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Donors look into Penn Athletics’

future

University to create 50 new professorships over four years

‘Parks and Recreation’ star to speak at Penn

Penn’s search for Athletic Director Steve Bil-sky’s successor, which started in earnest with the announcement of an advisory committee for the search in January, is narrowing after the deadline for all position nominations and appli-cations passed last week. With Penn Athletics poised to name a new athletic director this semes-ter following Bilsky’s 20-year tenure, The Daily Pennsylvanian reached out to several prominent donors and members of the Penn Athletics Board of Overseers for their perspectives on the athletic director search.

1987 Wharton graduate Tom Donatucci was a die-hard Penn basketball fan during his time as a student and continues to help plan events for the program, so he’s been around long enough to know that some crucial questions await the next athletic director.

“You’ve got a rapidly growing substantial por-tion of the student body that doesn’t care and will never care, it’s not part of their culture. You have passionate alumni from the ‘60s through the mid-‘90s getting older and less involved,” Donatucci said. “Steve [Bilsky] hit home runs to get state of the art facilities like fencing built in that arena.

“Traditionally football and basketball are any

Athletic supporters weigh in on Bilsky’s legacy and what the next AD has in store

BY MIKE TONYSenior Staff Writer

Penn is hoping to attract more professorial talent.

On Tuesday morning, President Amy Gut-mann announced the creation of the President’s Distinguished Professorship Fund, which is part of a University effort to increase Penn’s recruitment and retainment of outstanding faculty. In order to create the 50 new professor-ships, the Fund will endow three new important types of faculty positions that will be named after their respective donors.

“It’s a virtuous circle,” Gutmann said. “The best students come because of the best faculty, and the best faculty come because of the best students.”

Penn Integrates Knowledge Professorships will be endowed to faculty whose research and teaching cross multidisciplinary fields. While there are currently 15 PIK professors, the fund will strive to increase that number while retain-ing current faculty.

Distinguished professorships will be created throughout all 12 schools for faculty whose fields of research have been deemed high pri-oritiesby the Penn Compact 2020.

Finally, the Presidential Professorships will endow faculty members who contribute to Penn’s diversity during five-year terms.

While there are current faculty members who hold Presidential Professorships, the Fund will

The President’s Distinguished Professorship Fund will create three kinds of positions

BY FOLA ONIFADEStaff Writer

Courtesy of All American Speakers

Last night, SPEC announced “Parks and Recreation” star Retta Sirleaf as the spring Connaissance speaker. Instead of a guest lecture, the event will take the form of a comedy show.

The Special Events and Planning Committee wants you to “Treat yo’ self” at its upcoming speaker event.

On Wednesday evening, SPEC Con-naissance announced its spring speak-er as Retta Sirleaf, who plays Donna Meagle in NBC’s “Parks and Recre-ation.” The event, which will take the form of a comedy show, will occur on Monday, March 24 at 8 p.m. in the Har-rison Auditorium at the Penn Museum.

“This is something unique that we’re doing because SPEC Connaissance in the past has only done speaking events,” Wharton sophomore and Con-naissance director Vicky Zhao said. “We really wanted to expand to a dif-

ferent field and thought that a comedy show would be something that the stu-dent body would be really interested in.”

Sirleaf, who goes by her first name Retta, graduated from Duke University and then worked as a chemist for Glaxo-SmithKline in North Carolina. Although she planned to go to medical school, she instead moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a stand-up comedian.

The event will begin with a student performing arts group followed by Retta’s comedy performance. It will conclude with an audience question-and-answer segment.

“We’re expecting pretty substan-tial discussion because she’ll have very interesting things to say about

BY FOLA ONIFADEStaff Writer

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Fried, ‘fancy,’ fresh, delicious: Federal Donuts to open over break

Federal Donuts will be officially opening its doors on campus on Mon-day, March 10.

The store, located at 3428 Sansom St., held a preview event on Wednesday, inviting student leaders and the press to sample the restaurant’s offerings, said Felicia D’Ambrosio, one of the partners for Federal Donuts.

She said this preview would account for the restaurant’s official opening during spring break. The restaurant originally planned to open in mid-Feb-ruary, but was unable to because city inspections were delayed by snow.

Like its other locations, Federal Do-nuts West will have “fancy” and “hot fresh” donuts, cold and drip-brewed coffee and five new flavors of fried chicken specific to this shop.

“Fancy” donuts, which are covered in a glaze and toppings, will be $2 each or $20 for a dozen.

Two new fancy donut flavors debut-ing at the new location are Marsh-mallow Marshmallow and Chocolate

Covered Strawberry. Marshmallow Marshmallow is a donut covered in marshmallow glaze and topped with burnt mini marshmallows. Chocolate Covered Strawberry is drenched in a strawberry glaze and topped with a ring of chocolate glaze. Four other flavors, yet to be determined, will join these two at this location.

The “hot fresh” donuts are fried to order and rolled in a dusting of sea-soned sugars. The two newest flavors at the Penn location are Chocolate Peanut Butter, a dense chocolate donut infused with peanut butter flavor rolled

Federal Donuts West will serve two donut flavors

exclusive to the campus storeBY JENNY LUStaff Writer

SEE DONUTS PAGE 2

Ying Pan/Staff Photographer

Federal Donuts, located at 3428 Sansom St., will ofer “fancy” and “hot fresh” donuts once it officially opens on March 10. The store will be open seven days a week, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and will start serving fried chicken at 11 a.m. This will be the third Federal Donuts to open in Philadelphia.

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Happy Spring Break!

NOTE TO READERS

Race begins for new student gov’t leaders

UA members may have failed to get enough signatures to impeach their president, but getting signatures to run for president seems to be a differ-ent story

UA Vice President Gabe Del-aney and UA representative Joyce Kim, both college juniors, turned in their petitions to run

for UA president today.According to the UA Constitu-

tion, available on their website, UA reps interested in running for President must submit peti-tions “signed by 5% of the to-tal number of undergraduate electors or signed by 3% of the total number of undergraduate electors and at least 5 sitting members of the UA, including one member from a constitu-ency other than that of the can-didate.”

The same percentage of the whole undergraduate population

Current VP Delaney will face College junior Joyce Kim in presidential race

BY FIONA GLISSONCampus News Editor

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in sugar, and Orange Dream, which is meant to taste like a orange creamsicle. The hot fresh donuts are $1.25 each or $11 for a dozen.

Federal Donuts’ twice-fried

chicken come in dry season-ing rubs and glazes that are all-new to this location. The fried chicken seasonings con-sist of Furikake, a combination of seaweed and toasted sesa-me seed, Buffalo Ranch and Moussa, which is a mixture of falafel spices including cumin, coriander, parsley and saffron.

The featured fried chicken glazes are pad thai, an intense-ly tangy sauce with hints of roasted chili and topped with peanuts, and sweet soy garlic, which is flavored with sherry

and also covered in bits of gar-lic.

Customers can order half a chicken for $9, which comes with a split breast, thigh and drumstick, or a whole chicken for $17.

Federal Donuts West will be open seven days a week from 7 a.m. until sell out or 7 p.m., whichever comes first. The restaurant will serve fried chicken starting at 11 a.m.

The only seating in the shop is stools along a counter in the middle of the space, framed

by eclectic lighting from over-head.

D’Ambrosio explained that a store in West Philadelphia was the next logical move in Fed-eral Donuts’ expansion across the city. The first Federal Do-nuts opened in South Phila-delphia in 2011 and a second location opened in Center City at 16th and Sansom streets in October of 2012.

She noticed the chain has been popular with Penn stu-dents at other locations and explained the move was made in part so that Federal Donuts could be closer to students.

Federal Donuts to open seven days a week

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Women in war zones face more than bullets

Soldiers on the front lines of war are not the only ones affected by it.

In celebration of Interna-tional Women’s Day, several organizations together hosted a panel called Women, War and Peace at International House Philadelphia. Moderated by Raili Roy, assistant director of the South Asia Center, the pan-el focused on women’s issues in post-conflict, peace build-ing efforts in several war-torn nations.

The event was organized in consortium with Peace Day Philly, the United Na-tions Association of Phila-delphia, the Penn Women’s Center, International House and several cultural centers on Penn’s campus. It was also conducted as part of the “One Book, One Philadelphia” pro-gram, an annual promotion by the Free Library of Phila-delphia. A performance by the Anna Crusis Women’s Choir, the longest standing feminist choir in the country, preceded the event.

Yasmin Saikia, the chair in peace studies at Arizona State University, brought her experiences from interview-

ing stateless camp dwellers in Bangladesh, India and Paki-stan to the panel. Saikia, mis-taken for a journalist, was led to one of these camps during the beginning of her time in Bangladesh, which provided its residents the opportunity to tell their stories.

“I thought I was going to do research on something that connects India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, but I really didn’t know how to move beyond the maps we had been given,” Saikia said of the beginning of her studies.

Her research at the camp resulted in uncovering wom-

en’s personal histories with sexual violence. “There were women telling me that war had transformed their lives,” she said. “War had turned them from human beings into sub-jects.”

