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Muslim students speak out

Terrorist attacks sparked resurgence of Islamophobia ESTHER YOON Deputy News Editor

In the weeks since the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris that killed at least 130 people, some of the Republican Party presidential candidates have lashed out

against Islam, making life especially uncomfortable for Americans who happen to be Muslim. In the heat of this political drama, with Republican candidates like Trump warning that Muslims pose a threat in the United States, what is it really like to live as a Penn student of Muslim faith in today’s contentious climate? For College sophomore Saadia

Akram, Islamic Education Co-Chair of the Penn Muslim Student Association, the toughest part of being a Muslim at Penn is simply not having enough people who understand Islam or the basic tenets of what Muslims truly believe. “While Penn is a diverse community, I still think people are simply just not educated about Muslims and Islam,”

Akram said. “This lack of education can seem rather alienating as a Muslim student.” On Dec. 7, GOP presidential candidate and 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” SEE ISLAM PAGE 3

FREE SPEECH CONTESTED Open Expression Panel tackled race, safe spaces CHERRY ZHI Staff Reporter

The terms “safe space” and “trigger warning” are familiar to college students across the nation. In light of recent events on college

campuses like the University of Missouri and Yale University, several student groups at Penn organized an open panel to discuss the different — and often conflicting — aspects of open expression. The event, titled “Laws Without Morals Are Vain: Open Expression,” references Penn’s motto and questions the validity

of free speech inside and outside the classroom. As part of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Commemorative Symposium on Social Change, the event recognized Penn’s commitment to being an environment conducive to open discourse and debate. Panelists at the event also discussed whether steps need to be taken to ensure

that minority voices and interests are also heard and protected. Panelists included University of Pennsylvania Law School professors Anita Allen — who is also the vice provost for faculty — and Stephanos Bibas. Students on the panel included College senior Gina Dukes, co-founder of Students Organizing for Unity

Penn-bound conservative columnist threatened

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Jump in CAPS funding reflects U.’s focus on mental health Funding has increased by 24 percent over the past 4 years

Central High student penned editorial criticizing racial justice protest

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When Central High School student Michael Moroz sat down before winter break to write an editorial for his school paper, The Centralizer, he only expected the article to reach a couple hundred views. He never foresaw that he would soon be receiving death threats for his work. Moroz, who will be attending Penn this fall, penned an argument against the protests for racial justice at the University of Missouri. The article was published next to an article supporting the protests. Both pieces were titled “Racism in Missouri.” “There’s a pattern in college campuses of protest movements forming,” Moroz said. “They’re calling for things like racial standards for professors getting hired, and diversity classes. I think those kind of infantilize the student body, so that prompted me to write the article.” In his piece, Moroz described Michael Brown as “at worst, justifiably killed, and at best, a thug.” He went on to refer to the demands of students protesting at Mizzou as “nonsensical.” After the article was published, it drew immediate reactions. Within a few days, the article became the second most viewed in the history

and Liberation; Wharton junior Colin Henderson, president of The Daily Pennsylvanian; and College and Wharton junior Jennifer Knesbach, president of the Penn College Republicans and co-chair of the Penn Political Coalition. “‘Safe space’ is an elastic term

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CAPS has seen steady increases in funding from the university with most of the funding going toward additional personnel.

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Over the past four fiscal years, funding for Counseling and Psychological Services has seen a 24 percent leap, an increase that reflects Penn’s increased focus on mental wellness. Between fiscal years 2014 and 2016, the University increased CAPS funding by around $860,000. During this period, funding was increased more for CAPS than for

...the premed track is misaligned with what practicing medicine actually requires.”

almost any other area of the budget for student activities or services, said Vice President for Budget and Management Analysis Bonnie Gibson. “Almost every year, there have been requests for additional funding for CAPS, and almost every year, those requests have been granted,” Gibson said. The University determines funding for services like CAPS through an annual budgeting process. The school takes the budget from the previous fiscal year and typically SEE CAPS PAGE 6

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Phila. tries to protect homeless from the cold Mayor stops short of forcibly removing the homeless JAMIE BRENSILBER Staff Reporter

It’s a cold January morning. The snow if falling, so you clutch your jacket close to your body and walk quickly to your dorm. As you open the door to the building, you feel the heat start to warm you and breathe a sigh of relief to have made it back home. However, there are many families who do not have a warm home for the cold winter months. As we rush to get inside from the cold, many families end up sleeping outside in Philadelphia in the snow and the below-freezing temperatures. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order on January 3rd to direct the homeless to shelters in the freezing weather. He authorized police and state agencies to forcibly move the homeless who did not find shelter on their own. The executive order cited a “threat to the life, health, and safety of the State’s citizens… including the risk of hypothermia and potentially death” as a reason

for the action. Governor Cuomo referred to existing state law that permitted “involuntary placement, to protect individuals from harming themselves or others”. After protests from Mayor Bill de Blasio and Long Island county executives, Newsday, a local Long Island newspaper, reported that the governor appeared to “backtrack” on the part of the order that forcibly removes the non-mentally ill off the streets. The mayor and county executives had promised only to forcibly remove the mentally ill and offer shelter to the mentally competent. Meanwhile, Philadelphia employs a Code Blue system. When the city declares a Code blue, shelters must provide 24-hour outreach coverage, and an emergency housing network must provide access to vacant beds. Outreach teams and the police can then implement Court Ordered Transportation to Shelter. But this Court Ordered Transportation to Shelter requires an outreach team to contact the City Solicitor’s office and to obtain a judge’s approval for the specific case. Code Blue does not permit the forced removal of the

