Tom Laws has the right name for where he’s coming from and the right personality for

where he’s about to go.He has just gotten off the Mar-

ket-Frankford line at 8th and Market after an eight-hour day at Penn’s Biddle Law Library, where he works as assistant head of stacks. Now he’s stop-ping at a Wawa on the way to

9th and Hamilton, but he can’t do so without getting recognized — twice.

“Hey Tom!”

“Hey T.C.!” Tom shoots back.

In a Wawa full of diversity on this Tuesday afternoon in Octo-ber, Tom and T.C.’s embrace near the entrance fits right in. T.C.’s a

white, middle-aged bald man with a salt and pepper mustache and soul patch, eyes glowing through black-rimmed glasses. Tom’s a younger black man, having gradu-ated from Monmouth in 2001 with still no signs of gray in his beard or close-cropped dreadlocks.

“How’s the soccer going?” T.C. asks.

“Great, man, it’s going great. Yeah, what are you up to?” Tom replies. T.C. can’t wait to tell him.

“I’m cooking for homeless vets at the vet center,” T.C. smiles back. “And I run 10 miles a day now!”

“Oh wow,” Tom answers in a soft but reassuring voice. “That’s

“Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan is coming to campus.

While you may not learn how to cook up meth, you will have the opportunity to learn more about Gilligan and his path to success. The Connaissance and Film So-ciety subcommittees of the Social Planning and Events Committee are teaming up to host Gilligan on April 1 at 8 p.m. in Irvine Au-ditorium.

The event will be a moderated panel discussion led by Marcia Ferguson, program director of the Theater Arts Program at the Annenberg Center, and will be followed by a student question and answer period.

“We were interested in bring-ing someone in film and wanted to bring substantial discourse

to campus,” College junior and Connaissance director Gabriel Jimenez said. “So it’s a perfect collaboration between our two committees.”

Gilligan earned a degree in film production from New York Uni-versity’s Tisch School of the Arts. Years before venturing out on his own, Gilligan joined Fox’s “The X-Files” in 1995 and became the

executive producer for the show in 1997.

“Breaking Bad,” which pre-miered in 2008, has received critical acclaim. Over the years, it has been nominated for numer-ous awards including the Golden Globes, The Writer’s Guild and People’s Choice Awards. The show was nominated for more than 20 Emmy Awards and won

seven throughout its course. “Breaking Bad” entered the

2014 Guinness World Records as the “Highest Rated TV Series” based on MetaCritic.com’s metas-core of 99 out of 100. Over 10 million people viewed the series’ finale.

The show appeals to college students who are learning how to make it in the real world, Wharton junior and SPEC Film Society director Andres Martinez said.

Jimenez mentioned the impor-tance of being aware of student interest and opinions through surveys. “We’re interested in looking at people who would have great pull on campus and students would be interested in,” he said. “We also want a speaker who is dynamic and Vince is really spe-cial in a way that he’s a writer, he’s a director, a producer.”

College sophomore John Meng was excited to hear that Gilligan will be on campus. “Whoa, this news is crazy. It kicks like a mule with its balls wrapped in duct tape,” he said in reference to the show.

This morning, Penn announced Geoffrey Gar-rett will be the new dean of the Wharton School, effective July 1.

Garrett, who is currently a dean and professor of business at the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales, was a former faculty member in Wharton’s management de-partment from 1995-1997. He will replace Thomas Robertson, who has held the position since 2007.

Garrett, a former Fulbright Scholar, completed his masters and doctoral degrees in political sci-ence at Duke University after graduating with honors from the Australian National University. He has authored and co-edited three books and

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PLAYING FOR LIBERTY

UA budget meeting sees unexpected amendment proposal

Garrett, whose term starts July 1, was formerly a Wharton management prof.

BY FOLA ONIFADEStaff Writer

SPEC Connaissance and Film Society are hosting

Vince Gilligan on April 1BY FOLA ONIFADE

Staff Writer

Courtesy of Gotham Artists

Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan graduated from NYU Tisch and worked on the X-Files before joining the Breaking Bad team. The show won seven Emmy awards.

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ORIGINAL AMENDMENTTo transfer $10,000 from the

SPEC Spring Fling Carnival Budget to the SPEC and Class

Board joint Skimmerfest Budget

PASSED AMENDMENT3.5% 3.8%Budget

committee’s original estimate

What it actually was

from each class

PERCENTAGE INCREASE IN BUDGET

+$250 FOOD for steering

+$200 HEYDAY fund

$250from SPEC

contingency fund

$4,000

Skimmerfest Skimmerfest talent budget

Street Soccer Philadelphia helps rebuild the lives of the homeless — thanks to several Penn connections

BY MIKE TONYSenior Staff Writer

SEE STREET SOCCER PAGE 10

Del iberat ion of a single amendment to transfer funds from the Social Planning and Events Committee Spring Fling Carnival budget to the Skimmer-fest budget kept the Undergradu-ate Assembly in session until past midnight during Sunday night’s annual budget meeting,

leading other student govern-ment branches to question UA efficiency.

UA members were taken by surprise at the budget meeting, which had already been delayed for a closed meeting to rehab internal UA culture, when an unexpected amendment was presented by UA representative and College sophomore Julie Bit-tar . Bittar is the running mate of UA Vice President Gabe Delaney in the presidential race.

Typically, amendments are brought up a few days in advance so that involved branches can

consult with their members. On Sunday night, Bittar present-ed an amendment to transfer $10,000 from the Fling Carnival budget to the SPEC and Class Board joint Skimmerfest Budget shortly after the senior Class Board suggested the change. The Carnival is an event on Col-lege Green toward the end of Fling with free food and inflat-ables.

While no rules were broken, since only UA members can propose amendments, the last-

Other branches of student gov’t were disappointed

with the UA’s organizationBY KRISTEN GRABARZ

Staff Writer

SEE BUDGET PAGE 2

Courtesy of Chandrima Chatterjee

(From left to right) Reef Barclay, Walt Harris, coach John Salvucci and Ellish Danzy help each other at practice for Street Soccer Philadelphia, an organization committed to helping homeless youth and adults escape homelessness through team sport.

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Being attractive pays dividendsWho said it doesn’t pay to be handsome? Researchers from MIT Sloan School of Management, Harvard Business

School and the Wharton School have found that investors are biased towards liking and investing in pitches delivered by attractive men.

The study shows that investors favor men over women even though the content they pitch is the same. The study showed that attractive men had an advantage over other men and women, but the attractiveness of women did not matter. The researchers linked their conclusions to the gender gap in entrepreneurship.

Lactose tolerance in AfricaSarah Tishkoff, a geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania, and her colleagues published a new study that links

the domestication of animals to the prevalence of lactose tolerance. Tishkoff’s group conducted the largest study of lactose tolerance across Africa. Their work confirmed that certain

genetic mutations are linked to lactase persistence in Africans. For example, a mutation that extended from the Middle East to Northern Africa that is about 5,000 to 12,300 years old is similar to cattle domestication in Northern Africa and the Middle East 10,000 years ago.

Winning by knowing who to please

Fighting Diabetes

When it comes to winning awards, there is a clear distinction between who you know and the people that are judging you, according to a Penn study.

Sociology professor Paul D. Allison and co-researchers believe that the process of "making it" in any field depends not only on individual accomplishments, but also on the audience that makes the judgment. Fans are more likely to favor a popular candidate, for instance, while critics will still detract.

A new Penn study explains how to make insulin-produc-ing cells from gut cells.

Ben Stanger, an assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, and his team are trying to find a way to make new beta cells that can replace a diabetic's need to inject insulin daily. The absence of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas is the reason for type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

BY MICHAEL FRANKLINContributing Writer

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minute proposition marked a deviation from typical budget proceedings and resulted in confusion among UA mem-bers and meeting attendees.

“No one was prepared to discuss or debate this amendment beforehand be-cause no one was aware of it except members of the senior class board ... There wasn’t a clear set of facts that every-one was drawing upon,” UA representative and College sophomore Jane Meyer said.

