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Hacking through the storm at PennApps Hackers worked for 46 hours while huge snowstorm hit Philadelphia TIFFANY YAU Contributing Reporter

This year’s PennApps winning project can send a piece of code from one computer to another using only radiofrequency — not Wi-Fi, ethernet or Bluetooth.

RAMEAR — which is named because it “listens” to your computer’s RAM (memory) — uses the power of the central processing unit to transmit information to another computer.

The winning, four-man team — made up of Penn physics Ph.D. candidate Rob Roy Fletcher, second-year undergraduates at Imperial College London Tom Hartley and Fu Yong Quah and senior at Bilkent University in Turkey Emrehan Tuzun — worked for 46 hours during the biannual hackathon while the fourth-largest snowstorm in Philadelphia’s history shut down roads and public transportation and cleared out stores.

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Roads were closed and crowds filled the grocery stores as the city was blanketed with a thick layer of snow. At final count, the Philadelphia International Airport measured 22.4 inches on the ground.

In response to the storm, much of Philadelphia — and Penn — shut down. Philadelphia was put in a state of a snow emergency starting

at 9 p.m. Friday, according to a press release by the city’s Office of Emergency Management. Mayor Jim Kenney urged citizens to stay indoors after the emergency took effect.

In a series of press releases published Sunday, Kenney thanked “the hundreds of City workers working around the clock to help the City recover from the storm,” and then deactivated the Emergency Operations Center, effective 2 p.m. that afternoon.

SEPTA regional rail lines and some bus and trolley lines were suspended starting Friday afternoon.

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Health and Fitness Center and Penn Bookstore remained open for the duration of the storm. Several other local establishments, including Fresh Grocer, Wawa and Cosi also kept doors open.

Nonessential university services, including college house package rooms, suspended services during the storm. Other stores and restaurants, including CVS and Chipotle, also remained closed for the weekend.

On Sunday afternoon at 4:51 p.m., DPS sent an alert saying that the University would open and operate on a normal schedule on Monday.

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Sophomores, juniors and seniors may have experienced deja vu over winter break when they were encouraged to complete a pre-orientation module similar to the one that they completed as freshmen.

Thrive at Penn is the name for the series of quizzes and videos that were rolled out last July for students to complete as part of New Student Orientation. According to an email that Provost Vincent Price and Vice Provost for Education Beth Winkelstein sent to upperclassmen on Dec. 21, the module was “designed to introduce entering students to the many resources available to them at Penn — and to help them understand what it means to be a member of the Penn community.”

The email wasn’t just to laud the program, though. It was to urge all upperclassmen to complete it again, incentivized by a drawing for $100 toward the book store for every 75 students who completed the module. The program covers four topics: thriving at a research university, wellness and health, the risks associated with alcohol and

The Pennsylvania Turnpike also closed to traffic, among other local highways. Other major thoroughfares throughout the city, including the Delaware river bridges, also imposed speed restrictions.

The Philadelphia International Airport canceled all flights for Saturday.

Penn faculty and students were kept up to date on the University’s response to the storm via the Division of Public Safety.

All essential personnel were required to report to campus over the weekend. The dining halls, Pottruck

The Muslim Student Association appluaded the move JACOB WINICK Staff Reporter

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Kings Court English House dining hall now has a daily halal meat option in their menu.

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Starting Monday, Kings Court English House will serve a halal meat option with every lunch and dinner as well as a traditional Arab meal at the expo station once a week.

“Halal” denotes food that is acceptable under Islamic law.

Students in the Muslim Student Association have been trying for

Safe means that no student is told their people don’t belong on campus.”

many years to bring a halal dining program to Penn, which was — until this week — the only Ivy League school that did not have any halal meal options. However, plans continuously failed due to lack of support from MSA, student leaders and administrators said. The opportunity finally arose last semester when the Dining Advisory Board committee asked MSA to present a feasible plan.

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New RAs to undergo mental health training program Program created by CAPS to train RAs LILY ZANDI Staff Reporter

When students, especially freshmen, struggle with mental health, it’s often their Residential Advisors who are the first line of help.

By training RAs on how to identify students who may be suffering from a psychological crisis, the University hopes to broaden access to mental and physical health care.

RAs undergo a day-long training program before the beginning of each semester, consisting of back-to-back presentations organized by Counseling and Psychological Services on issues related to eating disorders, depression and other common mental and physical conditions that afflict college-aged students. The

purpose of this roughly eight-hour day of presentations is to inform RAs on the issues that their residents may be suffering from and to help them identify a student in need.

CAPS created the I CARE program in the spring of 2014 to provide students and faculty with the training necessary to identify a student who may be suffering from a mental illness. The program, which designates certain faculty members as mental wellness counselors, also seeks to reduce the stigma attached to mental illness and inform students of the resources at their disposal. The ultimate goal of I CARE training is to get rid of the cultural and informational barriers that may come between students and CAPS. As is demonstrated by the report released last year by the Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare in response to six student deaths, addressing

mental health on campus has been an ongoing process for the University.

“We adjust all programs each year based upon feedback from the staff and what trends we may have witnessed from the preceding year in terms of student mental and physical well-being,” said Martin Redman, the executive director of College Houses and Academic Services.

The I CARE program addresses growing pressure on the University to provide mental health care in increasingly innovative and effective ways. RAs are trained to identify students who might be suffering from a mental illness and are encouraged provide emotional support. According to Redman, “we provide personal support and guidance to residents, refer many students to CAPS and train the RA/GA staff on how to provide guidance to residents and to deal with mental health emergencies.”

