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ZTA targets upperclassmen
GREEK LIFE | Penn’s
eighth sorority
will release bids to
women next week
BY EMILY SANCHEZ
Staff Writer
With colonization well underway, Zeta Tau Alpha — Penn’s
newest sorority — is making an
effort to target upperclassmen
women for recruitment.
ZTA has reached out to
student groups through club
listervs and the Undergraduate Assembly to promote the
sorority, according to Kat Lopez, ZTA traveling leadership
consultant.
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ZTA targeted student groups
with significant upperclassmen
involvement.
“Providing prospective upperclassmen with this opportunity is something ZTA seems
passionate about,” Office of
Student Affairs/ Fraternity
Sorority Life Associate Director Stacy Kraus wrote in an
e-mail.
The sorority’s biggest allies
in recr uitment have come
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Zeta Tau Alpha will be narrowing down its prospective members next week
through closed “infoviews”, an open house and preference party.
Museum of the Macabre
SEPTA’s fare system finally
ENTERS the 21st century
OPINION | Now that SEPTA is eliminating its
outdated token system, Philadelphia has the
opportunity to be the leader in modern mass
transit fare technology. >> PAGE 4
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minorities to teach
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to increase the racial diversity among college
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FEB. 11 - FEB. 12
osama bin laden presentation
Hear former CIA Chief Michael Scheuer
present a detailed and realistic protrait of
Osama bin Laden.
penn bookstore, 3 p.m. Today
‘i am number four’ screening
Catch a free advanced screening of I Am
Number Four courtesy of the SPEC Film
Society.
rave theater, 7:30 p.m. Today
doctors date auction
Find your valentine by biding on dates with
girls and guys from Penn’s Medical, Dental
and Vet schools.
blockley pourhouse, 8 p.m. Today
philo statesmun project
Discuss Egypt with the Philomathean Society
as they host an embassy of Australians
through the StateMUN program.
4th floor college hall, 9 p.m. Today
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College sophomore Paul Mitchell (left) and College junior Cassandra Turcotte catalog skeletons heads in the basement of the Penn Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology. Other duties include taking CT scans of the skeletal material.
Students gain new
perspective through
work-study jobs at
the Penn Museum
BY LAUREN REED-GUY
Staff Writer
The skulls don’t scare College junior Cassandra Turcotte.
If anything worries her, it’s the
bugs.
Along with College sophomore Paul Mitchell, Turcotte
works as an assistant to the
keeper of the Skeletal Collections at the Penn Museum
— two among 43 work-study
students currently employed
by the Penn Museum, according to the Student Employment
Office.
The two work primarily in the
skeletal laboratories in the Museum’s labyrinthine basement.
Off the Beat and the
Shabbatones opened
for NBC ‘The Sing-Off’
winners Thursday
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money for Hepatitis B research. Several
Penn groups will perform.
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Having worked in the labs
for a year and a half now, Turcotte is used to her skeletal
surroundings.
When she was unpacking
previously unopened boxes
of human remains last summer, though, the accompany ing bugs were less than
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The primary office is packed
floor to ceiling with assorted
human and primate remains
— several shelves of human
skulls, two upright skeletons,
flesh samples soaking in formaldehyde and an array of bones
sorted into plastic trays.
Typical duties around the
skeletal labs include cataloging
and classifying bones, taking
CT scans of skeletal material
and updating the Museum’s
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Penn a cappella Off the Beat opens for Committed, the winners of NBC a
cappella competition The Sing-Off, at the Starlight Ballroom Thursday.
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Two Penn a cappella groups
took the stage with NBC headliners Thursday night.
Off The Beat and the Shabbatones opened for winners of
NBC a cappella group competition The Sing-Off, Committed,
in the Starlight Ballroom.
For its Philadelphia show,
Committed’s management
team invited Off the Beat as
its “first choice for opener,” according to member and College
sophomore Ali Kriegsman. The
Shabbatones had watched The
Sing-Off and sent Committed’s
management some of their recordings, suggesting that they
perform together, said member
and College sophomore Alex
Haber.
The show drew a mixed audience of roughly 150, with both
families and students from local
universities in attendance.
The Shabbatones took the
stage first, performing a mix
of Jewish songs in Hebrew and
Israeli pop tunes. Their closing song — a modern mix of
“Naturally” by Selena Gomez
and “Dynamite” by Taio Cruz —
had the audience bobbing their
heads and clapping along.
“They’re the best,” College
senior Josh Levy said.
Drexel University sophomore
Joycelin Wong, who is a member of an a cappella group herself, described the Shabbatones
as “an inspiration” and praised
their ability to “make Israeli pop
appealing for any audience.”
Shabbatones member Nick
Mishkin, a College sophomore,
claimed that “it’s not easy playing Hebrew music to an audience” but that they received a
“warm reception.”
