February 26, 2014

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Only eight percent of recorded Penn commencement speakers were women.

Jodie Foster, who spoke in 2006, was the only woman to speak at Commencement since 2000. Two

first ladies, Hillary Clinton and Barbara Bush, were the only fe-male speakers in the ‘90s. Online records of commencement speak-ers begin in 1938.

“It’s so shocking to me that a

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Body image in focus

For Commencement, female speakers are few and far

Students address body issues in Penn Poised’s ‘Come As You Are’ photography campaign

Ying Pan/Staff Photographer

College Freshman Emily Fisher poses at a Penn Poised photoshoot, with the message “I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul” written on her body as part of a the Poised: Come As You Are campaign promoting body positivty.

A recent study published in the Journal of Women & Aging found that only 12 percent of women are satisfied with their body image. 88 percent of women surveyed were

in the normal weight range.Penn Poised, a student organi-

zation on campus, started ‘Come As You Are’, a photography cam-paign hoping to stimulate conver-

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BY BRENDA WHANGDeputy News Editor

This past fall, Sayre High School students in a program called “Leaders of Change” ex-amined how Philadelphia and state schools function and came to a stark conclusion: Their school system is failing them. The theme that emerged, College sophomore and program volunteer Filippo Bulgarelli said, was that the stu-dents — all more involved and high-achieving than the aver-age Sayre student — knew that something was wrong with their school, but didn’t know how it was being addressed.

Bulgarelli said the students saw the problems first-hand: lack of academic opportunities and over-worked teachers — not to mention the poor conditions that permeate the city’s schools. These issues plague public schools in cities and rural areas throughout much of the nation, and Philadelphia is no exception.

Nationally, a movement has

In Philadelphia classrooms, national standards clash with local realities

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Female Commencement Speakers at Penn since 1938

2006JODIE FOSTER

Actress, Producer and Director

1993HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON

First Lady of the United States

1990BARBARA BUSH

First Lady of the United States

1988PATRICIA SCHROEDER

Congresswoman

1983ELLEN GOODMAN

Syndicated columnist

1978PATRICIA HARRIS

Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Development

1969LADY BARBARA WARD JACKSON

Albert Schweitzer Professor in theHumanities, Columbia University

1947FEBRUARY - JAMES CREESE

President, Drexel Institute of Technology

MARCH - CHESTER I. BARNARD President, New Jersey Bell Telephone Company

JUNE - MARGARET MEAD Associate Curator, AmericanMuseum of Natural History

AUGUST - EARL G. HARRISON Vice President in Charge of LawSchool

1945MARCH - ABRAHAM A. NEUMAN

President, Dropsie CollegeJUNE - THOMAS J.S. WAXTER

Public Welfare AdministratorJUNE - SAMUEL T. ORTON

Physician and InvestigatorJUNE - ARTHUR T. VANDERBILT

Dean of the Law School, New York University

OCTOBER - VIRGINIA C. GILDERSLEEVE Dean of Barnard College

1938 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2006

BY BOOKYUNG JOStaff Writer

One step at a time

BY LIANNA SERKOSenior Writer

Starting today, students will have access to the miracle of life — horse edition.

An eleven-year-old thorough-bred named My Special Girl is expecting to deliver her foal mid-March at the New Bolton Center Campus in Kennett Square, Penn-sylvania. Starting today, students can watch the live birth on Penn Vet’s website, but the father can’t — the sperm cell came from the frozen semen of a deceased stal-lion.

My Special Girl is a surrogate mare, pregnant with an egg from another horse. She was impreg-nated last April through intracy-toplasmic sperm injection, or ICSI.

“We want to give the public a behind-the-scenes look at the work we do at New Bolton Center, to al-low people to see our veterinarians,

technicians and staff doing their jobs,” Penn Vet Associate Dean for New Bolton Center Corinne Sweeney said. “New Bolton Center is a teaching hospital, and this is an educational opportunity.”

ICSI is a common infertility treatment for humans, but the pro-cedure is not as common in the equine population. The process entails injecting a single sperm cell into an egg, which is incubated for eight days and then transplanted into the mare.

“There are a handful ... of other places in the country who have produced live foals using this pro-cedure,” Penn Vet Associate Pro-fessor and Foal Cam coordinator Regina Turner said. She added that My Special Girl’s pregnancy is “special and rare.”

Equine ICSI was spearheaded by Colorado State and Texas A&M universities. The success of My Special Girl’s pregnancy will place

Penn Vet among the few that offer this advanced service.

“We want to join this select group and stay on the forefront of assisted reproduction by offering this service to our clients,” Turner said.

While Penn Vet is keeping the gender of the foal a secret, the school will be hosting a naming contest through Facebook and its website. The foal will be raised by My Special Girl for the first six months before being adopted by Penn Vet Assistant Professor of Large Animal Medicine Rose Nolen-Walston . A gormer Olym-pian of Canada’s Eventing team is slated to train the foal.

“We are very much looking for-ward to the birth of this foal, and to meeting the new member of our barn family,” Nolen-Walston said. “Given the lineage, this foal could grow up to be a terrific sport horse.”