homeless off of the streets in cold weather. According to the city of Philadelphia’s website, the city calls a Code Blue when temperatures fall below 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius) with precipitation or when there is a wind chill temperature of 20 degrees Fahrenheit (-6.67 degrees Celsius). Lauren Hitt, a spokeswoman for Mayor Kenney, noted that the city called a Code Blue last Friday due to the temperatures and impending snowstorm. Pursuant to the Code Blue, people who saw a homeless individual on the street were “advised to call project Home at 215-232-1984,” Hitt said. Project Home’s website proclaims their mission is to “empower adults, children, and families to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty, to alleviate the underlying causes of poverty, and to enable all of us to attain our fullest potential as individuals and as members of the broader society.” W hile both cities a re making efforts to provide shelter to the homeless during the cold, they have not been able to forcibly remove the

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Philadelphia’s Code Blue system aims to increase the city’s capacity to shelter the homeless. New York forcibly removes the mentally ill from its streets in the cold.

mentally competent homeless off the streets. According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, cities violate an

individual’s Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches and seizures when conducting such sweeps.

Philadelphia residents are encouraged to call project Home if they see a homeless individual out in the cold at 215-232-1984.

Another one: Kayvon reflects on a year in the music industry

Wharton sophomore has a clothing line, music video ELIZABETH WINSTON Staff Reporter

While his classmates are worrying about On-Campus Recruiting and fulfilling core requirements, Wharton sophomore Kayvon Asemani has been rising quickly in the world of hip-hop and rap music. One year ago, Asemani was just getting his name out at Penn. Since then, he has performed at Spring Fling, co-founded a clothing line, released songs and videos and created a network of other collaborators.

“What’s changed now is people know the story, they got to know me as a person,” Asemani said in an interview this month in Van Pelt Library. “Now the focus has been a lot more on the music.” Asemani, who walked into Van Pelt wearing a sweatshirt with a picture of his face on it, said that as his focus has shifted he has grown as a musician. Originally, Asemani just wanted to release a high school mixtape and tell the story behind the music. Today, he is focusing on creating the best sound he can and working with other Penn students to promote his brand: KayvonMusic. “I didn’t have the background

in mixing and mastering the way the people on my team now have,” Asemani said. “Back then it was a lot about the story and the passion.” He believes that now people can enjoy the music for the sound, and not just the lyrics and ideas behind it. His music will be available on Spotify soon, something Asemani said will draw people to the brand. He then uses that customer base to sell merchandise and tickets to shows. This winter, Kayvon released a clothing brand with friend and fellow artist, College junior Adam Reid. “I love [Kayvon’s] work ethic

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and how he thinks,” Reid said. “We work well together.” Reid designed the original shirts that were sold last year to promote Kayvon’s music. The new clothing line is being endorsed by KayvonMusic but is its own brand, Hirosol. Hirosol’s name is derived from the title of an Egyptian god and the sun. The brand is meant to represent that everyone is worthy of royalty. The design, created by Reid, is a crown next to an “x”. The crown represents royalty, while the “x” represents the common man. Currently, the only clothing item available is a beanie, which can be purchased for $17. Reid and Asemani have plans to release

more clothes in the near future. Reid hinted at a potential tanktop shirt or hat in time for Spring Fling. Asemani wants the brand to be versatile and indicated that he hopes to create a workout line, potentially with the help of ThreeTripletsFitness, a fitness brand run by College sophomores Khalil, Ahmad and Malik Jones. Asemani prominently featured his team in his videos and songs. In the music video for his song, “Breakout,” he included many of his Wharton classmates. Asemani’s next move is to expand his brand to other schools in the Philadelphia area such as Drexel University and Temple University. From there he hopes to

continue to expand and see how far he can take the brand. “You got to keep your options open,” he said. “You got to apply things you learn in certain groups and certain atmospheres and apply them elsewhere.” Like other Wharton entrepreneurs, Asemani has worked to find his niche outside of the traditional business realms of consulting and finance. “When you try to be unique, a lot of times people try to put you in a box,” Asemani said, “I don’t want to be in a box.” View Kayvon’s latest music video for his song “Breakthrough (Yeah, Alright)” [featuring Nakuu] here.

