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Beloved staff member dies at 25

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Nicole Dickerson's sister Shante, left, and cousins Brandi Culp, front, and Lisa Culp look at a photo collage of Dickerson's life last Thursday.

Annenbergs Nicole Dickerson was honored at a recent memorial service.

By Alexis Gilbert The Summer Pennsytvanian

Members of the Annenberg School for Communications' small community gath- ered last week to mourn the loss of a young, vivacious staff member.

A memorial service was held last Thurs- day afternoon in honor of Nicole Dicker- son, the school's undergraduate majors coordinator.

Dickerson — who had been suffering from lupus, a disease that begins in the im- mune system and causes inflammation to various parts of the body, most notably the skin, blood, joints and kidneys — died last week

Dickerson had first come to Annenberg seven years earlier, and eventually enrolled in the school's graduate program.

"I first met Nicole when she came in as graduate student," Beverly Henry, an administrative assistant at Annenberg, said of Dickerson. "She was so young, yet so mature. I just got an interest in her as

soon as she walked in the door." "She was so full of knowledge and spir-

it. Her political views were very out- standing. She was the type of person who could bring people together, and her point was just to make everybody a part of everything," Henry added.

Henry and her family became great friends to Dickerson, who died at the age of 25. Henry also spoke at the memorial service.

When Dickerson found out that she was ill, she felt very alone, as she had no family nearby.

"My family just sort of adopted her,... just took her on as part of the family" Hen- ry said.

Apparently, doctors did not diagnose Dickerson with lupus until she insisted several times that the diagnoses they were giving her were not sufficient. Dickerson was told she had everything from a simple virus to allergies, but she insisted that something else was wrong.

"They detected I lupus I so early because she insisted that their answers weren't the correct ones," Henry said.

Dickerson found out she had the disease after her second year at Annenberg.

■ See DICKERSON, page 5

Shooting followed foot chase A robbery suspect fired at two Perm police officers while fleeing near 40th and Baltimore.

By Alexis Gilbert The Summer PennKylvanian

High schoolers get the first taste of college Two summer programs give precollege kids unique opportunities.

By Gregory Richards The Summer Pennsytvanian

Tucked away on an upper floor of Goddard Lab, a group of students is busily attempting to clone DNA from E. coli bacteria.

With their goggles on and their lab books open, these students are doing the work normally re- served for college juniors or seniors.

Except that they are high school students.

This summer, 362 high school juniors and seniors have descended upon Lo- cust Walk to either take part in a special science program designed just for them, or to take regular Penn classes with undergraduates.

"My family... wanted me to go out and experience something, so what better than college?" said New York high school senior Daniel King, adding that his residential counselor is "like, the bomb."

While many of these students are away from home and on their own for the first time, together they are learning how to handle college-level academics, roommates and the necessary evil of time management.

"It's sort of disorienting because you have so much free time on your hands, and you really don't feel like working," Florida high school senior Patrick Toussaint said while taking a break from a game of foosball. "But not to say that we're not working — we've done all our work"

Inside ■ Panel of weather forecasters a highlight for precollege students. Seepage 3.

Among the most popular classes in

the Precollege program, in which students typically take up to two Uni- versity classes for credit, are micro- economics and many of the writing courses, according to summer sessions director Valerie Ross.

Since taking over the program three years ago, Ross has attempted to make the program more formal- ized, so that students can get through their college summer with a soft land- ing.

"Students get an introduction to college life that's authentic, but that also provides a kind of safety net,"

she said, adding that "discovering you're not the only star" — which is the case for many in their high schools — ranks among the most eye-open- ing discoveries for students.

These experiences, however, are cushioned by workshops on such topics as college study strategies and SAT prepara- tion, as well as social trips to places like Six Flags Great Adventure and Ocean City, New Jersey.

Another big part of the students' environment is the 15 residential counselors who mentor, advise and tutor their charges.

"I didn't really expect it to be this demanding, but it's like a 65-hour workweek," counselor Amish Naik, a College senior, said.

"Your pay isn't that good, and the benefits aren't that good, but you end up feeling like you actually did something," Naik said, mentioning his pride in recently talking to a trou- bled student, and managing to get that student to smile.

But perhaps the ultimate sacrifice to be with the students was made by assistant residential director Dean

Pierides, who gave up his downtown apartment for the summer to live in Harnwell College House — a job requirement.

"There's an empty apartment at 21st and Pine waiting for me," Pierides said wistfully.

Although the majority of high school students chose to gain college credit this summer, others — including many that Pierides watches over — have opted to expand their

scientific skills at the Penn Summer Science Academy.

This non-credit program, in which students can concentrate in either molecular biology or physics and astronomy, is comprised of an engaging set of classes, labs and guest lectures for the high schoolers alone.

"It's nice because it's all high school students," Connecticut high

■ See PRECOLLEGE, page 3

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Nick Wight and Dan O'Hanlon examine this "crime scene" as part of their molecular biology course in the Penn Summer Science Academy.

Gunfire pierced an otherwise quiet evening on the 4000 block of Baltimore Avenue Monday night, after police chased a robbery suspect to that location.

The University of Pennsylvania Police De- partment received a call that a parking lot at- tendant in a lot on 30th and Market streets had been pistol whipped and robbed by two men. The two assailants were then seen fleeing into the trolley line nearby.

According to the UPPD's Deputy Chief of In- vestigations William Danks, "The two officers thought that. If they went down to the subway- surface station on 40th and Baltimore, they might be able to catch the two suspects."

Sure enough, when the trolley emerged at the station on 40th and Baltimore, two men fit- ting the descriptions of the robbers exited.

Upon seeing the officers, the two suspects fled in separate directions, with one running between two residences and into an alleyway.

Both officers followed the man who turned and fired one shot at the officers, hitting neither of them. The officers then fired three shots at the man, but the suspect was not hit either.

"The suspect then fled to rear of the property, went over a fence, down the alley and head- ed off," Danks said. The officers then lost sight of the suspect.

The other suspect was not sighted after leaving the trolley. "He just disappeared into the dust," Danks

said. The UPPD will be conducting a joint investi-

gation into the shooting with the Philadelphia Police Department, which is the usual procedure for the more serious incidents that occur on campus.

The suspect who fired at the police officers is described as an African-American male of about 20 years of age, 5'6" to 57" tall, with a medium build, an afro hairstyle and a goatee.

The other suspect who fled is also described as a 20-year-old African-American male, 6'2" tall, who is very thin with very short hair, and wearing a white t-shirt and blue denim shorts.

While people in the area of the shooting showed concern after the incident, Danks said that during the chase there were no witnesses whatsoever.

"The whole incident happened in the rear of an alleyway," he said.

"The incident is still under investigation, and we're just very thankful that the officers weren't injured and that nobody was hurt," UPPD Chief of Police Thomas Rambo said.

The University has not experienced a shooting since last March. In one incident, two men were shot early in the morning while sitting in their car at the intersection of 38th and Market streets. Witnesses had reported seeing five men wearing dark clothing fleeing the scene shortly thereafter. The UPPD in conjunction with the PPD were unable to make an arrest in the case.

The week earlier, a man had been shot in the stomach while standing outside of the Pegasus nightclub, located at 3801 Chestnut Street.

INSIDETODAY SPORTS

Volleyball welcomes frosh Penn will pack a lot of talent this fall, as it lost no seniors to graduation last May and will be joined by a talented Class of 2005 that could compete for one of 15 spots on the varsity squad. See back page.

OPINION

Exploring the possibilities Instead of a crisis, Stacy Humes- Schultz believes that a lack of direction for future plans can be the best road to take. See page 2. Alysia CwanC*r/The Summer Pennsytvanian

A 'Holiday' in Philly Madonna performs Sunday at the First Union Center in Philadelphia on her Drowned World Tour.

Churches can help crime rates A study by Penn researcher Byron Johnson indicates church- going youths are less delinquent.

By Richard Mo The Summer Pennsytvanian

The power of church in developing religious and moral foundations has already been docu- mented.

But a recent Penn study added a chapter by showing the effect of church attendance in reducing crime.

Byron Johnson, director of the Center for Re- search on Religion and Urban Civil Society, found that African-American youths who attend church regularly are less likely to engage in criminal activities than those who do not.

His study, entitled "The Role of African-Amer- ican Churches in Reducing Crime Among Black Youth," examined data from 1,700 young adults between the ages of 15 and 21 years old.

"I hope this shows to those involved with faith communities that their efforts are beginning to pay off and offers a sense of encouragement to them," Johnson said."

The research suggested that regularly attend

I See CHURCH, page 3

After 20 years, Einhorn's back The convicted murderer and Penn graduate was returned to the U.S. after decades abroad.

By Gregory Richards The Summer Pennsytvanian

Forty years after graduating from Penn and twenty years after fleeing the United States to avoid trial in the bludgeoning death of his girl- friend, Ira Kinhorn was returned to native soil early last Friday morning.

And needless to say, those who had worked so hard to bring him back were happy to finally see him.

"It's an immense relief for my sisters and brother and I," said Buffy Hall, the younger sister of Holly Maddux, whose mummified body was found in a steamer trunk in 1979 in Einhorn's Powelton Village apartment.

"We're very happy to see... him taken to prison, which is where he should have been for the past 24 years," Hall said.

Inside ■ Those who knew Einhorn while he was in Philly give their insights. See page5.

Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abra-

I See EINHORN, page 5

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University departures School of Nursing and Social Work are in search of permanent deans after recent resignations.

With three University officials leaving to pursue offers else- where, Penn administration is left with several gaps to fill.

One problem with these vacan- cies is that no replacements have been named for Dean Ira Schwartz, Vice President of Cam- pus Services Larry Moneta or Di- rector of Fire and Occupational Safety Harry Cusick. Filling these positions requires time and money so the University should make it a thorough and expedient process.

By not appointing new officials in a timely, yet careful manner, the

Administration will lose momen- tum — thus, making the transitions even more difficult.

This issue is of the most concern to the School of Social Work, who needs to replace Dean Schwartz before they find themselves in a situation similar to that of the School of Nursing. Nursing has been without a permanent dean for more than a year now, with As- sociate Dean Linda Brown having resigned recently, as well. A year is far too long to let a school operate with interim personnel. It does not allow the organization to run smoothly and concentrate on its main focus — academics.

This same occurrence was also seen with the Hospital of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania and the Di- vision for Public Safety, who waited about a year before announcing

permanent head officials. Penn should look to schools,

such as Princeton, Brown and NYU, who have appointed new presidents in less time than we name new deans. By following their lead, Penn can work to fill high level positions quickly and ef- ficients Permanent officials are a vital part of the University— strong leadership helps establish a clear course of action and stabilize the internal working environment

The University should first concentrate on finding permanent deans for both the School of Nurs- ing and Social Work in order to pre- vent internal administrative problems, as well as complications regarding their academic integrity. Strong leaders are key in any insti- tution, especially in one as comprehensive and diverse as Penn.

OPINION

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Quarterlife crisis is a myth Alexandra Robbins

and Abby Wilner have gotten a lot of attention recently.

The two twenty somethings — one a journalist, the second a website ad-

Stacy Schulz Guest Columnist

minis- trator — have thrust them-

^^^^^^^^™ selves into the public eye to cham- pion the concept of the "quarterlife crisis."

According to Robbins and Wilner, the world has been relentlessly tough on the twenty somethings of our generation. Few have sym- pathy for how tenuous deci- sions regarding careers, adult relationships and fi- nances can drive a recent college graduate into, they claim, depression. And so, they liken the period between one's commencement ceremony from college and one's thirties to the midlife crisis, dubbing the uncer- tainties of one's twenties the overwhelming and frighten- ing "quarterlife crisis."

It was about six weeks ago, while the duo was visiting the likes of Oprah Winfrey and Katie Couric, that I first stumbled across their idea.

And I bought it — hook, line and sinker, as they say.

I, too, believed myself to be frozen in a moment of crisis. I was slowly, but surely, realizing that I had no specific career path as I plundered my way through my summer internship. I was discovering that I was not ready to "stop being a kid" — an all-too-common

symptom of the quarterlife crisis, Robbins and Wilner claim. And, worst of all, I was a year away from my college graduation trem- bling with the pure and simple fear of failure.

The "quarterlife crisis" became a buzzword for me and my close friends. I even admitted to my parents that I was in the midst of a quarterlife crisis, as if I were stricken with some bizarre ailment. They laughed, told me to stop thinking about it and go to work.

