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A BRIGHT FUTUREBACKPAGE Playing with pride

Although the first gay National Foot-ball League athlete — Michael Sam — was drafted just last year, the student organization Penn Athletes and Allies Tackling Homophobia has been on campus since 2003.

PAATH is a constituent group of the Lambda Alliance, the queer advocacy umbrella organization on campus. Fa-cilitated by the LGBT Center, PAATH’s goal is to provide a safe place for athletes

A helmet ad blocker for real life

The Brand Killer helmet blocks out real-life advertisements by making them appear blurry to the viewer. COURTESY OF REED ROSENBLUTH

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College considers out-of-classroom grad requirement

Forget Sector and Foundational require-ments — the College of Arts and Sciences may soon require students to fulfill credits outside of the classroom.

This possibility was revealed in the re-cently released School of Arts and Sciences Strategic Plan.

The new credit is explained under the Re-search and Engagement subheading of the

PAATH hosted the Pride Games last year to promote acceptance of LGBT athletes on campus.

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One PennApps team has created an app which works like AdBlock for real life — and could po-tentially make them big bucks in the near future.

“Brand Killer” is aptly named for its ability to pixelate certain advertisements like Starbucks and Coke logos right in front of your eyes. The app was built by Engineering sophomore Reed Rosenbluth and College junior Jonathan Dubin, along with two students from Johns Hopkins Uni-versity, Tom Catullo and Alex Crits-Christoph.

The device is put over the eyes like a “ski mask that fits over your head,” Dubin said. “Every-thing that the webcam sees is processed through a computer where the ads are blocked.”

“In the future, there is the idea that there might be a layer between reality and what people are

Some networks interested in tech-nology created by PennApps teamEMILY OFFITStaff Reporter

LGBT athletes share experi-ences through student groupALEXIS BLOCKStaff Reporter

Community service, internships or re-search could count towards new creditJILL MOELY Staff Reporter

Solving police prejudice means somehow eliminating

the unconscious biases of those we trust with exercising the state’s monopoly on legitimate use of violence.”

- Alec Ward

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Branding beats

Wharton freshman Kayvon Asemani started his own business where the product is free. Coming from a difficult background, Asemani believes that everyone should have the chance to experience the music that is part of his brand: Kayvon Music.

He says he practices “ethical capitalism,” so that even those who can’t afford his rap music can still enjoy it. He has made a profit selling T-shirts with his logo designed by College sophomore Adam Reid. He said the design — which is a blend of a lion, bear and wolf’s face wearing a crown — reflects the theme of his songs, which start with “a fierce dark element” and end in a hopeful tone, reminiscent of his own past.

By the age of nine, Asemani lost both his

parents and was subsequently shuffled around to different family members. Eventually, he attended the Milton Hershey School, a free private school for underprivileged kids in Penn-sylvania. He graduated as valedictorian of his class and was determined to pursue a degree in business as well as his artistic dream of making music.

Most of his music is about the struggle of social stratification. College freshman Roger Lee said that Asemani’s music “challenges the status quo and addresses the sickness within so-ciety.” Asemani describes his music as “serious, but it can also be funny.”

Asemani acknowledged that he did not start with the same resources that other Wharton stu-dents might have had, but he works tirelessly to compete at the same caliber.

“There would be days where we’d be up until 5 a.m. studying after he’d already had a full day of performing and writing new music,”

One student aims to make his music both accessible and successfulELIZABETH WINSTONStaff Reporter

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Student-staff interactions lacking

To Wharton senior Shreya Zaveri, the security guard at her dorm in Kings Court College House was not only there for her protection. She was also a friend.

Her friendship with the se-curity guard led her to wonder about the interactions between other students and staff at Penn. She decided to pursue this in-terest through her “Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management”course project last semester and found that her in-teractions with staff were the exception, not the norm.

“Learning more about [Penn staff] really brought home for me that we don’t know enough about the people who work beside us,” Zaveri said.

The security guard who was the inspiration for the project ex-pressed conflicting feelings about her interactions with students.

“When the students gradu-ate, I cry. I love them like my own kids,” a Kings Court Col-lege House security guard said in the group’s report. “But honestly … some of them never even say hello.”

The study found that 87 percent of students do not interact with the security guards in any way.

In addition, the study found that only eightpercent of students say “hello” to security guards and only onepercent of all students say “thank you.”

“We’re all very busy people,” Wharton senior Hari Joy, another member of the Management 104 team, said. “We aren’t trying to say that Penn students are unap-preciative, but in my personal experience we could do more.”

Most students in the study seemed to view their interactions with staff as better, or more per-sonal than the data showed.

The study primarily focused on the interactions between students living in on campus dorms and Allied Barton Security Guards and found that the quality of the interactions decreased depend-ing on the general age of students. For example, the group found thatfreshmen living in Kings Court College House engaged in significantly more interactions with students and security guards than those living in Rodin College House, which houses only upper-classmen.

Alicia Harrwell, who has

worked in the Stouffer College Housing Office for nearly 30 years, also noted that freshman are particularly friendly.

Harrwell said she has grown rather fond of the students that she has helped, particularly when they come in as freshman.

“We have a lot of student con-tact,” Harrwell said, “The first year students make the most impression, and over the years I still keep in contact with some of them.”

Franklin Riley, the front desk attendant at Houston Hall, agreed that he enjoys working at Penn and seeing a diversity of students.

“It’s a good atmosphere to work in,” he said. “It’s good to see a mixture of race here.”

As a result of the group’s find-ings, the Management team later decided to create an annual Penn Employee Appreciation Week, which they began last semester. Over 200 students attended the event.

The event occurred the week before Thanksgiving break and encouraged students through an online campaign to learn facts about and give thanks to staff at Penn by posting on social media with the hashtag #PennAppreci-ates.

“It’s really knowing more about them that helps.” Zaveri said. “This will definitely color people’s interactions by realizing that these are real people.”

