AEPi votes to voluntarily relinquish chapter charter

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AEPi votes to voluntarily
relinquish chapter charter
AEPi, which will establish an off-campus presence,
will move out of its house at the end of the semester
BY SETH ZWEIFLER
Campus News Editor
Fol low i ng h a zi ng ac t iv ities, Penn’s Gamma Chapter
of Alpha Epsilon Pi has voted
to relinquish its charter as a
University-recognized fraternity, Office of Student Affairs/
Fraternity Sorority Life Director
Scott Reikofski wrote in an email
statement Friday afternoon.
According to Reikofski, the
chapter was found recently to
have violated University policy.
He wrote that it “voted to close
voluntarily rather than accept
responsibility for the violations
and comply with sanctions de-
veloped in partnership between
the University and the Alpha Epsilon Pi International Fraternity
Office.”
College sophomore and AEPi
President Joe Egozi, along with
more than 30 current and former
fraternity brothers contacted
over the weekend, declined to
comment.
According to Reikofski, given
AEPi’s decision, the AEPi International Fraternity Office has
also rescinded the chapter’s
charter and will be overseeing
the fraternity’s move out of its
chapter house at 4035 Walnut St.,
which will take place at the end
of the semester.
Executive Director of AEPi
Andrew Borans wrote in a statement that “after learning of hazing activities more than a month
ago, we began to work cooperatively with the University administration to find a proper course
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Despite the weather, Ron Paul supporters gathered at
Independence Mall in Philadelphia yesterday for the rally.
Ron Paul
rallies in
Walnut St. hotel nears opening rainy Phila.
SEE AEPI PAGE 7
Homewood Suites will
have a soft opening
May 1 and grand
opening in August
Two days before state primary,
Paul spoke to large
tion
group of supporters
Elec
BY SARAH SMITH
Staff Writer
BY ANNA PAN
Staff Writer
A new addition has secured
its place in the University City
skyline.
Homewood Suites, owned by
Hilton Hotels and Resorts, will
have a soft opening May 1 with
operations fully open to the
public. An official grand opening with formal tours will take
place early August.
The hotel, located at 4109
Walnut St., broke ground in
December 2010. Construction
is now nearly complete — finishing landscaping touches are
being made, as well as amendments to light fixtures, outlets,
and stocking of sheets, coffee
makers and glassware.
The 11-story building was
sp eci f ic a l ly desig ned for
guests who plan to stay for
longer periods of time. It houses 136 suites with bedrooms
and kitchenettes. Guests are
provided with complimentary
breakfast, evening reception
and Wi-Fi. The dining room
seats about 50. Other amenities include a fitness center, an
indoor pool and hot tub and a
sweet shop in the main lobby
that will serve snacks, milk
and frozen dinners.
Andrew Dierkes/DP Staff Photographer
Homewood Suites is set for a soft opening on May 1 at 41st and Walnut streets. The 11-story building, designed for extendedSEE HOTEL PAGE 4 stay guests, offers 136 suites with bedrooms and kitchenettes as well as a fitness center, indoor pool and hot tub.
Student playwright sees own play
Seth Simons
worked with Front
Row Theater to put
on his original play
A spi r i ng pl ay w r ig ht s
write countless scripts each
year, with most only going so
far as the author’s computer
screen.
But College sophomore
Seth Simons saw his most
recent play staged Sunday,
as Front Row Theatre Company produced Minuet - A
Lullaby in Harrison’s Heyer
Sky Lounge.
R epresentatives f rom
Front Row and the Kelly
Writers House chose Simon’s script from about half
a dozen competitors as the
winner of the 2012 New Playwriting Fellowship.
The fellowship gave Simons the opportunity to
work with playwright and
On a wet Sunday afternoon, presidential hopeful Ron Paul addressed a large crowd of supporters in Independence Mall in Philadelphia.
“You have to be a true believer to come out
today,” the Texas Rep. said amidst cheers. Paul,
who is running for the Republican presidential
nomination, delivered his address two days before Pennsylvania’s April 24 primary election.
Paul’s talk focused on the key components of
his platform and referenced the country’s history.
“We ought to look more carefully at what the
Founding Fathers told us and taught us,” he said
as he warned against nation building and “entangling alliances.” Paul advocated for bringing
home American troops and against constructing
more military bases in other countries.
“Our foreign policy is a schizophrenic foreign
policy,” Paul said, citing the United States’ shifting alliances in the Middle East.
The crowd, clad in raincoats and ponchos,
punctuated his speech with chants of “President Paul” and “End the Fed.” Some brought
homemade signs and others held ones from the
official campaign.
Economic policy was also a key component of
Paul’s talk. He proposed cutting $1 trillion the
first year of his potential administration.
“A welfare state doesn’t work,” he said, referencing the Affordable Care Act passed by President Barack Obama’s administration.
Paul advocated for personal liberty and freedom from large government.
“Get rid of the people who believe it is their responsibility to run our lives and police the world,”
SEE PAUL PAGE 7
Mask & Wig, SPEC
host 14th ComFest
‘Daily Show’ correspondent Aasif Mandvi
hosted five collegiate
comedy troupes
BY ALEX ZIMMERMAN
Contributing Writer
BY SHEILA QUINTANA
Contributing Writer
Meredith Stern/DP Staff Photographer
Wharton sophomore Tyler Carson and College freshman Megan Koehler act in Minuet - A Lullaby in Harrison’s Sky
Lounge. Winner of the Kelly Writers House Playwriting Fellowship, College sophomore Seth Simons, wrote the play.
first-ever resident writer
of the Kelly Writers House
ArtsEdge Residency Greg
Romero on his script and
with Front Row to perform a
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staged reading. Simons also
received a $500 prize.
“I was really excited,” Simons said. “As a playwright
it’s virtually impossible to
hone one’s craft without
hearing and seeing the writing and having actors perSEE PLAYWRIGHT PAGE 2
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Aasif Mandvi, member of the
Daily Show’s Best F#@king
News Team Ever, joined the
cast of Mask & Wig on stage for
the 14th Annual Intercollegiate
Comedy Festival Friday night.
The event was co-sponsored by
the Social Planning and Events
Committee.
This year’s ComFest featured
five comedy troupes hailing from
various colleges and universities,
including Swarthmore College
and Tufts and Cornell universities. Each troupe performed
three sketches, including some
musical numbers.
Penn Masala opened the
show for Mandvi, who claimed
he felt like he was “back in
Mumbai” while greeting the a
capella group members backstage.
In a sketch, Mandvi stood in
the middle of the stage as lonely
man with a red helium balloon
witnessing a parade of Mask &
Wig cast members cartwheeling, modeling and dancing past
him in slow motion.
From the side o f the stage
emerged another member
dressed in a pink dress and
holding a matching balloon. He
slowly approached Mandvi for a
forced kiss to the roaring laughter of an almost full Harrison
Auditorium.
In 10 minutes of stand-up
comedy, Mandvi joked about
being Muslim as a child in
England and as an adult in the
United States.
“We are the dumbest people
on the planet … Americans,”
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Page 2 MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012
The Daily Pennsylvanian
Philly Tech Week kicks off today
Penn students may not present a strong
showing at Philly Tech Week events
end and co-working space
IndyHall. Events will cover
everything from technology
entrepreneurship to visual
design to getting funding
for startups.
“We know that Philadelphia has a vibrant technology community … but it is
not a lway s r ecog n i zed ,”
s a i d C h r i st o p he r W i n k ,
co-founder of Technically
Philly and a lead organizer
of Philly Tech Week.
Though the week is only
in its second year, Wink predicts that between 7,000 and
10,000 people will attend at
least one event this week.
Wink wants the technol-
ogy community to be more
recognized within Philadelphia. “We want people to get
up and shout at the top of
their lungs about the technical community,” he said.
S ome memb er s of t he
Penn community will also
be involved in the week.
On Saturday, as part of
the week’s kickoff, the Women in Tech Symposium was
held in Huntsman Hall. The
event aimed to empower
women who work in technology and attract more females to the field.
