a rallying cr y for
student protesters, who said
that the president’s salary
was an insult to lesser-paid
workers at Penn and in Philadelphia.
It is possible, said Paul
Dorf, managing director of
Compensation Resources,
Inc., that Gutmann’s $2-million-plus pack age in 2011
could produce a similar response from some pockets of
campus, as well as throughout academe more broadly.
He added, though, that a
$2-million salar y today is
much less significant than
a $1-million pack age was
years ago.
Gutmann’s 2011 compensation was nearly 12 times
l a r ger t h a n t he $17 7,13 9
that an average full profes-
sor at Penn made in 201011, accord ing to a repor t
on the economic status of
the faculty released earlier
this year. The average pay
for full professors at Penn
ranks seventh among private institutions nationwide,
according to a Chronicle of
Higher Education report released last week.
Like in prev ious years,
Gutmann’s compensation in
2011, though sizable, was not
the largest at the University.
That distinction belonged
to Ralph Muller, CEO of the
health system, who earned
$3,429,240. Of the 14 employees whose total compensation exceeded $1 million in
2011, up from 11 employees
the year before, 12 were affiliated with the health system or medical school.
Gutmann’s compensation,
many consultants agree, is
likely much less than what
she could earn working outside of higher education.
As the college presidency
has grown to require more
of a master y of f und raising, Borges said, skills like
Gutmann’s are increasingly
prized by an institution like
Penn.
“Compared to other industries,” he said, “she’s probably a bargain.”
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Finding the silver lining:
The highlights of 2012
In their three
victories, the Quakers
found their strong
offensive touch
BY John Phillips
Sports Editor
Even amid a tough season,
Penn soccer had some great
moments in 2012. Check out
our countdown below.
3. Penn picks up first win
against Fairleigh Dickinson
When recollecting the
top moments from the
men’s soccer season, their
first win is the natural first
stop. Then-goalkeeper Max
Kurtzman came into that
Sept. 21 weekend ranked
second in the country in
saves-per-game with seven,
and it was his work that
sealed a 3-2 victory against
Fairleigh Dickinson. Kurtzman made 10 saves on the
day with his last being his
biggest. Holding on to a tight
lead, he laid out to save a la-
Dolezal
optimistic for
season’s start
ser from Dickinson’s Nico
Wright to put the game away.
2.
Baker
explodes
against Rider
Much of the trouble that
the Quakers faced last season revolved around shots
simply not falling in the back
of the net. That issue held
Stephen Baker back more
than anyone on the roster,
but he exploded on Sept. 23
against Rider at the Princeton Invitational, a day after
the Quakers had picked up
their first win of the season
against Fairleigh Dickinson. He unleashed on the
Broncs, scoring four goals
on seven shots in the Red
and Blue’s second win of the
year, a 7-2 rout.
“We kind of sat down as
a team after starting 0-6
and just said, ‘Guys, this is
embarrassing, we’re a lot
better of a team than this,’”
Baker said after the win.
“We made some changes
mentally … and we realized
that if we’re going to make a
run, we need to start work-
ing harder.”
1. Penn ends the season
on a high note by beating
Harvard
The Quakers’ huge second
half against the Crimson allowed the Red and Blue to
end their season on a high
note. After the two teams
traded goals within the first
three minutes of play, Penn
broke out after halftime. In
the 53rd minute, Sam Engs
headed in a lob pass from 12
yards out following a corner
to put Penn up by one. A little more than 10 minutes later, Travis Cantrell, in his last
game as a Quaker, nailed the
ball into the back of the net
following nice passing between Sam Engs and Duke
Lacroix. Cantrell, the sole
senior on the squad, went
out on top in a 3-1 win.
“There are a lot of people
that would have folded over
the course of the season,"
coach Rudy Fuller said after
the contest. "And [Cantrell]
continued to put forth a good
effort each and every day.
Baker and
Lacroix
contrast styles
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dribble and run past the opposition, while Baker takes
up a more central role in order to get in good positions
in the box to score goals.
“I think we work well together chemistry-wise. A
little bit of salt, little bit of
pepper,” Lacroix said. “Two
different styles of play, but
they come together in the
game and it shows when we
put a couple of goals in the
back of the net.”
“I definitely think we can
work off of each other,” Baker added. “They are going
to be expecting [Lacroix]
to be making all the runs
in behind because of his
speed. So if he doesn’t, that
opens up an opportunity for
me to hit a hole.”
The Quakers started off
their 2012 campaign with
six consecutive losses, but
the lack of victories didn’t
show that the offense still
created plenty of goal-scoring opportunities.