Only 13 percent of students interact with guardsJESSICA WASHINGTONStaff Reporter

actually seeing,” Rosenbluth said. “This led us to the idea of AdBlock, which sits between the browser and the actual web-site — what if we could have that in real life?”

While this app does not have as much of a use as a consumer product until the technology needed for the device is cheaper and smaller, Rosenbluth said that some television networks have already contacted his team for the use of their soft-ware. As the device is currently, the team is unsure what the next step might be commercially until the hardware technology catches up.

“Some networks are inter-ested in using the technology to blur ads that they aren’t li-censed to show in stadiums,” Rosenbluth said. This app could be helpful for when networks need to pixelate brands they do not have the license to use on television.

Although “Brand Killer” did not make the top 10 in the competition in January, it has received a lot of media cover-age from popular sites such like Wired. Rosenbluth attri-butes this to when he posted the project on the website Hacker News, which is “like Reddit for tech start-ups,” he said.

They came prepared to the PennApps event with the idea and the materials they would need, while sometimes teams and their ideas for PennApps

are formed that weekend.This inspiration came from

a British science fiction show called Black Mirror, which often analyzes the conse-quences that technology has on modern society. In a particular episode with Jon Hamm, the characters wear smart contact lenses that allow them to block people in real life like blocking someone on Facebook.

Due to time constraints of the competition that weekend, the device was put together with duct tape. The team explained that with smaller computers, they would not need to use a laptop to process the images and that is something they could implement in the future.

As it is now, “Brand Killer” is not necessarily meant to be a commercial product. Its purpose was “more to throw something out there for people to think about,” Rosenbluth said.

In terms of their hacking future, Rosenbluth and Dubin are unsure. “It takes a lot out of you. We had a good time at Penn Apps, but it’s draining.”

Engineering senior Chris Beyer, who was head of hard-ware for PennApps Winter 2015, is excited by the future prospects of this app.

“This could make a ton of money,” Beyer said. “They could even replace blocked ads with other ads. I think they should keep working to polish this up.”

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Plan’s Undergraduate Educa-tion section: “The College will explore instituting a requirement that students amass several such credits for graduation,” it reads.

This requirement would “in-clude research, work/internship experience, or community en-gagement.” The Plan proposes to “put theory into practice through a new kind of credit on the tran-script, distinct from academic credit.”

This new focus came about as a result of something adminis-trators already see occurring in the student body.

“Our students do things that contribute in very valuable ways to their worldview and education, but are not neces-sarily worthy of a c.u.,” School of Arts and Sciences Dean Steven Fluharty said. “It’s more experiential, but it should be ac-knowledged on the transcript.”

However, it is still unclear how this type of requirement

would look in practice. It has not been determined whether the new type of credit would be required or merely honorary, and many details still need to be hashed out.

Unlike the Wharton School-wide email prank of last year, that claimed to require an hour of community service of all in the school, this requirement will actually be implemented in the coming years.

“Right now the idea is just in the ‘gleam in somebody’s eye’ stage,” College of Arts and Sci-ences Dean Dennis DeTurck said. “We’ll begin to frame a proposal later this semester, but it’ll just be the beginning. This isn’t something that will be hap-pening next year.”

Regardless of how the idea takes shape, administrators say student opinion will be taken into account.

“It’s something that we’ll talk about with the Committee on Undergraduate Education, and eventually with the entire faculty and then we’ll get input from students too,” DeTurck said. “We don’t want to just impose this without consultation far and wide.”

So far, students have ex-pressed a wide variety of opinions. “I definitely think the College should require com-munity service, research or internship credits for gradua-tion,” freshman in the Huntsman program in International Stud-ies and Business Menelaos

Mazarakis said. “There are so many benefits associated with getting involved with those ac-tivities.”

Although some smaller col-leges around the nation have required community service or internships, most of Penn’s peer institutions emphasize these ac-tivities, but do not require them. Administrators believe that the requirement may give graduates out-of-the-classroom experience that will give them an edge in a changing job market.

“It’s a good way to emphasize the fact that the arts and sciences aren’t ‘the other,’ that they are pathways to practical things,” DeTurck said.

The importance of hands-on experience, for both employment opportunities and general skill-building, is reflected in other programs within the University. Students in the School of Engi-neering and Applied Sciences must complete a senior design project, Wharton students get an immediate taste of the business world with Management 100 and School of Nursing students build real-world skills through clinical work.

Requiring work that is not purely academic would allow the College to join the other undergraduate schools in their emphasis on the practical.

“This is something that makes the connection between theory and practice,” DeTurck said, “Between study and implemen-tation.”

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According to the 2014 campaign finance report released on Monday, several Penn administrators have donated to Democratic candidates seeking election in the city primary this spring .

In November, Penn’s Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli do-nated $1,660 to Paul Steinke, who is a candidate for city council at-large . Two administrators from Penn’s Office of Government and Community Affairs donated to mayoral candidate Terry Gillen, who ultimately dropped out of the race in early January. OGCA Vice President Jeffrey Cooper donated a total of $575 throughout 2014, and Executive Director Dawn Maglicco Deitch also donated $100 to Gillen in June.

In addition, OGCA Director of Special Projects David B. Glancey donated $500 to City Controller Alan Butkovitz and $250 to City Council President Darrell Clarke, who were both potential candidates

who ultimately decided not to run. Glancey also donated $250 to Councilman Ed Neilson in May.

The report also showed that mayoral candidates have received fewer donations on the whole than the candidates in past elec-tion cycles. Compared to recent Philadelphia mayoral elections, donations have decreased signifi-cantly. The two frontrunners in the 2007 race for Philly mayor, Nutter and U.S. Rep. Bob Brady (D-Pa.), had at this point raised $1.7 mil-lion and $500,000, respectively. In 2014, the frontrunners, State Sen. Anthony H. Williams and Former District Attorney Lynne Abraham, raised $554,106 and $195,968, respectively according to the report. However, Abraham released a voluntary campaign finance report that showed her fundraising had reached $424,677 as of Jan. 31 after receiving a large loan a few weeks prior.

