the reasons immigration needs change is because the United States is losing too many quali-fied graduate students to their home countries after they gradu-ate from American universities. He suggested providing visas to highly skilled workers.

“It is imperative that we get younger people to fill our work force needs,” Rendell said. Ac-cording to Rendell, a majority of both Republicans and Demo-crats agree that workers contrib-uting to the economy should be eligible for citizenship.

People who meet the crite-ria of the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act should also be eligible, he said. The DREAM Act grants citizenship to immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as minors and then graduated from U.S. high schools. The Act applies to any-one who meets its criteria and arrived in the country in the five years preceding its enactment.

Additionally, E-Verification is a point of agreement between the two major political parties. E-Verification is an online soft-ware that allows employers to input the names of potential em-

ployees to check their immigra-tion status.

Because past reforms were not as successful as anticipated, opponents to immigration re-form are hesitant to pass a new bill proposed by Obama. The Im-migration Reform and Control Act of 1986, for instance, intend-ed to stop illegal immigration as

much as possible. Rendell ar-gued that the Act failed because it focused on border security.

He said that current illegal residents, instead, are the prob-lem. Forty percent of illegal immigrants in the U.S. today entered the country legally with

Former Pennsylvania Gover-nor and 1965 College graduate Ed Rendell spoke about immi-gration reform last night at an event co-sponsored by Penn for Immigrant Rights and Penn

Democrats to kick off Immigra-tion Action Week.

Rendell is the Democratic chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center, which was founded by former Senate Majority Leaders in 2007 and supports political advocacy and outreach.

Rendell believes that one of

A Penn fellowship is break-ing down geographic and fi-nancial barriers that surround researching abroad.

The Sobti Family Fellowship is a new funding opportunity offered by the Center for the Advanced Study of India. It will provide an alternative to the Fulbright Grant for those who want to pursue a post-baccalaureate research proj-ect in India.

The Sobti family, of which 1984 College alum Rajiv Sobti is a member, established the endowed fund, which awards $10,000 annually to one student to pursue a project of their choice for a minimum of nine months.

The fellowship is available to any Penn senior or Penn alumni up to two years after their graduation. It provides f inancial support for appli-cants who are interested in researching the development of modern India.

The idea for the fellowship

grew out of the familiar se-nior year “panic” of students who have taken advantage of CASI’s programs while at Penn but are unsure of how to return to India after graduation, Dep-uty Director of CASI Juliana Di Giustini said.

Christina Wu, a College se-nior and CASI Student Pro-grams assistant , who was also a former photo manager at the Daily Pennsylvanian, understands the yearning for post-baccalaureate research opportunities abroad. She par-ticipated in a three-month-long summer internship in India through CASI, and noted that while she was there, she be-came “interested in certain aspects of the experience and wanted to go back and pursue [them].”

She added that prior to the Sobti Family Fellowship, it was difficult to gain ownership of a post-baccalaureate project of this sort outside of receiving a Fulbright Grant.

One class at Penn celebrates Black History Month every month.

An undergraduate course entitled “The His-tory of Women and Men of African Descent at the University of Pennsylvania” seeks to educate students about scholars and black leaders who have shaped the University and the world. About 25 students attend the class in DuBois College House each Monday.

“You can take notes if you feel the need, but it’s very much just a conversation,” said College se-nior Tanisha Hospedale, a student in the course. “The location is symbolic in itself because of the history of Du Bois. The walls of Du Bois are almost like us being surrounded by our history.”

Du Bois College House was opened in 1972 in response to discrimination concerns raised by Penn’s black students.

Informally dubbed “Blacks at Penn” by stu-dents in the class, the course delves into the contemporary African-American experience, touching upon topics such as Greek life, athlet-ics and classroom environments. The seminar is taught by its co-founders, University Chaplain Charles Howard and Makuu Director Brian Pe-terson, as well as Associate Director of Makuu Marlena Reese, all of whom seek to spark con-versation about the African-American experi-ence in a comfortable setting.

“It’s a profound experience to have not only the classmates look like you, but to have the profes-sors look like you too and to have the subject matter you study look like you and resemble you,” Howard said.

Guest speakers both from Penn and beyond are common visitors to the class. Recent ones have included Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum, Associate Vice Provost for Equity and Access William Gipson and head coach of the men’s basketball team Jerome Allen. One class text, a book entitled “Black Students in the Ivory Tower,” is Penn alumnus Wayne Glasker’s account of his and his peers’ experiences at Penn.

Students in the class also maintain a blog, which highlights prominent black leaders and thinkers. Started several years ago as a project for Black History Month, the blog seeks to ar-chive valuable stories about the African impact at Penn and beyond.

Students and professors agree that the class is unlike any other at Penn.

“It’s a very typical seminar course, in that it is driven by insightful student dialogue. What differentiates it is the proximity; Du Bois College House, College Hall, Africana Studies, Onyx Se-nior Honor Society, Locust Walk are all elements still very much a part of the Penn experience today, and this course covers their histori-

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Twelve years before Penn Presi-dent Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price announced the cre-ation of a task force to study mental health on campus, a similar com-mittee presented its findings to the University’s provost in June 2002.

Last week, the administration commissioned a task force to com-

prehensively evaluate the policies and procedures that address men-tal health at Penn, a task last done in 2002.

The 2002 Mental Health Out-reach Task Force, made up of stu-dents, administrators and staff, presented six key recommenda-tions. The University implemented four of the six, said Director of Education for the Department of Psychiatry Anthony Rostain, who

chaired the 2002 task force.The recommendations to cre-

ate a mental health outreach co-ordinating council and to clearly identify mental health outreach goals for the community got lost in the shuffle.

“I thought mental wellness and mental health of the staff and faculty and students ought to be something that every year people systematically look at,” Rostain,

who will also co-chair this year’s task force, said of the outreach coordinating council. “Part of what I’m going to do now when I’m charged is try to figure out whether there needs to be some-thing like that.”

