THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA A Penn grad is trying to make your phone contacts more Humin- centric. Ankur Jain, a 2011 Wharton grad- uate, founded a contacts app called Humin a year after he left Penn and will be using Penn as one of the app’s pilot sites within the next few weeks. While phone contacts are normal- ly organized alphabetically by name, Humin distinguishes contacts using contextual information and informa- tion from social networking sites such as Facebook. This allows the app to link contacts based on details such as where and when people meet or where someone works or goes to school. By searching “went to Penn,” a list of names will pop up for people who attend or graduated from Penn, which the app knows by gathering information from social networking sites, phone contacts and email. “The most exciting thing for me about Humin is building a technol- ogy that thinks the way your brain actually does,” Jain said. “The infor- mation that matters is in front of you when you need it.” It took the Humin crew — which is comprised of 30 people including Two Wharton professors think that online learning may provide benefits absent from traditional classroom learning environments. In their study titled “Will Video Kill the Classroom Star? The Threat and Opportunity of MOOCs for Full- time MBA Programs,” Co-director of the Mack Institute of Innovation and Management Christian Terwi- esch and Vice Dean of Innovation Karl Ulrich said that the technology embedded in massive open online courses is beneficial to the learning process, but doubt it will displace the traditional classroom system. MOOCs utilize a system of tech- nology — which Terwiesch and Ul- rich coined SuperText — featuring three main components: videos, online learning platforms and a so- cial network that creates a sense of community. Both professors believe that Su- perText has the potential to be more reactive to a student’s needs than a professor in a traditional, in-person classroom. “In a classroom, every participant is forced to share an identical ex- perience,” Ulrich said in an email. “With SuperText, the learning ex- perience can adapt dynamically to the needs and preferences of each individual student.” Terweisch added that MOOCs facilitate some functions that may supplement the learning process in ways in-person classes cannot.. “As simple as it might sound, the SuperText has a rewind button. You watch that video and you get con- fused so you just rewind it, pause it, text a friend and get an explanation,” Terweisch said. “That’s actually more adaptive than the traditional classroom environment.” Terweisch went on to cite a tech- nology embedded in the SuperText called “adaptive learning” — es- sentially, the testing platform runs a diagnosis on the student, sees where that student is struggling, and directs the learner towards the area where he or she most needs help. “When it comes to a dull lecture with practice problems, the Super- Text technology is probably doing a better job [than the professor]. As faculty we have to ask ourselves how we are spending time in the classroom. We have to deliver a meaningful and exciting experience in the classroom,” Terweisch said. Both professors currently use the SuperText technology in tandem with their normal classroom instruc- tion. Students meet once or twice a week in the classroom after hav- ing completed parts of the course Energy policy progress and de- bate will soon light up the center of Penn’s campus. Made possible by a $10 million gift from 1994 College and Wharton graduate Scott Kleinman and his wife, Wendy, the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy will serve as a vehicle for developing new energy policy by revolutionizing the re- lationship between research and practice. It is scheduled to launch in Fall of 2014. Professor of Practice at Penn Design Mark Alan Hughes — who is also the founding Director of Sus- tainability and former Chief Policy Adviser to Philadelphia Mayor Mi- chael Nutter — will serve as the Center’s director. “[The Center] will make visible and galvanize even more faculty and student attention and oppor- tunities related to energy policy in the United States and around the world,” Hughes said. “It will become a home for special inter- school classes, for visiting lectur- ers, for conferences designed to bring experts from around the country to Penn and to Philly to work through some of the most challenging policies that we face.” The Center — which will be housed on the third and fourth floors of the Fisher Fine Arts Li- brary — will support the creation of new energy policies by fostering collaboration among stakeholders and innovators. Hughes said that he hopes to implement a Kleinman Annual Lecture on Energy Policy in Spring of 2015, which would bring a distin- guished individual to campus for about two weeks to correspond with faculty and students and speak about relevant energy is- sues. “The idea is that it would become the most influential annual state- ment about what we need to do next in energy policy in the country,” Hughes said. Serving as a forum for policy development, the Center will bring together scholars, stakeholders and investors to work through “the thorny issues around so many en- ergy problems” and create real policy, Hughes said. “Energy can be complex and af- Editorial (215) 898-6585 • Business (215) 898-6581 Visit us online at theDP.com Send story ideas to [email protected] online at THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014 t thedp.com Contactless PennCards to make entry easier PennCards will soon give students more than just access to dorms and dining halls. The University is moving away from its 30 year-old magnetic strip PennCard to a new, contactless technology that will open up more possibilities for PennCard use. According to the Penn Business Services website, this new chip technology will provide a host of benefits for students, including quicker transactions, improved security and the future possibility to use the PennCard in other systems. “Contactless is the wave of the future,” Busi- ness Services Director of Communications and Project Management Barbara Lea-Kruger said. “This new type of card is coming to North America now, and the University wanted to get into a technology that improves our security and Microchips will help PennCards open doors to opportunity BY EMILY OFFIT Staff Writer Photo Illustration by Ali Harwood While not all College House dorm rooms will have pinpads yet, the new PennCards will be given to incoming students. Gift launches Center for Energy Policy Alumnus Scott Kleinman donated $10 million to create the center BY KRISTEN GRABARZ News Editor Courtesy of Jacques-Jean Tiziou The Kleinman Center for Energy Policy will be housed on the third and fourth floors of the Fisher Fine Arts Library in the center of campus. The center will bring prominent energy thinkers to speak on campus and provide research and collaboration opportunities for students and faculty. Penn to pilot app that organizes your phone contacts for you Humin uses context and social media information to sort phone contacts BY JILL CASTELLANO Staff Writer Wharton professors say MOOCS are adaptable You can’t click rewind in a classroom — even though it may help with learning BY ARIEL SMITH Staff Writer Courtesy of Humin Humin makes it easy to surf through phone contacts by sorting them based on personal details or where and when the contact was added. 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THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSIT Y OF PENNSYLVANIA
A Penn grad is trying to make your phone contacts more Humin-centric.
Ankur Jain, a 2011 Wharton grad-uate, founded a contacts app called Humin a year after he left Penn and will be using Penn as one of the app’s pilot sites within the next few weeks.
While phone contacts are normal-ly organized alphabetically by name, Humin distinguishes contacts using contextual information and informa-tion from social networking sites such as Facebook. This allows the app to link contacts based on details such as where and when people meet or where someone works or goes to school. By searching “went to Penn,” a list of names will pop up for people who attend or graduated from Penn, which the app knows by gathering information from social networking sites, phone contacts and email.
“The most exciting thing for me about Humin is building a technol-ogy that thinks the way your brain actually does,” Jain said. “The infor-mation that matters is in front of you when you need it.”
It took the Humin crew — which is comprised of 30 people including
Two Wharton professors think that online learning may provide benefits absent from traditional classroom learning environments.
In their study titled “Will Video Kill the Classroom Star? The Threat and Opportunity of MOOCs for Full-time MBA Programs,” Co-director of the Mack Institute of Innovation and Management Christian Terwi-esch and Vice Dean of Innovation Karl Ulrich said that the technology embedded in massive open online courses is beneficial to the learning process, but doubt it will displace the traditional classroom system.
