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GIFs and tweets entry point into politics for some NICOLE RUBIN Staff Reporter

For any political observer, Donald Trump’s sound bites have become as familiar as his rising poll numbers: build a wall, make America great again, our politicians are stupid. With the advent of tweets , GIFs and memes, it’s become even easier to qualify political information into granular bits. The traditionalist would argue that this simplification of political discourse is destructive, but political communication experts beg to differ. “We get a little bit hysterical and a little bit reactive when we see things that seem to be somewhat less rational, more emotional [and] more visual,” Annenberg professor Barbara Zelizer said in a description of GIFs. “If it makes us care about it, if it perks our interest, then that’s achieved half the game.” Kathleen Hall Jamieson , the director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, agreed. “Policy itself is always complex, but there are facets of the process which lend themselves to simple, digestive statements,” she said. Candidates gain an advantage

New board will not have the ability to levy sanctions on Greek groups JESSICA WASHINGTON Staff Reporter

The idea of a collaborative board overseeing acts of cultural insensitivity by fraternities and sororities has returned. In the fall, Undergraduate Assembly Vice President Ray Clark and Interfraternity Council Judicial Inquiry Board Manager Griffin Rubin — both College juniors — discussed in an op-ed the creation of an external body composed of members of the Panhellenic Council, the IFC and the Multicultural Greek Council. The board, as outlined in a Daily Pennsylvanian guest column, would serve as an outlet for Penn students to voice their complaints regarding cultural insensitivity within Greek life. If the board found a Greek organization guilty of cultural insensitivity, Clark and Rubin said, it would impose sanctions, usually in the form of education. SEE GREEK PAGE 2

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SEPTA police officers will now wear body cameras when they are on duty.

As the national debate surges on whether state and local police should wear body cameras, SEPTA Transit has already put a plan in action. SEPTA police officers are now equipped with body cameras that will be turned on while

responding to radio calls and during any interaction with people on patrol. The SEPTA Board approved the $400,000 permanent program in July after a six-month pilot stage last year, which tested 10 different camera models. Since the beginning of January, 289 SEPTA Transit officers have been using Digital Ally SEE SEPTA PAGE 5

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No sign of AXO as OAX recruits first pledge class Alpha Chi Omega did not participate in formal rush LILY ZANDI Staff Reporter

Alpha Chi Omega has made no tangible steps toward recolonizing since the vast majority of its members deactivated to join OAX last spring. During the spring rush period, the sorority house remained empty and closed as potential new members filtered in and out of neighboring houses. The sorority’s former members, however, successfully recruited their first pledge class as the off-campus organization OAX. The Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life is unaware whether the sorority plans to recolonize at Penn, OFSL Director Eddie Banks-Crosson said.

“The national sorority will not be participating in formal sorority recruitment, and we await next steps,” he said. “Unfortunately, that’s all the information we have right now.” Last spring, members of Alpha Chi Omega deactivated and vacated the sorority house located on 39th and Spruce streets after being subject to 22 sanctions from the University. Alpha Chi Omega could not participate in formal recruitment because there are no current members. Representatives from the Alpha Chi Omega national chapter came to campus last fall and passed out flyers to recruit members in an effort to recolonize, but these representatives did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

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Alpha Chi Omega has made no tangible steps toward recolonizing since the vast majority of its members deactivated to join OAX last spring.

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Finding home in small majors Individualization is a key part of exploring interests JINAH KIM Staff Reporter

Though ten thousand undergraduates flood Penn’s campus, some students find a niche within their choice of major. “In a perfect world you want majors that are not so big that all students are semi-anonymous because you can’t get to know them that well, and you don’t want them so small that there’s not a sort of intellectual critical mass,” said Ralph Rosen, the undergraduate chair of the Classical Studies Department. The existence of smaller, niche majors — classical studies as independent rather than just a branch of history, comparative literature as distinct from English, etc. — allows students to craft an academic identity distinct from overarching classifiers like “history” or “anthropology.” Individualization seems to characterize many such small majors. “We are just about the most flexible major you could

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This idea ended up being far from what administrators deemed appropriate or desirable at the time, particularly because of the proposal to levy sanctions against speech. “The adm inistration has conveyed that Penn does not and will not sanction speech,” Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life Director Eddie Banks-Crosson said in an interview for an October article regarding the previously proposed board.

possibly imagine,” said Justin McDaniel, undergraduate chair of the Religious Studies Department. The major has no set courses. Rather, students meet with McDaniel to discuss their interests and set out an individualized plan of study. Both classical studies and religious studies require 12 credits for the major, the minimum for any major in the College of Arts and Sciences. This reduced requirement seems meant not only to encourage students toward the major but also to encourage interdisciplinary study. Both Rosen and McDaniel, as well as comparative literature Undergraduate Director Rita Barnard, said that many students in their programs choose to double major. While some students major in similar fields — a religious studies major might choose to double major in Near Eastern languages and civilizations and study Judaism, or a comparative literature major might double major in French or Russian literature — other students take very different tracks, double majoring in fields as disparate as classics and biochemistry.

