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Penn students and faculty hoping to expand their global horizons will soon have more means of doing so in China.

The Penn Wharton China Center is currently open for business with limited facilities and capabilities.

The Center will facilitate re-search related to China and serve as a means to distribute knowledge.

The University is currently in the process of paying de-posits for a five-year lease for a location in accordance with Chinese capital regulations.

The full location is tentatively set to open in January 2015 in the Bejing Central Business District and will be the Univer-sity’s first physical presence in China, said Faculty Director of the Center John Zhang .

“Competition is global today. You have to be more world-sav v y and globally aware,” Zhang said. “In the Compact 20/20, we want to have more global engagement and the Penn Wharton China Center is just one of those efforts.”

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of undergraduates reported feeling overwhelmed "often" or "very often"

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There were so few women at PennApps last semester that one of the women’s restrooms was converted into a men’s restroom.

This semester, l itt le has changed. While 1,200 hackers flocked to the Engineering quad for PennApps, only a minority of them were women.

Clara Wu, an Engineering ju-nior who is on the board of Women in Computer Science and is the Engineering lead at PennApps Lab, believes that the culture at hackathons can make women feel unwelcome. “There’s some inher-ent assumption that women aren’t great computer scientists,” she said.

While participating in Pen-

nApps last weekend, other hack-ers asked her if she was just “hanging out and watching.” She found the assumption that she was not participating “really of-fensive,” since none of her male teammates were asked the same question.

Wu has also observed a trend of assuming women are the “front end,” or aesthetic designers of an app. She says that women who would rather code are often asked to design since “you’re a female so [you] must have great aesthetic vision.”

Although PennApps does not collect demographic information about its participants, nationally, only 12.9 percent of undergrad-uate degrees in computer sci-ence and 10.6 percent of those in computer engineering were awarded to women from 2011 to 2012, according to the Computing Research Association, and the

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Life lessons are at the top of the syllabus in Colonel Andrew Wilcox’s curriculum.

Wilcox, the commanding officer of the Naval Reserve Officers Train-ing Corps for Penn, Drexel, Temple and Villanova, teaches the required “Leadership and Ethics” course in NROTC.

“The University teaches how to

critically think,” Wilcox said. “We try to bring that education and make it relevant in the world of the military.” As a marine, he recognizes “the plat-form I have to master is the art of leadership.”

Each week, Wilcox holds what he calls an “L3” — life and leadership lesson. During these sessions, he shares anecdotes from his own ca-reer in the Marine Corps and dis-cusses how he was able to come to the right or wrong decision.

“I take the things I’ve learned in 28 years [as a marine] that they’re going to taste and give it in spoonfuls at a time,” Wilcox said.

“It’s something I certainly can’t teach myself,” Matthew Weber, a Wharton junior and member of the Marine division of the NROTC, said. “You’re not going to find it in any textbook.”

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Colonel Andrew Wilcox teaches the “Leadership and Ethics” course to students in the NROTC program at Penn.

The University will hire an ad-ditional staff member to combat alcohol abuse and provide safety education, Penn President Amy Gutmann said Tuesday.

The announcement comes as a response to recommendations made by a yearlong commission studying alcohol use and student safety on campus. One of the re-port’s three main recommenda-

tions is to create the position.The staff member would “focus

on educating students about inter-personal violence, sexual assault and hazing prevention in collabo-ration with other campus resource offices,” the report says.

The eight-page repor t notes widespread alcohol consumption at Penn: 87 percent of freshmen and 62 percent of all undergraduates drink before going out, the report says. Almost 40 percent of under-graduates said they use alcohol or other drugs to combat stress. Between Aug. 15, 2011 and May 14, 2013, 518 students had interactions with the Division of Public Safety for alcohol-related incidents, ac-

cording to the report.The report also recommends pe-

riodic assessments of resources to prevent alcohol and drug misuse and continual development of pro-gramming to address these issues.

“We will take all of the recom-mendations in the report and move forward with them as soon as pos-sible, taking all the additional steps to further strengthen our efforts to make sure we continue to have best practices in preventing and re-sponding to the misuses of alcohol and other drugs,” Gutmann said in an interview Tuesday.

The commission commends the

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There is still no scientific evidence that links vaccines with autism.

Chief of Infectious Dis-eases at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Paul Offit spoke at Hunts-man Hall on Tuesday about the stigmatization of vac-cines and its effect on so-ciety. He explained that vaccines have never been concretely linked to autism spectrum disorders.

In 1998, British surgeon and researcher Andrew Wakefield published a paper in the British journal, The Lancet, linking the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism. His paper corre-lated with a drop in vaccina-tion rates in Britain, while the number of measles cas-es soared. The paper was withdrawn in 2010.

Despite scientific studies that have since suggested otherwise, some parents still have the notion that their chi ldren’s mental problems were caused by the vaccine.

A reluctance to vaccinate may be responsible for the continued presence of the diseases. Last year, 223 cases of measles were diag-nosed in the United States. “Every year, children come into our hospital and die of vaccine-preventable dis-eases,” Offit said.

He is dedicated to edu-cating the public about the safety of vaccines.

“There is a lot at stake here,” Offit said. “And [sci-

ence] shouldn’t be politi-cized to the amount it is.” He said that many scientific papers have been published in the last decade to support the safety of vaccines.

However, some vaccine dissenters now also link thimerosal - a compound used to preserve vaccines - and too many vaccines given early in childhood to autism.

“If this was just scientific illiteracy, I would be more optimistic,” Offit said. He referenced the media’s ten-dency to exaggerate single-study cases, to embrace mavericks and to promote controversy as other factors that negatively inf luence public health.

In general, students re-sponded positively to Offit’s remarks. “I didn’t realize so many people were mis-informed,” College junior Jennifer Zhou said.

“ The str uggle [Of f it] faced with the media was interesting,” Wharton ju-nior Nikhil Das said. “I like it when the media brings in scientists to talk.” Das added that he plans to vac-cinate his children.

T he W ha r t on Under -graduate Healthcare Club hosted Offit’s talk. Whar-ton and College sophomore Chetna Johri, an organizer of WUHC’s speaker series, said that the club was en-thusiastic to have Offit.

“We thought that focus-ing more on the scientific aspect of healthcare would bring in a different audience than we traditionally have,” Johri said.

WUHC also seems to be living up to Offit’s wish to promote science. “No venue is too small [to stand up for science],” he said.

