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Administrative roadblock to AEPi return AEPi left campus in 2012 due to hazing allegations

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Penn’s AEPi chapter closed voluntarily in the spring of 2012 as a result of “a serious violation of the University’s anti-hazing policy,” wrote Director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life Scott Reikofski in an emailed statement. AEPi’s offcampus form is best known as

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An attempt to bring a chapter of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity back to campus is underway without approval from

APES. While some students hope to bring back the nationallyrecognized AEPi to campus, Reikofski wrote, “If individuals are attempting to restart the chapter, they are doing so against OFSL procedures, in violation SEE AEPi PAGE 7

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White House ranked Penn the least-affordable Ivy

Services indicate that Penn is actually among the least affordable universities in the Ivy League.

JACK CAHN According to the federal governStaff Reporter ment’s “College Scoreboard,” Penn students on average take out $20,407 Administrators tout affordability, in loans — the highest amount press releases emphasize access and among all Ivy League universities. brochures highlight no-loan financial The federal government is not alone aid — but the numbers tell a very dif- in singling out Penn for its lack of afferent story. fordability. Business Insider ranked Statistics released by peer in- Penn the third least affordable Ivy in stitutions, the White House and its 2013 college rankings. In terms of even Penn’s own Student Financial cost of attendance, Penn’s $64,200

total cost of attendance is the second most expensive among Ivy League universities for the 2014-15 academic year.

In a meeting with Student Registration and Financial Services Associate Vice President Michelle Brown-Nevers, Financial Aid Director Joel Carstens and Credit Services Senior Director Sharon Pepe, SFS provided updated counter statistics from the Institute for College Access and Success evidencing that Penn does not have the highest median

student indebtedness in the Ivy League. Rather, Penn has the third highest indebtedness, with students incurring an average debt of $19,798 as of 2013.

He also pointed out flaws in the federal government’s methodology.

“The whitehouse.gov information is 2011 data. My concern is that you’re using some stale information,” Carstens said. “As an institution, we feel more confident in what we’re reporting and what our peers are reporting,” he said in reference to data

that universities provide to TICAS. Carstens isn’t alone in questioning the federal government’s statistics. In a public response to the Postsecondary Institution Rating System, Penn President Amy Gutmann wrote that “the most distinctive characteristics of the University of Pennsylvania’s financial support are not, however, captured in currently available data that apply to all institutions.” Furthermore, she argued that Penn’s SEE PENN AFFORDABLE PAGE 2

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The science behind blacking out

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Women’s soccer coach resigns unexpectedly

Students, experts discuss the phenomenon

Darren Ambrose leaves for Vanderbilt after 15 seasons at Penn

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On a typical weekend, Penn students can often count on a friend talking about blacking out. Reagan Wetherill, a research assistant professor at Penn who focuses on blackouts specifically, explained the phenomenon.

Forty percent of college students will experience a blackout, Wetherill said.

She added that people who experience blackouts are predisposed to experience more of them after the initial blackout.

“Usually when I blackout,

In the age of social media it’s hard to keep a secret. But when the athletes of Penn women’s soccer were called in for a meeting with coach Darren Ambrose on Thursday afternoon, none of the players had heard the news yet.

At 4:30 p.m., Ambrose informed his players together that he would be resigning immediately to accept the head coaching position at Vanderbilt University.

Ambrose, the winningest coach in Penn women’s soccer program history, coached the Quakers for 15 seasons, never posting a losing record in any year of his tenure while winning 148 games and the program’s three Ivy League titles.

Ambrose commented on the atmosphere in the room when he made his announcement.

“It was the most emotional athletic meeting I’ve had as a coach or a player,” Ambrose said in an interview. “Some girls were visibly shaken.

A lot of tears were shed.”

“Leaving Penn is the most difficult decision I have had to make to this point in my life,” he added in a press release. “The student-athletes, the coaches and the administration have been a major part of my life, both professionally and personally, for the past 15 years. I will leave behind a huge part of me as I make the transition. Penn and its athletic department will always hold a very special place in my heart.”

Ambrose went 148-73-35 overall, while finishing 54-34-17 in 105 career Ivy matches. The program’s most recent Ivy League title came in 2010, while the Red and Blue finished 8-5-3 with a 3-3-1 Ivy record this season.

