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THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Editorial (215) 898-6585 • Business (215) 898-6581 Visit us online at theDP.com Send story ideas to [email protected] ‘TITANIUM’ DJ TO ‘PLAY HARD’ AT FLING College junior creating ‘the no-stress black dress’ U. effort to promote innovation reflects larger trend Barack Obama talks about it. Amy Gutmann talks about it. Inno- vation has become a buzzword both in government and at universities. “There’s a big move within uni- versities on how to create a differ- ent career path for our students around entrepreneurship and startups,” Penn Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli said. He listed the innovation commu- nity at Drexel University, Stanford University’s StartX and Harvard University’s innovation lab as just a few examples. As a part of the Penn Compact 2020, the future Pennovation Cen- ter at the South Bank will be a hub for technology and innovation. The Center is not the University’s first venture into supporting new ideas. The Weiss Tech House, a student- run hub, provides educational pro- grams and resources for students as they explore and develop their technologies. Universities across the country are making similar efforts to foster innovation and entrepreneurship. Courses and Degrees in Innovation Some universities are answer- ing the demand for an increased knowledge of innovation by offering courses and degrees in entrepre- neurship. The University of Colora- do’s Innovation and Entrepreneur Degree Program offers a Bachelor of Innovation degree that offers an alternative to a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree. Ma- BY FOLA ONIFADE Staff Writer Picture the scene at any social event: people dancing, mingling, but most of all — sweating, right through their polyester party attire. College junior Sanibel Chai is out to change that. Chai and her co-founder and high school friend Liz Lian are launching their com- pany WICK to create party wear for women made from the same moisture-wicking fabrics of yoga clothes. While WICK is still waiting for its first batch of fabric to be de- livered, interested buyers can sign up on its website to be in the know when WICK’s cloth- ing becomes available. “Why don’t we just adopt the fabric from active wear and make it into dresses?” Chai said. Chai and Lian first de- veloped their business plan when Lian returned home from a particularly sweaty outdoor event last summer. It is beyond just banishing sweaty dresses, though. The co-founders aim to eliminate the VPL — or visible panty line — and the hassle of wear- ing a stick-on bra, as well as Courtesy of Injee Unshin College junior Sanibel Chai and a high school friend founded WICK, a clothing company designed to manufacture party apparel that will banish hassles such as sweat stains and panty lines. The company’s clothes will be made from moisture-wicking fabric BY JENNIFER WRIGHT Contributing Writer Office of Student Conduct investigates Theta Penn’s Kappa Alpha Theta soror- ity is currently under investigation by the Office of Student Conduct. The sorority, better known as The- ta, was notified by OSC on Valen- tine’s Day that the office would begin investigating the sorority, according to Theta president and College junior Jane Bender. Members hope the in- vestigation will be over by end of the semester, Bender said, although she does not know when the investigation will end. The investigation has indefinitely postponed the initiation of Theta’s current pledge class. “Everyone’s upset,” Bender said. She declined to comment on why Theta is being investigated. OSC Director Michele Goldfarb declined to comment on whether there currently is an investigation. “The Office of Student Conduct nei- ther confirms, nor denies, the exis- tence of any investigations,” she said in an emailed statement. OSC has given few details about the investigation, Bender said. She has not been notified of the specifics of the complaint that initiated the investigation. OSC and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life are overseeing the investigation. OFSL Director Scott Reikofski declined to comment on the investigation. The investigation has postponed the initiation of Theta’s pledge class indefinitely BY MELISSA LAWFORD Staff Writer SEE WICK PAGE 5 SEE INNOVATION PAGE 6 SEE THETA PAGE 6 This year’s Spring Fling headliner is better than gold — he’s “Titanium.” Multi-Grammy award winning artist and pro- ducer David Guetta will be headlining Spring Fling on April 11, the Social Planning and Events Committee revealed last night at a climactic unveiling in Perelman Quadrangle. Concert committee members held up posters reading “Girl Talk,” last year’s headliner, before flipping them around to reveal David Guetta’s name, while speakers blasted his hit song “Ti- tanium,” Fling will the first private college performance of Guetta’s career, according to SPEC Co-Direc- tor and College senior Ben Yang. “I wanted to get somebody that no other college has brought [in for students] — that definitely stood out,” he said. The student population has been asking for this and have rumored about this artist each year.” Students attending the reveal responded to SPEC’s choice with cheers and excitement. “What’s awesome is that everyone on Penn’s campus knows at least three of David Guetta’s songs. It’s a testament to the awesomeness of SPEC and its directors,” College freshman Ra- chel Erani said after the announcement. SEE FLING PAGE 5 DAVID GUETTA SPEC announced the choice at an event Thursday night in Perelman Quad BY KRISTEN GRABARZ Staff Writer Courtesy of Angel MG /Creative Commons FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2014

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THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSIT Y OF PENNSYLVANIA

Editorial (215) 898-6585 • Business (215) 898-6581 Visit us online at theDP.com Send story ideas to [email protected]

FRONT1

‘TITANIUM’ DJ TO ‘PLAY HARD’ AT FLING

College junior creating ‘the no-stress black dress’

U. effort to promote

innovation reflects

larger trend

Barack Obama talks about it. Amy Gutmann talks about it. Inno-vation has become a buzzword both in government and at universities.

“There’s a big move within uni-versities on how to create a differ-ent career path for our students around entrepreneurship and startups,” Penn Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli said. He listed the innovation commu-nity at Drexel University, Stanford University’s StartX and Harvard University’s innovation lab as just a few examples.

As a part of the Penn Compact 2020, the future Pennovation Cen-ter at the South Bank will be a hub for technology and innovation. The Center is not the University’s first venture into supporting new ideas. The Weiss Tech House, a student-run hub, provides educational pro-grams and resources for students as they explore and develop their technologies.

Universities across the country are making similar efforts to foster innovation and entrepreneurship.

Courses and Degrees in InnovationSome universities are answer-

ing the demand for an increased knowledge of innovation by offering courses and degrees in entrepre-neurship. The University of Colora-do’s Innovation and Entrepreneur Degree Program offers a Bachelor of Innovation degree that offers an alternative to a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree. Ma-

BY FOLA ONIFADEStaff Writer

Picture the scene at any social event: people dancing, mingling, but most of all — sweating, right through their polyester party attire. College junior Sanibel Chai is out to change that.