MOOCs utilize a system of tech-nology — which Terwiesch and Ul-rich coined SuperText — featuring three main components: videos, online learning platforms and a so-cial network that creates a sense of community.
Both professors believe that Su-perText has the potential to be more reactive to a student’s needs than a professor in a traditional, in-person classroom.
“In a classroom, every participant is forced to share an identical ex-perience,” Ulrich said in an email. “With SuperText, the learning ex-
perience can adapt dynamically to the needs and preferences of each individual student.”
Terweisch added that MOOCs facilitate some functions that may supplement the learning process in ways in-person classes cannot..
“As simple as it might sound, the SuperText has a rewind button. You watch that video and you get con-fused so you just rewind it, pause it, text a friend and get an explanation,” Terweisch said. “That’s actually more adaptive than the traditional classroom environment.”
Terweisch went on to cite a tech-nology embedded in the SuperText called “adaptive learning” — es-sentially, the testing platform runs a diagnosis on the student, sees where that student is struggling, and directs the learner towards the area where he or she most needs help.
“When it comes to a dull lecture with practice problems, the Super-Text technology is probably doing a better job [than the professor]. As faculty we have to ask ourselves how we are spending time in the classroom. We have to deliver a meaningful and exciting experience in the classroom,” Terweisch said.
Both professors currently use the SuperText technology in tandem with their normal classroom instruc-tion. Students meet once or twice a week in the classroom after hav-ing completed parts of the course
Energy policy progress and de-bate will soon light up the center of Penn’s campus.
Made possible by a $10 million gift from 1994 College and Wharton graduate Scott Kleinman and his wife, Wendy, the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy will serve as a vehicle for developing new energy policy by revolutionizing the re-
lationship between research and practice. It is scheduled to launch in Fall of 2014.
Professor of Practice at Penn Design Mark Alan Hughes — who is also the founding Director of Sus-tainability and former Chief Policy Adviser to Philadelphia Mayor Mi-chael Nutter — will serve as the Center’s director.
“[The Center] will make visible and galvanize even more faculty and student attention and oppor-tunities related to energy policy in the United States and around the world,” Hughes said. “It will become a home for special inter-school classes, for visiting lectur-
ers, for conferences designed to bring experts from around the country to Penn and to Philly to work through some of the most challenging policies that we face.”
The Center — which will be housed on the third and fourth floors of the Fisher Fine Arts Li-brary — will support the creation of new energy policies by fostering collaboration among stakeholders and innovators.
Hughes said that he hopes to implement a Kleinman Annual Lecture on Energy Policy in Spring of 2015, which would bring a distin-guished individual to campus for about two weeks to correspond
with faculty and students and speak about relevant energy is-sues.
“The idea is that it would become the most influential annual state-ment about what we need to do next in energy policy in the country,” Hughes said.
Serving as a forum for policy development, the Center will bring together scholars, stakeholders and investors to work through “the thorny issues around so many en-ergy problems” and create real policy, Hughes said.
“Energy can be complex and af-
Editorial (215) 898-6585 • Business (215) 898-6581 Visit us online at theDP.com Send story ideas to [email protected]
online atTHURSDAY, JULY 24, 2014 online at thedp.com
Contactless PennCards
to make entry easier
PennCards will soon give students more than just access to dorms and dining halls.
The University is moving away from its 30 year-old magnetic strip PennCard to a new, contactless technology that will open up more possibilities for PennCard use.
According to the Penn Business Services website, this new chip technology will provide a host of benefits for students, including quicker transactions, improved security and the future possibility to use the PennCard in other systems.
“Contactless is the wave of the future,” Busi-ness Services Director of Communications and Project Management Barbara Lea-Kruger said. “This new type of card is coming to North America now, and the University wanted to get into a technology that improves our security and
Microchips will help PennCards open doors to opportunity
BY EMILY OFFITStaff Writer
Photo Illustration by Ali Harwood
While not all College House dorm rooms will have pinpads yet, the new PennCards will be given to incoming students.
Gift launches Center for Energy Policy
Alumnus Scott Kleinman donated $10 million to
create the centerBY KRISTEN GRABARZ
News Editor
Courtesy of Jacques-Jean Tiziou
The Kleinman Center for Energy Policy will be housed on the third and fourth floors of the Fisher Fine Arts Library in the center of campus. The center will bring prominent energy thinkers to speak on campus and provide research and collaboration opportunities for students and faculty.
Penn to pilot app that organizes your phone contacts for you
Humin uses context and social media information to
sort phone contactsBY JILL CASTELLANO
Staff Writer
Wharton professors say MOOCS are adaptable
You can’t click rewind in a classroom — even though it
may help with learningBY ARIEL SMITH
Staff Writer
Courtesy of Humin
Humin makes it easy to surf through phone contacts by sorting them based on personal details or where and when the contact was added. Penn will be piloting the app.
SEE PENNCARDS PAGE 2
SEE ENERGY PAGE 5
SEE HUMIN PAGE 3 SEE MOOCS PAGE 3
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provides more flexibility.”The new chip technology
enables students to transmit data when held within two to three inches from a chip read-er. The embedded chip also has the ability to store data, which will eventually allow students who regularly take SEPTA to use this card as a payment method.
“The new card will have the ability to do the same things that the current card does,” PennCard Center Director Chris Sapp said. “But in addi-tion, it will allow us to partner with SEPTA for the payment
of a transit fare and potentially PATCO as well.” The Port Au-thority Transit Corporation is the high speed rail line be-tween Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia.
This fall, incoming students without PennCards or those with expired cards will receive the new card. The complete transition to the contactless card is expected to take about five to 10 years. Until then, cards will have both the mag-netic strip as well as the ad-vanced chip technology.
In addition to its many func-tional improvements, a blue theme was chosen to reflect the University flag on the card and make it easier to identify. There will also be a symbol of a hand holding a card emit-ting radio waves as a means of distinguishing the contactless PennCard.
“The new cards, as well as the readers that will start to
emerge on campus in the sec-ond half of this summer will have a symbol on the back that represents this technology,” Division of Public Safety’s Di-rector of Operations & Exter-nal Affairs Kathleen Shields Anderson said.
Although this new technol-ogy will provide better secu-rity, students should not be concerned about potential fraud with the current mag-netic strip card.
“We are not making this change because we are worried about our current PennCard security,” Lea-Kruger assured. “It’s just that, going forward, as systems get more sophisticated, we needed to position our technology to match that.”
While there is no initial charge for the new PennCard, lost or stolen cards will cost $30 and damaged cards will be $10.
PennCards go contactless thanks to chip
PENNCARDS from page 1
Retail thieves beware — the Division of Public Safety is on your case.
A trend in frequent retail thefts has developed in the Penn Patrol zone from 30th to 43rd streets and Market Street to Baltimore Avenue with 17 retail thefts last month, eight this month and 13 back in March.
DPS instituted a task force to take a closer look at the circumstances surrounding recent retail thefts.
“We looked at it and said [that] this is unacceptable,” Vice President for Public Safe-ty Maureen Rush said of the spike in thefts.
