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Student petitioners call for dance class credit
Organizers have already received 500 signatures in
support of offering dance classes for credit
BY JING RAN
Staff Writer
The Penn students organizing a petition asking the
University to implement forcredit dance classes have
made moves on their agenda
to get their plan approved.
After receiving over 500 signatures on their Change.org
petition and hosting a “Dance
Dance Revolution” event last
week to raise awareness
about their cause, organizers of the campaign plan to
meet with a professor from
the Provost’s Art and Culture
Faculty Steering Committee
to push for further administrative changes. Organizers
are also trying to meet with
College of Arts and Sciences
Dean Dennis DeTurck.
“As Penn has been expanding its course offerings, it
has increasingly focused on
interdisciplinary study between our four undergraduate schools,” the petition said.
“Dance is a perfect avenue to
encourage this form of study.”
“Over the summer, I was
thinking about my academic
life here at Penn and thought
about how I would love to
study dance in a classroom,”
Wharton junior Alexandria
Wiggins, chair of the Dance
Arts Council and creator of
the petition, said. “I have
been dancing my whole life,
and as a Wharton student I’ve
become more interested in
arts management, specifically within the dance industry.”
Wiggins, who developed
the petition with her Management 104 class, said that
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In February, ICA will showcase a series of
micro-exhbitions about past works it has hosted
BY SAMANTHA SHARON
Senior Staff Writer
Even though the Institute
of Contemporary Art turned
50 this year, it is continuing to
push the boundaries of mod-
ern art on campus.
The ICA, located at 36th
and Sansom streets, is celebrating its anniversary by
looking back at some of its
greatest achievements over
the years while continuing to
stay ahead of current trends
in the art world.
On Feb. 12, 2014, the museum will open “ICA@50:
Pleasing Artists and Publics
Since 1963,” a series of microexhibitions and events that
will occupy the second floor
of the museum until the summer of 2014.
“Each of our curators has
highlighted f ive previous
exhibitions and [ICA@50] is
kind of a look back at each of
these,” Jill Katz, director of
marketing and communications at the ICA, said. The
Campus Copy store on 37th and
Walnut to close Wednesday
The location offered shipping services and
saw less traffic than the store at 39th Street
BY WILL MARBLE
Staff Writer
The Campus Copy Center at 3731 Walnut St. will
close its doors on Wednesday as its lease expires.
The printing service supplier will shift all of its
operations to its main location at 39th and Walnut
streets.
Notices were posted on the front window of the
store over the weekend, advising customers that
the store would shut down and directing them to
the 39th Street branch.
The 37th Street store offers only shipping services and sees much less traffic than the main office, owner Ron Shapiro said. Campus Copy Center
makes “more copies in one day at the 39th Street
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goal of the celebration, according to the ICA’s 50th anniversary pamphlet, is to “look
to lesser known moments, to
engage today’s artists and to
commission new projects.”
“This is exciting for us and
will be exciting to give viewers both here and abroad the
ability to connect the present
and past,” Amy Sadao, the
Daniel W. Dietrich, II director
of the ICA, said.
ICA’s student adv isor y
board, which acts as an
ambassador between the
institution and Penn undergraduates, is also planning
Study reveals Coursera
users better educated
and career oriented
Many critique the hype over the revolutionary
potential of massive online open courses
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When Penn announced
its partnership with massive open online course
prov ider Coursera in
April 2012, administrators lauded the education
startup as a way for the
University to push its access agenda forward on a
global scale. By making
parts of a Penn education available to students
worldw ide, Coursera ,
administrators said, had
the ability to revolutionize
higher education.
More than a year and a
half later, Coursera is still
a long way from realizing
that goal.
A new study, published
last week by Penn researchers in the journal
Nature, shows that students who have taken
MOOCs on Coursera are
more highly educated
and career oriented. The
study’s findings, though
not necessarily surprising, will do little to win
over MOOC critics, who
argue that the online education hype throughout
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Few women speak at Wharton
About 40 percent of Wharton
MBA and undergraduate students are female, yet Wharton
has only brought a handful
of female speakers over the
past five years. For this reason, a recent column published
in The Daily Pennsylvanian
argued that Wharton should
bring more female speakers.
While many professors,
departments and student
groups host lecture events,
the Wharton Dean’s office
only directly sponsors three
lecture series: the Leadership Lecture Series, the Social Impact Lecture Series
and the Michael L. Tarnopol
Dean’s Lecture Series.
Speakers for the Social
Impact Lecture Series are
selected by 1984 Wharton
graduate Bobby Turner, who
created the series in 2010.
The Michael L. Tarnopol
Dean’s Lecture Series was
created in 2007. The process
for choosing lectures for this
series is unclear.
For the Wharton Leadership Lecture Series, a
student committee, which includes 15-20 MBA and undergraduate students, votes on
speakers, said MBA Associate Director Eric Morin. Students, alumni, faculty or staff
can recommend a speaker
on the Leadership Lecture
Series website. The recommendation goes through the
Wharton’s speaker approval
system, and if approved, the
student committee votes to
bring the speaker to campus.
“Over the past two years,
one of our biggest goals has
been to expand the offerings
of female speakers,” Morin
said in an email. “We continue to strive towards attracting the best and most
relevant possible list of speakers for our student body.”
The Daily Pennsylvanian
takes a look at the percentage
of female and male speakers
sponsored by Wharton in the
past five years.
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an event called “Free for
All” for next semester that
will incorporate ideas from
Andy Warhol’s 1965 ICA exhibition.
“This year we are tr ying to relate [the event] to
Penn’s Year of Sound and
to [the ICA’s] Andy Warhol
exhibition, which was one of
their first [and most significant] shows,” said College
sophomore Chloe Kaufman,
a member of the student
advisory board.
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the ICA turned 50 on Oct.
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love working here. Artists
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or ambitions.”
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Fat Ham, a Top Chef bistro, to open at 31st and Walnut next week
The restaurant will
offer cocktails like the
Fat Apple, a mix of hard
and apple ciders
BY CLAIRE COHEN
Staff Writer
Next week, a Top Chef restaurant will open in University City.
Kevin Sbraga, the winner
of season seven of Bravo’s
“Top Chef,” will open the
Fat Ham on 31st and Walnut
streets on Dec. 6. The menu
will center around southern
country cooking with a twist.
“The Fat Ham is inf luenced by the experiences I
had growing up. It’s a place
where friends and family can
gather for good conversation
and a simple dinner prepared
with the freshest ingredients,” Sbraga said in a press
release on Wednesday. “It’s a
communal, lively experience
unlike anything else on the
Philly dining scene.”
Items on the menu took
shape after Sbraga’s twoweek c u l i n a r y r oad t r ip
around the South. A particularly important stop was in
Avery Island, La. — known as
the home of Tabasco. There,
Sbraga developed new ideas
for his housemade hot sauce
recipe.
Most of the menu will be
sma ll plate items, which
will encourage family style
dining. Items on the menu
include smoked lamb belly,
oyster sliders and baked
macaroni and cheese with a
potato chip crust. True to its
name, the menu will be porkcentric.
Besides food, the Fat Ham
will stock a cocktail program.
The drink menu will focus
on whiskies and other ingredients such as herbs and
fruit preserves. A variety of
drinks will be barrel aged in
two casks on top of the bar.