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it’s an accident,” Nursing sophomore Rachel, who has blacked out multiple times, said. “Sometimes, I’ll start drinking and I don’t feel it, so I’ll continue to take more shots, but then it’ll hit me,” Rachel, who preferred her last name to not be used, said.

Wether ill expla ined the two types of blackout.

What most consider blacking out is called en bloc, which is characterized by complete memory loss, high blood alcohol content and often results in passing out. “Browning out,” on the other hand, is fragmentary and characterized by piecing together the evening in the morning and not remembering getting home.

[T]he events that terrorized France in early January shouldn’t make us think about free speech. What those attacks concern ... was the question of terrorism.”

In a blacked-out brain, Wetherill said, information from an individual’s surrounding goes into shortterm memory but is not encoded into long-term memory.

“I think blacking out is kind of scary in general, but at the same time, I’ve never lost my phone, I’ve never been hospitalized,” Rachel said. Since losing her keys the third night of college, she has not lost anything since. “I’m not super worried — it’s college.”

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“commitment to aggressively recruiting students from underserved and underrepresented populations” was not appropriately captured.

Even according to SFS’s own statistics, however, Penn students take out more loans than students at comparable institutions. Their TICAS reports indicate that 36 percent of Penn students take out loans, the third highest rate among Ivy League universities.

Furthermore, the average loan amount, which is currently close to $20,000, has held steady since 2009.

SFS, however, doesn’t think that the high number of students taking out loans is necessarily a bad thing.

They point out that 16 percent of Penn students receive Pell Grants, indicating that Penn has the second largest low-income population in the Ivy League, second only to Columbia, and that could explain

why so many students have to take out loans. They also note that only 5 percent of Penn students take out nonfederal loans — the rest receive low-interest debt through federal programs.

“The fact that we have an allgrant aid policy that doesn’t require them to borrow means that it’s now a long-term debt instrument that the family can use to help pay their cost. It’s not that the family can’t afford what we’ve determined, it’s that they have alternative methods they can use to pay that cost,” Carstens said. “I think what we see most often, as far as the average student, is that they’re borrowing because it’s available to them, not because it’s required.”

Students of all backgrounds, however, said they had no other choice. “It’s out of necessity.”

College freshman Leigh Ann Eisenhauer said. “It’s not like I’m taking out loans just because they’re available to me.”

Eisenhauer, who hails from a middle class family and did not

receive financial aid despite numerous appeals, has already taken out $12,000 in loans and expects to take out more in the future. “My parents shouldn’t have to work 10 more years to put me through college,” she said.

College freshman Rita Wegner, who is on financial aid, has been put in an even worse situation — both she and her parents have taken out loans. “My total [loan amount] is $3,500,” she said. “My parents took out the rest of what Penn didn’t give me” — a total of $15,000 — “because we felt we couldn’t pay anything.” Both Wegner and Eisenhauer said that they didn’t receive enough money because they owned a house. “You can’t just sell your house and buy a new house and use that money for college,” Wegner said.

For these students, debt is much more than a number. Unlike most other debt, student loans generally cannot be discharged in bankruptcy, and the government can garnish wages or take tax refunds

or Social Security payments to recover the money owed. Graduating with debt can have long-term consequences – it makes it more difficult to fundraise for a small business and can create obstacles in getting a mortgage for a house.

Debt also affects day-to-day life on campus. “It really impacts how you look at future careers because you’re not only trying to be financially secure but you have all this debt you’re graduating with that you have to handle,” Eisenhauer said. “I pay for everything here and so I’m limited in what I can do... I think a lot of people are excluded because of that.”

Whether or not Penn is affordable, the administration is making efforts to reduce student debt. Between 2009 and 2013 the number of students taking out loans fell from 41 percent to 36 percent.

“Our goal is to get to a broader section of the undergraduate students and find more information about why students take out loans,” Carstens said.

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Campus Maps makes it easier to find your classes Bhandari hopes to add housing and job functions EMILY OFFIT Staff Reporter

With another mobile app joining the campus directory ranks at Penn, students may soon have to think of another excuse for being late to class.

App developer Vikram Bhandari created a straightforward campus map app for Androids and iPhones that will be sure to provide easy directions everywhere on campus.

