Arts tax receives criticism

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Arts tax receives criticism
POLITICS | New tax, which will raise $100
million, is intended to help close budget gap
BY PRAMEET KUMAR
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Preparing for a pandemic
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Pennsylvania Gov. Edward
Rendell and state lawmakers’
proposal to raise $100 million
in revenue by taxing arts and
cultural institutions is being
met with heavy criticism in
Philadelphia.
“It’s a profoundly stupid
idea,” said Edward Epstein,
executive director of the University City Arts League, a nonprofit organization dedicated
to arts education. “It’s taxing
an area that the government
should be making more affordable [and] where there’s the
most vulnerability.”
The budget agreement that
was reached on Friday extended the sales tax — which
will be 8 percent in Philadelphia starting October 8 — to
admissions costs for museums,
historical sites, zoos, parks and
shows such as theater, dance,
concerts and other perform-
ing arts.
Peggy Amsterdam, president of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, told
members at the organization’s
annual meeting on Monday
that the proposal was “snuck
in at the last minute in a backroom deal.”
Amsterdam found fault with
the regressive nature of the tax,
which will have a more onerous impact on those less able to
pay. She also criticized the exception of sporting events and
movie tickets from taxation.
The Penn Museum of ArSEE BUDGET PAGE 5
the art of taxes
- The sales tax in
Philadelphia will see a
1-percent increase starting
Oct. 8.
- This tax will extend to the
arts, including admissions
costs for museums,
historical sites, zoos, parks
and performing arts shows.
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According to Odit, hydroponics allows plants to thrive
where they generally couldn’t,
such as in urban settings. Without soil, the use of pesticides
and soil-borne diseases are
also eliminated.
“Bon Appetit is really striving for sustainability. We are
making it a goal to work with
the best goods, including organic fresh produce,” said Dining Services general manager
Paul Bulau.
The garden is an extension of
Bon Appetit’s commitment to
buying local. Sustainability and
food responsibility are integral
to the company’s philosophy,
said Odit, and this is just one effort toward attaining that goal.
“The hydroponic garden is
an ideal project because it is
easy to maintain, and it grows
incredibly fast,” said Barbara
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for Business Services, which
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Staff Writer
Despite recent growth in
size and visibility of organizations geared toward matching
low-income students with toptiered universities, Penn this
year expects to scale back its
partnership with QuestBridge,
an organization that links lowincome students with colleges
and full scholarship.
Confident that it can reach
the same groups of low-income
students through regular applicant pools, the Admissions
Office plans to accept fewer
students through QuestBridge’s
matching program.
Admissions Dean Eric Furda
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Penn women meet, greet and eat dessert
Women’s Center hosts an open house
complete with Naked Chocolate treats
BY GRACE ORTELERE
Contributing Writer
In a cozy room decorated
w it h st u f fed a n i ma ls a nd
“Got Consent?” pins, female
students gathered to learn
more about resources and
opportunities for women on
Penn’s campus.
“Women’s Meet and Greet
Dessert Night” was held last
night at the Penn Women’s
Center, where representatives f rom the Penn Consor tium of Undergraduate
Women, its member clubs,
and the Gender, Culture and
Societ y Depar tment came
together to introduce Penn
women to the support system
available to them.
At t he beg i n ni ng of t he
event, representatives from
each g roup introduced
themselves. Each one wore
a ne on sig n on a r i b b on
around his or her neck — a
different sign for each group.
E a c h g r o u p b r o u g ht a
unique perspective to the
discussion. The representative from the Women in Leadership Series, for example,
wore a torch, which she explained was meant to signify
strength and trailblazing.
Chr is Car roll, a College
freshman and representative
from the “reinstated” Penn
for Choice Club, reminded
the audience that not only
women but also men are a
part of women’s rights. This
year, Penn for Choice and
Penn for Life both hope to
open a dialogue and organize
speakers together.
Women’s Center director
Felicity Paxton explained the
resources available to female
Melanie Lei/DP Senior Photographer
students at the Center, such
as a nap room, DVD and book A student from Wharton Women introduces herself with a name placard during the Penn Women’s Center “Women’s
librar y, discussion groups Meet and Greet Dessert Night,” which took place last night and featured desserts from the Naked Chocolate Cafe.
and study spaces. She also
told the crowd about plans for f lowers or vegetables, grill also spoke about upcoming ies at Penn. They encouraged
a garden outside the Center food and relax.
events, such as a conference every female undergraduate
where members of the comGSOC professors Shannon in celebration of the 35th an- to take a course in the GSOC
munity will be able to plant Lundeen and Demie Kurz niversar y of women’s stud- department.
“It really is a rewarding
way to investigate gender,
being a woman and sexuality in our society,” Lundeen
said.
A fter hearing from each
speaker, visitors were free to
talk to group representatives
and sample desserts from the
Naked Chocolate Cafe.
Rosa Cui, a College senior
and PCUW chairwoman, said
she hopes the event will “foster relationships bet ween
women’s groups.”
M a r ga r et R o d r ig uez , a
Wharton sophomore, attended the event after hearing
positive feedback about the
Women’s Center from peers.
“People who go to events at
the Women’s Center are really excited and go back many
times,” she explained.
College sophomore Eileen
Norton agreed.
“I definitely plan to use the
Center more in the future,”
she said.
The groups involved included
the Panhellenic Council, Penn
Women’s Biomedical Society,
and Wharton Women, among
others.
Religion and community outreach strike CHORDS in W. Phila
COMMUNITY SERVICE | Chaplain’s Office
and PRISM revamp former outreach program
BY MICHAEL ROBERTS
Staff Writer
For some at Penn, religion
and community service are
harmonious.
CHORDS — an initiative to
support faith- and community-based groups in Philadelphia — is being revamped in
a project led by University Associate Chaplain and CHORDS
director Stephen Kocher.