Chai and her co-founder and high school friend Liz Lian are launching their com-pany WICK to create party wear for women made from the same moisture-wicking fabrics of yoga clothes. While WICK is still waiting for its first batch of fabric to be de-livered, interested buyers can sign up on its website to be in the know when WICK’s cloth-ing becomes available.

“Why don’t we just adopt the fabric from active wear

and make it into dresses?” Chai said.

Chai and Lian f irst de-veloped their business plan when Lian returned home from a particularly sweaty outdoor event last summer.

It is beyond just banishing sweaty dresses, though. The co-founders aim to eliminate the VPL — or visible panty line — and the hassle of wear-ing a stick-on bra, as well as

Courtesy of Injee Unshin

College junior Sanibel Chai and a high school friend founded WICK, a clothing company designed to manufacture party apparel that will banish hassles such as sweat stains and panty lines.

The company’s clothes will be made from

moisture-wicking fabric BY JENNIFER WRIGHT

Contributing Writer

Office of Student Conduct

investigates Theta

Penn’s Kappa Alpha Theta soror-ity is currently under investigation by the Office of Student Conduct.

The sorority, better known as The-ta, was notified by OSC on Valen-tine’s Day that the office would begin investigating the sorority, according to Theta president and College junior Jane Bender. Members hope the in-vestigation will be over by end of the semester, Bender said, although she does not know when the investigation will end.

The investigation has indefinitely postponed the initiation of Theta’s current pledge class. “Everyone’s upset,” Bender said. She declined to comment on why Theta is being investigated.

OSC Director Michele Goldfarb declined to comment on whether there currently is an investigation. “The Office of Student Conduct nei-ther confirms, nor denies, the exis-tence of any investigations,” she said in an emailed statement.

OSC has given few details about the investigation, Bender said. She has not been notified of the specifics of the complaint that initiated the investigation.

OSC and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life are overseeing the investigation. OFSL Director Scott Reikofski declined to comment on the investigation.

The investigation has postponed the initiation of

Theta’s pledge class indefinitelyBY MELISSA LAWFORD

Staff Writer

SEE WICK PAGE 5 SEE INNOVATION PAGE 6SEE THETA PAGE 6

This year’s Spring Fling headliner is better than gold — he’s “Titanium.”

Multi-Grammy award winning artist and pro-ducer David Guetta will be headlining Spring Fling on April 11, the Social Planning and Events Committee revealed last night at a climactic unveiling in Perelman Quadrangle.

Concert committee members held up posters reading “Girl Talk,” last year’s headliner, before

flipping them around to reveal David Guetta’s name, while speakers blasted his hit song “Ti-tanium,”

Fling will the first private college performance of Guetta’s career, according to SPEC Co-Direc-tor and College senior Ben Yang.

“I wanted to get somebody that no other college has brought [in for students] — that definitely stood out,” he said. The student population has

been asking for this and have rumored about this artist each year.”

Students attending the reveal responded to SPEC’s choice with cheers and excitement.

“What’s awesome is that everyone on Penn’s campus knows at least three of David Guetta’s songs. It’s a testament to the awesomeness of SPEC and its directors,” College freshman Ra-chel Erani said after the announcement.

SEE FLING PAGE 5

DAVID GUETTA‘TITANIUM’ DJ TO ‘PLAY HARD’ AT FLING

DAVID GUETTA‘TITANIUM’ DJ TO ‘PLAY HARD’ AT FLING

DAVID GUETTA

SPEC announced the choice at an event Thursday night in Perelman QuadBY KRISTEN GRABARZ

Staff Writer

Courtesy of Angel MG/Creative Commons

DAVID GUETTA‘TITANIUM’ DJ TO ‘PLAY HARD’ AT FLING

DAVID GUETTA‘TITANIUM’ DJ TO ‘PLAY HARD’ AT FLING

DAVID GUETTA

FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2014

PAGE 2 FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2014 THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIANNEWS

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A Qtopian paradise: QPenn returns to campusIt’s time for QPenn again.Sunday marks the start of

the annual celebration of LG-BTQIA culture at Penn.

This year’s theme for the week of events is “Qtopia”, the idea of working toward “a more perfect world of ac-ceptance and letting people really express their identities with all the wonderful intri-cacy and diversity that those include,” College sophomore and QPenn co-chair Andre Ficerai said.

“There needs to be some sort of perfect world that you’re always constantly striv-ing for in order to critique the society you’re currently in to make it a better place,” Col-lege sophomore and QPenn f inancial chair David Lai added.

Each constituent group of the Lambda Alliance works with the eight-person QPenn board to plan an event for the week. Several organizations that aren’t part of the Lambda Alliance will also participate, including groups for graduate students, alumni and faculty, Ficerai said.

“I think it’s really exciting because it’s an opportunity

for people to get involved if they haven’t been involved before and it’s very much like a showcase, I would say, for the community,” College ju-nior and Lamba Alliance chair Dawn Androphy said.

There is a wide range of pro-gramming set for the week, in-cluding events that will appeal to LGBTQ faculty at Penn as well as students, Ficerai said

Some organizations are

also collaborating on events, like the Wharton Alliance and J-Bagel, who are host-ing Queer Quizzo to bring to-gether different parts of the queer community “for some casual queer fun,” College and Wharton junior and president of the Wharton Alliance Frank Wolf said.

QPenn will kick off with the opening of “Proclaim-ing Pride,” an exhibit at the

LGBT Center looking back on 40 years of LGBT history at Penn, starting with the found-ing of the first LGBT student organization in 1973 at Penn, Director of the LGBT Center Bob Schoenberg said.

T ue s d ay w i l l f e at u r e QPenn’s keynote speaker La-verne Cox, a actress, writer, producer and transgender ac-tivist who plays Sophia Burset on the TV show “Orange is the

New Black.”Last year’s keynote speaker

for QPenn was Janet Mock, another well known writer and transgender activist.

“Right now they’re probably the two most famous trans women in the country and I think it’s really cool that Penn has brought both of these amazing women to this cam-pus,” Androphy said. “It re-ally shows that Penn is on the

forefront of bringing engaging LGBTQ speakers to campus.”

The Pennsylvania Youth Ac-tion Conference, which took place at Penn in February, focused on transgender jus-tice and included speaking events about the transgender community.

