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Penn students celebrate Lunar New Year

2017 is the Year of the Rooster in Chinese zodiac MANXI WANG Contributing Reporter

Most Penn students celebrated Christmas and New Year’s Day at home during winter break. But Monday evening in the rooftop lounge of Harnwell College House, Asian

communities celebrated Lunar New Year together on a school day.

The event was cohosted by Harnwell’s East Asia House Residential Program, the Chinese Students’ Association, Penn Taiwanese Society and the Hong Kong Student Association. Students from different countries shared Asian food and performances of Chinese lion dancing and Korean samulnori, a type of percussion music.

Anticipating the holiday, students talked about what the Lunar New Year has meant to them.

College freshman Ton Nguyen said the Lunar New Year is a holiday of good wishes in Vietnamese culture.

“I think it’s the idea of new beginnings, and continuing the things you’ve valued the most — family, friendships. Then you start off fresh and work to have a great life,” Nguyen

said.

As a member of the Vietnamese Student Association, Nguyen talked about celebrating the holiday at Penn.

Despite being away from her home and family, Nguyen said she was happy to see that “a lot of people still cherish the traditions that we have, and we have a great community to celebrate with.”

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THE LONE QUAKER States including Iowa and Wyoming are only represented by one student REBECCA LIEBERMAN Staff Reporter

Out of the 2,491 students in Penn’s freshman class, only one calls North Dakota home.

The Class of 2020 includes students from every state except for Vermont and West Virginia. But for Penn students, it may feel like

everyone on campus is from the Mid-Atlantic.

That’s because in the freshman class, 446 students are from Pennsylvania, 296 are from New York and 253 are from New Jersey.

On the flip side, Arkansas, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota and Wyoming all have only one student each in the Class of 2020.

College freshman Mallory Harrower said she felt a bit lonely as the only freshman from

Wyoming.

“It was kind of weird for me to come here and not really know anyone from the surrounding towns in Wyoming,” she said. “But I think that it was good for me because I had to branch out, and I met a lot of people.”

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Recent Penn alum helped organize inauguration

Researchers across disciplines will be involved in a new center of study

Halie Craig helped with oversight and administration

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Penn and Carnegie Mellon University researchers received a five-year $14 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to establish a University Transportation Center, which aims to use technology, policy and planning to ensure safe and efficient mobility of people and goods in the 21st century.

The team received one of five grants awarded

by DOT to establish the center, which will be named Mobility21. The center will function as an extension of the team’s original center, called T-SET, which was funded in 2013 for $2.8 million per year for three years and and focused more on the safety component of transportation, as opposed to the efficiency of mobility.

“It shows that the work that we’ve been doing is really high impact, both in the research space and also in practice,” said Megan Ryerson, research director of Mobility21 and professor in both the School of Design and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

“One of the big focus areas of all of the DOT transportation centers is to have an impact on the real life transportation system — to make it

With all the pomp and circu m st a nce su r rou nd i ng t he inauguration of 1968 Wharton graduate Donald J. Trump, it was difficult to miss Penn’s connection to the event.

But the connection wasn’t limited to the president himself. Not far from the Penn graduate taking the oath of highest office, inside the

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One recent Penn alumna, Halie Craig, worked closely with the recent presidential inauguration of 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump.

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Capitol Building, was another Penn graduate. Behind the scenes, this recent alumna was involved in the inauguration in another capacity — she helped run it.

2016 College graduate Halie Craig works for the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which, “every four years, since 1901, establishes what is called the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies,” she said.

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Springpop app designed to combat stress at Penn

The app will combat negatvitiy in social media NATALIE KAHN Staff Reporter

College senior Alex Pierson launched an app over the summer that is now spreading positivity all over the world.

The app, called Springpop, is a controlled news feed of upbeat posts. Users choose producers of happy material to follow for content ranging from health tips to motivational articles to outfit suggestions.

Pierson started planning the app in her first two years at Penn as a way to ameliorate the stress she observed in Penn’s atmosphere. She learned in her positive psychology class that even a small daily dose of positivity can improve mental health, so she created Springpop to serve as that

steady source of optimism.

College senior Kate Halper, a regular Springpop user, described “the PennFace and the one-upping — the competition of who has it harder” that she sees daily on campus.

Now, Springpop’s users span from Penn to South Africa, the Philippines and Australia.

However, Pierson said the most rewarding part of her project has been receiving emails from users praising the app for its success in improving their days.

In addition to the accounts users follow, they also receive five motivational posts from the Springpop account that Pierson curates every morning.

Pierson took strides to ensure that the app was streamlined and clutter-free to remain calming for its busy users. Producers can post a maximum of five times per day, which serves the twofold purpose

of forcing creators to be discerning while not overwhelming their followers.

Users may only follow 50 people as another measure of quality control, Pierson said. She wanted to foster an environment in which people would unfollow users whose content didn’t interest them. This way, users’ feeds would stay as positive and personal as possible.

“The idea behind Springpop is quality over quantity,” she said.

“I wanted a place where a busy student could — if they had five minutes in a Starbucks line — scroll through and always find something high quality.”

This, to Pierson, is what separates Springpop from apps like Pinterest, where users are inundated with content and can have difficulty finding interesting material.

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Engineering senior Nova Fallen agreed: “[Springpop] is what will make you happy, without anything that may bring you down.”

Unlike conventional social networks, Springpop does not show numbers of likes and followers.

Instead, posts receive between one and five green bubbles that represent its popularity relative to other content. To Pierson, this rewards excellent posts without creating the harmful competition for likes and follows inherent to Instagram and Twitter.