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Elite schools mentor future minority educators
Program helps minority students interested
in teaching prepare grad school applications
BY JULIE XIE
Staff Writer
Penn students looking to
tackle the lack of diversity
a mong f acu lt y on col lege
campuses may break barriers through the Institute for
Recruitment of Teachers.
The IRT is a program that
recruits and mentors minority students who plan to pursue a degree in education, the
humanities, social sciences
or math and are interested
in teaching.
Cur rently, the d iversit y
among faculty in high schools
and universities does not mirror the increased diversity in
matriculating undergraduate
and graduate students, IRT
Director Asabe Poloma said.
“ T he problem is a n extreme one when you look at
the data,” she added.
I RT of fer s a fou r -week
summer program to advise
students of color and those
“committed to diversity” on
their graduate school applications.
The individual advice that
students receive is effective,
according to IRT alumna Juliana Partridge, a first-year
Sociology graduate student,
who received helpful feedback on her essays and personal statements.
C u r r ent ly, t he n at ion a l
attr ition rate for doctoral
candidates is 50 percent, Poloma said. However, IRT has
a higher goal.
“We don’t want students to
survive grad school, we want
them to thrive,” she said.
The program includes a
consortium of 41 schools —
i nclud i ng t he Iv y L eag ue
universities — which have
a com m it ment t o r ec r u it
IRT students for graduate
school.
According to an IRT press
release, in its 20 years, IRT
has supported more than 135
doctoral candidates and over
350 students in earning their
Masters degree.
College junior Isola Brown
is considering a career in
education and think ing of
applying to IRT.
Sixty percent of IRT alum-
ni were the first in their generation to attend graduate
school, Poloma added.
“I’m def initely aware of
the [underrepresentation of
minorities] in higher education. It’s nice to see a professor who looks like you and to
talk to someone with a simila r cultura l backg round ,”
Brown said.
Poloma said that the underrepresentation in teaching
may be due to the fact that
well-educated minority students from lower socioeco-
nomic backgrounds might
be pressured by their families to opt for a high-paying
career field, such as law or
medicine.
Teach for A mer ica— a
nonprofit organization that
recruits recent college graduates to teach in low-income
communities for two years
—is also working to bridge
the gap. TFA is committed
to including a diverse group
of teachers in their core, accord i ng to College senior
Stephanie Lerner, TFA cam-
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Their performance took a
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diversifying
EDITORIAL | The University’s ongoing
efforts to increase socioeconomic
diversity have proven successful
O
ne of the many things that
makes Penn such a great institution is the diversity of its
students. The variety of their
backgrounds contributes to the
vibrancy of this campus.
We therefore commend the ongoing efforts of
the University to increase this diversity — particularly in the area of socioeconomic status.
To make the college admissions process easier
for students from low-income families, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions has recently
partnered with Student Financial Services to
redesign Penn’s financial aid brochure and define
potentially unfamiliar terms such as “need-blind
admissions.”
And for several years now, Penn has partnered
with the nonprofit organizations QuestBridge
and the Posse Foundation to award full four-year
scholarships to deserving low-income students.
During the early decision process this year, the
University selected 17 QuestBridge and 11 Posse
scholars for the class of 2015.
For these reasons, the students that have been
admitted to the incoming freshman class are the
most socioeconomically diverse of any class in
the recent past, according to Dean of Admissions
Eric Furda.
Admitting more low-income students will not
only enrich their educational experience but the
diversity they bring to the University will also
enrich the experience of everyone here.
A creative community
LAST CALL | Students should take advantage of the
creative writing offerings at Penn regardless of their major
I
f there’s one thing I’ve realized
in my few weeks as a columnist, it’s that writing is hard,
and writing creatively is even
harder.
I’m pretty sure that I’m not alone in
my struggle to be creative. As Penn
students, we’re taught to be analytical and pragmatic in our writing. Our
professors seldom call upon us to write
a creative essay. For this reason, Penn
students should take advantage of the
courses that make this type of writing
a priority, like those offered by the Creative Writing Program.
I’ve seen countless friends strive to
craft original, personal writing. They’re
trying to formulate the perfect cover letter for their dream job. They’re drafting
and re-drafting personal statements
for graduate school or fellowship applications. It’s not easy to come up with
an original way to portray yourself, especially one that will hold the reader’s
interest. Creative writing classes can
get students on the right track when it
comes to writing about themselves.
“It’s knowing what words work well
together, what images are resonant,”
said Gregory Djanikian, director of the
Creative Writing Program.
Creative writing classes can complement every major at Penn. Wharton
students can practice skills that will
help them in writing a marketing pitch
or a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats analysis. Those interested in the entertainment industry
can turn to courses in screenwriting
for writing practice and script critiquing. Politicos can register for classes
like “Political Commentary” or “Long
Form Journalistic Writing.”