It was comforting, for at least awhile, to realize that the anxiety that had crept up on me during my first three years of college was not a unique feeling. I had a label for the weight of the unan- swered questions in front of me, and it became pretty simple to hide behind this label rather than try to actually answer these questions.

The comfort, however, only lasted until two days ago, when it suddenly hit me how selfish, naive and shortsighted the entire idea of my so-called "quarterlife crisis" really was.

I was speaking with a woman well out of her twenties, thirties and perhaps even her forties. And, like most well-intentioned middle-aged women, she struck up a conversation with me by politely prodding me as to what I have planned to do after graduation.

"Well," I confessed, "I don't really know."

But rather than nod qui- etly and tell me not to worry, that life figures itself out — the typical response

when I admit I am pretty damn directionless — she responded with a surpris- ing amount of admiration.

"That's really the best," exclaimed the woman, for whom my respect was growing by the minute. "You get to try everything. My friends, who are the happiest with their careers, were just like you."

It is the product of the luxury of a simple life at elite private schools—

Penn included. And she is right. A lack

of direction can be entirely terrifying at times. But, un- like graduating with a set plan, it forces you to take risks. Having no commit- ments, no identifiable passion — and, frankly, no training in any particular field — is going to force me to follow a hunch, take a job on a whim, try something I highly doubt I will like, but try it just simply for the sake of trying it.

There is no denying that it is scary. There is no denying I am going to fall flat on my face while following one of these whims or hunches.

But it certainly seems self-serving to presume myself to be in "crisis" merely because I am realizing there are hundreds of roads I can travel down in the future, and I cannot pick the one that looks the most appeal- ing. If I am going to fail, now

is the time to do it, before I have the weight of a mort- gage or children and any- body but myself to worry about it. Fifteen years from now it will not be so simple.

So to Robbins and Wilner, nice try, but, please, let's get over ourselves. Wallowing in self-pity or plunging into unwarranted depression over the fact that you cannot make a decision or commit- ment during your twenties is not only self-centered, but it is downright laughable. Complaining because we cannot decide whether we want to become money- making lawyers, command- ing politicians or, god forbid, forgo the lure of the bank altogether to work for a non- profit belittles the millions without these opportunities at their finger tips.

The "quarterlife crisis" is not the result of pure career anxiety. It is the product of the luxury of a simple life at elite private schools — Penn included. The real world that some of us have been sheltered from until now is filled with tough de- cisions. But to be blunt, suck it up. Deal with it. Fail, pick yourself up from the pavement and move on.

As for me, in the mean time, I will continue to wan- der somewhat aimlessly and haphazardly, and, eventually, I will stumble onto something that fits. If nothing else, I will see a lot along the way.

Stacy Humes-Schub is a senior Urban Studies major from Port- land, Ore. and Campus News Editor of The Daily Pennsytvanian.

Be true to thyself, avoid fluff fiction E Lenya Bloom Guest Columnist

veryone knows that if a woman remains true to herself she will get what she needs — especially in the bookstore — unless you

let a new trend in books define what you need. Let's be honest. Most women want a wealthy, attractive man to bond to, ca-

reer success, weight loss and to live happily ever after. Right? Well, yes, if you listen to the moral undercur-

rents of today's post-feminist fiction. Oddly, the worst perpetuator of this post-

feminist, cliche-romance literature are British women: Anna Maxted's Running in Heels, Jane Green's of Jemima J, and the newer Mr. Maybe, written by the equally guilty Sophie Kinsella, also author of Confessions of a Shopaholic.

But these three merely follow in the footsteps of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones' Diary, and its sequel — Maxted, Green, and Kinsella capitalize on the various insecurities Fielding's books pre-establish as tres aujourd'hui. If there is an effort to be tongue in cheek, Green falls flat (or should I say fat) and Kinsella has established such a pathetic premise that, try as she might, none of the irony that would save this book is recognizable.

Being single, excessive spending on oneself, drinking, being over-weight, and dating the wrong men are the new in- dulgences, which women may now — out from under the thumb of Gloria Steinam — allow themselves to fall vic- tim to. I wonder if this is a good thing.

The most disturbing is Green's Jemi- ma J. Here is the story of an obese girl, who is motivated to lose excessive amounts of weight quickly to impress the men out of her reach. She gets the guy she wants, in the end, when she has gone down to a size 8. The reader should be happy for Jemima (who even trades in her frumpy name for the more glam- orous "JJ"). We are meant to identify with her inner woman, as if we too cry "Help, help, there is a skinny woman in me trying to get out!"

Of all the cliches, this is one of the most harmful. JJ's ultimate goal, however, goes beyond being thin — it is finding a man, who will provide for and take care of her. The provision being that she (as the famous Bridget also exempli- fies) must continue to display those character traits which she possessed when she was overweight — endearing and quirky. Of course, he will love her regardless of her weight, class, education, career, cooking and budget management skills. Right? He fell in love with her in the first place because she was different, colorful, human even. Is it a rare occurrence for a man to love his woman for being a farting, burping, urinating, excitable, simple, human being?

Although these protagonists have competition for their men, it is never

someone with more realistic, down to earth qualities than them. There is no one more human, and that is why we are supposed to identify with them. We are supposed to think, "That character is like me, I do not to wax my armpits either and I also stain brand new white shirts with cranberry juice!"

Their competitors are impossibly thin, rich, and well dressed. The protagonists are depicted as feeling demeaned by other women's status—bags, jewelry, accent, and bearing. The readers have to draw im- possible comparisons between themselves and perfection, which ultimately leads them to distrust their men, themselves, and their parents. This is not healthy. No wonder they flounder in insecurities.

Most women want a wealthy, attractive man

to bond to, career success, weight loss and to live happily ever after.

I will never deny all this fuss is grounded in a real dilemma. Young women today are faced with the many things we know we are faced with sudh as, high self-expectations and genera- tions of sweet women we have to outdo. Nor will I deny that I do exactly the same self-deprecating things as these characters do — when I am sad, I buy jeans that are twice as expensive as they should be. But is not that what you expected from an over-educated twenty- one-year-old? Even as an intelligent and voracious woman I am compared to and I personally hold my self to these silly, yet superficial standards.

The truth of the matter is that I am living through what these women write about. I do not need it lauded in "literature." I am not ashamed, but I must admit that this weak behavior does fall far below the standard for womanhood I am trying to establish. And it certainly should not be as praised as one of Martha Stewart's latest cookie recipe.

Maybe, I should be laughing about it. Real laughter, not the hysterical, cele- bratory laughter these books induce. If I were laughing the kind of self-directed laughter that Nietzsche says makes us ubermensch (or uberfrauleins) this situation would be bearable. But that takes a sagacity one can only glean from worldliness and philosophy, things I will never find if I keep buying these fluffy books. Next time I hit the Penn bookstore, I will remain true to myself and buy something that counts.

Lenya Bloom is a senior Physical Anthro- pology major from San Francisco, Cal. and Culture Editor for 34th Street.

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met as the years go by — so, in the end, you are left with very little."

"Yeah, it is good enough for me, and people that I know think it is good enough for them, too."

Winnie So College senior

"Yeah, I think they do. I am satisfied with my package so I think they do an okay job. It is not the most generous school."

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Kristen Echemendia College junior

"No, I did not get any financial aid, and I was kind of disap- pointed about that."

MarisaBell Wharton sophomore

"I do not receive financial aid, but I think we have a low alumni support so it is hard to compete."

Marisa Berenbaum College senior

"No, I think that the standards they use to evaluate the students are unreasonable."

The Summer Pennsylvanian NEWS Thursday, July 26, 2001

Weather forecasts are serious business Penn Summer Science Academy students examined the ethics involved in the informing the public about weather.

By Lenya Bloom I"he Summer FennRvtvanian

Never mind the Weather Channel. High school students enrolled in the Penn Summer Science Academy had the chance to get up close and personal with the people behind the weather.

Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz of local television station NBC 10, Penn Astronomy Pro- fessor Jeffrey Goldader, and PSSA instructor Timothy Kirk teamed up Thursday morning for an informal discussion on the ethics of weather forecasting.

The talk began with a discussion on how variation is treated within weather forecasting. Schwartz admitted that "meteorology is an inexact science," while Goldader explained that, since nature's formula cannot be written out, computer simulations provide the best hope for accurate forecasts.

All the experts said that there is never enough data to provide absolute certainty, which is not always good enough for a demanding public.

Despite the many variables in predicting the weather, the panelists shared some in- sight as to how they managed to put together their forecasts. Schwartz said that, with only about three minutes of airtime per broad- cast, a weatherperson must be confident and concise when forecasting.

Kirk, who led the discussion, then ques- tioned whether there is pressure to report only the more interesting, sensational out- comes. Goldader conceded that many scien- tists want acknowledgement and press, but nevertheless hold a very high standard of accuracy for what gets publicized.

Still, weather reports often feel exagger- ated. Schwartz explained that since being wrong in one direction is embarrassing, and

being wrong in the other direction affects people's lives and safety, there was an agree- ment that it's better to give the audience too much warning, as the consequences of not enough warning can be devastating.

"Never do we make up a forecast just for ratings," Schwartz said.

After the general discussion, the students had the chance to pepper the panel with questions. One student asked whether or not this constant overwarning leads to a "boy who cried wolf" scenario between forecasters and their audience.

The panel replied that weather forecasting bureaus do indeed worry about

maintaining credibility, requiring that the forecast only be presented if the weather person truly believes his or her prediction, and has amassed sufficient data to back that up.

Throughout the discussion, the PSSA students remained in quiet, rapt attention, which, along with their inquisitiveness, was noticed by the experts.

"[It was] nice to talk about issues other than my background — to get challenged in- tellectually," Schwartz said.

The students, whose program ends on July 27, found the program valuable as well.

"I thought it was interesting," one student said. "I'd like to do something like this again."

And that's the plan, if all goes well, as Kirk hopes to make such roundtable discussions an annual event for PSSA students.

Alyssa Cw«nc»f/The Summer Pennsylvanian

NBClO's Glenn"HurricaneH Schwartz, front, Penn Summer Science Academy instructor Timothy Kirk, and Penn astronomy lecturer Jeff Goldader speak to academy's high school students.

Young students utilize their summer for learning ■ PRECOLLEGE from page 1

school senior Karen Lin said. "For the Precollege people, they have to be with college students, and the professors might not be as lenient on them."

But according to biology laboratory instructor Ruth Sporer, besides a few additional expla- nations, no other concessions have been needed.

"They take this very serious- ly," Sporer said. "That's what sur- prised me, because it's

summertime, and they're 16." One of the most telling reason

for the high schoolers to spend part of their summer at Penn could be seen at the end of a recent laboratory, when an agarose gel filled with DNA was being an- alyzed with an ultraviolet light.

"This is the kind of equipment that we don't get to use in school," Lin said. "We only see pictures of it in our textbooks."

Those in the physics and astronomy concentration are also exposed to previously unseen

equipment, with trips scheduled to use the telescopes at Penn ob- servatories. However, only the biology concentration will get to deal with fake blood and police tape — components of the mock crime scene analysis that con- cludes the program.

"The idea is that for the first three weeks they're basically arm- ing themselves with all the tools they'll need to answer the genetic questions about who might have done it," molecular biology coordinator John Zurawski said.

About one-third of the summer session students will eventually matriculate at Penn, according to Ross, with their present experiences on campus and in the city being a strong de- termining factor.

But all of them will leave Penn with a little something extra — new friends, new knowledge and maybe new goals.

"It's worked out really well," Connecticut high school senior Alex Noether said. "I'll be sad when I have to leave."

U. study says churches foster better communities ■ CHURCH from page 1

ing religious services likely fosters social networks of peers and mentors, thereby reducing delinquent behavior and crime.

Johnson, a criminologist, tested three hypotheses. First, he hypothesized that African-Amer- ican youth who attend regular service engage in less criminal activity.

Second, he examined whether the harmful effects of of inner- city neighborhoods on crime are reduced by religious involvement.

Third, he tested whether youth living in bad neighborhoods are more likely to commit crimes than those living in good neigh-

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"Even in those days, the drugs weren't that good."

- Richard Rogers, a former of Ira Einhom, on the convicted murderer's

claim of innocence.

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bo r hoods. At the end of the study, John-

son's first two hypotheses proved true, but the third added a twist.

Johnson found that youths from bad neighborhoods who were actively involved in church activities have lower serious crime rates than youths from good neighborhoods, suggesting that church involvement in inner- city neighborhoods fosters a better community.