Anthony Coombs, a 2002
College graduate, is speaking at an event today about
mobile technology, specifically focusing on geo-social
applications that leverage
location tracking on mobile
devices to create social interaction. He will also be
talking about his own mobile startup, Interact.
Coombs looks forward to
“showing people what we
have a nd how [ I nteract]
dif ferentiates itself f rom
other applications,” while
“getting people more interested in mobile.”
College and Engineering
junior Pratham Mittal has
his own startup Newsance
a nd is excited for Philly
Tech Week “because there’s
a lot of entrepreneur ia lrelevant content, so it gives
you opportunity to interact
with entrepreneurs outside
of Penn.”
W h a r t on ju n ior Ca sey
Rosengren is also planning
to go to multiple events during the week.
“It’s cool that Philadelphia has a cohesive technology community and is able
to put on something like
this,” Rosengren said.
However, after attending
some of the kickoff weekend events, Mitt al found
that there was not a strong
showing of Penn students.
He attributed the low attendance to the busyness
of f inals season and said
it shows “a disconnect between Penn and the larger
Ph i ladelph ia t ech nolog y
community.”
Rosengren agrees, addi ng, “i f it was not f i na ls
week, then you would get
a greater showing of Penn
kids.”
Wink said they are working on attracting more college students to the week’s
events and to “convey to
students that Philadelphia
is a g reat place to build
something.”
grandfather.
The play’s whimsical approach to tough issues like
love and death appealed to
the judges of the competition and actors in the production.
“It’s ver y different, but
ver y good ,” sa id Minuet
director and College freshman Zach Baldwin. “I had so
many ideas just upon reading
it. I was so inspired … and
that doesn’t always happen
when you read a script.”
The f ive actors played
a variety of roles ranging
from a college-age daughter
to a storytelling tree. Simons
and Baldwin worked with the
cast for a week of rehearsals
and changed the script several times along the way.
“It’s the most interesting
theater experience I’ve had
at Penn,” College sophomore
and cast member Candace
Logan said. “It’s a completely different way of doing a
show. I’ve never done one
that’s as underdeveloped
and experimental.”
Simons has worked on the
play for over a year, starting at New York University’s
Tisch School of the Arts before transferring to Penn
last fall. The English major
hopes for a career as a professional playwright and was
recently commissioned by
Walking Fish Theatre in the
Philadelphia’s Kensington
neighborhood to write a fulllength play. That play may or
may not be Minuet, Simons
said.
“It was unique and beautiful to read,” College junior
and Front Row’s Chair Becca Kaplan said. “We thought
it would be interesting to see
how it would be translated
onto the stage since it was
so non-traditional.”
About 25 students attended the reading, where cast
members performed on a
minimalist set and with their
scripts in their hands be-
cause of the short rehearsal
time.
Sofas stood in as beds and
instead of nor mal sound
effects, a person stood offstage announcing the effects
— like a wind blowing or a
heart beating — as they happened.
“There were things that
lined up with what I thought
and things that didn’t,” Simons said about Baldwin’s
staged interpretation. “But
that’s not a bad thing … I
don’t want things to be exactly how I thought them.
That would be boring and
wou ld n’t t e ach me a nything.”
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Staff Writer
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Philadelphia will be abuzz
this week talking about the
next big thing in technology.
Philly Tech Week, which
officially begins today, is a
string of workshops, panels
and hackathons in celebration of the technology scene
in Philadelphia. It aims to
showcase what tech-savvy
people and organizations in
the city have been working
on for the past year.
The week is organized by
Technically Philly, a technology blog, and the events
are hosted by individuals
and organizations such as
the 54-hour Startup Week-
Simons sees
a career in
playwriting
playwright from page 1
form. It’s incredibly exciting
to have the opportunity to
workshop this play with live
people rather than voices in
my head.”
The play traces an 8-yearold girl’s encounter with a
talking owl and how their
experiences reflect on her
relationship with her aging
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YouTube star Kev in Wu
has 2.3 million subscribers —
more followers than people in
Philadelphia.
Known as “KevJumba” online, 21-year-old Wu screened
his new movie “Hang Loose”
for the hundreds of students
packed in Claudia Cohen Hall
G17 Sunday night.
As Wu entered, cheers and
screams from devoted fans
filled the room until he was
ready to speak.
Wu is a comedian, actor and
philanthropist, best known for
his comedic YouTube videos.
As a first-generation Asian
American, many of his videos
satirize issues within AsianAmerican culture and society.
Wu’s video topics range from
making fun of Asian-American
stereotypes to dealing with
the trials and tribulations of
college life, something many
college students can relate
to.
“His videos are hilarious
since they poke fun at all of the
Asian stereotypes,” Engineering freshman David Kim said.
“He has good story lines that
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age.”
Wu often includes his father,
“Papa Jumba,” in videos. As
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at Cohen Hall’s G17 room. The Chinese Student Association hosted the event.
a result, he’s also become an
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create a comical contrast between Asian parents and their
f irst-generation A merican
children.
CSA board member and
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became a fan of KevJumba in
high school. “I think he talks
about things that most people
our age can relate to,” he said,
“and I feel like he broke a lot
of the Asian stereotypes and
attracted a lot of Asian-American viewers.”
“I [expected] the event to be
pretty, if not very, successful,”
Zhou said. “[The Chinese Student Association board] has
worked really hard to pull this
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Construction
has disrupted
residents
HOTEL from page 1
“There will be more than
what you would see in a norma l shop in a hotel since
guests have refrigerators in
their rooms to prepare food,”
Campus Apartments Senior
Director of Investments Jonathan Chopp said.
A video-conference room
that seats 44 people resides
on the first floor of the building and will be available to
outside groups to rent. Two
executive centers will also
act as meeting rooms and include computers and printers.
At 110,000 square feet, the
building is LEED-certified
and includes a green roof,
low flow fixtures and an energ y management system.
Guests remove their cards
from a slot by the door upon
departure in order to automatically shut off the room’s
electricity. Tablets by the bed
enable guests to turn off the
lights in the room, call the
car valet, set an alarm clock
and find the five-day weather
forecast.
Chopp esti mated t hat a
few hundred temporary construction jobs and 30 permanent jobs have been created
for the project.
But for some, the construction has been a source of nuisance.
College senior Zoé Plantevin has lived on South 41st
Street in a house located in
front of the hotel since spring
of last year. The construction
period has not been easy for
‘‘
I don’t think there’s
any opposition to us
being [on Walnut].”
— Jonathan Esten,
Homewood Suites Assistant
Director of Sales
her and her housemates due
to early morning noises, disruption of wireless internet
and being forced to relocate
when the crane was assembled and dissembled.
Although Campus Apartments paid for their rooms
i n the Sheraton a nd gave
them gift cards for meals as
compensation, “it was still a
hassle having to move out of
our home.”
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Monday, April 23rd at 6:00 p.m.
One of Plantevin’s housemates, Engineering junior
Brett W itt mer shaus, sa id
they had to f ight hard for
Campus Apartments to compensate them. “Or iginally
they weren’t [going to compensate us] at all until we
made it clear that it was not
okay to abuse us like that just
because we are college students,” he said.
“The biggest qualm I had
with the situation was the
tactlessness Campus Apartments had,” Wittmershaus
said. “We were not informed
there was going to be so much
commotion around our house
and may not have resigned
the lease because of it, so we
were stuck there for at least
this year. We think they probably knew they wouldn’t be
able to get others to live there
knowing it’d be in the middle
of the construction.”
However, Wittmershaus
believes that the hotel will
be a convenient place for his
parents to stay since it’s close
to his house, and it “might
make the area a bit nicer if
it brings in other businesses
westward.”
W hen the project was
initially announced in December 2007, the hotel was
to be built on 40th and Pine
streets. But after public outcry that the project did not fit
the area’s landscape, plans
were made to move the project to Walnut in Oct. 2009.
Homewood Suites Assistant Director of Sales Jonat ha n Esten sa id , “ I don’t
think there’s any opposition
to us being [on Walnut].”