Led by t he Of f ice of t he
Chaplain and organized in collaboration with PRISM, as well
as a number of other campus
organizations, the program
works to build joint relationships between University and
community leaders.
“CHORDS symbolizes working together in harmony and
gat hering lots of dif ferent
kinds of groups that are necessary to make a lasting change
in the neighborhood,” Kocher
said.
Through a selective appli-
cation process, CHORDS has
chosen four work-study students to coordinate different
outreach programs at the various organizations involved in
the program.
“We needed communit yminded people interested in
maximizing their skills and
what they are learning here at
Penn to serve the community
specifically,” Kocher said.
One of these students, Nursing junior Aileen Connell, will
work with First Presbyterian
Church to create a healthbased outreach program.
C HOR D S de m on s t r a t e s
“t hat i nter f a it h a nd rel i-
gious activ ity does not end
on campus, but it’s about doing things and doing things
together,” College senior and
PR ISM c o-ch a i r m a n S a m
Adelsberg sa id. “CHOR DS
provides an amazing opportunity to put those ideas into
action.”
University Chaplain Chaz
Howard, who began working
on the program when it was
under its former name, Program in Universities, Communities of Faith, Schools and
Neighborhood Organizations,
praised Kocher for his work
thus far.
“W hat Steve really brings
is a new vision, a high energy,
strong organizational skills,”
Howard said. “He has a wonderful skill set and can take it
to the next level, to expand its
reach and to really bring a new
season, which is symbolized
by the new name CHORDS.”
Howard also emphasized
the importance of reaching
out to the surrounding community.
“Our university is so amazing and dynamic itself that it
is possible to spend four years
here without ever needing to
leave campus,” Howard said.
“Yet I think one’s experience
is enhanced and strengthened
when you can get off of Penn’s
campus and make real connections with our neighbors
in West Philly, the city and the
greater Philadelphia area.”
As for the future of the program, Kocher said, “The sky is
really the limit,” assuring that
the program will continue to
build its network each year.
“Where we are right now,
there’s more student connection than there has ever been
with the CHORDS program,
which is exciting,” he said.
“With the diversity of opinions
and project ideas, we are really
excited about what can happen
this year.”
An out of body experience
CIT professor
discusses his work
on cognitive neural
prosthetics
BY SARAH ZAGER
Contributing Writer
R ic h a r d A nder sen m ay
have discovered a new technology to help patients with
spinal cord injuries manipulate outside objects without
using their limbs.
A ndersen, a professor of
Neu r o sc ienc e at C a l i f or nia Institute of Technology,
gave the Herman P. Schwan
lecture yesterday about his
work on cog nitive neura l
prosthetics — a technology
that may allow patients to
control assistive devices by
just thinking about the motions they want to perform.
In his talk, Andersen said
he plans to begin a clinical
trial in humans in 2011. In the
meantime, he does most of
his research on monkeys.
Andersen said he implants
a probe into the monkey ’s
br a i n , w h ic h he c a n u se
to “decode” the monkey ’s
thoughts. The experimenters
ask the monkey to manipulate
certain objects on a screen,
and the probe then transmits
the monkey’s thoughts to a
computer, which per forms
the desired action.
Most monkeys learn that
they don’t need to move their
arms to complete the action,
A nder sen sa id . T he ha r d
part, he added, is trying to
record the “reach pattern”
the next day — the monkeys
don’t want to physically move
to complete the task.
“We say they ’ve become
theorists,” Andersen said.
In order for the probes to
work, they must be placed
near the appropriate neuron.
This has proved challenging, A nderson said, but by
implanting probes that can
move towards the signal they
need, researchers can produce more accurate results.
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California Institute of Technology professor Richard Andersen discussed
his work on helping patients to control assistive devices with their minds.
said he was cautious about
predicting when it would be
on the market. Possible hurdles include the probe’s large
size and short life span and
the fact that the research
is designed to help a small
patient population, making
it hard to attract corporate
funding.
“I think it’s a shame. It’s
a ver y promising product,”
said Engineering freshman
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why they don’t fund it, it’s a
very new field.”
Though the subject matter may seem esoteric, firstyear Engineering graduate
student Stephanie Pasquesi
said the lecture appealed
to a broad audience, adding
that Andersen “was able to
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way that was easily underst o o d r ega r d less of you r
background.”
According to Bioengineering chairman David Meaney,
A ndersen was a perfect fit
to give the address, which is
held in honor of former Penn
professor Herman Schwan.
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people that a re tr uly pio neers in their careers,” said
Meaney. “We think that that
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EDITORIAL | The additions of
Interfaith fellows to the Chaplain’s office is a good move
P
enn prides itself on diversity and
multiculturalism — and has the
student body to back it up. That’s
why we’re happy to see that the
Office of the University Chaplain
has hired Adnan Zulfiqar to be an
“interfaith fellow” — essentially, he will serve
as the campus minister to the Muslim community.
The position of an interfaith fellow is new at
Penn, but one that fills a need. Penn has several organized support networks for Jewish
and Christian students, from Hillel to the Newman Center, and several student-run groups
that work with students of other faiths, from
the Muslim Student Association to the Hindu Students Council. However, until now, the
school offered no University-run staff catering to other religious communities. This new
position will provide counseling and religious
leadership, better connecting and supporting
students, both within the faith and to other
faiths.
The University Chaplain, Chaz Howard, has
said that he hopes to expand the program in
the coming years to further cater to different
religious communities. We hope that becomes
a reality. Penn is not only a place of multiculturalism, but also of understanding and
exploration, and more interfaith fellows can
only add to that mission.
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SOUTHERN COMFORT | The University has myriad
preventive measures planned, but not panicking is key
T
his past April, the arrival
of finals brought another
unpleasant surprise. Swine
flu (H1N1) emerged from
the pig farms of Mexico and
swept across six continents in a matter of
days. As the number of reported cases ballooned from dozens to tens of thousands,
China quarantined a hotel and Egypt
slaughtered an entire swine population.
