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Committee searches for new provost

Provost Vincent Price will become president of Duke TOM NOWLAN News Editor

A committee has been formed to replace departing Penn Provost Vincent Price, the group’s chair announced Tuesday. J. Larry Jameson, the dean of the

Perelman School of Medicine, will head the group. On Dec. 2 the University announced that Price will be leaving Penn to become the president of Duke University next summer. The group will include 11 faculty members, four students, two “consultants,” one staff member and an ex officio participant. College senior Kat McKay, the president of the Undergraduate Assembly, will be among the

student representatives. “The Committee is consulting widely with members of the Penn community to ensure that we fully understand the scope of the Provost’s responsibilities and the opportunities and challenges he or she will face in the years ahead,” Jameson wrote in an email. “We are especially interested in hearing the perspectives of Penn’s students at this early stage in the search process.”

The provost serves, per Penn’s website, as the University’s chief academics officer — overseeing “teaching and learning across the university, including education, research, faculty affairs and student life.” Jameson, who also serves as executive vice president for the university’s health system, publicly solicited names SEE PROVOST PAGE 3

The march will be during Trump’s inauguration ISABELLA FERTEL Staff Reporter

The day after the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20, students and groups from all over Penn will fill the National Mall with thousands of other demonstrators at the Women’s March on Washington. Some of the Penn groups attending are We Are Watching, Penn Democrats, Hillel and the Muslim Student Association. The march, organized in response to the election of 1968 Wharton graduate and President-elect Donald Trump, aims to “join in diversity to show our presence in numbers too great to ignore” and to counter “rhetoric of the past election cycle.” Some students attending the march felt that Trump’s alumni status makes Penn representation at the march more significant. “As the institution involved in educating [Trump], there is a responsibility to have a Penn presence,” said Gavi Reiter, College senior and member of Penn’s V-Day College

Campaign, which puts on an annual production of “The Vagina Monologues.” The feminist art collective We Are Watching hopes to garner as much awareness and involvement as possible on campus, which they see as their “feminist duty,” co-founding member and College senior Rhea Singh said. She added that the group hopes to inhabit more of an activist role on campus. Due to the march’s high profile, We Are Watching has received an endorsement and support for the trip from the Penn Women’s Center, and is hoping to partner with Philadelphia organizations to further their mission of “continued activism” for women’s rights. Penn Democrats President and College sophomore Rachel Pomerantz said she feels that showing solidarity with women on campus and nationally is more important as the country approaches an “unpredictable

and scary time.” She added that public solidarity could have the potential to “morph into a sustainable opposition” to both the Trump administration and specific policies that might target both women and people of color. Singh said that the march will “be a voice for all the people whose personhood’s have been denied” and who she worried would be subjected to violence under Trump administration. We Are Watching co-founder and College junior Amanda Silberling felt the mission of the march was about demonstrating support for women’s rights rather than just opposition to Trump. “When I mentioned to people that I was going to the march, people asked about its unifying message because [it] can be unclear if you don’t know anything about it,” Silberling said. “It’s not necessarily an

anti-Trump march, but it’s supposed to be a reminder and symbol of the fact that so many people in this country aren’t going to stand for a government that treats women unfairly.” Silberling also spoke to the historic nature of the march and its ability to influence not only the Trump administration, but Congress as well. “There is great power in changing just a few people minds,” Silberling said. Reiter, Pomerantz, Singh and Silberling all mentioned the recently announced plan to defund Planned Parenthood, an official partner of the Women’s March on Washington, as an example of a policy that would negatively impact women. All four expressed optimism. Silberling said the march would SEE MARCH PAGE 6

Penn guards climate data in Trump’s America

Fresh Grocer is petitioning lease termination Penn plans to replace the Fresh Grocer with Acme Markets CARL-EMMANUEL FULGHIERI Staff Reporter

Initiative to make climate data available to the public

Fresh Grocer is fighting Penn’s termination of its lease and closure on March 31. Penn, which is Fresh Grocer’s landlord, claims that the store did not renew its lease on time and is arranging for a new operator, Acme Markets, to move in. According to the University, the decision to request proposals from new stores was made after Fresh Grocer did not renew its lease to operate Penn’s grocery store in November 2015. Karen Meleta, a spokesperson for ShopRite, which is the larger chain that Fresh Grocer is affiliated with, disagrees. “We do believe we notified them on time, but there is some discrepancy on what that period of time should have been and therein lies the difficulty,” Meleta said. Fresh Grocer, which has been operating at this location since 2001, disputes this claim and is reaching out to customers, students and locals to sign a petition to keep the store. “Over 2,100 people have signed the in-store petition, and we have received over 30 letters of support,” Meleta said. Students on campus are particularly concerned with the transition occurring in the middle of the semester. Fresh Grocer is open 24 hours a day and located within walking

OLIVIA SYLVESTER Staff Reporter

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Penn’s Program in the Environmental Humanities’ DataRefuge project aims to conserve environmental data recorded by the government.

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When the time came for for Penn’s Program in the Environmental Humanities to meet and decide what project it wanted devote its resources to in upcoming year, the decision was unanimous. After the election of 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump, its choice was easy: the DataRefuge project.

We think about lynchings, but we never think about the individuals who sold the rope.