"In the decay of some inner cities, there is hope," Johnson said. "I hope, in light of the de- velopments in Washington, that policy makers see this."

The Bush administration is currently supporting a number of faith-based organizations, acting on the advice of Penn Political

Science professor John Dtlulio, who earlier this year was named director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.

For the research, Johnson an- alyzed a longitudinal study of 1,700 youths in 1981.

Though Johnson wished that "we had data on 2001," he said that striking parallels still apply.

"There are always concerns with longitudinal studies," John- son said. "However, because the African-American population has consistently been shown to be extremely religious, the data probably still reflects the realities of today."

The lack of data is also puz- zling given the role religion plays in American culture.

"For 70 years, Gallup data has

shown that religion is very important to Americans," Johnson said. "I hope that in light of this, people start to collect data with an eye towards religion."

Johnson, who has been interested in religion for a long time, started studying prisoners since many of them have had religious conversion experiences while in- carcerated. That interest trans- lated to delinquency and religion, an "area that is understudied and neglected."

In light of this study, Johnson hopes to expand his research on the effectiveness of other faith-based organizations. For example, he is currently working on how effective faith-based drug treatment centers are compared to their secular coun- terparts.

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NIH helps fund epilepsy research Psych professor Russell Buono was awarded $2 million by the NIH to conduct the study.

By Richard Mo The Summer I Vnns> Iranian

While epilepsy, like many dis- eases, has many causes, Penn researchers hope to understand how genetics play a role in the development of the disease.

And a National Institutes of Health grant will set the Penn team on its way.

Psychiatry professor Russell Buono was recently awarded a four-year, $2 million NIH grant to establish a genetic connection among the most common forms of epilepsy.

The Hospital of the Universi- ty of Pennsylvania, along with Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Cincinnati Medical Center and the Children's Hospital of Cincinnati will partake in ex- tracting DNA samples from 1,500 epilepsy patients.

"We are trying to do is basically find a genetic cause for the epileptic seizures," Buono said. "We are going to collect DNA code from patients with seizures and see what DNA they have in common."

For the nervous system to function, an ion balance must be maintained between nerve cells. Current scientific thinking holds that seizures result when there is an ionic imbalance.

Every year, the researchers will collect 125 DNA samples from patients of the three most common seizures — juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, temporal lobe epilepsy and childhood ab- sence epilepsy — along with a fourth control group. Another 3,500 samples over four years will be taken from the patients' immediate family members.

By analyzing the similarities among the seizure patients, taking into account the genes of the control group and the non- epileptic relatives, Buono and the team of researchers hope to possibly pinpoint certain genes responsible for the seizures.

"This is the direction that science wants to head in, that of solving patient problems," Buono said.

Once a more specific genetic cause can be pinpointed, the researchers plan to work on developing a comprehensive analysis on anti-seizure drugs. Currently, there is a trial-and error component of prescribing drugs because patients do not respond to all medications.

"The reason why people respond to these drugs are genetic," Buono said "Once we isolate some of the genetics behind it, doctors can make better deci- sions by knowing through a blood test that drug A won't work"

Due to the sheer size of the study, challenges might arise.

Because the clinicians are on the front line dealing with patients, those involved with seeing the patients will need to spend extra time describing the study to both subjects and their relatives.

In addition, the project's size will require additional techni- cians to analyze the DNA once it is collected.

However, because many epileptic patients are children, Buono said that "parents are extremely helpful and sometimes can't wait to roll up their sleeves to help their kids."

Buono became interested in the field by working on several projects with Medical School professors Wade Berrettini and Thomas Ferraro.

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Food truck vendors say construction is hurting business Vendors complain that customers no longer know where to find the trucks.

ft y Gregory Richards The Summer Pennsylvanian

Hungry students and faculty who once flocked to the plaza beside Gimbel Gym to find overflowing crepes and crispy chicken can do so no more, as whirring equipment and hard-hat wielding construction workers have claimed the area as their own.

And that has some of the food truck vendors and their customers feeling a little steamed.

"It's too noisy, too dusty, too danger- ous, and too far away from the people," Le Petite Creperie owner Andreas An- doniadis said of their new location on the 3700 block of Sansom Street. "Basi- cally, it sucks."

The vendors were relocated at the

end of June to allow for the construction of the $24 million gym expansion. Although the new location is not physi- cally far from the old, the trucks are not visible from the main Walnut Street thor- oughfare, making their existence something of an urban legend.

"I just found out — I thought they were on 40th Street," Iris Hill, an administra- tor in the Franklin Building, said, adding that a friend had tipped her off.

Management department staff member Robin Woods was also in the same predicament.

"We were actually on our way to some- place else, and I just happened to look over and see [the carts]," Woods said. "I didn't know that they were here."

Yet some, like Tyesh Grundy of Whar- ton Computing, got the inside scoop: being a longtime customer of George's Lunch Truck, the employees told her of their impending move.

To help wayward customers satisfy their culinary cravings, Penn has installed two signs along Walnut Street at

37th and 38th streets. However, several of the vendors considered the signs to be too small and too confusing to read.

"They put a little sign on the corner, but the arrow points the other way," An- doniadis said. "What does that mean?"

Penn Vice President of Facilities and Real Estate Services Omar Blaik said that the matter was being looked into, and mentioned the possibility of additional signage at 37th and Sansom streets.

Regardless of whether the customers find the food trucks' new location through signage, trial and error, or word of mouth, it will still not change the location of the trucks — at least not for the next two years.

Blaik said although permanent relocation was originally intended for the trucks, "creative thinking" among the Penn facilities staff will allow them to return to their old haunts when the Gim- bel construction is done.

According to Roman Peryk, associate general counsel to the University, such

shifts in vendor location are part of the five-year contract that vendors around the Penn campus agreed to in 1998.

"We expressed to [the vendors] that there would be situations like this that would arise: construction projects would be going on and we would need to be able to relocate them eventually to another location," Peryk said. "That's what happened here."

Under the contract, the vendors pay the University a basic rent of one dollar per month, plus a $50 per month trash re- moval fee that is spread collectively among the six odd vendors on Sansom Street.

But besides electricity, the vendors are getting something else for free — dust — which has some customers and venders concerned that it may get into the food. However, Blaik said that the demolition phase of the project, which creates the most dust, will be over in a few weeks.

"Who else on campus is actually saved from the impact of construction?" Blaik

said "There is construction everywhere, so it's not just them."

Among die vendors, it's a mixed bag as to how all of this has impacted their bot- tom line. While some, like Andoniadis, say that their business has not been af- fected by the relocation, others, such as Curry on the Run owner Surjit Singh, say that their business this summer is down from previous summers.

But when the 20 to 30 construction workers give way to about 100 workers when full-fledged work on the building begins, Blaik predicts that all the vendors will be very happy.

"All of the construction workers get two coffee breaks as well as lunch, so I think [the vendors] will be very happy." he said.

However the issues are resolved, Vis- iting Management Scholar Piers Dav- enport thinks that the two sides should come to amends.

"These guys are as much part of the community as we are," he said "We have to respect that"

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from the job site, several members of Neigh- bors Against McPenntrification took their concerns to City Solicitor Kenneth Trujillo and several members of his staff on Tuesday.

An unannounced attempt to meet with Tru- jillo last Friday failed, as the city's lawyers were taking training classes.

"What we find most objectionable is that this is an emergency situation, but nothing is being done," NAM member Richard Rogers said "The anxiety level is so high that people are leaving."

NAM approached Trujillo's office after months of trying to work through the maze of the state Department of Environmental Pro- tection, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the city Department of Licenses and Inspection.

However, city senior environmental attorney Patrick O'Neill informed the group of three that the city monitors only air and water pollution, leaving the issue of soil contamination to the DEP

An analysis performed by McDonald's re- vealed that the soil is contaminated by tetrachloroethene, a highly-volatile cleaning solvent commonly used in dry cleaning.

O'Neill explained that, if exposed, this chemical would evaporate before if could do much harm.

Tetrachloroethene is also heavier than water, but since none of the city's drinking water is pulled from wells, the officials saw it as

one less cause for concern. "It does not seem that it's not the type of

imminent danger that calls for cleanup within a couple of days," said Daniel Cantu-Hert- zler, chair of the city's corporate and tax group. "However, the city expects that Mc- Donald's will clean it up."

But after having already removed 200 tons of contaminated soil and still not having solved the problem of contamination, McDonald's is proposing to use an active soil vapor extrac- tion system. This will involve boring vertical- ly and horizontally into the soil, which will then allow for the noxious vapors to be piped into a carbon treatment system.

McDonald's construction project manager Scott Lang said a pilot study—which will likely occur within the next three weeks — has to occur before the actual remediation can begin.

Lang was optimistic that the eventual treatment, which can take up to 12 months, will not hold up the construction of the building.

"Hopefully, we'll be able to engineer the system so that we'll be able to develop and eventually run the restaurant," he said.

In order to pull together all parties to address their concerns, NAM had requested another meeting, with representatives at- tending from the city's departments of health, commerce and law, as well as from the DEP and McDonald's. It is being planned for Aug. 15 at 7 p.m., at either the Penn Newman Cen- ter or tiie Lea School.

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Killer claims innocence ■ EINHORN from page 1

ham, who, as a municipal court judge, signed the search warrant that led to the discovery of Mad- dux's body, said that although this "long and tortuous odyssey" was not over, Einhorn's return was a big step.

"It was extremely gratifying that all the effort we have ex- pended over so many years finally bore fruit," Abraham said. "It's nothing to be happy about... but it's a measure of satisfaction that hard work paid off."

The journey to catch Einhorn, a prominent Philadelphia anti- Vietnam War activist and coun- terculture guru, began in 1981 when he jumped bail on the eve of his pretrial hearing for the 30- year-old Bryn Mawr College graduate's murder. He spent the next 16 years traipsing through Europe, being spotted in such places as Dublin and Stockholm.

In 1997, while living in Cham pagne-Mouton, France, under the pseudonym Eugene Mallon, Ein- horn was arrested by French authorities. However, the United States' extradition request was denied on the grounds that he would not receive another trial in the U.S, as Einhorn was tried and convicted of first degree murder in absentia in 1993 and sentenced to life in prison.

"It is not right that my sister's murder has been used to make a political point with the U.S. because [the French] disagree with something that is not in our control," Hall said. "A murder case should be treated as a legal case, and not turned into a political foot ball."

To try to place him in U.S. cus- tody, the Pennsylvania legislature passed a new law in 1998 that specifically dealt with the Ein- horn case. It entitles a person who is tried in absentia — and who lives in a country that refus- es to extradite people tried in absentia — to request a new trial upon returning home.

French authorities would also not return Einhorn to the U.S. if he could possibly face the death penalty — which France is op- posed to — if tried again. Al- though a major issue, this was technically a moot point because the death penalty was legalized in Pennsylvania one year after the murder, thus rendering it in- eligible as punishment.

"That was just another stunt by Ira," District Attorney's Office spokeswoman Cathie Abookire said of raising the subject of the death penalty. "He never was, never could be and never will be

Einhorn was active in city

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D.A. Lynne Abraham addresses the media after Ira Einhorn's extradition.

eligible for the death penalty." After the new legislation was

passed, the French government held a second extradition hearing for Einhorn in late 1998, and approved his return in early 1999. However, he was allowed to remain free throughout the exten- sive appeal process, which, within the last two weeks, included requests to the Council of State, France's highest legislative body, and to the European Court of Human Rights.

Both bodies denied his mo- tions, paving the way for Ein- horn's return to the U.S. last week.

However, the ball is again in Einhorn's court for the next legal maneuver. Center City attorney Norris Gelman, who has represented Einhorn since 1978, said that Einhorn will likely request a new trial within 60 days.

"He's upbeat, he's got his energy, and he's going to fight," said Gelman of a recent visit to see Einhorn in Graterford Prison. "He's always denied guilt vehe- mently."

Einhorn has not officially re- tained Gelman as his counsel, but according to Gelman, "It looks like I'll be his attorney."

Gelman is also among those who believe that the state legislation that brought Einhorn to the U.S. is unconstitutional on the basis of violating the separation of powers between the executive and judicial branches of government.

But State Rep. Dennis O'Brien, the author of the legislation, believes that it will withstand a legal challenge.

"The way the legislation is written, his immediate conviction stands until he requests a new trial," he said. "So I believe it is constitutional."

