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Donor Ruth Perelman dies

Ruth Perelman — who along with her husband Ray-mond, a 1940 Wharton gradu-ate, had been among Penn’s largest benefactors — died Sunday morning of pneumo-nia.

“Philadelphia has lost a most beloved and consum-mately gracious civic leader with the passing of Ruth Perelman,” Penn President Amy Gutmann said in a state-ment. “In our city’s centuries-

long history, Mrs. Perelman and her husband, Raymond, have made a mark unlike any other.”

Perelman, 90, and her hus-band had given a number of large gifts to the University over the years, the most re-cent of which was a $225 mil-lion donation to the School of Medicine in May — the largest gift in Penn’s history. The school was renamed the Raymond and Ruth Perel-

man School of Medicine in their honor.

“Ruth and I believe the fu-ture of medicine depends on the ability to produce world-class clinicians and research-ers, the hallmark of a Penn education,” Raymond, a Penn Medicine trustee, wrote in an email at the time.

The couple also donated $25 million to fund the devel-opment of the Ruth and Ray-mond Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine at Penn in 2005.

“Ruth was an enlightened philanthropist and devoted friend and supporter of arts, education and health causes

throughout the region,” said Timothy Rub — the director and chief executive officer of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, another institution to which the Perelmans have been major contributors — in a statement. “Elegant, wise, civic-minded and com-mitted to helping people in need, Ruth was a full partner with her husband Raymond in the couple’s philanthropy, which helped transform so many Philadelphia organiza-tions.”

Raymond told The Associ-ated Press in an interview on Sunday that the two of them had been married for 70 years.

“Whoever knew her really loved her because she was a kind person,” he said.

Perelman is survived by her husband, sons Ronald and Jeffrey, sister, eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren, ac-cording to The Philadelphia Inquirer. She died at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Perelman, 90, and her husband have been major contributors to the UniversityBy prameet kumarnews editor

RUTH PERELMAN philanthropist and wife of 1940 wharton grad raymond perelman

Drexel student killed

Drexel University student Evan Morris died Friday morning shortly after Philadelphia Po-lice found him in an off-campus apartment near Drexel’s campus with a critical stab wound.

Morris, 22, entered the apartment at 34th and Race streets and was stabbed once in the chest by a resident, Philadelphia Police spokeswoman Officer Jillian Russel said. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the al-tercation occurred after Morris kicked in the apartment’s door. The police arrived on the scene in response to a call at about 4:55 a.m. that reported a break-in.

Morris was pronounced dead at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania at 5:58 a.m.

The Philadelphia Homicide Division is han-dling the investigation and states that the resident was acting in self-defense, according to Philadelphia Police spokeswoman Officer Officer Christine O’Brien.

“As of now, it doesn’t look like there are going to be charges,” Russell said on Tuesday.

The resident is a student of a university oth-er than Drexel. Penn’s Department of Public Safety is not aware of any Penn students in-volved in the incident.

The Morris family’s attorney, Willie Nattiel Jr., said the incident may have been a “setup” staged by Morris’ ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend, according to the Philadelphia Daily News. “We believe there is much more involved with this,” Nattiel said.

Drexel first alerted its community about Morris’ death in a school-wide email from President John Fry at about 10 a.m. on Fri-day.

“Everyone at Drexel is affected when we lose one of our own, especially as a result of sense-less violence,” he wrote. “I know our University community will stand together to mourn and remember Evan and to give strength to his family and friends.”

The school’s Counseling Center is offering its services to those who have been affected by the incident, and university officials have been in touch with the Morris family, he added.

The Drexel Department of Public Safety chose not to deploy a DrexelALERT — an emergency notification that communicates critical information to the entire Drexel com-munity through phone, email and text mes-sages. Fry explained in his email that the university did not use the system because the student who stabbed Morris was immediately taken into custody and did not pose a threat to the community.

“Our Department of Public Safety takes very seriously the responsibility of creating and maintaining the safest possible environment for students, faculty and staff,” Drexel’s Senior Vice President of Communications Lori Doyle wrote in an email. “This was an isolated inci-dent that occurred at a private residence.”

The intersection of Race and 34th streets is about four blocks north of Market Street, the northernmost street of the Penn DPS patrol zone.

Morris was a resident of North Potomac, Md. Grace Zapol, a 2011 Montgomery College

graduate who dated Morris for about three years when they attended high school together, said that “he was a really nice guy.”

“I wasn’t there [when he was stabbed], and I still don’t even really know what the fight was about,” she added. “I’ve heard a whole bunch of stories.”