Now streaming: my little in vitro pony

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DUI:Feb. 20, 2014: At 9:55 p.m.,

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Burglary:Feb. 17, 2014: Workers

arrived at the University Archives, located at 4015 Walnut St., and found that the maintenance shop door and lock had been damaged in an apparent attempt to gain unauthorized entry into the shop area. The in-cident reportedly occurred

on Feb. 15 at about 5:00 p.m.Feb. 20, 2014: An unaffili-

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Stevens finds the selection process to be opaque. “I don’t know what ‘s going through the minds of the people who are picking the commence-ment speakers,” she said. “I don’t know if they’ve reached out to women and they’ve de-clined.”

Leslie Kruhly, the Vice President and University Secretary who directs Com-mencement, said in an email that the commencement speaker selection process be-gins with nominations from the whole Penn community, including students. Student input mainly comes from two groups - the University Coun-cil Committee on Honorary Degrees and the Speaker Ad-visory Group, although stu-

dents may make independent nominations directly to the Office of the University Sec-retary. The Speaker Advisory Group includes students who represent different campus organizations.

The nominations are then considered and one speaker is selected by the Trustee Committee on Honorary De-grees and Awards, of which Penn president Amy Gut-mann is a member.

According to information provided by Kruhly, the Com-mittee tries to select a speak-er who “represents the great diversity of our community.”

“In addition to being a dist inguished indiv idual , the speaker must be an ac-complished public speaker and hold relevance for the diverse attendees at Com-mencement,” she wrote.

Col lege junior and UA member Joyce Kim repre-sents the United Minorities Council on the Speaker Ad-visory Group. “I think the gender disparity is pretty obvious [and is] something the Speaker Advisory Group should take into consider-ation,” she said.

The number of women com-mencement speakers is even lower at Harvard, which has only had eight women speak-ers since 1831. Some peer schools do not keep public records of commencement speakers on their websites. Others - like Brown, which selects graduating seniors to

speak - choose someone from their university community.

Stevens says it is impor-tant for Penn women to see successful women speaking at their graduation because “you can’t be what you can’t see,” she said, quoting the documentar y ‘Miss Rep-resentation’. “We have not achieved gender equity. We don’t have gender equity in our everyday lives.”

She also pointed out the need to have “all kinds of di-versity,” not just gender di-versity.

College junior and Presi-dent of the Penn Consortium of Undergraduate Women Elizabeth Britton, who was not speaking on behalf of the umbrella group and their constituents, said that more diversity in commencement speakers is needed to reflect the diversity found on cam-pus.

“If all the voices giving that last hurrah are male voices, it doesn’t really make sense,” she said.

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The Division of Public Safe-ty assisted the FBI in one of the 10 arrests of leaders of the Ironworkers Local 401 union, who called themselves “the Helpful Union Guys” or “THUGS” and have allegedly used violence to try to protect union jobs.

“Our police received a tip centered on an individual down on the eastern border of the Penn Patrol Zone,” Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said. “We noti-fied the FBI that the individual was located” and, after the

arrest, “helped transport him to the charging unit for further processing,” she added.

The FBI made the arrest around the area of 34th and Spruce streets and is in charge of future litigation for this in-dividual, as well as the other individuals arrested last Tues-day in relation to the ironwork-ers union.

The FBI alleges that the union members have cost contractors hundreds of thou-sands of dollars over at least three years through threats to protect union jobs by us-ing crowbars, setting fires, starting riots and undertak-ing other actions, according to

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Rush said that assisting in an arrest like this is not that rare. “There are times when other law enforcement agen-cies identify someone on a

warrant. It happens numerous times over a year,” she said.

Still, the effort of DPS did not go unnoticed or ungratified. “I received a phone call from the special agent in charge of the Philadelphia FBI office thank-ing us,” Rush said.

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THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE | Building robots that can decide not to kill is a step forward, not a step back

Failing the Bechdel test

Robots don’t kill people

Opinion

SIYUAN CAO is a College senior from Bronx, N.Y. Her email address is [email protected].

SARA, STRUGGLING | The presence of women on the big screen has not progressed much in more than 60 years

La st week I at-tended a seminar ent i t le d “ How to NOT build a Terminator” by

Ronald Arkin, director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Tech-nology. The talk explored how roboticists should approach the ethics of robots with le-thal autonomy, especially in light of increased military in-terest in robotics. Advocacy groups around the world are calling for preemptive actions ranging from a moratorium on robots capable of deadly force to a total ban on robot-ics research.

Especially over the past year, drones have been a constant source of both ex-citement and fear. From Am-azon Prime Air to “signature strikes” in Pakistan, drones have captured the public’s at-tention.

But as a roboticist, it frus-trates me that public conver-sations surrounding “killer

robots” have little to do with actual robotics. So, I’d like to address some common con-cerns and misconceptions about robots to help the dis-cussion be more productive.

First of all, I’m tired of reading headlines like “When will drones stop killing inno-cent people in Yemen?” or “U.S. drone struck a wed-ding convoy, killing 14” or “Drones Kill Civilians using NSA data.” While true in the most technical sense, head-

lines like these confuse the weapon with the soldier. Con-sider how strange it would be to see a headline like “When will guns stop killing civilians in Pakistan?”

We must stop assigning moral agency to UAVs or any similarly non-sentient tools. Drones cannot be morally culpable for their actions. Us-ing language attributing the actions of the operator to the machine needlessly distracts from the legitimate moral and legal concerns surrounding drone strikes.

So what about machines that can actually “decide” to kill a human?

Some groups like the Cam-paign to stop Killer Robots have been pushing for inter-national bans on “systems that, once activated, can se-lect and engage targets with-out further intervention by a human.”

