Excitement wanes for 2013 inauguration

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Excitement wanes for 2013 inauguration
Many Penn students, however, will still be
making the trip down to D.C. on Monday
BY SETH ZWEIFLER
Campus News Editor
Looking ahead to Monday’s
inauguration, President Barack Obama may have a tough
act to follow: himself.
Across the country and on
Penn’s campus, many have
noted that the mood surrounding Obama’s second inaugural
go-around has featured a clear
drop in enthusiasm from the
high point in January 2009.
“Second-term inaugurals
are always very different,”
said English professor Dick
Polman, a political blogger for
WHYY and former Philadelphia Inquirer political columnist. “The first time around,
presidents are looking with
great sweep across a great
horizon of possibilities. But
the second time, they’re a bit
more tempered by experience — they’re likely to pull in
their parameters a bit to stick
to what’s achievable.”
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Politics,
China in
Huntsman
About 300 filled Huntsman Hall, and
others watched a live stream of talk
BY ALEX ZIMMERMANN
Associate News Editor
When Jon Huntsman Jr. was 11 years old, he
visited the White House and met future Secretary
of State Henry Kissinger.
Kissinger revealed to Huntsman that he was
traveling to China, and Huntsman, a former Chinese ambassador, speculates that this may have
been Kissinger’s famed secret trip to China in
1971.
“It’s a state secret,” he said, imitating Kissinger’s
well-known German accent. “I’m going to China.”
On Thursday, drawing laughter from about 300
in the hall that bears his father’s name, Huntsman
asked, “Was I there at the start of the U.S.-China
relationship?”
The 1987 College graduate, former Utah governor and 2012 presidential candidate was the
inaugural speaker in the Center for the Study of
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Jon Huntsman Jr., a 1987 College graduate, spoke to a crowd of about 300 in an auditorium in Huntsman Hall, the building that bears his father’s name, about U.S.China relations. When asked whether he would begin another campaign bid in 2016, the former governor and ambassador remained noncommital.
Fluharty to become next SAS dean New DP leaders
Steven Fluharty, Penn’s senior vice provost for
research, has been on the faculty for 27 years
BY SETH ZWEIFLER
Campus News Editor
Steven Fluharty, who currently serves as senior vice provost
for research at Penn, will succeed Rebecca Bushnell as the
next dean of the School of Arts
and Sciences, the University announced Thursday afternoon.
F lu h a r t y ’s a p p o i nt me nt
marks the end of a more than
four-month search process to
find a successor to Bushnell,
who has held her post since
2005.
Fluharty will begin his term
as SAS dean on July 1.
In addition to receiving all
three of his academic degrees
at Penn, Fluharty has held a variety of faculty and administrative positions during his time at
the University.
He currently holds a faculty
appointment in the Department
of Animal Biology in the School
of Veterinary Medicine, along
with secondary appointments in
psychology in the School of Arts
and Sciences and in pharmacology and neuroscience in the
Perelman School of Medicine.
“It’s a very pleasant mixture
of feeling thrilled, honored and
really touched in their confidence in my capabilities,” Fluharty said of learning about his
selection. “I’ve long felt that the
School of Arts and Sciences is
the heart and soul of any great
university like Penn. That view-
STEVEN
FLUHARTY
Incoming
School of Arts
and Sciences
dean
point is really embedded in my
DNA.”
Fluharty has been on Penn’s
faculty for the past 27 years, and
is “intimately familiar” with
SAS, Provost Vincent Price said,
citing things like his time spent
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Uncovering MLK’s
history on campus
Few are aware that
King audited three
University courses
between 1949 and 1951
BY SETH ZWEIFLER
Campus News Editor
On a Thursday evening in fall
1949, an unassuming, 20-yearold student walked into thenassistant professor Elizabeth
Flower’s “Philosophy of History” course at Penn.
Less than two decades later,
that student — Martin Luther
King Jr. — would be recognized
as one of the leading social activists of his time.
While many are gearing up
for this weekend’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day programs, few
on campus remember — or even
realize — the Penn-King connection.
In addition to the 1949-50
course King took with Flower,
records housed at the University
Archives show that King spent
time on campus taking two other
courses: “Kant,” taught by forSEE KING PAGE 9
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college’s Committee on Instruction, said.
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OBAMA from page 1
Following Obama’s election in November 2008, Penn’s
campus was “as loud as it’s
ever been,” said 2011 College
graduate Hannah Connor,
who campaigned for Obama’s
first election with Penn Democrats.
After learning of Obama’s
victory on election night, Connor — along with thousands
of other students and Philadelphia residents — marched
dow n Walnut and Market
streets to City Hall for an impromptu midnight victory celebration. Two months later,
Connor was also among the
hundreds of Penn undergraduates who traveled to Washington, D.C., for the inaugural
ceremony.
“I remember four years ago
that there was so much excitement, so much hope,” she
said. “It was like nothing I’d
ever seen.”
However, tempered largely
by a stalling economy and a divided Congress, much of that
euphoria now seems to have
dissipated.
A drop in the number of inaugural balls this year and a
reported shortfall in inauguration fundraising are both
additional signs of the waning
grandeur of this year’s ceremonies.
“We’re now facing challenging economic times, and
there’s a natural tendency for
a second-term inaugural like
this to be lower key and more
subdued than the first,” said
2001 Engineering graduate
Theo LeCompte, who, in addition to working on the 2009
inauguration, is serving as director of events and ceremonies for this year’s Presidential
Inaugural Committee.
“But that doesn’t change the
fact that there are many folks
out there who are still very excited for Monday.”
This year, Penn Democrats
offered 56 spots to the student
body on a bus that will leave
early Monday morning for the
inauguration, College sopho-
Students
pleased with
selection
DEAN from page 1
directing the Biological Basis of
Behavior program.
Among other things, Fluharty
pointed to a commitment to interdisciplinary learning and an
expansion of online learning opportunities as priorities for once
his term begins.
In the face of declining federal
funding for research, he also
highlighted the importance of
finding new sources for research
support — including fundraising
and partnering with professional
organizations.
Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships Director Harriet Joseph said she was
“delighted” to hear of Fluharty’s
appointment.
“Steve’s been instrumental in
doing research at Penn for a long
time,” she said. “Hopefully he’ll
continue to promote research
opportunities for students.”
Co-Director of the BBB program Marc Schmidt, a biology
professor, added that “having
somebody coming in with that
strong science background who
understands the research landscape at the University and also
understands how difficult it has
been to get funding … will be
great.”
According to Annenberg
School for Communication
Dean Michael Delli Carpini,
who chaired the consultative
committee that conducted the
search for a new SAS dean, Flu-
Friday, January 18, 2013 Page 3
Superintendent
proposed closings,
relocating 44 schools
in school district
BY CAROLINE MEUSER
Associate News Editor
Mustafa Al-ammar/File Photo
Obama supporters line the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for President
Barack Obama’s first inaugural speech in January 2009.
more and Penn Democrats
President Matt Kalmans said.
All of the spots sold out the day
they went on sale.
This, Kalmans believes, is a
testament to the fact that, while
the atmosphere surrounding
Obama’s second swearing-in
may be different, there are still
high levels of enthusiasm and
anticipation.
Kalmans added that this
weekend’s inauguration may
be even more significant in
some respects than in 2009,
given that “all the odds were
stacked against the president”
when the election began.
Although it is likely that
more students attended the
inauguration in 2009 — some
on a bus paid for by the Office
of the Vice Provost for University Life — than will this year,
many are still expected to
make the trip down to Washington on Monday.
Polman also noted that this
year’s slight uptick in youth voter turnout — which surprised
many — is evidence that much
of Obama’s draw still remains
among college-age voters.
“Part of his challenge on
Monday is really to try to at
least capture again some of
the idealism he stoked the first
time around,” Polman said,
pointing out that the window of
opportunity for a second-term
president to achieve meaningful results is generally 18
months.
With this in mind, assistant
political science professor
Marc Meredith said, Obama’s
inaugural address will likely
be notably different than his
2009 speech.
While Obama’s first address
was largely intended to be inspirational, this year’s speech
will likely be highly practical,
Meredith noted.
“I think he’ll hit on a lot of
themes that relate to the current debate in Washington
— on the debt ceiling and sequester and the real gridlock
items we’re seeing today,” he
said. “He’s hoping to use his
bully pulpit during the inaugural and the State of the Union to
move Washington to his side.”
Political science professor Rogers Smith added that
Obama may also use the address to stake out his position
on comprehensive immigration reform, as part of a larger
effort to “renew” the arc of his
presidency.
“The past four years have
been sobering about what any
president can accomplish,”
Smith said. “But I think there’s
no doubt that this is still going
to be an historic weekend.”
harty was among a “short list”
of candidates who were recommended to Price and President
Amy Gutmann near the end of
last semester.
Although Delli Carpini declined to say how many made
that final list, he acknowledged
that there were candidates from
within and outside the University.
Moving forward, Gutmann
said that Fluharty will soon begin on a “listening tour,” taking
time to meet with members of
the SAS community so that he is
ready to hit the ground running
in July.
“He was clearly the person
best prepared to lead the School
of Arts and Sciences, building on
the terrific record of Rebecca
Bushnell,” Gutmann said. “What
he brings to the position is everything you could hope for in the
next dean.”
With Fluharty’s departure
from the Provost’s Office, Price
added that the University will
soon begin looking for a new vice
provost for research.
Although he has enjoyed his
time in his current position,
Fluharty said he applied for the
deanship because he “viewed
it as an opportunity to take the
skills and knowledge I have
from my career at Penn and apply them to be what I consider
to be one of the most important
academic leadership roles on
campus.”
In addition to faculty, many
students were also pleased to
learn of Fluharty’s appointment.
“I’m really happy they picked
someone from the science side,”
said College junior Julio Albarracin, the Undergraduate Assembly’s vice president for internal
affairs. “I think we need those
opportunities for research and
I think we’re definitely going to
see more opportunities for undergraduates.”
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The Philadelphia public
school system is undergoing
some changes — changes
that are rightfully capturing
the attention of some service
groups at Penn.