Schoenberg said he has no-ticed a pattern of increased attention to the transgen-der population both on cam-pus and on a national scale. “There’s definitely and de-servedly a greater amount of attention to the needs of non-cisgendered people,” he said.

In addition to being a “pride booster” for the LGBTQ com-munity on campus, Ficerai said QPenn is also collabo-rating with 15 other student groups that are unrelated to queer culture.

“I think this year particu-larly it’s adding a lot of visibil-ity for a lot of Penn students outside the community,” he said.

Ficerai hopes that QPenn sparks a dialogue about LG-BTQ issues that continues even after the event. “This week really exhibits all of the wonderful identities that the queer community has to offer and we don’t want it to stop there,” he said.

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Wharton professor talks corporations’ legal rightsCorporations are persons,

but not people.Last night, legal studies

and business ethics professor Eric W. Orts tackled this is-sue at an event co-sponsored by the Penn Undergraduate Law Journal and the Ben-jamin Franklin Scholars Program. In his presenta-tion entitled “The Future of Corporate Personhood in American Law,” Orts, a

Guardsmark endowed pro-fessor, examined theories of the firm, its legal foundations and Supreme Court cases in-volving Citizens United and Hobby Lobby.

Orts’ lecture discussed especial ly relevant legal business questions that ex-ist today, such as whether firms have religious liberties and how far the Constitution should apply Bill of Rights protections to corporations. Orts is the author of “Busi-

ness Persons: A Legal Theory of the Firm,” a book published last year that examines the legal framework of business-es. He discussed parts of his new book throughout the pre-sentation.

In his lecture, Orts said that economic theories are used too often when describ-ing businesses, adding that law should play a more promi-nent role instead.

“Law is fundamental to un-derstanding what the busi-

ness is,” he said.Orts also proposed three

main legal theories of the firm — the concession, par-ticipant and institutional the-ories. The concession theory is top-down view where politi-cal states allow firms to exist, while the participant theory is a bottom-up view where firms rest on individual people who run them. The institutional theory is an intermediate view where corporations are run by individuals but adhere

to legal rules.Orts also described corpo-

rations as “real fictions.” He said that although corpora-tions do not exist in the physi-cal sense, the law recognizes their existence and enforces their contracts. The nature of business is thus a man-made construct that can be changed over time, similar to the no-tion of countries, he added.

“Corporations are just as real as the United States of America is real,” he said.

Continuing on this theme, Orts said that even though business firms are actually relatively new from a histori-cal perspective, they have already established them-selves as clear legal entities. Whether they are persons with guaranteed Constitu-tional rights, however, is de-batable, he added.

At the end of the lecture, Orts said that he may discuss these issues further in a new legal studies course.

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SPEC-TRUM hosts hip hop artists

As the Social Planning and Events Committee reveals the final details for this year’s Spring Fling, one of the orga-nization’s sub-committees — SPEC-TRUM — is preparing to bring three of hip hop’s rising stars to campus next month.

SPEC-TRUM announced this week that on April 5 it will be presenting “The Owl

Pharoah Beach Honeymoon Concert,” a show featuring hip hop artists Topaz Jones, Travis Scott and TY$.

One of the main reasons that SPEC-TRUM selected this particular trio of mu-sicians was their ability to appeal to a broad range of students with different tastes in music.

“In today’s pop culture, it would be hard to say that things aren’t diving into hip hop in one way or another,” said Wharton senior and SPEC-TRUM Co-Director Evan Booker. “We didn’t want to bring in artists who just appeal to minorities — we

wanted artists who have ap-peal across a wide span of demographics.”

Booker added that SPEC-TRUM usually aims to find up-and-coming musicians who demonstrate that they will “have some value in the future.” This strategy has certainly been a success in previous years — Miguel, The Roots and Kanye West are just a few performers that headlined SPEC-TRUM con-certs early on in their careers.

The three acts for SPEC-TRUM’s upcoming event have been displaying their cutting-edge talent as of late: Travis Scott is currently tour-

ing with rapper Juicy J, Topaz Jones released his free album “The Honeymoon Suite” on the internet in January and TY$ will be the musical guest on “The Tonight Show Star-ring Jimmy Fallon” on Friday night.

Tickets for the SPEC-TRUM concert, which will take place at 7 p.m. in Harri-son Auditorium at the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthro-pology, will be available on Locust Walk and online at upennspec.ticketleap.com starting this Monday. Tickets will cost $15 for Penn ID hold-ers and $20 for non-students.

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Last night, SPEC announced David Guetta as the Spring Fling headliner in Perelman Quad. Before revealing Guetta as the Fling artist, they held up a sign reading Girl Talk.

Sara GreenbergGreenberg directed and produced B-2247: A Granddaughter’s Understanding, a film that shared the story of her grandparents, both Holo-caust survivors. She has worked with non-profits including the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, the Anti-Defamation League and the Jerusa-lem Center for Public Affairs, and is on the Hong Kong Holocaust and Tolerance Resource Center board. Greenberg is pursuing a joint degree in business administration and public policy from Harvard University, where she is also a Harvard Hillel board member.

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Dr. Charles JacobsDr. Jacobs is head of Americans for Peace and Tolerance, which he co-founded in late 2008. Jacobs also co-founded The David Project Center for Jewish Leadership in 2002, which he led until July 2008. Jacobs is also co-founder of the American Anti-Slavery Group (1994), which campaigns against slavery worldwide, and co-chair of The Sudan Campaign (2000), a coalition calling for an end to slavery in Sudan. Dr. Jacobs has appeared on the major U.S. television networks, on National Public Radio and has been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal.

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This time last year, Penn (along with the rest of the higher education community) was

anxiously awaiting the deci-sion of a Supreme Court case that had the potential to se-riously alter current admis-sions practices: Fischer v. University of Texas.

At the time, there seemed to be a lot at stake in the pending decision. Opponents of race-conscious affirma-tive action thought that the practice would finally and rightfully be put to an end. Proponents worr ied that if this were to happen, the campuses of selective col-leges and universities would become significantly less di-verse, as would the ranks of those who occupy spaces of leadership and power as the result of their elite education.

The Court’s ruling lef t race-conscious practices untouched, and the world re-mained intact. But last fall,

the Supreme Court accepted a new, more obscure chal-lenge to affirmative action: The justices agreed to decide whether or not state voters could ban race-conscious af-firmative action via the refer-endum process.