Friday, Evan Morris was stabbed to death at 34th and Race streetsBy sarah Gadsdeneditor-in-chief

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The Urban Nutrition Initiative, a program of penn’s netter center for community partnerships, presented its “declaration of youth Food Bill of rights” outside the consitution center on saturday. the initiative works to improve community nutrition.

desire For Food justice ‘rooted in community’

Campus ghostwriting charges haunt Gutmann

“It shouldn’t take a letter to the President of the United States to spur Penn to act,” Paul Thacker said. “But that’s just where we’re at right now in pla-giarism involving a professor.”

Thacker is an investigator for the Project on Government Oversight, a watchdog group that asked President Barack Obama last month to remove Penn President Amy Gutmann as chair of his Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.

The request came soon after the Department of Health and Human Services launched an investigation into charges of research misconduct levied by a Penn professor against five other researchers, including two of his colleagues in Penn’s Psychiatry department.

The researchers are accused of claiming authorship of a ghostwritten paper — one that has been written by someone

else without giving due credit — about a drug manufactured by the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. According to the charge, the paper was drafted by a company hired by GSK itself.

“No reasonable person can justify” academic ghostwriting, said Eric Campbell, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medi-cal School. “To claim you did something when you didn’t is a fundamental violation of one of the tenets [of research].”

Corporate-funded medical

ghostwriting can have espe-cially negative effects.

“The entity that’s being repre-sented [in a ghostwritten medi-cal article] is a corporate view, and that influence is unseen,” said Adriane Fugh-Berman, a professor of pharmacology at Georgetown University. “There are marketing messages that are included.”

Medical ghostwriting is not an uncommon occurrence; in 2009, The Journal of American

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Every sound increases ten-fold when it’s 11 o’clock at night and you’re the only one awake in the house. I go quietly about my busi-

ness, look at the time and start won-dering how I’m going to make it out of bed when the alarm goes off at 5:30 a.m. tomorrow. It won’t be easy. I’m back in Costa Rica for the summer and, by now, have fully readjusted to my “at-home self.” Here, I get at least eight hours of sleep every night, usu-ally starting at around 10 p.m.

It ’s hard to bel ieve, g iven the above-described scenario, that only three months ago I was a Penn stu-dent who viewed an 11 o’clock bed-time as a rather implausible thing, my days almost always packed with carefully scheduled classes, meet-ings and extracurriculars. As a ris-ing senior, I am sure that I remain a Penn student but still use the past tense because I am somehow certain that my at-home self and my Penn-self are two rather different people.

“I am I plus my circumstances” — a nice sounding phrase by the Spanish liberal philosopher Ortega y Gasset — gains critical importance every time I leave Penn or return to it. The argument is that we cannot separate ourselves from the collec-tion of things that make up our ver-sion of the world, nor can we dismiss its formative power over who we are. I happen to have been given the op-portunity to inhabit two worlds: San

José, Costa Rica, where my family resides, the weather is always warm, I never have to worry about laundry and I think and speak in Spanish; and Philadelphia, where I live by myself, winter sometimes strikes, responsi-bilities abound and the official lan-guage is English.

The dif f icult bit comes when I freak out thinking that I much prefer my Penn self. A preference deter-mined by the fact that I’ve spent the greater part of the last three years

there, have done a lot of growing up between Locust Walk and Chestnut Street and have generally come to think of it as a space where I can feel free to be whomever I’d like to be. I’ve become who I’ve wanted to become. If who I am at Penn cannot be transported back home or out of Penn, I think I’m in big trouble.

Considering the possibility that my circumstances might shape me almost completely is a frightening thought. One that I know I share with

many of my fellow Penn students, particularly the study abroad re-turnees. After life-changing experi-ences in faraway places, they often come back to discover that once they re-enter familiar territory, things, including themselves, feel a little off. I know this because I’ve seen it happen to two of my closest friends. People who describe feeling much of what returning home feels like to me. Full of wondering whether you’ve left some irrecoverable part of yourself behind or, worse, that who you have become during your stay depends on a place to exist.

I must confess that I don’t have the answer. How to bring your experi-ence back with you and how to recon-cile the versions of yourself created by the varying circumstances is a personal struggle that we each must face alone.

I f I l ived somewhere else and spoke a different language would I like the same music? Have the same political opinions? Or react in the same way to comparable situations? The answers only point to a greater question: how much of us is defined by things other than ourselves?

For my sake, and those of the study abroad students who feel a little lost upon their return, I’ll say that we shouldn’t let places define us. And, if I am in fact “I plus my circumstances,” the “I” part of the equation should carr y the most weight.

Amy Jade Winehouse, dead at 27 years old. Nobody expected it, yet everyone saw the soulful singer’s demise coming. Her struggles were no secret — the tabloids made

sure of that — documenting every misstep and creating headlines too good to for us to ignore on the newsstands Amy was a laughingstock; I remember when she was the butt of jokes on my favorite entertainment news programs. Yet, if her interviews can be any indication, Amy embraced her problems and became successful — she won 5 Grammys — from a song that firmly asserted her denial to save herself. Then, why is her death so sad? Is it a tinge of guilt that plagues us?

