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Sexual violence policy changes revealed Use of forensic experts, rights of accused outlined in Penn’s policy amendments SOPHIA WITTE Senior Reporter
Penn’s new amendments to its sexual violence policy released on Tuesday put more emphasis on
outlining the rights and procedures for students. The new procedures will take effect starting Feb. 1. The key amendment to the Disciplinary Charter is the creation of the Office of the Sexual Violence Investigative Officer, who will manage all complaints against a University student alleged to have violated the Sexual Violence Policy. Penn
announced yesterday that Christopher Mallios will serve as the University’s first Sexual Violence Investigative Officer. “Overall, the new policy focuses on balancing the rights of the complainant [the accuser] with the rights of the respondent to ensure that both parties are protected,” Mallios said. “Instead of just a campus hearing, the new
system is really a thoughtful, deliberative process that uses interviews and evidence to come to a fair resolution.” The new policy also emphasizes an increased coordination between Penn and the legal system, as University students have the option to file a report with the District Attorney or with the SEE SEXUAL VIOLENCE PAGE 2
ANATOMY OF A PENN SNOWSTORM A look at who is affected even before a snowflake hits the ground JACK CAHN Staff Reporter
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Flush-faced teenagers scramble for warmth in oversized coats covered with white snow. Freshmen leave their dorms at midnight to play, build snowmen and experience their first winter at Penn, with some participating in window-shattering snowball fights. Meanwhile, upperclassmen find themselves “cuffing,” or ditching this campus’ hookup culture for winter relationships in order to avoid being alone in the cold. It’s snowstorm season once again and that means some Penn students are rejoicing while others are realizing they need better coats. Students are thinking about their new classes, rushing fraternities and sororities,
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Penn comedy groups reflect on jokes following ‘Charlie Hebdo’ STEPHANIE BARRON Staff Reporter
The Jan. 7 attacks by Muslim extremists on the satirical Parisian magazine “Charlie Hebdo” triggered discourse around the world about free speech, comedy and their consequences. Two masked gunmen, later identified as belonging to al Qaeda’s Yemen branch, responded to the magazine’s release of an issue depicting the prophet Muhammad on the cover by breaking into the offices and shooting numerous staff members. In light of this event, members of Penn comedy groups shared their perspective and methods on striking a balance between comedy and contention. “There are certain ways you can talk about certain groups,” said Rosa Escandon, College senior and head writer for Bloomers — an all-female comedy group on campus. “I like to think that all jokes are okay as long as it’s making the joke about society rather than about the victim of society.” Bloomers members said that they make great efforts to avoid making fun of one particular group excessively in order to preserve the entertainment value of their show. Bloomers Director and College senior Olivia Route said that the group cannot rely on targeting specific groups in its jokes because “the more niche we get, the more of an audience we risk losing.” In terms of religion, though, the group admits that it is often difficult to preserve the comedic value of their material without offending someone. Escandon — a 34th Street Lowbrow
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Swapping spring semester for the spotlight Student pursues professional dancing career BOOKYUNG JO Staff Reporter
Wearing suits every day and flocking to Huntsman Hall for OCR information sessions are not the only ways Wharton students chase their dreams. Nick Silverio, a Wharton sophomore, is pursuing his dance career while taking a short break from Penn. Starting November 2014, Silverio toured 15 different cities — mainly in the Midwest and the West Coast — as part of the national tour of “Elf.” “Elf” is a Broadway musical based on the Will Ferrell movie with the same title, about an elf who finds out that he is actually a human and goes to New York to find his father. Silverio’s role was called “M6,” which included many different parts such as an elf, a security guard, a worker and a businessman. “A lot of people think I was
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Wharton sophomore Nick Silverio toured the country as a cast member in Broadway musical “Elf” last semester.
an elf for two hours, but I was an elf for about ten minutes,” he said. Although Silverio said he loves Penn and the Wharton
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School, in the second semester of his freshman year, he said he really felt like dancing — just dancing. In June 2014, Silverio was chosen for
the eleventh season of the reality show “So You Think You Can Dance.” The next thing he knew, he auditioned for Clear Talent Group, a talent agency
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Education plays part in mayoral race City’s public schools face $81 million budget deficit JONATHAN BAER Staff Reporter
Debate over school district funding and charter school expansion has dominated Philadelphia’s public discourse for years, so it is no surprise that the city’s public school system is becoming a decisive issue in the upcoming mayoral election. With the Democratic primary on May 19, the two front-runners, State Sen. Anthony Hardy Williams and former Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham, are working hard to claim the issue as their own. “Our city’s economy, education and quality of life are all falling behind,” wrote Abraham in a letter on her website entitled “Why I’m Running.” “A transformational leader listens to teachers and parents about how our schools can help students grow into productive workers in the new economy.” While Philadelphia’s economy has improved over the last few years, its school system hasn’t exactly followed. The Philadelphia School District ranks 441 out of 459 school districts in Pennsylvania, according to a ranking by SchoolDigger.com. In addition, the city’s public schools currently face an $81 million budget deficit. Furthermore, a recent Pew study released on Jan. 16 calculated that the Philadelphia school system spent $12,570 per pupil in 2013-14, which is less than many other major metropolitan cities, such as Boston, Cleveland, New York, Baltimore, Chicago and Detroit. “First you have to fund it before you can have a good shot at fixing it,” President of the Philadelphia Education Fund Darren Spielman said. “But at the same time, the funds alone aren’t going to fix it. It’s
just like showing up to a track meet without your spikes on.” However, the budgetary issues are both a local and statewide problem. “I’m hoping we have a mayor that takes a very serious look at what they think local share of the school budget will be the percent of education budget provided by the city versus the state,” Spielman added. In 2013-14, 46 percent of Philadelphia school district’s operational revenue came from the state. An increase in funding would at least in part need to come from the state, which currently sports a budget deficit of over $2 billion of its own. With these challenges, some have argued that charter school expansion could help in terms of cost and performance. While Williams’ campaign platform on his website expresses similar sentiments about improving traditional Philadelphia public schools, he has been an active advocate for an expansion of charter schools in the city. “Anthony is a nationally recognized advocate for public charter schools,” reads his campaign website. “He is the architect and sponsor of Pennsylvania’s landmark public charter school legislation, and a leading voice for charter school accountability in Philadelphia.” While some charter schools have shown promising results, it is unclear if they are the future of public education and the solution to Philadelphia’s public education woes. “I would be excited to see a candidate for mayor that neither blindly presumes that charterizing the city will solve the education problem, nor blindly parodying a unionbased critique of charter schools,” Spielman said. “There is no silver bullet solution.”