Matiangai Sirleaf, a fellow in international law at the Law School, recently returned to Liberia where she had expe-rienced civil war as a young girl. Sirleaf took her research beyond Liberia to south and west Africa, particularly Sierra Leone.

Sirleaf struggled with the realities of the women in post-war Sierra Leone, many of

whom were victims of sexual violence and economic stag-nation.

“What I seek to do in my work is ... [talk] to [people] about their own experiences,” Sirleaf said about her research.

Marianne Elias, the senior program officer for internation-al programs at the American Friends Service Committee, focused on her expertise in peace education with the Quak-er-based institution. The AFSC seeks to obtain “lasting peace and justice in worldwide com-munities,” Elias said.

During her time in the Mid-dle East, Saikia was told that sexual violence was “a Western topic of discussion” and there-fore irrelevant. Originally a medieval historian, she has now been moved to continue speaking about her interviews with victims.

“Every time I get an invi-tation - it doesn’t matter how big or small that organization is - I accept that invitation de-spite all my other duties and responsibilities because I think I owe it to the women and the men who suffered this war, who fought this war, who were victimized in this war - and who survived this war and had the courage to tell me their stories.”

BY CASSIDY LIZContributing Writer

Henry Lin/Staff Photographer

Panelists at IHP’s Women, War and Peace panel discussed their research on women in wartime, including work with victims of sexual violence and refugees.

Alum offers ‘real’ alternative to meal

plan

Andy Tekriwal, a 2013 Col-lege graduate, has created a “truly remarkable” alternative to the meal plan.

Tekriwal is CFO of The Real Meals, a local catering company that often provides food for Penn sorority and fraternity events. It also op-erates as a meal service, al-lowing customers to pick up quality prepared meals for around $10 each.

The concept for The Real Meals began at a party for Tekriwal’s fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon, where he was in-troduced to two students at-tending the The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill. Tekriwal offered to pay the students, Ste-ven Van Niel and Kevin Adams, to cook for his fraternity broth-ers several days a week. This arrangement quickly turned into a business.

With Tekriwal handling the business side and Van Niel and Adams doing the cooking, by Spring 2013, their business pro-vided an alternative to Penn’s dining plan.

“I had always had a problem with the meal plan at Penn and saw this as a cool opportu-nity to meet the need that I thought the community had,” he said.“You could get a truly remarkable daily dinner de-livered to your door.”

After graduating, Tekriwal continued his work with The Real Meals, delivering meals regularly to fraternities and catering larger events includ-ing a 1,300 person dinner for

PennApps.Currently, Tekriwal and his

business partners hope to ex-pand to areas in D.C. and New Jersey with large populations of college students.

“The beautiful thing about the college market is that you get new blood into it every year replacing the graduating class,” he said.

To handle managing the company, Tekriwal took inspi-ration from the business tactics taught at Penn. He explained that his decision to attend Penn as an undergraduate was because of the Wharton business mentality and used Wharton ideals to establish connections and maintain a steady client base.

“We wouldn’t have sur-vived as a company in the first few months if we didn’t have people in the univer-sity community giving us a chance,” Tekriwal said. “The ability for them to look at what we’re doing and try to take a chance on us is why we’re still here.”

Although Tekriwal today is an entrepreneur, he is actu-ally on the path to becoming a doctor. The biological basis of behavior major plans to hand over his position as CFO so he can attend medical school next year. Still, he appreciates the experience, he said.

“It went from being a cool idea that we all had to some-thing very real,” Tekriwal added.

Tekriwal v iews his ex-perience over the past few months as incredibly valu-able and encourages Penn students to follow his ex-ample.

“I think it’s important to try something different and make your own way,” he said.

The Real Meals is a catering company and

meal serviceBY ALISON ELLIOTTContributing Writer

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From Locust Walk to the Academy Awards

He could only describe it as an “out-of-body experience.”

In front of hundreds of the nation’s most famous faces and 43.7 million TV viewers, 1989 College graduate Mor-gan Neville walked onto the stage of the 86th Academy Awards on Sunday to receive the Oscar for Best Documen-tary Feature.

Neville was the director and co-producer of the win-ning documentary, “20 Feet from Stardom.” Released na-tionwide last June, the film shares the untold stories and struggles of backup singers who sang behind the pop mu-sic industry’s biggest stars.

“I was thrilled ... but in a strange way I felt oddly sol-emn,” Neville said. “I didn’t know how it would be to get on stage in front of a billion people, but it was actually re-ally great.”

It was Neville’s first time at the Oscars, but he had been nominated for three Gram-mys for past documentaries and won an Emmy for a tele-vision special he produced in 2004 on country music star Hank Williams.

Before he started creating award-winning documenta-ries, however, Neville studied American history at Penn.

“I was a kid from California who went to Philadelphia and fell in love with the city and fell in love with the school and im-mersed myself in it,” he said. “My great loves were really journalism, film and music.”

During his years at Penn, Neville was a columnist for The

Daily Pennsylvanian, a mem-ber of the St. Elmo Fraternity and played in a band called “Diphthong.” He described it as a “geeky band” whose title was comprised of an obscure linguistic term - a diphthong is a single sound created by two adjacent vowels.

After graduating, Neville worked as a journalist for four years. He expanded his career when he began working on his first documentary, which fo-cused on the history of Los An-geles and was released in 1995.

“I love journalism, but I re-ally love filmmaking,” Neville said. “Within two weeks of starting my first documen-tary, I remember calling my parents and telling them, ‘This is what I’m going to do for the rest of my life.’”

Over the past two decades, Neville directed and produced 25 documentaries on music, language, art and Hollywood.

“[Making documentaries] is 3-D journalism,” Neville said. “It’s everything that I like about journalism but held on a grand scale with images and music. It allows you to be a storyteller, which is what I ultimately love.”

In 1999, Neville founded his own documentary production company, Tremolo Produc-tions. Along with 1983 College graduate Robert Gordon, Nev-ille co-directed a film in 2007 on soul music and the civil rights movement in Memphis. The documentary, “Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story,” was nominated for a Grammy.

Despite his past success, Neville’s greatest claim to fame is the documentary that earned him an Oscar this week. In the two years that he spent working on “20 Feet from Stardom,” he didn’t real-ize how popular it would be.

“You just try to make the film that you want to see and the film that speaks to you the most, and you hope the audience likes it too,” Neville said. “But from the moment we premiered this film, it just exploded.”

“20 Feet from Stardom” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2013, and it received a 99 percent aggregate approval rating from critics on Rotten Toma-toes.

Neville said that he first got involved with the film when a producer approached him asking if he’d be interested in investigating the world of backup singers.

“It was a corner of the mu-sic industry that I didn’t know anything about. And once I started thinking about it, it revealed itself to be a secret history of pop music,” he said. “It was a whole new way of

listening to music we’ve all heard before.”

As he learned about the lives of the singers featured in the film, the documentary became a very personal expe-rience for Neville.

“The currency of documen-taries is intimacy, and it’s all based on relationships and trust,” he said. “I have ongo-ing relationships with every-one in the film. ... It becomes part of your life and part of who you are.”

A lt houg h Nev i l le h a s formed many valuable rela-tionships and enjoyed incred-ible success since leaving Penn, he hasn’t forgotten about the value of the years he spent at the University.

“When I think about [my experience at Penn], I just think about the people and how much we all got from each other,” he said. “It was just a really special time.”

Morgan Neville’s path to winning an Oscar

started with journalismBY VICTORIA MOFFITT

Staff Writer

or one third of the UA would have been required to jump-start the unfulfilled impeach-ment threat that loomed over current UA President Abe Sutton, a College and Wharton senior, last week.

Now, UA members say they are willing to forgive and forget last week’s petition episode - where Delaney tem-porarily signed the petition but then removed his name. He was not responsible for or-ganizing the petition, sources said. Kim was not approached to sign the petition.

Still, impeachment will be fresh in the minds of voters and changing UA culture is on the lips of all candidates this election cycle.

Both of the candidates and their running mates - UA representative and College sophomore Julie Bittar is

campaigning with Delaney and UA Speaker Joshua Chil-cote, a College junior, with Kim - say they will change the culture of the UA so no more “open and honest looks at UA culture” will interrupt the already-tardy budget pro-ceedings.

A restructure of the UA and a leadership style makeover is also a common theme in candidates’ petitions - albeit an unsurprising one given that that anonymous sources accused Sutton of abusing his power and making other members feel “emotionally distressed.”

Delaney promised not to tolerate coercion in the UA. “It was a problem [this year],” he said. “If I ever saw it [as President], I would confront the member and ask them to resign.”

Delaney said several UA members are leaving because “they don’t have strong ties” to the other members. He sug-gested the creation of a social chair and more BYOs to cre-ate more community.

“I want to make the UA more of a sorority- or frater-nity-type feel,” he said. “I’d

like them to be tied to us.”He is also suggested more

horizontality in the way the UA is run.

