Last year, Penn Police made only 29 arrests for the illegal consumption of alcohol within the Penn Patrol Zone. The year before, they made two. But in a 34th Street Magazine survey last spring, more than 40 per- cent of respondents said they consume more than 10 drinks in an average weekend. Much less than 40 percent of Penn’s undergraduate popu- lation is of legal drinking age. So how does everyone manage to fly under the radar? *** Penn seems to want to shield its students from legal repercussions for illegal drink- ing and drug use. Penn State had 805 alcohol- related arrests on campus in 2013 — around 2 percent of its undergraduate population. Michigan State University and West Virginia University, also large public schools similar to Penn State, reported alcohol- related arrests for a similar percentage of their undergrad- uate populations. The 29 arrests at Penn in 2013 represent just 0.3 per- cent of total undergraduates, though the arrests may not all have been Penn students. “We aren’t looking to see how many students we can ar- rest,” Vice President for Pub- lic Safety Maureen Rush said. “Our police are so cuddly with the students — municipal po- lice would never have that kind of patience. They’re just really good people who would do anything to make sure students don’t get arrested or cited,” she said, noting that students are often grateful for the Division of Public Safety. “DPS tends to de-empha- size the need for things like citations. They recognize that we’re all students, so they tend to be more lenient, which we appreciate,” Aaron, a College junior and active member of a fraternity, said. Aaron spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized by his fraternity. While he acknowledged the fact that DPS does occasion- ally shut down fraternity par- ties, Aaron also said that frats would rather deal with them than potentially less-forgiving officers. “A DPS officer stand- ing on the porch asking you to shut down your party is OK,” he said. “A [Pennsylvania Bureau of Liquor Control En- forcement] officer standing on your porch saying, ‘We’re go- ing to have to take you down to the station’ is not.” OFSL or the Office of Stu- dent Conduct often step in to act as an intermediary between fraternities and the general University administration in the case of a violation of ei- ther Penn’s student conduct or the organization’s national chapter constraints, accord- ing to Aaron. “Generally, they recognize that there are things that shouldn’t be bad enough to affect a student’s future,” he said. Since 1999, Penn has had a medical amnesty policy in place that states: “No student seeking medical treatment for an alcohol or other drug-relat- ed overdose will be subject to University discipline for the sole violation of using or pos- sessing alcohol or drugs. This policy shall extend to another student seeking help for the in- toxicated student.” Perhaps the most widely- known example of the medical amnesty policy is Penn’s stu- dent-run Medical Emergency Response Team. College senior and Chief of MERT Grace Kunas whole- heartedly supports the policy. “I think it’s absolutely essen- tial to have on a college cam- pus. If it weren’t in place, peo- ple might not call if there was a true emergency,” she said. “The fact that it’s here means that getting in trouble is never a concern and that the main fo- cus is the safety and health of the student.” But Penn’s policies go be- yond just medical amnesty in the event of an emergency. For those students living in Uni- versity housing, punishments for underage possession of alcohol or drugs is often kept within the University. While RAs and GAs are given training prior to the aca- demic year on how to handle underage drinking, each Col- lege House’s policies are flex- ible and lenient. “If I see drugs or alcohol in one of my resident’s apart- ments, I have to check every- one’s IDs and file an incident A report from Penn re- searchers found that the School District of Philadelphia is in fact doing more with less, but that districts across the state still would need $3.55 billion more to achieve academic pro- ficiency. The Consortium for Policy Research in Education re- leased a policy brief last week summarizing the findings of Graduate School of Education professors Matthew Steinberg and Rand Quinn in a working paper titled “An Urban Myth? New Evidence on Equity, Ad- equacy, and the Efficiency of Educational Resources in Pennsylvania,” which was published in February. By looking at “adequacy gaps” — the differences be- tween per-student spending in each district and the estimated amount of spending needed to help the students of that dis- trict meet academic standards in 2009-10 — across the state, the researchers found that Phil- adelphia schools performed better than peer districts with similar poverty levels and aca- demic performance. While large urban school districts are known to spend more per student and show “When I first was here I would get comments on my teaching like ‘Do you want to go on a date?’ or ‘You should grow your hair long’ or ‘I don’t like your outfits.’ It’s not relevant to the way I teach, but those are types of personal comments [I got],” recalled professor Susan Davidson of her early days on Penn’s fac- ulty. Davidson, a Weiss professor in the Computer and Informa- tion Science department of the Engineering School, laments that being a minority — a fe- male faculty member among mostly males — has added obstacles to her academic ca- reer. “If you’re aggressive as a women you’re seen as nasty, [and] it is hard to be in control of a class and not be perceived as being aggressive,” David- son said. She is one of the few women on the Engineer- ing School’s faculty, which is INSIDE NEWS FERGUSON PROTESTS Protests continue the week after the grand jury decision was announced PAGE 3 PENN VET SUED PENN FALLS TO WAGNER PAGE 2 BACK PAGE SPORTS OPINION GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT QUAKERS SPLIT SEASON’S FIRST DUELS The justice system is flawed, but we’re only compounding the problem A recap of yesterday’s wrestling match PAGE 4 BACK PAGE Diversifying gender in Engineering faculty Percent of standing faculty that are female Source: Progress Report on Penn’s Action Plan for Faculty Diversity and Excellence 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2006 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2008 2010 2012 University total Engineering Percent Female 31.5 30.9 30.7 30.1 29.4 28.8 28.4 27.9 26.7 27.1 26.4 25.5 24.9 24.7 7.1 6.9 9.5 10 10.7 8.9 9.2 12.6 13.3 13.2 13.2 12.3 12.4 13.5 EMILY OFFIT Staff Writer SEE WOMEN ENGINEERING PAGE 7 Jake’s Sandwich Board opens today Sandwiches, shakes and fries are now available on 40th Street. Today is the grand open- ing of Jake’s Sandwich Board on 40th and Sansom streets. The eatery, featured on BuzzFeed’s list of 11 Wonderful Sandwiches in Philadelphia, will be giving away free nine ounce Srira- cha bottles to the first 500 college students to enter with valid ID. University City is now home to Jake’s “3 for All” Deal, when sandwiches cost $3 from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. on the third day of each month. Jake’s slow-roasted sand- wiches are neighbors to Hai Street Kitchen, Zesto Pizza & Grill and Dunkin’ Donuts. Hours will be 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. This is the restau- rant’s second location, with the original on 12th and San- som streets. “We’re excited to come out there and are looking forward to meeting a lot of new people once we open the doors,” Gary Dorfman, co-owner of Jake’s told The Daily Pennsylvanian earlier ZOE GOLDBERG/GRAPHICS ASSOCIATE CLAIRE COHEN Assignments Editor-Elect JENNIFER WRIGHT Staff Writer Career Services devotes resources to veterans after petition Career Services created a website with links to job databases for veterans YUEQI YANG Senior Writer Jake’s Sandwich Board opened today on 40th and Sansom streets beside Hai Street Kitchen, Zesto PIzza and Dunkin’ Donuts. YOLANDA CHEN/NEWS PHOTO EDITOR Penn report: Phila. school district does more with less For Penn kids, arrest not a concern Does the Penn Bubble keep students a little too safe? JESSICA MCDOWELL Staff Writer SEE ARREST PAGE 6 Comparison of School District of Philadelphia (SDP) to peer districts in achievement and adequacy gap PSSA PROFICIENT OF ABOVE (2010) ADEQUACY GAP (PER PUPIL) MATH SDP PEER DISTRICTS SDP PEER DISTRICTS 56% 54% 50% 47% $5,478 $2,159 $5,478 $2,344 ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS ANALYN DELOS SANTOS/ CREATIVE DIRECTOR-ELECT SOURCE: THE CONSORTIUM FOR POLICY RESEARCH IN EDUCATION SEE PA SCHOOLS PAGE 3 Career Services launched a new web- page devoted to veteran students two weeks ago, a day after The Daily Penn- sylvanian reported on veteran students’ petition for more resources. “They launched a website in such a rapid manner,” said Wharton senior Timothy Kolb, the president of the Penn Student Veteran Association. “I com- mend them for that.” “But at the same time, I see it’s a small step and a lot more work [needs] to be done,” Kolb added. The webpage includes over 30 links to sites such as job databases and network pages for veterans. Information about career fairs specifically for veterans will also be posted on the website. The petition, which had 414 signa- tures as of Tuesday, called on the Uni- versity to establish a resource center for veteran students at Penn. The DP article noted that while Career Services had re- source pages for other minority commu- nities, there were no resources devoted to veterans. “When I saw in the article we didn’t have a customized site for veterans, it seemed like a good idea, because we have a lot of resources already on the website and it is easy to just pull them all together,” Career Services Director Pat Rose said. Career Services will not set up a spe- cialized staff for veteran students, but the students will be served by the advisors for their respective schools. “The staff can focus on the needs of their school or their group,” Rose said. SEE VETERANS PAGE 7 THIS WEEK IN PENN HISTORY A look back at 1999 when Ed Rendell taught an Urban Studies class PAGE 5 THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2014 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640 SEND STORY IDEAS TO [email protected]ONLINE AT THEDP.COM
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Last year, Penn Police made only 29 arrests for the illegal consumption of alcohol within the Penn Patrol Zone. The year before, they made two. But in a 34th Street Magazine survey last spring, more than 40 per-cent of respondents said they consume more than 10 drinks in an average weekend.