Another suggestion that fell through was to create “health graduate assistants” for the col-

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green cards and work vi-sas. However, when their paperwork expires, they frequently remain in the country. Rendell believes the new bill will focus on the naturalization process and therefore avoid the short-comings of past bills.

Some opponents believe that illegal immigrants should never be allowed citi-zenship because they consid-er it “amnesty” and a reward for breaking the law. They propose having two classes of residents: legal citizens and permanent residents who are not deported, but do not have the right to vote.

Rendell thinks illegal im-migrants should eventually be awarded citizenship. He believes they should pay fines, show English abil-ity and then have a 13-year “probationary” period. They would be eligible for citizen-ship at the end of the period.

Other Republicans are hesitant to pass the bill because an influx of immi-grants could sway the po-litical dynamic in favor of the Democratic Party.

Rendell concluded his talk by discussing the cultural implications of immigration. He compared the backlash against Latino immigrants to the opposition that Irish and Jewish immigrants faced in the past. “I think a fairly substantial majority of Americans understand the value of immigrants,” he said.

Other events during Im-migration Action week will include an immigration policy panel on Wednesday and a demonstration of im-migrant identity on College Green on Friday.

lege houses. These graduate students would have been a health resource and would have coordinated awareness initia-tives and been a referral source to University resources.

“I think that was a good idea — and still is a good idea,” Ros-tain said.

The actual implementation of the recommendations didn’t fall to the task force. They handed it to then-Provost Robert Barchi, who is now president of Rutgers University. Barchi was unable to speak for this article. Associate Vice Provost for Health and Aca-demic Services Max King, who was not on the 2002 task force but has been at the University since 1996, said the University divisions addressed in the re-port mostly implemented the suggestions on their own.

The four successful recom-mendations were guidelines for mandatory medical leave of absence for students with men-tal health problems, expanding mental health liaisons, sup-porting and expanding mental health outreach activities and creating a mental health crisis team to coordinate responses.

In sharp contrast to the re-cently announced task force, the 2002 task force included three students — two undergradu-ates and one graduate student. Rostain is the only person to serve on both.

Alison Malmon, founder of mental health awareness group Active Minds and a 2003 College graduate, was one of the under-graduate students on the 2002 task force. Malmon started the forerunner of Active Minds at Penn in response to her older brother’s suicide. Originally, the task force, which then had just two student representatives, asked her to share her experi-ences.

“I approached Tony Rostain and the others and asked if I could come back,” she said. She was invited to become a perma-nent member.

“It has to come from students, to students to be relevant,” Mal-mon said, also calling the ab-sence of students on this year’s task force “disappointing.”

The lack of students on the current task force has drawn ire not only from students, but from faculty, who claim the task force is too bureaucratic and not en-gaged enough with the popula-tion it hopes to help. In response to the criticism, Gutmann and Price published a letter in The Daily Pennsylvanian on Monday

explaining that the task force will consult with two working groups, which will include stu-dents. Because the task force will not meet until next month, there are no details as to how students will be chosen for the working groups.

University officials say a task force made up of administrators and faculty will be more effec-tive in assessing student need.

“The University has found that a task force of experts and senior administrators that reaches out across campus and beyond can be the most effective way to engage the widest and most diverse possible range of students, faculty and others,”

Price said in an emailed state-ment.

King, the associate vice pro-vost, said there will be a similar level of input as in 2002.

“Many of the people or the ar-eas that you saw represented specifically on the 2002 task force will be involved in this process, just this current task force is one put together at a higher level,” he said. “Actually, that’s a good thing, because when those sorts of folks are put onto a task force, it adds strength to the importance of the work that’s being done.”

This year’s task force has a clear impetus: the spate of sui-cides that left campus reeling and an ongoing discussion about

mental health. In 2002, both internal feeling and national trends pushed the University to convene the task force.

Data released in the task force’s report show that sched-uled first-time appointments at CAPS rose from 1,307 in 1997-98 to 2,003 in 2000-01.

“9/11 really got everybody,” Rostain said. “It was a rise in the number of students who reported they were depressed and showing up to CAPS, so the provost just felt like it was time to look and see what was going on.”

A case in Massachusetts grabbed the attention of univer-sities nationwide. The parents of 19-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology stu-dent Elizabeth Shin sued MIT in 2002 after their daughter burned to death in her dorm room in April 2000. Her death was ruled a suicide by a medical examiner. The case opened the question of what responsibili-ties schools bear in providing mental health care to students and in notifying parents when students were perceived to be deteriorating.

“‘I think I’d rather err on the side of overextending to some-one who isn’t in trouble than missing those who are,” Judith Rodin, Penn’s president at the time, told The New York Times for a lengthy piece on Shin in 2002. “We are a community, and we need to be responsible for each other. You can’t guarantee these things don’t happen, even if you create that ethos. We had two suicides this year after 10 years with none. But you can provide the social and psycho-logical support.”

Shin’s family settled with MIT in 2006 for an undisclosed sum, agreeing with the school in the settlement that Shin’s death was likely an accident.

“The issues are still present. There are still the same pres-sures, the same risks, but I think there have been a lot of improve-ments in the way CAPS works and the way there’s outreach,” Rostain said. “On the other hand, there’s still a barrier and a stigma that doesn’t go away.”

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Guidance by peers from communities in Philadelphia helped improve medical out-comes of post-discharged patients from the same low-income neighborhood, accord-ing to a recent Penn study.

E xecut ive Di rector of Penn’s Center for Commu-nity Health Workers Shreya Kangovi helped develop Indi-vidualized Management for Patient Center Targets, ab-breviated IMPaCT, in order to help patients after they are discharged from a hos-pital.