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Delta Theta Christmas card controversy at Penn, in which the fraternity brothers posed with a dark-skinned blow-up doll. “The picture felt like a threat to my identity as a black woman on campus,” Dukes said, citing the University’s Open Expression Guidelines, which specifies that conduct that causes injury to persons or property or threatens to cause such injury is impermissible. “As faculty and students, we should not tolerate this. Once that [free] speech turns into hate, actions need to be taken to make sure that it isn’t allowed on campus.” Professor Allen supported Dukes’ view by challenging the traditional notion that a great university is one where unfettered speech prevails. Rather, it should be one where intellectuals flourish and reason dominates. Allen shared her experiences

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that means different things to different people,” Bibas said. “The movement toward microaggressions and safe spaces is concerning to me. It’s an impulse to protect people from hurtful speech but instead it hyper-sensitizes them [...] We should be censuring, not censoring.” Bibas condemned a case in which students concerned about causing distress to rape victims asked their Harvard law professors to not teach rape law and to refrain from using the word “violate,” in the context of “that violates the law.” College senior and co-founder of SOUL Gina Dukes, however, argued that freedom of expression can sometimes lead to hateful speech and actions. She spoke about the 2014 Phi

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“Our country cannot be the victims of horrendous acts by people that believe only in Jihad and have no sense of reason or respect for human life,” he said. Despite the lack of any evidence, Trump also has held firm to his contention that New Jersey Muslims cheered the World Trade Center’s destruction on Sept. 11, 2001. The Council on American–Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group, said in a Nov. 24 statement that since the Paris attacks it had received more reports about “acts of Islamophobic discrimination, intimidation, threats, and violence targeting American Muslims (or those perceived to be Muslim) and Islamic institutions” than during any other similar time period since the Sept. 11 attacks. “It seems kind of pessimistic because I don’t think it’s going to get better anytime soon,” Akram said. “Every time an attack happens I feel like we have to apologize for something we didn’t do and we should be afforded the same innocence as other groups because it’s not the entire Muslim community that committed a crime.” Akram also mentioned that while she has never experienced direct discrimination as a Penn student, she believes that more of an effort could be made by both the Penn and Muslim communities to dispel stereotypes about Islam. However, she stated that many religious groups on campus have shown solidarity with the Penn Muslim community in the midst of troubling times. She mentioned that several members of the Christian and Jewish communities have attended Friday prayers, where a mix of students and local scholars alternate in delivering the weekly khutbah, or public address. “President [Amy] Gutmann has

issued statements in support of the Penn Muslim community, which I am thankful for,” Akram added. “Discrimination against Muslims in our society is absolutely unacceptable,” Gutmann said in a Jan. 13 meeting with The Daily Pennsylvanian editorial board. “It is, I believe, a disgrace for our society to engage in discrimination on the basis of religion or race.” Kameelah Rashad, the campus minister to the Muslim community at Penn and founder of the Muslim Wellness Foundation, said that there has been heightened sensitivity to questions about Islam from both Muslim students and the administration throughout the year in relation to the January 2015 Charlie Hebdo shooting and recent Paris attacks. These events have created a situation where Muslims have been requested to either condemn terrorist attacks or provide an explanation that would make logical sense of extremists’ actions when “we are not any more well-equipped to explain the actions of either terrorists or ISIS,” she said. An issue is the extent to which Islam itself is a core factor in what is variously called “Islamic extremism” or “Islamic terrorism.” There are still those commentators in the political arena who blame the 1.6 billion practicing Muslims for the barbaric actions of a few outliers. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, American Muslims — and other Muslims around the world — have consistently said that the actions of terrorists who say their motives come from an interpretation of Islam are actually antithetical to the religion. “The majority of Muslims who have thought long and hard about this will say there is political and economical motivation cloaked in the language of religion and not in any way a reflection of our religion,” Rashad said.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2016 growing up in an era of institutionalized racism and said that even though she has been able to grow with society, she still has “a lot of scars and baggage.” “It’s still the case that freedom of speech means that you have to hear a lot of things you don’t want to,” Allen said. “But we can’t make it illegal to say things that are hurtful.” Instead, Allen proposed sanctions that are educational rather than punitive and supports Penn’s initiatives to address the issue through the “Campaign for Community” and discussion panels. She mentioned the recent proposal of a board that deals with cultural sensitivity in Greek life, but said this may not be exactly the answer. Apart from addressing open expression and its relation to racial, ethnic and other demographic minorities, panelists also talked about being minorities in thought.

College and Wharton junior Jennifer Knesbach shared her experiences serving as the president of the Penn College Republicans. “There are a lot of conservative students on campus but a lot of students don’t openly identify as Republican,” Knesbach said. She explained that although many students had privately told her that they were Republican, they denied the College Republicans shirts she offered them. “This says a lot about [the culture of] higher education in America,” she said. Despite the difficulty in establishing an objective criterion of open expression, Henderson applauded the coming together of “members in groups seemingly as disparate as SOUL and College Republicans” to discuss the issue. “That’s the amazing thing about Penn,” he said.

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Global terrorist events have impacted American perceptions of Muslims, often leading to discrimination.

Joseph Lowry, an associate professor in Penn’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, said that he strives to foster curiosity about Islamic law and the Muslim faith through his courses. “What I try to get across at least in my undergraduate teaching,” Lowry said, “is that the major textual parts of the Islamic tradition, like the Quran or the traditions from the prophet or writings about Islamic law, are interesting and rich and there’s nothing sinister about them. “I think mostly violent extremism is not caused by people’s theology, it’s caused by the material conditions in which they live,” Lowry said. “But those ideologies, whether religious or political, are often useful ways of expressing these kinds of violent extremism and [we] can’t necessarily take those expressions of violent extremism as typical of the whole tradition. Often they’re marginal and I think that’s the case for ISIS.” Despite the efforts of scholars to dispel stereotypes about Islam, Muslim students still face cases of aggression because of their religion, occasionally even in an academic

setting, Rashad said. “It happens,” Rashad said. “Experiencing overt discrimination, harassment or aggression, it happens, and especially if you’re visibly Muslim: women who wear hijabs or men who have more religious markers.” She explained that students are constantly asked to explain certain radical Islamic phenomena just because they are Muslim, which “takes away a level of individuality and also doesn’t acknowledge their own pain and challenges that many students may feel.” “What becomes more exhausting is when it’s more insidious, in the kind of subtle microaggressions: being stared at, feeling hyper-vigilant, wondering about safety,” she added. “That actually takes on a strong psychological toll.” While a spirit of solidarity on campus has taken form in the support of other religious organizations at Penn, it will be a continuing issue for Muslim students as to whether or not achieving tolerance on American campuses from their peers will simply be enough for them to practice their faith freely.

