November 19, 2014

ADVICE FROM PENN’S BEST INSTRUCTORSESTHER YOON / STAFF WRITER

The School of Arts and Sciences wants to know what students think makes a good teacher.Nominations opened this week for the 2015 SAS Teaching Awards, a set of awards given to professors and TAs who go beyond the call of duty in their roles. The Daily Pennsylvanian

asked past winners to sound off on what they think constitutes exceptional teaching.

PracticabilityJustin Bleich, a statistics TA and 2013 award winner mentioned the importance of keeping the material not only relevant but also useful for post-college life. “I taught from the perspective of wanting to build a toolbox that [students] can take out in the real world,” he explained. “I realized that most students aren’t going to take more statistics courses so how can I give a toolset to all these kids?”

Personability“I think I have always felt it was really important to bring knowledge and hard thinking to class so that I am really not that concerned with being popular in class,” Timothy Corrig-an, a 2014 award winner, said. But Corrigan said that even in his larger lectures he strives to learn the names of all his students.

“This is so that the class becomes about me know-ing who you are, knowing your work, knowing what your strengths and weaknesses are,” Corrigan said. “There’s a really important personal dimension to [teaching] as well.”

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This week’s meeting of Stu-dents for Justice in Palestine began as usual. Students ate falafel and chatted in English, Arabic and even Spanish. I sat next to Jane Wu who, like many of the students I spoke with over the course of the evening, had heard about the event online and decided to attend because “we don’t really get to see as many really personal experiences from people on the ground” in Pales-tine.

The evening’s guests were Hala Khalil and Ahmad Shwieke, two Palestinian stu-dents from Birzeit University ,

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One student group is ‘Ready

for Hillary’

While Democrats lost the senate in the midterm elections, Democratic stu-dents have a plan for how to keep the White House in 2016: Hillary Clinton.

Penn Ready for Hillary, a student-led group that was formed at the begin-ning of the semester, has become an active political group on campus. The group acts as a campus representative of Ready for Hillary, a national super political action committee that raises and spends money in an eff ort to elect Clinton in 2016, if she decides to run.

“This organization is completely centered around action,” College soph-omore and Penn for Hillary’s Director of External Aff airs Paul-Julien Burg said. “Penn for Hillary is really an or-ganization to promote being engaged in politics. It’s also making sure that the

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For students in Palestine, a tough path to graduation

Debate team, PETA clash over animal experimentation

DAVID CAHNContributing Writer

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Did you know that over 365,000 animals are used in experiments at Penn?

On Tuesday evening, a crowd of Penn students gath-ered in Huntsman Hall to hear the University of Pennsylva-nia Speech and Debate team argue in favor of animal ex-perimentation at Penn. Their opponents? Justin Goodman, the Director of Laboratory Investigations at PETA, and Aysha Akhtar, the author of Animals and Public Health: Why Treating Animals Better is Critical to Human Welfare.

Goodman talked about and showed pictures of ex-periments that took place at

Penn like testing cocaine ad-diction in rats, the eff ect of vision loss on dogs and in-vasive brain experiments on primates.

Akhtar, who also works at the Food and Drug Adminis-tration, argued that there is a diff erence between research and experimentation, and

while research is acceptable, experimentation is not. “If you volunteer for a clinical

The debate took place at Huntsman Hall on TuesdayCLARE CONNAUGHTON

Contributing Writer

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PETA Director of Laboratory Investigations Justin Goodman takes the podium in opposition of animal testing. PETA is widely known for its radical stance on the use of animals in research.

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Registration for the 2015 Hult Prize, the world’s largest student start-up incubator, has just come to a close. Now the

teams, who are eligible for a $1 million prize, must race to come up with a solution to this year’s challenge.

The 2015 challenge asks teams of fi ve to create a sus-tainable and adaptable model that poses a solution to the early childhood education gap for children from birth to age six. Contestants vying for the Hult Prize can be from any age group, from undergraduate freshman to alumnae.

Campus director for the Hult Prize and Engineering sophomore Molly Wang be-lieves that this prize is not only unique for its sizeable mon-etary reward.

“The cool part is not only that the end prize is $1,000,000, which is way big-ger than other social impact

competition,” Wang said. “It’s giving people real incentive to look at how a business can be profi table but also work to-ward a greater social good.”

Wang also hopes that this collaborative opportunity will bring together the Penn com-

A fast track to $1 million for your social start-upHult Prize challenges teams to fi nd solutions

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Fifteen Title IX complaints fi led

against Penn since 2002

HARRY COOPERMAN City News Editor

Fifteen Title IX complaints have been fi led against Penn since 2002, although federal offi cials did not fi nd against the University in any of the cases, accord-ing to recently released data.

The data was obtained by the Har-vard Crimson through a Freedom of Information Act request and pub-lished Tuesday night. According to the Crimson’s database , the Department of Education’s Offi ce for Civil Rights found that seven of the complaints fi led against Penn lacked suffi cient detail to fi nd that Penn had discriminated against someone because of their gender and one allegation lacked suffi cient evi-dence.

The most recent allegation against Penn was fi led on Jan. 13, 2014, and was resolved on March 6, 2014. The Offi ce

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At 10 years old, Steven Shapiro thought he had his life planned out. He was going to be pre-med in col-lege, go to medical school and then settle down as a practicing physician.

This all changed during his se-nior year as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania. Even though he had completed his pre-med requirements, he decided to pursue his passion for history and go law school at Penn. Today Shapiro manages $22 billion as cofounder of GoldenTree Asset Management LLC. He gave a talk called “A Hap-py Guy in Distressed … From Pre-Med to JD to Distressed Investing,” at Penn Law School on Tuesday about his diverse career path

“Maintain optionality in life,” he emphasized.