Barry Grossbach, chair of
the Spruce Hill Community
Association Zoning Committee, agreed. The association
is a volunteer group of residents in the Spruce Hill community that meets regularly
to improve quality of life in
the area.
“I think people just accept
that g iven the size of the
structure, this was a logical
place for it to be built.”
Chopp said the project is
being well-received by the
community since “one of the
things they were looking for
was putting it in a commercial area and busier road,
wh ich t h is is. E ver y b o d y
seems pretty pleased.”
Campus Apartments
also plans to tear down two
buildings on the pedestrian
walkway of the hotel, Chopp
added.
A 150,000 square-foot office
building will also be erected
on the property, according to
a press release.
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Contributing Writer
“I see you rockin’ Philly with
democracy, and I’m like FCL,”
sang the suited future civic leaders, parodying Cee Lo Green’s
“Forget You.”
Undeterred by the rain, Future Civic Leaders, a D.C.-based
nonprofit aimed at encouraging
civic and political engagement in
youth, held an all-day workshop
on Sunday for Philadelphia high
schoolers.
Twelve aspiring activists from
Knowledge Is Power Program
DuBois Collegiate Academy,
Mastery Charter School-Shoemaker Campus, Constitution
High School and University City
High School spent the day at Hillel discussing problems in their
communities, devising action
plans and creating petitions.
Several guest speakers, including former Gov. Ed Rendell, offered the students advice
on how to effectively mobilize
change.
Rendell emphasized how the
presidential election should not
be the only election people care
about.
College senior Adam Levenson, a summer fellow at FCL’s
Washington branch, added,
“Your quality of education has
much more to do with these local races and people don’t really
think about that. Philadelphia
historically has a pretty low
turnout.”
FCL also brought in Paul
Nedeau of the New Leaders
Council, an organization like
FCL that targets an older demographic. Nedeau, the director of
the Philadelphia chapter, spoke
about city activism. Following
Nedeau’s speech, the students
created petitions about issues
important to them.
Mariatu Bah, a high-school
senior at Mastery CharterShoemaker, decided to create a
petition to rally support for afterschool programs. “As a student,
I saw that there [was] more violence between students when
we left school early,” she said.
“Not a lot of people would join
activities … so people would go
out and look for trouble.”
Prior to the workshop, Bah
said she would not have known
how to mobilize her plans. With
the petition, she said, “We’ll
show them. There are more
people who feel the same as us.
We should get funded for this.”
Many of the students had no
idea what “civic engagement”
was until they arrived at Hillel.
When College senior Hannah
Peterson, the regional director
of Future Civic Leaders, pitched
Sunday’s workshop at local
schools, she altered her presentation for students who didn’t
know what the term meant.
For example, one of Constitution High School’s educational
themes is active citizenship, but
it isn’t necessarily practiced. As
one teacher told Peterson, “They
can probably tell you everything
about all the amendments, but
they can’t tell you what it means
to be civically engaged in their
community.”
The students left the workshop with a clearer understanding of what it means to be an
engaged citizen.
Kyah Hawkins, a sophomore
at Constitution High School, intends to initiate a campaign for
cleaner neighborhoods. “I decided to find out who the councilman is in my community. I want
to start on my block first, because I believe you should start
at home before you go anywhere
else,” Hawkins said.
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spin on bake sale
Rekindle Reason
offered cookies in
exchange for souls
on Locust Walk
BY GEORGE ROSA
Contributing Writer
Americans have long known
the television jingle, “What
would you do for a Klondike
bar?”
On Friday afternoon, members of Rekindle Reason, a
campus atheist group, outdid
Klondike. They offered Locust
Walk passersby the chance to
sign away their souls for chocolate chip cookies.
With a table and whiteboard
on the Walk, group members
claimed 13 souls in half an
hour. Individuals “sold” their
souls by signing a contract
on a small piece of paper. In
three hours, the group owned
79 souls.
Second-year computer science graduate student Christopher I mbr ia no tempted
families visiting for Penn Preview Days: “Sell your child’s
soul! These cookies are delicious, I had one!”
“Sell your dog’s soul!” College freshman Isaac Garcia,
a group co-founder, added.
When wind blew away the
small, square contracts, Garcia said, “Oh, there’s the hand
of God.”
Rekindle Reason co-founder
and College freshman Emmett
Wynn said, “The point of making a Faustian bargain for a
cookie is that most people have
never really thought about
whether they have a soul.
We’re trying to get people to
think.”
University Chaplain Reverend Charles Howard said the
bake sale would be a positive
event as long as it focused on
creating further dialog.
“However,” Howard said, “I
would advise Rekindle Reason to make sure the dialog
remains respectful and not
patronizing. The best interloc-
utors listen to each other without dismissing each other.”
He added, “Most of the students I’ve worked with have
thought very hard about religion and whether there is a
God.”
Co -founder and College
freshman Seth Koren characterized the event as a humorous way to raise the issue of
religious belief. He credited
the University of Western Australia’s Atheist and Skeptic Society with inspiring the bake
sale when they held a similar
event.
One man got into a heated
conversation with a stranger
over the question of theism
with one of them ultimately
walking away.
But overall, Koren noted
that most of those who saw or
participated in the event were
amused. “People can tell it’s
meant to be absurd, and nobody’s been very offended.”
Group leaders said the event
exceeded their expectations,
and was great fun. Some soulsellers had something to say
about their transaction.
David Gregson, first-year
graduate computer science
student, said, “If there is a soul,
we should be feeling different
right now. But all I’m feeling is
that delicious cookie.”
“Up until now, souls had
zero nominal value,” secondyear computer science graduate student Sonny Gupta
said. Then he chomped on his
cookie.
Classical Studies professor
Peter Struck did not sign away
his soul, but he supported Rekindle Reason’s efforts to encourage free thinking.
College sophomore Alysen
Vilhena also decided to keep
her soul. “Souls are intangible anyway, so how could I
sell it?”
Rekindle Reason had originally scheduled their bake sale
for Wednesday afternoon, but
rain forced a delay. “It was
divine intervention,” Howard
joked.
West Philadelphia students
get taste of college life
College Day on Friday
encouraged lowincome students to
think about college
BY CHANGHEE HAN
Staff Writer
On Friday, more than 100
middle- and elementary-school
students from the Philadelphia
area learned what it is like to
spend a day in the life of a college student.
Throughout the day, the Undergraduate Assembly’s Civic
and Community Engagement
Committee hosted students
from Henry C. Lea Elementary, Leslie P. Hill Elementary and Anna H. Shaw Middle
schools as part of a project to
motivate young students from
low-income households to
strive for a college education.
W hile College Day has
hosted only one school in past
years, the program expanded
this year to encompass the
three schools from the West
Philadelphia area.
“The Office of Government
and Community Affairs initiated College Days in 2004 as
a part of the Penn Compact to
provide area youth with opportunities and access to Penn, as
well as to provide them with
an understanding of college
life and the many resources
on campus,” Glenn Bryan, assistant vice president of community relations in OGCA said.
“I started the program based
on the personal experiences I
had growing up in West Philadelphia.”
On Friday, the visiting stu-
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dents participated in a range
of activities that included a
tour of campus as well as a
mock Management 100 class
in which they had to invent and
market an invention. They also
engaged in a Q&A session with
Penn students who discussed
their college experiences, before finishing up with a field
day event at Penn Park.
For College junior and former associate member of the
Undergraduate Assembly Alex
Amaniel, who was involved
in organizing the event, the
mission behind College Day
resonates strongly with his
own childhood experiences.
Amaniel grew up in a low-income household with a single
mother, but despite this, he
considered himself fortunate since his mother did not
give him “any room to mess
around.”
“Recognizing that a lot of
the kids in the West Philly
area had the same difficulties
in life that I grew up with, who
didn’t make it, who ended up
having to work straight after
school, has pushed me to be
very active in organizing College Day,” he said. “For most of
these kids, they’re growing up
in low-income families where
parents work long hours. There
aren’t a lot of support mechanisms in place for them.”