Signature cocktails on tap
will include the Montgomery
Mule — a mix of vodka, peach
infused vodka, lemon juice
and ginger beer — and the
Fat Apple, a drink blended
from hard cider, apple cider
and ginger ale.
The restaurant will seat up
to 45 people, and is designed
to reflect the experience of
dining in a southern home.
The seating will be upholstered in cowhides and artwork featuring animals will
hang on the walls. Sbraga
completed the rustic feel by
using an eclectic group of
chairs and setting the tables
with simple dishes and mixed
glassware.
The Fat Ham will serve dinner Sunday through Thursday
between 5 and 10 p.m., and on
Friday and Saturday between
5 and 11 p.m. This is Sbraga’s
second restaurant in Philadelphia. His first, named Sbraga,
is located on Broad and Pine
streets and was recognized
by Philadelphia Magazine as
one of the “Best Restaurants
of 2013.”
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higher education has been
largely overblown.
Researchers, led by Vice
Provost for Global Initiatives
Ezekiel Emanuel, conducted an
online survey in July of nearly
35,000 students enrolled in at
least one of the University’s 32
courses on Coursera.
Across all geographic regions, the study found that
MOOC students have high levels of educational attainment: 83
percent of those who responded
said they had earned either a
two- or four-year post-secondary degree, far more than international averages. Educational
attainment disparities were especially pronounced in Brazil,
Russia, India, China and South
Africa, where about 80 percent
of MOOC students — compared
to just five percent of the popu-
lations in those countries as
a whole — had earned postsecondary degrees.
The Coursera student population, in addition to being well-educated, also tends to be young,
male and employed, according to the survey. More than
40 percent of MOOC students
surveyed were younger than 30,
and less than 10 percent were
older than 60. About half of all
students surveyed said they had
enrolled in a MOOC because of
“curiosity” or “for fun,” while
44 percent said they had made
the decision to sign up in order
to “gain specific skills to do my
job better.”
Executive Director for Global
Initiatives Gayle Christensen,
a co-author of the study, said
she had not expected the educational gap to be as large as it
was, especially given the recent
rhetoric around access issues
and MOOCs.
“While one may expect
that students participating in
MOOCs would be somewhat
more likely to exhibit higher levels of education than the population writ large, the extent of this
divide is greater than one might
reasonably expect,” the authors
wrote. “Despite the optimistic
and aspirational declarations
of many MOOC providers, these
courses are not, as of yet, making education ‘borderless, gender-blind, race-blind, class-blind
and bank account-blind.’”
The study, though limited in
its scope and generalizability,
provides some of the first publicly available data on who is
taking MOOCs, and why they
are taking them.
“What I take away from this is
that, for MOOCs to change the
world, there needs to be more
than just high-quality digital
content alone,” Law School professor Edward Rock, Penn’s director of open course initiatives,
said. In order for MOOCs to
reach their full potential, Rock
said, institutions need to supplement their online learning
ventures with on-the-ground,
in-person partnerships and instruction.
Jonathan Moreno, a professor of ethics who has taught a
Coursera course on neuroethics, agreed. Moreno, who said
he would ideally like to have
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compared to other performing ar ts such as theater,
voice and instrumental music, dancing is the only one
without academic credit. She
added that doesn’t match
its popularity on campus,
considering that hundreds
of students audition for and
join dance groups each year.
“I find this to be problematic for a school that prides
itself on not only having a
diverse array of academic
opportunities, but also being
arts-friendly,” she said.
Moreover, Penn is the only
school in the Iv y Leag ue
that does not of fer dance
courses.
“It is unfair that dance
is the only performing art
not offered for a credit at
Penn to the current students
here,” P resident of Penn
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Brian Hsia said. “It also
makes us less competitive in
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the whole campus together,”
she said.
“It’s what makes everyone
really unique,” T-Change CoChair and College senior Natalia Llado Calderon said. She
added that the diverse student
body was one of the reasons
that she came to Penn, as
these interactions are “definitely something that would
have never happened back
home” in the Caribbean.
According to Gasman, Penn
can learn from MSIs to celebrate diversity.
“The best thing [students]
can do for themselves is to
mix and mingle with people
of all different backgrounds
… and get as robust an experience as possible,” she
said.
Penn is able to provide this
unique interaction, Gipson
said, adding that, “peer interaction — the way our students
engage each other across all
kinds of distinctions and ethnicity and race — that’s part
of the Penn experience, and
I think that adds to the experience of a vibrant, diverse,
engaged student population.
That’s powerful.”
in U.S.
A recent study released by
the Graduate School of Education argues that minority-serving institutions can
provide a higher education experience tailored to the needs
of minority students.
The study, released by the
school’s Center for MinorityServing Institutions and authored by Marybeth Gasman,
looks into the teaching styles,
community and professors at
MSIs that help their students
succeed.
Minority serving institutions are schools that work
to provide education for students of color, specifically lowincome students or students
of underrepresented minorities. Such schools include historically black colleges and
universities like Spelman College as well as lesser known
schools which serve Hispan-
have… a supportive college
experience,” Gasman said.
“Majority institutions, like
Penn, can learn how to ensure
success among its growing
diverse student body. There is
much to be learned from MSIs
in this area.”
Associate Vice Provost for
Equity and Access William
Gipson agrees that MSIs can
provide a valuable college
experience — however, he is
confident that majority institutions, and Penn especially, are
also great schools for minority
students.
Though Penn is not an institution specifically for minority
students, students involved in
minority groups on campus
said that the intercultural interactions on campus have
enriched their college experience.
Tangible Change, a Penn
group funded by the Vice Provost for University Life, works
specifically to bring together
different cultural groups.
For Nursing junior and CoChair of T-Change Rachel
Bernard, this sort of intercultural activity is central to
Penn. “It’s something to bring
dents who also love dance,
in relation to other colleges
and the other Iv y League
schools.”
A f ter t a lk ing w ith pro fessors and administrators
about how to make it happen, Wiggins decided with
some students in her management class to “tackle this
head-on with a petition and
an event to gain awareness.”
This petition has received
positive support from the
dancing community at Penn.
“Talk about dance classes has been going on for a
while,” Hsia said. “Nothing
formal has been organized
until now, but I know a lot
of d a ncer s at Pen n have
been wanting to see more
resources allocated towards
dance education for a long
time.”
President of Penn Dance
Sara Cohen agreed.
“There is definitely a lot
of enthusiasm around the
movement f or d a nc e f or
credit in the larger dance
communit y at Penn,” Co hen, a College senior, said.
“Dance is an integral part
of our lives, not just an extracur r icula r activ it y, so
getting credit for our work
would likely feel ver y rewarding.”
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ics, Asian Americans, Native
Americans and Pacific Islanders.
“The study found that MSIs
have unique and compelling
ways of serving students,”
Gasman said in an email.
According to the study,
MSIs can engage students and
create communities where
they are encouraged to excel.
“At black colleges, the
research shows us that African American success is
believed in — people assume
that you’re going to succeed,
instead of assuming that
you’re going to fail,” she said.
“Sometimes, black students
[who don’t attend MSIs] suffer because of these stereotypes that people hold, and
sometimes those people are
professors.”
