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Like the costumed superheroes he writes about in comic books, 1996 College graduate Charles Soule has a secret identity.

When he’s not writing for Marvel or DC Comics, he is prac-ticing law in New York City.

Soule, who graduated from Columbia Law School in 2000, worked in corporate law for the

firm Ropes & Gray, LLP before starting his own practice in 2004. At his firm, he practices immigra-tion and transactional law.

Early in his writing career, Soule’s clients often did not know about his work in comics. His at-torney profile on his law firm’s website does not acknowledge his creative work. Now, after com-pleting high-profile projects at Marvel and DC, Soule’s clients more frequently know about his comics work.

“My profile is a lot higher now than it was when I started writing

comics,” Soule said.This past year, he penned titles

for both major comic companies, including “Superman/Wonder Woman,” “Red Lanterns” and “Swamp Thing” for DC and the best-selling miniseries, “Death of Wolverine,” for Marvel.

The first two issues of “Death of Wolverine,” in which Soule killed off the popular X-Men character, topped the sales chart in September, more than doubling the sales of the next best-selling title.

“It says so much about Charles

that they came to him to kill off one of [their] most powerful and iconic characters,” said 1995 Col-lege graduate David Toccafondi, one of Soule’s close friends from college.

Toccafondi had long urged Soule to include a scene in “Swamp Thing” at Van Pelt Li-brary, where Toccafondi works as the coordinator of the Vitale Digi-tal Media Lab. Soule obliged and brought “Swamp Thing” to Penn’s campus in the final issue.

Alum writes for Marvel and DC ComicsDAN SPINELLI Staff Reporter

Penn’s mental health task force rec-ommendations have provoked students to question whether the administration is taking the right steps to promote mental wellness at all.

The recommendations, released on Tuesday and created in the wake of six student suicides that spanned 15 months, focused on “cultural change rather than structural change,” Co-Chair of the task force Anthony Rostain said. While some students felt the report is a step in the right direction, others felt it came to the wrong conclu-sions and lacked specificity.

“This idea of ‘Let’s focus on

changing the culture of perfectionism and competitiveness’ is idealistic and unrealistic,” said College senior Elana Stern , a member of the Green Ribbon Campaign who met with members of the task force last spring.

The report stresses four key rec-ommendations: making information about resources more accessible, educating and training the Penn com-munity on mental health, increasing

communication about mental health resources and optimizing the resources devoted to Counseling and Psychologi-cal Services.

After Penn’s last mental health task force — a 2002 committee created in response to 9/11 — the University did not create an oversight committee to monitor the implementation of the

Suggestions focused on cul-tural over structural changeJODY FREINKELSenior Reporter

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Cold calling that brings in millions

It’s Wednesday afternoon right after calculus class, and problem 10 on this week’s homework is really giving you a hard time. It would be great if the professor was right there to explain it — this is what Structured Active In-Class Learning intends to fix.

In these flipped classrooms, students are asked to familiarize themselves with material before class, while class time is used for work-ing on practice problems under the guidance of professors and teaching assistants .

There are currently about 20 SAIL classes at Penn, ranging from science and math to human-ities, and the amount only seems to be growing. The Vice Provost and the Center for Teaching and Learning have asked professors to submit proposals for new SAIL classes by Feb. 20 .

Some students have expressed dissatisfaction with the active learning courses because they feel like they are basically teaching themselves. However, professors and the CTL continue to believe in the benefits of active learning classes.

“There’s a student complaint that you have to work hard in these courses, and you can’t get away with not working hard,” said Executive Director of the CTL Bruce Lenthall, who also advises the Vice Provost on educational initia-tives. “Thinking about it holistically, a class that asks you to work hard and get a lot out of it is a

Despite student dissatisfaction, pro-posals for new SAIL classes are due Feb. 20

SHOBA BABU Staff Reporter

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Chocolate drizzle, marshmallow fl uff , funfetti cookies — on campus

NOMsense Bakery is ready to put Penn in a food coma.

One year since its launch, NOMsense Bakery — which specializes in decadent cookie sandwiches — is no longer a just hobby three undergraduate students are passionate about. The cookie sandwich business has concrete plans to serve Penn

students.“We didn’t set out to start a

business but wanted to share our philosophy of dessert with everyone on campus,” Col-lege junior and a co-founder of NOMsense Rachel Stewart said. The three co-founders, College junior Alina Wong , Wharton junior Roopa Shankar and Stewart used to bake for fun, but positive feedback from their friends and hall mates encour-aged them to think twice about their hobby.

“There really wasn’t anything on campus that was offering the same thing,” Shankar said. “We thought ‘Is there a way we can

turn our passion into business?’”Each cookie sandwich has a

distinct cookie, filling, crumble and drizzle, which gives them a lot of flexibility when coming up with new flavors. Last se-mesters’ offerings included chocolate marshmallow, lemon funfetti and matcha crunch.

“There are a lot of different components that we can play around with that as a whole is something we have never seen before,” Shankar said.

In order to create new fla-vors a wide range of consumers would like, NOMsense follows

Three students launched a business to make cookie sandwiches with a “NOMsensical” twist

BOOKYUNG JO Staff Reporter

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In a nondescript house on Chestnut Street, the Red and Blue Call Center hardly bears the appearance of a fundraising center that brings millions to campus each year.

Inside the center, however, Penn students work around the clock soliciting donations from Penn alumni over the phone, with their effi-ciency advertised all over the walls. Their goal is a striking one — $2.6 million in donations by the end of the fiscal year, coming from 14,000 pledges and with 42 percent of donations made on credit cards.

The main room is decorated in the exuberant, peppy style of a classroom, with motivational quotes printed on neon paper and fundraising thermometer charts filled incrementally with red and blue magic marker. Banks of jet-black computers stretch from the front to the back, on which headset-equipped students cajole alums in persuasive, regulated cadences.

Christina Mattioli, the program center man-ager, periodically updates progress on goals on a glass pane separating her office from the main room. “I think this is all very doable,” she de-clared to the Wednesday evening callers as she made her adjustments in dry-erase marker.

On a given night, Mattioli weaves among the 28 stations offering feedback, with the air of an upbeat, relentlessly dedicated coach. Even from her office, she continued hollering encourage-ment: “Guys! Credit cards are awesome!”

Callers laugh and joke among themselves, and there always seems to be food lying around. “[I] train … all of the new callers we get on the phones,” she said, “and look at stats to see where we call on a given night.”

Mattioli added that callers have stories of alumni encounters both delightful and bizarre.

The Red and Blue hopes to raise $2.6 million in donations this yearDIA SOTIROPOULUStaff Reporter

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NOMsense will offer cookie sandwiches in variations of chocolate, caramel and lemon flavors.COURTESY OF NOMSENSE BAKERY

One of 1996 College graduate Charles Soule’s comics depicts a scene at Van Pelt Library. COURTESY OF JESUS SAIZ/DC COMICS

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PA considers legalizing pot

A group of state senators have been working hard to make Penn-sylvania the 24th state to legalize medical marijuana.

State Senators Daylin Leach (D-Montgomery) and Mike Folmer (R-Lebanon) introduced Senate Bill 3 at the end of January. If passed, the bill would allow doctors to prescribe cannabis edibles, oils and tinctures.

“Thousands of people could ben-efit from this because of any given condition they have —cancer pa-tients, HIV/AIDS patients, people suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the list goes on,” said Steve Hoenstine, press secretary for Leach who is one of the bill’s co-sponsors. “What really matters is that we are able to create the best medical cannabis protocol for Penn-sylvania, something that is going to help as many people as possible and that is safe and controlled.”

A medical marijuana bill passed the Pa. senate in September on a 43-7 vote, but the House of Repre-sentatives did not vote on the bill, as former Gov. Tom Corbett threatened

to veto it. However, with Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf taking office in Janu-ary, medical marijuana advocates are trying again.

“When it passed the senate last year, Gov. Corbett was still the gov-ernor, and he never engaged on this issue with us and he was an outspo-ken opponent of what we were trying to do,” Hoenstine said. “Gov. Wolf is the total opposite. He and his staff have welcomed this. We’ve talked to them about this bill extensively.”

Equally importantly as Gov. Wolf’s support, the Pennsyl-vania House Majority Leader — who controls the agenda in the Republican-controlled House — has expressed support for medical can-nabis. “The new majority leader, Rep. Dave Reed, is very open to this. He seems to be very engaged with this issues,” Hoenstine added.

The new leadership and the new governor seem to be more closely aligning with public sentiment on this issue. According to a poll by Quinnipiac University taken in 2014, 85 percent of Pennsylvania voters support some form of medical mari-juana.