College junior and former
UA R epresentative Chr is
Cruz, who also helped plan
College Day with Amaniel, believes that the program offers
students an invaluable opportunity.
“[College Day] is advocating
for college access at an early
Renata Siruckova/DP Staff Photographer
Engineering senior Rudra Pampati participates in a field day on Friday with
a West Philadelphia elementary-school student as part of College Day.
age because that’s really critical for students who envision
their future,” Cruz said. “The
only way to inspire them to go
to college is by showing what
college is like and giving them
the opportunity to interact
with college students and ask
them questions.”
Cruz also looks forward to
building on this year’s success by expanding the program next year with stronger
collaboration with the Office
of Admissions, in hopes of accommodating more area students who are interested in
college.
The event also provided
Penn students an opportunity
to give back to the community.
Engineering freshman David
Kim, who volunteered during
the field day activities, believed the entire endeavor represented the values of Penn’s
commitment to community
service.
“[My volunteering] was just
out of a whim,” Kim said. “I
saw an email about this and
decided to come out. I didn’t
know much about it, but it was
great that Penn connected
with students outside of the
University.”
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A story in Wednesday’s paper (“Alum, state rep. candidate hosts pizza
and politics,” 4/18/12) incorrectly stated the manager of Allegro Pizza
and Grill cancelled the event due to angry customers. The cancellation
was instead partly due to a misunderstanding with the campaign.
DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN ENDORSEMENT | Although the presidential
nominee has been virtually determined, Penn should still pack the polls
M
itt Romney may
have established
himself as the presumptive Republican presidential
nominee. But tomorrow, Pennsylvania
— and Penn — will be asked to confront
his qualities at the ballot box.
Among the Republican candidates,
Romney stands out as the best choice.
In comparison to former Speaker of the
House Newt Gingrich and Texas Rep.
Ron Paul, Romney has adopted moderate stances and will pose the most productive challenge to President Barack
Obama on key political and economic
fronts.
The former Massachusetts governor
and CEO of Bain & Company combines
valuable experience from both the public and private sector.
As governor, Romney negotiated
impressively across party lines. He set
aside political differences in order to
work with predominantly Democratic
state legislatures. While he has been
widely criticized for instituting an individual mandate for health care in Massachusetts while rejecting Obama’s
current plan, his ability to identify differences between state-level and national
policies should be praised.
Of the three candidates, Romney possesses the skill and necessary tact to
work with individuals across both sides
of the political spectrum. He has the
I
t doesn’t get much
better than Hey Day.
It ’s t he d ay we’ l l
sm i le about yea rs
a f t e r g r a d u at i o n ,
the day we’ll recount to our
grandchildren and the day
that forever connects us
to the rest of our alumni at
this historic university.
Hey Day, a Penn tradition
dating back to 1916, is recognized as the Penn junior’s
rite of passage into senior
year. Marked by a procession starting at High Rise
F ield and ending outside
College Hall, this tradition
is without question one of
the quintessential experiences of every Penn undergraduate.
For t he Class of 2 013 ,
this Wednesday will mark
a milestone. The last time
the junior class was fully
a ssemble d w a s S e pt . 8 ,
2009 at Convocation, where
P resident A my Gutmann
addressed them for the first
time as Quakers. Come Hey
Day, she’ll address them for
the first time as seniors.
Think about how much
the people in this class have
gone through — all of the
incredible people they have
met , the clubs they have
joi ne d , t he e x p er ienc e s
they have endured and the
hours they have put towards
studies. Wednesday will be
a celebration — a culmination of 2013’s three years on
campus.
For t he Class of 2 012 ,
Wednesday will also mark
an historic day. They will
come toget her at “F i na l
Toast,” where these curr e nt s e n i o r s w i l l e n j o y
great food, music and raise
a glass to the Class of 2013
as these seniors-to-be take
the top spot on campus. Final Toast also solidifies the
Class of 2012’s official tran-
sition from undergraduates
to alumni.
It’s i mpor t a nt t hat we
continue the ritual and do
our part to keep this historic tradition the way our fellow Quakers envisioned it in
1916. More than anything,
we have to ask ourselves
— what are the stories we
want to tell after Wednesday? What is it that we want
to be remembered for?
‘‘
Some previous
classes have had
to recall anecdotes
that are painful to
discuss.
Stories of a junior
slipping on ketchup,
falling during the
procession and
cracking his skull
on Locust. Stories
of a senior throwing
eggs at a junior,
cutting her retina
with the shell and
impairing her vision
in one eye.”
While many classes look
back on the laughs, the singing and the dancing down
Locust, other classes have
not been so luck y. Some
previous classes have had
to recall anecdotes that are
painful to discuss.
Stories of a junior slipping
on ketchup, falling during
the procession and cracking
his skull on Locust. Stories
of a senior throwing eggs at
a junior, cutting her retina
with the shell and impairing her vision in one eye.
Stories of seniors hazing,
throwing food and then not
being able to walk at graduation — sacrificing the ultimate rite of passage for the
sake of a quick laugh. Participating in hazing isn’t so
much about the repercussions from administrators
as it is compromising our
legacy.
T h e s e a r e j u st a f e w
examples of the many incidents that have caused
University administration
to consider whether or not
Hey Day should be discontinued altogether. Those juniors and seniors who may
consider hazing this up coming Wednesday not only
jeopardize their privilege
to walk during graduation,
but also the future of this
96-year-old tradition.
The Hey Day Pledge is a
promise to keep Hey Day
safe, clean and alive for
years to come. In just three
days, over 1,900 students
have signed the Pledge —
and it’s efforts like these
that allow us to continue the
tradition.
Without a doubt, Wednesday will be one of the most
memorable times here on
campus. The Class of 2013
will march through Penn
with their hats and canes
as the Class of 2012 raises
a glass in anticipation of
their own march — donned
in caps and gowns.
JiBRAN KHAN, College
and Wharton senior &
JONATHAN YOUSHAEI,
College and Wharton junior,
are Presidents of the 2012
and 2013 Class Board,
respectively. Their email
addresses jibran@wharton.
upenn.edu and youshaei@
gmail.com.
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same capacity as citizens.
Any staunchly anti-immigrant rhetoric also risks alienating minority communities in this country and will prove
counterproductive to Romney’s ability to
unite those possessing diverse views.
For the most part, candidates have
done their part in educating the public
about their stances. The crucial thing
for Penn to do come Tuesday is to fill the
polls. Although Romney has virtually
secured the Republican nominations,
Pennsylvania voters will have sway on
a number of local races.
This year, 2006 College graduate
and former Associate Director of the
Greenfield Intercultural Center Fatimah Muhammad is challenging incumbent James Roebuck for the Democratic
state representative position in the 188th
District, which includes Penn.
Muhammad is challenging Roebuck
— who has been in office since 1985 —
on the issue of school vouchers that will
enable low-income families to send their
children to schools outside their immediate district.
Though Muhammad lacks the experience that Roebuck has, her decision
to run provides competition to a rarely
challenged position.
Members of the Penn community
should take it upon themselves to decide
who will influence the policies and politics that affect this University, as well as
it local and national community.
Mingling with
Millennials
Here’s a toast to
Hey Day
GUEST COLUMN BY JIBRAN KHAN & JONATHAN YOUSHAEI |
Two classes will come together to celebrate one momentous day
ability to unite — rather than polarize
— citizens at a crucial juncture in the
United States’ history.
At a rally outside the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia last week, Romney
paid homage to this sentiment when he
said, “we need a president who will not
attack fellow Americans, who will bring
us together.”
As this country attempts to lift itself
out of a recession, Romney’s familiarity
with big businesses — in a variety of
different sectors — may prove beneficial. The executive experience he undoubtedly possesses from his days as
co-founder of Bain Capital and CEO of
the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake
City will also prove useful if he is elected
into office.
Yet Romney’s hardliner stances on
issues such as Planned Parenthood,
abstinence-only sex education and
more importantly, illegal immigration,
are worrying, especially to college students.