If a new trial does occur, an-

other hurdle for the prosecution could be the age of the case, as memories can fade and evidence can disappear. However, Abraham thought that the city still has a strong argument against Einhorn.

"It is more challenging to try an older case, but the bombing of the church in Birmingham, Al- abama was [38] years old before men were brought to justice for the murders of those children," the district attorney said. "If they can try cases that are [38] years old, we can certainly try a case that is 24 years old, and we will be in very good shape to... win."

Yet even with the tremendous media attention that Einhorn's return has garnered — which, according to Abraham, has all the "elements of a thriller" — Gel- man insists that if another Ein- horn trial occurs, it will be held in Philadelphia. However, he admitted that finding an untainted jury "may very well be a significant problem."

"Pennsylvania has two cities — Philadelphia and Pittsburgh — and Alabama exists between them," Gelman, who defended Einhorn's empty chair in 1993, said. "We're not going anywhere."

And neither is Maddux's family, as they pledge to be just as res- olute during the next stage of this ongoing battle as they have been in the past, constantly lobbying both the French and American governments to bring Einhorn to justice.

As for Hall, having her sister's killer behind bars is as close as she wants to get to him.

"I don't have anything to say to him," Holly's sister said. "I'm just content to see him finally get his day in court — it's time for him to put up or shut up."

"I'm ready whenever he is," Hall added.

Campus remembers Dickerson's life

Alytu Cw«ng«r/The Summer Pennsylvanian

Marjorie Margolie&Mezvinsky of the Fels Center of Government, who worked with Nicole Dickerson, pays tribute to Dickerson's achievements while looking at photographs of her life at last Thursday's memorial in Houston Hall.

■ DICKERSON from page 1

Dickerson was also convinced to stay on as a staff member at Penn because of the close relationship she wals forming with her doctors at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Dickerson had been planning to move back to her hometown of Chicago, as she was quite homesick.

As coordinator of undergraduate communications majors,

Dickerson had a lot of contact with students, and was the person students could go to for help.

"She bended over backwards to make sure undergrade got the classes they needed," Henry said. Dickerson also always tried to spread the wealth amongst students when came time to give out awards.

But Dickerson's presence was felt all over the school. Because of Annenberg's small size, almost everyone was impacted by the

death. "She really made us all know

how much we do really depend on one another here at Annen- berg," Henry said. She added that people who had never really even seemed to notice Dickerson before were very concerned to hear that she had passed away.

Phyllis Kaniss, Annenberg's director of internships and alumni liason, added that Dickerson's death was a "great source of sad- ness to all of us here at Annenberg"

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Even before the murder, Ira was a celebrity around Philly.

By Gregory Richards The Summer IVnnsytvanian

He was a hippie who referred to himself as a "planetary enzyme" and an "earthling." He es- chewed showers. And one time, while teaching an alternative education class at Penn, he re- portedly entertained his students by passing out marijuana joints and dancing naked.

Around campus and in nearby Powelton Vil- lage during the 1960s and 70s, Ira Einhorn was hard to miss, for better or worse.

"I always thought he was the Rasputin of West Philadelphia," said longtime West Philadelphia resident Richard Rogers, who lived around the corner from Einhorn's Race Street apartment during that time. "The mystery of his appeal always alluded me."

Although notorious for having a powerful body odor, Einhorn was said to never be without female companionship, including Texas native Hol- ly Maddux.

But in March 1979, Maddux's mummified remains were found stuffed in a trunk in Einhorn's bedroom closet, a year and a half after she was last seen alive on a date with him.

"Ira did have the reputation for being a woman beater, long before Holly Maddux appeared," Rogers said. "But at that time, it was not too un- usual because many men, particularly those on the left, had a very sexist attitude towards women — women had to be dominated."

At the time of his arrest, Einhorn contended that he was framed by the CIA, but Rogers dis- agreed.

"Even in those days, the drugs weren't that good," he said.

Despite such quirks, Einhorn managed to at- tract a following of many of Philadelphia's most prominent citizens. In exchange for sharing with them his vision of a New Age world, Einhorn was rewarded with cushy consulting contracts and and free lunches, particularly at La Ter- rasse, the restaurant at 34th and Sansom streets he frequented.

"They said he had this incredible sense like Hitler did to be able to totally mesmerize a person by what he said," said La Terrasse bartender Karin

Alyua Cw«ng«f/Tne Summer Pennsylvanian

Holly Maddux's body was found on the second floor of Ira Einhorn's Powelton Village home (above). Below, a resident walks past a memorial to Maddux.

Fortin, recounting the tales of several friends of Ein- horn who occasionally swap stories at her bar.

One tale by this social activist that left many starry-eyed was his claim that he was one of the original founders of Earth Day, which was held in Fairmount Park in 1970.

But in a letter made public in 1998, the nine- member 1970 Earth Week Committee of Philadel- phia challenged Einhorn's claim, calling him a "fraud" who made his name at the ceremony only by refusing to give up the microphone for thirty minutes.

However, Einhorn missed the opportunity to speak at his 1993 trial in absentia, where Susan Duggan, Penn associate director of University Scholars, was one of the 14 jurors present.

Yet even with no defendant, "I really think that we got the real story," Duggan said, explaining that the evidence — especially the infamous trunk — "was just so graphic that you couldn't believe that it could have been made up."

Faced with these facts, the jury privately took only minutes to convict Einhorn, yet they remain sequestered for another two hours.

"We all looked at each other and said, 'Well, we can't go out — we have to look as if we thought about this,'" Duggan said.

However, she does not feel that Einhorn is a killer by nature, or that his wife in France, Annika Flodin-Einhorn, was ever in any danger.

"I just think that what he did with Holly was born out of whatever emotion he had at the moment, possibly fueled by drugs," Duggan said "I'm not sure that he's a murderous person that's going to go around killing people that get in his way."

The passing of 24 years have erased the memory of Maddux's death somewhat, especially for the residents of Einhorn's former apartment building.

"It's a little unnerving, but it's a great location for an apartment," Drexel sophomore Kathryn Stanton said. "I don't mean to sound callous or anything."

But to ensure that the community won't forget about the crime, a memorial of two holly trees and plaques — one for both Einhorn and Maddux — was installed years ago at the Community Education Center at 3500 Lancaster Avenue.

Einhorn's plaque — which reads that his tree is a marker until his extradition for trial — is wrapped with thorns.

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Playing before a sell-out crowd both times, Madonna began the show punk-rock style with staples from her latest album Ray of Light including "Substitute for Love," "Im- pressive Instant," and "Candy Perfume Girl."

Her next set was fused with Japanese styling. The pop-princess appeared in geisha style, dressed in a full kimono and black wig to entertain the audience with such songs as "Mer Girl" and "Sky Fits Heav- en."

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! with some champagne rather than turn on my • recorder and begin an interview, but my intim-

ation slowly fades when Zucker says "I feel like we Duld be preparing a treaty," as he starts in on the

nuts they have put on the table for us. "You rt mind?" he asks, not all I reply grabbing a few

elf Jerry Zucker does comedy with style. He's been de- Ming audiences with his slapstick humor since

me in 1980. Since then he's been a switch hit- • In the film industry, doing more comedy and then

1 his luck with drama. In his return to slapstick |lth Rot Race, coming to theatres this Thursday,

er does ensemble comedy better than it was : in the old days.

In between eating nuts, across the large mahogany , Zucker, one of the most inquisitive people I

I ever encountered, ends up interviewing me t as much as I am interviewing him.

Is Rat Race based on the older ensemble ; like Cannon Ball Run?

j Zucker It was funny, I loved the script but I ! never a huge fan of those older ensemble come-

. They were fun and I liked them, but it wasn't as ough I was dying to remake any of those films or

I emulate mem for that matter because I felt that the lwith those movies was that you were just giv

[ a lot of comedians an opportunity to do schtick 1 you didnt really have a story that worked or

i some good invention or plot, just a wild situa- i.What I liked about Andy's [Breckman] script I that he really took the time and gave every char-

- a reason to exist,—a thing, a personality and I aught the situations and personalities were really

y. And the script itself was really inventive. [ You could imagine, even though it might have

! at the box office, that it would work with un- i as long as they were really funny, where-

l with the old movies it only worked because they s these celebrities you wanted to see do schtick.

• Which is your favorite chase ensemble scene in «movie?

J:1 dont know, whichever one the audience is laugh- I at at that moment I like the stunts—every one of

, One of the things that appealed to me about i movie was all of the physical comedy. I'm really

Dud of the balloon sequence actually because Andy II took a lot of time to plan every bit of it out and

s production people and the effects guys were very er about working out the logistics of it. I always

r crack up at Jon Lovitz in front of the veterans. ^The way he does that really makes me laugh.

S: How did you think die-hard Mr. Bean fans will react to Rowan Atkinson ma speaking role?

JZ: That's right. Hopefully they'll love it unless they think that Rowan should only play Mr. Bean.

S: Which some people might

JZ: Yeah some people might. It's a bit unfair. Were people outraged when Sean Connery took on roles other than James Bond? But I hope people will be delighted because even though he talks, he still plays that very kind of outlandish character so I would think that Rowan Atkindon fans should be very happy with his role.

My cell phone rings and I am absolutely mortified since I was sure I had turned it off. "Answer it," Zucker encourages me. I apologize for the inter- ruption and say no, its my dad and hell probably call back in a little while anyway. From there Zucker launches into all sorts of questions about my family, my background and how often I talk to my parents etc. Ten minutes later we return to the interview.

S. So, this is kind of a return to-slapstick for you. How is the switchover from comedy to drama and then back to comedy?

JZ. Well first of all I like it. I enjoy doing something different It keeps me fresh. Although I've done a lot of v»medy, this is a very different kind of comedy than what I have done previously. I think you approach every script on its own and in the end you're still standing behind the camera thinking: "Is this working?" Only in drama you're saying "Does this feel dramatic?" "Is this making me cry?" And in comedy you're saying "Does this make me laugh?" "Is this funny?" So you're still dealing with the same stuff.

S: What went into choosing an ensemble cast that would work independently of one another yet still create cohesive comedy?

JZ: I think a lot of it is luck I think a lot of it is just picking actors that are really right for their roles and not just selecting people that you would think would be the really funny comedians you always wanted to work with. I think the reason theyre cohesive as they worked together is because they are right for their parts and the script was written in such a way that they had to be cohesive and you know what helped in a way—that the actors are all really nice and I think that shows on the screen—you like these people, they're nice people.

S: Did the actors playing the role shape the char- actors at all?

JZ: Definitely. Once you cast it, it really changes your image of what the character is. At some point Wayne Cody becomes Seth Green. The joke works as you imagined but the character is now Seth and it is very different than if some other character had acted it

S: Stock question: What do you think is harder to do: drama or comedy?

JZ: I think making a good movie is hard. My hats off to any filmmaker where I can walk into a theatre and

pointed. I was actually going out to by a T-shirt, but now it's empty," she said, gesturing towards the now silent arena.

However, nothing could sway the high opinion of Madonna held by Chris "Madi- va," a Madonna im- personator from New York City who was sporting a green and white dress with fish- net stockings.

Madonna performed the first of five shows last night in Madison Square Gar- den. Her tour will continue across the country to ten more cities before ending in Los Angeles on September 14.

She does not fail to astound in her utter hipness With her finger on the pulse of pop culture, she has her eye on what her audience wants to see and hear. A presence on the stage beyond compare, she is, and always will be, in a word, Madonna.

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say "Boy that worked". I think maybe comedy i more difficult—a little more morphous kind of like a souffle. Drama, if you have a great story you can be a little weak sometimes in your execution but youre still engrossed if you believe the characters. But a comedy if its not funny its not gonna work and it doesnt matter if its a great story or great situation so it's a little more scary to leave the set

SDo you think people are as money hungry as they are made out to be in the movie? -

JZ: I dont know, but you have to wonder with Surv- ior and Who Wants to be a Millionaire and stuff like that. I mean yes and no. Hopefully they aren't as des perate as the people in our movie. But I think yeah people will go to extremes for money and we're seeing a lot of that in the reality TV shows.

We stop for a minute to discuss the logistics involved in going into a pit filled with rats. We both agree it wouldn't be humanly possible for either of us.

JZ: Its funny you could almost do a show 'What will you do for money?' and try to find the most outra- geous things people will do and start seeing how much you have to up the money until someone will say "Ok that's enough!"

S: Were you a big J Love Lucy fan as a kid? (Cuba Gooding Junior spends much of the film on a bus full of I Love Lucy impersonators.)