After receiving his JD, he worked as a bankruptcy lawyer at Stroock & Stroock & Laven, and enjoyed

the fi nance part of his job. He left and eventually became the director of the Media and Telecommunica-tions Research at the Canadian Im-perial Bank of Commerce .

He later founded GoldenTree Asset Management and currently oversees GoldenTree’s distressed investments and media and com-munications investments .

At GoldenTree, he has tried to create an environment where

people share the same values and prioritizes mental health. For him, success and productivity stems from maintaining a healthy work environment.

Despite the $22 billion, Shapiro also insisted that it is important to consider more than fi nancial gain when choosing a career.

“Everybody has diff erent ends. Whether your job is in banking or law, your job is only a means to an

end. Money is the worst reason to choose a job, and it should not be an end you strive for,” he said.

Logan Wyman, a 3rd year law student, agreed with Shapiro and en-joyed his talk.

“It was a great discussion of both the applicability of a law degree to a complex and interesting industry, as well as the importance of personal values and goal setting in a success-ful professional career.”

The career path less traveled had lots of forks, alum says

Steven Shapiro, founder of GoldenTree Invest-ments, spoke Tuesday

KENDRA HONGContributing writer

Steven Shaipro from GoldenTree Asset Management spoke about law and entrepreneurship at a lecture sponsored by the Institute for Law and Economics, the Wharton School, and the Department of Economics.

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hopeful-President Hillary Clinton will have an established network that can help her.”

While early eff orts this semes-ter focused on the Penn commu-nity, Penn for Hillary has recently began to look beyond Penn. In the last month, the group has teamed up with students from Drexel Uni-verisity and Bryn Mawr College to canvass and “discuss strategies for building and increasing support on both of our campuses,” Mitchell McVeigh, College sophomore and co-president of Penn for Hillary, said .

Clinton has consistently re-mained the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. Accord-ing to an October poll by ABC News/Washington Post in Iowa, a crucial state for any presidential candidate, 63.4 percent of Demo-crats support Clinton, 11.4 percent support Vice President Joe Biden and 9.8 percent support Sen. Eliz-abeth Warren (D-MA).

While the election remains near-ly two years away, initial eff orts by Democratic supporters have so-lidifi ed Clinton as the Democratic frontrunner, with college campuses playing an integral role.

“A lot of the work we are doing of working with students for Hill-ary is really to build this group and

movement from the ground up, to run this campus organization, and to get out there and spread the word,” Rachel Schneider, direc-tor of Ready for Hillary’s Young Americans program, said. “We are building a national movement to show Hillary the support she has all over the country and that people want to see her run, and to build the kind of base that people need should she run for president.”

“The University of Pennsylvania students for Hillary team has actu-ally been one of our strongest, and it has been really exciting to see the work that students are doing on your campus,” Schneider added.

Ready for Hillary has an early lead in fundraising and support. According to the Federal Elec-tion Commission, Ready for Hill-ary raised $2 million and spent $2.1 million from July 1 to Sept. 30. In contrast, RAND PAC, a super PAC supporting potential presidential nominee Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), raised $480,363 and spent $598,000 during the same period. RAND PAC did not re-spond to a request for comment.

“I strongly believe she will be our best candidate going forward, even if you don’t agree with every-thing she believes in,” Burg said. “There is so much to do, and the very least Penn for Hillary can of-fer is a network of people who are all interested in these issues.”

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trial, you are doing research… there is a difference between tak-ing people and animals against their will, that is experimenta-tion.”

Penn Speech and Debate, ar-guing in support of the practice, compared animal research to parenthood. “We’re not going to ban parenthood just because there are abusive parents, so we aren’t going to ban the entire ani-mal testing in the University just because there are bad examples of animal testing,” the team ar-gued.

They also argued animals do not have rights because animals are not autonomous, cannot self legislate or afford researchers re-spect. Researchers, on the other hand, have the obligation to re-spect animals.

Before the debate, Penn Speech and Debate specified that they did not necessarily agree with the argument they presented but were presenting the counter argument as an intellectual exer-

cise.PETA approached the Speech

and Debate Team and suggested a debate, hoping to raise aware-ness among students. “A lot of students don’t realize that most of what happens in laboratories is funded by their tax dollars. National Institutes of Health has a budget of $30 billion and 47% of that goes to experimenta-tion on animals,” Goodman said. “The issue is a debate that is dominated by people who abuse their authority and defend it in the absence of any real evidence that experimentation on animals helps people.”

College sophomore and Vice President of Penn Speech and Debate Adam Adnane said he was drawn to the topic because he is a pre-med student and ani-mal experimentation is preva-lent in his studies. “I’m doing research in radiology, and just last week we experimented on mice and had to euthanize them. It’s an awkward position because you don’t know if it’s the best way to go about getting results for other human beings.”

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a private university in the West Bank. Khalil, age 20, and Shwieke, age 22, are representatives of “Right to Education,” a Palestinian group dedicated sharing “Student Voices from Occupied Palestine.” They joined eight other Palestin-ian students who are on a speak-ing tour of US colleges sponsored by National Students for Justice in Palestine.

“I want to talk about the edu-cation in Birzeit and how it’s vio-lated. The education in Birzeit is violated in two ways: first the so-cial life in Birzeit and second the teaching and research,” Khalil told

the audience.Throughout the discussion, the

theme of violation was repeated.Khalil and Shwieke offered a

brief historical context – explain-ing that in 1948 Palestinians were driven from their homes. Today, life is complicated for Palestinian students living in the West bank, 64% of whom must travel through checkpoints with Green Visas, which distinguish them as Pales-tinians, to get to school.