The recent study on IM-PaCT, which was co -au-thored by Judith Long and Dav id Grande, assistant professors at the Perelman

School of Medicine, showed that patients who received even a brief dose of IMPaCT intervention improved in re-gards to a number of factors. Some improvements patients experienced included being more active in caring for their own health, as well as better access to health care, decreased chances of return-ing to the hospital and better mental health.

“[Sixty percent] of people who had primary care at 14 days into the intervention ... felt that the discharge com-munication process had gone well,” Long said. “The 30 day readmission rate was about the same but less people came back multiple times ... [so] we definitely decreased some of the repeat admis-sion.”

Patients given the inter-vention were interviewed about the process and ex-pressed overa l l posit ive views, some of which are

available on the Center ’s website.

“The program was won-derful. My IMPaCT Partner went out of his way to help with things that were above and beyond. He helped me to get insurance and doctor’s appointments. He became a friend and was very help-ful,” one 46-year-old patient who received care through IMPaCT said, according to the Center’s website.

Kangovi said that because t he model worked wel l , Penn’s health system has created the Penn Center for Community Health Workers to employ community health workers - “people who share life experience with their patients ... [and] come from similar backgrounds” - as paid employees. She added that the model has become a routine part of care at Penn Medicine.

“We’re getting a lot of in-terest from other organiza-

tions across the country like Lancaster Hospital,” Kangovi said. “We want to share what we’ve done and make it an open resource.”

Long explained that hospi-tals like the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania care about patient outcomes because they are penalized when patients are rehospi-talized within 30 days, and that the health system has really gotten behind the new model.

As part of the model, com-munity health workers con-nect with patients to talk about barriers they believe are preventing the patients from getting healthy and help to ensure their im-provement. The model was developed based on 4,000 sur veys and 115 in-depth interviews with patients to assess what they believed was causing the poor health outcomes for those in their neighborhoods and what

could be done to improve this situation.

“It’s exciting work - how to use peers effectively in clinical scenarios and make them real partners,” Long said. “It’s about trying to make people culturally com-petent and I find [that the community health workers are] inherently culturally competent because they are peers, people with the same diseases who l ive in the same communities.”

Five main issues had to be addressed in designing IMPaCT: improving how to recruit and hire high quality workers, mediating workers’

responsibilities in regards to IMPaCT with their other responsibil it ies, plugging the community workers into the actual health care sys-tem, making the model less disease specific and rigor-ously testing the model to be implemented.

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Making a commitment to civic engagement FRIEDOM OF SPEECH | Involvement in the West Philadelphia community is essential to our experiences as Penn students

Whe n I w a s a f r e s h m a n a t P e n n , I w a s terrified by the

seemingly dangerous abyss that was West Philadelphia. I don’t mean the West Philly in which we live. The idea of venturing past 41st Street was unnerving, to say the least. When my grandfather told me about the apartment he used to rent on 43rd and Ba lt i more , I ad m it ted I wasn’t sure where that was.

In one of my urban stud-ies classes, we took a trolley ride around West Philadel-phia. What was intended to awaken us to the realities of our neighbors turned into poverty-tourism. We, the privileged, Ivy League stu-dents, protected by the walls of our trolley, looked out the window toward West Phila-delphia but never actually disembarked from the bus. It felt strange and uncom-

fortable when West Philadel-phians waved at us as if we were celebrities, while we maintained our separation from them within the walls of the bus.

The idea of leaving the “ivory tower” of Penn often echoes throughout campus. It seems, however, not to have resonated with far too many students, who, like me as a freshman, rarely venture past 41st Street. For many Penn students, it acts as an invis-ible, impenetrable border.

As a rising junior, I spent my summer interning at LIFT-Philadelphia, located at 56th and Chestnut.

I was exposed daily to new clients struggling with real life situations: facing evic-tion, unemployment, home-lessness and hunger. Some clients chose to work with me regularly and were will-ing to share the details of lives very different from my

own. We formed meaningful relationships — and we were not separated by the walls of a trolley.

Every morning I took the Walnut Street bus from 40th street, and every evening I took the Market-Frankford line from 56th Street back home. My co-workers and I weren’t simply touring West Philadelphia — we were liv-ing and actively engaging in it. Poverty was no longer a distant concept that we had read about in a textbook but something tangible and ur-gent.

Many of us, mysel f in-cluded, grew up in states of distorted reality. We lived in nice homes, went to above-par schools and never faced the questions of whether or where we would receive our next meal. During my sum-mer at LIFT, I learned that for many of our West Phila-delphia neighbors, food ,

housing and safety are real and daily concerns.

Our problem goes far be-yond never leaving the “ivo-ry tower.” Most of us live in a state of ignorant bliss, un-aware of and unconcerned with the extreme poverty that exists a mere 15 blocks away. We wa l k past the beggar on the street with-out making eye contact, as though this person’s life and current situation is com-pletely separate from our own. I, too, am guilty of this offense. We all are.

This entire community — and its members — are and should be as much a part of our Penn experience as every-thing else. It’s not simply about seeing the poverty that exists 10 or 15 blocks westward, but about breaking down the bar-riers that we build to separate ourselves from it.

We must actively engage ourselves — working in soup

kitchens, tutoring in local schools and advocating for our neighbors in West Phila-delphia at places like LIFT. Imagine if each Penn student spent one hour each week vol-unteering in West Philadel-phia — that’s 10,000 hours. We must prioritize West Philly, deciding that we are not too busy or too removed to volun-teer some of our time to a com-munity that we have a vested interest in maintaining.

As Penn students, we have countless opportunities af-forded to us. How and why we utilize those opportunities will define our Penn experience. Are we seeking simply to better ourselves, or also to better the community in which we live?