In Philadelphia elections, campaign finance laws limit do-nations to $2,900 per individual and $11,500 per organization. Since there is still no clear front-runner to succeed Mayor Michael Nutter, donors have remained on

the sidelines.While Williams and Abraham

remain slight favorites to win the Democratic primary on May 19, other candidates aren’t too far behind.

City Councilman James Kenney raised $236,355 in 2014. Although this number might seem low com-pared to Williams and Abraham, Kenney will officially announced his candidacy for mayor on Wednesday, meaning his fundrais-ing should surely spike in the next couple of weeks. Likewise, Former Court of Common Pleas Judge Nelson Diaz, who only officially announced his candidacy on Jan. 15, had $79,542 at the end of 2014.

Similar to Kenney and Diaz, other candidates are just beginning to dive into the race. Doug Oliver, Nutter’s former press secretary, only raised $1,470 in 2014, but isn’t expected to formally announce his candidacy until Saturday.

As the race enters its final few months, the rate and size of dona-tions will surely increase. Although Williams currently holds the advantage in fundraising, any can-didate has plenty of time to take the lead.

Penn administrators are active donorsJONATHAN BAERStaff Reporter

State SenatorANTHONY H. WILLIAMS

Former District AttorneyLYNNE ABRAHAM

City CouncilmanJAMES KENNEY

amount raised in 2014 amount on hand as of Dec. 31

$554,106$425,897

$265,270$195,968

$236,355$76,522

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ELECTIONSCampaign-finance laws limit donation to:

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per individual

per organization

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Wharton freshman Dawit Gebresel-lassie said. “And he does it all not for the grade, but for knowledge’s sake.”

Asemani’s music has gained rec-ognition among the freshman class. He performs at open mic nights and other events around campus and has created several albums and a music video, “Crying Out My Soul,” with the help of College sophomore Chaz Smith. His site, kayvonmusic.com, sells T-shirts and functions as a blog. Anyone can become a member to

get discounts on merchandise, listen to music and share thoughts. There are currently 61 members.

Some have criticized Asemani for his views on Greek life in his songs. Although he attended rush events, he decided not to join a fra-ternity because he dislikes “the idea of manufactured adversity to bring people together.” He likes the idea of brotherhood, but not the process of getting there through pledging or hazing. “I’m not saying to destroy frats,” he added.

Asemani plans to release new merchandise and a new album

called U4IC (pronounced euphoric) on his website soon. In the coming months, he is looking to headline a show in Philadelphia.

“Kayvon Music is where it starts,” Asemani said. “The idea is Kayvon Enterprises.” He compared the Kayvon Music movement to Snapchat. “No one ever expected an app that started as just a way to send pictures to develop into something you could use as a news source,” he

said.“Kayvon illuminates what entre-

preneurship is,” College freshman Andrew Valdez said. “He’s not just making music, he’s making some-thing real and tangible.”

Asemani said he wants his words to be meaningful to listeners. “I want people to feel something even if my music pisses someone off,” he said. “I want them to feel some way about it.”

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and allies to talk about their sexuality and any problems that occur within their athletic communities.

As the nation’s first LGBT athlete organization, PAATH also facilitates an optional safe-zone sensitivity training for coaches. The mission of this training is to create a culture of respect in the athletic environment.

While the club is open to all students — gay or straight — the current general body and board members all identify as members of the LGBT community and are on varsity sport teams. College junior and PAATH Chair Eliana Yankelev thinks that the makeup of the group appeals to members since LGBT varsity athletes have similar

experiences.“A huge draw to PAATH is the

unique intersection of our members’ identities. Being a varsity athlete at a Division I school is one thing, but to be out as LGBT and a D-one athlete is another,” Yankelev said. “That’s what brings us together.”

Yankelev’s motivation to join PAATH was not due to facing ho-mophobia within Penn’s track and field team, but due to the alienation she faced as a high school athlete.

“High school was not the ideal place for a gay athlete,” Yankelev said. “I felt emotionally judged be-cause I didn’t want to date guys. In track and field there is the expecta-tion and constant pressure to hook up at our state championships.”

Despite these problems in high school, Yankelev has not

experienced alienation at Penn due to her sexuality.

“All of my coaches know I’m out, and I’ve had really incredible feedback from them,” Yankelev, a 100-meter hurdles runner, said.

While Yankelev’s experience at Penn has been mostly positive, College freshman and PAATH advo-cacy chair Sean Collins has already heard homophobic slurs among his teammates. Still, coming from a rural community which he perceived as less-accepting of LGBT people, Collins felt empowered to come out when he came to Penn. He joined PAATH as an outlet.

“I think that, sadly, homophobia has been so ingrained in society that even the sports that are doing a good job about being inclusive still have episodes of homophobia,” Collins

said.Currently, PAATH is planning its

annual Pride Games, which will be hosted March 27, the final Sunday of QPenn, a week on campus de-voted to LGBT activism. The Pride Games is a day of field day events with participants including both LGBT-identifying athletes and other organizations on campus.

While Penn has not had par-ticipants from all varsity teams in years past, members of the board are currently talking to members of the Penn football team to join in the event.

Yankelev also warned that while her experiences at Penn have been positive, not all gay athletes at the University are out and not all of them are activists in the club. Still, most current PAATH members have not

experienced the same backlash as founding members, who left their sports due to hostility from team-mates.

“I would in no way make a generalization because there is an ig-norance that has been there and will always be there,” Yankelev said.

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Un f o r t u n a t e l y , progressives in this country still believe that the

perfect society is just one government program away from becoming a reality. If we make enough things “free,” everyone will live happily ever after. Sadly, this is not the case.