“If you have the Green ID, which I have, you can’t pass check-points unless you have permis-sion,” she explains.

The audience spent much of the Q&A asking Khalil and Shwieke personal questions. What are they

studying? Law. What are their plans for after college? Shwieke plans to get a PhD abroad and wants to “do something that will be of benefit to my home country.”

Khalil played a video with foot-age from a recent “break-in” at their University. The video is in Arabic, but in the background, Israeli tanks and soldiers are approaching the campus. Shwieke also talked about recently controversy over Palestin-ian textbooks. He played a video of Hillary Clinton condemning edu-cational materials that “glorifies a culture of martyrdom.”

This comment was met with sneers from the audience, and the video concludes, “the right to edu-cation starts with the right to set

and study your own narrative.”The audience asked what they

could do to get involved. The speakers advocated for BDS, a policy platform of includes boy-cott, divestment and sanctions on Israel.

Engineering senior Lauren Ballester, an organizer of the event, was happy with how the event played out. The “lived nar-rative makes it a lot more genuine and a lot more relatable,” she said. Ballester counted 70 students in at-tendance, a “pretty good turnout.”

After leaving Penn, Shwieke and Khalil will be speaking at col-leges in New York and New Jersey before returning home to Birzeit to continue their studies.

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for Civil Rights determined that the “allegation lack[ed] suffi-cient detail to infer discrimina-tion,” according to the data.

While Title IX was initially focused on ensuring equitable

resources for women’s sports, recent guidelines from the Of-fice for Civil Rights mandate that colleges and universities must investigate and adjudicate alleged instances of sexual vio-lence to comply with the law.

In May, the Office for Civil Rights released a list of uni-

versities being investigated for their handling of sexual vio-lence and harassment claims. While Penn was not on that list, 55 schools — including Har-vard, Princeton and Dartmouth — were listed as under investi-gation.

Two weeks ago, the OCR an-

nounced that it had reached an agreement with Princeton after an investigation found that the university violated Title IX.

The Crimson obtained re-cords of over 7,500 complaints received and closed by the Of-fice for Civil Rights between 2002 and Sept. 22, 2014.

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In the People’s Republic of China, “freedom of religious belief” and “nor-mal” religious practice

are guaranteed in the Constitu-tion. If, however, you are caught proselytizing outside of your own mosque or preaching the biblical account of the nativity at a private Christmas party, you are liable to land in jail. Why the discrepancy? It’s simple — in China, as in most sovereign states, there’s the Constitution and then there’s constitutional interpretation. The one guaran-tees freedom of speech and re-ligion; the other ensures that the press and preacher are strictly censored.

The U.S. Constitution makes explicit even broader religious rights than those of the PRC. Not only does the First Amendment disallow any infringement of the “free exercise” of religion, it also prohibits the “establishment” of religion by the state. Under this prohibition, laws which suggest-ed a daily prayer in New York public schools were struck down in the famous 1962 Engel v. Vi-

tale case. More recently, howev-er, school authorities have begun to use the prohibition against governmental “establishment” of religion to prohibit student practice of religion in govern-ment schools.

For example, Chase Wind-ebank, a current high school se-nior at a Colorado Springs pub-lic school, leads a meeting with fellow students that regularly involves prayer and religious songs. Due to the ubiquitous tolerance of religion in America, Windebank’s bi-weekly meet-ings were overlooked for three years. But this semester, the Pine Creek principal realized that though the meetings took place during “open” time — when stu-dents were allowed to hang out, snack, read or play video games — this “open” time was still “considered instructional time.”

After all, students were al-lowed to schedule meetings with teachers during this period if they were so inclined, and it wasn’t like they were free to leave school. Chase was called into the assistant principal’s of-

fice and told that his meetings were a violation of the separa-tion of church and state. While the gatherings were allowed to continue, it was necessary that any explicitly religious activity be removed from the program. Otherwise, the meetings had to occur after the school day ended.

Similar applications of the Establishment Clause are fre-quently applied to religious references made by high school students in their graduation speeches. For example, ear-lier this year, Brooks Hamby, a California public school saluta-torian, was instructed to remove religious language from the third draft of his speech. While this may have been shrewd editorial advice — given Hamby’s secular audience — school administra-tors did not present their redac-tions as optional. They explained a few hours before the ceremony that they would pull the mic on Hamby if he delivered a speech with religious content — even though that content was pre-sented explicitly as his personal belief and source of inspiration.

School action of this kind is, of course, prompted by Supreme Court decisions which struck down state laws promoting reli-

gion in the public schools.But there is a difference be-

tween removing laws designed to promote a religious perspec-tive and instituting laws that forbid students to openly express their religious views.

Brooks Hamby was se-lected to give a brief, tradition-ally moralizing speech based on his academic merit — not religious views. But when it was discovered that his “words of wisdom for the road ahead” were informed by his particular religious beliefs, he was ordered to reorient his speech — as if an individual’s salutatorian speech

could be interpreted by the au-dience as a governmental es-tablishment of that individual’s religion.

Across the country, simi-larly misguided school authori-ties have ordered the removal of nominally religious images and quotations (such as an edu-cational poster featuring the five pillars of Islam or a Ronald Rea-gan quote that mentioned God) and banned or bullied religious clubs. There are places and cas-es in modern-day America that involve law-enforced promotion of a particular religious perspec-tive. But there is also plenty of hyper-sensitive censorship of re-ligion couched as a constitution-al obligation to “separate church and state.”

Reading such cases, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the state “protection” of “nor-mal” religious practice granted to my religiously-minded Chi-nese friends. Sure, the U.S. government is much more lib-eral than the PRC. But even in America, there’s the Constitu-tion — and then there’s consti-tutional interpretation.