Amy careened down a path that could lead to no good end and yet we all watched with rapt atten-tion. She was a train wreck and, as the saying goes, everyone loves those. Lady Gaga (who’s never met Amy, mind you) recently claimed on The View that it was not Amy that needed to change, but rather the world that needed to be kinder to Amy.

Of course, my initial reactions to Gaga’s senti-ments were, “there you go, another person trying to capitalize on the death of Amy.” But the longer I thought, I wondered, do we all just need to be a little nicer to our celebrities? I know that I, along with others, laugh along every week to shows like The Soup and Fashion Police, where the hosts are far from kind to failing celebrities. The internet is no better, with sites like PerezHilton.com, TMZ.com and even the entertainment section of news sites that dissect the every move of celebrities. Still, we follow them.

We love to pick people apart. The jokes start innocuously enough, but soon devolve into some-thing sinister. Remember when “Rehab” first became big? Halloween was filled with Amy look-a-likes, and no outfit was complete without the beehive hair, the ridiculously flared cat-eye and a bottle of vodka, of course.

That imitation rapidly turned into mockery in the years before Amy’s death — she was criticized and even booed when she was convinced to tour again (prematurely) and performed miserably. When Michael Jackson was alive, he too was picked apart mercilessly and there was no focus on the many acts of philanthropy he did in his lifetime.

This is the age where lives are entertainment.

The age of reality television. Outrageous behavior is not chastised, it is glorified. We “fist-pump” along to the drunken antics of Snooki and the gang on Jersey Shore. Sure, they show signs of being seri-ous alcoholics, but hey, they are young and having fun! We laugh at the attempts of those like Heidi Montag who, at 24 years old, has had as much sur-gery as any of the women on The Real Housewives franchise. Does anyone even remember the preco-cious little redhead with so much potential that Lindsay Lohan used to be? It is hard to with all of her courthouse woes and volatile relationships.

However, we make badly behaving celebrities continually relevant. Charlie Sheen acted poorly and unapologetically and we rewarded him for his behavior. TV stations and internet outlets fixated on Charlie and his escapades with his bleach blonde “goddesses,” while the world found creative ways to use his catchphrase, “Winning!” We embold-ened him, strengthened his resolve by subscribing to his Twitter rants and encouraging him.

Whether we admit it or not, it is oddly satisfying to watch celebrities fail. They are not our role models, they are our toys. We cheer when they have a little too much fun on vacation and gain weight, when they wear terrible outfits, and when they mess up in public. They cry out desperately for our attention,

and we give it to them. After all, they owe us — it is our money that supports the lavish lifestyles they lead. If they go to rehab but slip out of it, well, some people do not change. Handlers exacerbate the issue, pushing celebrities further into the public eye, because after all, they are a brand and a business. How is it possible for the world to see stars as anything more than en-tertainment when they are paraded and marketed as such, down to their very lives?

The routine is set: a celebrity spirals, we mock said celebrity, celebrity dies and we briefly grieve. Then immortalization comes, with all the faults glossed over. And the cycle repeats. With Amy Winehouse we have entered the immortalization phase, canonizing her by making her Back to Black album a chart-topper again and leaving bottles of vodka as a shrine near her home. This only aggravates the problem and trivializes her life. Another troubled girl lost to addiction. Lady Gaga, Amy needed to change.

The cycle has to stop. The best way to be “kind-er” to these stars is to deny them the attention and demand they get help. If they seek it, reward the good, not the bad. Encourage change.

Society’s guilty role in the fall of celebrities

Dan nEssEnson is a rising Engineering junior from Berkeley Heights, N.J. His email address is dness@seas.upenn.edu.

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‘‘I much prefer my penn self … if who I am at penn cannot be transported back home or out of penn,

I think I’m in big trouble.”

Pen n’s pl a n t o d iver si f y i t s f ac u lt y wou ld b e a reason to celebrate i f , by d iversity, the authors of the plan meant intel lectual diversity. This would be especial ly true i f the ideological uniformity of the Middle East Center at Penn would be d iversi f ied . The uniform outlook of Polit ical Science professors A n ne Nor t on , Brend a n O’ L e a r y, I a n Lust ick a nd Robert Vital is can be summed up as “it ’s A merica and Israel’s fault .”

Alas, we learn from a Daily Pennsylvanian article that instead Penn plans to diversify the race and gen-der of its faculty. The only way to do that is to discrimi-nate based on race and sex against white males. The word diversity is a code word for discrimination, and discrimination is wrong.

When Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, he did not say that he dreamed of a day when America would discriminate against white men. He dreamed of a day when there would be no discrimination at all.

Rev. King said: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

I have a dream that some day the University of Pennsylvania will hire faculty based on the quality of their work and not their race, gender or creed.

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Medical Association surveyed authors of 630 medical articles in top journals, 7.8 percent of whom anonymously admitted to omitting names of signifi-cant contributors.

“It’s not a rare phenomenon,” said Mildred Cho, the associate director of Stanford University’s Center for Biomedical Ethics. “So in many ways I’m not surprised [it may have happened at Penn].”

But what especially galls Thacker is that POGO accused one of the Penn professors cur-rently under investigation — Dwight Evans, chairman of the department of psychiatry — of ghostwriting once before.

Penn stood by Evans when he was initially accused at the end

of last year. “We believe that the allegations of ghostwriting made by POGO … are unfounded,” Penn Medicine spokeswoman Susan Phillips wrote in a state-ment at the time.

Thacker now questions the thoroughness of Penn’s internal investigation conducted at that time. “This is an issue of very se-rious concern that was brushed aside in just 72 hours,” he said. “The idea that Penn was able to pull a serious inquiry in the mat-ter was just wrong.”

Berman, too, was struck by how quickly Penn came to Evans’ support. “It does not seem like the school’s taken a strong stand on [the ghostwriting charge],” she said. “With the original case, they just said that the allegation was unfounded. That’s implau-sible. There’s documentation.”

Phillips wrote in a statement that the recent charges of re-search misconduct are currently underway and defended the in-vestigation last year.

“The inquiry made last year by POGO regarding a single article

was taken seriously by the medi-cal school and the University, and was reviewed appropriately at that time,” she wrote.

But for what POGO sees as Penn and Gutmann’s initial fail-ure to respond to ghostwriting on campus, the organization is calling on Obama to remove her from her post on the bioethics commission.

“If this happens over and over again, it does raise questions,” Campbell said of the ghostwrit-ing accusations. “Failure to take those [accusations] seriously does raise concerns about any-one’s ability to serve as an advi-sor to the president.”

Cho, however, is skeptical of POGO’s request. “I don’t think there’s a reason she should have to step down,” Cho said, as long as Gutmann followed the proper protocol.

But POGO remains commit-ted to its crusade.

“The buck needs to stop with her,” Thacker said of Gutmann. “So that’s why we made her the issue this time.”

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on wednesday, mothers connected at the city of motherly love Breastfeeding Fair and rally organized by milk For thought in houston hall’s Bodek lounge. Groups, including chop, presented information about their available resources.

‘the city oF motherly loVe’ brieFStephen MacCarthy will be-

come Penn’s vice president for university communications lat-er this month, Penn President Amy Gutmann announced last week.

MacCarthy, currently the vice president for external relations at the University of Arizona, will be in charge of conveying information about Penn’s activities to internal and external stakeholders.

“Steve is a strategic commu-nications leader who brings a wealth of experience to the position,” Gutmann said in a statement. “He will be a won-

derful addition to our leader-ship team, and I look forward to working closely with him in the months and years ahead.”

MacCarthy has also served as vice president for university relations at Pennsylvania State University and director of pub-lic affairs and university rela-tions for the California State University system.

“He has a deep and exten-sive understanding of higher education,” Gutmann said.

MacCarthy will occupy the post previously held by Lori Doyle, who served from 2001 to January 2011, when she re-

signed to become senior vice president of university com-munications at Drexel Univer-sity.

“Lori’s decade of achieve-ment has been defined by collaborative leadership, un-flagging adaptability, and di-verse expertise,” Gutmann said in a statement at the time.

Phyllis Holtzman, associate vice president for university communications, filled the va-cant role in the interim.

MacCarthy will assume his position on Aug. 29.

— prameet kumar

brieFA Penn student has estab-

lished the first youth-run and youth-led statewide LGBT or-ganization in the country.

Launched in April, the Penn-sylvania Student Equality Co-alition is an umbrella group for youth LGBT organizations founded and led by 2011 College graduate and incoming Penn Design student Jason Good-man.

“While some regions of Penn-sylvania are more progressive and have anti-discrimination laws, the vast majority of the state does not,” PSEC Delaware Valley Chair Julia Arduini said.

“Us youth need to come together as a whole to push for equality.”

PSEC supports “safe school legislation” designed to protect LGBT students from bullying and nondiscrimination laws in Pennsylvania, Goodman said.

PSEC can also provide smaller and newer LGBT or-ganizations across the state with ideas for programming, he added.

“Something that really de-fines us is that we are completely youth-led and youth-run,” Good-man said.