Kim suggested making the UA a safe space where mem-bers can approach each other about grievances. “There are a lot of miscommunications,” she said. We need to be able to work together. Clearly, that’s not happening.”

Still, UA candidates’ races are coinciding with the bud-get negotiations this year be-cause of the postponement. Amendments will be added to the budget at a meeting on March 16. The UA usually avoids budget and elections overlap because a candidate could potentially win votes by advocating budget amend-ments for key constituencies within in the UA.

“I really hope it doesn’t happen,” said Kim, “I really, really hope.”

Delaney and Bittar have v owe d t o i nt r o d uc e no amendments. Kim and Chil-cote are also keeping their hands clean. As speaker, Chilcote does not have a vote.

The final vote - essentially “a rubber stamp” according

to Delaney - will take place on March 23. Before then, the candidates are charged with rehabbing a UA shad-owed by scandal and seen as irrelevant by the student body.

“Many Penn students are pretty apathetic about the UA,” Kim said. “Many Penn students don’t know the dif-ference between the UA and Class Board.”

For Bittar and Delaney, th is means that the UA should be “externally al l about service” to students, Delaney said. He suggested that UA members deliver free hugs, cookies and choc-olate and help clean up in the dining halls instead of holding the second meeting of the new term after elec-tions.

Bittar also discussed ac-cessibility. “I want to change the UA to be more receptive and transparent to the stu-dent body,” she said. “The body is an action group. It needs to meet the needs of students.”

Kim and Chilcote are focus-ing on building ties with stu-dent groups. “It’s up to us to

do a better job of reaching out to student groups,” Kim said. “It’s up to us to go to student groups and say ‘What can we do for you?’”

Delaney and Bittar prom-ised extensive work related to mental health. Kim also plans initiatives regarding mental

health, accessibility, financial aid, sexual violence and inter-national students’ integration on campus.

The NEC will review the pe-titions and candidates’ cam-paigns will be made official when classes resume after Spring Break.

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For my last column, I wanted to describe why the laws being introduced around the country allow-

ing discrimination on religious grounds were wrong. While writing though, I found myself struggling to come to terms with exactly why I thought that. I was unable to resolve my in-ner conflict between my desire to protect religious liberty and freedom of conscience and my desire to see discrimination of all kinds relegated to the dust-bin of history.

I managed to narrow my fo-cus to the question on religious freedom justifying discrimi-nation, but the wider question of how we balance conflicting rights and desires still weighs heavily on me. So, I want to share with you some of my res-ervations through a series of thoughts I have wrestled with this week.

The historical parallels be-tween legalized segregation

and anti-gay discrimination are tenuous, but the similarities between the arguments sup-porting both cannot be ignored. Theodore Bilbo, two-time gov-ernor of Mississippi and proud member of the KKK, regarded racism as more than an opinion or ideology. For Bilbo, it was a religious duty. He called racial purity a “gift from God” and said that interracial marriage was a direct attack on “the Di-vine plan of God” and against divinely ordained natural law. Sound familiar?

Racial discrimination is just one example. The United States Supreme Court ruled in U.S. v. Lee that religious objections to the employer social security mandate should not be upheld:

“When followers of a particu-lar sect enter into commercial activity as a matter of choice, the limits they accept on their own conduct as a matter of con-science and faith are not to be superimposed ... on others in that activity.”

Clearly we have decided as a society that, in principle, the government has a compelling interest in disallowing certain religious observances when they counteract the public good. But is that the same as compel-ling service in all instances?

If a church opposing gay marriage offers its fellowship hall for public rent, should they be allowed to turn away a gay wedding reception? What about a church opposing interracial marriage? Could a gay rights supporter turn away Westboro Baptist Church members from their restaurant?

Places of public accommo-dation are subject to special requirements, but there is a significant difference between a legitimate business interest and arbitrary discrimination. As such, businesses are pro-hibited from arbitrarily dis-criminating on the basis of race, religion, gender, nationality or disability. I think sexual orien-tation should be included in this list, but for the moment it isn’t.

For example, Arizona law permits employment discrimi-nation based on sexual orien-tation, as do laws in 28 other states in the United States. The Arizona law that received so much attention in recent weeks would not have legalized dis-crimination because discrimi-nation was already legal.

So why add this new law? Proponents pointed to Elane Photography v. Willock as in-spiration.

The case arose after a New Mexico wedding photographer refused to photograph a gay

commitment ceremony for reli-gious reasons. The New Mexico Supreme Court disagreed, lay-ing out several very compelling arguments:

1. Compliance with public ac-commodation laws does not re-strict First Amendment rights. For example, they could “post a disclaimer on their website ... advertising that they oppose same-sex marriage but that they comply with applicable antidiscrimination laws.”

2. The free exercise clause requires evenhanded applica-tion of neutral laws, not affirma-tive accommodation of religious beliefs.

3. New Mexico’s laws do con-sider discrimination on basis of sexual orientation unlawful, so the decision to refuse service was arbitrary.

I think these principles should guide our thinking in this period of transition from inequity to equality, and I en-courage everyone to read the full opinion.

However, a sentiment ex-pressed by Justice Richard Bosson in his concurring opin-ion should not be ignored:

“[The arguments offered by the court], I assume [are] little comfort to the Huguenins, who now are compelled by law to compromise the very religious beliefs that inspire their lives. Though the rule of law requires it, the result is sobering.”

People who harbor objections to the increasing acceptance of gay rights merit our sympathy, even when it may be difficult to grant, but they do not deserve our leniency in the marketplace of ideas or in the courts.

COLLIN BOOTS is a master’s student studying robotics from Redwood Falls, Minn. Email him at [email protected] or follow him @LotOfTinyRobots.

I remember walking into my friends’ dorm room in 10th grade. The girls were look-ing in the mirror with

disgust, taking turns saying parts of their bodies they didn’t like. For a second, I thought I had walked onto the set of “Mean Girls.” With-in a few moments, I noticed myself inching toward the mirror, my reflection staring at every flaw, judging every imperfection.

Years later, I walked into my freshman dorm room at Penn. Two girls stretched out on their small twin “XL” beds in Hill debating who did worse on their chemis-try midterm. “I’m not good enough.” “Why do I even want to be a doctor?”, “I’m not going to get into any med school.” Their anxiety was contagious, and it took me a few minutes to snap out of the

back and forth. By that time, I had remembered my mid-term last week that I didn’t do so well on and my writing seminar essay due that night that no matter how long I sat in front of my computer, still didn’t seem like English.

Penn breeds and depends on competition. Sometimes the competition is good. It drives us. But to what ex-tent can we let competition permeate into every part of our lives? The last thing we need is to compete over who we are as opposed to what we do. More and more often, I find myself questioning if our fear of failure ultimately motivates us to accomplish great things or paralyzes us more.

Each of us has walked into a “med school existential crisis” or “Regina George” setting all too many times in one way or another. Yet, we

don’t need a physical mirror to find plenty of other ways to put ourselves down. It starts with “Who still has the most acne” or “Who has the big-gest love handles?” Yet it all too quickly transitions into “Who has pulled the most all-nighters? Who feels the most overwhelmed? Who has an eating disorder? Who goes to the gym the least?” The context may vary, but the question remains the same: What are you best at saying you’re the worst at?

The truth is, we have be-come all too comfortable in a perpetual state of stress and self-degradation. If we aren’t anxious, we feel some-thing is wrong. If we aren’t drowning in a sea of bio labs, accounting “quizzes” or status reports, we aren’t swimming fast enough. At a certain point, we have to question how healthy it is to be endlessly assaulted by anxiety. Are we supposed to constantly beat ourselves up

in fear of someone else beat-ing us to it? “You’re not good enough”, “You’re a failure,” “Why are you so stupid?” If our self-talk were a fighter, Rocky wouldn’t stand a chance.

I don’t have the answers to these questions - I struggle with them everyday - but I think it’s important to ques-tion how comfortable we are with our negative self talk to the point that it has become unconscious. We think that by taking our problems lightly - by turning our in-securities into just another competitive game - we can minimize whatever is really going on. We mask our real fears and bury them in a sea of school work and inflated anxiety.

Perhaps, by constantly un-dervaluing ourselves, we’re attempting to give ourselves the leeway to screw up.

The only way to handle the pressure at Penn is to be kind to ourselves. How can

we expect to take in others’ kindness if we can’t even accept our own? The first step is to notice when we are having these self-depre-cating conversations, these counterproductive back and forth “I am more stressed”, “No, I’m more stressed” competitions. To make the unconscious conscious and to challenge ourselves to squirm a little, to not be so comfortable in negative self-talk.

Once we acknowledge our real fears and pain, we allow ourselves to celebrate our real successes and joys. The norm shouldn’t be self-degradation, but self-love.

Give yourself a break. Ac-cept compliments, as all you have to say is “Thank you.” Laugh a little. And the next time you step in front of the mirror, smile just because.

ALLYSON ZUCKER is a College sophomore. Her email address is [email protected].