M a rk T wa i n f a mously said, “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Moving forward, we should embrace this sen-timent wholeheartedly, not allowing our “ivory tower”

schooling to interfere with our real world, West Phila-delphia education.

Today, my favorite place during the fall and spring-time is Clark Park, located at none other than 43rd and Baltimore. It just goes to show that there is a lot to be learned past 41st Street.

ALEXANDRA FRIEDMAN

ALEXANDRA FRIEDMAN is a College junior from Atlanta studying history. Email her at alfrie@sas.upenn.edu or follow her @callme_alfrie.

What is the human condition?THE QUAKING POINT | It doesn’t take an academic to find a response to philosophical questions

To the l inguist ics graduate student I met at Tap House several weeks ago:

I couldn’t help but bristle at how disappointed you were with my answer — with my one-minute summary of what I find most fascinating about the human condition. Sorry to disappoint you. It was an “uncreative” answer to an uncreative question, even “for a philosophy ma-jor.” The human condition is a topic both incredibly broad and incredibly simple.

If you’ve travelled — if you’ve lived an interesting and well-informed life — you don’t need to go to school to understand the human con-dition. The things that fas-

cinate me about the human condition, its most essential aspects, are so obvious and universal that you don’t need a class to discover them; you observe them just by living and seeing how oth-ers l ive. Those aren’t the k inds of things you learn in school. Good professors might come along who in-spire you as people (as has definitely been the case for me), but the institution on its own usually has little to do with it. In fact, because of the myopic emphasis on specialization in academia, those kinds of interests are things I’ve discovered spe-cifically outside of school.

That’s an entirely differ-ent question, however, from what I think the solutions are. Now those I learned in school. Not by absorption of facts or rote memoriza-tion, but by being privileged to have spent count less hours practicing clear and directed thought under ex-perienced mentors. Thanks to a liberal arts education, I

have been able to draw from psychology, biology, history, philosophy, sociology, an-thropology and literature to begin a comprehensive and ever-changing set of views on where we stand. Philoso-phy has given me a format for making sense of all that data and assembling it into str uctures and att itudes toward the world that are meaningful (and, hopefully, useful).

I believe firmly in educa-tion — or, rather, in intel-lectual self-improvement. It doesn’t need to be learned in school, though that defi-nitely helps. Being in an ac-ademic setting has taught me plenty, but most of all, it’s taught me to treat my own mind as an instrument to be handled with deliberateness and precision. That’s not to say that I always succeed.

From how it sounds, my goals and studies differ sig-nificantly from yours. That’s not to say that mine are su-perior or yours inferior — only that it might be difficult

for you or your classmates to judge objectively, by your own standards, the “useful-ness” or “creativity” of my intellectual attitudes toward the world when the natures of our inquir ies dif fer so thoroughly.

It doesn’t take an aca-demic to have views on the human condition, and aca-demics often spend (or, per-haps, waste) much of their time focusing on intellectual hobbies and puzzles that the general will considers irrel-evant. At best, academics apply the things they study back to society — even then, I suspect it rarely took their time in the ivory tower to figure out what “fascinates” them about the human con-dition. Chances are it’s pret-ty straightforward stuff.

If the human condition is really as universal as you assume it to be — given how readily you expected a co-gent answer from someone with a completely different background — then the an-swer to what is most “objec-

tively” interesting probably won’t come from either of our particular fields. Some-thing like the nature of com-munication, perhaps, or the tragedy of how easily clear thought gets lost in trans-lation. That could possibly make for a good answer.

But, with all due respect, what were you expecting? “ T he pu r su it of t r ut h” ? “The way we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly into the past”? I’m no Diogenes or Fitzger-ald. I doubt you would have answered by talking about morphemes, and the rela-t ionship between epiphe-nomenalism and reductive physicalism wouldn’t qualify on my part, either.

You seemed sur pr ised that my answer was uncre-ative. It wasn’t my job to im-press you — when talking about something as dense and far-reaching as the hu-man condition, it’s one’s job not to be creative, but to be honest.

Perhaps you misconceive

what philosophy majors do, which is ent irely under-standable. People seem to think we spend our days dressed in togas, pondering the meaning of l i fe. They don’t really know what we study, and they expect us to have answers that are as wishy-washy as the ques-tions they formulate for us. I don’t study philosophy to ponder the meaning of life (though I do that plenty on my own time). I do it to sharpen my analytical skills.

Incidentally, I would like to think that my two majors and general Penn educa-tion have given me a few poignant insights into the meaning of l i fe. And they have led me to conclude that questions like yours are of-ten less fruitful than their askers believe them to be.

JONATHAN IWRY

JONATHAN IWRY is a College senior from Bethesda, Md., studying philosophy. His last name is pronounced “eev-ree.” Email him at jon.iwry@gmail.com.

40% 60%

Based on attendance at PennSHAPE workshops and activities

8.6% change in WEIGHT

8.6% change in WAIST

8.6% change in ABDOMEN

8.6% change in HIPS

8.6% change in CARDIO ENDURANCE8.6% change in MUSCULAR ENDURANCE

8.6% change in FLEXIBILITY

How the final score is calculated:

such as spinning classes and weight training at Pottruck, meditation, sleep,and body image workshops

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changes in physical health

and fitness

attendance

Penn graduate students are going to Pottruck for more than the smoothies this semester.

Through the PennSHAPE Challenge, over 400 graduate students are motivated to attend workshops, work out and get fit in hopes of exhibiting the most improvement in physical fitness before finals begin in May.

This is the third time the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly is organiz-ing the 12-week challenge. PennSHAPE launched last spring, with the intention to fos-ter healthy habits in graduate students.

“We are aware that in gradu-

ate school it’s frequently hard to go to the gym because so much of our lives is focused on doing our work,” Charlotte Rose, GAPSA’s vice chair for student life, said. “My personal motivation for getting involved with PennSHAPE was because I had come off of studying for comprehensive exams and I was just physically and mentally exhausted.”