I think their hearts are in the right place, but their ef-forts are being misdirected.

Let’s examine their largest “problems with killer robots”:

1. How do we maintain con-trol over fully autonomous weapons?

Arguably, robots are much easier to control than human soldiers. Autonomous robots act according to very rigid standards, unlike humans who have the capability to disobey orders.

2. Robots lack human judg-ment required to distinguish between soldiers and civil-ians.

Two words: land mines. Mines are very simple killer robots; they detect their en-vironments, make a decision and actuate with lethal force. My point is not that either is ethical, but the idea of deploy-ing weapons which cannot discriminate between friend and foe is nothing new to military ethics. To direct this critique solely at robots ironi-cally misses the real target.

If land mines are too simple an example, consider cruise

missiles. Cruise missiles are the quintessential killer robot of the modern arsenal. The commander on the field gives them a kill mission, and they autonomously navigate to, track and destroy their tar-get.

Clearly, we already deploy killer robots which don’t dis-criminate at all. It seems to me a step in the right direc-tion to introduce robots which can decide not to kill.

3. Replacing human troops with machines makes going to war easier, and hence more likely.

I sympathize with this very real concern, but again it’s nothing new. The invention of the musket was greeted in much the same way, as were most new warfare technolo-gies. Focusing all our efforts on banning the tool won’t re-move the underlying moral considerations or make war-fare more just.

Besides, it’s impossible to separate core technolo-

gies from their potential for military use. We can’t have GPS without the ability to do targeted remote strikes. We can’t have the internet (a military technology) without the capability for domestic surveillance. The capabilities Dr. Kumar is developing for search and rescue quadro-tors at Penn are the same skills required by seek-and- destroy robots. New technolo-gies can always be misused.

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

‘‘We must stop as-signing moral agen-

cy to UAVs or any similarly non-sen-tient tools. Drones cannot be morally

culpable for their ac-tions.”

Th is weekend I went to see the new superhero blockbuster, “Ro-bocop”. The film

was everything I expected: a predictable two-hour extrava-ganza of violence and tech-nology, with a slight hint of Gary Oldman (That is to say, a knock-off “The Dark Knight Rises.”).

About 20 minutes into the film, I jokingly muttered to myself, “Oh, look, a female character.”

In the 1980s, a comic in-spired the Bechdel test. It may have started out as a joke, but this test is at least a standard for analyzing gen-der inequality in films.

I’m not sure if my neigh-bors in the movie theater appreciated my sarcastic feminist witticisms inter-jected amongst the robotic carnage. But that didn’t stop me from muttering to myself

through the movie.According to the Bechdel

test, a film may be considered to “pass” if it satisfies three requirements.

Number 1: The film must have two named women.

Robocop passes this re-quirement by having the wife and then the female bad guy, the right-hand woman of the main bad guy. I was distract-ed by their hair and am really bad with names.

Congratulations. This mov-ie cost literally millions to make, so I’m glad they could afford four female characters.

Number 2: The two women must speak to each other.

Nope. None of the women even share screen t ime. There’s the wife, the evil side-kick, the police chief and the Gary Oldman side-kick.

They belong to the men in the narrative, and therefore have no reason to ever con-verse with anyone but their

men.Sadly, Robocop fails at this

step. Had it passed, I’m sure it wouldn’t pass the third

Number 3: This conversa-tion must cover something other than men.

Think of the last romcom you saw: Did the female char-acters ever have a conversa-tion about the weather? About politics? Did any of the two fe-male characters discuss work or puppies or the ideal baking temperature for chocolate-chip muffins?

Usually, no. These women sit around discussing the male lead. Now, as someone who just watched “Valentine’s Day,” I can’t really claim su-periority.

This test may seem overly-simplified, but Amy Bleakley, a research scientist at the An-nenberg Public Policy Center, notes that it has its uses.

“I think it’s a start,” she said. “I don’t think it’s a per-

fect test [but] at least it helps get this into the conversation and start the conversation” about the representation of women in films.

Sweden has even started including the Bechdel test in ratings of its films.

Bleakley also worked on a study that analyzed 855 films from the past six de-cades. The findings? Female on-screen presence has not

significantly changed since 1950. Does this mean we’re still living in the 1950s when it comes to the silver screen?

The study showed that for every female character, there are generally two male char-acters.

As Bleakley noted, women’s role in society has changed immensely in half of a cen-tury — but for some reason, the film industry just hasn’t caught up to reflect these new realities, she said.

It gets worse: One of the major changes the study picked up in di f ferences among presentation of women on screen is that they have be-come more sexualized. When these women are on screen, they are twice as likely to be in scenes that are sexual in nature.

Recently, Marvel’s Kevin Feige hinted that “The Aveng-ers 2” could lay the ground-work for a solo Black Widow

movie starring Scarlett Jo-hansson’s Natasha Romanov. This comes right after War-ner Bros hinted that we could expect a Wonder Woman mov-ie sometime soon.

Is it too much to ask that movies try a little bit harder to reflect reality? There are so many different types of di-versity that Hollywood fails at.

SARA SCHONFELD is a College senior from Philadelphia studying English. Email her at [email protected] or follow her @SaraSchon.

COLLIN BOOTS

SARA SCHONFELD‘‘Think of the last romcom you saw:

Did the female char-acters ever have a conversation about the weather? About

politics?”