“This is not the major you bring home to Mom and Dad,” McDaniel said . “Like, ‘Mom, I’m going to Penn to study religion!’ It’s usually economics, or history, or political science — these big, well-known majors.” But many Wharton or Engineering students, or students with more business or scienceoriented majors in the College, choose to double major in smaller humanities departments — using the chance to study an intellectual history they’ve always loved. Sheila Shankar, a College senior and double major in gender, sexuality and women’s studies and the biological basis of behavior, said that the GSWS major gave her a way to explore her interests in social justice and the humanities in addition to her scientific interests. She also spoke warmly about the close-knit community the program provided. “We have a lot of personalized, individual attention from faculty members, and you get to know your classmates really well — there’s definitely a sense of community and belonging,” Shankar said.

When contacted on Monday, Banks-Crosson was not immediately available for comment. The newly proposed organization would play a very different role on campus as a mediator. “It will still meet to address incidents of religious, cultural, racial, gender, sexuality, citizenship discrimination within the Greek community. However, this time around we’re bringing both parties together to talk to each other face to face about how these incidents have affected them and how to actually move forward in the

process,” said Clark, who formerly was co-chair of UMOJA, an umbrella organization for African and Africana student groups, in an interview on Monday. The change in purpose was reflected in the council changing its name from the Greek Judicial Board to the Greek Community Consortium. “We wanted to move away from the punitive nature of the original concept and focus on creating something that would encourage unity across campus,” Clark said. When asked about the new

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iteration of the proposal, the Division of the Vice Provost for University Life said in a statement, “The Consortium is a student-conceived mediation group still in the early stages of formation. As in all mediations, all parties would have to opt in and work together to address any issues of concern. The Consortium will need the support of Greek council leadership and members to achieve its goals.” Members of IFC, MGC and the Panhellenic Council have offered assistance in creating the consortium, but no organization has officially signed on

to sit on the board prior to the training, Clark and Rubin said. Prior to becoming official, the consortium will have to be voted on by the UA. While University administrators have been providing “technical assistance” in creating the consortium, it is set up to be student-run and therefore not overseen by Penn. “The Consortium will have no official role in Greek life and no authority to impose sanctions,” the statement from VPUL said. Clark believes the opportunity for mediation can produce

change on campus. “The consortium will be effective in the long run because we’re breaking down that wall of seclusion and producing a forum in which we all can grow from dialogue together, while respecting each other’s rights to free speech. At the end of the day, Penn is full of diverse perspectives, and the only way we can learn from each other is if we actually make the effort to engage. The Greek Student Community Consortium is a big step in moving towards that goal.”

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Get to know the new Lambda Alliance board

Board members lay out plans for the new year CHLOE CHENG Staff Reporter

Lambda Alliance, the umbrella organization for LGBTQ constituent groups on campus, held board elections in November. The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with the new board members to see what their visions are for the upcoming year. Name: Ian Jeong Position: Chair of Lambda Alliance School and Year: Nursing junior Daily Pennsylvanian: Can you describe your position? Ian Jeong: I schedule and call all [of Lambda’s] GBMs. I represent Lambda and our constituent groups in meetings with the Vice Provost, Office of the President, student government and the press. I sit on University committees and councils. I also work to maintain communication between Lambda and the LGBT Center, and Lambda and 5B [an umbrella coalition of minority groups]. DP: What do you want to work on this year? Jeong: Our GBMs feel almost too matter-of-fact; we only do executive board updates and constituent group updates. We’re thinking of ways to make it more engaging and fun. We’re also going to take another look at the constitution. There are a few parts that we are not entirely sure are relevant. Cody [Smith, vice-chair of political affairs] and I want to take another look at that sexual assault survey [AAU Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct] and see how Lambda can help. There are several things we want to work on as a 5B collaboration. One thing is faculty diversity. [It’s] a little different from the LGBT side because there are only a few student groups that are already working on it. DP: What is your guilty pleasure? Jeong: My favorite nut mix is

from Kirkland. I think my guilty pleasure would be … nuts. Name: Cody Smith Position: Vice-Chair of Political Affairs School and Year: College junior DP: Can you describe your position? Cody Smith: Ian and I are in charge of meeting with the administration and pushing through initiatives with administration. Outside of campus, Ian and I are in contact with the Pennsylvania Youth Congress, which is an LGBT organization, to put on the Pennsylvania Youth Action Conference sometime in the spring here on campus. DP: What do you want to work on this year? Smith: Increasing LGBTQspecific resources [within] Student Health Services — making sure there are healthcare providers who are sensitive to queer people and taking care of their specific health needs, making sure that healthcare providers do not assume that people are heterosexual or cisgender because that can be really uncomfortable. Increasing CAPS resources for LGBT individuals is also really important. DP: What is your guilty pleasure? Smith: Sugar and melodramatic television — it’s the best combination in the world. Name: Sean Collins Position: Vice-Chair of Internal Affairs School and Year: College sophomore DP: Can you describe your position? Sean Collins: [I’m] in charge of ensuring the health of the constituent groups. Other than that, it’s ensuring the health of individuals who don’t fall into a constituent group and making sure that they’re included in Lambda’s goals because they wouldn’t have an official voice otherwise. DP: What do you want to work on this year? Collins: We just want to make

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This spring semester ushered in a new board for the Penn Lambda Alliance. From left to right: College junior Cody Smith, College sophomore Kathryn DeWitt, College sophomore Kai Kornegay, College sophomore Sean Collins, Nursing junior Ian Jeong, and College freshman Julia Pan.