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Resident advisors and graduate advisors will now be taught how to identify students who may be suffering from psychological disorders and how to help them.

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This year’s PennApps winners took home the first place prize with RAMEAR — a radio frequency communications project that transmits code between computers without WiFi.

idea was possible.

“The moment we connected the receiver … to the right place and set it to the right frequency, we saw that it was outputting ‘green, light green, dark green,’ and that represented the different power levels,” Hartley said.

“That was when we thought, ‘Oh my god, this could actually work.’’’

“There were lots of high fives,” Fletcher said .

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were particularly bent on winning.

“I joined this group because Tom posted on Facebook, ‘Looking for a laid back group that doesn’t care about winning,’” Fletcher said. “This is my first time, and I wanted to come and learn and just have fun. I wasn’t really interested in trying to keep ourselves up for 48 hours straight and going through all this stress. We really just wanted to do something interesting and try new things.”

His teammates agreed that the group was relaxed and focused on the experience rather than the competition.

“Like my friends said, we didn’t expect to win this. This is the most ‘chilled out’ group I’ve been in, but we are so excited about the results,” Tuzun said.

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some technological problems throughout the 46 hours as they learned about radiofrequencies.

“The biggest challenge was that the signals … were very small and also very noisy,” Fletcher said. “We had to do quite a bit of signal processing to be able to tell that what we’re seeing isn’t some kind of random noise.”

After the team’s long weekend, they plan to publish the code, allowing people to experiment with and improve upon it.

Reflecting back on the eventful weekend, the members said they hope to return to PennApps and encourage others to participate.

“Learn everything you possibly can,” Fletcher said. “Don’t be afraid to try anything. Be frustrated with it for a week or two trying to get it to work because eventually, it will work, and you will learn so much.”

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CAPS continues to develop Stressbusters mental health app Students remain unsure whether app will be useful SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Deputy News Editor

Mental wellness? There’s an app for that.

Early in the fall semester, staff members at Counseling and Psychological Services contracted out the development of an app designed specifically for students to improve and maintain their mental health. The app is called Stressbusters, and though it’s a platform that around 20 different schools utilize, Penn’s version can be completely customized.

This also means there has to be staff on-hand to update and tweak the app, for which CAPS doesn’t always have the capability.

“Around here it gets pretty hectic,” CAPS Director Bill Alexander said. “[The app] is

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other drugs and healthy relationships and sexual violence prevention.

One reason for the expansion of the program was to address the lack of awareness of sexual violence resources highlighted by September’s Association of American Universities survey.

Rob Nelson, executive director for education and academic planning, said that by the first day of classes 1,776 students had completed the module — 23 percent of the students who received the email.

“We’re pretty happy with that,” he said. “We didn’t expect all students to do it.”

For College junior Mariah Macias, the incentive wasn’t enough to watch the twelve videos and take

still growing. It’s nowhere near where it’s going to be.”

In November, Alexander said the app had been downloaded by around 200 people. Now, he said, the number has risen to “several hundred.” The app currently hosts stress-relieving audio and video, as well as a calendar displaying mental health-related events around campus.

His goal is to assemble a task force of students to get the word out about the app and make the content itself more robust. “I want this to be really looking good come NSO,” he said.

Most students approached for this article had never heard of the app. College freshman Indeara Cogdell hadn’t heard of it either, but she downloaded it on her Android phone before being interviewed.

“I think that it’s good if the only problem is that you need to relax or don’t know how to

the corresponding quizzes.

“I’ve already done this,” she said.

“All the things that they’re cautioning you against, I’ve never put myself in situations like that — I don’t drink or go out and party all that often.”

She said that the gift card was tempting, but lost its appeal when she saw how much she’d have to do.

College junior Ana Ang just didn’t think it looked all that important. “I saw the subject, knew it wasn’t something that I really had to do so I didn’t do it,” she said, but she added that she can see some value in the program. “It’s the right direction but [the administration] tries to give a general name to everything and no one wants to participate.”

College sophomore Alex Brown just lost track of the email. “I guess it was one of those casual emails,” he said. “I won’t open them unless the title says something important.”

relax,” she said. However, she said that personally, it’s not really what she needs. “My stress comes from having too many things in a short amount of time. If I was really stressed out and had to add using the app, that doesn’t solve the problem that I still have 50 things to do and I don’t have time to do them all.”

Cogdell liked the content, however.

“If you are using the app and just want to listen to a relaxing video, you don’t have to go through a bunch to get it, you just have to click play,” she said. She added that she liked a section that quizzed you to find out your habits and made suggestions about ways to improve your mental health through your physical lifestyle.

“Making healthy choices with diet and exercise is a part of regulating stress too,” she said.

There was also a section that just played relaxing sounds — music and a waterfall, for instance. “I really like that,” she said. “Even if I need to relax while I do work I can still listen to that.”

She thinks the only way it would make a difference for a large number of people is if they actually took the time to build using the app into their schedules, and Cogdell fears they won’t.

“Honestly the biggest issue with myself and for a lot of people on Penn’s campus is that they have a lot to do — studying and work.” The app, she said, would just be one more thing.

“It is helpful. I think that the only issue would be making it so that taking the time out to do it is worth it,” she said. “There needs to be an incentive to take the time out to relax.”

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While freshmen completed the Thrive At Penn module over the summer, upperclassmen now need to complete TAP again .

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Stressbusters is an app released early last fall that plays stressrelieving audio and video, and is slowly gaining more attention.

But he appreciates the concept of TAP. “I’ve had friends who have those things at their college,” he said.

“They’re pretty cool to get people thinking. At least it’s something.”