To be clear, community colleges and promoting equal opportunity are good things. While Obama’s program is well intentioned, it is also pernicious. It is tailored to-ward an America that simply doesn’t exist. In our America, high schools are failing. In our America, more than a third of college graduates work jobs that do not require college de-grees. The problem isn’t that Americans don’t have enough degrees. The problem is that the degrees Americans do get aren’t worth much. The solution, then, is not to make community college free. This would not enhance — and would arguably hinder — the quality of our educational sys-

tem. Rather, we must improve our elementary, middle and high schools. Improving the quality of these schools would do more to address the educa-tional problems we face than simply tacking on more years of schooling to the end.

That being said, commu-nity colleges deserve our sup-port. They provide valuable services to many, from stu-dents in need of remedial help to adults wishing to learn a new skill. The success of local community colleges should be celebrated. Yet Obama’s program would undermine much of what makes com-munity college valuable. For one, it would lead to extensive grade inflation, as community colleges look to retain their rankings. Second, it would discourage innovation. Many community colleges already have large waiting lists; with even higher demand, there would be little incentive to in-novate.

Further, it is not clear that an inability to pay tuition is an issue for potential commu-

nity college students. Com-prehensive subsidies exist already. What less advantaged students cannot pay for — namely necessary non-tuition expenses — is not covered.

Finally, Obama’s program could encourage well-quali-fied applicants from disadvan-taged backgrounds to “settle” for community college. This already occurs — it is known as “undermatching” — and the program would only exac-erbate this phenomenon.

In all of this, I have not even mentioned the economic cost of this program. Even if Obama’s program did have merits, the economic reali-ties should not be overlooked. Despite suggestions to the contrary, “free” government programs are never really free. Education is worth our time and our money, but our solutions must address the problems, not just sound nice in speeches.

Carter SkeelC’15College Republicans rep-

resentative

On Jan. 8, Presi-dent Obama announced his America’s Col-

lege Promise proposal — a plan to make community college free for all Ameri-can students as another step toward making a college degree the norm across the country. The administration pledged to work alongside state governments and re-sponsible, hardworking stu-dents to make the first two years of college free. The proposal requires that stu-dents maintain a minimum GPA and remain enrolled at least part time at the college.

President Obama’s pro-posal comes at a time when states are investing less and less in higher education. Both student debt and the necessity of a college degree are growing, and students who may have once had the chance to go to college are slipping through the cracks because of the financial burden of a degree. If the proposal was implemented

nationwide, it would level the playing field by sav-ing approximately 9 million students each an average of $3,800 per year.

In the coming years, the number of jobs requiring at least an associate degree are projected to grow twice as fast as jobs requiring no col-lege experience. These are jobs that are often closed off to low- and middle-income students. Two years at a com-munity college are uniquely able to prepare students for the fastest-growing jobs sec-tors because of their ability to partner with employers to tailor training programs to meet specific economic needs. These programs in-clude nursing, health in-formation technology and advanced manufacturing. President Obama’s proposal helps to give a fair shot at these essential jobs and en-sures that students who work hard and persevere will not be turned away from higher education because of the fi-nancial burden of the two to

four years of tuition.Although at one point in

time the United States had the best educated workforce in the world, other countries are now catching up. In or-der to once again lead the world in education, the U.S. must provide students with the higher education that can and will meet the demands of the growing and chang-ing global economy. The administration’s proposal is a strong step in helping the country meet these new chal-lenges.

The President himself put it best during his State of the Union address as he dis-cussed the proposal, saying, “Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spectacularly well? Or will we commit ourselves to an economy that generates ris-ing incomes and chances for everyone to make the ef-fort?”

Jana KornC’18Penn Democrats repre-

sentative

Last week, a black Yale undergraduate was held at gunpoint by a campus police

officer outside the school’s main library after being mistaken for a burglary suspect. Once the mis-take was realized, the student was released.

The story, though probably not particularly unique, received national attention because the student in question was the son of New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow, who recounted his son’s experience in his col-umn.

Obviously the outcome was a bad one — an innocent stu-dent was put in fear of his life on his own campus. There are, however, two discrete critical narratives one might reasonably construct to address an incident of this type.

The first narrative is a story about police policies. Most po-lice departments have codified “use-of-force” policies which govern what types of actions

officers may take in specific circumstances. These policies theoretically address the question of what level of force is permis-sible when an officer encounters someone who he believes might be a suspect in a burglary — a nonviolent crime. A comprehen-sive policy either authorizes or forbids a drawn gun in this situ-ation.

A right-minded policy should forbid the gun. A greater level of certainty than a potential match to an inexact description must be obtained to justify the inevitable dangers of drawing a gun. Police policies can and should be nar-rowly tailored to avoid placing innocent lives in danger.

Some might argue that drawn guns are necessary to ensure the safety of officers confronting po-tential suspects. This is nonsense. Taking acceptable risks to pro-tect innocent people is part of an officer’s job. A potential suspect is also a potential innocent whose safety deserves protection, even at some risk to officers.

The second narrative is a story about prejudice, rather than policy. Here, the focus is the stu-dent’s race, not the department’s rules. In this narrative, prejudice causes the officer to automatical-ly fear the young black man and to assume his guilt, consciously or not. The officer in question was black, yes, but this does not necessarily immunize him from

the prejudices and unconscious associations of young black men with crime which some argue permeate society in general and police departments in particular.

The solution to this problem is not so straightforward as re-writing a policy. Solving police prejudice means somehow elimi-nating the unconscious biases of

those we trust with exercising the state’s monopoly on legitimate use of violence. If this is the problem, it’s hard to think of a solution which alleviates the risk to the safety of minority individ-uals in the short term. Retraining and diversity awareness have been proposed, but it’s extremely optimistic to think that classroom sessions can change the mental-

ity of those who must face the realities of policing the streets.

