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Dwindling numbers in Wharton-Nursing dual-degree program

Wharton and Nursing sophomore Samantha Noblejas is taking six and a half credits this se-mester. She balances her rigorous course-load with a Saturday morning rotation at the Hos-pital of the University of Pennsylvania. After graduation, she hopes to work in hospital ad-ministration.

Noblejas is a big fan of the five-year Health Care Management dual-degree program, but admits that it is “very demanding.”

Though the Nursing School was unable to provide official numbers by the time of publi-cation, individuals in the program estimate that the dropout rate is at least 50 percent.

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Juices and cycling: Penn’s alternative health techniques

Some Penn students go beyond the standard Pottruck workout to stay healthy.

“Juicing and alternative exercise classes — such as [cycling pro-grams] Soul Cycle, Flywheel and [pilates program] SLT — are be-coming quite the trend,” Student Health Services nutritionist Debbie

Westerling said.Wharton sophomore Julie Shanus

used to be on the track team, but after quitting, she said, “I needed to find another form of exercise.” Her friends recommended she try Fly-wheel, which she says she prefers over SoulCycle because it is more competitive. Julie has also dabbled in juice cleansing.

While some are still skeptical of the diet, Westerling said there are ways to use it effectively.

“There are extremes that often get

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Brown cracks down on booze

Members of the Penn community are criti-cal of Brown University’s drastic changes in its alcohol policies following two incidents of sexual violence at fraternity parties, one of which involved a date rape drug.

The new rules at Brown ban alcohol in all residential areas, including Greek houses. Registered parties involving alcohol must take place in public university spaces — like Penn’s Houston Hall — with adequate supervision and must only serve alcoholic beverages to students of legal drinking age.

The fraternities where the assaults alleg-edly took place, Sigma Chi and Phi Kappa Psi, face serious punishment. Sigma Chi has been suspended until 2016, and Phi Kappa Psi has been stripped of university recogni-tion for the next four years. Groups failing to follow the new rules will face similar conse-quences.

Penn’s alcohol policies are far less strict. Students of legal drinking age are permitted to possess and consume alcohol in college

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On a typical Monday night, Penn students are gathered around tables in 1920 Commons or getting takeout from Chipotle for dinner. But, a few weeks out of the year, Penn stu-dents can be found trekking downtown to enjoy a full

three-course meal at some of Center City’s finest res-taurants.

In the last few years, Res-taurant Week has become a crucial part of Philadel-phia’s — and Penn’s — food culture. But while diners during Restaurant Week get the experience to try unique dishes and visit new restaurants, the week is just another day in the life for restaurant staff.

Dave Conn is the head

chef at Tinto, a Garces Group Spanish tapas hotspot. Having been with the restaurant since its opening in 2007, Conn is no newcomer to Restaurant Week.

“I would have to double check how many years it’s been, but we’ve been doing it pretty much since our opening,” he said. “It’s defi-nitely become a much bigger thing in the last four or five years,” he added.

Jose Olmeda, the chef de cuisine at the popular Cu-ban-style diner Rosa Blanca, doesn’t have as many years of experience with Res-taurant Week, but he has found his footing nonethe-less. Since helping to open the restaurant in December 2013, Olmeda has partici-pated in every Restaurant Week in Philadelphia — three in total.

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“There’s a huge drop-out rate,” Noblejas said. In the class of 2017, three out of 10 students dropped the Nursing degree program. Among the class of 2018, she said, “I think there’s like one or two left.”

Wharton and Nursing fresh-man Yuming Qin says she is “basically already out of the program.”

Qin applied to the program because she couldn’t decide be-tween a career in healthcare and one in business. “I always felt that business was my academic interest, whereas healthcare was just kind of a better career industry,” she said.

Qin cites a number of motiva-tions for dropping the program. The first is cost. She says spending a fifth year at Penn is very expensive and there are other ways to achieve her goals. “Wharton already has a health care management concentra-tion and it’s difficult to justify spending an extra year and an extra year of tuition especially for something that I wouldn’t necessarily end up utilizing,”

she said. “I can’t really afford that.”

Health Care Management is the only dual-degree that cannot be completed in four years. Qin says the length is unique to nursing because clinical hours cannot be sacri-ficed. “It’s a tradeoff of money, time and sanity,” she said. “I dedicated a lot of time to study-ing and I felt like I wanted to experience a lot more of the extracurricular side of college.”

Qin says it is common for students to drop the Nursing side of the degree because they find their interests don’t align with the goal of the program. “The moment you realize that ‘maybe I have a wider interest or diverge from the health care path’ then the opportunity cost of staying in the program be-comes kind of steep,” she said.

“That isn’t as much of a prob-lem with the other dual degrees because of their wider flex-ibilities,” Qin said. Whereas the other dual degree programs allow students to choose their concentrations in Wharton, Health Care Management dual-degree students are locked into their majors in both schools.

Despite dropping out, Qin speaks highly of the Health Care Management dual-degree program. “I don’t think there is another program like it in the country,” she said.

The high dropout rate for the class of 2018 came as a shock to upperclassmen. “That was a big thing this past semester. I heard a lot of freshmen were dropping out and we were very shocked,” Noblejas said.

While she will stay with the program, Noblejas understands where the freshmen are coming from. “Of course it depends on preference,” she said. “I think both sides are a lot of work. Both sides are very demand-ing.”

Students looking to trans-fer into the program can apply for an internal transfer in May. Wylie Thomas, Vice Dean for the Office of Institutional Ad-vancement, cautions that any such decision would be made only with academic merit in mind. “Admissions decisions are based on these criteria and not a desire or necessity to fill open spaces,” she said in an emailed statement.

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taken that aren’t the standard in juice cleansing,” she said. “They can be the gateway to more exces-sive dieting or exercise, because all senses are heightened in many ways.”