Several student service organizations are doing their
best to maintain steady outside relationships with the
schools that may be affected.
Philadelphia School Superintendent William Hite announced his proposal to close
or relocate 44 schools on January 13. The announcement
came in a email to the School
District of Philadelphia and
came with a 12-page Facilities Master Plan document
proposing schools that will
close and those that will see
major changes such as grade
reconfiguration. If the plan is
approved by the School Reform Commission, changes
will take effect in June 2013.
According to the email, the
closings would allow the overall school system to “improve
learning opportunities for all
students and overcome massive financial challenges.”
Student groups such as
Community Schools Student
Partnerships currently work
with elementary schools slated to close.
CSSP works at Wilson Elementary at 46th Street and
Woodland Avenue that will be
merged with Henry C. Lea Elementary School at 47th and
Locust streets if the proposed
plan becomes official. The
group also works with University City High School at 3601
Filbert Street which is also
predicted to close. College
sophomore and incoming Director of CSSP Jessica King
said CSSP “has been trying
to avoid speculation until the
official closing decisions.”
“If [the schools we work
with] close, [CSSP] would
have to do some serious shifting to ensure those public
school students continue to
be supported by their Penn
mentors through their transition,” she added.
It’s not uncommon for community service groups to face
this sort of situation.
Last year, PennPals — a
one-on-one mentorship program that has paired Penn
students with those from
Drew Elementary school at
38th and Powelton for over
a decade ­— successfully
changed their work site in
West Philadelphia.
Last year Drew closed
along with seven other schools
in the district, and PennPals
moved to Powel Elementary
School at 36th and Powelton.
According to PennPals codirector and College senior
James Sadler, Drew’s closing
could have been very damaging to the organization.
However, “[the PennPals
board] last year planned for
the worst very early on and
[has] made a very successful
transition into Powel.”
Since the move, PennPals
has experienced a greater
turnout of elementary students’ participating in the
program. College sopho more and PennPals Community Outreach Chair Layla
Rashid said involvement has
also been easier for Penn students because Powel is more
conveniently located.
Rashid added, however,
that the PennPals board was
concerned the move would
hinder the relationship between Penn students and
their pals. “We didn’t want to
break the connection the kids
already made,” she said.
As for the schools’ reaction
to the proposals, one school
leader is optimistic about his
school’s future. Community
Association President of Lea
Elementary School Maurice
Jones does not think the relocating process will have a dramatic impact on students.
“The school is planning ‘get
to know’ meetings between
students at Lea and Wilson as
well as the parent communities,” he said.
Parents of the affected
children, however, do not all
share the same positive outlook. According to a press release, hundreds of concerned
parents and other residents
expressed their worry and
disapproval outside the school
district headquarters at 440
N. Broad Street last Sunday.
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12th Annual
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Friday, January 18, 2013
Houston Hall
11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Open to all UG and Grad students
interested in real estate.
Meet dozens of industry professionals:
development, finance, management, and more.
A great opportunity to find summer intern or fulltime positions in real estate.
The Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center gratefully acknowledges the
generosity of Jeff T. Blau WG92, CEO of Related Companies,
who has helped finance the Center’s Twelfth Annual Career Fair.
Mr. Blau is committed to supporting job placement initiatives for
the University’s real estate students, now and into the future.
Questions? Contact Ron Smith: [email protected]; 215-746-4709.
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In defense
of Amy
Watch
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THE CASUAL OBSERVER | Amy Gutmann
has proven that she deserves her salary
O
ne and a half
million dollars.
T h a t ’ s
enough to give
almost ever yone in the city of Philadelphia a buck. That’s enough
to cover 25 students’ tuition
at Penn for a year. That’s also
enough to keep Amy Gutmann at Penn for 2013.
In 2010, Gutmann was paid
$1,462,742, making her the
12th highest-paid president
at a private university. There
has been a wide range of reactions to her salary, with
many students expressing
their discontent.
“In general, I feel that
people who disapprove of
Gutmann’s salary, including
myself, feel that it may be too
high when you compare it to
the high cost of coming here,
the quality of education that
we’re getting and the disparity between what students
expect out of Penn and actually receive,” Wharton sophomore Idy Akpan said.
“The level of support and
ser v ices t hat one wou ld
expect for paying $60,000
doesn’t seem to come across,
so a $1. 5 m i l l ion sa la r y
doesn’t feel completely justified … I feel like emotionally
and psychologically, the experience doesn’t all add up.”
Although Gutmann is comfortably in the one percent,
she deserves a break. When
evaluating her salar y, we
should look at the context
and base our judgments on
her value.
First of all, there is basic
supply and demand. There
is a market out there for executives, administrators and
managers. Every institution
and company competes to attract the brightest and best.
In order to have the most
qualified president, we have
to be willing to offer an enticing salary that keeps her
at Penn. This attitude is also
the reason Penn is able to
attract the best professors,
who have already established
reputations that could secure
them more lucrative career
paths outside academia.
Second, Penn has approximately 17,000 employees in
addition to around 20,000 undergraduates and graduates.
For heading an institution of
Penn’s size, Gutmann is paid
relatively little.
To put this in context, CEO
Kevin Sharer of Amgen, a
biotechnology company with
roughly the same number
of employees, earned approximately $19 million in
2011, more than ten-fold Gutmann’s 2010 salary. I doubt
Gutmann would want to lead
a company like Amgen, but
she definitely has many more
options out there that she
could easily take.
A com mon compla i nt
among some students is that
there’s too large of a discrepancy between Gutmann’s
salary and that of 17,000 employees, but we must recognize the unique demands of
her position.
Gutmann faces immense
pressure every day as the
figurehead and leader of our
university. Every single success and failure of the university is ref lected on her
and she represents our university on both a national and
international scale. Handling
all of this definitely takes a
lot of skills and experience,
which corresponds with her
salary.
And seeing what she’s actually accomplished at Penn
further justifies that $1.5
million. Even in a decade of
economic volatility, Gutmann
was able to implement a noloan financial aid policy for
undergraduates.
Moreover, she successfully
completed a phenomenal $3.5
billion fundraising campaign
that will continue to improve
Penn. That’s approximately
the same size as Dartmouth’s
SORRY TO BE KURT | We should televise
executions in the United States
T
ROBERT HSU
endowment. As president,
she has more than exceeded
her role to fundraise — arguably her primary job — and
has set the standard for all
universities.
Finally, under her watch,
our campus has continued
to grow. Not only do we have
new research facilities and
green spaces such as Shoemaker Green, but with Penn
Park we finally reached the
west bank of the Schuykill.
Perhaps the solution to
students’ complaints about
Gutmann’s salar y doesn’t
have to involve reducing or
capping it.
Akpan had a couple ideas.
“I’m sure Penn releases a
document that shows where
tuition goes, kind of like how
every company has financial
statements,” she said. “Penn
should publicize this kind of
information more because
people would feel better
knowing that their money is
going to good sources. Transparency and communication
are crucial.”
That might help relieve
some of the tension over
people like Akpan’s general
qualms. But the great thing
about Gutmann is that her
salary and her work are very
transparent.
It’s easy to look at $1.5 million as an absolute number
instead of in context. But
with all things considered,
Gutmann might actually be
underpaid.
Robert Hsu, a College and
Wharton sophomore from Novi,
Mich. His email address is
[email protected]. Follow
him @mrroberthsu. “The
Casual Observer” appears
every other Friday.
he first execution
of 2013 was carried
out Wednesday
night in Virginia.
We strapped convicted murderer Robert Gleason Jr. to “old sparky” and fried
him.
You probably didn’t know
that.
Indeed, activist groups and
the media tend to focus on cases
where the guilt of the prisoner is
in question — for example, Philadelphia’s Mumia Abu-Jamal a
year ago. They also attempt to
intervene where prosecutorial
misconduct or racial bias is a
concern — like in Terrance Williams’ case last year.
That’s why Gleason Jr. hasn’t
attracted much attention —
he’s an admitted murderer
three times over. He murdered
a member of a methamphetamine drug ring to prevent him
from testifying in court. Then,
while incarcerated, he murdered his cellmate because he
was frustrated with him.
Finally, while in solitary confinement, he strangled another
inmate and taunted prison officials who attempted to revive
him.
Shortly thereafter, Gleason
Jr. told the Associated Press, “I
murdered that man cold-bloodedly. I planned it, and I’m gonna
do it again. Someone needs to
stop it. The only way to stop me
is put me on death row.”
One can understand why
there hasn’t been a big public
outcry surrounding his execution and why Virginia Governor
Bob McDonnell announced he
would not block it.
Gleason Jr. is clearly a danger
to others and no doubt executing him will make the lives of his
fellow inmates and correction
officers safer. It’s very easy to
say that he’s getting what he deserves — a sentiment that even
he has expressed. Because we
don’t see the executions, it’s
easy to abdicate responsibility
for them.
And that’s why we should
televise executions.
Currently, we focus on retributive justice and our responsibility in it. If executions
were broadcast into our homes,
we would be forced to confront
broader, more important, questions like whether the state
should be allowed to kill its citizens.
‘‘
Maybe we
would decide
that we like
executions.
Bravo could
start a new
reality TV series
about death
row inmates.”
The social contract that we
all implicitly enter when we are
born into our society should not
endow the state the power to kill
us. Society, which represents
that we have moved beyond a
state of nature, should be held to
a higher standard and as such
should not resort to barbaric
means to protect its citizens.
Ultimately, this type of control
is empirically more dangerous
in the hands of a government.
Inevitably, a state that is empowered to kill its own citizens
under certain circumstances
will seek to expand that power
where it finds it expedient.
Take the Obama administration, for example. In the “War
on Terror” the president has
deemed it necessary at times
to execute American citizens
living abroad. In 2011, we executed a 16-year-old American
citizen simply because his father was an active member of
al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula,
despite the fact that we had already executed his father two
weeks prior.
KURT MITMAN
We continue to carry out
drone executions in the Middle
East and we continue to execute
our citizens at home.
It’s not clear how we would
respond to televised executions.