PSEC has 70 member organi-zations grouped into 8 regions,

according to its website.Penn’s LGBT Center is one

of PSEC’s seven coalition part-ners.

“We think its a good idea,” said LGBT Center Director Bob Schoenberg. “Pennsylvania LGBT college students should be meeting … with each other and doing programs.”

Goodman is the former vice chair for political affairs of the Lambda Alliance — Penn’s um-brella organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students — and chair of J-Bagel, a Jewish LGBT group at Penn.

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THIS WEEK IN: GOODBYE SUMMER!Summer Street bids you farewell this week with a few late–summer weekend picks. Don’t miss your last chance to celebrate some of this year’s summer highlights in warm weather, without the nagging respon-sibilities of school.

The Mummy at The Franklin Institute

Miss the outdoor screenings on the Schuylkill? Who can blame you? With a line–up that mostly consisted of bloated super-hero fluff and family–friendly irritants, this summer’s outdoor screening schedule did little to impress. Here to save the summer with their first–ever outdoor film screening is the Franklin Institute, screening The Mummy (1999) in conjunction with their Mummies of the World exhibition. Retro horror in a tongue–in–cheek setting? Franklin Institute, you had us at Brendan Fraser. Friday, Aug.5, 8 p.m., 222 N. 20th St., Free

Baltimore Avenue Dollar Stroll

Fear not, cheapies! Here is another chance to get a bang for your (single) buck, if by “bang” you mean ice cream, beer and other things that make you happy. This wonderful invention by the Uni-versity City District will actually grace town once more at the beginning of September before going into hibernation, but chances are you’ll be busy with more important things come September (see you at NSO!). Thurs-day, Aug. 4th, 5:30–8:30 p.m., Baltimore Ave., 42nd to 50th st.

Night Market – Mount Airy

Remember the University City Night Market? If you do, you were one of the few to brave the menacing skies and torrential down-pour that put a literal damper on U. City’s debut in the Night Market series. Luckily, the popular food market continues its run tonight, albeit a little further from home. A quick trip on the regional rail will no doubt make you forget about that rainy tragedy in June. Thursday, Aug. 4, 6–10 p.m., German-town Avenue-Mount Airy

ALL IN THE FAMILYA homey hookah hangout finally graces West PhillyBy eLIzABeTH HORkLey AND LAURA FRANCIS

THE MISFITSHigh school misfit dramedy squeaks past success with soulBy CHRISTIAN gRAHAM

Just far enough from campus, Aksum is a wel-come and easy oasis for students looking to step outside the Penn bubble and relax in a friendly, vi-brant locale. Filling West Philadelphia’s severe void of hookah options, the Meditteranean cafe also serves up a menu of fresh, authentic fare.

Our hopes were high as we settled into our table outside. Aksum im-mediately exceeds other area hookah spots in its cozily lit, contemporary yet warm interior and the contrasting bustle of its exterior. It’s clear that Ak-sum considers its hookah as a part of its authentic-ity, and celebrates the fra-grant aroma of the non-intrusive smoke. Though smoking is restricted to the outdoors until 9 p.m., it’s unlikely that it would spoil the meals of anyone just there for the food.

We started out light, with the owner–recom-mended stuffed grape leaves ($4.50). The plump leaves hit just the right tangy notes and gracious-ly wetted our palettes for the pitas we ordered as a main course. The mahi mahi pita ($9.50) was wrapped up with a host of veggies and other sweet flavors, most notably a rich aioli mayonnaise. Al-though the dressing made the meal a little saucy to handle, each ingredient complemented the others, rather than overpowering one another, to create a refreshing and delicious course. The side of as-paragus could have been

a little too salty by itself, but its contrast to the sweeter wrap and coleslaw actually worked better for both.

The chicken pita ($7.90) got the better of our sense of adventure, and thankfully did not disappoint. The wrap was just the right mixture of salty indulgence and cool complements. The vegetables that countered the rich feta cheese and tahini sauce cooled each mouthful in perfect mea-sure.

Satisfied from the none–too–heavy respite, we were ready to pass judgment on the hoo-kah — no doubt the es-tablishment’s main draw

for social students and neighborhood folk alike. Though we had taken it easy on our main course (Aksum offers a menu of heavier dinner options, including lamb shanks and grilled salmon), it was easy to imagine kick-ing back with a bellyfull of food and wine (Ak-sum is currently BYOB) and unwinding under the stars with the smoky dessert. Perhaps we were a little in awe of the de-lightful atmosphere, but the orange–peach flavored shisha ($15) we decided on satisfied our craving both in taste and effect. Light, fruity and seduc-tive, the shisha demands leisurely drags and good

company and conversa-tion.