Rose emphasized the ways in which the challenge can im-prove mental health among its participants.

“I realized that if I had some time to actually exercise, then I would have been far less stressed out,” she said.

GAPSA partners with the

Pottruck Health and Fitness Center, Student Health Service and Counseling and Psycho-logical Services to offer various workshops throughout the se-mester as part of the challenge. One of the first programs al-ways incorporates a discussion of body image “to make sure people realize healthy parame-ters to keep in mind,” Rose said.

Due to increased interest in the program, Pottruck is offer-ing additional spinning classes and weight training specifically for the competition’s partici-pants.

Luyao Wang, GAPSA’s vice chair for communication, at-tended a meditation workshop in the basement of the Graduate

School of Education, intending to take pictures of the event.

“There was a leading medita-tor sitting at the front, in a very cozy environment with slow mu-sic,” Wang said. “They tell you what to do to relax your mind and body.”

When Wang started taking pictures, the constant clicking of the camera’s shutter disturbed the serene atmosphere.

She told herself, “Forget about the camera. Let me just be one of the participants of the workshop.”

Setting the camera aside al-lowed her to enjoy a valuable experience that day, Wang said.

“It’s definitely helpful if you are stressed,” she said. “It gives

you just one moment to sit down and not think about anything else.”

Rose agreed that the medi-tation workshops were very beneficial for students. She also noticed impressive physical improvements in many of the participants.

“Some of the people that were top finishers [in past semesters] had lost significant extra weight, and I believe a number of the women had substantially im-proved the number of push ups they could do,” Rose said. “One woman started out doing only one push up and was eventually able to do 20.”

Students received a physical evaluation at the start of the

semester, assessing their car-diovascular endurance, mus-cular strength, flexibility and body composition. They will be evaluated in the same catego-ries at the end of the semester, between Apr. 28 and May 2, and physical trainers from Pottruck will determine their overall im-provement.

Each participant’s physical progress, combined with their attendance at PennSHAPE workshops, will determine the winners at the end of the chal-lenge. One woman and one man will receive a fitness package worth $500, while those par-ticipants finishing in the top 10 percent will earn a smaller package valued at $50.

Aparna Wilder, the Stu-dent Programs and outreach manager at CASI and a 2002 College graduate, recalled that when she was an under-graduate student hoping to do research in India after

completing her studies, the only option was to “apply for a Fulbright and hope for the best.”

However, the Fulbright Grant is extremely competi-tive since it is open to college graduates across the world, narrowing the chances for Penn students to conduct their own research interna-tionally.

The Sobt i Family Fel-lowship, in contrast, is ex-clusive to Penn graduates. Unlike other fellowships, it will grant a unique liberty

to the selected fellows, who will investigate a question of their own.

“There’s nothing quite like this [at Penn],” Executive Director for Education and Academic Planning in the Of-fice of the Provost Rob Nel-son said. While the Thouron Award, which was recently granted to four students, grants funds for graduate study in the United Kingdom, no Penn-exclusive fellowship has al lowed participants to pursue independent re-search outside of a degree

program prior to the Sobti Family Fellowship.

Applicants must submit a research proposal and con-nect with an India-based in-stitution with which they will collaborate while abroad.

The application for this fellowship can be found on CASI’s website and is due by March 17. An online informa-tion session will be held via Adobe Connect today at 4:00 p.m., and an in-person ses-sion will be held in Houston Hall on March 3 at 3 p.m.

T he fel lowsh ip ma rk s

the third type of funding oppor tunity avai lable to Penn students and alumni through CASI, which also offers research funding and internships. It is also the lon-gest term project available through CASI.

Wi lder recog nized the growing interest in work-ing abroad among Penn stu-dents, and said that CASI was “feeling that demand and students are creating that demand for each other.”

Wu hopes that the fellow-ship will help “solidify [her]

vision” of the future.“I’m at a point where I’m

trying to f igure out what direction to take my pro-fessional career. I want to establish a vision before I enact a way to get to that vi-sion,” she said.

A lthough she inter ned in India previously, she ac-knowledged that a fellow-ship would require her to establish herself on her own without a community of Penn students traveling with her, a skill “important to develop-ing yourself in your 20s.”

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The bonds forged within the mosaicked walls of the Du Bois multipurpose room extend beyond the hours of eleven to two every Monday. The students form a commu-nity, with alumni frequently sitting in to relive their own experience in the course and share their thoughts.

“We’re comfortable with crying in front of each other,” Hospedale said.

Students in the class are currently beginning work on a wide array of unique proj-ects, ranging from blog writ-ing to resurrecting a black newspaper. One project will examine the modern percep-tion of black male athletes, demonstrating the breadth of topics examined in the course.

“Well, the black experience is broad,” Howard said.

Students talk about ‘black experience’

STUDENTS from page 1

PENN BLACK HISTORY, THEN AND NOW

FROM THE ARCHIVES: BLACKHISTORY AT PENN

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BY JENN WRIGHTContributing Writer

Alleged attackers acquitted

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‘Black Community’ steals full press run of DPs

April 15, 1993An estimated 14,000 copies of the

Daily Pennsylvanian were stolen from the racks on the morning of April 15. A statement from the “Members of the Black Community” to the Associated Press about the incident “cited the DP

as one of the ‘many institutions that exploit the black community’,’ the DP reported that week. Misrepresentation of the community, poor coverage of events on campus and certain racially-charged columns — including those of Gregory Pavlik — were blamed.

May 15,1992Penn students protested the

verdict of the Rodney King case outside of then-Penn President Sheldon Hackney’s house. Four white officers allegedly beat King, an African American con-struction worker.