In times past, executions were
very popular forms of entertainment — and they still are
today in some other parts of the
world.
Maybe we would decide that
we like executions. Bravo could
start a new reality TV series
about death row inmates.
Or maybe we would start
to have a conversation about
whether we think that we should
allow such barbaric practices to
be carried out in our country.
How would parents respond to
their children’s questions about
why it’s OK for us to kill that
man on TV?
Perhaps that could spark a
greater debate about the barbaric nature of punishment in
our country. We have by far the
largest prison population in the
world and we subject them to
harsh and dangerous conditions. In fact more inmates are
murdered every year in prison
than are executed.
We like to think of ourselves
as living in the most civilized
country in the world. For the
most part, we ignore the barbaric aspects of punishment
that are meted out by the
state.
Maybe if we were forced
to confront that punishment,
we actually could live in the
most civilized country in the
world.
Kurt Mitman is a 6th-year
doctoral student from McLean,
Va. His email address is kurt.
[email protected]. Follow him
@SorryToBeKurt. “Sorry To Be
Kurt” appears every Friday.
YOUR VOICE
Drink wisely
I
read with interest about the installation of water bottle
filling stations at Wharton (“Wharton offers water bottle
filling station for students,” 1/15/2013). While I certainly
applaud the notion of reducing waste and the unnecessary
expense of bottled water, I must point out that the need to
consume large volumes of water each day is without any par-
ticular health benefit and need not be officially encouraged.
Except for those who are at risk for kidney stone formation,
there is no benefit to consume more water than is needed to
respond to thirst. If that is how students and faculty will use
the new dispensers, that is fine. But those who really do not
want to schlep water bottles around all day, particularly in the
cool days of winter, should feel free to simply use the water
fountain pictured next to the new high-tech dispenser. “Drink
when you are thirsty” is the official recommendation of the
Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
Stanley Goldfarb
Perelman School of Medicine professor
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Friday, January 18, 2013 Page 5
Coders to mix, mingle and hack at PennApps
More than 500 are
expected to attend the
48-hour hackathon
this weekend
BY YOLANDA CHEN
Staff Writer
Lights from laptop screens
will light up the Engineering
Quad all day and night this
weekend.
Between Jan. 18 and 20, students from almost 40 universities around the country and
Canada and Zurich will be
gathering in the Towne Building for PennApps, a studentrun 48-hour hackathon held
every semester.
Organizers of PennApps
are especially excited about
the large number of partici-
pants this year. More than
500 hackers are expected to
attend. The hackathon will
conclude with a demo session in Irvine Auditorium on
Sunday.
“This is a hard claim to
substantiate, but I would venture to say we’re probably the
most global hackathon ever,”
Wharton and Engineering Junior Pulak Mittal, a PennApps
organizer, said.
Since October last year,
the organizers have worked
to reach out to prospective applicants from different universities, securing sponsorships,
coordinating travel plans and
organizing a judging panel.
When it came to deciding on
the event’s location, however,
the team of organizers chose
Towne Building.
“Based on the success of
the event last semester held
at Ware College House, the
Engineering dean personally
reached out to us and said,
‘We want you back at the engineering building,” organizer
and Wharton and Engineering
junior Joseph Zhong said.
The organizing committee
also hopes to attract students
who may not have experience
in computer programming or
hacking and include them in
the experience.
As a build-up to the actual
hackathon, the committee organized a series of tech talks
held by companies like Facebook throughout the week to
introduce students of varying
levels of experience to computer programming.
In addition, Mittal encour-
Management 100 sees issues
with course enrollment
Unlike in the fall,
the course is open
to non-Wharton
students in the spring
BY TVISI RAVI
Staff Writer
If you thought Management
100 is only for Wharton students, think again.
Ever y spr ing semester,
the course — required of all
Wharton students to graduate
— is open to Wharton and nonWharton students alike. This
semester, however, an unusually large number of open slots
are available for non-Wharton
students, and professors are
hoping to entice students to
enroll in the upcoming week.
In the spring, Management
100 offers students the opportunity to work with for-profit
companies, unlike in the fall,
when students work with nonprofit companies.
The course is offered in
the fall strictly for incoming
Wharton freshmen due to
scheduling conflicts. In the
spring, dual degree and transfer students primarily fill the
course.
According to Deputy Director of the Wharton Leadership
Program Anne Greenhalgh,
who coordinates Management
100, approximately 170 dual degree and transfer students are
required to take the course
and could possibly sign up in
the spring. This includes approximately 30 juniors, a few
seniors and the rest sophomores.
Knowing that not all of these
170 students would sign up,
the Management 100 staff reserved 150 seats for the class
this semester.
However, fewer students
signed up than expected,
including the number of juniors.
“Most of them talked about
the challenge balancing their
dual degree and on-campus
recruitment,” Greenhalgh
said. “Management 100 is
time-consuming.”
Typically, the class is divided into three sections,
each with 50 students. The
students are then divided into
five groups of 10.
However, one section this
semester has just 22 students
enrolled.
“A team of 10 is large and
challeng ing to nav igate,”
Greenhalgh said. “But on the
other hand, if you have fewer
than six, it is a less robust experience.”
Lecturer Stephen Oliver,
who is teaching the 22-student
section this semester, said he
is looking for more students to
join because of “the perspectives of the different students
and their experiences.”
One non-Wharton student,
College sophomore Erica Liebman, decided to enroll in the
class at the start of the semester and seems to be enjoying
her experience in Management 100.
“It’s so real world and extremely hands-on and unlike
any other course I could sign
up for in the College,” Liebman
said. “I’m very introverted and
shy, so it felt like I could grow
as a person [in the course].”
College freshmen Lumin
Shen heard about the course
from her friends and said she
may be interested in enrolling
in the future.
“The feedback, working
with new people, pursuing a
common goal — I think that’s
all really useful,” she said.
Greenhalgh is looking to
add at least eight more students to Oliver’s section, so
that the class will have five
groups of six students each,
which Greenhalgh said is the
“threshold.” She added that
she is unsure why enrollment
numbers are down this semester.
Although students are already in the process of choosing a client to work with for the
semester, Oliver reassured
that those who choose to join
now will not be too far behind.
“We will get them up to
speed,” he said. “The work really begins next week.”
ages all students to attend the
Sunday demo session, when
the 20 f inalist teams will
present their hacks for over
‘‘
The best strategy is
to stay away from the
caffeine.”
— Andrew Braunstein
Engineering senior, previous
Hackathon participant
$20,000 in prizes.
Throughout the 48-hour
hackathon this year, there
will be free food, video games,
Quizzo and ice-skating events
for participants who wish to
take a break from hacking and
mingle with fellow hackers.
In addition to a valuable
hacking experience, the organizers also want it to be a
fun and social one. Mittal said
that last year, there was an
impromptu Nerf Gun battle
where “everyone had a fully
loaded Nerf Gun and just ran
at each other.”
Past participants really
enjoy what PennApps has to
offer.
“I love hackathons and the
experience of being around
brilliant people while building something I’m passionate
about in a conducive environment, University of Pittsburgh
sophomore Zainul Shah said
in an email. “PennApps has
all of this and more, which
makes for an absolutely unforgettable weekend.”
Others have strategies for
this year based on past experience.
“The best strategy is to
stay away from the caffeine,”
Engineering senior Andrew
Braunstein said.
“Our strategy is to have a
number of possible project
ideas, with the option to pivot
to a feasible fall-back idea,”
fourth-time participant and
Eng i neer i ng sen ior Nick
McGill said.
Advising incoming participants, Wharton junior Alex
Rattray said to be careful not
to take on too ambitious of a
challenge. “[It’s important to]
have fun, work on something
very bite-sized that still does
something cool and useful.”
BRIEF
Former Penn prof set
to go on parole
Rafael Robb, the former
Penn professor who was sentenced to prison in 2008 for
killing his wife, Ellen, is set to
be released later this month.
On Dec. 22, 2006, Ellen Robb
was found bludgeoned to death
in the family’s home. Approximately two weeks later, Robb,
a tenured economics professor, was arrested and was
later charged with first- and
third-degree murder.
Later that in 2007, Robb
pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter, and admitted to
beating his wife to death with
a chin-up bar after an argument about their daughter’s
holiday travel plans. A year
later, he was sentenced to five
to 10 years in prison.
Montgomery County District Attorney and 1987 College
graduate Risa Ferman said
she feels strongly that Robb
should not be paroled, calling
him “a dangerous man, an unremorseful man and a brutal,
vicious killer.”
Ferman, along with former
District Attorney Bruce Caster
and members of Ellen Robb’s
family, are currently trying
to convince the Pennsylvania
Board of Probation and Parole
to overturn its decision.
Ferman, who investigated
the crime the day it happened,
called the murder “the most
brutal killing that I’ve ever
seen.”
Robb’s lawyer and the state
parole board were not available to comment as of press
time.
Robb’s sentence was in line
with the average sentence of
nine years for first-time offenders committing domestic
violence homicides, according
to Richard Gelles, the dean of
the School of Social Policy and
Practice who has also done extensive research on domestic
violence.
However, Gelles said it is
hard to predict whether Robb
will commit another violent
crime while free, as he “falls
out of the typical age range
of these sorts of cases.” Because of this, Gelles said, “I
worry about a lack of stake in
conformity.”
If his parole decision is not
overturned, Robb will be a free
man on Jan. 28.
-HARRISON FALLON
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Grocer and opens a box of red velvet
cupcakes. She plops herself on the
floor and starts nomming. Did she
pay for it? No. Did she need to? No.
Because she’s a CEO, bitch.
Scene: Jen is writing emails.
Scene: Jen is writing emails and is
interrupted by a talented crime beat
and DP hearthrob. He serenades her
with roses and asks her to DP Banquet
because she lights up his world like
nobody else. He knows her affinity for
cheesy boy bands. But our beloved
Jennybear doesn’t have time for romance – she’s running a company now.
And, anyway, she prefers curry over
latkes, any day.
Scene: Jen is live tweeting. Jen,
stop tweeting.