Members of other student government branches were informed that if they were

interested in presenting an amendment to the budget, they should reach out to a UA member in advance, who would in turn notify the other impacted branch of student government, NEC Chair and College senior Frank Colle-luori said. All budget amend-ments must be presented in terms of taking money from one line-item and transfer-ring it to another.

Debate over the amend-ment , which went on for over two hours, involved dis-cussions about the relative merits of Carnival and Skim-merfest and allegations of un-derfunding to Class Boards.

Despite some confusion as to what Carnival actual-ly entails, opponents of the amendment asserted that the Carnival budget should not be reallocated because of its importance to student safety. The event’s free food

is integral in helping intoxi-cated students sober up, said several UA members.

Other members, however, argued that Carnival fea-tures unnecessarily “high quality” food options, such as French macaroons, that deplete valuable budget al-locations.

“When they buy French macaroons - which are not inexpensive in the least - I think there are options that are cheaper and that can so-ber people up just as effec-tively,” junior Class Board Vice President of Finances and Wharton junior Patrick del Valle , who is also the Lowbrow editor of 34th Street Magazine, said.

Discussion progressed to alternative ways to fund Sk immerfest , which is a joint event by both SPEC and Class Board. Per the proposed amendment, Class

Board would contribute the same amount to Skimmer-fest that they did last year, while SPEC would contribute less. The proposition was not received well by members of Class Board, who have sig-nificantly smaller budgets than SPEC.

“It’s just difficult for us to match SPEC on a dollar to dollar basis just because our budgets are miniscule com-pared to theirs,” del Valle said. He ultimately left the meeting before its conclu-sion, citing that he was “fed up” of the unproductive and political nature of the pro-ceedings.

“It was a little bit disheart-ening in that these are the people who are supposed to be running our school and making policy for us, but we were seeing a lot of gridlock,” del Valle said.

After much debate and

many assertions of “I’m tired - let’s end this,” a compro-mise was reached to take $250 from each class board budget and put it toward Skimmerfest. The compro-mise also removed $4,000 from the SPEC contingency fund to put toward the Skim-merfest talent budget. The revised amendment passed with a vote of 16-3-3.

The Budget Committee also announced several oth-er changes to the originally proposed budget, including a $250 allocation toward food for UA Steering meetings and a $200 Hey Day fund. Most notably, this year’s budget in-crease was revealed to be 0.3 percent greater than antici-pated, resulting in increased allocations for the Student Activities Council.

Although an amendment was finally passed, the UA’s effectiveness was yet again

shrouded in uncertainty.“The entire meeting would

have been half as long if the protocol had been followed,” Colleluori said. “Since the budget meeting had been pushed back, we had more than enough time to prob-lem-solve these issues before the meeting.”

With ballots opening early next week, the disorganized budget meeting marked a hectic dawn to this year’s election season. Even after pledging to propose no new amend ments a long w ith presidential running mate Delaney, Bittar introduced the one amendment of Sun-day’s meeting.

“I hope constituents con-sider whether the leaders they have elected are acting in a way that is conducive to the success of the UA and, by proxy, the entire student body,” Colleluori said.

Some branches question UA

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Sigma Alpha Epsilon, one of Penn’s largest fraternities, has become a no-pledging institution.

Tonight, the fraternity’s new member class will be for-mally initiated as full mem-bers of the fraternity. This initiation will occur a week ahead of the scheduled date for Penn’s SAE initiation.

In an announcement made by SAE nationals on March 9, the organization eliminat-ed the classification of “new member,” completely remov-ing new member program-ming from the fraternity’s operations nationwide.

A new “True Gentleman Experience” program will replace the old system. This will involve new members be-coming fully initiated within 96 hours of being granted a bid.

The removal of the pledge program has sparked con-cern from a number of alum-nae, College junior and SAE president Matthew Hanes-sian said. He explained that some feel upset at the remov-al of the numerous traditions of the initiation process.

Some SAE brothers have also expressed concern about putting “a bit of a damper” on traditions of teaching the history of the fraternity dur-ing the old pledge process, he added.

He explained, however, that the fraternity completely un-derstands the decision made by SAE’s Supreme Council and will be fully adhering to the new policy.

SAE was already a no-hazing fraternity, but Hanes-

sian outlined how fraternities elsewhere do not always obey the rules. “Recently, it’s obvi-ously not been enough,” said College senior and SAE’s new member educator Andrew Musser, justifying the new action taken by nationals to prevent hazing across all SAE institutions.

Musser also highlighted nationals’ emphasis on view-ing the change as a return to the vision of SAE’s founding fathers.

The original SAE institu-tions did not use the pledging process which is common to-day, Musser explained. This process only developed after World War I. The change will move SAE “back into the old, sustainable processes,” he added.

Hanessian also said the new True Gentleman Experi-ence will focus on continual education of fraternity mem-bers. Whereas education was only for new members, it will now be an ongoing feature of fraternity life.

This change will require the position of new member educator to be replaced with the role of “member edu-cator,” which will focus on continued education and inte-gration. The member educa-tor will continue to use The Phoenix, SAE’s education guide.

The True Gentleman Expe-rience Program also formal-izes the expectations SAE has of its members and aims to ensure the equal rights and responsibilities of frater-nity members.

The fraternity’s national website also outlined how it hopes the change wil l challenge the public’s “pre-conceived notion of what fra-ternity membership entails.”

No changes will be made to the recruitment process or the new member fees.

SAE to end pledging process

The end of the pledge process has concerned

some SAE alumniBY MELISSA LAWFORD

Staff Writer

Yolanda Chen/News Photo Editor

Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s national organization has decided to do away with the pledging process, instead opting for initation within 96 hours of bid distribution.

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Despite reports in the past year questioning Wharton’s success, Penn’s business school is now ranked first in the recently released U.S. News and World Report Graduate Schools rankings.

On March 11, the U.S. News and World Report released the 2015 Best Graduate Schools rankings. Wharton moved up from third place in last year’s rankings, and is now tied with Harvard and Stanford for number one graduate business school.

The Graduate School of Education moved up from seventh to fifth place, and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences rose from 22nd to 19th on the list. Penn Law School, however, has remained in their number seven spot, and the Perelman School of Medicine held its spot as fourth best medical school.

Wharton’s rise in rankings follows an article published in

The Wall Street Journal in late September, titled “What’s Wrong With Wharton?”, which claimed that Wharton had “lost its luster.”

The article cited a decrease in Wharton applications by 12 percent over the past four as evidence for Wharton’s decline.

However, Wharton said the decline, combined with a stronger applicant pool and higher yield percentage, shows that Wharton is better targeting candidates.

Graduate schools in business, education, engineering, law, medicine and others are ranked based on standardized test scores for incoming students, experts on the program’s quality, acceptance rates and other criteria.

The data comes from surveys of administrators at more than 1,350 programs and more than 13,500 academics and professionals, according to U.S. News.

Perelman School of Medicine (for research)

Graduate School of Education

Penn Law School

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Wharton

Perelman School of Medicine (for primary care)

Grad schools see rise in U.S. News rankingsBy JILL GOLUB

Rankings for listed years were published in the prior year.

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Last Tuesday, t h e v i d e o “First Kiss” went v i ra l w it h more

than 10 million views in its first two days online. I found out about it on my newsfeed, the seemingly fastest way to know about events and news these days.

Many of my friends felt disgusted, uncomfort-able and disturbed by it, but I could not help but agree with the people who found it beautiful and endearing in a way. I stand by my view mainly because I can’t help but advocate for genuine human contact and ex-change - think long looks everyone has given in any public space here.

The short film, which is just under three and a half minutes long, is a commercial for the Los Angeles-based women’s c lot h i ng ’s c omp a ny Wren. The simple con-cept grouped 20 people, ranging from models, actors and singers - in-cluding Soko, a renowned songwriter - into pairs and asked each pair to kiss in front of a camera. No “action” was said to keep the reality of the moment. The couples were paired by instinct and in young, old, bira-cial, lesbian, gay and straight matches. The video was criticized for having chosen people seen in forms of enter-tainment, but none of them were paid.