The app, appropriately dubbed Campus Maps , was founded originally at the University of Maryland in 2011, where Bhandari needed it to find his own classes. His app is now avidly used and enjoyed by 70 percent of Maryland students and is on a similar trajectory at Penn, with 250 students currently using it.

The official launch date at Penn, when Bhandari plans to travel to campus and spend more effort promoting the app, will be in August of this year.

What sets Campus Maps apart is “its streamlined approach,” Bhandari said. “Other apps have too many tabs and figures that only kind of work. I wanted to do one thing really well.”

Some Penn students may already be familiar with another map app. Earnest Long, 2013 Engineering graduate, founded Penn Campus Explorer, which serves a similar purpose, two years ago.

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lost three debit card and broken my phone. At Lollapalooza I lost an entire backpack,” she said.

Rachel offered some words of advice to those who think they might be blacking out too often.

“If you’re blacking out and it’s causing problems in your sober life, its a problem,” she added. “If your friends have to take care of you every weekend, it’s annoying, it’s creating problems, you need to stop drinking so much.” The last time Rachel blacked out was Friday night.

Amanda said she blacked out more second semester of her freshman year after joining a sorority, but still blacks out often.

She said she doesn’t usually have full en block blackouts — she reserves those for occasions that typically involve more drinking, such as her birthday or formals, which she tries to plan in advance for and “be intelligent about my drinking.” However, she said she browns out about every two weeks.

“I don’t love blacking out,” she said. “I don’t get sick ever, so it is

something that could help freshmen during NSO,” Long said. “It was my first app, and I wanted to make something simple and useful.”

Right now, Penn Campus Explorer is only available for Androids, but Long hopes to make it available for Apple users again in the near future. Long currently works on phone apps in his spare time and is promoting a game app for Androids called the Measure Game.

It is unclear whether Penn students are truly benefiting from mobile apps to help find their classes, as Penn InTouch provides links to building maps in its course descriptions, and many students prefer to use their computers.

Bhandari isn’t stopping with maps, though — he also hopes to expand his app to include housing reviews and nearby job opportunities for students.

“Other job websites don’t realize that students want a job that is in walking distance,” Bhandari said. “My app will show jobs that are within one mile.”

Even when students are late for class, Campus Maps might be a quick solution. The average time that Penn students spend looking up their destinations is a speedy eight seconds, with an overall average time spent on the app of one minute.

The housing and job search portion of his app will be available in the future for a small price, but Bhandari promises that users will be “provided better values for their money.”

better than throwing up I guess.”

College junior Sara Jones, the chief of Medical Emergency Response Team, explained that when students call the service, the call gets automatically sent to Philadelphia fire department medics as well. Half of MERT’s calls are alcohol-related, she said.

While MERT provides the first response, once the medics arrive, they usually transport the patient to the hospital and out of MERT’s hands.

“It’s unfortunate that people only associate us with the ambulance or hospital bill because we are only trying to help,” Jones said. “But the payoff is seeing people’s friends after we have stabilized them, or made sure they’re okay. They realize in the aftermath that our main goal is the student’s safety.”

However, students continue to blackout every weekend, despite horror stories from their friends.

It is part of not only Penn’s, but Philadelphia’s culture, Wetherill explained.

“Pregaming, frats and sororities, as well as Philly being a city of drinkers, all contribute to blackouts,” she said.

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Rep. Schreiber up against a majority-Republican House DAN SPINELLI Staff Reporter

Voter registration may get a bit easier for Penn students.

A new bill proposed by Rep. Kevin Schreiber (D-York) will attempt to push same-day voter registration through the Pennsylvania state legislature.

Under current Pennsylvania law, voters must register 30 days before the general election. Schreiber believes such an early deadline handicaps voters who may not be thinking about the election so far in advance.

College students are one key demographic that Schreiber hopes his new bill will target. In an interview this week with the York Dispatch, Schreiber described college students as likely to forget about voting until close to Election Day. Members of Penn Leads the Vote, a nonpartisan group that organizes voter registration drives on campus, found Schreiber’s assessment to be accurate for the 2014 midterm elections.

“As someone who worked at a polling station, I found a lot of people coming up who asked if they could vote without registering,” PLTV Registration Chair and College sophomore of Anna Bedrosian said.

Same-day registration would certainly help turnout, Bedrosian said.