Now, I’ve come to see that race-based affirmative action is not the panacea most pro-ponents seem to think it is. Dogmatically clinging to such policies not only obscures our understanding of how they ac-tually work, but also ignores the pressing need to reevalu-ate and update them. The mechanisms that produce structural inequality today are different from those of 50 years ago, and our efforts to address them need to reflect this evolution.

Born in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement, race-conscious policies were said to uphold equality of opportu-nity, prevent discrimination, redress disadvantages asso-ciated with historical discrim-

ination and help to insure that public institutions accurately reflected the diversity of the communities they serve.

As President Lyndon John-son said in 1965, “You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring up to the starting line of a race and then say you are free to com-pete with all the others.”

Race-conscious affirma-tive action in education and employment has always been controversial, and over the pas 50 years its definition and utilization have been

more carefully defined and restricted. In the late 1970s, explicit quota systems were deemed unconstitutional, and in 2003, point systems were as well.

Currently the consideration of race is constitutional so long as it allows institutions to enroll a “critical mass” of underrepresented students if they consider doing so an institutional priority; the Fischer case reaffirmed this decision.

Most arguments against race-conscious affirmative action do not really hold wa-ter. Compared to underrep-resented minorities, students who benefit from athletic and legacy affirmative action pro-grams are more likely to leave school and have lower grades.

Race-conscious affirma-tive action beneficiaries at selective institutions are more likely to graduate from college than are their peers at less selective institutions. There are also not enough

underrepresented minority students admitted under such programs so that significant numbers of seats are actually “taken away” from white and Asian applicants.

But race-conscious affir-mative policies today have become too dislodged from the provision of opportunity to those who truly lack access. Affirmative action played a great role in the expansion of a black middle class, but today it’s most beneficial to those in a position to take advantage — students who come from more affluent families.

Numerous articles have shown that large numbers of students enrolled in selective institutions that identify as black are not African-Amer-ican (who affirmative action was designed for) but Carib-bean or African, who statisti-cally are more educated and aff luent than the average American.

Discussions about diversity have become disconnected

from those of opportunity and inequality. Diversity right-fully seeks to celebrate dif-ferences, and over the past half-century, numerous cat-egories of difference have come to be celebrated: race, gender, geographic location, sexual orientation and socio-economic status.

Under our current concep-tion of diversity, looming and growing disparities are not a problem as long as those at the top come in all the right shades and hues. As it stands now, affirmative action abets in the reproduction of such inequalities.

ABEL MCDANIELS is a College sophomore from Lawrenceville, N.J. His email is [email protected].

On campus, we must speak with p o l i t ic a l c o r -ectness. Can’t of fend anyone,

right? It is the same mantra of being sensitive to the vari-ous cultures on campus. My problem is this: If it is impor-tant to be sensitive to differ-ent cultures on campus, why do I, as a religious Jewish student, feel marginalized in my college experience?

When I go to an event ad-vertising food, do I think, like others in my cohort, “Oh, pizza! Yum?” The answer is no. My first thought is, “Is it worthwhile going to this event when I cannot eat any-thing here because I keep kosher?” I know I am not the only one who feels this way.

People who are vegetarian, are allergic to certain foods or have other dietary restric-tions feel the same way as I do. This may seem small, but when you are constantly unable to eat food at events, socializing becomes uncom-fortable when people start inquiring as to why you are not eating; explaining that I cannot eat the food served because it is not kosher tends to elicit the inquiry as to why there is no kosher food pro-vided at the event.

If this was just a food prob-lem, I would probably stay quiet . Yet the structural marginalization continues, which is why I speak up. Penn’s policy on religious and secular holidays is to give students the possibility

of making up missed work, to not have exams or assigned work on the more observed and wel l-k nown hol idays

and, for less well known and observed holidays, to let pro-fessors know at the begin-ning of the semester that we have to take off for the other less known holidays as well. Some professors are great

about letting me miss classes for the second day of Pass-over and some professors ask if I am making up holi-days to get out of class. Some of my professors are great at remembering to postpone due dates, and other profes-sors forgot about the clause of not assigning work to be due on the holidays. I should not have to defend my need of missing class due to my religious observance.

My point of contention with this process is the process itself. Asking for time of f from class when I am spend-ing nearly $50,000 a year in order to get an education is marginalizing. Why am I at a disadvantage in my educa-tion for missing classes due to my religious observance? There are other students, who, in fear of missing class time, sacrifice their holiday

celebration for going to class. I should not be placed in the position of choosing between my religious practices and my education, nor should others.

Yet hope is not lost. It is possible to create smal l changes at Penn that will make more students feel more accepted. At events, when food is offered, pres-ent a kosher, vegetar ian and/or gluten-free option for students with food restric-tions. Similarly, in order to prevent students from need-ing to explain why they need to take time off from class to celebrate a religious holiday, the administration should not only send out a reminder email about policies on re-ligious holidays, but should also offer a seminar for pro-fessors to both learn about the different religious holi-

days and to be sensitive to students who ask to be ex-cused from class due to re-ligious observance. Lastly, for the holidays on which stu-dents, such as myself, will be missing class, professors could record their lecture and offer that lecture to stu-dents who missed class.

With the next wave of holidays approaching, I ask for professors and students a l ike to d isplay cultural sensitivity toward those cel-ebrating religious holidays and for recognition that be-ing politically correct means being sensitive to dietary re-strictions and religious prac-tices.

SHANA FRENKEL is a master’s student in the School of Social Policy & Practice from Silver Spring, Md. Her email address is [email protected].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Theta’s national head-quarters are being “kept in the loop throughout,” Bender said. The national chapter’s Director of Communications Liz Rinck declined to com-ment. “The issue ... is private

between the University and Kappa Alpha Theta and our chapter,” she said.

According to the Charter of the University of Pennsyl-vania’s Disciplinary System, OSC assesses the validity of a complaint through interviews and consultation of docu-ments and computer records.

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jors in the program include computer science, electrical engineering and business ad-ministration.

Such programs are still rel-atively new and face the issue of accreditation. “The Inno-vative and Entrepreneurial University,” a document by the United States Depart-ment of Commerce, forecasts the accreditation and expan-sion of these programs.

The Skandalaris Center Internship Program at Wash-ington University in St. Louis offers a student internship program that offers 25 paid internships to students who get involved with a start-up company and participate in workshops. The program be-gan offering internships for growth companies — former start-ups which exhibit po-tential — in 2013 as well.