Chief of Infectious Diseases talks

autism, vaccinesNo current research

concretely links autism with the MMR vaccine

BY SHUFEI SONGContributing Writer

The Faculty Senate Execu-tive Committee unanimously voted in support of a proposal for tobacco divestment, yes-terday’s Faculty SEC Actions report announced.

The motion supports a proposal for the sale of the University’s funds invested in tobacco companies. At the SEC meeting on Feb. 12, philosophy professor Mi-chael Weisberg advocated

for divestment, arguing that Penn’s mission of educa-tion, health and research is contradicted by gaining fi-nancially from companies re-sponsible for a major threat to world health.

Weisberg added that most of Penn’s peer institutions have already divested from tobacco, according to the re-port.

Perelman School of Medi-cine professors Frank Le-one and Robert Schaller also spoke in favor of the propos-

al, noting that tobacco com-panies market their products with full awareness of the harmful effects of nicotine addiction, the report said.

“The faculty of the Senate Executive Committee heard both reasons supporting the divestment proposal and rea-sons against it through sev-eral excellent presentations,” Faculty Senate Chair Dwight Jaggard said in an email.

The committee discussed the financial implications of divestment and the Univer-

sity’s public message, as well as ethical issues around di-vestment, such as tobacco’s disproportionate impact on communities of color.

“I was impressed with the discussion and feel that the outcome speaks strongly as to faculty sentiment on this issue,” Jaggard said.

The proposal for tobacco divestment will be discussed at today’s University Council meeting, and the SEC recom-mends the Trustees approve the motion.

(PENN)GINEERS PIE THEIR PROFESSORS

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A Penn student pied her professor yesterday in the Levine Lobby as part of National Engineering Week, which is being sponsored on campus by the Engineering Student Activities Council. All proceeds from the event will go to Relay for Life. Activities will continue for the rest of the week, and will include a Super Smash Brothers tournament, study breaks, networking dinners and events on female and black engineers.

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A patent infringement lawsuit over breast cancer testing - one of several lawsuits involving Penn - ended in settlement ear-lier this month.

Gene by Gene, Ltd. and Myri-ad Genetics, Inc., along with the University of Utah Research Foundation, HSC Research and Development Limited Partner-ship, Endorecherche, Inc. and the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania announced on Feb. 7 that they reached an agreement in a lawsuit pertain-ing to patents for BRCA1 and BRCA2, two genes that can de-termine whether a person is at risk for breast and/or ovarian cancer.

As part of the settlement, Gene by Gene has agreed to stop selling or marketing clini-cal diagnostic tests that make use of BRCA1 and/or BRCA2 analysis, but only in North America. Gene by Gene will continue to offer the testing out-side of North America.

Additionally, Gene by Gene will still provide its “whole ge-nome and exome products and services” as well as other test-ing products for other inher-ited disorders that include the BRCA gene analysis.

In exchange for these con-cessions, Myriad and the oth-er plaintiffs have dismissed the patent infringement case against Gene by Gene without prejudice. The arrangement will stand until Feb. 12, 2016 or until the last BRCA1 and BRCA2 patent claim relevant to the case expires.

Gene by Gene started offer-ing BRCA1 and BRCA2 testing in June 2013 after the Supreme Court ruled that products of nature, such as genes, cannot be patented. Though the Court cited BRCA1 and BRCA2 in its ruling, the decision did not ad-dress every single aspect of the

patents. In response to Gene by

Gene’s action, Myriad filed the now-settled lawsuit against the company the following month.

“When you get a patent, you have the right to exclude people from doing things with the patented material,” Lee Petherbridge, a 2002 Penn Law graduate and professor at Loyola Law School, said. “These limitations are enumerated in the patent documents ... the Su-preme Court’s decision was only directed at a small number of these claims, not the majority,” Petherbridge explained.

The suit alleged that Gene by Gene infringed upon nine BRCA1/ BRCA2 patents that were either owned by or exclu-sively licensed to Myriad. Two of the patents named in the suit are co-owned by Penn.

“We believe the settlement with Gene by Gene is a good and responsible agreement,”

Ronald Rogers, a spokesperson for Myriad, said in a statement. “It is in the best interest of the parties because it ends the un-certainty and expense [of] ongo-ing litigation.”

“Myriad and the other own-ers of the BRCA patents at is-sue ... continue to believe that these patent claims related to BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene test-ing are valid and enforceable,” he added.

“We are pleased that this matter has been amicably resolved,” Susan Phillips, a spokesperson for Penn Medi-cine, stated.

Officials from the University of Utah Research Foundation, HSC and Endorecherche were unavailable for comment.

The lawsuit against Gene by Gene was one in a series of court actions that Myriad took last year in the wake of the Su-preme Court’s decision. Both Myriad and Penn are involved

in ongoing lawsuits against GeneDx, Quest Diagnostics, Invitae, LabCorp and Ambry Genetics, all of which concern the BRCA1 and BRCA2 patents.

“We are in the early stages of the litigation regarding all the other infringement cases,” Rogers said.

Since the lawsuits are “in-dependent,” it is not likely that Myriad’s settlement with Gene by Gene will impact the other pending lawsuits, Rich-ard Gold, a professor at McGill University’s Faculty of Law, explained.

“Gene by Gene likely made the business determination that it was not worth fighting this since others will do so and there are only two years left on the patents,” Gold said. “Myriad’s case is not, in my opinion, strong but as litigation is expensive, Gene by Gene probably decided it was not worth the expense of fighting at this time.”

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Shaun White was the favorite to win the snowboard half-pipe at this year’s Winter Olympics.

He f inished fourth. Many were surprised and some disappointed by his appar-ent “loss” in the event he had previously won twice. Mak-ing the Olympic team for the third consecutive time, while also heading up a suc-cessful band and designing his own clothing line, just wasn’t enough. He had “let us down.”

At Penn, we celebrate a culture of stress. We value it as part of our normal rite of passage and as a neces-sary stepping stone to Wall Street, medical school or bio-chemical engineering. We strive with every fiber of our being not just to be good, or even excellent, but to be per-fect. It is part of our learned behavior. Most of us don’t

know how to behave differ-ently. If the goal of college is to prepare us for a dog-eat-dog world, it is working.

As we strive for perfec-tion, we are also burdened to compete for an ever-evolving vision of what constitutes “success.” It isn’t enough to have reached the pinnacle of academic success we have already achieved. The bar continues to rise.

