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Skulls’ charter suspended by nationals
Fraternity members were shocked to learn
of the decision Sunday afternoon
BY KATE GHEEN AND SETH ZWEIFLER
Staff Writer and Campus News Editor
Phi Kappa Sigma’s charter
has been suspended by its
national headquarters, the
fraternity’s student leaders
confirmed to The Daily Pennsylvanian Monday night.
The chapter — commonly
known as “Skulls” — learned
Sunday afternoon during a
campus visit by PKS Executive Director Michael Short
of the decision. Around the
same time, PKS Grand Alpha
Douglas Opicka posted a video message on the fraternity’s
Facebook page.
“I must regrettably inform
you that, as of 3 p.m. today,
Sept. 16, 2012, the charter for
the Alpha chapter has been
suspended and the chapter itself has been closed,”
Opicka said in the message.
“Last week, it finally reached
a point that the fraternity’s
executive committee felt we
could no longer allow Alpha
chapter to operate due to the
risk that they posed to the entire fraternity.”
The suspension follows a
tumultuous year and a half for
Skulls, in which it has experienced tension with both Phi
Kappa Sigma International
Fraternity — its national
headquarters — and Penn’s
Office of Student Affairs/Fraternity Sorority Life following
the fatal injury of a student at
an unregistered New Year’s
party.
On Dec. 31, 2010, John Carroll University student Matthew Crozier fell nearly 30 feet
from the second to the first
floor of the chapter house, located at 3539 Locust Walk. He
died Jan. 5, 2011.
After the incident, Skulls
was suspended temporarily
by both OFSA and its national
headquarters. Although the
OFSA suspension was lifted
in March 2011, Skulls was prohibited from participating in
2011 spring rush.
Skulls President and ColSEE SKULLS PAGE 6
Wharton
gets $11M
from alums
A more perfect union
The gift will be used to establish the
Wharton Public Policy Initiative
BY MATTHEW KIM
Staff Writer
360-degree theatrical production “Freedom Rising,” was free
thanks to the generosity of PricewaterhouseCoopers, the center’s
partner for the event.
At 9:30 a.m. on the museum’s
balcony, Christopher Phillips, a
Penn professor and senior fellow
in the Critical Writing Program,
The Wharton School is taking a major step
forward into the realm of public policy.
Last week, Wharton Dean Thomas Robertson officially announced the launch of the new
Wharton Public Policy Initiative.
Funded largely by donations from Wharton
alumni Marc Rowan, Marc Spilker and Diane
Spilker, the $11 million initiative will aim to give
greater visibility to Wharton’s policy-related
research.
“We are trying to make a systematic effort
to get the research of Wharton and Penn faculty more onto the radar screen of key decision
makers in Washington, D.C., state capitals and
to some level, places around the world,” Business Economics and Public Policy Chair Mark
Duggan said.
Duggan, who also serves as faculty director of
the initiative, added that the program’s timeliness given this year’s presidential election will
be especially beneficial to policy makers.
“There are some huge issues facing our country and things we are going to be making big
decisions on, such as tax policy, energy policy
and financial reform,” he said. “We want to try
to help policy makers benefit from the expertise
here because in D.C. there’s often not a lot of
expertise on the frontlines because they have
to juggle a million issues at once.”
In addition to impacting policy makers and
their decisions, the initiative is intended to influence the interplay between government and
business.
“The initiative will enable [Wharton] to further expand its reach as it pertains to the inter-
SEE CONSTITUTION PAGE 5
SEE WHARTON PAGE 5
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Documents from James Wilson, who gave the University’s first lectures in law in 1790. Wilson was also a signer of the Declaration of Independence, member of the first
Supreme Court and a framer of the Constitution. The Law School hosted the exhibit to mark Constitution Day and the 225th anniversary of the Constitution’s signing.
Penn and Philadelphia commemorated the
225th anniversary of the Constitution’s signing
BY CHRISTIAN GILBERTI
Contributing Writer
No birthday is complete without a cake, not even for the U.S.
Constitution.
Yesterday the National Constitution Center celebrated
Constitution Day and the 225th
anniversary of the document’s
signing. The day’s events included panel discussions, a naturalization ceremony and a birthday
celebration with cake and singing “Happy Birthday.” The day
was part of Constitution Week, a
weeklong series of exhibits and
events.
Elementary and middle school
groups and members of the general public flooded the museum
at 5th and Arch streets.
Admission to the center and
all of the exhibits, including the
Profs cash in on
New track at Penn for ‘Idol’ winner
research, inventions
Kalan Porter decides
Penn professors made
more than $14 million
by commercializing
their research last year
BY SHELLI GIMELSTEIN
Senior Staff Writer
The next great invention to
change the world of medicine
may come from the same professor who teaches your biology
lecture.
Inventors at Penn netted the
University more than $14 million in the 2011 fiscal year, a recent report in The Chronicle of
Higher Education said.
Overall, universities earned
more than $1.8 billion from
commercializing research during that time period, according
to data compiled by the Association of University Technology
Managers.
The eight startup companies,
68 United States patents and
124 new patent applications to
come from Penn last year are
largely due to the work of the
Center for Technology Transfer. The Center helps faculty
members looking to turn their
research into products secure
patents and either sign license
agreements with corporate
partners or start their own
companies for the inventions.
With several drug candidates
in their late stages of development and a recently announced
partnership with Swiss pharmaceutical company NovarSEE INVENTIONS PAGE 2
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Kalan Porter, a Wharton freshman, was the “Canadian Idol”
winner in 2004 and has an eightyear music career to his name,
all before starting at Penn.
However, his music career is
taking a breath as he pursues his
undergraduate degree here.
“I was running my own small
business essentially with my
music,” Porter said, explaining
his decision to come to Penn. “I
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Page 2 Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Inventions
often focus
on medicine
INVENTIONS from page 1
It’s new.
tis, CTT Deputy Executive
D i r e c t or Joh n S w a r t ley
believes there are “huge
opportunities for our scientists and support resources” ahead.
Online
EXCLUSIVES
From the research
lab to the clinic
Many of the inventions
in the works at Penn focus
on filling voids in medical
technology.
In response to the lack of
effective diagnostic tools for
patients with epilepsy, neurology professor John Pollard developed a blood test
that gives insight into the
cause of recurring loss of
awareness by analyzing levels of brain inf lammation.
When he realized the technology could be patentable,
he came to CTT’s UPStart
program, which helps faculty inventors launch startups and take their products
onto the market.
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A nother U P St a r t company is CytoVas, founded
by Emile Mohler, director
of vascular medicine and
a professor at the Perelman School of Medicine.
Collaborating with several
other doctors at the Medical School, Mohler created
a blood test that serves as a
marker for vascular health
and enables doctors to tailor their care to individual
patients based on their levels of risk.
With U PStar t’s help in
finding a CEO and funding
for the company, he hopes
to commercialize the blood
test and get it approved by
the Food and Drug Administration, so that the test
can be brought “out of the
research lab and into the
clinic.”
Both Pollard and Mohler
agreed that Penn provides
an ideal setting for faculty
to pursue and market their
inventions.
“The geographical localization of the university, of
the Medical School and of
the Science Center makes
it much easier to do these
sor ts of projects here at
Penn than probably many
o t h e r p l a c e s ,” P o l l a r d
said.