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OPINION The problem with pre-med CUP O’ JOE | A schedule filled with irrelevant subjects skipping the skills you actually need

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Right now on this campus, thousands of pre-med students shuffle to their massive biology lectures, their on-campus research positions, their clinical volunteering jobs, their health related extracurriculars or their activities unrelated to medicine but picked because medical schools prefer them. Ask any of them about it, and I expect they will all say the same thing: it sucks. But how much does it have to suck? The pre-med track is hard for good reason: Medicine is even harder. We should want our doctors to have good grades, clinical experience and stamina. All of these will be necessary and tested during their time in medical school, residency and beyond. However, the biggest problem with the pre-med track is that it doesn’t effectively prepare students for their future jobs as doctors. It leaves massive gaps, under-developing skills doctors absolutely need and forcing pre-meds to spend

time learning things they will never use again. Here is the list of hard requirements necessary to get into any medical school: two semesters of Math, two semesters of English, two semesters of Biology, two semesters of General Chemistry, two semesters of Organic Chemistry, two semesters of Physics, one semester of Biochemistry, a good GPA (maybe 3.4+ but usually higher), a reasonably high MCAT score (510-ish? It’s hard to tell because the MCAT scoring scale just changed and some form of clinical exposure). On top of that, for a better shot at medical school: all the courses listed above and one semester of Psychology, one semester of Sociology, a higher GPA (3.6+), a higher MCAT score (515? Once again, hard to tell), a consistent trend of clinical volunteering, shadowing of doctors, research experience (bonus points for having it published and other activities), unrelated to health

care, that show you are a well-rounded and interesting person. For a decent shot, a premed student must take 15 courses, maintain a high GPA, take a seven hour long MCAT, volunteer in a clinical setting for roughly 200 hours over the course of their college career, shadow doctors another 50-ish hours, do some form of re-

hope of surviving medical school. But do you need to know much about plant biology to be a good doctor? Or spring constants? Or usubstitution for integrals? The new MCAT reflects the growing emphasis on the sciences doctors will actually use in their careers, phasing out less necessary subjects. For example, the amount of organic chemistry

... the pre-med track is misaligned with what practicing medicine actually requires.” search — the more the better — and then on top of all that, do something else to show they care about more than just medicine. It is undeniable that you need a solid foundation in the sciences if you want any

on it has been significantly cut back. That’s right folks, the two hardest semesters of your undergrad education are the smallest part of the MCAT. And Orgo will be completely useless right after. My mother, who has

been a practicing doctor for 35 years, never learned organic chemistry — she went to medical school in India with different requirements — and it hasn’t come up yet. However, essential things that future doctors absolutely need to learn, like effective teamwork and collaborative skills, communicating with patients in simple and easy to understand language, logical reasoning in diagnosis and basic skills like how to take blood pressure or use a syringe are not required. It is still extremely possible to have an amazing medical school application without any of these abilities. There is an argument to be made that these skills are taught during medical school. However, once you are in, that school is making a massive commitment to ensure that you become a doctor. They should at least find out if you have the fundamental nonquantifiable skills before giving you an extremely competitive spot.

JOE THARAKAN The fact that the premed track is misaligned with what practicing medicine actually requires is more frustrating than all of the drudgery, the weed out courses, the grade deflation and the thousands of textbook pages we are expected to learn throughout our premedical education. A good chunk of our suffering isn’t even relevant to what we want to do. JOE THARAKAN is a College junior from the Bronx, in the Biological Basis of Behavior program. His email address is jthara@sas.upenn.edu. “Cup o’ Joe” usually appears every other Saturday.

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Unless you read The Chronicle of Higher Education with the near-obsessive frequency that I do, you probably don’t know much about Mount St. Mary’s University or its president, Simon Newman. If you do read the Chronicle, however, you might know that President Newman has generated controversy in the higher-ed community in past weeks with his plan to encourage academically borderline freshmen to drop out prior to the tuition-refund deadline. He claims this plan is actually better for students who the university considers likely to struggle than encouraging them to muddle through. The proposal has been particularly controversial not only because it would encourage rather than seek to prevent student attrition, but also because of Newman’s apparent ulterior motive of improving the school’s “retention rate.” This stat, calculated as the number of students who drop out freshman year, is used by the government