Not so surprisingly to many, the interactions did not end when the director, Tatia Pilieva, asked to wrap up the scene. Some interactions continued off-camera as pairs ate or walked to-gether after the shoot.

For some, it was a result of the passion that en-sued; for others, simply because a connection was created in that mo-ment. The website Vice created a video, saying, “We paid twenty strang-ers, who definitely aren’t ... hot American models - to kiss for the first time,” but the video showed the same connection in the end.

Soko explained that while she wanted to kiss more, she also could not let go of the will to know her partner in the sense that once a connection is made, it is hard to let go of. This is one of the most beautiful things to take away from that video. As College sophomore Al-exandra Lotz explains, “The idea is that passion is easy to have if you let yourself fall in love with strangers. You can be drawn to the possibili-ties in someone who’s un-known to you rather than things you already know.

“Making out with a stranger gives you a real, passionate moment because of the fact that you don’t know them, you don’t know where they live or how much money they earn or how educat-ed they are.”

This video is also im-portant in its own way because we often forget to reach out. We all have someone in our class we

have exchanged looks with for an entire semes-ter without saying a word to each other. We have all been introduced to some-one without waving at or acknowledging each oth-er afterward because no words were exchanged and the awkwardness of unreciprocated at-tention is inescapable. We all have someone we have talked to for a bit because we were in the same room or group, but never even learned each other’s names - unless al-cohol and overconfidence were present - because we felt like it was too late to ask.

I have been in all these situations, but I also try to always continue an ex-change because I believe we can learn something from one another in any context and form. I met one of my good friends on a bus on my way from Providence to New York and will never stop being glad that we exchanged names because I see her whenever we are in the same place.

I am not part of the group of people dis-turbed by this video be-cause I am an advocate of human exchange. If I shared a moment with you and enjoyed it, I will not stop talking to you because of other obliga-tions and societal rules making it confusing and out of the norm.

DIANE BAYEUX is a College freshman from Paris. Her email address is dbayeux@sas.upenn.edu.

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Daylin Leach: Fighting for Pennsylvania,

fighting for equality, fighting for you

In the current climate of partisan gridlock, Congress needs bold, progressive lead-ership to tackle the difficult issues, and Pennsylvania’s 13th Congressional Dis-trict is the perfect place to start. The race

for this seat is a close one, with four Democrats - including two Penn professors - in the primary. Only one candidate, however, has proven his abil-ity to boldly and intelligently fight for the causes we believe in and against the rampant inequal-ity facing Pennsylvanians and all Americans. Because of our confidence that he will faithfully and passionately fight for progressive values, the Penn Democrats endorse Senator Daylin Leach for Pennsylvania’s 13th Congressional District and will work tirelessly to support his election to the U.S. Congress.

Senator Leach has demonstrated an unparal-leled commitment to tackling rampant inequality on a state level. As rising income inequality has concentrated societal power in the hands of a privileged few, he has consistently stood up for struggling Americans by supporting a proper living wage to keep working families from going hungry.

He has fought against racist and regressive drug policy since his entry into state politics over a decade ago. Through the failed “War on Drugs,” young people - disproportionately minori-ties - have been subject to mass incarceration for victimless crimes. Senator Leach has fought to combat that destructive trend, supporting the legalization of marijuana many years before the issue was politically popular.

Senator Leach has also been battling at the front lines of LGBTQA equality since his first election to the State House. He successfully led the fight against an amendment to the state con-stitution that would have permanently outlawed marriage equality, and he introduced the first marriage equality bill in Pennsylvania. Sena-tor Leach has consistently worked to enact new protections in Pennsylvania against workplace

discrimination. He knows - as do we - that work-ers’ jobs should never be at risk because of whom they love.

Further, Senator Leach has fought harder than any other lawmaker in Pennsylvania state gov-ernment to ensure women’s full equality under the law. He introduced the first legislation man-dating state funding for breast and ovarian cancer screenings, and he has proposed legislation allow-ing parents of newborns to receive up to 12 weeks of paid leave. He has been a strong supporter of the Affordable Care Act, which prevents insur-ance companies from price discrimination based on gender, ensuring that being female is no longer considered a pre-existing condition.

Quite simply, Daylin Leach has shown an un-paralleled commitment to making people’s lives better. He supports a path to citizenship and ex-panded rights for undocumented immigrants who are working to provide for themselves and their families. He has advocated for increased investment in infrastructure, the environment and public education because he understands the need to leave behind a sustainable planet and economy for future generations. Time after time, Senator Leach has stood out front, fighting for progress and for the ideal that every child born in this country should have a chance to be successful.

The race for the 13th district is competitive with four strong candidates, and we have heard from each of the candidates over the past year. We know who they are, and we know where they stand on the issues. While all of the candidates have their own positive qualities, Daylin Leach is the candidate who presents the best combina-tion of experience, vision and issue expertise. We know that he will bring an energy to Congress that can help cut through the gridlock and result in tangible change for the people of the 13th Con-gressional District and people all across America.

Today, the Penn Democrats choose to endorse the candidate who has been ahead of his time on nearly every major issue affecting us today. We choose the candidate who refuses to stand by while racism, sexism and homophobia add to the suffering of countless Americans. We choose the candidate most committed to ensuring that everyone in America has equal opportunity for success, no matter their background or demo-graphic. We choose Daylin Leach.

The Penn Democrats Executive Board

‘‘Daylin Leach has shown an unparalleled commitment to making people’s lives better.”

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Wharton institute partners with CA Tech.

CA Technologies has of-ficially joined the Wharton Mack Institute for Innovation Management as a corporate partner.

CA Tech nolog ies , for -merly Computer Associates International, is a Fortune 500 company and one of the largest independent software corporations in the world. Its cooperation with the Mack Institute will yield conferenc-es, workshops and research on the use of technology and software in business.

CA Technologies chose to partner with the Mack In-stitute because of “the great work its experts are doing around a fundamental ques-tion: How do I manage in-novation in order to survive, compete and thrive?” accord-ing to a post on the company’s

website by Sid Kumar, global head of Customer Lifecycle Solutions at CA Technologies and a 2009 Wharton MBA graduate .

At the Mack Institute’s Spring Conference 2014 in San Francisco, leaders from CA Technologies and Whar-ton researchers will discuss creativity and innovation strategies for established firms.

A lthough speci f ic pro -grams have not yet been confirmed, CA Technologies is interested in cooperating with Wharton students and faculty on research and col-laborative projects through a management course, said Saikat Chaudhuri, executive director of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management .

In the fall, the Mack Insti-tute will launch MGMT 892: Mack Institute Research Fel-lowship with its corporate

partners. Wharton under-graduates and MBA students will work with the companies on actual business projects.

Penn students will also benefit from recruitment op-portunities that come from the partnership.

“Wharton students and also engineering students are of great interest to [CA Technologies],” Chaudhuri said. “I think they particu-larly like the interdisciplinary approach, so M&T students would find it interesting. ”

Chaudhuri added that the class-based collaborative projects might also lead to job offers.

Currently, the Mack In-stitute has 14 partners in a range of industries, such as aerospace, defense, pharma-ceuticals and data solutions and IT. NASA, Hertz and Nis-san are among the list of cor-porate partners.

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written over 40 scholarly articles.

“[Geoff ] has a deep un-derstanding of Wharton’s distinctive mission and a compelling vision for the role of business schools in

an era of rapid change and globalization,” President Amy Gutmann said.

"[He] has unique experi-ence in international busi-ness and business education and is absolutely the right per son t o pa r t ner w it h Wharton faculty, students, staf f and alumni to take the School to even greater heights.”

Prior to his arrival at the University of New South Wales, Garrett held many d i st i ng u i shed p osit ions around the world. He served

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The heroin addict was barely breathing when the Penn stu-dents saw him on the street over spring break, according to stu-dents who were there.

They wanted to help him, so they started praying.

As they asked God to save him from death, he opened his eyes and stood up before the paramedics arrived.