Much less than 40 percent of Penn’s undergraduate popu-lation is of legal drinking age. So how does everyone manage to fly under the radar?
***
Penn seems to want to shield its students from legal repercussions for illegal drink-ing and drug use.
Penn State had 805 alcohol-related arrests on campus in 2013 — around 2 percent of its undergraduate population. Michigan State University and West Virginia University, also large public schools similar to Penn State, reported alcohol-related arrests for a similar percentage of their undergrad-uate populations.
The 29 arrests at Penn in 2013 represent just 0.3 per-cent of total undergraduates, though the arrests may not all have been Penn students.
“We aren’t looking to see how many students we can ar-rest,” Vice President for Pub-lic Safety Maureen Rush said. “Our police are so cuddly with the students — municipal po-lice would never have that kind of patience. They’re just really good people who would do anything to make sure students don’t get arrested or cited,” she said, noting that students are often grateful for the Division of Public Safety.
“DPS tends to de-empha-size the need for things like citations. They recognize that we’re all students, so they tend to be more lenient, which we appreciate,” Aaron, a College junior and active member of a fraternity, said. Aaron spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized by his fraternity.
While he acknowledged the fact that DPS does occasion-ally shut down fraternity par-ties, Aaron also said that frats would rather deal with them than potentially less-forgiving officers. “A DPS officer stand-ing on the porch asking you to shut down your party is OK,” he said. “A [Pennsylvania Bureau of Liquor Control En-forcement] officer standing on your porch saying, ‘We’re go-ing to have to take you down to the station’ is not.”
OFSL or the Office of Stu-dent Conduct often step in to act as an intermediary between fraternities and the general
University administration in the case of a violation of ei-ther Penn’s student conduct or the organization’s national chapter constraints, accord-ing to Aaron. “Generally, they recognize that there are things that shouldn’t be bad enough to affect a student’s future,” he said.
Since 1999, Penn has had a medical amnesty policy in place that states: “No student seeking medical treatment for an alcohol or other drug-relat-ed overdose will be subject to University discipline for the sole violation of using or pos-sessing alcohol or drugs. This policy shall extend to another student seeking help for the in-toxicated student.”
Perhaps the most widely-known example of the medical amnesty policy is Penn’s stu-dent-run Medical Emergency Response Team.
College senior and Chief of MERT Grace Kunas whole-heartedly supports the policy.
“I think it’s absolutely essen-tial to have on a college cam-pus. If it weren’t in place, peo-ple might not call if there was a true emergency,” she said. “The fact that it’s here means that getting in trouble is never a concern and that the main fo-cus is the safety and health of the student.”
But Penn’s policies go be-yond just medical amnesty in the event of an emergency. For those students living in Uni-versity housing, punishments for underage possession of alcohol or drugs is often kept within the University.
While RAs and GAs are given training prior to the aca-demic year on how to handle underage drinking, each Col-lege House’s policies are flex-ible and lenient.
“If I see drugs or alcohol in one of my resident’s apart-ments, I have to check every-one’s IDs and file an incident
A report from Penn re-searchers found that the School District of Philadelphia is in fact doing more with less, but that districts across the state still would need $3.55 billion more to achieve academic pro-ficiency.
The Consortium for Policy Research in Education re-leased a policy brief last week summarizing the findings of Graduate School of Education professors Matthew Steinberg and Rand Quinn in a working paper titled “An Urban Myth? New Evidence on Equity, Ad-equacy, and the Efficiency
of Educational Resources in Pennsylvania,” which was published in February.
By looking at “adequacy gaps” — the differences be-tween per-student spending in each district and the estimated amount of spending needed to help the students of that dis-trict meet academic standards in 2009-10 — across the state, the researchers found that Phil-adelphia schools performed better than peer districts with similar poverty levels and aca-demic performance.
While large urban school districts are known to spend more per student and show
“When I first was here I would get comments on my teaching like ‘Do you want to go on a date?’ or ‘You should grow your hair long’ or ‘I don’t like your outfits.’ It’s not relevant to the way I teach, but those are types of personal comments [I got],” recalled professor Susan Davidson of her early days on Penn’s fac-ulty.
Davidson, a Weiss professor in the Computer and Informa-tion Science department of the Engineering School, laments that being a minority — a fe-male faculty member among mostly males — has added obstacles to her academic ca-reer. “If you’re aggressive as a women you’re seen as nasty, [and] it is hard to be in control of a class and not be perceived as being aggressive,” David-son said. She is one of the few women on the Engineer-ing School’s faculty, which is
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INSIDENEWS
FERGUSON PROTESTSProtests continue the week after the grand jury decision was announced
PAGE 3
PENN VET SUED
PENN FALLS TO WAGNER
PAGE 2
BACK PAGE
SPORTS
OPINION
GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT
QUAKERS SPLIT SEASON’S FIRST DUELS
The justice system is flawed, but we’re only compounding the problem
A recap of yesterday’s wrestling match
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BACK PAGE
Diversifying gender in Engineering facultyPercent of standing faculty that are female
Source: Progress Report on Penn’s Action Plan for Faculty Diversity and Excellence
Jake’s Sandwich Board opens todaySandwiches, shakes and
fries are now available on 40th Street.
Today is the grand open-ing of Jake’s Sandwich Board on 40th and Sansom streets. The eatery, featured on BuzzFeed’s list of 11 Wonderful Sandwiches in Philadelphia, will be giving away free nine ounce Srira-cha bottles to the first 500 college students to enter with valid ID.
University City is now home to Jake’s “3 for All”
Deal, when sandwiches cost $3 from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. on the third day of each month.
Jake’s slow-roasted sand-wiches are neighbors to Hai Street Kitchen, Zesto Pizza & Grill and Dunkin’ Donuts. Hours will be 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. This is the restau-rant’s second location, with the original on 12th and San-som streets.