The Daily Pennsylvanian
Mohler added that while
faculty at other universities t a ke sabbatica ls for
several months in order to
create inventions and start
companies, Penn “provides
t he e nv i r o n me nt w he r e
they don’t have to do that.
[They can] continue their
day job and have the Center
for Technolog y T ra nsfer
support them.”
Keeping up with the
competition
The expansion of re search commercialization
at the university level is a
relatively recent trend.
According to Swartley, all
federally funded research
was owned by the U.S. gover n ment u nt i l t he e a rly
1980s, until the Bayh-Dole
Act, sponsored by former
Sens. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.)
and Bob Dole (R-Kan.) gave
U. S. universities control
over their inventions.
Un iver sit ies b enef it ed
from the new law by raising
funds for further research
through turning faculty inventions into products and
licensing them to companies, particularly within the
pharmaceutical industry.
A lthough Swartley said
Penn receives nearly $1 bil-
Commercializing research
Licensing income: $14,397,705
Research Expenditures: $940,218,000
License and Options Executed: 92
Startups: 8
US Patents: 68
New Patent Applications: 124
lion in research funding and
the CTT processes close to
400 inventions a year, other
universities are far ahead
of Pen n i n t hei r l icensing agreement revenues.
Northwestern, the University of California System
and Columbia University
topped the Chronicle’s list
with earnings of nearly $200
million last fiscal year.
Swartley attributed this
to the “blockbuster phenomenon” in which one or two
drug licenses can produce
multimillion-dollar annual
royalties for an institution.
“It’s very hard to predict
which licenses are going to
produce that k ind of rev-
enue,” he said. “There is
an element of luck that an
institution has a hit.”
In order to keep up with
other universities, Swartle y b el ie ve s Pen n mu st
continue pursuing partnerships with pharmaceutical
companies like Novar tis,
particularly in its fields of
expertise, like translational
medicine.
These partnerships “encou rage pha r maceut ic a l
industry partners to work
more closely with us and
suppor t t hese prog ra ms
with substantial resources
… because we’ve integrated
the process,” he said. “That
is a model of the future.”
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012 Page 3
Vince Fumo makes accusations from jail
The Wharton graduate is accusing
members of his PAC of illegally using funds
BY LALITA CLOZEL
Staff Writer
For a Wharton graduate and
former Pennsylvania state
senator, a prison sentence is
no barrier to pointing fingers
elsewhere.
Vincent Fumo, who is in prison for corruption, is suing two of
his former campaign managers
for spending money from his Political Action Committee, Fumo
for Senate, for personal use.
Currently serving his sentence in a federal prison in Kentucky, Fumo accused former
PAC chairman Andrew Cosenza
and his brother, former treasurer Dominic Cosenza, of “selfdealing” over $100,000 from the
PAC’s treasury, according to the
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Fumo, a 1984 Wharton MBA
graduate, was found guilty in
March 2009 of 137 counts of corruption including conspiracy,
fraud and related offenses. He
had defrauded $2.4 million from
the Pennsylvania Senate, where
he served from 1978 to 2008.
The Cosenza brothers were
not implicated in Fumo’s criminal conviction, nor did they
testify as witnesses on either
side. But Andrew Cosenza did
send a letter to the judge in
June 2009 on Fumo’s behalf to
ask the judge for a more lenient
sentence. The letter attested to
the good character of “the man
I affectionately call my ‘big
brother.’”
“To say Vince Fumo has
been a good friend to me is an
understatement. Vince has always been there for me, no matter what time of day or night ...
Vince never expected anything
in return; there was never a quid
pro quo,” the letter said.
Since then, the tables have
turned and Cosenza is trying to
paint Fumo in a different light.
In court last week, Cosenza
accused Fumo of planning
while in prison to use the PAC
money to reimburse legal fees
and restitution debts related to
March
2009
July
2009
November
2011
August
2012
Fumo was found
guilty of all
137 counts of
corruption
Fumo was
sentenced to 55
months in prison
U.S. District
Judge Ronald
Buckwalter
resentences
Fumo to 61
months in prison,
after demands
from the
prosecution
From jail, Fumo
accuses Cosenza
brothers of
“self-dealing”
and spending the
money in his PAC,
Fumo for Senate
February
2007
Federal grand
jury indicted
Fumo in 137
counts that
include mail
fraud, conspiracy and filing a
false tax return
his criminal conviction.
He also shared email correspondence that showed Fumo
was still actively leading the
PAC from his prison cell.
“You were going to raise a few
hundred thou by the time I got
home. Remember? … Love, Big
Bro,” Fumo wrote to Cosenza
in May 2011, according to the
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Lawyers on both sides did not
return interview requests.
Law School professor Robert
Zauzmer, a prosecutor in Fumo’s prior criminal conviction,
finds it surprising that the former senator still has a running
PAC calling for his re-election.
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“There aren’t that many elected politicians who go to prison.
My guess is most of them view
their political career to be over
by that point,” Zauzmer said. “I
have not heard of a situation like
this before.”
It is also rare for a candidate
to sue his campaign committee. Craig Donsanto, the former
director of the election crimes
branch of the criminal divi-
sion of the U.S. Department of
Justice, said political committee members accused of fraud
are rarely sued by their candidates.
“That’s backwards — the
candidate suing his campaign
committee.”
Fumo was initially sentenced
in July 2009 to 55 months. He
was resentenced in November
2011 to 61 months in prison, after
VINCE
FUMO
1984 Wharton
MBA recipient
and former Pa.
state senator
the prosecution had appealed
for a longer sentence. Fumo is
in the process of appealing part
of his sentence.
Due to his felony convictions,
Fumo is no longer eligible to run
for public office in Pennsylvania.
Though a PAC may continue to
exist after its candidate has
retired, its expenditures must
be solely for the “purpose of
influencing the outcome of an
election,” according to Pennsylvania Campaign Finance
Reporting Law.
If Fumo were to close out the
PAC, he could also return the
remaining cash to its contributors.
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The Best
of Penn
A MODEST PROPOSAL | We should be able to
meet the best professors outside our majors
P
enn is home to
some of the most
brilliant professors in the world.
But if you are an
undergraduate, chances are
you will never come close to
meeting most of them, even in
areas that interest you most.
Consider College junior Jaimin Shah, who routinely takes
seven classes, often at the
graduate level. Shah in many
ways exemplifies what Penn
calls us to become.
But the demanding course
of study that he has chosen
means that Shah will not be
able to take classes in philosophy or other areas outside his
course of study. Missing out on
some of the most compelling
professors means that he is
missing out on what Penn has
to offer.
Though Shah is an extreme
case, double majors, pre-professionalism and extra-curriculars make it impossible
for many to take more than a
couple of classes outside their
chosen course of study. This
makes their experience of
Penn less than it can be.
While programs like “Take
Your Professor to Lunch” allow students to get to know
their current professors over
a meal at the Inn at Penn,
they leave a gap. There is not
an easy way for students to
informally encounter professors with whom they will not
be able to take a class with.
Preceptorials — lectures
that meet once or twice for no
course credit — bring us closer to great faculty, but they are
limited in number and by the
formal classroom setting.