These institutions can also
help minority students learn
about the importance of higher education and push them
to succeed in a way that other
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somebody in front of you,” he
said. “No amount of demographic information I have on who’s
taking my MOOC can replace
the look that a student has on
their face when they’re sitting
in front of you.”
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Group Study Reconsidered
EDITORIAL | The current GSR system definitely has its flaws, but Wharton exclusivity isn’t one of them
H
untsman Hall’s
Group Study
Rooms, campus’
most coveted
st ud y spac es
for many at Penn, have been a
hot-button issue for as long as
we can remember. Last week,
The Daily Pennsylvanian published an article about a group
advocating for GSR-booking
privileges to be extended to all
students in Wharton classes,
and the debate was once again
revived: Is the current policy
discriminatory? Should all
students at Penn be able to
book Huntsman GSRs? Is it a
Wharton-exclusive commodity already facing far greater
demand than can be supplied?
It is unreasonable that
Huntsman GSRs are unavailable to students in other
schools taking Wharton classes. However, we would like to
tell the many students in an
uproar over the injustice of
“good study spaces” only being
available to Wharton students
to kindly calm down.
‘‘
It is unreasonable
to expect GSRs to
be available to all
students — especially when it’s already so difficult to
book one.”
Yes, many of the study
spaces on campus are sorely
lacking in quality (we’re looking at you, Van Pelt). And yes,
the University should make an
effort to increase the number
of study locations open past
midnight, especially since —
let’s face it — that’s when many
of us do most of our studying
anyway.
But the truth of the matter
is that there are actually far
more places to study on-campus than many students believe: the Education Commons
at Franklin Field has huge
rooms with whiteboards, the
Biomedical Library is closer
to campus and has rooms that
can be booked for up to three
hours at a time and many college houses also contain study
rooms, both large and small, as
well lounges on every floor that
are always open.
Unlike these other communal study areas, Wharton
GSRs are usually sponsored
by Wharton alumni who want
their money to go into resources specifically for Wharton classes. Say what you will
about Wharton elitism, but as
long as donations are given for
the specific purpose of supporting Wharton classes, it is
unreasonable to expect GSRs
to be available to all students
— especially when it’s already
so difficult to book one.
That being said, students
across all home schools should
be able to book GSRs if they
are taking Wharton classes,
just as students taking fine
arts classes can use fine arts
resources regardless of their
major. This isn’t particularly
revolutionary — it’s just keeping with what the purpose of
GSRs is to begin with: helping
students with group projects
for Wharton classes.
This is especially relevant
for students in classes such
as Marketing 101, who need to
do a project that requires software only preinstalled on GSR
computers. Not only is it illogical to prevent students in other
schools who need this software
from being able to access it, but
it is also highly inconvenient
for Wharton students in these
groups to have to book the
GSRs every single time their
group needs one because their
College, Nursing or Engineering peers cannot do so.
Finally, there is a simple step
we’d like to see students and
administrators take in order to
help alleviate the the ridiculous
gap between GSR supply and
demand. It plainly states on
the GSR booking website that
“Use of the rooms is reserved
for groups only. Single individuals using a room (even with a
reservation) will be asked to
leave if a group wishes to use
the room.” However, we’ve
seen a significant lack of actual
follow-through regarding this
policy: Oftentimes, GSRs are
filled with individual students
working, and no one is willing
to say or do anything about it.
Students should obviously
be respectful of this policy,
but we should also take it upon
ourselves to make sure it’s
enforced and not be afraid to
kick someone out of a GSR if
they aren’t using it for the right
purpose.
There are shortcomings in
the study spaces on campus
that affect all of us — we’ve
all, at some point, deliberated hopelessly with a group
of friends over where to study.
This has led to extremely vocal
supporters and detractors and
a great deal of criticism concerning the current GSR booking system — some founded,
some unfounded.
As the University takes
these suggestions into account and reevaluates some
of its current policies, we hope
it keeps in mind not only the
flaws that affect all students
but also the original purpose
of GSRs.
Why we should go back to school
A BRAND YOU CAN TRUST | Penn is endowed with top-tier human capital — hoarding it during the Philly education crisis is wrong
P
enn is surrounded
by one of the worst
public school districts in the country.
Recent budget cuts and a reduction in federal grants have
left the district with a budget
deficit of more than $300 million. Young students — some
just a few blocks from our campus — are paying the price.
A mere 197 nurses care for
over 200,000 children, with
many schools lacking a fulltime nurse. Last month, a
12-year-old died from an asthma attack shortly after the
school day ended. Her elementary school did not have a nurse
on duty that day, so no one properly diagnosed or treated her.
Many classrooms don’t have
textbooks or enough desks for
every student to be able to sit
down.
More than half of the district’s schools — representing
a population of 48,000 students
— share 16 counselors, each
managing a caseload of approximately 3,000 students across
multiple schools.
These examples represent
only the tip of the iceberg.
Certainly a few hundred million dollars would be helpful.
The teacher furlough could be
ended, thereby reducing class
sizes, and necessities such
as books and air conditioning
units could be purchased for
every classroom.
But realistically, a massive
influx of funds isn’t going to
happen in the short-term. A
more practical and immediate solution is the infusion of
unpaid human capital into
Philadelphia schools, namely
an arsenal of Penn students.
A lack of response to the education crisis in Philadelphia by
the University would be disappointing, to say the least. Although one could argue that
what happens in Philadelphia
schools is not the responsibility
of the University, Penn’s failure
to take action in this situation
seems akin to a profitable supermarket chain unwilling to
donate goods after a nearby region is devastated by a natural
disaster.
Of course, there are hundreds of students involved in
community service, many focusing on urban schools. The
problem is that although these
students do admirable and
impactful work, the crisis confronting Philadelphia is larger
than our isolated efforts. We
need 10,000 students united
against the crisis. We need a
university that instills a culture
of service in everyone.
One solution might be to
require all undergraduates to
volunteer a certain number
of hours in public schools in
order to graduate. However,
some hate working with children, while others simply have
no interest in education. Furthermore, a policy like this one
could be loaded with complications and technicalities, from
falsifying volunteer hours to
creating a system that could
coordinate this operation.
Instead, a more streamlined and flexible solution is
to require all undergraduate
students to take an academically based community service
course.
Although we have many
graduation requirements,
none of them touch on social
impact. As a humanities major,
I question why I need to take a
three-hour per week physical
world class but am not asked
to engage with the community
whatsoever. I also question the
effectiveness of taking a class
for the “Cultural Diversity in
the United States” requirement, but reading only dense
academic texts about the subject and never engaging with
people outside of our ivory
tower.
Last year, only 1,357 students
enrolled in ABCS courses. Undoubtedly, the program would
need to be expanded. Additionally, to combat the Philadelphia
school district crisis specifically, Penn should increase the
number of education-related
ABCS courses, perhaps with
specific themes that could provide an effective and engaging
way to link our majors with this
requirement.
For example, an urban education course with a focus on
health in schools could provide
an avenue for Nursing students
to learn about children’s health
while also volunteering as
nurses in schools that cannot
afford one full-time.
Although the details of this
plan need to be ironed out, it
would certainly be a welcome
indication that the University
is taking action to confront a
problem that plagues the entire
next generation of our neighbors.