“It’s overwhelmingly popular,” said G. Terry Madonna, director of Franklin and Marshall College’s Center for Politics and Public

Affairs, who has also polled voters on the issue. His poll also showed over 80 percent of voters supported medical marijuana. “I don’t think there would be a big blowback po-litically to vote for it, so really the problem has been the House.”

Specifically, Republicans in the state House have been skeptical and do not view the issue as a priority. But for Sen. Folmer, a Republican co-sponsor of Senate Bill 3, medical marijuana aligns with his conserva-tive values — something he hopes to prove to his Republican colleagues.

“To me it’s a freedom issue,” Folmer said. “My argument is this: I don’t believe there should be a gov-ernment or anyone that gets between myself and my doctor in treating whatever illness I am fighting.”

Folmer added that a vote in the senate will likely happen sometime after a hearing on the subject on Feb. 25.

While the bill has major con-sequences for Pa., Penn’s Code of Student Conduct will continue to prohibit the use of any illegal drugs on campus. Because use of mari-juana will remain a federal crime, it is unlikely that Penn will allow use on campus, regardless of whether the bill becomes law.

State senators back bill sup-porting medical marijuanaJONATHAN BAERStaff Reporter

Deputy dean to head Penn Law

Theodore Ruger, Penn Law School’s deputy dean since 2013, has been named the school’s new dean, effective July 1. He will replace Interim Dean Wendell Pritchett, who has lead the school since Dean Michael Fitts left to take the presidency at Tulane Uni-versity last year.

Ruger, who has been on the Penn Law faculty since 2004, is known for his work in health law and regulation, food and drug law and constitutional law. At Penn, he has held numerous leadership positions, including serving as the advisor of the University of Penn-sylvania Law Review.

“It’s an incredible honor,” Ruger told The Daily Pennsylva-nian regarding his appointment as dean. “I’m very excited to have this opportunity to lead Penn Law, which has been my profes-sional home for a dozen years now.”

“Ted is a superb scholar and teacher of constitutional law and health law,” Penn President Amy

Gutmann said in a press release announcing the appointment. “He has a passion for helping students succeed and is someone who will work collaboratively with the faculty to ensure that Penn Law continues to stand as one of America’s preeminent law schools.”

Prior to joining the faculty at Penn Law, Ruger was an associate professor at Washington Universi-ty’s School of Law for three years. Ruger clerked for United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and United States Court of Appeals Judge Michael Boudin. He also worked at Washington D. C. law firm Williams & Con-nolly, as well as Ropes & Gray in Boston.

“He also has a clear sense of Penn Law’s distinctive culture and strengths,” Penn Provost Vin-cent Price said in the press release. “We are looking forward to work-ing with him as he collaborates with faculty, staff, students and alumni to build on this incredibly strong foundation and leads Penn Law to the pinnacle of American law schools.”

Ruger received his BA from Williams College and his JD from Harvard Law School, where

he held the prestigious position of president of the Harvard Law Review. He praised the school’s faculty and students, as well as Pritchett and Fitts for their lead-ership of the school. Ruger said he is excited to lead Penn Law, and he is confident the school is well-suited to face the biggest chal-lenges of legal educa-tion today.

“I think we’re at a time when the legal profession is changing in impor-tant ways, when it becomes ever more important for students to be trained … in the methodology of other disciplines and also to have a truly global perspective on the rule of law,” Ruger said. “Our pro-gram and our goals here at Penn Law are to train students for the legal world that exists today, but also for the legal world that will exist 10, 20, years from now.”

Dean Ruger to assume office on July 1COREY STERNDeputy News Editor

recommendations. Penn imple-mented only two-thirds of all the recommendations. Rostain, direc-tor of education for the department of psychiatry, also chaired that task force.

Plans are already in place for a cross-campus team to keep Penn on track this time with standards set by the Jed and Clinton Health Matters Campus Program, a pro-gram helping universities improve mental health and provide sub-stance abuse resources. However, the report itself sets no firm dead-lines and does not explain how it will track the implementation of its recommendations.

“The fact that the report does not include a timeline ensures no

accountability on the part of the administration to make progress with any sort of urgency,” College junior Nate Stauffer said. CAPS Advisory Board representative Danielle Mohabir, a College senior, was satisfied with the report overall but also hopes to see a “timeline or concrete plan of action in the near future.”

After the 2002 report, there was no significant change in campus culture, according to former Nurs-ing Professor Margaret Controneo, a member of the 2002 task force. Though she could not immediately recall the task force’s specific rec-ommendations, she said access to resources was a big concern. “We dealt with fairly standard mental health issues,” she said.

Stauffer, a psychology major, said the current report lacks depth.

“I’m not sure what I expected, but this is incredibly disappointing. A year has passed and we seem to be back right where we started,” he said. “The most infuriating part is that virtually any student grappling with mental health problems at Penn could have told the task force all of the information in this report a year ago.”

Stauffer was also bothered by the task force’s reluctance to identify what makes Penn and Penn’s culture different from other schools, rather than what makes it similar.

Peer institutions have launched task forces in the past year, though no other task force has focused on mental health and wellness.

Penn State President Eric Barron released a letter on Tues-day to the members of Penn State’s

Task Force on Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment detailing plans for implementing the 18 recom-mendations it published on Jan. 29. The plans, which largely stick to a 12-month timeline, begin im-mediately with a search for a Title IX coordinator for the University, an entirely new position recom-mended by the task force.

In July, the Massachusetts In-stitute of Technology’s Task Force on the Future of MIT Education published an interactive website, with data and selected idea submis-sions, after President L. Rafael Reif charged the force with compiling a plan to bring “disruptive change” to the university’s educational in-struction.

Penn State’s task force took five months to compile its report, while MIT’s took about a year and a half.

“I’ve read [Penn’s report] more than once, and the first time I read it I honestly thought that I

missed something,” Stern, the Green Ribbon representative, said. She hoped to see data reflecting changing in funding, staffing and programming for mental health resources but could not find any in the report’s eight pages.

Meanwhile, some student lead-ers were happy to see mental health brought back into campus con-sciousness.

CogWell President and Col-lege senior Joanna Heinz had mixed feelings about the report. “My only issue is that I think that after one year of working on this I find that the suggestions are very preliminary,” she said. “From an administrative standpoint I think it’s great that Penn has room to grow and change.”

“I really think it is a culture change that is needed,” said Chief of Medical Emergency Response Team and College junior Sara Jones. She applauded the task

force’s recommendations to focus on centralizing resources and in-creasing communication, which she felt could help students more easily locate MERT’s contact infor-mation for several types of crises.

Jones added that the adminis-trators who worked on the report, including Rostain and Co-Chair Rebecca Bushnell, “really do care about students [and] really do want students to get the best care pos-sible.”

Mohabir, too, found the task force receptive when she met with them last year. “I think they covered everything realistically possible to achieve,” she said.

Stern reflected that if circum-stances were different she might have been less disappointed in the emphasis on cultural change over tangible recommendations. “In an ideal world, it could be accom-plished,” she said. “But this isn’t an ideal world.”

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THEODORE RUGER

Penn Law School’s deputy

dean since 2013, has been named the school’s new

dean, effective July 1.

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Wharton graduates think outside of the toy box in their careers

It’s all fun and games for these four Wharton MBA graduates. Each has taken a less conven-tional path after graduating from the school with a reputation for finance and has instead gone into the toy industry as inventors and entrepreneurs.

Michael Rinzler1999 Wharton MBA gradu-

ate Michael Rinzler is not just a businessman, but also a toy inven-tor. His newest product is “a Girl Scout cookie oven — reminiscent of an Easy-Bake oven. For the first time you can create Girl Scout cookies,” he said.

Rinzler is the co-founder of Wicked Cool Toys, a company that designs, develops and markets all kinds of children’s toys.

Rinzler came up with the idea for this toy while working on his Field Application Project, a class offered to MBA students. “What’s so incredible is that the project I did I’m turning into a toy 16 or 17 years later,” he said.

The oven was released at the Toy Fair in New York City this past weekend. “It’s really exciting because it’s the first time that Girl Scouts is letting anyone do this,” he said. Girl Scouts of the USA is allowing this toy to feature mixes

inspired by its popular cookies like Thin Mints and Trefoils.

Earlier this month, Wicked Cool Toys also entered a strategic partnership with Original Ap-palachian Artworks, the parent company of Cabbage Patch Kids. “We are now the only ones who can make Cabbage Patch Kids in the world,” Rinzler said. With the exclusive rights to design and produce the dolls, Wicked Cool Toys will be releasing a new line of Cabbage Patch Kids products in fall 2015.

Rinzler emphasized how much he enjoys his work — “In today’s world, the most important thing is to do something because you love it, not because you will get financially rewarded. That comes in time,” he said. “Once toys gets into your blood you can’t get out it out. It is a lot of fun on a daily basis.”