On a normal day, businesses and restaurants keep a police log where officers check in with their names and time of visit. The log functions as a deterrent to crime by making business owners and potential criminals aware of consistent law enforcement presence.
DPS decided to take it one step further at the beginning of this month.
The retail theft task force performed analysis of the times of day when these crimes occur at the top five businesses targeted in retail thefts, as determined by DPS.
AlliedBarton security guards are now being stationed at the entrances of the most com-monly-targeted businesses periodically throughout the day to deter thieves before they act.
So far, there have been three retail thefts in July, all of which resulted in arrests. While statistics about this en-hanced security detail are not available yet, Rush said DPS observed “good, very positive results.”
Last month’s overall in-crease in crimes against property as compared to the previous year bled into June, as well.
Despite DPS’s crackdown on retail thefts in June, an increase in thefts from auto — eight as opposed to only three last month — kept the total number of crimes against property high. There were 81 crimes against property throughout June — a 37 per-cent increase from the 59 last year.
Bike thefts continue to be an issue in the Penn Patrol zone. DPS said that because of the typical disconnect between the time the thefts occur and the time they are reported, they cannot use a similar ana-lytical technique to pinpoint trends in circumstances.
Seventeen bike thefts took place in the month of June, contributing to the almost tripled increase in bike thefts this calendar year, so far. 14 of the incidents involved affiliat-
ed complainants. DPS reports that three arrests were made in June in connection with bike thefts — leaving 82 percent of the June cases unresolved.
Burglaries doubled from June 2013 to June 2014, with one arrest made this June out of the nine reported cases.
“We have several hot inves-tigations going on,” Rush said. While she was unable to pro-vide any specific details, Rush said that DPS works with the Philadelphia Police to identify any similarities in burglaries.
Five of the incidents in-volved unsecured properties. Rush noted that unsecured rear doors of properties con-tinue to be a point of issue when burglaries are reported.
“It’s a big warning to people living off campus for the sum-mer — lock your doors,” Rush said.
While crimes against prop-erty increased, crimes against people were down for the month with just three com-pared to 11 for the month of May. There were no aggravat-ed assaults or purse snatches and only one forcible sex of-fense, which involved a known assailant, in June.
The single robbery of the month at the Wawa on 3900 Spruce St. continues to be investigated by Philadelphia Police.
Total crime for the month saw a decrease of 7 percent, largely due to retail thefts be-ing cut in half from May to June.
Crimes against property spike, DPS cracks down
Security guards have been stationed outside of popular theft sites
BY JENNIFER WRIGHTStaff Writer
Crime Log: July 11 - July 17
Disorderly Conduct:
July 11, 2014: A 23-year-old affiliated male was arrested around 10:00 p.m. for disor-derly conduct at the McDon-alds on 3935 Walnut Street after refusing to leave when asked by staff and attempting to grab a police officer.
Aggravated Assault:
July 11, 2014: An officer observed two males doing skateboard tricks on the But-ton sculpture outside of Van Pelt Library on 3400 Wood-land Walk around 5:30 p.m. The suspects fled and resist-ed pursuit when the officer attempted to stop and issue them citations. The officer was injured in the struggle and was transported to HUP for treatment. The suspects were described as both be-ing white males in their mid to late 20s, one with a beard.
July 13, 2014: A 20-year-old affiliated female was arrest-ed at the intersection of 42nd and Walnut Streets around 3:45 a.m. in connection with an aggravated assault. Penn Police responded to a large
fight at the intersection and found a victim with a stab wound upon arrival.
Other offense:
July 12, 2014: A 22-year-old unaffiliated male was arrest-ed on the 100 block of S. 39th Street around 1:00 a.m. when he was stopped for investiga-tion and was found to have a warrant for his arrest. The male was transferred to the 18th district for processing.
July 13, 2014: A 49-year-old unaffiliated male was arrested at the intersection of 41st and Ludlow Streets around 5:00 p.m. when he was stopped for investiga-tion and was found to have an absconder warrant for his arrest.
July 15, 2014: A 31-year-old unaffiliated male was ar-rested on the 200 block of S. 36th Street around 7:30 p.m. when he was stopped for investigation and found to have multiple warrants for his arrest.
DUI:
July 13, 2014: A 53-year-old unaffiliated male was arrest-ed on the 4000 block of Uni-versity Avenue around 10:00 p.m. when police observed the suspect had slurred speech and bloodshot eyes. The suspect was a part of a 3-vehicle accident.
Burglary:
July 13, 2014: A 20-year-old unaffiliated male and a 22-year-old unaffiliated male were arrested in connec-tion with a burglary on the 4000 block of Spruce Street around 1:30 a.m. Officers observed the two males ex-hibiting suspicious behavior and took them to the Penn Police Headquarters for in-vestigation. Upon investiga-tion of the area, a substantial amount of stolen property was discovered.
July 16, 2014: A 46-year-old affiliated complainant re-ported that an unknown per-son removed various pieces of electronic equipment from her unsecured room in Rodin College House at 11:30 a.m.
Theft:
Bike theft: 6Retail Theft: 2Theft from building: 5Theft from vehicle: 1Theft: 4
Arrests from theft:
July 12, 2014: A 24-year-old unaffiliated male was arrested in connection with a retail theft at Urban Outfit-ters around 1:00 p.m.
July 12, 2014: A was arrest-ed in connection with build-ing theft at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania around 12:45 p.m.
Last week’s crimes included two
aggravated assaultsBY JENNIFER WRIGHT
Staff WriterCRIME STATISTICS
JUNE 2013 & JUNE 2014
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
HOMICIDEROBBERY
ROBBERY–GUNROBBERY–RETAIL
ROBBERY–TOTALFORCIBLE SEX OFFENCES
AGGRAVATED ASSAULTSSIMPLE ASSAULT
PURSE SNATCHBURGLARY
ARSONAUTO THEFT
THEFT FROM AUTOBIKE THEFT
FROM BUILDINGSRETAIL
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Source: Division of Public Safety
Graphic by Sophia Lee
Compared to June 2013, Philadelphia
saw a 37% increase in crime against
property, an 18% increase in all other
thefts and a 73% decrease in crime
against person in June 2014.
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If anyone was searching for an excuse to eat more ice cream next week, the Ben & Jerry’s shop on 40th Street will hold a fundraising event on July 30.
In support of the West Phila-delphia nonprofit organization ACHIEVEability — which as-sists low-income, single parent and homeless families become self-sufficient — 20 percent of all sales from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. that evening will be donated to forward the program’s mission to break the generational cycle of poverty.
ACHIEVEability aims to assist low-income, single parent and homeless West Philadelphian families fend for themselves. Through its Family Self-Sufficiency pro-gram, ACHIEVEability allows participants to work, pursue post-secondary degrees and engage in personal develop-
ment workshops.“What a delicious way to con-
tribute to this worthy cause,” said Brittany Priselac, assis-tant general manager of the local Ben and Jerry’s.
In case they haven’t eaten enough ice cream yet this month, students still on cam-pus can ring out National Ice Cream month the right way — for a good cause.
an MIT professor and Mark Zuckerberg’s sister — a year and a half to build the product and put out the beta version of the app, which is now in the testing stage. The feedback so far has been very positive, team members say.