Last week, a senior at Sayre
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High School told me that she
had just started learning math
that year. Other Penn mentors
have shared stories with me
about students in forth and fifth
grade who cannot read.
For now, it is easy to remain
ensconced in the Radian or the
high rises, staring down at a
decaying West Philadelphia.
Hopefully during our time at
Penn, we will learn not to draw
the blinds.
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2013 PAGE 5
New 40th and Pine proposal praised by community
The new graduate
housing proposal would
not require the historical
site to be demolished
BY ALEX ZIMMERMANN
Senior Staff Writer
A new proposal for graduate
student housing at 40th and
Pine streets received an outpouring of support at a Spruce
Hill Community Association
meeting, as litigation challenging a previous plan continues
in the Philadelphia Court of
Common Pleas.
Jonathan Weiss, president
of Equinox Management and
Construction, presented a plan
to build a five-story apartment
building surrounding the historic mansion currently on the
property. The previous proposal
— already approved by SHCA
and the Philadelphia Historical
Commission — requires the demolition of the mansion, whereas the new proposal does not.
“We are hoping we can build
support for this approach and
avoid a couple more years of
litigation,” Weiss said. “So we
wanted to come to Spruce Hill
to solicit feedback on this approach, and to ask for support.”
After the Historical Commission approved the demolition
plan in May 2012, the Woodland
Terrace Homeowners Association appealed the decision to
allow demolition of the mansion.
The Zoning Board later upheld
the decision to allow demolition.
Oral arguments in a separate case about zoning laws —
known as “variances” — that
determined the number of
rental units permitted in the
property were scheduled for
Nov. 20. The Court postponed
the hearing until January 2014.
The new proposal is designed
to quell the concerns of those
opposed to the demolition of the
150-year-old mansion, which
was designated a historic site in
1973 by the Philadelphia Historical Commission.
“We’re facing the prospects
that [litigation] could take tens of
thousands of dollars and many
years before there’s a resolution,” Weiss said. “We went back
to the drawing board and had
extensive conversations with
the University of Pennsylvania
and with all parties involved,
and … we’ve come up with a way
we can preserve the old part of
the building.”
Some community members
in attendance raised concerns
over density and parking issues
that new construction at the site
could cause. The new proposal
will lower the number of apartments from 122 to 99.
Several local residents
stressed the importance of revitalizing the property as soon
as possible. Penn has struggled
to find a use for the current
building since it purchased the
property in 2003.
Other developments in the
area are already in motion,
such as a proposed renovation
of SEPTA’s 40th street trolley
station.
“I’m excited to see how, if and
when the project goes through.
It could revitalize the trolley portal itself,” said Lizzie Hessmiller,
a member of the University City
Historical Society’s Board of
Governors. “That’s a space with
a lot of potential that’s poorly
used right now.”
Since Spruce Hill has already
endorsed the previous plan,
Spruce Hill Zoning Committee
Chair Barry Grossbach said he
was unsure what the Committee
would be able to do in response
to the new proposal. Nevertheless, he seemed excited by the
prospect of a plan that satisfies a
wide range of interested groups.
“There are a lot of immediate
neighbors, and they don’t all
agree,” Grossbach said. “That’s
an issue we’ve always been dealing with …This is a site that has
bedeviled the community and
Connie Kang/Photo Manager-elect
created friction and animosity,
A developer presented Penn’s new proposal for graduate student housing at 40th
and that is unfortunate.”
He also suggested the devel- and Pine streets at a Spruce Hill Community Association meeting last night.
opers discuss the proposal with
the current litigants, who are
“Litigation always ends up resident and attorney Eric Sanchallenging a proposal that will ugly unless there’s a compro- toro. “Everyone’s losing somedemolish the historic building mise, and this seems like a good thing, but no one’s losing the
and construct more units.
compromise,” said Spruce Hill core of what they want.”
Prof wins prize for interdisplinary book on science, Romanticism
John Tresch, the author,
has written extensively
on the rocky relationship
between art and science
BY VIRGINIA WALCOTT
Staff Writer
John Tresch, professor of
history and sociology of science, was recently awarded
the 2013 Pfizer Award for
Best Scholarly Book from the
History of Science Society.
His book, “The Romantic
Machine,” takes an in-depth
look at a time in history when
the conflicting fields of science and Romanticism were
intertwined.
In the early 19th century,
at the height of the Industrial Revolution, people re-
lied heavily on a mechanical
understanding of the world.
The Romantic era, however,
soon arose as a reaction to
this belief and an attempt
to think of the world as what
Tresch described as a “living, grow ing thing where
people develop spontaneously.”
Tresch was initially interested in the history of anthropology. After studying
anthropology as an undergraduate, he wanted to know
more about why dif ferent
groups of people and different
periods of time described how
the world works in so many
conflicting ways.
This scholarly about-face
is not uncommon, Tresch explained. The history of science can help us understand
a lot of anthropological questions about why some societies — especially those in the
western world — trust technolog y and industr y more
than faith or mysticism. “I
realized that there are a lot
of different ways that people
might put the world together,”
he said.
In one way, Tresch’s book
is about the history of this
conflict and how these two
schools of thought still exist
today.
After discovering Edgar Allen Poe’s little-known scientific works from this period,
however, Tresch started to
look past this initial historical
conflict. He discovered that
from 1820 to 1850, many artists and scientists in France
were actually working togeth-
er to create what he called
“a lot of really interesting
syntheses between the mechanical and the organic.”
“There were a lot of artists
in France at this time who
were interested in science,
and then there were scientists who were totally invested in enhancing the arts…
and making science a form
of entertainment,” Tresch
said. For example, scientists
that studied sound and acoustics would work closely with
architects to design concert
halls.
The fact that these two opposite philosophies worked
together at one point in time
is a “philosophical underpinning to a lot of investigations
about the evolution of technology,” he added.
Karen Darling, the acquiring editor for science studies
at the University of Chicago
Press, heard about Tresch’s
work from a colleague before helping him publish. She
thought it was “so original” in
contrast to how people usually approach the conflicting
subjects of science and Romanticism.
“John’s book is important
because it not only makes a
fascinating case for how we
ought to rethink our assumpt ions about 19t h- centu r y
France… It also serves as a
model for how to do history,”
Darling said.
Prior to receiving the 2013
Pfizer Prize, “The Romantic
Machine” was recognized by
the New Museum in New York
as one of 2012’s best books.
“It’s gratifying to know that
people who are so interested
in contemporar y arts saw
my book as interesting and
[attention-grabbing] in that
world,” Tresch said.
Today, Tresch teaches a
course called “Edgar Allen
Poe’s Science.” He is the former chair of the Program
in Science, Technology, and
Society and has been invited
by programs at Penn and in
Philadelphia to give seminars
on “The Romantic Machine”
since its publication in 2012.
College senior Derek Chilvers is currently enrolled in
his second class with Tresch.
“His passion for science and
technology — and, evidently,
Edgar Allen Poe — makes it
a pleasure to be his student,”
Chilvers said.
News APSC chair seeks to further unify coalition’s member groups
Apathy in political
activism is a challenge
that faces the Asian
American community
BY SAN LE
Staff Writer
The Asian Pacific Student
Coalition — the umbrella organization for Asian groups on
campus — elected College junior Mithin Thomas last week
as the new chair for 2014. He
was previously the vice chair
of political affairs. The DP sat
down with him to discuss his
plans for the upcoming year.