Scene: it’s 2 a.m. Jen is still in the
office. And she’s here to stay. Here’s
to what will be an amazing year. Those
two R&R pillars aren’t going to build
themselves.
Melissa Hong
Managing Editor
Business Manager
DI R E C T O R
We hoped that the trend of female,
full Asian, and increasingly taller
business managers would continue,
but no such luck with this half-Asian,
half-white, five-foot-tall Biz Manager.
Arguably her greatest accomplishment at the DP so far is discovering that an outgoing copy editor
looks just like her boyfriend. And to
top that off, the two guys actually
met last month and documented the
meet with a picture. But all jokes
aside, Melissa is so ready for her new
position at the DP. Just judging by
the way she tackles school, you know
that she is a hard worker and up for
any challenge. Concentrating in Finance and Accounting, Melissa loves
her classes at Wharton, practically
jumping for joy when she bought
her textbooks last semester. Rest assured the Business Department will
be in good hands this year, since the
only thing that she holds above the
DP is her beloved Dallas Cowboys.
And don’t forget, Melissa, to keep
blasting T Swift in your office!
Following her premiere into Charlottesville, Va., Society last December, this will
be Managing Editor Ellen Frierson’s second debut in two years. This southern
belle will be directing the DP’s editorial content following extensive photo and
design work. Lucky for you, she’ll have nothing to do with the DP’s online presence — let’s just say that her forays into the twittersphere haven’t been as much
of a hit as her photos. (Remember that time the #DPdidTheSouth? Shmeh.)
Known as a workaholic, Ellen has not had much time for off-screen romantic
endeavours. Just ask her last five “soulmates.” In her journey around Europe,
though, Ellen discovered she was an avid Francophile and will be competing for
the Palm d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Hopefully for Ellen, she can keep up
her 79.9893479 percent retention rate, and this year’s cast and crew can survive
Hurricane Ellen.
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You may recognize this leading lady from “Mean Girls.”
Yes, it’s true, she did make out with Coach Carr. This College
junior and Sigma Kappa sister is ready to take on her newest
role as Online Managing Editor. Don’t be surprised if you see
retweets of @julieyinxie from @dailypenn — Julie is now in
charge of all things online, including Twitter. After a year in
the Blue Room, Julie will bring her sassy attitude and Pepcid
(to prevent the Asian glow) to the world wide web. One thing
she will have to leave behind is her love/hate, or love-to-hate,
relationship with former co-star Seth Zweifler. Even the way
he cleared his throat became annoying to her during their last
movie together. One word of precaution as she walks down the
red carpet: never take her picture without allowing her to do
“skinny arm.”
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Steven Jaffe is not one to separate work and play. Last semester, this Italian-Jew charmed a fellow editor by inviting her
to “study” with him at a high-rise lounge. Things took off and
… the only thing there was left to study the next morning was
her neck. Aside from his passion for older women, Jaffe has a
penchant for food. He once pulled an all-nighter to snag specialty
doughnuts by the shore. Sassy Jaffe also enjoys his meals with a
good debate and is known for challenging his ultra-conservative
grandfather at family dinners. After leading a nomadic life at
4015 Walnut Street, Jaffe has finally found a home in the Opinion closet. We’re confident in his ability to break down national
politics but let’s hope that editing The Screwtinizer (the DP’s
sex column) will help him learn what actually makes a girl
pregnant.
Carolyn Lye
Jenny Lu
Sports Design Editor
Copy Editor
You may think you know this
calm and cool Canadian, but watch
out. According to an old friend,
the Carolyn “Catcher in the” Lye
that we know and love is actually
an alter ego; the true Carolyn is
a child at heart with no hand-eye
coordination to speak of. When
she's not shoving spare change
into anything blue, mutating rat
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Maegan Cadet
Photo Manager
A photo department veteran specializing in crotch-grabbing shots of the
wrestling team, Maegan Cadet has stepped onto the mat as the 129's photo
manager. Maegan exudes trendiness, sporting asos.com jewelry on the
daily and winning the respect of 128 has-beens for her killer interview outfit.
When she ran out of space on her person, she added a touch of spice to the
photo corner with punchy red pillows. Ca-yute! Although her cut-outs look
like the first-grade collage that our mom put up on the fridge, we have no
worries that this diva will be able to use her sassy emails to charm freshmen
photographers into loving working for the DP. If she's lucky, they'll choose
her over Amanda and Carolyn as a fellow maroon.
Papa razzi
Amanda Suarez
News Photo Editor
This paparazzo and former Catholic schoolgirl from the Philly suburbs
wasn’t always shooting high-profile celebrities on the red carpet. In fact, her
career began at an early age when she was well known among her peers
for daily photo shoots with her six fully dressed cats.
Beware of her deadly key lime pie — it’s been known to bribe past photo
editors. Lately she’s been having an identity crisis of sorts — taking all of
the sports photos while Carolyn takes all the news assignments. Her latest
obsession: snapping pics of crying sorority girls.
Looking to be the next news photo editor? Nickelback tickets should seal
the deal.
Carolyn Lim
Sports Photo Editor
Hailing from the Lion City of Singapore, Carolyn Lim brought her enthusiasm and her smile to the office like a sweeping tropical wind. Not only a big
fan of yummy cuisines but also good at making them, she’s a true gourmet
in life and in work. Her photo assignment emails are as sweet as Baklava;
her traveling photos as delicate and elegant as Tiramisu; her optimistic
and sunny tone as cheerful as chocolate mocha. But don’t be fooled by her
tricks: one second ago she was pointing her camera to a course of fish and
chips, and one second later she has already captured a picture of you, as
she never forgets her duty as a paparazzo!
Mike Tony
Senior Sports
Editor
Once a solid, reliable staff
writer, Mike Tony (or shall we go
by his stage name, ‘Mik-a Tony!’
Just like the Italians say ‘Rav-i
oli!’ get it?!) has quickly ascended the ranks of DPOSTM and
Academy acclaim. Hailing from
the small town of Uniontown, Pa.,
Tony is the ultimate Pittsburgh
Dad. He’s never afraid to speak
(or write) what’s on his mind,
will take no nonsense and has a
deep-rooted hatred toward the
Baltimore Ravens. His fatal flaw,
however, is a need — a need for
speed. The man will stick with a
task until it’s done right, dammit,
but it’ll just take some time. Or a
lot of time. Of course he means
well, but sometimes he moves
at the pace of our 80 year old
grandfathers. It’s okay, though,
because if that’s the worst of it,
he’ll be just fine.
Ian Wenik
Sports Editor
Who got the Vikings’ only
touchdown in Super Bowl IV?
Ian knows it’s Dave Osborn,
of course, just as he knows
every other player who’s ever
scored in the big game. Career
triples for Rickey Henderson?
66. But only four came after
Ian’s eighth birthday, when the
Man of Steal denied him an
autograph.
But there’s a reason this
stats guru just writes about
sports. Oh, he’s tried to play
them. He even threw a touchdown in the Kamin Cup – just
to the other team, after they
called his name. And watch out
for those stop signs! Only one
thing would stand in the way
of him fulfilling his DP duty:
Giants playoff tickets. Guess
he won’t have to worry about
that this year.
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genes, daydreaming, or throwing
tantrums brought on by the words
"Carolyn bass solo," Carolyn tends
to sing to herself — and with good
reason, as her voice is amazing.
And, unlike Taylor Swift, Carolyn
tends to receive love songs (or
poems) instead of writing them
— ask her about the biology haiku
she once received!
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Alison Bart
Sports Editor
Ever since the day she got
her hands on her first dictaphone at journalism camp,
Allison knew she wanted to be
a reporter. Or it could’ve been
the first time she laid eyes on
Andy Toole. Good thing he
didn’t see her donning her
Rocawear sweatsuit and Air
Force 1s.
Outside the DP, this Vanderbilt wannabe is still holding out hope she’ll one day
be an Olympic curler. You
can usually spot her walking around campus talking
in a baby voice to cute dogs
and Asian couples, sometimes
both. And you’ll spot her at
every Penn basketball game –
win or lose, she’ll have a good
time. Unless of course she
ends up face-first in a puddle
of Mountain Dew.
Karl
Bagherzadeh
Sports Editor
The Legend of Karl Bagherzadeh begins in a land far,
far away where they call soccer “football” and enjoy eating
snails. (Yes, he’s had them,
and they’re good.) English isn’t
Karl’s forte, and one might
think that’s a troublesome trait
for an editor. But not for Karl –
he can write about sports. He
learned English from reading
NFL recaps when he was still
vivre en France.
This French monsieur almost went full McGurn after
being abandoned at early
morning field hockey practice
and surviving Ben Golombek.
Good thing he stayed on board
and we tricked him into becoming sports editor.
Hailey Edelstein
Between baking and being
mistaken for the other copy
editor, Jenny somehow finds
35+ hours a week to spend
at 4015 Walnut. This North
Carolina belle will treat you
to plenty of Southern comfort
by baking anything from cornbread to souffle for the entire
DP office. But of course, like
a good hostess, she’d never
make anyone feel left out
— she makes sure to share
her concoctions in her legendary food porn albums on
Facebook. In her spare time,
Jenny also (reluctantly) does
freelance photography for a
certain “socialite” on campus. But for every sweet side,
there’s also a sour. According
to a close friend, Jenny once
“puked a circle around herself at the Upper Quad gate”
before having a slight run-in
with MERT. On a weekday.
Here’s hoping that only happens during Fling.
News Design Editor
"You don't think I'm good at
Design? Are you Joking?!"
Such would be the tagline for
this Real Housewife of the Daily
Pennsylvanian. Hayley Hailey
Edelstein is definitely one Penn
celeb you do not want to mess
with. She's smart (she's in Enrineering...), chic (she reportedly
can't study with knots in her hair),
athletic (she loves 10-minute bike
rides), romantic (parle français),
spoiled (she didn't do her laundry until she came to Penn!), and
tasteful (she hoards M&M's). Hailey's not afraid to speak her mind,
something that's sure to bring a lot
of design DRAMA. And let me tell
you something about Hailey. This
Design Editor and her co-star
Carolyn are as thick as thieves
and will protect each other to the
end. Or at least until deadline.