JZ: No. Well I shouldnt say that I think Lucille Ball is brilliant and of course I liked the show, but I was a huge Leave it to Beaver fan as a kid I watched that show all the time, and hence Barbra Billingsly's ap- pearance in Airplane. In the orginal script it was Elvises and I said to Andy, "I just feel like that's been done. Its not as funny. Pve seen too much Elvis stuff." And what I wanted to do was a bus full of ventrilo- quists. We thought it would be funny to see all these guys with dummies, talking to each other and driving Cuba crazy and then Andy saw this photo in the newspaper of three Lucys at one of the conven- tions—they really do exist And he thought it would be hysterical to have a bus full of Lucys and 1 agreed

S. Stock Question #2:Whats your favorite film that you've done so far?

JZ: Its hard to tell, They all have different memories. Airplane was the first that we directed so that movie was really special and a fun experience. Ghost was the first time I had done something alone and drama,but Rat Race will really hang it there because it was really the most fun I have had making a movie.

I finish the interview and in standard fashion ask Zucker if there is anything else he wants to tell me about the film. He clears his throat, as I an- ticipate the additional thanks to the great cast and crew speech that I usually get at the end of interviews, but Zucker just asks me more questions.

Before I leave he insists that I take home some more of the infamous nuts, now nearly gone from the table. I concur and take some of the complimenta- ry nuts with me, laughing ray way down to the lobby as I look at the little bundle of nuts that I now I to snack on during my subway ride home.

from the editor: The Bon Jovi concert two nights

ago was awesome, as was the Jovi medky at Smokes.

I'm leaving the country on Mon- day But I dont want anyone to worry that they wffl be without Sb^eet (ra- the rest of the Surnmer. I planned ahead.

Mxronryloss wfll be mylovefy editor's note each week \fes folks, this is my last one and fortunately I have run out of things to write to you, so it is probably a good thing from here on out ray assistant editor, John Matley, a fabulously witty indrvid- ual (sometimes) will write this sec uon An advance warning: Please ignore any and all references he makes to one Hayes Robbins, he's a little obsessed, and understand- able, I mean who doesn't enjoy Hayes' company, so let that part of it go. Enjoy the rest of your sum- merssonsJo. Its been really fun. Thanks for reading.

Jo

the week in news

Material Girl Summer Session II. Last weekend there was a party on campus; and it was actually fun. Until the neighbors com- plained that the sanctity of the nice quiet neighborhood we like to call Beige Block was ru- ined by the noise.

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America's Most Wanted. Two of the actors on the crime search show found guilty of sexual as- sault charges, making the ten most wanted list a little bit less credible. We knew they were too good at acting out those crime .scenes.

Mt Etna. Erupting over Sicily, spewing ash over neighrboring towns, though Italians don't seem concerned Hey guys..xe- member Pompeii?

Alcoholism. A U.S. senator wants airlines to limit the number of drinks they serve in an effort to curtail "air rage." Neither airlines nor flight attendants em- brace the idea, as passengers are normally much calmer and easier to deal with after an extra strong martini made with cheap airline liquor.

film briefs ALoveDivided •*•

Whoever said all you need is love, forgot a few stip- ulations. All we really need is love, stability, and if you happen to be in Ireland in 1949, you should both probably be Catholic. For Sean Cloney (Liam Cunningham) and Sheila Kelly (Orla Brady) and the small town of Fethard in County Wexford it wasnt initially a problem that she was Protestant and he was not On Sun- days the two would part and she would walk down the hill to her church and he up the hill to his.

The tensions between the couple mount after awhile, and the religious differences explode until the entire town is embroiled in a religious brawL Based on true tes- timonials and featuring a strong cast of Irish talent A Love Divided is both cinematicalry and historically sound Both Cunningham and Brady act so superbly in their roles, that it is painful to watch the breach of their rela uonship occur in such an abrupt and violent manner Director Syd Macartney has a painstaking eye for detail and beauty, immersing the audience in the religious turmoil and sectarian suspicion in 1950's Ireland

-Matt McCallister-

Greenfingers ••

I'm starting to think my mom would enjoy prison, as long as she gets sentenced to the country-club haven featured in Greenfingers. Based on a true story (see the 1998 New York Times article entitled "Free To Grow Bluebells in England") prisoners garden their hearts out to pass their lonely days.

Set in one of Britains "alternative prisons," where inmates are chosen on theirpotenual for rehabilitation, Greenfingers follows Colin Briges, jailed for accidentally killing his younger brother, asne plants a small violet garden in toe prison's recreabonalyard only to realize the peace ana joy involved in maintaining a garden

Enter the British version of Martha Stuart, Georgina

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Woodhouse (Mirren) to profile the inmates endeav- ors. Georgina is impressed by Colin and company, and decides to sponsor them in the highly competitive Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. Their exposure increases, and Colin even gets a love Interest in Georgina's lovely daughter, the aptly named Primrose (Natasha Little). From this point on, stereotypes run rampant and there isnt even a nice prison brawl to break up the monotony. Set out to be a tale of con- quering adversity in the state prison system the movie becomes an advertisement encouraging hard crime, as its inmates are given more of a holiday than a prison sentence.

-John Matley

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LOTS OF FUNNY PEOPLE in the first good movie this summer by Jo Piazza

What would you do for a million dollars? How about 2 million? The ensemble comedic cast in Jerry

Zucker's Rat Race doesn't have to answer that question until they are randomly picked by eccentric millionaire and owner of the Venetian casino in Las Vegas, Donald Sinclair, to be the contestants in a rat race, first one to a random gold rush town in New Mexico wins 2 million dollars.

This is slapstick humor at its finest. The cast, though all talented on their own, come together to create absolute hilarity as they rush about the American south- west to destroy the competition—ea- chother.

But the casino owner is not simply al- truistic or even that eccentric for that matter. He wants to give his higher paying clientele something new to gamble with. Something more exciting than blackjack- human subjects that can lie, steal, cheat and outwit one another, in a horse race with intellect. Some of the funniest moments come in between race scenes when the mil- lionaires gather to bet on everything from how long the hotel maids can hang from a curtain rod to who will be the first to throw up in the Lear jet to how much a hooker will

Rat Race Directed by: Jerry Zucker Starring: Jon Lovitz, Seth Green. Cuba Good- ing Junior, Rowan Atkinson, Whoopie Gold- berg Rated: PG-13 • •••

charge for some very strange sexual acts. The movie features such modern comedic

geniuses as John Lovitz playing a devout Jew who finds himself and his family traveling in Hitler's re- conditioned automobile to the Clause Barbie, renowned Nazi museum, Rowan Atkinson in a speaking role (a diversion from Mr. Bean) as an Ital- ian tourist, Seth Greene as a greedy orphan and Cuba Gooding Junior as the referee who botched the Super Bowl.

The physical comedy is well-staged and the verbal comedy well-layered creating scene upon scene of

laughs. The writing is intelligent

and witty, something not often encountered in slapstick movies, but found throughout this film.

This is classic Zucker style, reminiscent of The Naked Gun and Airplane. With a cast like this, a great script and eventually a bus full of / Love Lucy impersonators, the movie can not go wrong.

1 Happenings July 26th - August 1st

SMOOTH AS FOLK

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Last time she came to the city of brotherly love, Rachelle Perrell turned the Theatre of the Living Arts into what the Inquirer's Kevin Carter called a "revival meeting". This young jazz artist is an astonishing one woman display of what the human voice can accomplish.

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Rachelle Ferrell Philadelphia. PA Keswick Theatre 291 North Keswick Avenue

BIG GUNS This Is definitely not the funky bunch

WaFmovtes don't come like this anymore. The Greater i'hiladelphia Films Of fice and Miramax films will host a special screening of Francis Fbrd Coppola's

Apocalypse Now Redux. This new film version of the film includes an additional 49 minutes of never-before-seen footage which received rave reviews at the Cannes Film Fes- tival in May. Asian hors d oeuvres courtesy of Pod and the Starr Restaurant Group will be served at a reception prior to the screening.

Tuesday July 31

Prince Music Theatre 1412 Chestnut Street 215 569 9700

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FINE CUBAN COOKING another reason to knock off Castro by Jo Piazza

Alma de Cuba's facade is painted a pale yellow, its name is displayed as non- chalantly as possible next to the im-

posing white door. Stepping through the threshold takes the diner into a completely un- expected interior. Red light strips across the ceiling and ultra modern tables and chairs make this place so Stephen Starr—but in a good way.

A first glance at the menu reveals the names of the entire restaurant staff underneath the food listings, giving the diner a feeling of fa- miliarity as well as that of a casting call, re- vealing that no detail has been overlooked in the restaurant design.

With mojitos quickly replacing the cosmopoli- tan as the trendy drink of choice, their quality is often watered down, the mint leaves are rarely crushed and they take on the taste of the common well drink. At Alma de Cuba this is thankfully not the case, these mojitos are some of the best in the city.

The menu is succinct and impressive, appetizers range in price from $8 to $15 and in variety from salads to empanadas. The trio of soups option allows the diner to taste all three of the house soups for only $12.

The Royal Palm Salad, hearts of palm and en- dive with cocunut gelee ($12) is light and delicious. Four date and bacon wrapped almonds decorate the corners of the plate, smothered in blue cheese dressing and baked long enough that the textures have fused together. Eating the entire thing in one bite is an explosion of tastes ranging from sweet to bitter to salty—the com- bination of which is delicious.

On the menu, entrees are divided into meats and fish. The Muscovy duck breast ($22), which comes with a suggestion of medium rare prepa- ration, is thinly cut and covered in a tangy boni- ato puree with sauteed mustard greens. The pumpkin seed encrusted scallops ($18) are so

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large that they barely leave room for dessert and the Plaintain crusted Halibut ($26) will leave you

full for days. But dessert is something that

must be experienced to be believed. The chocloate cigar($8) sounds enticing oh the menu, but its full effect is unreal- ized until it arrives at the table, an al- mond cake wrapped in the most decadent of chocolates and lightly dust- ed with coconut powder complete with cigar wrapped and candy matched in a

cookie matchbook. Homemade dulce de leche ice cream comes on the side. The restaurant boasts' three home made ice creams and three homemade sorbets (tamarind vanilla, mango ginger' lime and mocha) nightly. .

Alma de Cuba offers a unique dining experience with taste. It avoids the kitsch so often found in! Cuban restaurants and puts all of its energy into creating a menu that is diverse, upscale and in* credibly tasty.

Alma de Cuba 1623 Walnut St Philadelphia. PA 19103 Phone:(215)988-1799 • ••••

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WANT TO DANCE WITH MY BABY the pop princess only gets better with age

bers. the material girl visibly sang every one of the by Gregory Richards and Nikki Cyter Madonna is living proof that things can. and

do. get better with age. In yet another amaz- ing act of reinvention. Madonna rocked the

First Union Center last weekend, kicking off the U.S. leg of her Drowned World tour. Arguably THE tickets of the season. Madonna's show went far beyond even the most devout fan's expectations. Long gone are her days of lucky stardom and vogue-ing, but now, in her new defining role as ^, wife and mother of two, she is still THE coolest and edgiest artistperformer around.

Playing before a sell-out crowd both times, Madonna began the show punk-rock style with staples from her latest album Ray of Light including "Substitute for Love," impressive Instant," and "Candy Perfume Girl."

Her next set was fused with Japanese styling. The pop-princess appeared in geisha style, dressed in a full kimono and black wig to entertain the audience with such songs as "Mer Girl" and "Sky Fits Heav- en."

From Brit grunge to Spanish temptress to good old American cowgirl. Madonna performed songs both from her most current al- bums and from her past. She was all too pleased to showcase her newest talent—the guitar—and the audience was all too pleased to encourage her. In addition to her usual flair for complex dance num

songs by herself, refusing to fall back on the pop star crutch-lip synching. Her biceps are ripped beyond compare, her stamina unbelievable and her voice stronger than ever.

And in contrast with her previous tours, the audience was kept humming during Madonna's cos- tume changes. Rising up from below the stage on

candle-lit domes, three sets of dancers set to motion the melody of "Don't Cry for Me Ar-

i. f gentina" in the latter half of the show. During earlier pauses, a music video of Madonna as a geisha was played, as well as an instrumental

^ version of "What It Feels Like For a Girl." ' * Not able to hold back any longer, a woman

in the crowd expressed the feelings of many ■ as she belted out, "Fucking awesome!" By But even though the concert ended with

"Music." what really brought down the house was the next to last song —"Holi-

day." With pulsating lights painting the stage a rainbow of colors. Madonna's fans took the music to heart, while a few tried to get a piece of her as she and two other dancers tossed denim

caps into the crowd. But many fans like Toni Rocchino of Philadel-

phia — who claims to have caught one of the caps, only to have a security guard wrest it from her grip —left the two-hour concert unfulfilled.