DataRefuge is a national collaborative effort to download, save and reupload climate and environmental data. The project also aims to raise awareness of how social and political events affect the public availability of data. PPEH d i rector Bet ha ny Wiggin emphasized the “precarity of environmental data” as a result of the recent election. She cited how former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper SEE DATA PAGE 3

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Fraternity recruitment reportedly doubles Freshmen not deterred by OZ email controversy ESHA INDANI Staff Reporter

Despite the widespread student and administrative backlash to the OZ email controversy last semester, many freshmen intending to rush fraternities and sororities this spring say the incident has not impacted their decision to participate in greek life. Fraternity recruitment numbers have even doubled, according to the outgoing Interfraternity Council President.

At the start of the academic year, OZ, an off-campus organization, became the subject of campus-wide and national attention after the group sent an email to a listserv of freshmen girls. The email was addressed to “ladies” and included lines like “We’re looking for the fun ones / And say f**k off to a tease.” College freshman Alexander Gonzalez, who is considering rushing, said his decision was not influenced by the email scandal. “Yes, it was bad, but I know that most other frats are respectable and just because they did it doesn’t mean all the others are

the same as them,” Gonzalez said. Outgoing IFC president and Wharton senior David Moore expressed optimism about the process, noting that IFC has had at least twice as many students sign up for recruitment. “Whether the greater interest in rush is a direct result of the University’s stronger stance against off-campus groups or greater interest in rushing fraternities in general, I really can’t say,” he said. The administration sent an email to students, faculty and staff in November after the

outing of the OZ email that announced the creation of a task force to address the “negative influence of unaffiliated and unsupervised groups.” One Wharton freshman, who requested anonymity because she doesn’t want her comments to impact her recruitment process, was disturbed by the social attitudes suggested by the OZ email and what she saw as the University’s vague response. “I think what’s more disturbing though is how powerless the administration seems to be given their reaction to the incident, which is probably a testament

to how protected and privileged these organizations are,” the student said. Members of OZ have not responded to repeated requests for comment. Panhellenic Council Vice President of Recruitment and Nursing senior Taryn Pochon felt that greater administrative involvement in greek life would help address issues like the OZ email more effectively in the future. “Our team and the Interfraternity Council team would love to get on board with educating administration with how our system

works and what our system values,” she said. However, College sophomore Abby McGuckin suggested that a “bottom-up” approach would be more effective to prevent such incidents from recurring. McGuckin is a member of the off-campus group OAX and a founding member of We Are Watching, the feminist art collective that originally protested the email. “There is only so much the University can do.” McGuckin said. “There needs to be a cultural shift that alters the way men view women.”

Graduate School of Education lends a hand to Phila. schools GSE makes calendar correspond with Phila. schools’ NATALIE KAHN Staff Reporter

On Jan. 2, Graduate School of Education professor Kate Kinney

Grossman’s class resumed, as did all of the classes in Philadelphia’s public schools. This was not a coincidence: The Graduate School of Education creates its calendar not to correspond with Penn’s, but to correspond with the local schools. GSE students spend a great deal

of time in Philadelphia’s schools, far more than their counterparts at most other universities. According to Kinney Grossman, also the interim director of the Teacher Education Program, GSE’s 850-900 required hours of student teaching for its Teacher Education

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Program are almost double that of most similar programs. This correlates with the GSE’s mission of “partnering” with Philadelphia schools — working with them in a give-and-take manner. GSE’s efforts are visible through its website’s interactive Heat Map, a project launched last year. Kinney Grossman specifically cited the Kensington Health Sciences Academy as a major current partner of GSE. She said the school’s principal had approached GSE about placing interns to expand conversations on trauma as it affects student behavior and engagement. “It’s beyond service,” she said. GSE student Benson Ansell, who is enrolled in the Professional Counseling program, described a similar experience from his counseling internship with the YouthBuild Charter School. “It’s more than just an internship with the tag that ‘I’m a Penn alum,’” Ansell said. “I’ve become a part of the school and the culture.” GSE Director of School and Community Engagement Caroline Watts said that in order to uphold its end of the partnership, GSE emphasizes creating unified goals as an organization and immersing individuals in the schools to better

understand the climate’s nuances. The “boots on the ground” approach is important because Penn’s demographics are dissonant with those of the Philadelphia public schools, Kinney Grossman said. For that reason, part of the GSE’s curriculum addresses identity and race. There are also internal challenges within the schools. Diane Waff of the Literacy, Culture and International Education Division of the GSE added that a lack of resources is the foremost challenge. But she said this has inspired new projects for GSE, like a seminar for incorporating the arts into classroom instruction after schools lost art instructors due to

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funding cuts. Another challenge, per both Watts and Kinney Grossman, is the constant teacher and leadership turnover. Not only does this make it harder for students to form relationships with their teachers, but it also creates challenges for the GSE when trying to form lasting partnerships. “There are some people that say the district is simply too hard to work with,” Watts acknowledged, but added, “This is the public school district in one of the largest and greatest cities in the country. We are and should be a substantial resource to them and they are substantial resource to us and to the city.”