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US Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. The policy’s option to engage forensic or other legal experts will function as another opportunity for “making sure to avoid misconceptions and always follow[ing] the evidence where it leads,” Mallios said. While sexual misconduct cases used to be heard before disciplinary panels of undergraduate students, the new policy specifies that the panel members will be selected from a pool of faculty members, who have agreed to serve for at least one year and be trained as adjudicators in compliance with Title IX and other state or
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federal guidelines. “We decided on a faculty panel based on the Department of Education’s recommendation and also because we concluded that it was something best managed not by other students,” said Joann Mitchell, Penn’s Vice President for Institutional Affairs. The process to develop the amended procedures was one of collaboration both throughout campus and across the nation. In addition to getting insight from students, faculty and campus organizations involved with sexual violence, Penn hosted a “technical assistance workshop” — run by the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights — with colleges and universities throughout the
region. “We’ve had the benefit of reading policies and procedures of peer institutions and seeing the upsides and downsides of what other campuses are doing,” Mitchell said. The office of Penn President Amy Gutmann deferred comment to Mitchell. Beyond ensuring a fair management of sexual misconduct allegations, Mallios wants to encourage people to report by educating all members of campus about the new process. “We want people to have confidence in the fairness and safety of the system so that they feel comfortable coming to this office to file a report, to respond to a report or to serve as a witness,” Mallios said.
The release of the new policy follows the University’s other sexual violence prevention efforts, such as New Student Orientation sexual violence training and the hiring of Jessica Mertz to fill the newly created position of managing sexual violence prevention and education. Regarding Mallios, head of the new Office of Sexual Violence, people who worked with him have praised his experience. “In my work with Chris I’ve been very impressed by his nuanced understanding of the complex dynamics of sexual violence and campus culture,” said Litty Paxton, the Penn Women’s Center director. “He’s a great presenter and also a great listener.”
SCUE chair seeks student engagement Laura Sorice begins her term as SCUE Chair External ELLIE SCHROEDER Staff Reporter
On Saturday, College junior Laura Sorice began her term as the new Chair External of the Student Committee for Undergraduate Education. The Daily Pennsylvanian talked with her about SCUE’s plans for the upcoming year. This Q&A has been lightly edited for clarity. The Daily Pennsylvanian: SCUE published the 2015 White Paper last week just before your election as the new chair. How are you planning to follow up on goals this document addresses? Laura Sorice: I like to think about it in terms of not only what SCUE can do individually to create these changes, but
also in terms of the way that we can communicate this document to the University, so that the University becomes a large group of individuals who are all going to be working towards these changes. Specifically in SCUE right now, we are in the process of figuring out how best to do just that — to get the word out about the White Paper and make sure that as many people as possible are really aware of the research and the work we’ve done and to start a co`nversation about how we can best implement these goals together. DP: What projects are you most excited about? LS: I am pretty interested in exploring object-based learning, which is an initiative that the Provost’s office is heavily involved in. Basically, the idea is making sure that actual coursework done by Penn students is able to be connected to certain resources that Penn has.
For example, an Italian literature class utilizing the rare book collection in the library in order to supplement their experience with Italian literature over time — that is one course that I have taken in object based learning and it was a fantastic experience. DP: What challenges do you foresee SCUE facing this year? LS: One challenge that we are always concerned about is, “How do you make students care?” That is such a difficult problem and I think it’s something that almost every student group at Penn faces. All of us have things that are important to us and things that we want to push forward and initiatives that we want to advocate for. Answering the question of how to most effectively bring people together under those initiatives will always be a challenge. DP: Why did you decide to run for SCUE chair?