In addition to sparking creativity, the
program also offers students the opportunity to be in small classes. I’m
not talking a smaller lecture, where
the professor might know your name
by the end of this semester. I’m talking
about the 15-person seminar, where
everyone knows everyone’s name. In
these intimate classes, the students
build genuine relationships with professors and each other.
“All of the classes are small, so very
personal,” echoed Alyssa Birnbaum, a
College senior majoring in English with
a concentration in creative writing. “We
all share things and that puts you in a
vulnerable position. You get close with
people very quickly.”
Students who enroll in creative writing courses profit from the workshop
style, which revolves around sharing
your work with the community. It can
be nerve-wracking sometimes — I’m
reminded of it each week as I write my
column — but it’s an important part
of life.
Everyone has to be prepared to receive both praise and criticism from
his or her peers. Let’s be honest — it’s
not always easy. But being able to take
criticism gracefully and apply it well is
a necessity in the work force. By being
placed in this situation each week, students are better preparing themselves
for life after college.
SABRINA BENUN
Additionally, the ability to give another person a frank, constructive critique
of his or her work will prove to be highly
useful in the long term. Whether you’re
a lawyer reviewing a contract, an entrepreneur reading a business proposal or
a professor offering students feedback,
you will need to know the best way to
evaluate and comment on another person’s work.
A recent article in The Chronicle of
Higher Education stated that many
universities were pressured by their
administrations to expand the sizes of
their creative writing classes, which
strongly conflicts with their workshop
model.
Students in creative writing classes at Penn should count their blessings. “Creative writing workshops are
capped at 15 and have been for as long
as I can remember,” Djanikian said.
There is zero pressure from the administration to expand the sizes.
Students should realize that the skills
they pick up in these small creative
writing classes transcend the subject
itself. So take note and drop a creative
writing class in your course cart.
SABRINA BENUN is a College senior from
Santa Monica, Calif. Her e-mail address
is [email protected]. Last Call appears
every Friday.
SEPTA finally gets smart
DULY NOTED | The long-awaited
upgrade from tokens gives Phila.
the chance to lead the way
B
efore coming to Penn, my knowledge of the City of Brotherly Love
was limited to the patriotic, carefully planned grade-school class
trips to the Liberty Bell. I knew
little about the ins and outs of actually living
here. So, when — upon my first trip to Center City — someone handed me a small, oddly
striped coin, I laughed.
SEPTA tokens are kind of kitschy, kind of
cute, but never convenient. It just doesn’t seem
right that the same tender used at Chuck E.
Cheese’s powers the sixth-largest transportation system in the United States. They date
our city like a feathered haircut. How can we
be expected to be taken seriously by our East
Coast peers of Washington, D.C., New York and
Boston, all of whom have upgraded to the svelte
convenience of plastic cards when we’re still
living in the Gilded Age?
This month, the SEPTA board announced
that it will borrow the $175 million necessary
RACHEL DEL VALLE
to make the long-awaited upgrade from tokens
to smart cards. I can’t help but be skeptical,
however, given that this futuristic idea was first
announced in November 2008.
It’s been over two years and countless obstacles since then, and according to the The
Philadelphia Inquirer, it will still be at least
another two or three years until tokens will be
absolutely obsolete. It’s 2011. Aren’t we all supposed to be flying around in aerocars anyway?
The long-time-coming attitude associated
with this upgrade will (hopefully) result in one
of the most state-of-the-art public transportation systems in the country. According to a
statement from SEPTA, ideas being considered for the revamped system include payment
with mobile devices and other “emerging smart
technologies.”
College sophomore Simcha Katsnelson — a
Philadelphia native who’s ridden SEPTA since
childhood ­­­— is excited at the prospect of a modern fare system. “I think it’s cool to see how
technology can impact even the smallest details
of everyday life, like SEPTA tokens,” she said.
New York, which is looking to upgrade its
15-year-old MetroCard system, has spent four
years testing an open-fare contactless card system, which would have passengers tap instead
of swipe at turnstiles. MasterCard’s PayPass
and Visa’s payWave technologies, which have
been piloted at locations in the city, allow riders
to use both their bank cards as well as their cell
phones with memory cards or apps linked to
their accounts to pay fare.
Given the time it has taken to experiment
with these new methods of payment in New
York and other major cities, I wonder — and
worry — how long it will actually take for Philadelphia to be token-less. Especially since we’re
making not merely a step, but a leap, forward
from metal to microchip.
While Philadelphia has long been lagging behind, if we move fast enough, we could have the
opportunity to serve as a model for 21st-century
metropolitan transit.
It’s true, other major cities have smaller
shifts to make, from smart cards distributed
by their transportation systems to individual,
bank-linked payment methods. SEPTA has a
slightly bigger challenge. But we’re underdogs.
