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THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSIT Y OF PENNSYLVANIA
online at dailypennsylvanian.com
MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2009
Keeler remembered as loving, caring
British exchange student Ella Keeler died of
complications from a cardiac arrest at HUP on Friday
BY DARINA SHTRAKHMAN
Staff Writer
British exchange student Ella Keeler,
who family and friends remember as
caring and passionate, passed away at
the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania on Friday morning.
Although the University College
London student’s cause of death has
not been officially determined yet, Ella
died of “something related to cardiac
arrest,” according to her brother, Matthew Keeler.
Keeler suffered a cardiac arrest while
jogging on campus about a week ago,
according to the CaringBridge website
run by her family. She underwent extensive surgery after the incident and had
been in critical condition since then.
Keeler had no personal or family history of cardiac problems, according to
Matthew.
She is survived by her parents, Christopher and Annette, as well as siblings
Matthew and Suzanne, 33 and 30 years
old, respectively.
A history major, Keeler attended the
Tadcaster Grammar School in North
Yorkshire, U.K., before studying at
UCL.
She was a “keen soccer fan, who followed Arsenal [Football Club],” a supporter of Amnesty International and an
active member of the UCL Labour Club,
according to Matthew.
She had also won the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award for her community service.
Keeler was “a loving, and well loved,
young women with a gift for putting the
needs of others before her own,” Matthew wrote in an e-mail.
He added that she had “a long standing ambition to study at a world renowned institution, and realised this
by attending UPenn ... Her dream was
to make it to the Ivy League, she worked
hard to attain it, and thoroughly enjoyed
her time here.”
Keeler’s death had a profound effect
on members of the Penn community,
including her friends at Stouffer College House.
“Our first weeks here would have
SEE KEELER PAGE 4
Courtesy of the Keeler Family
British exchange student Keeler poses with her mother, Annette. Ella passed away
in HUP on Friday morning after suffering a cardiac arrest about a week ago.
Greeks host run to fight cancer
Check out
theDP.com/candidates for the
lowdown on freshmen races
GREEK LIFE | Panhel held 10thannual Rena Rowan Run Sunday
BY DANA VOGEL
Staff Writer
Michelle Bigony/DP Staff Photographer
Sunday morning, more runners than usual
were out on Locust Walk — and they were running for a good cause.
Yesterday afternoon, the Penn Panhellenic
Council held its tenth-annual Rena Rowan 5K
Ribbon Run to benefit the Rena Rowan Breast
Center.
The 5K run began at noon at The Compass on
Locust Walk. The event was kicked off with a
speech by the event’s namesake — Rena Rowan
— and featured raffle prizes donated by local
businesses such as Allegro Pizza, Lee’s Hoagie
House and Philadelphia Runner.
College junior and 34th Street editor Lauren
Lipsay, a DJ, played music at the event to “pump
the runners up,” according to event organizer
and College senior Alexandra Delfiner.
The annual event raises money for the Rena
Rowan Breast Center at the Abramson Cancer
Center of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. The Center provides integrated cancer
treatment for patients in a single location.
According to the center’s website, the sororities have chosen to support breast cancer research because “it is a disease that has touched
the lives of all Penn sorority women in some
shape or form.”
Since it was started in 2000, the event has
raised over $55,000. Delfiner said that although
donations were still coming in, Panhel had already collected over $4,000 from yesterday’s
event.
According to Delfiner, this year’s event had
the biggest turnout in the run’s history with approximately 140 runners.
“We were really surprised and excited about
the great turnout,” said Delfiner, who added that
Panhel had only expected 60 to 70 runners as of
last week.
Participants in Panhel’s 10th-annual Rena Rowan 5K Ribbon Run race down Locust Walk on Sunday.
The annual event has raised over $55,000 for cancer research since it began in 2000.
SEE PANHEL PAGE 4
a serious investment in
our futures
OPINION | David Lei looks at the Swenson Model
for endowment investments, and writes why it’s
still an extremely lucrative investment model.
>> PAGE 6
Picking apples to save
the environment
NEWS | The Penn Environmental Group sent a
group of students to its annual Apple Picking at
Linvilla Orchards yesterday, offering members
a chance to build team spirit. >> PAGE 7
football
green
no more
SPORTS |
The Quakers
get their first
victory of season
with a ‘W’ over
frequent loser
Dartmouth.
>> BACK PAGE
events@penn
October 5 - October 6
THE PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNIST
Attend a discussion with founder of Equity
Group Investments Sam Zell and Wharton
real estate professor Peter Linneman.
ZELLERBACH THEATER, 12 p.m. Today
SHOW YOU CARE, PINK YOUR HAIR
Take part in the Women’s Center’s Annual
Breast Cancer Fundraiser by getting a
(removable) pink hair attachment.
women’s center porch, 12 p.m. Today
film festivals
Hear Nancy Shafer, executive director of the
Tribeca Film Festival, discuss the changing
film distribution landscape.
HUNTSMAN G50, 7 p.m. Today
obesity management
Listen to Penn professors outline how what
they term as “a culture of obesity” can be
changed through community cooperation.
PENN BOOKSTORE, 6 p.m. toDAY
mexico city discussion
Jo i n Me x@P e n n f o r a le c t u r e a nd
discussion on Mexico City, the world’s most
misunderstood city.
HUNTSMAN G65, 8 p.m. tomorrow
>> PAGE 2 for more events
‘‘
We could bring in Einstein as an
advisor here, and he’d get the same
amount of money as all the other
advisors in this office.”
Barbara Hewitt, on Career Services >> PAGE 3
Editorial (215) 898-6585 • Business (215) 898-6581
Student excitement low for Nov. election
POLITICS | Student leaders say voter registration
is down for the municipal elections on Nov. 3
BY PRAMEET KUMAR
Staff Writer
On the heels of last year’s
historic election and recordbreaking numbers of young
voters nationwide, there has
been a marked decrease in
voter-registration activities
on campus.
The deadline to register to
vote in the Nov. 3 Pennsylvania municipal election is
today, but many student political groups have stepped down
registration efforts because
this is an off-year election.
Penn Democrats President
and College junior Jordan
Levine, a former Daily Pennsylvanian advertising representative, said the group has
only registered a few dozen
students at its events and
club fairs.
“People will get involved
in elections that they perceive will impact them,” he
said. “[But] there are not too
many seats up for grabs” in
this one.
Philadelphians will vote in
eight races: those for Penns y l v a n i a S up r e me C ou r t ,
Pennsylvania Superior Court,
Pennsylvania Commonwealth
Court, Philadelphia Court of
Common Pleas, Philadelphia
Municipal Court, Philadelphia District Attorney, City
Controller and Judge Retention Elections.
Democrats Seth Williams
and Alan Butkovitz will face
off against Republicans Michael Unt er meyer a nd A l
Schmidt in the District Attor ney and City Controller
elections, respectively.
None of these races match
the excitement students had
for last year ’s presidential
election, said College Republicans Chairman and Wharton senior Peter Devine. “In
2008, we were really active on
[Locust] Walk,” he said. “We
saw a huge spike in [voter
registration] last year.”
Visit us online at dailypennsylvanian.com
ONLINE
An interactive graph of
voter registration rates at
dailypennsylvanian.com
More 18 - to 29 -year- olds
voted in 2008 than ever before in U.S. history, according
to Rock the Vote, a non-profit
political advocacy organization.
Rock the Vote ran the largest youth voter drive in history by registering 2.5 million
people alone last year.
“ L ast ye a r was t he [...]
h ig hest t u r nout si nce t he
ea rly 1970s when 18 -yea r olds were given the right to
vote,” spokeswoman Chrissy
Faessen sa id. “They were
participating in issues that
they cared about.”
Penn Leads the Vote — the
Un i ve r sit y ’s st ud e nt - r u n ,
nonpartisan voter mobilization g roup — remains one
of the few organizations on
campus leading active voterregistration efforts.
“Our efforts have not de-
nov. 3 election
- The deadline to register to
vote in November’s election
is TODAY, Oct. 5.
- The positions
Philadelphians will
vote for in this election
are Pennsylvania
Supreme Court,
Pennsylvania Superior
Court, Pennsylvania
Commonwealth Court,
Philadelphia Court
of Common Pleas,
Philadelphia Municipal
Court, Philadelphia District
Attorney, City Controller and
Judge Retention Elections.
- In the race for District
Attorney, Democrat
Seth Williams will face
Republican Michael
Untermeyer.
- In the race for City
Controller, Democrat
Alan Butkovitz will face
Republican Al Schmidt.
SEE ELECTION PAGE 3
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Word on the Walk | Do you feel safe on campus?
VOL. CXXV, NO. 83
The Independent Student Newspaper of
the University of Pennsylvania
125th Year of Publication
JULIETTE MULLIN, Executive Editor
REBECCA KAPLAN, Managing Editor
ALYSSA SCHWENK, Editorial Page Editor
EMILY BABAY, Online Editor
ANGELA MU, Copy Editor
RACHEL BAYE, Campus News Editor
MICHAEL GOLD, Design Editor
EMILY SCHULTHEIS, City News Editor
SAMANTHA SHARF, Design Editor
JESSICA RIEGEL, Features Editor
MELANIE LEI, Photo Editor
LARA SELIGMAN, Assignments Editor
ALEX REMNICK, Photo Editor
HANNAH GERSTENBLATT, Sports Editor
bartell cope, Video Producer
ZACH KLITZMAN, Sports Editor
DANIEL GETELMAN, Lead Online Developer
NOAH ROSENSTEIN, Sports Editor
ABBY SCHWARTZ, Opinion Blog Editor
LAUREN PLOTNICK, Associate Sports Editor
JENNIFER SCUTERI, Associate Sports Editor
LIZ JACOBS, Associate Copy Editor
WILLIAM KORCHEK, Associate Copy Editor
HEIDI SCHERZ, Associate Copy Editor
BECKI STEINBERG, Associate Copy Editor
Sarah ZaGER, Associate Copy Editor
Unnati DaSs, Associate Design Editor
Vivian Zhang, Associate Design Editor
TED KOUTSOUBAS, Photo Manager
RACHEL COHEN, Business Manager
PETER LUI, Finance Manager
MIRANDA LUNA, Advertising Manager
ANTHONY ROSSANO, Credit Manager
ASHWIN SHANDILYA, Marketing Manager
KATERYN SILVA, Ad Design Manager
LAURA JOHNSON
College sophomore
GRACE TAY
Engineering senior
DARIEN PEREZ
College sophomore
TARIRO MUPOMBWA
College senior
“I feel safe, but that’s
because I go with friends
and not to anywhere
sketchy. I just hope nothing
else happens.”
“No … I guess Philadelphia
has never been safe, but
recently the level of crime
has reached a new level.”
“I think that the Penn
security is very much
together … As long as you
have some common sense
you should be fine.”
“I think I still feel safe
because I see police people
on campus; I think it
depends where you go.”
Hannah Wheeler/Contributing Writer, Michelle Bigony/DP Staff Photographer
how to contact the newspaper
‘Word on the Walk’ asks students their perspective on a variety of campus issues.
BY PHONE:
IN PERSON OR WRITING:
News/Editorial: (215) 898-6585
Fax: (215) 898-2050
Business/Advertising: (215) 898-6581
4015 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
events@penn
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
TODAY
If you have a comment or question about the fairness or accuracy of a story,
call Managing Editor Rebecca Kaplan at (215) 898-6585 ext. 164, or send an
e-mail to [email protected].
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THIS ISSUE
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content should be directed to the Executive Board at the address above.
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Hear experts in the fields of
business, medicine, law and
academia talk about their
occupations.
HUNTSMAN 50, 4:30 p.m.
UNCOVERING THE ORIGINS
Hear Becca Kantor, granddaughter
of architect Louis Kahn, discuss
her research on her grandfather.
KELLY WRITERS HOUSE, 6 p.m.
SAM ‘PROFESSOR IN HOUSE’
Join Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity for
a discussion with professor Peggy
Sanday, who will discuss her book
on fraternity gang rape.
SIGMA ALPHA MU HOUSE, 6 p.m.
continued from page 1
PHILIPPINE ASSOCIATION
Join the Penn Philippine
Association for a movie night with
refreshments.
HUNTSMAN F92, 8:30 p.m.
TOMORROW
ROLE OF ARTS IN PHILA.
Join the Penn Institute for Urban
Research for a symposium on the
role of arts in the city.
HUNTSMAN F92, 3 p.m.
JOBS IN GOV. AND POLICY
Speak to representatives who want
to recruit students for a career in
government and policy.
HOUSTON HALL, 5 p.m.
J.C. HALLMAN READING
Come to the Kelly Writers House
for a reading by author J.C.
Hallman.
KELLY WRITERS HOUSE, 6 p.m.
DAVID CARR LECTURE
Listen to New York Times
columnist David Carr discuss
media issues including print,
digital, film and television.
CLAUDIA COHEN HALL, 7 p.m.
MAKE YOUR POINT
Listen to 10 students give talks in
the Pecha Kucha style about their
various interests.
HARRISON COLLEGE HOUSE, 8 p.m.
To see your event included here,
e-mail details to [email protected]
The Annenberg Scholars Program in Culture and Communication
A forum dedicated to thinking about critical social and scholarly
issues that lie at the intersection of culture and communication
TOMORROW
PRESENTS
OUR
FIRST
Media Revolutions, Past and Present
A Public Lecture by
Richard Cullen Rath
Associate Professor of History
University of Hawai‘i at Ma- noa
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Lecture 6:15 – 7:30pm
The Annenberg School for Communication
3620 Walnut Street
Room 109
I
n this talk, Professor Rath stages a conversation between “new” media of the eighteenth century with
those of today, drawing a number of parallels between the rise of cheap print and newspapers and
the emergence of the Internet.The rise of the press was co-attended by two inter-related trends: a shift
in the ways people made sense of their worlds, from a world of powerful sounds to the more familiar
visual culture of today, and the emergence of plural American identities and new forms of governance.
Rath argues that similar processes are underway today, and that by attending to processes of mediation
we can better understand the potential and possibilities of contemporary new media.
Richard Cullen Rath is Associate Professor of History at the University of Hawai‘i at Ma- noa. He
teaches courses on early America, Native Americans, and the history of media and the senses. He is the
author of How Early America Sounded and is currently working on two books, one an introduction to
the history of hearing and the other comparing the rise of print culture in eighteenth-century North
America to the rise of internet culture today. He has also written three award-winning articles on music,
creolization and African American culture. In addition, Rath is a musician who has found ways to use
music to “do” history whenever possible.
For information please contact
[email protected]
The Annenberg School for Communication • University of Pennsylvania
3620 Walnut Street • Philadelphia, PA 19104-6220 • www.asc.upenn.edu
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Monday, October 5, 2009 Page 3
‘DP’ celebrates 125 years of journalism
The paper hosted 282
guests for its 125th
anniversary dinner
Saturday in Houston
BY NADINE ZYLBERBERG
Contributing Writer
When asked if The Daily
Pennsylvanian had affected
his life after Penn, 1939 Wharton alumnus C. Robert Paul, Jr.
responded, “Hell yes.”