and by college rankers as a metric for student satisfaction. Students who drop out before the tuition-refund deadline, however, are not counted in the calculation. Newman has explicitly stressed the importance of boosting the school’s retention rate in emails and, in a truly unfortunate choice of phraseology, compared his plan to euthanizing sick rabbits. I’m interested, however, in what happens if we examine what I see as the more fundamental question: Should colleges seek to identify students who are likely to drop out — or just be miserable — and encourage them to leave early? It seems indubitable that some number of students arrive at college unready to handle its myriad challenges, particularly at lessselective institutions. Maybe they lack some of the foundational academic skills needed to thrive in their chosen programs. Maybe they were pressured into college by over-eager parents and teachers and don’t want

to be there at all. Maybe they’re emotionally unprepared to live away from the support networks of family and home. In any case, isn’t it better for these students to be encouraged to consider dropping out early and avoid taking on debt instead of setting themselves up for years of misery-inducing academic turmoil? I think so. Certainly, no student

students’ money and let them fail out in time, but in my view, it’s both more honest and more compassionate for schools to encourage students to ask those tough questions early. One could, of course, make the case that a university’s obligation to its students’ success as students begins at the moment of enrollment. This is particularly

... should colleges seek to identify students who are likely to drop out?” should be forced or coerced out of school. In our collegeobsessed society, however, it wouldn’t be at all surprising if not-insignificant numbers of students enroll without ever seriously considering whether college, particularly a liberal arts program, is really what’s best for them at that point in their lives. It would be all too easy for a school to simply take those

true at a school like Penn, where an exacting admissions process theoretically screens for the unready. But even at Penn, it is possible, perhaps even likely, that circumstances as I have described might result in a handful of students arriving every year who are not ready for the academic rigor a school like Penn demands. Many students come from

elite private schools where the pressure to attend a prestigious university is intense, no matter what the individual’s actual desire is. More than one person I knew from high school gained admission to an elite school only to find it wasn’t what they wanted or needed at that point in their life. Some of them had to forfeit tuition because of it, or experience a mental health crisis before they were encouraged to seriously interrogate their choice to be there. The way I see it, universities should encourage their students to ask these questions sooner rather than later. Ideally, such encouragement would begin prior to admission, but with admissions offices nationwide so focused on boosting their applicant numbers, that seems unlikely. All the institutional incentives align to encourage unprepared high schoolers to apply, and inevitably some of them are admitted. A school’s most responsible option under these circumstances is to recog-

ALEC WARD nize this. A longer grace period for tuition refunds (the College’s current one is two weeks), an orientation or Freshman Fall programming frankly disclosing the University’s expectations, guided prompting of serious self-interrogation and promotion of the truth that there is no shame in putting off higher education are certainly warranted in the name of integrity, if nothing else. ALEC WARD is a College junior from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is alecward@sas. upenn.edu. Follow him on Twitter @TalkBackWard. “Fair Enough,” formerly “Talking Backward,” usually appears every other Wednesday.

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Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor appointed Aviv Nevo chosen to be the 17th PIK professor

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President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price announced on Monday the appointment of Aviv Nevo as the University’s 17th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor.

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of the site. With the heavy viewer traffic came many comments criticizing Moroz for his views, and even threatening him, his position at the paper and his acceptance to Penn. “There was a lot of discussion about the article and I’m fine with the discussion aspect of it,” Moroz said. “What bothered me was the intimidation in terms of me getting fired from my editorial position as Managing Editor.

PIK is a faculty recruitment program initiated by Gutmann in 2005. The program aims to hire individuals who work in the intersection of multiple fields, then appoints them to positions in multiple schools at Penn. Nevo will work in the Economics Depa r tment in the College of Arts and Sciences as well as the Ma rketing

Department in the Wharton School when his appointment becomes effective in July. He specializes in using empirical data to analyze consumer behavior and currently teaches at the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University. He worked for the government in 2013 and 2014, serving as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust

Division of the Department of Justice. Nevo’s previous teaching appointments have included MIT and University of CaliforniaBerkeley. “Aviv Nevo’s pioneer ing work embodies the ideals of the Penn Integrates Knowledge Professorship: bringing together the methodologies of multiple disciplines to create essential new knowledge at the

frontiers of academic research,” Price said in a statement. Michael Platt , the 16th PIK professor, was announced in June. Platt has appointments in the Department of Neuroscience in the Perelman School of Medicine, the Department of Psychology in the School of Arts and Sciences, and the Ma rket i ng Depa r t ment i n Wharton.

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People were trying to tweet at Penn to presumably try to hurt my acceptance. People were saying ‘my white privilege won’t stop me from getting shot’ and ‘someone shoot him.’ I’ve probably received over 150 of these kinds of comments.” After significant backlash, The Centralizer decided to take down the article from the school website, saying on its Facebook page: “If an article comes across as insensitive, and the Central community would rather have it taken down because of this, then

an article will be taken down.” Moroz was unhappy with this decision. “They posted a statement basically apologizing for the article,” Moroz said. “To be honest, that’s one of the worst answers I’ve ever heard in journalism.” Moroz said that the high school has now brought in an outside organization to help counsel students and staff about the article. “They’re training students and teachers about how to respond effectively to an article,” Moroz said. “On one hand it’s good that

they’re trying to do this. But the fact that they’re actually having to do this is kind of proving my point that there is an atmosphere at Central and on campuses in general of dissuading people from using their speech if their speech happens to disagree with the majority.” Moroz was accepted early

decision to Penn and will be joining the Huntsman Program in the fall. He says he plans to continue writing op-eds at Penn for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He expects the Penn community to be more open to his ideas than the community at Central High School. “I know there’s a long history of Penn being committed to free

speech. And I know people who have written for the DP who had views broadly comparable to mine who have not been censured or oppressed,” Moroz said. “Given that, I do have hope that Penn would, not necessarily agree with my article, that’s not what I’m concerned about, but they would welcome the difference in opinion.”