Last Wednesday, the Black Student League held an im-portant conversation

about shifting the culture of the black community at Penn. While the “Black Penn” space can be a source of support and belonging for some, for others it can be elusive and hard to navi-gate. While I was not able to attend the entirety of the event, I was able to get feedback on how underclassmen felt about that state of leadership within our community. From their per-spective, the leadership of our community was shaped in a sort of “hierarchy” with the UMOJA Board at the head.

As a senior whose resume is literally dripping with black organizations, I would just like to say that any presumption of a hierarchy or any other system of becoming a leader is bullshit.

The point that must be re-membered is that our commu-

nity and its myriad of organiza-tions are constantly changing. There are no supreme black organizations and there are no concrete steps to having influ-ence. The supposed “leadership of Black Penn” has not been turned into “Game of Thrones,” nor is it “House of Cards.” While a high-ranking position is nice to have, it is not the end all be all of what you can ac-complish while you’re on this campus.

As a freshman coming into Penn, I was ambitious and pas-

sionate. I didn’t know all the in-tricate details of “Black Penn” or even the Penn community at large — I just knew that I wanted to get involved. When I eventually joined UMOJA during my sophomore year, it wasn’t because I felt that it was the only or best way to have an influence in the community. Rather, I joined because I sim-ply felt connected to its mis-sion and felt that it was a space where I could grow. At the time,

most people didn’t understand what UMOJA was and doubted

that a group run by sophomores could make an impact.

Don’t let titles be the gate-way you need to create change at Penn. There are plenty of people walking around with fancy positions who haven’t accomplished much. And then there are those without any formal recognitions who will always be remembered for the impact that they have had. The fact that you have made it to this University shows that you are innately talented. You don’t need validation to do shit. Just do it. You don’t have to ask for permission.

In 1968, black students led a sit-in to advocate for the cre-ation of the Afro-American Studies Program and the devel-opment of the DuBois College House. A few decades later in 1993, a group of students re-moved and trashed 14,000 cop-ies of The Daily Pennsylvanian in protest of racist reporting.

Even today in 2014, Students Organizing for Unity and Lib-eration lead weekly “#Fergu-sonFriday” protests to raise awareness about police brutal-ity. I bring up these examples to show that throughout the his-tory of “Black Penn,” students have never been restricted nor enabled by what positions they held. It is our passion for our community that guides us and allows the organizations we em-body to have true power.

Don’t wait for the day when Director Brian Peterson comes down from the Makuu moun-tain and tells you that you are “The Chosen One” because you have ascended to some high position. That day will never come.

The UMOJA Board (and any other black organization on this campus) did not become what it is today because the people were hand selected from some mysterious Illuminati hierar-

chy. It took the efforts of all our board members and the sup-port of our constituents to make our organization stronger than where we started. And though I love UMOJA dearly and truly believe in its impact, it is not the end all be all. If you want to be great, be great. Stop asking for permission. Boss up.

Public practice of private faith

JONATHAN IWRY is a 2014 College graduate from Potomac, Md. His email address is [email protected].

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There are plenty of people walking around with fancy positions who haven’t accomplished much. And then there are those without any formal recognitions who will always be remembered for the impact

that they have had.”

NIKKI HARDISON is a Wharton senior from Buford, Ga. Her email address is [email protected]. “The Vision” is a column for black voices that appears every Wednesday.

There is a difference between removing laws designed to promote a religious perspective and instituting laws that forbid students to

openly express their religious views.”

Stop asking for permission

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THE VISION | Don’t let leadership positions be the validation you need to make a difference on campus

JEREMIAH KEENAN is a College sophomore from China studying mathematics. His email address is [email protected]. “Keen on the Truth” appears every Wednesday.

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munity, “especially here where people are so pre-professional” and often follow more tradition-al routes when making a start-up, she said.

This year, the Hult Prize has created a fast-track plan for stu-dents at individual colleges to get to the regional fi nals with-out competing against 10,000 other main-pool applicants. Around 35 teams registered for this challenge at Penn, but only one will advance to the regional fi nals after they pitch their ideas to the Penn judges in December.

Having heard about the Hult Prize from his mom before even stepping foot on Penn’s campus, College freshman Andro Mathewson found his team — which consists of three Ph.D. students and an alumnus member — at a networking event that Penn’s Hult Prize or-ganizers planned.

While they are still in the brainstorming phase of their solution, Mathewson is excited about the improvements that his teams’ ideas could bring to areas like the slums of India and, if their ideas prove to be successful, Mexico City.

“It’s impossible to solve the world’s problems or come up with a unique solution in a month,” Mathewson said. “But we hope to make a fl exible so-lution that can be used in other places.”

Mathewson described the benefi ts of having a team with diverse backgrounds, includ-ing education and fi nance, in that it allows for a “richness of ideas and experiences,” he said. Between them, they speak 16 languages and have lived in 14 diff erent countries, which lends itself to solving a challenge that has potentially worldwide ap-plications.

Sherryl Kuhlman, who works with the Wharton Social Impact Initiative to help orga-nize the logistics for the Hult Prize on campus, says that the hefty prize pushes contestants to bring their ideas into the world more quickly, as they don’t need to put as much eff ort into fi nding additional funding.

“It moves past just the idea and focuses on actually making it happen,” Kuhlman said. “By getting $1,000,000 at the end, [the teams] already have every-thing they need.”

Last year, a Penn team came up with the invention Sweet Bites, which hopes to decrease

tooth decay in slum residents globally with the use of xy-litol gum. Sweet Bites won their regional fi nals in Boston. Although they did not win the grand monetary prize, they have successfully launched their start-up in India and con-tinue to work towards mov-ing their company into new grounds.