As we seek to address the state of mental health and well-being on this campus, we must re-examine our definition of “success.” As College senior Shana Man-sbach explained, “There is a certain idea of what it is like to be a successful Penn student, [but] if every Penn student has the same idea of what it means to be success-ful, we’re clearly not all going to be happy.”

Our definition of success as Penn students derives

from what we see around us. It is inherently competitive. Being “successful” becomes a contest of winners and los-ers; we’re not attempting to do the best we are capable of as individuals, but rather are engaging in a game—one that not all of us can win.

And success isn’t just de-fined by grades and GPA. Success at Penn is social,

athletic, extracurricular and academic. We all want to be in the “best” sorority or fra-ternity, achieve straight A’s, be selected for a senior so-ciety and serve as the presi-dent of a club. As College senior Jodi Miller simply stated, we are “competitive in every aspect of our lives, not just school.”

If you see yourself as one of the “losers” in this success game — if you perceive your-self as inferior to people who appear to be more successful — you are likely to develop a negative self-image, exac-erbated by the stress of be-ing a Penn student. Feeling unsuccessful at a place like Penn can generate feelings of inferiority, inadequacy and helplessness.

The outpouring of commu-nal support on campus, on Facebook and here in The Daily Pennsylvanian over the last few weeks has been

truly astounding. We have begun to destigmatize visit-ing CAPS or a mental-health specialist of any kind. We have reached out to each oth-er, reminding ourselves that support can be found within our Penn community. It is a good start, but only a start.

As long as our cultural def-inition of success requires that we identif y “losers” among us, the ingredients for tragedy will be ever-present. When will we accept that we have already achieved suc-cess, just by being part of the Penn experience?

We won’t all get the top grade in our classes. We won’t all land that dream summer internship. We won’t all win a gold medal. Some-times, like Shaun White, we wobble. Sometimes, others will perform at a higher lev-el. Sometimes, we may even wipe out altogether. But that is not and must not become

the standard by which we value ourselves.

Shau n W h it e f i n ished fourth at the Olympics. He may not have won the gold, but White, a two-time gold medalist, didn’t “lose.” He’s one of the best hal f pipe snowboarders in the world. He accepted this position with grace and gratitude, and that sounds like success to me.

ALEXANDRA FRIEDMAN is a College junior from Atlanta studying history. Email her at [email protected] or follow her @callme_alfrie.

Michel de Mon-taigne once wrote that to philosophize is t o le a r n

how to die. That’s easy enough to say — as a philosophy ma-jor, I have spent many a term paper trying to solve some of the most intransigent ques-tions ever asked. Death is not an unfamiliar topic.

Nonetheless, no matter how often we read, write and split hairs about it, we’re rarely prepared for reality when it hits us. A lot of time is spent tinkering with abstract prob-lems, like whether things are real and how we can be sure of anything, and it’s easy to forget how quickly such mi-nutiae fall away. When we lose members of our community, we’re forced to lift our heads from our textbooks and argu-ments. The pain of loss, sadly, is all too real.

The many student deaths of weeks past are a fresh

wound to the Penn communi-ty. Something feels damaged — perhaps it’s our morale, or perhaps our confidence in the establishment that holds us together.

The knowledge that our peers have passed is disturb-ing, especially on a college campus. It pierces the com-fortable illusion of unbound freedom, reminding us that, despite our youth, we don’t have forever. It’s the universal taboo, the period at the end of a 70 to 90-year sentence. One day, that sentence will conclude.

Parents guard their chil-dren from death, and under-standably so — growing up happy requires a little shelter, at least at first, from the bitter facts. But we’re not children anymore - I and many of my peers have only a few months left before we graduate. We’re finally coming into our own in the world. We’re independent. We’re deeply unsettled. It’s

time to talk about mortality.L ast fa l l , ph i losopher

Samuel Scheffler published a column in The New York Times about being confronted with death. For Scheffler, the pain of knowing that our lives will eventually end should be eased by the knowledge that others will live on in our stead, carrying our legacies with them. A moving thought, no doubt, but that can’t be all there is to it. Think of how many people, forced to watch their close ones perish, are sentenced to live. Dying is one thing — how do we live with death?

News of death reminds us of how challenging it is to per-severe in a world so flawed and overwhelming. The loss of friends — whether by ac-cident or by suicide, whether they took their own lives or lost them to brute misfortune — makes life lonelier and harder to live. It makes us wonder whether there really

is any meaning to be found.In the void of uncertainty,

however, we are left with a choice. Our finitude can ei-ther hold us back or propel us forward. We can’t account for the tragedy of loss - we can only strive to persevere.

Whether life is ultimate-ly worth living is up to us. There is nothing more unset-tling than a void, but there is nothing more liberating either. Rather than try to make meaning last forever, let’s make the most of what’s

available to us for however long we have.

Our respective lives, foot-prints and even kingdoms will eventually be worn away by the sands of time. Even Ozymandias was helpless to preserve his works, mighty as they were. But to come together in our fragility, as our fragmented selves, to em-brace the miracle of existence hand-in-hand - that’s a life worth living.

We should all strive to make our own sentences as rich and meaningful as we can. That’s the only lasting thing we’ll ever create — a chronicle whose every sentence propels our story forward.

We should also take solace in the fact that our anxiety about death, our inevitable fixation on it, brings us to-gether and gives us common ground. As mortals, we al-ways have each other. Per-haps we will someday find a better answer to our suf-

fering. In the meantime, the knowledge of our collective struggle will relieve us of our solitude. The most we can do is press on, grapple with the abyss and learn to continue living — and even, hopefully, to rejoice.

May the memories of all who have left us be for a bless-ing.

I am indebted to Ting Cho Lau for his contributions to the discussion and philo-sophical inspiration behind this column.

JONATHAN IWRY is a College senior from Bethesda, Md., studying philosophy. His last name is pronounced “eev-ree.” Email him at [email protected].

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THE QUAKING POINT | We’ve all been sentenced to living with death — what matters is the story those sentences tell

FRIEDOM OF SPEECH | Being successful at Penn is far too often defined as “winning” against our peers

ALEXANDRA FRIEDMAN

Reflections on the mortal coil

Redefining success

Opinion

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of success requires that we identify

‘losers’ among us, the ingredients

for tragedy will be ever-present.”