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IO NUTS FOR YOU >rry Zucker interviews Street Jo Piazza

ig into the Four Seasons to meet with Jerry Zucker I am a little intimidated. This

r v is a man who has had a hand in some of my Itll-time favorite films, Ghost, Airplane. My Best friends Wedding—just to name a few. The room mey have prepared for our interview doesn't help patters. It makes me want to enjoy a six course £ieai with some champagne rather than turn on my

pe recorder and begin an interview, but my intim- idation slowly fades when Zucker says "I feel like we

fiould be preparing a treaty," as he starts in on the se nuts they have put on the table for us. 'You

on't mind?" he asks, not all I reply grabbing a few .self Jerry Zucker does comedy with style. He's been de-

_ iting audiences with his slapstick humor since Airplane in 1980. Since then he's been a switch hitter in the film industry, doing more comedy and then Vying his luck with drama. In his return to slapstick rith Rot Race, coming to theatres this Thursday, ucker does ensemble comedy better than it was one in the old days.

. In between eating nuts, across the large mahogany table, Zucker, one of the most inquisitive people I

ave ever encountered, ends up interviewing me t as much as I am interviewing him.

Itreet: Is Rat Race based on the older ensemble omedies like Cannon Ball Run?

i Zucker It was funny, I loved the script but I s never a huge fan of those older ensemble come- s. They were fun and I liked them, but it wasn't as

hough I was dying to remake any of those films or > emulate them for that matter because I felt that the oblem with those movies was that you were just giv J a lot of comedians an opportunity to do schtick ltd you didn't really have a story that worked or

iJven some good invention or plot, just a wild situa- flon.What I liked about Andy's IBreckman] script 'has that he really took the time and gave every character a reason to exist,—a thing, a personality and I thought the situations and personalities were really ftinny. And the script itself was really inventive. "' You could imagine, even though it might have trouble at the box office, that it would work with un- knowns as long as they were really funny, where-

i with the old movies it only worked because they s these celebrities you wanted to see do schtick.

: Which is your favorite chase ensemble scene in be movie?

: I dont know, whichever one the audience is laugh- j at at that moment I like the stunts—every one of

bem. One of the things that appealed to me about i movie was all of the physical comedy. I'm really

oud of the balloon sequence actually because Andy rid I took a lot of time to plan every bit of it out and he production people and the effects guys were very

clever about working out the logistics of it. I always really crack up at Jon Lovitz in front of the veterans.

The way he does that really makes me laugh.

S: How did you think die-hard Mr. Bean fans will react to Rowan Atkinson in a speaking role?

JZ: That's right. Hopefully they'll love it unless they think that Rowan should only play Mr. Bean.

S: Which some people might.

JZ: Yeah some people might. It's a bit unfair. Were people outraged when Sean Connery took on roles other than James Bond? But I hope people will be delighted because even though he talks, he still plays that very kind of outlandish character so I would think that Rowan Atkindon fans should be very happy with his role.

My cell phone rings and I am absolutely mortified since I was sure I had turned it off. "Answer it," Zucker encourages me. I apologize for the inter- ruption and say no, its my dad and hell probably call back in a little while anyway. From there Zucker launches into all sorts of questions about my family, my background and how often I talk to my parents etc. Ten minutes later we return to the interview.

S: So, this is kind of a return to slapstick for you. How is the switchover from comedy to drama and then back to comedy?

JZ. Well first of all I like it. I enjoy doing something different. It keeps me fresh. Although IVe done a lot of comedy, this is a very different kind of comedy than what I have done previously. I think you approach every script on its own and in the end you're still standing behind the camera thinking: "Is this working?" Only in drama you're saying "Does this feel dramatic?" "Is this making me cry?" And in comedy you're saying "Does this make me laugh?" "Is this funny?" So you're still dealing with the same stuff.

S: What went into choosing an ensemble cast that would work independently of one another yet still create cohesive comedy?

JZ; I think a lot of it is luck I think a lot of it is just picking actors that are really right for their roles and not just selecting people that you would think would be the really funny comedians you always wanted to work with. I think the reason theyre cohesive as they worked together is because they are right for their parts and the script was written in such a way that they had to be cohesive and you know what helped in a way—that the actors are all really nice and I think that shows on the screen—you like these people, they're nice people.

S: Did the actors playing the role shape the char- actors at all?

JZ: Definitely. Once you cast it, it really changes your image of what the character is. At some point Wayne Cody becomes Seth Green. The joke works as you imagined but the character is now Seth and it is very different than if some other character had acted it

S: Stock question:What do you think is harder to do: drama or comedy?

JZ: I think making a good movie is hard. My hats off to any filmmaker where I can walk into a theatre and

pointed. I was actually going out to by a T-shirt, but now it's empty," she said, gesturing towards the now silent arena.

However, nothing could sway the high opinion of Madonna held by Chris "Madi- va," a Madonna im- personator from New York City who was sporting a green and white dress with fish- net stockings.

Madonna performed the first of five shows last night in Madison Square Gar- den. Her tour will continue across the country to ten more cities before ending in Los Angeles on September 14.

She does not fail to astound in her utter hipness With her finger on the pulse of pop culture, she has her eye on what her audience wants to see and hear. A presence on the stage beyond compare, she is, and always will be, in a word, Madonna.

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say "Boy that worked". I think maybe comedy is more difficult—a little more morphous kind of like a souffle. Drama, if you have a great story you can be a little weak sometimes in your execution but you're still engrossed if you believe the characters. But a comedy if its not funny its not gonna work and it doesnt matter if its a great story or great situation so it's a little more scary to leave the set.

S.Doyou think people are as money hungry as they are made out to be in the movie? -

JZ: I don't know, but you have to wonder with Surv- ior and Who Wants to be a Millionaire and stuff like that I mean yes and no. Hopefully they aren't as des- perate as the people in our movie. But I think yeah people will go to extremes for money and we're seeing a lot of that in the reality TV shows.

We stop for a minute to discuss the logistics involved in going into a pit filled with rats. We both agree it wouldn't be humanly possible for either of us.

JZ; Its funny you could almost do a show 'What will you do for money?' and try to find the most outra- geous things people will do and start seeing how much you have to up the money until someone will say "Ok that's enough!"

S: Were you a big / Love Lucy fan as a kid? (Cuba Gooding Junior spends much of the film on a bus full of / Love Lucy impersonators.)

JZ: No. Well I shouldn't say that. I think Lucille Ball is brilliant and of course I liked the show, but I was a huge Leave it to Beaver fan as a kid. I watched that show all the time, and hence Barbra Billingsly s ap- pearance in Airplane. In the orginal script it was Elvises and I said to Andy, "I just feel like that's been done. Its not as funny. I've seen too much Elvis stuff." And what I wanted to do was a bus full of ventrilo- quists. We thought it would be funny to see all these guys with dummies, talking to each other and driving Cuba crazy and then Andy saw this photo in the newspaper of three Lucys at one of the conven- tions—they really do exist. And he thought it would be hysterical to have a bus full of Lucys and I agreed.

S: Stock Question #2:Whats your favorite film that you've done so far?

JZ: Its hard to tell, They all have different memories. Airplane was the first that we directed so that movie was really special and a fun experience. Ghost was the first time I had done something alone and drama.but Rat Race will really hang it there because it was really the most fun I have had making a movie.

I finish the interview and in standard fashion ask Zucker if there is anything else he wants to tell me about the film. He clears his throat, as I an- ticipate the additional thanks to the great cast and crew speech that I usually get at the end of interviews, but Zucker just asks me more questions.

Before I leave he insists that I take home some more of the infamous nuts, now nearly gone from the table. I concur and take some of the complimenta- ry nuts with me, laughing my way down to the lobby as I look at the little bundle of nuts that I now had to snack on during my subway ride home.

from the editor: The Bon Jovi concert two nights

ago was awesome, as was the Jovi medley at Smokes.

I'm leaving the country on Mon- day But I dont want anyone to worry that they will be without Street for the rest of the Summer I planned ahead

Your only loss wiD be my lovely editor's note each week Yes folks, this is my last one and fortunately I have run out of things to write to you, so it is probably a good thing from here on out my assistant editor, John Matley, a fabulously witty individual (sometimes) will write this section An advance warning: Please ignore any and all references he makes to one Hayes Robbins, he's a little obsessed, and understand- able, I mean who doesn't enjoy Hayes' company, so let that part of it go. Enjoy the rest of your summers sans Jo. Its been really fun. Thanks for reading

Jo

e week in news

Material Girl Summer Session II. Last weekend there was a party on campus; and it was actually fun. Until the neighbors com- plained that the sanctity of the nice quiet neighborhood we like to call Beige Block was ru- ined by the noise.

Truth or Dare America's Most Wanted. Two of the actors on the crime search show found guilty of sexual as- sault charges, making the ten most wanted list a little bit less credible. We knew they were too good at acting out those crime scenes.

Mt Etna. Erupting over Sicily, spewing ash over neighrboring towns, though Italians don't seem concerned. Hey guys...remember Pompeii?

Alcoholism. A U.S. senator wants airlines to limit the number of drinks they serve in an effort to curtail "air rage." Neither airlines nor flight attendants em- brace the idea, as passengers are normally much calmer and easier to deal with after an extra strong martini made with cheap airline liquor.

film briefs A Love Divided • *•

Whoever said all you need is love, forgot a few stip- ulations. All we really need is love, stability, and if you happen to be in Ireland in 1949. you should both probably be Catholic. For Sean Cloncy < Liam Cunningham) and Sheila Kelly (Orla Brady) and the small town of Fethard in County Wexford. it wasn't initially a prob lem that she was Protestant and he was not. On Sun- days the two would part and she would walk down the hill to her church and he up the hill to his

The teasions between the couple mount after awhile, and the religious differences explode until the entire town is embroiled in a religious brawL Based on true tes- timonials and featuring a strong cast of Irish talent A Love Divided is both cinematically and historically sound Both Cunningham and Brady act so superbly in their roles, that it Is painful to watch the breach of their relationship occur in such an abrupt and violent manner. Director Syd Macartney has a painstaking eye for detail and beauty, iinmersing tin- audience in foe religious turmoil and sectarian suspicion in 1950s Ireland

-Matt McCallister- _k

Greenftngers • •

I'm starting to think my mom would enjoy prison, as long as she gets sentenced to the country -club haven featured in Greenftngers. Based on a true story (see the 1998 New York Times article entitled "Free To Grow Bluebells in England") prisoners garden their hearts out to pass their lonely days.

Set in one of Britains "alternative prisons,' where inmates are chosen on theirpotential for rehabilitation, Greenftngers follows Colin Briggs, jailed for accidentally killing his younger brother, as ne plants a small violet garden in the prison's recreationalyard, only to realize thepeace and joy involved in maintaining a garden.

Enter the British version of Martha Stuart Georgina

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Woodhouse (Mirren) to profile the inmates endeav- ors. Georgina is impressed by Colin and company, and decides to sponsor them in the highly competitive Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. Their exposure increases, and Colin even gets a love interest in Georgina's lovely daughter, the aptly named Primrose (Natasha Little). From this point on, stereotypes run rampant and there isn't even a nice prison brawl to break up the monotony. Set out to be a tale of con- quering adversity in the state prison system, the movie becomes an advertisement encouraging hard crime, as its inmates are given more of a holiday than a prison sentence.

-John Matley

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LOTS OF FUNNY PEOPLE in the first good movie this summer by Jo Piazza

What would you do for a million dot lars? How about 2 million? The ensemble comedic cast in Jerry

Zucker's Rat Race doesn't have to answer that question untii they are randomly picked by eccentric millionaire and owner of the Venetian casino in Las Vegas. Donald Sinclair, to be the contestants in a rat race, first one to a random gold rush town in New Mexico wins 2 million dollars.

This is slapstick humor at its finest. The cast, though all talented on their own, come together to create absolute hilarity as they rush about the American south- west to destroy the competition—ea- chother.

