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12 locker thefts reported at Penn gyms in the new year

A rash of 12 locker thefts took place inside of Pottruck Health and Fitness Center and the Hutchinson Gymnasium between Jan. 15 and Feb. 4.

The Division of Public Safety sent an advisory email notifying “members of the Penn community” of the locker thefts at 7:20 p.m. on Tues-day. Out of the seven Pottruck thefts, four thefts were from secured lockers. All five of the Hutchinson Gym locker thefts were from unsecured lockers.

Graduate medical student Adam Watson’s locker was broken into on Jan. 22. His iPhone and cash were stolen from his secured locker inside of the locker room at Pottruck. He had secured his locker with a black, three-ring Master Lock, a lock he said is com-monly used inside of Pottruck. “I saw four of those kinds of lock on the ground floor, and in the locker room, I saw at least two or three more,” Watson said.

Watson knew that some-thing was awry when he returned to his locker after a 45-minute workout to find that his lock was missing. “My guess would be that they’ve figured out how to break in to the locks themselves or they’re looking over people’s shoul-ders at the combination,” he said.

Watson filed a police report

following the incident, yet was not able to recover his stolen property and no arrest has been made. He said that the Penn Police officer he spoke to told him that he had received multiple reports of this type of locker theft the day prior to Jan. 22. Watson attempted to use location apps, but his

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Despite restrictions, Lyft launches in Phila.

SOUL asks Penn community, “Who killed Brandon Tate-Brown?”

Controversy sur rounding the shooting of Brandon Tate-Brown by Philadelphia Police

has sparked activism on Penn’s campus.

On Jan. 30 , members of Stu-dents Organizing for Unity and Liberation, an activism group on campus known as co-organizers of the die-in at Amy Gutmann’s annual holiday party, placed posters around campus asking “Who Killed

Brandon Tate-Brown?” in an effort to spark campus conver-sation and awareness. This was part of their on-going Ferguson Friday demonstrations.

Brandon Tate-Brown, a 26-year-old black man, was shot in the head and killed by

Out of seven recent Pottruck locker thefts, four were from secured and three from unsecured lockers.

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As part of their on-going Ferguson Friday demonstrations, students from SOUL placed posters around campus in an effort to spark campus conversation and awareness regarding the incident.

IRINA BIT-BABIK | NEWS PHOTO EDITOR

The organization calls attention to a shooting by Philadelphia policeJESSICA WASHINGTONStaff Reporter

Items were stolen from both unsecured and locked lockersANNA HESSStaff Reporter

Penn researchers were accused of giving five pigs unapproved head injuries and burning a monkey over the course of last year.

These acts came less than a year after the United States Department of Agricul-ture, which regulates the use of animals in laboratories, warned Penn that it was not in compliance with federal regula-tions.

The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service issued the University an “Official Letter of Warning” in June of 2013. “This is an enforcement letter that does not have a monetary fine, how-ever, it lets the facility know they are not

in compliance with the Animal Welfare Act and they need to come back into com-pliance or we will take further action,” USDA Public Affairs Specialist Tanya Espinosa said in an email.

Executive Director of Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! Michael Budkie believes that Penn has not made an effort to improve compliance with the Animal Welfare Act. Budkie called the

Complaints cite six animals injured in Penn labs last yearDAVID CAHNStaff Reporter

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Want to get from A to B and enjoy the ride, without sacrificing afford-ability? While Lyft claims to be “your friend with a car, whenever you need one,” Philadelphia authorities disagree.

Lyft launched in Philadelphia on Jan. 30. Despite the Philadelphia Parking Authority’s ban on UberX and Lyft, the ride-sharing services

continue to operate successfully in the city and remain popular among Penn students.

While Pennsylvania has given Uber and Lyft a temporary license to operate in the rest of the state, Philadelphia is the lone exception. The PPA vows to impound all of the Lyft and UberX cars it can find and has recently been conducting sting operations to do so. If caught, drivers receive a citation and a $1,000 fine, and the company is cited twice with fines totaling over $1,750, though there are no consequences for the passengers.

Lyft representatives reached out to

the PPA months before launching in Philadelphia in an effort to collabo-rate on ride-sharing regulations.

“They’re very much trying to force Lyft into a one-size-fits-all regula-tory framework,” Lyft representative Mary Caroline Pruitt said. “Current regulations for taxis and limos were created a while ago before anything like Lyft was ever imagined … this is a fundamentally different model than a taxi or a limo.”

Nevertheless, Pruitt added that the company feels its launch in Philadel-phia was successful.

“Our launch in Philly was actu-ally one of our biggest and busiest

launches ever. We’re really excited to see both passengers and drivers very much enjoying the service,” Pruitt said.

Lyft drivers, like their UberX counterparts, are not professional drivers, but small business owners, students and single moms, among others who drive in their free time.

The PPA refers to UberX and Lyft as illegal and “hack” taxi services.

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The adage goes that “a Re-publican can never win in Philadelphia.”

Philadelphia hasn’t had a Re-publican mayor since the early 1950s. Currently, fourteen of the seventeen City Councilmen are Democratic, and most convinc-ingly, as of the 2014 midterm election, 78 percent of regis-tered voters in Philadelphia are Democrats.

The left wing has not always been popular in Philadelphia. The first time Democrats beat Republicans in voter registra-tion numbers occurred in 1957. Up until then, recorded data shows Republican dominance. Even during President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration, when national fervor promoted liberal policies, the Republican Party still outflanked the Demo-crats in Philadelphia.

The trend for a majority Dem-ocratic electorate holds for other urban areas as well. Chicago has had Democratic mayors since the 1930s. All fifty of Chicago’s aldermen — legislators similar to ward leaders in Philadelphia — are Democrats.

But some of Philly politi-cians’ stances on issues break the liberal party norms.

While the front-runner in the 2015 mayoral race, former state Sen. Anthony H. Williams, is a

registered Democrat, some of his most prominent supporters come from across the aisle.

During his 2010 run for the Pennsylvania gubernato-rial seat, Williams received $3.3 million in donations from a political action committee, Students’ Choice, spearheaded by three conservative business-men. These same donors have formed a new PAC to contribute $250,000 to his mayoral bid.

Williams’ broad support for charter school expansion is unusual for a Democratic poli-tician, whose base supporters generally include the teachers’ union. Public school teachers, to say the least, have been unsup-portive of diverting funds from public schools to charters.

Williams is not the only Democratic politician in Phila-delphia whose positions run counter to liberal expectations.

Rep. Chaka Fattah, whose area of representation in the U.S. House of Representatives includes Penn’s campus, re-ceived the majority of donations in the 2013-14 election cycle from Comcast.

The cable company has given support to both parties, but generally favors Repub-licans, whose views against net neutrality align with the company’s own. For his 2014 campaign, Comcast gave Re-publican Speaker of the House John Boehner, who supports net neutrality, $74,000, while Dem-ocrat House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi only received $7,500 from Comcast.

Meanwhile, Comcast has

been the largest donor to Fattah for his past three campaigns. One could only assume their support is linked to Fattah’s extensive record against net neutrality.

Fat tah’s major ity Demo-cratic district reelected him in 2014 with 87.7 percent of the vote, which raises the issue of whether the title “Democrat” virtually assures success in Philadelphia.

For other candidates, straying from the party platform has re-sulted in backlash.

For mer Dist r ic t At tor-ney Lynne Abraham, another mayoral candidate, has long op-posed the decriminalization of marijuana.

“I’m against it, especially for kids,” Abraham said in a Jan. 5 interview with Philadelphia

Magazine. She also criticized the City Council’s bill to de-criminalize marijuana, calling it “fake” and “illegal.”