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Communication seminar to study Israeli beat reporting

Zvi Reich, a visiting scholar, will teach class

“This is why the underlying theme of the course is to what extent journalists know what they are talking about, to what extent journalists have expertise in the fields that they are covering,” Reich said. The seminar provides students with the opportunity to videochat with professionals. The class will have live Skype interviews with nine Israeli national news reporters in fields such as politics, business, the Arab world and Jerusalem affairs. College freshman Daniella Wirtschafter, a student who enjoys following Israeli news, is pleased that this course is being offered. “As someone who is planning on majoring in communication and minoring in consumer psychology, this course is a very valuable opportunity,” she said. “It’s also an interesting way to learn about real-world media and how media is used as … a form of communication.” Especia l ly r e c e n t l y, Americans have grown more skeptical of the media. As a journalist himself, Reich said such skepticism is healthy, since different news sources have their own inherent

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How can a class focus on food, politics, business and science? Visiting scholar Zvi Reich answers that question with “Israeli News Coverage Through the Prism of Beat Reporting,” which he teaches in the Annenberg School for Communication. By emphasizing the study of many different areas of news coverage, he manages to hit on all of those subjects. Reich — a senior lecturer of Communications at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, former journalist at Yedioth Ahronoth daily newspaper and a member of the Israeli Press Council — wants students to use Israeli news as a case study for beat reporting on a range of subjects. He said his undergraduate seminar aims to illustrate that in order to effectively analyze news, students need to avoid thinking about “the media” as a monolithic entity and rather recognize that it is comprised of domain-specific “news beats.”

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for possible nominees via an online portal. “The Committee has been asked to complete its work expeditiously. In support of this goal, we ask that you make any nominations or suggestions as soon as possible,” Jameson added. Price, who has served as provost since January 2009, will

objectives and biases. Reich says when he shows students texts or articles in his classes, he always makes sure to inform the class of the political leaning or bias of the author of the piece. College freshman Caroline Okun thinks it’s important to form an opinion from more than one news outlet. “Many different news stations will report the same event in such different ways, so you should consult multiple sources before deciding anything,” Okun said.

Reich said he believes the media has been failing the public recently because journalists do not have enough specific knowledge about the topics they are reporting on. “The crisis in the media today is partly because of problems of knowledge and expertise of journalists. There is not enough knowledge, not enough expertise,” he said. “In [an increasingly] complex society … some kinds of journalism may lose their relevance to the broader society because of the lack of knowledge.”

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Israeli communications professor Zvi Reich is teaching at the Annenberg School of Communication as a visiting scholar.

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begin his term at Duke on July 1. Before assuming the role of provost, Price served as Associate Dean of the Annenberg School of Communication and interim provost. During his tenure, his office kickstarted the Campaign for Community, a Un ive r sit y-sp on sor e d initiative to foster campus dialogue on difficult issues of social importance. July 1.

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distance of the campus and many student residences. College senior Wayne Schmitt, the founder of the Facebook group Free Food at Penn, is an outspoken advocate for food insecure students at Penn. He is concerned about the temporary shut-down of convenient access in the middle of the term, but advised that students should explore

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other options before March and use services such as Penn Transit or SEPTA to commute to grocery stores that are farther away. Dr. Karen Glanz, a Penn Integrates Knowledge professor in the Perelman School of Medicine, is running an NIH-funded study on healthy in-store marketing that includes this Fresh Grocer location. “In the research realm it’s really bad when people drop out of a study, but it’s even worse when one out of 32 stores, which represents a large

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fought to suppress scientific research on climate change as an example. She also mentioned examples in the United States, like how the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources recently removed any language from its website suggesting that humans or greenhouse gases have affected climate change. “I’m a training cultural and literary historian,” Wiggin said. “I actually do believe that we can learn from history.” Etienne Benson, a member of PPEH’s academic advisory board, pointed out that the Trump administration has suggested “profound skepticism of environmental issues.” For this reason, DataRefuge aims to create a network of data repositories for public access. Benson and Wiggin agreed that the availability of data is necessary to inform public decisions. “We have to make fact-based a rg u ments,” Wiggi n sa id. “Without the data, facts are missing.” Patricia Kim, the program coordinator, expressed her concern for how the opinions of high-level officeholders affect the availability of information to the public. The government itself implements an “End of Term Harvest” to preserve public information on government websites before the inauguration of a new president. K im ack nowledged t hat den ia l of climate cha nge

existed before Trump’s presidential run, but that his election “awakened many people.” She added that their event DataRescue Philly is purposefully scheduled on Jan. 13 and 14, only a week before Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20. The event will include “teach-ins," a roundtable discussion, food and an art installation called Date/um. The University of Toronto also hosted an event in collaboration with the group, and events are scheduled in Indianapolis on Jan. 19 and Los Angeles on Jan. 20. “What we are most concer ned about is spa rk ing broader conversations on information, data, knowledge and fact not only to our University and Philadelphia but to a broader audience,” Kim said. Although this project was inspired by the presidential election, Benson felt that the mission is important regardless of the administration and said it is a “bigger picture than the president.” In his opinion, the mission of DataRefuge must be accompanied with an effort to preserve the collection of new data as well. Kim agreed with Benson, saying that it is up to the public to put pressure on elected representatives to continue funding national institutes and science foundation grants. Wiggin also pointed out that the effects of climate change on communities are widespread and added “DataRefuge saves lives.”

number of consumers and customers, drops out,” Glanz said. “It would be a great loss to the study and a loss to the community.” A spokeswoman from Acme Markets, a regional subsidiary of Idaho-based Albertsons, confirmed that it is “in talks with the landlord” but could not give further detail about how long the transition would take. In early 2016, the University asked for the community of active supermarkets in Philadelphia to

submit proposals if they had interest in the space. “After an extensive review of all proposals, including the proposal submitted by the Fresh Grocer, Penn began lease discussions with a new operator and will soon announce plans with this operator for an exciting, upgraded state-of-the-art urban supermarket at the 40th and Walnut location,” Facilities and Real Estate Services said in a press release. FRES was not immediately available for comment.