“There’s a natural viral growth already,” said co-founder David Wyler. “We want it to be a social operat-ing system. If we accomplish that it would be amazing.”
Users can also make phone calls and listen to voicemails directly from the Humin app.
“We heard that a lot of people are moving the app to be one of the bottom four on their phone because by using Humin the whole contact app
becomes useless,” said Ma-yank Jain, a member of the app’s Growth team. “The old app seems so outdated.”
Humin will launch at three pilot sites within the next few weeks — Penn, New York University and the Univer-sity of Southern California — just in time for new student orientations, where incoming freshman are buzzing about meeting new people and add-ing dozens of contacts to their phones.
“Penn is one of the most international and esteemed universities. You get a broad set of students from all over the world who are meeting people for the first time and who can use Humin for a broad set of purposes,” co-founder Ankur Jain said. “Getting them on this product early is something we care about.”
The app has already re-ceived a thumbs up from Penn students using the beta version, who agree that Penn is a great place for the app to
thrive.“I think all Penn students
would be interested in the app, especially incoming freshman,” Wharton junior Brendan McMamus — one of the beta testers — said. “What I really love about it is that it’s able to keep track of where and when you meet new people, which is espe-cially helpful for incoming freshman in colleges, wheth-er you’re at a frat party or a specific NSO event.”
When adding someone’s contact to the app, Humin re-cords the phone’s location and exact time, so someone can later search for the contact by typing in something like “met last week.”
“If you don’t have it you’ll feel left out because it gives you advantages multiple times over,” Engineering ju-nior and beta tester Shriram Sundararaman said. “It’s something that will catch on.”
To download the beta ver-sion of Humin, go to humin.com/private/DailyPenn.
Humin to launch at three sitesHUMIN from page 1
Ben & Jerry’s to host fundraiser for West Philadelphia nonprofit
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The Ben & Jerry’s on 40th Street will donate its proceeds to a West Philadelphia non-profit on July 30 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
online to discuss, clarify and work in small groups. This is also called “flipping the class-room.”
Terweisch has uploaded parts of his lectures to You-Tube for years.
“Increasingly, [we have] the generation of students who grew up with Khan Acade-
my. It’s a very different type of learning than ten years ago,” Terweisch said. “These people are going into college and grad school and we will have to adapt. There’s nothing wrong with it.”
The professors’ study also raises an old debate — the possibility of technology sur-passing the instruction of a tenured or tenure-track pro-fessor and displacing the tra-ditional classroom learning system.
“I just don’t see that hap-pening,” Terwiesch said, not-ing that in-person classrooms allow for personality building and the formation of commu-
nities.“I am quite optimistic,” Ter-
weisch said. “As long as we keep our eyes on the students’ needs we will have our [in-person] MBA programs.”
Similar to technology’s im-pact on other industries such as media and entertainment, Terweisch noted that its influ-ence, while significant, has not rendered the effective-ness of classroom learning obsolete.
“Movies have seriously re-duced the number of people who go to the theater , but people who go to the theater are still out there,” Terwiesch said.
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I have lived a month in Moscow now on my parents’ dime. Besides the cultural chasm that
matches the physical one, the experience has been just slightly less exciting than Sean Connery’s performance as Agent 007. And his ally’s cunning quip in the film is all too pertinent to my time here: “Ah, the old game: Give a wolf a taste then leave him hungry.”
I indeed grow hungry, as I have tasted the good life. With drivers, maids and an apartment that costs the same in a year as a full Penn education, I feel like the only thing missing is a tiara.
And outings with the Inter-national Women’s Club pro-vide a network that fosters cultural exposure and giving back to our host community. I think it’s safe to say that the life of an expatriate isn’t too shabby.
Don’t get me wrong; I’m no one special. I was just lucky enough to have come out of the right womb at the right time.
But the clincher for me is that, as I write, I enjoy the fruits of my parents’ labor in ExxonMobil — labor de-fined by technical degrees in a technical field. It has been a lifetime of my father’s merci-less pounding for me to obtain a technical degree, against my pleas of “just wanting to be happy in the humanities.” But now, I ashamedly eat my words as I study a science — geology to be specific.
It isn’t just the money that I’m sniffing out, for my nose has never gained a height-ened pleasure of that scent. Indeed, it was always my brother who was dead-set on making big bucks on Wall Street, which of course in-cluded “models and bottles.” A summa cum laude in ap-
plied mathematics from Co-lumbia University, he did not face much difficulty climbing the corporate ladder.
Within a couple years of post-graduate endeavors, he achieved that world’s valida-tion of success, with Goldman Sachs banging on his door. I must admit that his position in New York City is not one
lacking desires, either.It isn’t the money simply, but
the quality of intellectual life that the bills unfortunately can buy. I choke as I admit that Da-vid Lee Roth may have been correct when he suggested that “Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.”
Stints with my brother in Manhattan’s Financial District, and now the expat community in Moscow, have impressed upon me the indisputable in-tertwining of socioeconomic status with a cultured, curious and captivating life.
No, the Benjamins — or, in this case, the Amurskys — do not attract my attention as much as the sense of so-phistication and worldliness. This circle of expats, specifi-cally my father’s coworkers, is indeed here because they have sought out adventure and different experiences for
themselves and their families. One young Australian father mentioned that his son is just seven and has already lived on four continents. It is the excitement of the mind that captures my awe, that which I lacked at my former institu-tion in exchange for a secure, though limited, future.
During my freshman and sophomore years at the Unit-ed States Naval Academy, the more noble goal of serving my country was, in fact, the only goal. There, my military fu-ture was planned, and I had only to worry about choosing one of six career options.
It was not until I trans-ferred to Penn that I received a healthy dose of reality — nei-ther the military nor my par-ents will take care of me after graduation. Another beauti-ful hypothesis was slain by an ugly fact: post-graduation, science majors face lower un-employment rates and higher
salaries than humanities ma-jors. It was safe to say that I caught the civilian career-fever: Eat or be eaten.
I figure it like this: If I have the credentials and the op-portunity to open the gilded gate, why not? Of course, I am not professing that indulgence and extravagance are the way to go; merely that money makes life easier, and science majors make more of it.
Only on the cusp of being spit out into the real world — as I both transferred and I now approach senior year — did I admit these facts to myself. So tomorrow I take a leap by interviewing with Exx-onMobil. Here’s to happiness.
A little less than five years ago, my dad saved my l i fe by paying out of pocket
for a CT scan. While on a fam-ily trip to Canada earlier in the summer, I contracted a cold which evolved into a sinus in-fection which in turn developed complications, spreading out-ward from my sinuses to my op-tic nerve and toward my brain. A persistent, weeks-long head-ache finally sent me home from my second day of high school at the end of August and led my parents to take me to see the doctor, but she was unable tell us what was wrong. Finally, dur-ing my third visit in less than a week, she told my dad she’d like to try a CT scan. The problem was that our family’s insurance policy wouldn’t cover it; my symptoms at the time failed to justify the procedure in the eyes of our provider. By then I was sick enough — and my dad des-
perate enough — that he told her he’d pay.
It was that CT scan that led to my diagnosis. In the days and weeks that followed, that diagnosis translated into the nasal surgery and antibiotic regimen that cured me. With-out the CT scan, I likely would have had to undergo an open-cranial procedure, endanger-ing both my long-term neural functioning and my life.