International panic reached a fever pitch,
and — particularly if our own 24-hour news
networks were to be believed — Armageddon loomed just around the corner.
Subsequent months have witnessed a
steady fall back to reality. The vast majority of cases have been characterized by
only mild symptoms, and turnaround has
been remarkably quick. Taken as a whole,
only H1N1’s highly communicable nature
and targeting of young adults distinguishes it from the strains of flu seasons past.
Yet as temperatures cool and sickness
spreads, fear of H1N1 pandemic is mounting. On college campuses — where the susceptibility of our age group and proximity
of our living conditions intensifies the risk
— swine flu has become a serious threat.
Accordingly, we should arm ourselves with
the facts — and recognize the steps our
own University has taken to keep us safe.
Penn’s current tally of suspected H1N1
cases stands at 25. Even recognizing the
inaccuracy of a self-reporting system, this
figure contrasts sharply with the numbers
found on many other college campuses.
Cornell University, with a student population roughly equal to our own, has acknowledged more than 600 cases. Other schools
like Washington State University have
seen their tallies swell into the thousands,
affecting huge swaths of the student body.
Just because we’ve been lucky so far
doesn’t mean we’ll always stay that way.
Fortunately, Penn has kept the Hazmat
suits primed and ready. The commencement of fall classes saw the release of a
report entitled, “Preparing for Influenza
at Penn,” as well as the formation of a
Pandemic Incident Management Team
(just the name makes me feel safer) to
regularly update the course of University
policy. According to Matt Waller, spokesman for the Office of the Vice Provost
for University Life, so far that policy has
hinged on preventative education.
In Waller’s words, however, “As circumstances dictate, it’s possible that
public health officials will recommend
we modify or suspend normal operations
to help limit the spread of flu. This could
include suspending classes or cancelling
public gatherings, like athletic events
and social programs.” The challenge of
pandemic, like the flu itself, has no single
panacea. Penn has adopted a number of
contingencies to fit a variety of possible
situations. Accordingly, students should
be prepared for potential disruptions in
University life — and not cause undue
panic in the process.
Even as our own campus outlook remains
largely positive, we should recognize the
very real toll that H1N1 has taken on others
across the nation. So far, three university
students have succumbed to complications
arising from the virus. The most recent casualty, Cornell junior Warren Schor, struck
EMERSON BROOKING
particularly close to home. These tragedies
provide a harsh reminder of the strain’s farranging reach, and they reinforce the need
for constant vigilance.
That said, recent national news assessing the threat of a renewed swine flu pandemic has been widely positive. One of the
gravest concerns consistently voiced about
H1N1 influenza — that it might mutate into
a more virulent strain during traditional
flu season — has been all but disproved by
Maryland researchers. More encouraging
still, preliminary tests of the H1N1 vaccine
expected to be released in early October
suggest it might be as much as 95 percent
effective in preventing fresh swine-flu infection. H1N1 may be a pandemic, but it is
far from an unstoppable one.
As flu season deepens and the squawking heads cry louder, maintaining a voice
of reason will become crucial. No matter
how much the specter of H1N1 grows, it
will remain beatable. Similarly, regardless of the number of suspected cases
on Penn’s campus, we should keep some
faith in our University’s ability to make the
right decisions. Together, we can deflate
the panic — and put down the Purell.
EMERSON BROOKING is a College junior
from Turnerville, Ga. He is a member of the
Undergraduate Assembly. His e-mail address is [email protected].
Smoothing out the transition
FRESHMAN 15 | After NSO,
immediately diving into heavy
workloads jars students
L
iv ing on campus, of f campus,
in the Quad or in the high rises,
everyone at Penn is united by our
love of New Student Orientation.
Upperclassmen got to reconnect
with friends in a relaxed atmosphere. We
freshmen had a fabulous introduction to Penn
and Philadelphia, topped off by Convocation,
where we had our awesomeness reaffirmed
and a killer dessert bar.
But then came the first day of classes, and suddenly everything was less fun. NSO is supposed
to acclimate us to our new environment, but once
we exited Wynn Commons, we entered an entirely different world, one that NSO could never
have prepared us for. The daily NSO e-mails,
detailing events and, of course, free food, are
alas now a dream, buried somewhere beneath
my geology textbook and my Spanish reading.
The day after Convocation, I entered my
first day of classes, hoping for a gentle welcome. What I got instead was a backpack full
MAYA BRANDON
of homework and a head full of apprehension.
I had gone from staying up until 2 a.m. for NSO
socializing, eating and playing games to staying up reading for my Friday class.
Sitting in my room, staring at Blackboard assignments, I could only feel comfort in the fact
that my fellow freshmen were in the same boat.
Relating his experiences about Convocation,
College freshman Kevin Beckoff said, “At Convocation, as I looked around and saw the sea of
people, and I started shaking in my boots.”
While Nursing freshman Jennifer Lee noted
that “the nursing school has been super supportive and understanding, making sure to
keep us calm and letting us know that college is
different but we can do it,” many other students
felt that the transition wasn’t quite as smooth.
In an effort to bridge the transition, the University could institute a policy of no homework
for the first week of classes.
Exams aren’t usually given until the conclusion of the Add/Drop period, but a desk-full of
reading assignments isn’t the “welcome to
Penn” that most kids have been waiting for.
Engineering freshman Federico Castro noted that: “There was no transition from NSO to
academics at Penn.” He acknowledged, however, that “Although the transition from NSO
celebrations to the start of the fall term was
not a smooth one, I believe that New Student
Orientation week is necessary.”
According to Fox, “The intention of NSO is to
introduce students to all of Penn — and to Philadelphia. So the programming is very diverse,
since it involves everything from academic life,
to building community in the houses, to pointers on keeping students safe and happy while
they’re here — and everything in between.”
