THE PENNSYLVANIA JUL|AUG21 GAZETTE 100 Years of Women’s Sports Katy Milkman Can Tell You How to Change Rico Worl’s Postage Stamp Window on a World Commencement Returns to Franklin Field (Hey Day, Too, Sort of) FOLLOW US ONLINE THEPENNGAZETTE.COM @PENNGAZETTE THE PENNSYLVANIA Features GAZETTE JUL|AUG21 Century Club The Raven and Rico Worl As the University celebrates 100 When the United States Postal years of women’s sports, a Service tapped him to design a 30 handful of prominent former 38 “Forever” stamp, Rico Worl C’09 student-athletes recall their athletic took another step in his metamorphosis triumphs and hurdles—and the paths from cultural anthropologist to they both followed and paved. commercial artist. By Dave Zeitlin By Trey Popp Choice and Change We know what we should do when it comes to leading healthier and 44 happier lives. But too often we default to easier, more pleasurable wants. Behavioral scientist and Wharton professor Katy Milkman is determined to help us change for the better—and for good. By JoAnn Greco COVER Illustration by Jonathan Bartlett Vol.119, No.6 ©2021 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. 6 ––––––––––– EDITOR John Prendergast C’80 3 From the Editor | Star athletes, Native artist, expert “nudger.” SENIOR EDITOR Trey Popp ASSOCIATE EDITOR Dave Zeitlin C’03 4 Letters | Guaranteed income pro and con, and more. ASSISTANT EDITOR Nicole Perry ART DIRECTOR Catherine Gontarek Views PUBLISHER F. Hoopes Wampler GrEd’13 215-898-7811 [email protected] 8 Notes From the Undergrad | Women helping women in STEM. 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Shepard C'83 G'83; Joel Siegel C’79; Ann Reese CW’74, 62 Notes President, Penn Alumni. 63 Alumni Weekend online again. The University of Pennsylvania values diversity and seeks talented students, faculty and staff from diverse back- 70 Obituaries grounds. The University of Pennsylvania does not discrimi- nate on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, or status as a Vietnam Era Veteran or disabled veteran. 80 Old Penn | From the Organized Classes to ACLC. Printed by The Lane Press, Burlington, Vermont FROM THE EDITOR It’s known that lacrosse Along with Grit author and comes from a Native Ameri- psychology professor Angela Pushing can game, and I also learned Duckworth Gr’06, Milkman recently that Native enthusi- codirects the Behavior Change asm for basketball goes back for Good (BCFG) initiative. to the early 1900s. That fact Coming to the fi eld from a for Change came up in senior editor Trey background in computer sci- Popp’s story, “The Raven and ence, Milkman has helped Rico Worl,” on anthropolo- pioneer an approach using do our share (maybe the greatest American squash gist-cultural preservationist- “mega studies” involving tens more) of anniver- players of all time,” refl ect in commercial artist Rico Worl of thousands of people and sary stories in the their diff erent ways on what it C’09, who draws inspiration dozens of separate experi- We Gazette, and they was like to be a generational from his own Tlingit back- ments to fi nd the interven- often come with a strong dose talent recognized much more ground and other Native cul- tions that work best at “nudg- of “those-were-the-days” nos- widely off campus than on. tures, fi ltered through a ing” people toward desired talgia. Not so much in associ- Track and fi eld standout modern sensibility. behaviors. One such study ate editor Dave Zeitlin C’03’s Ruthlyn Greenfi eld Webster The occasion for our story provided valuable information cover story, “Century Club,” Nu’92 shares her return to was his being asked by the US for getting more people to go on the progress of women’s international competition Postal Service to create a “For- for a fl u vaccine, transferable sports at Penn since the after age 35 (with plans to ever” postage stamp paying to the ongoing vaccination founding of the Women’s continue till 90). homage to Tlingit culture, for eff ort against COVID-19. Athletic Association in 1921. which he selected the fi gure This is also the issue in We may smile at a quote of Raven, a “canny shapeshift- which we report on Com- like one in the story from the Dave’s piece er” who sets the moon, stars, mencement and Alumni 1930s about “opponent-host- and daylight, imprisoned in Weekend. The latter was again esses” inviting the Penn wom- focuses in on boxes, free. But designs from a virtual aff air (viewable at en’s basketball team out for a handful of key his company, Trickster, have www.alumni.upenn.edu) but tea after away games, but the appeared on silkscreen prints, Commencement returned to candid comments that the players to tell clothing, stickers, skate- Franklin Field. Attendance pioneering athletic stars pro- boards—and basketballs. was restricted to undergradu- fi led in the piece gave to Dave— the story. Back when she was in high ates who had followed COVID and others he unearthed from school, Wharton’s Katy Milk- guidelines, while families and old Gazette issues and other Dave closes out the piece man was a highly ranked ju- friends watched online (which sources—make the obstacles with profi les of two players nior tennis player more inter- you can still do at commence- facing women athletes at the who were central to chang- ested in that sport than she ment.upenn.edu). The most University, and in college ing the fortunes of what are was in her classes, she told notable touch—for fans of tra- sports generally, abundantly now two of Penn’s strongest JoAnn Greco, who profi les her ditions and the reworking of clear. This was particularly teams—Diana Caramanico in “Choice and Change.” them to meet circumstances— true before Title IX, but con- W’01 LPS’11, the only Penn bas- Though she was always a good came at the beginning of the tinues on some level even ketball player to score more student, her teachers would ceremony when President into the present in terms of than 2,000 points; and Ali De- have been surprised she Gutmann staged a mini Hey the attention and prestige Luca C’10, who sparked the turned out to be a professor— Day, complete with canes and generated by women’s sports women’s lacrosse team’s run of the James G. Dinan Professor hats, to get around the diffi - compared to men’s. 11 Ivy League titles since 2007. of Operations, Information culty of graduating the Class Dave’s piece focuses in on a (Those fi ve are pictured on and Decisions, to be specifi c— of 2021 without having already handful key players to tell the our cover, along with two much less a rising star in the offi cially made them seniors.