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sets a 2 percent increase in funding. If units feel that they need more money, they can submit a request for additional funding. The majority of the money CAPS receives is spent on salaries for new hires, according to Director Bill Alexander. “Starting [from the] 2014-15 academic year, CAPS began to increase the size of our staff to meet the need of the student body,” Alexander said. “Almost the entire budget is salary. When we spend money, we spend it on people.” From 2014 to 2015, CAPS used half a million dollars to hire five staff members — a psychology post-doctorate holder, a psychologist, a social worker, an Advanced Practice Psychiatric

THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN | THEDP.COM Nurse and a case manager. In early 2016, they are looking to hire a Coordinator of Prevention Programs. Since 2006, CAPS has more than doubled in size. Non-urgent appointment wait times, which were an average of 13.2 days during the 2012-13 school year, have dropped to an average of 2-3 days during 2014-15. The percentage of students using CAPS has increased by about 2 percent in the past two years and 5 percent in the past nine years. “Right now, CAPS is seeing about 20 percent of the undergraduate population and about 10 percent of the graduate population,” Alexander said. “It averages somewhere around 14.5-15 percent.” While the 2017 fiscal year report has not yet been released,

Gibson called a future decrease in CAPS funding “absolutely impossible.” “I can’t imagine a decrease,” she said. “At the bare minimum, they would assume a 2 percent increase.” However, Alexander said he doesn’t foresee a significant increase in CAPS funding in the future, because CAPS has caught up with the projected “saturation point” of student use in the past year. “When we benchmark ourselves against comparable schools, we see that they are serving similar percentages of students,” he said. “We finally got up to that mark. I doubt that we’re going to jump up to 25 or 26 percent of the undergraduate population, so we’re probably pretty stable. We’re in good shape.”

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Last night’s game mattered — and that’s what really matters ANNA DYER

Vince Lombardi once said, “Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.” But I have to disagree with the football legend on this one — at least in the context of Penn women’s basketball. On Tuesday night, the Red and Blue lost to Villanova, 66-46, in what undoubtedly was its worst performance of an otherwise stellar season. And with the loss, the Quakers also saw their hopes of a second

consecutive and second-ever Big 5 title slip away. Credit Villanova for its win. The team I saw tonight at the Pavilion would have been difficult to beat even if Penn played its best. Led by senior guard Caroline Coyer, the Wildcats shot 41.5 percent from behind the arc, notching 17 total threes to Penn’s four. To put things in perspective, ‘Nova scored 51 of its 66 points from treys whereas the Quakers only scored 46 in total. I know it is tempting to view this loss as failure — or at least a disappointment especially as the seven-game win streak was snapped. I know a loss is

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Reigning Big 5 Player of the Week Sydney Stipanovich reflects coach Mike McLaughlin’s success at making his team competitive in city play.

usually not cause for celebration. And to be sure, the Red and Blue should still analyze what went wrong before the heart of the Ivy season starts this weekend. But I view this game as a victory in the grand scheme of things for Penn Athletics and, more specifically, Penn women’s basketball. Even though the Quakers lost the game, the fact they were even competing for a Big 5 title is important. This game was not just written off as the culmination of yet another 0-4 Big 5 slate. The result of this contest actually counted. A Big 5 title was actually on the line. And that’s something I can’t say about the final Big 5 game in 32 out of the last 35 seasons. So what has allowed the Quakers — the perennial doormat of the Big 5 until 2010 — to suddenly become a competitive part of one of basketball’s most storied rivalries? The answer is simple: coach Mike McLaughlin. McLaughlin had an impressive coaching run at Holy Family before his time at Penn, racking up over 400 wins during his tenure and becoming the fastest coach in NCAA history to reach this milestone. When he came to Penn, he provided the spark the women’s basketball program needed, especially in Big 5 play. From 1992 to the beginning of the McLaughlin era, the Quakers had only won eight Big 5 games. Since McLaughlin took the reins in 2009, the team has won nine such contests, more

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Since taking over at the helm of Penn women’s basketball, Mike McLaughlin has made his team a perennial contender in the Big 5, which underscores why it’s important that yesterday’s game at Villanova mattered.