But the casino owner is not simply al- truistic or even that eccentric for that matter. He wants to give his higher paying clientele something new to gamble with. Something more exciting than blackjack- human subjects that can lie, steal, cheat and outwit one another, in a horse race with intellect. Some of the funniest moments come in between race scenes when the mil- lionaires gather to bet on everything from how long the hotel maids can hang from a curtain rod to who will be the first to throw up in the Lear jet to how much a hooker will

Rat Race Directed by Jerry Zucker Starring; Jon Lovitz. Seth Green, Cuba Good- ing Junior, Rowan Atkinson, Whoopie Gold- berg Rated PG-13 • •••

charge for some very strange sexual acts. The movie features such modern comedic

geniuses as John Lovitz playing a devout Jew who finds himself and his family traveling in Hitler's re- conditioned automobile to the Clause Barbie, renowned Nazi museum. Rowan Atkinson in a speaking role (a diversion from Mr. Bean) as an Ital- ian tourist, Seth Greene as a greedy orphan and Cuba Gooding Junior as the referee who botched the Super Bowl.

The physical comedy is well-staged and the verbal comedy well-layered creating scene upon scene of

laughs. The writing is intelligent

and witty, something not often encountered in slapstick movies, but found throughout this film.

This is classic Zucker style, reminiscent of The Naked Gun and Airplane. With a cast like this, a great script and eventually a bus full of / Love Lucy impersonators, the movie can not go wrong.

FINE CUBAN COOKING another reason to knock off Castro by Jo Piazza

Alma de Cuba's facade is painted a pale yellow, its name is displayed as non chalantly as possible next to the im-

posing white door. Stepping through the threshold takes the diner into a completely un- expected interior. Red light strips across the ceiling and ultra modern tables and chairs make this place so Stephen Starr but in a good way.

A first glance at the menu reveals the names of the entire restaurant staff underneath the food listings, giving the diner a feeling of fa miliarity as well as that of a casting call, re- vealing that no detail has been overlooked in the restaurant design.

With mojitos quickly replacing the cosmopoli tan as the trendy drink of choice, their quality is often watered down, the mint leaves are rarely crushed and they take on the taste of the common well drink. At Alma de Cuba this is thankfully not the case, these mojitos are some of the best in the city.

The menu is succinct and impressive, appetizers range in price from $8 to $15 and in variety from salads to empanadas. The trio of soups option allows the diner to taste all three of the house soups for only $12.

The Royal Palm Salad, hearts of palm and en- dive with cocunut gelee ($12) is light and delicious. Four date and bacon wrapped almonds decorate the corners of the plate, smothered in blue cheese dressing and baked long enough that the textures have fused together. Eating the en tire thing in one bite is an explosion of tastes ranging from sweet to bitter to salty—the com bination of which is delicious.

On the menu, entrees are divided into meals and fish. The Muscovy duck breast ($22), which comes with a suggestion of medium rare prepa ration, is thinly cut and covered in a tangy boni- ato puree with sauteed mustard greens. The pumpkin seed encrusted scallops <$18i are so

large that they barely leave room for dessert and the Plaintain crusted Halibut ($26) will leave you

full for days But dessert is something that

must be experienced to be believed. The chocloate cigar($8)sounds enticing on the menu, but its full effect is unreal- ized until it arrives at the table, an al mond cake wrapped in the most decadent of chocolates and lightly dust- ed with coconut powder complete with cigar wrapped and candy matched in a

cookie matchbook. Homemade dulce de leche ice cream comes on the side. The restaurant boasts three home made ice creams and three homemade sorbets 'tamarind vanilla, mango ginger lime and mocha) nightly.

Alma de Cuba offers a unique dining experience with taste It avoids the kitsch so often found in Cuban restaurants and puts all of its energy into; creating a menu that is diverse, upscale and in- credibly tasty

Alma de Cuba 1623 Walnut St Philadelphia. PA 19103 Phone (215)988-1799 • ••••

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NCAA tips two changes on women's volleyball Perm coach Kerry Major gives her thoughts on the two changes that will affect women's volleyball this fall.

By Kenny Fteng The Summer IVnnsvlvanian

With the NBAs decision to get rid of illegal defense, the NCAA decided it wanted to make an equally fundamental change — to the game of women's volleyball.

In the upcoming 2001 season, two important changes will take place in all NCAA-sanctioned matches.

The first and

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most significant of these changes is the complete im- plementation of the scoring format known as rally-scoring, in which every serve counts as a point. This system will replace traditional sideout scoring, in which only the

team that is serving is able to score. A match will still consist of two teams

playing a best-of-five series, meaning the first team to three games will win. And in the event of a fifth and deciding game, the two teams will still play to 15 using the rally-scoring format, as was the case before.

The change comes in the first four games, which will be played to 30 in the rally-scoring format, instead of to 15 with traditional sideout scoring.

"Everyone loved the fifth game. When it was the fifth game, everyone got into it," Major said. "But why not have that fifth-game feeling throughout? I'm not sure if we accomplished that goal by changing the scoring format, but it definitely makes every game exciting."

The change will have a number of specific ramifications for the Quakers, which were the worst-rated offensive team in the Ivy League — last in both kills and assists per game as a team — but among the best defensively — second in blocks and first in digs per game.

"This scoring format is going to help our game because we're so defensive and we have so much ball control," Ma- jor said "The team that is more consis- tent wins the rally-scoring games. That's why we won a lot of fifth games [in 20001.

"We didn't always put it away, but the teams that did put it away made a lot of defensive mistakes. So this is in our favor."

However, Major did realize the need to pump up her offense, even if the changes did not go through

"We were already changing coaching aspects in the spring regardless of the

scoring system because we are such a defensive team and our weakness was offense," Major said. "Hopefully you'll see a new team in the falL I expect to see us more offensively oriented this year."

The other change is the allowance of the net serve, which means that serves that hit the net but are otherwise legal are now fair game.

"The let serve means you serve it again if it hits the net, like in tennis. But it's not that," Major said. "It's incredible how that has played with people's minds a little bit."

Major expected this change to occur, and she has had her team practic- ing with it since last year.

"It really allows us to go for some aggressive and tough jump serves," Major said. "I think you'll see our team being more aggressive in the serving arena this year."

The main purpose of these changes, along with a number of others that have not yet been passed by the NCAA for women's volleyball, has been made very clear by volleyball's international federation, the FIVB.

Major made a comparison to Amer- ica's favorite pastime to explain her take on that reason.

"The idea behind all this is that we get more people interested in the game," Major said. "Like baseball is way too slow right now and they need to speed it up. I think that's where volleyball was as a spectator sport"

One key change that was not passed by the NCAA is the incorporation of the libero, a new position created by the FTVB that has been in use for a couple of years in most international competitions, including last year's Olympics in Sydney.

The libero wears a different color jersey than her teammates and is free to come in and out as she pleases — while the ball is not in play and before the whis- tle for the serve, of course—without no- tifying the ref for a substitution.

The libero is limited, however, in many ways. She can only play in the backrow, cannot serve, cannot block, and cannot attack any ball that is above the height of the net.

The position was originally designed to increase the lengths of rallies, eliminate the tireless and slow entry and exit of defensive specialists for middle blockers that weren't as adept at passing and to give shorter players a place on the team when the game was gradually being dominated by bigger and taller players.

The libero, in conjunction with reducing the allowable number of subs per game — currently 18 in women's collegiate volleyball—was supposed to

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Middle blockers like Penn sophomore Emily Reynolds will have more duties than hitting the quick set next year, as the NCAA has passed a rule change allowing the net serve.

speed up the game and make it more exciting, again, for the purpose of catering to the media and non-volleyball players.

But the libero was soon deemed a'double-edged sword', as she is a specialist at returning serves. The improved quality in the first pass resulted in smoother offensive transitions and attacks, produc- ing more immediate terminations.

How the position will affect NCAA women's volleyball remains to be seen, as it will not be a part of the game until at least the 2002 season.

"I resist the change because I like using defensive specialists, because I have them on my team," Major said.

"So every game I used up all 18 subs. Using one DS twice instead of two DS's will give us a better flow and will be better for that one person, but it'll hurt my ability to get more people in."

But Major, who believes the libero will be adopted in 2002, feels that it will benefit the sport in the long run.

"I am against it, but for the sport of volleyball, I think it's good, so I'll probably go with the flow on this one," Ma- jor said. "I've voted against it every time, and obviously some people agree with me because it didn't pass.

"But I think it will evolve that way eventually."

Priore brings his personality to Quakers football ■ FOOTBALL from page 10

"There were somewhere between 80 and 90 college and high school coaches out there that are currently at all different levels, even the NFL.

"And being around that, and after two years of doing graduate work and helping out as a coach, I decided to give it a shot and make this a career."

Priore was picked up by Penn in 1987, and was the defensive coordinator of the freshman team in his first season as a part of the Quakers coaching staff. And in 2000, he moved up to take that same position on the varsity team.

"I'm now up to my 14th season and have worked my way up the food chain a little bit," Priore said. "The kids respect the fact of where I started and what it takes to reach some of your goals."

And in his first year as the varsity team's defensive coordinator last season, Priore helped Penn reach its goal of recapturing the Ivy League title after a one-year hiatus from the top.

"Last season was the epitome of passion and great wins," Priore said. "Looking at the Harvard and Brown games, these were situations where people had us without a shot at winning and coming back, and we just posted a great victory in the end."

Priore — an avid golfer and fan of water sports — has seen a lot in both his playing and coaching careers, including differences between the two.

"As a coach, you look at things from a very analytical point of view," Priore said. "You don't get as emotionally involved with it. You have to sit back, be under control and look at things from a television perspective, a total picture.

"As a player, you really focus on your position, mastering your technique and what you do within the scheme."

However, there are similarities, as Pri- ore's fire for the game has not been lost over the past 15 years.

"I played with a lot of emotion, excitement, hustle and enthusiasm," Priore said. "As a coach, I try to bring that out in my players — a little bit of my personality to the program."

Off the field, Priore's thoughts and re- sponsibilities are with his family in Mt Lau- rel, N.J.

"I have a five-year-old daughter [Jenna] who I my wife Debbie and II spend a lot of time at the pool with," Priore said. "Basical- ly spending time with family is the most important thing because football takes a lot out of that during the season and everything else."

And Priore — like Don Corleone — knows that a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

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9. Enjoy the many cafes and restaurants in Sansom Common and make a date to dine alfresco

Lunchtime series:

August 9: Bassist Charles Fambrough and his Trio.

Happy Hour series:

The Copasetic Trio, a group of local musicians performs jazz classics for the after work crowd on July 26

August 2, 30. AH performances begin at 6 p.m.

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for obvious reasons," Major said. "Yet they were just as good athletes, they just lacked experience."

This was especially evident earlier this year, when starting middle blocker and unanimous first team All-Ivy selection Kel- ly Szczerba tore her ACL.

"The middles behind her — Alyssa [Parsons] and Emily [Reynolds] — really stepped up and shot through the roof with their playing ability when Kelly tore her ACL," Major said. "They're seeing playing time,

they're getting out there under stress and performing.

"If I can get those kids that kind of experience in the fall, think how fast they're going to progress up to varsity and make our whole team better."

Heading the JV team will be Orlin Jespersen, who hitherto has been the Quakers' assistant coach for three years.

"Orlin was really ready last year to be a head coach," Ma- jor said. "We kind of talked him into staying on if he could be the head coach of the JV team."

The JV and varsity will train together as one, but will play a

very different schedule, as JV teams are limited to 10 matches in a season.

"We set up a schedule against some area Division II and Divi- sion III schools, mostly at home," Jespersen said. "We do have one away game, and that is to Newman College in Aston [Pa.]. Otherwise, most of the teams are coming here, schools like Widener, Haverford and West Chester."

The JV team's lone Ivy League opponent of 2001 will be Yale, as the Elis' JV players will travel with the varsity to the Palestra that weekend.

Recruits give Volleyball a shot at Ivy title

FIVB passes changes to promote sport ■ FENG from page 10

shy of making it out of round-robin pool play and into the championship match.

I don't play the sport competi- tively anymore for a couple of reasons. I'm 5'10", I still have no hops and my skill level compared to the average college player reminds me of my days as a freshman at high school tryouts.

But the game has never been taken away from me. I videotape the two or three matches each year that run on ESPN at 3 a.m., and watch them over and over again. I avidly read VbUcybafl Mag- azine and keep up-to-date with pro players on the beach circuit and

the indoor circuit. And I pepper with some friends once in awhile.