The Daily Pennsylvanian:
Why did you decide to run for
APSC chair?
Mithin Thomas: I was on
board last year as vice president of political affairs and I
had a very successful term I’d
say, and I felt like I could do
more. As political chair, I had
a lot of exposure to the things I
could influence on campus, especially in terms of the [Asian
Pacific Islander American]
community. I wanted to continue those goals because nothing on APSC is seen or done
within a term [since] most of
our goals are long-term.
DP: What are some of these
long-term goals?
MT: In my term and what
I had seen, unifying the coalition in terms of the constituent groups is a big thing.
The Asian community is very
diverse on its own and trying
to make sure that people care
about each other’s goals as
well as their own groups is a
large thing.
Other issues include trying
to expand the Asian American Studies program, getting
more awareness for things
like the Pan-Asian American
Community House … and
making sure the rest of campus knows about the [Asian
Pacific Islander American]
community.
DP: What are some challenges that APSC faces?
MT: In terms of unifying
the coalition, a lot of constituent groups care very deeply
about their own group so it’s
hard to see the bigger picture
of trying to bring together
other groups as well…
In terms of the political
activism that we do, we are
the Asian Pacific Islander
voice. In terms of awareness
there is a lot of apathy in the
community. Basically, educating more students, [who
are] not only of Asian descent
but everyone, is a challenge.
It’s hard to be creative and
educate people.
DP: Do you have any immediate goals for next semester?
MT: One of the most immediate goals is, [since] the
ARCH building is opening up,
getting as much exposure as
possible as the board is turning
over and supporting PAACH,
as well as the other cultural
centers like Makuu and La
Casa Latina. Giving that building as much exposure as possible and making sure the rest
of campus is aware [of it].
DP: How has APSC changed
your experience at Penn?
MT: I [first] came on cam-
San Le/Staff Writer
College junior Mithin Thomas was recently elected the new chair of the Asian Pacific Student Coalition. He says that the
Asian community on campus is very diverse and trying to bring the member groups together is a difficult task.
pus thinking that Penn is diverse and that we’re pretty
good at bringing people together, but I didn’t see that
and I was a little disappointed.
I wanted to…see what I could
do to bring that community atmosphere to [the APIA] community at least.
I got involved with [APSC in
freshman year], and after my
freshman year, I did some of
the PAACH programming…
like APALI — the Asian Pacific American Leadership Initiative. It just made me more
aware of my Asian American
identity.
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Penn football
is family for
‘Youngie’
YOUNG from page 8
He always says, ‘Knock ‘em in
the dirt and tell ’em Youngie
sent you.’ It’s cool to see that the
game of football hasn’t changed
in the 50 or 60 years since he’s
played the game.”
“I have a great communication network with the players,”
Young said. “They come over to
see me all the time. They write
me letters before and after every game telling me what went
wrong and what went right.”
For Bill Young, life is just like
it was on the gridiron — it’s all
about making plays and playing
hard until the whistle blows.
Stage four
signals fourth down
And Young’s still playing
hard at 78 — even as an advanced cancer patient.
After four-plus decades of
actively supporting Penn football, the Princeton, N.J. native
learned the whistle could blow
for him sooner than expected.
“I woke up one morning and
had a blister between my tits,”
Young said. “I ignored it and
the next morning I saw a ring
of blood, and it scared the hell
out of me. I went to a doctor
and he sat me down and said,
‘You’ve got this cancer,
and
it’s the rarest and most aggressive form of skin cancer. I’ve
only seen three cases in my life
and the three died within six
months.’”
But by 2005, Young had overcome the carcinoma, subsequently being interviewed by
Wine Spectator and heading off
on another cross-Atlantic trip.
Now though, Youngie has
been diagnosed with stage four
prostate cancer. In the last couple of years since his diagnosis,
the cancer has metastasized
to his spine and shoulder. For
most, such a diagnosis would
be a ticket to depression and
inaction, but Young has not let
the news hold him back.
“I have terminal cancer right
now,” Young said. “I’m not
gonna start staying in bed, and
I’m going to do things I love to
do. I’m gonna continue doing
that way. There’s no other way
for me but to fight it and hope
things work out. I’m not gonna
sit back in bed and sit and feel
sorry for myself.”
This mentality has kept
Youngie at the top of his game
as an internationally recognized hobbyist.
A glass of wine and
a fish on the line
Bill Young has been fly-fishing all of his life and has long
been one of the premier flyfishers in the world.
The Icelandic fly-fishing
community named a fly after
him, and the ‘Bill Young Fly’
is now a globally-known lure
to attract fish. It’s become his
signature and just another way
Young has created a leisurebased legacy for himself.
He’s even made his mark in
northwest Russia at the Ryabaga Camp on the Ponoi River. The camp guest house has
Young’s name and fly carved
into its wooden door.
“It’ll be there forever,” Young
said.
The camp is operated by
owner Ilya Sherbovich, who
has forged a solid relationship
with Young, honoring him in
the most appropriate fashion.
“When [Sherbovich] found
out I had cancer, he sent me a
$2,000 fly rod,” Young said.
Since Youngie’s passion dictates his life, he hasn’t let anything get in the way of his flyfishing all over the world, least
of all his cancer.
“I fish all over the world,”
Young said. “They don’t want
me to go to Patagonia in January. They said, ‘Yeah, but Bill,
you’ll be 900 miles from a hospital.’ [But] I’m going back to
Russia in June. I’ve had a life
that most people would aspire
to … and I’m gonna continue to
do it that way.”
If anybody lives by the
aphorism “a glass of wine a
day keeps the doctor away,”
it’s Young. Young sports a
world-class wine collection
that has been described as
a “time capsule,” featuring
everything from 50-year old
wines to 130-year old bottles
of Cognac. His wine cellar is
1,400 square feet, the size of a
small home, and is decorated
with the many boxes of old
wine cases he has collected
through his travels.
He’s even been featured in
national magazines like Wine
Spectator for his extensive
collection, one he shares with
anyone that pays him a visit in
Rochester.
If you do, you’ll get to take in
the cliff of shale towering over
part of the lake on his 14-acre
plot in Rochester. Young has
been collecting fossils that fall
from the shale for years, only to
find out they were 350 millionyear old marine invertebrate
fossils. He and his wife Wende
make necklaces and jewelry
from the collected fossils.
“We make them and give
them to friends and relatives,”
Young said.
Young’s
determination,
which moves him to enjoy his
many hobbies to the fullest —
­
even in the face of death —was
already there in his Penn football days.
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door was presented to Bill as a gift following Young’s diagnosis. The door has a picture of the ‘Bill Young Fly’ carved into its face. “It’ll be there forever,” Young said.
helmet off again, I would never
take those shoulder pads off
again and I’d never take that
jersey off again for the rest of
my life.”
But Young’s football career
was different than the life of a
Quakers football player today
in almost every way. In his era,
Penn played big-name programs like Penn State, Army,
Navy, Cal and Notre Dame, with
whom the Red and Blue had a
long-standing rivalry before the
1960s.
Young can recall one game
against the Fighting Irish in
which he competed against
1956 Heisman Trophy winner
Paul Hornung. The game sticks
out because Young played in
front of a full crowd at Franklin
Field, what he remembers as
78,000 people.