Huizhong p o r t e r
Re
Wu
s
Glenn Shrum
Assignments Editor
Rumor has it this Georgia native
could give any Bachelor a run for
his money. The 6’4” comp lit major’s
known among friends for his thoughtful poetry, August Rush-esque guitar
playing — he’s classically trained —
Copy Editor
This Kansas-born pop-punk
princess now reigns as co-Queen
of the Red Room. Don’t let her
sweet demeanor fool you — she’s
a certified badass (sources say
she once came back from a political activist’s lecture AFTER
MIDNIGHT!). If you cross her,
this slam poet with an encyclopedic knowledge of all that is Taylor
Swift may write angsty haikus
about you, along with any boy
she starts to have a crush on. According to Jennifer’s Facebook
profile, she is also an alumna of
the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which might
explain why a certain friend
named Harry often enjoys puking all over her bed after having too many butterbeers. If you
have any comments or questions
about the fairness or accuracy of
a story, be sure to email her at
[email protected].
Sarah Smith
City News
Editor
Campus News
Editor
Better known as Hazel,
The Flash or Hui-Hui, this
Master(wo)man can be found
in her natural habitat, flipping
off fellow editors and enjoying
Tequila Tuesdays. Rumor has
it that she’s also a front-runner
for Best Actress for her Oscarworthy performances at DP
BYOs. When she’s not in the
Pink Palace, you can be sure to
spot Huizhong at Beijing Hooters, her favorite summer hangout. An aspiring Asian Eminem,
this voracious tweeter is behind
much of the magic that happens
@theblueroom129. Voted best
laugh in high school, Huizhong’s
internet meme is about to go
viral — all the way to India. That
shit Hui.
Jennifer Yu
and sweet Southern twang. (Y’all can
ask him to bake you his grandma’s
buttermilk paaaahye.) Close friends
are mum on whether he’s up for grabs
but some tips just in case: homeboy
loves his bourbon and compliments
on his luscious blonde hair. Let him
know that you think three’s a blue
kind of number, too. And four, four is
definitely a green.
You can find Sarah either
swing dancing at Don Memo’s,
covering a protest on College
Green or being threatened
with lawsuits. She’s spent the
past year covering politics,
or as her luck had it — angry
people. As a reporter, she’s
always conducting interviews,
including during class and after BYOs. This political junkie
has wanted to vote since she
was 7 years old, and she celebrated her birthday playing
a drinking game to the presidential debate. Sarah, who
moonlights as Chancellor Kaiser Wolfcloud, is OBSESSED
with a lot of things, including
Asian food. Maybe that’s where
her mysterious “stomach bug”
came from that one time. You
can follow her at @ses_27, her
nighttime Twitter.
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Gautam
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Betsy
Modayil
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Marketing
Manager
Even after knowing Gautam
for a semester, no one at the DP
office is sure how to pronounce
his name. But whether you call
him Gautam, G, John, or “Hey,
you,” Gautam has come to be
known as a great ad rep and
now the newly elected marketing manager. But be warned
— this kid is a bit crazy. He’s
jumped onto the SEPTA train
tracks to retrieve an ad rep’s
cowboy hat and climbed onto
rooftops for fun. From all that,
I think it’s safe to say that you
should expect some daredevil
marketing stunts from the DP
Su
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gA
Credit Manager
this year. We can’t wait to see
what this fres shman can do for
the marketing department! Get
‘em, got ‘em (Gautam)!
As Betsy first stepped into
the Large for her interview and
her eyes met Kermit’s eyes, she
knew she was in love. And it was
mutual. During her interview,
Kermit put his arm around her
and helped answer some questions. But this great love truly
started over a year ago, when
Kermit first saw Betsy. He always had a crush but only got the
confidence when he found out
Betsy was fantastic enough to
become credit manager. Kermit
took Betsy to Eagles games and
spent hours watching TV shows
like Suits with her. He even went
as far as to go on American Idol
with her. Knowing she doesn’t
like to sing but dreams of being
on Idol, he sang on the show as
she accompanied him with the
guitar. Don’t get jealous if you
see the two of them living happily ever after in the accounting
office.
Gianni
Mascioli
Taylor Culliver
Finance Manager
Need to sell ice to an eskimo? Fish to a fisherman?
Taylor Culliver’s the man
for you. When this charismatic jack-of-all-trades is not
hobnobbing with the 76ers,
churning out the Penn Political Review, or dancing
away to Wacka Flacka, this
Southern Sweetie is busy
being the most charming
thing that happened to Penn
since Amy G. There’s no one
more accomplished or more
likeable than Taylor, whose
insatiable love for karaoke
and for fun is simply infectious. As advertising manager, Taylor will bring the
DP to new heights and will
be a great role model for the
rest of the company. The DP
simply could not be luckier.
If you were ever looking for
the perfect guy to meet, here
he is, girls! You will be hard
pressed to find a guy as sweet
as Gianni. And hey, he’s pretty
easy on the eyes, too. After being chosen as the Campus Cutie
of the Week by Her Campus,
this Italian stallion showed off
his stuff as he was auctioned
off as a date at Smoke’s. Who
ever said $3 extra wasn’t worth
another button off the shirt…?
Even with all the girls chasing after him, Gianni still has
time to pursue an economics
major and two minors, as well
as be a part of numerous clubs
on campus. You can often find
him doing something for one
of his many activities. If not,
Matt
Williams
Weekly Editor
This President general
body member of the Black
Wharton Undergraduate
Association Matt is finally
leaving his year-and-a-half
long committed relationship to the daily layout of
the newspaper to do bigger
and better things. Look out
parents and alumni, there’s
a new Weekly Pennsylvanian editor in town! Matt,
our kale-loving, sarcastic St.
Louisan looks sharp in his J.
Crew neutrals and Sperrys
while dining at Doc Magrogan’s by himself. Out of respect for others, Matt cares
about self-hygiene, and can
often be seen checking his
teeth or complexion in his
iPhone. Matt is so beloved
by his peers, that 1/8 of his
design staff would want to
be stranded on a desert island with him. We’ll be sad to
see Matt go, but parents are
alumni are sure to appreciate his work as well.
Advertising Manager
he might just be at his hot yoga
class.
G o o d -lo ok i ng , sm a r t , a nd
sociable? Come on, what else
could you ask for?
Michele Ozer
Multimedia Editor
This little diva taking over Online Graphics is most likely to be found in the production room obsessively eating Chipotle or
schlepping her oboe across campus. The
Urban Outfitters calendar of Nice Jewish
Boys was definitely made just for Michele.
All this curly-haired sweetheart is looking
for is a NJB she can go to the orchestra
and Audrey Claire with -- but everyone’s
either taken or gay. You can try and dig up
dirt on this Shirley Temple look-a-like but
you won’t find much other than her horrifically messy room because there’s no hell
in this Michele.
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Ernest Owens
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Alex
Hosenball
34th St. Editor-In-Chief
This Nantucket queen just rode in
from embargoed shores on a chariot of
porpoises helmed by Poseidon himself.
Known for her beachy–blonde tresses
and sun–kissed skin, this legendary
“maiden of the sea” slays suitors with
her signature salsa moves, then bangs
out 34th Street while she’s chowing on
the bones. Or at least that’s how our
fan–fic genes imagine her. In reality,
she’s a real sweetheart who can suck
a tequila shot like a champ and knows
the value in spending an afternoon
frolicking with a bucket of Crown Fried
Chicken. But keep on your toes, boys
and girls, lest ye find yourself lured to
the 34th Street offices by a sweet song
and pretty moves, only to emerge three
years later with two years of editing
under your belt and a lovelorn soul.
Sam Brodey
34th St.
Managing Editor
Stick your head in a freezer for
10 minutes, then jump into a Scandinavian ice bath and eat an Otter
Pop as you shiver uncontrollably.
Then contemplate the cold frontinducing weather pattern known as
La Niña. Then put your head back
in the freezer, but this time while
reading Capote’s In Cold Blood.
Then take all of that and double
it. That’s how chill Sam Brodey,
Street’s new Managing Editor, is.
Better pack your parkas.
34th St.
Online Managing
Editor
Name: Alex Hosenball
Height: 6’5”
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Dreamy
Notable facial feature: Dimples
Ass dimples: Oh yeah
Special abilities: Punning,
planning charitable social
events, guilt tripping, twerking
Fun fact: Alex is an alto in
the West Philadelphia Baptist
Church choir
Video Producer
Ernest Owens is a man who needs no
introduction (at least, he’d like to think so).
This College junior from Houston (he went
to the same high school as Beyoncé!) loves
being in front of the camera. He broke
onto the scene in the famous YouTube
series “The Trial of Ernest,” based on his
true-life experiences in the Undergraduate Assembly, but you may have seen him
at the Love Statue, “passing out papers.”
Currently the President and CEO of the
Ernest Media Empire (but what else would
you be in a one-man company?), Owens
runs with a certain celebrity crowd (he
claims to take personal calls from Arianna
Huffington). Now Ernest is working on his
hardest job yet: getting out from in front
of the camera. That’s right, ladies and
gentlemen, this YouTube star will now
be producing videos of his own. Ernest
Owens is DTF — down to film.
Jesse
Franklin
C
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Red and Blue
Editor
UTB Editor
Fresh from Summer Clearance’s perfumed rack, it’s
Jesse Franklin! This walking meme has mastered the
subtle arts of pairing snarky
words with GIFS and taking
obnoxiously adorable pictures with his main squeeze.
A geologist at heart, we know
that even though this witty
baby has his faults, he’ll never lose his luster. (We’ll pause
as Jesse laughs at these delicious puns. Ahem.) But don’t
let this tall glass of Virginia
Aidan
McConnell
water fool you — cross his
path digitally or IRL and
Franklin will set the Hawk
of Locust Walk upon you. So
prepare thyself, fellow Quaker, for the storm of intelligent
sass and snappy LOLS that
will be Under the Button for
the next 12 months, and join
us in raising a button to dear
old JFrank!