“Just because they didn’t win the end Hult Prize doesn’t mean that their business model is bad,” Kuhlman said. “There are other people that are going to invest. It’s a great platform for launching an initiative.”

This year’s challenge hopes to solve major worldwide issues surrounding early childhood education. Almost 70 million children around the world are unable to go to school each day.

Since 2010, the Clinton Global Initiative has been awarding the winning team $1,000,000. This year, the fi nal round will take place on Sept. 22, 2015 in New York City, af-ter teams make it through the regional fi nals in March.

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Amongst all the possible traits that constitute a “good” instructor, Gwendolyn Shaw, who received the Dean’s Award for Innovation in Teaching last year, believes that the most important attribute for her is to “be constantly willing to try new things and … respond to what works well in different class situations.”

Shaw has used resources at Weigle Information Commons to introduce her students to relevant technologies and advocated the use of social media for students to share their traveling photos and experiences. “Some of the classes that I love to teach the most are the ones that offer students hands on experience with the world,” she said.

AccessibilityFor graduate student and mathematics TA Torin Greenwood, one of the most important traits for a teacher is accessibility. Greenwood has won teaching awards for his work at Penn in each of the last three years . “I think no matter what, I always feel the pressure from students that I have a responsi-bility to them to make sure that they learn.” Greenwood stressed that his main objective is to get the students to “actually work through problems” and does so by opening various channels of commu-nication, including an all-day email policy and online discussion boards.

Also for Bleich, accessibility was a key component to the e�ectiveness of his recitations. Instead of hosting regular o�ce hours, he o�ered an additional, optional recitation that advocated a lecture-style environment where students could freely ask questions. “It would be like a review of the week’s lecture so that they had an opportunity to see the material again,” Bleich explained. “I found that students want to ask questions but they don’t know the questions they want to ask.”

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NARCOTIC:Nov. 7: A patient in treatment in the trauma unit at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania was found to have narcotics on him at 2:35 a.m. No one was arrested.

ASSAULT:Nov. 7: A suspect was observed by witness to be threatening the staff at Penn Rehab (3609 Chestnut St.) at 3:00 p.m. No one was arrested.

Nov. 9: An unaffiliated 24-year-old woman reported at 4002 Market St. at 1:48 a.m. that she was approached by an unknown person and was struck by the person following an exchange of words. The woman had no visible sign of injuries, and did not wish to file charges.

Nov. 10: An affiliated 29-year-old woman reported at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania (3400 Spruce St.) at 9:45 a.m. that a patient became hostile and yelled at her, making threats against her.

FRAUD:Nov. 7: An affiliated 24-year-

old woman reported at Saxby’s Coffee House (240 S. 40th St.) at 5:20 p.m. that she dropped her credit cards at the location and later found two cards missing. Several unauthorized charges were made on the cards prior to the cancellation.

Nov. 11: A complaint reported at the John Morgan Building (3620 Hamilton Walk) at 1:44 p.m. that unauthorized charges were made against his/her bank account.

Nov. 12: It was reported at Bobby’s Burger Palace (3925 Walnut St.) at 10:27 a.m. that several suspects entered the restaurant and made purchases using stolen credit cards.

HARASSMENT:Nov. 12: A confidential harassment was reported at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine (3400 Civic Center Blvd.).

PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS:Nov. 13: An 21-year-old male student was taken into custody and cited for public drunkenness on the 3900 block of Walnut St. at 2:29 a.m. The student

was taken into custody after he refused to comply with police orders having pushed an unknown male, as well as pushing a newspaper box into a parked vehicle.

ROBBERY:Nov. 13: An unaffiliated 57-year-old man reported at 4225 Chestnut St. at 5:50 a.m. that he was approached by an unknown man demanding his money. The complaintant was washing his cab and the suspect punched the complaintant in the face. The suspect then fled with the 57-year-old man’s money and other personal items.

THEFTS:Thefts from Building: 2Bike Theft: 6Auto Theft: 1Theft from Vehicle: 1Retail Theft: 2Other Theft: 3

ARRESTS FROM THEFT:Nov. 7: An unaffiliated 26-year-old man was arrested for a theft from the GAP (3424 Walnut St.).

Nov. 8: A juvenile was arrested for a bike theft that was reported at the Fresh Grocer (4001 Walnut St.).

Nov. 10: An unaffiliated 48-year-old man was arrested for a bike theft at 117 S. 42nd St.

Nov. 11: An unaffiliated 18-year-old man was arrested for a bike theft at 200 S. 40th St.

Nov. 11: Two unaffiliated 24-year-old men were arrested for a bike theft from 3600 Chestnut St.

Nov. 12: A juvenile was arrested for a bike theft at 3908 Spruce St.

Nov. 13: An unaffiliated 50-year-old man was arrested for theft at 4214 Spruce St.

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“[Cropper] is one of the bet-ter guards we’re going to see [this season], she’s really going to challenge our freshman guards,” McLaughlin said.

“They’re big inside, they have some athletes, we have to find our niche.”

On the Quakers’ side, the team will look to build off of an offen-sive performance that certainly had its flaws. Against the Lady Vols, freshman guard Beth Brzozowski put up a team-high 11 points, while veteran forwards Kara Bonenberg-er and Sydney Stipanovich put up nine apiece.

Penn is still without a true scorer on its roster — it’s difficult to run an entire offense through two post scorers in Stipanovich and Bonen-berger — and it led to some long stretches without scoring against the Lady Vols.

“Scoring isn’t something that’s going to come as easy as it did a year ago,” McLaughlin said. “We have to manufacture some points

and keep things in a winnable area.”