A study conducted by the public policy organization Demos concluded that states with same-day voter registration average a 10 percent greater turnout than states without the policy. According to the study, same-day registration especially increased voter turnout among blacks. In North Carolina, which recently eliminated its same-day registration program, 41 percent of voters who registered on the 2012 Election Day were black, compared to just 20 percent of the population.

Schreiber also hopes to implement electronic registration forms in statewide elections. Voters currently have to send paper registration forms to Harrisburg.

Bedrosian acknowledged inefficiencies in the pen-and-paper system.

“I have heard people who have tried to register but never heard back [from Harrisburg],” she said.

“It’s a lot easier for something to get lost in physical mail.

Electronic registration would streamline the process,” PLTV President and College junior Sean Hamamoto said.

Bedrosian and Hamamoto both agreed with Schreiber’s initiative, but noted the lower turnout of midterm elections in general. Only 36 percent of registered voters went to the polls in Philadelphia for the 2014 midterm elections, the lowest turnout since 1998.

At Penn, voter turnout in midterm elections has gone down nearly 24 percent since the last midterm election in 2010.

Though same-day registration is proven to increase turnout, most states, including Pennsylvania, view the option as politically

infeasible. Only 12 states currently have same-day registration, and the Democratic Schreiber has already seen pushback from Pennsylvania House Republicans.

Schreiber’s office did not return request for comment before the time of publication.

Republicans control both chambers of the Pennsylvania legislature with strong majorities, and they are unlikely to approve Schreiber’s changes. A similar bill introduced in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives’ last term failed to reach the governor’s desk.

Most Republicans in the Pa. House view same-day registration as a facilitator of voter fraud and would only support it if voter IDs were also mandated. Democrats have opposed voter ID implementation in the past.

While Schreiber’s bill may fail to translate into law, his suggestions reflect growing voter apathy among millennials.

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ANOTHER LOOK | The assault on Charlie Hebdo shouldn’t make us ask ourselves about the limit of free speech

s a recent article in The Daily Pennsylvanian pointed out, the attacks of early January on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo “triggered discourse around the world about free speech, comedy and their consequences.”

To anyone who follows the news, this much is clear. In relation to the attacks, we’ve talked about hate speech, racism and the degree of respect journalists ought to afford the religious symbols many people hold sacred. The DP’s brief coverage of comedy groups at Penn follows in this vein.

As I read through that piece and the many articles sparked by the Charlie Hebdo nightmare that preceded it, I couldn’t help but feel that something was off.

A lot of people, it seems to me, are missing the point.

Though they may have sparked a great deal of debate around the issue, the events that terrorized France for three days in early January shouldn’t make us think about free speech.

What those attacks concerned

was not the question of free speech and its limitations; it was the question of terrorism.

We talk about the limits of free speech in terms of what sorts of speech are acceptable for a legitimate government to sanction. In the case of Charlie Hebdo on Jan. 7, this question

debate.

No one, save for a few bloodthirsty extremists, believes the men who walked into the magazine’s office and started firing at unarmed journalists were justified in doing what they did. It doesn’t matter what Charlie Hebdo published

justification for retaliating against someone’s expression with brutality. I don’t think I’m alone in believing that this idea is ridiculous. Any attempt to make sense of those actions with legitimate reasons gives their perpetrators far too much credit.

… [A]sking ourselves questions about free speech and its limitations as a response to the attacks lets in the idea that there could be a legitimate justification for retaliating against someone’s expression with brutality.” was not on the table. If those events represented the suppression of free speech, it was their suppression at the hands of extremists, certainly not at the hands of the government.

And even setting aside the fact that free speech issues — the legal right to free speech — necessarily involve actions of government, the inescapable problem with calling Charlie Hebdo a source of debate about free speech is that there is no

— the killing of 12 people isn’t an event that makes us scratch our heads and ask ourselves whether or not they were getting their just deserts.

But why is it important that we separate the debate about free speech from this act of terrorism?

Firstly, asking ourselves questions about free speech and its limitations as a response to the attacks lets in the idea that there could be a legitimate

Secondly, and more importantly for the quality of our international political discourse, representing our free speech debate with the attack on Charlie Hebdo takes an important, complex and debatable issue and exchanges it for an event about which there is no legitimate debate. It paints free speech as a simple ideal on which we all agree — all of us except those crazy men with guns.