For example, college sopho-more got into juicing with her mom in New York, but she does not rely solely on the liquid diet.

“I juice more in Philadelphia than I do in New York, but I’m not doing straight juice cleanses,” she said. Emma maintains a Paleo diet — based on basic food found in hunter-gatherer times — and supplements it with juices.

She warned other juicers to be mindful about when they choose

to diet.“I tried a juice cleanse two

weeks before Fling, but it wasn’t that successful,” she said.

Shanus said that she did a juice cleanse to feel healthier and isn’t concerned by the negative press that juice cleanses have received. The effectiveness of a juice cleanse depends on the person, she said.

“It’s more of a mental thing than a physical thing — and having willpower,” she added.

Shanus and Emma both agree that there are a range of options for healthy food around Philadel-phia, both stating Pure Fare and Hip City Veg as some of their fa-vorites. Shanus recommends the udon noodle salad — no noodles, extra chick’n.

Danielle, a College junior, began juicing for medical rea-sons.

“I did a juice cleanse from Pressed Juicery over one winter break because my sister was drinking a lot of juice. I was also getting extremely bad migraines for two weeks which wouldn’t go away,” she said.

After doing a three day cleanse, Danielle was cured of her migraines. She believes that as a college student, the access to fruit and vegetables may be lim-ited, and it is easier to consume them through juicing. She cur-rently drinks juices in addition to her regular meals.

“I was skeptical about juicing in the beginning, but I’ve had a pleasant experience,” she said.

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houses, and alcohol policies of on-campus Greek houses vary by chapter.

However, while University-approved parties may be held in on- or off-campus spaces, they must be registered with the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initia-tives. Groups holding such parties are required to hire se-curity guards and a bartender approved by the University.

While the AOD office ac-knowledges the link between alcohol and sexual assault, it does not believe that consum-ing alcohol leads directly to sexual violence.

“Alcohol is often involved in sexual assault, but not always, and alcohol is not the cause of sexual assault,” AOD Office

Associate Director Noelle Martin said in an email. “A person’s intoxication or inca-pacitation is not an invitation or an opportunity to engage in an act the person did not or could not consent to.”

Even though Penn enforces its alcohol policies at regis-tered events, students often circumvent the system by holding unregistered par-ties, usually at off-campus locations. At Brown, the new regulations regarding alcohol on campus may drive students to party in more dangerous en-vironments.

College freshman Shannah Reagan believes that Brown’s new policies will exacerbate the problems rather than solve them. “If anything, it’s going to make it more dangerous for the students,” she said. “Partying is going to happen

regardless of whether or not there are rules against it.”

At Penn and at Brown, medi-cal amnesty policies protect students from legal repercus-sions when seeking medical help for themselves or another after a substance-related health incident. At Brown, however, students who receive medi-cal attention are required to “follow up with an educator,” according to the university’s website.

Reagan supports Penn’s medical amnesty policy be-cause she believes that it emphasizes what is best for the students rather than what is most politically correct. She suggested that Brown adopt more policies that are “student-focused and realistic.”

President of Penn Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisor Pro-gram and Wharton sophomore

Theodore Caputi also feels that Brown may be making a mistake in implementing their new policies. “Brown runs a serious risk in banning these kinds of parties,” he said. “When you ban parties like this, sometimes you drive them underground.”

Although Caputi’s beliefs do not necessarily represent those of Penn DAPA, he feels that Penn’s current policies — a “practical solution to address a high-risk population” — are more effective at encouraging safe consumption of alcohol.

Like the AOD Office, Caputi recognizes the link be-tween alcohol use and sexual violence but does not believe that the relationship is nec-essarily causal. “I think that we walk a thin line between sexual violence and substance abuse,” he said.

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Across the city, Restaurant Week features different restaurants that offer a smaller tasting menu of some of their regular menu items at a more limited price point. Each restaurant offers a three-course dinner for a flat rate of $35 — at restaurants where dinner can often cost more than $50 per person. Many restaurants also feature a lunch menu, which offers three courses for a $20 price tag.

Participating restaurants and chefs are almost unlimited in fare or experience. Those participating this week range everywhere from the famous Stephen Starr Asian-fu-sion grill Buddakan to the Brazilian steakhouse Chima.

But while chefs come from all different backgrounds and ex-perience levels, all restaurants participate for essentially the same reasons. While many times the de-cision to participate is made at the corporate level, the event gives res-taurants highly valuable exposure.

“For us, it’s a no-brainer. Res-taurant Week gives us a good level of exposure to a group of diners we don’t see on a regular basis,” Conn said. “It gives us a broader range of opportunity.”

And it seems to be working. Ac-cording to Olmeda, diners start making reservations for Restaurant Week as much as a month in ad-vance.

Conn agreed. “We definitely see people in higher volumes. We might get a lot of covers on a Friday or Sat-urday night typically, but during Restaurant Week, we’ll see as many covers on a Monday or Tuesday night,” he said.

With such a higher volume, juggling the restaurant and all the orders while maintaining the overall atmosphere and dining ex-perience can be a challenge.

“It’s definitely a lot more fast-paced,” said Amanda Feinstein, beverage manager at Rosa Blanca. “You get a lot of people coming in, so we’re trying to move tables in and out as quickly as possible, but at the same time, people are there to enjoy the food, and we don’t want to sacrifice that,” she said.

And the food is really what Res-taurant Week is about. While most participating restaurants feature relatively lengthy full menus, Res-taurant Week menus often consist of nothing more than a few simple choices for each course. Decid-ing which dishes make the cut and which ones don’t can be a make-or-break moment for a restaurant.

“A lot of times we try to stick with our most popular dishes — and the ones that are typically favorited most by our staff,” Olmeda said.