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OPINION

What we’d like to see from Penn’s next provost EDITORIAL BY THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN OPINION BOARD

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 11, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 1 133rd Year of Publication CARTER COUDRIET President DAN SPINELLI Executive Editor LUCIEN WANG Print Director ALEX GRAVES Digital Director ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK Opinion Editor SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Senior News Editor WILL SNOW Senior Sports Editor CHRIS MURACCA Design Editor CAMILLE RAPAY Design Editor JULIA SCHORR Design Editor RONG XIANG Design Editor VIBHA KANNAN Enterprise Editor GENEVIEVE GLATSKY News Editor TOM NOWLAN News Editor ALLY JOHNSON Assignments Editor

As Penn President Amy Gutmann announced on Dec. 2, Penn Provost Vincent Price will be departing the University on July 9 to assume the presidency of Duke University. The Daily Pennsylvanian commends Price for his years of service to the University and congratulates him on his appointment to this prestigious position. Price assumed the provost role on Jan. 1, 2009 after serving various roles at Penn, including as associate dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and chair of the Faculty Senate. As provost, he distinguished himself by being a guardian of free expression amid heightened campus tensions across the country, an advocate for faculty and a decent rap stylist during his introduction of commencement speaker Lin-Manuel Miranda last spring. Price’s departure from Penn and the selection of a new provost represent an opportunity to alter the focus and character of the

University’s top-level administration, an opportunity that we believe should not be wasted. Specifically, the transition process represents a chance to take a major step toward addressing the widespread complaint among Penn students at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels that top administrators are too far removed from students’ lives on campus and are either unaware of or unresponsive to their priorities and concerns. It is certainly true that student life, in general, is not the “be all, end all” of the University’s purpose or the provost’s job. We believe, however, that attending classes, conducting research, engaging with faculty members and participating in extracurricular activities — the essence of a student’s daily existence — form the core element of the University’s mission. It is therefore essential that someone within the highest echelon of Penn’s leadership be focused

full-time on these issues. By her own rhetoric and practice, Penn President Amy Gutmann has defined her priorities in outward-facing terms, focusing prominently on en-

We would therefore like the new provost to play a role within the community which complements Gutmann’s, focusing his or her attentions primarily inward, toward the myriad

What Penn needs in a new provost is an academic administrator in the truest sense — a committed scholar dedicated to both serving the community wholeheartedly and being a prominent and present figure within it.” gagement with the “local, national and global” communities beyond Penn’s campus. Although this approach certainly enriches the campus community in many ways, it does leave certain aspects of life at the University under-addressed at the top level of the administration.

challenges and opportunities arising from learning and teaching at Penn. We call upon the consultative committee announced last night tasked with selecting Price’s replacement to take into consideration these qualities in evaluating his potential successors. In our eyes,

an ideal candidate would have a demonstrated record of engaging with students and faculty on a personal level. He or she would have been a well-liked and wellknown campus presence in their previous role; someone whose name, face and character were well known to students; whose attendance at campus events both formal and informal, official and not, was routine and to be expected. He or she would have been a trusted and familiar voice in campus dialogues, someone whose communications were received as informed contributions from a valued community member, not as form letters from a distant potentate. An ideal candidate would also wholeheartedly and enthusiastically embrace the academic nature of the position of provost. He or she would have a record of service that demonstrates an appreciation for and belief in the traditional academic values of inquiry. He or she would have a strong record as a teacher

and researcher and a proven understanding that an administration’s proper role is not simply to elevate and perpetuate itself, but to support and enable the academic enterprise to the best of its ability. A commitment to continue Price’s signature “Campaign for Community” initiative, which aims to facilitate on-campus conversations about difficult and critical social issues, would be a promising sign of a candidate’s respect for these academic values. What Penn needs in a new provost is an academic administrator in the truest sense — a committed scholar dedicated to both serving the community wholeheartedly and being a prominent and present figure within it. We ask for a provost who will promote both discourse and community. We ask, in other words, for a provost who will know and be known to students, neither a tyrant nor a parent for the small town that is our campus, but a mayor.

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I feel like everyone still doesn’t understand. Black students on your campus were threatened with lynching. Lynching. And if that makes you uncomfortable, imagine how I feel walking home from the library at 2 a.m. As I climb the social ladder at Penn — to which we are all so privileged to have access — it seems like every step I take, the fewer blacks I see. It was my hope that by doing well in school, attending an Ivy League institution and aspiring to be the best thinker and professional that I dreamed of being, I would somehow rise above the hate indefinitely. No matter what board I sit on to advance this, every day I feel that I’m sinking rather than rising. Although I have continuously tried my best to define myself as a black student leader, it seems to many I am nothing more than someone they would rather hang from a tree. I’ve missed classes, practices and meetings simply trying to manage my blackness in a world that so many people choose to stay

blind to. I’ll never forget when I received note that there were two racist GroupMe chats circling among black freshmen, one of which included a calendar date for “n****r lynching.” Shocked, speechless and at a loss for breath, I literally couldn’t move. As a freshman in my recitation who had been added to the groups shared this information in a state of frantic disbelief and fear, I wasn’t a student anymore. I was just black. I held her phone, on the verge of tears, scrolling through the racist transcript of the messages sent, all the while watching my classmates around me continue about their day unable to experience or even recognize the trauma of my friend and me. So, I removed my friend from the group and chose to add myself to it in order to identify who was involved. From there, I quite literally sprinted to the office of the Vice Provost for University Life, asking to speak to someone immediately. As I sat in the office

of an administrator, I began to explain the hate crime in all of its seriousness, while struggling to manage my emotions. I spent the next few days taking care of my community, continuously wiping the tears off of my friends’ eyes and making sure everyone

cuss explicit racism rather than implicit racism. We think about lynchings, but we never think about the individuals who sold the rope, knowing what was going on. We discuss the inequality of colored water fountains, but we never discuss just how many