Pau l, for mer ma nag i ng
editor of what was then an allmale newspaper, was the oldest
guest at the DP’s 125th anniversary dinner Saturday night.
The event, which welcomed 282
guests, honored the newspaper
and its alumni’s achievements
over the years. The celebration
was part of a weekend-long reunion for alumni of the studentrun paper.
Penn President Amy Gutmann addressed guests, as
did Daniel Gingiss, president
of the DP Alumni Association, former Penn president
Francis Sheldon Hackney and
keynote speaker Harry “Buzz”
Bissinger.
Gutmann praised the news-
ONLINE
A timeline of the DP’s 125
years an event slideshow
at dailypennsylvanian.com
paper, saying it was as “celebrated” as Mark Twain’s The
Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn and as “iconic” as the
Statue of Liberty, both of which
were created in 1885 — the
same year as the DP’s debut.
According to Gingiss, the
dinner was conceptualized
three years ago and took 18
months of active planning,
which culminated in a festive
event that gathered former and
current DP staff members.
“Journalism as a profession
is fading quickly into oblivion,”
Steve Brauntuch, 2004 College
alumnus, said. “But it’s nice to
gather a large group of people
who still have the spirit of journalism guiding them through
their professional careers.”
Alumni in attendance hailed
from over nine decades. Despite generational differences,
the guests came to a consensus
regarding the DP’s important
role in their post-university
careers.
Left: Melanie Lei/DP Senior Photographer Right: Ted Koutsoubas/DP Senior Photographer
College senior and 34th Street Editor-in-Chief Julia Rubin speaks with 1939 alumnus C. Robert Paul Jr., who was the oldest alumnnus at the DP’s
125th anniversary banquet Saturday night (left). ‘DP’ alumnus and Pulitzer Prize winner “Buzz” Bissinger spoke at the event (right).
Robin Biegeleisen, 1976 College alumnus, said the digital
aspects of today’s DP constitute another major change
over the decades. While the
DP has seen great changes
in all aspects of the publica-
tion, some things remain the
same.
“It’s more compelling to talk
about how it hasn’t changed,”
1983 College alumnus Robert
Shepard said. “[The DP] still
has the same energy and excite-
ment, and it has always set an
exceptionally high standard.”
T rad ition a nd prog ress
were themes throughout the
evening, as guests dined and
discussed their experiences.
While the anniversary din-
Starting six-figure salaries rare, even for Wharton
Data from 2008 shows
most new Penn
economics or business
grads earn $40-80,000
BY OLIVIA JUNG
Staff Writer
Although Wharton graduates are often reputed to receive high salaries shortly
after leaving school, data
shows that this is not actually
the case.
Across a number of years,
the data for graduates from
Wharton’s Bachelor of Science program doesn’t usually
change much. For the undergraduate class of 2008, the
mean salary was $61,001 while
the range was from $22,000 to
$110,000, according to Career
Services’ Career Plans Survey
Report.
The distribution is a bellshaped curve, with a bulk of
students in the middle and
very few in the two ends, explained Career Services director Patricia Rose.
Although the official numbers for the recently-graduated class of 2009 are not out yet,
Rose said around 80 percent
of the students are “clumped
between $40,000 and $80,000,”
adding, “which I think is good
— it isn’t as if we’re saying, ‘Oh,
this is the average, but there
are all these people earning
$100,000 and $30,000 and only
a few getting $60,000.’”
While the range of the data is
sizable, there are only a hand-
ful of students at the two ends.
Jobs at the high end tend to
be in hedge funds, technology
and other financial services,
while those at the low end tend
to be in advertising, government and non-profit, according to Career Services Senior
Associate Director Barbara
Hewitt.
Students have been concentrated in the middle for
many years because most
Wharton students have similar career goals and consequently, g rav it ate towa rd
jobs in similar fields, Rose
explained.
Hewitt also noted that places that regularly hire college
graduates have “pretty standard salaries.”
Career Services Associate
Penn Pecha Kucha
Director David Ross observed
that jobs are more complex,
“more than just the reported
salaries.” He said jobs in the
financial industry often pay an
annual bonus, depending on
the performance of that particular industry, company and
employee, and “such numbers
are not reported in the base
statistics.”
Hewitt also added that quality of life plays another big role
in a person’s career.
“Investment bankers work
for an ungodly number of
hours,” she said, explaining
that, on the other hand, a person who earns a $45,000 annual salary — significantly
less than that of an investment banker, may only work
40 hours per week, which is “a
huge difference” in quality of
life.
“Salar y doesn’t d ict ate
where your career is going
to take you,” she said, adding
that students often think, “I’m
not getting paid as much as my
peers are — it must be me,”
when often times “it has to do
more with the type of industry
one’s job is in.”
Emphasizing her point, Hewitt said, “We could bring in
Einstein as an advisor here,
and he’d get the same amount
of money as all the other advisors in this office.”
ner praised the achievements
of the newspaper ’s proud
alumni, it also sought to bring
together those who contributed
to what Gutmann claimed to be
the “living, breathing 125-yearold chronicler of Penn.”
Voter reg.
is down for
Nov. election
ELECTION from page 1
creased,” Penn Leads the
Vote President and College
senior Annassa Corley said.
“We will attempt to register
as many votes as we can.”
T h i s ye a r, w it hout a ny
high-prof ile races stirring
interest, there are virtually
no candidates’ campaigns
s p r e a d i n g aw a r e ne s s o n
campus, such as Penn for
Obama.
“There’s a different landscape,” Corley said.
Monday, Oct. 5 to Friday, Oct. 9, 2009
All events at the Penn Bookstore are FREE and open to the public.
October 6, 2009
8:00 PM
Harrison House Sky Lounge
Prions - 400 seconds
Lil’ Wayne - 400 seconds
Microsoft Exchange - 400 seconds
The Arts in Undergraduate Education - 400 seconds
Medical Anthropology in Rural Guatemala - 400 seconds
Baby Boom Retiring Soon (and why that matters) - 400 seconds
event
Monday, October 5 at 6:00 p.m., Penn Alumnus
Vishaal Bhuyan, "Life Markets: Trading Mortality and Longevity Risk with Life Settlements and
Linked Securities." “Life Markets” is a guide to longevity finance and offers an extensive look at how to
trade life settlements.
Learn something new. Share what you do. All in 400 seconds.
Want to know more?
http://www.upenn.edu/curf/pechakucha
Tuesday, October 6 at 6:00 p.m., Penn Professor Ira
Harkavy and Emeritus Professor Francis Johnston,
"The Obesity Culture: Strategies for Change, Public
Health and University-Community Partnerships."
Using Penn’s Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative
- a community partnership project of The Netter
Center for Community Partnerships - as their model, Harkavy and Johnston outline how what they
term “a culture of obesity” can be changed through
community-based cooperation.
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PEG gets out of the city for apple-picking
PEG takes students
on a trip to Linvilla
Orchards for an
annual apple picking
BY DANA TOM
Contributing Writer
College junior Jenna Stahl
stretched for an apple at the
top of the orchard tree as
she juggled a produce box in
her other arm. She plucked
the fruit from its branch and
tucked it away with the apples
she had already collected over
the course of the morning.
“I love this, just being able
to get out of the city for a day,”
Stahl, co-director of Penn Environmental Group, said as
she took a bite out of one of
her apples. “I miss the trees,
so this sort of activity really
keeps me sane.”
Stahl was one of the nine
students who attended the
Penn Environmental Group’s
annual Apple Picking at Linvilla Orchards yesterday. The
event was organized by PEG’s
Social Squad Director and
College junior Dorie Obertello who coordinates social
projects for the organization.
Obertello said Apple Picking and PEG’s other annual
social events, such as the upcoming Thanksgiving Potluck
and Arboretum, offer members a way to get to know other members and build “team
spirit.”
PEG Co-Director and College junior Chr istiana Dietzen said she does not have
as much direct involvement in
PEG’s projects since assuming the position on the board
this year, so PEG’s Apple
Picking gave her an opportunity to interact with other
PEG members and students.
The small group travelled
to Media, Pa., to visit Linvilla
Orchards, the last full-time
working farm in the state,
accor d i ng t o Fa r m M a n ager Norman Schultz. The
300 square acres have been
owned by the Linvilla family
since the early 20th century
and welcome thousands of local visitors every weekend,
pa r t ic u l a rly du r i ng p e a k
apple-picking season in September and October, Schultz
said.
“In the past decade, more
and more parents and families are interested in getting
in touch with the food they eat
and with buying locally grown
produce,” he said.
V i s it o r s c a n a l s o p i c k
berries, peaches, peppers,
tomatoes and pumpkins, depending on the season. However, Schultz added that the
orchard is best known for its
apples, which attract about
25 percent of its visitors. The
orchard also offers live entertainment, activities, a farmer’s market and food. Student
visitors, usually from local elementary schools, can also attend one of 20-30 educational
tours at the orchard.
“This was something so fun
to do on a Sunday,” College
freshman and PEG member
Nabilla Ariffin said as she
browsed through the market’s
produce. “I’ve never even
seen an apple tree before, so
I had a great time.”
Stahl and Dietzen both ex-
Courtesy of Jenna Stahl
PEG members go apple-picking last year in Linvilla Orchards in Media, Pa. Linvilla Orchards is the last full-time working
farm in the state, and has been owned by the Linvilla family since the early 20th century.
pressed excitement about the
“We’re one of the groups we have really specialized
growing student interest in on campus that does actually groups within our organizaPEG.
meaningful projects because tion,” said Stahl.
Law students get eBooks could ‘kindle’ academic change
more professional still
TECHNOLOGY U. is
in the ‘talking
|
GRAD SCHOOLS | New program aims to
better prepare students for real-world work
stage’ of considering
eBook use at Penn
BY JENNY CHUNG
Staff Writer
BY ALEX BALL
Staff Writer
Gi ven the cur rent eco nomic climate, simply holding a law degree may not
b e enoug h t o g u a r a nt e e
success in an increasingly
competitive legal field.
With this in mind, Penn
L aw ’s Center on P rofessionalism has introduced
new programming this fall
aimed at assisting first-year
students in cultivating professional skills outside the
classroom.
Spearheaded by Vice Dean
for Administrative Services
Jo-Ann Verrier alongside associate deans Paul George
and Heather Frattone, the
initiative involves cohor t
collaboration, intensive engagement i n classes a nd
clinics and pro bono fieldwork. Throughout their law
school careers, students will
remain in their cohorts.
The center has also introduced a new intranet website which enables students
to track progress by building
a portfolio of documents relevant to their professional
development.
“If you’re a graduate of
Penn Law or one of our peer
law schools, br illiance is
assumed,” said Penn Law
spokesma n Ma rk E yerly.
“We started to think about
things we could do to complement the world-class education students receive so
they can develop professional skills and hit the ground
running from day one.”
Under this program, all
250 first-years will join cohorts comprised of no more
than 15 students each. Each
student will attend all classes, as well as receive legal
writing and research training in their cohort for all
three years in school.
In addition, they will participate in other programs
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of fered at the center de sig ne d t o en h a nc e t hei r
professional sk ills in f ive
primary areas: communications, management, problem
solv ing, self- development
and strategic planning.
Likening the program to
the “white coat ceremony”
for first-year medical students, Eyerly said one of
its goals is to convey to students that they have effectively become professionals
the minute they start at law
school.
“Our main goal is to repackage the work we’re already doing with students
to make it clear that they’re
developi ng [ pr ofessiona l
skills],” Verrier said.
P r ior to this initiative,
law students acquired professional skills by enrolling
in clinical courses — which
require them to represent
real-world clients — and fulfilling a graduation requirement mandating 70 hours of
pro bono work. Students are
remain required to complete
both of these.
While students have also
developed professional skills
through research projects
and oral presentations as
part of routine coursework,
the center’s new programming marks the beginning
of a deliberate approach to
facilitating the development
of individual strengths.
Law faculty are assessing
how the existing curriculum
will help students develop
a full range of professional
skills, Verrier said.
“Before this year, there
were still plenty of opportunities within the Law School
for students to develop jobrelated professional skills,”
Eyerly said. “What this does
is make the ef fort a little
more intense.”
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material and in the way a
lay reader consumes a novel ,” Ba rba ra L ea-K r uger,
spokeswoman for Business
Services, wrote in an e-mail.
“Students look to highlight,
take notes, and interact in
other ways which [Amazon]
Kindles and other such devices don’t allow.”
For many students, $300500 prices are a major issue
when considering an eBook
reader purchase, while other
students simply prefer physical books.
“My dad was considering
[buying a Kindle],” said College junior Sam Barrett, “but
I shot it down. Having a book
is really integ ral to reading … you can’t get a sense
of where you are in a book;
[textbook] pages are bigger
and you can’t do workbook
problems.”
This fall, seven U.S. colleges have begun pilot programs
researching the usage and
viability of eBook readers on
campus.
Accord i ng to P r i nceton
Un i v e r s it y a l u m nu s a n d
A ma zon CEO Jef f Bezos,
Princeton students in three
selected courses received
K indles loaded with digital
versions of their class’ textbooks.
The program, entitled “Toward Print-Less and PaperLess Courses,” was launched
to determine the effectiveness of teaching with electronic readers.
According to the program’s
website, its goals are to increase convenience for students and professors, reduce
desire to print and photocopy,
and facilitate studying with
digital search and bookmarking tools.
Princeton has not released
any information about the
program’s progress thus far,
but will publish results this
spring.
Fears of flu? Moods are contagious, too
RESEARCH ROUND-UP | Researchers study
safety of guns, contagious emotions and stars
BY ANANDI MALIK
Staff Writer
From guns to balloons, Penn
researchers are leaving no
stone unturned.
A research team from the
School of Medicine has found
that a person in possession of
a gun during an assault is 4.5
times more likely to get shot
than one not possessing a gun.
Associate Professor of Epidemiology Charles Branas gave
three possible hypotheses to
explain these findings.
“People in possession of a
gun may feel falsely empowered and ... overreact to the
situation; they might be more
likely to be in dangerous places
or they might have their own
gun taken away from them,”
Branas said, adding that the
last of these reasons was least
likely.
He said this is just the beginning of a series of studies and
the study design used is an approximation of an experiment.
The team’s observations have
led to prospects of more definitive experiments to study the
possession of firearms, as well
as what danger or protection
those firearms may provide.
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Emotional contagion exists
in teams, according to recent
Wharton research. Management Professor Sigal Barsade,
the study’s author, found that
people catch each others’ emo-
tions like viruses.
“People don’t realize it’s happening because it happens at a
subconscious level, but it comes
through from behavioral and
facial expression mimicry,” she
said.
Barsade noted the significance of the findings, given
that moods influence cognition,
memory and decision-making.
According to the results of the
study, both positive and negative moods are contagious.
The results were observed
in the context of group negotiation and also demonstrated
a financial dimension. “Happy”
groups were more likely to distribute money equally among
themselves.
loon-borne telescope used to
study the stars and other cosmic objects.
Flying at a height of 125,000
feet, BLAST is big enough to fill
an entire stadium. According to
Physics and Astronomy Professor Mark Devlin, researchers
use balloons to get the telescope above the atmosphere,
which otherwise blocks their
view.