YOUR VOICE

A forgotten pressure point

I n “A different percep-tion of pressure,” the aut hor s out l i ne t he

v iews of Penn’s faculty and staff on the sources of the recent and widely t a l ke d a b out “ u n iq ue stress” found on campus. Missing voices from the article were the unique experiences of stress for minority students on cam-pus. Particularly glaring was the absence of income as a “pressure factor” for students. The authors question whether Penn

can control the stress its students endure, or whether it is indicative of a greater societal trend. I don’t disagree; there is only so much a university can do to mitigate natural stresses of society.

One source of stress that Penn can control sig ni f icant ly, however, is economic inequality. While I applaud the Uni-versity for being one of the most financially gen-erous in the country, it can still do more. From the pressure of maintaining multiple jobs while taking just as many classes as any other student, to fear-

ing multiple dinner plans on a weekend for fear of running out of money for the month (or the sum-mer?!) and to appearing as composed as possible in a 3-year-old coat sur-rounded by $ 8 0 0 -plus , brand-new winter jackets — I, and I imagine many others ( i nclud i ng stu-dents, faculty and staff ), can attest to the stress involved with being a Penn student. How’s that for a “different” perception?

Marco HerndonCollege ’16

‘‘There is nothing more unsettling than a void, but there is nothing more liberating

either.”

JONATHAN IWRY

University for being “proac-tive and inventive in its ef-forts to reduce the misuse of alcohol and other drugs and the negative consequences that can result.” It mentions measures like the medical amnesty policy, MERT and a pilot program implemented last school year to provide incentives to register on-campus parties.

However, the report also notes inconsistencies in the way alcohol violations are handled across college houses and charges College Houses and Academic Ser-v ices with reviewing and

standardizing the policies. Additionally, the directors of Student Health Service and the Of f ice of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives will work with the emergency department at the Hospital of the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania to develop a pilot program that will record the blood alco-hol content of students who are sent to the hospital for alcohol-related issues, ac-cording to the report.

“One of the reasons I think it was important to have this commission was to raise everyone’s aware-ness of the issue,” Gutmann said. “We need to see that addressing the issue is truly a community effort and we need to do things at every level, including at the level of students, to educate and help students live safely on campus.”

Gutmann and Provost Vin-

cent Price announced the establishment of the Com-mission on Student Safety, Alcohol and Campus Life on Jan. 9, 2013. The com-mission, led by Vice Chair of the Department of Psy-chiatr y Charles O’Brien, paid particular attention to student use of alcohol and other drugs and risks asso-ciated with their use, such as sexual violence.

Administrators said last year that there was no par-ticular incident that spurred the creation of the commis-sion. The last comprehen-sive study of alcohol use took place in 1999 and led to the implementation of the University Alcohol and Drug Policy, most of which remains in place today.

The University Council will discuss the findings of the report at its February meeting on Wednesday af-ternoon.

Last alcohol study led to

current policyALCOHOL from page 1

Penn is initiating a program to "routinely collect and analyze" blood alcohol content of students who are sent to the hospital for alcohol.

The University reserves the right to notify parents of students who are sent to the hospital at least twice. Last school year, 36 parental notifications were made.

Penn will revise the fraternity and sorority registration policy to make clear that all houses "must meet University safety standards in order to be recognized."

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Kathryn Siegel, a sopho-more at MIT who directs hackMIT, the Massachu-setts Institute of Technol-ogy’s annual hackathon, says that in her experience, the participation of women at hackathons has improved to around 15%.

Wu thinks that PennApps should be doing more to in-crease the percentage of wom-en who attend. “They could do a better job of reaching out to a community of women,” she said. In her experience, Pen-nApps has never reached out to Women in Computer Sci-ence. She also suggested that PennApps set a goal number of women to include.

Engineering sophomore Brynn Claypoole, the director of PennApps, said that out-reach for women has to be balanced by not “acting like we’re discouraging men.” She does not want women at hack-athons to be perceived as not deserving to be there because they received special treat-ment during the admissions process.

“I want everyone to know that everyone who’s [at Pen-nApps] deserves to be there,” Claypoole said.

Claypoole said that one way to increase female participa-tion at hackathons is to en-

courage them to be confident. “Women are a bit harder on themselves,” she said, point-ing out that women are more likely to underestimate their abilities.

She pointed to an all-female team from Penn which creat-ed the popular “Strugglebus” app at PennApps last semes-ter and was subsequently fea-tured on BuzzFeed. However, the app was never demoed and therefore never participated in the competition, “an example of not being confident even though they had something really cool,” Claypoole said.

Both Claypoole and Wu agree that the dearth of fe-male role models in computer science also contributes to the lack of confidence in women. Claypoole has never known of a female top judge at a hack-athon until PennApps had one last semester.

Claypoole and Wu also both said hackathons often do not take into account specific con-cerns many women have.

This semester, PennApps provided toothpaste, breath mints and mouthwash in their bathrooms, although they could not provide showers in an effort to make physical ac-commodations at PennApps more suitable for women. Clay-pool said in her experience, women are more concerned about hygiene and health at hackathons than men.

In the past, a gym also served as a sleeping space for the hackers at PennApps. “A lot of women don’t feel com-fortable sleeping on the floor with hundreds of men around them,” Wu said.

“Little things like that make you feel kind of out of place,” she added.

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Thefts from Vehicles:Feb. 12, 2014: A 26-year-old af-

filiated female reported at 10:30 p.m. that an unknown person broke the driver’s side window of her car on the 100 block of S. 33rd Street and removed a phone charger and CD case.

Retail Thefts:Feb. 8, 2014: A 30-year-old af-

filiated male suspect was seen concealing and removing items from the Fresh Grocer at 4:50 p.m. without paying.

Feb. 9, 2014: Two suspects were observed removing items from a rack at the Penn Book-store at 4:30 p.m. and exiting without paying. One suspect, a 50-year-old unaff iliated male, was apprehended and arrested.

Thefts from Buildings:Feb. 8, 2014: An unaffiliated

53-year-old female reported at 9:30 a.m. that an unknown person removed her iPad from under her desk at Hamilton Vil-

lage at 220 S. 40th St.Feb. 8, 2014: An affiliated

19-year-old female reported at 1:00 p.m. that personal property was taken by an unknown per-son when she left it unattended at Du Bois College House.

Feb. 8, 2014: A 35-year-old un-affiliated female reported at 5:30 p.m. that her phone was taken from the Hospital of the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania while she left it unattended to charge.