the bureaucracy of the group — of all the groups — work better than what we’re currently at. We’re trying to restructure the GBMs for attendance. The thought is that we will add some type of additional program to the GBM so that it’s more applicable to people who aren’t in our community and to give people who are in our community another incentive. DP: What is your guilty pleasure? Collins: I will just sit in bed and watch YouTube for hours. I’m particularly a Connor Franta and Troye Sivan fan, which is very stereotypical of me. Name: Julia Pan Position: Vice-Chair of Outreach Programs School and Year: College freshman DP: Can you describe your position? Julia Pan: I am responsible for maintaining and strengthening a queer presence in the lives of

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incoming freshmen — whether that be through Quaker Days or NSO — and I work closely with the Admissions Office to ensure that the needs of queer students are represented. DP: What do you want to work on this year? Pan: Because there are so many niche groups under Lambda, people sometimes self-segregate in the queer community. We want to have a more united front and a time where the entire community comes together. I want to be able to be the point-person so when students come on campus, they’ll have a noticeable face, and they’ll know all the resources available to them. I feel like if you’re not in the community, you don’t know it exists and what’s available. DP: What is your guilty pleasure? Pan: Ally McBeal Name: Kai Kornegay Position: Vice-Chair of Finance and Development School and Year: College

sophomore DP: Can you describe your position? Kai Kornegay: As vice-chair of finance, I sit on different funding groups and I’ll be able to vote and really push for Lambda constituent events to be funded. I also assist the finance chairs of the individual constituent groups and make sure that they know about the processes for applying for funding. DP: What do you want to work on this year? Kornegay: Primarily this year, I really want to push constituent groups to apply for funding because Lambda constituent groups don’t generally apply for outside funding as much as other 5B constituent groups do. DP: What is your guilty pleasure? Kornegay: Watching marriage proposal and baby announcement videos on YouTube. Name: Kathryn DeWitt Position: Vice-Chair of

Communications School and Year: College sophomore DP: Can you describe your position? Kathryn DeWitt: I oversee Lambda’s aesthetic presence on campus, create the newsletter, take minutes and work on publicity. DP: What do you want to work on this year? DeWitt: I’m really excited to serve as communications chair. I hope to use technology to improve the way Lambda functions and communicates with its constituent groups. One initiative I’m hoping to work on is a community calendar where groups can submit their events for both publicity and more public recognition. DP: What is your guilty pleasure? DeWitt: Binge-watching crime dramas on Netflix. These interviews have been edited for brevity and clarity.

OPINION Brave new worlds growing pains | The freedom of being in between

Tuesday, January 27, 2016 VOL. CXXXI, NO. 122 132nd Year of Publication COLIN HENDERSON President LAUREN FEINER Editor-in-Chief ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects BRIELLA MEGLIO Director of Internal Consulting ISABEL KIM Opinion Editor JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor DAN SPINELLI City News Editor CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor SUNNY CHEN Copy Editor

I remember my first night in the Quadrangle, lying on a hard and slightly stained mattress, surrounded by four intimidatingly blank walls and listening to the heartbeat of an unfamiliar city outside my window. I felt very small. It was as if I had literally been transported into another world, and in a way I had: One day I had been at home in the suburban town where I’d lived for 18 years and knew everyone, and the next day I had moved into a tiny room in a huge city across the country where I didn’t know anyone. I had always thought there would be a neat transition between my previous self and my college self, but it turns out identity is more complex than that. It was strange to feel my past life almost drop away as I entered this new phase of my life. I didn’t know how to define myself during my first couple of months at Penn because

everything that defined me was back in California. I felt disconnected from my college friends because they only knew the college me. How could they really know me without knowing what Mission Boulevard looked like late at night with the Niles hills silhouetted in the background? How could they know me without knowing the friends who I’d journeyed to Japan with or the friends I’d gone to school with since kindergarten? How could they know me if they hadn’t met my family? How could they know me, or I them, if we didn’t know one another’s formative experiences? Having now been a college student for a year and a half, I still spend a lot of time trying to reconcile this feeling of double identity. College me versus home me. College friends versus home friends. Activities in Philadelphia versus activities in Fre-

mont. And this sensation of double identity and double worlds sometimes leaves me feeling uprooted, like I’m drifting along in the wind, lacking any stable foothold. Who am I, and where do I belong? As college students, we exist in a unique state of limbo. We bounce back and forth between home and school, but most of us won’t be

acquainting ourselves with the vibrancies of different cities and easing ourselves into the rhythm of other worlds populated with other people. As we attempt to bridge the gap between who we were and who we’re becoming, we must come to terms with the fact that there is only one constant in the many-variabled equation of our lives, and

. .. there is only one constant in the many-variabled equation of our lives, and that is ourselves.” living at either of those places in a couple of years. We’ll be forging new lives for ourselves, working in unforeseen places,

that is our selves. We are the only people that we are with day in and day out. We are the only people who we’re going to have

for our whole lives. We are the only ones who know all of our experiences, all of our feelings, who can replay all of our memories, who have been with ourselves in all of the places that we’ve been and know all the people we know. We are our own common denominator — the only common denominator. There is a certain poignancy that is felt in realizing this, in watching our identities become more individual and more distinct from the factors that originally shaped them. And college is the time when this autonomy becomes most apparent. It is a four-year period that is sandwiched between an 18-year period of living with family and post-college life, which generally involves an eventual settling down with a job, life partner and family. College is the transient space between those two worlds,

EMILY HOEVEN but it is also a world unto itself. It is the time in our lives when we are the most free to not belong — to not completely belong to anything or anyone or any place, but to ourselves and the blossoming independence of our identities.