Although the beating was caught on video tape, they were acquitted. Protesters demanded that all faculty and campus po-lice be required to attend di-versity training. The decision sparked massive riots in Los An-geles — the biggest riots in the United States since the 1960s.

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MLK Day first celebratedon campus

January 15, 2001Penn observed the federal

holiday celebrating the birth-day of Martin Luther King, Jr. for the first timein 2001. Stu-dents, faculty and staff cele-brated with a candle light vigil and sang during a procession down Locust Walk.

That year, the holiday fell the day before the start of the spring term, but the DP re-ported that organizers of the MLK day events were im-pressed with the turnout. The day kicked-off two weeks of events to honor King.

In February, the United States observes Black History Month in celebration of the world’s African

diaspora. These are several selected moments in the history of the black

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Though the Quakers didn’t have much offensive success on Friday, Losco was instru-mental in a tight first half of play. The senior’s f irst-quarter goal helped knot the score after Duke struck early, and Losco’s assist just before the half helped Penn draw within one of the Blue Dev i ls . Mov ing for ward , Losco, who led Penn in scor-ing last season, will be look-ing to extend his ten-game streak with at least one point, a stretch that dates back to last season.

Penn’s back line: The Quakers d idn’t have too much trouble slowing down Duke’s high-powered attack down in Durham, and much of the same can be expected against the Hawks. Senior goalkeeper Brian Feeney notched 10 saves against the Blue Devils and managed to hold Duke in check for much of the game following the f irst quarter. After giving up four goals in the opening period, Feeney and company held Duke scoreless for the remainder of the half, and kept the Blue Devils from scoring double-digit goals.

Matt Blasco: Take a bow, Mr. Blasco. In his first career start, the St. Joe’s sopho-more attack scored three goals to go along with a trio of assists in the Hawks’ 14-6 win over VMI on Saturday. Blasco’s six points were key in getting St. Joe’s its first win of the season, and the sophomore was named NEC Player of the Week in rec-ognition of his efforts last

weekend.Three Down-

Penn’s offense: The Red and Blue struggled to gener-ate any sort of attack against Duke last weekend. Despite keeping the game close for much of the f irst half, the Blue Devils were able to score three straight goals without any sort of response from the Quakers. Though f r e sh m a n at t ac k K e v i n Brown scored his first career goal, it was Penn’s only score of the second period. After

an early goal after halftime, the Red and Blue went more than a quarter without scor-ing, ultimately letting the game slip away.

History for St. Joe’s: Re-cent trends won’t be on the Hawks’ side on Tuesday. Penn and St. Joe’s have played each of the past four seasons and ten times overall since 1997, and the Hawks have never beaten the Quakers. In fact, though the past two meetings between the cross-town rivals have been close, Penn won

each game before 2012 by no less than eight goals. Don’t expect the Quakers’ streak to end any time soon.

The Elements: Mother Nature won’t be too kind to either team out on Franklin Field on Tuesday. Tempera-tures will be below freezing once the game begins and the wind will be howling. The conditions don’t sound any-where as nice as the 70-de-gree weather Penn got to enjoy when it was down in Durham last weekend.

M. LACROSSE from page 8

St. Joes has lost all 10 matchups

with Penn

“I have the ability to jump, but it’s all about ... making sure every aspect of my tech-nique is r ight ,” Reynolds added.

But a tough learning curve isn’t the only obstacle Reyn-olds has faced in his time at Penn.

He has also faced injury problems throughout his ca-reer, most notably last year, when he was forced to deal with a bad left ankle.

“It was bad,” Klim said. “It’s in his jumping foot, so it took a long time getting back.”

Despite these injur ies, Reynolds has persevered and come out on the other side stronger than ever.

“I don’t know how we put it together,” Klim said. “But he finished sixth in the country outdoor [last season].”

Over the past few years, he has gone head-to-head with some of the world’s premiere athletes, holding his own against Olympic medalists and world champions.

But Reynolds has entered his senior season with an en-tirely different set of goals, and being second-best is not one of them.

“He has one goal, and the

goal is to win a national title, indoor or outdoor,” Klim said.

“I always knew it was fea-sible, but I don’t think I had the confidence per se,” Reynolds added. “Now that I’ve had a renewed sense of focus, I think I’m in a better position.”

Those are lofty goals, but they are by no means unquali-fied.

In fact, Reynolds has looked better than ever this indoor season, having already bro-ken his indoor school-record with a 2.24 meter jump that

was good for third-best in the nation.

It would only be natural for such a gifted athlete to carry himself with a certain swag-ger or even cockiness. But in Reynolds’ case, nothing could be further from the truth.

Despite his impressive ac-complishments, Reynolds is extremely humble. He car-ries himself with a maturity only gained through years of experience.

“The way I’m approaching it right now, I’m just keeping it

simple,” Reynolds said.“Some meets are named

Heps, and some meets are named Nationals,” he contin-ued. “But if I go in with the same focus, I’ll have more con-sistent results.”

With the Ivy championships just a week away, Reynolds will finally be able to put this big-meet strategy to use at full strength.

But no matter how he per-forms for the rest of the year, he has already raised the bar at Penn for years to come.

TRACK & FIELD from page 8

Reynolds carries himself with humility

And the Crimson didn’t stop with a 20-point win over Penn. One day later, they did some-thing they hadn’t done in 25 years: beat Princeton on the road, shaking off a slow start to handily defeat the Tigers at Jadwin Gymnasium.

With that weekend sweep, Harvard won all four of its games against Princeton and Penn this year, a first in pro-gram history.

The sweep also shows that the days of the Tigers and Quakers thoroughly domi-nating the Ivy League are long gone. And the reign of Penn and Princeton, which included 51 combined Ivy ti-tles between the two schools, has now given way to the rule of Harvard and coach Tommy Amaker.