Google, eBay and Anthro-pologie are taking part in a week-long conversation in digital marketing.

Muse, Penn’s student-run marketing organization, is hosting Muse E-Marketing and Engagement week, or MEME, running Monday, Feb. 24 to Friday, Feb. 28. The conference is meant to provide educational opportu-nities for students interested in digital marketing.

“It’s not your typical con-ference,” MEME founder and College junior Samantha Selldorff said.

The first four days of the conference feature hour-and-a-half-long workshops dedicated to a specific aspect of digital marketing includ-ing social, design, analytics and strategy. Executive Vice President of Data Fusion and Social TV Analytics at The Nielsen Company Mike Hess will be the keynote speaker on the final day.

The event runs alongside an internet-meme competi-tion where students can sub-mit creative Penn themed memes. The contest closes Feb. 27 and the winner, cho-sen by the number of Face-book likes, will have lunch with Hess.

The conference uses novel methods to engage students in a non-competitive envi-

ronment similar to an ac-tual workplace. Students will solve problems in teams and discuss digital marketing is-sues with associate to execu-tive-level professionals.

“Having gone to confer-ences at Penn, even ones hosted by Muse, I felt that they all had a very similar value composition,” Selldorff, who is also the Muse co-vice

president of promotions and web said. “You hear some-one speak, take notes and desperately get in line to get their card at the end.”

MEME Week is f illing a perceived gap in digital mar-keting education at Penn.

“In the Wharton curricu-lum in marketing, there are so few classes that engage with digital. If you want all

the skills you need to become a great digital marketer, you basically have to take one class in Engineering, one class in Wharton and one class in the College,” Sell-dorff said. “I felt that doing a digital marketing conference was extremely relevant and also necessary for students to get exposure to new and developing fields.”

She added that the stu-dents can take away a variety of skills from participating in MEME week. Those learned

on social day could be appli-cable to promoting student groups, and the analytics workshop may inspire stu-dents to enroll in a statistics course, she said.

“The thing I’m most ex-cited for is to see at the end who was excited about it, who really got value out of it ,” Selldorff said. “We want to create a community at Penn, through MEME, of people excited about engaging in new spaces that didn’t exist before.”

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sations on campus about the pervasiveness of body image problems. They took photos of students of all genders who had written about their physi-cal insecurities on their bodies and posted them to a Tumblr account.

“Body image concerns are a pretty common occurrence but it’s something that’s gener-ally tabooed to talk about,” said Laura MacKinnon, a senior in Engineering and a co-founder of Penn Poised. “I want people to get that it’s a universal thing that we deal with.”

“I walk by Pottruck and hear someone say ‘gotta burn off that piece of cake,’” she added.

The Come As You Are cam-paign is modeled after pho-tographer Steve Rosenfield’s “What I Be” project. Rosen-field’s subjects wrote on their bodies about the insecurities - ranging from abandonment to career to substance abuse - they seek to overcome.

“Subjects are putting their insecurities out in the open and exposing a side of themselves that nobody has seen before,” Rosenfield wrote of his project “By stating ‘I am not my _____,’ they are claiming that they do in fact struggle with these is-sues, but it does not define who they are as a person. ”

The coordinators already up-loaded some photos of them-selves on the blog as a starting point for the campaign, with phrases like “Suck it in,” and

“Piece of ass,” written on their body parts.

The founders also hope to celebrate the unique beauty of each person over conformity to societal standards of beauty.

“[Body image] is just arbi-trary,” Brianna Krejci, a Col-lege freshman and co-founder of Penn Poised, said . “Even so, everybody is expected to be working toward that image.” She pointed out that while Americans tan their skin, Thais often whiten theirs.

The campaign received more attention than the founders expected, w ith around 20 people volunteer-ing for the photo shoot.

As a recently founded group, Penn Poised intends to con-tinue shedding light on body image problems on campus.

“We’re all part of the problem and the solution,” MacKinnon said.

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Yesterday, eBay Creative Director Kate Lindeen spoke during the second day of Muse E-Marketing and Engagement Week, which centered around design. Each day of the week-long event addresses a different aspect of digital marketing.

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developed to impose uniform educational standards on public schools. In summer 2010, Penn-sylvania adopted the Common Core State Standards Initia-tive, which seeks to set national academic benchmarks. The Philadelphia School District is implementing the standards for the first time this school year.

But with the reality of a fund-ing crisis in the school district, some experts decry the asser-tion that the Common Core is of any true consequence in the city’s public schools. The dis-trict, which closed 23 schools last year and passed a “dooms-day budget” in May after many years of steady funding decline, consequently laid off over 3,000 employees. Philadelphia had to borrow $50 million just to open public schools on time in Sep-tember. This massive funding deficit creates a host of obsta-cles to fully implementing any-thing along the ambitious lines of the Common Core standards.

Donna Runner, the school district’s acting deputy for cur-riculum and assessment, thinks the major impediment to imple-menting the Common Core is a lack of adequate teacher train-ing, an issue which “springs from time and funding” short-falls, she said.

The funding issue is unsur-prisingly the ostensible seed from which most other impedi-ments to the Common Core grow. Though Runner would only speak gently on the subject, the district struggles to get ba-sic materials for schools.

With a lack of such fundamen-

tal necessities, it seems laugh-able to critics that discussion of the Common Core even be broached. Helen Gym, an edu-cation activist and co-founder of Parents United for Public Education, considers the imple-mentation of the Common Core a goal for the future, not the present.