Brown didn’t complete the module when he arrived at Penn either. As a transfer student, he said it didn’t seem to be required or clearly available.

College senior Robin Russo did actually get around to doing the module but didn’t find it worthwhile.

“I just did the quiz questions and they seemed like things I should already know as a senior,” she said.

“I think it would be useful for just freshmen.”

Nelson said that TAP will be run again during NSO for all incoming freshmen, but there are also more specialized versions in the works for both upperclassmen and graduate and professional students. He

said these versions will “assume some of the basic knowledge about what Penn is and how it works” and instead focus on small refreshers on things like the medical amnesty policy and CAPS. These versions will be required in the future.

Undergraduate Assembly President and College senior Jane Meyer was involved with getting the word out to students about TAP over winter break. She said she sees it as essential for the upperclassmen experience as it is for freshmen.

“I think sometimes after freshman year people think they know everything there is to know and for most of your every day that might be true,” she said. “But when it comes to those times that push comes to shove and you’re faced with some kind of issue, I’m really happy that we’re putting it in the hands of students.”

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OPINION What’s feminism got to do with it?

PRAXIS | Reflections on the Hillary Campaign from an identity politics skeptic

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This week’s issue of The Nation featured two cover articles: “Why this Socialist Feminist is for Hillary” by Suzanna Danuta Walters and “Why this Socialist Feminist is not Voting for Hillary” by Liza Featherstone. For me, the pieces raised some compelling questions about my priorities as both a feminist woman and a progressive.

I appreciated Featherstone’s sharp focus on Hillary’s policies and stances — an approach that reminds us that sometimes the ingredients matter more than the recipe. Suzanna Danuta Walters, on the other hand, writes, “I want a woman president … I support her less for her specific political positions than for the iconic value of electing the first woman president of the United States.”

That statement might suffice for a large contingent of Hillary supporters, but the truth is, symbolic victories can fail to produce the most salient policy changes for the demographic supposedly being represented. But there is another problem with Wal-

ters’ logic. She contends that it is substantively different to have a woman advocating for women’s issues than a man.

While a woman representing the feminist cause might be substantively different from a man representing the feminist cause, it does not then follow that a female leader’s policies will be substantively affected because she is a woman. I am much more interested in the substantive victory than the symbolic one.

While Walters insists it is not Hillary’s identity as a woman that qualifies her for the presidency, she still declares that she is voting for Hillary because Hillary is a woman. It would be misguided to say that Hillary is unqualified for the presidency given her extensive experience in various political offices. However, Walters still suggests that Hillary’s political qualifications are ancillary to her identity as a woman.

The most dangerous part of Walters’ piece, however, can be found when she voices frustration with liberals who

critique Hillary “as if [Hillary] were the enemy and not … right-wing Republicans.”

You’d think in a democratic society we’d be allowed to voice frustration about our own political party. This kind of indictment frightens me.

It suggests that in an era of deep political polarization, there is no room left for critical thought, or any kind of political affiliation beyond

When a group of recent immigrants into Germany groped and robbed women on New Year’s Eve in Cologne, the xenophobic and anti-immigrant crowd was all too ready to respond to the incident.

However, the left was also too quick to deflect and did not address Germany’s failure to adequately integrate recent immigrants. It seems that the moment when our politics re-

I think serious headway for women could be made through a commitment to economic change.” the unwavering support of the prescribed platform. However, we should remember that criticism does not necessarily shepherd antagonism.

The hysteria surrounding this unorthodox presidential primary is not too dissimilar to the rhetoric produced by the refugee crisis in Europe.

quire the most effort towards self-evaluation is precisely when we become forced to pledge our allegiance to our respective extremes on the political spectrum.

But it is time to ask ourselves tougher questions.

Socialist feminism maintains that economic redistribu-

tion will improve the lives of women. For those committed to the project of socialist feminism, the push for greater state involvement in the economy ought to come before the identity of the person doing the pushing. I will not whole-heartedly say that all gender issues stem from economic issues. Of course there are discrete gender issues. But, I think serious headway for women could be made through a commitment to economic change.

The Cologne example reminds us of the failed attempts of liberals to use identity as a way of justifying loyalty. The claim that one’s identity can produce good or bad behavior is reductionist. An endorsement of immigrant entry into Europe should not be threatened by the bad behavior of a dodgy cohort; it should be predicated on the ability of Europe to define and see out a vision for a multicultural society.

I’m hesitant to side with the logic utilized by the socialist feminist more ready to vote for a female non-socialist

CLARA JANE HENDRICKSON than a male socialist. While I appreciate the sentimentalism attached to electing the first female president, an identity politics that capitalizes on the social outcome of women’s oppression without addressing where it comes from confounds me. Improving the lives of women will have to be about more than the everyday battles against sexism.

CLARA JANE HENDRICKSON is a College senior from San Francisco studying political science. Her email address is clara@sas.upenn.edu. Follow her on Twitter @clarajanehen.

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There’s a war over speech happening on college campuses. Namely, over what gets to be said and who gets to say it. As a college student, I find myself confused by the modern reincarnation of this debate. Why has “free speech,” a term that has historically meant protecting the rights of minorities to speak out against hate and injustice, come to represent the defense of offensive language? And why has “political correctness,” a term that denotes the challenging of injustices, become so vehemently hated?

My first clue as to why came from an experience I had sitting in a study lounge with two friends, one white, one black. The white friend, who had been drinking, started saying and repeating a word that sounded almost exactly like the N-word, although he claimed it had a different meaning. My other friend and I, both distraught, couldn’t convince him to stop.