The problem is that free speech isn’t quite so simple.

Take, for example, a real free speech issue going on in France: French comedian Dieudonné is known for making jokes about Jews that many people believe constitute a violation of France’s laws against anti-Semitism. He made comments about Charlie Hebdo for which he will be tried in court.

In the United States, there are similarly tenuous issues about hate speech and bullying. In a world where technology means the government has more and more information about its citizens, it’s essential that we ask ourselves what the government is justified in censoring, if it’s justified in censoring anything at all.

An appropriate response to the Charlie Hebdo events was the heartening show of solidarity that took place in cities across the world. It was a big news story, and journalists love to talk about free speech, so it makes sense that people were drawn to discussing its limitations. But we’re unlikely to

SOPHIA WUSHANLEY have fruitful discussions about free speech when they’re inspired by a story as morally unambiguous as the attack on Charlie Hebdo. We ought to remember that issues of free speech are no more relevant after the attacks than they were before them; the legitimacy of silencing speech with terrorism has never been up for debate.

SOPHIA WUSHANLEY is a College senior from Millersville, Pa., studying philosophy. Her email address is wsophia@sas.upenn.edu.

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UA releases annual report for first time since 2012 Report includes alcohol policies and mental health ELLIE SCHROEDER Staff Reporter

Last week, the Undergraduate Assembly published the only annual report in the past three years.

The newly published document includes information on completed projects from 2014, as well as projects that are still in the works and ideas currently under discussion.

In 2012, UA progress was hindered by a “general slump in productivity,” leading the former UA President Dan Bernick, a 2014 College and Fels Institute of

Government graduate, to decide not to publish the report, College senior and UA Vice President Joshua Chilcote said.

Last year, the UA attempted to publish the report, but struggled with “picking up the pieces” of the previous year, he said.

However, Chilcote believes that the current UA has made significant progress. “This year especially, everyone came together and pulled it together,” he said.

The UA has taken initiative on some academic issues, but has yet to see major change come from its efforts. They passed the “Full Faith in Credit” resolution after students were denied credit for a meditation class that they took,

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Over the past year, the UA discussed potentially lessening the workload for students in uncoordinated dual-degree programs and asked the College of Arts and Sciences to award students credit for ROTC classes, an issue that has been going on for many years.

However, the University’s refusal to change this credit policy led to a dead end.

Issues regarding alcohol were at the top of the UA agenda this past year after the student body was taken by surprise by the involvement of the Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement at Spring Fling. In the report, the UA cited concerns over communication between students and the administration in light of the Bureau’s presence.

The UA believes that stricter alcohol policies could be dangerous, pushing students to drink off-campus, away from Penn resources such as MERT, and to engage in binge-drinking or drug use. As a result, the UA formed the Commission on Alcohol Safety and Communication to

establish better communication between the student body and the administration at this year’s Fling.

Although their efforts resulted in few tangible results in the mental health sphere over the past year, several projects outlined for the future show promise.

The UA successfully published The Wellness Guide, which contains information about access to professional and medical services such as CAPS and Student Health Services, as well as cultural centers and other resources.

Additionally, because of a UA project, new PennCards will be printed with the mental health HELP line number on the back.

The UA is experimenting with the idea of closer collaboration between CAPS and incoming Penn students. They have discussed ideas such as a New Student Orientation event in which freshman halls would visit CAPS together, each student being assigned a CAPS liaison via Penn InTouch and anonymous visits to CAPS. Although unsuccessful, the UA also tried to implement a project creating mental health support slips

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The UA is also taking a step toward sexual assault prevention by, in collaboration with many other groups such as the Penn Women’s Center, launching a peer-led bystander intervention workshop at Penn that will be piloted next semester.

On the residential services and dining front, this year the UA successfully initiated its more flexible Take Your Pick dining plan for upperclassmen and negotiated with residential houses to increase the number of times students can forget their PennCard before being fined from five to 10.

Although in past years the UA may have dropped the ball in reporting its accomplishments, UA Secretary Andrew Gegios was proud of its work this past year and sees producing the report as part of the UA’s responsibility.

“It’s really a document for everyone that we are held accountable to,” Gegios said. “We want to make sure we are doing what students want and that we are telling them what we do.”