But tomorrow isn’t so much about the past as it is the future.

There may be a banner going up representing last year’s season, but this is a young Penn team with its eye on big things to come.

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RILEY STEELE/SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR -ELECTSophomore center Sydney Stipanovich will be relied on to take on even more of a scoring role against La Salle after she put up nine points against No. 4 Tennessee.

Caldwell continues to shine for Quakers

Every season has its ups and downs, but junior setter and right-side hitter Alex Caldwell has been a beacon of consistency for Penn volleyball.

Through her three years at Penn, Caldwell has established herself as a cornerstone to coach Kerry Carr’s game plan every week.

For the current volleyball stand-out, the sport didn’t come into the picture until middle school.

“I started playing in sixth grade,” Caldwell said. “Everyone played volleyball just for fun. In seventh grade, I tried out for the club team and I made the [first] team as a middle blocker, [with] no idea what I was doing.”

Though the San Jose, Calif. na-

tive’s athletic success shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. Athleticism runs through Caldwell’s blood, as her sister ran cross-coun-try for UCLA between 2002 and 2006, a career that saw multiple All-American honors.

While the beginning of her vol-leyball career is in the past, if you watch number 24 now it’s hard to believe there was a time when she was lost on the court. Throughout middle school and high school, Caldwell settled into the sport and her career took off from there.

“Volleyball is a game all about experience,” Caldwell said. “It gets a lot easier over time. I love the sport; I can’t imagine playing an individual sport because I’ve always been with a team. It’s been a great ride.”

And while Penn hasn’t yet found its place among the top of the league, Caldwell was no stranger to success in high school.

“My sophomore year in high school we went 38-0 and were ranked number one in the nation

with a perfect record. It was amaz-ing, we had nine seniors that all committed to D-1 schools,” she said.

“I was only a little sophomore, but they took me under their wing. It was great for me because I had so many people to look up to. They really set the tone, so when I was a junior I knew what to do in terms of bringing the younger players up.”

Caldwell’s leadership has shown throughout her career. Af-ter committing to Penn, she was twice named Ivy League Rookie of the Week as a freshman. She finished fifth on the team in kills and second in assists, recording seven triple-doubles along the way.

In her sophomore year, Caldwell was named second team All-Ivy and finished her season with 185 kills, 643 assists and 203 digs while re-cording three triple-doubles. She was second on the team with 20 ser-vice aces.

This season for Caldwell has

been just like any other. As in other seasons, Caldwell has remained a leader on and off the court.

“I’m the type of leader than can be everyone’s friend on the court,” Caldwell said, “but I can also be someone that you can go to just to talk. We don’t have a lot of drama on our team but I feel like I’m a person who’s easy to talk to on and off the court.”

Her teammates can laugh and joke with her, but their opponents should approach with caution. After posting her first triple-double of the season this year, Coach Kerry Carr had plenty of praise.

“I always expect that out of Alex,” she said. “When you have a player like that who is so talented athletically, teams will camp out on her. We see that kind of play from Alex every day in practice.”

With Penn looking long-term in the offeseason, the Quakers will likely go with what is natural to them going forward. For Alex Caldwell, that something is greatness.

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FREDA ZHAO/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERHigh school star Alex Caldwell had a terrific first couple of seasons for Penn Volleyball, and her third campaign with the Red and Blue has been no different.

the chance to play overseas, an opportunity that he himself never had.

Fuller likes Grendi’s work in opening up more opportunities for players to continue their soccer careers.

“Soccer is a global sport. There are more opportunities than just here in the US,” Fuller said.

“I think that it was a market that was not tapped, and Alex found an opportunity and is really taking advantage of it and is opening the doors for American players play-ing in Scandinavian leagues and other leagues in Europe.”

AX Soccer Tours’ approach to the game is not profound. Grendi

emphasized that the company’s strategy is in line with that of Ger-man soccer (and United States Men’s National Team) coach Jurgen Klinsmann. Specifically, Grendi believes that the MLS is not necessarily the best path for all players.

“Our philosophy is training players at the highest level pos-sible and having them try Europe. We want the players to play at the highest level possible. And that’s what Jurgen Klinsman is trying to do [even overseas],” Grendi said.

At AX Soccer Tours, Grendi is the managing director. He works to spread the company’s name but he also gets to work with a lot of coaches looking for a place for their players to showcase their abilities. In addition, Grendi’s

company helps to situate players in the United Soccer Leagues or the American Soccer League if they are not yet ready to play over-seas.

Grendi enjoys the interactions with the players as somebody who never had that chance.

“You could be going to Finland, or Texas, or Florida. Your whole life is going to change for a year or two,” Grendi said. “So there’s def-initely excitement, there’s anxiety. You don’t know when it’s going to happen or if it’s going to happen.”

Most of all, even though Gren-di’s professional soccer career is over, he relishes seeing these play-ers enjoy the opportunities that he never had and realizes that his work is helping to change peoples’ lives.

M. SOCCER>> PAGE 10

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Princeton and I got on him quite a bit after that game because I thought he didn’t have the right energy for us that game coming off the bench … but he respond-ed tonight.”

Penn simply didn’t have an early answer to Rider’s hot shooting from beyond the arc — the Broncs shot 7-for-10 from long range en route to building a 40-26 halftime lead.

Though Rider was able to erase a 14-point second half deficit in their 89-88 win over the Red and Blue last year, the Quakers came up empty when they searched for a similar rally.

Three days after he burned Delaware State for 31 points, junior guard Tony Hicks had a quiet night. Though he led Penn in scoring with 11 points, the Broncs were able to key up on the shooter without a big inside presence to respect on the floor

for Penn.Freshman forward Sam Jones

tried to make up for Hicks’ struggles with three first-half treys, but it wasn’t nearly enough to counter Rider’s outside shooters: the Broncs had three players hit multiple three-pointers, including Zed-ric Sadler , who shot a perfect 4-for-4 from deep en route to a game-high 23 points.