The student in Oklahoma who was expelled definitely struck me and my sense of safety, but it was students at Penn who poured salt on the same wound.” was taken care of. However, as I return to campus today, I realize that I wasn’t taking care of myself. If I were to ask you about racism in the 1950s, what would you think of? Lynchings, water fountains and the KKK, probably. It bothers me that when we discuss racism at its peak, we dis-

people tolerated them with the idea that equality is a concept rather than a tangible reality. We discuss the KKK, but we never discuss the people across juries that turned a blind eye to their brutal crimes. I call this hands-off antagonism, and it pains me to say this has plagued our

campus heavily. In 10 years, when I think about the GroupMe incident, I won’t just think about the student at the University of Oklahoma that thankfully got expelled, although you probably will. But rather, when I think of the incident, what strikes me is the hands-off antagonism I experienced at Penn that has proved to be just as oppressive and racist. Thankfully, the GroupMe incident was linked to a student in Oklahoma. However, I wasn’t in Oklahoma when I heard about a “build the wall” chant in Smokey Joe’s. I wasn’t in Oklahoma when a middle-aged woman asked if “inner city people” were “always” allowed on our campus when I walked past her tour after practice. I wasn’t in Oklahoma when a cyber security worker called the GroupMe incident a “free speech issue” while we worked on solving the incident. I wasn’t in Oklahoma when I read an article labeling Du Bois College House, which works to be a safe space for black students, as a “strange

CALVARY ROGERS idea” just weeks after the GroupMe incident. I wasn’t in Oklahoma when a woman working at a front desk on campus asked me “What sport do you play?” when I walked through the door wearing a suit. The student in Oklahoma who was expelled definitely struck me and my sense of safety, but it was students at Penn who poured salt on the same wound. This semester and every semester, I ask that we stray ourselves from hands-off antagonism. CALVARY ROGERS is a College sophomore from Rochester, NY, studying Political Science. His email address is calvary@ sas.upenn.edu. “Cal’s Corner” u su all y ap p e ar s ever y Wednesday

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Portrait of Audre Lorde replaced by English Dept. A collage of 88 writers filled the portrait’s place GENEVIEVE GLATSKY News Editor

A collage of 88 different writers and filmmakers replaced the poster of Audre Lorde on the wall above the main staircase of Fisher-Bennett Hall on Thursday, Jed Esty, Penn English professor and department chair wrote in an emailed statement. The installment comes after a group of students removed a portrait of William Shakespeare from the wall on Thursday Dec. 1 and replaced it with a photograph of Lorde, a black female poet. They delivered the Shakespeare portrait to Esty’s office after the English Department held a town hall meeting that day to discuss the results of the U.S. presidential election.

The students replaced the portrait to affirm “their commitment to a more inclusive mission for the English department,” Esty previously wrote in an an emailed statement. Each portrait on the current collage represents a figure from the English Department’s “50 Book List,” a list of texts chosen by Ph.D. students to be tested on at the beginning of their second year. Both Shakespeare and Lorde are included on the poster. Zachary Lesser, English professor and undergraduate chair, sent Esty’s statement to the listserv for undergraduate English students. “This display is a provisional, place-holding version of one of the ideas that have been floated for that space over the years,” Esty said in the statement. He previously stated that the

English Department had voted years ago to replace the portrait of Shakespeare to reflect a more diverse range of writers. Esty said he asked for the collage to be installed early as a temporary version of what will eventually be a permanent display, “to allow us to start focusing our collective energies into some of the other important issues that we face, not to mention our ordinary work loads.” He went on to say that after winter break a working group will decide whether the poster should remain, and asked in the email for students to submit suggestions or attend the group’s meetings. Esty added that he would prefer a video monitor to display “student work, departmental events, and current projects,” but was told by the College of Arts and Sciences

that such a display would be too costly. Lesser also encouraged students to submit suggestions to the cross-departmental working group. He made several suggestions himself, including an “answer key” so that visitors can guess who the figures are and “an Anonymous silhouette, since Anonymous is probably the most prolific author in history.” Lesser added a message of support for the display, which he thought looked “great” and “clearly better represents the range of authors and literatures that we teach in our department.”

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The first Weekend MVP Award of the year goes to Penn women’s basketball junior guard Beth Brzozowski. As the Quakers opened their Ivy League slate against Princeton in a battle of teams that have combined for the past seven conference championships, Penn’s sixth woman finished with a modest total of nine points — but those points could have not come at a better time. In a three-minute stretch in the middle of the fourth quarter, the Ohio native knocked down three straight treys, with the first two coming on backto-back possessions to tie the game up, and the third giving her team the lead. The dagger,

and her biggest shot, came as the shot clock expired with 3:04 remaining. Brzozowski was left alone in the corner, and Michelle Nwokedi found her just in time, as the shot gave the Red and Blue a 54-51 lead they would not relinquish. More than just the points, Brzozowsk i’s effor ts energized the rest of the team and gave them the spark that they needed to finish off the Tigers and secure the victory. Penn had been trailing for nearly the entire game, and her points gave the Quakers the lead for the first time since the middle of the first quarter. The Red and Blue were pumped up after the junior’s run and began to play their best defense of the game, which allowed them to shut down Princeton’s comeback effort. Without Brzozowski, the Quakers simply would not have won on Saturday, making her our first Weekend MVP.