Restaurant Week menu picks include masitas de puerco adobo, a spiced fried pork served with home-made corn pudding, and pollo a la brassa, rotisserie chicken accompa-nied by sour orange-achiote butter and roasted baby potatoes. “We did actually end up adding a new dish specifically for our Restaurant Week menu a year or so ago, and that was the vegetarian casserole because we didn’t really have a true vegetarian option, and it actually ended up on our regular menu,” he said.

Conn spoke specifically about a format — developed by Jose Garces himself — that guides the

restaurant staff in deciding what will be on the Restaurant Week menu. “We always do three courses, and Jose Garces’ formula was always two savory courses and then a pastry — something sweet,” he said. As a tapas restaurant, each of the first two courses allows diners to choose not one but two menu items. “Some of them are more sub-stantial and some are more classical tapas items, but we make sure Res-taurant Week diners are exposed to a nice offering from the regular menu,” Conn said.

For Tinto, diners tend to gravitate toward duck confit wrapped in ser-rano ham smothered in a wild black cherry spread as well as the Spanish octopus with smoked green olive aioli and spicy tomatoes.

While many frequent Restaurant Week diners have complained that the week offers lowered standards of service and food, both Conn and Olmeda have done their best to make their Restaurant Week experi-ence as consistent with their regular service as possible.

“A lot of thought goes into our menu when we’re picking things out to make sure that we’re able to execute the dishes with an in-creased volume without sacrificing the quality,” Conn said. “We really stand behind our offerings — noth-ing is being dumbed down just because the menu is more limited.”

Olmeda agreed, also empha-sizing that while the menu was smaller, he didn’t want diners to feel restricted by it. “Our goal is to give customers a good idea of what would be on our regular menu, without it feeling limited,” he said.

Feinstein, who spends more of her time on the floor interacting with customers than behind the scenes in the kitchen, emphasized that Restaurant Week was about the entire dining experience, not just the food. “I like to be on the floor as much as possible, interacting with customers either at the hostess stand or at their tables. Our goal is to keep the quality of the experience the same, even with the higher traffic,” she said.

For many Penn students, Res-taurant Week presents a more affordable way to experience some of the city’s best eateries.

“I went to Estia with some friends last week, and I had a great time. It wasn’t prohibitively expensive, and it’s probably not somewhere I would have gone without Restaurant Week,” College sophomore Robert Harrelson said.

“It’s not often that I get out of the lab and really enjoy the treats that the City of Brotherly Love has to offer. It’s really something special,” Wharton sophomore Jack Stein said.

As Restaurant Week winds to a close, for the restaurant staff, the week will be all about the victories.

“The staff works so hard during Restaurant Week. It’s pretty cool to see everyone moving together so quickly,” Feinstein said.

At Tinto, each Restaurant Week menu comes with five distinct plates of food. “One of the cool-est things is looking back after the two-week period [of Restaurant Week] and seeing how many menus we sold and then multiplying that number by five. It’s just mind blow-ing. In that short amount of time, we have literally sold thousands and thousands of plates of food,” Conn said.

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If rap brings Eminem, Juicy J or O.T. Genasis first to mind, you haven’t seen the other side of hip-hop yet. Every week, NewzBeat anchors Lady Slyke and Survivor deliver their flow filled with news from all over the world.

Paul Falzone, an Annen-berg Ph.D. graduate and founder of Peripheral Vision International, has produced NewzBeat since 2013. Newz-Beat is a weekly video series that features national and international news for the Ugandan public. He said he is trying to answer the ques-tion, “how can we engage pop culture and existing ways of distributing media in a way that people would pick up the content on their own?”

Each NewzBeat episode is about five minutes long, cov-ering four to five topics of the week. The episodes are made in both English and Luganda, the most-widely spoken local language in Uganda.

Falzone previously worked as a producer creating docu-mentaries and web videos, but his experience with a consult-ing job at Uganda piqued his interest in establishing a non-profit organization to create an impact on Ugandan society.

“Uganda chose me. It’s a weirdly addictive place,” he said.

Since Uganda has an in-credibly young population — the average age being 15.5 years old there — Falzone

wanted to create a unique way to draw the nations’ attention to current events. The rap news team in Uganda decides on which topics to include in each week’s episodes, and the rappers present the content like anchors.

“It’s easier to train a rapper to be a journalist than to train a journalist to rap,” Falzone said.

The episodes are broad-casted on air, but Falzone added that because 90 per-cent of households don’t have electricity, he distributes the content through video halls where people come together to watch collectively. He also uses radio, Facebook and You-Tube to deliver the content as widely as possible.

Broadcast ing unbiased news in Uganda is particu-larly significant now given the country’s current politi-cal situation. Devra Moehler, professor at Annenberg School of Communication focusing on political communication, described the Ugandan po-litical landscape as a “hybrid system” or “quasi-democracy.”

“There is election, but in other ways the government is ver y much in control,” she said.

According to the 2014 Human Rights Watch World Report, “after 27 years in off ice, President Yoweri Museveni’s government in-creasingly suppresses freedom of assembly, expression, and association while escalating threats to civil society.”

Lee Shaker, a professor at Portland State University who is conducting efficacy re-search on Falzone’s projects,

also acknowledged the not-so-democratic political situation in Uganda.

“[An] ongoing fundamental problem in Uganda is corrup-tion of the government and public officials,” he said.

By including corruption in-cidents from other countries in their coverage, NewzBeat tries to address political issues in Uganda while still avoiding possible governmental regula-tion. Shaker said NewzBeat’s approach to handling corrup-tion is fundamentally different from those by other news out-lets.

“We are not showing stories about Uganda or the president of Uganda, but we are showing stories of completely different spaces and people,” he said.

Shaker’s experiment showed a priming effect. NewzBeat episodes discussing corrup-tion in other nations impacted the audience’s opinions about its government. However, the effect was an unexpected one.

“People started to see their situation favorably,” Shaker said, mainly because the news stories were about large-scale corruption taking place in South Africa or Ukraine, whereas corruption in Uganda is small-scale day-to-day hap-penings.