T h i s we ek , Abr a h a m adjusted her position on de-criminalization. Abraham told the Philadelphia Inquirer on Tuesday that she supported the “decriminalization of pos-sessions of small amounts of marijuana for personal use.”

Her supposed “flip-flop” in-cited ridicule from local pundits and her fellow candidates, but speaks to a larger question on political diversity in Philadel-phia.

Some Philadelphia pun-dits have rebelled against the widespread practice of straight ticket voting, where voters align all of their votes for one par-ticular party. In a Philadelphia

Magazine opinion piece from November, Joel Mathis, a self-professed liberal, urged citizens to reject the traditional Demo-cratic candidates. He wrote, “Using our votes to create a sense of competition in our poli-tics might lead to the real thing.”

“The Democratic Party takes urban, city voters for granted, period,” he said.

Despite f irm Democratic control of Philadelphia poli-tics, Vice President of College Republicans sophomore Jenni-fer Knesbach said the group is unlikely to endorse even a con-servative Democrat for mayor.

“The mayoral race is one that could be winnable down the road,” Knesbach, a College and Wharton sophomore, wrote in an email.

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candidates seeking higher office in Philadelphia have listened to the old aphorism that “if you can’t beat them, join them.”

Doug Oliver, a former press secretary in Mayor Michael Nutter’s administration, for-mally announced his candidacy on Saturday. Oliver switched his party affiliation to Democratic in 2012. He had been a regis-tered Republican since 2010.

Philadelphia’s politicians, despite a mostly uniform party affiliation, hold markedly dif-ferent positions. A nearly 80 percent Democratic electorate has elected politicians whose positions oftentimes seem more conservative than liberal. The question for Philadelphia’s po-litical future is whether voters will be able to look beyond party labels at the polls.

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Philadelphia police officers during a traffic stop on Dec. 15, 2014 in the Mayfair section of Philadelphia. Police reported that Tate-Brown was allegedly reaching for a weapon when they shot him.

There were two places on campus where sheets with spray-painted messages were placed: the Covenant sculpture on Locust Walk and the bridge over 38th street. The signs were taken down that same day.

Tate-Brown’s death came at a time when national attention is focused on questions about the

use of excessive force by police officers and the fairness of the U.S. legal system, particularly for people of color.

Members of SOUL later re-leased a public statement on Facebook explaining the mean-ing behind the posters.

“SOUL chose to highlight Brandon Tate-Brown because

we believe that ALL Black lives matter and that no one should have to go on trial for their death post mortem,” the group said in their public statement.

The group also chose to highlight two other major issues surrounding the death of Tate-Brown — lack of police transparency following the

incident and what they believe to be a prejudicial rush to exces-sive use of force against blacks.

Other members of the Phila-delphia community have spoken out regarding the connection between this case and others happening around the country, namely Brown’s mother who shared her outrage regarding

law enforcement in an interview with NBC10 Philadelphia fol-lowing the incident.

“I would like to know why the police, law enforcement, has the right to kill instead of disabling,” the victim’s mother Tanya Dickerson told NBC10 Philadelphia. “It has to stop, this is enough already.”

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DO YOU PAY PER VIEW?Film polled you to fi nd out how you are getting your Sunday afternoon movie fi xes. Here’s what we learned. BY ANTHONY KHAYKIN

Though we all know the Internet is for porn (thanks Avenue Q), the

bedroom is no longer the only area being ceded to digital terri-tory. For every girl with daddy’s AmEx, window browsing on Fifth Avenue has been replaced with online shopping. And FYEs everywhere have virtu-ally been rendered useless (pun intended) with the existence of the multifarious iTunes store.

Things are no different here at Penn, where the Rave gets nearly half the traffi c for the midnight screenings of block-buster hits like Twilight as Hulu does the day after the newest episode of 30 Rock airs. This makes sense. We Penn students are too busy procrastinating on Penn InTouch and design-ing funny lacrosse pinnies for the clubs we’re involved in to leave the comfort of our beds to

watch Hugo in theaters. And we fi t this mold of overworked Ivy League students well, with only about 17% of Penn undergrads watching movies at the Rave ev-ery semester.

But how about the other ste-reotype, the one that says all col-lege students are poor? The free movement of information made possible by the interweb makes

entertainment accessible and inexpensive to anyone with an AirPennNet account. Wouldn’t

you guess then that Penn stu-dents would prefer to get their RomCom fi x online with free streaming websites like SideReel and Ch131 rather than pay for services provided by Netfl ix and Redbox?

While 75% of us watch mov-ies online, nearly 50% pay for it. I hear Horrible Bosses — a new release on iTunes — is hys-

terical, but is it worth the 1.5 salads at Sweetgreen it would have cost if I had seen it in theaters? Ramen noo-dles aren’t that bad, I guess.

The average Penn student (who is anything but average, if you ask Amy Gutmann) watch-

es seven movies, more or less, every semester. Simple arithme-tic proves that it’s $40 cheaper to watch said movies on Netfl ix than at the Rave, and an addi-tional $20 less on iTunes (cost of popcorn and Mike and Ikes not included in these calcula-tions). The low cost of watch-ing seven movies on iTunes for less than 30 bucks is worth the many conveniences that online paid services afford us: not be-ing interrupted by incessant buffering and commercials, the immunity to computer viruses and most importantly, not hav-ing to wait 54 minutes after watching 72 minutes of a movie on Megavideo.

Not to mention, it’s a small price to pay when you look at the big picture — the combined savings of the 47.7% of Penn students who pay for their online services rather than going to the movie theater is somewhere be-tween $196,136 and $295,344, depending on whether they use Netfl ix or iTunes, respectively. Moral of the story is: we won't judge if you just stay in bed.

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University’s behavior “negli-gence which could easily have been avoided.”

On Dec. 29, 2014, Budkie filed an official complaint to the USDA against the Univer-sity. In the complaint, he wrote, “University of Pennsylvania has a long history of animal abuse which has led to multiple animal deaths, I must insist that you take the most severe action allowable under the Animal Welfare Act.”

SAEN is calling for the USDA to fine Penn the maxi-mum amount of $10,000 per animal — totaling in this case to $60,000. However, Budkie said that even this penalty would not be sufficient because labs frequently view fines as a cost of doing business. Since universities make millions of dollars a year on animal rights research, Budkie believes that they have little incentive to im-prove compliance.

“As far as the Animal Wel-fare Act goes, that fine is all the USDA can do. There is no such thing as a criminal penalty. The USDA has no authority to close a laboratory,” Budkie said.

Whether Penn will actually be fined for the six violations in 2014 is unclear. Budkie said that the USDA tends to “issue

something on the order of five to 10 fines nationally per year.”

Still, he is optimistic. “Since the University of Pennsylvania recently received an offi-cial warning, I would say the chances are better than usual,” he said.

Espinosa confirmed that the USDA is looking into the six re-ported violations.

As far as peer institutions go, Harvard was fined $24,000 in December of 2013 for 11 vio-lations of the Animal Welfare Act.

Penn’s Vice Provost for Re-search Dawn Bonnell, whose signature appears on official documentation of the monkey and pig injuries, was unavail-able to comment on this story.

“It is extremely important to note that the University of Pennsylvania faculty them-selves reported these incidents to the Office of Animal Wel-fare,” Institutional Animal Care and Use committee chair Yale Cohen said in an email. “All appropriate steps by the Office of Animal Welfare were taken to correct these issues and to ensure that these unfor-tunate incidents cannot occur in the future.”

According to Cohen, outside of the six violations reported to the National Institute of Health, there were no additional issues with animal research in 2014.

“It is important to under-stand that SAEN’s goal is to advance its agenda of elimi-nating all biomedical research using animals,” Cohen said.