Aidan McConnell wasn’t
too happy about the liberal
slant of the DP’s political
blog so he decided to commandeer it (and had slightly more success than his
presidential preference).
When he’s not editing the
blog, Aidan spends most
of his time completing his
major: being serious. He’s
already set the record for
most OCR sessions attend-
ed — and he’s only a freshman. Rumor has it he’s also
picking up a new minor of
collecting suits. Aidan is incredibly amicable, making
sure not to offend anyone
and lose a potential vote for
his 2036 presidential bid.
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King showed
‘personal
courage’
KING from page 1
mer professor Paul Schrecker,
and “Problems of Esthetics,”
taught by former assistant
professor John Adams. Both
courses were held during the
1950-51 school year.
K i ng aud it ed a l l t h ree
courses at Penn while simultaneously enrolled at Crozer
Theological Seminary. The
classes were listed in the
Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences.
Apart from King’s transcript
from the University, there are
virtually no other records
from his time as a student on
campus.
“My conclusion is that, although we don’t want to make
too much of our association
with King, Penn doubtless influenced him in his graduate
education in some way,” University Archives and Records
Center Director Mark Frazier
Lloyd said. “The fact that he
didn’t take just one course
but came back to campus indicated that he thought the
Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences held a distinct benefit
for him.”
Lloyd added that, in the late
1940s and early 1950s, King
must have demonstrated a
“certain personal courage” in
coming to Penn, given that the
University was still a predominantly white institution at the
time.
In April 1988, at the request
of Vice Provost for University
Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum, Lloyd began looking
into King’s time at Penn. In
a memo sent that month to
McCoullum, Lloyd noted that
King had returned to campus
just once after auditing the
three courses — a May 1965
visit to speak at two of the
University’s “Law Day U.S.A.”
panel discussions.
As part of his research,
Lloyd asked Flower, who died
in 1995, if she had any recollections of King from his time in
class. Flower responded that,
while she had vague memories of him sitting and taking
notes in the course, she did
not remember him for “any
outstanding qualities or expressed points of view,” Lloyd
said.
“It’s unfortunate from a historian’s perspective that we
don’t have an oral history from
anyone who ever taught him or
would have gone to class with
him,” Lloyd said. “I do think
King was among the most nationally significant figures in
20th-century American history, and I do wish we had more
information about his time at
Penn.”
Lloyd added that King’s return to campus in 1965 was
especially significant, given
that he had just won his Nobel
Peace Prize a year earlier and
was surely in high demand for
speaking engagements.
In a 1965 newspaper clipping, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that King’s Law
Day speech centered around
how the law often neglects the
poor.
“Justice at times proceeds
with a halting gait and the law
has often been slow to speak
for the poor, the dispossessed
and the disenfranchised,” King
said at the event, according to
the Inquirer.
According to Lloyd, nobody
on campus made the connection in 1965 that King had been
at the University only 14 years
earlier.
King’s legacy today
Despite the lack of documentation of the Penn-King
connection, many believe that
King’s legacy remains on campus today in other ways.
“I think Penn does a lot to
promote the idea of doing service to the community in pursuit of social justice, and that’s
exactly what Dr. King would
have wanted,” said AfricanAmerican Resource Center
Director Valerie Allen, who
is involved with organizing
the annual commemorative
symposium for King. “It behooves us to reach out beyond
our gates and extend a hand of
support to those around us.”
A llen, along with A A RC
Associate Director Robert
Carter, said she had not been
aware of King’s time at Penn.
For Carter, learning about the
connection was not necessarily surprising, given that “it
seems like we’re always getting educated about new details [from King’s life] that we
didn’t know before,” he said.
In addition to the annual
symposium, Penn has gone
about honoring King’s legacy
in a number of other ways
since his death.
The University hosted its
f irst commemorative pro gram on King in 1980. Former
President Judith Rodin began
canceling classes on Martin
Luther King Jr. Day in 2001,
designating the occasion as a
time for University-wide service.
Although Allen has been
pleased with the amount of
programming Penn has for
King’s birthday, she said she
would like to see more people
across the University adopt a
more holistic view of King’s
life.
“We’ve crafted this image of
this pastor, orator and intellect
who could move people, but
we’ve kind of limited him to
that, and he was much more,”
she said.
Like Allen and Carter, College sophomores Abrina Hyatt
and Meron Zeru — the planning and facilitating co-chairs
for UMOJA, the black student
umbrella group on campus —
were not aware of King’s time
at Penn.
For her part, Hyatt was surprised to learn about King’s
connection to Penn, given that
most aspects of his life are
well-documented.
“I think we do see a lot of his
legacy in the work that UMOJA does — especially our work
with other minority groups on
campus in making things a lot
easier not just for us, but for
those other groups as well,”
she said.
Zeru agreed, pointing out
that this year’s holiday is especially significant because it
coincides with President Barack Obama’s second inauguration.
“We’re continuing to memorialize the principles of his life
even if we may not have tangible symbols of his work on
campus,” McCoullum added.
“I think that his legacy centered around speaking what
he believed to be true, and his
truths are such a strong part
of what we do at Penn today.”
Organizers
pleased with
big turnout
HUNTSMAN from page 1
Contemporary China’s new
series of annual high-profile
lectures. Huntsman discussed
topics ranging from China’s
modern economic growth to
its centuries-old political history.
“It’s so easy in today’s political context to talk about what
you’re going to do to China, as
opposed to what you’re going
to do with China,” Huntsman
said. “For your generation,
the conversation is going to be
what we are going to do with
China to make the world a better place.”
Students and faculty packed
a 300-seat auditorium in Huntsman Hall to see one of Penn’s
most high-profile graduates
return to his alma mater. By
5:30 p.m., 30 minutes before
Friday, January 18, 2013 Page 9
the event was scheduled to
start, the space was already
more than half full. When the 6
p.m. start time rolled around,
security guards were ushering
the additional crowd that had
packed both aisles to overflow
rooms, where they watched a
live stream of the event.
While some decided to
leave, enough stuck around
to fill two additional Huntsman Hall rooms. Huntsman
himself originally entered the
auditorium during the confusion.
“You’re leaving so soon?”
he joked to those who had to
relocate.
For 45 minutes, he touched
on China’s recent leadership
change and impending economic challenges, as well as
what he took from his nearly
two years of service as U.S.
ambassador to China. Huntsman then sat down with political science professor and
Director of the CSCC Avery
Goldstein for a more informal
question and answer session.
Goldstein — who teaches
several courses on Chinese
politics — drew on his own
interests as well as student
submissions for his questions.
Huntsman also fielded questions directly from the audience.
Huntsman several times
strayed from Chinese foreign
policy, briefly discussing his
presidential run and the discussion of China on the campaign trail.
“When did you once hear on
the debate stage any kind of
constructive dialogue about
how we forge a 21st-century
relationship with the most important diplomatic relationship we have in the world?” he
asked.
When asked after the event
by The Daily Pennsylvanian
whether he would consider another run in 2016, the former
governor remained noncommittal.
“I’m a private citizen,”
Huntsman said. “If we can be
in the mix there in terms of
articulating new ideas, putting
them forward as a private citizen, mission accomplished.…
You always hold open the pos-
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The event’s organizers were
pleased with the turnout and
Huntsman’s comments, especially his references to the
thousands of years of Chinese
history that influence China
today, said CSCC Deputy Director and Law School professor Jacques deLisle.
Goldstein added that because of the event’s substantial turnout, the Center would
consider a larger venue for
next year’s event.
After the event, Huntsman
added that for his relationship
with Penn — he currently
serves on the University’s
Board of Trustees — he is
“on unlimited contract, free
of charge.” While he gives
lectures and interacts with
leaders around the world, he
expressed his particular satisfaction with being able to
return to campus.
“If ever one were to lose
faith in the direction of the
United States,” Huntsman
said, “all they have to do is
visit a campus.”
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Quakers swimmers head for new waters in Rhode Island
M. SWIMMING | Red and Blue will swim in
Bears’ new pool, home of Ivy championships
Brown
3-3, 0-3 Ivy
Saturday,
Noon
BY todd costa
Staff Writer
Providence, R.I.
With the Ivy League portion of their schedule already
in full swing, the Quakers will
get another crack at one of
their rivals on Saturday.
The men’s swimming team
will take the trek northward
to Providence, R.I., to square
off against Brown. Currently,
the Red and Blue sit in fourth
place in the Ancient Eight,
with two wins and three losses
ming as well as we did last
week,” coach Mike Schnur
said. “If we put the same times
down this week, we’ll have a
much better opportunity to
win.”
The opportunity of competing against the Bears this
weekend will also provide
the Quakers with their first
swim in the new Brown pool.
The Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center opened
in intra-conference competitions, while the Bears are still
looking to break into the win
column with their first Ivy
League victory of the season.
The men are coming off
a tough loss in a tri-meet
against Yale and Dartmouth
— two teams that sit ahead
of the Quakers in the Ancient
Eight.
“We just want to keep swim-
in May 2012, and Penn swimmers will get their first look
at this state-of-the-art facility
Saturday.
“We’re going to be having
our Ivy Championship there
six weeks from now, so it’s a
good thing that we’re having
a chance to swim there first,”
Schnur said. “I think going up
there for the dual meet should
help us in March.”
The season is at the point
where the coaching staff will
start making decisions about
filling out the roster for the
championship meets at the
end of the year.
“In these last few meets,
these last spots on the Ivy
team are up for grabs, and
people have to show what
they’ve got,” senior Ryan Littlefield said.
Schnur reiterated the sentiment that the team needs certain groups of swimmers to
step up for this meet, including
those in the the distance, butterfly and backstroke races.
“I think one of the areas we
can exploit against Brown is
our backstrokers — we’re a little better than they are, at least
we should be,” Schnur said.
Motivation should not be in
short supply come Saturday,
especially since this is a conference rivalry. However, there
will be some extra emotion going into this one for the senior
men, since this competition will
be the last time facing Brown
in their dual meet careers.