EMILY HOEVEN is a College sophomore from Fremont, Calif., studying English. Her email address is ehoeven@ sas.upenn.edu. “Growing Pains” appears every other Tuesday.

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Earlier this week, Kenny Jones — a former administrator in the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life — was found to have misrepresented his academic credentials on multiple occasions. In past blog posts, presentations and other job-related documents, Jones had claimed to have earned a Ph.D. from Morgan State University this past March and spoke of his time as a member of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity at Jackson State University. This information about Jones’ background was revealed to be inaccurate after Onward State, an independent blog at Pennsylvania State University, printed a retraction of an article about a speech that Jones had given at

the school’s main campus earlier this month. In the retraction, Onward State indicated that Jones himself had contacted the publication, asking the writers to remove mentions of his doctoral degree and his affiliation with Phi Beta Sigma. Eventually, Jones admitted that he had not been awarded a Ph.D. Sources from Phi Beta Sigma also dispute the timeline of Jones’ membership in the organization. As The Daily Pennsylvanian reported on Jan. 21, Jones had been taking measures to remove references to his doctorate on his Twitter page, Facebook account and in his email signature. Penn had also begun removing mentions of his doctorate from

the OFSL page and other pages. Just days after these as-

a follow-up post, Onward State wrote that Jones had been fired from his posi-

The fact that Jones was able to seriously misrepresent his academic background for months suggests that Penn may not be as aware of its employees’ backgrounds as it should be.” pects of Jones’ background were called into question, the Division of the Vice Provost for University Life released a statement confirming that he was no longer an employee at Penn. In

tion. We commend the University for taking swift action in terminating Jones’ employment. In misleading both his colleagues and the students he served, Jones

committed a serious offense, one that should not be taken lightly. Penn’s response to this situation shows that the University will not tolerate such deceit and upholds the values outlined in its Code of Academic Integrity. Still, this incident has raised other questions. When did the University become aware of Jones’ fabrications? Did administrators know about Jones’ false credentials prior to the Onward State blog post? If University officials did not learn of Jones’ misrepresentations before the news broke several days ago, we would question the efficacy and thoroughness of the University’s vetting process. The fact that Jones was able to

seriously misrepresent his academic background for months suggests that Penn may not be as aware of its employees’ backgrounds as it should be. And if Penn had known about the error but had not acknowledged it until now, it brings the importance of transparency in acknowledging mistakes to the forefront. Jones’ departure from OFSL may show that Penn needs to be more vigilant in verifying its employees’ backgrounds and perhaps more transparent in acknowledging oversights.

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First VU body cameras. Jordan Hyatt, assistant professor in the Department of Criminology and Justice Studies at Drexel University, is conducting a study of SEPTA’s body camera program. His study will measure the program’s implications for public safety and finances by looking at various factors including crime rates before and after the body camera implementation and the amount of consumer complaints. To make sure the program is effective, Hyatt said people cannot just assume that the body camera is the answer. Proper research and data need to be collected so it can be implemented in other police departments. “This study could absolutely have greater implications for other police forces,” Hyatt said. “SEPTA Transit Police are a sworn police force and have similar responsibilities as any other police forces since SEPTA is spanned across five different districts.” The SEPTA Youth Advisory Council is very pleased with the company’s response to public debate on the issue. SEPTA Executive Chair and

Wharton and Engineering senior Jeff Kessler said implementing body cameras is an important step in creating police responsibility and transparency, two popular talking points for youth protests. “Body cameras add a degree of accountability that you don’t see anywhere else. SEPTA’s police force has always been on the forefront of cutting-edge technologies,” Kessler said. SEPTA Police Chief and Criminology graduate student Thomas Nestel believes the body cameras will make good cops even better and add more oversight for the rest of them. “What’s worthwhile for us is having another piece of evidence to present showing that we were either wrong or we were right,” Nestel said in a Philadelphia Magazine article earlier this month. “It’s not about defending the police. It’s about getting to the truth, and this is another tool to get to that truth.” One incident the new body cameras would have added greater clarity to was an altercation between a man and SEPTA policemen last summer. Ellis Smith, while traveling with his young daughter on the Market-Frankford Line, did not pay the $2.25 subway fare. SEPTA police

tried to engage with the man for about five minutes, asking him to get off the train. The conversation led to an officer grabbing Smith by the throat and shoving him against the rail car while holding his daughter. A cellphone video filmed by another passenger went viral after the incident. This body camera program will enhance SEPTA’s overall surveillance coverage on its transit system, which includes about 18,000 video cameras at bus, train and trolley stations. All videos will be archived for 90 days, and only police administrators can access the videos when they have been downloaded onto the server. Videos that show material that warrants investigation will be kept until the end of the investigation. “These technologies have played a big role in efforts to make SEPTA safer and to help our customers feel more secure while they’re riding,” Nestel said in a press release earlier this month. “It also serves as warning to those who might be thinking about misbehaving — if you commit a crime on SEPTA, we’re most likely going to have it on video, and we’re going to catch you.”