Aksum is the pitch–per-fect addition to an already thriving restaurant scene in West Philadelphia. If the food isn’t enough to beckon you back for an-other visit, the lingering aroma of sweet hookah flavors and the impres-sion of a summer night well spent will.

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Azazel Jacobs’ Terri is a high school loner drama/comedy that actually manages to draw some originality out of its relatively tired genre. Through strong performances, interesting char-acters and an original story line, Terri succeeds where so many like–minded movies have fallen short.

Terri Thomson (Wysocki) is a mis-fit by nature — aptly communicated by the film’s opening shot, as his in-tensely overweight body sits jammed in his cramped bathtub. Unaware of the whereabouts of his parents, he lives with and cares for his stern, but men-tally–deteriorating Uncle James (Creed Bratton). At school, he faces the steady ridicule of his classmates, while having no genuine friends to spend time with.

It seems like the only comfort he can get out of life comes from the sets of pajamas that he wears all day long.

Eventually, Terri’s principal, the buddy–buddy Mr. Fitzgerald (Reilly), pals up to him in hopes of helping the teen out of his funk. Assuring Terri that he is “one of the good–hearted kids”, Fitzgerald sets aside time to meet with him every week. Terri strikes an unlike-ly friendship with another one of Mr. Fitzgerald’s regulars — the abrasive Chad, essentially a mangy stray cat in teen outcast form.

At times, Terri sits rather ungraceful-ly balanced on the line between drama and comedy — it tries its hand at both moods, but doesn’t manage to get an absolute grasp on either. One minute

your heart sinks for Terri as a classmate grabs his chest and obnoxiously honks, and the next you’re cackling as Chad wreaks havoc at a funeral.

It’s not to say that tears and laugh-ter can’t inhabit the same movie — it’s just that here, the emotional rhythm of the story can be so disjointed that at times you don’t even know how you’re supposed to feel for the characters in-volved.

And by the final scenes, there are a few too many loose ends and unre-solved story points to provide the film with a truly satisfying ending. It’s be-comes clear that Jacobs is much more interested in crafting a quirky character study of oddballs and misfits than he is in a succinct and effective narrative.

But at the end of the day, none of these shortcomings can take too much away from the Terri’s poignantly com-ical performances and refreshingly un-conventional script. Almost all of the individual parts are there to make Terri a great movie, but their faulty place-ment is what ultimately brings the film down.

Sure, Terri might earn the runner up for Prom King – the disappointment is that it could’ve gone home with the crown.

Terri

DirecteD by: Azazel Jacobs

starring: John C. Reilly, Jacob Wysocki, Bridger ZadinaRated R, 105 min.

SEPTA sees highest ridership in 22 years

SEPTA has experienced its highest ridership in 22 years.

Passengers took 334 million trips using the service’s system of buses, trains and trolleys in the 2011 fiscal year, which ended June 30, according to a SEPTA statement. This figure was a 4 percent increase from last year and its highest yearly total since 1989.

“It’s an upward trend that we hope to continue,” SEPTA spokeswoman Jerria Williams said.

SEPTA spokesman Andrew Busch said that the Center City area, as well as its surround-ing neighborhoods like Univer-sity City, saw an increase in the number of young riders. Many of these riders are people “who are out of college, don’t have a car and are either working or living in the city,” Busch said. Using SEPTA would be the most practical choice of trans-portation for them, he added.

Ridership has increased on the various lines that Penn stu-dents use between the Univer-sity City and Center City areas.

All five of the bus routes that go through University City have increased weekday average rid-ership, according to Busch. The route 30 bus in particular saw a 29 percent increase in rider-ship. Trolleys 10, 11, 13, 34 and 36 all had their average daily ridership up 3 percent. The sub-way system’s Market-Frank-

ford Line — SEPTA’s busiest transit line — saw ridership increase by 4 percent.

Asdy Wan, a rising Wharton sophomore, takes the MFL as well as the number 10, 11 and 34 trolleys to travel between Penn and Center City. Although she said that the poor economy may have had an influence in the ridership gains, Wan hasn’t noticed a big change in the number of passengers using SEPTA.

“Personally, I don’t see any difference compared to five years ago,” she said.

Busch cited improvements to customer service, refur-bished facilities, spikes in gas prices, an ailing economy and increased younger riders as agents behind the increase.

In a year in which SEPTA

raised its fare and cut 25 per-cent of its capital budget due to less funding, which forced the authority to put multiple projects on hold, Busch is impressed that it was able to sustain its ridership, let alone experience a record rise in pas-sengers.

“Historically, when you put fare increases, you see a dip in ridership,” he said. “But this year, we mitigated it through small incremental increases.”

In hopes of gaining more rid-ers in the future, Williams said that SEPTA will continue its focus on providing better cus-tomer service. Some initiatives already underway include the implementation of a new pay-ment system that utilizes cards instead of tokens, which Wil-liams hopes will be available a few years down the road.