Gym, a College and Gradu-ate School of Education alumna who was named The Philadel-phia Inquirer’s “Citizen of the Year” in 2007 for her work in improving public education in the city, said that while the Common Core has a number of admirable elements, the dearth of resources and preparation is impossible to ignore. Less than 50 percent of Philadelphia public school teachers, for example, have more than five years of teaching experience.

“There’s a massive discon-nect between what people at the national level want to tout and the reality on the ground,” Gym said. “The most disappointing thing about the Common Core nationwide is that it has never walked itself down to a basic public school in D.C., Detroit, New York or Philadelphia.”

‘Implementation hard to imagine’

The Common Core standards “offer a more integrative ap-proach to student learning, with an emphasis on higher-level comprehension skills and tex-tual argument in reading and writing,” said Diane Waff, a pro-fessor at Penn’s GSE.

The Philadelphia School Dis-

trict has integrated the stan-dards in literacy and math into the curricula of kindergarten through high school, as re-quired by the state, and exams in these particular subject areas will measure the relative suc-cess of the program. In grade 11, exams based on Common Core

standards in algebra, literature and biology will replace the cur-rent annual standardized test-ing system.

For the 2011-2012 academic year — the most recent for which data is available — nearly 30 percent of students in Phila-delphia public schools were be-

low basic math proficiency and nearly 35 percent were below basic reading proficiency, as measured by the old exam. The Common Core aims to alter this trajectory.

While the Common Core pro-vides a set of general national academic benchmarks, the specifics are nuanced and can differ from state to state. Within Pennsylvania, implementation is further fragmented, with each school district determining its “own pathway to reaching the

standards,” Waff said.With such vagary in proce-

dural implementation, individ-ual schools within the school district operate not on a single set of standards, but rather a more idiosyncratic interpreta-tion of the initiative.

Because of the divide be-tween national guidelines and local experience, activist groups like Gym’s don’t even consider the Common Core a matter of primary focus. “We’re so far below any level of standards of basic funding in Philadelphia schools that we can’t even talk about the Common Core,” Gym said.

“I’m not being cynical about the Common Core and I’m not saying that it can’t be imple-mented,” she added. “It’s just that the current status of Phila-delphia public schools makes the implementation hard to imagine any time soon.”

Change is hard to come byThis notion resonates with

Penn student volunteers who have experience in Philadelphia classrooms. Through campus organizations like Community School Student Partnerships and the West Philadelphia Tu-toring Project, volunteers have gained insight into academic progress between previous years and the present — a time period over which the Common Core has technically been im-plemented.

CSSP senior staff — Penn students who spend a minimum of 6 to 8 hours on site per week — work both in classrooms dur-ing the day and at after-school enrichment programs.

The only thing that has changed in Philadelphia classrooms, CSSP marketing coordinator Dominique Bynoe-Sullivan said, is the size of the classes — in that they’ve gotten bigger. The College sophomore added that at the Lea School at 4700 Locust St., where she has

mentored the last two school years, there is a mix of teachers from the recently closed Wilson Elementary School and teach-ers from Lea. “Adding a new curriculum on top of that is not going to help,” Bynoe-Sullivan said.

Bulgarelli, who is the internal affairs coordinator for CSSP and a mentor at Sayre, locat-ed at 58th and Walnut streets, echoed this sentiment. “There are students at Sayre whose schedules weren’t set until No-vember, so they were moving around classrooms,” Bulgarelli said. “If teachers don’t know ex-actly what they’re teaching and who they’re teaching ... it’s re-ally difficult to implement a new program.”

Administrators at both Sayre and Lea did not respond to in-terview requests for this article.

Engineering junior Emily Ol-son, who volunteers with WPTP, said she perceives the problem to be a lack of commitment to go through the growing pains of change, along with more basic issues of day-to-day function-ality. When Olson volunteered at Shaw Middle School, for ex-ample, it seemed as though the teacher’s main focus was keep-ing the students in their seats, giving them menial tasks just to get through the day, she said. Shaw was one of the 23 schools to close in 2013.

Referring to a teacher whose class she mentored last year,

Olson said, “If told to implement the Common Core curriculum, she would probably nod her head and say OK, but see it as unrealistic to try something new when she can’t even get the ba-sic stuff.”

In schools that truly are implementing elements of the Common Core, it is not always clear that the outcome is aca-demic enrichment. College sophomore Akailah Jennings, who is the incoming CSSP site coordinator for the Comegys

School at 5100 Greenway Ave., will act as a liaison between Comegys mentors and teach-ers. In her classroom experi-ence, she noted that students are learning how to take the statewide tests required at the end of the year, not necessarily learning the material, and that the students she mentors rarely, if ever, have homework.

College junior Samantha Antrum, who mentors at both Sayre and Comegys and is transitioning to the position of CSSP assistant director, agreed that since last spring semester, schools have increased their focus on the state exams that the Common Core imposes. “The emphasis has continued throughout the year, but I’m not sure they’ve said, ‘There’s this Common Core curriculum and that’s why you’re prepar-ing for and taking [the exam],’” Antrum said.

Gym, the parent activist, is aligned in the belief that public schools are using the exams as the main impetus to learn specific subjects, but noted that even in that capacity the district is floundering.