But how to reconcile the two narratives? In this case, it seems that the former can be used to address the latter. Whether or not the problem is prejudice, the answer is policy. If police poli-cies don’t forbid holding people at gunpoint simply because they

meet an inexact description of a burglary suspect, they should be modified so that they do, and in-dividual officers should be held accountable for breaching them. If such policies exist but go un-enforced — enforce them.

I say that this is the path to follow not because it’s necessar-ily the more important one, but because it’s the one which can be addressed concretely to increase the actual safety of citizens and reduce the number of situations in which people of any race find themselves liable to get shot by police. The human brain is hard-wired to take shortcuts, to make assumptions based on broad categories. Such mental corner cutting is essential to the kind of quick thinking police rely on when making snap decisions in potentially dangerous situations. Policies can eliminate the entire decision-making process, which is naturally biased and therefore flawed.

Such a proposal falls far short of solving every issue that

exists between police and mi-nority communities, but it’s the kind of practicable solution we can focus on in the short term to make life fairer and safer for everyone. If we can’t eliminate prejudice overnight, we can at least try to control for it.

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A potential suspect is also a potential innocent whose safety deserves protection,

even at some risk to officers.”

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For research institutions, it’s publish or perish — and Penn certainly isn’t perishing.

The White House Office of Science and Technology announced plans Monday to increase research funding across the board for the 2016 fiscal year. This would bol-ster Penn’s research efforts. It would also deepen Penn’s pockets — research funding makes up one third of Penn’s revenue.

Penn’s Office of the Vice Provost of Research, however, is skeptical that the federal government will actually increase funding. “The real-istic picture is that once this gets through Congress, those increases aren’t going to be across the board,” Director of Research Initiatives Marc Rigas said.

Even without increased fed-eral funding, however, Penn is positioned to expand its research at an unprecedented rate over the coming years.

Despite recent cuts in fed-eral funding promoted by the government sequester, Penn received more research grants in 2011 — $707 million — than any other Ivy League university. In 2012, Penn had the second highest total research and expenditures among the Ivies, ranking in the top 2.8 percent of Ameri-can universities.

Penn has been so successful at securing research dollars that gains were highlighted as a source of financial boon for the University in the 2014 Annual Financial Report.

“Despite downward pres-sures on federal sponsored research funding, research-related revenues totaled $881 million and for the first time since FY 2010 — the height of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

stimulus program — new award dollars exceeded expen-ditures,” Vice President for Finance & Treasurer Stephen Golding wrote in the report’s introduction.

These gains haven’t hap-pened by chance.

“If the pie is shrinking, one of the things we can do to remain a meaningful partici-pant in the research realm here is to grow our market share,” Golding said. To do so, Penn has realigned its efforts to spur research at Penn in three ways.

First, Penn has invested in infrastructure development. Since 2008, it has spent heav-ily on new research buildings, equipment and translational research centers and launched the Singh Center for Nano-technology, among other new facilities. It has also invested in research faculty to bring the best and brightest to Penn labs.

Second, Penn has pivoted its research strategy away from relying entirely on gov-ernment funding and is now focusing on attracting fund-ing from nonprofits and corporations through commer-cialization efforts.

“The other way is to diver-sify our funding sources,” Golding said. “A big part of what helps us support our research infrastructure is actually funded through com-mercialization of some of the intellectual property that emanates from some of the re-search that we do.”

Finally, Penn is building the South Bank campus in an effort to promote innovation. “The acquisition of what we call Pennovation Works gives us the lynchpin to promote some of Penn’s research and commercialization, invest in some Penn’s startup technolo-gies and companies,” Golding said.

While Penn’s research pro-gram has f lourished, those of other Ivy League univer-sities have f loundered. At Brown, the total pool of re-search funds at the University decreased by 13.7 percent between 2013 and 2014, the Brown Daily Herald reported in an article on Tuesday.

Following the sequester, Yale professors scrambled to find funding, as well. “We don’t fully know the effect yet, but it seems like it’s harder to get grant applications

accepted, and grant approv-als are being reduced in what they award,” Provost Benja-min Polak told the Yale Daily News.

These schools are not alone.“Candidly, other big re-

search institutions, I’ll use the word competitors, have seen their success rate on grant proposals fall significantly,” Golding said. “We seem to be doing a good job in making the kind of investments that are going to create good, strong research that has appeal to peer reviewed panels.”

Vice President of Budget and Management Analysis Bonnie Gibson says this has more to do with the efforts of individual schools than over-all University policy. “The budgets are actually bottom up. So each school is look-ing at its portfolio and saying what’s going to happen to re-search and how am I going to compensate,” she said. “If you don’t get the grant, you don’t get the expense,” and each school has to manage accord-ingly, she said.

One school has dealt par-ticularly well.

“The School of Medicine, which does the lion share of our research has done a re-markable job of maintaining a pretty solid base of research and actually are anticipating research growth even in the face of declining federal fund-ing,” Gibson said.

Other schools including the School of Engineering and Applied Science and School of Arts and Sciences have also been particularly resil-ient, according to Provost Vincent Price, because re-searchers have been able to tap into an increased national emphasis on material science engineering and energy-re-lated research and tailor their proposals to win those new grants.

Penn plans to continue their emphasis on research. It can only hope that Congress will follow suit.

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An app that combines all the essential Penn sites in one at-tractive platform sounds too good to be true, right? But PennMobile, an app launching Wednesday, does just that.

The app for both iOS and An-droid has the potential to make Penn students’ lives much sim-pler. It was developed by the Undergraduate Assembly and Penn Labs, an initiative funded by the UA and the Provost’s office to develop tech projects.

PennMobile will have an array of convenient and ap-pealing features. Users can, for example,browse dining hall and cafe menus, search professor directories and class-room information, read The Daily Pennsylvanian and other campus publications and call safety services.

The app also has potential to familiarize students with tradi-tionally underused yet highly useful services.