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Wed. forum to discuss race Campaign for Community targets micro-aggressions SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Deputy News Editor

The Faculty Senate and the Campaign for Community are co-sponsoring a forum to discuss race and micro-agressions in the classroom. Five students and three faculty members will engage in the discussion, titled “Race, Respect, and Classroom Culture” and moderated by economics and law professor Wendell Pritchett. The event will take place on Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Michael A. Fitts Auditorium of Penn Law School. “The faculty understood that there is a growing concern in the student body about microaggressions in the classroom — insensitive interactions about race, gender, religion, religious observance and sexual orientation,” law professor Claire Finkelstein said. The discussion will be a way for “the faculty [to] have an opportunity to learn from

students,” Finkelstein said. Finkelstein co-chairs the Campaign for Community, Penn’s initiative to discuss “key issues that may appear to be difficult or intractable,” according to its website. The Campaign for Community’s push to discuss race follows a series of student protests against structural racism on college campuses across the country, including at Penn. College sophomore Ramon Garcia Gomez and College senior Kwadwo Agyapong, two of the students who will participate in the panel, are both eager to hear from the faculty members. Garcia Gomez — chair of Penn’s Latino Coalition — said he plans to ask the faculty members how they handle situations in which students make offensive or controversial comments in class. Agyapong said he is more interested in how minority faculty members navigate within their own identities. He said he wants to ask “how

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Hunting for textbook bargains Students share tips to save money on required texts JENNA WANG Staff Reporter

When textbooks get expensive, money-savvy students turn to alternative ways to buy them. By buying used books or renting them, Engineering junior Daniel McCann said he manages to spend as little as $150 per semester. College sophomore Belinda Liu typically buys her textbooks from Amazon, a popular option for buying and renting books inexpensively. But she has a list of options she will go through if prices still prove too high. “If they’re exorbitantly expensive [to buy used], I rent them on Amazon. If they’re exorbitantly expensive as a rental, then I try to find a PDF online,” she said. Students can also find deals at the Penn Bookstore, which is a go-to place for students looking to buy textbooks quickly or conveniently. Wharton junior Grace Kirkpatrick said she buys books used or rents them from the Penn

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by simplifying their policy prescriptions into audiencefriendly phrases. Sound bites aren’t new to the political scene, but have recently adapted to modern social media in the form of tweets and GIFs. Jamieson noted that a Twitter feed, for example, eases the job of a reporter in following a candidate and therefore holds him more accountable. St. Joseph’s University history professor Randall Miller, who has studied local politics for decades, said the purpose of a sound bite is to grab people’s attention with something they are going to repeat.

Bookstore, or buys directly from peers using Penn Book Bazaar — where she once got online versions of two finance and accounting textbooks for $10. She also sometimes splits costs with friends in the same class, or pursues e-books when other methods fall through. But she still spends about $400-500 on books per semester. There are also groups in the University of Pennsylvania Facebook network such as “Textbook Exchange” and “Free and For Sale,” where students can buy and sell books and other materials. Nursing junior Diana Cardenas said she used to frequent the “Free and For Sale” group for textbooks in her freshman year, but now she needs to hold on to some of her textbooks for her nursing major. Buying used textbooks can easily cut costs in half when students are willing to compromise on annotations or dog-eared pages. Liu once bought two used math books for 90 percent off, at a total price tag of $10. If textbooks are rented, the savings pile up even higher. Cardenas said she once rented $80 textbooks for $20.

“A sound bite was almost made for Twitter even before there was Twitter,” Miller said. He added, “The idea is that you’re not going to be content with just one tweet, but the tweet is going to lead you to something [more].” 1968 Wharton graduate and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump thrives off sound bites and has almost disregarded the media entirely as a result. “He thinks he’s more powerful than the media itself,” Miller said. Trump’s social media presence enhances his persona in the public eye by eliminating any intermediary between his supporters and him. “He has a better sense of the

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Many students forgo trips to the bookstore to buy their textbooks, preferring instead to pursue other outlets.

Kirkpatrick and Liu spend time finding good deals at the beginning of the semester, but they don’t bother trying to resell the books when the class is over. Kirkpatrick said that it’s hard to get close to breaking even, so she just doesn’t bother selling. Liu doesn’t sell her textbooks out of preference, describing herself as “a hoarder” who keeps all her books even if she never opens

them again. However, some students do resell. McCann usually sells his books back to the Penn Bookstore. After College sophomore Ritwik Bhatia is done with his textbooks, he gives them to his father to sell on Amazon. Cardenas resells and said she’s actually gone into the black before, turning around a 20 percent profit per book.

public consciousness, or how most people respond to television or radio, or even now social media, than most of the other candidates,” Miller added. GIFs are the newest sound bite to the political scene, “an instrument of the current conditions,” as Zelizer described them. She noted that it would be troublesome if these condensed forms of news agents were the only ones accessible, but they are just part of a grander universe of accessible information. “The news began as a kind of enterprise for the elites, so it’s always been about broadening access,” she said. “It’s always been about how to get more people into the conversation.” Skeptics still say that GIFs

remove substance and clarity from political debates, emphasizing small bits of entertainment. Zelizer said the problem was overstated. “You can’t really k now what’s going on behind Donald Trump’s weird-face-making on a GIF unless you know about the debate that preceded it,” she said. “It is necessary to put these in the context of personal knowledge in order to understand.” GIFs may be the vehicle to get people interested in the news. “If GIFs are bringing the campaign to your social media platforms, then it kind of stands to reason that that would also generate more political interest,” she said.