We’re the city of Rocky, the ultimate underdog.
It’s what we’re supposed to do.
SEPTA has praised the “open nature” of the
smart card system and expressed their hope
that the upgrade will “attract new riders.”
While “open nature” seems like a vague term,
I think I understand what SEPTA is getting at.
There’s so much planning involved to get tokens
that the spontaneity of jumping on the trolley
into Center City is a bit stifled. Being able to
swipe a bank card instead of fishing around
for a token will make getting around that much
easier.
I just hope that SEPTA is equally “open” with
the public about the challenges they’re taking
on with this major project. We’ll see where we
are in three years.
RACHEL DEL VALLE is a College freshman from Newark,
N.J. Her e-mail address is [email protected]. Duly
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Ashley Parker, who graduated from the College in 2005, describes her journey from Penn to The New York
Times at the Kelly Writers House Thursday.
‘Times’ journalist
returns to alma mater
Penn alumna Ashley
Parker spoke on
campus Thursday on
her career path
BY GRACE WILLIAMSON
Contributing Writer
Being able to list the president of the United States as a
reader of your columns seems
like an elusive dream for most
young journalists.
However, for 2005 College
graduate and Daily Pennsylvanian alumna A shley
Parker, this is just one of the
milestones she has reached
already, despite still being at
what she considers her first
“real job.”
Parker spoke with Penn
professor Anthony DeCurtis
in front of a small group of
students at the Kelly Writers
House Thursday about her
burgeoning career as a journalist at The New York Times.
Parker answered questions
about her experiences, coming off as a fellow Penn student
when saying she still finds it
“cool that some people other
than my parents are reading
what I write.”
Parker played down her impressive resume, citing luck
as a factor in landing her job
as research assistant to prominent Times commentator
Maureen Dowd. The position
has taken her to Saudi Arabia on assignment for Vanity
Fair — an experience which
was “totally awesome,” she
added.
Landing the position with
Dowd was an impressive first
post which “randomly came
together,” Parker said. A Penn
professor set up an interview
for Parker with the manager
of the Times, which happened
to be on the same day as her
inter view with Dowd. This
afforded Parker an insider’s
account of what Dowd was
looking for, which she played
to in her interview, after which
“shockingly … I got the job”.
Parker also spoke about the
persistence required to forge
a career as a journalist and
the need to be able to cope
with rejection and criticism.
Upon developing an idea for
a story, Parker would initially
“go down a list of 10 to 15 organizations until I would finally
find someone who would publish it,” she said.
Pa rker cited her recent
feature article for The New
York Times Magazine “A ll
The Obama 20-Somethings”
— w h ic h g av e he r b ac kstage insight to the lives of
the young people who work
closely with President Barack Obama — as a highlight
of her career.
Parker fielded questions
from students regarding how
she stays on top of all the reading required to be a journalist
in today’s info-loaded world.
“It’s literally impossible!”
Parker said, adding that the
skill of knowing which blogs
to follow and which articles to
read comes with time.
She also admitted to “scrubbing up” her Facebook page
to make it more professional.
One must be “very aware now
in the day and age of blogs and
flip phones that anything you
do is on the record and fair
fodder,” she said.
DeCurtis, coordinator of
t he R e a l A r t s@Pen n pr o gram which hosted Parker,
was “very proud” of Parker’s
achievements and “delighted”
to have her back. Although
“disappointed” with the small
student turnout, DeCurtis was
not disheartened by the lack of
numbers. It was always worthwhile hearing Parker, who is
“an incredibly entertaining
person,” he said.
Temple University student
Allison Harris, a staff member
at the Kelly Writers House, enjoyed the talk. It was “nice to
be reminded the there’s a big
world waiting,” she said.
College junior Lindsey Todd
said that Parker “gave me a
little more insight into how difficult it is to establish yourself
as a journalist.”
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ZTA ‘very
pleased’ with
response
of prospective members will
be narrowed down.
Joy McKenzie, a College
ju n ior w ho at t ende d t he
meet and greet, is excited
about the opportunities ZTA
offers.
“I wa nt to en ha nce my
next year and a half,” she
said, adding that “the leadership opportunities a new
chapter can afford are really
compelling.”
College sophomore Jeanette Elstein, who is rushing ZTA, said she originally
didn’t consider joining a sorority.
She was turned off by the
stereoty pe of “cliques” in
some sororities and believed
that many girls who are involved in sororities have little time for other activities.
ZTA from page 1
from the Greek community.
Soror it y a nd f rater n it y
memb er s r ec om mend i ng
friends to ZTA, Lopez said,
has been ver y helpf u l to
their cause.
Lopez added that ZTA is
“ver y pleased with the response” they have gotten
around campus.