LS: As a Penn student I have always been really excited about the way that we run this University. I consider being able to attend Penn the greatest privilege of my life so far and being able to be actively involved in the way that we are educated and being able to think critically about the intellectual community we have at Penn is something that I love doing and something that I have spent a great deal of time working on as a SCUE member. DP: Looking back one year later on your term, what do you want to be able to say you accomplished? LS: One of the things I would really like to have accomplished a year from now after my term would be feeling like we have properly fostered the next generation of team members that is as equally excited, passionate and interested in this work as I am now.
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blowers, five gators with plows and spreaders, five trucks with plows and salt spreaders, one tractor with a broom, several smaller machines with brooms and many, many shovels ready for work. Last year, FRES cleared approximately 8.2 million pounds of snow across 1.3 million square feet of walkways. Due to the unanticipated light snow, the streets are cleared by 4:00 a.m. — well before Penn students and faculty wake up. By the time it’s over, this cleanup alone has cost the University at least $100,000. “There is a financial cost associated with [snow removal]. It’s overtime for our staff, so you can take the number of employees times the number of hours, times their hourly rate,” Executive Director of Operations and Maintenance at FRES Ken Ogawa said. “But there are a lot of other costs — salt and fuel costs associated with running the equipment. If the University has to shut down for that day, there is lost revenue.”
Preparing for the storm Sn ows t o r m p r e p a r a t io n begins long before students return from winter break. Starting in the fall, administrators watch the news, pay close attention to weather forecasts and order customized reports from weather services to help them anticipate weather conditions. When snowstorms hit, they are ready. “Housekeepers clean up to ten feet from building perimeters. Urban Parks, which is the grounds staff, take care of all the walkways and then Business Services, the transportation office, actually takes care of the roadways and the parking lots. Public roads are actually done by the city of Philadelphia,” Ogawa said. “We hand off responsibility of various areas to our neighbors — whether it’s the University of Pennsylvania Health System, CHOP, retail merchants, the city or Drexel.” However, the University’s first priority is to help students, he said.
“First, we focus on the residential and the dining facilities because people are living here, this is your home, and people need to be able to eat. That’s kind of critical before I get an office open,” Ogawa said. “After that, our focus is to make sure we have one ADA accessible entrance to every building. Then we go back and do the rest.” Health & Crime While FRES is ground zero for snowstorm responses, severe weather affects nearly every aspect of University life — from health levels on campus, to crime rates, to University finances, to the daily lives of Penn faculty, staff and students. The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania sees more patients during the winter, primarily due to the high incidence of the flu, Senior Vice President for Public Affairs at Penn Medicine Susan Phillips said. Slipping on ice and other weather-related incidents drive increased patient visits during the winter months. On a national level, empirical studies show that mortality rates are often higher during the winter months of December, January and February because patients are less likely to seek treatment for conditions in order to avoid the cold. On the bright side, crime rates typically fall during periods of severe weather both at Penn and nationally — criminals do not want to be stuck out in the cold either. During the 2013-14 academic year, crime rates reached a low at Penn in December and January. On a national level, the National Bureau of Justice confirms that both violent and property crime rates tend to bottom out in the winter. University Finances Sn ows t o r m s c a n h ave
But the expiration date of a joke can even be much shorter than a generation. Political correctness and what people find funny evolve faster than that. “The joke that killed five years ago is a joke about assault,” Escandon said, explaining that certain jokes no longer have a place in the group’s shows. Jokes that target certain groups might not get a laugh from those unfamiliar with the culture of the groups. Bloomers has a recurring
skit, for example, centered around the “Jewish humor” of a mother and daughter. “If you don’t understand the interactions between Jewish mothers and daughters, it’s not very funny,” Escandon said. “If we had a show that was entirely based around a religion, regardless of what the religion was, it would not be very entertaining,” Route said. Both Bloomers and the Mask and Wig Club members said their comedy lies within certain
boundaries. “We try to make fun of what we know rather than what we don’t know,” College senior and Mask and Wig Cast Director Joe Miciak said. “I think the great thing about comedy is that it’s a way to alert or reawaken someone to an idea that is really terrible or really wonderful,” Route said. “If we’re making a joke that’s offensive or inflammatory, we want it to be purposeful.”
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Students trekked to class through the snow on Monday, which was much less severe than expected.
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gearing up for Valentine’s Day, applying to summer internships and desperately hoping for a snow day. W hat’s not on students’ minds, however, is how to keep Penn running despite snowstorms. Behind the scenes, severe weather affects how Penn functions in every way. Snowstorm Management It’s Monday night. Weather forecasters a re predicting almost a foot of snow in Philadelphia. To prepare, Facilities and Real Estate Services has mobilized a team of 50 housekeepers and 50 Urban Parks staffers to work around the clock to salt streets, plow snow and repair facilities damaged by the severe weather. Twenty mechanics have been called in to address building issues related to cold weather, such as heating and plumbing. Before the sun even rises, FRES is getting its 25 snow
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editor — admits that she has even had small generational disputes with her mother after telling her that Bloomers had performed a skit called “Imperialists Anonymous.” “My mother heard the words ‘there was someone playing Hitler,’” Escandon said, laughing, “and she was like ‘Oh my God, Rosa, that is not okay.’”