“They clearly have made their mark in our conference through the years,” Amaker said of the two rivals. “You applaud that, you recognize the tradition that both of those schools and those programs have, and I am pleased with our ability to become relevant, to be a factor in our confer-ence, to be consistent now.”

Consistency is the name of the game now for Harvard. The Crimson are in the driv-er’s seat to win their third straight outright Ivy title, and could very well follow up last year’s NCAA Tournament win with another this March.

Where does this leave Penn (and, to a lesser extent, Princ-eton)?

Catch-up mode.Let’s ignore Penn’s his-

tory. Sure, we all love to talk

about the program that has produced a Final Four team among many other impressive runs and 25 Ivy League titles.

But history doesn’t matter right now. Watching Harvard roll past Penn for 40 minutes, it was clear that the Crimson are far ahead of the once-dominant Quakers.

So now the Red and Blue need to find a way to compete against Harvard and an im-proving Ivy League.

And it starts with recruiting. Looking at the Crimson roster, it isn’t any one recruiting class. When you look at every recruit-ing class for Amaker, his team has found a significant role player, whether it be senior Laurent Rivard, junior Wes Saunders or a sophomore like Chambers.

Harvard also turned the Ancient Eight on its head by getting a top-100 recruit in freshman Zena Edosomwan, getting the caliber of blue-chip talent that other Ivy teams can only dream about getting.

But outside of recruiting, the Quakers also need to follow Harvard’s blueprint to becom-ing a disciplined squad that plays an unselfish brand of basketball.

The Crimson limited them-selves to just eight turnovers on Friday while capitalizing on Penn’s 21 turnovers to extend their lead and finish off the Quakers.

As he reminds the media at every press conference, Penn coach Jerome Allen is respon-sible for righting the ship.

But whether or not Penn gets back on the right track, Harvard is here to stay and ultimately is the new bench-mark for the rest of the Ancient Eight.

TYDINGS from page 8

Penn needs to follow Harvard

blueprint

Sometimes losses are t oug h t o s w a l low. None more so than the loss suffered by

Penn women’s basketball this weekend to Dartmouth.

After a deflating loss to the last-place team in the confer-ence the night after claim-ing the top spot, most teams would struggle to rebound.

But this Penn team is not most teams.

If anything, this loss will serve as a wake-up call for a Quakers squad that has been dominant for the most part this season, but clearly still has a few flaws.

Dartmouth found ways to shut down the strong interior offense that has been vital to Penn’s success throughout this season.

With the frontcourt neu-tralized, success for the Red and Blue was tied to the out-side shooting and a few too many missed threes doomed the Quakers.

“They left our wings open, left our three open and we d id n’t shoot pa r t icu la rly well that day,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “If we had made a couple of those shots

early and got them out of that defense early, it could have ended differently.”

This loss could just be chalked up to some poor shooting, but McLaughlin and his coaching staff know that it ’s more than that . It’s an opportunity to build a game plan away from the reliance on interior offense that has driven this squad thus far.

And they’ll need it, because the defense that Dartmouth r a n w a s n’ t p a r t i c u l a r l y unique; it just forced the Red and Blue out of their comfort zone. When it comes down to it, the loss to Dartmouth isn’t the real takeaway from this weekend.

It just served to overshad-ow what may have been the biggest win in McLaughlin’s tenure as coach.

To put Penn’s 63-50 win over Harvard into perspec-tive, the last time the Quak-ers won at Lavietes Pavilion was 10 years ago. Penn hadn’t swept the Crimson in the past 13 seasons.

So while the loss to Dart-mouth was definitely a step backward, the win against Harvard kept the Quakers moving in the right direction.

With their pair of losses this weekend to Penn and Princeton, Crimson have fall-en out of title contention and forged a path for the Quakers to f ind themselves battling Princeton down to the last game.

As it stands r ight now, Penn is one game out of first

and in the driver’s seat for second place and a berth in the Women’s NIT.

It controls its own desti-ny for the Ivy League title as well, needing to win out and defeat Princeton to end the season for the chance to force a one-game playoff.

“We’re not out of this,” McLaughlin said. “The kids have the resilience to bounce back.”

So take this weekend as ex-actly what it was, a display of both the best and the worst of Penn women’s basketball this season and a reminder that, despite a nine-game winning streak, the Red and Blue are sti l l just as mortal as any other contender in the Ivy League.

Though many would have loved to see the Quakers neck-and-neck with Princ-eton for their final game of the season, there is still a good chance that game will be just as meaningful as fans had hoped when the sched-ules were released.

Because when it comes down to it, this Penn team has bounced back too well this season to let a disap-pointing loss serve as any-thing less than a fire to power it through the final stretch.

One step backward, two steps forward.

STEVEN TYDINGS is a Wharton sophomore from Hopewell, N.J. and is senior sports editor for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at tydings@thedp.com

H O L D E N M C G I N N I S i s a n Eng ineer ing f re shman f rom Philadelphia and is an associate spor t s edi tor for The Dai l y P e nn s y l v an i an . H e c an b e reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

HOLDEN MCGINNIS

One step backwards, two steps forward for the Red and Blue

Sam Sherman/Senior Staff Photographer

After a disappointing loss to Dartmouth, coach Mike McLaughlin will help Penn continue strong through its final games. However, the weekend was a net positive for the Quakers, as they strengthened their hold on second place in the Ivy League.

Imran Cronk/Staff Photographer

Penn senior attack Zack Losco was one of the only offensive bright spots for the Quakers in their season opener against Duke last weekend. The veteran notched two goals and an assist and will look to do more of the same against St. Joe’s on Tuesday.

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Penn men’s lacrosse got off to a rough start in its season opener on Friday , falling in a defensive slugfest to defend-ing champion and top-ranked Duke, 9-6 . As the Red and Blue return to Philadelphia and prepare for their first home game of the season, we take a look at the Quakers’

upcoming matchup with St. Joseph’s .