Feb. 9, 2014: An affiliated 20-year-old female and an affili-

ated 21-year-old male reported their wallets missing at 12:15 a.m. after they were left unat-tended during a party at 3914 Sansom Street.

Feb. 10, 2014: A 23-year-old affiliated male reported that an unknown person removed his wallet from his locked locker at Hutchinson Gymnasium at 219 S. 33rd St. at 2:30 p.m.

Theft (other):Feb. 12, 2014: An unaffiliated

31-year-old female reported at 11:00 a.m. that she hung her purse on a fence behind her food truck on the 3600 block of Spruce Street, leaving it unattended. When she returned, it was gone.

Other Offense:Feb. 11, 2014: A 34-year-old

affiliated male reported that someone he knows struck him once in the chest in the Schattner Building at 240 S. 40th St. at 11:45 a.m.

Burglary:Feb. 10, 2014: An individual

reported at 5:00 p.m. that some-one entered and forced open a locked cabinet in the Horizon House at 120 S. 30th St., taking money, a laptop computer and a safe.

Drunkenness:Feb. 8, 2014: An unaffiliated

56-year-old male was seen drinking alcohol in the Class of 1923 Ice Rink at 3130 Walnut Street. He engaged in disorderly conduct while police investigat-ed the situation, and he was subsequently arrested.

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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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Filipos added that the L3 program is “beneficial in civilian and military life,” such as how one can “learn more from mistakes than from success.”

The N ROTC prog ra m host ed at Pen n , wh ich pr ov ide s st udent s who wil l ser ve in nav y af ter graduation with university scholarships and military training, has undergone staff changes in the past year, including the addi-tion of Wilcox to the team. Students have noticed a marked increase in the quality of the program.

“ C o l o n e l W i l c o x h a s definitely stepped it up a

notch,” Drexel sophomore Heather Schmidt said. “He brings in the intensity this program needs . . . [and] people have come to realize [it] is a lot more serious.”

Fil ipos agreed that he “couldn’t be happier with the staf f change . . . The standards have def inite-ly gone up. We should be training to imitate what we [will be] doing as officers.”

W i l c o x e m p l o y s a n d teaches his three main tac-tics of motivating people: fear, love and guilt.

“Any kind of respect is a form of love,” he explained, adding that this should be the default approach.

Lieutenant Brian Miller, sophomore aviation advis-er, recognized this strategy in Wilcox’s management of his staff.

“He has full faith in our ability to prepare our stu-dents,” Miller said.

Wilcox also leads by ex-ample. Despite being sig-

nif icantly older than his college-aged students, “he puts a lot of effort to ensure he’s still attempting to be the best marine out there,” Miller said of Wilcox.

Filipos added that an of-ficer can’t lead by example “unless you are the best version of yourself.”

“At hikes, he’s always at the front,” Schmidt said. “Seeing him leading from the front ... is a wakeup call for me especially.”

Wilcox encourages his staff to be the best versions of themselves as well. He urges them to “use all the tools available to better [themselves],” Miller said. This means getting a grad-uate degree while they are still a part of university and civilian life.

Wilcox shared a common military saying that seems to su m up h is met hod: “Take care of your men, and they will take care of you.”

Wilcox draws from his 28 year career

ROTC from page 1

ResearchThe center will be a hub

for students and faculty to conduct research in the area. The Center will also provide resources to stu-dents and professors doing research about China while on Penn’s campus, which can be difficult.

“The China Center wil l do a lot of things that can’t be done well here and that’s why we need a physical facil-ity in the country,” he said.

The facility will also in-clude classrooms, event halls, faculty centers and study spaces and will allow

researchers the ability to easily share their research findings in Asia.

“With a center in China and people that are there every day and in close con-tact, it will be easier for us to know what is the right infor-mation and right channel to disseminate our research,“ Zhang added.

Internship OpportunitiesThe Center will serve as

a means of expanding and supporting global educa-tional experiences. Zhang mentioned the need for in-creased exposure to China as part of a Penn education.

“There are lots of students who want to do internships in China and want to f ind a job [there],” Zhang said. “Providing those kinds of services from [Penn] are not very feasible and we need people who can maintain contact with different com-panies to help students lo-

cate internships and career opportunities.”

Student RecruitmentThe Center will also play

a role in the admissions process by facilitating con-tact between prospective Chinese students and the University. Zhang said that the Center would play a role in identifying outstanding students in the country and putting them in touch with

the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.

Academic FreedomPresident Amy Gutmann

said that the academic free-dom of students would be maintained at the Center. “Because it is an indepen-dent wholly-owned foreign entity, we will ensure aca-demic freedom,” she said. “That is a condition of our operating there.”

While Zhang stressed the impor t ance of academic freedom to the University and Wharton, he acknowl-edged that the Center had no control over anything going on inside China and that the Center was not in a position to advise the Chinese gov-ernment.

“The Penn Wharton China Center has a mission that we want to carry out ... we need to focus on the things that will help Penn and Wharton be a force for good in China,”

he said.

Alumni EngagementThe Wharton China Cen-

ter will also serve as a hub for all members of the Penn community from around the world. Zhang noted signifi-cant alumni support for the

Center.“China is quickly becom-

ing a wealthy country,” he said. “ A lot of resources will be coming out of China and we want to position our-selves to help our alumni and Wharton to benefit from that.”

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Kicking off UMOJA Week with stepping

A week celebrating black culture on campus kicked into gear - with step dancing.

UMOJA Week, several days of events celebrating black heritage, will continue until Saturday. The events are orga-nized by UMOJA, Penn’s um-brella organization for black student groups.

The Gamma Epsilon Phila-delphia City Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incor-porated hosted its annual step show “Backgrounds in Step-ping” last night in the Hall of Flags in Houston Hall. Black Greek letter sororities and fraternities performed dance routines and songs that cel-ebrated their organizations’ history and traditions.

“It’s an iconic part of the Divine Nine organizations and something really special just

to show pride to your [organi-zation],” AKA President and College senior Kalyne Cole-man said.

Several of the organizations performed for the audience. The Mighty Psi Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated performed first, and its members opened with a song describing their love for the organization. They per-formed a high-energy step rou-tine and choreographed dance.

Chief Dean of the PAACC Conference of Alpha Michael Larmond said that perform-ing is an important way for the nine black Greek organi-zations of the National Pan-hellenic Council - also known as the “Divine Nine” - to cel-ebrate their traditions.

“Stepping and displaying stepping to people outside of the D9 and outside of our fra-ternity - it’s very important to us because tradition is very important to us and we like to keep tradition alive,” Larmond said.