We don’t talk about that time much anymore, but sometimes my dad just sits back and says how grateful he is that we could pay for the scan. With neither coverage nor available funds, he might have decided to wait a little longer, and I might have died.
For the 13.4 percent of Americans still living without health insurance, this kind of decision is constantly loom-ing: to pay out of pocket for expensive medical tests and
procedures, or to wait and risk more serious, long-term consequences. With neither the coverage nor the expend-able cash I was lucky enough to have access to when I most needed them, those people stand constantly at the brink of severe medical complications, crippling debt or both. Luckily, thanks to the Patient Protec-tion and Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare,” they now make up a smaller proportion of the population that at any previous time on record.
Since Obamacare was signed into law in 2010, what I’ve heard and read about it has been largely negative. Several states chose to boy-cott it. House Speaker John Boehner dismissed it with a “#trainwreck.” A number of Republican congressmen set out on impassioned public cru-sades to repeal it. Healthcare.gov launched, then quickly
proceeded to crash and crash and crash again.
For whatever reason, what I haven’t heard about nearly as much is the positive: sim-ply put, the fact that Obam-acare is working. During the program’s first period of open enrollment, which ended in late March, more than 7 mil-lion Americans signed up for health care coverage via the federal and state exchanges,
and another 9 million directly acquired policies from insur-ance companies. With its orig-inal passing, the act extended coverage to 1 million children with pre-existing conditions. Add to those numbers the 3 million young adults now covered by their parents’ plans and 6.5 million adults living below the poverty line newly benefitting from Med-icaid expansions; consider the 120 million people whose pre-existing conditions can no longer stand in the way of their enrollment; think of the documented slowing in the rise of national health care costs. When all of those num-bers, statistics and realities are considered, the negativity with which the program has been hailed takes on a note of melodrama.
I’m not saying nothing has gone wrong. Between the state boycotts, the botched
launch of online exchanges and Republican opposition, the program and the Ameri-cans it aims to serve have suf-fered considerable setbacks.
But what I really want to do is acknowledge every-thing that’s gone right — all the people that Obamacare is bringing back away from that brink, from that crossroads that I came to in my own small way five years ago that might have killed me.
For that reason, despite the difficulties, you can count me among the 54 percent of Americans who support, or want to expand, Obamacare.
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‘‘I am not pro-fessing that
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I n his column “Planted myths about GMOs” published earlier in the month, Vaishak Kumar accuses anti-GMO “propaganda machinery” activists of spread-
ing “myths” and misinformation, but he conveniently ignores the vast and much more insidious propaganda machine of Monsanto, which has a very long reach into the political and scientific communities. It’s at the very least disingenuous to discuss GMO agricultural crops without discussing the activities of Monsanto.
Furthermore, Kumar’s “prime example” is the re-traction — apparently a result of pressure from pro-GMO interests — of a study by Gilles-Éric Séralini and others: “Long-term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize.” The retraction has been used to great propaganda advantage by GMO cheerleaders.
Séralini’s study period was two years; the research was undertaken in response to a 90-day study by Mon-santo, which was used to obtain commercial approval for the GMO crop. (It’s important to know that the maize in question was genetically engineered to be
used with the herbicide glyphosate, or Roundup, so any study needs to include both.)
Under normal circumstances we might assume that a retraction likely closes at least one chapter of a scientific controversy, but this case is quite unusual. The article in question, which reports very serious liver and kidney damage, was actually republished on June 24 in scientific journal Environmental Sciences Europe with the same conclusions as the original. The republished article — easily accessed online — underwent a third peer review and now includes the raw data.
Yes, let’s be educated about the issue. That includes who the players — and the shills — are, where the money flows and all of the other ecological, human health and political dimensions.
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What are the facts?The “Israel lobby.” There are those who claim
that Israel is a liability, a burden to our country.Professors from prestigious universities writeessays in which they aver that the United States isin thrall to the “Israel lobby.” This lobby’s supposedmain supporters are AIPAC (the American IsraelPublic Affairs Committee), and CUFI (ChristiansUnited for Israel) andother advocacy groups.They are said to exert analmost magical spellover U.S. policy makers,including leaders ofCongress. Some evensay that the Iraq warand efforts to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclearweapons were promoted by this omnipotent “Israellobby”—not in order to defend the United States,but in order to further the interests of Israel. Whileit’s true that members of Congress have for decadesoverwhelmingly supported Israel, this is because ofIsrael’s undeniably high strategic value to the U.S.,as well as our shared political and moral principles.Critics also fail to note that for more than a decadethe majority of Americans—both Democrats andRepublicans—have supported Israel in its relationswith the Arabs, with such support currently at 62percent, according to a recent Gallup poll. In fact,America—and Americans—support Israel forcommon-sense reasons.
America’s staunchest ally. While Israel receives$3 billion annually in military aid from the U.S.,fully 75% of this money must be spent with U.S.military contractors, making Israel a largecustomer of those companies. But since Israel isalso one of America’s strongest allies globally andits only true ally in the Middle East, this aid can beseen as a smart investment in our own country’sdefense. Virtually without exception, Israel’sgovernment and its people agree with and supportthe foreign policy objectives of the United States. Inthe United Nations, Israel’s votes coincide withthose of the United States over 90% of the time. TheArabs and other Muslim countries, virtually all of
them recipients of American largess, almostreflexively vote against the United States in mostinstances.
Israel is America’s major strategic asset in theMiddle East, the cradle of Islamist terror, which isdominated by tyrants and religious oppression andshows almost total disregard for human rights.During the decades-long Cold War, Israel was
America’s indispensablerampart against theinroads of the SovietUnion. It is now thebulwark against theaggressive intentions ofIran. During DesertStorm, Israel provided
invaluable intelligence, an umbrella of air cover formilitary cargo, and had personnel planted in theIraqi deserts to pick up downed American pilots.
A foreign intelligence bargain. Gen. GeorgeKeagan, former head of U.S. Air Force Intelligence,stated publicly that “Israel is worth five CIAs,” withregard to intelligence passed to our country. He alsostated that the yearly $3 billion that Israel receivedin military assistance was worth $50 to $60 billionin intelligence, R&D savings, and Soviet weaponssystems captured and transferred to the Pentagon.In contrast to our commitments in Korea, Japan,Germany, and other parts, not a single Americanserviceperson needs to be stationed in Israel.Considering that the cost of one serviceperson peryear – including backup and infrastructure – isestimated to be about $200,000, and assuming aminimum contingent of 25,000 troops, the costsavings to the United States on that score alone ison the order of $5 billion a year.
Israel effectively secures NATO’s southeasternflank. Its superb harbor, its outstanding militaryinstallations, the air- and sea-lift capabilities, andthe trained manpower to maintain sophisticatedequipment are readily at hand in Israel. It is theonly country that makes itself available to theUnited States in any contingency. No, Israel is not aburden, but a tremendous asset to the UnitedStates.
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World renowned and award winning architect Marilyn Taylor will remain dean of the Penn School of Design until June 30, 2016.