What really confused me is why he wanted to say it at all, especially if it meant

hurting his own friend. But of course, the discussion of empathy is rarely introduced.

It’s all about who gets to say the N-word and who doesn’t.

That shouldn’t be a surprise when one considers the history. With that word came the enslavement of an entire race of people. It defined subjugation. But when the word was revived, its reclaiming meant a reversion of ownership.

So nowadays, when a white person hears they are not allowed to say it, it flies in the face of their self-perceived dominance and their right to ownership. I believe this is the same motivation behind the outrage over political correctness on college campuses.

When Erika Christakis, the associate master at Yale University’s Silliman College, sent an email urging students to disregard a previous email that called for racially sensitive costumes, students rightfully spoke out, causing an uproar across the country. To all those in the media who defended Christakis’ email, I ask one question: “What, really,

are you defending?”

In the long-held tradition of racially insensitive costumes, Yale is no anomaly. There’s a history here, one rooted in minstrelsy and cultural appropriation. These costumes represent the colonization of the

called “free speech activists” are speaking out in its defense.

Media pundits like Greg Lukianoff — president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education — have twisted the narrative and labeled the situation at Yale as

Safe doesn’t mean that intellectual ideas don’t get challenged. Safe means that no student is told their people don’t belong on campus.” cultural identity of people of color. To deny the historical precedent is to deny history.

The idea that this is a political correctness issue, or even a free speech issue, severely misconstrues its implications.

What’s at stake, really, is the ability of white students to appropriate the identities of their non-white peers.

It’s a tradition that goes back hundreds of years and now that it’s being challenged, so

an example of censorship by overly-sensitive college students. He’s written multiple articles on the subject of safe spaces, claiming that they stifle learning. But at Yale, he has severely missed the point.

In his attempt to qualify protests at Yale and other universities as censorship, Lukianoff has denied his own ideals. When students protest and speak out against injustices at their institution they

are engaging in the best form of debate that the oppressed can have with their oppressor.

That’s free speech at its finest.

Students shouldn’t be shot down for wanting to make their campuses a safe space.

Because no, safe doesn’t mean coddled. Safe doesn’t mean that intellectual ideas don’t get challenged. Safe means that no student is told their people don’t belong on campus or that their lives don’t matter.

When one student wears a costume that degrades another or shouts slurs — as white students did to their peers at Michigan State University — we do not learn or grow as a community. Hateful acts such as these only work to disenfranchise students of color.

In the debate over political correctness, it’s no coincidence that the charge for ridding colleges of their safety is being led primarily by those who would not be harmed.

For all their claims of “wimpifying” students, those who badmouth political correctness are actually the most sensitive of all. You ask them to

CAMERON DICHTER change a few words, invite a couple of brown folks to their parties and all of a sudden political correctness becomes the newest epidemic.

Let us be honest about who really stands to lose in all this.

Across the country, students of color are fighting for safety and respect. Supposed free speech proponents, on the other hand, are fighting to take those things away.

CAMERON DICHTER is a College sophomore from Philadelphia, studying English.

His email address is camd@ sas.upenn.edu. “Real Talk” usually appears every other Monday.

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OCR: a strategy for students of all academic backgrounds About 1,696 juniors participated in OCR in 2014-15 ALIZA OHNOUNA Staff Reporter

For students in the College of Arts and Sciences, it can be tempting to dismiss oncampus recruiting as another Wharton concentration. But OCR for summer internships — a period during the spring semester in which technology, finance, consulting and business firms interview primarily juniors on Penn’s campus for coveted internships that often promise full-time jobs — is open to all Penn students, and many have not hesitated to participate.

In the 2014-15 school year, two-thirds of all Penn juniors — approximately 1,696 students — participated in OCR, Associate Director of Career Services Mylene Kerschner said.

The University of Pennsylvania College of Arts and Sciences Summer 2014 Survey Report indicated that 16 percent of rising seniors used OCR in their summer job search. Fortythree percent of College students

looking for internships in consulting and 27 percent of College students searching for internships in finance cited OCR as a key internship search tool. And 27 percent of juniors in this survey reported being hired by finance or consulting firms.

Summer 2015 data describing the number of students who were offered or accepted internships through OCR is not yet available.

23.6 percent of the Class of 2015 reported receiving their full-time offers via OCR, and 21 percent of College 2015 graduates now work in financial services, according to the preliminary data for the Career Plans Survey for the College of Arts and Sciences Class of 2015, which precedes the official survey’s release in the coming weeks.

While it is difficult to enumerate what companies who recruit during OCR are looking for, it’s safe to say that certain majors or schools won’t make or break students’ candidacy.

One of the most common requirements posted by OCR firms on PennLink, a database that conglomerates OCR positions and allows students to drop their

resumes for various employers, is “strong quantitative and analytical skills.”

“You can get that [quantitative skill set] in any of the schools here at Penn,” said Barbara Hewitt, senior associate director of Career Services.

Hewitt and Kerschner noted that many engineers and College math and science majors are successful in getting jobs related to financial services.

These trends might explain some of what may appear to be incongruous findings in the 2014 survey, which paired students’ majors with their internships.

Several biology and chemistry majors reported interning as investment bankers.

Large firms in particular are “very happy if people have the raw talent [to hire them and] train them,” Hewitt said. She also noted that students at schools like Harvard that have no undergraduate business program are not at a disadvantage.

Neither are students who consider themselves creative problem solvers. Consulting firms constitute a large portion of OCR, and “that’s where you

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Students outside of Wharton have shown increasing interest in on campus recruitment for their own majors. Many employers look for math and science backgrounds, regardless of school.

see the preference for more of the creative [skills]. They want problem-solving skills, they want communication ability, leadership and ability to work on teams,” Kerschner said.