Penn Vegan Society co-Pres-ident Brianna Krejci said the organization believes in main-taining the integrity of life, but supports animal research.

“Penn Vegan’s Society’s offi-cial stance is that we recognize what the benefits that can come of animal research are and that have come, especially at a large research university,” she said.

After reviewing the specific documents related to SAEN’s complaint, Krejci said she places the onus on specific re-searchers who made mistakes. “The problem comes in when individuals don’t know the pro-cedures,” she said.

The University handled the incident to her satisfaction. “[The injuries] were a thing that happened and then they were mediated and policies were put in place to ensure that doesn’t happen again,” she said. Following the injuries in 2014, the University reported several ways they would avoid injuries like these in the future, like using a water blanket to avoid burning primates and improv-ing experiment preparation

procedures.Krejci speculated that Penn

may receive increased attention from animal rights watchdogs because it has a history of animal abuse. Most notable, she said, were incidents that occurred in Penn’s head injury clinic in the early ‘80s. A 1984 PETA film Unnecessary Fuss showed footage of the Penn re-searchers laughing at baboons while inflicting brain damage.

Those revelations led to major reforms in research at Penn, including the firing of a chief veterinarian, a lab closure and withdrawal of funds. As re-cently as 2011, the Penn Vegan Society appealed to the Univer-sity Council about an incident involving a puppy that alleg-edly slipped through a grate where it was found dead, Krejci said. That year, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a Washington D.C. based nonprofit, ranked Penn as having the greatest number of violations in the Ivy League.

Krejci said her focus is not on abolishing animal research. “We are not societally and tech-nologically at a place where we can get rid of animal testing completely,” she said. “The benefits completely outweigh the animals that are dying.”

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Pruitt disagreed. “We’re very proud of the rigorous safety training processes the drivers undergo before being approved to drive on the platform,” she said. The screening process includes a criminal back-ground check, a DMV record check, a 19-point vehicle inspection and an in-person meeting with a “mentor driver.” To qualify, mentor drivers must earn a five-star rating, receive impeccable feedback from the pas-senger community and complete corporate training.

“Our safety practices work in a way that is streamlined for the driver. It still maintains the highest level of safety, but at the same time puts the burden on us as the com-pany,” Pruitt said.

UberX and Lyft passengers at Penn expressed little concern over the alleged safety issues of ride-sharing. Engineering freshman Bernardo Penteado said he has never felt unsafe in an UberX and has even used the service to take extended rides, such as to his recent skiing trip.

“I feel fine. I feel safe, and it’s just

the easiest way for me. I feel [Uber drivers] drive better and safer, as well,” Wharton freshman Sam Shea said. Shea added that she can never find a taxicab when she needs one.

“Ride-sharing is inherently you putting your life in someone else’s hands. I personally like knowing who that person is beforehand,” Wharton and Engineering Junior Adam Stravitz said. “You’re able to get a general sense of who your driver is, and there’s a system of checks and balances in place for him, so that he’s incentivized to not scream profanities or text and drive.”

“Even though it’s less legal, I feel safer,” Engineering and Wharton freshman Zane Stiles said. “The Uber and the Lyft cars both are gen-erally very nice compared to a taxi, which is usually beaten down.”

UberX and Lyft offer cheaper prices than taxis and public trans-portation. UberX, which recently dropped fares in the city by 35 percent, is now 55 percent cheaper than a Philadelphia taxi. Last week, Stravitz and a group of friends trav-elled downtown for only $8.64, which they split evenly using Uber’s built-in fare-sharing feature. SEPTA cash fare would have totaled $9.00 for four passengers.

“It makes it very difficult to justify why you would ever take SEPTA if you’re in a group of one or two other people,” Stravitz said.

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A new idea is evident-ly circulating among the leaders of the School of Arts and

Sciences. Buried in the pages of the recently released SAS Stra-tegic Plan were the following three sentences: “Additionally, we will work to create a struc-ture for recognizing students’ ef-forts to put theory into practice through a new kind of credit on the transcript, distinct from academic credit. These efforts include research, work/intern-ship experience, or community engagement. The College will explore instituting a requirement that students amass several such credits for graduation.”

There are self-evident prob-lems with mandatory commu-nity service, namely that any work done not out of altruism but out of a desire to either com-plete a mandatory step toward the receipt of one’s own de-gree, or a desire to make one’s transcript more appealing to potential evaluators is probably better described as “self-service by means of community-related work” than as true community

service. It’s more a philosophi-cal than a practical complaint; in practice, this probably hap-pens all the time — it would be naive to think that nobody does community work out of a desire to pad out their resume — but it

isn’t the sort of disingenuous-ness the College should incen-tivize as a matter of policy. The strategic plan seems to want to sidestep this issue by using the term “community engagement” rather than “community ser-vice,” but such semantic tinker-ing does not dodge the larger issue.

However, I recognize that one could argue back and forth on the merits of mandatory or incentivized “community ser-vice” for hours. What concerns me more are inevitable issues of philosophical consistency inher-

ent in the proposal.Rewarding students for par-

ticipating in research is consis-tent with the College’s mission to be an institution dedicated to the discovery of new knowledge and the search for truth. While

there are already ways in which students may be able to receive academic credit for doing re-search — including research seminars and independent stud-ies — a comprehensive, stream-lined policy would certainly help students whose research is currently ineligible for credit.

Awarding transcript credit — academic or otherwise — for work and community service, however, is not consistent with the College’s mission. While “put[ting] theory into practice,” especially in the realm of com-munity service, is a fine and

worthwhile pursuit, it is not what the College, as a liberal arts institution, is here to do. In fact, rewarding the practical ap-plication of theoretical knowl-edge with even some lesser form of credit runs contrary to the

the core belief upon which the liberal arts endeavor is based: that acquisition of knowledge is, independent of any other out-comes or effects, a positive and worthwhile good; that learning and contemplating truth are not means to some other end, but the noblest of ends in their own rights.

This belief in the indepen-dent value of learning is, to put it bluntly, under siege in our time. Demands increasingly mount that the liberal arts education justify its existence and expense by producing some tangible,

“useful” result, some positive secondary outcome to account for the resources it consumes. Many if not most College stu-dents would say without hesita-tion that their primary expecta-tion for their Penn education is that it provide them with job opportunities. Though some might chalk this up to Penn’s notoriously pre-professional cul-ture, the same is true of students at numerous other liberal arts institutions. A number of col-lege ranking schemes, includ-ing President Obama’s “College Scorecard” program use the ex-pected cash value of a degree as a weighty criterion for deciding which schools to rank highly, while giving less or no weight to student satisfaction or quality of instruction. Last week, The Washington Post reported that Wisconsin governor Scott Walk-er had proposed removing “the search for truth” from the Uni-versity of Wisconsin system’s mission statement and adding “to meet the state’s workforce needs.”

The alternative credit pro-posal shows an alarming will-

ingness on SAS’ part to back away from its foundational phi-losophy and acquiesce, at least partially, to these misguided demands. The types of activi-ties that the College chooses to reward with credit should reflect the basic philosophical under-pinnings of the mission to which the institution is committed, by definition and by its own mis-sion statement.

I will be among the first to admit that my relationship with my smartphone is un-healthy. It’s an iPhone 4,

which makes it a dinosaur given the speed at which technology develops and it is now very slow — almost unusable. Despite it frequently irritating me, I am constantly using it even when I shouldn’t be and scramble to charge it the second the low-bat-tery alert pops up. I hate it, but I can’t live without it.