Taylor, who began her term in 2008, has “successfully en-hanced PennDesign’s visibil-ity and influence across the School’s exceptional range of programs,” University Presi-dent Amy Gutmann said in a press release.
During her term, Tay-lor oversaw the 13 percent growth of the student body and the 20 percent growth of the standing faculty.
“We are confident that, with Marilyn’s effective and inspirat ional leadership, PennDesign will continue to rise in academic and pro-fessional standing and will advance its role, and that of the University of Pennsylva-nia, in creating the research and design contributions that play a crucial role in shaping the world’s future,” Gutmann said.
Prior to her arr ival at Penn, Taylor was a partner at the Urban Design and Plan-ning Practice at Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP. She was the first woman to serve as chairman of the firm, and she came to Penn with years of experience in the design of large, complex urban proj-ects.
Taylor was also the first architect and first woman to serve as chairman of the Urban Land Institute, a non-profit research and educa-tional institution.
Taylor’s inf luence spans
worldwide. She founded the Skidmore Owings & Merrill’s Airports and Transportation Practice which completed projects such as Terminal 4 at the John F. Kennedy air-port in New York, the expan-sion of Washington’s Dulles airport , SkyCity at Hong Kong International Airport and the Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.
Taylor graduated from Radcliffe College in 1969. She attended Massachusetts In-
stitute of Technology’s Grad-uate School of Architecture and then went on to Univer-sity of California, Berkeley where she received her mas-ter of Architecture in 1974.
It’s great to be asked to extend my role as dean of PennDesign,” Taylor said in a press release, “and I’m ex-cited to work with President Gutmann and Provost Price in advancing innovation and inclusion as pillars of the Penn Compact 2020.
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fect many different interests... I hope [the Center] can become a forum where those interests can come together in a place that’s safe and smart and well-resourced to see through the negotiations and compromises that can help advance energy policy,” Hughes said, adding that the Center can provide an opportunity to “make progress rather than just fight and get nowhere.”
The Center will also build upon current energy research in a variety of fields to focus on policy applications and provide opportunities for internships.
“Setting the Center at Penn will provide a forum for stu-dents – our future political, business and technology lead-
ers – to get educated on rele-vant energy topics and become involved in shaping the direc-tion of research and debate,” Kleinman said in a statement.
The center will occupy spac-es where renowned Penn De-sign professors Louis I. Kahn and Ian McHarg brought “the world to Penn in their courses and in their studios” in the 50s, 60s and 70s, Hughes said.
The $10 million gift must be spent over a five year period, after which Hughes said the University may identify other ways of resourcing the Center, to make it more permanent or even move it to an endowed status.
“The Center presents a pro-found opportunity for Penn to address one of the most im-portant and complex policy challenges of our time,” Penn President Amy Gutmann said in a press release. “Penn has a critical mass of energy re-search centers and curricular offerings. Some are already engaged in aspects of energy policy.”
Hughes will direct the Cen-ter with a laundry list of en-ergy policy experience under his belt. He has led projects funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and the US Department of Health and Human Services, by the Ford Foundation and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, and by the Rockefeller and William Penn foundations. He spent most of his time in city gov-ernment leading the develop-ment and implementation of the city’s sustainability plan, called Greenworks.
“My work in energy has al-ways been related to energy policy and how we can make more productive and more eq-uitable the creation and use of energy in society,” Hughes said.
Hughes said he is assem-bling both an internal and ex-ternal advisory board to steer the Center’s endeavors.
“And we’re looking forward to a more formal launch of the Center in its new home some time this fall,” Hughes said.
Hughes hopes to establish
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So you’ve probably heard of the Gay-borhood and some of their more fa-mous bars, maybe even been to one or two. And if you’re actually a member of the LGBTQ com-munity, you might even consider yourself an expert on the Gayborhood bar scene. But even those of you self-proclaimed experts probably haven’t ventured (see what we did there?) to Venture Inn. While other gay bars such as iCandy, Woody’s and Voyuer have a club atmosphere, Venture Inn is much more of a dive bar. There are no strobe lights, stripper poles, or shiny chested dancers, but rather cheap drinks, soft music, and committed clientele. They have live performances almost every night, as well as drag queen performances once or twice a week. The place even has drag queens who actually sing instead of lip sync, a rarity in the Queer community of today. The highlight of their performance schedule is their Cabaret show, which hap-pens once a month and features the fabulous Sandy Beach. And for those of you prefer to get in on the action, Venture of-fers Kinky Quizzo every Tuesday. That’s right, they’ve got sex quizzo because this is still the Gayborhood after all. And did we mention fabulous brunch? Every last Sunday of the month offers drag/Broadway brunch complete with breakfast favorites, booze, and performances from their many devoted Divas. So what are you waiting for? Venture in (see what we did there, again?)!
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1) “Book of Mormon” at the Kimmel CenterWho says only the NYC intern kids get to have all the Broadway fun? “Book of Mormon” has been called “the best musical of this century,” and it’s reviews in Philly have been equally stellar. Tickets are very expensive, but there are periodically student discounts and cheap seats available. If you are trying to feel fancy, try Cabaret, but “Mormon” will deliver the laughs.
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kid, very academically prepared and a wrestler. It’s the same sort of challenge, you’re going to be challenged on the wrestling mat and the classroom.”
In inheriting the program from Rob Eiter and transfer-ring into a headcoaching role, Tirapelle will be faced with unique challenges, though he believes the team already has a solid base of talent to start from.
Penn finished last season with an 8-6 record and sent four wrestlers to the NCAA Champi-onships, where Lorenzo Thom-as finished as an All-American at 184 pounds. The Quakers also had two wrestlers reach the finals of the EIWA Champion-ships at the Palestra.
Now as part of the Ivy League, Tirapelle has a new set of challenges in facing top wrestling programs like Cor-
nell and other up-and-coming programs in the league.
“The institutions are viewing it as an opportunity where they can succeed and do well,” Tira-pelle said. “I think all these kids and programs, their individual successes as well as some team success, we’re hoping to con-tribute to that in a big way mov-ing forward.”
Academic success has been one of Tirapelle’s focuses dur-ing his time as a student-athlete and as an assistant coach and is an area he hopes to transfer to his work at Penn.
“It starts with recruiting the right kids, obviously you’re go-ing to recruit kids that are capa-ble of the academic workload,” Tirapelle said.
“And just having an emphasis on success in the classroom. You want to see them win on the mats, but you want to see them win in the classrooms as well.”
During his college years at Illinois, Tirapelle was a two-time All-American and two-time Big Ten champion. He was also named Big Ten Wrestler of the Year in 2004 and was a Big Ten All-Academic honoree all four years.
WRESTLING from page 8
New coach emphasizesacademics
readily ignore. Instead, Penn Athletics needs to become part of the weekly routine with a trip to Franklin Field here or a quick peek in the Palestra there.
University City simply isn’t going to be home to the larg-er-than-life superheroes that big-time revenue sports at state universities produce year after year. And like a minor league baseball team, Penn athletes shuffle in and out, making it less than ideal to advertise specific athletes to the community as an athlete would be gone soon after they gained traction.