Retail firms also make up a fair amount of OCR, and Hewitt noted that communications majors have been successful in getting those types of internships.

Hewitt and Kerschner emphasized the variability of employer preferences. Much of the time, employers are looking for many qualities in applicants, including GPA, activities and leadership.

Students interested in consulting can easily determine if it will be a good fit for them. Case studies, in which applicants are asked to provide solutions to business challenges during consulting interviews, are readily available on firms’ websites as well as on vault.com and wetfeet.com , career prep websites to which Penn subscribes.

These career preparation resources are useful for non-OCR internships as well. “Lots of our students do really interesting things” with companies that don’t participate in OCR at all, Hewitt said.

Students might have to take

a little more initiative in actively searching for non-OCR internships, which may include attending career fairs and applying directly through companies’ websites. Kerschner urged students to take advantage of iNet, an online consortium shared by several top universities that lists scads of internship opportunities all over the country.

Kerschner also emphasized the importance of networking, adding that “networking is so key not just to get a job but to learn about it.”

The need for this initiative might be particularly true this year, given the fact that many banks and finance firms choose to bypass the traditional Spring OCR timeline and hired their interns in the fall.

Nevertheless, students still in search of internships for the summer shouldn’t get frantic — over half of respondents to the Class of 2015 Career Plans Survey reported getting a fulltime offer without OCR. Darcy Deane, a College junior majoring in linguistic anthropology, has found internship opportunities in consulting just by simply Googling company names and putting herself on

listservs. Her OCR experience thus far has been less rigid than the stereotypical impression of harried students exchanging handshakes with recruiters in Career Services Suites. She’s been attending coffee chats with large consulting firms at the Penn Book Center since the beginning of the semester.

“This is a lot more informal than I thought it would be,” Deane said.

One element of OCR the surveys didn’t quantify, however, was student’s knowledge and interest in a given position. Bryce Arbour, a College senior who received an internship at BlackRock through OCR last summer, noted that “employers really appreciate some demonstrated interest in whatever you want to do.”

Arbour found that many of his interviewers were interested in learning how much he knew about the various companies, and whether or not their missions suited his ambitions.

“I think the most important thing for success in OCR is to actually want the position you’re applying for and know a lot about it,” Arbour said. “It has to be genuine.”

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MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016

Penn’s applicant pool expands across the country and abroad Record number of high schools represented in pool SOPHIA LEPORTE Staff Reporter

As Penn starts to review regular decision applicants, the Admissions Office is noting an increase in diversity among high school seniors shooting for Penn.

This year, Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said, the University had about 11,000 high schools in its applicant pool, which is higher than in past years.

The increase in the number of high schools could be due to the recruitment methods the Admissions Office has been using. In some ways, the Office’s outreach efforts are similar to previous years. Many of the stops that the Admissions Office makes to promote Penn remain the same.

For example, the University continues to send representatives out to the Exploring College Options tour every fall and spring, and they travel to all 50 states with representatives from four other schools to give

grant-based policy, students counseling practice Ivy Coach, is and families who may not have skeptical that efforts to increase thought about Penn in the past geographic diversity have been are thinking about Penn,” Furda as important to schools like Penn said. as efforts to increase socio-ecoFurda added that some of nomic diversity. the new schools showing up in “I would guess that geothe Penn applicant pool could graphic diversity does not get as also just be from new charter much attention as does the diverschools that are starting to pro- sity to appeal to underprivileged duce graduating classes or new kids,” Taylor said. “It would defiinternational schools that Penn nitely be intelligent for schools is reaching out to as admissions like Penn to try to recruit from counselors travel abroad to schools where they don’t have a spread the word. foothold.”

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In the fall, MSA provided the advisory board with a list of around 60 students who came forward and requested a halal dining option.

Lampitt stressed that this step was not the end of the road for halal dining at Penn.

“This is a pilot. Many students in the MSA are eager for us to offer some retail items, and we are looking for some

halal-certified items for the Gourmet Grocer,” Lampitt said.

“We hope to also expand this into other dining facilities, but we need to crawl before we can walk.”

Chef Manager of the Kings Court English HousePatterson Watkins has worked especially hard in conjunction with MSA to bring a halal option to every lunch and dinner.

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8 SPORTS

MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016

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As snow buries Philly, Quakers bury Yale on road

GYMNASTICS | Penn led

at least a share of all four event titles.

The Red and Blue (1-0, 1-0 Ivy) by excellence on floor began the competition on the bars, earning a team total of 46.825, which JONATHAN POLLACK was the lowest of their four team Sports Reporter scores but only .025 points behind the Elis (0-2, 0-1 Ivy). For the second This weekend, even the snow week in a row, the Quakers started couldn’t stop the tumbling, flipping, off their first event slowly, but picked and twisting of Penn gymnastics. up the pace at the end.

The Quakers defeated Yale on The Quakers finished strongly Sunday in their first Ivy dual meet on the bars with scores of 9.625 and of the year by a score of 189.575- 9.700 from sophomore Kyra Levi 188.725. The meet, originally and senior Elyse Shenberger, respecscheduled for Saturday, was pushed tively. Shenberger’s score was good back a day due to the storm. In ad- enough for a share of first place in the dition to the overall win, the squad event. earned a split in the four events and Next, the team moved to the vault,

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to limit Penn to two points in the quarter’s first five minutes. After Temple regained the lead, a three

by Chambers late in the period helped the Red and Blue salvage a 26-26 tie through the game’s first 20 minutes.