As members of a University that supports undocumented students, it is impossible for us to overlook Romney’s
outright rejection of the DREAM Act
and the ease at which he supports deporting illegal immigrants. Although
Romney attempts to compensate for
this by promoting increased legal immigration to the United States, it’s unrealistic to uproot families and individuals
who contribute to this country in the
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THE GOLD STANDARD | Our generation
must shed its apathy and join the conversation
L
ast Wednesday
through Saturday, I convened in
Washington with
students f rom
across the nation as part of
Georgetown University’s Berkley Center Millennial Values
Survey Release.
I met Tim from the University of Maine, Zeenia from
Harvard University, Talene
from Johns Hopkins University. Sixteen fellows — selected
through a national competition
— were asked to lead an elevated dialogue on the Millennial
Generation, our values and the
2012 election.
The fellowship coincided
with the release of a sprawling survey that measured the
Millennial Generation (those
between 18 and 24 years old)
in terms of its political ideology
and views on race, religion and
economic inequality.
The Millennial Generation
is the most ethnically and racially diverse generation in
American history. Some of
the survey’s results were astounding and prompted ample
debate. It showed, for example,
that the belief system that has
gained the most rapid increase
in membership among young
people is atheism.
Yet these increases in diversity and religious pluralism
have aggravated racial and religious tensions. More millennials believe that discrimination
against whites has become as
big of a problem as discrimination against blacks. Half of
millennials viewed the tenets
of Islam as incompatible with
Western values. These are very
controversial viewpoints that I
don’t subscribe to. But half of us
apparently do.
These contentious findings
prompted frank conversations
on the Millenial Generation
through panels, conferences
and symposiums organized by
the Berkley Center.
Big questions were asked,
with no easy answers. What
should we make increased
racial tensions? Have interracial bonds been damaged by
race-based admissions policies
in colleges? Has Islamophobia
been inflamed by vicious political rhetoric, the media’s echo
chamber or the War on Terror?
What has sown the seeds of
discontent within our generation?
When comparing themselves
to their parents, more millennials feel negatively about their
generation. Forty percent of the
survey’s respondents indicated
negative sentiments, calling
their peers “lazier” and “less
moral,” while only 19 percent of
respondents had positive things
to say about their generation.
Still, the week in D.C. reinforced my long held view that
the Millennial Generation —
aided by technology — can be
the greatest source of good
in this country and the world.
The 15 of us in D.C. represented diverse viewpoints
and backgrounds. But our disagreements led an increased
understanding of issues concerning our generation.
There was something refreshing about interacting
face-to-face with these students
during my time in Washington.
Personal interactions break
down dogma and doctrine. In
our digital age, they are also
infused with a kind of civility
and respect that cannot exist
in the blogosphere.
Young people are often lamented for their lack of organization and mobilization around
youth causes. But I’m not sure
if this will ever shift, because
young people hold such varied
political viewpoints.
The survey and fellowship
sponsored by Berkley Center
and the Ford Foundation has
BRIAN GOLDMAN
pursued a brave agenda in getting the conversation started.
They’ve forced our generation
to examine racial and religious
biases manifested in the survey. The only way to solve issues is to confront them.
But solving a problem necessitates turning awareness
into action. Our generation can
protest and scream all we want,
but if less than half of us vote in
the 2012 election — as the survey projects — then it will be
increasingly difficult to accomplish tangible results and mold
the world to our vision.
At Penn, the observable increase in students’ apathy is
especially troubling given the
level of education present here.
But it’s also understandable.
The survey indicates the federal government is as popular
as the Tea Party in the eyes of
millennials. Part of the reason
political indifference is on the
rise is due to our lack of faith
and trust in powerful American
institutions.
The so-called “greatest generation” wrote their own history by preserving democracy
in the face of fascism and totalitarianism in World War II.
We have yet to write our own
history, but one day it will be
there. Join the dialogue on the
Berkley Center’s website and
discuss what we, the Millennial Generation, must do going
forward.
Our dialogue may only go
so far, but history will never be
penned by the silent.
Brian Goldman is a College
senior from Queens, N.Y. His
email address is briangol@sas.
upenn.edu. The Gold Standard
appears every Monday.
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Paul trails
in delegate
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PAUL from page 1
he said. He critiqued policies like
the War on Drugs as not only ineffective but invasive. If someone
wishes to do drugs, he said, then
that decision should not be regulated by the government.
Paul’s message of personal
liberty and his strict reading of
the Constitution resonates with
his supporters.
“For me, it’s Ron Paul or
nobody,” said David Adams, a
junior from Haddonfield High
School in Haddonfield, N.J., who
attended the rally. “Ron Paul is
the only candidate who supports
things being voluntary, not by
force.”
Jane Toal of Conshohocken,
Pa. recently became a Paul
supporter because of his “consistency” in “upholding the Constitution.”
Despite Paul’s continued campaigning, former Massachusetts
governor Mitt Romney has essentially secured the Republican
Mandvi
was in Wig’s
sketches
COMFEST from page 1
he joked, “Not because of our
low math scores, but because
we are just too pretty. We are
too pretty, and we are rich,
and we have a Mercedes and
a big gun. Nobody needs to be
smart when you have that.”
The University of Mar yland’s Sketchup was the first
troupe to perform, followed
by Cornell’s Humor Us! and
S wa r t h more’s Boy Meets
Tractor. The cast of Mask &
Wig, accompanied by Mandvi
in two of its three sketches,
closed the show.
College senior Shep Berg,
ComFest co-director, said, “It
nomination. Paul currently trails
in the delegate count, holding
only 63 to Newt Gingrich’s 136
and Romney’s 685, according to
The New York Times.
Paul acknowledged his standing at his rally and said his campaign so far has “far exceeded
all [his] expectations.”
“When you run, you run to
win,” he said.
Throughout his campaign, the
candidate has succeeded in attracting young people. Through
the Super Tuesday primary elections, Paul and Romney were
virtually tied in youth votes, acccording to the Center for Information and Research on Civic
Learning and Engagement.
Toal said she would support
Romney if Paul does not receive
the nomination or run as a third
party for his promise to repeal
Obamacare.
Adams, along with several other Paul supporters, disagreed. “I
think that Romney and Obama
are so similar that whatever differences you find are splitting
hairs,” he said.
Paul ended his rally to ongoing
cheers and chants of “President
Paul.”
“If you believe in liberty,” Paul
said, “you both have a heart and
a brain.”
was a pleasure to work with
Aasif,” adding that the comedian personally chose his roles
after reviewing the sketches.
“It was a great collaboration, and we are really happy
that it worked out well,” College junior Andrew Davis, the
other co-director, said.
“Mask & Wig aims to enrich university life by bringing together all these groups
from different universities
exposing Penn to talent that
you may not otherwise see,
and SPEC also aims to enrich
undergraduate life by funding and planning events like
these,” he added.
College junior and Mask &
Wig member Harrison Lieberfarb believes ComFest is a
unique event for Penn’s comedy troupe. While most events
are geared toward the Penn
community, he said, “[ComFest] allows us to reach outside the university.”
BRIEF
Ross steps down at
Disney
After less than three years
on the job, 1983 College graduate Rich Ross stepped down as
chair of Walt Disney Studios on
Friday.
In a memo to staff Friday
Fraternity
was found to
have hazed
AEPI from page 1
of sanctions and teaching opportunities to put our chapter
back on track. This process
began when the International
Fraternity removed from office the chapter leadership
who oversaw the inappropriate activities.”
Reikofski did not respond
to requests for comment over
the weekend about the specific
nature of the fraternity’s hazing violations.
“We are extraordinarily disappointed by Gamma Chapter’s decision and actions,”
Reikofski wrote. “Gamma
Chapter has a proud 93-year
history of providing a highquality brotherhood experience to generations of Penn
men…. Those efforts, however,
do not give members license to
violate University policy.”
College junior and Interfraternity Council President
David Shapiro said the University’s proposed sanctions
on AEPi were the result of “a
lot of different factors,” among
which included a pledging task
earlier this year that involved
a scavenger hunt.