But there is no reason that Penn can’t make Friday night basketball or Saturday football games a community event. While other schools have foot-ball tailgates every weekend in preparation for the game, there is little to no presence from Penn
Athletics on the days or hours prior to a game, plus or minus a Penn Athletics table that people walk by on Locust.
While Penn won’t be able to draw out enough fans to ever make Franklin Field look any-thing close to full, a tailgate would be something could draw people in and make them feel like they’re a part of something. And honestly, what better ex-
cuse do Penn students have for day drinking in the fall?
“A lot of it too is what you do surrounding an athletics event to get people interested in com-ing and the offshoot is they see the game and say, ‘I had a good time’ or ‘I really enjoyed that now I’m going to come back,’” Calhoun said.
Seriously though, a tailgate or more extensive advertising
would be just part of the solu-tion. Calhoun has already talked about bringing in more student groups to sporting events and that would be great to see.
Yet you also need to keep stu-dents interested once you draw them in.
Winning would solve part of that issue of retention since ‘everybody loves a winner.’ But even if Penn teams aren’t com-peting at the top of the NCAAs, the athletic department will need to be able to find other ways to get students in the seats and cheering on their classmates.
In the short term, there is no viable solution.
But as we march towards a fu-ture with dwindling attendance and a steadily aging donor base, Penn Athletics needs to figure out how it can once again be part of the culture, part of the true Penn experience.
And with a new AD in place and renewed energy around the department, the time is now.
STEVEN TYDINGS is a rising Wharton junior from Hopewell, N.J., and is a senior sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at [email protected].
TYDINGS from page 8
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term appeared to be a real pos-sibility after some research and a meeting with his advisor, Vilardo got in contact with several Big 10 schools.
“I visited Northwestern, Il-linois, Indiana and Purdue, and what stood out most to me at Purdue was the confidence they had in me as a player to come in right away, have a big impact and have a good chance at getting drafted,” Vilardo said.
“To get my masters in busi-ness paid for along with being
closer to home and competing at a higher level of baseball, I just thought that on all accounts it would be best for my family and I to make this decision.”
The strong-minded Vilardo has embraced the challenges that his unique opportunity comes with.
From the pages of a book
The second baseman took three classes this summer in order to stay on track for his early graduation.
“It was a grind taking three Ivy level courses, but I was able to work at that with one of my best friends who used to play baseball [for Penn], Marshall Harden,” Vilardo said.
As if that wasn’t enough, the PPE major is also busy studying for the GMAT.
As Vilardo admitted, focusing
more on books than his bat this summer isn’t ideal from a base-ball perspective, but the Purdue coaching staff’s belief in the for-mer Big 5 Rookie of the Year to come prepared at the start of the 2015 season has given him a crucial sense of confidence.
“[The coaches] have a lot of confidence in me that I’ll be able to prepare for the season men-tally and physically,” he said.
Vilardo, who has been as-sured an infield role and a spot in the top half of the lineup in West Lafayette, will look to be a key contributor to a Purdue club with hopes of resurgence not unlike Penn’s this past spring.
“What Penn is doing with baseball is unbelievable and the swing that coach Yurkow pulled this year was great,” Vilardo said. “I’m hoping that at Purdue
we’ll do similar things.”
Onward and upward
After a Big Ten Champion-ship and the departure of a deep, talented senior class in 2012, the Boilermakers have played sub-.500 ball the past two years.
“I feel like having someone like me with experience com-ing in will help with some of the little things on the field and hope-fully add a few more W’s,” Vilardo said.
Knowing several Purdue play-ers through previous baseball experiences, including pitcher Patrick Kenney (who played with Vilardo on the Reds scout team and helped convince him to go to Purdue), should help Vilardo ease his way into a new situation.
Vilardo knows he’ll be counted on to help get Purdue back to the Big Ten Tournament, but he’s
also serious about his individual development as a prospect.
“I definitely want to improve my plate discipline and take more walks, but most impor-tantly I want to improve on my power,” Vilardo explained. “I think if I can be a middle infielder with more home run potential I can have a much better chance of moving on to the next level.”
In addition to the other advan-tages of going to Purdue, it cer-tainly isn’t a bad place to chase MLB dreams: nine former Boil-ermakers have been selected in the MLB draft in the last three years.
Time to walk away
Regardless of the promise of Vilardo’s opportunity at Purdue, it was hard for the second base-man to walk away from Penn baseball.
“The team this year had a re-ally special chemistry and that was what made it so hard to leave, especially considering how great the season went,” Vilardo said. “The memories I made on and off the field will be with me forever.”
While Vilardo has bounced around between many more schools and teams than the typi-cal student athlete in the past five years, the soon-to-be Ivy League grad is unwavering in his pursuit of his dreams, and believes strongly in making the most of one’s opportunities while they are still available.
“The fact that I’ve seen myself go so many places, it makes me excited any time I get a new chal-lenge and a chance to embrace new people, because life is too short not to take every opportu-nity you can.”
BASEBALL from page 8
MLB dreams drive Vilardo
west
a short flight to New York, the Quakers will then depart for Mi-lan where they will spend three days and play their first matchup against a select team of Italian all-stars.
Over the course of the subse-quent six days, Penn will spend one day each in Venice, Flor-ence, La Spezia and Pisa be-fore wrapping up its trip with a two-day stint in Rome. The team will also take a day trip to
Switzerland while staying in Mi-lan, and play its final two games on consecutive days while in La Spezia and Pisa.
Due to NCAA rules, the Red and Blue’s four incoming fresh-men will be ineligible to play and unable to travel with the Quakers. Moreover, Penn will be without forward Stephanie Cheney, who recently left the team after only one season with the program.
Nonetheless, as the Quakers transition into a new era -- one without recent graduates Alys-sa Baron, Megan McCullough, Kristen Kody and Courtney Wil-son -- Penn will get the chance to develop its culture and players’ abilities while on the court in Italy.
“We want to see who fits well
together and plays well togeth-er,” senior forward Katy Allen said. “And obviously things will change by November, but it will be nice because it’ll be different without the four seniors from last year.”
Though Allen likely will not play overseas due to her ongo-ing recovery from a broken foot at the end of last season, the veteran is looking forward to utilizing her position as a team leader to help the squad grow.
“Just to kind of organize drills and get people back into the swing of things, I think that’s a good chance for us [seniors] to step up as leaders,” Allen said. “I guess [the injury recovery] could be a chance for me to step up in my role on the bench and see some things that I can help
the other players out with.”Last summer, Jerome Allen
and Penn men’s basketball trav-eled to Italy in preparation for its upcoming season. It’s clear that the Quakers’ feedback following their experience abroad is fresh in the minds of McLaughlin’s squad.
“Right when they came back, we asked them how it went and they all said they loved it,” Allen said. “I’m looking forward to it based on what they said.”
And while the trip’s impact on the court may pay dividends in the long run for the Quakers, the personal ramifications are what matter most.
“I think it’s a very rewarding trip for them,” McLaughlin said. “It’s something that they’ll cher-ish for a very long time.”
W. HOOPS from page 8
Team will tour Italy, play against pros
Courtesy of Stanford University
Wrestling coach Alex Tirapelle offers a wealth of experience. The Illinois graduate was a two-time All-American and served as an assistant at UC Davis and Stanford.