“Penn Transit is underuti-lized. A lot of people haven’t used it,” saidCollege and Whar-ton sophomore Andrew Gegios, who is the UA secretary and co-ordinator of app development.

The app shows the location of shuttles, routes and even traf-fic patterns. “Before this app I didn’t even know where Penn Transit went, so we’re hoping this will make people want to use it much more,” he said.

In releasing PennMobile, Penn has finally caught up to other colleges and universities — most other Ivies have had apps like this for years. The app is modeled from similar apps at Princeton and Stanford, Gegios said.

“There’s the Yale app, the Harvard app. Penn’s actually behind on this,” said Wharton and Engineering senior Dhruv Maheshwari, who is the Penn

Labs co-director. “So it’s excit-ing to see students taking the initiative to make this happen.”

The app is not perfect, but it is a work in progress. Mahesh-wari does not foresee PennKey services such as Penn InTouch being added for at least six months, due to the Univer-sity’s confidentiality standards and some practical limitations within the coding process.

Leading up to the Wednesday launch of the app, PennLabs encountered its fair share of ob-stacles.

Other than technical difficul-ties with syncing up servers for app functions, the release day was pushed back several times. Gegios said Apple app regula-tions held the app back, while Maheshwari said recent updates to the app took additional time to be approved by the Apple App Store.

Penn Labs is opening up PennMobile’s development to public opinion. Students can suggest features they would like to see through a page within the app.

“We really hope a lot of people download it and give us feedback,” Maheshwari said. “I think what’s going to happen is we’re going to launch it, people will download it and then they’ll say ‘Oh, there are these bugs, and we want these features.’”

Although the app will inevi-tably change and improve over time, Penn Labs and the UA be-lieve even the first version will fill a major need.

“We wanted a one-stop shop for all of the students at the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania, with things they could use every single day,” Gegios said. “On this decentralized campus there are a few things that should be all together and that students should be able to access in one place.

“It simplifies life at Penn,” he added. “It really has everything you would want.”

The app is available for down-load at Pennlabs.org/mobile.

Navigate through Penn with a single appPennMobile includes dining menus and bus routesJILL MOELY Staff Reporter

Research budget resilient in face of cutsPenn Med anticipates growth in researchJACK CHANStaff Reporter

Ugonna Onyekwe had one of the most illustrious careers in Penn basketball history and was a leading star on the last Red and Blue squad to capture the Big 5 title.

Now, the former two-time Ivy League Player of the Year is about to add another ac-complishment to his already decorated trophy case.

Twelve years after Onyekwe took the court for the last time with the Quakers, the Big 5 announced on Monday that the two-time first-team All-Big 5 selection will be

inducted into the organiza-tion’s Hall of Fame in April.

Few players were more ef-fective under former coach Fran Dunphy than Onyekwe. As a freshman, the six-foot-eight forward averaged 11.7 points per game and six re-bounds per game en route to being named Ivy League Rookie of the Year. After Penn won the Ivy title, Onye-kwe was named second-team All-Ivy and scored 17 points against Illinois in the NCAA Tournament.

Though the Quakers missed the NCAA Tour-nament in 2001, Onyekwe continued to thrive as he was named second-team All-Ivy

for the second consecutive year.The following season marked

the first of back-to-back Ivy Player of the Year awards — and consecutive Ivy titles — for Onyekwe. He shot 55 percent in putting up 17.5 points per game to go along with six boards per con-test in 2001-02, stats that earned him unanimous first-team All-Big 5 honors.

Up until the 2002-03 season, only one player had ever clinched consecutive Ivy Player of the Year honors. However, after posting 16.5 points per game and another 6.4 boards per contest, Onyekwe accom-plished that feat, leading the Quakers to another Ivy cham-pionship.

Following his time at Penn, Onyekwe played eight seasons overseas in Israel and Spain.

Onyekwe finished his career with the Red and Blue in second place on the Quakers’ all-time scoring list. He had also played in more games than any other player in Penn history at the time of his graduation.

Along with Onyekwe, former Temple guard Pepe Sanchez, Philadelphia Daily News col-umnist Stan Hochman and broadcaster Bill Raftery all comprise the Big 5 Hall of Fame Class of 2015. The quartet will be formally inducted on April 13 in a ceremony to be held at the Palestra.

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Despite Auger’s efforts, the Quakers faded late in that November game against Lafayette. The 83-77 loss was emblematic of a season that has been filled with its fair share of ups and downs.

But, much like Auger’s slam was a glim-mer of hope in an otherwise forgettable game, the play of Auger — along with the breakout success of fellow freshman An-tonio Woods — has provided a bright ray of optimism in what has been an otherwise subpar season for Penn.

“I’m really excited,” Allen said of the program’s future. “We still have everything in front of us. I’ve been really impressed with [Auger’s] poise, his pace and his under-standing of the game.”

As for Auger, he has some pretty lofty goals for the years to come.

“Obviously I want to win an Ivy champi-onship, that’s always the goal,” he said. “I know this program has so much history and so much culture.

“There’s a fan base just waiting for a team they can jump on board with.”

So, perhaps the roar in the crowd on that November night as Auger soared high above the rim was more than just a brief moment of optimism and joy.

If Auger has it his way, it will have simply been a sign of things to come.

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THE BUZZ: FEATURE

Former Penn star Onyekwe named to Big 5 Hall of FameBY RILEY STEELEFrom The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ

JAKE LEVINE | DP FILE PHOTO After a career in which he won Ivy League Rookie of the Year and was twice named Ivy Player of the Year, Ugonna Onyekwe will be inducted into the Big 5 Hall of Fame in April.

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Championships, receiving first-team All-Ivy honors and being crowned 2014 individual Heps Champion.

“We took some time after cross country to gather our-selves a little bit, [had] a tune-up for everyone [at Lehigh],” Awad said. “And then we started racing hard this weekend.”