So why do I tell you all this? On this side of the country where the sun is horrifyingly intensified by the humidity and the scattered beaches rarely host competitive volleyball tournaments at the junior, college or professional level, not enough people are exposed to volleyball.

But times are changing. In fact, integral parts of the game are changing to make it more television-friendly and with the hopes that non-volleyball players will take another look

I hate the changes that are being handed down by the NCAA and the Federation Internationale

de Volley Ball (why volley and ball are two words to everybody else except us, I will never know) because I think they're screwing up fundamental parts of a very good game that plenty of people have enjoyed for quite some time.

But by doing these things, the FTVB is hoping to get more people interested in volleyball at all levels. And that is a positive, hands down. So, for their sake, for my sake and for everyone else's sake who is already fascinated with the sport, I hope these changes are effective and more people start realizing that the Palestra is the home of Penn sports in the fall, too.

For the love of the unknown game.

■ VOLLEYBALL from page 10

"Jessica is a tall setter at 5' 11", which we haven't had in the program before," Major said. "But she lacks the experience that our two current set- ters have, so it'll be great that she can come in and train as a 5-1 setter with the JV team for

half a year or a year until she gains what she needs in order to challenge that position.

"She also hits as well, so we're not quite sure what she's going to develop into."

Currenth/ occupying the quar- terback position on Perm's side of the net are senior Jodie An typas and sophomore Meghan

Schloat, both of whom saw a lot of time last year.

And while these four recruits may not find themselves in the starting six often during their freshman years, they will add depth to a Penn volleyball program that will have a legitimate shot at winning its first Ivy League title since 1990.

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SPORTS RIEFS FlagFootbaHscores tournament in Philly

Last weekend, the GoDeep 4on4 Flag Football League held a regional tournament in Philadel- phia's Fairmount Park

The tournament was held there for the second straight year, and is used as a qualifier for the GoDeep National Finals in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

Teams from all over the Delaware Valley played at least three games in the round-robin

tournament, with the top teams advancing to the championship round last Sunday.

— Kenny Feng

Itaiiano named an All-Star in the CCBL

Penn baseball star Nick Itai- iano was selected as an All-Star last week, getting the nod as a re- serve for the West AU-Star team of the Cape Cod Baseball League.

The CCBL All-Star Game was

held last Saturday at Guv Fuller Field in Falmouth, Mass.

Penn's starting second baseman has been a spark in the Bourne Braves' dismal offense, being one of only a few players hitting at least .200 on a club that boasts a .188 team batting average.

The Braves have survived the 2001 summer season on the strength of their pitching, and were just barely holding on to first place in their division at the All- Star Break.

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Thurcday, July 26, 2001

KENNY FENG

For the love of the unknown

game There's nothing I

enjoy more than set- ting up a six-pack.

No, I don't mean pouring six 12- ounce cans of Coors Light into some beer mugs. I'm un- derage, after all. Come on. You know better than that.

Rather, I'm talking about a shoot set to the 6'2" outside hitter, who hammers the ball through a gap in the double-block, catching an unsus- pecting member of the backrow right in the chest and knocking him flat onto the hardwood.

That, is the real six-pack. I should clarify, because it's very like-

ly that you still have no idea what the heck I'm talking about. That's because volleyball has never catered to the main- stream audience, especially here on the East Coast. The only people that come out for games here are the players, the coaches, a few scattered members of the media, family and friends.

Back in my freshman year of high school, I was drawn to the sport for a variety of reasons. Most significantly, I was jumping on the bandwagon. How so. you ask? Well, every Asian high schooler in my neck of the woods (or rather, sub- urbs) played volleyball. It was a stereo- type as prevalent as math and science, four eyes and rice rockets.

So when springtime came around in 1997 (I — like the good follow-the-trend person that I am — went to try out for the Richard Montgomery High School Boys' Volleyball team. 1 stood at about 5 '6", had no hops and every swing I took at the ball seemed to find its way into the net or the back of the coach's head.

But I had one thing going for me — I'm left-handed. And in the state of Mary- land where only three out of 23 counties have high school boys' volleyball as a varsity sport, the advantage of being a southpaw put me on the team.

Soon, my coach realized that I would never develop a decent vertical. And by decent, I mean being able to get more than my wrists over the eight-foot reg- ulation net. In contrast, college stars like Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne's Hec- tor Soto or Pepperdine's Scott Wong can get their shoulders above the tape. Any- ways, for this reason (and because I couldn't pass or hit to save my life), I was moved to the setter position. Being left-handed gave me the ability to de- ceptively dump the ball (a cheap move that only works on a regular basis in the high school game).

In my junior year, I earned a spot in the starting six at my position (transla- tion: the guy who ran the offense my first two years on the team graduated).

That year, we played our archrival — Churchill High School — in their gym. We hated the Bulldogs. MosUy because being in the same division as them meant chalking up two tallies in the loss column every season by embarrassing margins. We had already dropped a match to them earlier in the season on our court, so we weren't expecting much as we walked into their building and took note of the audience of around 100 — about 80 more than the number that showed up to our games on a good day.

So when we split the first two games and forced a deciding game three that spring in 1999, things were looking up. I remember actually believing we had a chance to snap our losing streak to them that dated back to the days when "read my lips, no new taxes" was president of our country. But after they jumped out to a quick lead, and had us down 13-8, my hope was rapidly diminishing.

We then staged what was by far the best comeback in the history of high school boys' volleyball in Montgomery County (in my expert, objective opinion) to tie it up at 14-14.1 then served the final two points in the game that gave us the upset victory. I was mauled on the court, but it was a good maul. The kind you get, well, after you upset the best team in the county. It was a memory that 1*11 never forget, especially since the rest of that season was tarnished with an 8-6 record that put us out of the playoffs by a couple of tiebreaker per- centage points.

We came back to beat the Bulldogs again my senior year, when we posted the school's best ever record at 11-3, made the playoffs and were one game

■ See FENG, page 9

SPORTS INSIDE

For the first time ever, NCAA women's volleyball matches will use the net serve and the rally^scoring format in 2001.

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Priore's priorities in the right place Penn assistant football coach Ray Priore showed in 2000 that he was deserving of his coaching promotion.

By Kenny Feng The Summer Pennsylvania!!

Penn football assistant coach Ray Priore's priorities in life aren't nearly as complicated as coordinating Penn's defense.

Family and football is what Priore is about. And it was his family who actually got him started in the sport when he was seven years old.

"We were a very football-oriented family," Priore said, "and I followed in my older brother's footsteps of playing the sport."

But he was far from a one-sport athlete growing up.

"In high school, I played four sports," Priore said. "I played football in the fall, I wrestled and played hockey at the same time [in the winter] and I played baseball in the springtime."

But Priore's greatest suc- cesses came in football. And the native of Long Beach, N.Y., had the best moment of his playing career in the fall of 1977.

"My senior year in high school, our program won the Long Island, New York Championship of our division," Priore said. "That was pretty memo- rable, playing at Hofstra University in front of a few thousand people."

Assistant Coa< he at Penn

Part 3 of 4

Upon graduation, Priore matricu- lated at the State University of New York-Albany, where he decided to make football the center of his athletic life.

"Doing more than one sport in college wasn't going to be the best opportunity," Priore said, "and football was the one sport that I really did excel in, more so than the others."

Priore continued to excel in college as a three-year starter in Albany's defensive backfield, and even captained the team when he was a senior.

After graduating from Albany with a bachelor's degree in business education in 1985, Priore had to make a decision about what to do next.

"My friends were all looking to go down to Manhattan and work some-

where on Wall Street," Priore said. "That was- n't something that would fit well with me."

Priore chose instead to stay at Al- bany and earn a master's degree in his undergraduate Held. At the same time, he helped out his alma mater as a coach.

"I did a graduate assistantship at the University at Albany where basically it was one of the bigger coaching programs in the country," Priore said.

■ See FOOTBALL, page 8

Penn Athletic Comm.

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Volleyball digs in Calif, for recruits

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Penn's middle-blocking prospects of the Class of 2005 will try to impact the Ivy League in a manner similar to Quakers senior Kelly Szczerba, a first team AlHvy selection in 2000.

Three of the Quakers top four Gass of 2005 recruits come from San Francisco.

By Kenny Feng The Summer Pennsylvanian

After posting the program's best record since 1987 last year, the Penn volleyball team will miss its graduating seniors in the upcoming 2001 season.

Except that there aren't any. The Quakers will return all 15 members of last year's campaign, and add a number of new players in 2001, most of which will play on the newly-created junior varsity team.

"We have a list of 19 people coming on August 23, and there's going to be three people joining them once school starts," Penn coach Kerry Major said. "But only 15 people will travel with the varsity."

As a result of keeping everyone from last year's team, Major's recruiting effort for the 2001 season was more directed towards the future of Penn volleyball.

"I was looking for kids that would come in and replace our three graduating seniors [in 20021, even though I have been recruiting for that over the years," Major said. "All these girls are players that will someday down the line improve the level of our program."

From the Class of 2005, there are four top recruits that could contend for positions on the varsity squad — Lynzy Caton, Tina Tsou, Natalie Fran- cis and Jessica Tunstill.

Literally standing out among the four is Caton, a middle-blocking recruit from Presentation in Northern Cali- fornia who passed on a number of full athletic scholarships to attend Penn.

"Her father's around seven foot, but she's not that tall," Major joked.

She is 6'1", however, and will certainly be a force to deal with in the Ivy League in years to come not only as a middle blocker, but also as a player with a very complete game.

"[Lynzy] can play front row and backrow, serves well and is an effective

blocker," Presentation coach Jim Reil- ly said of his team's four-year starter and two-time MVP "She hits the slide set — [which requires a] one-footed takeoff — as well as anyone in North- ern California."

And along with that physical talent is mental focus and determination.

"I will personally miss her work eth- ic and attitude," Reilly said. "She was fun to be around and worked extremely hard."

Major was also impressed with the first team All-Central Coast Section selection.

"She has great movement and she's very smart in placing the ball," Major said of Caton. "She kind of follows in [Penn sophomore] Heather Janssen's footsteps — someone that might be able to contend right away for that position."

Someone who has already followed in the 6'2" middle Mocker's footsteps is Tsou, who attended the same high school — Monta Vista — that Janssen did The former Matadors will reunite as Quakers teammates in 2001. Tsou, however, will impact the team in a different way than Janssen.

"[Tina] came to our volleyball camp last year and impressed me with her ball control and her armswing," Major said of the outside hitter. "She's not a Katie Brandt power or Stephanie Ho- ran power, but rather more like Elisa- beth Kwak-Hefferan is."

Major also noted that Tsou would have to "change some things" before seeing serious playing time, but she may come in defensively in the backrow because of her ball control skills.

Hailing from the same club team in San Francisco as Caton and Tsou is Francis, a 5'11" right-side strong blocker.

"Although we have two girls in that position... already next year, I just couldn't turn such a good athlete away," Major said. "She's going to follow in their footsteps and she's a good back- up middle for us."

Rounding out the key recruits is Tun- still, who is fairly tall by collegiate standards for a setter.

■ See VOLLEYBALL, page 9

Volleyball sets up JV squad in 2001 The assistant coach of the varsity volleyball team, Orlin Jespersen, will be the head coach of the JV team.

By Kenny Feng The Summer Pennsylvanian

With the Penn volleyball team losing no players to graduation last May, there isn't a better time than the upcoming 2001 campaign for the inau- gural season of the program's junior varsity team.

"The timing couldn't be more per- fect," Penn varsity coach Kerry Major said, "but it's something that's been on IPenn Athletic Director] Steve Bil- sky's agenda for awhile, and mine as well. It was a combined effort.

"I've been asking about it the last couple of years, and I think it's on his agenda to get more women in sports here."

The JV team will be comprised pre- dominantly of freshmen and sopho- mores, with the intention that these women will be varsity-level players when they become upperclassmen.

"I hope that it's a feeder team," Ma- jor said. "I only want to run it if it's going to help the varsity get better, because it's so much work to run another team.

"If it detracts at all from my time with the varsity team then it's not worth it unless they are the varsity team eventually."

As a result of the new team, Major's most recent recruiting class was also notably expanded. And filling the re- maining spots on the JV team will be a few players from the Penn women's club volleyball team.

Major cited several reasons for wanting a JV team, most significantly that part of the team wasn't getting enough experience on the court.

"I felt like the 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th players on the team didn't get playing time as much as the others

■ See JV, page 9

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