“It was a miracle,” said Col-lege senior Matthew Pershe , emcee for Penn Cru, a student Christian group. Pershe, along with 11 other students, brought aid to the poorest areas of Phila-delphia during a spring break service trip planned by Penn Cru.

Working with Philly Cru, a larger umbrella organization for the Penn group, students spent the week giving food to the homeless and offering prayers to drug addicts.

Leadership coach and out-reach coordinator for Penn Cru Corey Poggioli , a 2013 En-gineering graduate , said the trip involved partnerships with recovery homes, schools and Victory Outreach , a network of churches in West Philadelphia.

This year’s trip featured new partnerships with Cornerstone Christian Academy and Cor-nerstone Community Church in North Philadelphia.

“Within a couple of miles of campus there is a different world,” said Nursing junior Lyd-ia Felter , who participated in the trip. It was “just eye opening,” she added, describing the re-alities of a heroin camp in North Philadelphia.

The trip challenged many common perceptions, Poggioli

explained, specifically people’s notions that addicts and the homeless are “almost subhu-man.”

For College freshman Mat-thew Dong , encountering Cam-den, N.J.’s “tent city,” a large homeless community, was a particularly moving experi-ence. Despite spending the day in freezing temperatures, “after I saw what those people were living through, I didn’t feel cold anymore,” he said.

One of the most significant moments for Pershe was meet-ing a heroin addict his own age who told him that “we’re not guaranteed the next three hours,” he said.

Poggioli also outlined how the experience “challenge[d] the campus bubble mentality,” and emphasized the religious motivation behind the commu-nity work.

The outreach is “very inti-mately tied with our faith,” he said, explaining how for Penn Cru members, the work of the trip is “a mirror of what has been given to us by Christ.”

“We’re identifying the physi-cal needs and the deeper spiri-tual needs,” Pershe added. He

said he was able to connect with the issues with which he came into contact. “In a very spiritual sense, I identified completely with them,” he said.

The group of Penn students, alongside five students from Penn State, stayed in Summer-field Church and participated in a variety of community service activities over the course of the week.

The work included construc-tion, spending time in a school running book fairs, talking to people about life questions and reaching out to some of the city’s most poverty-stricken areas.

For College junior Eric Clark , who prayed for the resuscitation of the overdosed drug addict, the trip showed him that “the outward expression of what we know is inside ourselves.” He drew parallels between drug ad-diction and the fact that “many of us are slaves to work and to greed and academics.”

For those involved, the trip also brought a feeling of hope. The trip “opened my eyes to the terrible things which happen in my city,” Dong said, “but I also see hope because there are a lot of people trying to change that.”

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College sophomore Tiffany Young (left) and 2012 College graduate Carolyn Poggioli (right) clean up trash at the Victory Outreach Church on Penn Cru’s service trip.

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The Wharton MBA Class of 2014 will be the first to gradu-ate after communication cur-riculum requirements were added in 2012. The require-ments include one writing course and two speaking courses.

“In a recent survey, alumni indicated that the ability to write well is crucial to their career success,” said Bren-nan Maier, instructor and di-rector of the writing course. “Wharton faculty responded to that fact by voting to have a writing requirement for MBAs.”

The Wharton MBA pro-gram is the only Ivy League

MBA program that includes writing and speaking require-ments.

Writing professionallyThe writing class is a pass/

fail online course, which in-cludes two assignments - a writing challenge and a per-suasive memo.

A competition for all first-year MBA students, the Writing Challenge includes nine writing assignments of 300-500 words each. Writ-ing coaches give feedback to MBAs throughout the pro-cess. Past coaches have been professional journalists and senior editors for the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Philadelphia In-quirer and the Economist. Students also give and re-ceive feedback from peers anonymously.

Nikhil Seshan, a second year MBA student, got inspi-

ration from the Writing Chal-lenge model at Wharton and launched an online writing business.

“Writing well is not easy - you need to write often, receive lots of feedback and re-write,” Seshan said. “The Writing Challenge model encourages participants to write, and give and receive feedback - all of which are very important.”

One thing he wishes to im-prove about the writing class is to give students an oppor-tunity to “reject nonsense suggestions, which is great feedback for the reviewers.”

The persuasive memo re-quired students to argue for a course of action in a memo format, such as writing an investment recommenda-tion. They choose a business prompt from topics in 11 in-dustries.

“TAs will be matched to

students based on career choice,” said Lisa Warshaw, director of the Wharton Com-munication Program. “[Our TAs] are going to say, ‘Look, that just isn’t the right tone for private equity.’” TAs will also give career-specific ad-vice on networking emails.

Speaking to succeedWharton MBA students

are also required to take two speaking classes - one foundational class and one advanced class. Two choices are available at the advanced level - WHCP 612: Advanced Persuasive Spea k ing or WHCP 615: Communication Challenges for Entrepre-neurs.

In the WHCP 612, MBA stu-dents learn to speak publicly under pressure. “Students get to use a presidential tele-prompter. Or they could go to a TV studio on campus,”

lecturer Margaret Lambires said. “They get grilled with very difficult questions from their audience.”

The other advanced speak-ing class targets students who wish to start a business.

“By the time they leave the class, they have a five-minute pitch that they can give,” lecturer Antionnette McDermott said. “But they are also prepared to talk to an investor that they run into in an elevator, or prepared when they are at a cocktail party and they have one or two minutes.”

Seshan said the speak-ing classes have been very helpful when he pitched his business plan to investors. “I’d been in finance for too long, and only knew how to design text-heavy handout decks,” he said. ”[The speak-ing courses] allowed me to explore ballroom and board-

room decks, which add power to my investor pitches.”

Second-year MBA student Liz Stiverson agreed that the speaking class should be required. “I think there’s enough competing for MBA students’ time. If it was not a requirement, many peo-ple wouldn’t do it,” she said. “Public speaking is one of those things that if you don’t think you are particularly good at it, you tend to avoid it.”

The required communica-tion component is part of the curriculum changes that were designed in 2010, the first cur-riculum changes to the MBA program in the past decade.

Other changes included increasing focus on ethics and analytic skill, as well as a more flexible schedule that allows students to take ad-vanced courses in the first year.

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Penn researchers will work with NASA to examine the biological and cognitive differ-ences in twins while one is on Earth and one launches into space.

The researchers’ study, a collaboration among Penn professors Mathias Basner, Ruben Gur and David Ding-es, will follow astronaut Scott Kelly as he accompanies Rus-sian cosmonaut Mikhail Ko-rnienko into space for a year, while simultaneously studying his brother, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, who will remain on Earth. The year-long expedi-tion is unprecedented for the International Space Station, where Scott Kelly will live dur-ing the study.

“We can detect more subtle changes caused by spaceflight when we compare the geneti-cally identical Kelly brothers,” said Basner, the study’s lead researcher. “Using identical twins potentially allows scien-tists to separate ‘nature versus nurture’ ... any differences are likely due to spaceflight and not because the two subjects are genetically distinct.”

The study will involve mea-suring the effects of micro-gravity and being in space on executive functioning, memo-ry, emotions, social cognition and complex reasoning, among other things. These functions will be studied using a com-puterized cognitive battery of tests developed by psychology professor Ruben Gur.

Gur said that use of the bat-tery will allow the researchers to “take healthy people and scan them doing cognitive tasks in order to identify brain networks that are recruited in order to perform specific tasks.”

“The battery allows a fairly rapid assessment of a range of up to ten cognitive functions in space flight,” Dinges said. “It’s particularly valuable for understanding whether any of the different brain-based cognitive functions needed

for humans to operate effec-tively are changed in micro-gravity.”

Basner said blood samples will be collected from the brothers, in addition to the psy-chological and physiological testing, which will be conduct-ed before the flight to establish a baseline. Samples will also be taken at one month intervals over the course of the year.

The study itself is unique not only in that it will exam-ine twins, but also that it will further analyze longer space missions. Dinges also said the study is unique because it will examine “a whole host of fundamental biology” over the course of a year.