Busch said that maintaining passengers is key. “Our job is to keep people in the system and make sure SEPTA is their first option.”

Despite a decreased capital budget, the public transportation authority saw 334 million tripsBy Quan nyuGencontributing writer

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sEPTA passengers ride the subway. although fares increased this year, the public transportation authority saw its highest ridership figure since 1989. ridership has increased in the University city neighborhood, among others.

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New Quaker rows to defend world title

Even before officially mov-ing on to campus, one future Quaker rower has made quite a splash.

Incoming freshman Harry Holroyd is a part of the U.S. Ju-nior Rowing Team and is row-ing in the men’s eight (8+) in the 2011 World Junior Rowing

Championships in Eton Dorney, Great Britain.

“We are very pleased know-ing that Harry is demonstrating this type of potential,” heavy-weight rowing coach Greg Myhr said. “The fact that Harry has made the junior national team means he stacks up very well

against other high school oars-men.”

This will be the Maryland na-tive’s first Junior World Cham-pionships, and it may be quite an experience.

Only one of the nine members on last year’s gold medal team has returned, leading to an in-teresting storyline in which a new group of U.S. junior rowers are hoping to defend the title.

While it won’t be an easy task, Myhr believes that his recruit has much to offer the team as it

seeks to repeat as champions. “He’s had to contend all sum-

mer with a team full of talented athletes, and he’s managed to prevail,” Myhr said. “I truly hope the team has success in Eton, as this will clearly mag-nify his confidence as an athlete and competitor.”

Back at Penn, Holroyd will join eleven other heavyweight rowing recruits in the class of 2015. The eager freshmen will hope to further improve a pro-gram that won two Cup races

in the 2011 season and finished 14th overall at the Intercolle-giate Rowing Association (IRA) National Championships.

While each rower will un-doubtedly bring a high level of experience and skill to the team, Holroyd has the added benefit of having spent part of the summer rowing with some of the best in the nation.

“I have no doubt that Har-ry’s experience this summer will go a long way towards preparing him for his upcom-

ing collegiate career,” Myhr said. “The fact that Harry has made the junior national team means he stacks up very well against other high school oars-men, and it gives him a nice ‘head start’ on what he will have to do here at Penn to be successful at this level.”

Only time will tell as to how Holroyd will impact the Quak-ers, but if his rowing in Great Britain says anything, it may mean smooth sailing for the heavyweight rowing team.

m. rowing | Incoming freshman races for U.S. Junior team in World ChampionshipsBY CHAn PArKSports Editor

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Rising senior goalkeeper Emily Leitner completed the second part of the tryouts for the U.S. Women’s Senior Lacrosse Team this past weekend in Cantonsville, Md. The Darien, Conn. native was named second-team All-Ivy this past season and posted an 8.38 goals-against average which was best in the Ivies and seventh in the nation.

Learning

With temperatures along the East Coast rising to suffocating lev-els last week, many people, athletes included, found refuge indoors.

That, however, wasn’t the case for Quakers lacross player Emily Leitner who spent her weekend in Cantonsville, Md., sweating through several 100-degree days while vying for a spot on the U.S. Women’s Senior Lacrosse Team.

“It was really hot,” Leitner said. “All the selectors and organizers made sure when you weren’t play-ing you were in the air-conditioning with lots of water breaks. They re-

ally monitored the situation well with hydrating.”

Leitner received the opportu-nity to try out for the national team after a solid junior year between the pipes. A strong showing at the preliminary tryouts at Stony Brook, N.Y. during Memorial Day weekend earned her another trip, this time to the second round at the University of Maryland-Balti-more County.

The conclusion of the three-day tryout featured more than 80 of the top women’s lacrosse players in the nation fighting for 36 positions that

would ultimately act as the founda-tion for the team that will compete in the 2013 Federation of Interna-tional Lacrosse (FIL) World Cup in Oshawa, Ontario.

Unfortunately, Leitner was ul-timately left off the list that was released on Sunday. However, she looks back at the weekend as a posi-tive learning experience and some-thing to build upon for next year.

“It was a great experience [play-ing] some of the best players in the country — both in college and out of college,” Leitner said. “There was a huge learning experience playing with some of the players who have tried out before and been on the team before.”

“The biggest thing was to take chances outside the goal, to pick up a player or pick up a ground ball,”

she added. “It’s something that I tried to do throughout the weekend and I’ll take into my game next sea-son hopefully.”

In her first season as a starter, the rising senior was named sec-ond-team All-Ivy and helped Penn lead the Ivy in goals allowed per game.