“We’re excited to come out there and are looking forward to meeting a lot of new people once we open the doors,” Gary Dorfman, co-owner of Jake’s told The Daily Pennsylvanian earlier
ZOE GOLDBERG/GRAPHICS ASSOCIATE
CLAIRE COHEN Assignments Editor-Elect
JENNIFER WRIGHTStaff Writer
Career Services devotes resources to veterans after
petitionCareer Services created a website with links to job
databases for veteransYUEQI YANGSenior Writer
Jake’s Sandwich Board opened today on 40th and Sansom streets beside Hai Street Kitchen, Zesto PIzza and Dunkin’ Donuts.
YOLANDA CHEN/NEWS PHOTO EDITOR
Penn report: Phila. school district does more with less
For Penn kids, arrest not a concernDoes the Penn
Bubble keep students a little too safe?JESSICA MCDOWELL
Staff Writer
SEE ARREST PAGE 6
Comparison of School District of Philadelphia (SDP) to peer districts in achievement and adequacy gap
PSSA PROFICIENT OF ABOVE (2010)
ADEQUACY GAP(PER PUPIL)
MATHSDP PEER DISTRICTS SDP PEER DISTRICTS
56% 54% 50% 47%
$5,478 $2,159 $5,478 $2,344
ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS
ANALYN DELOS SANTOS/CREATIVE DIRECTOR-ELECTSOURCE: THE CONSORTIUM FOR POLICY RESEARCH IN EDUCATION SEE PA SCHOOLS PAGE 3
Career Services launched a new web-page devoted to veteran students two weeks ago, a day after The Daily Penn-sylvanian reported on veteran students’ petition for more resources.
“They launched a website in such a rapid manner,” said Wharton senior Timothy Kolb, the president of the Penn Student Veteran Association. “I com-mend them for that.”
“But at the same time, I see it’s a small step and a lot more work [needs] to be done,” Kolb added.
The webpage includes over 30 links to sites such as job databases and network pages for veterans. Information about career fairs specifically for veterans will also be posted on the website.
The petition, which had 414 signa-tures as of Tuesday, called on the Uni-versity to establish a resource center for veteran students at Penn. The DP article noted that while Career Services had re-source pages for other minority commu-nities, there were no resources devoted to veterans.
“When I saw in the article we didn’t have a customized site for veterans, it seemed like a good idea, because we have a lot of resources already on the website and it is easy to just pull them all together,” Career Services Director Pat Rose said.
Career Services will not set up a spe-cialized staff for veteran students, but the students will be served by the advisors for their respective schools.
“The staff can focus on the needs of their school or their group,” Rose said.
SEE VETERANS PAGE 7
THIS WEEK IN PENN HISTORYA look back at 1999 when Ed Rendell taught an Urban Studies class
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Bruce E. Barshay is upset that he can only sue Penn for $6,500, after his dog died from what he claims was improper treatment by doctors from the School of Veterinary Medi-cine .
“Any fi nancial and reputational damage I can do, I will do to them,” Barshay said in an interview. “If this were to be about a human, I would ask for $10 million. But because this is about a dog, that is all I can ask for.”
According to the complaint Bar-shay fi led on Nov. 17 , he is seeking damages for ethical and medical negligence on the part of Penn’s Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospi-
tal for contributing to the premature death of his dog . The $6,500 Bar-shay is asking for from Penn would compensate him for the veterinary bills related to the treatment of his dog, Harley .
Barshay, who is representing himself, said he chose not to hire a lawyer because the cost of hiring one would far outweigh the damages he could get. A University spokesman declined to comment on the case, cit-ing Penn’s policy not to comment on ongoing litigation.
In August 2013 , Barshay brought his dog Harley to a local veterinarian because Harley had trouble defecat-ing, according to the complaint. The local veterinarian wasn’t sure why Harley was having problems and re-ferred Barshay to Penn Vet, Barshay said over the phone.
Ryan Hospital’s oncology depart-ment discovered that Harley had “grape”-like bodies inside him that
could have been tumors, according to the complaint. But the hospital’s doctor said the results of tests on Harley pointed to a diff erent condi-tion: perianal fi stula disease , an in-fection of the dog’s anal region.
Barshay followed the doctor’s recommendation to give Harley pre-scribed medications — one of which was Prednisone, an anti-infl ammato-ry also used to treat dogs with cancer — before having Harley receive a bi-opsy, and his health improved in four days, according to the complaint. Barshay was advised to bring Harley back for a check-up after two weeks, but he did not do so. Instead, after a few weeks, Barshay had his dog treated at the hospital’s dermatology department, at the recommendation of Harley’s fi rst Penn Vet doctor.
In his complaint, Barshay claimed that deciding to transfer Harley’s care from the oncology department to the dermatology department was
medical negligence, since there was no follow-up to Harley’s fi rst exami-nation.
The veterinarian from the der-matology department advised Bar-shay to switch medications, putting Harley on a new drug for his skin disease while taking him off the old one . Barshay felt reassured because he was told the new drug had mini-mal side eff ects. Yet Harley’s health condition deteriorated after the new drug was taken, according to the complaint.
One morning, Barshay found Harley’s leg extremely swollen. Bar-shay’s local veterinarian said it might be cancer, and Barshay brought the dog for emergency treatment at Ryan Hospital . He was told that Harley had minimal chance of surviving even after amputation, which was the most realistic treatment at the time. Barshay was also told that Harley was not a good candidate for amputation either because of other conditions.
After realizing the dim outlook, Barshay chose to euthanize Harley. The autopsy result was later shared with him, and it showed that Harley had cancer, not perianal fi stulas. He wrote a letter to the Vet School stat-ing his confusion, but the hospital, he said in an interview, “blamed every-thing on him.” As a result, Barshay decided to bring this case to court.
Barshay said he is also ready to bring this battle to Twitter to gain more attention. “I’ll spend the rest of my life to make sure that my dog did not die in vain,” Barshay said.
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Man sues Penn for alleged vet hospital negligence after his dog diesBruce Barshay sued Penn
for $6,500 on Nov. 17
JOE LIStaff Writer
Bruce Barshay’s dog, who he claimed died from improper treatment by School of Veterinary Medicine doctors, is pictured here.
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In Philadelphia schools, 56 percent of students scored proficient or higher on 2010 state standardized math tests compared to an average of 54 percent of students at the other 23 lowest-performing peer Pa. school districts. The research estimates Philadel-phia schools’ adequacy gap to be $5,478 — more than twice the amount of peer districts. This means, in the report’s terminology, that if Philadel-phia schools were to receive $5,478 more per student, stu-dents would be able to per-
form to standard.Steinberg and Quinn called
the higher test scores an “un-expected” finding in the re-search report.
“Philadelphia is, in es-sence, doing more with less, when compared to its peer high-poverty and low-achiev-ing districts,” they wrote in the research paper.
The school districts with the poorest students had gen-erally larger adequacy gaps than districts with smaller numbers of poorer students, the researchers found. Stein-berg and Quinn advocated in their paper that $3.55 billion given to 412 school districts in Pennsylvania would close adequacy gaps in the state, bring spending to adequate levels and allow students to meet state academic stan-dards.
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Leading up to and during this Thanksgiving break, many Penn students joined the national pro-test against a grand jury’s deci-sion to not indict police officer Darren Wilson, a white man, for shooting Michael Brown, a black teenager.
The case in Ferguson, Mo., garnered national attention as a symbol of racial tension be-tween police officers and black civilians. Over the break, many students protested against police violence and to reform a legal system which they say discrimi-nates against minorities.