Although biological chang-es and cognitive processing have been studied extensively before, this idea came from the twin Kelly brothers them-selves.

“It was an idea that the broth-ers brought to NASA,” Dinges said. “Since Scott [Kelly] will be up in space for a year and Mark is a retired astronaut, they said they would be will-ing to contribute some of their biological samples for studies of the effects of microgravity on biomolecular responses.”

The study is one of the 10 selected proposals chosen out of 40 to receive a combined $1.5 million over a three-year period, Basner said. While NASA is funding and man-aging the investigations of the study, the National Space Biomedical Research Insti-tute will be assisting NASA in managing the general as-pects of the project.

“We want to look at people who are very high-functioning and find out what happens to their performances under vari-ous stresses” that they experi-ence in space, Gur said. “[This] is a unique opportunity to learn not just about the effects of stress on cognition and effects of other factors on cognition, but also look at it in identical twins.”

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As musical notes slowly filled the Palestra, the building came to life.

After an unusually quiet weekend, the first it has had since early January, it was once again bursting with life, laughter, chatter, smiles and high-fives.

The band was playing loudly and as festively as ever, filling the old arena with an exuberant spirit that was once a regular part of the building’s charm, but now has faded. But it was Penn women’s basketball who really wanted to keep the party going.

Just a week ago, it was the music far away at Jadwin Gym that marked nightmares for the Quakers. Losers of eight straight at the building, Jadwin was the demon that they could not conquer.

As the pregame warm ups came to an end, one last song

rang out from the speakers, and the Quakers gathered in the paint, arms interlocking, sway-ing back and forth to the beat.

They came out in sync, took a lead and held it. They came out with a gusto and bravado that has defined their effort in changing the program this year.

They clawed, they fought, they dove for loose balls. They adapted from their usual grind-it-out approach, and quickened their pace, a transition to the third movement of the concerto with a grand finale.

As their tempo quickened and the victory became clearer, a dream started to take form, the dream first dreamt four years ago when four Penn seniors trusted a second-year coach with their college careers.

Fast forward to Monday night, as family, the Penn Band, the cheerleaders and friends gathered around the Ivy tro-phy to take pictures while mu-sic blared over the Palestra’s speakers.

Finally ... a Selection Monday for the Red and the Blue.

“Four years has built up a lot of anticipation for this day, and [I’m] so proud of this team and so happy to have the chance to go to the NCAA Tournament [with] all these fans behind

us all the way,” senior captain Alyssa Baron said.

The crowd fell silent. All eyes turned to the brand new score-board tuned into ESPN to see where Penn would land in their first tournament in more than ten years.

The Ivy trophy sat on the ground in front of the seats, the last moment to reflect on what this team has accomplished un-til the end of the season.

First to be announced was the Lincoln Region with no men-tion of the Quakers.

Next came the Louisville Region and as the upper half of the bracket flashed on the screen, Penn appeared in the upper bracket of that region be-low Texas, their first round op-ponent. Down came streamers, right on cue, as if orchestrated by the conductor himself.

It was truly a moment of cel-ebration for all this program has accomplished.

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Monday night’s selection show atmosphere gave senior captain Alyssa Baron and her teammates a chance to soak up the support of the Penn community before discovering its NCAA Tournament fate on Monday evening.

kick off their Ancient Eight slate. On Mar. 8, No. 15 Penn took down Harvard in a de-

fensive battle, one that saw both teams go scoreless over a 15-minute period. The 9-4 victory moved head coach Karin Brower-Corbett into a first-place tie on Penn’s all-time wins list with 151.

Corbett didn’t have to wait much longer to pick up her 152nd win though. The fol-lowing weekend, the Quak-ers, who moved up to No. 13 in the country after their

win over the Crimson, took down Yale, 11-9. Senior at-tack Tory Bensen notched another goal, improving her team-leading mark to 13 on the season.

The Red and Blue have now won 11 consecutive Ivy con-tests, and 50 of their last 52. Penn will play four consecu-tive nonconference games before returning to confer-ence play on Apr. 12 .

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“I would be lying if I told you that I didn’t check out Texas today a little bit,” he said. “Not too much, [I was] trying to stay in the moment. But I did look at quite a few teams that I thought we had a shot at.

“I know a few of the [Texas players] from the recruiting trail. We have a [recruit from Texas] coming in to play for us next year and two of the girls played with her in AAU.”

There was a strong crowd joining the Quakers at the Pales-tra on Monday, cheering as each of the players were introduced while enjoying free food and “I Bleed Penn” T-shirts .

Alongside an enthusiastic Penn band, Penn men’s basket-ball showed up in solid numbers with many of its players and coaches coming out to support the women’s team.

“It was really exciting,” men’s basketball junior Patrick Lucas-Perry said. “We’re really happy for the girls. They are like our counterparts so when they suc-ceed, it just looks good for Penn basketball in general.”

In Penn’s previous two ap-pearances in the NCAA Tour-nament, the Quakers were a No. 15 seed, losing to Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas in 2001 and falling against Connecticut in Bridgeport, Conn. in 2004.

Now, Penn’s senior class has a chance to continue the program’s remarkable turn-around, taking a team that went 2-26 in 2009-10, the year before they came to campus, all the way to the NCAA Tour-nament.

“This is part of the legacy to-night,” McLaughlin said. “To be able to have this atmosphere and to finish their career on an NCAA floor is only building on that legacy.”

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With an excited crowd throwing streamers behind them, Penn women’s basketball celebrated as its first-round match up vs. Texas was revealed.

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Leading rebounder: Jr. G Nneka Enemkpali (8.8 RPG)

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46 ___-X

47 Autonomous part of Ukraine

48 Join a community again

52 F.D.R.’s affliction

53 Bank offering with a pct. yield

54 Season to drink 58-Across

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59 Shamu, for one

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61 Pull (on)

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6 Two-time loser to Dwight

7 1983 Woody Allen mockumentary

8 Inventor Whitney

9 Suited to be a suitor

10 More than a pack rat

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18 Hathaway of “Les Misérables”

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51 Too-often repeated

55 Chaney of the silents

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awesome.”“Tell Chandrima I said hi,”

T.C. says walking out. “Come see me at my work!”

T.C.’s been working at the Philadelphia Veterans Multi-Service Center ever since he stopped playing soccer with Tom in the spring. He leaves and Tom instantly spots another former soccer teammate.

“Hey Paul!”Tom and Paul catch up briefly

before Tom buys three six-packs of Deer Park bottled water and heads out, carrying them all the way to Our Brothers Place, the men’s homeless shelter that T.C. and Paul used to stay at. He signs in as a visitor at the front desk, and if he notices that the guest list consists almost solely of his signature written over and over again every few days, he doesn’t show it.

On this typical weekday after-noon at OBP, many residents are outside enjoying what’s left of a warm, sunny day, with many smoking and drinking on the five black benches behind the build-ing, gated off from the corner of Buttonwood and North Percy. Crack paraphernalia lies shat-tered on the sidewalk outside the gate. But although some resi-dents are still inside, plenty of space remains beyond the front desk for surveying. The walls are as colorful as they are lit-tered with aphorisms. One wall features the phrase “The hand of the diligent shall prosper” in white lettering floating across a golden sky.

But across the room next to a Pepsi machine, stacked four rows high on metal racks, are various backpacks, pillows and plump black garbage bags. This is all many OBP residents have. Tom passes by these stacks al-most as frequently as the stacks at Biddle, and when he does, it’s usually time to play.

HIGHS AND LOWSAn hour later on a spacious

green field a few blocks away, Street Soccer Philadelphia prac-tice is underway. Tom, an as-sistant coach, stands off to the side as practice is led by head coach John Salvucci. Salvucci co-captained the 2001 Penn men’s soccer team with Evan Anderson, another Street Soc-cer Philly coach who stands in the background as Salvucci asks a circle of a dozen players and coaches around him to say what they like about Street Soccer.