The Quakers converted 40 percent of their shots from the field in the first half, a rate five percent higher than the Owls’. However, Penn was stymied by 10 turnovers, a mark that directly led to eight Temple points.

The third quarter was a different story.

After the squads traded baskets early in the frame, Whitlatch — who had two points and three turnovers in the opening half — took over, scoring eight straight Red and Blue points off two treys

and a pair of free throws to help turn a 30-28 deficit into a 36-32 lead. Penn ended up extending its run to 17-5 as Chambers canned two key baskets give the Quakers a 43-32 advantage, their largest of the day. “The unique thing about our team is that each of us has spurts at different times, and even when we don’t we know how to complement the other players around us,�

Whitlatch said. “In that third quarter, it was important for us to come out strong because we always have really close games against Temple.

I think it’s just important to know that we will have spurts and just remain confident.� “They each have a skill set and play well together,� McLaughlin added. “Lauren ... had the guts to come out and shoot back-to-back threes right away. We spread the points out, they’re a very unselfish

where they scored a team total of 47.500. Morgan Venuti and Ally Podsednik were the highest scorers for the team, both earning a 9.675 and a share of the event title.

The Quakers received their highest event score of the day on the floor, 48.150, for the second week in a row.

Their performance on the floor was led by Carissa Lim, who earned a share of the event title with her score of 9.725. Rachel Graham also put forth a strong effort with a score of 9.700 and a third-place finish.

The last event of the day was beam, where the Red and Blue’s scores totaled 47.000, an improvement from last week. Junior Kelly

Snow claims title in Philly Invite, causes postponement

group and I don’t think it matters to them who scores. “They just want to score more than the opponent.�

Though Penn led by eight heading into the fourth, Temple quickly erased that deficit and took a 50-49 lead with 3:40 remaining after two free throws by Tanaya Atkinson.

But on the Quakers’ next possession, Whitlatch came off a screen from Sydney Stipanovich and swished a back-breaking trey that gave Penn a lead it wouldn’t relinquish. “It’s important to just be ready and understand who has the hot hand, who is on that game and be ready to help them from the first quarter to the fourth all the way through,� Whitlatch said.

Despite only trailing by two, the Owls could get no closer, as Nwokedi and sophomore guard Anna Ross converted from the charity stripe to seal the Red and Blue’s 11th non-conference win of 2015-16, a new program record.

Now, with a 12th non-Ivy win on Monday, the Quakers not only would win another Big 5 title; they would also be able to avenge last season’s loss to Villanova that prevented them from owning the city crown outright in 2014-15 “It would be incredible,� Whitlatch said. “We started from the Duke game [in the season opener] all the way to right now just focusing on the game ahead of us, and right now that is Villanova and we’re ready to pull out a big win.�

ALEX FISHER | SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Eight straight points from sophomore Lauren Whitlatch helped carry Penn women’s basketball to a 60-54 win over Temple on Thursday.

FENCING | Tentatively

rescheduled for Feb. 21 JACOB SNYDER Associate Sports Editor

Oh the weather outside is frightful ... and it is apparently a bit too frightful for the Philadelphia Invitational that Penn Fencing was scheduled to host throughout Saturday and Sunday.

The decision to postpone the event was made Friday night due to the snow projections associated with this weekend’s blizzard, with Feb. 21 pinpointed as the tentative date for the tournament to now take place.

Following strong performances at last weekend’s Penn State Invitational, both the men’s (10-1) and women’s (7-3) teams had hoped to carry their momentum into this weekend against teams including TCNJ, Haverford, UNC and Duke.

While most students likely assumed events this weekend would be delayed or cancelled, very few know the process that teams go through to confirm cancellations.

Coach Andy Ma clarified the process, suggesting that transportation was the main complication that ultimately postponed the event. “When we saw the forecast, we always knew postponing the event could be possible,� Ma said. “On Friday, eight teams contacted us and let us know they would not be coming. Another few teams were maybes. At that point, we knew we had to make the change.�

It also was important for Ma that the meet be rescheduled instead of canceled — every bout matters towards the ranking for the postseason NCAA Championships. “We know that rescheduling the event makes our schedule slightly

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For the senior, the draft has added another layer to his plans as he considers life beyond graduation. Almost unique among professional sports, lacrosse offers the ability to maintain careers both on and off the field. MLL games are regularly scheduled for weekends, allowing players to hold full-time jobs in addition to being a part of their teams. In Doktor’s case, this means balancing a position working in banking in New York with his dream of continuing his career as an athlete.

But that dream will be on hold for a little while. Doktor, a second team All-Ivy pick in 2015 comes into the season with a 27-game point-scoring streak and looks to continue leading the Red and Blue offense into the 2016 campaign.

Unlike most professional sports drafts, the MLL draft occurs before the start of the college season, so the Quakers will get one more year to watch

busier later on,� Ma admitted. “We need the matches though. We need to show the NCAA why we deserve to be up with the top teams.�

Psychologically, a scheduling change often tests the mental resolve in a team. However, Ma insisted that his team is still as focused as ever. “We have a meet next weekend that will keep us in rhythm,�

Ma said. “We also know how important that meet is specifically because we need to keep in shape and sustain our momentum.�

That meet — the upcoming Northwestern Duals in Evanston, Ill. — will be essential for the confidence of fencers on both teams, with the schedule looking especially busy come February.

If the tentatively rescheduled date of Feb. 21 holds, the Quakers will face three tournaments in nine days from Feb. 20-28, including back-to-back competitions on the 20th and 21st. Not only would that provide a true assessment of the fencers’ stamina, but it is also the busiest stretch that Penn fencing

has seen in more than a decade.