Kendall Finlay, a College sophomore , was one of these stu-
dents. Finlay said he participated in the march on Nov. 25, where a group of Penn students marched from campus to Temple Univer-sity in North Philadelphia, join-ing hundreds of other protesters from different parts of the city.
“It was really empowering just to see how many people came to-gether from different walks of life to support the cause,” he said.
College sophomore Araba Ankuma also participated in the Nov. 25 march. “I was in awe of the unity and cohesiveness within Philadelphia. It was not just Penn students, and it was not just black people who were pro-testing,” Ankuma said. “People of all colors, all ages, all genders marched, and as we marched, more and more people joined us.”
Over the holiday break, Finlay continued his protest by boycot-ting Black Friday, as part of a na-tional movement started by Co-lumbia University and Barnard College students. Over 271,000 people were invited to boycott Black Friday on Facebook and over 28,000 people said they would participate.
“People have asked me, ‘Why would you boycott private com-panies when it’s the police that are involved?’” Finlay said. “My response to them is that I feel like it’s one system that has been de-signed to, whether intentionally or unintentionally, oppress oth-ers. It’s all interconnected.”
While protests earlier in the week with hundreds, even thou-sands, of people in the city sim-
mered down because of the holi-day, they are likely to pick back up this week.
Kassandra Britt, a College sophomore who was part of the Nov. 25 march, said that though she did not participate in protests over Thanksgiving break, she will join tomorrow’s walkout or-ganized by Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation.
Ankuma will also participate in the walkout tomorrow. “It’s important to participate even if only a little bit, to keep the move-ment going so this is not just something that blows over with time. We have to show that we won’t be appeased,” she said.
The walkout will begin at 1 p.m. from DuBois College House.
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Law is a big deal in the United States. All three branches of government cor-
respond to some function of the law. According to the American Bar Association, in 2011 there were 1.2 million licensed attorneys in the Unit-ed States. A United Nations survey on criminal justice re-sources listed the U.S. as hav-ing 30,937 professional judges the same year.
With all these people who deal specifically with the law — not even counting the 670,000-plus police officers also listed in the survey — why is it, as a population, we feel the need to act as a jury on a regular basis?
The presumption of inno-cence is such a fundamental human right that a majority of democracies, constitutional monarchies, republics and even the U.N. have written it into their legal codes and con-stitutions.
Yet in cases such as Darren
Wilson and Bill Cosby, among others, before a trial has started — and many times even after that — people have already concluded a verdict of inno-cence or guilt.
Even journalists’ code of ethics prevent this, in that a person must be referred to as a “suspect” and criminal activity as “alleged” before a verdict has been reached by the justice system.
Further, Islamic law, which some argue originated the pre-sumption of innocence, not only maintains the burden of proof on the prosecution — Al-Nawawi hadith 33 — but even condemns suspicion. Saliheen hadith 1573: “Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The messenger of Allah (Praise be unto Him) said, ‘Beware of suspicion, for suspicion is the worst of false tales.’”
It is the job of the judicial system to determine inno-cence or guilt. This is achieved through a collection of foren-
sic science and testimonies to determine the truth of what happened in a given situation based on factual evidence. Many times, that factual evi-
dence is withheld from the public for various reasons, and in many cases, it can be the de-termining factor of a verdict.
So why are we unable to al-low the criminal justice system to do its job without throwing our suspicions around?
One argument for this be-havior is lack of confidence in the justice system. It is difficult not to agree with that sentiment when you have people like Ray Rice, Paris Hilton and Ted Kennedy getting off with light sentences compared to what your average citizen would re-ceive for the same crime. It is
this painfully obvious double standard within the justice sys-tem that causes frustration and the feeling of mistrust.
We must not permit our-
selves or the court system to allow “scapegoat-ism,” in ei-ther the public or university ju-dicial systems. Cases — such as that of Eden Jacobowitz in 1993 — not only harm the in-dividual and others’ belief in the fairness of the system, but also embarrass the institution that pursues such cases.
Also, more care must be taken in ensuring that those who are being tried are being tried fairly by a jury of peers. We cannot continue to allow cases like those of Ronald Cot-ton, convicted of rape in 1987, released in 1995; Rolando
Cruz, convicted of rape and murder in 1985, pardoned in 1995; James Bain, convicted for kidnapping, burglary and rape in 1974, exonerated in 2010 and George Kelly, ex-ecuted in 1950 for murder, ex-onerated in 2003, to still hap-pen to this day.
The judicial system must maintain the same standards for all citizens, whether they be professional athletes, ce-lebrities, politicians, federal employees or the guy working the counter behind McDon-ald’s. This would allow the average citizen to believe in a system that they currently feel is against them.
The current law enforce-ment and judicial systems are flawed and in need of reform. However that doesn’t excuse us from bypassing the system. We must work within the confines of the law to affect change. Ri-ots and vigilantism only serve to release anger, not to pave the road to change. Even when confronted with the loss of
their 12-year-old son, Tamir Rice, to a police shooting last Saturday, the parents asked that “the public … demonstrate peacefully.”
Martin Luther King Jr. said, “The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their partici-pants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reaction-ary because it invites defeat.”
Some exception-ally fortunate turkey enjoyed a presidential pardon last week — a spared sacrifice to justify eating the rest of his kind and cleanse us American omni-vores of our collective guilt. How, you ask, did such a silly and self-righteous ritual ever catch on? But we digress.
About a week before our fowl friend’s life was spared, another biped, this one feath-erless, did catch the axe. His crime? Having a sense of hu-mor — specifically, writing an opinion piece in the conserva-tive Michigan Review satiriz-ing social justice warriors and privilege fever on college cam-puses.
Rather than take his jibe in stride, his editors at the Uni-versity of Michigan’s official campus paper, The Michigan Daily — a different paper — suspended his column for hav-ing created a “hostile environ-ment.” It would be funny if it
weren’t so tragic.Even those of us who find
oppression abhorrent and care deeply about social issues should be able to differentiate between hate speech and satire. The columnist was criticizing a political perspective (or lack thereof). God forbid he should do so with wit in his arsenal.
Getting offended is so commonplace these days that we practically fail to notice it. Some poor turkey dares to say something unpopular, this one doomed not to be pardoned. We get mad. We vent to our blogs. The sun rises. Air-PennNet crashes.
We are thick of heart but thin of skin. Our generation is
shockproof, except for when it comes to ideas. The public fo-rum is more tolerant of four-let-ter words than ever before, but say something intellectually flammable and shit hits the fan.
Obviously, there are times when taking offense is justi-fied. Someone who speaks with clear intent to demean or in-
timidate forfeits the right to be listened to. Slurs, for instance, are acts of hostility, rather than attempts at dialogue, and it’s appropriate to condemn or ig-nore them.
But taking offense is also used as a get-out-of-jail-free card. Stephen Fry called it “no more than a whine,” no better than any other thought-termi-
nating cliche. Much like the ac-cusation of privilege, personal offense is sometimes justified. Other times, its only function is to try to invalidate someone’s point of view.
“That’s offensive” is neither productive nor dignified. You might complain that you’re of-fended, but what I hear is that I should stop expressing my be-liefs because you lack the emo-tional fortitude to handle seeing things through other people’s eyes. If you can’t help reacting to disagreement with personal insult, aren’t you placing your own hypersensitivity above the rights of others to express themselves? Being able to ar-gue dispassionately is a sign of intelligence and maturity; getting offended too easily is a sign of selfishness.
If something is disagree-able or plain wrong, explain why. If something is truly of-fensive, explain why. That raw emotion underlies many of our debates about meaning-ful issues doesn’t make it a legitimate means of changing
minds. Intuitive reflexes are not reasons.