NSO, through college house activities and
parties, does just that. But although it makes
Penn feel a little cozier and makes people not
seem so unfamiliar, the constant partying
makes academics seem all the more daunting.
A wonderful transition to life at Penn, NSO
is here to stay (as it should be). But, in order
to recognize the transition from partying to
studying, all four schools should allow one
week of classes, with no NSO parties and no
homework, to make the transition easier.
Brian Delgado, an Engineering freshman
also felt that after six days of partying and
mingling the transition between long nights
of socializing and perhaps even longer nights
of reading was jolting. “Once classes started,
there was an abrupt change in the environment on campus,” he said, “although having
only three days the first week, the amount of
work and studying took me by surprise.”
The transition from no scheduled NSO parties to college life and socializing independent
of University-sponsored events is enough as it
is. Why not allow them space free of NSO activities and free of school activities, i.e., homework?
Maybe it’s time to allow Quakers to discover
Penn on their own, not clad in a toga and not
buried beneath their books.
MAYA BRANDON is a College freshman from West
Windsor, N.J. Her e-mail address is [email protected].
N e ws
‘Her Campus’ not for all?
Harvard Univ.’s new women-focused online
magazine is criticized for being out-of-touch
BY BECKY BAILEY
Staff Writer
Penn women and college
females everywhere have a
new guide for college life, but
not everyone thinks it’s necessary.
The online magazine hercampus.com, which launched
last week, was created by three
Harvard University undergraduates after they won Harvard’s
business plan competition and
funding for the site.
One of the creators, senior
Stephanie Kaplan, said Her
Campus was created in response to what she and the
other creators — senior Windsor Hanger and junior Annie
Wang — saw as a hole in the
media industry.
Kaplan noted a lack of publications specifically targeted
at college women. Her Campus
serves as a “hub for everything
that college women need to
know,” Kaplan said.
To fill this gap, Her Campus
articles cover categories such
as love, dorm life, style, health,
world and career.
Another goal of Her Campus is to pave the way for other magazines to successfully
transition to the internet.
However, not everyone buys
the magazine’s mission statement. Writers from Harvard’s
Flybyblog and from Ivygateblog have recently posted criticism of the site.
Ivygateblog.com ridiculed
the creators for suggesting
that Her Campus was the first
website of its kind — one specifically tailored for college
women — even though another
similar site has existed since
2007: Collegecandy.com.
Lauren Herskovic, managing editor of Collegecandy.com,
said she found the idea of a media void “funny,” saying that
College Candy already filled
this void as a print magazine
in 2005. College Candy also
made the transition to internet in 2007.
Herskovic noted that because the three creators are
Har vard students, college
women outside Harvard and
the Ivy League or who do not
attend four-year universities
may not be able to relate to the
content of Her Campus.
Herskovic cited a Her Campus piece asking girls to submit
a photo of themselves wearing
a black dress and pearls.
“That’s a Blair Waldorf, [or
Gossip Girl,] version of college,” Herskovic said. “That’s
not really what college girls do
and wear.”
Herskovic said material like
this shows that Her Campus is
out of touch with many college
women.
On the other hand, Alex
Berger, a College senior and
the vice chairwoman of fundraising for the Penn Consortium of Undergraduate Women,
believes Her Campus would
be a “great resource” for Penn
women.
“We’re a very diverse group,
and we have a bunch of different interests,” Berger said.
“Most women at Penn work
really hard in the classroom
... but they also like to have
fun.”
College sophomore Katie
Sanders, who writes for Her
Campus, said she understands
why people might feel that
there is content overlap between Her Campus and similar websites.
However, she added, Her
Campus is “another outlet for
a population that has a lot to
say.”
In recession, fundraising remains strong
U. FINANCES |
University raised 72
percent —$2.5 billion
of total campaign goal
BY DARINA SHTRAKHMAN
Staff Writer
Penn’s alumni fundraising
has not been significantly hurt
by the economy, according to
administrators.
For the Mak ing Histor y
campaign, “we’ve reached
the milestone with $2.5 billion
already raised for the campaign,” said Penn President
Amy Gutmann. “That’s 72 percent of our goal.”
When the campaign was
launched, University officials
said they aimed to raise 70
percent of its $3.5-billion goal
QuestBridge
may play
smaller role
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was one of in the top three
schools to take the most students from the program, along
with Princeton University and
University of Chicago. In total, 206 QuestBridge students
were accepted to their associated partner schools and
received full scholarships,
including room and board, tuition, books, fees, incidental
expenses, personal expenses
by the end of fiscal year 2009,
which ended June 30. That goal
has been reached.
Furthermore, Gutmann cited an article in The Chronicle
of Higher Education, which
highlighted Penn for raising
the highest amount of funds, as
of July 31, of any of the 32 U.S.
universities with campaign
goals over $1 billion.
Despite these successes,
commitments, or the amount
of money pledged for donation,
fell to around $400 million, according to Vice President of
Development and Alumni Relations John Zeller.
“We were shy of our goal”
of $450 million, Zeller said, although he added that his office
had anticipated this decline.
Additionally, Penn received
$440 million in monetary do-
and travel expenses.
QuestBridge applicants apply through a third application process that involves an
earlier deadline than other
applicants. Applicants fill out
an extensive application for
QuestBridge by September
30, and if they are accepted
as finalists, they pick their
top eight choices of 27 partner
schools. The partner schools
then pick students from the
pool of applicants who selected them.
Penn’s plan to roll back its
QuestBridge admissions runs
contrary to the University of
Chicago. In its second year
with QuestBridge, the University of Chicago accepted
more students from the pro-
nations during FY ‘09. That
amount is the second largest
in Penn’s history, following a
record $476 million in FY ‘08.
Zeller noted that this is “the
second-highest fundraising
year in receipts,” which demonstrates that donors “have
been honoring their pledges.”