Bernie TenenbaumAt the corporate level of the toy

industry is 1981 Wharton MBA graduate Bernie Tenenbaum. He began his career in the industry as an outside director for Russ Berrie and Company (now Kid Brands, Inc.), which was then the largest gift company in the toy business.

One of its products was Trolls, the iconic plastic dolls with tufts of multi-colored hair. “We went from nothing to 400 million dol-lars with Trolls in a year. It’s a business with which you can catch lightning in a bottle overnight [and] be a success,” Tenenbaum

said.Tenenbaum later moved to the

private equity firm The Jordan Company, which bought Brit-ish toys and games manufacturer Vivid Imagination, which was responsible for the distribution of brands like The Simpsons and X-Men in Europe.

When Tenenbaum had had enough of the life of constant travel, he moved back to New Jersey, where he worked on the launch and ultimate sale of the Toys “R” Us website, helping the company break a billion dollars in sales.

As the Associate Director of the Entrepreneurial Center at Whar-ton for 10 years, Tenenbaum says it all comes back to his time at Wharton — “It cultivates the in-dividual,” he said. “Wharton was

the place that supported the indi-vidual idea, despite its impression of feeding people to Wall Street.”

Mary Beth MintonThe idea for creating a doll-

like stuffed bear came about from 1982 Wharton MBA graduate Mary Beth Minton’s experiences with her own daughters. “I noticed that my two daughters, when they were younger, played very differ-ently: One would play with dolls and one would only play with teddy bears, but as if they were dolls,” Minton said.

Minton’s company Zylie & Friends features Zylie, a stuffed bear designed for children aged four to 11. Zylie is not a traditional teddy bear. She has a wardrobe and an elaborate backstory de-tailed in accompanying books;

she hails from Manhattan, has a brother named Theo and travels the world meeting other bears indigenous to the countries she visits.

Her product is intended to be “a hybrid between a doll and a plush, and giving it a backstory that would inspire children to get off the couch and play,” she said.

Minton was inspired by her 2006 Wharton class reunion. “I was amazed at how many people were entrepreneurs,” Minton said. “I realized I had the skills and I realized that there was a network accessible.”

Since the launch in 2010, the product has been made into a co-branded line with FAO Schwartz and is sold in Toys “R” Us stores and online.“We’ve been amazed at the connection Zylie makes with children. The kids who have her love her,” Minton said.

Minton also advised aspiring toy makers to do research and test marketing. “Ultimately, the feedback you get from customers will guide how you move forward. We’ve been refining the product every step of the way,” she said.

Michael Last2005 Wharton MBA graduate

Michael Last is the founder of In-tellitoys, a technology company that partners with toy manufac-turers, musicians, educators and publishers to create customizable toys.

Taking what he learned from one of his Wharton classes, Last

developed a product that allows parents to customize the toy to fit the needs of the family — some-thing he believes is missing in the industry.

Last entered the Wharton Busi-ness Plan Competition in 2005 with the plan that eventually became Intellitoys in 2008.

“What we build is an end-to-end platform that allows toy companies like ourselves or other partners to put customizable parts into toys to download con-tent into the toys,” Last said. The parent can customize their child’s favorite animal with language pro-grams or songs. “There are about 8000 songs to choose from in four different languages and 30 differ-ent learning games,” he said.

Last did not expect that he would enter the toy industry, though he definitely had an “en-trepreneurial mindset” going into Wharton, he said. Last worked in consulting for two years before founding Intellitoys and said it was “tremendously helpful for getting some of the skills to run your own business.”

He also said it is important for students to follow their passions and not what others are doing. “There is a lot of pressure [on students] seeing everyone around them interviewing for consult-ing and banking jobs,” Last said. “You have to keep your focus and not get pulled along with the herd. There are a lot of other industries out there than banking and con-sulting.”

Wharton entrepreneur Mary Beth Minton gave a TED Talk about the importance of play.

COURTESY OF MARY BETH MINTON

Four Wharton gradu-ates have made inroads in the toy industryBRYN FERGUSONStaff Reporter

The comic stars a humanoid plant that interacts with various characters in the DC Universe. Despite its niche subject matter, some of comics’ greatest writers

have written issues of the title — from Alan Moore to Scott Snyder and now, Charles Soule. The book’s current volume ends in March with issue number 40.

Even with his work on “Swamp Thing” ending, Soule will still have plenty to do. He has written

up to eight comic book scripts per month — some in vastly different genres — while still practicing law.

“He writes comedy, action, po-litical thrillers, suspense — he can do all of that,” Toccafondi, who has a Swamp Thing figurine in his office, said.

In September, Soule signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, meaning that once he wraps up his series commitments with DC next month, he will write strictly Marvel titles, with the exception of stories he owns the copyright for independently. He also plans to devote time to finishing up a

novel.However, comics were not

always Soule’s main creative outlet. While at Penn, he was mainly involved in music.

Toccafondi “doesn’t remember talking to [Soule] about comics at Penn.”

“I was involved in the orchestra and jazz band,” Soule said. He also played at fraternity parties and coffee shops with his own bands.

He majored in Asian and Middle Eastern studies, lead-ing to his interest in immigration law. Now, even as a comics writer, Soule remains actively committed to his legal practice.

“I’ve been building [my legal work] for almost 15 years now. It’s tough to just leave it behind,” Soule said.

Furthermore, he said, the ability to write creatively for a deadline translates well into the legal prac-tice.

“There is a creative element to lawyering that people don’t think of. You have to think into the future and visualize how things could turn out for your client,” Soule said.

Meanwhile, his status contin-ues to rise in the comics industry as he puts his pen to exploring the Marvel Universe.

Even with the final issue of Soule’s critically-acclaimed series “She-Hulk” hitting shelves on Wednesday, Soule will exert a powerful presence among Marvel creators.

He will continue co-writing a weekly series, “Wolverines,” that explores the aftermath of Wolver-ine’s death. Additionally, Soule holds the reins over Marvel’s “Inhumans” franchise, which has expanded in popularity after the announcement of an “Inhumans” film for 2019.

Quite the busy workload, but Soule would not want it any other way.

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WEDNESDAY,FEBRUARY 18, 2015VOL. CXXXI, NO. 18131st Yearof Publication

Unsigned editorials appearing on this page represent the opinion of The Daily Pennsylvanian as determined by the majority of the Editorial Board. All other columns, letters and artwork represent the opinion of their authors and are not necessarily representative of the DP’s position.

Have your own opinion? Send your guest column to Opinion Editor Shawn Kelley at [email protected].

LETTERS

I’ve been looking into issues sur-rounding how colleges and uni-

versities address accusations of sexual assault for some time now. It is a much larger issue than I could ever hope to tackle in a responsible, comprehen-sive manner in one column. Therefore, I intend to spend at least one more week exploring what I’ve become convinced are the deeply flawed methods which academia and govern-ment have come up with to handle allegations of sexual violence.

On the first of this month, an amendment to the Univer-sity’s policy regarding how it handles disciplinary com-plaints of sexual misconduct took effect. The new policy differs from the old in two ma-jor ways: First, responsibility for the initial investigation of claims and the first finding of responsibility was transferred from the Office of Student Conduct to the newly-created Office of the Sexual Violence

Investigative Officer. Second, the hearing panel to which the initial finding may be appealed — which previously consisted of faculty and undergradu-ates — will now consist only of faculty who “have training

and experience in handling complaints involving sexual misconduct.”

The new policies, however, fall as far short of being able to render a just outcome as the old ones did. This is primarily due to the structure of the appeals process. The IO’s decision can be appealed by either party to the disciplinary hearing panel, whose decision may in turn be appealed, again by either party, to a Disciplinary Appeals Offi-cer. This means that, no matter how fair the procedures ob-

served by the IO and the panel might or might not be, at the end of the day, the decision of whether or not a student will be punished for committing sexual assault may rest with one man.

I have no doubt that the DAO, a professor in the Bi-ology department, is deeply committed to making the right decision in every case he re-views. However, under the University’s policies, he might very plausibly find himself in the unenviable position of hav-ing to single-handedly decide whether the University will hold a student responsible for actions which amount to a hei-nous violent crime.

It is a key tenet of our so-cietal notions of justice and

fairness that the judgement of a single individual, no matter how deeply we might trust that individual’s commitment to do what is right, is an insufficient basis upon which to decide that a person has committed a

criminal act. It is for this reason that every person accused of a serious crime has the right to have their case heard by a jury of their peers.