If anything, we should wel-come the feeling of offense as a blessing in disguise. Think of Carl Jung’s advice that “ev-erything that irritates us about others can lead us to an un-derstanding of ourselves.” We might hold ourselves to certain beliefs de jure, but when the opinions of others rile us up, we get a glimpse into how we really feel about things below the surface.
I’m not saying that we should go out of our way to feel offended. Rather, we should celebrate those moments when our emotion and reasoning come into conflict. Just as a skinned knee can be a bless-ing for growing children, so can the occasional skinned ego keep us keen to the landscape of perspectives in which we find ourselves.
That’s the beauty of free speech: Every now and then, people might actually prompt us to rethink, revise or even reinforce our ideas. Only by
engaging them and allowing our biases to emerge can we really get a handle on what we believe.
The next time someone of-fends you, be happy for the chance to unearth your own attitudes — to ask yourself why you feel the way you do and how that informs what you ought to believe moving for-ward.
Talk about something to be thankful for.
Guilty until proven innocent
JONATHAN IWRY is a 2014 College graduate from Potomac, Md. His email address is [email protected]. “The Faithless Quaker” appears every Monday.
Riots and vigilantism only serve to release anger, not to pave the road to change.”
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SHAWN KELLEY is a LPS sophomore studying Japanese and history. His email address is [email protected]. “A Vet-ted Mind” usually appears every other Monday.
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ideas.”
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In 1999, students enrolled in a class taught by the future governor of Pennsylvania. Out of 500 applicants, 60 were ac-
cepted into then Philadelphia mayor and 1965 College gradu-ate Ed Rendell’s Urban Studies course, “Who Gets Elected and Why.” On Dec. 3, then-President Bill Clinton praised Rendell’s accomplishments as mayor at a
dinner at the Philadelphia Con-vention Center to raise funds for Rendell’s campaign committee. Clinton himself recruited Ren-dell to be the chairperson of the Democratic National Committee for the 2000 presidential election.
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Sophomore joins fi nance ‘Hall of Fame’
This Thanksgiving, Engineer-ing sophomore Ashok Rao had much to be grateful for.
Over the course of the past month, Rao and various team-mates he’s worked with have cleaned up with a fi rst place fi nish in the Wharton Alliance Diversity Case Competition , an Honorable Mention in the Whar-ton Public Policy Case Competi-tion and most recently a fourth-place ranking in the Americas on the Bloomberg Aptitude Test, earning himself a spot on it’s Hall of Fame.
The Bloomberg Aptitude Test (BAT) — a two-hour, 100-ques-tion fi nancial literacy test — is of-fered for free on campus through
the Wharton Undergraduate Fi-nance Club and online through ProctorU for $39. Rao is the only Penn student to make the Hall of Fame this round, but he joins 19 other Penn Hall of Famers who received top scores since the test began a year and a half ago in a total of nine testing rounds.
Rao insisted that his win was “not a big deal” and gave credit to his teammates for their eff orts in the case competitions.
“The knowledge level of all the questions on there is something everyone at Penn would know af-ter they’ve taken a few weeks of Accounting 101 and a few weeks of Finance 101,” Rao said.
The purpose of the BAT is to connect students to potential employers, managers of the test have said. So far, 200,000 stu-dents have taken the test and 800 employers — from places like investment banks, hedge funds and sports management compa-nies — are accessing informa-
tion about students’ scores on the exam.
According to Blair Wilkie, a marketing manager at Bloom-berg, the company’s goal in de-veloping the exam was to create a “GMAT for fi nance jobs.”
“This opens up employment opportunities 10-fold,” she said.
Rao, who said he has not yet received any outreach from re-cruiters using the BAT, is not as sure.
“It might be helpful for people that don’t have access to the re-sources that you get at Wharton,” he said, “but I think if you are here and you are already moti-vated enough to take a test like this, you’re better off using the network you have here.”
Bloomberg is investing serious resources in making its BAT suc-cessful, Wilkie said. Whether the test really takes off is still to be seen.
“They might succeed with fl y-ing colors,” Rao said.
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report. If they’re underage, I flush it down the toilet or pour it down the sink,” said Clara, a high-rise RA not authorized to speak about resident advisor protocol. “It’s technically up to me if I want to call the police with drugs and al-cohol, but we’re generally told that
it’s preferable to handle things in-house,” she said.
“The RAs and GAs in the Quad tend to vary a lot,” Rebecca, who lives in Riepe, said. “I know some people who were pouring shots in their hall lounge, and their RA passed them and gave them a thumbs up,” she said. “Then there are others who are pretty strict — as strict as they can be,” she added.
Matt, a former Quad GA, em-phasized that the RAs and GAs are trained to maintain good rela-tionships with their residents. He even noted that it was encouraged for RAs and GAs to, as a policy, refuse to write up their own resi-dents. “It was never explicitly said, but we were always told that it was important to remain on our residents’ good sides,” he said. He
called other residential staff mem-bers to handle incidents with his own hall.
Even the strictest of RAs, though, have limitations. As a general policy when conducting room checks, RAs are not allowed to open any closets, drawers or cabinets within the room, even if they suspect there might be alco-hol or drugs there, Clara said.
Roughly 150 students were re-ferred to OSC for liquor law viola-tions, rather than face arrest, and between 10 and 15 students were referred for drug law violations in 2012 and 2013. Penn’s percent-ages of arrests and referrals within the university disciplinary system aren’t an outlier among peers, though — other Ivies reported similar statistics.
But despite the statistics, OSC’s website states that “it is not meant to replace or substitute for the criminal justice system or other legal avenues.”
Noelle Melartin, the associate director of the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initia-tives, also said that students who partake in illegal drugs and alco-hol consumption inherently face the risk of legal repercussions. “Students know what is legal and not legal,” she said, “and they know that if they choose to engage in high-risk, illegal behavior, they
can be held legally accountable.”Rush also stressed that the Uni-
versity does not actively seek to keep students out of the legal sys-tem. Penn has no way to keep stu-dents’ records clean of any legal infractions. “If you get in trouble, you go through the court system just like everyone else,” Rush said.
“Our first priority is safety,” she added. “The message here is to have fun but to be responsible.”
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Aaron’s feeling of insulation from legal repercussions was echoed by the students inter-viewed for this article. But does safety also engender a culture of excess?
Keith, a Wharton sophomore who requested anonymity because he does not want to openly admit to drinking and smoking for fear of repercussions, stated that he did not partake in drinking or drug use during high school at all, but after a little more than a year at Penn, he has been hospitalized for intoxica-tion twice and says he smokes pot or drinks alcohol “probably three times a month or so.”
Rebecca, a College freshman who also asked for anonym-ity, echoed Keith’s sentiment. “I didn’t really drink or experiment with drugs that much in high
school, but it’s definitely a bigger part of my life now,” she said. “It’s something I knew would be more accessible here, and I definitely wanted to take part in that.”
“Not to be cynical, but I feel like a lot of it is for the school’s im-age,” Rebecca said. “They want to seem like they’re doing something about this problem, but everyone knows it happens,” she said.
She also thinks that new poli-cies do not have the students’ best interests at heart, and that they could be potentially dangerous for students. “I think it could create a mentality where students load up on alcohol whenever it is available to them because they don’t know when they’re going to have access to it,” she said, noting that the only times she has ever been physically sick from alcohol consumption were when she was drinking large quantities very rapidly before a party.
Keith has been picked up by MERT twice. “Both times were about the same,” he said. “I don’t know that I would call it a positive experience — because how posi-tive can being hospitalized be? — but I knew I was safe,” he said.