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Franklin Field will never actually look full, but efforts by Grace Calhoun and the Athletics department can certainly help bring students into game.
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2014 has already been an unforget-table year for Penn women’s basketball. Luckily for the Quakers, the program shouldn’t be lacking excitement any-time soon.
Following an outstanding season in which the Red and Blue captured their first Ancient Eight title since 2003-04, Penn will bring its summer to a close with a 10-day trip to Italy in mid-August before the semester begins later in the month.
And while some may view the trip solely as a reward for the Quakers’ success last season, it’s clear that the journey will be a mixture of both plea-sure and business for Penn.
In addition to spending time sight-seeing in Milan, Venice, and Rome, the Red and Blue will also play three games against various Italian and Ger-man professional squads throughout their trip.
“For a basketball program, number one we’re grateful for the opportunity to go and we’re grateful for the support of the alums for giving us this opportu-nity,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “It gives us a chance to look forward to the year coming.”
Although the trip to Italy may be a new -- and rare -- feature to Penn’s off-season, the Quakers aren’t complain-ing about the occasion on the horizon.
"[The trip] gives us an opportunity
to practice [and] to get together a little earlier than we would normally have been able to,” McLaughlin said. “I think there’s so much that this gives us an opportunity to do, not only for an ex-perience for them for a lifetime, but as
a program it gives us a chance to get together and develop a strong culture.”
The Red and Blue will kick off their trip in Philadelphia on August 11. After
Penn second baseman Mike Vilardo will begin a new chapter in his unique and eventful journey as a student-ath-lete next spring at Purdue, marking a significant loss for the Red and Blue.
After two Second-Team All-Ivy selec-tions in his first two years as Penn’s sec-ond baseman, Vilardo is set to graduate early and head to Purdue to take advan-tage of his final two years of baseball eligibility and pursue a masters degree in management.
Vilardo’s latest move, one he contem-plated deeply, was years in the making.
Changing course
Vilardo’s dynamic athletic skill set and uncompromising work ethic led him to both rare opportunities and diffi-cult decisions beginning in high school.
While at Cary-Grove High School in Illinois, Vilardo was a standout in both baseball and hockey. He was originally recruited by Ohio State for his skills on the ice and played for both the Team USA U18 hockey program and a junior league squad before coming to Penn and switching his focus to baseball.
In order to gain eligibility to play ball in during his first year as a Quaker, Vilardo took two years worth of credits at junior college in one, which put him
on track to graduate after his junior year at Penn.
The decision to pursue baseball and work overtime for his immediate eligi-bility was validated beyond any doubt by Vilardo’s play during his time donning the Red and Blue: Vilardo was the only Penn player to hit over .300 in both of the last two seasons, and he led the club in doubles during each campaign.
With serious MLB desires and a strong interest in business school, the scrappy second baseman started to investigate his options in the spring of 2014.
Pursuit of a dream
When graduating after the fall 2014
Early Monday afternoon, Penn Athletics announced that Alex Ti-rapelle has been named the new-est head coach of Penn’s wrestling program.
Tirapelle becomes the program’s 19th head coach after former Penn coach Rob Eiter resigned in late May. The hiring was the first coaching change under recently appointed Athletic Director Grace Calhoun, who took office at the beginning of July.
“Under the leadership of Deputy Athletics Director Alanna Shanahan,
we underwent an exhaustive process to ensure we found the best possible fit with the standards of this high-pro-file program going forward,” Calhoun said in the press release.
“I think our athletes, alums and fans will be excited by the future di-rection of the program under Alex’s leadership.”
The past four years saw Tirapelle work as an assistant coach at Stan-ford, where he most recently helped the program to a 17-5 record, with five wrestlers advancing to the NCAA championships.
“There’s a fair share of differences as far as being a west coast institution and an east coast institution, but a lot of similarities,” Tirapelle said.
“You’re recruiting the same sort of
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WRESTLING | Former Stanford assistant successful
on and off the matsBY HOLDEN McGINNIS
Sports Editor
PRIOR EXPERIENCE
BY THE NUMBERS
4 years at Stanford as Assistant Coach
2 years at UC Davis as Assistant Coach
All-American wrestler at Illinois
coached 5 wrestlers to NCAA Championships
coached 4 Pac-12 champion wrestlers
17-5 record for the Cardinal last season
8 Team GPA rank of the Cardinal last season
coached 5 All-Americans at StanfordGraphic by Sophia LeeSource: www.pennathletics.com
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There are only about four times a year that you can actually expect people to show up for
an event at Franklin Field: Homecom-ing, Spring Fling (if Girl Talk isn’t the headliner), Penn Relays and Gradu-ation.
And while the Eagles holding a prac-tice there in early August (a must-see if you are on campus) will be sure to add to that miniscule list, it doesn’t address the underlying problem.
Students don’t really care about Penn Athletics.
Sure, the homecoming football game was on the above list, and yes, you’ll see a few of your friends make the cold trek to the men’s basketball game vs. Princeton during the winter.
But for the most part, there isn’t any team or teams that Penn students rally behind.
It isn’t for lack of success. Men’s soccer, women’s basketball, and both men’s and women’s lacrosse took home Ivy League titles, while both football and basketball have histories of success despite losing 2013-14 cam-paigns.
Quite frankly, the problem is one
that every major university faces, even ones with sports traditions that far outpace the Red and Blue in champi-onships and prestige.
All you need to do is look at last week’s Wall Street Journal article.
Florida, a school that won a Na-tional Title in football just six years ago, reached out for help by following how Sporting Kansas City – an MLS team – has captivated its local fanbase. Other major conferences and schools have hired Sporting Innovations, the team’s consulting firm that uses tech-nology and other factors to help rally local fans.
Yet Penn isn’t a big revenue school (not to mention that the Quakers can’t even compete in the Division I-AA Playoffs for football) that is likely to hire outside firms to help attract stu-dents to games.
But it doesn’t take an outside firm or a ton of a data to find what Penn needs to change and how it needs to do it.
To the contrary, real and effective change will have to come from within, something that new Athletic Director Grace Calhoun fully realizes.
“I know the department has worked hard in the past to get students out,” she told the DP. “So we’re not talk-ing about things that haven’t been done, but perhaps it’s just that fresh approach of really doing all we can to reach out and invite people in.”
Ultimately, Penn needs to make athletics fun, make it not just another activity in which some of your class-mates are participating but you can
STEVEN TYDINGS
BASEBALL | Second baseman plans to graduate early, continue at Purdue
BY SEAMUS POWERSStaff Writer
SEE TYDINGS PAGE 7
Megan Falls/File Photo
Though rising senior forward Katy Allen likely won’t play in Europe due to her ongoing recovery from foot surgery, she has the opportunity to thrive as a leader off the bench while abroad.
SEE BASEBALL PAGE 7
W. HOOPS | Summer trip allows for early preparation
for Ivy title defenseBY RILEY STEELE.Senior Staff Writer
SEE W. HOOPS PAGE 7
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After two successful seasons with the Quakers, second baseman Mike Vilardo is moving on to Purdue. By graduating early, VIlardo retains two years of NCAA eligibility, which he will use to puruse his MLB dreams in West Lafayette.
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