A me et a nd g r e et l a st
Thursday evening was one
of ZTA’s last open recruitment events before a group
The Daily Pennsylvanian
However, “since ZTA is recruiting from all classes, I
feel they’re going to get people involved in a lot of other
things as well,” she said.
The new sorority also puts
responsibility on the founding members.
“We have a reputation to
establish,” McKenzie said. “I
hope it’s the right one.”
T houg h ZTA is ma k i ng
upperclassmen recr uitment a priority, their events
and promotions are geared
toward all undergraduate
women at Penn.
“Sorority chapters look for
balance between the classes.,” Kraus wrote. “It helps
to ensure that when classes
graduate, you have a strong
number of members to carry
on the group.”
Xiao Chang/DP Staff Photographer
Students find
museum jobs
‘rewarding’
you’re going to walk into every day,” she said.
As par t of her work ,
Grabowski is allowed to handle some of the Museum’s
most unique possessions.
Last semester, Grabowski
helped move the Museum’s
collection of American Indian shrunken heads, which
she described as “like raisins, only in head form and
with beads and hair still on
them.”
“I definitely feel like I’m
walking out of this job with a
curse,” Grabowski said. “At
least one or two.”
Grabowski describes
her position as “a bunch of
hodge-podge jobs,” which
range from computer cataloging to examining the condition of pieces coming back
from loans.
Both M itchell a nd T ur cotte were drawn to their
current positions after tak-
MUSEUM from page 1
welcome.
“It cer t ainly involves a
h ig her t oler a nc e for t he
macabre than your average
person might have,” Mitchell
said.
But for Mitchell and Turcotte, work ing w ith thousands of human and primate
skeletons has been “much
more tha n just a job,” as
Mitchell put it.
F o r C o l l e ge f r e s h m a n
Nicole Grabowski, working
as an inventory assistant at
the Penn Museum has been
“loads of fun.”
“ You never k now wh at
Penn professor Mary Frances Berry, co-author of Power in Words: The Stories Behind Barack Obama’s Speeches,
from the State House to the White House, shares her own accounts in the Penn Bookstore Thursday.
ing classes with anthropology professor Janet Monge,
the keeper of the Skeletal
Collection.
“I’ve a lways wa nted to
do something with biology,”
said Turcotte, a geological
anthropolog y major. “This
seemed like a great way to
work with people. You don’t
see t he i mpact on l iv i ng
humans right away, but it’s
there.”
Mitchell, who plans to major in biological anthropology, said the fact that others
are intrigued by his work is
part of what makes his job
rewarding.
“I’m always going to remember all the days that
I would pass through the
Museum with a cart full of
skulls, gathering the glances of passers-by who are a
little weirded out as to what
I could be doing,” Mitchell
said.
History prof analyzes
Obama’s rhetoric
Mary Frances Berry stresses changes that
presidential speeches undergo after elections
BY KRYSTAL BONNER
Contributing Writer
“We can all agree, Democrats
and Republicans, that Barack
Obama can deliver one heck of
a speech,” said Penn History
professor Mary Frances Berry,
speaking at the Penn Bookstore Thursday about her latest
book.
The book, titled Power in
Words: The Stories Behind
Barack Obama’s Speeches,
from the State House to the
White House, takes a behindthe-scenes look on the development of Obama’s speechwriting
process. She co-wrote the book
with Josh Gottheimer, a former
student of hers who has worked
as a speechwriter for both former President Bill Clinton and
Sen. John Kerry (D-Md.).
Over 30 Penn and West Philadelphia community members
trickled into the Bookstore to
hear Berry offer her inside
look.
Since running for Illinois
state senator, Obama delivered
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speeches that have consistently
focused on “hope, change and
responsibility,” Berry said.
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being “too Harvard and not
enough South Side,” Obama
quickly began mimicking the
style of speeches given in black
churches.
It was his 2004 Democratic
Convention speech, however,
which “propelled him onto the
world stage,” Berry said. Following his win in the 2008 Iowa
caucuses, Berry said she “knew
Obama was going to win the
nomination,” and that there
was no comparison between
the quality of his speeches and
those of Hillary CIinton. She also
discussed the importance of the
“A More Perfect Union” speech
concerning race in the United
States which he delivered at the
National Constitution Center in
Philadelphia.
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in Obama’s speeches since
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said.
However, with the next election approach, Berry predicted
that Obama would “get his
groove back” and utilize his
skills in rallying crowds. “He’s
going to be in campaign mode
from now on, talking to people in
his short-sleeves,” she said.
The book talk was organized
in conjunction with the Center
for Africana Studies and is part
of the Bookstore’s Black History
Month program series.
The audience was overall
pleased with the talk. “She’s
one of the best professors on
campus,” said first-year School
of Arts and Sciences graduate
student Anthony Pratcher, “I go
whenever I can see her speak.”