“I don’t know that the fact that MERT exists encouraged me to go overboard those two nights, but I definitely think the fact that the system exists encourages students to drink in general,” he said.
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In the last year, however, those numbers have started to change slightly. With an increased cam-pus presence of Liquor Control Enforcement and alcohol moni-tors, in addition to Penn Police, more students are facing legal re-percussions.
In recent months, though, the University has been changing its policies. Last April, the University coordinated with LCE and alcohol monitors to assist the Penn Po-lice with law enforcement during the typically-chaotic Spring Fling weekend. The University again brought in backup for New Stu-dent Orientation in August, and again for Halloween/Homecom-ing weekend.
Rush stressed that the increase in citations and LCE presence on campus was not done explicitly by
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“So there would be no way to have just one person. It wouldn’t be best.”
Kolb, representing the University of Pennsylvania Student Veteran Associa-tion, met with the Under-graduate Assembly during its open forum last Sunday.
“I received enthusiastic
response from those stu-dents. Many of them wanted to know how they can help,” Kolb said. “Moving forward, there’s opportunity to work with them with the goal of pursuing a referendum from the UA’s side.”
Kolb will also meet with staff from the Vice Provost for University Life next week to speak about the pe-tition.
around 13.5 percent female overall. According to Davidson, there
is a discrepancy in student ratings for male and female faculty mem-bers in the same STEM positions. “This is an issue for receiving ten-ure,” Davidson said. “And feeling under-evaluated can get to you as a teacher.”
Davidson’s parents were both professors at Cornell University and, with an interest in math and science as a kid, Davidson began her Cornell undergraduate career as a math major until she discov-ered her first computer science class. With the encouragement of faculty mentors, she attended grad-uate school at Princeton University and has since been on the faculty at Penn.
Her path to professorship was not direct, nor was it easy. To re-ceive tenure as an assistant pro-fessor in the Engineering school, professors must build up a strong resume of current and previous student evaluations, established re-search publications and supporting opinions of other senior professors. Yet while raising two kids, David-
son found building her resume to be a challenge.
Since she has come to Penn, the tenure policy has changed. “Now both men and women faculty members can get family leave,” she said. Assistant professors can request a one-year extension be-fore tenure evaluation if they have children while they are an assistant professor.
Katherine Kuchenbecker, a pro-fessor in the Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering and Ap-plied Mechanics department, cred-its female mentors in helping her on her path to professorship.
“There is a spotlight on women in this field,” Kuchenbecker said. “Many women feel that they need to do more to prove that they de-serve what they’ve received.”
Penn, she said, does do a good job of supporting a diverse envi-ronment in its engineering school. In her job search, she came across programs that were overtly dis-criminatory, yet as the second fe-male professor in her department at Penn, she felt welcome.
Yet there is still a long way to go to bring more women into STEM teaching in higher education.
“There is not a lot of commu-
nication about what an engineer really is,” Elizabeth Bierman, the president of the Society of Women Engineers, said. Many women en-ter the work force with the goal of helping others, and they don’t asso-ciate that with jobs in STEM fields.
Both Bierman and Davidson believe that this gender gap arises from misconceptions about what engineer’s jobs are actually like, which are often perceived as hard or confusing. Davidson also con-tends that this issue arises because STEM classes like computer sci-ence aren’t taught in many high schools, what she calls a “pipeline problem.”
In terms of the future for females in this field, Davidson is optimistic about a slow but steady increase in women. Penn’s undergraduate gen-der distribution — around 34 per-cent female in the Class of 2017 — is slightly better than the national average of around 20 percent.
“There has been a lot of support from upper levels, and hiring prac-tices are more inclusive,” Davidson said. “People are pulling together to try and address this. I think it’s still a problem, and it’s not going to change quickly.”
To both recruit and retain
women in this field, Davidson has chaired the Advancing Women in Engineering program, which has established several initiatives, in-cluding Penn Girls in Engineering summer camp for middle-school-age children in the Philadelphia area.
Bierman’s Society of Women in Engineering has also made efforts for the past 60 years to support more than 30,000 female engi-neering members from around the world.
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the University administration, but that the administration and Division of Public Safety have cooperated with the LCE officers.
“LCE comes under the Liquor Control Board, which oversees the entire state of Pennsylvania. They don’t need our permission to come on campus,” she said. A few years ago, the LCB did a study and found an increase in the number of young people drinking on campuses, and decided to take preventative mea-sures. “They reached out to us and asked if we would like to cooperate with them,” she said. She also added that she didn’t think the increased presence of the LCE had led to a noticeable increase in arrests or ci-tations. “They’ve been very mea-sured,” she said. “They could be
giving a lot more citations than they are.”
Currently, there are about 20 al-cohol monitors working on campus, most of whom do not work at the University full-time, Melartin said. While not technically law enforce-ment officers — they don’t wear uni-forms — Melartin added that they work closely with Greek organiza-tions and student leaders to ensure that parties are “safe and successful.”
This shift is reflected in Penn’s most recent Clery Report. For the 2013 calendar year, 11 arrests were made on campus for liquor law vio-lations, more than double the num-ber from years before.
While the new monitors are cor-related with more arrests and notice-ably fewer student hospitalizations, many among the student body still wonder if the shift in policy is a good thing.
“Based on the stats of MERT and LCE, it definitely does seem like the presence of the new policies has been a good thing, but at the same time, it’s also made students and es-pecially fraternities a lot more cau-tious,” Aaron said. “Instead, a lot of parties are moving downtown, which presents a whole new set of challenges. MERT can’t go down-town, and trying to navigate your way back to campus while drunk could be dangerous in and of itself,” he said.
But he brought up a potentially even more dangerous implication as well. “I think for a lot of students — and even more so for frats — the new policies are creating an atmo-sphere of distrust and skepticism of DPS,” he said. “They’re supposed to be looking out for our best interests, and they’re bringing in all these new organizations that are either shutting
down parties or forcing people to go to extreme lengths to host them,” he said.
Rush disagreed. “I really don’t see much of a change in our relationship with the students,” she said.
MERT, typically an integral part of the University’s policies on al-cohol and drugs, was left out of the decision to bring in new law en-forcement agencies. While Kunas acknowledged that MERT had seen fewer patients during Fling with the implementation of Penn’s new poli-cies, she said the decline could be at-tributed to other factors as well.
“I don’t know that it’s necessarily an indication of students staying saf-er as much as it is an indication that there were other factors that played a role,” she said. “Last Fling, it rained during the concert. The year before that, it was cold and no one was re-ally excited about the performer.”
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2014 NCAA tournament bid. The 133 pounder won his only match of the day against 19th ranked Rob Deutsch of Rider in a grueling 3-2 victory.
Richardson’s performance was not the only highlight for the Quak-ers. They sent four freshman grap-
plers out for their first college dual meet experience. 133 pounder Marc Mastropietro, 157 pounder May Bethea, 174 pounder Joe Heyob and heavyweight Patrik Garren all got their hands raised in their first taste of collegiate dual meet competi-tion. Garren would drop his match against Rider as the freshmen fin-ished 4-1 as a group on the day.
Another bright spot for the Quak-
ers came when 13th ranked senior C.J. Cobb returned to the lineup with success en route to two victo-ries. The 149 pounder was forced to sit out of the Keystone Classic as well as the East Stroudsburg Open due to a nagging knee injury.
While the Quakers led Rider, 9-0, early in the dual, the lead would not prove enough. Senior All-American Lorenzo Thomas struggled in his
victory over Rider’s Clint Morri-son. The 184 pounder was pushed to overtime where he won but was unable to secure bonus points.