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Something worth smiling for Support worth sustaining

Over the past year, UA President Abe Sutton has been a significant proponent for the envi-ronmental community

at Penn. After last spring’s open fo-rum raised a myriad of concerns on Penn’s tackling of its sustainability goals, Abe worked with both us and administrators to form a panel at University Council that would allow more members of the Penn commu-nity to become educated on these pertinent topics. Additionally, Abe has offered unparalleled support on our projects and initiatives, helping us find ways to engage with students not usually invested in sustainabil-ity. He’s a trustworthy advocate and ardent enthusiast for our interests. The Student Sustainability Asso-ciation at Penn stands by Abe and praises his unselfish and devoted leadership to both our constituents and to the student body as a whole.

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being a woman in [the] very male-dominated industry of comedy,” College junior and Connaissance Director Gabriel Jimenez said.

Tickets are currently avail-able online and will also be sold on Locust Walk after students return from spring break.

“She’s a great find because she is hilarious and relatable,” College sophomore Twenewaa Adu-Oppong said.

Adu-Oppong also shared her optimism about SPEC’s choice.

“People tend to think of black women as this monolithic group so they will look at her and make snap judgements, but Retta will definitely keep you on your toes,” she said.

Last year, Connaissance hosted Jason Sudeikis, along with other comedians as a part of a larger spring speaker se-ries. The success of last year’s comedy show, along with com-mittee member suggestions and campus-wide surveys, influenced this year’s choice.

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Wharton-rooted app gets millions in seed money

Two Penn students received a multi-million dollar invest-ment this week to transform their start-up into real world success.

Former Wharton student Matt Geiger and Wharton senior Evan Rosenbaum co-founded Blend , a college-exclusive app that allows users to share pho-tos and win gift cards based on a daily theme. The two originally met during Management 100.

Blend will become more prominent in the app world due to a seed investment of $2.7 million from global venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates .

In May 2013, Geiger left Penn

after finishing his junior year to pursue the start-up with high school friend Akash Nigam. Blend strives to create a space exclusively for college students since Facebook’s us-ers have expanded far beyond its initial college base, Geiger said.

“We wanted to build a social network where the students can relate in a targeted and cohe-sive way without it being diluted by parents, siblings and people from different demographics,” he added.

Blend operates on the mod-el of “Share, Snap, Score” to benefit its users and partner brands alike. In response to daily themes such as Tailgate Saturday and Library Shenani-gans, users can share photos to receive “snaps” — the Blend equivalent to Facebook “likes.” The accumulated “snaps” serve as virtual currency to “score” gift cards for college-focused

brands that advertise on the Blend newsfeed.

Blend’s partners gain direct access to their targeted con-sumers by offering discounts — an attractive business alter-native to paying for generic ad-vertisements. As the app’s reach has extended to over 1,000 cam-puses, the co-founders uphold selective criteria for accepting companies. Blend sustains an online environment linked to the college lifestyle by promot-ing brands like Uber, EatStreet and Alex & Ani.

“It has to be trendy and rel-evant to the college student,” Geiger said.

Blend secured the $2.7 mil-lion seed investment less than a year after its conception. The team is starting to grasp the magnitude of the deal as they move their headquarters from a one-room office with a “dorm-room feel” to the hub of San Francisco’s hottest tech com-

panies, Geiger said.The investment will enable

Blend to broaden its scope for the future. The acquired assets equip the team with resources to enhance the app in terms of publicity and concept develop-ment. Over the next few months, Blend plans to give out over a million dollars in gift cards and escalate its branding effort to include several videos and photo shoots.

The size of Blend’s team will drastically grow as the co-founders focus on finding the best developers to advance the app. In addition to its monetary support, NEA’s commitment boosts Blend’s potential for in-novation.

“[Investors] can just sit down with you and give you great advice, product ideas and help with talent identification,” Gei-ger said. “So there’s a whole host of ways that [Venture Capi-talists] help beyond the check.”

Blend allows users to post pictures based on the theme of the day

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HISTORY OF WOMEN AT PENN

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Women held tenured

positions within every standing faculty at the

University.

While Penn existed in various forms before the

revolution, the newly established State of

Pennsylvania chartered the University of the State of

Pennsylvania in 1779. The new University was not

open to women.

Graphic by Laura

Anthony and Peter

Waggonner

Photos courtesy of The

University of Pennsylvania

Archives

The Graduate

School of Arts and Science was estab-

lished as the �rst part of Penn to allow women to take courses on track for a degree at the time of

its establishment.

Charlotte Marie Hugo became the �rst

Superintendent of Nurses and Directress of Nurses in the

Training School, the precursor to the School of Nursing which did not grant degrees, and was elected the

Superintendent of the Hospital. These positions made her the �rst woman

o�cer of instruction at Penn, the �rst female academic administra-tor, and the �rst woman to be a

chief administrative o�cer at the University.

The �rst women’s

residence hall at Penn was estab-lished, the Wood Memorial Nurses

Home at 34th and Spruce streets.

Emily Lovira Gregory was hired

as a teaching fellow in the department of biology, making her

the �rst female member of Penn’s

faculty.

Six women established Penn’s �rst

sorority, Kappa Kappa

Gamma. Josephine Feger Ancona

became the �rst woman to complete a bachelor’s degree

at Penn.

Women petitioned the

Trustees to hire a Dean of Women, but no action

was ever taken. The Alumnae Association of

the University of Pennsylvania was

established.

An editorial in The

Daily Pennsylvanian expressed strong opposition

to making Penn a coeducation-al institution. “We are absolutely opposed to co-education at the

University of Pennsylvania. Note well that we do not say we are opposed to co-education in general. And we do not say we are opposed to the

higher education of women. In many cases we are not even

opposed to Co-eds.”

Penn Women organized their own

Class Day and Ivy Day events and created Women’s

Hey Day. In 1926 male students made it clear that women were

no longer welcome at the general Hey Day, an event they

had participated in for the previous 10 years. The two

events were combined again in 1968.

The College of

Liberal Arts for Women was founded especially for female

students. The standing faculty did not include

any women.

The Women’s

Residence Hall, renamed Hill House

�ve years later, opened to become the �rst

building designed and built just for female

students at Penn.Sharon Lee

Ribner was the �rst woman to join

the Daily Pennsylva-nian. There was also a

women’s newspa-per at the time.

The student body

elected Barbara Berger the �rst woman

president of Penn’s student government.

Berger was also the �rst female president of any

Ivy League student government.

The College of

Thematic Studies established the �rst

Women’s Studies program. This same year, women staged a “Stop Rape” sit-in at College Hall, asking the University to improve security, education and support

resources related to rape, which spurred the creation

of the Penn Women’s Center.

The School of Arts

and Sciences was created from the merge of the College of Liberal Arts for Women with the

College of Arts and Sciences (for Men), the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and four

departments in Wharton (Economics, Political

Science, Regional Science and Sociology).

All 13 schools

were open to women and they were enrolled in

every degree program at

Penn.

Katharine Elizabeth McBride,

who was President of Bryn Mawr College, was the �rst woman

elected to be a Trustee of the

University.

Alison Elizabeth Accurso became the �rst

female president of the Undergraduate

Assembly, which was founded 7 years

earlier.

The Trustees’ Council of Penn

Women was established.

Judith Seitz Rodin is elected the

7th president and chief executive of Penn, making her the �rst woman to be

president of any Ivy League institution. The Board of Trustees that elected her

had 14 women holding seats.

The Penn

Women’s Center moved from

Houston Hall to its current location on

Locust Walk. President

Amy Gutmann becomes Penn’s second consecu-

tive woman president.

The Penn Women’s Center and the Gender,

Sexuality & Women’s Studies program

celebrate their 40th anniversary.

This year marks a

signi�cant point in the history of women at

Penn with the 40th anniversary of the Penn

Women’s Center, but many other years throughout the University’s

history have brought notable advancements for women as well. The Daily Pennsylvanian

takes a look at how women have progressed to equality

and leadership since the University’s start.

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Major changes come to College Board’s SAT

A major overhaul of the SAT will drastically change the test-ing experience of future Penn applicants.

On Wednesday the College Board announced several ma-jor changes to the standardized test, which aims to make the SAT “more focused and useful than ever before,” according to the College Board website.

The essay portion of the exam is now optional, once again making the SAT graded on a 1600-point scale. Students will no longer be penalized a quarter of a point for getting the wrong answer and obscure vo-cabulary words will be replaced in favor of words relevant to college courses, according to The New York Times. Calcula-tors will no longer be allowed on some parts of the math section.

The changes will go into place in the spring of 2016.

Professor of Higher Educa-tion in the Graduate School of Education Marybeth Gasman supports the changes. “I ... ap-plaud the College Board for dropping the guessing penalty as this penalty worked against students who took educated guesses,” she said in an email. She also lauded use of less “ar-cane” words, which are some-times absent from the daily life

of test takers across races and socioeconomic classes.

The new SAT is also more socially minded. The College Board will partner with Khan Academy, a non-profit educa-tional website, to offer free test prep, which will “make SAT prep a little more accessible to all students that are taking the test,” Michael Goran, founder of IvySelect and 1976 College graduate, said. The SAT has faced criticism for favoring wealthier students in the past.