Together, Baker and Lacroix launched more than 50
shots during those first six
games, but unfortunately
couldn’t finish off enough
chances to pull out a win.
That should change this
year, as the pair have grown
in confidence of their ability to score off the chances
they create.
“Fifty shots in the first
six games is huge, it means
we’re creating opportunities,” Baker said. “We’re
both good players so it’s
“He’s a guy that has using a powerful offense to
played almost every min- its fullest extent.
ute since he’s been here.
"If we are pressing well
He was a guy that was get- higher up the field it will
ting in here and there as a make our job easier in the
freshman but from that mo- back,” Dolezal said. “I think
ment on he has been some- everyone has a role to play
one that has played just … communication is probDEFENSE from page 14
about every minute of every ably going to be the biggest
game. He is someone that thing going into next year.
problems,” Fuller said.
brings that experience to Everyone has to be com“Last year we had two the table and someone that municating with the guys
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Ivy outlook: Penn looking up at Bears and Big Red
Brown appears to be the
early favorite while the
Red and Blue look to
rise out of last place
BY JOHN PHILLIPS
Sports Editor
The Ivy landscape in men’s
soccer is one that puts the odds
against Penn rebounding after
a disappointing season.
The eight teams can be broken into three tiers.
TIER 1: A FREE KICK
AWAY
Brown
The top of the class in the Ivy,
League Brown will be without
defender Dylan Remick and
midfield Thomas McNamara
but comes into the year ranked
18th in the NSCAA Coaches poll
anyway. A big reason for that is
junior Ben Maurey, who had
five goals and two assists last
season. Another year older, and
with a team looking for someone to make up for losing scoring production, look for Maurey
to have a breakout year.
Cornell
The Big Red come in just behind the Bears in the NSCAA
poll, but they face the same issue as Brown. Cornell's star,
Daniel Haber, not only led the
Ancient Eight in goals last year,
he also found the back of the
net twice as much as the second player on the list. However,
his 18 goals and seven assists
have left Cornell for a professional contract in Israel. Conor
Goepel and Patrick Slogic will
have to step in to give the Big
Red a chance at taking home
the Ivy.
TIER 2: A SHOT FROM
THE TOP OF THE BOX
Dartmouth
The Big Green could surprise the league this season.
Junior forward Alex Adelabu
was second in the league in
goals last season and senior defender Colin Skelly and his back
four look to be solid. The only
question mark is how Chad
Riley, an assistant last season
who was promoted to head
coach during the offseason, will
handle the responsibility of being in charge. If he can push the
right buttons, this could be a
team to watch.
Penn
I'll be honest. Had I not
watched a bit of practice recently and spoken to senior captain
Jonny Dolezal abou t the defense, the Quakers would be
further down the list. But that's
not the case, and so here they
are. Dolezal and Fuller both
expect the defense to solve its
issues from last season. If that
does happen, then the Quakers could be real contenders
Kinn and
Quakers
focused on ‘D’
Quakers faced
off against
MLS stars
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Summer from page 14
out the most about Kinn between the pipes, it's still something that he's actively working
on.
"Max was a very vocal keeper,” Fuller said. “Sometimes it
was more than was needed, but
that was who he was as a goalkeeper. I think Tyler does what
he needs to do. If something
needs to be said to organize
guys, it’s said.”
"I can't step into [Max’s]
shoes and be as vocal as him,
but I think I definitely need to
be more vocal,” Kinn said.
But it is a two-way street.
Last year, due to a number
of young player filling into new
roles, the back line was hard
pressed to get stops, making
life for whoever was in net that
much more difficult.
"Last year we had kids stepping into their first year playing," Dolezal said. "This year,
they'll have a year of experience under their belts."
Dolezal himself was moved
games at Penn.
“When you’re playing with
the better players from other
college programs, guys who
are serious about their craft
and have the same aspirations you do, it makes you
better,” Fuller said.
“And then they bring that
to our team. They come back
with higher expectations of
how they train and how we
train. It’s better for everybody.”
Lacroix spoke highly of
Ocean City, one of the top
semi-pro clubs in the nation.
Due to an injury halfway through the summer,
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With Max Kurtzman playing football, senior goalkeeper Tyler Kinn is the next in line
to start in goal. Kinn started four games last year in net for the Red and Blue.
around quite a bit last year as
Fuller tried to move him to center back. Now he's back on the
wing, currently practicing at
right back.
Fuller started the team out
this year with five straight days
of two-a-days — in part to get
each unit up to speed — to the
point that when Kinn hollers to
his back four, they are together
enough as a unit to make Kinn's
comments productive.