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Penn Benjamins to offer peer-to-peer counseling on campus New group to begin training this semester RUIHONG LIU Staff Reporter

Next fall, Penn students will have the chance to share their feelings and concerns with Penn Benjamins, a new peer counseling group led by student counselors who are trained

by CAPS therapists.

College juniors Emily Derecktor and Diego Fiori, College senior Jordan Lidsky-Everson and College sophomore Roy Lan are the leading forces behind the new group. This semester, the group will focus on training counselors. It will begin counseling students next fall.

In light of the several student deaths over the past year and increased focus on mental health throughout the University, the Penn

Benjamins founders shared their motivations behind the establishment of the group.

Derecktor was inspired by personal experience. “I certainly was affected by the events from last year, but I actually approached CAPS last fall before anything had happened,“ she said, adding that her college adjustment process made her want to help her peers who might undergo similar experiences.

“Personally, I just had a hard time adjusting to college, so I felt like this sort of resource, when you don’t want to go to a counselor, but just want to go to someone who knows what they’re doing, would be something that would be highly valued,” Derecktor said. “It’s good to have someone who is your peer, and has undergone similar experiences ... There is a lot of power in

that type of validation.”

The founders believe that peer counseling can sometimes be more approachable than professional counseling resources.

“You might feel a little alienated when talking to a therapist,” Derecktor said. “Sometimes it’s just better to have someone saying, ‘Yes, I’ve been through this, I’ve been at your age.’”

They also said that they were inspired by similar student counseling groups on other university campuses. With comparable organizations existing at the University of Washington in St. Louis, Cornell, Northwestern, Harvard, Yale and Stanford, Penn Benjamins will bring Penn up to the curve.

“It’s something that’s pretty common on college campuses, so it’s sort of surprising that Penn doesn’t have it yet,” Fiori said.

South African activist leads charge against ‘corrective rape’ Ndumie Funda spoke at Penn about her efforts MARGARET SCHROEDER Contributing Reporter

After losing her friend and fiancee to “corrective” rape, one woman set out on a mission to change the standard for women’s rights in South Africa.

Last Thursday, a crowd of over 50 gathered in Cohen Hall to hear South African social justice activist Ndumie Funda talk about corrective rape — an act of violence against homosexual victims, whose perpetrators believe that rape will “cure” the victim of their nonconforming sexual orientation. In a conversation with Salamishah Tillet, professor of English at Penn, Funda narrated a personal history of grief, hatred, love and activism.

Despite its liberal constitution, which protects the rights of minority groups and prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation, South Africa leads the world in violence, particularly violence against women.

In recent years, the country has seen a sharp increase in brutality against lesbians.

Throughout the night, Funda described the path that led her to become a prominent LGBTQ activist. Following the loss of her friend and fiancee in 2008 as a direct result of “corrective” rape, Funda launched a social campaign on Change.org with the goal of getting the South African government to recognize hate crimes on the basis of sexual orientation and to protect victims. The petition gathered over 171,000 signatures from 175 different countries, becoming the site’s largest petition to that date.

The attention forced government officials to meet with Funda, and in 2014 South Africa’s first law against hate crime was passed.

“Corrective rape is a confluence of sexism, homophobia, and violence,” event organizer Susan B. Sorenson said, who directs the Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center of Family Violence and teaches

social policy at Penn. “Those issues are important globally, and students here at Penn seem to think so. About 10 student organizations signed on as sponsors to the event.”

Though College senior Lyles Swift lived in Cape Town this past summer and was aware of the sexual violence in South Africa, he was still shocked by Funda’s story.

“This talk today really put into perspective the intensity of the issue and how pervasive it is in society,” Swift said. “What shocked me is that there’s no safe space for these women.”

Before hearing Funda’s talk, College senior Alexandra Roman had never heard of corrective rape. Afterwards, she she she was disturbed by the violence occurring in South Africa. Roman echoed a point Funda made about the difficulty of establishing solidarity and understanding with a victim when you have not experienced her pain.

“Can you have activism and action without complete and total understanding? Or is it just about building awareness?”

Roman said. “This is happening; it’s awful. What can I as an individual do? If we really care about this issue as individuals, what’s the next step?”