What are needed are opportunities for smaller, informal
discussions with professors, in
more areas than preceptorials
can cover. And it doesn’t have
to be difficult.
Every couple weeks, the
Philomathean Society organizes tea with faculty. This is
a proven model that can be
expanded upon.
Last semester, I borrowed
this idea and brought it to the
Undergraduate Economics
Society. Most professors, in
my experience, are very willing to give an hour to a small
group of interested undergraduates.
Professor Srilata Gangulee,
who hosted a coffee chat for the
Economics Society, believes
the American universities lack
a culture of small-scale, intimate discussions with faculty.
The coffee chat reminded her
of the “best part of going to a
small college in Calcutta and
in England,” she said.
‘‘
Most of us would
be interested to
hear from one
of Penn’s most
talented professors
about futuristic
flying robots [and]
the economics of
drug-dealing.”
So I propose starting an
organization called “Best of
Penn” to offer informal coffee
chats with the best professors
who are willing to spare an
hour. Any student may nominate a professor and the group
can host a discussion depending on the number of people
interested. And if coffee chats
are too much trouble, the professor could host a discussion
in their office, an open office
hour.
Whatever our majors, most
of us would be interested to
hear from one of Penn’s most
talented professors about
futuristic flying robots, the
economics of drug-dealing,
philosophy, literature, politics
or the neuroscientific study of
the criminally insane.
As long as Best of Penn
makes every effort to respect
the time of professors, students
should have the opportunity
QuoTED
Why sex belongs in
the classroom
THE FINE PRINT | Penn students should
be required to think critically about sex
D
BRIAN COLLOPY
to engage with faculty in any
area, regardless of their chosen major. The only constraint
should be what students are
interested in learning, not the
classes they are able to fit into
their schedules.
There are so many professors at Penn that students
have called the best professor
they have ever had. But it’s impossible for most students to
take classes with more than a
handful of them.
In the Histor y Department, for example, there is a
professor whose lectures are
commercially sold on DVD.
Every week, students sit on
the ground in Stiteler Hall to
audit his class.
Whatever you are interested in, Penn has professors like
this that Best of Penn could
offer discussions with.
This program can also help
underclassmen learn about a
major, decide whether to take
a class or ask professors about
their research. And it is an opportunity to meet any professor outside of the classroom.
The promise of Penn is access to the most brilliant professors in the world, in most
any area you could care to
study. The paradox of Penn is
that pre-professionalism and
overachieving lead us to miss
out. But by making it easier for
students to encounter professors and interests they would
never otherwise, we can make
it easier to better take advantage of all Penn has to offer.
BRIAN COLLOPY, a College
junior from Washington, D.C., is
president of the Undergraduate
Economics Society. Follow
him @brianc61. “A Modest
Proposal” appears every other
Tuesday. Email bestofpenn@
gmail.com to get involved or to
voice questions and concerns.
uring my tenure
at Penn, I have
t houg ht a nd
read about sex
tirelessly. I have
considered sex through the
lenses of history, anthropology
and most recently, from a modern analytical perspective in
discourse with queer theory.
I have written papers on
medical discussions of sex in
the Victorian Era, lesbian feminism, radical perspectives on
the sexual hierarchy and perhaps the most titillating — as it
allowed me to spend days perusing Van Pelt’s collection of Playboy on microfilm (which I highly
recommend) — a paper on the
legacy of Playboy aiding the creation of the modern male.
While I thought about sex, I
watched my peers not. Thanks
to dorm life, the figurative
“watching” was often taken
unavoidably literally.
But in the “Sex and Human
Nature” class I took during
my first year, I learned that a
surprising number of male and
even female students could not
tell you where the clitoris was
and that a much larger number
of both members of the traditionally defined sexes had no
idea what was going on in the
menstrual cycle.
And, did you know — as
many in my class of over 100
students did not — that the
male member is not a muscle
but a spongy tissue?
If nothing else, our collective ignorance about our bodies and behaviors should incite
education. I am not insisting
that Penn take up where our
nation’s high schools have
failed. Despite sex education’s
importance, I’d prefer students
take on the intellectual study
of sexuality and see general
sex education as a beneficial
byproduct.
We owe it to ourselves to
think about sex, critically. Sex
blatantly permeates pop culture and advertising, where
“sex sells” has become a marketing cliche. Sex is also the
ringleader — arguably slightly
more subtly — in many of our
country’s greatest debates:
contraception, abortion and
marriage.
Our generation has the power to offer answers to these
questions. Rather than hide behind partisan positions beaten
to death, we should think of
sex in the same way we analyze economic strategies, pick
apart international relations
and close-read ancient texts.
‘‘
While I thought
about sex, I
watched my peers
not. Thanks to
dorm life, the
figurative ‘watching’
was often taken
unavoidably
literally.”
In a co-ed college culture
where “hook-ups” are sought
after, “dry spells” are a thing
and “getting with someone” is
an exciting topic, our conversations dance daily around sex.
But we often choose jargon that
removes the word “sex” from
our vocabulary.
Unfortunately, talk doesn’t
necessarily translate into critical thought — that’s why sex
belongs in the classroom.
After all, the classroom provides a space for people to think
differently about tradition and
circumcision, love and marriage, power and consent.
For now, the idea that sex
provides the foundations for
society drives me to seek sexual-intellectual salvation for my
peers. The French philosopher
Michel Foucault conveys this
best: sex creates populations.
This points to the obvious: sex
links generations.
Previously, politics informed
the production of generations
through intermarriage laws,
sterilization cases, social immobility and the maintenance
ALEXA NICOLAS
of segregated communities. A
collegiate conversation on sex
allows us to participate in how
future generations are made
and how we can meld the fabric
of society.
The registrar numbers a
dozen introductory classes that
explore sex through a variety of
subjects: film, folklore, literature, law, health and societies.
Perhaps Penn could consider
having College students fill an
existing requirement with a
course based in sexuality. This
would maintain the status quo
and enable students to think
of sex as an interdisciplinary
subject with the ability to fill a
range of requirements with its
single idea.
And, on a separate note,
maybe in the same way freshmen have to complete an alcohol module before arriving
on campus, there should be
a mandatory “safer sex” program too. A program to teach
students about common STIs,
consent and some lessons on
bodily function would be extraordinarily helpful in creating a safer campus.
I want to see sexual health
on the NSO calendar. But,
is that too extreme? Is that
something we as a community are unwilling to face, since
unlike alcohol, the threats to
health from sex are often less
conspicuous?
Penn should require students to think of sex — to
think of their own health, orientation, decisions and dominance — because sex is never
irrelevant.
ALEXA NICOLAS, a former
34th Street editor, is a College
senior from New York, N.Y. Her
email address is anicolas@
sas.upenn.edu “The Fine Print”
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012 Page 5
Profs weigh in on
Apple’s brand, future
18th century
documents
exhibited
The company recently
won Samsung lawsuit
and released new
iPhone model
discussed the meaning of the
Constitution in what he calls a
“Constitution Café.”
Who are “the People” in “We
the People”? Phillips asked
the crowd of school-age children, referring to the opening
words of the Constitution. Various answers flew out from the
crowd.
“‘The People’ are the Americans in this country,” one child
said.
“It’s the citizens,” said another.