The weekend doubleheader in late February would be possible due to the current schedule, which pencils in the Temple Invitational for 20th — just a short trip down the road for the Red and Blue.

The busy schedule might worry some coaches, but Ma maintains that he feels his team is ready for the challenge. “Penn has very good fencers and they know how to deal with tough stretches of matches,� Ma said. “It’s all a part of being an athlete.�

Although postponements are by no means common, Ma also acknowledges that the team is prepared for weather-related obstacles at this time of year. “You never expect a cancellation, so of course we have to adapt,� Ma said. “But at the same time, it is Philadelphia, and it is winter. We knew weather would affect us at some point. “Weather is weather. We control what we can control, and that’s our fencing.�

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At the Penn State Open, sophomore Jake Raynis excelled in epee, but this week’s cancellation prevented him from a repeat.

the future pro. MLL rules prohibit draftees from playing with their team until the conclusion of their collegiate squad’s season.

Doktor’s selection is reflective of the recent success of Murphy’s program, which in recent years has taken down the likes of Duke and North Carolina. During Doktor’s sophomore season Penn played their way to the NCAA tournament, where the attackman recorded three goals and an assist despite a 16-11 loss for the Red and Blue at the hands of their 33rd Street rival, Drexel. “I think it raises the bar for everything that we do,� Murphy noted. “Obviously it demonstrates that we have players that are just as good as anybody.�

The Quakers are barely a

week from the first sign of the season’s start, as they host Drexel for a scrimmage on Feb. 6. And for Doktor, that means setting aside the news from Friday. “Now that [the draft] is done and over with, I’m gonna put that on the back burner and just focus on the upcoming season,� he said. “I’m looking forward to my senior year, I think the team looks really great, so I’m just going to stay focused on the season and make the most of it.�

Which is good news for his coach, who’s ready to see what the soon-to-be pro can do in his senior year. “We’ll get back to work on Monday and he’ll be running with everybody else, and he’ll just be one of the guys.�

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On Friday, senior Nick Doktor became the highest draft pick in Penn men’s lacrosse history when he went 18th overall to Charlotte.

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While the blizzard raged on, Penn women’s squash found its fire on Saturday.

The Quakers (7-1) narrowly defeated Trinity (7-2) with a score of 5-4 in Hartford, Conn. The secondranked visitors were able to take down the sixth-ranked hosts thanks to some clutch performances in a tight spot.

Coming off a resounding victory over Stanford at home last week, coach Jack Wyant was rightfully impressed with his team’s resilience on the road.

“We started off a little shaky, we lost two of the first three matches at number nine and three. But we steadied the ship, and the second shift did a great job for us winning at

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season, there is no magic formula,” coach Alex Tirapelle said. “It just kind of stays constant.”

Although there was little to worry about by the time the 184-pounder readied for his match, the day didn’t start off as smoothly as it could have for the Quakers.

At 125 pounds, junior Jeremy Schwartz lost a 4-3 decision to open the meet. It was a brief setback for Tirapelle’s squad, but they didn’t trail for long.

Following Schwartz’s defeat, the Red and Blue rattled off seven straight wins, sparked by junior Caleb Richardson and sophomore Marc Mastropietro at 133 and 141 pounds, respectively.

In Richardson’s bout, he coasted to a 6-2 victory, knotting the two squads at three points apiece. Although the match stood at one-all through three periods, two quick near falls secured the match for Richardson with a 5-1 decision.

two, five, and eight,” he said.

Winning the clinching match in straight games, sophomore Marie Stephan was able to best her opponent, Amber Kimberly, with scores of 12-10, 12-10, and 17-15.

Following the match, Stephan emphasized the need to keep trending upwards.

“We lost twice to [Trinity] last year in the regular season and at nationals, so after losing to Harvard, we really needed this win for our confidence,” Stephan said. “It’s good to keep the momentum going into nationals because now we have that good win that we can rely on and build from.”

This was not the first time these two have met, as they have faced off at nationals, and — as they hail from France and England, respectively — also in European junior tournaments.

“I wouldn’t say we have a rivalry, but every time I play her, I know I’m going to have a tough match because

we play the same game. Even though I won in three games it was almost 45 minutes I think, with a ton of tie breaks,” she said. “I know I’m always in for a long match with her.”

On the men’s side the Bantams (12-0) took care of their opponents from Penn (7-2) with relative ease, only dropping one match of the

It only got easier from there.

Binghamton did not field an opponent against senior CJ Cobb at 149 pounds, meaning the Quakers were automatically awarded six more points — the same as a pin. Up 12-3, Penn’s May Bethea, Brooks Martino and Casey Kent each easily dispatched their opponents, highlighted by Kent’s 4-0 win at 174.

“I thought our guys competed hard, they came in, they got off to fast starts,” Tirapelle remarked. “They were trying to create scoring opportunities right away. So all in all it was a really good match.”

Then Thomas’ name was called. After a slow first period, the senior turned up the heat, and Schneider never really had a chance.

“I had to treat it like any other match,” he commented after the win. “I guess I was nervous in the beginning, but once I started going, just treated it like any other match.

“For the most part, even if it’s a close dual match I try to wrestle to my ability and then that’ll

end up helping the team, if I can wrestle as well as I can wrestle.”

With the seven-point victory, Thomas earned the Quakers three points, officially putting the meet out of Binghamton’s reach. The Red and Blue wouldn’t score again on the day, however, as 197-pounder Robert Ng lost in overtime, 7-5, and sophomore Patrik Garren lost 4-3 thanks to a two-point takedown by Connor Calkin with 10 seconds to go.