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There was no leisure for Penn wrestling this winter break, with the Quakers filling their time with some big tournaments and key Ivy League matches. Not even a week after taking on a strong field at the Southern Scuffle, the Quakers dove into conference play with a home match against Ivy rival Princeton, falling to the Tigers, 28-8. Reflecting on some performances from the Lehman Open that some wrestlers competed in on the previous day, coach Alex Tirapelle seemed positive about his younger squad’s approach to its individual matches. “It was productive and worthwhile, and just about everybody took steps forward,” Tirapelle said. Against Princeton, however, the Quakers knew it would be a tough matchup, and that they had to come out strong and ready to compete. As Penn heads into its dual meet season, it will become more competitive and even more crucial for the team to come prepared to win key matches. “We knew coming in it would be a competitive dual. They were favored in most of the lower weights and we were favored in most of the upper

weights,” Tirapelle said. “They won the first few matches and that’s what made the difference.” Still, there were certainly bright spots on the weekend for the Red and Blue. Brooks Martino, a senior wrestling at 165 pounds, performed well after taking the first semester off, defeating Princeton’s Riley DeMoss in a 12-0 blowout. “I was happy with my conditioning and a lot of the positions I put myself in,” Martino said. Although the meet itself did not end up the way the Quakers wanted to begin their dual season, the grapplers will look to better themselves before the upcoming matches. “Before the next competition, there is a limited amount of time. We need to improve in a lot of areas, because it wasn’t the case where across the board, there was one area we were deficient in that cost us the match,” Tirapelle said. “It is very individual, and we have to continue to improve our strengths and improve our weaknesses.” Going into the Princeton dual, the Red and Blue were looking to make big strides individually and as a team, and there were glimpses of dominance beyond Martino’s stellar effort. Joe Heyob, wrestling at 184 pounds, performed well with a huge 11-3 win over the Tigers’ Ian Baker, while others like May Bethea at 157 had very tight matches. “If we wrestle hard, it will

make us better, so it was tough to lose to them being our main rivals in the Ivy league,” Martino said. Despite ultimately losing, it remains important for the squad to set the tone early in its conference season and go into NCAAs with confidence and a strong record. “We need to have the intensity and the fire when we go out there. We need to get ourselves into a scoring situation right away. We are spending way too much time on the bottom,” Tirapelle said. Although Martino was one of

the few Quakers with a victory in the dual, he seemed positive for his teammates and the future of the season that lies ahead. “We set some smaller goals to be more aggressive, and I saw some things we were working on in the room, but obviously didn’t come away with the win, so we didn’t achieve our main goal,” Martino said. Looking ahead, the squad needs to use the hunger from this defeat to make improvements as it prepares for upcoming matches. This week, Penn will compete in the Shorty Hitchcock Classic in Millersville, Pa.

on Jan. 14 before a dual meet against Army at the Palestra on Jan. 15. “A big thing is going back and watching film to see what we did wrong individually and as a team. It’s a matter of fixing what we did wrong and keeping up what we are doing right,” Martino said. Coach Tirapelle feels that

the team needs to fully capitalize and maximize its potential after this dual, and although Princeton got a small jumpstart on the Penn squad, he feels that his team will close the gap quickly and meet expectations as the season surges onward. If all goes as planned, this is only the beginning of a competitive season for the Red and Blue.

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While everyone was relaxing during winter break, there was no time off for Penn swimming and diving, as both the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teams took on Dartmouth and Yale in their second Ivy League Tri-Meet of the season. Both Penn squads had eerily similar results on the weekend, each handily defeating Dartmouth but falling to Yale in the Bulldogsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; home pool. On the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side, the Quakers (6-2, 3-2 Ivy), recently ranked 23rd nationally by SwimSwam News, comfortably defeated Dartmouth (0-5, 0-4) by a score of 223-66 but were barely upset by unranked Yale (8-0, 4-0), 156-144. Yale also defeated Dartmouth 252-48. The diving events began on Friday night. Sophomore

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a Gabrielle Rush three-point play to start the fourth, the Tigers had a 47-41 lead with 9:36 left. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when the tide completely changed as Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offense locked in, leading the team on a 21-10 run to finish the game. Junior Beth Brzozowski led the charge, knocking down three straight treys to give the Quakers the lead for good with 3:04 remaining. On the defensive side of the ball, senior Kasey Chambers had a crucial steal and several key break-ups, which helped to stymie Princetonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comeback attempt. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think Beth gave us a big lift, she made a three and we got the ball right back to her a possession later and she made another