Many people don’t hate their phones but are still addicted to them. Smartphones have be-come such an integral part of our lives that it is no wonder there are so many examples in film, literature and television of humanity’s demise at the hands of our own creations. Often times, these media will predict a dystopian future for mankind, possibly in the form of the police state in George Orwell’s “1984,” or the colorless society envi-sioned in Lois Lowry’s “The

Giver.” In “1984,” Big Brother uses technology to monitor the thoughts and communications of the proletariat, while in “The Giver” the “Elders” attempt to maintain their idea of utopia by prescribing pills that eliminate any emotion.

Examples in film include “Wall-E,” an animated feature set 700 years in the future where Earth is a wasteland, and “Inter-stellar,” which is close enough to the present to resemble the ef-fects of overpopulation and un-sustainability. While they both might serve as cautionary tales for humanity’s interaction with the environment, perhaps one of the most haunting examples of technology’s dangerous po-tential is “Black Mirror,” an an-thology TV series that describes small innovations with devastat-ing effects.

“Black Mirror” satirizes our desire for connectedness, our worshipping of celebrities and our ability to be manipulated

by groupthink, among other themes. Unlike the aforemen-tioned works that predict doom and gloom, however, its main message is to highlight the many problems with contemporary society in the context of new technology. Turn a page in any

newspaper and there will surely be studies showing that social media makes us feel lonely and isolated, or that tablet computers should be banned in elementary schools so that children can con-tinue learning to write by hand.

Rather than attempt to fore-cast impending disaster, writers should think about adopting “Black Mirror’s” approach and address societal problems cre-

atively. The movie “Her,” di-rected by Spike Jonze, does ex-actly that. It exemplifies a man’s inability to sustain relationships with others through his romance with an advanced computer operating system named “Sa-mantha.” Samantha could easily

have been the soulless antago-nist of “I, Robot,” a film based on the book of the same name by Isaac Asimov, in which hu-manoid robots that were devel-oped to help us turn against us for our own safety.

For every innovation in technology, there has been a corresponding backlash from the privacy advocates. When the telephone was introduced

into American homes at begin-ning of the twentieth century, a large subset of the population claimed their rights were being violated. The same occurred with the television. When Apple introduced the Newton PDA in the late ‘80s, it was ahead of its time and the product failed. That same device became the iPad in 2010.

Very few have accurately predicted how technology would influence our lives be-cause no one can see the future. Campaigns like “Look Up!” serve to emphasize our growing reliance on it. Is the reality of technology that grim? The pos-sibility of being imprisoned by robots seems to make for a good action film at best. As cliché as it sounds, I think the only thing we should fear being imprisoned by is our own close-mindedness. Humans co-evolve with the technology they create. Instead of fearing that Generation Z will be glued to their iWatches

and lack the social skills to com-municate with others, we should have confidence in that they will learn to use new technology to make exciting contributions to the world.

For every innovation in technology, there has been a corresponding backlash from

the privacy advocats.”

Practice isn’t what we preachTALKING BACKWARD | Practicum credit system is contrary to SAS’ core philosophy

There are self-evident problems with mandatory community service, namely that any work done not out of altruism … is probably better described as ‘self-service by means of community-related work’ … “

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

RAVI JAIN is a College sophomore from Syosset, N.Y., studying economics. His email address is [email protected]. “Tall, Skinny, Mocha” appears every other Wednesday.

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Professor immerses students in culture of Buddhist monks

As an undergraduate, Chair of the Religious Studies department Justin McDaniel, a preeminent scholar of Buddhism, had never studied the subject before. After volunteering in Thailand and Laos, he was inspired to explore the Buddhist culture, even becoming a monk himself.

McDaniel’s affinity for South Asian culture began with his vol-unteer work teaching English and citizenship to Cambodian refugee communities. After learning about the genocide in Cambodia and

developing relationships with the people he taught, he was inspired to volunteer in Asia.

While in Thailand and Laos, McDaniel taught English, as well as AIDS and HIV prevention educa-tion, in a small town while working with schools for disabled students on the side. Because the majority of these countries’ populations are Bud-dhist, McDaniel was able to learn firsthand about the religion.

“I got more and more interested in their religion and culture, problem solving methods and interpersonal relationships ... everything that reli-gion touches upon,” McDaniel said.

Most Thai men go on to become monks for a short period of time, so it was only natural that McDaniel, who had made many Buddhist friends and immersed himself in Buddhist

culture during his stay in Thailand, became one as well.

McDaniel describes his experi-ences during the monastic life as challenging but liberating.

“It sounds difficult because you eat once a day, you don’t have any possessions, you have to shave your head and eyebrows ... you’re living in the jungle,” McDaniel said. “You take away the pressures [of the out-side world] ... you concentrate on doing the task at hand ... and it gives you time for introspection, learning how to work with others and how to serve others.”

“We spend so much of our lives on focusing on ourselves ... The lifestyle makes service and dedication easier,” he added.

McDaniel said that the monastic lifestyle also helped him develop

priorities as a teacher.“Teaching is a wonderful vocation

but you have a lot of responsibility to students. It is important to show that education is not just a series of ac-complishments,” he said. “Education is learning who to rethink, learning to question ourselves and learning how knowledge and service go to-gether.”

McDaniel’s most well-known class, “Living Deliberately: Monks, Saints and the Contemplative Life,” brings his monastic experience to Penn. Students in the religious stud-ies course observe a code of silence, abstain from using all electronic communications and limit their spending to $50 a week. They also practice celibacy for a month and keep journals, in which they write down what they were doing every 15

minutes.College sophomore Carolina Bel-

tran, who was inspired to major in religious studies after taking classes with McDaniel, said that his values are evident in McDaniel’s classes.

“He challenges us to think dif-ferently,” Beltran said. “He says ‘I’m giving you this but I want you to think outside of the box.’” She described McDaniel as humble, grounded and approachable despite his distinguished position, adding that he has an evident passion for what he does.

Another of McDaniel’s students, College and Wharton senior James An, agrees.

“He is extremely passionate about what he does and anyone who enters the classroom can see that,” An said. “He’s more than a professor.”

The Department Chair spent time volunteering in Thailand and Laos, learning firsthand about Buddhism.

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Department chair spent time working in Thailand, LaosSHOBA BABUStaff Reporter

The historic mansion at 40th and Pine Streets falls further into a complex legal battle between Penn and the community members sur-rounding the property.

In a Commonwealth Court case on Tuesday afternoon, the Woodland Terrace Homeowners

Association and nearby neighbors opposed Penn’s plan to replace the historic mansion at 400 S. 40th St. with a five-story, 122-unit apart-ment complex geared toward graduate students. The hearing came out of the neighborhood group’s objection to the Phila-delphia Historical Commission’s decision to approve Penn’s demoli-tion of the property.

Despite the questionable legality of the approved demolition, many people believe that the WTHA and nearby neighbors rejected a rea-sonable compromise by Penn that would have saved the building — a five-story apartment complex that

would have incorporated the origi-nal structure.

“Although the neighborhood group rightly objected to the legal proceedings, this group, which never publicly stated what sort of compromise it would accept, opened itself to charges of intran-sigence by raising vague objections about parking and density,” Aaron Wunsch, a historic preservation Penn professor, said.

Penn has faced persistent oppo-sition from the community since buying the property over a decade ago. But like Wunsch, the Spruce Hill Community Association — originally one of the key oppo-sition groups in the neighborhood — shifted in support of Penn’s development with the updated pro-posal.

“We washed our hands of this fight when Penn put a proposal on the table that would save the

building,” said Barry Grossbach, zoning committee chair of the SHCA. “Besides the continuing opponents, most of the community was overwhelmingly in support of this proposal, so we really don’t know what their objective is now besides stopping anything from happening there.”