Every test will also require students to engage with a “founding document” crucial to United States history, like the Bill of Rights. This change does not bother international student Oranda Hou, a Col-lege and Wharton sophomore. “If you want to go to college in the States, it’s a good thing to know the basic knowledge

of the society to live there and make friends there,” she said. Hou sees the changes as testing students’ “ability to make a logi-cal argument,” not necessarily their depth of knowledge.

Bev Taylor, the founder of Manhattan-based consulting firm The Ivy Coach, sees the changes as mainly a business decision because “the College Board felt like they lost brag-ging rights in 2013 when over 2,000 more students took the ACT,” she said. “That’s enough to do something drastic.”

Taylor believes the changes will not affect the decision pro-cess for college admissions. She pointed out that most top col-leges have been considering the essay portion of the exam as an SAT Subject Test, not as a part of the real SAT.

“Ever since College Board changed it to 2400, nobody in admissions really understood that score,” she said. However, Taylor finds it likely that top col-leges will make the optional es-say section required, just as they do for the essay part of the ACT.

While Goran agrees that the changes will not significantly impact the admissions process, he believes they will “make the SAT more student friendly.”

“The point of the exercise is really about college readiness [and] being able to analyze ma-terial ... in a way that will work to your benefit when you get to college,” Goran said.

“Anytime changes in the test can result in more inclu-sive practices, that’s a definite good,” Gasman added.

A test prep partnership with Khan Academy is

among the changesBY BRENDA WANG Deputy News Editor

Five changes to the SAT

1. Essay section optional

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4. More relevant vocabulary words

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be used to further Penn’s commitments to diversity.

“The Presidential profes-sorships wi l l expand the pipeline for these presti-g ious pr ofessor sh ips at Penn and it’s truly unique,” Gutmann said. “All of these professorships will help us diversi f y our faculty, but the P resident ia l P rofes-sorships are explicitly di-rected to rising stars who we can give named profes-

sorships to and wil l help our push towards an even more eminent and diverse faculty.”

The creation of the Pro-fessorship Fund is current-ly the second initiative of the Penn Compact 2020, fol-lowing Friday’s announce-ment of the Challenge Fund to raise $240 million for un-dergraduate financial aid.

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Penn group’s Africa think tank summit, ‘groundbreaking’

The f irst-ever African Think Tank Summit, or-ganized by a Penn group, brought substantial results that are currently being im-plemented across the conti-nent.

Penn’s Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program or-ganized the first ever conti-nental think tank conference in partnership with the Africa Building Capacity Foundation in early February.

Perhaps most significant-ly, the conference produced plans for annual think tank meetings and the establish-ment of a Pan-African Think Tank Network.

“Their collective voice and collective efforts are what’s needed to mobilize resourc-es,” Director of TTCSP James McGann said.

Plans are also being made for a think tank cooperative, which will share resources between African think tanks in staff recruitment and make joint purchases of com-puter hardware.

The conference also pro-

duced plans for the creation of a media and public engage-ment training program and an Africa Media Network to communicate think tank news and connect further with the African population. Discus-sions also brought forward new strategies to engage pri-vate funding resources.

The results “far exceeded my expectations,” McGann said, explaining that Africa both has greater needs than other continents and a very different starting point from which to work.

Over 45 of the leading think tanks in Africa participated in the productive discussion in Pretoria, South Africa, be-tween Feb. 3 and Feb. 5.

McGann described the event as a “landmark con-ference.” It was both the first of its kind and produced “groundbreaking recommen-dations,” which “will have a far reaching impact,” he ex-plained.

TTCSP Global Summit In-tern Coordinator Erin Mc-Cabe, a graduate student in the School of Social Policy & Practice, said a key feature of the summit was “a unify-

ing desire to come up with a concrete network.”

“People really connected with each other,” she added.

TTCSP, which releases the annual Go To Think Tank Index Report - the most comprehensive universal rankings of global think tanks - “cataly[zed]” the conference. However, the think tanks are “taking the lead,” McGann said.

Hussein El-Kamel, senior advisor at the International Corporation of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, appreciated the pragmatism of the summit.

“I was happy that this Sum-mit meeting would not be like many other conferences that give recommendations and [do] not turn them into work-ing plans,” he said in an email.

Frannie Léautier, execu-tive secretary of the Africa Capacity Building Founda-tion, said in an email that the summit combined “the best of collaboration and competition for effective results.”

The work of TTCSP is “a real product for engaging in dialogue and transformation Africa-wide,” she said.

The conference led to plans for future pan-African collaboration

BY MELISSA LAWFORDStaff Writer

Courtesy of Institute for Security Studies

Penn’s Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program helped organize the first-ever African Think Tank Summitt in February. Frannie Léautier (center), executive secretary of the Africa Capacity Building Foundation, praised the conference for its collaboration.


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26 Parked cars

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33 What Sports Illustrated’s annual Swimsuit Issue has a lot of

35 Marker’s mark maker

39 Bottom line?

41 Cruise

42 Professional org. with a “healthy” balance sheet

45 Musical instrument for a geisha

47 MASH unit

48 Pioneering map publisher William

50 1998 film in which Donny Osmond has a singing role

51 One on the staff?

52 Thin as ___

54 Romanian capital

55 Albert’s sitcom co-star

56 Numbats

59 Washington report starter

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38 “CSI” star William

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42 Source of the word “admiral”

43 One of two in a rumba

44 Pineapples: Sp.

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could have been a recipe for an upset.

“I thought the attack was moving well,” coach Karin Brower Corbett said. “They were just a little slow in the first half ... we have all day to maybe set up something, but the second half we said you guys really got to pick up the speed, we got to have a lot of opportunities.”

Rutgers (3-2) opened the scoring when an obstruction call against Penn goalie Lucy Ferguson forced her to start outside of the eight-meter arc on a free position start. After the restart, she raced back into the box but collided with a Penn player and was unable to prevent Rutgers’ Jenny Vhlahos from converting.

Penn would respond within 30 seconds, as senior midfield Tory Bensen scored her ninth goal of the year on a pass from sophomore Nina Corco-ran. Sophomore Iris William-son then drew a free-position shot with one of her patented runs from the 20-yard line and was able to convert to give Penn a 2-1 lead. But Rut-gers was equal to the task, with Halley Barnes scoring just over two minutes later.

At 2-2 going into the half, the game was reminiscent of last year’s low-scoring af-fair that was played in near-

nor’easter conditions — a game that Penn ultimately lost, 6-5.

However, the second half brought more purpose and a direct approach from the Penn attack. Five minutes into the half, Corcoran used a jab step to get by her defender and finished just five meters from goal.

Then, Smith scored two consecutive goals to put the Quakers up 5-2, the second a free position conversion after a three-second violation. She emphatically threw down her stick, and the game was all but won.

“The key for us is to re-ally control the tempo and I think we did that today,” Smith said. “We played with composure and even when it was a close game, we stayed in control and confident.”

Penn and Rutgers traded goals in the last three min-utes, but it would do little to affect the outcome of the game, as Penn’s defense held stout.

“I thought the defense played as a great unit,” Cor-bett said.

The strong defensive per-formance will provide mo-mentum heading into Penn’s first Ivy game of the season against Harvard at Franklin Field on Saturday. It will also mark the first day of spring break, a time the team will use to bond and focus on preparation for the rest of the season.

“[Harvard’s] good, they just came off a win against Cornell ... they’re going to come here to play,” Corbett said. “We are just excited to play our first Ivy League game.”

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game. They are greatly im-proved and well coached.”

The Big Red (14-12, 6 -6) follow the Light Blue, coming into the Palestra on Senior Night. In its f irst matchup with Penn, Cornell shot the lights out in the f irst half, mak ing 50 percent of its shots, but the Big Red were bested by Penn’s defense and Baron’s game-high 28 points.

“Cornell is always tough,” McLaughlin said. “They are really well coached as well.

“Both [Columbia and Cor-nell] will be a battle.”

The absence of junior for-ward Katy Allen (out for the

season with a foot injury) wi l l make the f inal three games even tougher, but the Quakers are ready to utilize

freshman forward Stephanie Cheney and the rest of their frontcourt to make up for the loss.

“I th ink [Stephanie] is ready to play now,” McLaugh-lin said. “She has really im-proved since the beginning of the year. She’ll be in our rotation.

“We’ll fill [Allen’s minutes] all dif ferent ways, moving

a couple of the [forwards] around.”

If the Quakers win their two home games, they will go into their matchup with the Tigers at least tied for first and guaranteed of a bid into either the NCAA Tournament or Women’s National Invita-tion Tournament.

So the Red and Blue aren’t looking past any of their op-

ponents, trying to give them-selves the chance to win the Ivy title for the first time in 2004.

“We’re taking it the same w ay a s we h ave a l l t he games, knowing that, in the Ivy League, every game is a championship game,” Baron said. “These games are no different and we just need to get wins in all of them.”