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It may only be January, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already time for championship basketball. In the midst of a seven-game winning streak, Penn womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball has an opportunity to clinch a share of its second Big 5 title in as many years, heading to rival Villanova tonight in a battle for local supremacy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re playing good basketball right now; weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re defending well, rebounding the ball as well as weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done all year and getting into a better flow in transition,â&#x20AC;? coach Mike McLaughlin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a good run and we still feel that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re improving, so hopefully itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll carry over.â&#x20AC;? Although the Big 5 doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have an official championship game, tonightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s showdown will fill the role as well as possible for a regular season affair. Currently, Penn (12-2,

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at making the postseason. You know what that system that is already in place sounds a like? By God, it sounds like a postseason tournament. On top of delegitimizing the Ancient Eightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regular season, a conference tournament also blatantly threatens the leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s potential success in the NCAA Tournament. Imagine if last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 9-19 Penn crew represented the Ivy League instead of a Harvard squad that almost knocked off North Carolina? The results could be disastrous. To be fair, a four-team tournament is more plausible, in that it eliminates the potential for a blatantly terrible team to win the title. But it is still a bad idea.

2-1 Big 5), Villanova (12-7, 2-1) and Saint Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the same teams that finished the 2014-15 Big 5 City Series in a three-way tie for first place â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all boast identical marks atop the group. Consequently, although neither of tonightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s competitors can clinch an outright Big 5 championship â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a La Salle (3-16, 0-3) upset over Saint Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (9-10, 2-1) on Jan. 30 would be necessary for the Hawks to lose their share of the title â&#x20AC;&#x201D; either the Quakers or Wildcats will secure their third city win, and an accompanying share of their second consecutive title, tonight. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We look at the Big 5 schedule a little differently than the Ivy League, but any time you have chance to be on the top of something, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something you strive for,â&#x20AC;? said McLaughlin, who led Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first-ever womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Big 5 champions a year ago. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The players understand that the Big 5 is important, and to be in contention two years in a row is pretty special for this school.â&#x20AC;? As if tonightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stage wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t big enough, the matchup may have some even greater intrigue based on the recent history between these two schools. McLaughlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s list of career accolades is quite impressive â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he owns a 2014 Ivy League Coach of the

Year award, a .771 career winning percentage, and, most impressively, the title of fastest coach in NCAA womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball history to reach 400 wins. But one thing he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to his name is a win over Villanova, as the Wildcats have bested his Quakers in each of their six matchups during his tenure at Penn. Most recently, Villanova trounced the Quakers, 70-44, in the Palestra last January, spoiling the Red and Blueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chances at their first-ever perfect Big 5 season and leaving a still-bitter taste in the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mouth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They came in the Palestra last year and had their way with us, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be great to get them,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The rivalries are here, some of our players know their players â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the same way as on the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side â&#x20AC;&#x201D; these Big 5 games are all very competitive and very important, since itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about city pride.â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin may have a prime opportunity to finally snap his skid, as Villanova enters tonight on a sour note following a 57-51 upset loss at the hands of Georgetown. Still, although the Wildcats have fallen to 61st in the Division I RPI â&#x20AC;&#x201D; four spots below the Quakers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a certain level of respect unquestionably remains for a program that has topped the Red and Blue in each of

the past 13 seasons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a team that gives you a lot of problems,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They control the tempo, they shoot the three really well, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very well coached. We have to utilize our strengths against their strengths, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to make shots to beat them.â&#x20AC;? Indeed, the differing strengths between the two foes will be noteworthy, as the contrasting styles of play will make things difficult for both squads. Led by returning starter Caroline Coyer and 5-foot-6 freshman guard Adrianna Hahn, the Wildcats have dominated from beyond the arc, ranking 19th in D-I with 8.2 three-pointers per game. But while the Wildcats may have the edge from downtown, few teams in the nation can boast a frontcourt as impressive as the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. 6-foot-3 stars Michelle Nwokedi and Sydney Stipanovich â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Ivy Leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading rebounders, at 11.1 and 9.6 per game, respectively â&#x20AC;&#x201D; anchor a defense ranked 10th in the country by allowing a measly 51.6 points per game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For us to be able to play a solid matchup zone against them would probably benefit us the most. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to get their threes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they pass the ball around very well, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a tough matchup for anyone,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin said.