The legal case on Tuesday fo-cused on the Commission’s 2012 decision to approve Penn’s claim of “financial hardship,” which allows an owner to demolish a historic building if the property is proven to have no valuable purpose. Attorney Paul Boni — who has represented the neighborhood group in several appeals of the original hardship finding — argued that the Com-mission broke its legal regulations by accepting Penn’s claim and al-lowing the demolition.

According to the Commis-sion’s rules and regulations, an

owner applying for financial hard-ship must attempt to first sell the property to prove that it has no reasonable value or potential reuse. Since Penn never put the property on the market for sale, it argues that its attempt to lease the property should count as an attempt to sell, Wunsch said.

“But the law for financial hard-ship requires a real life test to prove that the property actually has no useful value as it stands,” Boni said. “The applicant must attempt to sell it so that if someone does buy it, it shows that the owner isn’t really holding on to something of no value.”

Matt McClure, the attorney rep-resenting Penn, and Andrew Ross, the city solicitor representing the Commission, together emphasized the University’s compliance with the financial hardship proceedings in the Commission’s Ordinance. For a legitimate claim of financial hardship, the Ordinance requires that the building has no “profit-able, adaptive uses.” In addition to attempting to lease and market the property for 10 years, Penn also hired an independent consultant, who reported that the property could not provide the 11 percent rate of return that the investor re-quired.

“The rule isn’t as simple as just making sure the owner puts up

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Ed Datz, the executive director of real estate of Penn’s Facilities and Real Estate Services, declined to comment while the courts con-sider the appeals before them, and McClure did not respond to an email request for an interview.

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Last night, students hoping to create positive social change were able to tap the mind of former Gov-ernor of Vermont Howard Dean.

Former Gov. Howard Dean of-fered advice to students hoping to create positive social change in an increasingly global world.

Gov. Dean — who was gov-ernor from 1991 until 2003 and later the Chairman of the Demo-cratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009 — spoke in Bodek Lounge Tuesday evening, at an event hosted by Penn Democrats. Although addressing a specific political group, Dean offered bi-partisan wisdom to any and all students.

Dean said he sees the current generation as significantly more useful outside of politics than within it.

“For our generation, the way to create change was to get elected and then to use your position,” Dean said. He added that for this generation, young people are much more resourceful, utilizing the in-ternet to enact real change in real time by going around institutions.

Dean spoke of a student from The University of Vermont who, after a trip to southern Africa, real-ized that US foreign aid programs were making people more, and not less dependent. This inspired her to start Spark Microgrants which pro-vides a loan and then works with citizens of impoverished countries to develop a sustainable business strategy, as opposed to condition-ing them to accept handouts.

“She had essentially come up with a more effective aid policy herself than the [multi-billion dollar] US Agency for Interna-tional Development,” Dean said.

He added that the power lies with the consumer because online petitions and organized boy-cotts can encourage businesses to change their practices in ways that governments cannot. Dean shared that he has boycotted Exxon since it eliminated Mobile’s same-sex couple benefits after taking that company over.

Dean acknowledged that it can be discouraging when “every day you see an a****le trying to push back all the good stuff you’re trying to do.”

Still, he reminded the audience that when he was a student, schools were still segregated, and despite that a Black president was elected just 40 years later, imagine how different things will be in 40 more years given that change is only

accelerating.Students commended Dean’s

abilities to bring left-wing politi-cians together.

“He would be a vital cog in bringing Hillary to the liberal side from the center,” Penn Dems President and College Junior Sean Foley.

Regardless of political views, Dean added that the country has made great strides to become the all-inclusive democracy it set out to be, but it’s no time to stop. Persis-tence in the face of overwhelming adversity will continue to generate positive social change and “the world gets better as time goes on ... as long as people keep working at it,” he said.

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Gov. Dean alludes to students’ potential to generate changeLOWELL NEUMANN NICKEYContributing Reporter

Former governor of Vermont Howard Dean spoke in Houston Hall Tuesday night.

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Not all Penn students walk down Franklin Field with a di-ploma in hand, four years after arriving on campus.

Many students choose to stay at Penn for an additional semester or year for a wide variety of reasons. Some hope to finish up the credit requirements for dual degrees, while others have to make up for non-transferable credits from their time studying abroad.

Wharton senior Gloria Fann plans to stay on campus an extra year, while Engineering and Wharton senior Zhiyi Zhang and College and Wharton senior Ran Ren decided to stay at Penn for an extra semester.

Fann, jestingly calling herself

a “super senior,” said the school’s financial aid policy enabled her to stay at Penn for an extra year.

“I was on financial aid, and even though the fifth year is no longer part of the regular aca-demic career, the school still provides me with financial aid,” Fann said. “I only need to pay a small fraction of the extra year’s tuition, and it turns out to be al-right.”

Fann studied abroad in Japan for a whole year, where she experi-enced local culture and enhanced language skills. However, as an actuarial science major, only three of the credits she earned abroad counted toward her gradu-ation requirement — the rest were counted as electives.

“For me and for some of my friends, the extra year didn’t make that big of an influence,” Fann said. “It’s like taking a gap year.”

For students in uncoordinated-dual degree programs, such as Zhang and Ren, they have to fulfill

the curriculum requirement for both schools, which often forces additional credit requirements on the students. Financial factors such as extra tuition and extra housing fees are also concerns for students when deciding to stay an additional semester. Zhang and Ren both considered the extra fees worthwhile for their Penn degrees.

“I initially planned to drop my engineering degree in order to graduate in four years [with a Wharton degree]. But after a se-rious reflection and a thoughtful discussion with my family, I be-lieve spending the extra semester obtaining my degree in the En-gineering school will positively impact my future plans and give me more opportunities,” Zhang said, adding that he hopes both degrees will advance his career in chemical engineering.

Zhang said his major advisor, Chemical and Biomolecular En-gineering professor Wen Shieh, played a major role in his decision

making process.“I found the advising systems

at the Engineering school really helpful,” Zhang said. “My major advisor helped me plan my course schedule ahead and I’ve never taken a single course that didn’t count toward my graduation re-quirement.”

Zhang said his career plans will not be impeded by his additional semester. “I could use the extra time to do an extra summer intern-ship,” he said.

Ren studied abroad in Oxford, England for a full year. Because of the difference in the academic system, her time at Oxford was di-vided into three terms and she was able to transfer eight credits back to Penn.

“Oxford has [one of] the best Philosophy Politics and Econom-ics departments in the world, so my year there was really a won-derful experience,” Ren said. “Even though I have to take an extra semester, I never regret my

decision studying abroad.”The PPE major at Penn requires

16 credits to graduate, more than many other College majors.

“When I decided to study abroad, my College advisor in-formed me about the potential consequences but they gave me the freedom to choose what I want to pursue,” Ran said.

College and Wharton junior Tuo Yang, rather than taking an extra semester, plans to take seven classes per semester during the rest of his college career.

Like Ren, Yang feels that the academic advising system at Penn has given him a lot of freedom in course selection.

“During my freshman and sophomore years, I took some in-teresting courses that didn’t count for graduation requirements,” Yang said. “And my advisor en-couraged me to take any course that interests me.”

During his sophomore year, Yang chose to study at Free

University of Berlin for a semes-ter. He recently applied for a post graduation program which will only be valid if he graduates on time next Spring, placing added pressure for him to fill his sched-ule to capacity.

“I’m currently taking six classes, and I still managed to have some time relaxing,” Yang said. “I believe as long as I arrange my schedule properly and take some courses with a relatively light course-load, I will be able to handle seven courses and graduate in four years.”

When facing the trade-off be-tween graduating late and taking a heavy course-load, there is no right answer. Ran chose the former, rationalizing a lighter course load that would enable her make the most of her time at Penn.

“College is a valuable experi-ence,” Ran said. “When I look back, I believe there will be no other time better than my time studying at Penn.”