To tailor its coverage to the research results, he said NewzBeat is now covering smaller-scale stories that are met with legitimate punish-ment.

Shaker a lso evaluated whether the collective view-ing environment affected how viewers absorbed the message. He said there wasn’t signifi-cant difference between each

viewing circumstance, but is looking to evaluate the con-versation spurred by watching together in video halls.

“All over the world, people absorb information in a dif-ferent way, and that’s the beauty of PVI,” Malini Dod-damani, senior director of Wharton Marketing and Com-munications and PVI board chair, said. “PVI is meeting people where they are, rather than trying to get its message across in the way we know how.”

Moehler added that Fal-zone’s attempt to combine entertainment with informa-tion is also a smart way to have people pay attention to the news. Doddamani also voiced a similar opinion.

“Education and entertain-ment does not have to be separate,” she said.

Falzone said that although there is a hip-hop community called “Lugaflow” in Uganda, the most popular type of music is dance-hall infused pop.

“Because hip-hop is not such a mainstream category, it can be more identified with the community,” he said.

Since its establishment in 2011, Peripheral Vision International has remained unaffiliated with any gov-ernment, preferring to stay independent. It’s suppor t comes from many organiza-tions’ donations and grants.

“It’s impressive to me that Paul is from the Annenberg School. It’s just amazing to see the work he’s doing in Uganda,” Doddamani said. “He is the son of this institu-tion.”

Journalism and rapping come together in UgandaBOOKYUNG JO Staff Reporter

(Left) NewzBeat music videos teach people in Uganda about world issues using rap. (Right) NewzBeat Raporters from left to right: Survivor Kaawonawo, Mc Loy and Lady Slyke.

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In the continuation of a sev-eral-year evaluation process of the seven sectors required in the College curriculum, the school is currently focusing on the efficacy of Sector III, or Arts and Letters. In the past two years, administra-tors have evaluated the Society and History and Tradition sectors.

Using focus group responses and faculty feedback, the evalu-ation process is highly qualitative and subjective. But College ad-ministrators don’t see a better option.

“When we began this, we really wanted to resist the notion that students were widgets, and that we could precisely measure with multiple-choice tests what somebody may have learned,” Assistant Dean and Associate Di-rector for Academic Affairs Eric Schneider said. “That verges on the idiotic, and it really doesn’t tell you very much in the end. If a student has memorized a bunch of facts, what does that tell you about how well they can articulate the value of something?”

Although the difficulty and subjectivity of such evaluations may leave some students won-dering if sector requirements are worthwhile, these problematic el-ements of re-evaluation stem from an integral aspect of the College’s academic program: choice.

“The sectors themselves reflect our culture of choice. It’d be so much easier to evaluate if there were four courses everyone had to

take, but our faculty opted not to do that, and I think our students like having choice,” Schneider said.

In order to gauge and ensure the effectiveness of the current stan-dards — which have been in place since 2006 — administrators have developed a two-pronged approach to examine the first four sectors. A separate panel analyzes the final three, Living World, Physical World and Natural Sci-ences and Mathematics, utilizing a slightly different method.

The first component of the evaluation process is centered on student focus groups. The College sorts randomly-selected students into three groups: stu-dents who haven’t taken a course in the sector, students who have just finished one and seniors who fulfilled the requirement several years ago.

Once the groups have been assembled, data is gathered in a

surprisingly simple way. Each test group is presented with an artifact — a painting, a piece of music or a short novel, for example — and asked to discuss it.

The responses from each group are then analyzed, in order to determine whether the sector courses have had any effect on the students’ responses to the pre-sented materials.

“We ... work through it to just sort of see whether students bring something beyond personal preju-dice to bear on whatever this is,” College of Arts and Sciences Dean Dennis DeTurck said .

The second aspect of the regu-latory process is the College’s constant line of communication with faculty.

“We try to be very self-con-scious about what the sectors are with the faculty who are teach-ing sector courses,” DeTurck said. “We want them to be aware they’re teaching a sector, and for

some students this may be their only exposure to, for instance, history.”

This method is particularly vital, because change is imple-mented through faculty if sectors are found to be lacking.

“We continue to meet with faculty to talk about what their objectives are, and we periodi-cally will ask departments to re-evaluate their contributions to general education,” Schneider said.

Ultimately, college adminis-trators believe the combination of faculty and focus-group evalua-tion gives an adequate picture of what’s really happening within the general education require-ments.

“We’re hoping with this sort of discursive, not-really-precise, and sort of fuzzy method we’re using, we can sort of refine what’s in the sectors,” Schneider said.

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State Senator Anthony Hardy Williams’s support for charter schools has made him some un-usual allies.

In the debate over charter school expansion, Williams, a Democrat, has often found himself allied with conserva-tives. Generally, Democrats advocate keeping funds within the local school district, while Republicans have petitioned for vouchers supporting the choice between public and nonpublic schools.

In 1997, W i l l i a m s wa s o n e of the lone D e m o c r a t s to join Re-p u b l i c a n s in the bill a l l o w -ing charter

schools to form in Pennsylvania. More recently in 2010, Williams introduced a bill in the Pennsyl-vania legislature that mandated vouchers for poor students in underperforming schools. Three Republicans cosponsored the bill with Williams.

Such bipartisan action on education has made Williams the darling of some conserva-tive elites, including Republican Senator Patrick Toomey, who in-vited Williams to view the 2013 State of the Union address as his guest.

Moreover, Williams’ recorded support for charter school ex-pansion resulted in huge gains to his campaign treasury when he unsuccessfully ran for Pennsyl-vania governor in 2010. Through the political action commit-tee Students’ Choice, Williams received an astounding $3.3 mil-lion to support his gubernatorial bid in the election, which Re-publican Tom Corbett ultimately won.