But in terms of bringing in new
commitments, “it’s a timing issue,” he explained. “It’s not like
philanthropy has stopped because of the economy, but people
are definitely prioritizing.”
Gutmann emphasized that
alumni have been “very responsive” thus far, with alumni
outreach “greater than ever.”
She added that she expects this
outreach to increase this year.
Lately, other Ivy League
schools have also seen declines
in donations.
gram than it had the previous
year.
Desmond Zeng, a College
freshman and QuestBridge
participant, spoke favorably
about the program. “I think
Questbridge is an excellent
non-profit organization that offers lower income high-school
students the opportunity to
get in touch with and apply to
excellent colleges and universities like Penn,” he said in an
online message.
“I would definitely recommend it to anyone. It allows
kids who are intellectually
bright and capable of attending colleges that they might
not necessarily be able to afford to apply to those schools
and get offered excellent fi-
Harvard University received
$602 million in gifts for FY ‘09 —
an 8-percent decline from last
year’s total — and alumni giving in particular slowed during
the spring months, according to
The Harvard Crimson.
Similarly, Princeton University came up shy of its goals.
The school raised $44.6 million in its 2008-09 campaign,
approximately $11 million less
than they had hoped, according
to The Daily Princetonian.
Gutmann and Zeller both
said they intend to connect
with alumni throughout the
coming months, culminating
with the Engaging Minds lecture series in December and
January. This will “allow alumni to experience firsthand the
power of our faculty,” Gutmann
said.
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nancial aid packages, things
that might not happen without
QuestBridge.”
Another QuestBridge alumnus, College freshman Daniel
Torrington, said he understood the impetus behind
Penn’s plans to reel back on
its relationship with QuestBridge.
“I would hope that as [Penn]
takes fewer students from
QuestBridge, that it will open
the way for low-income students from other avenues,” he
said.
$5K awards efforts
to advance women
ACADEMICS |
Provost’s Office,
Trustees create new
award for faculty
BY ANANDI MALIK
Staff Writer
The Provost’s Office and
the Trustees Council of Penn
Women have established an
award to recognize community members for efforts that
help female faculty advance in
the workplace.
Applicants — who can be
both male and female — will
be judged by a selection committee of six faculty members representing a variety of
Penn’s schools and disciplines
within them. Deans, department heads and center directors can make nominations,
as can faculty members themselves.
The winner, chosen based
on the contribution he or she
made to the advancement of
female Penn faculty, will receive $5,000.
Qualifying achievements
can range from increasing the
presence of women in fields
in which they are traditionally underrepresented to improving the environment for
female faculty at Penn.
As Melanie Katzman, cochairwoman of advancement
of women faculty for TCPW,
explained that the award is
intended to be positive, not
punitive, by promoting best
practices.
She said the award was introduced following concern
Groups speak
out against
new arts tax
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chaeology and Anthropology
is among several institutions
on campus which are members of the Cultural Alliance.
“We’re not sure yet how [the
proposal] will affect us,” Penn
Museum spokeswoman Pam
Kosty said, “[or] whether it
will affect us.”
The Museum’s admissions
are on a suggested donation
basis, meaning the sales tax’s
impact on the institution is
still unclear.
Other organizations, however, will likely suffer from the
proposal.
Enrollments at the UCAL
were already down because
of the state of the economy,
Epstein said.
The tax is “not going to
make our fees completely unaffordable,” but it may make a
that women are not represented at the highest level on
the Penn faculty.
“The Gender Equity Report
documented an increase in
the number of women making it to tenure level, but also
the ‘leaky pipeline’ through
which women are not making
it to the level their male counterparts would have been at,”
she explained.
She pointed out that the
award is one of the two highest offered by the University.
“It celebrates some of the
best values of Penn,” she said,
adding that it displays a “true
commitment to diversity on
all levels.”
Provost Vincent Price wrote
in an e-mail that his office was
“quite pleased to be partners
in this effort, which extends
and complements our other
important faculty development efforts.”
He added that “the award is
new, but the emphasis isn’t”
and that it “goes together
with a new Faculty Women’s
Forum, which should aid in
advancing cross-school networking and faculty mentorship.” The Forum will hold
its first session on Oct. 1 with
School of Arts and Sciences
Dean Rebecca Bushnell.
Bushnell will be moderating a discussion for tenured
female faculty planning the
next stage of their careers.
She praised the new award
for its focus on leaders who
h ave c ont r ibut e d t o t he
scholarly and professional
development of women at
Penn.
difference for some people, he
said. “We’ll see some negative
impact.”
Amsterdam encouraged
individuals to protest the proposal.
“We will clog your fax machines, e-mail and phones,”
she warned legislators.
Nonprofit arts and cultural
organizations in Southeastern
Pennsylvania generate $1.3
billion in expenditures annually, as well as 40,000 jobs,
according to a report by the
Cultural Alliance.
“Our activities … are the
reason people come to live,
work and play in the Commonwealth,” Amsterdam said.
However, the report also
found that 60 percent of area
residents said they would pay
more in taxes to support the
arts.
Wharton graduate student
Nicole Verrochi said the tax
would “probably not” influence her decision to visit a
cultural institution.
“But it would irritate me,”
she said, adding that the arts
are “a big draw in Philadelphia.”
CRIME LOG
Robbery
Sept. 14 — Michael Tomkins,
28, unaffiliated with the University and of the 3800 block
of Melon Street, was arrested
at about 2:15 p.m. for allegedly
approaching and attempting
to steal the purse of a female
University employee, 30, on the
3800 block of Chestnut Street.
Sept. 12 — A man unaffiliated with the University, 18,
reported at about 2 a.m. that
several unknown suspects
approached him on the 4300
block of Market Street. One
suspect displayed a handgun
and demanded money, and the
suspects fled in an unknown
direction.
Assault
Sept. 17 — A man unaffiliated with the University, 46,
reported at about 7:30 p.m.
that several unknown suspects
approached him and one suspect struck him in the face in a
parking garage located at 40th
and Walnut streets.