Pierson reached out to bloggers and stylists she admired to amass her network of sources. As of now, these producers are not paid for their content to preserve Springpop’s goal of spreading positivity in a genuine way.

Pierson is still looking for more producers to feature on her app.

Pierson relayed the significance Springpop has to her: “We’re all super busy; we all get really stressed out, so I wanted to create something where anyone could go on and have a little bit of inspiration. I’ve found that it really helps.”

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Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, in turn, is “responsible for the planning and execution of the swearing-in ceremonies for the Inauguration of the President of the United States at the U.S. Capitol,” according to the Senate website.

Craig’s involvement in behind the scenes policymaking at Penn through the Nominations and Elections Committee served as a precursor to her current role in the Senate. She described her role in the inauguration as a logistical one.

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adhere to the very strict timeline, that everything goes off without a hitch.”

“The scope of the work is just incredible,” Craig added.

Craig is proficient in Arabic and focused heavily on international relations during her time at Penn, but she loves her work in domestic politics on Capitol Hill.

“I think the Hill is also a great place to start if you want to have any exposure to politics,” she said. “You’re in the heart of everything that’s going on with the legislative branch.”

The Rules Committee, for which Craig is a non-designated staffer, has oversight jurisdiction ranging from the Capitol Police to the Smithsonian Institution. “It is more of an oversight and administration

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committee than it is a policymaking organ,” Craig noted.

However, that hasn’t stopped her from taking full advantage of the policymaking environment surrounding her.

“You have this front row seat to discussions about policy in every single issue area that impacts Americans,” she said.

Describing her colleagues as mission-driven and the atmosphere on the Hill as energetic, Craig added, “I get to work with amazing staff every day. It’s genuinely very humbling.”

And her role volunteering for the inauguration is no exception.

“It is a very American tradition and it’s extremely unique to the U.S. It’s just astounding,” Craig said. “I’m excited to play a part in it, even if it’s a small one.”

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YouthHack to host Startup@Penn symposium The group aims to advise student entrepreneurs ISABELLA FERTEL Staff Reporter

College junior David Ongchoco first founded a chapter of YouthHack, an international network of student entrepreneurs, in his hometown of Manila, Philippines in 2014.

The chapter was so successful that Ongchoco decided to bring the social entrepreneurship program with him to Penn.

This week, YouthHack is running the Startup@Penn program, a weeklong symposium surrounding the world of startup businesses.

The program features panels of successful student entrepreneurs, an innovation mixer, an “ideathon” and an elevator pitch competition.

“The goal of this week … is to build a better community here at Penn and get students to explore the world of startups,” Ongchoco, the founder of YouthHack Philadelphia, said.

YouthHack Philadelphia’s flagship program this semester is “Accelerator,” a 10-week-long

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YouthHack is an international network of student entrepreneurs geared towards showing students what starting a business entails, starting from idea generation all the way to execution.

intensive initiative to take student entrepreneurs from concept to company. YouthHack brings in other entrepreneurs and experts on “niche topics” to help guide students to

develop business models and get their ideas off the ground. At the end of the program, YouthHack holds a “demo day,” where the semester’s class of startups pitch their ideas to

investors and show their progress to the rest of the YouthHack group.

“The whole semester is a simulation to see what it really takes,” Ongchoco said. “It’s one thing to

have an idea, but it’s another thing to have a business.”

Past YouthHack projects ranged from PreMed, which helps bring transparency to the medical industry by educating patients on pre- and post-operation medications and procedures, to Instahub, an automation hardware initiative that sensory-automates regular light devices.

Wharton junior Sanjula Weerawardhena is the Accelerator team’s program manager this semester.

Weerawardhena described Accelerator as an “incrementally building” process that holds students responsible to continually work on their company throughout the week and semester.

College sophomore and Accelerator student associate Katherine Sizov just joined YouthHack this semester. After participating previously in another accelerator program, Sizov said she decided she wanted to move to a student-run accelerator to work more hands-on with the entrepreneurs. As one of the points of contact for students involved in the Accelerator program, Sizov and her other team members help connect the student

entrepreneurs to resources regarding their startup.

YouthHack Accelerator accepts students on an application basis at the beginning of the semester, and continues to work with students throughout the year. Applications for this semester close Jan. 30. From the applications, YouthHack picks a class of startup ideas to sponsor throughout the semester.

YouthHack is also working on two other programs this semester, FreshStart and Studio. FreshStart is a month-long program designed for freshmen to get involved in the Philadelphia startup scene and learn all the basics of starting a business.

Studio takes a more technical approach, and tests different ideas to see if they have the potential to come to fruition as an actual company.

The students on the YouthHack teams form an entrepreneurial community with a range of backgrounds and experience. Weerawardhena said he wanted to diverge from the “traditional” Wharton career path and find a “less risky way to understand what the startup world is like.”

Wharton graduate creates environmental humanities minor

New minor to be available beginning in fall 2018 CAROLINE SIMON Senior Reporter

It all started with a single class, in the spring of 2013.

At first, professor Bethany Wiggin’s “Sustainability and Utopianism” class was scheduled to meet in the gloomy basement of the Chemistry building.

But the group contained three members of the Philomathean Society, and the class was able to secure a move to the fourth floor of College Hall.

“There was something really special about that atmosphere,” Wiggin said.

After a semester of investigating the humanities side of sustainability, the students were discussing their final projects — and when they learned there weren’t any more environmental humanities classes to take, they wanted more.

So one student, 2016 Wharton

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Taiwanese College freshman China Llanos emphasized that the Lunar New Year is usually celebrated with family.