A system which ultimately places such a decision in the hands of one professor might be sufficient for deciding whether a student has plagiarized a pa-per or cheated on a test, but in a matter as serious as sexual as-sault, it fails to serve the inter-ests of either victims or those accused. A student who claims to have been assaulted has as

much ground upon which to object to a finding of “not re-sponsible” rendered by a single party as does a student claim-ing innocence who is found responsible. By mere virtue of their humanity, any single in-dividual is liable to have their judgement affected by preju-dice, by their own experiences, by love, by a thousand other things which we would never fault a person for but which might hamper their ability to decide such a serious matter with true impartiality. Because of this, we do not believe in entrusting such decisions to one person. We do not believe in benevolent autocrats, we be-lieve in juries, in congresses, in panels and procedures.

It might be argued that such protections are unneces-sary, since the stakes are not as high in a university disciplin-ary proceeding as in a criminal trial. To deny that the stakes are high, however, is a statement of profound naivete. The inevita-ble risks are either that a person with a demonstrated capacity for sexual predation remains at

large within the University community, free to victimize others or that an innocent per-son faces the devastating, life-altering consequences of being expelled from a University for sexual assault. We should not be willing to tolerate the risk of either of these outcomes taking place if they might have been prevented by wiser policies.

Appeals beyond reasonTALKING BACKWARD | Penn’s new disciplinary appeals process is insufficient for handling allegations of sexual assault

It is a key tenet of our societal notions of justice and fairness that the judgement of a single individual … is an insufficient basis upon which to decide that a person has committed a criminal

act.“

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NICK MONCY is a College junior from North Miami, Fla. His email address is [email protected].

ALEC WARD is a College sophomore from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is [email protected]. “Talking Backward” appears every Wednesday.

Keystone XL pipelineTOE THE LINE

ALEC WARD

Oil will be an in-tegral part of the United States economy for de-

cades to come. In 2013, U.S. oil consumption increased by 400,000 barrels per day and the trend in 2014 followed suit. Securing a reliable supply of petroleum is a vital concern for the U.S. economy and national security, both in the short and long run. What’s keeping us from approving the Keystone XL pipeline?

After six years, five favor-able environmental reports and numerous shifts in the construc-tion path, the pipeline has been repeatedly cleared for construc-tion. Our government needs to stop stalling. While preventing building projects of private cor-porations is permitted if there are great environmental or se-curity threats, no such threats exist in this case.

The pipeline causes negli-gible environmental damage; indeed, it is most likely safer even than importing oil from

Venezuela or Nigeria on tank-ers. From the security perspec-tive, the Keystone XL pipeline is solidifying a reliable source of oil from our democratic, en-vironmentally regulated, close neighbor, Canada. Keystone XL hasn’t been delayed for en-vironmental or security reasons — rather, the delay is the prod-uct of unproductive politicking. This issue reveals the ugly side of government, and one that we should seek to minimize.

The Keystone XL pipeline has many benefits, with the most important being energy security. Over 250 million cars and trucks run on oil every day. Thus, having a secure energy supplier is vital. Canada is cur-rently America’s largest export-er, with 2 million barrels cross-ing the border each day. Over the past decade, the number of barrels coming from Canada has increased by 600,000 bar-rels per day, and imports have decreased by a similar amount from Mexico. The Keystone XL pipeline would allow the

U.S. to import 830,000 more barrels from Canada per day. It is in our interest to receive more of our oil from such a stable, friendly country. Constructing Keystone XL would allow us to access more North American oil at the lowest cost, with the safest transport method and in an environmentally conscious way.

We already have over 2.5 million miles of oil and gas pipelines in our country. Why is this particular pipeline so con-troversial? The Obama admin-istration needs to stop politiciz-ing a bill that will be good for consumers, the economy, na-tional security and our overall national interest. We recognize the importance of remaining environmentally conscious and internally secure, but in this case, these concerns are un-founded.

Jennifer KnesbachC‘17 W‘17College Republicans Rep-

resentative

After six years of offering no sub-stantial policy alternative to

President Obama and his ad-ministration, the new Repub-lican Congress has seemingly found its silver bullet: the pas-sage of the Keystone XL pipe-line by both houses.

The pipeline will travel from the oil fields of Alberta, Canada to Nebraska, traversing about 1,100 miles with most of it being built in the United States. So why shouldn’t Key-stone XL be built? The answers are many.

The vast majority of pipe-line jobs will last less than six months. Some State Depart-ment estimates show that fewer than 50 permanent jobs will be created due to Keystone XL, which is minuscule compared to the 213,000 private sector jobs created just last month. The billions of dollars spent on building this pipeline will do next to nothing to catalyze American economic growth.

The construction of this pipeline would transport mil-lions of gallons of tar sands oil throughout the nation, which in turn would have a potentially catastrophic implication if a spill were to happen. Tar sands oil, one of the hardest types of oil to refine, would devastate the air and water supply of countless communities if such an incident occurred. Building the pipeline on a potentially seismic area would not help the overall safety of the pipe-line either. The Environmental Protection Agency has also released reports stating that the construction of this pipe-line will increase carbon emis-sions, the crucial point which will lead to President Obama’s eventual veto of Keystone XL.

The construction of Key-stone XL will also violate the sovereignty of many Native American tribes who live in the pipeline’s projected path. Trib-al leaders are concerned about the potential environmental and public health threats that

would occur during construc-tion and in the case of a poten-tial accident.

After taking control of Congress, Republicans are choosing to spend the political capital they earned in Novem-ber to create a handful of jobs and put countless communities and the environment at risk. Even Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), a supporter of the pipeline, said, “we need to think bigger than Keystone. We need an energy policy that goes beyond Key-stone.” I agree with Sen. Cruz. We need to think beyond a single pipeline as a cure to our nation’s economic and energy problems by investing in clean, renewable sources such as wind, solar and hydrogen fuel cell technologies. It’s time for Congress to look towards the future. It’s time to govern.

Sam IacobellisC‘17Penn Democrats Repre-

sentative

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Students curate exhibits at the ICA

Ladders and wooden planks were strewn across the floor while the entire building had a light smell of paint. The Institute of Contemporary Art was getting ready for another season, prepar-ing to hold four new exhibitions, including the first major survey of photographer Barbara Kasten’s work.

Yet the ICA is more than a land-mark on 36th and Sansom streets. A part of Penn’s campus under the Provost’s office, it collaborates with other schools for student in-volvement.

For students in Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw’s Art History semi-nar, the ICA is an extension of the classroom. Students spend the first semester of the year-long seminar deciding on their exhibition’s focus. In the second semester, they work directly with the ICA staff in different departments to have first-hand experience curating works for their exhibits. Students frequently travel to places like New York City and New Orleans for exhi-bition ideas, and also work with personnel at the Philadelphia Museum of Art to learn how mu-seums of a larger scale work.

“To have the context to be able to get recommendations from pro-fessionals in the art world makes an enormous difference in being able to move ahead,” Shaw said. “One of the things students are exposed to is the complexity of doing exhibitions and the number of different kinds of careers that are possible in the world of art and culture.”

The student exhibits will be on display in the ICA in April.

The class was not the ICA’s first joint venture with Penn academ-ics. The ICA also collaborated with the Biology department last

year for New York-based artist Josh Kline’s exhibit “Living Wages,” an exhibit on the lives of Federal Express workers. Work-ing with Penn microbiologists, Kline used clear plastic stor-age containers as petri dishes to contain genetically engineered bacteria and FedEx workers’ fa-vorite snacks.

The ICA was the brain child of the former head of the School of Fine Arts George Holmes Perkins, who wanted the institution to be a non-collecting one. As the name suggests, the ICA focuses on what is “current” in the art world and tries to bring it to Penn’s campus. The museum has displayed works from artists such as Andy Warhol.

“It’s a mix of more established national and international artists, and those who deserve greater recognition or a chance to push their work in new directions,” Communications Associate of the ICA Rebecca Hunter said.

For Whitney-Lauder Curatorial Fellow of ICA Liz Park, a normal day at the ICA is largely about checking emails, writing for ICA publications and — on the most exciting days — working with in-stallation teams to coordinate new exhibits, choosing to feature vary-ing amounts of artists depending on the size of the exhibition.

Shaw added that the ICA, as well as other art galleries on campus, including the Arthur Ross gallery, creates a very in-timate and “doable” space to appreciate art without being over-whelmed by the large scale of other museums.

“ICA has been very focused on making itself part of the campus,” she said.

College junior and ICA student board member Elizabeth Barr said that her involvement with the ICA has been one of the most valuable parts of her Penn experience.

“The ICA has an amazing re-source on campus but a lot of students have never been there,” Barr said.

Student work to be displayed alongside new exhibitBOOKYUNG JOStaff Reporter

told it to you or because you spent time working on it?”