Super seniors continuing their Quaker questFifth-year seniors choose study abroad or duel-degree over graduating with classRUIHONG LIUStaff Reporter

Penn students looking to go straight from college to the corner office need look no fur-ther than Penn’s co-ed business fraternities.

Alpha Kappa Psi, Delta Sigma Pi and Phi Gamma Nu have been at Penn since 1961, 1932 and 2003, respectively, and have helped catapult broth-ers into their dream jobs ever since.

Wharton senior Makini Hughes is a DSP brother who joined in her sophomore year. Hughes cites the opportunities for professional development within the fraternity as being integral to her own success. “I have a great job at one of the top three consulting firms, and DSP helped me a lot in that aspect, from looking over my resume to helping with mock inter-views. My big was also doing consulting, so she was very in-strumental.”

Contrary to popular belief, the business fraternities are not only for Wharton students. Col-lege senior Jessica Schneider, a Philosophy, Politics and Eco-nomics major, joined DSP after she transferred to Penn in her junior year.

“It was the week after NSO, I was trying to get my footing and trying to decide if I wanted to get involved in social frats,” Schneider said. “My room-mate was going to an internship panel for DSP and I heard they had Greek Lady. I wanted to try [Greek Lady], so I went.”

Schneider said that her ex-periences in DSP have helped her solidify her career interests. “Even though I’m not hard core finance, consulting or busi-ness, I knew I wanted to go into corporate law. In corpo-rate law, you have to know part of the business side. [Through DSP], I added a second layer of

knowledge to the way I look at the world,” she said.

Schneider agreed with Hughes that the business fra-ternities help with the job search, adding, “It is the same type of help that you could get from Career Services, yet DSP is an all-inclusive package. You don’t have to go to lots of places on campus, you can ask one brother in DSP. Things also can change from field to field. Career Services may or may not be able to give you the nuances for things like how much jew-elry to wear [to an interview].”

In particular, all three frater-nities focus on preparing their brothers for the infamous On-Campus Recruiting, which is in full swing for the Spring 2015 semester.

2014 Wharton graduate and AKPsi alumna Kenge Blue said that the business fraternities help provide an environment that is like a “microcosm of the real world.”

“Every year in preparation for OCR, the seniors [of AKPsi] host mock interview Super Days. The seniors structure it around what they have learned in the real world [at recruiting events]. The pressure is not ex-actly the same, but it emulates it quite well,” Blue said. “There is no other way to prepare than to experience.”

In addition to the de-velopment of hard skills, membership in one of these fraternities comes with valu-able networking opportunities. “BCG, McKinsey, Goldman Sachs — any company you find to be a goal of yours, there’s a current brother working there or one who has worked there,” 2011 College and Wharton graduate and DSP alumnus Artem Mariychin said. Mari-ychin now works at a hybrid investment fund in New York City, and said that he has gotten “interviews through DSP and a couple of offers.”

“Nowadays, there are just so many applications to different firms. It’s almost just who you know in terms of whether your

resume gets pulled,” Whar-ton and Engineering senior Nicholas Liu said. “I worked in private equity. It’s harder to access coming out of under-grad, so it helped that there was a PGN brother at the firm.”

Though the underlying focus of the fraternities is professional development, the brothers agree that the social element is equally important — especially with pledge classes of sizes seven to 12, with 50 to 60 total brothers in each fraternity.

“A business frat is a great community to have at Penn if what you’re looking for is a mixture of business and social organization,” College senior and PGN brother Oliver Sitt said. “The main myth is all we care about is finding jobs ... that we’re just nerds. But half of our activities are social — we’ve gone skiing, gone on a cruise and we’re going to Istanbul to-gether.”

Schneider agreed, saying, “DSP is rabidly social ... it has all of the elements in my mind that social Greek life does.”

Although the fraterni-ties’ central offices mandate that they may not have on-campus houses, many of the brothers choose to live together — including Schneider, who lives with four other members of DSP.

“Our brothers do very well and, academically, we help each other out — all of that is true — but we’re a family as well,” Blue said.

Professional fraternities bring brotherhood to business

Creating opportunities both inside and out of the officeBRYN FERGUSONStaff Reporter

phone had either been immedi-ately turned off or the SIM card had been removed.

When asked about the locker thefts, Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said that Penn Police have spoken to all of the individuals who have had things stolen.

“We are doing an educational campaign to help people iden-tify suspicious behavior. If you notice someone dilly-dallying at the locker, we want you to report them to security,” Rush said.

So far, no arrests have been made related to the locker thefts at Pottruck. DPS has posted signs there alerting members to these thefts and reminding

them to secure their lockers. DPS reported making one arrest related to a locker theft at The Tse Sports Center at Hutchinson Gymnasium near the Palestra.

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-The Epsilon Rho chapter of AKPsi has been at Penn since 1961, the Beta Nu chapter of DSP has been at Penn since 1932, the Delta Lambda chapter of PGN has been at Penn since 2003

-DSP only takes brothers who are studying economics/business

-AKPsi and PGN take any major

-50-60 brothers in each frat total

country Heps, tops among freshmen. He ended his rookie year up with a strong track campaign and some U.S. national competition over the summer.

During Paez’s senior year of high school, Penn men’s cross country squad finished dead last at Heps. But Paez was doing his part to change that, and then some.

“It helped make me to come to Penn because I knew that guys like him were gonna be around,” star junior Thomas Awad said. “Even though the team wasn’t very good … they had some help, and Paez was one guy who was running very well for himself.”

It suffices to say that things were looking up for the rising sophomore.

“My sophomore year, I was hoping to start getting a school record or two,” Paez said of his goals at the time. “I really wanted to hit the qualifying standards for the Olympic trials for 2012.”

Needless to say, he would need to adjust expectations.

Mile 2: The SetbackCrash.That’s the word that first comes

to mind when thinking about Paez’s accident.

Of course, there is one obvious

reason that this is the case — it actu-ally was a crash. On Aug. 7, 2011, a left-turning car, failing to see Paez, struck him while he was driving his motorcycle through an intersection.

The results were gruesome. His left leg and foot were mutilated — with eight different bones broken in total — and massive blood loss almost forced doctors to amputate the leg.

“It was as bad as you could imag-ine,” Paez’s father, Francis, said. “There were bones sticking out in three places.

“I just held his hand and said, ‘You’re gonna get through this.’”

But Paez didn’t only literally crash in his accident. He also saw all of his lofty goals — the school records, the Olympic qualifying times — crash down around him.

Despite the many long, hard hours he had spent working on his craft throughout his life, it took only an instant for all future prospects to seemingly be destroyed.

“It was hard to stay committed and keep my eye on the goal of re-turning to running,” Paez said.

“There were so many ups and downs,” he continued. “For about a year, it didn’t feel like I was making any real progress … I couldn’t move my foot or ankle or anything at all.”

To make matters worse, he was forced to spend the next semester away from Penn, at home with his

parents.“[That] was definitely my lowest

part,” he said. “I was pretty much laying around every day for three months.”

Paez had survived the crash, but he had gone from dreaming about Olympic competition to staring at his parents’ ceiling for hours on end.

Mile 3: The Recovery“In a lot of places in my life, I’ve

been able to set my eye on a goal and achieve it,” Paez said. “Just never

giving up was probably what al-lowed me to get to this point.”

Talking about it nowadays, he makes it seem simple, as if all his recent success was the inevitable result of a simple strategy flawlessly executed. But for Paez, the road to recovery was long, winding and

arduous.When he finally returned to

campus, he found a new man in charge: current cross country and track coach Steve Dolan. However, the two were on the same team from the very beginning.