“For me it’s just been a family tradition, something my grandma had introduced to me. So after she passed away, it was a really special ritual for my family to celebrate,” she said.

This was her first year celebrating the Lunar New Year at Penn. Llanos made plans to go out with friends and went home to be with her family in New Jersey for the weekend. This upcoming Saturday will be the first day in the Year of the Rooster, according

graduate Leah Davidson, began work on a year-long independent study with Wiggin, and the two embarked on a journey to found the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities.

The program has blossomed since then — it now offers yearlong fellowships, has its own website, and has even been working to “rescue” data on climate change as the Trump era dawns.

By the fall of 2018, environmental humanities will be its own minor, offering classes ranging from environmental ethics to digital humanities and history of the environment. Its development tells a story about how student interest at Penn can shape academics at the highest level.

For Davidson, whose interest in art sparked the “artist-in-residence” aspect of the program, environmental humanities was a way to involve as many students in environmentalism as possible, even those without an interest in science.

“We realized that there

was no real discipline at the University that incorporated environmentalism into other academic disciplines,” Davidson said. “From my own perspective, I was trying to figure out a way that the environment would apply to more students.”

The program allows students to shape individual projects according to their interests — in fact, it depends on students to push it forward. The website was built by a student, and the idea for the data refuge project was first suggested in a student meeting.

College senior Tabeen Hossain, a current fellow in the program, sees the overarching goal of the program — and, ultimately, the minor — as drawing in students with all kinds of interests and sparking concern for the environment, especially at a time when politics have climate change activists deeply concerned.

“I think the biggest thing is to involve people who otherwise

to Chinese zodiac.

Not everyone was with their family during the Lunar New Year. This year was the second time that College and Wharton sophomore Luming Yang celebrated the holiday on campus.

“I think the Lunar New Year is a time for family gathering,” Yang said, recounting her family celebrations back in China.

“Every year our whole family, my parents, my sister and family members who came from other places to visit us in Shenzhen. So my grandparents often came, and we just cooked the New Year’s Eve dinner, watched the Spring Gala on TV and just did things together. It felt really warm to have all your family members by your

side.”

Remembering the warmth of family gatherings, Yang felt that spending the New Year overseas was a totally different experience.

“Because New Year to me is never actually a holiday for friends, it is more of a getting together with the family … I guess that’s something that I need to bear with coming abroad,” Yang said. “This is something that I have already expected. Every one of us do.”

wouldn’t be interested in environmentalism, people who are tangentially interested,” she said.

“I think that really, if nothing else, it helps make environmentalism relevant in more people’s minds.”

The future environmental humanities minor isn’t the first to be born from a student’s passion.

Penn’s minor in American Sign Language was started because 2012 College graduate Arielle Spellun saw a need for more awareness of the deaf community.

Penn is currently the only Ivy League school to offer an ASL minor. Similarly, the environmental humanities minor will be one-of-a-kind.

The program is about to begin what Wiggin calls a “cluster hire” in environmental humanities: bringing at least three tenure-track professors in to prepare for the minor’s debut.

Wiggin hopes the timeline will be solidified next semester, and the minor will be available to

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Penn researchers will study the ethics and feasibility of autonomous vehicles in the new Environmental Humanities program.

students by the fall of 2018.

“We are going to have the biggest capacity to do environmental

humanities on the most cuttingedge, amazing way, probably, in the world,” Wiggin said.

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Penn must clarify its relationship with Trump EDITORIAL BY THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN OPINION BOARD

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 25, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 8 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

In the wake of the inauguration of 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump as President of the United States, Penn faces an institutional dilemma. By becoming the alma mater of the sitting president, it has received an honor that perhaps it does not want, and perhaps is not an honor at all. How it will receive this honor or dishonor is a question that it must quickly and transparently address.

Will the University, for example, advertise itself as the alma mater of the sitting president in official materials? Occidental College prominently features President Barack Obama in their admissions materials. Will Trump feature in Penn’s? Will members of the Kite and Key Society, which gives tours of campus to prospective students and parents, promote Penn as the kind of school that graduates presidents? Will Trump be invited as an honored guest to University functions? To

speak at graduation?

Whether the answer to these questions is yes or no, the Penn community deserves and would appreciate an explanation for the decision.

We understand that the situation is delicate and, in many ways, unique. For a university to advertise that it played a significant role in the lives of prominent figures is perfectly natural.

A meaningful association with a U.S. president — even a controversial one — is generally a credit to any institution. Penn has even highlighted Trump’s alumni status in the past, honoring him at a 2014 Wharton gala and naming him one of Wharton’s “125 Most Influential People.”

On the other hand, Trump is considered by the great majority of the members of our campus community, and many in the world beyond, to be a disgraceful person, with whom any connections are themselves disgraceful. The

concept of a president who is not merely unpopular or controversial, but disgraceful, is in many ways a new one within living memory.

Unfortunate as it is, however, the lot of figuring out how to navigate these uncertain waters has fallen upon

tions Stephen MacCarthy.

“Our relationship with him is no different than it would be with any other graduate.”

This approach is untenable. No other graduate is the sitting President of the United States, arguably the single most visible and

The question of Penn’s relationship with Trump is too fraught and complex to go publicly unaddressed.”

Penn, and navigate them it must.