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2015 staggering financial implications as well. Severe weather was the largest unexpected cost to the University during the 2013-14 academic year, according to the Annual Financial Report. “Expenses for the year were influenced by exceptionally high energy costs as a result of the severe winter weather,” Vice President for Finance and Treasurer Stephen Golding wrote in the report. “We are doing a lot to invest in the infrastructure. We went out into the debt market and issued Century Bonds,” Golding said in an interview. “We know that by modernizing our buildings, our heating systems and our energy systems we can actually get energy savings, particularly during winter months.” Hundreds of millions of dollars have already been invested in these sustainability programs in order to reduce energy costs, Golding said. “Another thing we’ve done from a financial perspective is something called hedging, which basically allows us to prepurchase energy in the future at set prices so that we can kind of allay some of the risk of price volatility in the future. That hedging last January saved us $4 million dollars,” Golding said. University Life Winter storms affect University life in small ways as well. Some faculty members have to pick their children up when Philadelphia closes its public schools. Others stay in
hotels near campus in order to avoid being late or absent from their lectures due to traffic and weather constraints. Allied Barton security and Penn Police, for their part, stay outdoors and keep students safe, despite weather conditions. Penn’s Dining staff rush to provide for the unanticipated influx of students who go to dining halls to avoid the cold, Catering Manager at Falk Dining Hall Marti Bates said. Meanwhile, much of Penn’s staff has to clear snow from their own homes while working full time and worrying about the possibility that their roofs might cave in, complained a staffer in one of Penn’s dining halls. While the University’s administrators work through the night from behind the scenes, Penn students get to rejoice and relax during snowstorms. Some take to Facebook and Twitter to procrastinate on work and pray for class cancelations or watch movies on Netflix. Others do more adventurous things, like ski off of the Benjamin Franklin statue in front of College Hall — as some students did last year — or build a web application to keep track of Penn snow day predictions as some did Monday night. “Being in college, I’m going to like the snow because I don’t have to shovel like I did at home,” College freshman Jazmine Smith said. Staff Reporter Jeffrey Careyva contributed reporting.
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OPINION That thinking feeling
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2015 VOL. CXXXI, NO. 6 131st Year of Publication
MATT MANTICA Executive Editor JILL CASTELLANO Managing Editor SHAWN KELLEY Opinion Editor LUKE CHEN Director of Online Projects LAUREN FEINER City News Editor KRISTEN GRABARZ Campus News Editor CLAIRE COHEN Assignments Editor STEVEN TYDINGS Social Media Director PAOLA RUANO Copy Editor RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor
TALKING BACKWARD | William Golding, criticism and the search for truth
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n 1961, William Golding, perhaps best known as the author of the novel “Lord of the Flies” published a short essay entitled “Thinking as a Hobby.” It’s a wonderful piece of writing which I’d recommend to anyone who hasn’t read it. I first encountered it in middle school — assigned, incidentally, by the same teacher whose frustrated interrogatory: “Must you always talk back, Ward?” inspired the name of this column — and it has had perhaps the greatest influence on my thinking of anything I’ve ever read. In the essay, Golding posits that there are three types, or “grades,” of thinking, which he sees embodied in three statuettes which stood in his prep-school headmaster’s office: a crouching leopard ready to pounce, a miniature Venus de Milo and a miniature of Rodin’s famous statue The Thinker. The leopard, following its natural impulse to hunt, represents “grade-three” thinking: unreflective and automatic, based on natural instincts
which are “full of unconscious prejudice, ignorance and hypocrisy.” The Venus de Milo, aware that her robe is falling off but lacking any arms with which to put it back on or stop its fall,
grade of thought which says, ‘What is truth?’ and sets out to find it.” Golding argues that we ought to strive to practice grade-one thought, and I agree with him.
an aspiration of mine as a writer, as a student and simply as a member of society. Therefore I’m generally uncomfortable with criticizing situations in which I can’t propose a better alternative,
Simply offering constructive criticism doesn’t make one a grade-one thinker, but the failure to propose solutions or better alternatives to the problems one notices and points out eliminates the possibility of achieving grade-one thought.” represents “grade-two” thinking: the detection of flaws and contradictions without the imagination or ability to propose solutions or improvements. “Grade-two thinking destroys without having the power to create,” says Golding. Finally, The Thinker, staring solemnly into the distance, represents “grade-one” thinking: deep and meaningful contemplation which strives not simply to discredit that which is wanting, but to discover that which is good. Grade-one thought is “a higher
However, he makes it clear that grade-one thinking is not a result which one achieves by simply meeting a set of criteria, but a process that one engages in and struggles with constantly. Simply offering constructive criticism doesn’t make one a grade-one thinker, but the failure to propose solutions or better alternatives to the problems one notices and points out eliminates the possibility of achieving grade-one thought. To be a grade-one thinker is
even if it isn’t a perfect one. For me, it is something of a personal moral maxim that it’s far better to criticize while simultaneously offering an imperfect solution or even just an imperfect better alternative, than to criticize and leave as is. It’s a maxim which, when I watch the news — real or fake — or read articles that pop up on my newsfeed, I often wish that more people shared. Grade-one thinking doesn’t commit the thinker permanently to the answers he finds or the po-
sitions he formulates. The gradeone thinker can, and arguably must, change his mind frequently as he continues the labor of seeking out the truth. What’s in his mind at any given moment is not an immutable doctrine or a dogma, set in stone, but a snapshot, a freeze-frame of a deliberative process which does not have a fixed or even a visible end. In fact, the “end” of grade-one thinking can’t be fixed or visible because grade-one thinking is inherently and inevitably quixotic. If a thinker were, at any moment, to fully accept the results of his own search for the truth, excluding the possibility that he may be wrong and thereby ceasing to search further, he would no longer be engaged in the search for truth and therefore no longer a grade-one thinker. The consequence of this is that the grade-one thinker is never able to dismiss another’s positions out-of-hand, never able to assume that a claim is wrong or a position untenable without giving it serious consideration.