“She’s really ready to own that position this year, and she’s a great leader,” Penn coach Karin Brower Corbett said leading up to last year. “She’s real confident with the ball, so we can use her a lot in transi-tion.”

Leitner will continue to play in summer tournaments including one in Lake Placid next weekend as well as several pick-up summer leagues before returning to cam-pus in the fall.

w. lAx | Rising senior falls short at national tryouts but looks forward to coming seasonBY susHAAn modiStaff Writer

Strong play opens doors for recruit

One of Philly basketball’s best kept secrets is no longer just that.

Boys’ Latin point guard Maurice Watson, who had Penn at the top of his list in late March, made the sum-mer AAU circuit his personal showcase and now has offers from a whopping 18 schools.

“We’re really excited and overwhelmed with joy,” Watson’s father and high school coach, Maurice Sr., said. “[This summer] I felt like I was watching a kid I’ve never seen before.”

The Watson family was initially expecting three to five offers by the end of the summer, but after a highly impressive July, the scholarships kept rolling in, re-sulting in a dramatic change.

The undersized — listed at 5’10 — yet explosive guard has not ruled out joining the Quakers in 2012, but Penn is no longer among the schools he’s most seriously considering.

But that’s not just because of the other opportuni-ties on the table, which include offers from high-major Texas Tech and Philly’s own, La Salle.

Two other factors include the recent verbal com-mitment to Penn of fellow point guard Jamal Lewis and the academic requirements Watson would need to meet in order to gain admission.

Lewis — a 6-foot, Class of 2012 point guard from Washington, D.C. — is regarded as a steal for Penn by Scout.com’s Evan Daniels and in the case that Watson chooses to join the Red and Blue, the two would likely share minutes in the backcourt.

Additionally, Penn recently raised its SAT score requirement, according to Watson’s father. Last school year, his son was told he needed a 100-point boost from his PSAT score on the SAT to be within range for ad-mission to Penn. However, that minimum score has recently increased, now up to an 1820.

The younger Watson says he spoke to Penn coach Je-rome Allen about the commitment of Lewis as well as the increased standards, and the point guard doesn’t think he’ll be suiting up for the Quakers in 2012.

Still, the Watsons will continue to consult with Allen — a family friend and mentor — during this process.

“For [coach Allen] to be the kind of person that he is … he really knows what he’s doing and he knows what he’s talking about,” Watson Jr. said. “And [he] has my best interests at heart. So to have him in that position to help me out with things is a blessing.”

Watson will be looking to trim his list down to about five schools by week’s end and will make a decision as early as mid-September.

m. HooPs | Penn loses top spot on Philly native’s list of schools after his highly impressive summer playBY Kevin esteves‘DP’ Sports Editor

Staying in school vs. going pro

To stay in school or go pro?Just this past year, there were

several Quakers who asked them-selves that very question. Here’s a list of reasons to stay or to go pro.

STAY IN SCHOOLMore experience. Like it or not,

most college athletes see their play-ing time drop upon joining a profes-sional team. More time in college gives athletes more playing time to hone their skills and develop as an athlete. Speaking of developing...

Improve stock. Staying in school can give athletes more time to improve and impress scouts. It’s not entirely clear yet as to where Quaker pitcher and rising senior Vince Voiro will be come fall, but if he chooses to return to Penn, it’ll most likely be to raise his stock for next year’s draft.

Prepare for life after sports. Whether an athlete’s career is long or short, it will inevitably come to and end. While there are several professional athletes who are able

to find work in sports after retire-ment, having a diploma — and one from Penn at that — opens up doors once the playing days come to a close.

GO PROFESSIONALMissing the window. It’s impos-

sible to predict the future, but once an athlete misses the window of op-portunity, the road to the pros gets that much harder. This past year, Penn soccer player Loukas Tasi-gianis turned down an offer to play for the Chicago Fire. Though he did help lead Penn to the NCAA Tour-nament, he hasn’t had the same in-terest from MLS teams since then. This isn’t to say he made the wrong decision, but his path to the pros

may have become slightly more dif-ficult.

Greater challenges. She wasn’t perfect, but rising sophomore ten-nis phenom Connie Hsu was pretty close, going 44-3 (7-0 Ivy) in singles this year. She did see an early exit in the NCAA Championships — she lost in the second round — but going pro now could be what she needs to continue improving, not that the Quakers mind her dominating the Ivies for the next three years.

It’s where the money is. We all know that sports is about playing for the love of the game, but at the professional level, it’s undoubtedly also about the money. And when you can get paid to do what you love, it’s at least worth considering, right?

Penn AtHletiCs | Weighing the arguments for staying in school and pursuing a pro careerBY CHAn PArKSports Editor

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Rising sophomore Connie Hsu is one of several Quakers who has had to consider whether to go pro or stay in school.

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