Shapiro added that AEPi
plans to move off campus next
year as a pseudo-Greek organization. Pseudo-Greek organizations — such as Theos
and OZ — are those that are
not recognized by the University and are unaffiliated with
Penn’s Greek community as
a whole.
morning, Ross, who has frequently come back to Penn as
a guest speaker, wrote that “I
no longer believe the chairman
role is the right professional fit
for me.”
Ross’s exit comes after Disney booked a $200-million loss
on science-fiction epic “John
Carter,” one of the largest losses
in movie history. Disney experienced another high-profile box
office flop last year with the film
“Mars Needs Moms.”
As the former head of Disney Channels Worldwide, Ross
was credited for the success
of franchises such as “High
School Musical” and “Hannah
Montana.” He became chair in
Octctober 2009 with a goal to cut
costs and develop new hits.
Despite major cost-saving
and restructuring efforts, Disney still experienced losses under Ross’s tenure.
The Walt Disney Company
has not yet named a successor.
— Justin Cohen
1994
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April 2012
Following a
pledging incident
which resulted in
a member being
hospitalized, the
University places
AEPi on pledge
probation for two
years.
After hosting
an unregistered
mixer, AEPi is
put on probation
for two months.
While the Greek
Alumni Council
does not punish
them, AEPi begins
self-imposed
probations.
The fraternity
is forced to
go dry for two
years following a
non-fatal alcohol
poisoning of a
female freshman.
Members of
AEPi are forced
to relocate when
their Universityowned house
at 3940 Spruce
Street is found to
have structural
damage. Many
fraternity
brothers express
displeasure
over Penn’s and
OFSA’s handling
of the situation.
Penn’s chapter
of AEPi votes
to relinquish
its charter as
a Universityrecognized
fraternity after
being found of
having violated
University
policy. The AEPi
International
Fraternity Office
also rescinds the
chapter’s charter.
Other fraternities in the past
— such as Phi Gamma Delta
in 1999 — have voted to relinquish their charter on their
own accord. However, Shapiro
said Friday’s announcement
is the first he has heard of a
chapter voluntarily choosing
to become de-recognized by
the University while also establishing an off-campus presence.
“I was pretty disappointed,”
he said. “AEPi is one of our
larger chapters. They have a
strong brotherhood that’s very
involved around campus, so
the fact that they kind of chose
to turn their back on the community is a little upsetting.”
According to OFSA data
from Jan. 27, AEPi issued 19
bids this year — all of which
were accepted.
While AEPi has consistently
been one of the University’s
strongest academic performing chapters in terms of average GPA, it does have a rocky
history at Penn, particularly
in recent decades.
In 1994, following a pledging
incident which resulted in a
member being hospitalized,
the University placed AEPi on
pledge probation for two years,
according to Daily Pennsylvanian archives.
Then, in 1998, the fraternity
was forced to go dry for two
years following a non-fatal
alcohol poisoning of a female
freshman.
In 2005, members of AEPi
had to relocate when their
University-owned house at
3940 Spruce St. was found to
have significant structural
damage to its front wall and
foundation. At the time, many
fraternity brothers expressed
displeasure over Penn’s management of the house and OFSA’s handling of the situation.
“I think they have struggled
at [Penn] to find a good spot
and a good home,” 1981 Engineering graduate and AEPi
brother Doug Howell said.
Howell added that he was
disappointed to hear of Friday’s news.
“I think the entire fraternity system makes a positive
contribution to the University,
and I would have been sad to
see any chapter go,” he said.
“AEPi was a big part of my
life for the four years I was
there.”
Shapiro predicted that within the next four or five years,
there is a “very good chance”
that AEPi could return to campus. However, he stressed that
“usually the University likes
to wait until everybody from
the past [Greek] organization
has graduated” to begin discussions about a possible reformation.
Borans, too, left an open
door for a possible return.
Though “the decision to
close our chapter at the University of Pennsylvania was
not made lightly,” he said,
“we are confident that Alpha
Epsilon Pi will return to the
University of Pennsylvania
campus in the near future and
once again assume our place
as a leading fraternity on campus dedicated to leadership,
education and bettering our
community.”
Aditi Srinivas contributed
reporting to this article.
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“[The bats] get hot and they
get cold,” senior pitcher Vince
Voiro said. “If they get cold at
the wrong time of the season,
this kind of thing happens.”
The second game spelled
more trouble for the Quakers — this time pitching —
as sophomore starter Matt
Gotschall managed only one
complete inning.
After giving up three walks
in the second, Gotschall hit
the next batter to give Cornell
the first run of the game.
Coach John Cole then called
on freshman Sam Horn, but
Horn would hit the following
batter to give Cornell another
run and spark a rally that put
the Quakers in an early 5-0
hole.
Despite stringing together
some hits late in the game, the
Quakers could not make up
the deficit, losing 9-5.
Penn wouldn’t have to wait
long to be shutout again.
In Saturday’s first game,
Voiro got the nod and gave
the Quakers a shot to stay
in the game. After giving up
three runs in the first, Voiro
settled down and didn’t allow
Cornell to score in the final
BRIEF
six innings.
However, Cornell pitcher
Connor Kaufmann would not
give Penn any room to come
back, allowing only three hits
and completing the seveninning shutout.
“Our offense this weekend
was non-existent,” Cole said.
“We pitched pretty well, so if
we had swung the bat I think
we would have been alright.
But Cornell’s a good club.
That’s why they’re in first
place, because they pitch and
play defense.”
K aufmann, who pitched
a no-hitter against division
leader Dartmouth on April 1,
has been nearly unhittable in
conference play. In four Ivy
League starts, Kaufmann is
3-0 with a 0.66 ERA.
“There’s a reason numbers
are what they are,” Cole said.
In the series finale, Penn
avoided the sweep with a 4-3
win.
The Red and Blue finally
gave their pitcher some early
support, plating three in the
first two frames. Although
Cornell battled back to tie it in
the sixth, a bobble by Big Red
shortstop Marshall Yanzick
in the bottom of the seventh
ultimately gave the Quakers
the 4-3 win.
But at that point, the Quakers had already been eliminated from the Ivy race.
“It was definitely a disappointing weekend,” Voiro said.
“We took our team out of contention.”
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Blue fall short in
three cup races
All three of the Penn rowing
teams struggled against superior-ranked teams this weekend,
failing to notch a single firstplace finish in 14 starts.
The No. 16 heavyweight men
took on No. 2 Harvard and No.
8 Navy in the annual Adams
Cup race, hosted Saturday by
the Midshipmen on the Severn
River.
The Crimson lived up to their
ranking, capturing their 12th
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Red sweep
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weekend, as she conceded just
three earned runs in 14 innings
in those performances.
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narrowly avoided a loss in the
second game of the series thanks
to an offensive outburst by the
Quakers.
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doubleheader, Borden yielded
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“Right now, we’re confident,”
Erosa said. “But … we’re going
to keep our heads level.”
Kelly McCallion came into the
game and scored almost immediately after off a free-position
shot.
Cain also scored a free-position goal, and three minutes
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“We’ve been practicing really
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really need to be more patient
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But with Leitner’s play in goal
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were on free-position shots —
the Quakers held the Bears to
six goals, their fewest allowed
on the season.
Brennan, Cain, Tomchik and
Maddie Poplawski each ended
the game with a hat trick.
Penn plays Princeton on
Wednesday for a shot at the Ivy
title.
“We need to rise in the big
games,” Corbett said. “And this
is a big game for us.”
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runs on 25 hits. But in the second
half of Saturday’s doubleheader,
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performance by Alyson Onyon.
The Big Red pitcher stayed
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the game and stifled the Penn
offense on the way to a 5-0 win.
“We pressed a little in the batter’s box and just didn’t have
good at-bats,” King said. “Whenever [Onyon] got ahead of us, we
started chasing stuff out of the
strike zone.”
Despite offensive struggles in
the last game, Penn’s bench and
field remained energetic.
“Even just their general talk
… throughout the game out on
the field, I thought was really
good, and that’s something that’s
developed,” King said. “I think
they’re playing with a lot more
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being relieved by sophomore
Mikenzie Voves. With the Penn
offense looking stagnant, Cornell
was nursing a comfortable 5-0
lead by the fifth inning.