ALEC WARD Especially as university students, and even just as people who hopefully aspire to be productive members of society, we all stand to benefit from obedience to the logical mandates of the attempt to be grade-one thinkers. Or at least, that’s what I think.
ALEC WARD is a College sophomore from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is alecward@ sas.upenn.edu. “Talking Backward” appears every Wednesday.
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ith the advent of internetbased dissemination of media, movements such as feminism have rapidly gained worldwide prominence and support. However, feminism has suffered from an identity crisis as some of its proponents offer a variety of explanations for it and attack those who do not define feminism in the same way that they do. The current message of the movement should be analyzed in the context of what it is called. Though the word “feminism” suggests a number of ideas and beliefs, the Oxford English Dictionary defines feminism as: “the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social and economic equality to men.” Based on this definition, feminism advocates solely for women. It suggests that simply being born male is a blanket privilege because men are ad-
vantaged compared to women in all respects. This causes women, who are then seen as disadvantaged, to fight for themselves. As British actress Emma
yet been established — which has greater consequence than simply preventing him from being able to cry. However, most feminists argue that they in fact
All the issues labeled as examples of gender inequality can be summarized as those that current society characterizes as feminine, and then views them in a negative light.” Watson, Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women, mentioned in her speech at the launch of the HeForShe campaign, what is currently widely known as feminism resembles little more than “man-hating,” which she insists “has to stop.” While it is generally accepted that current society is patriarchal, few among those who identify themselves as feminist acknowledge that, for example, the right for a male to show weakness and sensitivity has not
seek the equality of the sexes. If that is true, they should recognize the multiple instances in which men are not afforded the same privileges as women, or realize that they might not actually be feminists at all. Ms. Watson clarifies feminism as such. The HeForShe campaign implores men to join women rather than view themselves as the target of feminism and refers to the issue of women’s rights only as gender inequality. However it stops short
of promoting a name change altogether. The vast majority of feminists, it would seem, would benefit from calling themselves “equalists” or “egalitarianists” instead. It is also much more broadly appealing to a layperson to fight for the equality of the sexes as opposed to the raising of the status of just women, and equalists cannot be identified as male or female simply by the dictionary definition of the word. If a majority of feminists are actually equalists, then who are the “real” feminists? All the issues labeled as examples of gender inequality can be summarized as those that current society characterizes as feminine, and then views them in a negative light. Additionally, society also marginalizes women who do not heed certain “accepted” standards of femininity. Feminism, therefore, should promote the legitimization of not just “femininity,” but also the free-
dom of a woman to choose how “feminine” she wants to be. Some feminists are well aware of, and have addressed the idea of, transitioning to equalism given its all-encompassing meaning. Common counterarguments include that women need a space of their own to discuss issues including — but not limited to — the handling of sexual assault cases and the wage gap, and that the number and scope of such issues, in which women are disadvantaged as compared to men, are much larger than the reverse. However, a number of these issues are specific cases of gender inequality as applied to women. I perceive the strength of feminism to lie in the underlying assumption that men have no desire to contribute to the ending of gender inequality. Gender inequality can only be ended by universal participation of the genders. Equalism serves that goal by being nondiscriminatory in the sense that it brings
RAVI JAIN men into the conversation as well. By preventing “man-hating” we can provide motivation for men to observe the imbalance in how the opposing sexes and spectrum of genders is perceived.