“We are looking for distant
galaxies forming stars,” he
said. “Our galaxy is not forming stars fast enough to have
made all the stars in it, so we
are looking at other galaxies
to see what ours looked like in
its adolescence and figure out
where the stars came from.”
BLAST was launched from
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Antarctica in 2006, but was destroyed during landing. The
The Balloon-borne Large- team is rebuilding the entire
A p er t u r e Sub -m i l l i met er telescope and anticipates
Telescope, or BLAST, is a bal- launching it again in a year.
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Thirty years after Busin e ssWeek f a mously env isioned the “paperless office,”
the college classroom is only
just beginning to break away
from its much-loved pen and
paper.
E-book readers, or digital
reading devices with large
screens and weeks-long battery lives, have lately become
popular with travelers and
pleasu re reader s — even
mor e so t h a n t r ad it ion a l
books in some cases.
However, eBook readers
are still struggling to find
their place on Penn’s campus and college campuses
nationwide.
Rob Nelson, associate director of education at the
Off ice of the Provost, said
Pen n has “no Un iversit ywide initiatives” planned to
introduce any eBook readers
on campus.
“We’re still in the talking
stage,” said Dennis DeTurck,
dean of the College of Arts
a nd Sciences. “ T he technolog y hasn’t quite settled
down.”
Students currently in possession of an eBook reader
have a wide variety of fiction
and nonfiction options available from online booksellers.
However, digital versions of
Penn’s textbooks are few and
far between.
In the 2007-08 school year,
only 31 titles were available
a nd only eig ht were sold ,
while last year 56 were available and 13 were sold.
“ T her e i s a sig n i f ic a nt
difference in the way a student consumes educational
been a much poorer time without Ella,” friend Ruth Hardwick, also a British exchange
student at Penn, wrote in an
e-mail.
“She was known amongst
the group as our social chair;
she was the person who met
people, got involved in organizations and always knew
where we should be heading
to in the evening,” Hardwick
wrote. “She was an example
for all Penn students, but
e sp e c i a l ly exc h a nge st u dents.”
Keeler was getting involved
in the Social Events and Planning Committee, as well as
Stouf fer Steering and the
Women’s Center.
“We are profoundly saddened to learn of Ella Keeler’s passing,” Penn President
A my Gutmann w rote in a
statement. “Losing a young
person in the prime of life is
devastating. We can, however,
take some comfort from knowing that Ella spent her final
moments surrounded by her
beloved family.”
UCL friends and classmates
remember Keeler with equal
affection.
“She was an incredible mix
of ‘high brow’ and pop culture,” UCL student Leslie Kiddoo wrote in an e-mail. “Ella
could happily talk about her
love for Plato and Sex and the
City in the same sentence, and
this is one of the things that
made her so popular amongst
her friends.”
Kiddoo added that Keeler
loved “girly things” but also
“could get her hands dirty.”
She was “A real renaissance
woman!” Kiddoo wrote.
Another UCL friend, Thomas Lees, described her as
“open-minded,” “a firm believer in progressive politics,” and
“a keen indulger in the arts.”
Friends and family members alike emphasized how
happy she was to study at
Penn.
“It was her dream to be here
[at Penn] and she grabbed it
with both hands,” Hardwick
wrote.
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She attributed the large
turnout to the Penn Greek
community’s commitment
to the cause.
“There was a lot of male
pa r ticipation by ma ny of
P e n n’s I nt e r f r at e r n it y
Cou nci l f r at er n it ies a nd
participation by Multicultural Greek Council organizations,” Delfiner said.
E vent pa r t icipa nt , Ch i
Omega sorority member and
Wharton sophomore Allison
Norman said she participated in the event because she
felt it was a great way to be
involved in the Greek community.
“I really like to run so it’s
nice to be able to run for a
good cause,” she said. “The
run seemed successful — it
was a gorgeous day and everyone was really enthusiastic.
Norman added that she
w ill probably pa r ticipate
again next year.
Her sentiments were
shared by Delfiner.
“The run was a huge success,” she said. “We had a
great turnout, it was a beautiful day and we could not
have hoped for a ny t h i ng
better.”
FootballE xtra
THEY SAID IT
Buddy Teevens
Sept. 19
Sept. 26
Oct. 3
oct. 10
oct. 17
(2) Villanova
lafayette
dartmouth
Bucknell
columbia
VS.
L, 14-3
at
L, 20-17 (OT)
IVYWATCH
at
w, 30-24
vs.
1 p.m.
Overall
Columbia
1-0
2-1
Harvard
1-0
2-1
Cornell
1-0
2-1
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PENN
1-0
1-2
Brown
0-1
1-2
Yale
0-1
1-2
Princeton
0-1
1-2
Dartmouth
0-1
0-3
Penn coach Al Bagnoli said.
Penn’s offense may have
been limited in scope but not
in success. Against a Dartmouth team that had allowed
over 265 rushing yards in
each its first two games, the
Red and Blue racked up 288
yards on the ground. Freshman Lyle Marsh and junior
Bradford Blackmon led the
way with career highs of 120
and 70 yards, respectively.
With Penn only up by three
after the third quarter, Blackmon took a pitch from quarterback Kyle Olson, found a hole
and bounced it outside for a
spectacular 55-yard run. The
run set up a two-yard Luke
DeLuca touchdown that gave
Penn a 27-17 lead.
“When you’re getting the
blocking that I was, it’s not
hard,” Blackmon said. “The
holes were there.”
Junior Mike DiMaggio added 35 yards while freshman
quarterback Billy Ragone,
running out of a wildcat-esque
formation, piled on 62 before
leaving the game with a broken collarbone in the third.
Down by 10 midway through
the fourth, Dartmouth quarterback Alex Jenny attempted
288
Total yards gained on the
ground by Penn. Though
Freshman Lyle Marsh led the
way with 120 yards, many
players contributed to the
effort. Bradford Blackmon’s 55yard run early in the fourth was
arguably the most important
play on the ground, and both
Luke DeLuca and Billy Ragone
had rushing touchdowns.
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at
1:30 p.m.
oct. 24
Vs.
yale
3:30 p.m.
oct. 31
nov. 7
nov. 14
nov. 21
Brown
princeton
harvard
cornell
at
12:30 p.m.
Number of consecutive losses
for Dartmouth after Saturday.
The six-point loss to Penn was
only the third time during the
streak that the final margin
was one score or less (though
Dartmouth only cut the lead to
six after a TD with 0:05 left).
1 p.m.
Play of the game:
Bradford Blackmon’s 55-yard run
After Dartmouth found its way
back into the game and down by
only three in the third quarter,
Blackmon changed the game
with a 55-yard run that put Penn
on the one-yard line, setting up a
Luke DeLuca TD on the next play.
Katie Rubin/DP Senior Photographer
Bradford Blackmon (9) rushed for 70 yards Saturday, 55 of which came on an early fourth-quarter run that ended
on the one-yard line and set up a Penn touchdown. The Quakers’ running game was dominant in the 30-24 win.
to lead his team into the Quakers’ territory. He aired out a
pass down the right sideline intended for Niles Murphy, who
collided with a Penn defender
while the ball sailed into cornerback Jonathan Moore’s
hands for an interception.
Teevens and the home fans
were livid that pass interference wasn’t called.
“I thought [it was pass interference],” Jenny said.
The pick set up a drive that
ended with an Andrew Samson
field goal, giving Penn a 30-17
lead with just over a minute
left. Jenny completed his second TD pass with five seconds
remaining, but it was too little,
too late. The Quakers recovered the ensuing onside kick
and took a knee to close it out.
Moore also had a careerhigh eight tackles in leading
a stout Penn defense. Bagnoli loaded the box to stop Big
Green tailback Nick Schwieger,
and it worked: The sophomore
had 78 yards on 22 carries after
going for over 100 against No.
6 New Hampshire last week.
Jenny was also held in check,
going 23-for-38 for 204 yards on
mostly short passes.
“Because our offense was
working so well, it took a lot off
our shoulders,” Moore said.
“We started off in a zone but
were still fresh later so we
switched to man.”
Penn has a much-needed
break from conference play
this week as it hosts Bucknell
Saturday. After that, it’ll be all
Ivy games. As for Dartmouth,
it’s a familiar refrain: Better
luck next week.
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Longest pass:
Dartmouth Sr. QB Alex
Jenny
First Quarter
1st and 10 from the
Penn 38.
55
Longest run:
Penn Jr. RB Bradford
Blackmon
Fourth Quarter
3rd and 2 from the
Penn 44.
yards
yards
■ THE RECORD
HOME
0-1, 0-0 Ivy
ROAD
1-1, 1-0 Ivy
OVERALL
1-2, 1-0 Ivy
■ HOW THEY SCORED
8
15
Noon
Star of the game:
Penn senior cornerback
Jonathan Moore
While the offensive
success was evenly
spread out among
the Quakers, Moore
clearly led the
defensive unit. He
had the game’s only
interception that led to a Penn
field goal and recorded a careerand team-high eight tackles.
Cornell cut the lead to 21-10
with about eight minutes left
before halftime, but then the
Raiders scored once in each of
the remaining three quarters.
Time that Penn led. Af ter
blocking a punt and recovering it
in the end zone just two minutes
and 10 seconds into the game,
the Quakers kept the lead for
the rest of the game — and that
after never leading in their first
two games this year.
vs.
■ AT A GLANCE
7-0 leads not
enough in
Ivy action
57:50
3:30 p.m.
at
GameThree
Total number of passing yards
for Penn. The rain in Hanover —
combined with an injury-laden
quarterbacks corps — forced
Penn to essentially abandon its
passing game (hence the 288
yards rushing). Taking away a
trick pass that Blackmon threw
for 21 yards, Kyle Olson and
Ragone combined to go 9-for19 for 48 yards.
Number of tackles cornerback
Jonathan Moore registered,
a career high. Without All American Chris Wynn, Moore
was the team’s number-one
corner, and came away with
the game’s only pick. It was
a c r u cial p lay t h at k ille d
Dartmouth’s momentum.
vs.
With QBs
hurt, offense
relies on run
Ivy
■ TElling numbers
“Spotting a team points is not a great way to start.”
—On his team’s botched punt attempt that resulted in a
Penn touchdown on Dartmouth’s opening series
Dartmouth coach
IVY RECAPS from page 12
Lafayette 31 Yale 14
Alvin Loke/DP Senior Photographer
Despite scoring 30 points, the offense still missed QB Keiffer Garton who
last played against Lafayette. Without him, Penn passed for just 69 yards.
Penn drives
not ending
in many TDs
SIDEBAR from page 12
son misses.
All three of those drives
were at least 35 yards long,
and two of them lasted 12
plays and ate up over fiveand-a-half minutes on the
clock. Putting forth so much
offensive effort and running
the clock should lead to more
than just a difficult field goal
attempt, even if you have one
of the best kickers in the Football Championship Subdivision in your arsenal.
The problem may prove to
be difficult to correct. The
quarterback situation is obviously troubling right now, with
starter Keiffer Garton and
backups Kyle Olson and Billy
Ragone all nursing injuries of
various severity.
“We were a little bit limited
on what we could do,” Bagnoli
said, “given that we didn’t
have a quarterback that could
throw the ball.”
But without any legitimate
passing threats, the play-calling — especially in Dartmouth
territory — became predictable, and Dartmouth’s defense
was able to buckle down and
keep Penn to only 30 points,
despite the fact that the team
looked unstoppable at times.
Scoring 30 points will usually equate to a win; on Saturday,
it did. But the team’s difficulty
with penetrating the red zone
is an issue that Bagnoli and the
offense must address.
Saturday, these struggles
resulted in a closer-thannecessary 30-24 victory over
winless Dartmouth. If Penn
can’t resolve this issue in the
future, however, it could result in the loss of more than
just Samson’s All-American
status.
Yale gave up an average of
just 11 points in its first two
games. So when it scored an
early touchdown after forcing a fumble on the opening
kickoff against Lafayette
Saturday, it probably thought
another score and continued
defensive success would lead
to a win.
That was not the case.
The Leopards reeled off 24
unanswered points to leave
the Yale Bowl with a 31-14
win. Yale (1-2, 0-1) is still
winless at home, though that
very well may change when
0-3 Dartmouth comes to New
Haven, Conn., Saturday.
Lafayette (3-1) was led by
senior quarterback Rob Curley, who was 20-for-28 with
241 yards, two touchdowns
and one interception. Then
again, considering Yale gave
up only 34.5 yards per game
entering the contest, perhaps Leopards running back
Maurice White was the hero;
he ran for 131 yards and one
touchdown.
Harvard 28 Lehigh 14
Before Tim Murphy’s Harvard team played Lehigh Saturday, the coach said Lehigh
might be the best 0-3 team in
the nation.
Perhaps they’re now the
best 0-4 team after losing 2814 to the Crimson.
Playing before 5,457 at
home, the Mountain Hawks
jumped out to a 7-0 lead when
Chris Lum connected with
Alex Wojdowski for a oneyard touchdown with 5:25 left
in the first quarter.
But the Crimson (2-1, 1-0)
then reeled off 28 unanswered points as quarterback
Collier Winters threw for one
Brown 28 URI 20
score and ran for another.
Buddy Farnham was a
It was Har vard’s 800th
one-man show Saturday that win, which ranks ninth in
Rhode Island could not stop. Division I.
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The senior All-American
had 274 all-purpose yards,
with five catches for 100
yards, four returned punts
for 97 yards and three kickoff
returns for 77 yards.
He also caught two touchdown passes as the Bears
earned their first win of the
year, 28-20, over the Rams in
the 94th battle for the Governor’s Cup.
“Buddy Farnham is our
best player, and is one of
the hardest working players
I’ve ever seen,” Brown head
coach Phil Estes told Brown
Athletics.
After the game the Bears
(1-2, 0-1) were presented with
the trophy by Rhode Island
governor Donald Carcieri,
who might have been a little
biased since he graduated
from Brown in 1965.
Rhode Island (1-3) had two
long scoring plays, a run of
68 yards and an interception
return for 75 in the loss — the
67th all-time against Brown.
First Quarter
P — 12:50 McGoldrick 0-yd. return
of blocked punt (Samson kick)
D — 9:19 Schmidt 20-yd. field goal
P — 1:49 Ragone 3-yd. run (Samson
kick)
Second Quarter
D — 6:44 Jenny 12-yd. pass to
Murphy (Schmidt kick)
P — 00:47 Samson 39-yd. field
goal
Third Quarter
P — 13:27 Samson 35-yd. field
goal
D — 00:00 Schwieger 19-yd. run
(Schmidt kick)
Fourth Quarter
P — 12: 55 DeLuca 1-yd. run
(Samson kick)
P — 1:09 Samson 29-yd. field goal
D — 00:05 Jenny 8-yd. pass to Babb
(Schmidt kick)
■ statistics
PENN
First Downs
16
Rushing Yards 288
Passing Yards
69
— Attempts
20
— Completions 10
— Interceptions 0
Total Yards
357
Sacked-Yds Lost 0-0
Fumbles-Lost
0-0
Penalties-Yards 4-42
Punts-Yards
3-106
— Avg. per punt 35.3
3rd-Down Conv. 6-14
4th-Down Conv. 0-0
Red Zone Scores 5-5
Time of Poss.