Phillips strained his voice
above the din of hundreds of
uniformed school children milling about the museum.
He noted the original Constitution does not stipulate a
voting age and that the founders wanted the states to have
the freedom to decide on the
criteria themselves.
“Show of hands, should
12-year-olds have the right to
vote?” he asked the audience.
Immediately, a group of small
hands shot up in the air.
He explained to the students
that if they wanted the right to
vote, they could potentially petition their state’s legislature and
get it approved.
Virtually no other country in
BY ANGELYN IRVIN
Staff Writer
Penn professors are speculating what the smartphone
market will look like after
Apple’s recent lawsuit and iyd
upcoming iPhone release.
The lighter, thinner iPhone
5 was announced last Wednesday and will be available in the
U.S. on Sept. 21. This was just
a little less than a month after
Apple won $1.05 billion in damages in a tech lawsuit.
On Aug. 24, nine jurors
awarded the tech giant $1.05
billion in damages after ruling
that Samsung infringed on six
Apple patents.
The infringed patents include: document enlargement
by tapping the screen, the iPhone icons’ rounded rectangle
shape and the distinction between single and multi-touch
sensitivity.
Samsung also claimed five
instances of patent infringement, though their accusations
centered on hardware rather
than design. The company’s
allegations that Apple copied
its method of data packaging
and transmission, amid other
claims, were determined invalid.
“I think what’s going to happen is it’s going to be a very
protractive battle that’s not
going to help either one of
them in the long run,” marketing professor David Bell
said. “Whenever there’s a lot
of antagonism there’s a lot of
room for irrational behavior
that is harmful to everybody,”
he added.
Michael Sinkinson, business
economics and public policy
professor, said the verdict
will result in more creativity
within the industry. “I think
for the market overall, you’re
going to see more distinct design, which is a good thing,”
he said. “It’s chilling in one
sense because you’re going to
have companies patenting everything under the sun going
forward.”
According to marketing
professor Jonah Berger, the
suit may be more beneficial to
Samsung than the verdict suggests. “It basically says Sam-
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Smartphone market giants Apple and Samsung were involved in a lawsuit,
in which jurors awarded Apple $1.05 billion in damages.
sung’s products are just like
Apple’s and they’re cheaper,”
Berger said. “If people thought
the generic version did the
same thing … people would
be more inclined to buy the
cheaper version.”
By targeting Samsung, many
of whose products use the Android platform, some say Apple
is attempting to make an indirect blow to Google. According to a Nielsen study, Android
phones accounted for 51.8 percent of the smartphone market
as of June 2012, as compared
to Apple’s 34.3 percent.
“The problem with suing
Google is Google gives their
Android software away for
free so there aren’t a lot of
revenues to recover if you’re
Apple,” Sinkinson said. “However, it’s very easy to go before
a jury and say, ‘This phone that
Samsung made looks a lot like
this phone that we made, and
they made a lot of money off
this phone, so we’ve been injured.’”
The lawsuit had little, if any
bearing on iPhone 5 sales. According to AT&T, the iPhone
5 is the fastest-selling iPhone
the company has offered. On
the first day of sales, there
were 2 million pre-orders —
more than double the amount
sold by the previous model.
The phone was made avail-
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able for pre-order at midnight
PST on Sept. 14. The new
model boasts a taller display
screen, a smaller camera and
a new operating system.
College sophomore Ryan
Miller has already preordered
the phone and said the phone
will make preparing for class
easier.
“For me, it all came down to
the seamless combination of
so many unique yet necessary
functions being bundled into
an even better handset than
its predecessor,” he said in an
email.
He added that he will use it
to read news articles for class
and use the calendar app to
view his schedule on the bigger screen.
“To their credit, they have
very well-designed devices,”
Sinkinson said of Apple. “That
appeals to a huge number of
consumers, even if [many] of
their changes are more evolutionary than revolutionary.”
Bell said that much of Apple’s success can be credited
to their image. “People associate the use of those products
with more creative people than
business people,” he said. “I
think the other reason people
used to love Apple is because
they were the little guy getting
beat up by Microsoft. Ironically, now Apple is the big guy.”
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WHARTON from page 1
section of business and public
policy,” Robertson said in a
statement. “It will represent
the pinnacle of public policy
teaching, learning and research and will allow Wharton to create knowledge that
has impact upon business and
government.”
Similarly, Wharton MBA
student Ajay Bangale, who
is pursuing a joint degree at
Harvard’s John F. Kennedy
School of Government, predicts that business and public
the Western world is governed
by so-old a document, but this
does not worry Phillips. “The
founders were smart,” he said.
“They allowed for change.”
Phillips bemoaned the fact
that so few people have actually
read the Constitution. “We need
constructive skeptics who can
challenge authority,” he said in
an interview after the talk.
He added that the original
signers of the Constitution
expected that the document
itself would be changed every
20 years or so.
As Phillips explored the
meaning of the phrase “We
the People” with a group of
school children on the balcony,
a group of adults were busy
enacting that very same tenet
right across the hall.
In the museum’s F.M. Kirby
Auditorium, the U.S. District
Court for the Eastern District
of Pennsylvania held a naturalization ceremony.
“Don’t forget the cultures
that you brought with you,”
Philadelphia Bar Association
Chancellor John E. Savoth
urged the crowd of soon-to-be
citizens and their families.
At the back stood various
members of the news media
and Constitution Center employees.
Aryan Himanshu, a student
at the Pennsylvania Institute
of Technology, was overjoyed at
his new citizenship, but he also
acknowledged how much others have had to struggle. “I just
had to wait five years because I
have a green card,” he said. For
others, the ceremony marked
the end of a much longer wait.
The Office of the Vice Provost for University Life offered
Penn students a chance to experience Constitution Day by
providing free transportation
for 40 students to the event.
Students attended a panel
discussion at 2 p.m. entitled “Is
Pennsylvania’s ID Law Constitutional?” Former Pennsylvania
Governor Ed Rendell participated as part of the university’s
Year of Proof program.
Mengchuan Li, an international student and first-year
graduate student in the School
of Education said, “[Rendell]
encouraged college students
to become active and involved
citizens” by contacting their
states’ governors.
“I think I have a slightly different perspective than American students,” Li said. “I didn’t
realize voter registration could
be such a big issue.”
The Law School also joined
in the Constitution Day celebration. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
Biddle Law Library exhibited
select papers of James Wilson,
signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, as well as a member of the
first U.S. Supreme Court.
Back at the naturalization
ceremony, a cohort of new citizens experienced the Constitution in action. “It’s not people
wearing it on their sleeve,”
Savoth said when asked about
the ceremony. “It’s a pure statement of the great things this
country has to offer.”
policy will continue to grow
closer together in the immediate future.
“You have all these stakeholders involved and I think
governments and big business
in the next five to 10 years
will be more integrated,” he
said. “Because of that, there
will be more interest in dual
degree and interdisciplinary
programs in the future.”
According to Duggan, Penn
students will have an opportunity to get involved with the
initiative as well.
“One thing I am energized
about is that we are really going to try to get undergraduate and graduate students
more informed about policy
and create opportunities for
them,” he said, adding that
the initiative will subsidize
research and internship op-
portunities.
For Wharton sophomore
Rachel Fleszar, the initiative
will definitely have an impact
in the arena of public policy,
but to an uncertain extent.