To date, however, the University has seemingly preferred to act as though the dilemma does not exist to begin with. “We have always acknowledged that President Trump (and other members of his family) are alums of Penn,” said Vice President for University Communica-

powerful individual on the planet. Inevitably, Penn’s relationship with President Trump is different in practical terms than its relationship with any other person, because there is no other person, let alone Penn alumnus, in a comparable position. Moreover, Trump has been eager, for his part, to highlight his connection to

the school, touting his 1968 Wharton bachelor’s degree as an intellectual credential and a defense against accusations of improper conduct.

The question of Penn’s relationship with Trump is too fraught and complex to go publicly unaddressed.

Though any decision need not necessarily be made by consensus, it should not be made secretly. Students, alumni, faculty and staff deserve to know precisely what path has been chosen and why. Continuing to remain silent is not an option.

From our perspective, there are at least two better alternatives that would resolve the present dissonance without compromising Penn’s need to remain above the partisan fray. Penn could embrace Trump unambiguously as an alumnus of whom it is proud for his attainment of the presidency, independent of any other factors. It would, in this case, offer him up publicly and officially, as an example

of the important and impressive things Penn students go on to do.

Or, on the other hand, Penn could declare that Trump’s personal conduct — distinct from his political agenda or positions — is not reflective of Penn’s values, and that it therefore will not proffer him as an exemplary Quaker.

We do not, at this time, express a strong desire for one approach over the other.

Either would maintain both Penn’s integrity and its political impartiality. They are clarifications, not political endorsements or denunciations. Penn legally can not and ethically should not take a formal stand for or against any politician or policy. It is disingenuous, however, to pretend that Trump is just like any other graduate.

To preserve its integrity, Penn must not stick its head in the sand. This conversation is one that must be had, and it deserves to be had out loud.

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As a member of the track team, my first experience with the Penn track team was outside on a brisk sunny day in late August. I’ll never forget how nice it felt to breathe the fresh air of Franklin Field, run freely with my teammates and meet athletes from other teams.

However, as it became colder towards Thanksgiving break, we moved to an insulated facility over the Dunning-Cohen Champions Field. Oddly, this felt pretty much the opposite, as the climate was much less comfortable and we didn’t interact with teams outside of our own.

Ironically, I feel that I often think about the Penn “bubble” in the same way that I do with the bubble I practice in. A restrictive climate in which I don’t interact with the same people I so often shared a space with simply because weren’t part of my “immediate” community.

When it comes to doing well in classes, applying to (and staying in) clubs, maintaining my friendships and

continuing to do my best on the track team, I don’t just lose the expectations I had when I came in as a freshman, but also myself.

So how do we break out of the culture of struggling to see outside of Penn and what it has to offer? Well, the second I stepped out of the bubble-like air structure for practice, I received a breath of fresh air.

Often, when we talk about stepping outside of the Penn bubble we mention going into Center City, to more sporting events or even sleeping more. While true, it’s hard to do these things and still maintain an order of basic things such as homework without falling too far behind.

So what works? For me, things clicked when I went back home over break. When I sat with my family members and laughed over winter vacation, I looked around and realized that the people around me loved me for me.

Sadly, this was a feeling that I had not felt for a while. It didn’t matter what my political ideology was, how fast

I could run or what board I was on, I was just “Cal,” and that was more than enough for them to bombard me with food, love and a few too many hugs.

When I came back to campus this semester, in light

about something other than Penn or Donald Trump?

But this doesn’t stop at home. For example, Ms. Holmes, who works as a security guard at my dorm, Harrison College House, effortlessly helps me check

When it comes to the Penn Bubble, we forget just how many people outside of us experience what we experience, walk through the same halls we walk through, and eat the same food we do.” of everything that has happened, I’ve done my best to see people beyond the Penn bubble (such as their contributions, major or hobbies) and made efforts to search for who they truly are and what they love to do. How many times have you gotten food with a friend and talked

in with myself, even on the days I feel like I already have everything together.

“Cal from Cal’s Corner!” she always says. We talk, laugh and even dance a little sometimes, because the best times I’ve experienced in life aren’t on my resume.

When it comes to the Penn

bubble, we forget just how many people outside of us experience what we experience, walk through the same halls we walk through and eat the same food we do.

For example, as there are rumors about the status of Fresh Grocer, it’s a shame that we discuss what could possibly replace it without once thinking about the many people who depend on it to provide for their families. Even last year, when a Pottruck worker whom many of us had seen and interacted with tragically died, we didn’t mourn his loss the same way we would have for a student. We never even ask why that is.

I firmly believe that the first step in overcoming the Penn bubble is to realize you are in it. For me, I have realized that it is either I overcome the Penn bubble and the toxic culture it enhances, or the Penn bubble and its toxic culture overcomes me.

So, call your parents not because you “have to” but because you want to. Try to eat breakfast. Relax your shoulders. Treat the janitor

CALVARY ROGERS with the same respect as the CEO not because it’s trendy but because there is no difference between them.

This clicked when I checked in with those who know me best and started to value the workers across campus the same way I did my professors. I encourage you all to try it out and do the same. Take the time to step out of the Penn bubble; it might just be a breath of fresh air.

CALVARY ROGERS is a College sophomore from Rochester, N.Y., studying political science.

His email address is calvary@ sas.upenn.edu. “Cal’s Corner” usually appears ever y Wednesday

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more safe and efficient, and that’s really exciting,” she said.

The team’s 12 investigators come from the Engineering School, the School of Design, the Perelman School of Medicine, Penn Law School and the Wharton School at Penn and each take on interdisciplinary projects addressing important questions that may arise with an increase in innovation in transportation.

Projects tackle issues that stem from ground transportation, like pedestrian traffic fatalities, to those that arise from navigating air space, as companies like Amazon and Google begin to transport goods via drones.