In the Ivy League, there are four teams on whom the conferenceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s athletic directors can bank on from a basketball standpoint: Penn, Princeton, Harvard and Yale. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll throw in Columbia because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m feeling generous. So, with that in mind, what happens in two or three or five years when three of the four teams in the tournament are Brown, Dartmouth and Cornell? Sitting on their couch on a Saturday in mid-March, who tunes into Brown-Dartmouth? Not many people want to do that already in the Ancient Eightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s #14GameTournament, which is why those games are only streamed online on the Ivy League Digital Network. On top of that, the conference is banking on using a postseason tournament to recreate the excitement of last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one-game playoff, a

contest in which Harvard eked by Yale in a thriller at the Palestra. I was there. It was a superb game of basketball, and the venue was 85-90 percent full. But with Dartmouth, Brown and Cornell â&#x20AC;&#x201D; teams whose fans are the furthest away from the Palestra and do not historically have prominent basketball programs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in the mix, can the Ivy League realistically expect the same excitement? Can the athletic directors and university presidents really hope for television ratings worth the cost of potentially sacrificing a successful Harvard or Yale or Penn run in the NCAA Tournament? Undoubtedly, the Ancient Eight needs to do something to further stimulate national interest in its basketball programs while also increasing attendance, particularly

among students. But this is not the right way to generate that innovation. I would kill to see Penn make the NCAA Tournament this year. But I want to see the Red and Blue earn it. I want to see a team clinch an Ivy title and then leave the Palestra expecting them to actually compete for wins during March Madness. And the Ivy League should want that too. So, whenever that decision is made, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hope activity is not confused with perceived achievement.

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tour nament could bring that same excitement into a league desperately searching for more. I st rongly u rge t he presidents of Ivy League universities, who have the ultimate vote in determining whether a tournament comes into existence, to consider the potential to build excitement around their athletic programs. Penn has a long tradition of athletic excellence, and while it is a long way from the Final Four appearance of 1979, bringing

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basketball fans should expect a dogfight between these two evenly matched rivals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know whats at stake, but for us to be able to beat a good Villanova team, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to be really good ourselves,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be prepared, and hopefully weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have the opportunity to pull out a win.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have to start by playing inside out, because Syd and Michelle have been terrific on both ends of the floor, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s certainly our strength right now.â&#x20AC;? Ultimately, with a Penn team hungry for revenge, local bragging rights for the next year up in the air and the right to back-to-back Big 5 titles yet to be decided, Philadelphia

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Tonight, Penn women’s basketball can clinch a share of the Big 5 with a win at Villanova.

A look at how things stand in the Big 5 heading into the final run of games.

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TIME FOR A TOURNAMENT? 14 games are good enough

Crown a real champion

on’t mistake activity for achieve-

ment.” There are quite a few John Woodenisms that I have come across throughout my life, but few have spoken to me quite as loudly as that one. After all, it’s easy for people — especially in unfamiliar settings, circumstances requiring a different and difficult sort of activity — to mistake simply doing something for tangible success. The Ivy League currently finds itself in one of these predicaments, as the athletic directors and university presidents of the conference’s eight schools explore the possibility of adding a postseason basketball tournament to determine which team secures an NCAA Tournament berth each March. Unfortunately for them, doing so would be an errant decision, an unwise mistake of perceived activity in the hope of achievement. Why do we need an Ivy League tournament? I mean, really, why? Some might argue that, as the only conference in Division I basketball without a postseason tournament, the Ancient Eight lags behind every other group of teams in the country. Consequently, one could say that the Ivy League has struggled to compete for relevancy of late because it does not have a conference tournament aired and overlooked on ESPN2 each year at best. Since the end of Penn and Princeton’s perpetual dominance of the conference a decade ago, the Ivy League has been decidedly different. But is it actually struggling? Think about it: For every Davidson in 2008, there was also Cornell in 2010. For every Florida Gulf Coast in 2013, there was also Harvard in 2014. With that in mind, does the Ancient Eight really need to sacrifice wins or competitiveness from its best team in the NCAA Tournament — as embodied by the Crimson in recent years — for the potential infusion of cash and, maybe, slight television exposure from a potential conference tournament? Realistically, there are two options in play here for the Ivy League: A playoff with all eight teams either at the topranked squad’s venue or the hallowed halls of the Palestra; or, a tournament featuring the conference’s four best teams, again likely to take place on Penn’s campus. If the league’s university presidents did opt for the first option, there is absolutely no question that the programs’ regular season contests would be rendered irrelevant. Suddenly, those Penn-Princeton games on March 8 — the ones that have historically decided which team goes to the NCAA Tournament on both the men’s and women’s side — mean a hell of a lot less when the two could face off yet again a week later in a conference tournament. The Ivy League has branded its conference matchups throughout the year on social media as part of a ”#14GameTournament.” Because there’s nothing meaningful after the regular season for seven of the league’s teams, every single game matters if you want to play in the postseason. But with an eight-team tournament, guess what: The Ancient Eight loses all incentive to play back-to-back games every weekend or to promote them as anything important. The downside to that, of course, is that what makes the Ivy League special is those weekends. Anyone can beat anyone, and an untimely loss can seriously derail any program’s shot