“I like Street Soccer because it keeps me in shape,” Der-rek Wallace says, jutting out his chest underneath a Larry Fitzgerald jersey. “When I first started, I had a little gut. Now I got a six-pack.”

“I love Street Soccer because

it takes my mind off a situation I’m being introduced with, and I get to hang around people that I care about and who look out for me too,” 19-year-old Walt Harris, entering his third month with the team says.

“I like Street Soccer because it’s great exercise,” Reef Bar-clay whispers almost inaudibly. “And having fun ...,” he trails off. All these players are current or former OBP residents, and all are black.

Street Soccer Philly is many things, but above all else, it’s about having fun more meaning-ful than most people could ever imagine.

Founded by Salvucci and program director Chandrima Chatterjee as the Philadelphia chapter of Street Soccer USA in Oct. 2011, Street Soccer Philly is a nonprofit group dedicated to helping the homeless rebuild their lives through soccer. Phila-delphia is one of 16 cities na-tionwide with a Street Soccer USA program. The chapter nor-mally meets twice a week, and its coaches follow a curriculum using basic soccer concepts to teach players life skills.

The Street Soccer USA cur-riculum aims to connect its players directly to housing, edu-cation and jobs, and 75 percent of Street Soccer players nation-wide eventually are connected to jobs and housing, complete a rehabilitation program or fur-ther their education within a year of joining the program.

“We provide them what they need the most, which is a com-munity,” Salvucci said. “And in order to build that community, you need to build communica-tion. So what we do is have fun and allow the players to trust each other and trust the coach-es.”

But sometimes fun can be hard to come by. Salvucci has the players split up into three teams of three members each. The team that can make the most passes among its members in a minute won’t have to do 10 pushups.

During that minute, another player, Andre Green, gets frus-trated and quietly refuses to do pushups as the rest of his teammates do. Instead, he walks away, mumbling under his breath and shaking his head.

It’s starting to get dark, so Salvucci announces that the three teams already formed before will play some good old-fashioned soccer. There are no nets on this giant field, just a pair of orange cones on both

ends to kick the ball through. Tom, Salvucci, Chatterjee and her husband Tony Lucente alter-nate throwing balls into play in a fast-paced string of mini-games.

“Hey, let’s hear some talk! Here’s a new ball!” Salvucci shouts in between throw-ins. “Good talk, Walt! Good talk, Derrek, keep up the talk!”

But Walt’s talk starts to get negative.

“I’m getting pissed!” he squeezes out in between pant-ing. “I really am. Nobody’s f--king trying!”

His rant isn’t very loud and he never stops playing, but Salvucci hears it and enters the game himself for the first time.

“A point of playing this game is about controlling your emo-tions,” Salvucci calmly says to Walt, who regains self-control and finishes the game.

After almost 10 minutes of constant throw-ins, Salvucci calls it.

“Hey fellas, that’s it, it’s too dark,” he says.

Now it’s time for highs and lows.

“Can I start?” Andre asks. “My high is, I was just about to snap, and I’m glad I didn’t.”

Everyone starts clapping vig-orously.

“Yo, let’s hear it for that, hon-estly,” Salvucci says.

“My low is, I ain’t feeling ev-erybody on this team.”

“I ain’t feeling everybody, either,” Mark Walker, another player, adds.

“First of all, I want to concen-trate on what ’Dre said his high was,” Salvucci responds mea-suredly. “I saw him, and he was pissed and he was frustrated. I saw it. Oftentimes, personally I don’t have the composure to step away, and that’s what ’Dre did.”

“My low is that one of my friends got locked up,” Ellish Danzy says.

“Moved up to the second floor,” Reef says for his high. “Might be getting a job at West Chester University. My low is that the people who were go-ing to help me pay for school rescheduled their appointment.”

A few other players give highs and lows and then Salvucci comes to Walt, who sighs before answering.

“I’m gonna be honest, I’m a real honest person, so I don’t hold my tongue,” Walt says. “When people come at you a certain way, you take that per-sonal and there’s only so much you can take from people.”

“You gotta always try to be bigger than what’s causing the problems, all of us,” Chatterjee replies.

“He’s down on himself for de-cisions he’s made as a child,” Chatterjee will say months later. “He used to be in school, now he’s not.”

Salvucci gives his high and low after Walt, adding that he’ll bring his wife and kid to practice Sunday.

“You’re an inspiration be-cause I need to hear that from a father’s standpoint,” Derrek responds. “Because I’ve got two

little ones, my daughter and my son who are looking forward to me getting myself together. And I consider you all my family, so that’s really important to me.”

EMPIRE STATE OF MINDWalking back to OBP from

practice after guzzling down the Deer Park that Tom lugged over, Derrek and Mark listen to an MP3 of rapper Ca$h Out. But Derrek’s in an Empire State of mind, having gone to New York City in July for the National Cup.

Each chapter of Street Soccer USA is responsible for raising money to bring a team of play-ers who have shown consistent commitment throughout the year both on the soccer field and in their personal goals to the National Cup, whose location ro-tates annually. Over three days, the teams engage in what Sal-vucci calls “extremely friendly” competition and a champion is crowned.

It’s not about winning, but playing the right way. Green cards are awarded to players who pick other players up. And Derrek and the rest of his Street Soccer Philly teammates got to play soccer on a 52x72 foot pave-ment surface right in the middle of Times Square.

“How priceless is that?” Der-rek asks, shaking his head. “With all the newspeople and everybody watching us. We were on ESPN. After the games, they treated us nice, took us out to where we wanted to eat and then when we first got there, the col-lege dorms! They let us stay in the college dorms, that was so cool.”

“What [the players] see while they’re at the Cup is really life-changing for them,” Salvucci said. “They realize, first of all, that a lot of other people are in the same situation as them. But they also see what it’s like to have the freedom to move around the city, meet new peo-ple, be in a safe environment.

“It’s hard to appreciate just how guarded the players need to be every day of their life when they live in the shelter.”

OBP has two floors, the first for newcomers and those more likely to be liabilities to them-selves and others. Good behav-ior over time gets you living and sleeping on the second floor in-stead, safely above the mislead-ingly golden skies below. Every night brings a 9 p.m. curfew and a bed in close quarters with doz-ens of others.

“New York was awesome,” Derrek says. “I’m still in that moment.”

THE POWER OF SOCCERAccording to Project HOME,

a Philadelphia-based nonprofit organization, 12,053 individuals experienced homelessness in Philadelphia in 2012. Just 5,570 of them were engaged in home-less outreach organizations such as OBP. Of those individu-als, 70 percent were suffering from both mental health issues and substance abuse challeng-es. More than 51 percent were

black.Exactly 3.1 miles separate

OBP from the Radian, near which Penn students can ex-pect to encounter several beg-gars on a daily basis. It’s the length of a standard 5k race, and it’s all that’s separating Penn students sprinting to keep up with the breakneck pace of university life and OBP residents presented with the endless marathon of knuckling down and keeping on. These two journeys don’t meaningful-ly intersect often enough, and they didn’t for Salvucci while he was a Penn student.

“The reality is, I didn’t know any homeless people before I

started working for Street Soc-cer,” Salvucci, a broker for Fort-side Insurance, says. “I thought I knew enough. I’d read about it and seen it. What I learned most was that without providing them money, a job or shelter, I can help them simply by doing something I love. By playing soccer.”

Salvucci and Chatterjee both graduated from Penn in 2002 but didn’t meet until just before launching Street Soccer Philly together. Salvucci had previ-ously volunteered for Street Soc-cer New York for five years and Chatterjee had been volunteer-ing with the Homeless World Cup for almost a year.

When Street Soccer Philly was still in its infancy, Chatter-jee would go to OBP and try to get residents to join.

“Now Ellish will go out there and tell people at OBP about it, he’s a natural recruiter and lead-er,” Chatterjee said. “So I don’t have to do all that anymore.”

Chatterjee still had to foot the bill on her own for Street Soc-cer Philly in its first two years, though. The team started out playing inside the Old Pine Com-munity Center two winters ago, but the $100 per player costs there added up quickly.