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Senior guard Alyssa Baron will play her final home game at the Palestra on Saturday, taking on a Cornell team that she scored 28 points against in February.

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Senior midfield Lindsey Smith salted away Penn’s Wednesday night contest against Rutgers with a pair of second half goals, her first of the season.

This weekend, like many oth-ers, will be spent playing back-to-back games in the Palestra as we defend our spot in first place. Our final season is com-ing to an end and we wouldn’t want to spend our spring break any other way.

For us four seniors, the mem-ories and wins have been add-ing up, the number of games are quickly dwindling, but we still have an Ivy League cham-pionship in sight. For those who are sticking around for spring break, come see what you have been missing in the Cathedral of College Basketball. Here is a snapshot of us four captains:

Starting with the tallest of the bunch, standing at 6-foot-3, is our team librarian, #50, Court-ney Wilson. She can often be found sitting in the locker room, reading her Kindle and eat-ing sour gummy worms. She’s famous for her turnaround jumper and rocking the knee-pads. Her alter-ego name is Charlotte.

Next in the lineup is our team mom, #21, Kristen Kody. If you’re looking for her around campus, just stop by Starbucks, Chipotle or Fox Fitness. Due to injury, she has not been spot-ted on the court this year, but her step-back and fierceness on the boards are legendary. Famous for her sassiness, if you need a quick laugh, find KK on the sidelines in her fashionable gameday attire.

Next up is our record-break-ing all-star, #1, Alyssa Baron. A

gal of many talents, when she’s not knocking down game win-ners, she can be found provid-ing entertainment in the form of bus tours and beauty tips. Whether it’s the pregame sour Skittles or sharing of extensive knowledge on pandas, she truly is one of a kind.

Last but not least is our slam-dunk champ, towering at 5-foot-6, #14, Meghan Mc-Cullough. Nicknamed after Alan from “The Hangover,” this little Penngineer is known for breaking ankles and dishing out assists. We can always count on her for freshly baked goodies and a good home-cooked meal in the Philly suburbs.

On a more serious note, we want to thank everyone who has made our experience so

special and who have supported us these four years. The Twitter love has been very appreciated along with the growing student section. Shout-out to the Penn Band, the best sixth man we could ask for. You make the Pal-estra come alive!

The Penn women’s basket-ball program has come a long way and we could not have done it without you. As coach McLaughlin’s first recruiting class, we have witnessed and been a part of the continued success.

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that, even though we’re elimi-nated from contending for the Ivy title, we’re still playing for something,” coach Jerome Allen said. “In no way are we packing things in and assum-ing this season is over.”

Penn’s road trip will kick off on Friday when the squad vis-

its Columbia. The Quakers (7-18, 4-7 Ivy) will follow up that matchup the next night with a visit to their other New York rival, Cornell, before wrap-ping up the season against Princeton on Tuesday night.

And in a season where very little has gone right for the Red and Blue, coach Jerome Allen’s squad may be able to take solace in one fact: Penn is 3-0 this season against the teams it will face.

In the team’s f i rst Iv y League contest, the Quakers pulled off a stunner, knocking off a Princeton squad that entered the game sporting

an 11-2 record. Though the Tigers have sputtered since then, the victory was the high-light of Penn’s season.

Four weeks later, the Quak-ers picked up their second and third Ivy wins of the season with victories over Cornell and Columbia. Penn knocked off Cornell in a high scor-ing affair before riding Fran Dougherty’s 23 points and 12 rebounds to a win over the Lions the next night.

Now the Quakers are back to do it again.

“More so than anything, we want to finish the season as best as we possibly can

regardless of what has hap-pened up to this point,” Allen said. “We need to get the guys to pay attention to detail until it’s all over and see this thing through to the end.”

Though Penn has already had success with this trio of Ivy foes, Allen knows nothing will come easy over break.

“This time around, all three teams are play ing pretty good basketball,” Allen said. “We need to take a strong approach and respect them enough ... because every team is better than they were when we last saw them.”

The Lions (18-11, 7-5) are

one of the toughest home teams in the Ivy League, hav-ing only dropped two games at Levien Gymnasium this sea-son. Though Alex Rosenberg struggled in Columbia’s last outing against Penn, the ju-nior is fifth in the Ivy League in scoring at 16.1 points per game.

While Columbia has im-proved, Cornell (2-24, 1-11) has failed to piece together much success since the be-ginning of the year. The Big Red’s victory over Dartmouth is their only win over a Divi-sion I opponent.

After completing its games

in the Empire State, the Quak-ers will head to Princeton (17-8, 5-6). Having already ruined the beginning of the Tigers’ Ivy season, Penn now hopes to send its rival into the offsea-son on a bitter note by spoiling Princeton’s Senior Night.

And though the season is ending, Allen has preached to his team that nothing has changed since the last time Penn played these opponents.

“We don’t need to look for added motivation,” Allen said. “For the most part we’re just trying to win the three games we play this break and do it one at a time.”

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When Penn softball departs for Florida on Thursday, it won’t be looking to just soak up some much-needed sun; the Quakers are hoping to pick up some W’s along the way.

The Red and Blue will head down to the sunshine state over Spring Break for a whirlwind of games, competing in the University of Central Florida Spring Fling Tournament from March 7-9 and the University of South Florida Under Armour Showcase from March 11-14.

Due to the snow-induced postponement of Tuesday’s season-opening doubleheader against St. Joseph’s, the train-ing trip marks the first glimpse of competition this season for the defending Iv y League champions.

“The girls are hungry to get outside to Florida,” said as-sistant coach and class of 2011 graduate Alisha Prystowsky, who made four early-season

trips to Florida during her time playing with the Quakers.

Following the 2013 season, the Quakers graduated seven seniors. Of the five Penn play-

ers honored as first team All-Ivy selections last year, only junior pitcher Alexis Borden returns to take the field for the Quakers in 2014.

Thus, Penn’s team is youth-ful to say the least. Of the 21 Red and Blue players on the roster, 10 are freshmen.

“Their work ethic, their com-petitiveness is really high, so we’re excited to see them out-side and see what they can do,” coach Leslie King said.

The team’s trip to Florida will be a learning experience for everyone.

“We’re just trying to figure out the best combinations, both in the batting order and defensively, and just treating [the trip] as preparation for Ivy League [competition],” King said.

The Red and Blue play their f irst tournament, the UCF Spring Fling, in Orlando. Penn will play Troy, Western Caro-lina, Central Florida, Bowling Green and Colgate. Later in the week the Quakers travel to Tampa for USF’s Under Ar-mour Showcase, playing games against Seton Hall, Quinnipiac, Providence, South Florida, Butler, Maine and the Nether-lands national team.

Penn’s toughest game of the week will likely be against South Florida. The Bulls were Big East tournament cham-pions in 2013 and nearly ad-vanced out of their region in the NCAA championship.

“They’ve been to NCAA’s each of the last five years, and they have been in the top 20 for the past couple of years, so they will be a good test,” King said.

The coaches don’t seem too nervous. Even though it is ear-ly, Prystowsky predicts that Penn will finish the season with a trip the NCAA tourna-ment. If the Quakers can pull it off, this will be the second time in school history that Penn has advanced a squad to the tour-nament.

The road ahead is long, and the trip to Florida is the first test of the Quakers’ might on the diamond.

“A lot of ending up in a cham-pionship is expecting to end up in a championship,” Prys-twosky said. “And we have that.”

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Ivy title defenseBY LAINE HIGGINS

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This weekend, Penn men’s la-crosse will take on a familiar foe — in both proximity and in style.

The No. 13 Red and Blue are gearing up for their third game of the season against Villanova in hopes of earning their first road victory.

Last weekend Penn (2-1) and the Wildcats (1-2) both had the same style of play. Both squads fell victim to their opponents early in the game and tried to take back control and make a run from behind in the fourth period.

“Every day in practice we em-phasize starting out fast, and that’s kind of hard because we are playing a lot of good teams,” junior defense Matt McMahon said. “Your tendency is to hesi-tate a little in the beginning, but I think we are working on that every day.”

“To start a little bit faster, we’re going to do more live work with our first group on of-fense against our first group on defense further into the week which is a slight adjustment,” coach Mike Murphy added. “Then hopefully just stick to our fundamentals as well in the early part of the game.”

However, there was one criti-cal difference — Penn succeed-ed while the Wildcats did not. The Quakers rallied back to beat

then-No.6 Denver, 12-10, while Villanova came up short against Delaware, 11-9.

“Playing hard in the fourth quarter is something we are good at because of the many guys that we play, so that’s more a stylistic thing,” Mc-Mahon said. “I think we just play more players than most teams, and it plays off in the fourth quarter.”

Penn has faced fourth quar-ter deficits in two of its three contests this season.

And if there was ever a time to stop that risky trend, it will be right now.

Saturday will be the Quakers’ final game before they begin their Ivy season against Princ-eton on March 15, where there is no margin for error.

“Our goal every year is to win the Ivy championship, so if we lose this game it doesn’t put us any closer or further than that, but in terms of momentum, it’s definitely huge,” McMahon said.