With Dolan preaching the importance of building a foun-dation of fitness and strength early in the indoor season, Awad focused on developing a base during December and January, before taking on a heightened training regimen.

“I’m just trying to gradually up my level of intensity,” he said. “So this year, I’m dou-bling (running twice a day) more often. So for cross [coun-try], I was doubling two or three times a week, and now I’m dou-bling just as often but now with cross-training.”

Dolan understands the im-portance of the long run and preserving his runners while they gain strength.

“I like to think that we should be getting faster each week in the weeks to come, and hopefully onto a great outdoor season,” he said.

When asked about what makes Awad such a successful runner, Dolan pointed to his in-tangibles.

“Well, there are special run-ners out there, that really rise during competitions and pres-sure situations,” he said. “And it seems like he’s one of those

runners.”Most of Penn’s other dis-

tance runners will compete this weekend, but Awad will next compete in two weeks, where he hopes to register an NCAA-qualifying time in a 3,000-meter race.

With such an impressive per-formance from Awad this early in the indoor season, it is easy to get excited about his pros-pects for the indoor and outdoor seasons. There is almost a month left until indoor Heps, and outdoor season begins in late March. With a mile time of 4:00.20 already on the board, it will be an exciting spring, and only time will tell what heights he has reached by this year’s Penn Relays.

It was an action-packed week-end on the road for Penn squash, as the women’s team swept Yale and Brown while the men’s team split against the two schools.

The No. 2 women’s squad beat No. 4 Yale 6-3 on Saturday before topping No. 11 Brown 8-1 on Sunday.

The Quakers (11-1, 5-0 Ivy) were led by junior Yan Xin Tan, who earned a clean 3-0 victory over her opponent in the match against Yale (8-3, 2-2) and repeated the feat against Brown (5-5, 0-4). Penn won each of its matches against the Bears — losing a point on default in the seventh slot — and has now won four straight after a close loss to No. 1 Trinity on Jan. 14 — its only blemish preventing a top national ranking.

Meanwhile, the No. 10 men’s squad lost, 7-2, to No. 4 Yale (8-3, 3-1) on Saturday before bouncing back to shutout No. 13 Brown in a 9-0 romp on Sunday.

The Red and Blue (7-5, 2-3) lost

only one game as a team against the Bears (5-5, 0-4), as freshman Marwan Mahmoud won in the top spot while the other eight Quak-ers cruised to 3-0 triumphs. The win was Penn’s third shutout of the season.

This coming weekend will be cru-cial for both teams, as they look to wrap up their regular season action with home matches against Cornell and road battles with Columbia.

The men will look to put on an impressive showing and jump into the top half of the Ancient Eight. Nationwide, the men will need to be in the top eight to qualify for the CSA men’s national championships at Trinity.

The women’s squad appears to be locked in for a bid to the CSA women’s national championships at Harvard, but with an Ivy title (and an undefeated Ivy campaign) hanging in the balance, the stakes will cer-tainly be high this weekend.

The women’s team champion-ships will be played from Feb. 13 to 15, while the men’s event will take place from Feb. 20 to 22. The indi-vidual championships on both sides will be held from Feb. 27 to Mar. 1 at Princeton.

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the No. 51 spot with Purdue.The Nittany Lions, on the

other hand, did not fare as well. Due to last weekend’s loss to the Red and Blue, Penn State slipped to No. 22.

Although the Quakers were intermittently ranked through-out the 2011 and 2012 seasons, the current ranking is the high-est the squad has climbed since the end of the 2006 season, co-incidentally the same year that Penn last beat Penn State.

Furthermore, the No. 51 ranking is only the second time in coach David Gaetz’s tenure that Penn has received top-75 recognition from the ITA.

M. TENNIS>> PAGE 8

Penn squads sweep Brown, split with Yale SQUASH | Stakes will be high on final Ivy weekendBY TOMMY ROTHMANAssociate Sports Editor

GARRETT GOMEZ | STAFF WRITERJunior Augie Frank and the rest of the men’s squad secured a split over the weekend, defeating Brown and losing to Yale. This coming weekend, the team will need to put on an impressive perfromance to make a run at qualifying for the CSA men’s national championships.

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Armed with rackets instead of rocks, Penn men’s tennis got its chance to play David last weekend to No. 16 Penn State’s Goliath. After fighting through four back-and-forth sets, the previously unranked Quakers toppled the Nittany Lions 5-2 on the road.

The victory was no small task — in a press release, the

Intercollegiate Tennis Associa-tion called the match the “biggest upset of the year.” Moreover, Sunday marks the first time the Quakers (3-0) have emerged victorious from a battle with the Nittany Lions since the ECAC Championships in 2006.

Penn entered last weekend’s match undefeated, with wins over Drexel and St. Joseph’s in the City 6 Tournament on Jan. 24. With the victory over Penn State, the Quakers extended their win-ning streak to three matches, the team’s best start in four years.

And with home games against unranked Furman and William &

Mary next on the docket for men’s tennis, on Feb. 6 and 7 , respec-tively, it is likely that the Quakers will continue their hot streak.

Although Penn State (3-1) took the first point of the match at No. 2 doubles, the Quakers quickly rallied, capturing the doubles point. The pair of juniors Vim De Alwis and sophomore Matt Nardella tied the match at 1-1 with a 6-2 set victory at No. 3 doubles. Senior Jeremy Court and fresh-man Nicolas Podesta followed their teammates’ lead, putting Penn up a set over its opponent with a 7-5 win at No. 1 doubles.

The Nittany Lions were only

able to capture two more points at the No. 2 and No. 3 singles po-sitions. Behind the racket power of Nardella, Podesta, Court and freshman Josh Popman, Penn took four match points. The last Red and Blue player to finish up on the courts was junior Blaine Willenborg at No. 6 singles, who sealed Penn’s upset in three sets, 7-5, 3-6, 1-0.