“Although there’s value to
it in that it can contribute to a
more informed policy-making
process, at the same time I
question whether policy makers will be receptive,” she
said.
Duggan acknowledged that
future expansion of the initiative will be gradual, but significant.
“My hope is that this initiative could become a go-to resource for people in the media,
policy makers and people who
are just trying to find some information,” he said. “I’m going
to do my best to help it reach
its absolute potential.”
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Case closed for Chairez after arrest in March
Chairez will pay a fine and perform
community service instead of going to trial
BY HUIZHONG WU
Staff Writer
Yesterday morning, Wharton
junior Tania Chairez officially
received the news that her case
would be dropped by the District
Attorney’s office.
Chairez, who was arrested
and charged with obstruction of
traffic and disorderly conduct in
March, will have to do 18 hours
of community service and pay
a fine of $200.50 as a part of the
Accelerated Misdemeanor Program.
Originally she was to face a
full trial with a jury on Sept. 17.
However on Sept. 14, her lawyers, who have been in communication with the DA’s office
throughout the year, told Chairez that she would not be going
to trial.
“To make a long story short,
the DA’s office is going to basically drop the charges in exchange
for a little bit of community service,” said Lawrence Krasner, an
attorney at Krasner, Hughes and
Long who represented Chairez.
“This is to their credit.”
Krasner said the DA ultimately agreed that the women
arrested didn’t deserve heavy
punishment.
Chairez was initially arrested
on March 14 along with Jessica
Hyejin Lee, another undocu-
mented student and a senior at
Bryn Mawr College. The pair
declined to enroll in AMP in
March, saying then that they
didn’t want to take the easy way
out. Chairez said she will enroll
in the program now because her
case had attracted too much attention and is distracting from
her message.
“The deal is I think I already
made my point. This far down
the line I already talked to the
people I needed to talk to,”
Chairez said, adding that people were more worried about her
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IDOL from page 1
lege senior Chuck Schmitt
confirmed that the fraternity’s
national organization is currently facing a lawsuit from the
Crozier family. Although he declined to comment on the specifics of the suit, he said that
“multiple” fraternity brothers
were deposed over the summer by the Croziers’ lawyers.
A copy of the lawsuit was not
immediately available. Opicka
said he was “not going to comment on a continuing lawsuit.”
Schmitt added that “things
largely came to a head in July,”
when attorneys working on the
suit inspected the house and
found alcohol present.
“It was a pretty big surprise
to all of us,” Schmitt said of the
suspension. “We felt enthusiastic about the viability of the
chapter.”
When Short visited the Skulls
house on Sunday, Schmitt said
he was there “under the pretenses to take all our ritual
stuff,” which includes things
like the fraternity’s chapter
flag and other memorabilia.
Skulls will retain its chapter
house for the rest of the year
— which, according to Schmitt,
is owned by a corporation managed by Skulls alumni.
The fraternity is unsure
what steps it will take moving
forward, but Skulls Vice President and College junior Chase
Lax emphasized that future
decisions will be largely up to
Skulls sophomores, who are
“the ones most affected” by the
decision, since they have the
most time remaining at Penn.
“We’re going to support
have something to learn about
the business end of things
[and] this is sort of one of the
best business schools in the
world.”
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Skulls will retain its chapter house at 3539 Locust Walk for the remainder of
the year, despite it losing its charter.
them in whatever they decide
to do,” Lax said.
Skulls currently has about 50
members overall.
A lthough Sunday’s news
came as a surprise to brothers, Lax acknowledged that
“the fact that we were open 18
months [after Crozier’s death]
is an amazing thing.… We’ve
always been emotionally prepared for this.”
For the remainder of this
year, Lax said that “on the
surface, not really much has
changed,” since members will
still be living in the chapter
house.
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President and College senior
David Shapiro expressed disappointment with the national
organization’s decision, which
was also a “shock” to him.
“The IFC is always very sad
about the loss of a chapter,” he
said. “Skulls was particularly
involved [around campus].
They were a great group of
guys.”
OFSA Director Scott Reikofski said in a brief email statement that the Universit y
“supports Phi Kappa Sigma’s
actions.”
While the fraternity’s student
leaders are doubtful that the
suspension will be reversed,
Opicka said in the video statement that Skulls may re-open
at Penn a few years down the
road.
“I personally believe that we
exhausted all avenues available
to try to save and rehabilitate
the Alpha chapter,” he said. “I
look forward to that date in the
future when we are able to welcome back the Alpha chapter
into our brotherhood.”
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Porter put his music career
on hiatus to go back home
to Medicine Hat for a few
months. But he was anything
but idle, channeling his energy into a partnership with
the Canadian Breast Cancer
Foundation. With the help of
his fans, Kalan helped raise
over half a million dollars for
the foundation.
“I think I’m quite proud of
that, what me and a group of
fans did to [raise the money],”
he said.
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My mom really
pushed me into doing
it ... I thought I was
too cool.
— Kalan Porter
Wharton freshman and Canadian
Idol winner in 2004
won, with good reason.
“When he opened his mouth,
I was blown away,” Hughes
said, referring to the first
time they worked together on
a song. “He’s such an incredible singer.”
Fighting for his mom
After his stint on “Canadian
Idol,” Porter produced two albums and toured the country
giving concerts. As he was
starting work on his second
album in 2006, he received bad
news.
“I was at a high point and
then I found out my mom had
breast cancer,” he said.
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Porter currently lives in the
Quad with other freshmen.
Despite his difference in life
experience and age, he has
made friends.
“It was kind of weird at first
because he’s so much older,”
said College freshman Meredith Margulies, who lives
in the same hall. “But he
definitely went into it with
the right mindset — that he
wasn’t above us or anything
like that. It’s not really weird
at this point.”
Many of his hallmates and
friends here did not even know
about Porter’s past as a Canadian pop star. “Someone
decided to just Google him
and that’s how it came out,”
Margulies said.
Porter is keeping his mind
open as he goes through his
first year. “I’m excited to be
here. Penn seems like a great
place with a lot of opportunity.
Especially if you’re willing to
be open to it.”
However, he currently has
no plans to join an a cappella
group and is considering getting involved in some philanthropic groups on campus.
“I’m just sort of in this transition. I look at my life in the
last ten years and where it is
today. I could’ve never predicted that trajectory.”
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area where his neighbors were
a good 10 minutes away. He
then moved 1,800 miles away
to Toronto “I moved there for
the TV show and then never
left,” he said. “It was a real
whirlwind.”
However, Porter revealed
that he did not initially want to
even try out for “Idol.”
“My mom really pushed me
into doing it,” Porter said. “I
thought I was too cool. I was
in an indie band … but then
I went to an audition and saw
that really I could make a career of it and so I changed my
view.”
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and I knew very well what could
have happened,” she said.
“I did it because I’m passionate about this. I think it was
worth it.”
Chairez, Lee and DreamActivists PA had wanted to prove
a point — that being public with
one’s undocumented status was
safer than most would think.
“The point is that they’ve succeeded in getting their message
out and even the DA’s office
agreed that their message was
of value,” Krasner said.
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Porter is older than the typical freshman at age 26, and
he comes with much more life
experience than many of his
peers having had a successful
music career in Canada with
two albums, both making the
top 10 in Canada.