Penn Director of Mobility21 and Engineering professor Rahul

Mangharam’s primary research centers on what a driver’s license for an autonomous car should be and how to make them safe so that people can “trust and release control to this decision making engine.”

“This is a very scary situation because there have been a lot of accidents,” Mangharam said.

“Even though [the autonomous vehicles] have driven millions of miles in a driverless manner, they haven’t even certified a simple lane change.”

But the prospect of switching over to autonomous vehicles has implications in other fields as well. Mangharam works with Penn Law professor and expert on insurance law Tom Baker to address whether or not the driver can still be fully liable in accidents with cars that are mostly

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Ryerson looks at the implications of increased automation on the way people take long distance trips. Instead of taking flights, people are likely to choose the more efficient, inexpensive route, especially when the driverless format is still conducive to a more relaxing trip, and the driver has the option of texting or napping. She then develops models of the intercity transportation system to make the entire system more efficient and also to prepare for possible congestion.

A professor of City and Regional Planning at the School of Design, Erick Guerra, has focused some of his research on better understanding what causes traffic fatalities and hopes to figure out how cities and local governments can respond in

order to reduce fatalities. The team works closely with officials in Pennsylvania state government and the Philadelphia Mayor’s Office, which has adopted the Vision Zero mentality, placing responsibility for traffic fatalities on the collective, rather than the individual, and striving to eliminate traffic fatalities entirely.

“As a University of Pennsylvania alumna, I am thrilled that the U.S. Department of Transportation has again tapped the university for a role in insuring the state remains a transportation leader,” the Secretary of Pennsylvania’s Department of

Transportation and 1993 School of Design graduate Leslie Richards said in an email statement.

“This latest designation means the University of Pennsylvania will continue to play a leading role in shaping the future of transportation in Philadelphia and across the state.”

The team said they hope the center will function as a focal point for the diversity of research at Penn and continue to engage students in the Penn community from a variety of different schools. Mobility21 plans to do this, in part, at a consortium meeting on Jan. 31, where it will

bring together researchers and officials involved in transportation to help hone the research agenda.

“We have researchers that are hungry for research questions that have real applications, and people at the Mayor’s office, CVRP, at SEPTA have real problems that they’re facing,” Ryerson said. “So the goal is really to bring people together to share problems and solution methods and [figure out] how we can organize our research in a way that is most beneficial to mobility and safety in Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania and then more broadly.”

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Chipotle shuts down after reported health violations

Here’s what Gourmet Grocer is adding to its menu

The store reportedly had a ‘missing business license’

Coming soon: soups, salad bar and breakfast

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Penn’s Chipotle location is once again having trouble with the Department of Public Health.

Earlier today, the Chipotle at 39th and Walnut Streets was shut down for health code violations.

According to a notice posted by the city’s Department of Public Health, the store was ordered to cease operations at 12:15 p.m.

Tuesday afternoon.

A Chipotle employee at the store’s entrance told people at the door that the store was closed due to a “missing business certificate.” He also added that the store is currently in the process of obtaining the required certificate.

The notice says that the store failed to comply with Title 6 Chapter 6-300 of the health

For Penn students constantly on the go, fitting a quality meal into a busy schedule is about to get easier.

Gour met Grocer, the on-campus retail market underneath 1920 Commons residential dining facility, is undergoing a process of expansion to incorporate a greater variety of hot and cold pre-made meals that are slated be available to the Penn community by the second week in February.

Among the additions to the menu are a variety of hot entrees, soups, a full salad bar and breakfast sandwiches. According to Bon Appetit retail manager Kyle Grizzard, there will also be a new section showcasing local food products.

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The Chipotle on Walnut Street near 39th closed around noon on Tuesday after reports of a “missing business license.”

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to Philadelphia much easier.

“Some of my friends are also from pretty rural states, like Idaho and Colorado,” she explained. “So they knew what it felt like to be from a state with pretty small representation here.”

Harrower also described the vast difference in security between Wyoming and Pennsylvania.

“I used to leave my keys in my car with it unlocked when I would leave, and if you ever tried to do that in Philly, your car would get stolen immediately,” she said.

Wharton freshman Rachel Trenne also felt the sense of loneliness as the only student in the Class of 2020 from North Dakota, especially when she

code, which broadly refers to the “Food” section of the official Philadelphia Code.

When a Daily Pennsylvanian reporter called the store earlier today, an employee on the line hung up when asked about the violation.

The same store was previously

closed for health violations after the fast-food chain was linked to an E. coli outbreak in nine different states at the end of 2015.

At least 50 people became sick during the outbreak.

The Philadelphia Department of Public Health was not immediately available for comment.

first arrived at Penn without knowing anyone.

“It’s definitely a conversation starter, though,” she acknowledged. “People are usually really curious about what it’s like to be from North Dakota, and it’s cool to be a representative from my state.”

Though Trenne said she wished she had had a fellow North Dakotan to confide in before transitioning to Philadelphia, she has adapted to life at Penn well.

“One big difference between North Dakota and Philly is that you can’t see stars here, which is really bizarre because you could always see stars in my hometown,” she said. “And the air quality is significantly worse.”

One thing Trenne doesn’t miss from home is the weather.

“Winters are significantly nicer here,” she said. “When I

was home, it was like 30 below.”

Wharton freshman Jill Rosenthal said she actually enjoys being the only student in her class from Iowa.

“I think it’s a fun talking point,” she said. “It’s definitely fun to see everyone’s reactions when you say you’re from, in my case, Iowa because you get shock and confusion and horror.”