To put that into perspective,
this year’s Homecoming crowd
drew roughly just 21,000 in attendance.
Bill Young played on both
sides of the ball as a lot of
players did during that era,
taking snaps as a fullback,
linebacker and punter — a
fullback back then was a
more traditional runner than
the lead blocker we see more
commonly today.
Youngie also remembers
the heartbreak that comes
with playing football, including losing one of Penn’s best
playmakers of the time —
Frank Riepl — to an ankle
injury much like the one suffered by fifth-year senior Billy
Ragone last season, as well as
a loss to Penn State due to a
special teams error.
“Early in the game against
“I sat in my locker and wept”
From 1954-57, Young made
a habit of pulverizing defenses
and crushing running backs for
the Quakers. Nearly 50 years
later, in February 2012, Young
recalled his last game vividly
during his acceptance speech
for the Penn football “Man of
the Year” award in front of 300
program alumni.
“I sat in my locker and wept,”
Young said emotionally. “I wept
because I would never take that
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Penn State, I was in punt formation and the ball fell about five
feet in front of me, they scooped
it up and scored a few plays later — they won by five points,”
Young said. “I keep thinking if
I had gotten that, we could’ve
beat Penn State.”
“[But] I still have nothing but
fond memories of my days on
the gridiron.”
‘‘
There’s no other way
for me but to fight it
and hope things work
out. I’m not gonna
sit back in bed and
sit and feel sorry for
myself.”
— Bill Young
Giving credit
where credit is due
Penn football has not held
back in showing Young how
much he has meant — and
continues to mean — to the
program in his 60 years of
commitment by bestowing
him its “Man of the Year”
award. As an award recipient, Young walked on the
field as an honorary co-captain at last year’s Homecoming game against Brown for
the coin toss. He walked with
some of his dear friends —
Brandon Colavita, Brandon
Copeland and Josh Powers.
“That was a great honor
for me,” Young said.
Young’s influence and fra-
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Bill Young has been
through the highs and lows
not only on the field but in
the game of life. Not many
would have led the hobbyhappy life Young has after
getting hit with carcinoma.
He attacks every challenge
in his life with enthusiasm
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smile.
“I had a wake last year,”
Young said. “My wife and I
decided, ‘Let’s not wait till
I die and have my friends
come and celebrate my life.’
We had 150 people, we had
two tents and everybody had
a great time,” Young said,
chuckling to himself. “We
had people come from the
West Coast and all over the
place. I had people write poetry and eulogize me.
“You know nobody has
done that before — I’m the
first person that did it that
I know of … two years from
now, I’ll do it again.”
This is the Bill Young spirit —
­ a spirit that approaches
everything with determination and acceptance.
Even
though
Youngie
thinks everyone hypes him
up as “bigger than life,”
there aren’t enough words
to do justice to the adventurous life the man has led. His
words have always been selfless and encouraging, even
when his prognosis hasn’t
been an encouraging one.
In fact, he ended his last
email to this writer accepting me into his “family,”
signing off, “Your Bud for
Life, Youngie.”
How long that life lasts
at this point remains to be
seen, but it won’t affect how
full of life he’s always been
and how giving of life he still
plans to be.
“I’ve had a life that most
people would aspire to,”
Young said. “And I’m gonna
continue to do it that way.”
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ternity has even spread beyond football. He has been
named the Penn wrestling’s
“Man of the Year” as well.
Young has kept in touch
with one of Penn’s former
coaches, Zeke Jones, who
coached the Quakers from
2005-07. Jones’ time at Penn
ended when he accepted an
invitation to coach the United States Olympic wrestling
team.
“I got an email from him
the other day if I’d like to
join the Olympic wrestling
team in 2016 to go to Rio with
them,” Young said. “And of
course I’ll go. These things
have been happening for me
all my life, and I’m very fortunate for it.”
Always looking ahead with
unbridled optimism, Young
was one of the Red and
Blue’s greatest motivators
this past season. The day after the Homecoming loss to
Princeton, Young expressed
optimism for the struggling
Quakers. While Penn ultimately didn’t nab another
Ivy title, Young never gave
up. “I try to boost the guys’
spirits,” Young said. “I try to
keep their spirits up. ‘Keep
your chins up, we can still
win the title.’”
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Whiting twins team up as ‘face’ of the program
CROSS COUNTRY |
Freshmen Clarissa and
Cleo Whiting make big
impact for Red and Blue
BY COLIN HENDERSON
Staff Writer
Many college teams have
a “face of the program.” It is
rarer for a team to have two
athletes that are legitimate
“faces of the program.”
It is rarer still for these
athletes to share the same
face.
Nonetheless, this is the
situation that the Penn women’s cross country team finds
itself in with freshman phenoms — and identical twin
sisters — Cleo and Clarissa
Whiting.
The Whiting sisters have
taken Penn Athletics — and
the rest of the Ivy League
— by storm, consistently finishing amongst Penn’s top
runners while also taking the
top two team spots in the allimportant Heptagonal Championships. Cleo even snagged
a spot at Nationals last week.
The twins have also displayed strong work ethics
throughout the season, attitudes instilled in them since
their youths.
“We started dancing classical ballet when we were four,”
Clarissa said. “So we were
pretty used to discipline.”
Cross country was a natural fit for the hard-working
pair.
“We were always individuals as a unit anyway, and we
had always been a little different from the girls who
played volleyball or basketball,” Cleo said.
“At a cross country meet,
there was always a lot of camaraderie, which made it a
favorite quickly.”
Both of them took responsibility for their running success from the very beginning.
“We learned from a very
young age that how good you
are is directly affected by
how much you put into it,”
Clarissa said.
They also learned that they
were valuable resources in
each other’s progress, and
they quickly began to rely on
each other as training partners.
“I was born with the perfect training partner,” Cleo
said. “Having Clarissa was
like having my better self.”
“I wouldn’t be half as good
as I am now without Cleo,”
Clarissa added. “We really
pushed each other, and there
were definitely days where
I was like, ‘Come on, Cleo.
Let’s go!’”
But the twins always had
goals beyond high school success at Delta High School in
Colorado.
“I just couldn’t imagine my
life without it. We knew that
we wanted to run in college,”
Cleo said. “We had a lot of people who believed in us. We just
had to keep working.”
Of course, the two enjoyed
some friendly competition,
but their goals were always
unified.
“Yeah, it mattered who
won, but most of our races
are nearly identical,” Clarissa said.
“The competition is always
there, but we always love
each other no matter what
at the end of the day,” Cleo
added. “Having somebody
Park’s father
‘just loved
watching’ him
PARK from page 8
“[Soccer] was less accessible, and I didn’t really have
anyone to play with,” he said.
So he picked up a football.
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Sophomore center Darien Nelson-Henry will need to stay out of foul trouble against Niagara on Tuesday. Against Iowa on
Friday, “DNH” picked up three quick first-half fouls and was forced to take a seat, allowing the Hawkeyes to dominate inside .
Quakers
looking for a
turnaround
M. HOOPS from page 8
turned the ball over a whopping 25 times, allowing the
Hawkeyes to score transition
baskets seemingly at will.