Funda encouraged Penn students to be activists. Reading and talking about social injustice in the classroom is not enough.

“Go out and make a change,” Funda said. She urges students to get involved via email, phone and social media. She believes the online community must speak positively about victims of sexual assault on social media and create a platform upon which victims can express themselves safely.

Students do not have to look far for opportunities to make social change, according to Tillet. Tillet, who is a victim of sexual assault herself, believes the tragedy of corrective rape brings to light issues of violence against women present on Penn’s

campus.

“It may not be corrective rape, but we have our own crisis and epidemics that actually have similar causes and similar methods of institutional and social cover-up,” she said. “Despite the political systems of a country, despite the racial demographics of a country, violence against women is the common denominator.”

Tillet encourages Penn students to join the fight against women’s violence not only by supporting its victims, but also by hosting events with their student organizations, such as fraternities or college houses.

Inviting speakers and experts to share in conversation on these issues is a good place to start, she added.

“Make it a priority on some level. You start where you’re at, but start,” Tillet said. “This is the number one violent crime on college campuses across the country, and it essentially means that your fellow students are disproportionally going to experience it. It’s not a foreign problem, it’s a Penn problem.”

For Penn Benjamins, just as for any other peer counseling group, issues related to confidentiality and trust are at the forefront.

“I think trust is something that grows with time, and hopefully people can trust us,” Derecktor said.

Penn Benjamins has been trying to collaborate with Penn’s other student-run mental health groups such as RAP-Line. At the same time, it also has to try to distinguish itself.

“Active Minds is more of an awareness group. Ours is more targeted towards students, and actually talking to them,” Derecktor said. “What really distinguishes us is that we are really focused on providing high-quality service and are trained by CAPS.” Fiori also mentioned that Penn Benjamins will be the first peer counseling group that is open to

everyone.

“Organizations such as [the] LGBT center and Women’s Center have resources like this, but ours is the first organization that is generally targeted towards everyone,” Fiori said.

For Derecktor and Fiori, one of the group’s main goals is to make Penn Benjamins welcoming and ensure that students are comfortable.

“We didn’t want our name to be something intimidating like ‘Penn Peer Counselors,’” Fiori said.

According to the founders, CAPS is an essential part of establishing Penn Benjamins. With a well-established curriculum, CAPS will train Penn Benjamins in the basics of interpersonal therapy, how to help students when they’re stressed and how to give them concrete ways to deal with their

problems. The Penn Benjamins will also foster a connection to CAPS. “If it’s something that’s beyond us, we’re also going to have the contacts and the resources to help [students] out [by referring them] to CAPS or somewhere else that can better help them,” Fiori said.

Penn Benjamins emphasizes, however, that it is not an alternative to CAPS, but rather a supplement.

“The goal is not to try to change the world — the goal is to help people out and do whatever we can, whether that’s talking to them or whether that’s helping them find the help they need. That’s our spirit,” Fiori said.

Penn Benjamins is still recruiting interested members until the end of this week. Interested applicants can send their emails to pennbenjamins@gmail.com.

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sophomore transfer students.

The founding members are in the process of interviewing juniors and seniors to join. AEPi Treasurer and College freshman Josh Sloan described typical recruits as “people who did not enjoy the rush process” of conventional fraternities.

“We want to focus on brotherhood,” Sloan said.

“We can make our own traditions and give future generations of Penn students the opportunity to join a fraternity that has a diverse group of people with different interests, all of whom are united by their Jewish identity,” AEPi brother and College freshman Reid Jackson said.

Although the founding fathers do not yet have the support of the University, they do have the support of numerous Jewish organizations such as Hillel and Chabad. “It’s important to remember that we’re not a ‘Jewish

fraternity,’” Jackson said. “We don’t discriminate when looking for new members, but the fact that we’re all Jewish brings us closer together.”

Still, AEPi has a largely Jewish membership.

“AEPi is 95 percent predominately Jewish,” Billig said.

“The goals and values of the fraternity are to encourage and transform young Jewish men into leaders of tomorrow.”

Reikofski warned, however, that students seeking to join AEPi must consider the risks of joining an organization unrecognized by the University.

“Any students considering joining an underground, unrecognized group should seriously consider the implications of membership, and understand that they and the colony would be ineligible for University recognition, affiliation or support,” Reikofski said in the email.