While the Broncs shot the lights out, Penn’s attack broke down, leading to a second con-secutive loss in a three-game, season-opening homestand.

“I just thought that we played bad basketball offensively,” Al-len said. “Especially once we got down double-digits. Guys just said: ‘You know what, I’m gonna stop trusting the system, I’m gonna try to get it done on my own.’

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Freshman forward Mike Auger held his own. Playing just his second game, Auger exhibited his propen-sity for the off ensive rebound and displayed a ton of fi ght in the paint, notching 10 points.

“After the game in the locker room, we tried to highlight the ef-fort Mike Auger had tonight,” Al-len said. “Regardless of what the scoreboard said, he left nothing on the fl oor.”

Fellow freshman Sam Jones put together a solid eff ort as well, with three triples in the fi rst half.

But those two alone couldn’t stop Rider in the slightest.

While Penn actually won the points in the paint battle, the Quak-ers’ turnovers in the post and lack of help for those helping on defense led to open jump shots.

Rider’s main forwards — sopho-more Kahlil Thomas, senior Matt

Lopez and junior Shawn Valentine — shot a combined 6-for-9 from the fi eld, playing effi cient ball while the Broncs’ guards put Penn away.

There were plenty of other fl aws in this game for Penn: 11 second half turnovers, 26.3 percent shooting from three-point range and more.

Yet all those factors can be over-come during a game. However, if Penn’s top bigs get into early foul trouble against a team more adept in the post than Rider (Temple next Tuesday?), it will be more of the same and there isn’t an easy solution.

So while dealing with the inevi-table growing pains from the fresh-men class, the upperclassmen need to take the lead. And if those juniors and seniors can avoid fouls, that shouldn’t be too impossible to do.

TYDINGS>> PAGE 10

STEVEN TYDINGS is a Wharton junior from Hopewell, N.J., and is senior sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at [email protected].

BASKETBALLEXTRA THEY SAID IT“I just thought that we played bad basketball offensively.”

— On his team’s struggles against Rider

Jerome AllenPenn coach

TELLING NUMBERS

28Combined minutes played by Penn’s two starting big men, junior center Darien Nelson-Henry and senior forward Greg Louis. Both veterans ran into early foul trouble.

55.6Rider’s three-point field goal percentage on a night when the Broncs sank 10 of their 18 attempts from long range. Four different Rider players hit treys.

3Number of offensive rebounds snagged by Penn forward Mike Auger. Pressed into extended minutes, the 6-foot-7 freshman aggressively threw his body around in the paint.

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TEAM STATISTICSPENN Rider

42.6 FG Pct. 525-19 3-PT 10-1826.3 3-PT Pct. 55.650 FT Pct. 57.915 Assists 1114 Turnovers 1232 Rebounds 323 Blocks 47 Steals 6

28 Bench pts 22

Attendance: 1,066

THE RECORD

0-2, 0-0 Ivy HOME ROAD

0-2, 0-0 Ivy 0-0, 0-0 Ivy

IVYWATCHIvy Overall

Cornell 0-0 2-1

Brown 0-0 1-1

Princeton 0-0 1-1

Harvard 0-0 1-1

Columbia 0-0 1-1

Yale 0-0 1-1

Dartmouth 0-0 0-1

PENN 0-0 0-2

AT A GLANCEStar of the game:

Rider Jr. G Zedric Sadler N o t o n l y d i d t h e sharpshooter hit all four of h i s t h r e e -

po in t a t tempt s on the evening, he also locked down Penn’s star, Tony Hicks. Sadler consistently closed out on Hicks’ shot, holding the Quakers’ captain to just 11 points.

Play of the game:Alford buries a c o r n e r three to force Allen’s hand Hot of f the bench, Rider junior guard Khalil Alford

hit a wide-open long-range jumper in transition — his third straight basket — to force Penn coach Jerome Allen into a timeout with 5:09 to go in the first half and blow open what had been a one-point game 90 seconds earlier.

ILANA WURMAN/SPORTS PHOTO EDTIOR-ELECTFreshman forward Mike Auger put together a strong effort off the bench for the Quak-ers, putting up 10 points and eight rebound - including three on the offensive glass.

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10Sports

Small ball can win baseball games, but it doesn’t usually work out in the world of college basketball.

With its big men relegated to the bench thanks to early foul trouble, Penn basketball was reminded of that fact the hard way, falling to Rider, 73-57, in a game the Quakers only led for 1:45.

At first, the Red and Blue (0-2) were able to get some momentum thanks to the inside play of center Darien Nelson-Henry , who seemingly set the tone for the evening when he spun off Broncs center Matt Lopez for the game’s opening basket.

But by the 10:56 mark of the opening stanza, Nelson-Henry and 6-foot-7 power forward Greg Louis had already col-lected two fouls apiece, forcing coach Jerome Allen to leave the two on the bench for the rest of the half.

Rider (1-1) quickly took ad-vantage.

The Broncs utilized their transition game to generate open shots and attacked Nelson-Henry’s replacement, 6-foot-7 freshman Mike Auger .

Then, with the Quakers down, 21-20, and only 7:04 to go until the break, Rider junior guard Khalil Alford came off the bench to bury the Red and Blue.

Alford — who had only played five minutes in the Broncs’ season-opening loss to Princeton — promptly scored on three straight possessions, his wide-open three from the corner capping an 8-0 run and forcing Allen into a timeout.