“This is my last Ivy League
dual meet so it means a lot to
me and the rest of the seniors,”
Littlefield said.
The Red and Blue are hoping to give the seniors a proper
send-off from Ivy League competition, and they’ll look to do
so at Brown’s new facilities on
Saturday.
Red and Blue head back to Bethlehem
TRACK | Penn travels to Lehigh for second
time this season with momentum on its side
BY IKE ONYEADOR
Staff Writer
Mountain Hawk
Invite
Saturday,
All Day
Bethlehem, Pa.
Penn’s track teams are just
getting their feet wet.
With the teams heading to
Lehigh Saturday for the second
time in six weeks, they hope to
build on what has been a solid
season thus far.
Last weekend at the Armory
in New York, the men’s team
raced to a second-place finish
behind strong performances
by the 4x400-meter relay team
and sophomore Tom Timmins,
who won the 500 meters for the
second straight meet.
He and fellow classmates
hope to use the momentum from
last weekend to keep progressing as the season goes on.
Laura Francis/Senior Photographer
“I’m excited for the meet this
weekend,” sophomore jumper
Jordan Jett said. “It will be a
chance for us to test ourselves
against some good competition.
We’ve been training hard all fall
and are looking forward to good
performances at the meet.”
The women’s team also hopes
to improve on a second-place
finish last weekend.
Behind the record-setting
performance of freshman Theresa Picciallo, and first-place
victories by fellow freshman
Elyssa Gensib and the 4x800meter relay team, the Quakers
finished second to Connecticut.
Junior Gabrielle Piper, owner
of a host of Penn records herself, commented on the superb
efforts of her teammates this
early in the season.
“We’re excited because we’re
in the full swing of the season
and a lot of athletes like Nony
Onyeador, Tom Timmons, Theresa Picciallo and Elyssa Gensib are doing really well for it to
be so early,” Piper said.
While in Bethlehem, Pa., the
teams are simply hoping to continue improving, collect a few
wins and perhaps set a few personal and school records. The
stakes will be set a little higher
as they return to the Armony for
College Night II next weekend.
at home and will be a formidable opponent for a Penn squad
with high expectations.
“We are hoping to put up a
strong competition against
Bridgeport and Rutgers,”
Strausbaugh said. “They are
two pretty good teams. We
should be right up there with
them.”
Fellow ECAC foe Bridgeport won its only match of
the year handily, posting a
191.45 a week ago. Like Penn,
the Purple Knights also beat
Rutgers in their last meeting,
downing their medieval foe in
a high-scoring affair, 193.875192.400.
For his part, coach John
Ceralde is keeping the focus
on what his team can control.
“I don’t really worry about
the other teams,” Ceralde
said. “We pretty much just focus on ourselves, what we can
do best and just try to keep it
consistent from there.”
With consistency in mind,
Ceralde is looking to get some
of the newer additions to the
team some valuable experi-
ence that will help them down
the road.
“We still have some freshmen that have not been tested
yet,” he said. “We’re looking
to see some of them in exhibition.”
The seventh-year coach has
made it clear that while he believes firmly in the potential
his group has, he keeps things
in perspective and measures
success as improvement from
one meet to the next.
It’s safe to say that he’d be
OK with a win Saturday too.
Maegan Cadet/Photo Manager-elect
In her last meet in Bethlehem Gabrielle Piper (left) won the hurdles in a
time of 8.84 and was the runner-up in the 60 meters at 7.77.
Playing in the No. 1 spot, senior captain Danny Greenberg will have to
step up if the Quakers hope to upset No. 2 Trinity Saturday.
Mindset key
to facing top
10 squads
Coach looks
to give frosh
experience
should not be a factor in how
the Quakers prepare or play.
“It is the same with any
match,” Wyant said. “It doesn’t
matter if we’re playing a top-30
team or a top-five team.”
With this in mind, and in
spite of the bruising opening
to the year, Wyant is confident
the Quakers will “fight for every point.”
“And if we can string some
games together, we might win
a match,” he said. “And if we
win one, then we will go from
there.”
M. Squash from page 12
our focus internal rather than
external.”
When facing a team the
quality of the Bantams, Wyant knows it is all about mindset. The opponent’s ranking
GYMNASTICS from page 12
Rutgers’ defeat was its
first in six matchups against
the Red and Blue — one they
surely haven’t forgotten. The
Scarlet Knights are coming off
of a 193.9-point performance
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BasketballExtra
TElling numbers
1700
Wins in Penn basketball
history. The Quakers’ 5453 victory over NJIT made
the Red and Blue just the
11th team to ever hit the
1700 mark.
50
Days since Penn’s last
win prior to defeating the
H i g h l a n d e r s T h u r s d a y.
The Red and Blue had not
secured victory since a Nov.
28 win over Binghamton.
1
Road wins for Penn this
season. Though the team
defeated NJIT on the road,
the Quakers’ other two wins
have come at the Palestra.
TEAM STATISTICS
PENN
NJIT
43.5
FG Pct.
27.7
5-10
3-PT
6-17
50.0
3-PT Pct.
35.3
75.0
FT Pct.
72.4
13
Assists
9
26
Turnovers
12
41
Rebounds
24
3
Blocks
5
6
Steals
17
16
Bench pts
6
Attendance: 455
Losing streak
ends at eight
for Quakers
M. HOOPS from page 12
put the game away with an
open three as the shot clock
expired with just 10 seconds
left. But after his miss, Ky
Howard of NJIT drove down
the court and missed an easy
lay-in. After a scramble for the
ball, NJIT was unable to put up
another shot.
Penn also dominated the
glass, outrebounding NJIT,
41-24. Coming into the game,
NJIT was 10th in the country
in rebounds per game.
“Rebounding is a point that
we were getting beat a lot earlier in the season,” freshman
Darien Nelson-Henry said.
“We started taking it personally, and I feel like lately, we’ve
been doing a much better
job.”
In his first career start, Nelson-Henry registered his first
career double-double, scoring
12 points and pulling down 11
rebounds.
He and junior captain Miles
Cartwright shared the team
lead in points.
Chris Flores led the Highlanders with 22 points to go
along with six steals.
After the game, Nelson-Henry was more focused on his five
turnovers — tied with Cartwright for most on the team
— than his double-double.
“We all just need to take a
deep breath, calm down, and
not rush ourselves,” he admitted.
Coach Jerome Allen agreed
with Nelson-Henry’s assessment.
“I was overly disappointed
with our inability to take care
of the basketball,” he said.
Both Allen and Nelson-Henry were disappointed despite
the victory.
“I’m not very happy with this
win,” Allen said. “To be honest,
this probably should have been
a 20-point win.”
Allen expressed that he saw
“not a whole lot” of positive
things from his team tonight.
Friday, January 18, 2013 Page 11
THEY SAID IT
Jerome Allen
“I’m not very happy with this win. To be honest, this probably
should have been a 20-point win.”
— On Penn’s one-point victory over NJIT Thursday night
Penn coach
1,700 Win Club
1. Kentucky 2. Kansas
3. North Carolina
4. Duke 5. Syracuse 6. Temple 7. St. John’s 8. UCLA 9. Notre Dame 10. Indiana 11. Penn “We had stretches where we
played solid defense,” he said.
“But we just weren’t great today.”
The win marked Penn’s first
since Nov. 28 over Binghamton
and its first on the road this
2,101
2,085
2,076
1,986
1,860
1,802
1,747
1,742
1,735
1,705
1,700
season.
The Quakers have a quick
turnaround, as they will take
on Big 5 foe St. Joe’s on Saturday at the Palestra. They’ve
beaten the Hawks two years
in a row.
at a glance
Star of the game:
P e n n Fr. C
Darien NelsonHenry
The rookie logged
12 points and
11 rebounds,
including five offensive boards,
on the way to his first career
double-double.
Play of the game:
Three pointer made by
Patrick Lucas-Perry with
2:12 left
With the game
knotted at
49-49, LucasPerry drained a
trey, giving the
Quakers the
lead for good.
The sophomore followed
the shot by converting two
free throws on Penn’s next
possession.
Statistics
PENN 54, NJIT 53
PENN
FG-A FT-A R A Min Pts
Brooks
Bass recalls
matching up
against Allen
M. HOOPS from page 12
advantages we can get.
DP: In last year’s game
between Penn and St. Joe’s,
Zack Rosen, Tyler Bernardini
and Rob Belcore combined for
52 points. How does their absence change your gameplan
against Penn?
MB: I think last year’s team
with those three guys — they
were seniors. They had senior
leadership, and we were playing with sophomores and juniors.
And now, there’s this turn that
we’re playing with juniors and
seniors, and they’re playing with
some underclassmen. So hopefully our upperclassmen can do
the same things that their seniors did last year. Those three
gentlemen dominated the game
last year, and we didn’t have an
answer for them.
DP: What do you see about
Jerome Allen as a player that
is reflected in the teams he
coaches?
MB: His passion as a player
and as a coach just boils over.
You can see how much passion
he has on the sidelines, and he
played with that same passion.
And of course it rubs off on his
own players, and that’s what
Jerome brought as a player
and he’s bringing it as a coach
— his passion for the game.
DP: Just two seasons ago,
St. Joe’s finished the year well
below .500 at 11-22. What have
been the keys to the program’s
improvement since then?
MB: I just think guys getting better — getting better
in the offseason, working on
their game, working on their
body, just getting better.
And that’s basketball because now in a couple years
you’re going to be saying the
same thing about this young
group of guys at Penn. They’re
taking their bumps in the road
right now … so next year they
should be better. And that’s
what happened with us. Two
years ago, we won 11 games.
Last year, we won 20.
So it’s about getting better,
not getting down on yourself
and getting better as an individual and as a team. I think if
you look at our team and you
look at the Penn team now,
they were along similar lines.
That’s what I see with our
team, and I think this young
core group of guys that Penn
has are doing the same thing
that we have. They’re going to
get better just as we’ve gotten
better and hopefully continue
to get better.
DP: Do you have any memorable moments from your playing days competing against
Jerome Allen and Penn?