Innovation Spaces

Other universities have taken the “two heads are bet-ter than one approach” by developing communities that foster innovation.

Harvard’s innovation lab, or i-lab, was started in 2011 and provides any Harvard student who wishes to pursue a venture or start-up with resources, educational pro-gramming and opportunities for collaboration.

The i-lab also promotes a less structured environment that encourages “learning by doing” in an experiential set-ting. Students can participate in hack labs, immersion trips and challenges.

CollaborationsStanford’s StartX is a non-

profit organization created in 2011 that creates a commu-nity of founders and entrepre-neurs who can learn and work together. StartX’s Accelerator Program requires no fees and takes no equity, but it is sup-ported through foundation grants and corporate partner-ships. It provides founders with need-based stipends for housing and meal expenses. Founders within the program also receive mentors who help them grow their companies.

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Penn group’s symposium thinks about Ukraine

The second-ever Penn-orga-nized European Think Tank Summit addressed the Ukrai-nian crisis over spring break.

Penn’s Think Tanks and Civ-il Societies Program brought representatives from 38 think tanks across 21 countries to a conference in Barcelona that took place between March 10 and 12. In light of recent developments in Europe, the schedule of the summit was changed to open with a focus on the Ukrainian crisis.

The summit opened with a panel discussion titled “Per-spectives on the Current Eco-nomic, Political and Security Crisis in Ukraine,” between representatives from the Ukrainian and Russian think tanks in attendance.

A representative from a Ukrainian think tank said

that Russia had undermined Ukrainian sovereignty and ar-gued the necessity of demili-tarization and a legal solution regarding Crimea. A Russian think tank representative ar-gued that the situation is not a conflict between Russia and the Ukraine, but Russia and the European Union.

Russian think tank repre-sentatives described this con-flict as rooted in the 1990s, stemming from the West’s ob-sessive fear of the creation of a new Russian empire.

The discussion provided a “more on-the-ground view-point,” said 2011 College gradu-ate and Transatlantic Fellow at the German Ecologic Institute Sydney Baloue. The discussion also “showed how think tanks can act as a hallmark of open society and greater dialogue,” she added.

TTCSP director James McGann also outlined the conversation’s importance in demonstrating the role think tanks can play in the “eye of the crisis.” He said the debate was a “heated exchange, but

reasoned” and “very valuable.” He added that the two Russian and Ukrainian think tank rep-resentatives sat next to each other amicably on the bus the following day.

The conference, which had a total of 67 participants, consist-ed of six discussion sessions and addressed many other

issues relating to the role of think tanks in Europe.

College senior and TTCSP intern Fadwa Kingsbury ex-plained that one key emphasis of conversation was on think tank networking. Due to the problem that many think tanks compete for funding on a na-tional level, the conversation

explored new emphases on international cooperation.

Another key point of dis-cussion was the balancing act think tanks face between conducting in-depth research and needing to respond very quickly to developments, such as the Ukrainian crisis, Kings-bury said.

Areas that think tanks agreed should be prioritized were diversification, identify-ing best practices and mobiliz-ing resources, McGann said. Emphasis was also placed on engaging policy makers and the public and increasing im-pact, he added.

Several propositions were made following these ideas. Plans for European Union commissioners to attend parts of future summits are now be-ing developed, for example, Kingsbury said.

She added that the think tanks also discussed develop-ing a legal framework for the organization, such as exists currently in Israel, to increase government involvement with think tanks.

Another key challenge dis-cussed was how think tanks can appeal and attract young-er people, College senior and TTCSP intern Kali Hamilton said.

The summit was “a way of enhancing diplomatic ties in a less conventional way,” Baloue said.

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An opinion column by Deborah Raiees-Dana in John Brown University's student paper the ‘Threefold’ wrote a column titled "Rethink Yoga" that sought to to highlight the place of yoga in American culture. The author claimed that the meditation form "has its roots in the worship of demonic Hindu gods." The Hindu community, upset and offended, urged the University to take action. So far, The Arkansas university’s president Dr. Charles Pollard has not apologized, and the column has not been removed from the online edition. While Dana's position within the University is not revealed, a response article by Rajan Zed described her as a tutoring coordinator for Student Support Services.

Cornell University Georgetown UniversityYale UniversityJohn Brown UniversityYale University suspended all funding, credit and scholarship to undergraduate summer activities in Uganda following the countries' recent passage of anti-gay legislation. Administrators say that the suspension is to ensure undergraduate students' safety rather than to protest the law. Administrators believed that the enthusiasm in Uganda behind the legislation was cause for caution and uncertainty about how the law would be enforced against foreigners.

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The Cornell Daily Sun reported that reports of sexual assault at the University had risen to a 23-year high. From 1990-2007, the university average three reports of sexual assault per year. In 2012, there were 17. Administrators credited the rise to awareness campaigns and university efforts to educate the community on sexual assault and considered it a positive indication of successful education. Now students who had once chosen to be silent are receiving the support they needed, they argued.

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four games.“It just gives us a lot of ex-

perience playing those high caliber teams, especially Notre Dame, who is a No. 1 seed and a possible contender for the ti-tle,” Baron said, “and then the Big 5 games. Those are always tough competition as well.

“So I think it just prepares us, knowing that we can go in and play against some top teams.”

And the Quakers also have postseason success on their re-sume, having won two games in last year’s Women’s Basketball Invitational to cap off a strong season.

“Playing last year in the WBI also prepared us for this, knowing that if we lose, then our season is done,” Baron said. “That is just extra moti-vation, and we don’t want to be done yet.”

In the WBI, Baron provided the Quakers with a signature moment, hitting a buzzer-beat-ing three-pointer to defeat Fair-field, 49-48, at the Palestra.

Yet Penn’s captain isn’t looking for something quite as dramatic in the NCAA Tourna-ment and simply is looking for a victory.

“Hopefully not,” she said. “That was a little nerve-wrack-ing and it’s funny because last year that happened on my mom’s birthday and this Sun-day is her birthday again so she was asking me [if I had any plans to do it again].

“Hopefully it won’t be too nerve-wracking at the end of the game but we still get the win.”

W. HOOPS from page 10

Penn using last year’s playoff experience

Rain, rain, gone away for Quakers

QuakersGamedaySunday vs Texas

THE EDGEThe Quakers face off against the Longhorns — who’s got the advantage?