32:14
Attendance: 3,623
Dart.
19
71
204
38
23
1
275
1-7
2-0
5-50
6-211
42.2
3-13
3-3
4-4
27:46
■ individual statistics
RUSHING — PENN : Marsh 23 120, Blackmon 4 -70, Ragone
9-62, DiMaggio 8-35, DeLuca 1-1
Dartmouth: Schwieger 22-78, Jenny
2- (-7)
PASSING — PENN: Olson 6-16-31-0,
Blackmon 1-2-21-0, Ragone 3-3-17-0
Dartmouth: Jenny 23-38-204-1
RECEIVING — PENN: Wurst 2-34,
Blackmon 3 -12, Derham 2-12,
DeLuca 1-7, DiMaggio 2-4 Dartmouth:
Murphy 4-53, Babb 6-35, Scott
4-35, Gallagher 3-22, Papajohn
1-15, Schwieger 2-14, Deevy 1-14,
Foley 1-12, Brown 1-4
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125 years
of passion
Electing for a good dynamic
LATHER, RINSE, REPEAT | Reliant on internal elections,
student groups face a few scenarios in the upcoming weeks
This week’s celebrations
highlighted the
similarities between
generations of ‘DP’ers
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR — JULIETTE MULLIN
A
s D ai ly Pe nn s y lva ni a n e d i t o r s o f t e n c au g ht u p i n t h e
d ay- t o - d ay g r i n d , it ’s f o r u s
easy to forget that 124 boards
of editors and managers have done
the same work that we do at the DP
today. It’s hard to see the context in which we
work and the history that brought us where we
are today.
This weekend, I saw that context and that
history. On Saturday night, hundreds of DP
and 34th Street alumni gathered to celebrate
the 125th anniversary of the DP. Attendees of
the celebration spanned nine decades, with
the oldest from the class of 1939.
The operation and structure of the DP has
changed dramatically over those nine decades.
What used to be physically pasted together or developed in a dark room is now created on computers with digital photos. Students once reported
from phones in a newsroom, and today use Blackberrys and iPhones to text sources. A newspaper owned by Penn has become an incorporated
company of its own. But, while we all had different stories to tell, the essence of our DP stories
all revolved around the same passion about and
gratitude toward the DP. We could all tell how our
DP experience influenced our lives.
Thank you to the alumni board for organizing this weekend’s milestone celebration and
showing the members of the 125th board the
history of which they are a part. I look forward
to the 150th anniversary celebrations.
I
n 18 0 0, t wo g ia nt s a mong
men, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, held deeply-entrenched, opposing ideas about
what direction the nascent
nation should take. Their ideologies
played out in the election when they ran
against each other for president of the
United States. Jefferson beat incumbent Adams, but was stuck with him
as vice president. Their differences
were so great and the campaigning so
intense that they became bitter rivals
and didn’t reconcile until the end of
their lives (in one of history’s quirky
moments, they died on the same day:
July 4, 1826).
Think this is ancient history solved by
the 12th Amendment? Think again. With
many student organizations gearing up
for their annual internal elections, it’s not
a bad idea to consider which scenarios
might play out. While student-government groups have the Nominations and
Elections Committee, which, according
to Chairwoman and College senior Rachel Levick, “serves a facilitating role
for internal … elections,” student groups
from the Penn Democrats (of which I was
president for 2008), to the Civic House Associates Coalition, to Strictly Funk, rely
on these internal, group-run elections to
pick new leadership.
Clashes of ego and hurt feelings are
common. Tellingly, many student groups
that had contested elections in the past
year didn’t want to be quoted on the topic.
So let’s run a thought experiment. Group
X has several passionate members vying
for the top role. All have similar character
traits, and all want to shape the organization as they see fit — though that extra resume line doesn’t hurt motivation either.
What happens? After four years on campus, I’ve noticed a few general scenarios
that tend to play out.
Scenario A: The candidates who lose
the election leave the organization. The
candidate’s supporters remain, somewhat unhappily, in the organization, but
eventually it’s just institutional memory.
But Scenario B is far more likely to occur. All the candidates running are dedicated and qualified to run the group, so
the one who comes in second place ends
up winning another leadership position.
This poses a series of potential dilemmas.
Let’s call this Scenario B, sub 1. The
spurned candidate might make life hell
for the guy who won, corral the members
of the group who supported him in the
election into a faction and blindly oppose
every proposal the leader makes. In the
words of my negotiations professor: that
would be a bad outcome. Penn’s cultural,
performance, Greek, political and community groups are the heart of campus
life. If these groups are consumed by
internal political squabbles, the entire
community suffers in the form of fewer
or poorly planned events, and in extreme
cases the dissolution of the organization.
And now for Scenario B, sub 2: The
ideal compromise. The two former rivals
pull a Clinton-Obama and put their differences aside for the greater cause of the
group. Wharton senior Raymond Flores,
LAUREN BURDETTE
chairman of the Asian Pacific Students
Coalition, won an election among five candidates, one of whom was then elected
vice chairman.
“Our relationship is extremely effective, and in fact we’ve actually become
better friends through this process,”
Flores said.
But Scenario C is, in my admittedly
unscientific observations, the most likely
outcome. It’s a grey area with a rocky adjustment period. Everyone tests the waters as the group dynamics develop, and
ultimately reach some sort of compromise
to keep the group running smoothly.
So as we head into the first round of
internal elections, I urge student leaders to look past just the interviewing and
vote-counting. The most important task
a recently elected leader can take to ease
this transition process is to clearly communicate with the other candidates how
your relationship will go forward. Should
everyone wish to stay with the group, all
need to work together to move the group
forward. This inclusive action puts the
group in a dynamic, energetic position
to move forward and have a successful
year.
lauren burdette is a College senior from
Overland Park, Kansas. She is the former
president of Penn Dems. Her e-mail address
is [email protected].
Having the patience to persevere
the Lei-Bertarian | One bad
year shouldn’t deter colleges from
adventurous, but risky, investing
I
n a commercial I’ve been seeing a lot
on television recently, a jittery investor
asks his broker how he should react to
the unease in the financial markets. The
broker tells him not to panic and suggests
that he make only small adjustments to his portfolio. After all, acting on fear in an environment of
uncertainty inevitably results in regret.
Across the country, college-endowment managers have spent the past several months putting
out fires in their portfolios. Smarting from withering losses, some have considered becoming
much more conservative investors — a decision
that will surely prove to be rash and misguided.
Reports by Reuters last week suggest that
Stanford University may sell $1 billion of the $5
billion it has invested in illiquid assets. And in
what was apparently a very controversial internal decision, the University of Chicago sold $600
million of public equities near the bottom of the
market last year so that it could move the money
into “safer instruments.”
DAVID LEI
Their worry is understandable — performance figures for the fiscal year ending this
past June were released last month, and calling
them weak is a gross understatement.
Harvard and Yale in particular saw stunning
declines — 27.3 and 30 percent, respectively. In a
reversal of last year’s worst-in-the-Ivies performance, Penn fared significantly better this year,
with losses of just 15.7 percent.
Some argue that colleges and universities, as
long-lived institutions, should invest conservatively. They should park their money in cash and
marketable securities such as stocks and bonds
— preferably bonds. And they should certainly
stay away from alternative assets — hedge funds,
private equity, real estate and natural resources.
But universities can and should take a longterm view on their investments. Holding onto
more liquidity — cash and marketable securities,
essentially — than is absolutely necessary is just
not very smart.
David Swensen, Yale University’s celebrated
chief investment officer, was an early champion of
a different approach to endowment management.
He has stressed the importance of broad asset
diversification and keeping excess liquidity low.
For example, Swensen pioneered investment in
timber. It’s an asset that grows in the truest sense
of the word and can increase in value practically
on its own, even through poor market conditions.
This kind of creative thought has let Yale and its
imitators achieve a remarkably consistent, highlevel of performance over the past two decades.
The Swensen Model did have a very bad year.
Harvard and Yale are its closest adherents, and
I already mentioned their returns. But performance in any given fiscal quarter or year is not
particularly meaningful. And aggressive endowment management can be credited, directly and
indirectly, with some very important advances in
higher education — advances that would not have
been possible with single-digit growth.
Outstanding investment returns over the past
couple of decades have funded cutting-edge research and state-of-the-art facilities. And the
strong financial health of colleges and universities
has made it possible for them to provide incredibly
generous financial aid.
For its part, Penn seems to be headed in the
right direction. Traditionally it’s been less invested
in alternative asset classes than many of its peers,
likely a part of the reason why it outperformed
other schools this year. But it’s taken a more-aggressive investment strategy in the last several
years. According to recent comments made by
Chief Investment Officer Kristin Gilbertson to
Fortune, Penn’s endowment is 25 percent invested
in hedge funds and has approximately 12-13 percent allocated to private equity and other illiquid
assets. And considerable money has been put to
work in distressed debt over the past few years.
Although the Swenson model of investment suffered extreme setbacks this year, I’d hate to see it
abandoned as the preferred investment strategies
for universities — particularly Penn, which has yet
to truly reap the benefits of the model.
david lei is a Wharton senior from Brooklyn, N.Y.
He is the executive director of College Republicans.
His e-mail address is [email protected].
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October 5 — October 9, 2009
students. WE WILL get Dining Dollars used in restaurants off campus,
WE WILL reform dining so that meal plans last longer, and WE WILL
improve the quality of our bathrooms. Let’s show the pride we have in
our school by making it a better one. Vote for me, Alex Amaniel for UA
Freshmen rep.
2) William Howoong Chun
Hi, my fellow Penn Quakers! William Chun here. I must say
that Penn is a great university – proud with Ivy League
tradition, inspiring professors and students, and the best of
all, top-notch cafeteria foods. However, all institutions have
room for improvement. From several extensive, lengthy,
hour-long scavenger hunts, I have found many areas that must be
tackled. Improving pest control and health services, Installing public
trashcans/recycling bins in the Quadrangle, increasing the number of
late-night dining restaurants/halls that accept dining dollars, resolving
the Wharton PennSTART buffering issue, and raising the College
freshman Course Unit limit to 5.5 are only a few issues I will devote
myself to as your UA representative. Nursing/Engineering students,
don’t feel neglected; the fact that your schools are not mentioned means
your schools are awesome! Join http://tinyurl.com/WillforUA to learn
more about what I WILL do for Penn. Vote for Will, and get your WILL
realized!
3) Chris Cruz
Hello fellow classmates my name is Chris Cruz and I will
be running to represent you as your freshman class president
and as a representative in the Undergraduate Assembly. I
have loved making major changes in student government
during high school and I look forward to making an
amazing difference here. I can promise you that I have many innovative
ideas that have yet to be accomplished and will hopefully make the
Class of 2013 one of the best classes in the history of Penn. I will not
only work hard towards making dinning dollars acceptable at ALL
locations on campus, but work my tail off organizing more social events
that will unite us as one. But my ideas don’t just end there; I have many
more that I hope to let you know through campaign. So lets put this on
Cruz-Control and lets Cruz our way to 2013.
4) Alexandra Enny
My name is Alexandra Enny and I want to be your
Undergraduate Assembly Representative. As most of us can
probably attest to right now, being a Freshman is extremely
overwhelming. Keeping up with work is tough enough, but
figuring out how to manage our own lives is even more
challenging. As a member of Undergraduate Assembly I promise to
listen to your concerns about issues ranging from academic policies to
dining dollars and do my best to bring about change to improve life here
at Penn. We can only be successful here if we actively work together to
communicate and improve our community, and I am dedicated to doing
just that. I will make my best effort to talk and get to know as many of
you as possible as to best represent your interests. Your voices will be
heard! Remember: with Alexandra Enny as President, Enny-thing is
possible!
5) MJ Gitter
If MJ is VP, issues that arise for the Class of 2013 such as
late night dining hours and internet access will be attended
to with conviction and enthusiasm.
I daydream with great enthusiasm of being your fearless
leader in these problems and more.
Lastly, I hail from a real southern community. It is in my nature to
create real relationships with the people around me and I am honestly
interested in getting to know each and every one of the members of my
class. Whether it be to offer your input, relate your critique, or, and this
is a real offer, just make a new friend in the quad, my door is always
open, my phone is always on, and ask my roommates, there is always
food in my fridge ;-)
MJ Gitter for Vice President of the Class of 2013.
Fisher Hassenfeld Franklin 214
[email protected]
504-301-5762
6) J.D. Habermehl
I am standing in aisle 8 at Wal-Mart, braced against Chef
Boyardee Ravioli, ready to strike. I see the enemy in aisle
11. I aim my laser-tag gun and fire. Wal-Mart laser-tag is
one example of a wild activity that I did in my hometown. I
grew up in a small town, and each weekend the same
question was asked: What crazy thing can we do with the limited
supplies we have? Growing up in a small town forced me to become a
creative and enduring person. I feel these talents would really benefit
the UA. With them I can tackle any issue the Penn student body
encounters. Class of 2013 (might I add, the best looking class on
campus), do you want late night dinners? A closer community?
Domesticated squirrels? Then remember the acronym, Vote J.D. 4 UA.
7) Hunter Horsley
Hello! I’m Hunter Horsley. Instead of picking your nose,
pick me…for UA.
Condoms. Dry Cleaning. Paper Toilet Seat Covers. Dinning
Dollars.
Allow me to explain. Over the past few weeks I have
obnoxiously interrupted many of you (sorry) to talk to you. A Dry
Cleaning program, changes to Dinning Dollars, more free Condoms,
and paper toilet seat covers are the things we all seem interested in.
In talking to UA reps and going to meetings this is what I can say.
Things go slowly, but they go. As for me, I am experience in student
government and am passionate about school policies. And if you pick
me, I will work hard to see the changes through and let you all know
along the way.
So please, pick Hunter Horsley for UA… (I Nose What I’m Doing)
8) Andrew Jakubowski
Hello! My name is Andrew Jakubowski and, although I am
undecided on a major, I am positive of one thing: I want to
be a member of Penn’s Undergraduate Assembly. I am a
highly passionate, highly positive, highly sincere individual
that finds the chance to represent, speak for, and benefit his
peers to be an incredible opportunity. I am genuinely interested in the
function of the UA and in driving Penn towards even greater greatness.
While I hope to address issues like dining hall hours, resource
availability, UA outreach, etc, I also wish to focus on the more personalized issues arising in the upcoming months. I would like to run on the
notion that my ears, my mind, and my heart will forever be open to
suggestions by those of you seeking change. So, this October, vote A.J.
for the U.A., and I look forward to meeting you all!
9) Dennis Johnson
Thank you for the opportunity to run as one of your nine
Undergraduate Assembly representatives. After being on
campus for three short, yet exciting, weeks, I have been able
to enjoy the many pleasures of Penn. I have also been able
to see many areas in which Penn can improve to make life
better for us, the students. With advice from other concerned freshman,
nia.