As a result of the road victory, the Quakers broke into the ITA’s top-75 ranking for the first time since 2012. Thanks to the upset in Happy Valley, Penn now shares

The play started with a turnover.Before the Palestra crowd knew it,

freshman forward Mike Auger was streaking down the court, eventually finishing the breakaway with an em-phatic one-handed jam. The Red and Blue faithful went crazy. Penn — after trailing by as many as 17 points — was within just two points of Lafayette with under ten minutes remaining.

That Nov. 22 game was just the third of Auger’s career, but the powerfully built Boston native made it clear that he was already a force to be reckoned

with. The emphatic dunk accounted for two of Auger’s team-high 18 points, notched along with a game-high nine rebounds in only 14 minutes of playing time off the bench.

The game was not entirely full of positives for Auger. He suffered a foot injury in the contest, a frustrating setback that sidelined him for the next six games. However, upon his return on Dec. 30 against La Salle, Auger picked up right where he left off, notching nine points on perfect 4-for-4 shooting.

“He didn’t allow the injury to be a

setback mentally,” coach Jerome Allen said of Auger’s ability to stay fresh

despite an extended absence. “Whatever the trainers allowed him to do, he did it to the utmost.”

Despite averaging just 20.8 minutes per game — six Quak-ers’ players have higher average play-ing time — Auger has been able to make the most of his time on the floor. Featuring a relatively modest six-foot-seven frame,

the freshman is second on the team — behind only junior center Darien

Nelson-Henry – with 5.3 rebounds per game.

“It’s just always how I’ve played,” Auger said of his remarkable effi-ciency. “A lot of the times when I come into the game, we’ve needed a little bit of an energy boost. I just try to bring that energy as much as I can.”

“He really leaves it on the floor,” Allen agreed. “It’s just a part of who he is. Very rarely do we run plays for him, but he always finds a way to be a part of the action. It’s really something that we desperately need.”

Auger attributes his breakout suc-cess to the collective support and guidance of the team as a whole.

“Tony [Hicks], Darien, Greg [Louis] … I can’t key in on just one [positive

Awad looks to reach new, elite heightsTRACK & FIELD | Expectations high after strong Armory runBY JACOB ADLERStaff Writer

ANALYN DELOS SANTOS | DP FILE PHOTO With a four-minute mile under his belt, junior Thomas Awad looks to eclipse his 3:58 Penn Relays mile run.

At the 2014 Penn Relays, now-junior Thomas Awad posted an astounding 3:58.34 mile time. That was after months of arduous training for the event.

At the Armory Invitational on Saturday, he almost broke a four-minute mile again. But this time, it was only his first individual indoor race of the season.

Last weekend in New York City, Awad clocked in at 4:00.20 in the mile, besting Penn’s indoor mile record held by current Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance, Denis Elton Cochran-Fikes. In 1973, Cochran-Fikes set the then-record at 4:02, a mark that stood for 42 years.

In his first individual race of the season, Awad finished first out of three student-ath-letes and defeated a few professional runners. He wasn’t surprised that he managed to break the record, but he said it wasn’t one of his spe-cific goals.

“The record wasn’t really on my mind, it’s just something that comes with running fast,” he said.

Awad, along with many other distance run-ners, had abstained from individual indoor competition prior to the race at Armory.

Meanwhile, coach Steve Dolan was not ex-pecting such a high-caliber performance from Awad this early in the indoor season.

“Well, that was sort of the surprising thing,” he said. “He hasn’t done a lot of quality workouts to indicate that he’s ready to run a four-minute mile.

Even [so], in my mind, I knew he’d run well.”Prior to the Armory Invitational, Awad

spent December and parts of January recov-ering from a strenuous cross country season, where his achievements included serv-ing as team captain, receiving All-America honors, qualifying for NCAA Cross Country

SEE TRACK & FIELD PAGE 7

M. HOOPS | Rookie forward provides spark for QuakersBY TOM NOWLANAssociate Sports Editor

SEE M. HOOPS PAGE 6

”

He really leaves it on the floor. It’s just a part of who he is.

- Jerome AllenPenn coach

Penn takes down in-state giant

YING PAN | DP FILE PHOTO Sophomore Matt Nardella came through for the Quakers on Sunday, contributing match points at No. 4 singles and No. 3 doubles with junior partner Vim De Alwis.

M. TENNIS | Quakers upset No. 16 Penn St.BY LAINE HIGGINSSports Editor

SEE M. TENNIS PAGE 7

A BRIGHTFUTURE

PUSHING AHEAD

Penn men’s squash split its weekend matches, setting up an

important final Ivy weekend

>> SEE PAGE 7

BIG 5 HALL OF FAME

Former Penn basketball star Ugonna Onyekwe named to Big 5

Hall of Fame

>> SEE PAGE 6

Awad looks to reach new, elite heightsTRACK & FIELD | Expectations high after strong Armory runBY JACOB ADLERStaff Writer

ANALYN DELOS SANTOS | DP FILE PHOTO With a four-minute mile under his belt, junior Thomas

looks to eclipse his 3:58 Penn Relays mile run.

At the 2014 Penn Relays, now-junior Thomas Awad posted an astounding 3:58.34 mile time. That was after months of arduous training for the event.

At the Armory Invitational on Saturday, he almost broke a four-minute mile again. But this time, it was only his first individual indoor race of the season.

Last weekend in New York City, Awad clocked in at 4:00.20 in the mile, besting Penn’s indoor mile record held by current Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance, Denis Elton Cochran-Fikes. In 1973, Cochran-Fikes set the then-record at 4:02, a mark that stood for 42 years.

In his first individual race of the season, Awad finished first out of three student-ath-letes and defeated a few professional runners. He wasn’t surprised that he managed to break the record, but he said it wasn’t one of his spe-cific goals.

A BRIGHTFUTURE

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