“When you have one set of standards but different ways to implement them, reliance on standardized testing to as-sess progress is problematic,” Gym said. “Are you wedded to the learning of the child or just cramming it in for the sake of standards?”

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Though the Penn men’s and women’s tennis teams achieved mostly mediocre results last year, combining to go 3-11 in Ivy play, there were plenty of happy mo-ments to go around at both the individual level. Let’s go through the Quaker’s top five moments of 2013:

1. Dominant at doublesThen-sophomore Sol Es-

kenazi and then-freshman Sonya Latycheva put up a stellar season for the Red and Blue at f irst doubles. The duo compiled a laundry list of accomplishments, in-cluding a 15-3 final record, unanimous f irst team All-

Ivy honors and a trip to the NCAA tournament.

T hou g h E ske n a z i a nd Latycheva lost in the f irst round of NCAAs to Oklaho-ma State’s Kanyapat Narat-tana and Malika Rose, 6-4, 6-3, all signs point to a re-turn trip this season.

2. Bye-bye Big GreenPenn men’s tennis knew

that defending its perfect 7-0 home record would be tough with No. 70 Dartmouth coming to the Hamlin Tennis Courts. And it took every last bit of effort to keep that re-cord alive for one more day. Then-freshman Blaine Wil-lenborg’s three-set victory at fourth singles clinched a 4-3 match win.

“It was great for us to pick up our first Ivy League win,” coach David Geatz said after the match. “Dartmouth is a ranked team, and to beat them is just phenomenal.”

3. Stellar in the Sunshine State

Pen n women’s t en n i s ’ spring break trip to Florida wasn’t just for getting a tan — it was for getting a trio of key victories on the road. The Red and Blue easily han-dled James Madison, Stetson and Florida Gulf Coast over the course of five days, win-ning all three matches by a combined score of 15-5.

“This team is really be-coming a team of fighters. They have a team cohesive-ness that you want to see as a coach,” coach Sanela Kunovac said after the trip. “I’m just really happy how they support each other and push through it.”

4. Six is sweetPenn men’s tennis f in-

ished up 2013 with a sterling 8-2 home record brought on in no small part by a blister-ing hot streak during non-conference play. In a stretch

that spanned nearly a month, the Quakers won six straight contests at home, defeating six different teams from six different conferences.

Then-junior Zach K atz played a critical role, win-ning four of his five singles matches during the winning streak.

5. Owls? Don’t give a hoot.Penn women’s tennis was

unintimidated by a Mar. 23 home matchup against Big 5 rival Temple, easily sweep-ing aside the Owls, 7-0. With the win, Penn improved its record to 8-3, good enough for the program’s best start since 2006. Then-sophomore Alex Ion’s easy 6-0, 6-0 win at number five singles was emblematic of the Quakers’ afternoon dominance.

“I believe they had a quiet confidence,” Kunovac said after the match. “It wasn’t in your face, but that was just what we needed.”

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started being more consistent on offense ... and we got some stops on defense and all of the sudden 3-3 became 10-3 then 12-3.”

While the offense completed its shots and put points up on the board, the defense did its part to prevent another St. Joe’s goal until the fourth period.

Led by senior goalkeeper Bri-an Feeney, the defense stopped almost everything that came at it despite the Hawks long pos-sessions.

“The unit’s been playing together for so long,” Danny Feeney said. “It’s actually my brother in net, he’s like an un-stoppable force, like a brick wall so kudos to those guys, they were unbelievable.”

In addition to the defense, the midfield also proved to be a valuable asset. Junior Joe Mc-Callion racked up two goals, the first in the first and the second in the fourth period.

Overall though, 12 members of the Red and Blue got through St. Joe’s goalkeepers Dustin Keen and T.J. Jones, with junior Isaac Bock and MCallion scor-ing twice each.

“That’s kind of the way we play,” Murphy said. “It’s not like we have an offense that’s based on two or three guys, or one midfielder, we just keep coming at you in waves and if you want to take certain things away from us you are just going to give us something else.”

After a loss to No. 1 Duke, the Red and Blue showed their strength against the Hawks.

M. LACROSSE from page 8

12 different Quakers

tally goals

into that role right away and be trusted that I can help out the team,” Nardella said. “I’m just trying to do my best to contribute.”

R ounding out the f ive freshmen is Memphis’ own Marshall Sharp, a College student who is currently dealing with a hip flexor is-sue. Before suffering his in-jury, Sharp contributed at the No. 5 singles role and also frequently played in the No. 2

or 3 doubles pairs.Although they come from

different areas of the coun-try, some of the freshmen knew each other from earlier youth tennis and recruiting events.

“I went on my official vis-it here to Penn with Matt Nardella,” Spratt said. “Mar-shall Sharp, I’ve known him since I was about twelve years old because he’s from the South as well. We played a lot of Southern tourna-ments together.”

All of the freshmen are excited for the team’s up-coming spring break trip to California.

“[We’re] really looking for-ward to the spring break trip. We’re going to go to Cali-fornia and play about three

teams,” Spratt said. “Every-one should be fired up. We won’t have to worry about class being on break.

“I think we’ll be able to stay focused, get a couple wins there and come back with a lot more confidence for the rest of the spring.”

Overall, Geatz seems hap-py with his freshmen play-ers and hopes his team can overcome its injuries in the coming weeks.

“I think it was a great recruiting class we had,” Geatz said. “Unfortunately, we have so many guys hurt. Those guys are all really good players.