The PAC was bankrolled by three local businessmen, whom

The Philadelphia Inquirer described as “free market en-trepreneurs in the mold of Ayn Rand.” One of the businessmen, Jeff Yass, is a board member at the libertarian think tank, the Cato Institute.

The dominance of Democrats in Philadelphia’s elections has often led to bipartisan support for politicians, but statewide elections are typically much dif-ferent. For Williams to receive such extraordinary support from conservative donors in a race ul-timately won by a Republican is out of the ordinary.

Williams traces his longstand-ing support for school-choice to his own education at a Quaker boarding school, the Westtown School in West Chester, Pa. He even founded a charter school himself, naming it Hardy Wil-liams Academy after his father.

While his position has won admirers across the aisle, Wil-liams’ outspoken support for charter schools has raised criti-cism from education activists in Philadelphia.

Pennsylvania’s state govern-ment does not help fund charter schools, meaning that the cash-strapped Philadelphia School District must buck part of the tab for new schools. With the school district already sporting an $81 million budget deficit, activ-ists think that charter school expansion will weaken district schools.

While charter schools do have to be reviewed every five years by the school district to renew their authorization, these specialized schools often have freedoms which district schools lack.

In June 2014, The Notebook — a Philadelphia newspaper covering the school district — reported that charter schools received “more than $175 mil-lion” toward special education “but only spent $77 million for that purpose.” This discrepancy is due to charter schools’ free-dom to allocate their budget as they choose.

While the teachers’ union stands firmly at odds with

Williams’ stance on charters, his position may find empathy with parents struggling to find the best educational outposts for their children. Assistant Profes-sor at the Graduate School of Education Nelson Flores “can see why parents want their child to attend a charter school,” he said.

For Flores, the debate be-tween pro and anti-charter ignores the nuanced differences between various charter schools. He acknowledged the individual desire of parents who see charter schools as a superior option than their district school.

“From the perspective of individuals and community organizations who have been living in the city for decades [with] these schools [that] have never served them well, it be-comes more complicated,” he said.

Flores, who has taught in public schools for six years, also dispelled the myth that all char-ter schools are corporate cash cows.

“I am reluctant to paint all charter schools with the same brush,” he said. Some charters are even run by community or-ganizations. These organizations “have not gotten momentum to improve the [public] schools” and have “decided to open their own charter schools.”

The Pan American Academy Charter School, for instance, is run in partnership with Con-greso de Latinos Unidos, a Hispanic nonprofit in Philadel-phia. Congreso is devoted to expanding bilingual education in Philadelphia.

Ultimately, Flores believes the charter school debate ignores structural problems like poverty.

“The st rongest cor rela-t ion with achievement is socio-economic status, which is something that the charter school reform doesn’t address,” he said.

For Williams to become Phil-adelphia’s next mayor, he will have to transcend the polarized debate and tackle these struc-tural issues.

Charter schools continue to ignite debateDAN SPINELLIStaff Reporter

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Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett made a pit stop in Phila-delphia on Wednesday — but he didn’t spend much time in his office.

Garrett hosted the Philadel-phia stop of his Wharton Global Conversations Tour series at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Center City. One hundred and fifty-one guests attended — mostly alumni and their spouses, but also some current MBA students. The Phila-delphia event was the second in the conversation series and fol-lows Garrett’s Jan. 12 visit to Hong Kong.

The theme of leadership un-derscored the evening, and CEO of investment management company Vanguard and 1983 Wharton MBA recipient F. Wil-liam McNabb III joined Garrett in the discussion.

“The tour offers me lots of great chances to listen to and learn from Wharton’s incredible alumni liter-ally all around the globe. I got an enormous amount out of the Hong Kong conversation earlier this month and I look forward very much to Philadelphia tonight as we look at the world of business and leadership through the eyes

of a great alumnus, Bill McNabb,” Garrett said in a statement prior to the event.

The event proved to be a prime networking opportunity for grad-uates and current students alike, commencing with a lively cock-tail hour for conversation in the hotel’s upper level reception room. “The Wharton experience is one of connectivity, so regardless of career stage, when they network, there is a lot of common ground,” Executive Director of Alumni Re-lations Lizann Rode said.

Second year Wharton MBA, Alli Chandra, echoed these sen-timents. “I came [to the Global Conversation] because of the net-working opportunity,” Chandra

said. “I am trying to stay in Philly after graduation … the highlight for me [tonight] was learning that there are over 10,000 alumni in Philly.”

Another second year Wharton MBA, Harman Narula, shared Chandra’s appreciation for the

Wharton community. “One of the best parts of Wharton and the MBA program is the commu-nity aspect,” Narula said. “When Wharton shines, there is a stron-ger MBA program.”

Narula attended the event with a group of his fellow class of 2015

marshals, who generate alumni connections and encourage gradu-ates to give back to Wharton.

The hour-long conversation took place in a larger space with digital screens featuring bird’s eye views of Penn’s campus. After an introduction by Vice Dean of

Wharton External Affairs Samuel T. Lundquist, Garrett asked McNabb a variety of questions in traditional talk show format about his company, the Euro crisis in Greece and growth rates in China. A question-and-answer period by attendees followed the discussion.

One MBA graduate asked Garrett why female Wharton graduates are not as successful as their male counterparts. Garrett responded with a few examples of successful female Wharton grad-uates, such as the “number two at Yahoo” and the head of human re-sources at Goldman Sachs, before adding, “I don’t want that to be an excuse for not doing more.”

Lundquist concluded the event with a “call for leadership.” “The power of the network — that’s what we’re cultivating,” Lun-dquist said.

Garrett’s next stop on the tour is New York City, where the con-versation will continue on Feb. 12.