The Red and Blue look to re-group this week as they prepare to face 18th ranked Lehigh in Bethle-hem, Pa. next weekend. This will be a tough test for the Quakers, who have shown promise but will have a chance to impress as a unit.
to score the ball inside if we were patient and poised,” Al-len said. “I thought for the most part, whether it was side-ball screen actions or direct post-ups, Darien and Greg did a good job.”
Penn led at halftime, 31-26, missing just seven times from the field while getting five of-fensive rebounds. However, 14 turnovers kept Wagner in the game despite the Seahawks shooting 41.7 percent in the first half.
“If we have 40 percent less turnovers in the first half and score on 20-30 percent of those [possessions], it would be a dif-ferent ball game,” Allen said.
“We may be going into halftime with a double-digit lead and stretch it out from there.”
But it was not enough. Junior captain Tony Hicks struggled throughout the game, scoring just eight points after leading the team in scoring average dur-ing its first four games. He also committed seven of Penn’s 22 turnovers — easily a season high for both Hicks and the squad — before fouling out late.
Cooper led the way for Wag-ner even with the Quakers out-rebounding the Seahawks, 29-23. Cooper and Burton each had 15, combining to lead the late comeback.
After the game, Allen admit-ted that he and his squad need to show something more in order to pick up their first win.
“Everything starts with me, but we’re just not tough enough,” he said. “We’re just not ready. We don’t have that poise about us to compete on the road, let alone at the collegiate level.”
Penn will look for that tough-ness and its first victory when the Red and Blue travel to Navy on Wednesday.
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CAEPHAS STUBBS/DP FILE PHOTO Senior 149 pounder C.J Cobb impressed in Penn’s first duals of the year, picking up victories against both Clarion and No. 25 Rider on Sunday. Cobb, who is ranked No. 13 in his weight class, was unable to compete before Thanksgiving break due to injury.
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But it’s apparent this team isn’t done experiencing growing pains yet.
“We didn’t play with any poise,” Allen said.
The Quakers are better than they were last year. The atmo-sphere around the program is completely different from last year.
But this loss is reminiscent of last year.
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HOLDEN MCGINNIS/SPORTS EDITOR-ELECTSophomore guard Matt Howard came alive against Temple on Tuesday, scoring a career-high 15 points. He followed that up with a nine-point effort vs. Wagner.
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Senior Sports Editor Steven Tydings: After traveling to Wag-ner on Saturday, there is one thing that sticks out like a sore thumb: turnovers. In the fi rst three games of the year, the Quakers averaged just over 14 turnovers a game, cutting two turnovers off their pace from last season.
But against Temple and Wag-ner this past week, Penn gave away the ball a whopping 41 times with junior captain Tony Hicks committing 12 of those turnovers. This simply won’t cut it. Coach Jerome Allen right-fully pointed out after the Wag-ner game that the Red and Blue’s 14 fi rst-half turnovers against the Seahawks — which prevented Penn from extending its lead early on — likely made the dif-ference in the close defeat.
Some of this is natural. You have two freshman point guards — Antonio Woods and Darnell Foreman — playing signifi cant minutes and are overly reliant on Hicks to create off ense. As Woods and Foreman get more games under their belt, they’ll surely be better with the ball, which will in turn create less pressure on Hicks.
But all of this needs to come sooner rather than later with Princeton looming just 41 days in the future.
Sports Editor Colin Hender-son: There’s no question about it, Steven. Turnovers are a huge problem facing the Quakers, but I suspect that with experience, it should become less and less of an issue. However, one problem that I believe should give the Red and Blue more reason for concern is the disparity between their three-point shooting and that of their opponents.
Five games into the season, Penn is shooting a pedestrian 28.6 percent from beyond the arc. Meanwhile, their opposition has found considerably more suc-cess, shooting a very respectable 39.4 percent from downtown.
I realize that it’s a small sample size, but the Quakers’ struggles shooting the three are indicative of a larger problem: their inability to get easy buck-ets. Moving forward, they would be wise to play more inside-out basketball, running their off ense through Darien Nelson-Henry and taking some pressure off of Hicks and Woods.
On the other side of the ball, stronger defense behind the arc will come from tighter defensive rotations, and that will only come with time and experience.
Sports Editor Holden Mc-Ginnis: We’ve been saying it all season long, but Penn is still in search of that second consistent scoring option behind Hicks. Whether it’s Nelson-Henry, Matt Howard or one of the freshman, someone needs to step up into that role and take the pressure off Hicks. Sure, you can come close in games where he drops 30, but this is an off ense that too often falls back on his pull-up jumper.
Howard has started to play more aggressively — particularly in the past two games — and was a player we highlighted before the season as someone who could rise into that role. As the season continues, it will be interesting to see how he develops and whether he can replicate his performance from Temple.
Nelson-Henry has shown some of the fl ashes of brilliance that we’ve seen the past two years, but it’s diffi cult to rely on a big as one of your primary scorers — particularly when the center is getting double-teamed regularly.
Either way, this is a Penn team that isn’t quite as bad as its 0-5 record seems. For a team with four freshmen (when healthy) as integral parts of the rotation, there is certainly a steep learning curve. It comes down to better play-calling and execution. When plays break down, there needs to be someone other than Hicks to turn to. Turn around a few plays this year, and the Quakers could have multiple wins.
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DO YOU PAY PER VIEW?Film polled you to fi nd out how you are getting your Sunday afternoon movie fi xes. Here’s what we learned. BY ANTHONY KHAYKIN
Though we all know the Internet is for porn (thanks Avenue Q), the
bedroom is no longer the only area being ceded to digital terri-tory. For every girl with daddy’s AmEx, window browsing on Fifth Avenue has been replaced with online shopping. And FYEs everywhere have virtu-ally been rendered useless (pun intended) with the existence of the multifarious iTunes store.
Things are no different here at Penn, where the Rave gets nearly half the traffi c for the midnight screenings of block-buster hits like Twilight as Hulu does the day after the newest episode of 30 Rock airs. This makes sense. We Penn students are too busy procrastinating on Penn InTouch and design-ing funny lacrosse pinnies for the clubs we’re involved in to leave the comfort of our beds to
watch Hugo in theaters. And we fi t this mold of overworked Ivy League students well, with only about 17% of Penn undergrads watching movies at the Rave ev-ery semester.
But how about the other ste-reotype, the one that says all col-lege students are poor? The free movement of information made possible by the interweb makes
entertainment accessible and inexpensive to anyone with an AirPennNet account. Wouldn’t
you guess then that Penn stu-dents would prefer to get their RomCom fi x online with free streaming websites like SideReel and Ch131 rather than pay for services provided by Netfl ix and Redbox?
While 75% of us watch mov-ies online, nearly 50% pay for it. I hear Horrible Bosses — a new release on iTunes — is hys-
terical, but is it worth the 1.5 salads at Sweetgreen it would have cost if I had seen it in theaters? Ramen noo-dles aren’t that bad, I guess.
The average Penn student (who is anything but average, if you ask Amy Gutmann) watch-
es seven movies, more or less, every semester. Simple arithme-tic proves that it’s $40 cheaper to watch said movies on Netfl ix than at the Rave, and an addi-tional $20 less on iTunes (cost of popcorn and Mike and Ikes not included in these calcula-tions). The low cost of watch-ing seven movies on iTunes for less than 30 bucks is worth the many conveniences that online paid services afford us: not be-ing interrupted by incessant buffering and commercials, the immunity to computer viruses and most importantly, not hav-ing to wait 54 minutes after watching 72 minutes of a movie on Megavideo.