Lenthall clearly notes, however, that there is a major difference between students being put in an environment where they are com-pletely lost and have no guidance, and students being challenged, but given the tools to achieve.

“The CTL collects a lot of data from students about their experi-ences with the courses, about what works for them and what doesn’t and about their outcomes, and we try to share that with the faculty who are teaching the courses,”

Lenthall said. In addition, many faculty mem-

bers meet together on a regular basis to discuss strategies for im-proving their courses, and the CTL provides support for TAs.

“This is how we learn. We learn from practice, we learn from making mistakes, we learn from talking,” said Economics professor Rebecca Stein.

Stein switched her popular Economics 001 to a SAIL class this semester. She was influenced both by numerous studies con-ducted about the effectiveness of active learning and by her own observations. Since 2010 she had used an opt-in, active learning

style program for her class called Groups for Greater Applied Economic Thinking. Stein said al-though reviews for GREAT were mostly positive, students wanted more time to solve problems with guidance, which prompted the switch.

Stein is not the only one who has implemented active learn-ing into her courses. Professor Nakia Rimmer has incorporated aspects of it into his Mathematics 114 course. While it is not a SAIL class, he has replaced weekly reci-tation quizzes with active learning worksheets.

“Having faculty members who can understand the problems and

help students make connections with the challenges they’re having takes advantage of the faculty member and allows them to inter-act with the faculty member in a richer way,” Lenthall said.

Lenthall, Stein and Rimmer all pointed to studies that showed active learning has positive effects on student learning and grasp of concepts.

“These aren’t instant results. At Penn we’ve been doing this for two or three years,“ Lenthall said. “Just as if you take a brand new lecture course, the faculty member may improve it over the years, so I expect that all of these courses will improve over the years.”

ACTIVE LEARNING>> PAGE 1

the trend in the dessert market and also uses focus groups, which helped them introduce their matcha flavor.

“Our goal for this semester is to sell wholesales to outlets at Penn,” Wong said. She said they aim to place their cookie sandwiches in Gourmet Grocer, Houston Market and at other on-campus retail spots. They are also hoping to become a vendor in Penn’s purchase order system so that they can cater for student organization events.

As soon as the co-founders decided to start their food busi-ness, they reached out to Joshua White, the owner of White + Wong Bakery and 2013 Whar-ton MBA graduate who also started his cookie business at Penn. Although Shankar said they did not expect him to reply back, White has provided a lot of guidance in terms of fi-nancial, legal and insurance procedures.

“He really knows the ins and outs of creating a cookie busi-ness on campus,” Wong said.

“[NOMsense] had a lot of questions as far as how to pro-ceed with the food business,” White said. He added that while

his previous work experience in investment banking and private equity helped him deal with legal and financial aspects of starting his business, since the NOMsense co-founders are un-dergraduates, they would have less experience in these do-mains.

“He was so open and I think it goes back to the whole idea of Penn being entrepreneurial and fostering the environment,” Shankar said.

NOMsense is hoping to give back to the Penn community as a whole by offering a pre-ceptorial this semester, “Nom with NOMsense Bakery: A Workshop on Food Entrepre-neurship.” In this this seminar, the co-founders will tell their start-up story and talk to others interested in starting their own business.

College senior Charity Migwi, a preceptorial commit-tee member who organized the NOMsense preceptorial, said her interest in entrepreneurial communities on campus led her to create this opportunity.

“It’s a chance for them to talk about their experience of being entrepreneurs as students,” she said.

Migwi added that food pre-ceptorials are very popular in

general, and over 150 students signed up for NOMsense’s. She said it is also her first time having undergraduate students lead a preceptorial.

“We want to be able to teach Penn students about NOMsense and make them a part of our journey,” Wong said.

All three co-founders are full-time students, and while juggling academics and extra-curricular activities, they still find time for NOMsense.

“We knew from the start that it would be our priority,” Shan-kar said.

The three co-founders first invested their personal money in starting the business, but as expansion incurred higher costs, they launched a Kick-starter campaign to cover legal expenses.

For Franklin Shen, Penn was also the place to launch his hub for sweet treats. Shen is the co-founder of Sugar Philly, which brings macarons of flavors ranging from green tea to choc-olate hazelnut to campus.

“The great thing about Penn’s campus is that people are open to new ideas and want to try something new,” Shen said.

He added that social media plays a huge role in getting the name out and creating a visual

experience especially through Facebook and Instagram.

The NOMsense co-founders agreed, saying that their growth started through social media. After launching its Facebook page, NOMsense started a “World of NOM” campaign where it posted photos of cus-tomers’ reactions after buying cookie sandwiches. Tagging these people, Shankar said, helped spread the word about the business.

While they are looking to es-tablish NOMsense as a certified food business, Wong, Shankar and Stewart are still considering careers outside of NOMsense.

“We’re considering pursuing other things right after we grad-uate, maybe getting some other experiences,” Stewart said. She added that even if they postpone NOMsense post-graduation, the long-term plan is to get back to baking a few years out.

Regardless of how long NOMsense continues its pres-ence on campus, Shen said having the “Penn background” makes them part of the “Penn family.” “There’s some sort of comradery or network that hap-pens,” he said.

“We are happy to see more and more dessert come to the Penn community.”

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$5 million donation for Fox Leadership

Visitors explored the “Basel Abbas and Ruanna Abou-Rahme: The Incidental Insurgents” exhibit at the ICA Winter Exhibition opening earlier this month.

ALICE REN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The Fox Leadership Program will gain a global dimension fol-lowing a $5 million gift from Robert and Penny Fox, an-nounced Tuesday.

Fox Leadership, established in 1999 by its donors, ex-panded in 2013 to establish new

scholarships within the College of Arts and Sciences. Now, the program will include more op-portunities in China for students and faculty. Including the most recent donation, the Fox family has now donated over $33 mil-lion in total.

“We want to bring an interna-tional component to our events, workshops and teaching,” said Joseph Tierney, executive direc-tor of the program. In practice, this means working with Penn’s Fels Institute of Government to

organize a summer program, pi-loted last summer. In the pilot, 46 students of the Jiangsu Prov-ince of China spent three weeks on Penn’s campus.

FLI will expand and multiply its service-learning programs in Africa. It will also develop a pro-gram to place Fox fellows with the presidents, prime ministers or consul generals in nations in the European Union.

Tierney will visit China in March to further explore ways to develop higher education

programs in the country. FLI China also hopes to devise fur-ther initiatives to send Penn staff and fellows there.

“We’re starting with China and building on the positive experiences that we had last summer,” Tierney said. “So it’s a starting point.”

“FLI is a big leap,” John DiI-ulio, faculty director of the Fox Leadership Program told The Almanac. “But we have the information, experience and partnerships to make it work.”

Donation will aid Fox’s global outreach pro-gramsSTEPHANIE BARRONStaff Reporter


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Penn Dems hosts mayoral candidate

Former City Councilman and mayoral candidate Jim Kenney visited Penn tonight for a Q&A session hosted by Penn Democrats.

Penn Dems reached out to all the Democratic mayoral candidates to invite them to speak at Penn. Kenney was the first to accept the invitation, with former District Attorney Lynne Abraham scheduled to speak next week.

He addressed hot-but-ton issues including LGBT equality, marijuana decrimi-nalization and education in his typical witty style.

“83 percent of people being arrested for marijuana posses-sion are black or brown,” he said. The law’s racial disparity particularly disturbed Kenney. “Come to an Eagles tailgate

with me and you’ll see a lot of white, suburban people smok-ing weed. Any arrests? No, because it’s all white people.”

Race has proven to be a point of distinction in the may-oral election, as Philadelphia voters frequently vote along racial lines. Kenney believes he can attract a multiracial electorate.

“The response I have been getting anecdotally from black communities in the city is awe-some,” he said.

Kenney emphasized his 20 years of work in city politics as a way of distinguishing him-self from the other candidates.

“Anthony Williams is a great guy,” he said of the fellow candidate and state sen-ator, “but he hasn’t been in city government.” As for Abraham and fellow candidate Doug Oliver , Kenney praised their personal qualities, but doubted their abilities to be mayor.

Kenney admitted that he had talked himself out of two

previous mayoral runs before deciding to enter the current race. Penn Law adjunct profes-sor and former candidate Ken Trujillo’s exit from the race solidified Kenney’s decision to run.

“Once Ken Trujillo got out, his entire campaign apparatus was available for me,” Kenney said. “His staffers said, ‘Ken thought you would be a good choice.’”

Even so, Kenney and Tru-jillo hold different views with regards to education. While Trujillo co-founded his own charter school in Philadelphia, Kenney doubts the efficacy of charter school expansion.