Sept. 15 — A man unaffiliated with the University, 23, reported at about 8:45 p.m. that
several unknown suspects approached him and struck him
in the back as he was attempting to enter the Walnut Hills
Apartments, located at 4111
Burglary
Walnut St. The suspects then
Sept. 14 — A male student,
fled from the area.
20, reported at about 5:45 p.m.
Bon Appetit
grows garden
in Commons
knew Bon Appetit was committed to local agriculture,
but I d id n’t r e a l i ze t he y
planned on growing herbs,”
said College senior Mordechai Treiger, a Penn Environmental Group codirector
and former Daily PennsylvaGARDEN from page 1
nian columnist. “The garden
is a good start, and I am also
expand the garden so all din- excited that Bon Appetit is
ing chefs have access to the consider ing tur ning other
plants.
open areas of campus into
“ W hen t hey c a me i n , I gardens as well.”
that an unknown suspect entered his residence on the
4000 block of Pine Street and
removed a TV.
pect was reported at about 3:15
p.m. to have removed classroom items from a secured
room at the Moore Building.
Sept. 17 — A male student,
Theft
29, reported at about 3:45 p.m.
Sept. 17 — An unknown sus- that someone removed his per-
sonal items from an unsecured
locker at Pottruck Gym.
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cials could not be immediately
reached for comment on that
issue.
“I wouldn’t expect it to be officially acknowledged in any
way,” Chang said. “It’s a student-run blog, and I don’t feel
like the Athletic Department
really felt they had the need to
be involved, since they didn’t
say anything to us.”
In any event, the Athletic
Department is still looking for
ways to combat an unfavorable
economic climate and stimulate more student interest in
football, men’s basketball and
the other 29 varsity teams,
according to senior associate
director of athletics Alanna
Shanahan.
Financial constraints have
not visibly affected turnout
so far. Football season-ticket
sales are on par with the past
two years, with a renewal rate
of over 90 percent for 2009.
And even though Saturday’s
14-3 loss to No. 2 Villanova was
played on Rosh Hashanah,
the Jewish new year, it drew
14,876 fans — 118 more than
last year’s matchup with the
Wildcats and over 2,500 more
than the 2007 home opener
against Lafayette.
But the economy did impact
internal operations. Brian
Head, Penn’s marketing manager who oversees the Red and
Blue Crew, was forced to cut
the budget of his essentially
one-man department. (Head is
currently in the process of replacing his assistant, Julie May,
who left over the summer.)
“We asked him to make some
strategic reductions, just from
the standpoint of making sure
we don’t overextend ourselves
and making sure that we’re
funneling those critical dollars
to the key areas,” Shanahan
said.
That’s where Chang and
his former hallmates come in.
They approached Head last
March about fostering student
enthusiasm for Penn sports
teams. Specifically, they wanted to create some structure
to the previously unorganized
Red and Blue Crew.
The group is now studentrun and designed more like a
traditional club. It has a $500
budget for the academic year
and three committees — rollouts, gamedays and special
events. At its introductor y
meeting, Miller, women’s basketball coach Mike McLaughlin
and football coach Al Bagnoli
all made cameo appearances.
So did 50 freshmen, set to join a
dozen returners and the closeknit leading group. That turn-
out, both from the students and
from those three coaches, is
higher than in years past.
“They all came to the meeting to impress upon our student body and the leadership
of this group to this point that
your presence is really important,” Shanahan said. “We’re
really looking to identify student leadership and capitalize
on that leadership.”
“This is my fifth year here,
and this is the first time that
we’ve ever had students who
are really committed to taking
it on and making it successful
and growing it from basketball
attendance to all sports,” Head
added. “In past years, it had
fallen on one or two people to
do it all, and it never works. So
we’ve got leadership.”
The students are wracking
their collective brains for creative ways to generate campus-wide buzz. They will chalk
Locust Walk and man promotional tables in order to reach
a broader audience than Head
could flying solo. For basketball
games, Chang mentioned possibly initiating a “white-out” or
“blue-out,” where all fans don
certain-colored garb. And for
less high-profile sports, Shanahan wants to combine three of
the Athletic Deparment’s arms:
Quaker Days, a program run
by the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee to encourage
athletes to attend other teams’
games; the Red and Blue Rewards program, which was
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The Red and Blue Crew is associated with basketball and football, but associate director of athletics Alanna Shanahan
hopes the group will be active with other sports since “it’s going to be hard to drive attendance at a squash match.”
initiated last year to provide incentives for attending primarily
second-tier sports; and the Red
and Blue Crew.
“We can all appreciate that
without a three-pronged approach, it’s going to be hard to
drive attendance at a squash
match or something,” Shanahan said. “But if you have those
three entities working together
and trying to build consistency
in their calendar, than you have
a chance.”
The chance to have an im-
pact, on any sport, also increases with the coach’s presence.
Last year, for instance, Miller
had lunch at Hill College House
with a couple of hand-picked
Red and Blue Crew members.
Specific events for 2009 are
still unplanned, but Miller,
McLaughlin and Bagnoli are
all willing to do more. Penn
also plans to reach out to its
various season-ticket holders,
especially those of basketball,
to thank them for their loyalty
throughout this tumultuous
time in the economy and in the
program’s performance.
More than anything, though,
the Athletic Department will be
relying on Chang. And though
he’s willing to help fill the seats
at every game, his focus is still
on hoops.
“What will be realistic goals
in year one will be to get the
student section in basketball
relevant again,” Chang said.
“Building that club atmosphere
— that’s ultimately what our
goal is in year one.”
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last year’s 5-2 squad.
“From ’96 on it’s been something that we’ve been able to
put together,” he said.
When Seddon retired from
his baseball position in 2005,
Wagner retired as assistant.
Though if he had his way, he
would’ve had double duty.