Dolan made Paez team manager for cross country and track, and Paez was inspired to work even harder.

“I really wanted to get back to be on the team and deserve a spot,” Paez said.

“I thought, ‘Well, he’ll prob-ably be a manager for the next few years,’” Dolan added. “[But] he knew he would run again.”

When he finally was given the green light to start running again, Paez put his head down, started training and never looked back.

“At one point, I was allowed to run one mile, every other day,” he said. “But my doctor never told me how fast I could run that mile … So I would just run that mile as fast as I could.

“Every day I would get a little bit faster. Just seeing that progression let me know, ‘This could happen.’”

“He’s pretty much a workhorse,” Awad added. “He’s your typical first one there, last one to leave kind of guy.”

By his junior year, Paez was back on the cross country team and flirting with the times he put up freshman year.

And he was showing no signs of stopping.

Mile 4: The PinnacleBy last summer, Paez had already

completely left his accident behind.“We don’t really talk about it any-

more in our circle,” Dolan said. “He’s just Conner Paez — the runner.”

After all, there’s not much room to worry about the past when you’re trying to keep up with one of the top runners in the country.

“I really fully invested,” he said. “I was like, ‘This is my last year of running. So I’m gonna give it all I got.’”

To Paez, “fully investing” meant traveling to Colorado to train at altitude, a strategy used by elite run-ners to help prepare their bodies for oxygen-deprived conditions in races.

“My freshman year I think I ran, at my peak, maybe like 80-mile weeks,” he said. “Last summer I hit

100 miles.”Despite his time in Colorado,

Paez knew that he still had another, even more important mountain to climb: his senior campaign.

And all of the hard work paid off. Paez would establish himself as one of the top runners and leaders for the squad all season.

“He’s a lead-by-example guy,” Dolan said. “He’s not a guy that says a lot, but he works really hard.”

His efforts culminated with a 15th place finish at Heps and a 23rd place finish at Regionals, earning him both All-Ivy and All-Region honors.

“It’s the best possible way I could have ended my cross country career,” Paez said after Regionals. “It felt really good to kind of realize my potential.”

According to his father, though, the success that Conner achieved extended far beyond the individual honors he has picked up over the past year.

“There were a few doctors who

told him [he’d never run again],” Francis Paez said. “I love that he had some nice success this year … but it’s more about the effort that he’s shown along the way.”

It was the type of achievement that would end a Hollywood “come-back” movie.

So where does he go from here?

Mile 5: The Finish LineIf Conner Paez decided to hang

up his spikes right now and never run another race, it wouldn’t change anything about his story. He would

still have one of the most inspira-tional careers in the history of Penn Athletics.

But he’s not about to hang up his spikes. He’s currently finishing up his indoor track season and prepar-ing for outdoor track — his final collegiate season — in the spring.

“Outdoor is really where I’m training for,” he said. “[In the 10,000-meters] I’m really hoping to get a Regional qualifying time and see what I can do there.”

Still, even after Paez leaves Penn and stops running for good, the final chapter of his story — as it relates to Penn cross country and track — still will not have been written.

That’s because when asked about his fondest memory from college, after everything he has personally been through and achieved, all he could talk about was his team.

“For me it was this past cross country season at Heps when we got third,” he said. “It’s the highest that our team has gotten in a really long

time …“As much as I want to be on the

team when they [take the next step], what I really want is for the team to continue on after I’m gone and become a powerhouse in the league.”

There’s no telling what challenges Paez will face moving forward, but quite frankly, it’s beside the point.

“He knows how tough he is,” Francis Paez said. “And there’s noth-ing that can stand in his way.”

Conner Paez hasn’t crossed the finish line — not even close. He still has races to run. And the rest of his life to live.

And miles to go before he sleeps.

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COURTESY OF PENN ATHLETICS Senior runner Conner Paez went from almost losing his left leg to earning All-Ivy and All-Region honors in his senior cross country season.

MICHELE OZER | DP FILE PHOTO The season has yet to begin, but senior defender Meg Markham is already adding to her long list of accomplishments, with pre-season All-American honors from both Lacrosse Magazine and Inside Lacrosse.

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He knows how tough he is, and there’s nothing that can stand in his way.

- Francic PaezConner’s father

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Markham adds to honorsBY TOMMY ROTHMANFrom The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ

Meg Markham of Penn wom-en’s lacrosse just keeps adding to her long list of accolades.

Markham, a senior de-fender, was named a preseason All-American on Tuesday by Lacrosse Magazine. The Manhasset, N.Y., native was also named on Inside Lacrosse’s list and is one of just two non-ACC players — the only player from the Ancient Eight — to receive the honor.

Markham garnered Ivy League Defender of the Year honors in

2014 and was named a first-team All-American at the conclu-sion of the season. Her bevy of achievements also includes All-Ivy and All-Region awards.

In addition to naming Markham to the preseason All-American first-team, Inside Lacrosse bestowed honorable mention recognition upon three of Marham’s fellow Penn seniors: goalie Lucy Ferguson and defen-seman Taylor Foussadier, and junior midfielder Nina Corcoran. As a team, the Red and Blue are ranked 13th in the nation, putting coach Karin Corbett’s squad just ahead of No. 14 Princeton for the top ranking in the Ivy League.

Penn won its eighth straight

Ivy championship last year, set-ting an Ivy League women’s lacrosse record thanks in large part to Markham’s league-lead-ing 43 caused turnovers. The Quakers will begin their 2015 season on Feb. 21 and play their home opener on March 1. Their Ivy title defense won’t begin until March 7, when the Red and Blue visit Brown.

Should the Quakers finish atop the Ancient Eight again this season to make it nine in a row, they break the school record for most consecutive conference crowns, that they share with men’s fencing, which won eight straight Ivy titles from 1976 to 1983.

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impact of his first stay at Penn on his return.

“From staying in touch with Ray and having been here and knowing me, knowing how I work ... there’s a comfort level that goes into that, even more so for a first-time head coach.”

For the past 10 years, Reagan has coached at Kansas and Rice, working primarily with offensive linemen and tight ends with each program before moving up to of-fensive coordinator.

He hopes to bring that ex-perience — of implementing offensive schemes at other Divi-sion I universities — to a Penn team that struggled at times on the offensive side of the ball last year.

The Quakers finished last season averaging 21.9 points per game in Ivy League play, the third-worst mark in the league. Sophomore quarterback Alek Torgersen will return to lead Penn again next season, but his two top receivers — Spencer Kulcsar and Conner Scott — are both graduat-ing.

Coming in as a relative outsider to the program, Reagan has an opportunity to evaluate the roster anew, an experience he finds valuable for both coaches and players.

“I like to think that coaches are objective all the time, yet at the same time, for players, it gives them a fresh release,” Reagan noted.

“Guys who have been in some heavier roles know that they need to compete to keep those. Guys that felt like they needed more of an opportunity will certainly feel like they have that opportunity because its fresh eyes on them.”

This fresh perspective is a bit of a divergence from the recent history of Penn football. Priore had spent the past 16 years as defensive coordinator for the Quakers prior to his promotion and McLaughlin had helmed the offense since 2009. And then, of course, there’s the departure of Al Bagnoli after 23 seasons.

While all this change wasn’t necessarily on Priore’s when he took the helm, it’s certainly some-thing he viewed as necessary for the future success of the program.

“When you’re not having suc-cess in those things, I think you really have to look at and evalu-ate everything,” Priore said of the decision to change coordinators. “The goal of the program is to do what’s in the best interest of Penn football.

“Hopefully by doing what we’re doing, we’re going down that road one step at a time.”

The next step on the road is spring practice. With the coaching staff solidified and the recruiting

process well under way, Reagan will have the opportunity to begin to implement his offensive system over the coming weeks.