A nd rew Bologna secu red second place in the 1-meter dive, with a score of 279.95, and freshman John-Michael Diveris finished third in the 3-meter dive, earning a score of 252.95. Yale took control on the beginning of Saturday, taking the first four swimming events. However, sophomore Colin McHugh, who won the 100-yard backstroke (56.40), and senior Grant Proctor, who won the 200-yard backstroke (1:50.74), were standouts for the Quakers. Helping keep Penn afloat in the battle of unbeaten squads, sophomore Thomas Dillinger had an outstanding meet. He won the 100-yard freestyle (44.82) and the 200-yard breaststroke (2:01.13), and finished second in the 200-yard individual medley (1:49.03). Overall, the Quakers won six events in the second day of the meet, capped off by the 400yard free relay, won by seniors Kevin Suh, Zach Fisher, and Jimmy Jameson, and sophomore Mark Andrew. But these efforts

just barely werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough to knock off the Bulldogs, whose early lead was simply too much to overcome in a strong early season test for both teams. Meanwhile, things werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite as competitive for the Red and Blue women (6-2, 3-2), which fell to powerhouse Yale (11-0, 5-0) by a score of 221-79 but were able to comfortably top last-place Dartmouth (0-5, 0-4) to salvage a split on the weekend. The dominant Bulldogs ensured that they would keep their undefeated record intact from the start, winning each of the first ten swimming events to put the Quakers and Big Green in a hole too massive to overcome. But Penn junior and twotime defending Ivy League 500 free champion Virginia Burns wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be intimidated by the strong competition, taking first place in her specialty event and being closely followed by sophomore Madison Visco as the Red and Blue were able to take the top two spots there.

three,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the momentum changed a little bit there, I saw a little bit more effort on us, we defended really hard, I think that gave us a lift.â&#x20AC;? In Brzozowskiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes, the same thing that the Quakers struggled with in the first half was exactly what enabled her to hit the biggest shots of the game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was thinking â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Wow, I have a lot of space,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I think that was due to the fact that Michelle drew so much attention. We were really able to work the ball in and out. Michelle set me up perfectly for I think all three of the threeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.â&#x20AC;? The contributions from Brzozowski and sophomore Princess Aghayere, who tallied six points and five rebounds, continued the trend of huge play from the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bench players. As the

Although that would be Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only event win on the weekend, Burns continued to be a bright spot throughout the competition, taking second place behind Yaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kina Zhou in the 200 free and anchoring Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 4x100 free relay team â&#x20AC;&#x201C; also including sophomore Mary Whiting, freshman Meredith Newman and junior Kimberly Phan â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to second place behind the juggernaut Yale squad. Beyond Burnsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; stellar individual effort, the Red and Blue also saw strong showings from junior Sydney Tan, who took second place behind Yale freshman phenom Cha Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Leary in both the 100 and 200 breaststroke races, and sophomore Nancy Hu, who fell by just 0.43 seconds to Yaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sydney Hirschi in the 200 fly. On the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side, Harvard and Yale remain undefeated at the top of the Ivy League standings, with Brown (5-1, 2-1) also just ahead of the Quakers. The womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s standings are nearly a mirror image, with Harvard and

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With Penn womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball needing someone to spark a secondhalf comeback, junior guard Beth Brzozowski was up to the task, nailing three late three-pointers to boost the Quakers to victory.

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Sophomore swimmer Thomas Dillinger had the best individual performance for the Quakers at the meet.

Yale also unbeaten in conference play there while the Red and Blue currently sit in fifth. Fortunately, both teams will soon get another chance to knock off an Ivy League powerhouse, hosting their third Ivy

League Tri-Meet of the season against Harvard and Brown on January 14. The menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team will look to defend their home pool and give their Crimson counterparts their first losses of the Ivy League season.

Red and Blue get deeper into Ivy play, the two of them, as well as freshman Phoebe Sterba and sophomore Ashley Russell, figure to log key minutes. If they can continue to produce, Penn will have a good shot at the Ivy title. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s huge,â&#x20AC;? McLaughlin said of the benchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contributions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Princess has given us a lift now the past three games, so thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s making us more comfortable with who we have now. But the bench gives us options. Ashley Russell gives us something different. Phoebe Sterba gives us something different. And Beth we just trust in any situation.â&#x20AC;? The final daggers of the game came on two layups from Ross and Stipanovich, which put the Quakers up by five with just under a minute and a half

remaining. Four straight free throws from Chambers and Nwokedi sealed the deal for Penn. The win over Princeton, perennially Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest competitor in the Ivies, certainly bodes well for the rest of Ivy play. However, the team is not complacent with just the win today. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it gives us a lot of confidence and momentum, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a step in the right direction and we still have a lot more work to go, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definitely much needed and a great feeling,â&#x20AC;? Brzozowski said. It might not have been the most comfortable of wins, and there were certainly some notable struggles, but Penn started off their Ivy play just they way they wanted to: with a win over its biggest rival.

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ago. So while Penn’s eight-point win wasn’t necessarily unexpected looking at national rankings, its importance to the Quakers when considering the intimacy of Philadelphia basketball rivalries can’t be overstated. Following that win, Penn took another impressive non-league victory against a Fairfield squad led by a dominant pair of guards in Tyler Nelson and Curtis Cobb, giving coach Steve Donahue’s squad major momentum heading into the conference opener against the hated Tigers. And though the Red and Blue ultimately came up short in the rivalry matchup, there were plenty of positives on display on the Jadwin Gym floor. Trailing 39-18 in the second half to the conference’s preseason favorites, the Red and Blue didn’t lay down at all, using a barrage of three-point shots to go on a remarkable 26-5 run to briefly tie the game at 44 before the senior-laden Tigers eventually pulled away. Even in a loss, the message Penn sent to the league was clear: this team can hang with the best that the Ivy League has to offer. And for a program that hasn’t finished in the top half of the conference since 2012, that change of pace is awfully refreshing.