Several members of the Delta Eta Chapter of Kappa

Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incor-porated and the Mu Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Incorporated also performed, encouraged by the audience’s cheers.

Women also represented their sororities at the event. Dressed in cr imson and cream, the women of the Glo-rious Gamma Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorpo-rated performed a high energy step routine and a call and response that celebrated their 101st anniversary. The AKAs also performed.

“Stepping is how we show pride in our organizations and pay homage to those who came before us. It is a very impor-tant part of the Divine Nine organizations, and there are step shows across the country where these individual orga-nizations showcase their steps and styles,” AKA Vice Presi-dent Edithmia Davies said.

The event was well-attended and students from different minority organizations came out to support the black Greek letter organizations.

The week of events is meant to celebrate

black heritageBY SAREM GIZAWContributing Writer

Courtesy of John Zhang

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1. Taming the TigersA matchup with Ivy rival

Princeton by itself is plenty for Penn fans to get excited about. Add a combination of snow, rain and hail to the equation, and you have the making of an Ancient Eight classic.

In a game that was delayed in the second half for 30 min-utes due to lightning, the Red and Blue were able to hold off a late Princeton rally to defeat the No. 7 Tigers, 11-10. The upset was by far the most impressive victory of the season for the upstart Quakers. Penn was led in the back-and-forth affair by then-sophomore Isaac Bock, who notched three goals, and then-junior goalkeeper Brian Feeney, who stopped 10 shots.

2. Dancing with the Blue Devils

Coming off of a frustrat-ing 3-10 season in 2012, the Quakers were an unknown

entity at the start of their 2013 campaign. This only made it all the more impressive when Penn defeated No. 14 Duke, — a perennial powerhouse in men’s lacrosse — in its season opener. The Red and Blue rode a wave of youthful enthusiasm in a dominant second-half display, ultimate-ly winning, 14-9. The victory was a sign of things to come for the Quakers.

“The way we see it is, it’s a climb,” then-senior cap-tain Tim Schwalje said at the time. “And this is just the first step.”

3. Bouncing backComing off of their first loss

of the year against Denver, the Quakers bounced back in impressive fashion. On Mar. 5, the Red and Blue took a trip to Bethlehem, Pa., where they faced No. 19 Lehigh. And they made sure to bring their defense along with them. In their most dominant defen-sive performance of the sea-son, the Quakers won, 6-4. Penn was led by Feeney, who had a career performance with 17 saves on the day.

4. Taking reality to taskGoing into its matchup

with city-rival St. Joseph’s, Penn was riding high off of its impressive win against Duke. The second game of the year was a reality check for the Quakers, as their of-fense stalled for most of the game. With the score tied 5-5 late in the game though, then-sophomore attack Will

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“It felt good to get that goal at the end,” Laco said. “We found a way to win.”

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Losco said.Penn coach Mike Murphy,

while proud of all that Losco has accomplished, under-stands the uniqueness of his situation and the difficult de-cision he will have to make in the coming year.

“It’s an achievement for him,” he said. “It’s an honor for him and hopefully he’ll play professionally for a pret-ty long time.

“But people don’t go to Penn to get into the MLL, they come to Penn to get a good job that will serve them well for the rest of their lives, and hopefully he can combine the MLL with a longer term career. So it’s not something we talk about a lot but we are happy for him.”

Ultimately, Losco acknowl-edges that he would like to go into sports-related market-ing.

“Sports have been such a big part of my life that I’d like to continue being involved,” Losco said. “If not playing, [then] something in market-ing.”

Entering his final season with the Quakers and with a great opportunity in line

for next year, Losco’s focus is centered on his team’s op-ponents throughout the 2014 campaign.

“[This season being my last] is kind of wild to think about,” Losco said. “[I] try not to think about it because it’s pretty crazy to be coming into the last one.

“It’s crazy but we’re excited about the upcoming season, we’ve got a good group of guys for my last go around.”

Over the course of three seasons, Losco has shown that he is a competitor in ev-ery sense of the word. Ever since his freshman year, he has been a durable asset to the Red and Blue, playing in every game in his three years at Penn.

“First and foremost, he is very much a team player,” Murphy said. “[He] will do whatever we ask him to do but I also think it’s helped him to develop.

“He’s always on the field so he understands what it’s like to play in a one goal game against Princeton or one goal game against Villanova or whatever the case might be.”

Coming into his final sea-son playing at Franklin Field, Losco is hoping for nothing less than an Ivy title and a run in the NCAA tournament.

And through it all, he will know in the back of his mind that an incredible opportunity — one that most Penn stu-dents don’t get to experience — is waiting for him.

LOSCO from page 10

Losco’s durability is a big strength

A look at Penn’s top 2013 moments

A former goalkeeper for the Quakers, Ted Rawlings is very much the face of Penn lacrosse in his third year as Penn’s Director of Lacrosse Operations. However, to say that his interests are limited to lacrosse alone would be shortsighted. Here are 30 seconds with the man himself.

Daily Pennsylvanian: Favorite Penn sport to watch?Ted Rawlings: Basketball, men’s basketball.

DP: Favorite movie?TR: Field of Dreams.

DP: Favorite pump up song before a game?TR: That’s a good one ... Thunder Road, let’s go with

Bruce.

DP: Superpower you would love to have?

TR: Read minds.

DP: Favorite undergrad memory?

TR: I don’t remember most of them. Actually, my favorite undergrad memory was going to Notre Dame in the NCAA tournament.

DP: Best food found in Philly?

TR: Cheesesteak. Actu-ally, underdogs.

DP: Favorite pro sports team?

TR: The Dallas Cow-boys.

DP: Favorite sport in the Winter Olympics?

TR: Hockey, basket-ball’s not in it, right?

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Junior attack Will Laco began to establish himself in the Penn lineup last season, starting in 11 games and picking up three goals.