“The education issue in Philadelphia is a prominent creator of poverty and misery,” Kenney said. He spoke es-pecially critically about the School Reform Commission — the five-member body that oversees the Philadelphia school district. While the SRC was meant to facilitate

assistance from Pennsylvania’s state government, Kenney be-lieves it has decreased funding from Harrisburg to Philadel-phia schools. He referenced the state gov-e r n m e n t ’s p r e v i o u s policy of re-i mbu r s i ng the school d i s t r i c t for ch i l -dren who opted to go to char ter s c h o o l s , which was changed under former Repub-lican Governor Tom Corbett.

While Kenney did not ex-pressly discount the value of charter schools, he believes they should not compete with successful district schools.

“There should never be a charter school placed in a neighborhood where there’s a high-performing [district] school.”

Jim Kenney focused on marijuana, race and education

DAN SPINELLIStaff Reporter

JIM KENNEY

Former Philadelphia City

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Seniors party like it’s NSO

“There was one time I called, and the person picked up and was trying to sell me some-thing,” student supervisor and College senior Amira Yeiser said. She added that another time she was cursed out.

Bruce Watson spends his time at the Center shadowing Mattioli and taking note of her tactics as he trains to be a Program Center Manager at the University of

Delaware call center. His enor-mously tall frame moves with ease and humor from station to station; he may stop to offer callers a cupcake — if they meet their credit card threshold.

The callers themselves are a mixed lot — in addition to the clutch of undergraduates the Center employs, “[We have] a few [students] from GSE, one from Engineering. We’ve had Law students before, we’ve had nursing students before,” Mat-tioli said.

Mattioli, a graduate of Buck-nell University, also started as an undergraduate caller, and said her experiences were over-whelmingly positive. She loved having the opportunity to con-nect with alumni and hear their stories, she said, in addition to persuading them to make a do-nation. Watson agreed, adding that it is the wonderful interac-tions you remember and share later with your friends, and a caller finds no shortage of them.

However, donations must

be elicited efficiently as well as pleasantly — Mattioli and Watson hit the floor, together this time, in full fundraising mode. They circulated alertly as phone receivers clacked into place and callers’ voices rose and fell in a chorus of courte-ous tones. “You’re hanging up that phone harder and harder every time,” Watson quipped, as one caller finished soliciting a donation. “She’s gonna make five-thousand dollars,” rebutted Mattioli, “and it’ll be amazing.”

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Giang Nguyen appointed executive director of SHS

The new Executive Direc-tor of Student Health Service Giang Nguyen cares about the health of students campus-wide, even for those who have no ex-perience with SHS other than through a poster in a dorm hall-way.

“I’m interested in the health of our students, but it’s not just the health of the students who walk into the doors of our office at 3535 Market Street. It is the health of students who never even think about walking into our student health clinic, but still could benefit from our out-reach,” Nguyen said.

Nguyen was appointed to the position following the passing of previous SHS director Evelyn Wiener last spring. He will offi-cially start on April 1, 2015.

While Nguyen’s new position will involve the oversight of all of SHS’ operations, he stated that he’s interested in working with and hearing the needs of students on campus.

“For many people, this is the first time you’re able to engage with health care without your parents there and this is a great opportunity for you to learn how to make the most out of interacting with the health care system,” Nguyen said, talking about SHS almost as a training wheels version for the United States health care system which he said “is incredibly complex and is hard to navigate, even if you have perfect English and you have a degree from an Ivy League university.”

Nguyen praised SHS, saying it “has a great national repu-tation among the Ivy League schools.” He added, “We have really shown ourselves as lead-ers in the college health arena, so I am going to be entering a very strong department.”

When asked about what he plans to do in his new position, Nguyen said that although he sees SHS as a model of college healthcare, change and evalua-tion are still on his radar.

“One of the things that I intend to do during the early part of my time as execu-tive director is to do a needs

assessment. This will allow me to understand better what the health needs are of our students, what the strengths are of our programs at Student Health and areas where we could use im-provement,” he said.

Nguyen came to the United States from Vietnam at a young age and draws on his personal experiences later in life working with immigrant communities. He created the Penn Asian Health Initiatives in 2004 as part of the Perelman School of Medicine — a program that gave out 3,000 vaccines to un-derinsured Asian-Americans in Philadelphia.

“I have worked with a lot of community groups for the last decade, working with them to improve the health of largely immigrant communities, so that experience in terms of working with stakeholders in a real sub-stantive way is something that I intend to apply as exec direc-tor.”

He attended Johns Hopkins, where he originally studied engineering, but changed his major to public health and went on to medical school after-wards, earning both a medical degree and a Masters of Public Health. He did his fellowship, faculty development and pri-mary care research at Penn and has since stayed as a faculty member in the Department of Family Medicine and Com-munity Health . He feels that his varied roles in and around public health care and family medicine, along with working with immigrant communities, will be beneficial in his position as executive director.

He previously served as the Medical Director of Penn Family Care . “Family medi-cine is very focused on keeping people healthy, developing strong relationships between providers and patients,” he said. ”[Family medicine] really works well in conjunction with public health, my other area of interest, because public health is very focused on preventing dis-ease and keeping people healthy and maximizing wellness.”

“What was truly exciting to me about the opportunity to come to the Penn Student Health Service is the fact that I’m able to use all of those skills within a single position.”

He has worked extensively with immigrant communities

ISABEL KIMStaff Reporter

On Monday, Raymond Tommy Murphy accepted the position of house dean of Rodin College House, according to Rick LaRosa, director of Upper Class Houses & Paraprofessional Selection.

Another high rise saw a change in house dean earlier this year. Suhnne Ahn, the former dean of Harnwell College House, left Penn in January to become dean of Residential Life and Student Activities at the Colburn School, a performing arts school in Los Angeles. Ryan Keytack has been

the Rodin House Dean since 2010, but left to become the director of Four-Year Houses and Residential Programs at Penn.

“As I pass the metaphorical baton to Tommy Murphy and move into a new role for the col-lege houses,” Keytack said, “I am thrilled to know that Rodin House will be in the hands of such an en-thusiastic professional with years of residential education experi-ence.”

Rodin College House launched a search for a new house dean following Keytack’s decision to pursue his new position. Students living in Rodin College House participated in the search, and Murphy was selected from three interviewed candidates.

New Rodin dean announcedHarnwell also lost a dean earlier this yearJEFFREY CAREYVAStaff Reporter

Medical Director of Penn Family Care Dr. Giang NguyenSOPHIA LEE/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

For seniors who may have regrets about their first week of college, the Class Board 2015 is letting them do it “NSOver Again.”

Feb Club is the annual senior class tradition that consists of events throughout the entire month of Febru-ary. Next Thursday, seniors will get to relive their New Student Orientation experi-ence with a party at the Penn Museum, a nod to the tradi-tional NSO toga party.

NSO and Feb Club are “the book ends of our Penn careers, so it makes sense to relive some of the best experi-ences that we’ve had,” senior class President Ariel Koren said.

Seniors will also get to party old-school style with a night at Dave and Busters featuring discounted arcade games and a happy hour spe-cial. The arcade night is one of several events, including the museum party and the 80s-themed roller skating night, designed to let seniors relive childhood memories, Koren said.

Earlier this month, 700 seniors made it to Atlantic

City for a night of clubbing, gambling and great food. However, for those students more interested in a so-phisticated experience than partying, Feb Club offers plenty of options.

The Senior Performing Arts night will showcase talent in the senior class with performances by musicians, writers, comedians and more. Additionally, seniors will receive Feb Club credit for at-tending a special Penn Glee Club performance and a night at the Philadelphia orchestra. Students scan their Feb Club cards at each event to record their attendance — differ-ent levels of attendance earn

prizes.Additionally, students can

buy tickets to the Vagina Monologues on Feb. 27 with an after-party at a bar with proceeds supporting Women Organized Against Rape.

“There’s a diverse lineup so that there’s something for ev-eryone,” Koren said.

The Class of 2015 is on track to possibly become the most dedicated senior class in Penn’s Feb Club history. Al-though she wouldn’t say the exact number, Koren said that close to 100 people have not missed a single event, so far. On average, 20 students per senior class typically attend every single Feb Club event.

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When the men of Penn la-crosse won the Ivy League championship last year, it came as a bit of a surprise. The same cannot be said of their female counterparts.

Penn women’s lacrosse is an Ancient Eight institution — it has won eight consecutive Ivy League regular season cham-pionships. It has gotten to the point where it would be more of a surprise if the team didn’t finish atop the conference than if it extended its streak to nine-straight titles.

As the highest ranked team in the Ivy League, the No. 14 Quakers look to be prepared to come out on top once again. But with Princeton just behind at No. 15, it won’t be a cake walk. So what do the Red and Blue need to do to make it nine-in-a-row?

