THE PENNSYLVANIA SEP|OCT20 GAZETTE Fair Justice How to Get Ready for 2030 The Hooters’ Show Goes On (Next Year) For All A Virtual Fall Semester FOLLOW US ONLINE THEPENNGAZETTE.COM @PENNGAZETTE THE PENNSYLVANIA Features GAZETTE SEP|OCT20 Connecting the Data The Future Is Penn’s Quattrone Center for the Coming—Fast! Fair Administration of Justice is In a new book, Wharton professor 30 pioneering a systemic, data-driven and “globalization guy” Mauro approach to criminal justice reform. Its 38 Guillén breaks down the key executive director, John Hollway C’92 factors that will combine to radically LPS’18, started with the idea that the law transform the world over the next decade should function more like science—less (and SARS-CoV-2 is only speeding things up). argument, more truth seeking. By John Prendergast By Julia M. Klein Rocking Around the Decades with Rob and Eric The pandemic has hit pause on 20+20—the planned 40th 44 anniversary tour for their iconic 1980s band the Hooters—but Rob Hyman C’72 and Eric Bazilian C’75 insist the show will go on (20+20+1), while keeping musically busy in the meantime. By Jonathan Takiff COVER Illustration by Melinda Beck Vol.119, No.1 ©2020 The Pennsylvania Gazette Published by Benjamin Franklin from 1729 to 1748. THEPENNGAZETTE.COM More Sports More Arts & Culture More Letters Latest News THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE Departments VOL. 119, NO. 1 ––––––––––– EDITOR John Prendergast C’80 3 From the Editor | Seeking justice, seeing the future, rocking on. SENIOR EDITOR Trey Popp ASSOCIATE EDITOR Dave Zeitlin C’03 4 From College Hall | A roadmap for navigating public health crises. ASSISTANT EDITOR Nicole Perry 8 Letters | Leadership lessons, pup approval, quitting time. ART DIRECTOR Catherine Gontarek PUBLISHER F. 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Penn While he led last spring’s also announced that it will popular virtual class on the Moments look at campus iconography, pandemic, Wharton’s Mauro continuing a reckoning with Guillén was also awaiting the the University’s past that be- publication of 2030: How To- gan with the Penn & Slavery day’s Biggest Trends Will Col- in Time Project a few years ago; it has lide and Reshape the Future of already been decided that Everything. (With some mi- the statue of George White- nor caveats, he says the virus he Quattrone Center panies; and as a participant fi eld will be removed from will accelerate them.) “The for the Fair Administra- in the Northern California the Quad. And the role of Future Is Coming—Fast!” de- tion of Justice—which Innocence Project. This var- scholarly publishing in scribes the new world to T seeks to apply what its ied set of experiences alerted bringing issues like defund- come within the next decade executive director John F. him to the ways in which jus- ing the police into the main- and off ers some “tips and Hollway C’92 LPS’18 calls a tice is not administered fairly stream is part of what will tricks” Guillén recommends “systems approach to pre- and provided insight from motivate the new leadership for making the best of it. venting errors in criminal disciplines outside the legal team at the University of Some things endure, like justice”—has been around system into how to correct— Pennsylvania Press. the friendship between Rob since 2013. In those seven ideally, to prevent—such mis- Hyman C’72 and Eric Bazil- years, it has made signifi cant carriages without recourse to ian C’75. Also, their band, the contributions to reform ef- the enormous expense and Hooters, featured on the cov- forts by exposing, through its lost years of life and eff ort One important er of the December 1989 is- research, the negative im- required in relitigating indi- function is to sue of the Gazette and back pacts of cash bail, pretrial vidual cases. in our pages now, in “Rock- detention, and “stop and The center’s approach bring together ing Through the Decades frisk” police practices, draws on the work of man- with Rob and Eric” by Jona- among others. agement guru W. Edwards Penn’s disparate than Takiff C’68, sometime But as frequent contributor Deming, who espoused “con- expert voices Gazette contributor and long- Julia Klein notes in this is- tinuous quality improve- time music journalist and sue’s cover story, “Connect- ment.” Another important on the subject supporter of the band (see ing the Data,” the center’s function is to bring together his bio on page 41). work has gained new urgen- Penn’s disparate expert voic- of criminal His original plan was to cy and relevance as the wave es on the subject of criminal justice reform. write about the band’s 20+20 of protests initially sparked justice reform, from Dorothy tour celebrating 40 years of by George Floyd’s death at Roberts—an advocate of performing as the Hooters, the hands of police in Minne- abolishing the police and scheduled to launch on Me- sota in late May have expand- prisons—to John M. Mac- Meanwhile of course, CO- morial Day. The coronavirus ed into a broad interrogation Donald, who contends that VID-19 continues to cause rendered that moot, so the of systemic racism in the US reforms can be accomplished devastating health and eco- piece is more of a career ret- far beyond the issue of police through changes in policies nomic impacts, and Penn and rospective—but with a brutality. “We’re precisely and practices without major other schools have been faced guardedly optimistic ending. placed for this moment in social changes. with making decisions in an The tour has been resched- time,” Hollway told her. The recent protests have uncertain landscape as the uled for next summer, and Before founding the center, also helped inspire initiatives virus has spiked in many plac- Hyman told Jonathan, “We’re which is housed in the law here on campus. In “Gazet- es in the US over the summer. sure hoping we can get back school where he is an associ- teer,” associate editor Dave In the end, those rising case on that horse again.” ate dean, Hollway had Zeitlin C’03 talks with Uni- counts dashed hopes that the worked as a corporate law- versity Chaplain Chaz How- University could bring stu- yer, also involved in pro bono ard C’00, who has been ap- dents back to campus for the criminal cases; as an execu- pointed to the new position fall semester.