Going up against the Purple Eagles, Penn can’t afford
to give Mason and freshman
forward Ramone Snowden
(12.6 ppg) any easy opportunities.
“We’re not good enough
to have unforced turnovers
and expect to win,” Allen
said.
The Quakers could expect
to win, though, if they focus
in on the lone bright spot
from Friday’s loss.
When they weren’t throw-
ing the ball away, the Red
and Blue displayed a knack
for scoring out of their halfcourt offense, using frequent ball reversals and
motion to set up easy layups
for senior forward Fran
Dougherty and open jumpers for sophomore guard
Tony Hicks.
“We’ve got to get better at [the halfcourt],” Allen said. “And hopefully we
can extend that type of play
for a longer period of time
[against Niagara].”
Making matters easier for
the Quakers could be Niagara’s recently leaky defense.
The Purple Eagles have
surrendered at least 81
points in all five of their contests this season, including
a 102-97 loss to Kent State
on Saturday that wrapped
up a stretch of three games
in three days in the Coaches
vs. Cancer Classic.
“We need to tighten up
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on the defensive end,” said
Niagara coach Chris Casey,
who is hoping to put a stop
to his team’s three-game
losing streak.
“We just gotta get out
there and compete,” Mason
added.
In the end, that may just
be what Penn needs: a competitive game.
In consecutive losses to
Penn State and Iowa, the
Quakers have faced 20-plus
point deficits at halftime,
leading to ugly second
halves and even uglier final
scores.
But in the face of early
struggle, the Red and Blue
remain resolute. Allen has
tinkered with his lineups,
searching for the perfect
formula to complement the
core four of Nelson-Henry,
Hicks, Dougherty and senior
guard Miles Cartwright.
Perhaps, against the Purple Eagles, he’ll find it.
Going gridiron
While his passion for soccer was stifled by the sport’s
lack of mainstream popularity in the States, Park’s
athletic ability couldn’t be
suffocated. He worked his
way through North Gwinnett
High School’s freshman and
JV football squads, toiling on
special teams. He found himself starting — then captaining — the varsity team.
“High school football in
Georgia is huge,” Park said.
“It was a phenomenal experience. We consistently had
over 10,000 people at our
home games.”
It was a long way from Korea, where he kicked a soccer
ball around with his friends
between homework, classes
and ill-fated attempts at piano, and where football — with
its distinctly American blend
of aggression and strategy,
pure physical chaos and finesse — was unheard of to
Park.
A football family now
The scene, as it must have
appeared to his family for the
first time, might have been
overwhelming — more than
10,000 fans packed into a Georgia high school football stadium, abuzz with pre-game
adrenaline. Players lined up on
the field, bracing themselves
for the inevitable physicality. Park, standing somewhere
amidst it all. It all must have
seemed very novel — foreign,
even — to a family who had
never seen the sport before.
But for Park’s parents and
sister, amongst even the deafening roar of the crowd and
the chaos of the game, there
was only one person on that
field who really mattered.
“It really didn’t matter how
many people were there, because I just went to the game
to see him play,” Lee said.
“I was just having fun watching him play on the team,” his
sister, Janie, added. “When I
was watching it in person, it
was even better, because you
got to see him playing, see the
crowd yelling.”
The intensity of the situation
was not lost on David — but
he didn’t allow it to engulf him,
either.
“It was very nerve-wracking,” David said. “A lot of tension. But once you get your
blood flow going, once you get
into the game, everything else
doesn’t matter anymore.”
“Like a celebrity”
The recruiters started coming during his junior year and
met with David and his parents.
that completely understands
you … I feel really lucky to
have that.”
College offered an opportunity for the two to individualize, but when it came down
to deciding where to attend
school, the two stuck together, choosing Penn over Washington.
“Penn worked for both of
us. Even though we have
different schedules and we
have individualized a little
bit, that support is something that couldn’t have
translated over 2,000 miles,”
Clarissa said.
In high school meets, they
became accustomed to running together out ahead of
the pack, but they have embraced the increased competition of college meets with
open arms.
“I love being a freshman
“You feel like a celebrity,”
he wryly noted of the process,
“Because you get called out
every fourth period. Like,
‘Park, report to the field.’”
Between the Division I recruiters and daily trips out of
class, the prospect of playing
sports in college — a lifelong
dream — was suddenly snapping into focus. He committed
to Penn and swapped his number 99 for 54, a jersey number
he wears to this day.
David’s days at North Gwinnett — with the unmistakable
fanaticism characteristic of
huge football high schools —
certainly taught him some
of the most important skills
needed to succeed in college.
“Keeping composure,” David noted, “Being able to handle pressure.”
And then, by far the most
important, he said with a smile
and a laugh: “Having fun with
my boys out there.”
So much in the balance
But college presented an
entirely new set of challenges,
both on and off the field.
“In high school, if you’re the
strongest or the fastest kid on
the team, you’ll probably play,”
David recalled. “Here, if you
don’t perform well, there’s the
next guy up — everyone is just
as talented as you. You have to
be consistent.”
Then there were academics,
which had long been a priority
for Park and his family, but had
suddenly become a lot more
challenging.
‘‘
Football is like an
outpouring of stress,
of frustration, or
anything. It just clears
my mind when I’m on
the field.”
— David Park,
Senior linebacker
“I kind of had trouble balancing school and football,”
David said. “I think I dug
myself a hole in the first two
years, and it was tough getting
back out. Sophomore year was
tough, and I think it just overwhelmed me.”
For all the difficulties — balancing practice with homework, game preparation with
classes, games themselves
with studying — football provided a constant for David. The
academic stress and chaos of
being a student-athlete all faded away with the snap count.
The adrenaline switched into
focus. The physicality into determination. The crowd into
ambient noise.
“Football is like an outpouring of stress, or frustration,
or anything. It just clears my
mind when I’m on the field,”
he said.
With that constant, David
began to refocus. Throughout
his junior year, between seeing his first varsity action and
playing in nine games over
the course of the season, he
sought tutoring for classes and
again,” Clarissa said. “I’m
grateful for the competition.”
“It’s been really fun to see
such great talent, and it just
makes you more ambitious
to be one of the girls out in
front,” Cleo added.
The sisters may be motivated by the opportunities
in front of them, but they are
also motivated by their past.
“We weren’t recruited that
much out of high school,”
Clarissa said.
“It’s a Penn thing to be the
underdog,” Cleo added. “I
trained thinking I was going
to be one of the slowest on
the team.”
That wasn’t the case. The
twins are now in a position
to lead a young and talented
women’s squad into the future.
And as always, they are in
it together.
asked his professors for help.
Between his seven tackles
— two of them coming in his
season debut against Lafayette — and first career sack
against Columbia, he found
time to meet with Engineering advisors and to consult
with classmates. He was determined to succeed, and his
parents — while supportive as
ever — trusted him enough to
let him succeed by himself.
“David didn’t want us to be
worried because he wanted
to show that he could do it by
himself,” Lee said. “All we
could do is call him and ask,
‘Did you eat dinner?’ He tried
to manage his time, he basically did it by himself.”
Another fan in the stands
Suddenly and precisely,
things off the field came together just as well-executed
plays did on the field. His father, who had lived in South
Korea for years after the
rest of the family moved to
the United States in order
to continue working, moved
to Georgia. What used to be
a twice-a-year visit became
dedication.