I fully understand the capabilities of the Undergraduate Assembly. I
plan to first improve the living conditions in all the college houses,
especially where freshmen live. Living standards are a necessity. My
main project initiative for this year is a 4-5 year Bathroom Restoration/
Renovation Project that would replace the shower heads, make the
floors less prone to flooding, and improve the overall cleanliness and
sanitation levels of the bathrooms. I plan to listen to your problems. No
matter how minor or major, every problem has a source that could affect
multiple people. So, when voting time comes, remember the girl from
the South who truly cares.
11) Coby Lerner
I’m Coby Lerner and I want to represent the Class of 2013 in
the Undergraduate Assembly. I already have ideas about
how to improve the quality of life for all of us. For example,
the cost of textbooks must be lowered. We can do this by
forming a consortium of universities that will put pressure
on the publishers to reduce prices. Also, there is a need to make the
housing process for upperclassmen more user-friendly. On and off
campus commitment deadlines must be consistent. Most importantly, I
love Penn and I love our class. After only a few short weeks here, I
already feel incredibly at home and want to contribute to our community. With the creativity of more than 2,500 brilliant people in our
class, I promise you that I have the ability, the commitment, and the
passion, to take our ideas and make them realities.
12) Michael Levenstein
Hello fellow Quakers! My name is MICHAEL LEVENSTEIN, and I write now to ask for your vote in allowing me
to serve as your freshman representative on the Undergraduate Assembly. Thus far, I have served for 5 consecutive
years as a student council President at my former schools,
and last year, was elected President of the Student Government of
Miami-Dade County―representing some 400,000 students―the 4th largest
school district in America. In that role, I spearheaded the largest United
Way student-run fundraiser for school reform in the nation, raising
approximately $800,000!
Elect me to help:
1. Expand financial aid for prospective and current students
2. Extend tutoring to include more social science courses
3. Unify the university’s excessive number of websites
4. Put televisions/fridges in college house lounges
5. Allow Dining Dollars to be used in more off-campus sites (i.e. Wawa,
etc.)
6. And extend the available dining hours!
13) Wenjin Liu
Hi, my name is Wenjin Liu. I am a freshman in the college,
and running for the position in UA. I love Penn and would
like to do anything to make it a better place to study and live
in. My special experience as a leukemia survivor and the
founding member of the largest bone marrow donor
program in China gives me the opportunity to face challenge, take
responsibilities and reach out to people. In the past years, we have got
more than 10,000 volunteer donors, and raised over 100,000 dollars for
leukemia patients; 4 leukemia patients have found donors from our
program and received transplants successfully. In addition, as an
international student as well as someone from minority group, I can
bring a different voice and the genuine passion for making a great
difference to the whole community. So vote for me because I can make
amazing things happen!
14) João Victor Mokdissi
For those who I haven’t yet had the opportunity to meet, my
name is João Victor Mokdissi and I am running for
Freshmen Representative of the Undergraduate Assembly. I
believe that one of the greatest powers that Penn students
have, is the power to make our Penn experience whatever
we want it to be. If elected, I will work hard to provide improvements
to student life and academics that increase our power to make the most
of our experiences. I am here to represent your voice and work on
turning what you believe would improve your Penn experience into
action. Just like you have the opportunity to choose the direction of
your Penn experience, by electing me as freshmen representative your
voice will be heard and the UA will take the direction you want it to
take. Remember to vote João Victor Mokdissi to make the UA go
YOUR WAY.
15) Jon Monfred
Functional wireless internet. Cleaner bathrooms. Dining
dollars at more places. Cleaner bathrooms (and better toilet
paper). Let’s get it done. Vote Jon Monfred for UA.
16) Jason Mow
Hi, my name’s Jason Mow and I’m running for Undergraduate Assembly. You may have been strolling down Locust
Walk in a drunken stupor heading home from a killer frat
party, and you may have heard distant shouts of my slogan,
“Mow or Never” (or if it was a really good night you were
imagining it!). Either way, it probably touched you so much that you
wanted to get to know its creator. You liked him, like more than a
friend, like you wanted to take him to dinner and a movie (not just any
crappy movie with Rob Schnieder, a good one, an Oscar contender).
Well lucky for you Mow is the time. As a servant of the people, I am
open to all suggestions; never hesitate to come up to me with ideas. The
fact is this University needs change; it’s Mow or Never. Show your
support at www.tinyurl.com/MowOrNever.
17) Jordan Parker
Hi, I’m Jordan Parker, and I’m going to do a bang-up job. I
came to campus with a mission, a goal: To learn as much as
possible. As I walked the halls of this institution, I realized
that other students shared my vision, though their quest was
often off-the-radar. I present myself to you with the humble
goal of representing this silent majority (or at least a plurality) in the
Undergraduate Assembly. Even for those who disagree, I implore you
to entertain a mutual respect for a difference of opinion and its right to
be represented. The Undergraduate Assembly is a body of change; I
propose that this change should not be without attention to conservative
values. I ask for the chance to represent the class of 2013, its ambitions,
aspirations, and ideals – oh, and its desire for HD cable in the dorms.
-Jordan Parker
18) Michael Pierce
Hello, I’m Michael Pierce and am running for UA and
Wharton Class Chair. I wouldn’t go as far to say we are the
best class ever, but I am confident we can become one of the
greatest in due time. Our talent is immense and potential,
unlimited.
As a UA rep, I would analyze student concerns and make tangible
changes. For example, I have considered making the dining plans more
flexible (including diversifying the uses of dining dollars), adding air
greener place. Most importantly, however, I plan to represent you.
Whether you wish to affect positive change or just have your voices
heard, you can count on me. I hope that you will consider me, a fellow
freshman n00b, when you vote this fall. I would love to be your
representative. Thanks for your time, and vote for Amritha!
19) Amber Scott
An advocate. Approachable. Determined. Voice of Thirteen.
These are a few characteristics that qualify me to be elected
as a representative on the Undergraduate Assembly. Over
the past seven years, my student government experience
ranged from offices on the Executive Student Council to the
position of Class President. With the knowledge to represent my fellow
students, I will work alongside other UA members to promote your
interests to administrators and even beyond campus. My focus is
targeted in the civic and Philadelphia engagement with aspirations to
further connect Penn students to the Philadelphia community. I will
achieve this goal by ensuring mentorship and community service
programs receive all necessary sponsoring for success. At the end of
the day, my concern is that all individuals on Penn’s campus have the
opportunity to participate in the student groups of their choice or other
services. Remember, vote for Amber, make the difference.
20) Zeke Sexauer
Hey Class of 2013 [insert clichéd “best and brightest” joke
here], my name is Zeke Sexauer. Yeah, I know, weird name.
But anyways, I’m a pretty cool guy, and I want to represent
you in the Undergraduate Assembly.
There’s a lot of issues that we all want addressed, like
increasing late night dining options, getting Dining Dollar$ in more
places, making AirPennNet less frustrating, and increasing sustainability throughout the university. Oh, also, do any of you guys like True
Blood, Weeds, or Entourage? Because I think we should get HBO and
Showtime on the Penn cable network.
If you elect me to the UA, I promise to work to make all these things
reality, but more importantly, I promise to be friendly and open to any
issues you guys feel need addressing in the future. The hour for Sexauer
is now.
21) David Shapiro
I’m running for UA because I love Penn and I want to make
it a better place in everyway that I can. Having served as
president of my high school, I think that I have the
experience to efficiently and effectively accomplish a whole
host of goals. As a candidate, my goals are all centered on
the idea of fixing the small things. For example, I hear a lot of
complaints about the showerheads in the bathrooms. That’s something
we can easily fix. I would also like to go talk to restaurants in the area
to get more of them to take dining dollars. Another goal is to work on a
consolidation of the hundreds of emails and schedules we get into one
clear, organized document so that people can always know what’s going
on. I look forward to getting the opportunity to work for you. Vote
Shapiro!
22) Jake Shuster
VOTE FOR JAKE SHUSTER “THE MONEY BOOSTER”
FOR UA
Join my Facebook group!
There will be two “get-to-know-yous” before the elections
start. Anyone is more than welcome to attend:
1-”BAKE WITH JAKE” (date TBA) in a quad kitchen. Come bake
cookies and chat with me!
2-”SHABBAS WITH SHUSTER” I’ll be at Hillel every Friday night
through the end of the election season (FYI non-Jews are welcome).
If on UA, I hope to make dramatic changes to the dining plan; I hope to
extend dining hours to allow later dinners (hopefully until 9 or 10pm)
and create a late night snack for after a night out. We should not have to
pay for Wawa or Insomnia Cookies; we should be able to go to one of
the on campus cafeteria. I also hope to improve the internet connection
across campus, so that fast wifi is accessible everywhere.
VOTE JAKE SHUSTER!
23) Jonathan Skekloff
“What the F*** have you done lately?”
Anyone who saw Angelina Jolie in Wanted has been asked
this question and I welcome anyone to ask me this throughout the year. As your representative, I am accountable to you
for my actions. I’m accountable for ensuring that every
student has a say in what goes on at this university.
I am running for UA not only because I’ve been a leader in student
government since sixth grade, but also because I believe we actually can
change the world around us. I will do two things on the UA: Listen to
ideas and fight to have them heard.
If you ever have questions about me, my platform, what it’s like in
Indiana, or just what the F*** I’ve done for you lately, please find me on
Facebook, e-mail me, or stop by my room (Fisher-Hassenfeld: Provost
Smith 201). My door’s always open.
24) Arielle Van Backer
My name is Arielle Van Backer and I would like to be a
freshman representative of the Undergraduate Assembly.
My extensive experience in student government and my
passion for implementing change to benefit the student body
make me a qualified applicant. As a representative, I will
focus on changing those policies that our class is most dissatisfied with.
After talking with many of you, I realized that dining hall hours is one
of these issues, and I will therefore work to extend the hours. I am
approachable, easy to talk to, and care passionately about your opinions
on ways to improve our school policies. What do you want to see
changed? Come to me with your concerns and I promise to work
diligently to implement real change at Penn. If you back me, Arielle
Van Backer, for UA representative, I will back you, the voice of the
class of 2013.
25) Tommy Yin
Hello Class of 2013!
I am thankful for the opportunity to represent such a
charming and special class and cannot wait to continue to
campaign for your votes. It would be an awesome moment
to be able to stand next to eight other Freshman Representatives and really work to ensure the accessibility of the Undergraduate
Assembly for the Freshman Class. I truly believe that each student’s
voice is just as important as the one that belongs to the student next to
him or her and I want to make that my mission for this inspiring class.
I’ll be dedicated in bringing up and legitimately pursuing all issues and
concerns I hear in and out of meetings. I’ve fallen in love with this
university and want each and every one of you to as well, if you haven’t
already! So remember you WIN with YIN!
Cheers and thank you,
Tommy Yin
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26) Colin Zelicof
9) Tommy Yin
Hey guys, my name is Colin Zelicof and I am running to
serve as your Class Executive Vice President as well as your
representative on the Undergraduate Assembly. Ever since
6th grade, I have been an ardent participant in student
government. Over the past 7 years, I worked with my peers
and administration members to find tangible solutions to the school’s
problems. I also planned events that promoted class unity and spirit.
Our freshman year in college is supposed to be one of the most
memorable years of our lives…so as Jerry Maguire once said, “help me,
help you.” I am Colin Zelicof and I have the experience and what it
takes to represent you, as your Class Executive Vice President and as
your representative on the Undergraduate Assembly.
To my dearest fellow 13’rs,
I want to ask how many of us can really say “I could care
less about having a good time this year”? None of us. And I
am here to make sure this damn, sweet class can say it had a
blast of a time this year. We have the three “B” qualities:
Beautiful, Brilliant, and Breath-taking and I’m dedicated to put in the
time, effort, and thought that this class truly deserves to ensure an
awesome time. In addition to our annual Freshman events, there are a
few activities that I want to explore that include, but not limited to:
themed non-formal dances, monthly movie nights in one of our theaters,
and an undie run. I humbly invite you to come together with me to make
this a year to remember. Remember you WIN with YIN!
Cheers and thank you,
Tommy Yin
27) Lulu (Lucia) Xiong
Hey ya’ll! I am Lucia Xiong (also known as Lulu) and want
to serve YOU. Two things will make our years here the best
time of our lives: a smoothly run campus life and extreme
social events! I can bring these to you through the UA and
Class Board. Listening your voices, I will strive to bring
ya’ll what you want.
For UA: Extended library hours. Late night dining options. Bathroom
renovations. Extended dining dollar locations. More reliable wireless in
rooms. Open sand volleyball courts.
As VP of Internal Affairs: Holiday cross-campus gift exchange. A legit
ball with ballroom dancing. Class T-Shirts.
Vote for Lulu for both Undergraduate Assembly Representative and
Class Board VP of Internal Affairs!
Class of 2013 Class Board
— President —
(vote for 1)
1) Chris Cruz
Hello fellow classmates my name is Chris Cruz and I will
be running to represent you as your freshman class president
and as a representative in the Undergraduate Assembly. I
have loved making major changes in student government
during high school and I look forward to making an
amazing difference here. I can promise you that I have many innovative
ideas that have yet to be accomplished and will hopefully make the
Class of 2013 one of the best classes in the history of Penn. I will not
only work hard towards making dinning dollars acceptable at ALL
locations on campus, but work my tail off organizing more social events
that will unite us as one. But my ideas don’t just end there; I have many
more that I hope to let you know through campaign. So lets put this on
Cruz-Control and lets Cruz our way to 2013.
2) Anthony DiBella
Fellow members of the Class of 2013: My name is Anthony
DiBella. I am running for Class Board President, and my
mission as your President is simple. My goal for us is to
unite our great class of 2013 as closely as possible so that we
may make unforgettable memories, life long friendships,
and close connections between each other and our alumni. The most
exciting event we can plan for this year is Penn 2013 Week. It will be an
opportunity for the class to come together for a week devoted to doing
good and having fun by serving the poor in our West Philadelphia
community during the week and hosting bbqs and dances during the
weekend. My vision for our class consists of unity, friendship, and
Quaker Pride. Together we will make that happen. Thank you, and vote
Anthony DiBella for your 2013 President. Get Money & Get Paid.
3) Alexandra Enny
My name is Alexandra Enny and I want to be your Class of
2013 President. I believe the most important job of the
president is to create a sense of community and belonging
amongst everyone in our class. We should be extremely
proud to be a part of the Class of 2013 as well as the
University of Pennsylvania! As president I will make it my mission to
seize every opportunity to plan events and start traditions that instill in
my peers the enthusiasm and pride we should have as members of this
community. It is through a combined effort of all of us here at Penn
that we can use school spirit and class pride to create one, happy,
successful community, and I am dedicated to doing just that. This is
our time, let’s make the best of it! Remember: with Alexandra Enny as
President, Enny-thing is possible!
4) Hunter Horsley
Hello! I’m Hunter Horsley. Instead of picking your nose,
pick me…to be our Class President.
I have a lot of ideas for house competitions (and pranks…)
but there is limited space and what’s more important is that
between my experience as high-school president and my
passion, in everything we do as a class I am committed to working hard
to get everything together so we can all have a good time.