But the Wildcats are a famil-iar foe to many of the Quakers.

“We know a lot of these guys, especially since I’m from Jersey and a lot of the Villanova guys are from Jer-sey,” McMahon said. “A lot of us know each other, grew up playing each other and it’s kind of fun to play your bud-dies.”

In addition to the plethora of social connections, Philadelphia teams enjoy playing each other in every way.

“It’s a pretty significant local rivalry,” Murphy said. “We are both in the top 20 most of the time when we are playing them, and we recruit a lot of the same kids and obviously they are close by, so there’s a little bit of excite-ment behind this.”

As Penn continues to fine- tune its lineup and settle itself, Saturday will be the final chance to hone crucial skills before the games that affect the Quakers’ dream of an Ivy title begin.

Are they going to die a slow death? By the time they vanquish and the new alumni base has become the core and returned home, will anyone even care?”

Many donors and overseers share Donatucci’s perspective, grateful for the many facilities such as Penn Park that Bilsky helped secure for the university while still hoping to see Penn Athletics make a bigger impact in the Penn community going forward.

“Next time you are enjoying Penn Park, say ‘Thanks Steve,’” Penn Athletics Board of Over-seers member and 1972 College graduate H. Elliott Rogers Jr. said.

“[Penn Athletics needs] great-er involvement from the student population as buyers of the vari-ous services Penn Athletics can offer as participants and specta-tors,” 1973 Wharton graduate Bob Johnson, one of 15 Penn basketball donors in the $10,000-$24,999 range for 2013-14, said.

“Any engagement of students comes from two things — win-ning and an administration that actually cares about those re-sults,” fellow Penn basketball donor and 1983 College graduate Daniel Wallick said. “Winning cures many ills.”

Penn basketball’s 78-128 over-all record since 2007 and Penn Athletics’ last-place finish among Ivy League schools in the 2012-13 standings of the Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup, a measure of

collegiate institutions’ overall athletic success for a given year, have troubled some Penn Athlet-ics supporters. But many donors and overseers still sense that Bilsky is leaving behind a culture of winning.

“Steve has set a precedent and expectation that our teams win and are competitive,” said 1996 College graduate Jed Walentas, one of eight alumni donating $25,000 and above to Penn basketball this past year.

What’s more concerning for many supporters of Penn Ath-letics is Penn President Amy Gutmann’s commitment to a cul-ture of winning for the organiza-tion. Many of these supporters have noted that Gutmann is not a frequent presence at athletics events on campus and that Penn Athletics has not seemed to be a priority under her administra-tion, which dates back to 2004.

“I would hope the next athletic director has enough stature to be able to successfully advocate for the value of athletics within the administration,” Wallick said. “The biggest challenge for the next athletic director is whether or not President Gutmann actu-ally values athletics enough to

support the athletic director’s vision for developing successful athletic programs at Penn.”

“I believe most students see their involvement with Penn Ath-letics as an afterthought from the view of the athletic depart-ment and the administration,” Johnson said. “A major factor in addressing these challenges will require a clear understanding with the highest levels of the ad-ministration that Penn Athletics be given the latitude to establish and earn its position within the Penn community.”

“The real deep and important purpose of our athletics is not to win more than everybody else,” Gutmann said in August. “It’s the experience of teamwork, of strong competition, of discipline. It’s the education and creating of character as well.”

Donatucci agrees that that is what athletics are about.

“Where the rubber meets the road is in the fact that Divi-sion I athletics isn’t about the same principles,” he said. “It’s not about our 14 traveling across town to play their 14. It’s multi-channel, 24-hour-a-day, web-site, countless blog coverage. So you’re the athletic director. What wall do you prefer to bang your head against?”

And with Penn Athletics now a 24/7 enterprise, the majority of its major contributors believe that the next athletic director will have to lead Penn Athletics like the multimillion dollar busi-ness it is.

“The most important thing is that the new director as chief operating officer has the top management skills as well as a love of sports,” said Alan Aufzien, a member of the Penn Athletics Board of Overseers.

“The athletic director needs to be an excellent manager, much

like a CEO, who can represent and coordinate amongst the vari-ous stakeholders of Penn Athlet-ics,” Johnson said.

One thing almost universally agreed upon among supporters of Penn Athletics is that Bilsky’s successor need not be an alum.

“I do not think that we should constrict our universe,” Barrett Freedlander, a Class of 1962

graduate and longtime supporter of the Penn basketball program, said.

Ultimately, then, it’ll be up to Bilsky’s successor to keep Penn Athletics’ momentum with facili-ties going and create more mo-mentum with regard to student engagement and winning.

“Our university has set the tone that athletic programs need

to be able to stand on their own via athletic development. At the same time, you have an aging donor base and the replacement base is detached as the compo-sition of the student body has changed,” Donatucci said. “Penn has a very unique set of challeng-es, and the new athletic director has to be able to navigate those waters.”

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coach [Ira] Bowman were play-ing, no one missed a game,” Barrett Freedlander , a Class of 1962 graduate and longtime supporter of the program, said. “They themselves started ev-ery game during their Penn careers.”

Freedlander, a donor in the $10,000-$24,999 range for Penn basketball a season ago and contributor this year as well, said he is disappointed that in-

dividual players have not im-proved over the course of their careers and that the team also does not seem to improve over the course of seasons.

“Players recruited with excel-lent credentials do not seem to be able to translate their high school star status to the college level. I also do not understand why certain freshmen have a decent game or weekend and then disappear,” Freedlander said. “Next year, with the loss of [senior captain Fran] Dough-erty, improvement is unlikely.”

Alan Aufzien , a member of the Penn Athletics Board of Overseers, said he did not believe that the program has improved under Allen. Aufzien added that although he was not qualified to judge, the program’s

problem could be a combina-tion of recruiting and coaching. Three other members of the Board of Overseers declined comment on the Penn basket-ball program.

“A good coach does not have to have been a good player,” Aufzien said.

Most supporters of the pro-gram just want a coach that can restore an expectation of win-ning for the program. Whether that coach is Allen is open to interpretation, but supporters of his program are getting increas-ingly restless for a change in fortune and direction.

“Obviously the team is struggling,” Freedlander said. “Whether it is because of any one coach or two or all three, I don’t know.”

BASKETBALL from page 12

Donors baffled by program’s

problems

The big day has finally ar-rived for Penn wrestling.

This weekend, the Quakers will compete in the 2014 East-ern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) Champion-ships at home in the Palestra. This year’s tournament will be the biggest yet, with 18 teams in the mix and 47 spots at the NCAA Championships up for grabs.

Despite an uneven season so far, Penn has been peaking recently, winning three straight duals over Columbia, Princeton and Drexel. The Quakers will look to take advantage of being under the radar to make a big showing in front of their home crowd.

“I think the guys are in a re-ally good physical and men-tal state right now, we’ve had some really good workouts and they’re pretty excited,” coach Rob Eiter said. “I expect them to go out and wrestle their butts off. If they give every-thing they’ve got I think we’ll do pretty well.”

The favorites for the Red and Blue will be sophomores Casey Kent (165 pounds) and Lorenzo Thomas (184), who are ranked No. 19 and No. 10 at their re-spective weightclasses. In order to conquer the EIWA crown, both of them might have to

avenge losses from earlier this year to the probable No. 1 seeds.

Cornell’s Dylan Palacio, ranked 14th in the nation, de-feated Kent twice this season, 4-1 and 4-2. Meanwhile, the last person to defeat Thomas was No. 3 Gabe Dean — also of Cor-nell — by the score of 7-5.

“Fortunately for both Loren-zo and Casey, they’ve already wrestled the guys that are seed-ed number one,” Eiter said. “If they go in there and just wrestle as well as we know they can — and they can — there’s nobody that’s heads and above some-body else right now in those two weightclasses.”

“I just need to wrestle smart against [Dean]. The last time it was close score-wise, but he kind of controlled the match for the most part,” Thomas added. “I need to wrestle my match and not let him do what he wants to do.”

Beyond the obvious duo, Ei-ter thinks most grapplers on the

Red and Blue’s talented roster have a reasonable shot at pull-ing off what he called “an upset just on paper.” Amongst them are junior Jeff Canfora (141) and the freshman pair Frank Mattiace (197) and Caleb Rich-ardson (125).

“I think Jeff and Frank are probably the two worst draws you can have ... they definitely have the potential to beat any-body,” Eiter said. “Especially Frank’s weightclass is pretty wide open, everybody’s kind of beaten everybody, so that’s go-ing to be very interesting.

“Caleb’s going to get over-looked and he has a ton of tal-ent. His skill set is super high so he easily could be in the finals for us.”

For Kent, the key to success is simple.

“I [have] just got to wrestle like I’ve been wrestling the whole season, not worry about what happens and just go out there.”

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Athletic Director Steve Bilsky leaves behind a legacy of improving Penn’s athletic facilities during his tenure.