“He is the highest selling
Canadian idol ever. He’s also
the highest-selling Canadian
debut album to date,” said Nicole Hughes, a professional
songwriter who’s worked with
Porter in the past. “He’s pretty
gigantic.”
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spurred when he won “Canadian Idol” at 18.
“It was all kind of a whirlwind. I still look back and it’s
almost like a traumatic experience — I’ve blocked it out in
my mind — when your life is
changing that fast, it’s a process,” he said of his time on
“Idol.”
He is grateful for his time
on “Idol,” citing “the opportunities it gave me, the doors it
opened.”
Porter had grown up playing music all his life. He took
classical violin and viola lessons prior to the show. He also
played in several bands in high
school with both friends and
family. However, he was never
formally trained in voice.
It was a big leap for 18-year-
trial than anything else.
“I didn’t want this to be about
me,” she said.
The full details of her sentence
have not yet been designated.
Chairez does not know what the
exact deadline for her community service will be or what type of
work she will have to do. She will
have to go to court again on Oct.
2 to receive the final details.
Chairez is satisfied with the
way her case has proceeded.
“I wasn’t just randomly getting
myself arrested. I didn’t just accidentally block the street. I was
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The Daily Pennsylvanian
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 Page 7
Mano-A-Mano: Another QB controversy?
BY david greenbaum and mike tony
From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ
In light of recent events this
weekend — seven interceptions between Billy Ragone
and Andrew Holland — we
knew it was time to bring
back Mano-A-Mano.
Question: Who should start
at QB moving forward: Ragone
or Holland?
Mike Tony: As crazy as it
sounds after watching Ragone
throw five picks on Saturday, I
still think he should be the starting quarterback.
Let’s face it: Lafayette has
Billy’s number. Last year, he
was just 8-for-23 against Lafayette with two interceptions and
just 91 yards passing.
The rest of the year, he averaged almost 200 yards passing a
game with almost a 60-percent
completion percentage. And
most importantly, he had two
game-winning drives that kept
the Quakers competitive late
into the Ivy season.
I’ll concede that Holland is
a better pocket passer. But not
by much.
Ignoring the interceptions,
Ragone’s stat line wasn’t terrible Saturday: 14-for-23 for 153
yards and a touchdown. What
Ragone brings to the table is
experience, leadership and
intangibles, not to mention his
ability to tuck and run. On the
last drive of the Lafayette game
with just over two minutes left, I
would have wanted Ragone in.
David Greenbaum: It’s true
that Ragone is the QB here with
a first team All-Ivy selection under his belt. He earned that two
years ago, but the magic of 2010
is gone.
If Lafayette has Ragone’s
number based on last season,
then so do Brown, Harvard and
Cornell. In the games against
the league’s best teams, he
threw six interceptions and only
three touchdowns. He’s good in
clutch moments, but that’s not
an asset if he keeps throwing
two picks for every touchdown
he throws when there’s an Ivy
crown on the line.
Holland gives the Quakers
offense the downfield threat it
so desperately needs. His pure
pocket presence made him
much more visibly comfortable than Ragone on Saturday.
Ragone didn’t go through his
progressions in Easton — he
just locked onto Conner Scott
and dared the Leopards’ veteran secondary to pick him off.
And they did over and over and
over again.
For coming in behind the
eight ball in a hostile environ-
ment the way he did, Holland
was impressive. Sure, Ragone’s
legs and moxie are too valuable
to throw permanently to the
sideline, and there’s still room
for him in the offense with a hybrid role.
But his spot as starting QB
shouldn’t be considered locked
down anymore. Not when there
are weapons like Conner Scott
and Ryan Mitchell, as well as
Lyle Marsh out of the backfield,
who are all capable of stretching a defense in a way that favors Holland’s style rather than
Ragone’s.
MT: The whole point of
Ragone’s dual-threat nature is
the need for surprise. If he is
only in for certain downs, then
the defense will be ready for
the option. Having Holland in
takes away the opportunity to
surprise the defense.
Also, I don’t think it’s fair
to say Holland was put into a
hostile environment. He has
taken half the reps in practice,
and Lafayette had no film on
him and no way to know what
to expect of him. Villanova will
certainly be better prepared for
Holland’s strong arm
I’ll say this: If Bagnoli thinks
his team will be throwing the
ball 40 times, Holland may be
his man. But that would be
crazy. Bagnoli has three great
running backs and two decent
quarterbacks. He should stick
with the man who has already
proven himself [Ragone] and
keep a balanced offense.
DG: But after much talk of
opening up the passing game
this year, Bagnoli put his money
where his mouth is. Penn threw
it 51 times, and Ragone doesn’t
fit with that approach. And just
because the defense recognizes
a package designed for Ragone
doesn’t mean they’ll be able to
stop it.
Ragone’s legs have won a
few games for Penn over the
years. The Quakers now have
a veteran offensive line again,
and using Ragone as a changeof-pace QB now will keep him
healthier down the stretch if
Holland doesn’t pan out.
And while Holland has been
taking a lot of reps in practice,
he was still put into the game in
a very tough position.
Holland is a confident guy.
When you asked him how he felt
out there, he shot back quickly,
“I’m a senior, and I’ve been
around the block.”
Of course Ragone’s the more
experienced guy, but those have
been some bad experiences lately. And it’s good to see Holland’s
got some moxie of his own.
Verdict: Ring the bell, no decision. It’s too early to tell how
either Holland or Ragone will
pan out in 2012. Only Bagnoli
can decide this one, and he’s
never been a fan of refereeing.
BRIEF
M. GOLF | Quakers
in sixth with one
round to play
It was a rocky day — filled
with both ups and downs —
for Penn men’s golf during
the first day of the Adams
Cup of Newport tournament,
hosted in Rhode Island.
After the first round, the
Quakers were in third place,
and junior Max Marsico led
individual scoring with a low
of 67. However, in the next
round, the wind picked up,
taking its toll on the team’s
p l a y. P e n n f e l l t o s i x t h
place.
“Our guys just had a tough
time with the wind,” coach
Bob Heintz said. “[Tuesday],
the g uys are just going to
have to be ready for difficult
conditions and just be tougher than the other team.”
In the first round, Marsico’s score of three under par
easily surpassed that of his
teammates. His fellow squad
members ­— freshman P.J.
Collier, sophomore Austin
Powel l , sen ior P. J. F ielding and f reshman Patr ick
O’Leary — scored 72, 73, 77
and 79 respectively.
“The star of the show was
Max Marsico,” Heintz said.
Last season, Marsico made
Penn should
utilize its
weapons
TONY from page 8
and you can bet that Ragone’s
dangerous legs, solid leadership and history of being
clutch will keep him from
ultimately being thrown to
the sideline. One awful night
doesn’t automatically necessitate a consistent two-quarterback system, and there’s
no use shaking his confidence
further than it already has
been by yo-yoing him and Holland up and down the depth
chart.
The weapons at Ragone’s
disposal comprise the perfect
supporting cast to mask his
poor decision-making. Ragone
was asked to do too much too
early at Lafayette, throwing downfield on plays that
required him to look through
his progressions and avoid
staring down targets, skills he
has rarely shown in the past.