“I can’t keep paying that kind of money out of pocket,” Chat-terjee said.

The organization is now rely-ing on $8,000 that it has raised through auctions and raffles, but tournament and transportation costs weigh heavily, especially with the National Cup slated for San Francisco this summer.

“Our goal is to raise money to enter local soccer leagues so that our players have a league in order to hone their skills,” Salvucci said. “But that’s a chal-lenge.”

More challenging still for Chatterjee and other Street

Soccer volunteers has been the emotional turmoil that comes with taking care of the team. Chatterjee’s relationship with one former player has taught her a lesson.

“He checked himself out of the shelter multiple times, said he could live on the streets,” she re-calls. “But he couldn’t complete a task, couldn’t physically go to job interviews he would get. He was calling me in the middle of night, lost. I brought him back to the shelter, then he checked out again in the middle of winter. Stopped playing and stopped messaging us.”

Ellish, though, has been around since the program start-ed. The team’s best goalkeeper, he doesn’t have an addiction, un-like many Street Soccer Philly players. All he has to do is save up enough money and get out of the shelter.

“For you and me, it sounds so easy,” Chatterjee says. “But for some people it can be a moun-tain.”

Ellish is trying to re-establish a connection with his son, but in the meantime, he has Street Soccer to stand between the pipes for.

“WHERE YOU GOING?”Yet at another Street Soc-

cer practice on the day after Thanksgiving, Ellish isn’t de-fending any goal. He’s stand-ing on an outdoor blacktop basketball court a few blocks from OBP, getting ready to play a pickup 4-on-4 game. Street Soccer doesn’t always involve soccer.

“Please don’t take this away from me,” Walt says before prac-tice starts. “It’s everything to me.”

Tom and Julie Platt, another Street Soccer Philly volunteer, help the players break off into two teams. Khalif, a tall, bald and bearded black man in an or-ange sweatshirt who has never been at a Street Soccer practice before and no longer lives at OBP, shoots do or die and con-verts.

Forty-five minutes later, the full-court game is over and everyone walks back towards OBP. The journey back stalls on Buttonwood Street behind OBP. The sky is golden out here too, although darkness is starting to spread.

“If it ain’t all cool and all love like it is here, I guarantee you next time and every time I see you after that, I’m not even gon-na speak to you,” Khalif says confidently. “Because it’s either you for me or against me. It’s like if you’re in Africa, do you want to live in the city or do you want to live in the jungle?”

Reef and Walt murmur their approval.

“Am I right? If you live in the jungle, you’re gonna do as the jungle does. I was upstairs [at OBP] before. I got moved upstairs kinda quick because I wasn’t doing what the people in the jungle do. And that’s what

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Street Soccer changing lives of the homeless

‘‘Please don’t take this away from me. It’s everything to me.”

— Walt HarrisStreet Soccer Philly player

‘‘It’s hard to appreciate just how guarded the

players need to be every day of their life when they live in the

shelter.”— John Salvucci

Street Soccer Philly co-founder

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Khalif proceeds to explain for the next 10 minutes, with-out interruption, how he plans to get rich off of seminars for resume writing and eBay.

“If you ain’t got no plan, where you going?” he asks Reef and Walt.

“I’m gonna get in here and catch dinner,” Reef says po-litely, gesturing towards OBP.

Reef did have a plan all along. By the end of January, he was working three 12-9:30 p.m. shifts a week in the kitchen at West Chester University. It was a great comeback for the former teaching assistant, who had been staying at a Mount Airy apartment before getting evicted and taking up at OBP, where he’d been for the past seven months.

Then he got hit by a bus.Reef was stepping off a

city curb when a bus took a wrong turn and hit him, leav-ing him with a lacerated hand and bruised leg. A week after getting hit, he’s on crutches, navigating a sheet of ice out-side of OBP to go out to eat with Tom, Ellish and Andy, a new member of the team who got evicted from his Broad Street apartment after getting laid off while taking classes at the Community College of Philadelphia. The trio waits patiently for Reef as he ma-neuvers through the subfreez-ing night.

“The cold done took a lot from us,” Ellish observes after a winter full of practice can-cellations due to extreme cold and snowfall. Finally, though, they reach Chef King on 10th and Spring Garden streets and order wings.

“Did you see Floyd May-weather bet $10 million on the Broncos? That wasn’t smart,” Reef says this Thursday after Super Bowl XLVIII, reclining at a booth. He’s still got the $9 that Tom gave him more than a week before, and pays for his own wings.

“I’m getting tired of work-ing in the kitchen, but I like it there,” Reef says. “There are a lot of females there. And it’s great to be able to work, I really appreciate it.”

And that’s not all.“He talks now, he’s more con-

fident,” Chatterjee said. “He’s changed so much.”

One constant, though, has been Tom. Nearly every team member counts him as one of their closest friends. It’s rou-tine for him to give SEPTA tokens to players so they can attend doctor’s appointments and job interviews, and he looks forward to inviting players for impromptu practice sessions or a bite to eat.

“Once a team member, al-ways a team member,” Tom says.

PLAYING FOR LIBERTY AT PENN PARK

Penn Park is covered in snow as far as the eye can see, except a little patch on Adams Field in front of the goal nearest Wal-nut Street. Ellish, Reef, Tom and two new team members are taking shots there, waiting

for Chatterjee to arrive after picking up Walt and Mark from Ready, Willing & Able, a tran-sitional work and housing pro-gram on 12th and Bainbridge

streets for men with addiction histories. Two weeks after his expedition to Chef King and

back, Reef isn’t hobbling any-more.

“This is the first year she’s kept the team together over the winter,” Lucente says about his wife. “It’s really Tom’s doing. He’s it, man. He’s the guy.”

And Penn Park is a site for Street Soccer Philly on a weekly basis now that Platt and Chatterjee can set up pickup games there with other local soccer groups and clubs via meetup.com.

“We’ve practiced at some crazy places, so Penn Park is like a dream,” Chatterjee says.

“It feels so good to come back.”Chatterjee arrives with Walt

and Mark and makes sure there’s room for the team to play on Dunning-Cohen Cham-pions Field inside the seasonal air structure, the first time the team has ever played there.

Walt and Mark both wear beige T-shirts featuring Street Soccer Philly’s motto, “I Play for Liberty.”

All too soon, it’s time again for practice-ending highs and lows. The highs easily outnum-ber the lows, full of opportunity and gratitude.

“My high is that it’s great to see all of you guys again, it’s been a while since I’m at RWA now,” Walt says when it’s his turn. “Life is good right now. I’ve been sober two months, off the marijuana for 11 months and I’ve got a significant other in my life right now that’s mak-ing me happy, even though she’s a lot older than me.

“I’m a little out of shape now but I’m getting better,” he adds just minutes before the team members will leave the warmth of Dunning-Cohen to meet cur-few. “And I’m glad I’m here.”

‘‘Once a team member, always a

team member.”—Tom Laws,

Street Soccer Philly volunteer

Courtesy of Chandrima Chatterjee

(From left) Mark Cooper, volunteer Tom Laws, Walt Harris, Street Soccer Philadelphia director Chandrima Chatterjee, Mark Walker, Ellish Danzy, Street Soccer Chicago director Otto Rodriguez, Reef Barclay, volunteer Julie Platt and another team member gather for practice at Dunning-Cohen Champions Field on Feb. 19. Two 2002 Penn graduates founded the organization in Oct. 2011.

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Spring Break was a dizzying time for Penn Athletics, with the women’s basketball team punching an NCAA Tournament ticket with a stunning upset win against Princ-eton on its own f loor. But what was the top moment for Penn’s other teams ? Our Sports Editors discuss:

Sports Editor Ian Wenik: I’m going to show some recognition for the men’s lacrosse team and what it was able to accomplish in front of a national TV audience on Fox Col-lege Sports against Villanova on the first Saturday of break.

Trailing 11-7 in the fourth quarter, the Quakers pulled off a comeback you almost never see, scoring five goals in eight minutes to somehow pull out a 12-11 victory in hostile territory. It’s certainly early in the season, but I’m sure that junior midfield Joe McCallion’s winning goal with just two minutes left to play will be one of the Quakers’ emotional high points.