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sprint football alums and my
players is very, very high, and I
was asked to stay with the sprint
football program. It’s been a
great move on my part.”
The coach has had to make
a lot of adjustments during a
career that has spanned eight
presidencies.
“When I came to Penn, I was
a wing-T football coach. Today,
we go no backs, no huddle,
spread offense, pass the ball
half the time,” he said. “The
game is gonna dictate what
you have to do … If you don’t
change, you’re not gonna be
having any fun out there.”
Much of the reason Wagner
has come back year after year
lies in the fact that teaching
the game of football is still fun
for him.
“He’s still pushing us as hard
as we can go,” senior captain
Joe Portelli said. “And he still
has his ‘Wagsisms.’”
‘Wagsisms’ has become the
term for the sayings the coach
tries to instill into his players.
According to Portelli, these
include “fast food, slow body”
and “other football expressions
not appropriate for printing in
the paper.”
So Wagner clearly hasn’t lost
the ability to motivate his players, who already have incentive
to play for a legendary coach.
“To add another ring to [his]
collection would only make it
a better experience for us but
also give him another memory,” Portelli said. “We hope we
can be a part of his legacy.”
And it looks like that legacy
will continue. He and his staff
have raised over $1.2 million
dollars over the last several
years in order to maintain the
program.
“Eventually, before I leave,
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said. “We’re looking to endow
the sport so it’ll be here for another 77 years.”
And Wagner wishes he could
be here for them all.
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momentum, Penn will have to
do a better job of containing
Witmer than it did last year.
Now a sophomore, Witmer was
named Atlantic 10 Player of the
Week after scoring three goals
in the Owls’ last two games.
“They ’ve got some spe cial guys; Ty Witmer and J.T.
Noone in the final third are as
good as anybody we’re going to
face,” Penn coach Rudy Fuller
said. “So we’ve got to make
sure we’re really sharp and
connected defensively.”
Prior to Witmer’s breakout,
the Owls (2-3-1) had only managed one goal in their first
four games. After averaging
1.63 goals per game last season, Temple has only scored
six goals so far, four of them
by Witmer.
The biggest difference in
Temple’s offensive firepower
has been Noone’s lack of goal
production. As a junior in 2008,
he led Temple with 26 points
and was second to Witmer
with seven goals. This year,
the Harrisburg, Pa., native
has yet to score a goal, though
he has assisted on half of the
Owls’ goals.
they were as dynamic as they
have been in the past,” she
said. “They are always aggressive and a tough team.”
Either way, the Quakers
will still have their work cut
out for them.
The Wildcats boast a powerful attack as leading scorer,
junior forward Meredith Sabatini, has already tallied eight
goals and two assists this season.
Penn senior back Sarah
Warner, however, is ready to
rise to the occasion.
“I get excited to play against
their best players because it’s
just really fun if you get to stop
them,” Warner said. “It’s just
a battle and I like it.”
In Penn’s meeting with Villanova in 2008, Warner’s defensive unit held Sabatini to a single
shot on goal that did not find the
back of the cage, but the Wildcats still managed a 2-1 victory.
Villanova will have the momentum entering tonight’s
matchup, as it is coming off a
three-game winning streak.
And because the Wildcats
have Spr i nT u r f just l i ke
Franklin Field, home field
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Freshman Michael Kozak (17), shown here against Navy, has made an immediate impact offensively for the Quakers
this season, registering three shots on goal through his first six games — including two starts.
Despite Temple’s scoring
struggles on paper, Levin said
the Quakers must remain focused on staying organized on
defense, because their local rivals do not back down easily.
City games are “definitely
more physical than your average out-of-conference game,”
the sophomore defender said.
“In Philly games, it’s a matter
of pride, and no one takes it
lightly.”
On the other side, Penn’s offense has produced at least two
goals in five of six matches this
season.
“As much as we like to think
of our team as a stingy team, we
don’t really spend a lot of time
on the defensive side in training,” Fuller said. “We want to be
a team that is capable of moving
the ball around, hitting different spots on the field, making
the other team defend.”
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Fuller said that goals tend
to come in bunches, so the
Quakers will have to continue
to finish their chances in the
attacking third. Like most
matches in the Soccer Six, this
one promises to be a slugfest.
“Temple gave us everything
we could handle last year, and a
lot of those guys are back, and
it’s a city game,” Fuller said.
“Those are the types of games
you want to play in.”
will not provide much of an
advantage for Penn as it tries
to slow down its speedy opponent.
“No fouls inside the circle is
really huge and that’s one of
our goals,” Warner said.
Villanova has made the
most of its offensive opportunities, as the squad has averaged 8.29 corners per game,
compared to Penn’s 2.67.
On the offensive side of the
ball, Penn will have to contend
with Villanova’s unique manto-man style of play.
Where most teams play zone
defense everywhere except the
circle, the Wildcats’ play manto-man all over the field.
The Red and Blue hope that
the formation will play to their
advantage, as it showcases individual ability.
One player expected to
thrive is Hasson, who just received Ivy Rookie of the Week
honors.
“I don’t want to get that in
my head or anything,” Hasson
said. “I just want to keep working hard. I’m only a freshman,
I have a long way to go.”
With their last loss behind
them, the Quakers view the
matchup against their crosstown rival as a clean slate.
“We just want to show we’re
not the 2-4 team that our record shows. We’re definitely
much better than that,” Warner said. “It’s a non-Ivy game
so it’s not as much pressure,
so we can just have fun with it
and come out with a win.”
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Marketing students
Penn Athletics | Weightman Hall hopes altered
Red and Blue Crew will increase student interest
BY David Gurian-Peck
Senior Staff Writer
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A new Athletic Department marketing initiative will revamp the Red and Blue Crew in order to stimulate
more student interest in athletic events. The club will now have a $500 budget and three committees.
It’s a bit ironic that the Athletic
Department has turned to the
authors of the Fire Glen Miller
blog to lead its new marketing
initiative.