Last year, the Red and Blue
gave up 37 goals. Compare that
to Dolezal's freshman year,
when the NCAA-bound Quakers gave up just 16 goals, and
it's clear to see work has to be
done.
But the team seems to understand that.
Kinn's seven starts have
given him much needed experience, while Dolezal claims the
defense didn't give up a goal
throughout the course of the
team's spring practices.
Time will tell whether the
work has paid off.
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BY Alexis Ziebelman
Staff Writer
From newbies to vets, three
of Penn's sophomores will have
to show they've grown up if the
Quakers hope to reverse Penn's
0-6 start from a season ago.
All of the sophomore class
on the Penn men’s soccer team
has made great improvements
from the start of their college
careers a year ago.
Forrest Clancy, Griffin Heffner and Alex Murphy exemplify
this transformation.
“I think the big thing we
have to remember is that it
is a process and they are one
season into their college careers,” coach Rudy Fuller said.
“We don’t want to be asking too
much of them, but I can say all
three of those guys … are much
further along than they were at
this time last year when they
were coming in as freshmen.”
“Forrest was just starting to
find his stride when he went
down with an injury,” Fuller
said.
For Clancy, who tore his ACL
in a 5-3 loss to Villanova on Sept.
14, it was a long and winding
road back to 100 percent. But
he's back now, even though he
says his touch is "still a bit off."
“Physically his knee is 100
percent," Fuller said. "But from
a soccer sense he is still getting
back in the swing of things.”
Fellow sophomore Heffner
had a very different freshman
campaign.
“Griffin was not as fit as he
needed to be when he came in
as a freshman and it took him
the better part of the first half
of the season to get to where
he needed to be fitness wise,”
Fuller said. “Then he was im-
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The Quakers are looking from a good season out of sophomore Alex Murphy. The
midfielder won the US U-19 National Championship with Lehigh Valley United ’93.
mediately thrown in and given
an opportunity which was important in his longer-term development.”
Since Heffner was thrown in
prematurely, he acquired valuable experience and has made
some of the biggest strides on
the team from last season.
But it was Murphy, free of
injury and fitness issues, who
played the most out of any
freshmen last season, seeing
time in 13 games off the bench.
“Alex is a soccer rat. He is a
guy that every coach wants on
his team because he just loves
to play every day,” Fuller said.
This summer, Murphy was
part of a Lehigh Valley United
squad that won its first-ever
U.S. Soccer Youth national title
in July. Murphy played out of
his normal center midfield Position, playing defense instead.
“That to me says everything
you need to know about Alex
Murphy as a player,” Fuller
said. “He will do whatever it
takes to win a game.”
Clancy, Heffner and Murphy
are sure to have a far greater
impact on the 2013 Quakers.
“As a class we have more responsibility … we can tell that
there is more weight on our
shoulders,” Clancy said. “People show you more respect but
you also owe more.”
“There is less room for error," Murphy said. "If you make
mistakes, it’s less acceptable
because you have the playing
time under your belt.”
The sophomores are not only
playing together but living together.
“Last year we didn’t really
develop that team dynamic
with everyone," Heffner said.
"And now that we have been
through the whole spring season with everyone, we have a
much stronger team dynamic
where everyone understands
each other’s roles.”
And as they eventually grow
into grizzled veterans, this
trio will go a long way towards
determining whether Penn's
team dynamic is strong enough
to flip the script in 2013.
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Despite coming into the season with
just seven career starts, Tyler Kinn
is ready to take the reins in goal
BY John Phillips
Sports Editor
The relationship between a keeper and his
defensive backs is the same as any other relationship. Communication is key.
With only seven starts to his credit heading
into this year, senior Tyler Kinn is the odds-on
favorite to win the starting goalkeeper spot vacated by Max Kurtzman, who left the team to
attempt to gain a spot on the football roster as
a punter.
And the team feels it is safe in Kinn's hands.
"The good thing is, I know Tyler," senior captain Jonny Dolezal said. "He wants nothing
more than to win every game, to get a shutout
every game. We have a lot of faith in him as a
back four."
Kurtzman himself said that he wouldn't have
left if he didn't have faith that Kinn would fill in
for him more than adequately.
"Tyler Kinn is more than capable," Kurtzman said. "He's a great goalkeeper and I had
no doubts whatsoever that he would do a phenomenal job."
The biggest thing that Tyler needs to work on
is his ability to communicate with the defense.
"It's important that he's communicating with
us and that we're communicating with him at
all times so we can be solid defensively at all
times," Dolezal said.
Coach Rudy Fuller has spoken of the different
goalkeepers out there. Some use their height,
while some use their heads. Others use their
mouths.