Penn Alumni Relations director Elise Betz echoed this sentiment, commenting “Dr. Berry
is a legend,” and that “it was
fabulous — I’ll definitely read
the book.”
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The Daily Pennsylvanian
Friday, February 11, 2011 Page 7
Quakers return to action against GW Swimmers ‘ready to
roll’ at Terp Invite
M. Tennis | After
nine-day layoff, Penn
looks to continue
three-game streak
swimming | Top swimmers sit out in
preparation for Ivy Championships
BY ZACK KOWALSKI
Contributing Writer
It has been more than a
week since the men’s tennis
team stepped between the
lines, after its match against
Army was canceled last Saturday.
So the Quakers will either
be well-rested or slightly
rusted this afternoon, when
they take on George Washington, a team they beat 5-2
last season.
Penn’s rides in on a victory over Temple — arguably
the second-best team in the
city, according to Penn coach
Nik DeVore — in their last
match.
The Quakers likely needed the nine-day layoff after the long and gr ueling
affair against the Owls, which
spanned more than four hours,
and senior Hicham Laalej
took his match to the final set
before clinching the win for
Penn. While the Quakers lost
the doubles point, their effort
in singles play carried them
through the day.
The team has been on a
roll, opening their season
with three straight victories.
George Washington, on the
other hand, has lost two of its
first three.
BY Alyssa KRESS
Assistant Sports Editor
Alex Neier/DP Staff Photographer
Senior Hicham Laalej will need another strong performance to help Penn beat George Washington Friday, the team’s
first match since last Saturday. He clinched a victory in the decisive final match against Temple.
The Colonials are led by
junior Ugur Atalay, who lost
to Penn in three sets at No. 1
singles last year.
Penn freshman Nikola Kocovic’s match will be one to
watch. He hasn’t lost a singles
set all season and doesn’t appear to be affected by the freshman learning curve.
M. Tennis
While the Quakers postponed
their trip up to West Point, their
George Washfirst three matches have alington (1-2)
ready taught them the disciToday, 4 p.m.
pline necessary for continued
Levy Pavilion
success.
With the upperclassmen
rolling and the freshmen hear a second farewell adplaying like seasoned veter- dress from George Washingans, the Quakers will likely ton tonight.
No. 5 and 6 wrestlers in nation match up Cornell hoops
no longer Ivy
powerhouse
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stands out.
Peterkin, who is ranked No.
5 nationally at 133 pounds and
boasts a 22-2 season record,
will face No. 6 Mike Grey, who
has been hampered by injury
and has competed in just four
— albeit victorious — matches
so far this year.
But, as Peterkin points out,
lack of season experience
means little to nothing when
consider ing a w restler of
Grey’s caliber.
“He is a tough competitor, and
I will have to wrestle hard no
matter what,” Peterkin said.
A nd Peterk i n cer t a i n ly
knows about tough competitors from Cornell.
Former national champion
Troy Nickerson was a perennial barrier between Peterkin
and an Eastern Intercollegiate
Wrestling Association crown.
Nickerson may be gone, but
the Big Red are just as fierce.
“I think it’s awesome to have
a team that good so close to
us in the conference and the
league,” Peterkin said.
“The season has gone well,
but that doesn’t matter come
nationals,” he added. “It is almost a whole new season starting now.”
That new season starts Friday and continues Saturday
afternoon when the Red and
Blue look to take a bite out of
the Big Apple as they head to
Columbia, (6-5, 0-1).
The Lions are hardly as intimidating as the Big Red but
are an important stepping
stone nonetheless.
And yet, it is hard not to notice
the elephant that is the NCAA
championships, which will be
held in Philadelphia this year.
“I expect Penn to do much
better than people expect us
to, and I think we have made
huge strides as a team,” Peterkin said.
Quakers to
wear pink
warmups
dining halls and dorms, and good about helping the Pink
ads for the game have aired on Zone cause, they will also look
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ing conference contests.
“It’s a nice initiative that the
The Quakers lost their last
WBCA has taken up, and they two Ivy matchups in heartraise a large amount of mon- breaking fashion by just seven
ey,” coach Mike McLaughlin combined points.
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said.
On Friday against Cornell (5All of the money raised will 15, 2-4) and Saturday against
“assist in raising breast cancer be donated to Penn’s Rena Columbia, Penn will set its
awareness on the court, across Rowan Breast Center at the sights on two Ivy wins in the
campuses, in communities and Abramson Cancer Center.
Palestra, in that bastion of red
beyond.”
While the Quakers can feel and blue ­— and pink.
In 2010, Pink Zone raised upwards of $1 million for breast
cancer research.
Columbia (5-15, 4-2 Iv y),
Penn’s opponent on Saturday,
hosted its own Pink Zone event
on Feb. 5 when it defeated Yale.
The Quakers (7-12, 1-4) will
warm up for the Columbia
game clad in pink warmups
emblazoned with a combined
Pink Zone and Penn logo.