M. LACROSSE | The Quakers’ upset of

Princeton stands out as one of many top games

BY COLIN HENDERSONAssociate Sports Editor

PAGE 8 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2014 THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIANSPORTS

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DATEFri, Feb 21Tue, Feb 25Sat, Mar 01Sat, Mar 08Sat, Mar 15Sat, Mar 22Sat, Mar 29Sat, April 05Sat, Apr 12Sat, Apr 19Tue, Apr 22Fri, Apr 25

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LOCATIONat Durham, N.C.Franklin FieldFranklin Fieldat Villanova, Pa.at Princeton, N.J.Adams Field (Penn Park)at New Haven, Conn.Franklin FieldFranklin Fieldat Hanover N.H.at Towson, Md.Radnor, Pa

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LOCATIONFranklin Fieldat Chapel Hill, N.C.Franklin FieldFranklin Fieldat New Haven, Conn.Franklin Fieldat Nashville, Tenn.at McDonough (Md.) SchoolFranklin Fieldat Hanover, N.H.at Princeton, N.J.Franklin FieldDunning-Cohen Champions Fieldat Ithaca N.Y.

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of the Ivy title for a seventh consecutive season.

“This was definitely a huge win for us,” Mangini said at the time. “We knew coming in that this was for the Ivy title.”

2. Winning in a winter wonderland

On a surprisingly snowy day at Franklin Field on March 21, the Red and Blue used an epic performance from then-freshman Iris Wil-liamson to escape Vanderbilt. Williamson tallied four goals on the afternoon — including a pair of one-on-one tallies in overtime — establishing herself as one of the Quakers’ top offensive forces in the 14-13 win.

“It’s a combination of do-ing my homework and having great teammates,” William-son said of her breakout per-formance.

3. Revenge is sweetHeading into the finals of

the Ivy League tournament against Dartmouth, Penn had some unfinished business to take care of. In 2012, the Big Green had defeated the Quak-ers in the finals, 6-4, an em-barrassing loss on home turf.

In 2013, the Red and Blue ensured that such a fate would not befall them again.

Senior attack Caroline Bun-ting led a devastating Penn

offensive charge, scoring four goals in a dominant 10-7 win. The Quakers started the scor-ing on a Maddie Poplawski free position strike just 55 seconds into the game and didn’t look back from there, erasing the demons of 2012’s disappointing late collapse.

4. Bear huntingTraveling north with a

chance to clinch the Ivy title outright, Penn took the kid gloves off against Brown, scoring three times in over-time to overwhe lm the pre-viously stout Bears, 10-7. Seniors Meredith Cain, Mad-die Poplawski, and Shannon Mangini each scored in the extra session as Penn was able to celebrate its title — and a perfect Ivy season — in enemy territory.

“It’s a talented league this year. We weren’t playing great at the beginning and struggled to figure out who we were, but we’ve come a long way,” coach Karin Brower Corbett said.

5. Statement at the startSome people might have

thought Penn was vulnerable as it entered its Ivy opener against Harvard. After all, the Quakers had lost their first three games of the sea-son beforehand. It didn’t take long for that narrative to be put to bed.

Ir is Will iamson scored four goals in the afternoon, as Penn built a 9-0 lead on the Crimson and didn’t look back from there. Then-junior goalkeeper Lucy Ferguson made 14 saves to stave off any semblance of a Harvard rally as the Quakers rolled, 14-5.

TOP FIVE from page 10

Offensive stars proved vital in big Ivy wins

ing really well coming into the season.”

Feeney was thrown into Penn’s starting lineup as soon as he arrived on campus as a freshman in 2011. The New Jer-sey native has not only shown consistency since the very be-ginning, but has also continued to improve over the past three

seasons.“For us, it’s been nice be-

cause he’s so good, and it gives us a steady force back there and someone we can count on,” Murphy said. “Especially last year ... in addition to be-ing consistent, he made some of those big time saves that bailed us out and gave us some momentum.

“It’s very nice having a guy that’s played so well with that much big game experience.”

When Murphy came to Penn, he looked to change the way the Red and Blue played la-crosse. Now, the team is play-ing the way the fifth-year coach imagined when he took over

the job.“We are playing much faster

than we were freshman year, and that seems to be what [Murphy] is going for,” Feeney said.

Another factor in Feeney’s success has been his twin brother, senior midfield Danny Feeney.

“Danny has always been on my team,” Feeney said about his brother. “We’ve always started together, and it drives my mom crazy because we have the only two positions that have percentages and stats so everybody knows whether you’re doing good or not.”

The two brothers, along with

the rest of the senior class, are looking for the Ivy League championship that has eluded them throughout the past three years. The group is also look-ing forward to making a run at the NCAA tournament, es-pecially after coming so close in their freshman year in 2011.

“I’m sad that this is my last year playing lacrosse but at the same time really excited for the season,” Feeney said.

“I think [Brian] is going to be very focused this year,” Mur-phy said. “He’s already got a job and wants to make sure this thing finishes the right way for him and the other se-niors.”

FEENEY from page 10

Penn expects a focused

Feeney in net

— pinpointing and interview-ing candidates — will remain completely confidential.

With applications coming in, the role of the consultant, Dan-iel Parker of Parker Executive Search, becomes more preva-lent. Parker’s contact informa-tion is included with the job description and PES will likely take over the day-to-day work involved with the applications.

When this application pro-cess comes to a close in early March, the final step of narrow-ing the list of candidates and bringing in the eventual final-ists for interviews will begin, setting the stage for a new Ath-letic Director to be installed soon after.

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Application set to close in early March

As Penn women’s lacrosse looks for its eighth straight Ivy title and men’s lacrosse seeks to make the jump into the NCAA tournament, the Quakers have scheduled some tough opponents to get them ready for an impor-tant season.Feb. 21- Penn men’s lacrosse

visits DukeLast season, the Red and Blue

began the season in stylish fash-ion, taking down Duke at Frank-lin Field. But a year later, the Quakers head down to Durham to take on the defending national champion the Blue Devils, a team that is already 2-0 on the season.

Duke is led by All-ACC senior attack Jordan Wolf , who scored two goals in Penn’s 14-9 upset over the Blue Devils last season. And alongside Wolf at attack is fellow senior Josh Dionne. Di-onne may be smaller (5-foot-7) but is a big part of Duke’s offense, having scored 10 goals in last year’s NCAA Tournament.

March 2- Women’s lacrosse at North Carolina

While Duke is No. 2 on the men’s side, the Penn women’s squad is upping the ante, going down to Chapel Hill to take on top-ranked North Carolina. The Tar Heels are led on attack by senior Abbey Friend. Friend, a preseason second team All-American, already has tallied 10 goals this year.

Facing the defending national champions’ attack will be first-team all-Ivy goalie Lucy Fergu-son. The junior allowed 10 goals in Penn’s matchup with the Tar Heels last year, but she only lost four games the rest of the season while in goal, so the second time may be the charm.