Rosenthal had previous exposure to the East Coast because she attended boarding school in Connecticut, so living in Philadelphia was not a dramatic change for her.

“Where I’m from, it’s very common to stay in Iowa for school and for the rest of your life, around your family and around what you know,” she said. “Whereas here, it’s always about what’s new, it’s always about exploring, it’s always about traveling.”

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Some students anticipate adding portable meals into their schedules.

“I will definitely use the new Gourmet Grocer on the go when I’m running to class to pick something up really quickly,” College freshman Sarah Fleming said.

Others are excited that the items will still be available for purchase using Dining Dollars, PennCash and SFS credit, along with regular cash or credit.

“I really like it because it gives you another option of where to use Dining Dollars,” College freshman Katherine Palmer said, who is currently on the “Best Food Fit” first-year dining plan, which provides students with 125 meal swipes and $500 in Dining Dollars per semester.

“Sometimes Houston will be closed, and I don’t want to go to a dining hall,” Palmer said.

The Gourmet Grocer is

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Undergrad sports biz. club hosts soccer panel Panelists discuss future of the sport in the U.S. JONATHAN POLLACK Sports Editor

“Soccer is the fastest growing sports market in the US.�

That statement, as well as many others on the state of soccer domestically and abroad, featured prominently on Monday evening at the Undergrate Sports Business Club’s “Inside the Industry: Soccer� Panel. The event, which USBC hosted in conjunction with the Wharton Sports Business Initiative, gave students an inside look into one of the biggest international sports.

In front of a packed room filled with students, athletes and coaches, a panel of seven Penn graduates employed in a wide array of jobs relating to the soccer world. From a recent graduate of the FIFA Masters Program to the Head of Business Operations at FOX Sports to an analyst Skyping

in from London, the panelists answered questions from moderator Jonathan Tannenwald (C ‘06) and students.

The event was the brainchild of Tannenwald, a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer and former Daily Pennsylvanian reporter, who sat on the panel and worked with USBC to organize the event. “Initially, towards the end of last semester, Tannenwald reached out to me and said he spoke to the women’s soccer coaches with this idea of something he wanted to put together,�

USBC president Jared Faust said. “And when I started to run the club this semester, he reached out to me, gave me a list of people who would potentially be interested, and just our luck, we found one night that they were all able to come, which was pretty awesome.�

The topics ranged from relegation and promotion in the MLS, to the influence of Hispanic soccer in the US, to the different career paths people can take in soccer,

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A panel of seven Penn alumni gathered in Huntsman Hall on Monday to discuss the growth and future of soccer in the United States in an event hosted by the Undergraduate Sports Business Club.

but a lot of the night focused on the growth and popularity of soccer in the U.S. In particular, the panelists talked about how

they believed success from both the men’s and women’s national teams can influence the growth of the MLS and club soccer, as they

painted a hopeful vision for the future of U.S. soccer.

The questions were often tailored to the roles that each

panelist currently has in relation to the realm of soccer. For example, Rick Resnick (C ‘87 and W ‘87), who works as the Vice President of Sports Marketing at Univision, talked at length about how important the market for Mexican soccer is to the rising interest in soccer in the U.S. The wide assortment of jobs that the panelists had was a point of emphasis for USBC coming into the event. “I think it was really important not only to hear all of this from alumni, but from people across a wide variety of fields,� Faust said. “We have people who are in brand marketing, people who are on the TV side, Professor Scott Rosner [who teaches sports business at the University] here, and the career advice was obviously extremely helpful there.�

At the end of the day, the purpose of the event was to give students exposure to the industry and show them what kind of positions are available to them in the field, and it did just that.

Roundtable: Why should the Big 5 matter for Penn basketball?

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discuss Philly’s hoops

SPORTS EDITORS Both Penn men’s and women’s basketball are 0-3 in Big 5 play thus far, with the men’s matchup at La Salle tonight and the women’s hosting of Temple representing each team’s final chance at snagging a Big 5 win.

Needless to say, this lack of success has been disappointing, particularly so for a women’s team that won the Big 5 as recently as 2015. Additionally, the games often complicated the teams’ schedules with tricky, sometimes mid-week fixtures.

With these struggles in mind, our sports editors take to the roundtable to debate: why should the Big 5 matter to Penn basketball?

Cole Jacobson, Sports Editor: Yes, it’s true that if you

mentioned the phrase “Big 5� to the average Penn student right now, you’d probably have more people refer to the sporting goods store than the mini basketball conference. It’s clear that the student energy surrounding the Big 5 isn’t where it was during the glory days of the late 20th century.

But the question wasn’t whether the Big 5 matters to the student body — it was whether the mini-conference matters to Penn men’s and women’s basketball themselves. And to that, the answer is a resounding yes.

The most undeniable trait of Philadelphia basketball is that the rivalries are historically intense, and that would be the case even if the gyms were totally empty (which, if you saw the men’s contests against Villanova and St. Joseph’s earlier this year, you would know not to be true). Many

of these athletes played high school ball either with or against each other, leading to longtime relationships and rivalries that only ramp up further at the college level. Furthermore, the intimacy between these players only grows more as a result of the notoriously competitive summer pick-up circuit in Philly.

And this doesn’t even account for the familiarity shown between the coaches, whose history confirms the meaning of “City of Brotherly Love.� Penn head coach Steve Donahue used to coach under Temple’s Dunphy, who also played and coached at La Salle. Penn assistant coach Joe Mihalich Jr. is the son of former La Salle player and head coach Joe Sr., while St. Joe’s’ Phil Martelli and Villanova’s Jay Wright are both Philadelphia natives who have been at their schools for north of 20 years.