OFFENSE: The Longhorns average over 35 percent from three-point range and are just as solid in the post, dominating the boards. Edge goes to Texas.

Advantage: PENN

DEFENSE: Texas has been solid on the defensive end this year, allowing

59.7 points per game. But the Quakers led the Ivy League in scoring defense and freshman center Sydney Stipanovich is a difference maker in the post.

Advantage: PENN

OVERALL: Penn has the better record between the two squads but Texas

is the No. 5 seed for a reason. The Longhorns are battle-tested this season and they will be favored on Sunday.

Advantage: PENN

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THEY SAID IT“What I said last year was definitely true, that we are a team to be looked out for.”

— On Penn in the NCAA Tournament

Alyssa BaronPenn guard

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Coach Mike McLaughlin has led Penn women’s basketball to its third Ivy League title and NCAA Tournament appearance in program history, going 22-6 this year.

Despite a schedule full of daunting opponents, Penn softball’s f iercest competi-tor thus far in the 2013-2014 season has been the weather.

First, the Quakers’ home opener aga i nst St . Joe’s on March 3 was postponed because of heavy snowfall. Later, due to torrential down-pours on Tuesday, Penn (4-7) was only able to squeeze in two innings against Lehigh.

Ironically, when the Red and Blue were finally able to catch some sun, they strug-gled, dropping four of f ive games at the UCF Spring Fling in Orlando, Fla., before splitting six contests at the USF Under Armour Show-case in Tampa.

The Red and Blue are hop-ing to catch a break from Mother Nature as they finally make up for opening day’s postponement in a double-header against St. Joe’s (13-12) on Sunday at Penn Park. If Penn can get through all 14 innings of play, it will be

Penn’s first full doubleheader of the season at home.

According to coach Leslie King, the team spent most of its Florida training trip “[building up] the stamina that you need for a college Di-vision I doubleheader . That’s something the freshmen have never experienced.”

That is especially pertinent this year, given that 10 of the team’s 21 players are from the class of 2017.

The games mark one of the last chances the Quakers will have to whip their game into shape before Ivy League play

begins in earnest, as Ancient Eight doubleheaders begin on March 28. King expects the Hawks to be an adequate test for her squad.

“They are athletic, they pitch well , they f ield well , t h e y h i t w e l l , t h e y a r e coached well and that’s what we expect out of them every year,” she said.

In Penn’s last meeting with the Hawks, the Quakers fell 5-0 in a particularly rough af-ternoon . Star pitcher Alexis Borden picked up the loss de-spite striking out four batters and surrendering just one earned run in five innings. However, King is not discour-aged by the path of history.

“If we could win one game against them or even sweep them, that would be a state-ment,” she said.

The Red and Blue certainly have the defensive talent to pull off such a win. Just con-sider Borden’s performance thus far: In just six games she has already racked up an impressive 49 strikeouts, not surprising given her sta-tus as the program’s all-time strikeouts leader.

King notes that Penn’s of-fense, on the other hand, is still a work in progress. “We just have to continue to de-velop good quality at bats. We need to have a plan when we go in the batters box.”

The Red and Blue have made a plan beyond the bat-ters box as well, and that plan is to win.

SOFTBALL | After postponements, Penn

all set for its home opener vs. St. Joe’s

BY LAINE HIGGINSStaff Writer

Patrick Hulce/DP File Photo

Penn pitcher Alexis Borden will have to deal with a tough St. Joseph’s lineup this weekend when she takes the

Penn to take on newfound rival

Some games are decided by just talent; others, by coaching as well.

Georgetown tennis coach Gord ie Er nst hopes h is squad’s upcoming match with Penn is defined by the former.

“If it comes down to the players, I like our chances, but if it comes down to coach-ing, I’m in trouble,” he said jokingly.

Ernst’s light demeanor re-veals how comfortable he feels around Penn men’s tennis (3-8). And he should — after all, he coached it from 1998-2000.

“It’s always a bit nostalgic

and bittersweet to go back,” he said of past trips up to Philly to play the Quakers. “It’s where I started my career.”

Since Er nst took over Georgetown (5-7) in 2006, the two programs have gotten a lot closer. Before his arrival, the two teams had not faced off against each other in re-cent memory. Since then, they’ve met four times.

“I knew Mark [Riley] who took over after me, and obvi-ously I know Dave Geatz very well,” Ernst said, referring to Penn’s current coach. “When you have the relations, and you’re in close proximity ... it’s a no-brainer . We’re both look-ing for good matches.”

But there’s one thing that’s

been missing in those match-es for Ernst: a win. Two of the four times, his Hoyas have made it close, losing by a slim 4-3 margin, but they’ve nev-er been able to close out the Quakers.

“ T he f i r st match was tough,” he said, harkening back to the 07-08 season. “It came down to the last match ... my guy had [Penn’s Adam Schwartz] seven set points. 16-14 in the breaker, Adam beat him, and then went on to win the second set.”

“That hurt,” he added.Just last season, Penn

again edged out Georgetown for a narrow 4-3 win. Down three matches to one, the Red and Blue rallied to take the last three and capped their win off as then-fresh-man Vim De Alwis — whom Ernst tried to recruit to no avail — won a come-from-be-hind three-set match against Shane Korber.

There could very well be a dramatic rematch for De Alwis and Korber, as both ath-letes have played at the No. 2 position this year.

This time around, Ernst will have a little home court advantage — for the f irst time, Penn will travel down to D.C. to try to tame the Hoyas while coming off of a 1-3 spring break excursion to California.

The Hoyas hope that will be the difference. Meanwhile, Penn looks to keep a clean slate against a newfound rival.

M. TENNIS | The Red and Blue will travel to take on Georgetown

this weekendBY STEVEN JAFFESenior Staff Writer

Carolyn Lim/DP File Photo

Sophomore Vim De Alwis has been solid at No. 2 for Penn this year, coming off an impressive freshman campaign which included a big victory against Georgetown.

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Penn Park

Georgetown5-7Saturday,1 p.m.

Washington, D.C.

PLAYER TO WATCHPennSr. F Courtney Wilson

When junior forward Katy Allen went down with a foot injury, Wilson stepped up off the bench, including a strong four-point, three-rebound and two assists effort against Princeton on

Mar. 11. Wilson will need to play a big role against a tall Texas squad if Penn is going to take down the No. 5 seed.