“My dad actually came a
couple weeks during my junior year when I finally got to
start and get a lot of playing
time. Ever since then, he kept
trying to learn the game,”
David said. “My senior year,
he came for two months
and basically came to all my
games [over the course of]
six weeks. And he just loved
watching me.”
Park’s rapidly growing onfield success culminated in
Penn’s Oct. 5 victory against
Dartmouth, which went into
four overtimes and required
a miraculous play from Park.
With junior kicker Riley
Lyons poised to give the Big
Green a victory with an easy
21-yard field goal, Park blocked
the kick as time expired and
sent the game into overtime.
This provided the turning
point in one of the most exciting wins in Penn history
and a spectacular highlight
of an otherwise lackluster
season.
For many Penn football fans, the play against
Dartmouth will come away
as the defining moment of
Park’s football career. But
there’s a lot more that will
inevitably be left out of the
highlight reel.
The energy behind a
touch of the soccer ball in
a soccer-crazed country,
sure to induce nostalgia.
The team that went a
long way toward teaching
a new student how to speak
English.
The teachers and advisors that kept the play call
audible beneath the roar of
bioengineering classes and
graduation requirements.
And the trust of parents,
of course, who lived alone,
drove countless miles and
learned
an
unheard-of
sport to support a career
far more richer than a
blocked kick against Dartmouth one October Saturday.
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M. HOOPS | Quakers
prepare for Niagara and
nation’s leading scorer after
pair of Big Ten beatdowns
BY IAN WENIK
Sports Editor
Penn basketball has gotten
knocked to the mat in back-to-back
games, taking body-blow, blowout
losses from two Big Ten schools.
To get back up, the Quakers have
to take down the nation’s leading
scorer.
Tuesday night, Niagara (1-4) will
come to the Palestra to face the Red
and Blue (1-3), boasting explosive
guard Antoine Mason and his impressive 31.2 points per game clip.
The son of former NBA All-Star
Anthony Mason, Antoine has displayed a knack for driving the basket and forcing bigger opponents to
commit fouls that his father never
had, shooting an average of 12 free
throws per contest and converting
75 percent of them.
“Getting to the line is very important [to my game],” Mason said in a
colossal understatement.
In order to slow the redshirt junior down, Penn knows that its big
men will have to avoid getting into
the foul trouble that has wreaked
havoc on coach Jerome Allen’s lineups again and again this season.
“I think one of the big keys to stay-
ing in the game is forcing [Mason] to
make tough shots,” said sophomore
center Darien Nelson-Henry, who
will have to step up as a help defender when Mason drives the lane.
“I think all it is, is not trying to block
his shots, not being too aggressive,
just trying to stay big … and force
him to shoot over me.
“There’s not a lot of people out
there that can shoot over sevenfooters.”
But before the Quakers can even
think about taking care of Mason,
they have some offensive issues to
tighten up first.
In Friday’s 86-55 demolition at
the hands of Iowa, the Red and Blue
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Wine, fish
and football
are a ‘Young’
man’s game
Cancer won’t hold 1958 Penn football
grad Bill Young back from being a
mentor and a dear friend
BY JIMMY LENGYEL
Associate Sports Editor
“Spring ball so far has been much better than
I expected. Some of the younger players have
done exceptionally well. Be looking for our
young defensive linemen Austin Taps (#93) and
Dan Connaughton (#91) to step up this year.
Other young players to watch will be Trevor
Niemann (CB #29), who partially won us the
Brown game with a broken up pass, and Mitch
King (TE #47) ... I hope to talk to you soon.
Thank you so much for supporting Penn Football and all of our traditions. I don’t know if the
team would be where they are without you. I’m
sorry to hear about your chemotherapy … let
me know if there’s anything I can do for you.
(Pictures from practice, off season updates,
etc.)”
The preceding was a March 31 email from
Penn junior linebacker Dan Davis to 1958 Penn
grad and former Penn football player Bill Young,
one of the most inspirational figures in the history of the Penn football program.
“Youngie,” as he likes to be called, enjoys a
profoundly personal relationship with Quakers
past and present. Youngie has given an overwhelming amount of financial, motivational and
emotional support to the program and the individuals within it, from Davis to coach Al Bagnoli.
“I’ve known Bill pretty much ever since I’ve
been at Penn,” Bagnoli said. “He’s been a tremendous advocate of Penn football, as an explayer, as a very successful business guy [and] as
a generous alum, as an active relationship with
present players, past players. He’s a guy that
bleeds red and blue.”
Over the last 60 years, he’s built relationships
Courtesy of Bill Young
(From left to right:) Josh Powers, Bill Young, Dan Davis, and Brandon Copeland stand together after the Homecoming game against Princeton on Nov. 9. Young keeps in close contact with all
three players, writing emails at least once a week. Young is expecting Powers for a visit at his home in Rochester, N.Y., a trip that he used to make at least once a year with Penn football.
with some of the most impactful players in the
history of the program, like Frank Riepl (‘58),
Josh Powers (‘11), Brandon Copeland (‘13) and
present-day senior running back Brandon Colavita.
But it’s the current Rochester, N.Y. resident’s
correspondence with players like junior defen-
sive lineman Jimmy Wagner and — perhaps
most notably —
­ Davis that highlights the full
measure of his devotion to the people of Penn
football.
“It’s incredible that he comes down from
where he lives … and still makes it to some of
these games,” Davis said. “If you look back at
some of the people who have really affected the
game like Copeland and Josh Powers, they have
always used him as kind of a mentor.
“He calls me the ‘Stormin’ Man from Norman,” said Davis, who hails from Norman, Okla.
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From South Korea to Franklin
Field: the David Park story
After picking up football
for the first time in high
school, Park has progressed
into a leader for Quakers
Carolyn Lim/DP File Photo
After moving from South Korea to North Gwinnett, Ga., senior linebacker David Park began playing football for the first
time in high school. Park played a major role for the 2013 Quakers, particularly in Penn’s matchup with Dartmouth.
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posed to a lot of things,” he said.
The only problem?
“I sucked.”
“My teacher literally told me,
like, ‘You suck.’”
Tragic as the abrupt end to
Park’s burgeoning career as a
BY JENNIFER YU
Opinion Editor-elect
concert pianist was, it was probably for the better — he got back
When he was around 7 years to kicking a soccer ball around
old and still living in South Korea, between classes, playing any
Penn football senior linebacker time and with anyone he could.
David Park’s parents took him
“When he was young, he was
to piano lessons. He had already one of the guys who just couldn’t
demonstrated a love for athletics stand still. He just had that sort
— specifically, soccer — but they of personality about him,” Park’s
figured it would be a good idea to mother, Nan Lee, said.
try a variety of extracurriculars.
“I always dreamt of becoming
“They just wanted me to be ex- a soccer player professionally,”
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Park said. “But it wasn’t anything
I could grasp, honestly, because I
was so young.”
Eventually, realities far more
sobering than the naivete of
youth obstructed his childhood
dreams of professional soccer,
and hopes for a better education
brought his family to immigrate
to the United States.
Suddenly, Park found that his
new classmates were preoccupied with other, unfamiliar sports
— ones involving an odd combination of tackling, sprinting and
complicated footwork more intuitive for a soccer player.
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