I am running for president for two reasons. One, because I am
passionate about working with the class board to make sure we have a
great Freshman year. And two, because I know I have the experience
and will work the hardest with the class board to make sure all our
events and traditions (and pranks…) are easy to participate in, run
smoothly, and are a lot of fun.
So please, pick Hunter Horsley for President…(I Nose What I’m Doing)
5) Quratul-Ann Malik
Unity. Strength. Spirit. The Class Board requires a President
who will make these traits reflect the class of 2013. I,
Quratul –Ann Malik (Q.) am willing to put in the effort.
If elected as Class President, I assure you that Penn
traditions such as Homecoming and the Freshmen Formal
will be your most unforgettable experiences.
However, I envision a Class Board that does MORE than just plan
events. I envision a Class Board that can serve as a political body and
make substantive changes. If there was an issue most of the freshmen
agreed on; for example problems with dining or house, we could use the
Class Board as a vehicle to create legislation and take those issues to the
Undergraduate Assembly.
Together, we can voice our concerns. Together, we can make a
difference. On Election Day, when you’re deciding who to vote for,
remember to just Q it!
6) Lakshmi Sivaguru
10) Jonathon Youshaei
My grandma just turned 87. Yet, she still talks about her
college memories like they happened yesterday. As
president, I’ll ensure that we will be making the memories
that we’ll forever recount to our grandchildren. We’re not
here in college to make friends with our textbooks. We’re
here to make friends with one another – and lifelong ones at that. My
parents actually met in college. So who knows – your partner-in-crime
may be out there and you may just not know it yet. I’ll propose events
such as “NSOver Again,” which would be a series of get-to-know-you
parties and events dedicated strictly for freshman. Ultimately, my goal
is simple: years from now, after graduation and GPA are a thing of the
past, I want us to have amazing stories to share with one another. It’s
about making memories, friendships, and you vote YOUshaei.
— Executive Vice President —
(vote for 1)
1) Ethan Aaron
My main goal is to create as many opportunities as possible
for the freshman class to build friendships and networks that
will serve them well in the next four years as well as for the
rest of their lives. My name is Ethan Aaron, I am majoring
in mechanical engineering and business, and I am running
to be Executive Vice President of the freshman class. In high school, I
was an executive board representative all four years, I was quarterback
and captain of my football team, I was producer of a local television
show, and I was a founding member of my high school’s robotics team.
As Vice President, I will not only work with the President and class
board to continue the many freshman traditions here at Penn, but I also
plan on organizing and executing countless events and activities that
will bring us together as a class.
2) Laura Bilder
Ladura Bilder, can we fix it? Laura Bilder, YES WE CAN.
Congratulations freshmen! We’re finally here. Now, it
becomes our job to make the most out of our next four years
at Penn. That is why I want to be YOUR next Freshman
Class Executive Vice President. I have been a part of student
government since middle school and a devout Quaker fan my entire life.
I am truly passionate about making Penn and all it has to offer easily
accessible to the freshman class. As Amy Gutman said, we are really
the most talented and diverse class Penn has ever seen. We owe it to
ourselves to create an amazing campus and community for the Class of
2013. That is why I ask you to vote Laura Bilder for Freshman
Executive Vice President. Go fighting Quakers!!
3) MJ Gitter
If MJ is VP, our class will dance amongst crowds of
sunglass clad fellow students at Mardi Gras with MJ, a
carnival with native New Orleans Cajun food, jazz, dancing,
beads, and celebration. We will paint on red and blue war
faces, singing fight songs as we pile up on buses together to
defeat the evil Princeton. We will giggle as we surreptitiously purchase
Secret Santa/Elusive Elijah gifts. We will bond, party, and dance in the
center of our universe that is the University of Pennsylvania, Class of
2013.
Y’all, I come from the south. It comes naturally to me to create a happy
community around me. Whether it be to give input, critique, or, this is a
real offer, just make a new friend in the quad, my door is always open,
my phone is always on, and ask my roommates, there is always food in
my fridge :-)
4) H.J. Joonie Kim
HELLO!
My name is H. J. Joonie Kim, and I want to be your Class of
2013
Executive VICE PRESIDENT!
You and I have a lot in common. I’m Asian, just like you
(probably), and I have made at least one Jewish friend at UPenn, just
like you (definitely)!
But besides from the jokes, I sincerely and most passionately want to
work for you this year as Vice President. I have been SO humbled and
amazed by the hundreds of crazy/fun/intelligent/ridiculous people I’ve
met so far, and I cannot WAIT to meet everyone else!
I can promise you that as Vice President, I will:
- Encourage events where we can ALL come together and enjoy!
- Make sure we have CRAAZY funding!
- Provide FUN and MEMORABLE experiences for all!
I want events that fit the genres of EVERYONE. So let’s make it
happen!
Vote for H. J.!
5) Wenjin Liu
Hi, my name is Wenjin Liu. I am a freshman in the college,
and running for the Executive Vice President. I love Penn
and would like to do anything to make it a better place to
study and live in. My special experience as a leukemia
survivor and the founding member of the largest bone
marrow donor program in China gives me the opportunity to face
challenge, take responsibilities and reach out to people. In the past
years, we have got more than 10,000 volunteer donors, and raised over
100,000 dollars for leukemia patients; 4 leukemia patients have found
donors from our program and received transplants successfully. In
addition, as an international student as well as someone from minority
group, I can bring a different voice and the genuine passion for making
a great difference to the whole community. So vote for me because I can
make amazing things happen!
6) Josh Oppenheimer
My name is Lakshmi, and I want to be YOUR president on
the Class Board. We plan Econ Scream and Freshmen
Formal – and we hope to add new traditions to that list.
Most importantly, however, I hope to start a new trend at
Penn because ultimately, we are all here, working incredibly
hard, so that we can give back to our community. But why wait? Let’s
start now!
We’re competitive, so let’s have class competitions. Which class can
raise the most soup cans to donate to the soup kitchen? Which class can
raise the most clothes to donate to the homeless? The time to give back
is now, and I can make it fun and rewarding.
I know that together, we’ll be the best class Penn has ever seen, not only
for moments like convocation and commencement, but forever. Everybody, vote for experience. Vote for success. Vote for me, Lakshmi.
Freshmen year is the time to explore new subjects (wtf is the
Evolution of Sex?), meet different people (why do all the
security guards call me “baby”?), and try different foods
(“Do ya want it wit or witout?”). I’m Josh Oppenheimer,
and I’m running for your Executive Vice President. I am
committed to ensuring the success of the Class of 2013, and Penn as a
community. I will work to create events that provide you with these
opportunities, while exponentially increasing the camaraderie of our
class. One goal I have this year is to create a Spirit Day with music,
food, and competitions, like most-spirited, best Ben Franklin look-alike,
and best President Gutmann impersonator. Josh Oppenheimer knows
what it will take, and like Rocky, won’t stop until he reaches his goal.
Be in the know, vote for Josh O.
Check me out on FB: “Oppenheimer for Executive Vice President”
7) Arielle Van Backer
7) Colin Zelicof
My name is Arielle Van Backer and I would like to be the
President of the Class Board for the class of 2013. My
extensive experience in student government over the past six
years and my passion for social programming make me a
qualified applicant. I am social, outgoing, personable, and
can relate to many different groups of people. As President, I will help
organize and carry out some of Penn’s greatest social traditions for the
student body to enjoy, and I will focus on unifying our class and
spreading school spirit. I am eager to talk with you and hear your
suggestions about how I can best carry on our school’s social traditions
while creating new ones. If you want your social events to be planned
by someone who knows how to have fun, then back me, Arielle Van
Backer, the clear choice for Class Board President.
8) Sharree Walls
Hello, my name is Sharree Walls and I would love to
represent you as President of our Class Board. We’ve all
opened our acceptance letters, survived the Penn Reading
Project, we continually reach our quota for remembering
names, and NSO is almost unmemorable for various
reasons, but for many of us, we are still waiting for the alarm clock to
sound to realize it was all a dream. As your potential class president I’ll
make sure that feeling never fades. I want to inspire the spirit and pride
that simulates a dream, so on graduation day you can wake up and never
forget the best dream you’ll ever have. No one person or board can
achieve this alone. We have to build our perfect dream together, as
simply the best class, the class of 2013! Keep the dream alive, Sharree
for President!
Hey guys, my name is Colin Zelicof and I am running to
serve as your Class Executive Vice President as well as your
representative on the Undergraduate Assembly. Ever since
6th grade, I have been an ardent participant in student
government. Over the past 7 years, I worked with my peers
and administration members to find tangible solutions to the school’s
problems. I also planned events that promoted class unity and spirit.
Our freshman year in college is supposed to be one of the most
memorable years of our lives…so as Jerry Maguire once said, “help me,
help you.” I am Colin Zelicof and I have the experience and what it
takes to represent you, as your Class Executive Vice President and as
your representative on the Undergraduate Assembly.
— VP External Affairs —
(vote for 1)
1) Emma Johnson
Hi, my name is Emma Johnson and I’m running for Vice
President of External Affairs. As a proud member of the
class of 2013, I can’t wait to take it to the next level and
become a representative and vessel for change by serving on
the Class Board. Like all of you, I love the Penn community
and I want to bring our class closer together and make this year
memorable for all of us. I hope to introduce a new event for the start of
second semester, to welcome back the freshman after a long break away
from UPenn. As Vice President of External Affairs, I know I can do a
great job representing Upenn to our new potential sponsors and
strengthen the ties we already have. Thanks for your consideration, and
remember, Emma J. All the Way!
2) Kasia Klasa
School spirit, parties, friends, laughs, Spring Fling, football
games, throwing toast, Hey Day, and Graduation -- these are
just a few words that describe the traditions we will all
experience here at Penn. Class Board helps organize and
craft various Class of 2013 social activities around campus.
I would love to help make our times here at Penn more memorable, but
in order to do that, we need funding. This is where the Vice President of
External Affairs steps in. I would guarantee that we will have enough
corporate sponsorship to make free food and free things not only a
possibility, but a standard. With enough funds we will have a Fall Ball
or a massive class tailgating party before the much anticipated
Penn-Princeton Football Game. We can even have a Valentine’s Rose
Fundraiser. So, remember the girl from the ATL and don’t forget to vote
in October.
3) Sofia Liou
Hey Class of 2013!
My name is Sofia Liou and I’d like to be your Vice President
of External Affairs! I’m a friendly, easygoing kid who hails
from California, and I’m a big fan of healthy foods and
recreational sports. Penn has been amazing so far, and I’d
love more than anything to promote class spirit and unity through
various social events. When it comes to experience, I have tons! In high
school, I served 2,500 peers as an Associated Student Body officer and
representative to the school district’s council. Through the years, I’ve
gained lots of experience as to how to run a class, how to plan successful events, and how to cater to the needs of a diverse student body. I’m
super excited about Class Board, and I hope to make our freshmen year
as enjoyable, productive, and memorable as possible. Thanks and hope
to see you around!
— VP Internal Affairs —
(vote for 1)
1) Krista Engle
Hey Class of 2013! My name is KRISTA ENGLE, and I
want to be your CLASS BOARD VICE PRESIDENT OF
INTERNAL AFFAIRS. Why should you vote for me?
Because they say that our college years will be the best
years of our life, and I am dedicated to making that a reality
for us. Why am I qualified? Well, my name says it all! I am…
K-reative, R-esponsible, I-ntelligent, S-punky, T-rustworthy, A-pproachable, E-xperienced, N-eat, G-iving of my time and energy,
a L-eader, and last but certainly not least, E-veryone’s choice for VP of
Internal Affairs! K-R-I-S-T-A E-N-G-L-E. Who ever knew a name
could show so much? So remember to vote KRISTA ENGLE for VP of
INTERNAL AFFAIRS! Thank you!
2) Jackie Wang
It’s true what they say about us. We truly are better and
brighter than any class Penn has ever seen. I am honored to
be part of a class that boasts an average SAT score of 2175
and hails from 71 countries. As such, I hope to instill class
spirit among us and help organize events and traditions like
Freshmen Formal and Hey Day. With my post-its, crammed agenda, and
Blackberry, I am the epitome of organization. I have had past experience working for my high school yearbook as editor-in-chief, a job that
required time-management and dedication. In the end, however, it is not
about me but rather about you, the class of 2013, and what you want. I
hope to serve as your Class Secretary by making your time here the best
that it can be. Make your vote count. Vote Jackie Wang for Vice-President of Internal Affairs.
3) Ben Watkins
Hi, my name is Ben Watkins and I hope to represent you,
Class of 2013, on the class board as your VP of Internal
Affairs. In previous years, I have served as my class
secretary, and I know that in the next four years, I can apply
this experience for the betterment of our class. I am a very
approachable person, and I look forward to listening to new ideas you
may have. I hope that in the next week, I can convince you that I am the
best person for the job. Remember, vote Ben Watkins for VP of Internal
Affairs!
4) Lulu (Lucia) Xiong
Hey ya’ll! I am Lucia Xiong (also known as Lulu) and want
to serve YOU. Two things will make our years here the best
time of our lives: a smoothly run campus life and extreme
social events! I can bring these to you through the UA and
Class Board. Listening your voices, I will strive to bring
ya’ll what you want.
For UA: Extended library hours. Late night dining options. Bathroom
renovations. Extended dining dollar locations. More reliable wireless in
rooms. Open sand volleyball courts.
As VP of Internal Affairs: Holiday cross-campus gift exchange. A legit
ball with ballroom dancing. Class T-Shirts.
Vote for Lulu for both Undergraduate Assembly Representative and
Class Board VP of Internal Affairs!
— VP of Finances —
(vote for 1)
1) Mike Mo
Hello Class of 2013,
Mo is my name, and Money is what I’m running for. I’m
Mike Mo, and I hope to serve you as VP of Finances on the
class board.
Let’s face it, no class needs a Class Board to be badass,
especially an awesome class like the Class of ‘13. What I CAN do for
you is to increase the number of opportunities you will have to bond
with each other, build lifelong friendships, and enjoy a richer and fuller
freshman experience. This means more events, more parties, more free
giveaways. Heard of the Econ Scream and Freshman Formal? Why not
lengthen the list and create our own traditions. Class of ‘13 deserves its
very own spiffy events, a Halloween Party, an End-of-Year Fiesta, you
name it, we’ll plan it.
So viva la vida, rock the ballot in October, and vote MoMoney!
Cheers,
Mike Mo “MoMoney”
2) Jake Shuster
VOTE FOR JAKE SHUSTER “THE MONEY BOOSTER”
FOR VP of FINANCES Join my Facebook group!
There will be two “get-to-know-yous” before the elections
start. Anyone is more than welcome to attend:
1-”BAKE WITH JAKE” (date TBA) in a quad kitchen.
Come bake cookies and chat with me!
2-”SHABBAS WITH SHUSTER” I’ll be at Hillel every Friday night
through the end of the election season (FYI non-Jews are welcome).
As VP of Finances, I hope to help organize the greatest Freshman
Formal and Econ Scream that Penn has ever seen--after all, we’re the
“most talented and diverse” class Penn has ever had...I hope to find
more corporate sponsors to help expand the events.
I’d also like to start a new Penn tradition--”BOOGIE ON BLADES.”