Sports Editor Colin Hen-derson: Penn has always been known for its defensive prow-ess, and given some of the top-tier players the squad has

returning on the backline, this season should be no different. However, if the Red and Blue want to repeat, they’ll need to hold their own on the offensive side of the ball as well.

The Quakers were by no means lacking — by most defi-nitions of the word — on the attack last year, and with star attacks Tory Bensen and Nina Corcoran returning this year, they have a solid base of lead-ership up front. But in order to change their perception as a de-fensive-minded squad, the Red and Blue will need some other complementary players to chip in.

This help could come from a pair of veteran players — junior attack McKenzie Hunt and former Ivy Midfielder of the Year Shannon Mangini — coming back from injury. Or it could come from upstart attack Iris Williamson, who has im-pressed in practice thus far this year. But it needs to come from somewhere.

Associate Sports Editor Tommy Rothman: What? “In order to change their percep-tion as a defensively-minded squad?” If I had won eight

championships in a row, I cer-tainly wouldn’t be looking to change anything. If defense has actually won champion-ships without fail since 2007, then defensively-minded it is. To put that date in perspective, the last time a team other than Penn won the Ivy title, “Crank That (Soulja Boy)” hadn’t been released yet.

And the defense should once again be solid, led by reigning Ivy Defensive Player of the Year and preseason first-team All-American Meg Markham. Sure, it would help if the offense im-proved — and as Colin said, it’s not like the offense was bad last year — but the onus is certainly not on the Quakers to make improvements. Penn just needs to keep up the status quo; it’s the other seven teams in the Ancient Eight who need to bring about a change. If not, we should be discussing the pos-sibility of a double-digit streak around this time next year.

Sports Editor Laine Hig-gins: Honestly, more than it is about just the offense or the de-fense, I think the key to the Red and Blue repeating once again lies in maintaining the team’s

tremendous culture of winning.For most of the Quakers’

roster, winning is simply a habit. Not only have none of the current players on the Penn squad experienced a sub-.500 season in their careers, but none of the current players have ex-perienced anything close to a sub-.500 conference record. Since 2012, the Red and Blue are 24-3 against Ivy foes. And with 11 players who started in 12 games or more in 2014 re-turning for the 2015 season, this year should be no different.

The veterans of women’s lacrosse are particularly im-pressive on the defensive side of the field, with Markham leading the charge. The senior defense was unstoppable last year, taking home Ivy League De-fender of the Year and IWLCA first-team All American honors.

Junior goalkeeper Lucy Fer-guson and senior defense Taylor Foussadier have simila rly impressive lists of accomplish-ments, each earning pre-season All-American honorable men-tion nods by Inside Lacrosse. With such a loaded defensive lineup, Penn’s opponents should be trembling in their boots.

NAME HERE | DP STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Defense has been the calling card for Penn women’s lacrosse, but senior attack Tory Bensen will look to pack some punch on the other end for the Quakers.

Willenborg, Vim De Alwis and Austin Kaplan in 2012-13 to help cultivate the team’s youth move-ment. It’s that group of players that is currently leading Penn’s resurgence this season.

“We’ve seen a lot of improve-ment from many of our guys since they first came,” Geatz said. “Jeremy Court [especially] is having his best year. He’s just a really good tennis player right now.”

Last year’s team looked just about ready to make the leap into the top-75, with Geatz tell-ing Senior Associate Director of Athletics Tony Vecchione, “There’s no way we’re not going to be a top-40 team this year.”

However, the Quakers missed those expectations as they were ravaged by injuries to some of their top players.

Geatz believes last year’s in-juries — and the failure to meet expectations — were a fluke. He praised the team’s weight program for helping with injury prevention, as the team has had a clean bill of health since this fall.

“I just think we haven’t been unlucky this year,” Geatz added.

If Penn’s best players can stay on the court, they should con-tinue to be a formidable force in the Ivy League. Led by fresh-man Nicolas Podesta, the Red and Blue’s most recent recruiting class has been strong this season with Podesta taking the Quak-ers’ No. 1 singles spot as of late.

“Any time you can get a fresh-man to come in and be No. 1, that’s great,” Geatz said.

The Quakers had an opportu-nity to move into the top-25 at the ECAC tournament hosted at Harvard last weekend. However, the Red and Blue lost a heart-breaker to No. 68 Brown and dropped a spot in the rankings this week to 52. Geatz isn’t fazed by the slight step down, however, as it is the Quakers’ first loss of the season.

In order to ensure a spot in the NCAA tournament, Penn will need to achieve a rank in the low forties by the end of the season. So, how close are the Quakers to that goal?

According to Geatz, “We’re right there, knocking on the door.”

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COURTESY OF PENN ATHLETICS As Penn men’s tennis has improved this season, the Quakers’ success is due to players from every class. Freshman Nicolas Podesta, sophomore Matt Nardella and junior Vim De Alwis have all been integral to Penn’s top-75 ranking in 2014-15.

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Hilburn made a key clear to keep Penn in the game.

Then, with 2:07 left in overtime, Doktor netted the game-winning goal off of an assist from sophomore attack Kevin Brown.

“I just happened to be at the end of it,” Doktor said. “It could have been any one of our guys that really won the game for us.”

The senior’s quote rings true when you look to the box score: each of the six goals scored by Penn in the fourth period were scored by a different player. Eight Quakers in total contrib-uted to the Red and Blue’s 11 -goal total, with senior midfield Joe McCallion pacing the team at three goals.

“Ever ybody cont r ibuted to this win tonight,” Doktor said. “I might have scored the

game-winning goal but there was so much that went into it. The defense made two huge stops, both at the end of regulation and in overtime, to even give us the chance to have a chance to win it in overtime.”

And if history is any indica-tion, all the Quakers need is just that small glimmer of “a chance” to be deadly to their opponents.

Maybe the Red and Blue haven’t been pulling off second half resurgences “for years,” as the famed LL Cool J lyric riff goes; but heart-stopping rallies are nothing new for Penn. Last year in the Ivy League semifinal game against perennial nemesis Cornell, Penn came back from a four-goal deficit to stun the Big Red and advance to the confer-ence championship game against Harvard.

“We’ve been in that position before,” Murphy said. He re-called last year’s game against the another city rival, Villanova, in particular, where the Quakers initially trailed the Wildcats 7-3 before pulling off a 12-11 win.

In fact, Penn has stormed back from scoring deficits so many times that Doktor was not even fazed by Tuesday’s five-goal de-ficiency at the half. “We were comfortable in a sense despite the deficit that we had,” the senior said.

Doktor’s response is a tes-tament to Murphy’s coaching mentality: in each practice, he stresses that players think about the game on a micro-level.

“We try to take things one faceoff at a time, one goal at a time,” Murphy said. “And that’s what we did.”

While every team has reason to miss its graduating class of athletes after a season ends, that loss can sometimes be less painful when countered by the promise of incoming new talent.

And with the recruiting class that the program has pulled to-gether this offseason, Penn men’s soccer has every reason to be smiling.

Coach Rudy Fuller and his staff recently announced the Quakers’ group of recruits for Penn’s Class for 2019, and the eight men who will join the Quakers next fall comprise one of the best classes the Red and Blue have put together in recent memory.

Featuring several players that have spent time at Under-18 Na-tional Team camps and with many accolades attached to all the ath-letes, Penn boasts the 12th-ranked incoming class in the nation ac-cording to CollegeSoccerNews.com, coming in just behind peren-nial powerhouses Stanford and North Carolina.

“Over the past few years we have had tremendous support from the athletic administration and from our alums, and that has really allowed us to go out and

really try and recruit the best in the nation,” Fuller said. “We were very fortunate to identify some of these guys very early, and we were able, right from the onset, to begin

showing them what Penn really had to offer them.”

The incoming class boasts four defenders, two of whom have spent time at U-18 National

Team camp in Gavin Barger and Nigel Blackwood. Defender Er-emuse Momoh and midfielder Erik Swenson — both ranked in the top-150 of all seniors by Col-legeSoccerNews.com — will also join the Quakers, giving Penn a solid collection of back line play-ers moving forward.

“We definitely had a very fo-cused approach when building this class, and the back half of the field was something that we spe-cifically targeted,” Fuller said. “Between this year and next year, we are going to be graduating a large number of defensive players, and we wanted to make sure we had talented guys ready to step up for us in the back line.”

Penn will also welcome two freshman keepers next year to compliment rising seniors Max Polkinhorne and Nick Savino. Florida native Etan Mabourakh joins Penn as the 13th-best goal-keeper recruit in the nation, and Scott Forbes — the New Jersey state record holder for most-con-secutive shutout minutes — adds yet another talented keeper to Penn’s growing collection.