or me, it’s a no - b r a i n e r. HOLDEN The Iv y McGINNIS League needs a con ference tou r n a ment for basketball. When you look at Ivy Athletics as a whole, there’s something left to be desired for those students who are fans of collegiate athletics. While an Ivy team will always make the NCAA Tournament, there isn’t anywhere close to the same excitement because, most years, that team gets decimated in the first round. There’s one simple way to build that excitement — and it’s a tournament to end the season. If you’re a fan of Ivy Athletics or happened to be on campus at the tail end of spring break last year, you might have witnessed the one-game playoff between the men’s teams from Harvard and Yale for the Ivy League title. As someone who has witnessed his fair share of basketball games at the Palestra, the excitement was palpable, even from the television broadcast. Imagine that excitement, but for three games. The opportunities for storylines and intrigue between teams that have been historic rivals for over a century would be endless. And most of all, it would engage the fans. It’s tough to expect students to make it out to a home basketball game every weekend and Penn Athletics clearly knows that very well. While there have been dozens of promotional attempts, nothing has succeeded in quite the same way that winner-takeall basketball at the Palestra would. Now, you might argue that this sort of model invalidates the regular season — a 14-game slog filled with upsets and tension — but I think it augments the system perfectly. Look at every major sports league and then imagine them without playoffs. The Panthers may have been crowned champions a few weeks ago, and they may become actual Super Bowl Champions in two weeks’ time, but without watching them plow their way through other playoff teams, would we feel safe calling them champions? The regular season still would hold significant importance, after all you still need to be among the best teams in the conference to make the tournament and seeding could be very important. The other side to consider is the Ivy League’s commitment to academics, which is why it doesn’t allow its football conference champion to play in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs. In basketball, we already see the Ivy League take time off around finals in the winter, but extending the season for another weekend to allow for a tournament wouldn’t have any significant adverse effects on the students, the way a football tournament might. In her tenure at Penn, Athletic Director Grace Calhoun has mentioned countless times the need to combat student apathy. We’ve seen how riled up campus can get about the NCAA Tournament — you quickly learn how many students have allegiances to other NCAA programs — and an Ivy League

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Talk to almost any Penn administrator and they’ll tell you an Ivy League basketball tournament is ... inevitably going to be discussed. Despite reports in December that the Ivy League was on the verge of announcing a postseason tournament to crown a conference champion, the actual pace of action seems to be a good deal slower. Although Dean of Admissions Eric Furda tweeted his support for an Ancient Eight tournament prior to the Penn-Princeton games on Jan. 9, other administrators have been loath to take a stand either way. “Like my Ivy League president peers, I want to wait until we actually have a chance to discuss it

among the presidents,” Penn president Amy Gutmann said in early January. “But I do expect that we will discuss it in the not-too-distant future among the Ivy League presidents and come to a decision.” Athletic Director Grace Calhoun offered in an early January interview that talks of a tournament are progressing farther than they ever have previously but declined to say where she falls in the debate. In part, Calhoun’s reluctance is attributable to her not having the final say in this discussion. The conference is headed by the Council of Ivy Presidents, meaning that this decision would have to be made jointly by the university presidents, not the athletic directors. “It will be a presidential decision — if they even decide to consider that,” Calhoun said. “I have no insights as to that right now. So I think it’s something that has merits, but no sense of where it

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will end up on that.” Despite being unwilling to commit to either side, both Calhoun and Gutmann indicated that the opposition at Penn may be a minority. “My sense is that there’s — and this is just my sense, and it could change — but my sense is that there is broad support here for it,” Gutmann noted. “I have spoken to Grace Calhoun about it and so I know that there is strong support here at Penn for it.” The Ivy League has resisted implementing a postseason tournament — making it the only Division I conference that awards its automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament to the regular season champion — opting instead to promote what it calls the 14-Game Tournament, where each team plays the other seven Ivies twice in a season. “I think there’s sentiment administratively and amongst the coaches that we always have to

balance honoring tradition and we never want to do anything because the rest of the country does it,” Calhoun said. “We stand for some pretty lofty ideals and we’re OK to march to our own drum. But yet, at the same time, I think that there’s a feeling that we also don’t want to keep doing things because we’ve always done them.” While such a structure has tended to pick out a single team that rises to the top, there have been instances where a one-game playoff was needed to break a tie at the top. This was the case last March, as Harvard and Yale faced off at the Palestra for the chance to extend their seasons. It was the atmosphere around that game that sparked the reinvigoration of discussions around a tournament into 2016. An added consideration for postseason play is the Ivy League’s lack of an NIT bid. While conferences with tournaments all get

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an NIT bid for the runner-up, the second-place team in the Ancient Eight is not guaranteed a spot. This factor has become more salient as both men’s and women’s basketball has become more competitive across the Ivy League — including a record-setting 72 non-conference wins for the women’s teams through this point in the season. The ability for non-champion squads to compete at a high level has helped make the case that a guaranteed bid to another postseason tournament would be a boon to the conference’s national profile. It remains unclear how an Ivy tournament would be implemented — if it were to be implemented at all. At this juncture, conversations revolve around what the presidents would propose and when it would be brought for consideration. “I think there’s sentiment administratively and amongst the

coaches that we always have to balance honoring tradition and we never want to do anything because the rest of the country does it,” Calhoun said, noting that a number of factors are at play in the decision. “So the thought if you introduce a tournament, does it keep more teams relevant for a longer amount of time? Does it make the regular season more relevant rather than less relevant? Does it give us a chance to promote our Ivy ideals and really show off what we think is the best model college athletics at a time when there’s a lot of attention around basketball?” No matter what, the conversation around an Ivy tournament will continue for the foreseeable future, especially if the university presidents continue to defer on a decision. But for now, this weekend we still get to turn our attention to the real portion of the season: The 14game Tournament.