The Freshmen would be invited to a big dance party/ice skating evening
during the winter at The Class of 1923 Rink.
VOTE JAKE SHUSTER!
— SAS Class Chair —
(vote for 1)
1) Josh Dembowitz
I’m tired of hearing about the econ scream. It’s a great
tradition, but what about those of us not taking Econ? And
what happens come finals time, when we’re REALLY
stressed, with no way to release our frustrations? Needed: a
new tradition. I WILL not rest until we have created a new,
eternal, stress-relieving legacy.
Unimpressed? I’m a Philly guy, lived here all my life. My connections
will enable us to have a bangin’ freshman formal, and we all want that,
right?
One reason Bush rose to power is that compared to his opponents (Al
“The Bore” Gore and John “Why the Long Face” Kerry), voters could
identify, could see themselves sitting down and having a beer together.
I’m that candidate, a man of the people, taking shots and sipping on
beer with his constituents- anytime, anywhere.
2013: It’s simple: “Don’t be a dumbo- vote for Dembo!”
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Terrible twos plague Quakers
field hockey |
Quakers suffer one
Ivy and one city loss
this weekend
Mob mentality in
Paul Short Invite
FIELD HOCKEY
Dartmouth vs. PENN
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BY jennifer scuteri
Associate Sports Editor
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PENN vs. Temple
Over the weekend, the Penn
field hockey team had two
games, two overtimes, and two
losses.
The Quakers dropped their
second Ivy League contest of
the season to Dartmouth, 2-1,
in double overtime at Franklin
Field Saturday, and suffered
a 3-0 loss to cross-town rival
Temple yesterday.
“The team that can take
advantage of their opportunities will win,” coach Val Cloud
said.
Penn (3-8, 1-2 Ivy) was definitely not that team Saturday.
On their home turf, the Quakers outshot (19-18) and outsaved (9-8) the Big Green but
were unable to even up their
Ivy record.
Dartmouth (5-4, 2-1) scored
first when junior forward Kelly
McHenry redirected the shot
taken by teammate Rebecca
Sobel to put the ball past Penn
goalkeeper Kieran Sweeney.
The Quakers tied it up five
minutes later when senior midfielder Kelsey Tahan lobbed
the ball on Dartmouth’s goal.
Junior midfielder Laurel McGarvie was there to knock the
shot down into the cage.
“She’s just glad to be on the
field and going all out,” senior
co-captain Sarah Warner said
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Laurel McGarvie (6) scored one of two Penn goals in field hockey’s overtime
loss to Dartmouth Saturday. The Quakers also fell to Temple yesterday.
of McGarvie, who recently recovered from stress fractures
in her shins. “We needed somebody to just to do everything
they could to get it into the goal
today.”
The score remained tied at
one for the remaining 54-plus
minutes of regulation.
Despite a promising breakaway by freshman midfielder
Sarah Hasson and two saves
by Sweeney in the first overtime, the Quakers were unable
to get a single shot. In addi-
2) William Goldhirsch
Hi. My name is William Goldhirsch and I am running for
the Class of 2013’s SAS chair. What up? How’s your day?
Mine’s good. Just tried out that new fro-yo joint Sprinkles.
Wasn’t that bad. More of a Dairy Queen man myself, but I
digress. Like frozen yogurt, I am good for you. I want to
make Penn a better community and to represent the college, but mostly
you, on the class board. I have some experience with student government as representative and then as VP. I was an integral part of
organizing my senior prom and homecoming. Among other things, we
deserve to use dining dollars at places besides Houston. This next one
might seem like a silly issue, but you know what’s not funny? Uncomfortable toilet tissue. That’s right people, I’m talking two-ply. In
conclusion I am eager to learn more and work hard. I do work.
3) Thomas Krane
Heyyyaaa fellow Collegians. I’m here to help you make the
right choice in voting for your future SAS Class Chairs.
Class board isn’t about shaping school policy as much as it’s
about promoting class unity, so my job won’t include
making sure your bathrooms are clean or that the fountain
drink machines have ice. However, I have a plan. The foundation of my
campaign is three-fold: [1.] Keep and enhance traditions, [2.] ensure
that we remember each other for the rest our lives, [3.] ensure that the
College Class of 2013 is ultimately remembered forever. At a basic
level, the College is about discovering what we love and through that
discovering the people we will love for the rest of our lives. Help me
make sure we find exactly what and who we’re looking for at Penn, and
help me create a legacy for 2013 that will not be forgotten.
4) Elena Madan
Hey Everyone, I’m Elena Madan. I want to serve on the
Class Board as your SAS Class Chair. College is a time to
develop lifelong friendships. Life’s not just about what you
know, but who your friends are. I want to help us all get to
know one other. As your representative, I will organize fun
events to facilitate our bonding as a class. I will take your inputs to
create new events. In addition to upholding traditions like the Econ
Scream, I want to create an event called SnowBall - a dance at the 1920
ice rink, featuring a “snowball” dance (during which you slow dance,
moving from person to person, and thus get to know members of your
class). During the day, there will be a broomball tournament. So
remember to elect Elena Madan for SAS Class Chair. After all, she is
the next Dalai Lama.
3) Amritha Sastry
Hey Everyone,
My name is Amritha Sastry, and I am running for Undergraduate Assembly Representative and SAS Class Chair. If
elected, I plan to get Dining Dollars in more places on
campus, like Wawa and Taco Bell, so that you don’t have to
worry about accumulating personal expenses. I also plan to work with
Penn’s Environmental Sustainability Program to make our campus a
greener place. Most importantly, however, I plan to represent you.
Whether you wish to affect positive change or just have your voices
heard, you can count on me. I hope that you will consider me, a fellow
freshman n00b, when you vote this fall. I would love to be your
representative. Thanks for your time, and vote for Amritha!
4) Zeke Sexauer
My name is Zeke Sexauer, and I want to represent the
sexiest, coolest, smartest, and most well-endowed undergraduate school at Penn, the School of Arts and Sciences, in
the Class of 2013 Board.
So, I know you’re pretty close with your hall or suite or
whatever by now, and you probably have a nice group of friends. But do
you ever feel like you don’t know as many people in our class as you
would like? Well, I want to change that. All you need to do is elect me
to the Class Board, and the minute I am elected I promise you will
sense an instant increase in class unity. I’m just that awesome.
Besides my intense school spirit, I have tons of great ideas and many
years of experience in social event planning. The hour for Sexauer is
now.
tion to the 3-0 shot advantage,
Dartmouth had two penalty
corners to Penn’s zero in the
extra frame.
“You get to overtime, you’re
usually going to lose because
somebody made a bad mistake,” Cloud said. “There’s a
turnover and off somebody
goes — or by a corner.”
And that is exactly how the
game ended.
Dartmouth scored the gamewinner off of its only corner in
the second overtime.
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“They had a great corner.,”
Cloud said. “They won the
game — we did not lose the
game.”
Ironically, after getting outplayed in the first extra session,
Penn statistically did better in
the second one, outshooting (42) the Big Green and earning
three corners.
It was an improvement from
the Quakers’ last Ivy outing,
whey they lost to Cornell 22
seconds into overtime.
“We knew it was going to be
a battle today; we knew that
coming in,” Warner said. “It
shows that we still are getting
better; we just need to get better faster.”
Penn couldn’t improve its
game fast enough, as it lost
to Temple (4-9) the following
day.
The Quakers’ defense was
dominated by sophomore midfielder Bridget Settles, as she
netted all three of Temple’s
goals.
“[We’ll] hopefully try to finish out the season with a bunch
of wins,” senior midfielder Katie Moran said.
had at spring fling, hey day, and senior week (unless you had a really
good time, but that’s a different story) instead of all those problem sets
and lab reports. We need to come together as a class and carry on the
traditions of the many men and women before us on these hallowed
grounds of West Philadelphia and do it better than them. I want to add
more events: Halloween parties, more formals, an end of the year bash,
and many more. With your help, support, and spirit we can make Penn
SEAS Class of 2013 infamous.
2) Shawn Chen
$50,000 tuition: Welcome to Philadelphia. If you’re not
from around here then let me assure you that you made a
worthwhile trip; if you are, then you already know what I’m
talking about. This year will be one of your most memorable years that you’ll ever experience. Everything is new,
everything is exciting, everything is worth the memory, but it’s the
responsibility of the Class Board to make your time here even more
extraordinary than you could ever imagine; to whip your ideas, and our
own, into the kaleidoscope of Penn traditions. Engineers, stick with me
and I will give you the real freshman experience. || Elect Shawn Chen
for SEAS Rep. ||
3) Catherine Hu
Hi, my name is Catherine Hu and I am running for SEAS
Class Chair/Representative for the Class of 2013 (the
brightest, wildest, most qualified, best-looking class yet –
West Philly ain’t ready for us). Everyone knows Penngineers
do it best, so having strong representation on the Class
Board is crucial. That being said, why should you vote for me? Not only
am I approachable and easy to communicate with but I also have plenty
of leadership experience from overseeing fellow classmates on my high
school newspaper and organizing events such as student concerts and
cultural performances. I hope to breathe new life into old traditions and
take part in creating fresh new ones – and those of you who know me
know I have the vivacity and spirit to accomplish both goals.
Let’s make this a year to remember—vote Hu if you want what’s best
for you!
(vote for 1)
1) AJ Chatterjee
Hi my name is AJ Chatterjee and I am running for SEAS
Class Chair. I am running because I want to make sure that
when the Penn SEAS Class of 2013 looks back years after
we graduate, we will remember all of the amazing times we
BY katie siegmann
Staff Writer
In one of the tightest races
men’s cross country coach
Charlie Powell has witnessed,
58 runners finished between
25:00 and 25:20 at Friday’s
Paul Short Invitational.
Unfortunately for his Quakers, only two of Penn’s top-five
runners finished ahead of that
pack. In the end, Penn’s combined time of 2:04:29 was only
1:13 shy of tenth-place finisher Saint Joseph’s, yet its 500
points was only good for 14th
out of 42 teams. Indiana won
the meet with 44 points.
“This may have been the
deepest race I have ever seen,”
Powell said. “Usually the pack
will spread out over the course
of the race. This one stayed like
a giant amoeba.”
The upperclassmen led the
charge for the Red and Blue:
junior Christopher Baird’s
24:10 was a team-best, and
was good for 23rd place overall. Classmate Luke Grau,
who recently recovered from a
stress fracture, followed, placing 50th with a time of 24:35.
“Give him a little bit of time,
and he will be right there with
Baird,” Powell said.
Rounding out Penn’s top five
were senior Kevin Sullivan
(25:06, 122nd place), junior Robert Duggar (25:19) and sophomore Evan Heflin (25:20).
(vote for 1)
1) Vivian Chen
Take a quick glance at my picture. Look at that wild and
juicy face. You’re probably like “Yeahhh, I’m gonna vote for
her!” However, I still want to assure you that beyond this
lusciousness is someone who truly wants to make a
difference for Wharton Students.
Let’s face it: we’re all leaders; but as Wharton Chair, I’m looking to be
your listener and advocate. In addition, you need someone who is enthusiastic about Wharton as you are; someone who wants to make your
freshman experience fantastic. It’s my goal to unify the Class of 2013
through more social events, such as a Fall Formal and another week
like NSO. Why stick with tradition when we can create our own? Wild,
juicy, and luscious, I may or may not be, but I am a Whartonite you can
trust to make your year great. Viv it up: Vote for Vivian Chen.
2) Dennis Johnson
Thank you for the opportunity to run as your Wharton Class
Chair. After being on campus for three short, yet exciting,
weeks, I have been able to enjoy the many pleasures of
Penn. I have also been able to see many areas in which
Penn can improve to make life better for us, the students.
With advice from other concerned freshman, I have been able to come
up with an action plan that will make Penn better for all.
If elected, the main focus of my term will be helping students make the
most of every dollar. To do this I plan to:
-Make ISBN numbers available on books before classes begin
-Extend dining hall hours
-Expand where dining dollars can be used
By voting for DENNIS JOHNSON as your Wharton Class Chair, you
are giving yourself a voice for the future.
The women’s cross country
team also competed at the Lehigh-hosted invitational. With
321 points, the Quakers took
seventh place out of 40 teams,
a great improvement from
last year’s 15th-place finish.
West Virginia won the meet
with 105 points.
“It was a giant-sized race,”
coach Gwen Harris said, “and
the freshmen aren’t used to that
yet. It was a very solid day.”
For the women, it was the
underclassmen that paved
the way Friday, as sophomore
Laura Steel finished first for
Penn, placing 38th with a time
of 21:23. Freshmen Margaret
Diacont (21:37) and Leslie Kovach (21:41) followed Steel, taking 61st and 67th, respectively.
Senior Kellee Hand (21:44)
finished in 75th, and fellow
senior Anna Aagenes (21:46)
came in 80th, completing the
top five for Penn. Both women
improved their times significantly from last year, as Hand
cut 75 seconds and 91 places
and Aagenes moved up 39 seconds and 38 places.
The improvement and high
finish gives Harris reason to
be optimistic.
“We learned we need to not
just run, we need to race,” she
said. “This is a really good indicator of what’s to come.”
As your Wharton Class Chair, I will work with other officers and the
student body to create new traditions and social events aimed at
increasing the sense of community on our wonderful campus. I humbly
ask you to vote for me, Clayton Knocke. Thank you for your support,
and I wish everyone continued success at Penn!
4) Kyle Lee
My name is Kyle Lee, and I am running for freshman Wharton Representative.
UPenn has enjoyed a variety of unique, historic traditions
ranging from toast-throwing to Hey Day. As a spokesperson
for all Wharton freshmen, freshman Wharton Representative is responsible for maintaining such enriching traditions together
with the Class Boards and instilling a sense of pride, spirit, and unity.
Therefore I am running for this position. As a spokesperson for our
class, I will diligently work to maintain and improve on school events
and give you back a sense of community. I sincerely hope to represent
all of you, Wharton freshmen. Thank you.
5) Michael Pierce
Hello, I’m Michael Pierce and am running for UA and
Wharton Class Chair. Although Penn is split into four
schools, we all share a common level of intellect, and a
desire to succeed whilst still having the best possible college
experience. We have diverse academic interests and goals,
but our uniqueness will bind our class forever.
As Wharton Class Representative, my aim is to unify the various
colleges within Penn. I plan on assisting the other board members in
planning amazing events for our class. I will ask Wharton students what
events they are interested in, and discuss these ideas with my fellow
class board members. In addition to the traditional Freshman Formal
and Spring Fling, some other class activities could include themed
dances, carnivals, tailgating, and movie nights. I am open to all
suggestions and look forward to meeting all or most of my classmates.