Kurtzman was an incredibly vocal goalkeeper, and while that's not going to be what stands
SEE KINN PAGE 12
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This year, the Penn men’s soccer team will be relying on the play of senior back Jonny Dolezal to help shore up a defense that finished last in the Ivy League in 2012 in goals
allowed with 37. Dolezal was named honorable mention All-Ivy last year and has started 34 out of 45 games in his career, including 15 starts last season.
After being Penn’s weak link in 2012, the Quakers have
focused on making their defense a strength once again
BY Alexis ziebelman
Staff Writer
After a disappointing season
last year, the Penn men's soccer team is working on one
of the most fundamental elements of play: defense. And
this time around, it won't be for
just the back line anymore.
“We came off of last season
and we were uncharacteristically poor for our program de-
fensively … defense has always
been one of the hallmarks of
our successful teams,” coach
Rudy Fuller said.
The statistics support Fuller's point. In 2011, when the
Quakers went 8-7-2, they surrendered just 21 goals. During
last season's 3-13 debacle, they
allowed 37.
Some of those struggles can
be pinned on the inexperience
of some of Penn's top backs
last year. The Quakers spent
a lot of time relying on thenfreshman Griffin Hefner and
then-sophomore Jason deFaria to stabilize their back end.
“Inexperience was one of the
larger factors for our defensive
SEE DEFENSE PAGE 11
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hopeful for standout
performances from
Lacroix, Baker up front
BY Mars Jacobson
Senior Staff Writer
After a fall season to forget, three
of Penn soccer's best dedicated their
summers to improving their game so
that this year will be one to remember.
Junior forward Duke Lacroix, senior forward Stephen Baker and senior captain Jonny Dolezal spent their
summers playing with semi-pro teams
in the Mid-Atlantic Division of the Premier Development League.
And if all goes well, the Quakers will
be reaping the benefits this season.
“We’re happy for those guys,” coach
Rudy Fuller said. “All three of those
guys have worked very hard to get
where they are right now, and [we’ll
take] any chance we can get to help
move out players along and develop
them.”
The PDL is the top league for amateur soccer players in the United
States. Baker and Dolezal played for
Reading United A.C. in Pennsylvania,
while Lacroix suited up for the Ocean
City Nor’easters in New Jersey.
“We were practicing with some of
the best players in the country, and
then in games you’re playing against
some of the best players in the country,” Baker said. “So it was great competition, that’s the only way to make
your game better.”
The constant competition in train-
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Senior Staff Writer
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Senior forward Stephen Baker had a busy summer, logging playing time alongside fellow Penn senior
Johnny Dolezal with Reading United A.C. and taking on Major League Soccer’s New York Red Bulls.
ing that Baker, Dolezal and Lacroix
encountered forced them to increase
their level of intensity on the field in
practice and games.
”The training was great, everything
about it — the environment, playing
with the best players in the country,
every day you’re competing for your
spot — so the competitive environment was a great experience coming
into this season at Penn,” Dolezal said.
Fuller and the rest of the Quakers
hope that the trio will carry over that
level of training into practices and
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For Penn fans who believe
soccer is too low scoring, the
men’s team has more than
enough firepower up front to
prove you wrong.
Even though the Quakers
struggled last year in a difficult 3-13 season, the team still
showed how strong it is on the
offensive end. Penn ranked
second in the Ivy League in
goals per game.
The Red and Blue also return two of their top three
scorers from last year in senior Stephen Baker and junior
Duke Lacroix, who will need
to step up to replace nowgraduated Travis Cantrell's
production.
For coach Rudy Fuller and
his squad, having Baker and
Lacroix in the front line allows
for a more fluid system and
more options for formations.
“We’re seeing how everybody is coming back in after
the summer, who has improved and who has not,”
Baker said. “We’re trying a lot
of different things with maybe
three forwards, two forwards,
five midfielders, four midfielders, a lot of different things.”
“What it looks like in front
of our back line could be different each and every day,”
Fuller added. “We really don’t
get too caught up in what the
system is called. We focus in
on the relationships that the
guys have on the field.”
In Lacroix and Baker,
Fuller has a partnership that
should be even stronger than
last year, when the two combined for 11 goals.
“The beginning of last fall
was really the first time that
we had paired them together
in a front two,” Fuller said.
“And that relationship really
takes time to develop. There
is an old saying that strikers
hunt in pairs, and you can really increase their effectiveness exponentially when they
are on the same page.”
Baker and Lacroix have
very contrasting styles of
play, which has the potential
to befuddle opponents.
Lacroix, Ivy Rookie of the
Year his freshman season,
uses his blazing speed to
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