Penn may have lost its only other match of break to then-No.16 Princ-eton, 15-12, but this team is cur-rently sitting 13th in the nation with a lot of momentum as it heads into Ivy play and a date on Saturday with No. 3 Cornell. An NCAA run could

be coming.Senior Sports Editor Steven Ty-

dings: While men’s lacrosse pulled off the impressive win away from home, Penn wrestling had a solid showing in the Eastern Intercolle-giate Wrestling Association (EIWA) Championships in the friendly con-fines of the Palestra.

The Quakers had two grapplers get to the f inals of their weight-class. No. 11 in the country, junior Lorenzo Thomas was ranked No. 2 in EIWAs at 184 pounds, and made a run all the way to the finals to have a rematch with Cornell’s No. 1, Gabe Dean . While Dean was able to defeat Thomas, 3-1, thanks to a controversial takedown, Thomas clinched an NCAA berth and will be No. 11 in Oklahoma City in his weightclass.

Meanwhile, senior Brad Wukie was the surprise of the weekend, de-feating No. 5 Brian Harvey of Army to get to the finals, where he was upended. Wukie will head to NCAAs as well, facing off with Pittsburgh’s No. 7 Tyler Wilps .

Sophomore Casey Kent had a sol-id showing at 165 pounds, making it to the semifinals. Kent lost two of his final three duals, but he came out with a bid to NCAAs thanks to a fourth-place finish. And while fresh-man Caleb Richardson lost both of his matches at EIWAs, he received an at-large bid to NCAA Champi-

onships at 125 pounds, where he will face the No. 9 ranked grappler, Wyoming’s Tyler Cox .

Sports Editor Riley Steele: I tip my hat to Mike McLaughlin and

the rest of the women’s basket-ball squad for a remarkable perfor-mance over break. But I think one definitely needs to take a look at the work of the Penn women’s lacrosse

team from the past two weekends.On the f ield, the Quakers took

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There was no game to be played. No points to be scored. No wins and losses.

Instead, Penn women’s basketball came out in full force to the Palestra,

looking to find out where it would be heading this weekend for the NCAA Tournament in Monday night’s Selec-tion Show.

The Quakers (22-6, 12-2 Ivy) received a No. 12 seed and will play No. 5 Texas in College Park, Md. The game is sched-uled for Sunday at 3:00 p.m. and will be broadcast on ESPN.

“Just seeing our name pop up was pretty amazing, pretty crazy,” senior captain Alyssa Baron said after watch-

ing the show with her teammates.The winner of the Penn-Texas match-

up will take on the winner of No. 4 Mary-land vs. No. 13 Army on Tuesday, with one of those four teams making the Sweet 16 in Louisville, Ky.

This will be the first time in program history that the Red and Blue will face the Longhorns (21-11, 11-7 Big 12), but Penn did face a tough schedule all sea-son to prepare for this point, including a matchup with No. 1 seed Notre Dame.

“I think playing those games shows that we can compete with anyone,” freshman center Sydney Stipanov-ich said. “Just having that experience makes us more confident.”

Coach Mike McLaughlin wasn’t as focused on Penn’s seeding and instead was simply happy to watch his players celebrate with fans at the Palestra.

“It’s a little quick to take that in,” he said. “I was more anxious to see the reaction of the players. I haven’t really

gotten that far yet but obviously being the 12 seed and hearing that it is the highest in the school’s history is a great accomplishment for the program.

The Longhorns finished fourth in the Big 12 this season, led in scoring and rebounding by junior forward Nneka En-emkpali . McLaughlin was candid after the watch party, saying he had already taken a peek at Texas.

a penn athletics springbreak

M. Golf Aiken, south carolina

Making their season debut, the Quakers finished dead last in a field of 18 at the Cleveland Palmetto Invitational. Leading the way for Penn was junior Ben Cooley, who finished in 76th place after posting a low round score of 78.

BaseballAnnapolis, marylandDover, DelawareRichmond, Virginia

Penn endured a rough trip throughout the Mid-Atlantic, dropping individual matchups against Navy, Towson and Monmouth and getting swept in a three-game set against Richmond. The Red and Blue did manage to sweep Delaware State in a doubleheader, putting up 21 runs in the process.

M. BasketballNew York CityIThaca, NEW YORKPRINCETON, NEW JERSEY

It was a bitter end to the careers of seniors Fran Dougherty, Miles Jackson-Cartwright, Cameron Gunter, Steve Rennard and Dau Jok, as the Red and Blue were blown out by Columbia and fell to Princeton in their finale, 80-75. Jok poured in 21 points to lift the Quakers to a 69-65 win over Cornell in their lone victory over the break. W. Lacrosse

New Haven, ConneCticut

The No. 12 Red and Blue got their Ivy title defense off to a good start, pushing aside Harvard and Yale by a combined six goals. The triumph over the Elis was coach Karin Brower Corbett’s school-record 152nd win as head coach of the Quakers, breaking Anne Sage’s mark.

M. LACROSSEVillanova, PEnnsylvaniaPrinceton, NEw JErsey

Despite splitting their two matches over break, the No. 13 Quakers are beginning to look like a serious Ivy contender. Penn put forth a spirited comeback in the fourth quarter to topple Villanova, 12-11, before surrendering 10 goals during the second and third quarters in a 15-12 loss to No. 12 Princeton.

W. BASKETBALLPRInCETON, NEW JERSEY

The Quakers punched their first NCAA Tournament ticket in a decade in emphatic fashion, racing out to a 17-point lead over heavily-favored Princeton before holding on late in an 80-64 triumph. Four players scored in double figures for the Ivy champions, including venerable senior captain Alyssa Baron, who poured in 23 points.

SOFTBALLORLANDOTAMPA, FLORIDA

The Quakers’ quest to defend their Ivy League title began in Florida, as Penn dropped four of five games in Orlando at the UCF Spring Fling and split six contests at Tampa’s USF Under Armour Showcase. Penn won games against teams from four different conferences over the week.

TRACK AND FIELDTAMPA, FLORIDAalbuquerque, New Mexico

Indoor season wrapped up nicely for senior high jumper Maalik Reynolds, who posted a 10th place finish at the NCAA Championships in Albuquerque, NM with a final cleared height of 2.15 meters. Meanwhile, the rest of the team got the outdoor season off to a strong start at the USF Open in Tampa, FL.

W. Rowinggainesville, georgia

The Quakers began gearing up for a competitive season by heading south, jetting off to Gainesville, GA for their annual spring break training excursion. Penn opens the spring season against St. Joe’s and George Washington on Saturday.

M. TEnnisSanta barbaraSan Diegosan luis obispoirvine, california

A trip out west to California did not treat Penn kindly, as the Red and Blue dropped three of four matches after beating Temple at home on Mar. 9. The Quakers’ home sweep over their Big Five rivals was particularly dominant, as Penn dropped only two sets to the Owls.

w. tennisPalm springsirvine, california

The women’s team, however, was California dreaming, winning two of three matches on the West Coast over break. Penn handled Rhode Island and Gonzaga by identical 5-2 margins before suffering a narrow 4-3 defeat to UC Irvine.

BY DP SPORTS EDITORS

THE BUZZ: ROUNDTABLE

From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ

What was the top moment for the Quakers over break?

W. HOOPS | Quakers heading to College Park, Md. on Sunday for first round of Tournament

BY STEVEN TYDINGSSenior Sports Editor

SEE W. HOOPS PAGE 9

No. 12 seeded Penn facing Texas in Big Dance

Luke Chen/Senior Staff Photographer

Wrestling at the Penn-hosted EIWA championships over spring break, sophomore Casey Kent put together a solid performance. The 165-pounder wrestled his way into the semifinals at his weightclass and earned a fourth-place finish, good enough for a bid to the NCAA Championships.

SEE ROUNDTABLE PAGE 9

Graphic by Jenny Lu

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