— Nursing Class Chair —
(vote for 1)
— Wharton Class Chair —
3) Clayton Knocke
— SEAS Class Chair —
cross country | Men finish 14th in
tight race, while women take seventh
1) Spencer “Barry” Stubbs
To the Freshman Nursing Class and other Penn Student
Community Members:
I want to start off first by saying that I promise not to let you
guys down if I win. Also, anyone who knows me knows that
I am a full blown advocate for the advancement of nursing
in healthcare and that I love the profession. As of now, I am heavily
involved in many Nursing Clubs/Organizations like: MAN-UP, MNO,
OSNR, and SNAP. One of the many benefits of having me as your
representative is that I can act as a conduit between the needs of the
members of these clubs/organizations and the president (aka “head
honcho”) of the weekly board meetings. Also, it’s important that you
guys know that I credit myself as being an honest and outspoken person
so if you have any concerns, let me know and I will absolutely make
sure your voice is heard.
2) Sophie Yu
Hey Fellow Nurses!
I think everyone has made it fairly clear that we are the
brightest, most diverse, most talented, and sexiest class Penn
has ever seen. Such a fabulous class deserves a Class Board
representative that is fully committed to serving your needs.
This is where I come in.
As Nursing Chair on Class Board, I will act as a conduit between you
and Penn Student Government. Also, I will help coordinate campuswide, traditional Penn events that promote school unity and pride. In
addition, I would like to introduce a winter formal to make the holiday
season a little merrier on campus. I am passionate about Class Board,
and I think my dedication will reflect in the quality of social events you
attend this year.
Thank you so much for your interest. And lastly, Sophie Yu for Class
Board 2013!!!
XoXo,
Sophie
I, Clayton Knocke, am seeking the position of Wharton
Class Chair for the 2013 Class Board. Over the past few
weeks, I have had the pleasure of meeting many of you in
my classes and at various social events around campus. I
am ecstatic to be studying at Penn alongside some of the
most brilliant minds from all over the world. My experiences as Senior
Class Officer, National Honor Society Vice President, Drumline Section
Leader, and owner of my own residential landscaping service have
prepared me well for this position on the Class Board.
Freshmen Elections
In order to vote, please visit www.PennStudGov.com. The winners will be announced on Friday, October 9 in Golkin Room, Houston Hall.
If violations are filed, winners will be announced after the Fair Practices Code Hearing held on Sunday, October 11 at 5pm in Huntsman G65.
Visit the NEC Website for details: http://www.penn-nec.org
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Saturday, October 10 (continued)
W. Tennis National Tennis Center Invitational Day 2
at Flushing Meadows, N.Y.
M. Rowing (Light) Navy Day Regatta
at Schuylkill River, Philadelphia
M. Rowing (Heavy) Navy Day Regatta
W. Rowing Navy Day Regatta
SoftbaLL Quaker Fall Classic
Warren Field
Football Bucknell vs. PENN
Franklin Field, 1 p.m.
Volleyball PENN vs. Yale
at New Haven, Conn., 4 p.m.
M. Soccer PENN vs. Columbia
at New York, 4 p.m.
W. Soccer PENN vs. Columbia
at New York, 7 p.m.
Sunday, October 11
M. Golf Big Five Championship Day 2
at Philadelphia Cricket Club
M. Tennis Columbia Invitational Day 3
at New York
Field Hockey PENN vs. St. Francis (Pa.)
at Loretto, Pa., Noon
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2-0 despite inconsistency during games
BY LAUREN PLOTNICK
Associate Sports Editor
For the Penn women’s soccer team, there is no such
thing as an easy win. So far
this season the team has been
unable to settle games early
and decisively — even against
weaker teams.
That was especially the
case this weekend when Penn
beat Cornell and Army — two
teams that they were expected
to handle easily — each by just
one goal, 2-1 and 1-0, respectively.
“We kind of coughed and
sputtered through it,” coach
Darren Ambrose said after
the game against Cornell. “It’s
something we are starting to
figure out. We can fight, battle
and give what we’ve got.”
Entering Friday’s matchup
at Rhodes Field, Cornell (1-8-1,
0-2-0 Ivy) had not beaten Penn
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in 12 games and had not scored
on the Quakers since 2003. Last
year, Penn (6-2-2, 1-1-0) won 6-0
in Ithaca, N.Y. — its largest Ivy
League win ever.
This made it all the more surprising when the Red and Blue
found themselves down by a
goal less than ten minutes into
the game. The Big Red scored
on a penalty kick,following a
questionable call when a Cornell player was tripped in the
penalty area.
“We were slow to start,”
Coach Ambrose said. “I thought
we looked confident coming out
and we talked before the game.
They had a great attitude but it
didn’t translate into a performance.”
But in the 34th minute, Penn
was awarded a penalty kick
when a player from Cornell
was whistled for a handball
in the penalty area. Michelle
Drugan converted the opportunity to a goal.
The Quakers had to wait until midway through the second
half for the decisive goal by
Marin McDermott.
“We tend to get down a goal
and somehow we get a little bit
of urgency and that seems to
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Michelle Drugan (4) scored Penn’s first goal in its 2-1 win over Cornell. Following their first Ivy win, the Quakers eked out a 1-0 win over Army yesterday.
help us out,” Drugan said after
the match. “We weren’t really
worried about it. We knew we
would come back.”
The game was marked by
highly physical plays and controversial decisions from the
referee. Overall, both teams
were whistled for a combined
37 fouls, highlighted by three
Cornell yellow cards in the second half.
“It was a very tight game and
the referee was calling things
both ways that weren’t fair,”
McDermott said. “Our coach
and the players stuck through
them unlike the other coach.
We kept our heads in the game
and didn’t let them affect us.”
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volleyball | Quakers sweep Princeton in
their first win over the Tigers since Sept. 2005
Since its early season matchup with Princeton on Sep. 30,
2005, Penn’s volleyball program
has had 31 regular season victories against Ivy League opponents. Despite playing the
Tigers seven times since then,
none of those wins have come
against the archrival.
Saturday night at Dillon
Gym, the Quakers opened up
their 2009 Ivy schedule by emphatically ending that trend, as
it swept the Tigers 3-0.
After finishing 17-4 last season, Princeton (2-10, 0-1 Ivy)
only returned two of its six
starters from its 2008 secondplace Ivy squad.
Penn coach Kerry Carr prepared her squad for the game
as if it were against any other
Ancient Eight opponent.
“This game was not such an
emotional burden,” she said.
“We knew we had more firepower, and our team, player for
player, is a better team.”
Junior outside hitter Julia
Swanson led the Penn attack
with 17 kills, while freshman
Lauren Martin joined her in
double figures with 12 of her
own on a team-high .524 hitting.
“Coming out and beating
Princeton 3-0, it’s an amazing
feeling; it’s very satisfying. I’m
very happy.”
Senior co-captain Elizabeth
Semmens only hit .167 with five
kills, but relished her first career win against Princeton.
“We’re really excited, since
for some of us, it’s been four
years since we’ve beaten
Princeton — it’s a big deal,”
she said.
Penn (10-4, 1-0) came out relaxed in the raucous Princeton
gym and decisively grabbed
the first set 25-16 with a scorching .480 hitting percentage.
Princeton raised its intensity
and stormed out to a 6-3 advantage in the second.
The Quakers took a 17-16
lead on a kill by Martin, but the
Tigers soon regrouped during
a timeout and used a 3-0 run
to even the set at 19. Penn proceeded to score six of the final
eight points for a 25-21 victory.
“We believed that we could
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Christian Barreiro struck
home a penalty kick for his fourth
goal of the season, but Penn (33-3, 0-0-1) surrendered the lead
again after Lee Rubenstein was
awarded an immediate red card
for a foul at midfield.
In a physical matchup, the
referee caught flak for calling
34 penalties against Cornell but
just 18 against Penn and issuing
11 total cards. Penn coach Rudy
Fuller said he thought the call
stop [their] run at any time,”
Carr said. “We have a multifaceted attack and could utilize
our defense, middle and right
side at any time.”
Indeed, the Quakers’ offense
spanned all three areas of the
court. Swanson and Martin
provided the punch from the
outside and right side, respectively, while freshman Amanda Pacheco added seven kills
from the middle. The Long
Beach, Calif., native turned in
the team’s second-best hitting
clip at .462.
After one of its best pre-Ivy
seasons in years, this weekend’s matchup against a struggling Princeton squad provided
the perfect launching pad for
the rest of Penn’s Ivy season.
Although Penn has only just
begun its conference slate, the
win — combined with its fast
start — gives the players tremendous confidence moving
forward.
“I think we can beat anyone,”
Semmens declared.
W. Golf
306 Sunday en route to an
18-stroke victory at the Kiskiak
Golf Club in Williamsburg, Va.
The scores put the Quakers
well ahead of Albany (320-314-634) and Lehigh (312-322--634),
The women’s golf team was who came in second and third,
golden this weekend at the respectively.
ECAC Championships.
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3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every
digit 1 to 9.
Part A
Skill:
9
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PENN vs. Princeton
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VOLLEYBALL
BY stephen guss
Contributing Writer
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Sports
Monday, October 5, 2009
Tigers
Tamed —
Finally
Double
Trouble
>> PAGE 11
30
>> PAGE 9
NEXT GAME: vs. bucknell | Sat., 1 p.m.
Penn too
reliant on
Samson
football | Penn
extends Dartmouth’s
losing streak to 15 with
first win of season
BY brandon moyse
Senior Staff Writer
SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 5
24
penn (1-2, 1-0 ivy) Vs. dartmouth (0-3, 0-1)
It’s easy beating Green
HANOVER, N.H. — If patience
is a virtue and good things come
to those who wait, then Dartmouth football coach Buddy
Teevens must be in line for sainthood for his Job-like suffering.
He and his team had waited
100 weeks for a win before hosting Penn at Memorial Field Saturday — and after falling 30-24,
they will have to wait at least one
more. Meanwhile, the Quakers
will roll into their next game confident after winning their conference opener.
From the very first series,
Dartmouth (0-3, 0-1 Ivy) showed
why it now owns a 15-game losing
streak — the second-longest such
mark in the nation behind Indiana State (32 games). After Penn
(1-2, 1-0 Ivy) forced the Big Green
to go three-and-out in their own
territory, long snapper Shane Peterlin sent the ball over punter
Matthew Kelly’s head. Instead
of falling on it, Kelly attempted to
kick it away, but Quakers safety
Jim McGoldrick blocked the ball
and recovered it in the endzone.
“Spotting a team points is not
a great way to start,” Teevens
said.
Penn was without cornerback
Chris Wynn and quarterback Keiffer Garton, who were sidelined
with injuries. Garton’s absence,
combined with heavy rain and
slippery field conditions, forced
the Quakers to bascially abandon
their passing game.
“We were a little bit limited in
what we could do offensively,”
online at dailypennsylvanian.com
football sidebar | Kicker
has missed FGs, but Quakers’
offense has missed endzone
BY neil fanaroff
Senior Staff Writer
HANOVER, N.H. — As a sophomore last year,
kicker Andrew Samson went 16-for-19 on field
goal tries. His success was good enough to earn
him preseason All-American honors going into
his junior campaign.
However, so far into the young season he has
yet to live up to his billing. Only three games into
the season, he has missed four kicks and had
another blocked in his first ten attempts.
Upon probing deeper, it becomes clear that
his talent hasn’t leveled off. Despite missing two
field goals (39 and 44 yards) in Saturday’s rainy
game against Dartmouth, Samson made three
(29, 35, and 39 yards). Last year, he attempted
only two field goals of 40 yards or longer, making
them both. This year he has tried four, connecting on only one.
So increased confidence from coach Al Bagnoli could account for the decreased field goal
percentage — at least in the stat book.
The more troubling explanation, though, is
the offense’s inability to put itself in legitimate
scoring range. While the Quakers have been
able to put points on the board in the red zone —
they’re 7-for-8 on the season — getting inside the
opponent’s 20 seems to be a bigger problem.
Penn drives ended between the opponent’s
20- and 30-yard lines three times against Dartmouth Saturday, two of them ending with SamSEE SIDEBAR PAGE 5
Kyle Olson (8) saw most of the snaps in Penn’s win Saturday. Yet because of starting quarterback Keiffer Garton’s elbow injury
and the rainy weather, the Quakers’ offense relied almost solely on the run — they picked up only 69 yards in the air.
Ivy history lesson for Columbia
ivy WEEKEnd RECAP | Lions’ shutout win over
Princeton snaps Ivy-opener losing streak
BY ZACH KLITZMAN
Sports Editor
Saturday Columbia partied
like it was 1961.
For the first time in 48 years
the Lions earned a road shutout
over an Ivy League opponent, as
they went to Princeton and came
away with a 38-0 shellacking.
It wasn’t just the road shutout
that was historic for Columbia
(2-1, 1-0 Ivy). It was its first Ivy
shutout since 1998, the 38-point
margin of victory was tied for
the second highest in program
history for an Ivy game, and it
Alex
Takukuwa
(3) evened
the game at
two in the
80th minute
of Penn’s draw
versus Cornell
with his teamleading fifth
goal Saturday
at Franklin
Field. The
game went
into overtime,
but neither
team could put
the decisive
goal on the
scoreboard
in the extra
minutes.
Andrew Townley/DP
Senior Photographer
Editorial (215) 898-6585 • Business (215) 898-6581
was the team’s first Ivy seasonopening win since 2003.
On the other hand, Princeton
(1-2, 0-1) suffered its first home
shutout since 1999. One reason
for the lack of offensive production: Standout running back
Jordan Culbreath didn’t play.
Princeton coach Roger Hughes
admitted the senior will likely
miss the rest of the season.
Colgate 45 Cornell 23
Both Cornell and Colgate
entered their rivalry matchup
undefeated. But in the end, the
better team prevailed.
Colgate, ranked No. 25, used a
17-0 run that spanned three quarters to put away the Big Red, winning 45-23 in Hamilton, N.Y. The
Raiders are now 5-0 overall, while
the Big Red suffered their first
loss of the year and are now 2-1.
SEE IVY RECAPS PAGE 5
Staff Writer
Three minutes into the second
half against Cornell Saturday,
junior goalie Ben Berg misplayed
an attempted cross that floated
over his head to gift the Big Red
a 1-0 lead.
But with the game on the line
in the second overtime, Berg
made a pair of tremendous clutch
saves to preserve a 2-2 tie.
“I try to do that every time, but
especially if I put my team down
and it’s my fault, I want to make
sure it won’t happen again,” Berg
said.
@
October 6 - October 11
Tomorrow
M. SocCER Lehigh vs. PENN
Rhodes Field, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, October 9
THE LINE: M. Hoops Season Ticket Event
The Palestra
M. Soccer
Cornell vs. PENN
2
2
Despite a disappointing end result against an underdog Cornell
squad (4-3-2, 0-0-1 Ivy) that was
0-7 in conference play last year,
the Quakers twice scored equalizers in the second half to avoid a
loss to open their Ivy season.
SEE M. SOCCER PAGE 11
Visit us online at dailypennsylvanian.com
Andrew Samson (96) has missed four field goals this season, which could be a reflection of larger offensive woes.
sports penn
Not a win, but not
bad for M. Soccer
BY ARI SEIFTER
at New York
Volleyball PENN vs. Brown
at Providence, R.I., 7 p.m.
Sprint Football PENN vs. Army
at West Point, N.Y., 7 p.m.
Saturday, October 10
M. Golf Big Five Championship Day 1
at Philadelphia Cricket Club
at New York
>> PAGE 10 for more events
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