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San FranciscoMay 4, 2015

New York CityFeb. 10, 2015

Hong KongJan. 12, 2015

LondonMarch 4, 2015

PhiladelphiaJan. 28, 2015151 attendees

MiamiApril 27, 2015

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Penn men’s and women’s squash entered the heart of conference play on Wednes-day night with their first of five consecutive Ivy matches against rival Princeton. The mid-week jaunt brought mixed results for Penn, with the men narrowly losing to the Tigers in a 5-4 decision and the women came away with a 6-3 victory.

The day’s competitions were particularly somber for Princ-eton, as they came just hours after legendary former men’s team head coach Bob Calla-han passed away from cancer. Callahan handed the reigns to Sean Wilkinson in 2013, just one year after Princeton won its third national title in

Callahan’s 32-year tenure.On the men’s side, the loss

snapped Penn’s two-match winning streak, halting the mo-mentum the team just barely reestablished following two consecutive tough losses to top-five ranked teams in Harvard and Trinity two weeks ago.

The Quakers (6-4, 1-2 Ivy) can thank their talented under-classmen for keeping the match as close as it was. Of the five points Penn earned against Princeton (4-4, 2-1), three came from freshmen playing at the top of the ladder: Marwan Mahmoud at No. 1, Hayes Murphy at No. 3 and James Watson at No. 5. Mahmoud has been particularly impressive for the Quakers this season, holding down the team’s top spot with a record of 9-2.

Things don’t ease up this weekend as Penn faces two Ivy foes: Yale (6-3, 1-1) on Saturday and Brown (4-2, 0-2) on Sunday. The No. 13 Bears should not pose too much of a threat for the Quakers, but the Elis, on the other hand, would be a key win for Penn if the Red and Blue hope to contend for the Ivy League crown this season.

For the women, the matchup against Princeton looked to be the first time the Quakers have

had to really flex their muscles to pull off a win since facing then-top-ranked Harvard and Trinity two weeks ago. Indeed, the conference game was the just the second time all season that the Quakers have won without sweeping their oppo-nent.

Led by sophomore Maria Elena Ubia, the defending Ivy League Rookie of the Year, Princeton was able to take in-dividual victories at the No. 1, 2 and 9 spots on the ladder. But the Tigers were no match for Penn’s deep squad. The Quakers stymied their Ancient Eight rival from the begin-ning of match play with a pair of two-point, fifth-set wins in the opening shift from fresh-man Melissa Alves at No. 3 and junior Haidi Lala at No. 6.

Looking ahead, the women’s team will be back in action against Ancient Eight compe-tition this weekend as it hits the road to face No. 4 Yale on Saturday and No. 11 Brown on Sunday. The Quakers are 1-1 against teams ranked in the top five, so this weekend’s game against the Bulldogs (17-4, 5-2) will provide Penn with an ample test. Brown (3-2, 0-2), on the other hand, should give the Quakers yet another tally in the win column.

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late. The defending Ivy league champion in the 50-yard free, Shultz will likely be one of the best swimmers in the building on both Friday and Saturday.

While West Chester is a Di-vision II men’s squad, it is the cream of the crop in its respec-tive division.

“West Chester is without a doubt one of the best Division II teams in the country. They have great freestylers,” Schnur said. “West Chester in particular has a guy named Victor Polyakov who

is tremendous.”Polyakov, a junior, hails from

Toganrog, Russia. He is domi-nant in the distance freestyle events and will hope to freeze out Quakers’ star Chris Swanson in both the 1000-yard and 500-yard races.

The Golden Rams are 7-0 this season in dual meets and have no intentions of letting the Divi-sion I Quakers ruin their perfect season. That’s why the men’s team will need to focus and not look past West Chester to Satur-day’s meet with La Salle.

Still, Saturday will be the true test of the weekend for Penn

men’s swimming.While the Quakers were

named fifth “most improved team” in the nation by colleg-eswimming.com, the Explorers were 11th in the same poll.

“They’re a very much im-proved team, and we’re going to have a good meet with them,” Schnur conceded.

West Chester isn’t the only squad with an undefeated record, as La Salle lays claim to a winning streak of its own. The Explorers have began the year 6-0 with their most recent victory coming at the hands of a 216-87 thwarting of Loyola.

The Explorers have had luck in their home pool thus far, but the Quakers look poised to be the more experienced team heading into the contest. If any further reassurance is needed the Red and Blue men are un-defeated in out -of-conference

meets so far this season.The weekend holds starkly

different story lines for the three squads competing, but a 4-0 nonconference record for Penn swimming is surely not out of the question.

Franklin Field may have met its match.

“We sort of pride ourselves with Franklin Field for having one of the premiere facilities on the East Coast,” coach Steve Dolan said. “I think the Armory has become that for indoor tracks.”

This weekend, Penn track and field will travel to compete in the New York Armory Invitational at the historic Armory against the toughest competition they have seen thus far this winter.

Of course, making a claim to any Philadelphia track enthusiast that any venue on the East Coast comes close to rivaling Franklin Field borders on sacrilege, so what exactly does the Armory offer?

Here is how the tale of the tape breaks down.

Franklin Field certainly has its advantages, having opened in 1895, more than 15 years before its counterpart. It is also the home of the Penn Relays — the oldest, largest and possibly most famous annual track meet in the United States.

The Armory certainly holds its own in the matchup, though. Established in the early 1900s, the Washington Heights, Man-hattan-based venue is the home of both the National Track and Field Hall of Fame and the pres-tigious Millrose Games track

meet held annually.Regardless of personal biases

toward their home track, the Red and Blue are nonetheless excited to compete at the Armory.

“It’s gonna be an electric at-mosphere,” Dolan said. “They’ll get that extra shot of adrenaline from competing [there].”

Beyond the hype surround-ing where the meet will be held, the Armory Invitational is also quite possibly the most impor-tant meet in which the Quakers will participate before indoor Heptagonals.

Several weeks ago, Dolan noted that his athletes would start to approach top competi-tive shape around the end of the month. And now that January is coming to an end, it is time to evaluate the condition of the Penn runners, throwers and jumpers.