Perhaps more of a West Coaststyle offensive approach, in
which Ragone would be asked
to quickly and often throw
short, blind passes, is the best
offensive option going forward.
The weapons are tailormade for such an approach.
Senior running back Lyle
Injury led
Holder to
focus on food
HOLDER from page 8
and finished four th on the
t e a m i n r e c eiv i ng y a r d s.
“I’d worked hard, earned my
playing time, and [my junior
year] was supposed to be my
breakout year, for lack of a
better term,” Holder said.
But it was not to be. In just
the second game of the 2010
season aga inst Villa nova ,
Holder went down with a leg
injury, ending his season.
“Quite frankly, I was devastated,” Holder said. “To
go down with the injury like
that, it kind of shakes your
whole microcosm because
you’re used to playing football all the time, you’re a
walk-on, you’ve earned your
way, and you’re about to start
and something like that happens.”
On the brink of the apex
of his football career, the
receiver was left wondering
whether he’d ever be able to
play football again. One doctor told him one thing, the
Laura Francis/Senior Photographer and Katie Rubin/File Photo
Left: Quarterback Billy Ragone threw five interceptions, including three in the first quarter, in a losing effort against Lafayette. Right: Coach Al Bagnoli
must reconsider how to best utilize the tandem of Ragone and Andrew Holland after the Quakers yielded seven picks to the Leopards on Saturday.
Marsh did his best Brian Westbrook impersonation on Saturday, catching eight balls for 66
yards and two touchdowns out
of the backfield. Conner Scott’s
12 catches for 161 yards signal
that he can handle being the
go-to guy in this offense. Scott
showed comfort catching in
heavy traffic in addition to being a downfield threat.
Junior Ryan Mitchell and
senior Joe Holder are veteran
wide receivers, so they cer-
tainly have enough experience
to be the kind of precise routerunners Ragone would need to
get the ball out of his hands in
a jiffy and on target.
Imagine how much the
Quakers would dominate time
next another.
Relegated to crutches and
a lengthy recover y period,
Holder was buoyed by a support system of Penn football
coaches, one that he never
took for granted.
“They could have given up
on me,” Holder said matterof-factly. “I wasn’t recruited,
it wasn’t like anyone had that
much stake in me, but they
stuck with me … They made
sure I was okay, whether it
be academically, whether it
be emotionally, whether it be
football-wise.”
Though he’s put a full season of football between him
and the injur y, Holder still
has occasion to look back
while moving forward.
“It’s something that still
affects me to this day,” he
admits. “But you know, I keep
moving. It made me a better
overall person … I wouldn’t
trade it for anything.”
Had things gone according
to plan, Holder wouldn’t still
be a member of the Penn football team. He’d have graduated last year, and the current
Penn wide receiving corps
would not be quite as deep.
However, the injury early in
Holder’s junior year left the
door open for a fifth year.
The process was arduous.
The Ivy League (along with
Penn) can be mighty particular about who gets an extra
yea r of el ig ibi l it y. Holder
lear ned just weeks before
the season that he’d been
cleared.
Not only did Holder’s injury afford him a fifth year
at Penn and personal devel-
tive.
Academica lly, Holder is
taking advantage of his extra time with a new minor,
Consumer Psychology, a joint
minor between the College
of Arts and Sciences and the
Wharton School.
As a fifth-year senior who’s
affectionately called Grandpa for his age and wisdom,
Holder has embraced a new
role on the team.
“This year, I definitely am
taking more of a leadership
role,” he said. “The onus is
kind of on me to not just elevate my game but to try to
bring everybody up with me
because it’s going to be a total team effort.”
I n P e n n ’s f i r s t g a m e
against Lafayette, Holder
pulled in three receptions for
38 yards. Despite some quarterback struggles, Holder is
excited about Penn’s newlook offense. As a veteran,
he’s resolved to take more
ow ner sh ip of t h is se ason
than ones past.
“I’ve grow n as a person
through Penn football, which
is the most important thing,”
Holder said. “That’s what
Coach Bag noli says — he
says he’s trying to mold men.
So I’m really lucky to have
had that experience.”
‘‘
They could have
given up on me. I
wasn’t recruited, it
wasn’t like anyone
had that much stake
in me, but they stuck
with me.”
— Joe Holder,
Senior wide receiver
opment, it also gave rise to
Holder’s blog, the Ocho System.
“ My i nju r y was a t r aumatic time and it made me
look back at essentially what
I was putting in my body,” he
said.
That reflection gave Holder the idea and substance for
the Ocho System, a general
healthy lifestyle blog that caters to the student perspec-
of possession if they mixed
this methodical passing approach with heavy doses of
Marsh and fellow senior running backs Brandon Colavita
and Jeff Jack.
And no one is turning
PFP is one of
Penn’s ‘best
resources’
freshman from page 8
and non-athletes. It really
helped me get a jump start
on the work load and helped
me figure out what type of
work I was going to have, and
it really got me adjusted to
Penn both academically and
non-academically.”
Freshman offensive lineman Daniil Lysenko agreed
that the program helped with
the adjustment period.
“It gave you a headstart
both academically — it lets
you get a feel of how the
teachers are and how the
courses are going to be —
and you just get up here and
feel the atmosphere,” the
Texas native said.
Though academically chal-
The
the Northeast’s all-regional
team.
“ We have severa l ot her
players always pushing him,”
Heintz said. “From an outsider’s point of view, Max is
our star.”
In the second round, the
scores were both more
evenly distributed and more
disappointing. Each player
finished the 18 holes between
7 7 a nd 81, a nd t he t e a m
scored 312. In contrast, the
University of Central Florida
— which led the pack by the
end of the day — finished the
weather- disturbed second
round with a score of 289.
A fter the rounds, Heintz
seemed happy to have gotten
through his first day of college coaching but still hungry
for better performances. He
arrived just a few days ago
and says he is still learning
the nuances of his team.
“We’re just trying to get
together,” he said. “I need to
get familiar with their likes
and dislikes.”
Tuesday, Penn plays the final round of the 54-hole tournament. Heintz is keeping
his aspirations realistic.
“I’m not sure we can win
the event because we’re just
too far behind, but we’re certainly in a position to be in
the top three,” he said.
— Evan Spiller
Chicken Little on the defense,
which despite its youth kept
the Leopards much more in
check than it did a year ago.
Lafayette running back Ross
Scheuerman may have averaged 6.8 yards per carry last
season against the Quakers,
but Penn held him to just 47
rushing yards and 3.5 yards
per carry on Saturday. The
Quakers never wore down defensively despite the Leopards
conservatively grinding it out
with a lead and exceptional
field position for much of the
game.
Any team that can endure
eight turnovers on the road in
a hostile environment with a
young defense and still have a
chance to tie the game in the
final minutes is formidable. If
the Penn coaching staff can be
more creative with how it utilizes Ragone, this team will be
in a better position offensively
to challenge for the Ivy crown
than it was a year ago.
So the sky’s not falling. It’s
brighter now than it was Saturday afternoon, because although Ragone is inconsistent,
it just means the roller coaster
has nowhere to go but up. Continuity will keep it going in the
right direction.
MIKE TONY is a junior English and
history major from Uniontown,
Pa., and is an associate sports
editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian.