Several Penn Athletics teams were in action over winter break. Here’s a look at what the Quakers got up to against non-conference foes and Ivy League rivals.

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RINCETON, N.J. — Ivy League play is back, and for Penn women’s basketball, it came back with a bang. After an extremely backand-forth game, the Quakers pulled ahead in the fourth quarter and held off a lastminute onslaught by the Tigers to win by the score of 62-57. Despite struggling from the field, the Quakers (7-4, 1-0 Ivy) trailed by only five at the half. Senior Sydney Stipanovich and junior Michelle Nwokedi, Penn’s two leading scorers, especially struggled in the first 20 minutes. The pair combined for only nine points and had a lot of difficulty scoring against the interior defense of Princeton

(6-8, 0-1). “I thought they were both floating on their cuts a little bit,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “I thought our ball movement was very perimeter-oriented. Once we started to get into a gap a little bit, and they moved a little bit, more positive movement, I thought we were better. And when the ball started touching them when they were getting inside out, it really helped us.” Junior Anna Ross helped keep the Red and Blue in the game, as she directed the offense and led the team with nine points at the break. After a back-and-forth third quarter that saw Penn come as close as one point, along with SEE PRINCETON PAGE 10

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While most of us were off relaxing over winter break, Penn sports teams were busy at work. Our editors debate: Which team had the best winter break? Jonathan Pollack, Sports Editor: Penn women’s basketball had the best winter break of any Penn team, and it isn’t even close. In addition to capturing two wins on the West Coast and spending New Year’s Eve in a warm California, the presumptive Ivy favorites started off conference play with a captivating, comefrom-behind victory against their biggest rival, Princeton. The 62-57 win over the Tigers was an allaround team effort, with huge contributions from usual characters and bench players alike. Stipanovich and Nwokedi both had double digit points, Anna Ross looked like a coach on the court in the first half, and Beth Brzozowski put the team on her back down the stretch, knocking down three straight treys to put the Quakers ahead for good in the fourth quarter. If this game was any indication, the Red and Blue can expect strong play up and down the lineup, which would be huge in the upcoming weeks. Even though they’re only one game into their Ivy season, the Quakers have already played what should be their most difficult game — on the road at Princeton — and they came away with a win. They started off their title defense in the best possible way, and because of that, no other team had a better winter break. Cole Jacobson, Sports Editor: Sure, the easy choice — and probably the correct one — would be Penn women’s basketball, considering its 3-0 record. But as impressive as that squad’s past two weeks have been, it’s counterpart on the men’s side has made strides at a similar rate. The Quakers’ first winter break showdown came against a Drexel team that had topped the Red and Blue in six consecutive match-ups dating back to 2006, most recently including a frustrating 53-52 overtime heartbreaker a year SEE ROUNDTABLE PAGE 11

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Quakers fall short after rallying on road against Princeton M. HOOPS | Struggles in

final minutes cost Penn JONATHAN POLLACK Sports Editor

Out with the old and in with the new. The 2016 portion of the Penn men’s basketball season is over, and with it the bulk of the nonconference schedule. 2017 brings with it the new challenge of Ivy League play. The Quakers (6-5) open the new year at Princeton (7-6) on Saturday in the 235th meeting of the rivalry. Despite non-conference play being largely behind them, that is not to say that the 2016 portion of Penn’s season should be easily dismissed. Coach Steve Donahue says he likes the way his team has performed so far this season. “I think we had a really challenging non-conference schedule,” he said. “We’ve definitely gotten better, but at the same time we have a long way to go.” According to Donahue, the Quakers have been good, but his focus was on improvement — especially regarding consistency and attention to detail. The Red

and Blue don’t have many particularly bad losses — a tight game to Navy notwithstanding — and have claimed a few big wins, including one over rival Drexel and a nine-point win at nationallyranked Central Florida. The keys for the stretch run will be steady growth by the team’s young core and consistent offensive production. “The offensive side of the ball has been inconsistent for us. We’ve taken care of the ball for the most part, but I just think we can execute better,” Donahue said. He did acknowledge the difficulty of the schedule his team has faced, most notably top-ranked Villanova, but says that his team has played well against fellow midmajor teams. “For the most part, our defense has been really good,” Donahue said. “Our defense continues to improve, and it’s been pretty consistent. Just challenging shots, [and getting] turnovers.” Additionally, production from underclassmen has been a major catalyst for the Quakers. Probably their best player so far has been freshman AJ Brodeur, who leads the team in both points and minutes. For Brodeur, the Princeton

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game represents his first taste of both the historic rivalry and Ivy League play. The Tigers enter the matchup as the favorites to win the Ivy league, and ride a fivegame winning streak against the Quakers. For their own part, Penn looks to continue its three-game win streak and avenge last season’s heartbreaking losses, which came by a combined three points. Donahue said that preparation for the game is simply business as usual for the Quakers, asserting that there is no difference in how the Quakers approach Princeton compared to their other opponents. He admitted that memory of last season’s defeats drives him, but downplayed its effect on the team, quipping that “half the team wasn’t here [to remember it]”. With last year’s results in mind, Penn must learn from its mistakes in the conference’s most historic rivalry. Donahue blames the losses on a lack of the little things, despite playing a pair of strong games otherwise. That seemed to be the story in the beginning of this season as well. With a clean slate to start conference play, the long road to an Ivy League title starts in Princeton. A good start to 2017 would be a huge first step.

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