But Wharton junior Justin
Chang and several of his friends
are at the core of both efforts.
They are helping revamp the Red
and Blue Crew, and in their new
role, they will likely work with
Glen Miller, the men’s basketball
coach. Presumably unaware of
their writing pastime, Miller has
already offered a few marketing
suggestions — “He’s really into
the fact that his name matches a
beer,” Chang said — and told the
students that his door is always
open.
Miller won’t be the only one
opening up, as the Athletic Department is trying to make its
coaches more visible throughout
campus.
Chang, a former Daily Pennsylvanian contributor, said
that he does not know whether
the department is aware of his
dual affiliation. University offiSEE R&B CREW PAGE 6
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The Athletic Department
is likely to continue the
controversial season-ticket
policy it introduced last
season. Student seats
behind the west-end basket
are general admission, with
the lower level reserved for
participants in The Line.
“ We st i l l occ asiona l ly
have internal discussions,”
senior associate director of
athletics Alanna Shanahan
said, “but at this point, we’re
still holding to the fact that
hopefully, long term, this will
pay dividends.”
— David Gurian-Peck
The one that ended the streak
Courtesy of Penn Athletics
Bill Wagner has won three championships and compiled a 50-23
record since 1996 after going 45-111 in his first 26 years.
Alex Remnick/DP File Photo
Last year, forward Tyler Witmer (6) scored the second Temple goal in a 2-2 draw that snapped the Quakers’ streak of seven-straight shutouts. Tonight the
two teams play again as defender Jake Levin (2) and the back line will enter the game with a chip on their shoulder since the Owls ended the streak.
M. Soccer | Temple — which ended Penn’s
run of shutouts in ’08 — hosts the Quakers
BY ARI SEIFTER
Staff Writer
The Penn men’s soccer team
had seven-straight shutouts
under their belt — a streak
that spanned 670 minutes —
when it headed into its Sept.
28, 2008 match against local
rival Temple.
But it only took defender
James Suevo 3:25 to solve the
Quakers’ defense, and by the
6:40 mark, Owls’ star forward
Tyler Witmer had scored a
second goal. Penn managed
to shut down Temple the rest
of the way and ultimately came
back to tie, but the damage had
already been done.
“We definitely have something to prove,” sophomore
defender Jake Levin said of
tonight’s rematch at Temple’s
Ambler Soccer Complex. “They
were the team that ruined our
record last year. We want to set
it straight — we don’t let them
score on us.”
The Quakers (3-1-2) are
coming off two exceptional
defensive performances last
weekend, as junior goalie Ben
M. Soccer
Temple
2-3-1
Today,
3:30 p.m.
Ambler, Pa.
Berg only needed to make one
save total in a pair of shutouts
against Albany and Navy.
In order to keep up that
SEE M. SOCCER PAGE 7
Penn hopes to wake up for ‘Nova
Field Hockey | Early-morning practice
motivates team after tough loss to Cornell
BY JENNIFER SCUTERI
Associate Sports Editor
Coming off a heartbreaking
overtime loss in its Ivy opener
against Cornell, the Penn field
hockey team needed a boost —
and a 7 a.m. practice to start the
week was just what the doctor
ordered.
“Monday we really picked it
up even though it was early in
the morning,” freshman forward
Sarah Hasson said. “Everyone
was pressuring each other and
really pumping each other up for
[tonight’s] game.”
The Quakers hope to capitalize on the confidence gained
during the morning session
when they face Villanova tonight
at Franklin Field.
FIELD HOCKEY
Villanova
5-2
Tonight,
7:15 p.m.
Franklin Field
Penn (2-4, 0-1 Ivy) leads the
all-time series between the
two teams 13-11-2, although the
Quakers have not notched a win
over Villanova (5-2) in three seasons.
Yet coach Val Cloud isn’t letting that worry her.
“The video I saw, I didn’t think
SEE FIELD HOCKEY PAGE 7
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Pete Lodato/DP Senior Photographer
Senior back Sarah Warner, shown here against Cornell, will have her hands full
tonight against a powerful Villanova attack led by junior Meredith Sabatini.
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40-year sprint
for Wagner
as Penn coach
Sprint Football | Legendary
two-sport coach reflects on career
BY BRIAN KOTLOFF
Staff Writer
It’s a new sprint football season , but Bill Wagner
is still the coach at Penn.
With a 20-14 victory Friday over Cornell, the
lightweight football team opened its 40th-consecutive season with the man who has become the face
of Quakers sprint football patrolling the sideline.
Talking to the longest-tenured Penn coach, you
realize that he would not be the revered leader he
is today without a passion for athletics and teaching that was developed long before anyone on the
current roster was born.
“To still be involved in something you love to do
for 40 years — not many people get that opportunity,” Wagner said.
Sports have always been what
the New Jersey native loves to
do, whether it was as a threesport star at Trenton State, or
as baseball and football coach
at Woodrow Wilson and Cherry
Hill East High Schools in South
Jersey.
When Bob Murray retired from
his head baseball and sprint foot- BILL
ball coaching positions at Penn WAGNER
in 1969, assistant Bob Seddon returns for his
replaced him as head baseball 40th season
as sprint
coach. Athletic Director Fred
football coach.
Shabel then hired Wagner to fill
the positions of assistant baseball coach and head sprint football coach.
But in his first 26 years he had to endure plenty of
losing football seasons: his sprint teams compiled
a 45-111 record from 1970 to 1995.
In the magical 1996 season, the tables turned.
That year Wagner won his first Collegiate Sprint
Football League championship. Two years later,
Penn did it again.
But Wagner’s greatest feat came in 2000, when
his team won its third title and went undefeated for
the first time in 69 years, defeating both Army and
Navy in the same year for the first time ever.
All in all, Wagner’s teams have compiled a 50SEE WAGNER PAGE 6
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