than double the Big 5 victories of any other coach in program history. Not only has he racked up victories, but he has brought in the hardware as well. In 2015, Penn won its first Big 5 title in program history as McLaughlin transformed the Quakers from the bottom-feeders of the quintet to serious contenders in just five short years. It’s no coincidence that McLaughlin ea r ned Big 5 Coach of the Year honors in 2014 and 2015, becoming the first Penn women’s coach to win the award even once. I often take it for granted that Penn women’s basketball is so good — that they even have the chance to compete for a Big 5 title every year like they do. So

despite the Tuesday’s loss at Villanova, let’s take a step back and appreciate what McLaughlin and his players have been able to accomplish in such a short time. While the Big 5 title may be out of reach this year after today’s loss, McLaughlin has set

a precedent that it is attainable next year and every year in the future. ANNA DYER is a College sophomore from Dallas, Texas, and is an associate sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. She can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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three-point arc. At first, it seemed that Penn was going to be able to go toe to toe offensively with their hosts, but the offensive well quickly dried up. Following the 24-point first quarter, the Quakers scored only 13 points in the next 20 minutes, just as their city rival was just getting going. The Red and Blue boast one of the best defenses inside the arc that the Ivy League has to offer â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Nwokedi and Stipanovich are top in the league in blocks and rebounds â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but the Wildcats showed that Penn can be felled by the trey. Granted, when any opponent shoots 17-for-41 from three, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be hard to win. Yet it was an anemic offensive

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players to feel like if thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something they want to do we will accommodate them in any way we can.â&#x20AC;? These players rarely run into much trouble in their collegiate matches, but what keeps them from making the jump to a full-time professional are the economics surrounding the sport. According to NCAA rules, players are allowed to play professionally concurrently with their college career as long as any winnings they earn are used to cover living expenses, training costs, and/or food. In many cases, athletes that travel to various tournaments often come up just short of covering

station, was one of the biggest draws for Seltzer when he applied to Penn. When the opportunity to work the courtside box finally came, Seltzer could hardly believe his luck, but he also refused to be phased by his new prominence. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They really hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t had a student do play-by-play for a while, and I had no idea how many

people or who was listening, but that was the farthest thing from my mind,â&#x20AC;? Seltzer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The biggest thing was just that when I got involved as a freshman at WXPN, never did I possibly imagine that I would end up doing play-by-play for the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball team. It was a totally unexpected but absolutely welcome development.â&#x20AC;? I n a n a r t icle i n T he

performance that defined Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s night. In the first half, only Stipanovich and Nwokedi found the basket multiple times for the Quakers, and although sophomore guard Anna Ross was effective moving the ball â&#x20AC;&#x201D; she piled up four assists in the opening frame â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three starting guards only shot 4-for-16 from the field. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we needed a guard to make a play off the dribble or to make a shot and take some pressure off [Michelle and Sydney] too,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen. I know Beth had a couple pull-ups that went in and out. Again, if we had just made a couple shots there, maybe we could have kept control, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not what happened.â&#x20AC;? Stipanovich ended the night with a team-high 18 points and seven rebounds as reigning Big 5

Player of the Week, and Nwokediâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 11 made her the only other member of the Red and Blue to score more than five. Even with Villanovaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strong end to the first half, though, it was still only a nine-point game at the midpoint. And for a brief moment, it looked like the Penn team that took Duke down to the wire had returned. Quickly, that moment was gone. A Nwokedi free throw and Stip basket opened the third quarter and made it just a six-point affair. Then the threes came; The Wildcats went on a 20-0 run with six threes in the frame and from that point, the game was no longer in question. In the end, there seemed to be little that could be done to stop the newly crowned Big 5 champions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was hoping a couple timeouts

the costs theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve incurred. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The reality is more often than not you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make what you spend,â&#x20AC;? Wyant said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most squash players in the world, especially those who play in college, struggle to make money.â&#x20AC;? High revenue sports such as baseball and basketball draw young talent away from college to pursue the sky-high salaries and lifestyles featured in the HBO series Ballers. College dropouts on the professional squash circuit are a rarity as the meager purses at the many PSA tournaments around the globe barely cover expenses for participants. In some extreme cases, athletes have had to resort to unorthodox methods to fund their endeavors. Former gold

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professional team, and not just a professional team but a professional team in the area that I grew up in and followed for most of my life.â&#x20AC;? At that point, the man who makes a living off talking was at a loss for words. But then, after a few seconds of reflection, the color commentator said all that needed to be said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m good with that.â&#x20AC;?

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Offensive struggles were decisive in Penn womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketballâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 66-46 loss to city rival Villanova on Tuesday, as the Quakers were held to just 22 points in the final three quarters of the game.

from a couple weeks ago would carry over,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin joked after the game.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was trying to break their momentum in some way possible, but they start making threes like that,

and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to play two for threes, and that never works out in your advantage.â&#x20AC;?

completing his first semester at Trinity, Talbott decided to drop out in order to fully commit himself to the game. Money was hard to come by at first, forcing Talbott to take a job as a lifeguard at the Detroit Athletic Club, but within just three years Talbott became one of the top players in the professional circuit. Even ascending to the apex of the sport doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t guarantee expensive sports cars and sprawling mansions. Former world no. 1 Nick Matthew only pulled in $110,000 in total earnings in 2011, less than a 20% of the minimum salary for an NBA player. Players from around the world have continued to flock to the states as the chance to earn a degree while pursuing their

own professional aspirations has been enticing. The meager earning potential may keep players in school for their four year terms, but players have continued to take on the challenge of making a living from playing squash. Coach Wyant and associate head coach Gilly Lane both juggled the college and professional competitions during their time at Princeton and Penn respectively. While the squash lifestyle may not have been as glamorous as more popular sports, the two coaches still encourage their players to pursue the opportunity if they are willing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be thrilled if we could bridge that gap in future years,â&#x20AC;? Wyant said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hopeful that more of those really talented

athletes that want to play professionally come here.â&#x20AC;? Some Quakers have garnered outside experience representing their national teams such as freshmen Reeham Salah and junior Anaka Alankamony. While the competition isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite akin to the PSA Tour, the experience brings a quasi-professional feel to the team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team has it and the men are getting there,â&#x20AC;? Wyant added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The standard is almost like a smaller tier professional tournament for our teams.â&#x20AC;? Fluctuating between the top levels of squash becomes a challenge that burdens even the best players. Money and wins aside, the players fall back on their passion to power through the struggles.