EIWA race to heat up on campusWRESTLING | NCAA bids are up for grabs as

Palestra hosts conference championship

BY KARL BAGHERZADEHSenior Staff Writer

Michele Ozer/Sports Photo Editor

Sophomore 165-pounder Casey Kent is in strong position to capture an NCAA tournament bid as the EIWA championships come to the Palestra.

Can Red and Blue grab a lead?

Christina Prudencio/Staff Photographer

Junior defense Matt McMahon will be relied upon to shore up a Penn defense that has allowed the likes of Duke and Denver to build early leads.

M. LACROSSE | Quakers aim to stop

falling behind early as key matchups loom

BY ALEXIS ZIEBELMANAssociate Sports Editor


For Penn women’s lacrosse, stingy was the word of the day.

On Wednesday night, the Quakers’ defense held Rut-gers without a goal for nearly 40 consecutive minutes, and senior midfield Lindsey Smith scored two second-half goals as the Quakers pulled off a 6-3 win heading into their first Ivy

weekend.“We had some really great

defensive stances and we take pride in that, that’s something we really want to keep moving forward with,” Smith said.

The game took some time to get going as Penn (2-1) con-trolled the tempo, but couldn’t find a way to score. With a lot of movement and possession and very little to show for it, it

Senior Night? Over. The Ivy League title race? Eliminated from contention. Nothing left to play for? Perhaps.

But don’t tell that to Penn bas-ketball.

Coming of f a d isappointing weekend sweep, the Quakers will hit the road for the f inal three games of their 2013-14 campaign over spring break. But despite the Red and Blue’s subpar record, the squad knows just how valuable these three games could be.

“The biggest thing is that these guys are mature enough and they respect the game enough to know

Penn basketball coach Jerome Allen is facing heightened criticism after amassing a 16-40 record the past two seasons. Most longtime supporters of the Penn men’s basketball program are displeased with the program’s results, and some are actively call-ing for his firing or resignation on social media. In light of the mounting pressure on Allen and his program, The Daily Pennsylvanian reached out to several prominent donors and members of the Penn Athletics Board of Overseers for their reactions to the state of Penn basketball.

1996 College graduate Jed Walen-tas considers Jerome Allen a friend. He was a classmate of Allen’s, and although he doesn’t follow Penn bas-ketball as closely as he once did, he still cared about its well-being enough to be one of eight alumni donating $25,000 and above to the program this past year. And he’s not really sure how to evaluate his former classmate as coach of the Quakers.

“My limited sample size has shown a lack of energy and discipline, which is maybe the most concerning aspect to me,” Walentas said. “[Allen] is young as a coach, not in age but in experience. Everyone learns as they go and I can only assume the same is true for him.”

Allen was indeed young in coach-ing experience upon taking over as interim head coach after his prede-cessor, Glen Miller, was fired on Dec. 14, 2009 after a 0-7 start to the 2009-10 season. Allen had been originally hired in August 2009 as a volunteer assistant coach before taking the reins of the program just four months later. On March 30, 2010, Allen was named per-manent head coach.

“The grass is not always greener and many good things take time,” Walentas said. “At the same time, it is possible that Jerome was a great, great player and a world-class person and that he is not the right fit to be our head coach.”

Still, Walentas said that he doesn’t know enough to make an informed opinion on what to do about Allen.

Class of 1973 Wharton graduate Bob Johnson, one of 15 Penn basketball donors in the $10,000-$24,999 range for 2013-14, has watched many Quakers games on the Penn Sports Network over the last few years and feels more strongly, assessing the current state of the program as one of “significant underachievement.”

“The potential that everyone identi-fied last year has completely disap-peared,” Johnson said.

Penn was projected to finish second in the Ivy League Preseason Media Poll after returning all of its players from a season ago but is currently in sixth place in the conference with a 4-7 league record.

“The inability to build on the 2012

results has to fall on coach Allen,” Johnson said, referencing the Quak-ers’ second-place Ivy finish in 2011-12. “His role as the leader of the program has only grown during that time.”

Johnson sees three options for Penn basketball: retain Allen and give him measurable metrics as to how the pro-gram can return to prominence, fire him or watch him voluntarily resign. Johnson expects the latter option to occur, which would be bad news for Class of 1983 graduate Daniel Wallick, a donor in the $5,000-9,999 range for Penn basketball in 2013-14. Wallick, an attendee at every home game as well as several away games, thinks the program is still recovering from what he calls the “disappointing tenure of coach Miller.”

“Without a doubt the program is better under coach Allen than under

his predecessor,” Wallick said.Miller helmed the Quakers from

2006 to December 2009, amassing a 45-52 overall record, including 27-15 in Ivy play. Penn won an Ivy championship in Miller’s first season but his demanding coaching style rankled both players and alumni, resulting in a dejected fan base and several players transferring out of the program.

Allen’s overall record (55-83) and conference record (33-34) are both worse than Miller’s, but Allen is more popular among Penn basketball fans because of his vital role in leading the program to three Ivy championships as a player from 1992-93 through 1994-95 and what most consider his more likable personality.

“I would agree that the past two seasons have been disappointing,” Wallick said. “No one would choose to

be below .500. But last year, there were no seniors on the roster and this year, half the team is injured.”

Injuries have plagued the Quakers this season, with Patrick Lucas-Perry, Cam Crocker and Matt Howard all suf-fering season-ending injuries, Julian Harrell playing just 12 of 25 games in 2013-14 and several other Quakers being relegated to the bench due to injuries as well. The many injuries Penn has sustained the last couple of seasons have left supporters of the program dumbfounded.

“Are we missing injuries in the re-cruiting process? Are our practice techniques overly physical or do our training programs not properly pre-pare these young men for Division I basketball?” Johnson asked.

“When coach Allen and [assistant]

When Penn women’s basketball’s current senior class joined the program, coach Mike McLaughlin’s squad seemed in sorry shape, hav-

ing won just two games the year before.

But now the Quakers stand in first place, tied with Princeton and just three games away from a pos-sible Ivy League title.

On Friday and Saturday, the Red and Blue (19-6, 9-2 Ivy) will host Columbia and Cornell, the latter of which will be Senior Night, be-fore finishing their regular season against the Tigers (18-7, 9-2) on Tuesday night.

All in all, it seems like a pretty exciting way for seniors Alyssa Baron, Kristen Kody, Meghan Mc-Cullough and Courtney Wilson to finish out their respective careers.

“We just know that it is a huge weekend for us,” Baron said. “Defi-nitely an emotional weekend with it being senior weekend and the last two home games for the four seniors. We’ve just been through so much, some ups and downs, through our career, and it is just a

great ending to it.”“It is a ful l circle for them,”

McLaughlin added. “This is a spe-cial class. This is the first group I brought in. I asked them to come in and help create a better culture here and they invested in us just by listening to us.”

Penn has both improved its win total and moved up the Ivy stand-ings each of the last four years and after Princeton’s loss to Brown, the team controls its destiny.

Columbia (6-20, 3-9) is Penn’s f irst roadblock for the weekend. But contrary to their record, the Lions are a formidable opponent, as they are one of only two teams to score more than 60 points against Penn in Ivy play.

“We had a battle with them up there [at Columbia],” McLaughlin said. “We pulled away later in the second half but it was a very close

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FRIDAY, 7 P.M .THE PALESTRA

COLUMBIA PENN

SATURDAY, 8 P.M .THE PALESTRA

CORNELL PENN

TUESDAY, 5:30 P.M. PRINCETON, N.J.

PENN PRINCETON

A TITLE WITHIN PENN’S REACHW. HOOPS | With Penn’s seniors playing their final

regular season games, Quakers try to topple TigersBY STEVEN TYDINGSSenior Sports Editor

SEE W. HOOPS PAGE 9

SEE M. HOOPS PAGE 10 SEE W. LACROSSE PAGE 9

SEE BASKETBALL PAGE 11

Analyn Delos Santos/News Design Editor

After finishing second in the Ivy League in his second full season, coach Jerome Allen has found wins harder to come by during the last two years, going 16-40 while winning just 10 of 25 games in Ivy play. This has led to mixed reviews from supporters of the program, with some willing to chalk up the problems to Allen’s predecessor, Glen Miller, while others have been less forgiving.

With the Quakers struggling, donors speak about the program and

coach Jerome AllenBY MIKE TONY

Senior Staff Writer Supporters weigh in on Penn

basketball

Meaningless games? Penn disagrees

Sam Sherman/Senior Staff Photographer

Senior forward Fran Dougherty’s inside presence will play a big role against a Columbia squad he torched earlier this season.

M. HOOPS | Red and Blue have plenty left to fight for in final three Ivy games despite

end to postseason hopesBY RILEY STEELE

Sports Editor

Columbia18-11, 7-5 IvyFriday,7 p.m.

New York

Cornell2-24. 1-11Saturday,7 p.m.

Ithaca, N.Y.

Princeton17-8, 5-6Tuesday,8 p.m.

Princeton, N.J.

Smith’s goals sink Scarlet Knights

W. LACROSSE | Senior midfield

contributes pair of goals, defense does the rest

BY SUSHAAN MODISenior Staff Writer

vs. Rutgers

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