Three Up- Zack Losco: The senior

m id f ield picked up r ig ht where he left off last season, notching two goals and an as-sist in Penn’s season opener.

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(22-4, 9-1 Ivy) The streak is over. It had been 25 long years since the Crimson had last won in Jadwin Gym, which made Saturday’s 59-47 win

over Princeton that much sweeter. Add that on to a dominating 83-63 win over Penn on Friday, and Harvard now has a hammerlock on first place in

the Ancient Eight with four games to play.

(14-10, 8-2) Was Sunday’s 16-point loss to Columbia a deathblow to the Bulldogs’ title hopes? Not quite, but the road ahead looks daunting. Yale would likely need to win out —

beating Harvard at home in the process — to force a one-game playoff with the Crimson on a neutral

floor. A potential NIT bid seems far more likely.

(17-10, 6-4) Dead yet? Not quite. The Lions’ incredible season at home continued, as a weekend sweep of Brown and Yale keeps them at least within shouting distance of the Bulldogs for second place in

the standings. Three games back of Harvard, first place seems impossibly far away, but the one saving grace is a chance to take revenge on the Crimson on March 1.

(15-8, 3-6) Saturday’s ugly home loss to Harvard is just another sign of the dramatic power shift in the Ancient Eight. The Tigers only shot 34 percent from

the field against the Crimson, and have now lost five of their last eight contests. With five games left to play, Princeton will be hard-pressed to even reach

.500 in conference play.

(9-15, 2-8) Nothing new to see here. After falling by 10 to Princeton and nine to Penn, the Big Green are

now an ugly 1-15 when trailing at halftime. In the NFL, that kind of record would get you the first overall pick in next year’s draft, but in the Ivy League, all it’s good enough for is a six-game losing streak and a feeling of

hopelessness.

Graphic by Jenny Lu

(14-10, 6-4) After a narrow loss at Columbia, 70-68, the Bears barely avoided disaster the following evening in Ithaca. Only forward Cedric Kuakumensah’s monster

30-point, 14-rebound effort kept Brown from an embarrass-ing loss to cellar-dweller Cornell. Thanks to Kuakumensah, the Bears eked out an 81-75 overtime win and now have

matchups in Penn and Princeton coming up.

(2-22, 1-9) Give the Big Red credit for continuing to play hard, even though the dismissal of coach Bill

Courtney appears to be inevitable at this point. Devin Cherry played out of his mind in the Big Red’s 82-65 loss

to Yale, scoring 29 points on 11-17 shooting. The following night against Brown, Nolan Cressler poured in

34 points of his own in another losing effort.

(7-16, 4-5) After playing one of their ugliest games of the season against Harvard on Friday, the Quakers

followed up against Dartmouth on Saturday with one of their best. Five different Penn players scored in double figures in the 74-65 triumph, while the Red and Blue

took care of the ball far better: Penn only committed 11 turnovers on Saturday, compared to 20 on Friday.

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I, for one, welcome our new Crimson overlords

There used to be a time when Harvard and Dartmouth would come to the Palestra

and Penn basketball would have an easy sweep.

But times have changed.And while Penn still took

care of the Big Green on Sat-urday, Friday night was a clear

display of a new hierarchy in the Ivy League: Harvard ... and everyone else. And Penn needs to find a way to catch up.

The Crimson dominated ev-ery phase of Friday’s game, taking down the Quakers through a suffocating defense with pinpoint awareness and turning Penn’s mistakes into fastbreak opportunities with gusto.

Sophomore guard Siyani Chambers acted as the ring-leader for Harvard’s transition attack, using his trademark quickness to burst past Penn’s guards on the open floor while finding his teammates for easy points. Sam Sherman/Senior Staff Photographer

Coach Tommy Amaker and his Harvard squad swept both Princeton and Penn for the first time in the Crimson program’s history.

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SEE TYDINGS PAGE 7 SEE M. LACROSSE PAGE 7

BY RILEY STEELE

THREE UP, THREE DOWN: M. LACROSSE

From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ

Quakers host Hawks in home opener

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Penn senior high jumper Maalik Reynolds has been a consistently stellar performer, qualifying for NCAA championships four times in his illustrious career and earning a gold medal at the Pan-American Junior championships in 2011.

Reynolds is raising the bar

St. Joseph’s1-1 Tonight,7 p.m.

Franklin Field

It should come as no surprise that high-jumping is based on the art of avoiding the bar.

But in more ways than one, it is

also based on raising it.And senior high-jumper Maalik

Reynolds has spent the past four years doing just that for the Penn track program.

A three-time All-American with a Wikipedia page full of athletic achievements, Reynolds is the pre-miere upperclassman on a youth-heavy Penn program.

Reynolds now approaches his jumps with grace and precision, but his approach to this point in

his career has not always been this smooth.

Standing at a lanky 6-foot-6 tall, Reynolds looks like he was born to be a high-jumper, but he didn’t start competing in track and field until high school, when his eighth-grade science teacher suggested that he try high-jumping.

“I did it, and I was just kinda good at it,” Reynolds said. “So I stuck with it, and here I am.”

His leaping ability allowed him

to excel from the beginning, but Reynolds still had plenty of room for improvement. Throughout his college career, he has worked hard to become a technically sound jumper.

“He can really jump, but he’s

so long that he has a hard time rotating his frame over the bar,” high-jump coach Joe Klim said. “It’s really coming together, and he has really bought into it.”

TRACK & FIELD | The three-time All-American is making one last run at national honors

in the high jumpBY COLIN HENDERSONAssociate Sports Editor

SEE TRACK & FIELD PAGE 7

Reynolds is raising the bar his career has not always been

Standing at a lanky 6-foot-6 tall, Reynolds looks like he was born to be a high-jumper, but he didn’t

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