But in the bottom of the fifth,
the bats came alive. Georgia Guttadauro, Samantha Erosa and
Elysse Gorney singled, Kayla
Dahlerbruch launched a threerun homer and the Quakers
scored five runs in the inning to
tie the game.
After a scoreless sixth for Cornell, Guttadauro opened the inning with a solo shot, and Gorney
soon followed with a three-run
bomb of her own, as the Quakers
claimed victory, 9-6.
Saturday, Penn picked up
where it left off, scoring eight
runs in the first two innings.
Cornell avoided the mercy-rule
loss, but Penn cruised to a 9-2
victory.
In the first three games of the
wanting to win the game, and
playing that way,” Penn coach
Karin Brower Corbett said.
Bre Hudgins stopped the
bleeding for Brown with 19:22
remaining in the first half. Hudgins was the Bears’ only offensive weapon, but she couldn’t
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Brennan answered 30 seconds later off a quick pass from
Meredith Cain behind the net,
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Quakers split final weekend
w. tennis | Penn beats Cornell on Friday in
final home game, falls to Columbia on Sunday
BY steven jaffe
Staff Writer
Penn women’s tennis said
goodbye to its only senior with
a win, but ended the season
with a loss in a weekend split.
On Friday, the Red and the
Blue played their final home
match and next-to-last match
of the season against Cornell.
The Quakers picked up the
win, 5-2, in what turned out to
be a grueling four-hour competition in some of the hottest
weather Penn has played in
this year.
On Sunday, the Red and the
Blue would fall to No. 73 Columbia, 6-1, in the Big Apple.
Penn (7-11, 2-5 Ivy) opened
Ivy play 0-3, but has since split
their last four matches.
Jing Ran/Sports Photo Editor
“We’ve played well the whole
The Quakers’ only senior, Daniela DePaoli, won her final home match on Senior stretch since spring break,”
Day. She defeated Gabby Sullivan of Cornell in three sets to take No. 4 singles. coach Sanela Kunovac said.
“So it’s inevitable. If you keep
playing well … you’re going
to put yourself in situations to
win.”
Cornell (9-10, 1-6) got off to
a good start Friday, picking
up the doubles point. They
won two of the three doubles
matches, including upsetting
Penn’s No. 1 doubles pair of
Sol Eskenazi and Jules Rodin, the 44th-best duo in the
nation.
Though the Quakers
dropped the doubles point,
they won all but one of their
singles matches.
After Alex Ion and Stephanie Do won their respective
matches and the Quakers lost
the No. 6 point, the match was
knotted up at two apiece.
Penn’s No. 1 Eskenazi would
clinch the third point for the
Red and the Blue.
After a seemingly sluggish
start, Eskenazi found herself
in a 4-0 hole in the first set,
but would win six of the next
seven games — and the tiebreak — to come back and
take the set.
“What really helped me was
to think that my teammates
[were] struggling as well,”
Eskenazi said. “I needed to
get myself together … So basically they motivated me to
come back.”
Eskenazi ended up closing out the match in straight
sets.
Soon after Eskenazi won,
freshman Srinidhi Raghavan
would take the decisive fourth
point for the Quakers, winning
her three-setter.
Fittingly, the only senior on
the team, Daniela DePaoli,
would close out the match on
Senior Day. After dropping the
first set, she won the last two
vs. Cornell
at Columbia
to complete a come-from-behind win and end a four-hour
slugfest.
The Lions (13-6, 4-3) dampened the end of the season for
Penn. Raghavan would go 2-0
on the weekend, as she picked
up the Quakers’ sole win on
the day.
This weekend’s split concludes the fourth consecutive season in which Penn
has failed to win more than
two conference matches. Yet
with only one senior departing, Penn has a chance to improve when play resumes in
the fall.
Penn comes up empty in season finale
M. Tennis | Red and Blue blanked by No.
45 Columbia, finish spring season at .500
at Cornell
BY David Greenbaum
Assistant Sports Editor
On Senior Day at Levy Pavilion, none of the team’s seniors
were able to walk away with a
victory in their matches.
They weren’t alone.
In Sunday’s match against
No. 45 Columbia, the Quakers
were crushed, 7-0. In fact, only
one singles player, freshman
Jeremy Court, even won a set.
Coach David Geatz admitted
his team was overwhelmed by a
superior team. He called the Lions the best singles lineup Penn
played in the Ivy League.
In order to challenge Columbia, Geatz explained that the
Quakers “needed a couple more
guys in the lineup and needed
to be healthier.”
The Lions (18-4, 5-2 Ivy)
are still contenders for the
Ivy League title, but will need
another team to beat leagueleading Harvard.
The Quakers played their last
road match earlier in the weekend against Cornell. On Friday,
the Quakers lost, 5-2, against
the unranked Big Red (10-15,
3-4) in Ithaca, N.Y.
Penn (10-10, 2-5) fell behind
early against the Big Red after
losing the doubles point and the
bottom three singles matches.
With the match clinched,
freshman Jeremy Court and
junior Rob Wong took No. 1 and
No. 3 singles, respectively, in
super-tiebreakers.
Sunday was Senior Day at
Levy Pavillion, as it was the
Class of 2012’s final matc.
Geatz was quick to recognize
the importance of the seniors to
the team.
He called Phil Law “one of
the best captains I’ve had in 30
years of coaching.”
Geatz also acknowledged
vs. Columbia
senior Jason Lin’s tremendous
work ethic.
“Jason was almost finished
with tennis last year, but he
practiced unbelievably hard
and put in a great effort this
year.”
Both players will be missed
as they had over 60 career singles wins each. Law finished
his career, 69-48 and Lin finished at 61-47.
Reflecting on the year as a
whole, Geatz accepted that the
team did not meet its preseason
goals.
“We always wanted to do better,” he said. “We had enough
talent to win the Ivy League.”
He explained that a variety of
injuries and off-the-court prob-
lems often prevented the team
from putting its best lineup forward. Still, Geatz is optimistic
about next season.
One bright spot for the Quakers this season was Court,
who was undefeated in the Ivy
League until his loss on Sunday.
Court’s top win of the season
came on Friday when he won
at No. 1 singles against Venkat
Iyer of Cornell.
Though the Quakers will
not be playing again for five
months, Geatz expects his
players to stay in shape over
the summer.
“Some of these guys will be
working 80-hour weeks, but I
think [they] will play over the
summer.”
In fact, Geatz believes that
the team’s chances next season
will depend on their effort during the offseason.
If his players don’t stay in
shape over the summer, they
will be pushed by a top-20 reJustin Cohen/News Photo Editor
cruiting class, which includes
three players whom Geatz be- Playing at first singles for the first time in his career on Friday, freshman
Jeremy Court defeated Cornell’s Venkat Iyer, 7-5, 6-7(6), 10-7.
lieves could potentially start.
BRIEFS
Teams
prep for Penn
Relays Carnival
Track |
In their final tune-ups before
this weekend’s Penn Relays, the
Penn men’s and women’s track
teams posted a number of impressive performances.
For the men, split up between
Princeton’s Larry Ellis Invitational and the Widener Invitational, both individuals and relay
teams experienced success.
At Widener, both the 4x100meter and 4x400-meter relays
proved victorious, with Brent
Jules and Colin Donnelly contributing to the winning effort
on both squads. Senior Mike
Vido also was a winner in the
10,000-meter race with a time
of 32:38.83.
At Princeton, sophomore Karl
Ingram posted a solid seventh-
place performance in the javelin, notching a long throw of
59.36 meters.
The women’s team also represented the Red and Blue well at
Larry Ellis.
Junior Morgan Wheeler won
the javelin with a long toss of
43.78 meters on her first throw,
while sophomore Kersie Jhabvala placed seventh in the
3,000-meter run with a time of
10:14.12.
Also impressive was the
4x100m team of Gabrielle Piper, Leah Brown, Nony Onyeador
and Emily Townsend. The quartet posted a time of 46.12, good
enough for the second-fastest
time in school history and second at the meet.