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Penn track and field was prett y much snowed i n throughout the winter, shel-tered from almost all public attention during the indoor season.

Now, as spring begins, the Quakers are set to break out and show their opponents what they’re made of.

This Saturday afternoon, Penn will host the second annual Philadelphia College Classic at Franklin Field, a meet in which the team will compete against several local schools — including the other members of the Big 5.

Despite some solid indi-vidual performances — es-pecially from underclassmen — throughout the winter, both the men’s and women’s teams finished second-to-last at the indoor Ivy Championships. But the program has chosen to focus on the positive aspects of the season in its transition to outdoor competition.

Last week, many of Penn’s athletes traveled to Florida to open the outdoor season at the USF Invitational. It was a small step, but coach

Steve Dolan was enthusiastic about what his athletes ac-complished.

“I thought Florida went re-ally well,” Dolan said. “One of the main goals was to do some of the events where having warmer weather is helpful, so a lot of the longer throwing events went really well for us.”

Dolan’s athletes echoed that sentiment.

“It was a really good oppor-tunity for us all to bond,” fresh-man distance runner Ashley Montgomery said. “It was cool for us all to come together and have some team bonding where it wasn’t as intense of a meet.”

This week’s invitational is Penn’s home opener and the first outdoor meet in which the Quakers will field close to a full competitive roster. But the stakes have only been margin-ally raised.

“It’s cool to be in a historic stadium in a meet that’s not the Penn Relays, in a more low-key environment,” Dolan said.

After a couple weeks of out-door training, the meet will provide another opportunity for the Quakers to transition from indoor to outdoor compe-tition, where they will compete in events like the 4x100-meter relay for the first time all year.

With that in mind, Dolan has largely downplayed the idea that his team will need to work

its way back into top form after a series of significant indoor meets.

“The indoor season builds to the outdoor season, so I don’t really feel like we were at the top at the end of indoor,” Dolan said.

This weekend’s meet will also provide Penn’s many freshmen with their first op-portunity to compete at Frank-lin Field.

Montgomery is one of these freshmen and she is not taking the occasion lightly.

“We put so much work and time in that it’s nice to be able to ask people to come out and watch us,” she said.

Despite a breakout perfor-mance throughout her first career — high school or col-lege — indoor season, Mont-gomery is looking forward to the opportunity to improve as her time at Penn progresses.

“It was exhilarating for me to do well [in indoor]. I know that with outdoor ... there’s even bigger things that I can try to achieve,” she said.

His athletes may be ready to go, but instead of focusing solely on results, Dolan has taken a more pragmatic ap-proach to the weekend.

“We want to compete hard,” Dolan said. “But it’s early in the season.

“We want to come out of the meet healthy and ready for the weeks to come.”

After competing in its first 11 games on the road, Penn baseball will finally be in fa-miliar territory this weekend.

Penn’s Meiklejohn Stadium will get its first action of the season as the Quakers will host Lafayette in their home opener. The home and home series should help the Red and Blue get more comfort-able playing in their own sta-dium for the first time.

“We’ve been doing a decent job pitching and playing de-fense,” coach John Yurkow said. “It’s a matter now of us getting a big hit when we need one.”

Both teams will be looking to rebound after some tough losses in the state of Virginia. The Leopards (5-7), dropped three straight in Richmond, Va. against VCU, Buffalo, and Rutgers while Penn (2-9) lost all three games in its series against Richmond.

Recent weather patterns have brought plenty of wind into the Philadelphia area which could make for a low-

scoring af fair. Penn is 0 -5 when scoring less than four runs and has lost eight of its nine games by either one or two runs.

“It’s been kind of crazy how many one or two run games [we’ve had],” Yurkow said. “We need to do a better job in the close games.”

The coaches and players are approaching their strug-gles in close games with dif-ferent mindsets.

“We get too uptight in tense situations,” junior catcher Austin Bossart added. “If we just play loose and have fun we’ll do well.”

“We’ve gotta do a better job getting people on base earlier in innings,” Yurkow added. “We haven’t done a great job getting our leadoff guy on base.”

After 11 games at the helm, the Yurkow era has begun with a rocky start record-wise, but the team sees it as a positive rebuilding process.

“I feel good about [the tran-sition]” Yurkow said.

“It’s taking some adjust-ment, that’s for sure,” Bossart added. “We really appreciate the atmosphere this year.”

The change in coaches has allowed the team to play with-out the fear of messing up. Both the team and coach are working together to improve, which has helped the squad grow closer.

This relaxed demeanor will be key to snapping its losing streak and getting the team pointed in the right direction.

“Just play to have fun,” Bossart stressed as the key to success this weekend.

The Leopards have had their struggles as well in their most recent losing skid, losing two games by one-run mar-gins . Lafayette, however, has won two games by one and two run margins as opposed to the Quakers who have lost these types of games.

If the Quakers want to get their big hits, they probably won’t have many chances against the Lafayette pitch-ing staff, which has only al-lowed more than f ive runs once this season. Despite the challenge, Penn baseball re-mains optimistic.

“ I l i k e o u r c h a n c e s ,” Yurkow added. “Seems like they’re pitching well so far.”

With four games in two days, the Red and Blue will hope to show that they can be clutch and move the Yurkow era forward on a more posi-tive note.

For years, Cornell lacrosse has dominated the top of the Ivy League standings.

But if the vastly improved Penn program has anything to say about it, there could soon be a power shift at the top.

Saturday, the No. 13 Quak-ers (3-2, 0-1 Ivy) will host the No. 3 Big Red (7-0, 1-0) with realistic hopes of beating their Ivy rivals for the first time since 2006.

Offense has been the name of the game for the Red and Blue in recent weeks. Penn has scored at least 12 goals in four straight contests, win-ning three.

Leading the charge for the Quakers has been junior at-tack Isaac Bock. Bock leads the Quakers with 14 points

this season and had a career game on Saturday against Princeton, scoring four goals in a 15-12 loss to the Tigers.

A spotty defense proved to be Penn’s downfall in its matchup with Princeton on Saturday, as the Quakers were able to close within one goal of the lead three times before allowing a four-goal Tigers run that put the game away.

With Cornell’s third-ranked scoring offense (13.83 goals per game) coming to town, the Quakers know they will need to avoid surrendering those big runs if they want to have a shot at the upset.