Not to mention, it’s a small price to pay when you look at the big picture — the combined savings of the 47.7% of Penn students who pay for their online services rather than going to the movie theater is somewhere be-tween $196,136 and $295,344, depending on whether they use Netfl ix or iTunes, respectively. Moral of the story is: we won't judge if you just stay in bed.
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$153,701>> Total amount of money spent in movie theaters* by Penn students each semester
$196,136>> Total amount of money spent watching online, if all people who paid for online services used iTunes*
$295,344>> Total amount of money spent watching online, if all people who paid for online services used Netflix*
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While the Quakers showed a lot of promise Sunday in Law-renceville, N.J., their fl aws also got exposed as they split their dual meets with Clarion and Rider.
After a 25-13 victory against Clarion, in which the Red and Blue strung together four straight victories in the lightweight class-es, Penn fell to Rider, 21-12.
Rider (2-0), who is currently ranked 25th in the nation, built on a strong performance at the Keystone Classic, which Penn (1-1) hosted last Sunday at the Palestra. The Broncos fi nished second and proved they deserved
to be voted into the top 25 while the Quakers’ poor performance caused them to surrender their No. 24 ranking.
On Sunday in Rider’s gym, the Quakers showed they had the stuff to hang with a ranked team, but not quite at that level. In the match against Rider no bo-nus points were scored by either team in what consisted of many tight matches.
Sophomore Caleb Richard-son proved he is on track to build on his resume that includes a
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The past two seasons, Penn basketball has come up short against Wagner when it mattered most, failing to execute with the game on the line and then com-ing up short in overtime.
But this year’s 64-61 loss to the Seahawks hurts so much more.
The Quakers came out like gangbusters in this one, shooting 11-for-18 in the fi rst half. Five players had scored at least fi ve points, putting to bed the notion that this team was going to fl ow off ensively solely through Tony Hicks and Darien Nelson-Henry.
However, it’s hard to describe the Quakers’ off ensive perfor-mance in the stretch run of the second half as anything but an unmitigated disaster.
After turning the ball over 14 times before halftime, the Quakers added eight more give-aways, including one by Antonio Woods when the Red and Blue had the ball in their hands down two points with 40.3 seconds to go.
But the Quakers know they can’t pin this loss on one play, after squandering so many op-portunities beforehand.
“When games are decided by one or two possessions at the end, I really don’t go crazy over
how the last play was played out,” coach Jerome Allen said. “I try to look at the summation of our errors. It’s unfortunate. I’m disappointed because I thought we had an opportunity to win the game, and we didn’t close it.”
Following a Greg Louis buck-et off a missed foul shot with 11:10 remaining, the Quakers made only two fi eld goals the rest of the way, and one of those was a Sam Jones trey with the outcome essentially decided.
At the free throw line, Penn struggled. The Red and Blue missed seven foul shots coming down the stretch, not counting a Louis miss off left iron that was waved off for a lane violation with 3:31 left.
Given a second chance, Louis missed again in the exact same spot. It was that kind of day for the Red and Blue.
Wagner pressed Penn all af-ternoon, but the Quakers wilted in the face of that full court pres-sure, a failure that Allen placed squarely on himself.
“At the end of the day, I’ve just got to do a better job of simulating that in a practice set-ting,” he said.
Penn is entering a soft portion of its nonconference schedule — its next three opponents are a combined 4-14 — but today’s game was one it simply had to have, for the sake of giving its young players some confi dence that they could close out a game on the road.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — For 37 minutes, Penn basket-ball clung to a lead, holding off Wagner whenever the game got close.
But in the fi nal few minutes, the Quakers came undone, un-able to come away from the road
tilt with their fi rst win of the year as the Seahawks took the victory, 64-61. Penn committed 22 turnovers, including a key giveaway in the fi nal minute of the game.
The Red and Blue (0-5) led from the opening tip, taking a 14-2 lead in the fi rst fi ve min-utes. And until the very end, it seemed like Penn would keep Wagner (2-3) at arm’s length, pulling out a road win.
Yet with 3:31 to go, Penn lost control of the game.
Leading 58-54, senior for-
ward Greg Louis drew the fi fth foul on Wagner forward Nolan Long . But Louis would miss four free throws in the next two minutes, unable to make good on the opportunities despite Penn’s relative effi ciency at the line earlier in the game.
And a freshman, JoJo Cooper , capitalized for the Seahawks on the other end. With three min-utes left, Cooper converted a layup while drawing a foul, cut-ting Penn’s lead to one for the fi rst time all game.
Cooper soon handed Wagner
its fi rst lead of the game, 59-58, making a banked-in fl oater from eight feet out with under two minutes to go.
“Their guards were getting in the paint. They were driving the ball,” coach Jerome Allen said. “To their credit, Cooper got in the paint. [Senior guard Marcus] Burton got in the paint. And when they did miss it down the stretch, they got every 50-50 ball. They got every off ensive rebound.”
Penn’s attempts to answer were fumbled away as sopho-
more guard Matt Howard missed a shot and freshman guard An-tonio Woods lost a ball out of bounds.
“It is not necessarily his fault,” Allen said of Woods’ turnover. “He was put in that po-sition on the road … [as a] fresh-man. He’ll get better, he’ll learn from it, but I do believe we let one get away.”
Wagner added a jumper with 13 seconds to go and a late three-pointer from Penn fresh-man Sam Jones would not be nearly enough.
Over the course of the game, the Quakers spread the wealth off ensively, shooting 57.6 per-cent from the fi eld on 19-for-33 shooting. Junior center Darien Nelson-Henry led the way with 11 points and eight rebounds, both team highs. Penn’s for-wards were able to fi nd success in the post against an undersized Wagner frontcourt in foul trou-ble.
“We talked about it before the game that we should be able
Penn can’t hold on to halftime lead, fall to WagnerM. HOOPS | Early
turovers, offensive slump doom Quakers
BY STEVEN TYDINGSSenior Sports Editor
SEE M. HOOPS PAGE 8
SEE WENIK PAGE 8
HOLDEN MCGINNIS/SPORTS EDITOR-ELECT It’s been a rough start to the season for coach Jerome Allen and the winless Quakers. In this weekend’s loss to Wagner, the Quakers had plenty go right, but turnovers and an inability to close out the game ultimately doomed the team.
IAN WENIK
Quakers split season’s first dualsWRESTLING | Penn’s trip ends with win vs. Clarion, loss to Rider
BY THOMAS MUNSONAssociate Sports Editor
VS. CLARION
AT NO. 25 RIDER
SEE WRESTLING PAGE 8
THE BUZZ: ROUNDTABLE
What does Penn need to improve?
Penn basketball has gotten off to an inauspicious start to the 2014-15 season, los-ing all fi ve of its games. The Quakers are one of 14 win-less teams left in the NCAA, having suff ered some close defeats to Delaware State, Lafayette and Wagner. The Red and Blue also rank 278th out of 351 Division I teams in Ken Pomeroy’s College Bas-ketball Rankings, but they are also not far behind fellow Ivy squads Cornell, Brown and Dartmouth.
With that in mind, our edi-tors look at what Penn needs to improve upon in the rest of nonconference play.
BY DP SPORTS EDITORS
From The Daily Pennsylva-nian’s sports blog, THE
BUZZ
SEE ROUNDTABLE PAGE 9
HOLDEN MCGINNIS/SPORTS EDITOR-ELECT Freshman guard Antonio Woods is one of multiple freshmen seeing intensive playing time for the Quakers. The growth of the Class of 2018 will be integral to Penn’s success. Woods and co. will be balancing inexperience and potential all season.
Wagner loss reminiscent of last season
PENN DOMINATES
Facing New Hampshire on Tuesday, women’s basketball
beat down the Wildcats
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