“In my time with Penn, I have been blessed with some really talented keepers,” Fuller said. “And with both Max and Nick

graduating next year, we wanted to make sure we addressed that position.

“We are thrilled to have Scott and Etan joining us, and they both are going to benefit a lot from our keepers and I’m sure both of them will be in there fighting for time in net.”

Rounding out Penn’s recruits are two Red Bull Academy play-ers. In addition to Swenson, midfielder Gideo Metrikin and forward Jerel Blades will join the Quakers in the hopes of giving the team some of the attacking fire-power it lost with the graduation of Duke Lacroix.

While none of these players may be ready to take the field just yet for the Red and Blue, Fuller and his staff are confident that they have a group of players that will usher in nothing but a bright future for the Quakers.

“What these guys have accom-plished up until this point in their careers is significant, but the jump to collegiate soccer is still sig-nificant for everyone,” Fuller said. “These guys are going to provide us with a ton of depth, and day in and day out they are going to compete for those minutes which is exactly the type of players we want.”

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recruits, an absurdly high portion of their roster. Their most notable recent alum — Joey Bosa — has made a name for himself on Ohio State’s national champion-ship winning defense. Bosa was Parchment’s teammate for two seasons, and they won the state title together in 2012, proving that Parchment is used to playing with the big boys.

With two players in his class bound for Florida and another headed to Ohio State, Parchment was not the most high profile star of his team. However, the three-time varsity letter winner has the passion and experience to become

a force in the Ivy League. He ex-celled in his senior season and started in all 15 of St. Thomas Aquinas’ games.

Parchment also looks to his favorite player — J.J. Watt — for influence, and tries to play with the same aggression as the NFL star.

“On the line, it’s whatever hap-pens happens,” he pointed out. “Once you’re down in the pile, once you’re engaged with that person in front of you, you have to be aggressive, and you have to be able to manhandle the person and throw them aside.

“Or just pancake them into the dirt and keep on protecting your quarterback, and protecting your running back and running down

the field trying to make another block.”

However, Parchment isn’t all football all the time. In fact, it was the University itself more than the football program that at-tracted him to West Philly.

“I dreamed of going to the Wharton School of Business, and I truly believe that football won’t last forever,” he said. “I love the game, but education is more im-portant later on in life.”

Still, Parchment had to be sold on the program. He credits Penn coach Ray Priore with walk-ing him through the recruiting process and speaking to him nu-merous times, both in person and on the phone.

The coaching change doesn’t

phase the soon to be Penn athlete. He’s ready to head into battle with his new teammates in hopes of being part of a group ready to lead Penn football back to heights seen at times during the Bagnoli era.

“I’m most looking forward to winning four Ivy titles in four straight years once I head up there with the new class ... and bring-ing back the traditions that Penn holds,” he added.

With big-time matchups against Princeton and the rest of the Ancient Eight on the horizon, look for Parchment to show up ready to perform. After all, he’s played on the big stage before, and he’s hungry to clear the path to the end zone for the Red and Blue.

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Quakers prep for future with strong Class of ‘19M. SOCCER | Penn has two goalies in recruiting SAM ALTLANDSports Reporter

JONATHAN DE JONG | DP FILE PHOTO Thanks to coach Rudy Fuller and his staff, Penn men’s soccer has put together a strong recruiting class this offseason. With several players set to graduate in the near future, the Red and Blue have retooled with new goalkeepers and defenders.

COURTESY OF PHIL PARCHMENT Penn recruit Phil Parchment wasn’t the most heralded member of his high school football class, but he still managed a tremendous career at St. Thomas Aquinas.

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COURTESY OF PENN ATHLETICS As Penn men’s tennis continues its strong play to begin the 2015 season, the Quakers are led by senior Jeremy Court. Having been on the team since coach David Geatz first arrived with the program, Court has been a constant winner for the Red and Blue, and is having one of the best seasons of any player on the roster this year.

As a Florida native, Phil Parchment hasn’t had the plea-sure of playing football on the frozen tundra of the northeast. But the 6-foot-4, 280-pound offensive lineman welcomes the new challenge with exu-berance.

“Hell yeah I’m ready,” the Red and Blue recruit exclaimed. “Honestly, the weather does not bother me one bit. I’m ready to take on the cold.

“If it’s 20 degrees, I don’t

care. I’ll still get in my stance. I’ll still pancake a player to the ground.”

Parchment is no doubt a dominating force given his frame, but his confidence also stems from the environment that he was a part of at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale. The foot-ball powerhouse — which holds claim to seven state titles and two national champion-ships — breeds superstars.

The Raiders produce the most Division I and NFL play-ers in the nation. Supported by an impressive coaching staff that features Hall of Fame wide receiver Chris Carter, Parchment and his teammates know what it takes to make it

to the big time.Parchment credits his soon-

to-be alma mater with treating its students like collegiate athletes, thus preparing them to make the jump to the next level.

“Every single day in prac-tice they treat it as business. There’s no fooling around, ev-erybody’s focused,” the high school senior said with the eloquence of a veteran college player.

“We’re jumping around ex-cited but we are all focused on one goal, one game at a time,” Parchment added.

This year alone, the Raid-ers produced 17 Division I

Earlier this month, Penn men’s tennis returned to a place that it hadn’t been in several years.

The best mark for the program in nearly 10 years, the Red and Blue reached No. 51 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings on Feb. 2, the highest the team has been since 2006. The ranking came after the Quakers defeated No. 16 Penn State

on Feb. 1 in what the ITA termed the “biggest upset of the year” in a press release.

“The thing about this year’s team is that we’re solid at ever y single spot ,” coach David Geatz said. “You hear that every team has a soft spot or a weakness, but I rea l ly think that we have a lot of depth.”

Penn tennis has come a long way

since Geatz first took over in June 2011. Following stints at Minnesota

and Cornel l , he inherited a team that had won only six of their 28 matches in Ivy League play in the pre-vious four years under coach Nik DeVore, who had resigned that April.

Additionally, the team was in flux off the court — multiple players had contentious

relationships with DeVore by the end of his tenure.

Once Geatz came into the fold for the 2011-12 season, however, the team’s fortunes immediately improved. Led by a core of young players that included then-freshman — and current senior — Jeremy Court, the Quakers improved by two games against the Ancient Eight, bettering their record from 1-6 to 3-4 against Ivy opponents.

Court, who compiled a 16-4 sin-gles record in his rookie campaign, was joined by current juniors Blaine

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M. LACROSSE | Quakers overcome seven-goal deficitLAINE HIGGINSSports Editor

ALEXIS ZIEBELMAN | SENIOR SPORTS REPORTER Senior attack Joe McCallion led Penn’s second-half offensive charge with three goals.

Don’t call it a comeback.But in the case of the men’s lacrosse

team’s game at Saint Joseph’s last night, a comeback is exactly the right word to use.

In the first two periods at Sweeney Field, the Quakers (2-0) allowed seven unan-swered goals from the Hawks (1-2) before clawing back to win 11-10 in overtime.

“Obviously we dug ourselves into a little bit of a hole at the start of the game,” senior attack Nick Doktor said.

Despite ramping up the intensity of their play after a mid-game locker room pep talk by the team’s crew of seniors, according to Doktor, the Quakers still looked sluggish throughout the third period. The score re-mained locked in a five-point spread, with each team scoring one goal in the third period, bringing the score to 9-4 in the 45th minute of play.

But that all changed in the first minute of the fourth period when freshman de-fense Connor Keating picked up a ground ball and charged the net, scoring Penn’s first of six consecutive goals in the fourth period.

“That really just set us in motion and really gave us some energy and led to more riding and plays with ground balls,” coach Mike Murphy said.

Penn would go on to take the lead 10-9 with five minutes left in the fourth period. However, Kevin Forster of St. Joe’s tied the score with 3:45 remaining on the clock. The Quakers nearly saw the win slip through their fingers in the third minute of overtime, but sophomore midfield Chris

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M. TENNIS | Quakers in top-75 after years on outsideSTEVEN JACOBSONSports Reporter

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High school success has recruit set for Ivy League

COURTESY OF PHIL PARCHMENT Hailing from St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Florida, offensive tackle Phil Parchment has competed with some of the best athletes in the nation. A soon to be freshman for new coach Ray Priore, Parchment is now prepared to take on Ivy League opponents.

FOOTBALL | OL played with OSU’s Joey BosaTHOMAS MUNSONAssociate Sports Editor

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LOOKING AHEADPenn men’s soccer has put

together the 12th-best recruiting class in the country

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QUEST FOR NINEWe discuss what Penn women’s lacrosse needs to do to repeat

(again) in 2015

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The thing about this year’s team is that we’re solid at every single spot.

” - David Geatz

Penn tennis coach

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