“If we can stay injury-free, we have a really good team. If we don’t , it’ll be a long year.”

FRESHMEN from page 8

Freshmen involved early for Quakers

One thing is for sure, De Alwis loves playing in college. It has given him a change of pace from the lonely “you against the world” mentality that is required to play in the

ITF circuit.“It’s the team aspect,” De

Alwis said. “You feel l ike you’re playing for your team and not for yourself ... I enjoy playing in college way more.”

De Alwis will look to play at the No. 2 spot for the re-mainder of the season after a bumpy pre-season fall season, a campaign marked by close losses and inconsistency.

But the college season is now underway, a circuit where De Alwis’ international ex-perience and prowess is on

display.De Alwis has a certain phi-

losophy about college competi-tion, one that Geatz admires from his No. 2 player.

“I want to play as high as possible,” De Alwis said. “I learned a lot from [that cam-paign] and have been working hard with coach Geatz , but I think it’s always more im-portant to play where [your] coach puts you.

“It’s important to go out there, no matter where you’re at and just play your ass off.”

DE ALWIS from page 8

Sophomore looks to hold

onto No. 2 spot

will play in their 10-game slate.It will be the first ever trip to

Florida for Penn, and its first trip outside of the northeast since 2004 when they beat San Diego, 61-18.

Local rival Villanova re-mains on the Quakers’ non-conference schedule again this year, coming to Franklin Field for Penn’s home opener on Sept. 27. The Red and Blue begin Ivy play a week later, fac-ing Dartmouth up in Hanover, N.H.

The Quakers then conclude their nonconference slate against Fordham, a squad that won 12 games in 2013 while besting two Ivy opponents (Columbia and Yale) by a com-bined score of 104-38.

Penn then plays the rest of its season against Ivy oppo-nents, taking on Columbia at home on Oct. 18 and Yale in New Haven on Oct. 25.

This year’s homecoming game will come against Brown, the team that beat Penn, 27-0, last season to begin the Quak-

ers’ four-game losing streak to end the season.

Penn follows that up with a trip to Princeton to face the Tigers before returning home for its final game at Franklin Field against Harvard.

The season concludes up in Ithaca, N.Y., as the Red and Blue play Cornell on Nov. 22.

Penn’s annual Spring Game is on April 5 this year. The Quakers will have to address multiple holes in their roster,

as graduating seniors leave Penn with question marks at quarterback, offensive line and defensive back.

With the Spring Game, Penn has the chance to address those gaps, and players like freshman quarterback Alek Torgersen and sophomore cor-nerback Kenny Thomas will get a chance to continue prov-ing themselves after making a big impact late in the 2013 season.

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Quakers to face six-game

road slate

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Penn football won’t be spending all that much time at Franklin Field this season, as the Quakers are scheduled to play six of their 10 games in 2014 on the road.

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Senior attack Danny Feeney put Penn up on St. Joseph’s early Tuesday, scoring just six seconds into the contest to set the tone in a 14-4 Quakers victory.

Tennis SCHEDULEMen women

DATESun, Mar 09Tue, Mar 11Wed, Mar 12Sat, Mar 15Sun, Mar 16Sat, Mar 22Wed, Mar 26Sat, Mar 29Sat, Apr 05Sun, Apr 06Sat, Apr 12Sun, Apr 13Fri, Apr 18Sat, Apr 19Sun, Apr 20

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DATEFri, Feb 28Mon, Mar 10Tue, Mar 11Thu, Mar 13Fri, Mar 13Sat, Mar 22Sat, Mar 29Fri, Apr 04Sat, Apr 05Sat, Apr 12Sun, Apr 13Fri Apr 18Sun Apr 20

OPPONENTDrexelFairleigh DickinsonGonzagaNiagaraUC IrvineTemplePrinceton*Brown*Yale*Dartmouth*Harvard*Columbia*Cornell*

LOCATIONPhiladelphia, Pa.at Palm Springs, Calif.at Palm Springs, Calif.at Palm Springs, Calif.at Irvine, Calif.Philadelphia, Pa.at Princeton, N.J.at Providence, R.I.at New Haven, Conn.Philadelphia, Pa.Philadelphia, Pa.at New York, N.Y.Philadelphia, Pa.

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Reflecting on the Red and Blue’s top five moments

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Junior Sol Eskenazi will be looking to improve on a banner 2013 season that saw her make an appearance in the NCAA doubles tournament.

TENNIS | Up-and-down seasons for Quakers saw winning streaks, individual triumphs

BY IAN WENIKSports Editor

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2014 PAGE 7SPORTSTHE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

Penn men’s tennis is approach-ing the heart of its schedule, which means that now is a perfect opportu-nity to introduce the freshmen who will be helping the team compete throughout the spring.

Coach David Geatz and his staff successfully recruited f ive new freshmen from across the country.

First, there is Daniel Harris. A student in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harris hails from Kingston, Jamaica but went to high school in New Jersey.

Stu Little calls Columbus, Ohio his home, and he earned first team All-State honors three times while helping his high school team win three state tennis titles.

Little is currently out with ar-thritis in his knee, but he keeps a positive attitude and encourages his

teammates.“It’s been great ,” Litt le said.

“We’ve got a really strong recruiting class, and we’re all from ... different areas of the country. It’s good coming in and meeting some new people.”