“I would have liked to have finished a little bit better, the last couple matches left a little bit of a sour taste in our mouths,” Tirapelle said. “But up and down the lineup we competed pretty hard today.”

Despite the stumbles from Garren and Calkin, the match was in hand and the team could celebrate Thomas’ success along with its own.

For the senior 184-pounder, though, 100 wins isn’t the end goal. The culmination of this season may yet be something he’s already achieved once before: Become an All-American.

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At the No. 4 position on the ladder, sophomore Marie Stephan bested her Bantam opponent 3-0 to clinch the match 5-4 for the Quakers.

nine. Penn entered the match after a two week lull since their split decision up at Harvard and Dartmouth.

Wyant expounded on the sheer dominance of the perennial topranked side.

“The Trinity men are an extremely talented team, they’re all so well trained, and just a hard working

bunch,” Wyant said. “Unlike the Harvard match where we walked away feeling like we could have done better than the 6-3 score line or won the match, Trinity is too good for us at the moment, especially on their courts.”

The only victorious Quaker, sophomore Derek Hsue, admitted Trinity was just a notch above on the day, but explained how he found a way to squeeze out a win.

“I think I was a little more patient today and was able to control the match a little more than him, so I was able to pull it out. Each game was really close but I got a little lucky to come out ahead,” Hsue said.

The real story from the day’s excitement regards women’s number one freshman Reeham Salah, as she was forced to forfeit her match due to injury sustained during play.

“She was up one love, down 9-8 second game, when there was a collision at the front right corner of

the court and she fell awkwardly on her right elbow and was unable to continue. So that was a real disappointment because that was a good match up unto that moment, with Reeham holding a slight lead,” Wyant said. “I was upset for her and she was gutted that she couldn’t finish the match. Fortunately for us we secured that fifth point so she was able to bow out and the team pulled through for us.”

Regarding the status of her injury, Wyant is optimistic that it’s a minor bone bruise, but will know more after a proper medical examination.

Both the men and women will host Princeton this weekend at Ringe Courts, beginning the final stretch of all Ivy play.

“There’s only a month left, so every day really counts now,” Hsue added.

The Quakers will play the next four matches at home, and hopefully can find a way to stay hot as the temperatures drop.

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MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016

WRESTLING | Thomas becomes 11th Penn wrestler to pass century mark NICK BUCHTA

PENN 24 9 BINGHAMTON The outcome of the meet was no longer in doubt, but the most exciting part of the day was yet to come.

When Lorenzo Thomas stepped up for his bout with Binghamton’s Steven Schneider, Penn wrestling had already secured a comfortable 21-3 advantage on

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the day. For Thomas, however, a bigger milestone was still on the line.

Eight minutes and an 8-1 decision later, the Pittsburgh native became just the 11th grappler in program history to record 100 career wins.

“Like I’ve said a couple times, it’s something that I

came in as a freshman — it’s one of your long-term goals to reach 100,” Thomas said.

“It’s a big milestone. And I’m happy I was able to reach it here.”

Thomas’ victory gave the Red and Blue a 24-3 lead, which would culminate in a 24-9 win on the day against

Bearcats. For the Quakers (4-1), it marked the third straight win over an Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association rival as conference play has begun heating up.

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Doktor goes in 2nd round of MLL draft M. LAX | Senior picked

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He’s going pro.

On Friday afternoon, Penn men’s lacrosse practice concluded with some welcome news as senior attackman Nick Doktor learned he had been taken by the Charlotte Hounds with the 18th pick of the 2016 Major League Lacrosse draft.

As the East Coast prepared for an impending snowstorm, the MLL draft was moved up from 8:30 to 2 p.m., and the timing was perfect for the Rochester, N.Y., native and his

team.

“We got the word after practice today and guys were very excited in the locker room and congratulating him,” Penn coach Mike Murphy said. “It was a nice moment for the whole team, especially Nick.”

Taken at the end of the second round, Doktor is the highest draft pick in Penn history, eclipsing third-rounder DJ Andrzejewski.

“Obviously it feels really good, it’s something that I’ve been working toward for a while now,” Doktor commented. “It’s always been in the back of my mind ... It’s been a goal of mine that I’ve always wanted to achieve. But now that its

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Red and Blue with 22 points RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Reporter

Taking the court in a cross-town affair for the second time in four days on Thursday, Penn women’s basketball couldn’t have been more familiar with the opponent it was set to face. After all, last year, the Quakers knocked off Temple in January to clinch their first Big 5 title before the Owls returned the favor by ending the Red and Blue’s season in the WNIT Second Round in March.

Revenge exacted.

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Led by a monster game from sophomore Michelle Nwokedi and double-digit scoring performances from guards Lauren Whitlatch and Kasey Chambers, Penn used a furious third-quarter run to break Thursday’s contest open before persevering late in a tight 60-54 victory. With the win, the Quakers (12-2) pushed their winning streak to seven games, and can clinch a share of yet another Big 5 championship when they face Villanova on Tuesday.

“This was a really good game, it could’ve gone either way and I think we showed a lot of resiliency down the stretch,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “We played really well for three quarters and they took a little run at us in the fourth, took the lead but we kept our

composure. We made plays at the right time and we were rewarded for it.”

Unlike its previous game against La Salle, Penn came out firing on all cylinders, as the squad responded to Temple’s opening basket with an 8-0 run, one keyed by six points from Nwokedi, who finished with a game-high 22.

The teams traded spurts of offensive success throughout the remainder of the first quarter, as the Quakers went into the second frame leading by three.

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