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In the last two weeks of the year, most students were at home enjoying the holidays with their families. But College junior Tina Kartika stood in her Harrison apartment, waiting for hot water to finally reach her room so she could shower. Like just a few other undergraduates, Kartika chose to stay on campus instead of making the journey home to California. Originally, her plan was to use the break to study for the Medical College Admission Test at home, but she decided instead to stay at Penn to explore other parts of Philadelphia beyond campus. “My mom works all the time anyway, so even if I were to go back home, I wouldn’t have gotten to spend time with her,” she said. While Kartika typically celebrates Christmas and New Year’s, she said that she didn’t really observe them on campus. “I went out into the city and kind of explored places like Chinatown and Center City. It was really interesting to see the city in a different season and atmosphere,” she said. On campus, Kartika was one of the few people left in Harrison College House — a building usually populated with more than 1,000 students. Without people constantly using water, hot water
took several minutes to reach her room, she said. “I even called maintenance about it before I realized it was just because everyone was gone,” she added. Kartika was lucky that she was allowed to stay in her own apartment over break, but she said that the experience of living there was very different. “I didn’t really see people besides maybe sometimes in the elevator or swiping in. I didn’t receive any emails from Harrison about House events or anything like that either,” she said. “The guards were still there, but that was about it,” she added. The atmosphere on campus was different too. “I feel like when school isn’t actually in session, it’s a lot quieter and more peaceful. People aren’t rushing anywhere. A lot of times they’re just out walking,” she said. College and Wharton sophomore Philip Li had a similar experience to Kartika. Because his parents live in China, Li had never planned on going home. When plans to go on trips with his friends fell through, Li stayed in his Harrison apartment. While Li got to know some other students who were also on campus, for the most part, he said that campus was empty. “During the semester, you have to book a room in Huntsman if you want to go there. Over break, you could just walk in,” he said. Li and Kartika both have the fortune of living in a college house that remained open over
break, but other students weren’t so lucky. While Rodin, Harrison and Harnwell College Houses remained open to students for the duration of break, Kings Court English, Hill, Stouffer, Du Bois and Gregory College Houses and all houses in the Quadrangle closed on Dec. 20 and did not reopen until Jan. 10. In previous years, the University did not have any resources available to students living in those houses who wanted to stay over break. Yet for the second year, some students were allowed to move into unoccupied rooms for the duration of break — at no cost to them. “We worked with the Association of International Students to find students who didn’t have anywhere else to go. We even opened it up to some domestic students who wanted to be on campus for whatever reason,” said Building Administrator for Residential Services Paul Forchielli. This year, the program placed a total of 19 students into empty apartments in Sansom Place. These rooms were already empty, as they had housed international students who were only on campus for the fall semester, Director of Residential Services John Eckman said. “It was a really great opportunity for students who didn’t have anywhere else to go because it allowed them a place to stay without racking up thousands of dollars in hotel bills,” Eckman said.
Students who made use of the program did not have to pay for it. Since the apartments had just been vacated, students lived in the rooms before Residential Services brought a cleaning staff in to prepare it for the new semester. “This was a very bare-bones, take it as-is type of situation for these students. We had them move out a day or two early, and brought the cleaning staff in then,” Eckman said. “Because the University wasn’t accruing any extra cost by allowing students to stay there, we didn’t feel the need to charge them.” While the program allowed students a place to stay, other basic campus amenities remained closed. All the dining halls were closed until Jan. 13, and the mail and package rooms were closed to all college houses except for the high rises — even if a resident of one of those houses remained on campus. “We would hold the package for them until after break, but they would not have access to it,” Forchielli said. Even more limiting was the students the program was available to. “We only offer this program to students who were with us in the fall and will be with us in the spring,” Eckman said. “If you were studying abroad and need a place to stay in the transition, or if you live off campus – that is not the purpose of this program.” While Kartika and Li knew noth ing of th is progra m,
Wharton and Engineering junior Angela Qu, who did not return home to Shanghai over break, saw the program’s impact. While Qu did not participate in the program herself, as a year-long resident of Sansom Place, she lived amongst students the program housed. While Qu said she knew there were some freshmen living in Sansom Place for the break, she was not aware that it was part of a program organized by Residential Services. “My freshman year, I was kicked out of my dorm, so I stayed at one of my friend’s houses,” she said. Like Kartika and Li, though, Qu had a relatively similar experience on campus. “Literally nothing was open, and it was pretty [much] radio silence from the University itself,” she said. “I like to study in cafés, and usually it’s a struggle to find a spot, but there were always plenty of
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‘Elf’] had 10, 11 auditions, but I had a different audition experience,” Silverio said. He went to the audition at 10 a.m., and by 5 p.m. the same day, his talent agency booked him for the national tour. “It was really competitive. There were about 150 guys for two spots,” Silverio said. However, this is not his first time performing in a professional show. Silverio started dancing at the age of three and began performing in professional shows at nine including in productions of Beauty and the Beast and A Christmas Carol. Kelly Furukawa, a Wharton junior and the marketing director of Arts House Dance Company first met Silverio during Penn Preview days, and she said she thought, “Why is he even in a regular school?” “Business seemed like a good option because you can do whatever you want to do with the degree,” Silverio said. He thought of attending New York University’s Stern School of Business because it has an option to minor in dance, but he said the Arts House Dance Company was one of the reasons he eventually chose to come to Penn. “He intimidated everybody during auditions. He was so good,” Furukawa said. Both Furukawa and Allie Zamarin, a College junior and chair of Arts House Dance Company, said Silverio can adapt to any type of dance across different genres. “Nick is very strong at performing. He is a very theatrical dancer,” Furukawa said. “He
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has also learned how to use his body in various movements and make smarter choices as a dancer.” Zamarin added that Silverio is also incredibly effective at teaching other dancers — when he teaches the group his choreography, it takes as little as one day for them to learn it. “He is very efficient and can convey exactly what he wants,” she said. On top of his active involvement with the dance company, he did a really good job balancing his interests in Wharton and dance, said Paola Gamarra, Wharton sophomore and fellow Wharton Ambassador with Silverio. “He was always in love with Management 100 and eventually became a TA,” she said. Silverio is expected to start his TA position once he is back at Penn. Gamarra added that Silverio also showed a lot of interest in fashion and had worked at Urban Outfitters on campus. “It is pretty common to see students in Wharton combining two very different and separate passions,” Gamarra said. Silverio said that he is still not sure how to combine his two interests and is in preparation for both, possibly combining them with an individualized concentration. Before returning for his sophomore year in fall 2015, Silverio will stay in New York City, auditioning for other shows and attending dance conventions on weekends. “Now I go to an audition, and almost every time I know somebody,” he said. The venues he performed at include the Long Center for the Performing Arts in Austin, Texas, which has more than 2,000 seats, and the Curran
Theatre in San Francisco, Calif., which is doomed to close with “Elf” as its last show. “‘Elf’ is the largest scale performance I ever had,” he said. Silverio added that the entire cast and crew were incredible and that it was a “jaw-dropping experience.” Silverio said his experience of touring the nation helped him grow a lot.