With such a significant meet, it is definitely tempting to view it as a measuring stick for the two teams in their entirety. But to hear it from the coach himself, the invitational will be all about the individuals.

“What I’m expecting are sea-sonal bests, and hopefully some personal bests to go along with it,” Dolan said.

Several Penn athletes have stood out in the early goings of the indoor season.

On the track, freshmen Can-dace Taylor and Jeff Wiseman have had several outstanding performances in sprint and mid-dle-distance running events, respectively. Meanwhile, on the field, junior thrower Sam Mattis

has continued his outstanding run from last year.

Conspicuously absent from this group of standout perform-ers is star junior runner Thomas

Awad, fresh off of recognition from the Philadelphia Sports Writers Association. The ma-jority of distance runners, who have been off from competition,

will also take the track at the Armory.

It’s hard to know exactly what to expect from the Quak-ers this early in the season, but

one thing is certain: If they come close to matching the hype that comes along with running at the Armory, it should be a fun meet for them.

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“Every game matters. Anyone can win any game, so it’s really excit-ing.”

Roche believes that the key to suc-cess is “just making sure everyone goes in and knows their role and does exactly what they need to do. That’s going to be important for not only this weekend but every weekend fol-lowing.”

The Quakers (9-6, 0-1 Ivy) did just that in their last game against

NJIT, in which many members of the team contributed to its 59-29 vic-tory. Freshman forward Michelle Nwokedi led the way with 14 points, seven rebounds and five blocks while sophomore Sydney Stipanovich, Roche and sophomore Sade Gibbons also contributed on both ends of the floor.

After a week of good practices following the win, coach Mike McLaughlin echoed Roche’s faith in the team.

“At this point, our confidence is there,” McLaughlin said. “Trust in

each other is there. We have learned how to win. Anything can happen, but hopefully we will go out there relaxed and ready to play.”

The Red and Blue will certainly be looking to avenge a heartbreak-ing loss to Dartmouth in last year’s matchup in which the Big Green pulled off a win by three in the final seconds, breaking the Quakers nine-game winning streak.

Although McLaughlin praised Dartmouth’s size and scoring abili-ties, he feels confident that his team can win on the road.

Furthermore, despite having to prepare for two big conference games in a 24-hour span, McLaugh-lin and his team have a clear and focused mentality.

“One at a time,” he said. “We’ll prepare for Dartmouth, and then after that game, we will start prepar-ing for Harvard. One game at a time. Eighty minutes overall, but Dart-mouth is the only thing that matters right now.”

Harvard, who finished second in the Ivy League last season, is a pe-rennial contender with a formidable

offensive team. Already this season, Harvard and Dartmouth have split their contests. In the teams’ second matchup, Harvard stormed back from a 14-point deficit in the final minutes to win, 79-75. Although Harvard is ranked second in the league with 66 points per game, they also allow the most points per game of any member of the Ancient Eight at 69.5.

Certainly, the competition this weekend will be fierce — maybe even as fierce as the snowy gusts from winter storm Juno.

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February 2012 on the road, part of the Quakers’ run at a conference championship that ended just one win shy of sharing the Ivy League title with Harvard.

Unlike the last time Penn swept these two teams in a weekend, this time the Quakers will have home court advantage. Though interest in the team has dwindled in recent years — in part due to low finishes in conference play in the last two seasons — the Red and Blue’s vic-tory in front of a sold-out crowd against St. Joe’s bolsters hopes for another lively Penn contingent for the upcoming weekend’s games.

“Sold out crowd at the Palestra: There’s nothing like it, and we’re

just glad that everyone came out to support us,” freshman guard Anto-nio Woods said. “We hope we get the same support for this upcoming weekend.”

Against the Hawks, the Quakers overcame committing 19 turnovers and converting just 57.1 percent of their free throws by holding the op-posing squad to shooting just 33.9 percent from the field. Penn will likely need a similar defensive per-formance against Dartmouth and Harvard to secure victories — the Quakers are 4-0 when they hold their opponents to less than 60 points, but just 1-10 when they con-cede 60 points or more.

Fortunately for Penn, Dartmouth averages an Ivy League-worst 62.4 points per game. However, the Big Green played some of their

best basketball of the season last weekend, coming from behind to beat Harvard on the road by eras-ing a 14-point Crimson lead in the second half with a 26-2 run.

Slowing the Dartmouth attack starts with containing Alex Mitola, a sharpshooting 5-foot-11 junior who leads the team in scoring at 14.3 points per game while shoot-ing 41.0 percent from three-point range. Mitola racked up 25 points in a victory over the Quakers in Hanover last season, though he was held to just four points when Penn defeated the Big Green at the Pales-tra last year.

As Allen is quick to point out, Mitola’s play is also complemented by the Big Green’s other weapons.

“Alex is the head of the snake so to speak, but he does a pretty good

job of just trusting his teammates,” Allen said. “They all play together. They all play hard.”

In addition to Mitola, Dart-mouth’s arsenal includes 6-foot-7 junior Connor Boehm and 6-foot-9 senior Gabas Maldunas, who both average double figures in scoring.

The Big Green’s greatest advan-tage against the Quakers might be experience. Dartmouth has just one player averaging more than 10 minutes of playing time per game who is a sophomore or younger: freshman Miles Wright. Mean-while, Penn has three freshmen and one sophomore playing at least 20 minutes per game, and for those freshmen, the weekend will rep-resent their first time playing Ivy League games on consecutive days in their young careers.

Despite losing key seniors Kyle Casey, Brandyn Curry and Lau-rent Rivard to graduation after last season, Harvard has also reloaded with a veteran group that includes seniors Wesley Saunders, Steve Moundou-Missi and Kenyatta Smith and juniors Siyani Chambers and Agunwa Okolie in its regular starting lineup — a group tasked with winning an Ancient Eight title for the Crimson’s fifth consecutive season. However, Harvard’s loss at home to Dartmouth suggests that the conference championship could be up for grabs this season.