While Reagan is obviously ex-cited about the on-field aspects of his position, he also enjoys the “purity” of collegiate athletics at a rigorous academic institution.

“The reason I’m in collegiate athletics and haven’t moved on to other things is that I enjoy build-ing a relationship with young men, watching them grow up, watching them play football, watching them mature, watching them graduate,” Reagan said.

“At a lot of places you lose a lot of that, because it becomes a lot more of a sales pitch. There’s no reason — and Penn’s done it for decades — that you can’t do it while winning.”

While it’ll be many months before the Quakers see if Rea-gan’s mentality translates into winning — this is, after all, only his first week on the job — it’s clear that his mind is in the right place.

Although it may be hard to believe because the weather still seems a little too cold, Penn men’s

lacrosse is less than three days away from its season opener. Coming off an incredibly suc-cessful season, one in which the veteran-laden squad soared to an Ivy League title, the Quakers have high expectations. Despite

returning eight of their top 10 scorers from 2014, an Ivy repeat is by no means guaranteed. With that in mind, we break down the biggest obstacles Penn will con-front as it tries to return to the NCAA Tournament.

Senior Sports Editor Riley Steele: Without a doubt, Penn will once again be a force that threat-ens other powers both within the Ivy League and across the country. With the Red and Blue returning so many potent scorers, particularly senior attacks Isaac Bock and Chris Hupfeldt, scoring will not be a problem in remain-ing competitive with squads like Harvard and Cornell.

From my perspective, the big-gest challenge confronting the Quakers will be getting through a rough schedule. Lacrosse Maga-zine currently has the Red and Blue ranked 11th entering the season, but there are plenty of games on Penn’s schedule that could determine how high they rise in the polls. Currently, No. 8 Maryland, No. 15 Penn State, No. 16 Yale, No. 12 Harvard and No. 10 Cornell are all on the docket for the Quakers, not to mention a matchup with the team ranked fifth in the ACC standings at the end of the season.

While Penn is accustomed to playing tough teams – the Quak-ers faced off with both Duke and Denver in nonconference play last year – things won’t come easy to the Red and Blue in 2015.

Sports Editor Laine Higgins: This year, the devil may be in the details for the Quakers. While Penn was certainly dominant in the final few games of the season, which culminated in the school’s first ever Ivy League title, the play from the Red and Blue was still not mistake-free.

Consider the Quakers’ faceoff win-loss percentage from last season: a middling 48.4 percent. That statistic is not bad; however, there is room for improvement. This task will fall upon the shoul-ders of returning midfields junior Rob Savage and senior Joe Mc-Callion – Penn’s leading faceoff

specialists from the 2014 season.Now, compare Penn’s number

in that department to the highest ranked teams on the docket for the 2015 schedule: No. 8 Maryland and No. 10 Cornell. Last year, the Terps and the Big Red boasted fa-ceoff win-loss percentages of 64.6 and 51.0, respectively.

Associate Sports Editor Tommy Rothman: It’s hard to find big holes in this team, pri-marily because it’s a very solid squad. But one thing that could be a cause for concern is the goal-keeper issue. Brian Feeney played all but 14 minutes last season, but he’s out of the picture after gradu-ating.

So what do the Quakers do now? As the only player with game experience, senior John Lopes figures to take over for Feeney, assuming he doesn’t get beaten out by junior Jimmy

Sestilio, sophomore Ahmed Iftikhar or freshman Brian Zap-pala. Lopes hasn’t provided us enough of a sample size for us to make a real judgment regarding his abilities, so the battle for start-ing goalkeeper may truly be up for grabs.

Feeney was one of the Ivy League’s top goalies last year, so replacing him will be a tall task. Assuming the Quakers see a drop-off in goalkeeping produc-tion, the question will be whether the defense in front of the goal-keeper and the Penn offense can step up and soften the blow after Feeney’s departure.

Penn wasn’t among the Ivy League’s top scoring teams last year, so there is room for the Quakers to improve on that end. But if they don’t, they’ll likely find that they can no longer rely on their excellent goalie as a safety net.

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MICHELE OZER | DP FILE PHOTO Senior attack Chris Hupfeldt will be a key factor to Penn’s offense in the 2015 season. Although the Quakers will need to buckle down on defense and find a new goalkeeper, Penn returns eight of its top 10 scorers from last season.

Defending Ivy crown for Penn will be no easy task

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When head coach Ray Priore took over Penn football at the beginning of December, it gave him the opportunity to look internally at the program he’s been a part of for the past 28 years.

Late last week, Priore an-nounced the hiring of offensive coordinator John Reagan, who had previously worked in the same role at Kansas and Rice. Reagan will also serve as of-fensive line coach, filling both roles of former offensive coor-dinator Jon McLaughlin.

“[Reagan] has been at sev-eral different [Division I] programs and he’s been at the service academies, which deal with student-athletes

differently,” Priore said of his new offensive coordinator.

“He’s obviously had the taste of the big time football and he brings a perspective, not just in offensive calling, but in how programs are run.”

Reagan is the third coach brought in by Priore in the offseason, joining defensive coordinator Bob Benson and defensive line coach Malik Hall.

For Reagan, it’s a change of scenery, but one that is fa-miliar: he coached tight ends and offensive linemen for the Quakers during the 1997 season. It’s that familiarity with the program that put him on Priore’s radar.

“Obviously coach Priore and I, as did Al [Bagnoli], all had a background at Albany, which is how I got to know them to begin with,” Reagan said of the

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COURTESY OF RICE ATHLETICS With a new head coach at the helm, Penn football’s coaching staff has undergone several changes recently. The most recent hire is that of new offensive coordinator John Reagan, who comes to the Quakers after having led offenses at both Kansas and Rice.

An athletic phenom takes the league by storm as a freshman, matures and takes on a leadership role over the years, finishes senior year earning all-conference honors and rides off into the sunset.

It’s a pretty standard story, com-forting in its inevitability, but by no

means unique to any one program or individual.

If only it were so simple for Conner Paez.

For the senior track and cross country runner, the story started off predictably. Freshman year saw Paez established not only as one of the most promising young runners in the nation — he finished first among freshmen in cross country Heptagonals and competed in the 2011 USA Junior Championships — but as a potential savior for a program that was struggling to

find footing in the Ivy League .Everything was going accord-

ing to plan. Then he ran into a setback.

A major setback.The summer following his sen-

sational freshman campaign, Paez was struck by a car while riding his motorcycle to a friend’s house, and went from being the man with the legs that would save Penn’s run-ning program to a man whose legs may never walk again, let alone run.

This incident may come as a

surprise to more recent followers of the program, who know Paez for his senior year athletic successes, especially his second-team All-Ivy performance at this year’s cross country Heptagonals.

But what they have witnessed is only one part of a journey that Paez has been on for years.

“It felt great to finally get there ,” Paez said of most recent successes. “It was amazing.”

It’s been almost three years since the accident, and the come-back — for all intents and purposes

— is complete. As Paez noted in an understatement for the ages after this year’s Heps, he has “reached his potential.”

But how did a man in previously in danger of losing his leg drop a sub-25:00 five-mile time? And how does he follow that up?

The answer is simple: by taking it one mile at a time.

Mile 1: The Fast StartPhenom.That’s the word that first comes

to mind when thinking about Paez’s freshman year at Penn.

“Conner was the hottest up-and-coming freshman in the league,” assistant coach Robin Martin said during the 2013 track season.

The Ohio native dominated in high school, taking home outdoor track district titles in both the mile and two-mile in his senior year.

Once Paez arrived at Penn, he wasted no time making his pres-ence felt.

In his first season with the squad, Paez finished 20th in cross

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