He can be reached at dpsports@
thedp.com.
lenging, the benefits of the
program outweighed the loss
of a month of summer.
“I wasn’t at the beach with
my friends a lot like I would
be every other summer, but
it was more advantageous
than disadvantageous,” Lisa
said.
Additionally, the two freshmen were able to get on the
field early, begin lifting and
meet the coaches and fellow
teammates.
There is no other experience quite like this at Penn.
“It becomes one of your
best resources at Penn,” Jok
said. “If you’re struggling,
you can make a phone call
or just walk over to the PFP
office and say you need help
with something.
“They’re always there to
help you. They become an extension of your experience at
Penn and become a pretty vital part, in my opinion. Rarely will you get the chance to
be put in the environment
you are in [than] in PFP.”
The Daily Pennsylvanian
Sports Blog
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Sky won’t
fall with
Ragone
the
‘ocho’
way
MIKE TONY
A
football | Fifthyear senior Joe
Holder went from
walk-on to starter
BY ethan alter
Senior Staff Writer
Four years ago, Joseph
“Ocho” Holder strolled onto
Penn’s campus with no assurance that he would ever
get the chance to represent
Penn on the football field.
A standout high school athlete out of Jersey City, N.J.,
Holder captained his high
school basketball team and
received offers to play both
football and basketball at a
few smaller colleges.
But Penn beckoned. After
gaining admission without
the nod from the football
program, young Joe decided
that a Penn education and
the prospect of playing Division I football were too much
to turn down.
Like so many others who
have had their abilities doubted, Holder turned his uphill
battle for a roster spot into a
source of motivation.
“I never really brought it up
and was never really treated
differently,” he said. “It was
just a case of me trying to go
s Saturday’s showdown with Villanova approaches, Penn football coach
Al Bagnoli has assumed the role of
God. Whether the sky will fall this
weekend is entirely up to him.
All Bagnoli has to do to make the sky fall is
start Billy Ragone at quarterback this weekend for the 20th game of his career. At least
that’s what it probably feels like for Quakers
fans.
But it’s too early to go Chicken Little on Bagnoli’s crew. After all, we’ve been down this
path with Ragone before. He threw two picks
against both Lafayette and Villanova to start
the season last year, giving no indication of
the turnaround to come. Over the next three
games, Ragone completed 64 percent of his
passes, engineered a game-winning, 13-play,
89-yard drive at Dartmouth and threw zero
interceptions.
The rest of 2011 didn’t play out like the
Quakers would have hoped, but the five-game
stretch that started the season does suggest
that with Ragone, it’s okay to take the good
with the bad.
There is still room in this offense for senior
quarterback Andrew Holland, who has the
strong arm and pure pocket presence that the
Quakers will surely need at times this season.
Bagnoli has a history of subbing in backup
quarterbacks on occasion, and Ragone’s inconsistency last year means he shouldn’t have
the starting quarterback spot 100 percent
locked down anymore.
But Ragone has always been Bagnoli’s guy,
there and work everyday and
show people that I belong. It
was definitely additional motivation for me every day to go
out and work hard because it
was something I had to earn
myself.”
By his sophomore year,
Holder started to show the
coaches what he could do.
He appeared in nine games
SEE HOLDER PAGE 7
Laura Francis/Senior Photographer
Senior receiver Joe Holder has battled back from injury to start for the Quakers, recording 38 yards on three catches in the season opener against Lafayette.
SEE TONY PAGE 7
Freshmen get jump start
Around 25 athletes each year come to campus early
as part of the PennCAP Pre-Freshman Program
BY allison bart
Associate Sports Editor
For 100 freshmen each year,
about 25 percent of whom are
athletes, their summers end
early as they come to campus
and take part in the PennCAP
Pre-Freshman Program.
Freshmen from small towns
and urban public schools to firstgeneration college students, in
addition to a diverse array of athletes, take part in this program.
The pre-freshman program
offers students from different
backgrounds the chance to get
an academic jump-start on their
time at Penn.
“It provides the students an
opportunity to come to Penn, get
an understanding of the academic rigor and the faculty expectations and get a lay of the land
before they begin their academic
career in the fall,” said Pamela
Edwards, director of PennCAP
and PFP.
This is particularly helpful
for athletes, who can acclimate
to Penn before the year starts,
learning how to manage the challenges of academics and their
specific sports.
“Having an opportunity to
work on time management and
get a heads up on what the academic rigors are like here at
Penn and how they’re going to
balance that with the demands
of their sport is really important,
and the pre-freshman program
gives them an opportunity to at
least get a glimpse into that,” she
said.
Junior men’s basketball player
Dau Jok, who took part in PFP
his freshman year, added that
it helped him set up a balance
between his on-the-court and offthe-court life.
Outside of getting adjusted
to the academic rigors early
on — they take classes Monday
through Friday from approximately 10 a.m. to 4 or 5 in the afternoon — and working out, he
made some of his closest friends
during his time in the program,
from classes and meals at the
dining hall to bowling and theme
park trips.
“Some of my closest friends
are PFP students,” Jok said. “It
gives you that balance. When you
are at the basketball arena or the
football field, you are with those
guys. It gives another outlet. It
gives you another family.
“While everyone is running
around like chickens with their
heads cut off, you already have
friends, you are already settled
in.”
For current freshmen, these
same principles hold true.
“PFP was just fun,” freshman
quarterback Andrew Lisa said.
“I met a lot of people — athletes
SEE FRESHMAN PAGE 7
Laura Francis/Senior Photographer
College junior Dau Jok came to Penn early as a freshman as part of the PennCAP Pre-Freshman
Program. “It gives another outlet. It gives you another family,” he said.
IV Y LE AGUE STANDINGS
Football
M. Soccer
Ivy
Overall
Brown
0-0
1-0
Columbia
0-0
1-0
Dartmouth
0-0
Harvard
Yale
W. Soccer
Ivy
Overall
Ivy
Cornell
0-0
5-0-0
Brown
0-0
5-1-0
Brown
0-0
5-1-0
Yale
0-0
5-3-0
1-0
Dartmouth
0-0
3-3-0
Dartmouth
0-0
0-0
1-0
Yale
0-0
2-3-1
Harvard
0-0
1-0
Princeton
0-0
2-3-0
Columbia
Field Hockey
Overall
Volleyball
Ivy
Overall
Ivy
Overall
Princeton
1-0
6-0
Columbia
0-0
5-4
Columbia
1-0
4-2
PENN
0-0
4-5
4-2-0
Yale
1-0
2-3
Princeton
0-0
4-6
0-0
3-2-1
Cornell
1-0
1-4
Yale
0-0
3-5
0-0
3-3-0
PENN
0-1
3-3
Brown
0-0
3-6
Cornell
0-0
0-1
Columbia
0-0
2-4-0
PENN
0-0
3-3-0
Brown
0-1
2-3
Cornell
0-0
2-7
PENN
0-0
0-1
Harvard
0-0
1-3-1
Princeton
0-0
2-3-1
Dartmouth
0-1
1-4
Harvard
0-0
2-7
Princeton
0-0
0-1
PENN
0-0
0-6-0
Cornell
0-0
0-7-0
Harvard
0-1
1-4
Dartmouth
0-0
1-8
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