MB: I just remember Jerome Allen and Matt Maloney
— those two guys were a great
backcourt — and just playing
against those two and assistant coach Ira Bowman. It was
just some good matchups and
memorable moments playing
in the Palestra against those
guys.
I really can’t pick out a specific game or what-have-you. I
just know matching up it was
going to be a tough night for
us guarding those three guys
night in and night out.
f 3-7
0-0 5 1 30
6
Nelson-Henry f 5-10 2-2 11 1 29 12
Cartwright
g 5-7
2-3 9 5 37 12
Lewis
g 0-1
0-1 0 2 18
0
Rennard
g 3-6
0-0 3 2 32
8
Hicks
1-8
2-2 1 1 23
4
Lucas-Perry
2-3
2-2 2 1
8
NJIT
9
FG-A FT-A R A Min Pts
Holiday
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4-4 7 0 39 10
McCarthy
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1-3 4 1 20
Flores
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Miller
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Woods
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4-6 2 1 27
1
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1 1 38 10
Nweke
1-2
2-3 1 2 21
4
Howard
1-2
0-0 1 1 11
2
THE RECORD
3-13, 0-1 Ivy
HOME
ROAD
2-3, 0-0 Ivy 1-10, 0-1 Ivy
Spots still up for grabs as Penn prepares for Ivy meet
W. Swimming | Coach Mike Schnur sees last
Ivy tri-meet as opportunity to adjust lineup
BY Danielle Chuang
Staff Writer
It’s the Quakers’ last chance
to face their Ivy opponents.
This weekend, the women’s
swimming team (3-3, 2-3 Ivy)
heads to Providence, R.I., for
its last conference meet against
Harvard (4-0, 3-0) and Brown
(4-1, 1-1). It will be the last Ivy
test before league championships at the end of February.
More importantly, it’s one of
the last opportunities for the
swimmers to earn a spot on the
Ivy championship team.
“We have probably four or
five spots still open on the
team,” coach Mike Schnur said.
“We want to see how people are
training and how they compete
this weekend and again in two
weeks against West Chester
and La Salle.”
The championship team is
sure to feature junior Shelby
Fortin, who holds several records at Sheerr Pool and else-
128
Brown
4-1, 1-1 Ivy
Harvard
4-0, 3-0 Ivy
Saturday,
Noon
Providence, R.I.
where, including five records
at the Kenyon College Total
Performance Invitational this
season alone.
“Shelby’s been terrific from
day one,” Schnur said. “We’ve
had a lot of other women who
are trying to follow her lead.”
And the rest of the girls have
certainly stepped up.
Last weekend, Penn topped
Dartmouth, 167.5-131.5. According to Schnur, the Quakers “beat them pretty easily
this year, and that was a nice
change,” since they avenged a
loss from last year.
“We have a lot of good swimmers,” Schnur said. “I think
our women’s team has a lot of
depth and a lot of quality.”
Among those swimmers is
Lauren Church. The freshman finished second in the
100 Backstroke at 56.86, which
would have been good enough
to set the pool record had it not
been for one of the best short-
distance backstrokers in the
league, Yale’s Alex Forrester.
Church, along with the rest
of the 200 Medley Relay ‘A’
team of freshmen Catherine
Yee and Emily Baturka and
sophomore Lauren Sneed, has
aided a powerhouse relay team
all season, finishing second at
the last three meets.
Against the Big Green and
the Elis, Sneed also came in
a close second to Forrester in
the 100 Butterfly with a time
of 57.79.
But with a only a few positions locked up, according to
Schnur, there are still many
spots up for grabs.
“It’ll be fun to see who really
steps up for the Ivy meet,” he
said.
The Quakers are also looking forward to swimming in
the Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center, Brown’s
brand new pool that just opened
just in May.
“The Ivy championships will
be up there a year from now, so
it’s good to get up there and get
in the pool,” Schnur said.
The team will go on to face
West Chester and La Salle in
back-to-back dual meets next
weekend in preparation for the
Ivy League Championships
held at the end of February.
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PENN (3-13)
NJIT (9-9)
NEXT GAME: vs. ST. Joe’s | sat., 5 p.m.
Finally, Penn
wins No. 1,700
m. Hoops | A missed layup at the buzzer gives Quakers
their 1,700th program win, first victory since Nov. 28
BY DAVID GREENBAUM
Senior Staff Writer
NEWARK, N.J. — A win is a win,
even if it’s an ugly win.
Penn held NJIT to just 27.7 percent shooting from the field, a season-best for the Quakers’ defense,
and they took a 54-53 victory at the
Fleisher Center on Thursday night.
It was a historic night for the Red
and Blue (3-13), as the win marked
their 1,700th as a program.
The Quakers jumped out to a 7-0
start but gave up a 13-2 run to fall
behind, 18-17, with just over three
minutes left in the first half.
They ended the half up, 27-22, and
never looked back, holding the lead
the entire second frame.
Following halftime, the Red and
Blue took a commanding 49-39 lead
with 4:32 left, but the Highlanders
(9-9) fought back to tie the game up
with 2:30 left thanks to a series of
Penn turnovers. The Quakers had a
season-high 26 turnovers.
Sophomore guard Patrick LucasPerry stepped up big and scored
Penn’s last five points to seal the
win. He dropped eight in the game
overall.
Steve Rennard had a chance to
SEE M. HOOPS PAGE 11
Behind Enemy Lines: St.
Joe’s assistant Mark Bass
BY KENNY KASPER
From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ
Megan Falls/Senior Photographer
Sophomore Patrick Lucas-Perry had a breakout game Thursday night, scoring Penn’s final five points in a 54-53 victory over NJIT. With
the win, the Red and Blue snapped an eight-game losing streak and notched their 1,700th win in program history.
Bantams loom large
in next test for Penn
M. Squash | Secondranked Trinity enters with
undefeated record, while
Quakers are skidding
BY joe sykes
Staff Writer
Winter break may have just ended, but January has not been kind
to the Penn men’s squash team.
H av i ng f aced t h ree t op -10
schools within the span of a week,
the Quakers take to the courts Saturday against No. 2 Trinity, a team
that has swept them in eight out of
their last nine meetings.
After decisive defeats to Harvard, 9-0; Dartmouth, 8-1; and
Franklin & Marshall, 8-1; the Red
and Blue (3-5) will be looking to
restore some pride when the Bantams (7-0) come to Philadelphia
this weekend.
History is against the Quakers,
and coach Jack Wyant is realistic
about their chances on Saturday.
“The match against Trinity is going to be very difficult,” Wyant said.
“Trinity is ranked at least 10 places
ahead of us, so obviously they are
going to be favorites. But the kids
have been working hard and are
looking forward to the match.”
It will be a real test for the Red
and Blue. With the team potentially
disheartened by the start of the
After starting out 0-2 in Big 5 play,
Penn will take on St. Joe’s at the Palestra on Saturday evening.
For this edition of Behind Enemy
Lines, I caught up with Hawks’ assistant coach Mark Bass, a St. Joe’s
alumnus and former player who
competed against Jerome Allen and
Penn during his playing days.
During our conversation, we
talked about coach Phil Martelli’s
commitment to Big 5 tradition, the
Hawks’ turnaround over the last
three seasons and more.
Daily Pennsylvanian: Last year,
this game was listed as a home game
for Penn at the Palestra, but this
GYMNASTICS | Red
and Blue led by ECAC
Gymnast of the Week,
senior Dana Bonincontri
Saturday,
Noon
BY REUBEN HAMPTON
Staff Writer
Ringe Courts
Sports Desk (215) 898-6585 ext. 147
SEE M. SQUASH PAGE 10
SEE M. HOOPS PAGE 11
Gymnasts set to invade New Jersey
Trinity
7-0
season, it would be easy for the
squad to develop a losing mentality. But Wyant is confident his side
is ready for the matchup.
“I think they look at it as a great
opportunity to play against one of
the best teams in the country,” he
said. “We play every team in the
top 10, so we get plenty of exposure
against top teams. And it is something they look forward to more
than anything else.”
Last year, Danny Greenberg,
playing at No. 2, won Penn’s first
individual match against the Bantams since 2004.
Now a senior captain and in the
No. 1 slot, Greenberg is one of the
players who has to step up if Penn
is to have any chance of pulling off
a surprise victory.
Wyant is sure that if Penn focuses on what it has been working on
in practice rather than the opposing team, then an upset may well
be in the cards.
“We need to just concentrate on
executing our game plan and focus
on what we’re doing rather than
what’s going on around us,” Wyant said. “We will just try to keep
year it’s listed as a home game for
St. Joe’s, despite also being played
at the Palestra. Do you get the sense
that your team enjoys coming to the
Palestra for these games?
Mark Bass: I think coach Martelli — that’s a question for him to
answer, because he likes playing
at the Palestra. I think any opponent would love to play the game on
their home floor … But I think in his
point of view, Big 5 game, he thinks
it should be played at the Palestra
… But personally I would love this
game on home field to give us all the
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Kirsten Strausbaugh is looking for the Penn gymnastics squad to “step up” in Saturday’s meet
against Rutgers, Bridgeport and Ursinus and rebound from a fourth-place finish last weekend.
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This won’t be the first time a squad
has crossed the Delaware River to
invade New Jersey.
Though the team will be lacking
the muskets of their predecessors,
Penn gymnastics will be shooting
for a similar result when they face
off against Rutgers, Bridgeport and
Ursinus in New Brunswick, N.J., on
Saturday at 1 p.m.
Fresh off their best start in three
years, the Quakers and reigning
ECAC Gymnast of the Week Dana
Bonincontri are looking to take it
up a notch.
“[Last week’s] meet was kind of
a learning experience. It was our
highest score that we’ve started out
with in past years … kind of was a reality check for some people,” senior
Kirsten Strausbaugh said. “[This
week] everyone is going to put in
more numbers. They’re going to step
up on their events and kinda show
’em how bad we want it.”
Strausbaugh herself stepped up
in a big way during Penn’s match
against Rutgers last year, tallying
a second-place score of 38.700 en
route to a 191.975-191.925 Quakers
victory.
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