With Princeton in the books,
the Red and Blue can look forward now to the 118th annual
Penn Relays, the world’s largest
and oldest relay meet.
m. lax | Quakers’
late in the third quarter and was
down, 7-4, with four minutes left
in the game.
Seniors Anthony Adler and
John Conneely both scored to
get Penn within one with 1:16
remaining, but the Quakers’
comeback effort fell short.
Following Conneely’s goal,
the Quakers won the faceoff,
but sophomore Drew Belinsky’s
shot was stopped by Dartmouth
goalie Fergus Campbell.
Penn recovered the ball but
turned it over, and the Big Green
were able to run out the clock.
The Red and Blue could not
overcome Dartmouth (3-8, 1-4)
despite outshooting their opponent, 35-25.
Conneely and junior Tim
Schwalje both finished with two
goals apiece. Schwalje added
two assists for a team-leading
four points.
Campbell had nine saves on
the day, while Penn’s sophomore
goalie Brian Feeney had seven.
With the loss, Penn ends its
Ivy season and is officially out
of the race for the four-team Ivy
playoff.
The Quakers have one game
remaining this year. They will
take on No. 5 Virginia Friday in
Denver, Colo., as part of the Mile
High Classic.
Sunday.
The Quakers opened the
20-team, two-round tournament on Saturday, w ith a
score of 294. That total put
them in third place trailing
George Washington, GeorgeThe Penn men’s golf team town and Columbia by three,
won the Navy Spring Invita- two and two strokes, respectional in Annapolis, Md., on tively.
Penn rallied in the final
round, though, scoring a 299
and finishing the tournament
four strokes ahead of George
Washington.
Sophomore Max Marsico
and senior Scotty Williams led
the way for the Quakers, finishing first and third in the field
with tournament scores of 143
and 145, respectively.
The par-71 U.S. Naval Academy Golf Club course will be a
valuable warmup for the Quakers as they prepare for the Ivy
League Championships, which
start on Friday at Galloway
(N.J.) National.
tourney hopes
end after loss
The Penn men’s lacrosse
team’s slim Ivy League playoff
hopes came to an end Saturday
in Hanover, N.H., as they lost to
Dartmouth, 7-6.
Penn (3-9, 1-5 Ivy) trailed, 5-1,
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USC hoops transfer commits to Penn
M. HOOPS | USC freshman guard will
transfer to Penn, sit out the 2012-13 season
BY alyssa kress
Sports Editor
The LA Daily News’ Scott
Wolf reported Saturday that
University of Southern California freshman Alexis Moore
will transfer to Penn. The Daily
Pennsylvanian confirmed the
report Sunday.
Moore is a 6-foot-2, 180-pound
guard from Long Beach, Calif.
In his freshman campaign,
he averaged 24.8 minutes, 4.3
points, 2.0 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game.
Moore was supposed to be
a backup point guard behind
senior Jio Fontan but got a significant amount of playing time
when Fontan went down with a
torn ACL in August.
According to NCAA rules regarding transfer student-athletes, Moore will be required
to sit out the 2012-13 season.
He will have three remaining
years of eligibility starting in
the 2013-14 season.
Current sophomores Miles
Cartwright, Fran Dougherty,
Steve Rennard, Marin Kukoc,
Cam Gunter and Dau Jok will
be in their senior seasons in
Moore’s first year playing for
the Red and Blue.
The Trojans went 6-26 in the
2011-12 season and finished in
last place in the Pac-12 with a
1-17 conference record.
The only team both the
Quakers and Trojans played
this season was UCLA. Penn
fell to the Bruins, 77-73, on
Dec. 10. USC lost all three of its
games to UCLA, 66-47, 64-54
and 55-40.
With over 350 transfers looking for new schools, it wouldn’t
be a surprise to see more transn
fers commit to Penn.
Penn slams its way into first
Softball | Quakers score 23
runs in three wins to tie the Big
Red for first in Ivy South Division
BY Kenny Kasper
Associate Sports Editor
Andrew Dierkes/DP Staff Photographer
Freshman Ronnie Glenn gave up three unearned runs on five innings in his first
start this year. He didn’t earn the decision but batted in the game-winning run.
In the past four seasons, Penn softball has
claimed one victory against Cornell. This weekend, the Quakers beat the Big Red three times
in just over 24 hours.
Entering the series two games behind Cornell, the Red and Blue defied history by winning
three of four against the Big Red to tie up the
race for first in the Ivy League South Division.
The Quakers (27-15, 11-5 Ivy) swept their opponent in a doubleheader on Friday before splitting with the Big Red (21-19, 11-5) on Saturday.
“Taking three for four from [Cornell] is a very
good weekend for us,” coach Leslie King said.
“It’s been a long time since we’ve done that.”
To be exact, this is the first four-game series
Penn has won against Cornell since 2007, which
was also the last time the program captured the
division title.
Freshman Alexis Borden reinforced her bid
for Ivy League Pitcher of the Year with complete
game wins in the first and third matches of the
SEE SOFTBALL PAGE 8
Penn out as Big
Red silence bats
Baseball | Quakers
out of race for Ivy’s
division title as they
drop three of four
BY Brette Trost
Staff Writer
The Quakers k new what
was at stake heading into their
four-game series with Cornell
at Meiklejohn Stadium.
Win three out of four to remain in contention. Any less
than that and they would be
mathematically eliminated
from Ivy playoff contention.
The Penn baseball team fell
short against division leader
Cornell. Dropping three of four,
the Quakers (16-20, 7-9 Ivy) are
officially done.
It was a lackluster offense
that did the Quakers in. The Big
Red (27-11-1, 13-3) have proved
they will not let their opponents
score easily, ranking first in the
league in ERA and opponents’
batting average.
vs. Cornell
In the first game of the series, Cornell handed the Red
and Blue their first shutout of
the season.
Although, sophomore Cody
Thomson pitched a complete
game, only giving up three
runs, Penn could not crack Cornell starter Rick Marks, who
allowed just five hits. Penn only
advanced runners to second
base twice.
SEE BASEBALL PAGE 8
Ellen Frierson/Photo Manager
In the Quakers’ three wins, sophomore first baseman Georgia Guttadauro went 5-for-8 at the plate with two home runs and seven RBIs.
Guttadauro, who has started in 21 games this year, helped Penn take a series from the Big Red for the first time since 2007.
Brennan, Leitner shine brightly
against Brown on Senior Day
W. LAX | Quakers steamroll Bears, 15-6, and move into
top spot in Ivies with a Dartmouth loss to Princeton
BY megan soisson
Senior Sports Editor
Ellen Frierson/Photo Manager
In her final regular season home game, senior Erin Brennan scored three goals. Penn
moved into a tie with Dartmouth for first place in the Ivy League with the win.
Sports Desk (215) 898-6585 ext. 147
The Penn women’s lacrosse team
was on a mission Saturday.
After falling to Dartmouth last week,
the No. 9 Quakers’ only hope at keeping their chance at a sixth straight Ivy
League title alive was to win out and
hope for a loss from the Big Green.
At Franklin Field on Senior Day,
Penn took care of business with a commanding 15-6 win over Brown.
But it wasn’t until after the game
that the Quakers (7-5, 5-1 Ivy) truly
vs. Brown
celebrated.
“Things are finally going in our favor,” senior Erin Brennan said after
hearing Dartmouth fell to Princeton,
12-9.
The Tigers’ defeat of the Big Green
puts Penn in a tie with Dartmouth atop
the league standings with one game, at
Princeton Wednesday, remaining.
The emotions were high for seniors
Brennan and Emily Leitner. It was the
last regular season game at Franklin
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Field for the “gruesome twosome,” as
they were dubbed by their teammates
in a post-game ceremony.
Brennan came out of the gates quickly, scoring just 27 seconds in.
Courtney Tomchik and Shannon
Mangini combined for three consecutive unassisted goals through the next
six minutes to give Penn a 4-0 lead.
“They came out of the gates today
SEE W. LAX PAGE 8
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