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With 11 Ivy games to follow, this game certainly looks like the last true opportunity for the Red and Blue to fix any weak spots. “This game is as good as we’ll see for the rest of the year,� Donahue said. “It’s our last real chance to figure out exactly how we’re going to improve on those first few conference games.�

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undeniable. The Big 5 has been around for over 60 years and its primary host, the Palestra, is celebrating its 90th anniversary this season. On top of that, four of its men’s teams (St. Joe’s, Villanova, Penn, and Temple) rank in the top fifty in all-time most winningest programs.

Perhaps even more important than the history, however, is the pride. It is easy for outsiders to discount Ivy League basketball, and no Penn basketball team has ever won a national championship, so the Big 5 often represents Penn’s best chance to make a name for itself. With a college basketball scene as rich as Philly’s, competing the Big 5 is definitely still a big deal for Penn basketball.

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Both on the floor and on the sidelines, the intimacy and competitive nature between these five schools is as present as ever.

Yosi Weitzman, Associate Sports Editor: Unfortunately, Big 5 basketball seems to be losing importance year by year. It doesn’t help that both Penn teams are winless so far this season, but it wouldn’t even help that much if both were undefeated. Let’s be honest, both of these teams’ only shot at making the NCAA tournament is definitely through winning the Ivy League. The women’s team could maybe pick up an at-large bid (à la Princeton in 2016), but history isn’t on the Ivy League’s side with that one.

All that said, as someone who grew up in Philly (partly), I can tell you that the Big 5 still matters.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017

DEATH, TAXES, AND TONY ROMO INJURIES

Goal setting through sports is important preparation for life ZACK DIGREGORIO

While I was home for winter break, I was at a holiday party catching up with old family friends and came to an interesting, yet unsurprising conclusion: the main demographic for these columns is not actually Penn students, but middle-aged men with whom my dad is friends with on Facebook.

They say every great writer must know his audience, so, from here on out, I will be writing exclusively about Bruce Springsteen, a disdain for video games, and how much better the 80’s were than any given time period.

This decade may have Beyoncé and Kanye, but basically all movies are sequels nowadays. The kids don’t know what they missedthe 80’s had Top Gun, Airplane, AND Caddyshack.

I’m just kidding. That was just one of many column ideas I pitched before the editors finally let me write this one.

These conversations did, however, make me think about how finite my own athletic career is,

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earlier this season and is averaging an astounding 18.4 points per game.

Coach McLaughlin understands the challenge his team is up against better than anybody, calling the Owls an “NCAA Tournament-caliber team.” But despite Temple’s gaudy stats and the injury to Penn starting guard Lauren Whitlatch, he believes his team is prepared to handle the Owls the traditional Penn way: through teamwork.

“We’re going to have to [work] collectively. We’re going to have to team-defend them,

NICK BUCHTA | SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR-EMERITUS

When Penn sprint football quarterback Zack DiGregorio came to the program, he knew he wanted to leave the team better than he found it – that unquantifiable goal was good preparation for life, he argues.

and what I want to make of it. As everyone reminded me when talking about sports, “it goes fast” and “you only get so many games.”

As someone who is painfully aware of my own athletic mortality, I am constantly thinking about the clock ticking down on my own playing career. My personal

athletic goals have changed plenty of times since I was an 8th grader, hellbent on winning a Rose Bowl as the quarterback for USC. I have accomplished some goals, failed to achieve most other goals (see: column in which I admit to being a loser), but with time I think I have been able to refine the goals

and make sure we keep them in front of us.” McLaughlin said.

“Last game, [Villanova] forced us to guard one-on-one. That’s not going to end well for us, especially against a really skilled player.”

McLaughlin did note that the Quakers were able to impose their style of play in last season’s matchup. In that game, junior forward Michelle Nwokedi put up 22 points and what was then a career-high 16 rebounds in a 60-54 win. “[We] just have to play the way that we can. Get everybody involved [again]. I couldn’t have done that without my teammates so obviously, everyone

just needs to be on board,” Nwokedi said.

“We have to put our style out there. If we go running up and down the court with them, it’s not going to go our way,” McLaughlin added.

McLaughlin predicts that the Quakers will be able to impose their will early, but it remains to be seen whether they can contain Temple’s offense, and for how long. In games like these, endurance can be a problem, as Penn fans saw in last year’s tou r na ment matchup with Washington.

None of that bothers Michelle Nwokedi though: “I think we’ll be ok.”

I make for myself, athletic and otherwise, to make them both bolder and more attainable.

In athletics at any level, goals must be specific to have any reasonable chance of being accomplished. These goals can be big or small. Here at Penn, most teams aim to win an Ivy League

Championship, as opposed to my high school baseball team, not exactly a traditional power house, that set a goal of winning 10 games for the first time in almost 20 years (a goal we did not accomplish, despite the sweet #QuestForTen shirts one of the parents made for us).

These specific goals, especially in sports, give us a great template as to how to set short term goals.

They are often binary — you win or you don’t — and then you have a whole offseason to try to accomplish those goals and address areas where you were weak.

Maybe you lost too many games because of turnovers, so you work on ball control in the gym or on the practice field. Maybe your team had injury issues so you get smarter about how you use the weight room. Whatever the case, a team or a player can usually point to an area or areas that they can do to improve going forward.

Essentially, it’s one big game of trial and error. If you strike out, you have a next at bat to see the curve ball coming or keep your eye on the fastball you know is coming on the first pitch. Likewise, I am still trying to correct for not being 6-foot-4 in my Rose Bowl fantasy.