“There are a lot of ways to stop [a run], and you have to do some combination of score a goal, get a stop on defense and win a face-off or ride the ball back,” coach Mike Mur-phy said. “And we weren’t re-ally able to do any of those, unfortunately, at the right time [against Princeton].”

Despite losing NCAA Divi-sion I all-time scoring leader Rob Pannell to Major League Lacrosse, Cornell’s attack hasn’t missed a beat this sea-son. Stepping into Pannell’s throne has been junior at-tack Matt Donovan, who has scored 18 goals this season

while getting 66 percent of his shots on net.

Penn’s defense will likely not be intimidated by Dono-van’s presence on the field, though.

“He’s a good player, we’ve seen him before,” senior de-fense Maxx Meyer said. “[He] doesn’t scare us, I don’t think he’s as talented as Rob Pan-nell was, but he’s the quarter-back of their offense.”

Meyer was on the field the last time the Quakers came close to knocking off the Big Red, a 13-12 overtime loss in Ithaca back in 2011. The Red and Blue came back from a 7-2 halftime deficit, but fell after Cornell’s Roy Lang converted in the extra session.

With this season being his last shot at the traditional class of the Ivy League, Meyer is aching to give the Big Red a rude welcome to Penn Park.

“I want to beat them for the first time in my four years,” he said. “They’ve been his-torically one of the best teams in the Ivy League, and I think this year we’re poised to be-come one of those. It’s kind of been Princeton and Cornell [at the top].

“And frankly, we’re kind of tired of it. I’m definitely sick of it.”

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One of Penn’s captains, junior catcher Austin Bossart has put together another strong season so far for the Red and Blue, batting .295 while providing solid defense from behind the plate. Bossart and his teammates look to get over the hump against Lafayette.

BASEBALL | Having dropped nine of its first 11 games, Penn hopes

to increase scoringBY COREY HENRY

Staff Writer

Lafayette5-7

Saturday/SundayFour games

M. LACROSSE | Quakers aim to shift

balance of power in Big Red-dominated league

BY IAN WENIKSports Editor

TRACK AND FIELDQuakers will host

inivitational at Franklin Field on Saturday

BY COLIN HENDERSONAssociate Sports Editor

No. 3 Cornell7-0, 1-0 Ivy Saturday,1 p.m.

Penn Park

Christina Prudencio/Staff Photographer

Penn senior defense Maxx Meyer was part of the last Quakers team that gave traditional power Cornell a serious test, the 2011 squad that pushed the Big Red to overtime before falling after an extra-session goal.

Red and Blue take matters outdoors for the spring

FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2014 PAGE 9SPORTSTHE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

After falling to Princeton in last year’s season finale, then-junior captain Alyssa Baron knew her team was close to breaking through, proclaim-ing that Penn would be “a team to look out for” in the Ivy League soon enough.

A year later, the Quakers hope to be that team to look out for once again, but this time on a

national stage, as they prepared to face Texas this Sunday in the first round of the NCAA Tour-nament in College Park, Md. The winner of the Penn-Texas matchup will face the winner of the Maryland-Army game taking place on the same court.

“What I said last year was definitely true, that we are a team to be looked out for,” Baron said. “We showed that in Ivy play and even in our nonconference play that we’re a good team and I think we’ll be able to show that this year in the tournament.”

Penn (22-6, 12-2 Ivy) comes into Sunday on a five-game winning streak, culminating

in an 80-64 victory over Princ-eton on March 11 to clinch the Ivy title. The Quakers, a No. 12 seed, will now have to play an even larger win-or-go- home matchup against the No. 5 seeded Longhorns (21-11, 11-7 Big 12) while trying not to let nerves get the best of them.

“We’ve played on big stage,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “They played the biggest game of their career last Tuesday and they handled it really well. So I expect them to be anxious, to be excited, but I also expect them to be able to flow into the game and put [themselves] in the best position possible.”

Texas lost in the Big 12

Tournament to West Virginia, but the Longhorns have looked solid all season, especially in the post. The team has a string of strong forwards and has sig-nificant depth to challenge the Red and Blue, as coach Karen Aston has given 11 different players at least 10 minutes per game.

With junior forward Katy Al-len recovering from a season-ending injury, Penn will need to get the most out of its post players, particularly junior forward Kara Bonenberger and freshman center Sydney Stipanovich .

“They’re big, they’re strong and we’re going to need all

four post players to contrib-ute,” McLaughlin said. “We’re going to have to show that we can rebound the basketball because they’re big but they’re athletic and that’s what they do. They really rebound the ball well.”

But Penn is no stranger to big conference teams like Texas. The Quakers hung with ACC Champion and No. 1 seed-ed Notre Dame in their second game of the year while pull-ing off an upset of fellow ACC squad Miami on Jan. 1. They also played well in a tough Big 5, picking up two victories in

10Sports

W. HOOPS | Quakers travel to Maryland for first-round matchup

with LonghornsBY STEVEN TYDINGSSenior Sports Editor

SEE W. HOOPS PAGE 8

NO. 5 TEXAS (21-11) NO. 12 PENN (22-6)

SR. G ALYSSA BARON

Ivy League Player of the Year and unanimous

first-team All-Ivy

FR. C SYDNEY STIPANOVICH

Ivy League Defensive Player and Rookie of

the Year

JR. F KARA BONENBERGER

Averaged 11.1 points and 6.5 rebounds per

game

JR. G KATHLEEN ROCHE

First on the team with 36 made three-

pointers

SR. G MEGHAN MCCULLOUGH

Started all 28 games and posted a 1.9

assist to turnover ratio

JR. G RENEE BUSCH

Led Quakers with a 40.3 percent mark

beyond the arc

COACH MIKE MCLAUGHLIN

Improved win total each of his five years

at Penn

COACH KAREN ASTON

Second appearance in NCAA Tournament as a head coach (2009)

JR. F NNEKA ENEMKPALI

Longhorns’ leading scorer and rebounder

for the season

SO. C IMANI MCGEE-STAFFORDAverages 10.6 points

and 7.2 boards in 20.8 minutes per contest

SR. G CHASSIDY FUSSELL

First-team All-Big 12 in 2011-12, leads team with 41 three-pointers

SO. G CELINA RODRIGO

Leads team in assists and steals for the

second straight season

GONE

SUNDAY, 3 P.M. | COLLEGE PARK, MD

2014 NCAA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

TEXAS LONGHORNS

PENNQUAKERS

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