“I thought I was a grown up when I came to college, but I was not,” he said. However, Silverio has not lost his love for Penn. During his time away from campus, he still choreographed for Arts House Dance Company and is even considering performing in its spring show. “Dance is my life,” he said.
available seats over break,” she added. All three students commented on the lack of programming or resources for students on campus. Other than having a place to stay and use of basic facilities like laundry rooms, students were left much to their own devices. While housing students over break is relatively uncommon for universities, the lack of communication or resources for students still on campus is not. The vast majority of schools across the country close down dining halls and residential halls, and only a few allow students to stay in University housing during winter break. “We didn’t really look at other schools,” Forchielli said. “This was really just about looking at our students and designing a program to fit our needs.”
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darn impressive, I’d have to pick senior co-captain Renee Busch. Busch didn’t start a single game during her sophomore or junior season, but she still brought the most intensity in practice of almost any player. Her work
HM: The implications of these matches are very different for the two programs. The women’s team lost a bit of momentum with a loss to Trinity, and wins over top-five Yale and Princeton would help it reassert itself as one of the very top teams in the nation. For the men’s team, upset wins over Ivy
ethic has led to her taking over a spot in the starting lineup while adding some clutch heroics in Penn’s Big 5 win over Temple earlier this month. 3. With three Ivy League matches on the horizon, what would wins this weekend mean for the momentum of both Penn squash teams?
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respective seasons. The women’s team is trying to hang on to its spot near the top of the CSA rankings, while the men’s squads needs some wins in the next five days to crack the top-eight of those very same rankings. It’s an exciting time for both programs, to say the least.
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Several teams came through with impressive personal achievements. Gymnastics took down Yale in a tight contest, posting its highest team score in over a year. Both swimming squads cruised past Delaware on their Senior Day. Other squads showcased their stellar individual talent. After deciding not to compete last year to focus on academics, senior grappler C.J. Cobb has impressed all season for the wrestling team. Meanwhile, junior thrower Sam Mattis continued his streak of individual excellence for track and field. And still other squads were simply flat-out dominant. Men’s tennis made quick work of the competition in the inaugural City 6 tournament, while both men’s and women’s fencing had very impressive showing at home over the weekend. Now honestly, when is the last time you heard somebody discussing the state of the fencing program on Locust Walk? Given, it’s a little bit easier to recognize the successes of the school’s smaller athletic programs over a weekend during which its bigger programs also took care of business. In this case, men’s hoops upset St. Joseph’s in front of a packed Palestra, while women’s hoops blew out
NJIT by 30. But the accomplishments of Penn’s under-recognized teams extend beyond only this past weekend. In fact, the vast majority of Penn’s most-accomplished individual performers — including runner Tom Awad, swimmers Rochelle Dong and Chris Swanson and grappler Lorenzo Thomas, to name a few — come from these programs. Additionally, some of the school’s most successful squads in recent years — such as women’s squash, which is currently No. 2 in the nation, and women’s lacrosse — are criminally under-recognized. As I have already noted, this is not a unique problem to Penn Athletics, and there may not be much that the athletic administration can do to fix it. But I will say this much. There are quite a few teams wearing the Red and Blue competing on a daily basis, and their successes clearly matter to them. It shows in the results. Maybe it’s about time that the rest of the Penn community starts taking their accomplishments to heart as well.
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seventh-ranked Chris Villalonga in overtime last weekend in Ithaca. Along with consistently solid performances by seniors Jeff Canfora (141 pounds) and Brad Wukie (174 pounds), the Red and Blue sure look like they deserve a place back in the national rankings. Now that Cobb has snuck into the top 10, the Quakers have two wrestlers who can boast such a ranking (No. 5 Thomas is the other). Penn wrestling is finally starting to grapple like they did at the beginning of the year when the Quakers opened the season with a national ranking. This is no doubt a result of Tirapelle finally possessing a healthy and deep roster. As the Quakers prepare for their upcoming Ivy slate they can’t afford to take their foot off the gas. If they play their cards right, there is no reason they shouldn’t be able to win their final five duals of the season. Ultimately, the Red and Blue will go as far as their stars can take them. A top-three finish at the EIWAs and two All-American wrestlers is surely not out of the question this season for this, finally, cohesive group.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2015
Two Penn men’s lacrosse players were selected in the MLL draft
Penn gymnastics picked up a big win over Yale, check out the photos inside
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Wrestling weighs in at No. 24 | Seniors lead Penn’s 2015 comeback
WRESTLING
BYTHOMAS MUNSON Associate Sports Editor
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Senior C.J. Cobb joins fellow senior Lorenzo Thomas as one of the nation’s top-10 wrestlers.