If the Quakers are lucky, their youthful squad can force their way into the Ivy race by capitalizing on home court advantage this weekend and sweeping the Big Green and Crimson for the first time in three

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Penn heads to historic Armory for invitationalTRACK & FIELD | Quakers will face top-tier foesBY COLIN HENDERSONSports Editor

DP FILE PHOTO Franklin Field may have met its historic match when compared to the Armory in New York. The Quakers’ home stadium may be 15 years the older and host Penn Relays, but the Armory — located in Manhattan — houses the National Track and Field Hall of Fame and hosts the Millrose Games.

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ILANA WURMAN/SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR Freshman Ryan Alexander has been a reliable member of Penn’s backstroke contingent in both the 100-yard and 200-yard distances as well as in the distnace freestyle events, such as the 1000-yard freestyle.

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In a year barren of home meets for Penn swimming, a weekend slate of away matches against locals La Salle and West Chester will nearly feel like home .

On the women’s side, the Quakers can look to fresh-man talent from distance

swimmer Carolyn Yang and mid-distance freestyler Vir-ginia Burns. The pair has combined for 12 individual event wins for the 2014-2015 season against both Ivy and nonconference foes.

La Salle and Division II West Chester don’t boast the strongest women’s teams, so the competition will not be very steep for the Quakers. This weekend will be a great opportunity for coach Mike Schnur to rotate some fresh faces into the lineup who

don’t usually make the trek to travel meets.

Additionally, this week-end will give some of the elite racers — such as junior IMer and distance freesty-ler Meaghan Kwarcinski — a chance to swim their off-events, such as backstroke.

“We’ve had a lot of very competitive, high-pressure meets this season, and it will be nice to let the girls have a meet that’s not like that,” Schnur said.

The men’s squad, however,

will face a much tougher challenge and will need to keep its foot on the gas if it hopes to escape the weekend without a blemish.

Junior co-captain Eric Shultz, who was just .17 sec-onds away from breaking a 35-year-old Sheerr Pool record in the 100-yard free against Delaware last week-end, is hungry to take on two squads that have received a lot of national attention of

Winter storm Juno may have dumped over two feet of snow on the northeastern United States. It may have closed thou-sands of roads and schools. It may have even caused governors to declare states of emergency. But there is one thing that Juno can’t hold back this weekend: Penn women’s basketball.

As blizzard conditions continue in New England, the team will embark on a two-day road trip in which it will take on two tough competitors — Dartmouth on Friday and Harvard on Saturday.

This weekend’s competitions mark the

start of the Quakers’ remaining 13 confer-ence games — a challenge, no doubt — but senior captain Kathleen Roche believes the team has the right mentality to win.

“Every game is a battle,” Roche said.

Last week, Penn basketball seemed to be getting back to its old winning ways: On Saturday, the team treated its fans to the Quakers’ first Big 5 win since 2012 after scraping their way to a 56-52 win over Saint Joseph’s.

In their next two match ups, the Red and Blue will try to do something else that they last achieved in 2012: beating Dart-mouth and Harvard in the same weekend.

Rounding out a five-game home stand, Friday will feature the Big Green (8-8, 1-1 Ivy), while Saturday night will pit the Quakers (5-10, 0-1) against the four-time

defending Ivy League champions in the Crimson (11-5, 1-1).

The last time Penn defeated the two northernmost squads in the Ancient Eight on consecutive days came in

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NOWHERE TO GO BUT UP STAGE SET FOR STIPANOVICH’S STEP UP THE BIG HYPHEN TOWERS OVER THE ANCIENT EIGHT NO. 4 TENNESSEE TOO MUCH FOR PENN WAGNER LOSS REMINISCENT OF LAST SEASON PENN CLINCHES BIG 5 TITLE JUST THE BEGINNING FOR AUGER AND WOODS PRINCETON EASILY DISPATCHES PENN WOMEN TICK. TOCK. PENN WOMEN

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CLINCHES BIG 5 TITLE JUST THE BEGINNING FOR AUGER AND WOODS PRINCETON EASILY DISPATCHES PENN WOMEN TICK. TOCK. PENN WOMEN

THE REAL SEASON STARTS

NOWPenn basketball looks to leave behind first-half headlines as both teams head into Ivy League doubleheaders this weekend.

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W. HOOPS | Penn will face Dartmouth, Harvard on roadBY ANNA DYERAssociate Sports Editor

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ILANA WURMAN/SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR Sophomore Michael Wen has been a breakout star for Penn in the sprint butterfly disciplines, consistently finishing atop the podium in the 100-yard fly and the “A” Medley relay.

SWIMMING | La Salle, West Chester lay aheadBY THOMAS MUNSONAssociate Sports Editor

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7 p.m.

SATURDAY

Harvard (11-5, 1-1 Ivy)

The Palestra

7 p.m.

FRIDAY

Dartmouth(8-8, 1-1 Ivy)

The Palestra

6 p.m.

SATURDAY

Harvard(8-8, 1-1 Ivy)

Harvard

7 p.m.

FRIDAY

Dartmouth (10-6, 1-1 Ivy)

Dartmouth

Team Stats in 2014-15MEN’S WOMEN’S

5-10, 0-1 Ivy

Record 9-6, 0-1 Ivy

66.3 Points per game

58.5

67.5 Points allowed

per game

54.3

17.1 Turn-overs per

game

14.6

Tony Hicks, 14.0

Leading scorer,

PPG

Sydney Stipanovich,

10.8

GOING PROGOING PROTwo senior Penn men’s

lacrosse players get selected in the MLL draft

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HISTORIC VENUEFranklin Field may have met its match as Penn track and field

heads to the Armory

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