But as I’ve learned, some goals

have to be more nebulous, more unformed. A majority of high school and college athletes do not go on to play professionally or represent their country after their college career is over. But for me, and many I know here at Penn and at other schools, while we know our names won’t be called at the NFL draft, we want to leave our programs in better shape than we got them. There is no one measure for success or failure for this — there are too many things that make certain programs unique and great.

It allows you, though, to move from the world of sports, where goals are often very binary and tangible, to the real world, where the scores are much more complex, and wins and losses are much more muddled. You have to come up with your own measures of success, and transition to a more complex view where goals and outcomes won’t be so simple, but will be important all the same.

ZACK DIGREGORIO is a College junior from Princeton, NJ., and is a member of Penn sprint football.

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M. HOOPS | Quakers seek first

win from Big 5 in their final JACOB SNYDER Associate Sports Editor TONIGHT

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This is not a spot that any of the Penn men’s basketball faithful wanted to be in.

Losers of four straight, the Quakers know that as the losses pile up, so do their chances of earning a spot in

this year’s inaugural Ivy League Tournament. But not to worry — the Red and Blue travel across town to La Salle Tuesday night with one last chance to iron out the wrinkles before resuming conference play in February.

The Explorers (11-6, 5-2 Atlantic 10) have been impressive for large portions of this season, reeling off five consecutive victories to begin 2017. Fortunately for Penn (6-9, 0-3), La Salle’s most recent outing was slightly less impressive. The Dark Blue and Gold squared off against VCU in a true test of their credentials, but failed to show up in a 90-52 drubbing at the hands of the Rams. However, the Quakers should be wary of the Explorers’ clout at home this season. Not only has La Salle not SEE LA SALLE PAGE 10

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The core of No. 6 Penn men’s fencing can be traced back to a childhood bond formed across the country nearly a decade ago.

Jake Raynis and Justin Yoo, both epee fencers from California, have been instrumental in Penn’s success both this year and last.

Imagining this team without either of these two seems odd, but it was almost a reality.

Raynis and Yoo met when they were 12 and 11 years old, respectively, and from that point on did basically all of their fencing together. Though their high school team was not highly competitive, they also fenced for the same club team throughout high school, strengthening their friendship even further.

As the older of the two, Raynis was the first to pick a school.

His older brother was also a

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Unfortunately for Penn women’s basketball, it’s not an Ivy League week – it’s Big 5.

Penn (9-5, 0 -3 Big 5) looks to avoid going winless in the Big 5 as it gets set to take on Temple (15-3, 3-0) on Wednesday. This week represents the final two nonconference games of the year for the Quakers as they take a quick break from the Ivy League, where they are undefeated.

In some respects, the break couldn’t have come at a worse time. Entering the Villanova game last week, Penn had been on a six-game win streak, including three straight over Ivy foes Princeton, Yale and Brown.

Instead of allowing the Quakers to continue their momentum, though, the schedule dictated two tough matchups against nationally relevant opponents. First came last week’s loss to Villanova, and now looms a date with current American Athletic Conference leaders Temple.

Temple enters the matchup on an 11-game win streak of its own, having scored over 70 points seven times during that stretch, including an

collegiate fencer; his brother, however, fenced at rival Harvard.

Jake chose not to join his brother, instead coming to Penn and helping to raise the program to a new level.

“I knew a lot of people on the Penn team,” he explained, “and they all had really good things to say about the program.”

Landing Raynis was crucial for Penn’s program, not only because he is a highly skilled fencer, but also because his ties to Yoo made it much more likely that he would also choose Penn.

“I would say some part of my decision to fence at Penn was Jake,” Yoo said. “Jake being here gave me a sense of comfort before I even started.”

The importance of recruiting Yoo to Penn went beyond just friendship for Raynis.

“Justin is the best fencer for his age category by a mile,” Raynis said. “I knew that getting him would be great for the team.”

Since the two have been on the team together, the results have been excellent. Last year the duo

helped Penn achieve its first ever No. 1 ranking and its first Ivy title since 2009. Raynis went 35-20 in dual matches last season, while Yoo finished at 46-16.

Both hope that last year’s success will carry into this year as well. Now with a year under his belt, Yoo can more accurately project the success the team is capable of this year.

“Winning NCAAs [where men’s and women’s teams are scored together] is a reach, because the women’s fencing side [nationwide] is very strong,” last year’s second team All-American explained, “but winning the Ivies and finishing the season in first is our main goal.”

With the childhood friends fencing at this high of a level, the Quakers have reason to be excited for the rest of the season.

Though it may have seemed unlikely at a point that Penn would even get one of the two Californians, the two have become the backbone of a team with aspirations to be the best the Quakers have ever had.

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Penn women’s basketball has a behemoth to face in Temple.

Junior forward Michelle Nwokedi will be a go-to on offense.

83-48 walloping of Villanova.

The high-flying Owls play a quick game centered by their guards, a far cry from Penn’s slower emphasis on the interior.

“Their guard play is as good as you’re going to see ... this group is comparable to Duke’s,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “They can beat you in transition, in the

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half court, they can score from behind the arc, they can get to the basket ... We have our work cut out for us.”

At least one Temple guard has been getting national attention for her scoring abilities. Senior guard Feyonda Fitzgerald was chosen as ESPNW’s Player of the Week SEE TEMPLE PAGE 11

LIZZY MACHIELSE | ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR

Sophomore Epee Justin Yoo and Junior Epee Jake Raynis, both integral members of Penn men’s fencing’s Ivy League title defense, are much more than just college teammates — they are childhood friends.

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