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Although Seltzer has immense g r at it ude for t he classmates, mentors and administrators who gave him the opportunities to find his voice at Penn, working for his boyhood team is a dream come true. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This may sound like a cliche, stock answer, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true,â&#x20AC;? Seltzer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Literally just the fact that I have an opportunity to be working for a

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Pennsylvania Gazette, Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director of athletic communications Michael Mahoney had many words of praise for the Penn Athletics staple. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He has become an essential part of the Penn sports scene,â&#x20AC;? Mahoney said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Each step Brian takes, more and more people are impressed with him.â&#x20AC;? Evidently, the Sixers were some of those people.

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A look at the sights and scenes of last night’s women’s basketball game at Villanova.

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W. HOOPS | Big 5 title

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NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor

If you’re going to beat Penn women’s basketball, you’re going to need to hit the treys. And that’s exactly what Villanova did. As the Wildcats rained down threes, the Quakers offered little in response as their Big 5 title hopes dissipated on Tuesday, falling 66-46 at the Pavilion. The game didn’t look like it would be ugly at the start. Forwards Sydney Stipanovich

and Michelle Nwokedi logged strong first quarters for the Red and Blue, accounting for the team’s first 15 points. But the Wildcats flashed signs of what the rest of the game had in store. “We had a great first quarter,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “I thought the score was getting a little too high for us. I know we scored 24 points, but they were scoring 5 or 6 threes in that first quarter.” Despite a 24-20 Penn lead through the opening frame, all but one of Villanova’s points came from beyond the SEE W. HOOPS PAGE 8

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Where it pays to be an amateur SQUASH | Pros

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In most college sports, you see scores of amateurs competing to be a part of a select few good enough to compete professionally after graduation. In the world of college squash however, the two worlds collide as amateurs could find themselves matched up with some of the best players in the world. The schools who have found themselves at the top of the rankings year after year have capitalized on this unique setup to bring the best and brightest to their campuses. Schools such as Harvard have recruited some of the best young squash players in the world that have excelled at both the college and professional level. For mer Ha r va rd players such as Amanda Sobhy — who carried a top-20 world ranking throughout her college career — and Ali Fa rag racked up a

plethora of victories for the Crimson throughout their careers while simultaneously heading off to compete in tournaments around the world. Pen n squash’s recent losses to Harvard in Cambr idge h igh l ighte d t he a dva nt age t hat hav i ng players of an elite caliber provides. Current players such as freshmen Sabrina Sobhy for the Crimson, currently ranked no. 63 in the world, were able to use their superior experience to pick up nearly automatic wins for their team. These powerhouses in Harvard and Trinity have used this success to bring in the highest pedigree of players, but they are quick to point out that they don’t see themselves as professional factories like Ohio State and Alabama, which routinely crank out NFL-level talent. “We never advertise ourselves as a place that will turn you into a pro,” Harvard assistant coach Luke Hammond said. “But we want SEE SQUASH PAGE 8

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Penn grad jumps to the pros, but keeps his talents in Philadelphia Penn Athletics’ voice working with 76ers ANDREW ZHENG Associate Sports Editor

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Brian Seltzer was the voice of Penn Athletics’ premier programs — men’s basketball and football — in the 2000s before moving to the Sixers in 2015.

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If the Penn football team beats Cornell at Franklin Field to win the Ivy League title and Brian Seltzer is not in the booth to provide commentary, did it really happen? Ever since 2008, the 2007 college graduate has been the voice of Penn football. In 2005, even before graduating, he became the voice of Penn men’s basketball. Through that time he has seen it all, covered it all and loved it all. But unfortunately, it looks like all good things must come to an end. For S e l t z e r, radio broadcasting and audio commentating have been lifelong passions, but now he has finally been given the opportunity to take his childhood obsession to the next level – NBA basketball. In October, the Cheltenham, Pa., native found a full time position working for

the Philadelphia 76ers as the team’s Digital Content Coordinator. As such, he was unable to commentate the football team’s last two games against Harvard and Cornell, without a doubt the Red and Blue’s most important matchups of the season. And with both the Sixers’ and the Quakers’ basketball seasons in full swing, the Palestra has seen less and less of the beloved homegrown radio personality. Seltzer predicts that he will be able to make it to only five or so home games for Penn, a far cry from the years he spent traveling with the team on distant road trips and to NCAA tournaments. Seltzer first picked up the microphone at the Palestra as a junior, when he was given a once in a lifetime opportunity to commentate alongside three-time Penn letterer and 1992 graduate Vince Curran. “I got probably undeservedly fortunate in that Penn and WXPN were both willing to let me do the games,” SEE SELTZER PAGE 8