“It’s nice to really focus on
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the breast cancer awareness,”
junior captain Jess Knapp said.
“There’s a huge marketing push
and we get a lot of fans out.”
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points per game, while sophomore Errick Peck has stepped
into the starting lineup to average 11.6 per game.
Cornell (5-15, 1-5) currently
sits in the cellar of the Ivy
M. & W. SWIMMING
For some, this is the last
meet of the season. For others, it’s the last meet of their
collegiate careers.
And for the top Penn swimmers, it’s just one meet closer
to the Ivy League championships.
The men’s and women’s
swimming teams will face six
other schools this weekend at
the Terp Invite at University of
Maryland, giving each swimmer the best chance to end
the season on a high note.
“This is to give everybody
an opportunity to swim fast
at the end of the year,” coach
Mike Schnur said. “We’re limited on the Ivy Championship
squad to 17 swimmers and
three divers so all the other
kids on the team need a place
to swim fast. Our entire goal is
to go as fast as we can and see
the kids get their best times.”
The best swimmers from
each Ivy League team will
take the weekend off in preparation for their respective
league championships.
“Everybody at this meet
is in the exact same boat,”
Schnur said. “There’s a very
wide variety of ability levels at
this event. There’s a few who
are a little bit slower than everybody else, and there’s a lot
of kids who are very similar to
our kids.”
For seniors like Alex Kalish and Mike Tompkins who
will not be participating in the
league championships, this
weekend will serve as their
final meet as Penn athletes.
“They’re ready to roll,”
Schnur said. “This is their
last opportunity as college
athletes. Our seniors that are
in this meet are ready to go.
They’ve trained really hard
this year.”
The fastest swimmers at
the invite have a chance of
making the championship
roster, providing motivation
to swim harder.
For most, however, the season ends here, and just as he
does in every race, Schnur
expects a strong finish.
League and will be an underdog heading into the weekend.
The Lions are a different story. First-year coach Kyle Smith
has installed a push-the-pace
system, as his team scores and
allows the most points of any
team in the conference.
The Quakers lost both their
matchups with Columbia last
year by a combined total of
five points, one of those losses
coming on a game-winner in
the final minute.
Columbia (12-8, 3-3) pos-
sesses the league’s most potent scorer in junior guard
Noruwa Agho, who leads the
conference with 15.8 points
per game.
Though Penn refused to
even discuss the Columbia
game until playing Cornell,
Eggleston had plenty to say
about his first opponent.
“Cornell’s a good team,
they’re coming off a good win.
We’re just going to have to go
out there and play as hard as
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Schedule released for two-time champs
Football | Penn Athletics releases fall schedule featuring
a game against FCS No. 3 Villanova at Franklin Field
BY Megan Soisson
Sports Editor
With the announcement of the 201112 Penn football schedule, the path to
the Quakers’ third-consecutive Ivy
League championship has been laid.
Since the conference slate switches
venues — 2010 home games will be
played away, and vice versa — the Red
and Blue will have one less Ivy home
game. Additionally, the Quakers will
face an unfamiliar foe come October.
Instead of Bucknell, Penn will take
on Fordham in the fourth game of the
season.
Last season, the Rams played three
opponents that the Quakers also faced:
Columbia, Yale and Bucknell.
While the Red and Blue went 3-0
against the three, Fordham went 2-1,
falling to Yale, 7-6.
As in the past 11 seasons, Penn’s final
nonconference game occurs the week
after the Ivy opener against Dartmouth.
And once again, the Quakers premiere
at home against Lafayette Sept. 17.
Though playing times have yet to be announced, the opening matchup has typically taken place on Saturday evening.
Villanova is on the schedule again for
the final installment of Penn’s eightyear agreement with the Wildcats.
Penn will be the “away” team, but the
game will be played at Franklin Field,
which will be considered a neutral site.
As part of the contract, the two teams
split both expenses and revenues for
n
the game.
2011 Penn FOotball Schedule
Sept. 17 vs. Lafayette
Sept. 24 at Villanova (played at Franklin Field)
Oct. 1 at Dartmouth*
Oct. 8 vs. Fordham
Oct. 15 at Columbia*
Oct. 22 vs. Yale*
Oct. 29 at Brown*
Nov. 5 vs. Princeton* (Homecoming)
Nov. 12 at Harvard*
Nov. 19 vs. Cornell*
*Ivy League game
PENN (9-10, 3-2 Ivy) Vs. CORNELL (5-15, 1-5)
Tonight 7 P.m. | Ithaca, N.y.
The long road
to recovery
m. hoops | Quakers continue five-game Ivy road
trip in NY after a pair of crushing league losses
BY alex siegel
Staff Writer
After the Quakers’ second
straight heartbreak ing loss
Tuesday to Princeton, senior
guard Tyler Bernardini saw
only one way the team could
move on.