March 19- Maryland, my Maryland

Just 17 days after the matchup with North Carolina, another ACC foe will face off with Penn, as Maryland comes to Franklin Field. Penn faced off with the Terrapins in College Park, Md. last season, falling 15-10.

This season, Maryland is ranked third in the nation while No. 16 Penn will already be two games into its Ivy title defense when the Terrapins come to town.March 22- Last year’s runner-

up comes to townIn a game scheduled to be

played at Penn Park, Penn men’s lacrosse will take on defending Ivy champion Cornell in a crucial Ivy matchup. The Big Red hand-ed the Quakers their first Ivy loss last year in a 10-5 game up in Ithaca, N.Y., so Penn will be out for revenge this time out. Then-junior Zack Losco scored two goals against Cornell, and he’ll be an important part of Penn’s chances this time as well.April 12- Hanover and hopeful

For Penn women’s lacrosse’s

third Ivy game of the year, the Quakers go to New Hampshire to face a Dartmouth squad still steaming after two defeats last year. The first Penn victory over the Big Green was also on April 12, an 8-7 squeaker at Franklin Field.

The second matchup was even more memorable, with Penn tak-ing home the Ivy League Tour-nament Championship in a 10-7 victory. The Red and Blue hope to duplicate that title this season, but Dartmouth hopes to put a dent in those chances come April.

Imposing schedules loom for QuakersLACROSSE | Battles

with N.C. schools stand out for men’s and

women’s teamsBY STEVEN TYDINGSSenior Sports Editor

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Junior goalkeeper Lucy Ferguson was a unanimous first team All-Ivy selection last year after leading the conference in save percentage (.471).

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2014 PAGE 9SPORTSTHE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

For Penn’s athletic director search, it’s time to send in applica-tions.

On Tuesday, the website dedi-cated to the search added a new feature: a description of Penn’s next athletic director.

The job description itself mirrors the discussions in last week’s open forums. Title IX compliance, active participation in the Ivy League and the management of the Department of Recreation were included in the job’s ‘Duties and Responsibilities’ after staff members brought those topics up last Tuesday.

At the end of the job description, the website specifies that applica-tions are due by March 3, which means that Penn is two weeks from finishing the next aspect of its search.

The release of the job descrip-tion is a sign that the first part of the search for Steve Bilsky’s re-placement is over. The committee in charge of finding Penn’s next AD hoped to use last week’s open forums, among other meetings, to help establish exactly what the new AD’s job will entail.

With the end of that phase of the search, the information coming out of Penn’s 14-member committee will significantly decrease. Provost Vincent Price, co-chair of the com-mittee along with Vice President Craig Carnaroli, has emphasized that the next section of the search

When the same player is in goal for all but 47 minutes over the course of 41 games and three sea-sons, it’s clear that he’s an asset.

And that’s exactly what goalkeep-er Brian Feeney is for the Red and Blue. The senior is not only instru-mental for Penn men’s lacrosse on the field, but also in terms of team dynamics.

“He’s very selfless,” coach Mike Murphy said. “[He] doesn’t really

put himself above anybody else.“In terms of the team, he’s pretty

grounded and does well in school. He’s just a good kid, and in every-thing he does he’s conscientious and performs well.”

Entering his final spring between the pipes for the Quakers, Feeney has prepared for the upcoming sea-son with excitement and a drive to win.

“Obviously I’m coming in with a lot of confidence after starting for the past three years,” he said. “De-fensively, I feel like we are really strong. Specifically [senior defense Maxx Meyer] and I, especially since we’ve been together as a unit all three years and we’ve been play-

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Coming off of a 23-goal, first team All-Ivy performance for the Quakers in 2013, Penn senior midfield Zack Losco may be taking his talents to Charlotte next year, having been selected by the Hounds in this year’s MLL draft.


Senior goalkeeper Brian Feeney tallied a .589 save percentage

in 2013 en route to first team All-Ivy

honors, and figures to play a crucial role for the Quakers both on and off the field this

season.


MLL dreams become reality for Losco

Feeney returns for one last hurrah

SEE FEENEY PAGE 9

While most upperclassmen are on the hunt for jobs this time of year, one senior has a pretty sol-id option waiting for him a few months down the road.

Penn senior midfield Zack Los-co doesn’t have to worry about what lies ahead. The Penn men’s lacrosse star was drafted into Ma-jor League Lacrosse in January.

Following Losco’s junior sea-son, one in which he was named

f irst-team All-Ivy League, the New York native was selected by the Charlotte Hounds in the 14th round of the MLL draft. The mid-field representative of the Red and Blue was chosen as the 47th pick out of 64 undergraduates in the draft.

“It feels pretty good. It was a nice surprise,” Losco said. “Not a lot of communication between the team, but it was definitely cool.”

Although it is a great opportuni-ty, Losco is not sure that Charlotte will be his destination next year.

“I guess when the plans pan out for jobs and I see where I land a job, we’ll see how that works out, but I would definitely like to do it,”

M. LACROSSE | The senior midfielder has been

drafted by the league’s Charlotte HoundsBY ALEXIS ZIEBELMANAssociate Sports Editor

M. LACROSSE | The senior goalkeeper has high hopes as the end to a long Penn career approaches

BY ALEXIS ZIEBELMANAssociate Sports Editor

SEE LOSCO PAGE 8

Remembering the best moments of the Quakers’ 2013 title run

Release of description is sign that Provost Price’s

committee is making progress on search

BY STEVEN TYDINGSSenior Sports Editor

Penn AD search team reveals

job description

For Penn women’s lacrosse, 2013 was the same old story. Another Ivy League championship. A seventh consecutive bid to the NCAA Tour-nament. And though the Quakers lost in the first round to Virginia, 12-6, there were plenty of happy memories. Here are the top five:

1. Mangini clinches itPenn’s matchup against No. 17

Princeton on April 17 was, as ex-pected, a thriller. In a game that saw five separate ties, it took over-time to break a 9-9 deadlock. In the extra session, senior attack Shannon Mangini scored on a free position to ensure Penn a share

W. LACROSSE | In a year filled with fantastic

finishes, the Red and Blue made another NCAA trip

BY IAN WENIKSports Editor

DP File photo

Sophomore midfield Iris Williamson is looking to improve on a stellar debut season, one in which she scored 25 goals in 15 games played, the second-highest total on the team. SEE AD SEARCH PAGE 9SEE TOP FIVE PAGE 9

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