Another member of the crew is Thomas Spratt from Charleston, S.C. Spratt has contributed at the No. 3 doubles spot alongside sophomore Austin Kaplan this season. One of the tallest players on the team at 6-foot-6, Spratt says that the step up from high school to collegiate tennis is a definite challenge.

“Everyone you play is just so much better than they were in high school, so every match you have to come out playing your best tennis or else you kind of just get run over,” Spratt said.

College student and New Yorker Matt Nardella — whose twin brother plays for Lehigh — has consistently played alongside senior co-captain Nikola Kocovic at the No. 1 doubles spot this spring. Nardella usually plays the No. 3 or No. 4 spot in the singles lineup as well.

“It’s been nice being able to step

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Vim De Alwis against the world Double the trouble, double the fun

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Penn sophomore Vim De Alwis has had a remarkably global journey with the game of tennis. A native of Sri Lanka, De Alwis has sharpened his skills around the world from Africa to Indonesia, competing in high-level events such as the Junior Australian Open and the Davis Cup. Despite his world travels, he has settled down and found a home with his team at Penn.

M. LACROSSE | Senior twins help Penn smash St.

Joe’s for 11th straight time in home opener

BY ALEXIS ZIEBELMANAssociate Sports Editor

Double double toil and trouble.Trouble is exactly what the Feeney

twins and Penn men’s lacrosse brought to St. Joseph’s on Tuesday night.

After winning the game’s opening face off, senior attack Danny Feeney charged to the goal and scored - all within a mere six seconds. It was a sign of things to come.

“I was able to get it forward and they guys were on my back pretty hard so good for them for being pretty fast, but I had a free left hand shot and I took it, closed my eyes and shot,” Danny Feeney said.

“That was big because last week we didn’t face off so well,” coach Mike Murphy said.

While the match was close through-out the first quarter, the Quakers ul-timately dominated the game, pulling away in a 14-4 victory.

“We just kind of stuck to the plan and it was nice to see us do that because except for our clearing game, we really played well on every phase.”

Only two minutes after Feeney’s first strike, Hawks (1-2) junior Ryan McGee scored his first goal of the night to knot the score at one. But McGee, who ended up collecting a hat trick, ended up being the lone bright spot for St. Joes on the night.

Both teams went back and forth early, exchanging goals in the first period. It seemed as if for the first time in 11 meetings, St. Joe’s had a chance to overpower the Quakers (1-1).

However, the tide changed after a critical time out.

“Coach brought us in during a time out and told us to calm down, told us to keep our pace, set the pace and we didn’t freak out and it paid off,” Feeney said.

“Once we settled down we just kind of stopped them,” Murphy said. “Then we

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Vim De Alwis doesn’t always talk about his life, but when he does, he tells a remarkable story.

De Alwis, a sophomore, is a Sri Lankan native with a very calm and personable demeanor. Every-thing that comes out of his mouth and off of his racquet has an ease and precision in it. De Alwis had an interesting path to Penn, including stops for international play and

chances to learn the game in other countries.

De Alwis’ journey in tennis began at the age of four in Malawi, Africa. It was where his family was located at the time, thanks to his father’s career working for Lipton Iced Tea. Racquet sports were not unusual to the De Alwis family.

“My dad actually played squash and tried to go professionally,” De Alwis said. “So, at the sports club he used to play squash — you know young kids don’t really play squash — and when he used to play squash, I would take tennis lessons and I’ve been playing tournaments since I was under six.”

De Alwis’ family eventually ended up in Indonesia, where he spent his

time playing tennis before coming to the States. Not unfamiliar to those in the tennis world, De Al-wis competed in the International Tennis Federation (ITF) circuit, which took him all over the world for competition.

De Alwis even competed in the 2012 ITF Junior Australian Open and the Davis Cup for Sri Lanka, which can be seen as the ‘World Cup of Tennis,’ and while Sri Lanka was not in the World Group that year (the group that competes for the world title), it was a major accom-plishment to be recognized as one of the best players in the country.

“I played the Aussie Open in January and I played Davis Cup in February,” De Alwis said. “Both

of those experiences were the two highlights of my career. It was re-ally cool just to get exposed to the players at that level.”

After competing internationally, De Alwis played a showcase tourna-ment at Yale alongside other highly touted players, with Penn coach David Geatz watching on.

“In the summer of 2011 ... that’s when coach Geatz came and watched me,” De Alwis said. “I ac-tually won that tournament there. That’s when I started talking to him.

“I really like Coach Geatz , and that’s pretty much the reason I came to Penn.”

M. TENNIS | Penn sophomore Vim De Alwis has settled down at Penn

after extensive world travelsBY JIMMY LENGYELL

Senior Staff Writer

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Penn football schedule released

Nonconference schedule includes Quakers’ first trip

outside of the east coast since 2004 seasonBY STEVEN TYDINGSSenior Sports Editor

While Florida is the destination for many with spring break on the horizon, Penn football is going to the Sunshine State a little later than most.

The Quakers released their schedule for the 2014 season, and the team’s season opener is a road game at Jacksonville on Sept. 20, one of six road games the Red and Blue

Red and Blue welcome diverse freshman class M. TENNIS | Injury-

ridden Quakers rely on five incoming freshmen to contribute in various roles

BY DANIEL RICHStaff Writer

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Penn coach David Geatz has successfully recruited five incoming freshmen from across the country and will rely on them to contribute to his injury-ridden team immediately. SEE FRESHMEN PAGE 7

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