“We’re gonna rely on our veterans to help everyone to try to
have a short memory,” Bernardini said. “You have to in this
league.”
Thursday, players and coaches
began that process, boarding a
bus bound for Ithaca, N. Y., where
the Quakers (9-10, 3-2 Ivy) will
face Cornell Friday before going
up against Columbia Saturday.
The Princeton and Harvard
losses put a damper on a 3-0 Ivy
League start, but you wouldn’t
know it from talking to senior
captain Jack Eggleston.
“The most important game for
us is the next game,” Eggleston
said. “[It’s] not the Princeton
game we just played. It’s not the
Harvard game from Saturday.
It’s the Cornell game. That’s
what we’re focused on, that’s
what we’re game planning for,
that’s what we’re getting ready
for.”
The contests represent the
middle stretch of a five-game
road trip that will certainly challenge a Penn squad that has gone
2-7 away from the Palestra.
“Every Ivy League road game
is going to be a tough game,” Eggleston said. “I don’t think any one
has added significance. We can’t
overlook any opponents that we
have, we’ve just got to come out
and know that we’re going to get
a battle every night.”
In the Quakers’ first meeting
with Cornell last year, Penn upset the nationally ranked Big Red
— one of the major highlights
of last year’s season. Though
Cornell won out to capture its
third-straight Ivy League championship, its current squad is
nothing like the team of old after
the departures of seniors Louis
Dale, Jeff Foote and Ryan Wittman and coach Steve Donahue.
New head coach Bill Courtney,
a former assistant at Virginia and
Virginia Tech, had high praise
for the Quakers’ captains.
“[Eggleston’s] the guy we’re
looking at most as the toughest
matchup,” Courtney told Brian
Delaney of the Ithaca Journal,
adding that point guard Zack
Rosen is “one of the best interior
passers I’ve seen for a guard.”
Courtney’s decimated team is
led by senior Chris Wroblewski,
the lone contributor from last
year’s Sweet Sixteen team remaining. Wroblewski is fifth
in the league in scoring at 14.6
SEE M. HOOPS PAGE 7
Pete Lodato/DP File Photo
Penn is counting on veteran players like senior forward Jack Eggleston (center) to revive the team’s Ivy League title hopes after two deflating overtime
losses. Eggleston and the Quakers continue a five-game road trip this weekend in New York, where Penn will play Cornell and Columbia.
Top team in nation awaits in NY Red and
wrestling | Fresh
off three Ivy-opening
wins, Penn grapples
with No. 1 Big Red
BY eli cohen
Staff Writer
Much is made of the everpresent Penn-Princeton athletic
feud.
But there is a nother Iv y
League foe with whom the Quakers wrestling team has an even
bigger beef.
In recent years, Cornell has
dom i nated t he Iv y L eag ue
wrestling landscape, and the
boys from Ithaca have become
the largest obstacle standing
between the Red and Blue and
league supremacy.
This season’s match will be no
different when Penn (9-4, 3-0 Ivy)
travels to upstate New York to
battle the No. 1 Big Red (9-1, 1-0)
tonight.
The Quakers roll in on a threematch winning streak, looking
to avenge previous losses at the
Blue go pink
at Palestra
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No. 1 Cornell
9-1, 1-0 Ivy
Tonight,
6:30 p.m.
Ithaca, N.Y.
W. hoops | Penn will participate
in Pink Zone promotion Saturday
to benefit breast cancer research
Columbia
6-5, 0-1 Ivy
Saturday,
3 p.m.
New York, N.Y.
hands of Cornell.
“This is a good measure of
where we stand in the conference
and in the NCAA,” senior Rollie
Peterkin said. “We both have
many ranked guys, so it will show
how well we can fare against the
highest competition.”
The native of Wellesley, Mass.,
is certainly right about the number of ranked wrestlers on each
squad — Penn has five and Cornell has eight.
But among all the stellar
matchups in the works, one
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BY ethan alter
Staff Writer
Pete Lodato/DP Senior Photographer
Penn senior Rollie Peterkin (left), ranked fifth in the nation at 133 pounds, faces
No. 6 Mike Grey Friday — one of eight ranked wrestlers on the Cornell team.
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The women’s basketball
team has the color pink on the
brain — and it’s not because of
that new sorority.
P ink w ill mi x just f ine
with red and blue this weekend when the Quakers take
on Columbia at the Palestra
in Penn’s annual Pink Zone
game.
Organized by the Women’s
Basketball Coaches Association,
Pink Zone’s stated mission is to
W. HOOPS
Cornell (5-15, 2-4 Ivy)
Tonight, 7 p.m.
The Palestra
Columbia (5-15, 4-2)
Saturday, 7 p.m.
The Palestra
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