It’s not every week that a Penn Athletics squad can boast wins in three of its last four competitions. But after consecutive victories against Lock Haven and Army, a valiant loss to No. 6 Cornell and a convincing win at Binghamton, Penn wrestling is on a hot streak — and people are starting to pay attention. Led by the resurgence of senior 149-pounder C.J. Cobb, Penn is now tied for the No. 24 ranking by InterMat Wrestling. A big boost for the Quakers came from the consistent performances by their star talent. The trio of seniors — Cobb, Lorenzo Thomas and Canaan Bethea — along with sophomore Caleb Richardson are a combined 14-2 in their last four dual meets. Those two losses were Thomas’ overtime defeat to top-ranked Gabe Dean of Cornell and Bethea’s one point thriller to No. 14 Jace Bennett of Cornell. While all four wrestlers have performed well all year, this has been the first time that they have come together as a group. Cobb and Thomas each battled their share of nagging injuries in the fall and Bethea was forced to sit out for eligibility reasons. But now coach Alex Tirapelle’s Quakers have unleashed the full court press and look ready to take out anything in their sights. With over a week off until their next bout — a dual against Ivy rival Brown at the Palestra — the Red and Blue will have to focus to maintain their momentum. But that should be no problem for a squad with plenty of vocal leaders that are hungry for more victories, especially considering that many of them have had to miss significant time the last couple of seasons. Cobb, who many picked to be a cornerstone of the Quakers’ 2013-14 campaign before he sat out to focus on academics, hit full stride at the perfect time. The 149-pounder put a hurting on his opponents en route to bonus point victories in three of his last four matches. However, the highlight of his season, and perhaps the team’s season so far, was his victory over Cornell’s
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ootball and men’s basketball. Men’s basketball and football. Men’s basketball. Football. When it comes to college athletics, these are the two sports that always seem to dominate the conversation. These are the two
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sports that are inevitably brought up. Every single time. Over and over again. The other sports hardly seem to stand a chance when it comes to competing for large-scale recognition, even nationally popular sports like baseball and hockey. Of course, there are regional favorites. Southern states, such as Texas, have shown their fondness for college baseball, while several schools in the Northeast have devoted quite a few resources to their collegiate hockey programs.
But when it comes time for a school’s athletic program to be judged on a national stage, two questions take precedent: How good is its football team, and how good is its men’s basketball team? Penn is no exception. Although the school features over 30 different varsity teams, football and men’s basketball still seem to be the only sports universally recognized across campus.
And this is despite two relatively lean years for the two flagship sports. Sports like soccer and women’s basketball certainly get their
sports get recognized. I enjoy watching football and basketball as much as the next person, and I certainly understand their consumer appeal.
But where’s the love for the little guys? fair share of recognition, but the rest of Penn’s athletes are left to perform in front of extremely niche audiences. Don’t get me wrong; it is by no means a bad thing that flagship
But where’s the love for the little guys, the lesser-recognized programs? After all, they’re often the ones getting results for Penn SEE HENDERSON PAGE 6
THE BUZZ: 3 on 3
Examining Penn Athletics BY SPORTS EDITORS From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ 1. What should expectations be going into the opening weekend of Ivy League play for Penn men’s basketball? Sports Editor Holden McGinnis: It’s hard to figure out what to expect from the Quakers. One night they’re keeping things close late in the game with Villanova, and the next they’re losing to Monmouth. The win against St. Joseph’s was encouraging, but Harvard and Dartmouth are both intimidating foes for the Quakers. Sports Editor Laine Higgins: If history is the best indicator of what’s to come for Penn basketball this weekend, I expect Penn to split the weekend with a victory over
Dartmouth and a loss to Harvard. The Quakers are 8-2 in their past 10 games against the Big Green, but only 2-8 over the same stretch against the Crimson. Those records speak for themselves. Senior Staff Writer Steven Tydings: I second Holden’s idea that you never know what to expect from this Penn men’s hoops squad, but expectations need to be high right now. Add a win over rival St. Joseph’s to matchups with beatable Dartmouth and Harvard squads, and Penn has a chance to sweep at home. If Penn is going to take down the Crimson this season, now’s the time. 2. With Penn women’s basketball finished with its nonconference slate, which player has surprised you the most with her performance? HM: Senior co-captain Kathleen Roche has stepped up as the team’s
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primary outside scorer and raised her scoring average by 3.0 points per game in her final campaign. Roche — a leader on and off the court for the Quakers — has embraced the scoring void on the wing, and her shooting will be key to the team’s Ivy success. LH: I’ve been most surprised with senior forward Kara Bonenberger thus far this season. The starter has recorded the second-most minutes on the court this season and has been good for 8.3 points per game, third-highest for the Quakers. She has progressed leaps and bounds from when she first stepped on the court for Penn four years ago and is a definitive physical presence in the paint. ST: While Roche has been pretty SEE BUZZ PAGE 6 ONLINE AT THEDP.COM
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