“The one thing we know is Khalil can score for us, he’s done it in the past,” Rider coach Kevin Baggett said. “He strug-gled a little bit defensively with a couple breakdowns late up in

Quakers undone

by Rider, again

SEE M. HOOPS PAGE 9

M. HOOPS | Penn can’t contain Broncs in

second straight lossBY IAN WENIKSports Editor

ILANA WURMAN/SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR-ELECT

Penn basketball struggled from the get-go against Rider, especially with starting junior center Darien Nelson-Henry in foul trouble. Broncs senior center Matt Lopez helped Rider take advantage in the 73-57 win.

NEXT GAME: VS LAFAYETTE | SAT, 7 P.M.

RIDER (1-1) PENN (0-2)

Raising a championship banner. The fi rst home game of the season. The fi rst matchup of Big 5 basketball at the Palestra this year.

There are plenty of reasons for Penn women’s basketball to be excit-ed about its matchup against La Salle on Wednesday.

“You’ve got three big, important things in one night, and it should be really special for [the team],” coach Mike McLaughlin said.

Penn (0-1) enters the game fol-lowing a trip down to Knoxville to face off against No. 4 Tennessee in a matchup the Quakers would lose, 97-52. The Lady Vols brought a level of talent and athleticism unmatched in the Ivy League to the table and led the Quakers to focus their eff orts on their transition game.

“We weren’t intimidated, we played right out of the gate, we han-dled the environment,” McLaughlin said.

“We really talked about the pace of the game, hopefully we can con-trol that a little better … but that’s going to take a while.”

The road gets easier for the Quakers here on out — there aren’t any other ranked opponents on the docket — though their nonconfer-ence schedule still holds its share of challenges.

At the forefront of those challeng-es is the Big 5, a long-standing tradi-tion among Philadelphia universities. The group has traditionally posed the toughest challenges for the Quakers — Penn has never fi nished with more than two wins in the round robin — and this year will be no diff erent.

“It’s going to be a signifi cant chal-lenge for us this year, maybe back to where we were a few years ago, it’s a tough hill to climb,” McLaughlin said.

“We need to take [La Salle] out of their comfort zone and we need to string a lot of minutes together, a full 40-minute eff ort.”

La Salle (0-1) — while certainly not the toughest opponent in the Big Five — is the fi rst among that group to face off with the Quakers. Last season, Penn came away with a 64-54 win behind a 23-point perfor-mance from now-graduated Alyssa Baron.

The Explorers already have one

Red and Blue set for Big 5 duel

SEE W. HOOPS PAGE 8

LA SALLE0-1

Tonight,7 p.m.

The Palestra

W. HOOPS | Penn set to raise championship banner before tip-off

BY HOLDEN McGINNISSports Editor

Former Penn star helping take US talent overseas

Penn men’s soccer has had no shortage of superstars over the past few years.

One such star is Alex Grendi — a 2009 graduate who ranks fourth all-time in assists for the Quakers. An excellent midfi eld-er and forward, Grendi started 63 games for the Red and Blue from 2005-2008 and notched 20 assists over those four seasons.

“He was a fantastic player, one of the best players to come

through Penn in my time here,” coach Rudy Fuller said, remem-bering Grendi fondly. “He was instrumental in us winning the title in 2008.”

After his fi nal season at Penn, Grendi was faced with a confl ict: he believed that he had a chance at making it to the MLS, but he did not want to leave college prior to graduation. After dis-cussing his options with Fuller, Grendi decided to pursue profes-sional soccer.

Grendi was selected in the 2009 MLS SuperDraft by the Columbus Crew. Because of a few untimely injuries and a long adjustment period, Grendi lost his spot in the MLS after a year and wanted another chance to

prove himself on the pitch.“The biggest thing for me was

after my year with the Columbus Crew and the MLS, I was look-ing for an opportunity to prove myself somewhere else.” Grendi said.

“I reached out to [Fuller] and my other contacts, no one had an entry into Europe. So there was this huge void there — this was something that meant a lot to me. I wanted to try out and know if I have what it takes to play in Europe but I never got the chance.”

After his experience, Grendi decided to start his own compa-ny, AX Soccer Tours, in order to provide American soccer players

SEE M. SOCCER PAGE 8

DP FILE PHOTOWhile he’s no longer playing professionally in the MLS, 2009 graduate and former Penn forward Alex Grendi has established AX Soccer Tours to help US players find positions playing overseas. While at Penn, Grendi notched 20 assists - good for 4th all-time.

M. SOCCER | Quakers Alum offers MLS

alternativeBY WILL AGATHIS

Staff Writer

RIDER EXPOSES FRONTCOURT DEPTH

After struggling down the stretch against Delaware State, junior center Darien Nelson-Henry got going right away against Rider.

One possession into the game, Nel-son-Henry made a nice move and got an easy two. A few possessions later, it was Nelson-Henry scoring again for Penn.

And fi ve minutes into the game, the

Quakers were down, 9-6, and DNH had all six points.

But then he picked up his second foul, a legitimate foul — unlike the call that gave him his fi rst. Three minutes later, senior forward Greg Louis, the Red and Blue’s only other upperclass-man big, picked up his second foul.

These events exposed what might be Penn’s biggest Achilles’ heel : frontcourt depth, or lack thereof.

Fans can hate on Nelson-Henry and Louis for their lack of consistency all

they want but at the end of the day, they are what keeps Penn from having to go to a frontcourt of only freshmen with sophomore forward Dylan Jones out for the game in street clothes.

“It was pretty diffi cult,” coach Je-rome Allen said about dealing with foul trouble. “You don’t want to put some of the younger guys in the position to have to maintain a certain standard for that amount of time, but that’s basketball.”

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