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of University policy, and will be considered an underground, unrecognized group. The Alpha Epsilon Pi national fraternity has not received approval from the appropriate University offices to recolonize.”

Penn AEPi Founding President and College sophomore Austin Billig said that AEPi’s national organization is dealing with the details of colonization.

“I’ve really had no say in it,” he said. “It was really nationals.”

Billig was a member of UC San Diego’s chapter of AEPi before transferring to Penn this year. When the national organization heard that he was considering withdrawing from the pledging process due to his transfer, the organization contacted him about becoming a founding father at Penn. During rush season, AEPi National Director of Chapter Services Grant Bigman recruited Jewish men through Hillel and Chabad.

Billig said that he hopes for the chapter to be recognized by both the Interfraternity Council and the national organization by next year.

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Because of the commitment Ambrose has made to the university over the past decade and a half, his departure was not an easy decision.

But after the Commodores’ former coach resigned in December, Vanderbilt came knocking at Ambrose’s door.

Ambrose was reluctant when he was first contacted. However, the more he weighed the opportunity, the more seriously he considered a chance to coach an SEC powerhouse.

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Ambrose’s final match as head coach was a 3-2 victory over Princeton, coincidentally the final game of Princeton head coach Julie Shackford, who is now retired after 20 years at Princeton. “I am proud of how far the program has come since I arrived in 2000, and I know that the future for both the women’s soccer program and Penn Athletics is in great hands with [Athletic Director] Dr. Grace Calhoun at the helm. I wish nothing but the best for Penn and all of its athletic programs,� Ambrose said.

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had to address the “elephant in the room,� according to Dwyer. But with work to be done, there’s no stopping for the Red and Blue. “We have to remember that we’re not just playing for him [Ambrose],�

Dwyer proudly remarked. “We’re playing for Penn. We’re playing for coach Ken. We’re playing for coach Emily Perrin. We’re playing for coach Martin Wood, and we’re playing for each other.�

A national search will begin for Ambrose’s replacement. This will be the second head coaching search under Calhoun after she hired wrestling coach Alex Tirapelle in July. “Darren is a major reason Penn is one of the premier women’s soccer programs in the Ivy League today,�

Calhoun said in the release. “We will miss him, but we wish him well as he makes the move to another outstanding institution and the SEC.�

A new era is about to be ushered in for Penn women’s soccer. But, with Dwyer and 2014 All-Region selections Erin Mikolai and Kalijah Terilli entering their senior seasons, 2015 holds promise for the Quakers no matter who is sitting at the helm.

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Penn finishes nonconference meets in perfect form SWIMMING | Quakers

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BY JACOB ADLER Staff Writer

To cap off their regular seasons, the Penn men’s and women’s swimming teams blew past West Chester and La Salle this weekend, hopefully gaining momentum before the Ivy League Championships.

On Friday, the men’s team defeated West Chester 172122 while winning 11 events.

Notably, the Quakers finished one-two-th ree in both the 1000-yard freestyle and 100yard backstroke. The 200-yard medley relay team, composed of sophomores Philip Hu and Michael Wen, and juniors Kyle Yu and Eric Schultz, topped the Golden Rams’ time by almost two seconds, and Schultz — one of the team’s captains — added two more victories of his own in the 50-yard freestyle and 100yard freestyle.

On Saturday, the Quaker men completed their weekend sweep, beating La Salle 160.5-131.5 behind nine event victories. The 200-yard medley relay team again had a strong showing with a first place finish, and Schultz was once again victorious in the 50-yard and 100-yard freestyles.

The highlight of the night came in the 1000-yard freestyle when junior co-captain Chris Swanson set a Kirk Pool record with a time of 9:17.11.

The Red and Blue also

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by eight. Freshmen guards Antonio Woods and Darnell Foreman both struggled to hold onto the ball, combining for six of the Quakers’ nine first-half turnovers.

“We talked at halftime, I’m here to hold my guys to the highest standard, but more so to look at myself first and foremost before I start to point the finger,” Allen said.

“I need to do a better job getting these guys ready to play.”

After halftime, it was more of the same. Harvard never allowed the Red and Blue to get closer than 25 after taking a 40-15 lead within the first two minutes of the half.

The Crimson found contributions up and down the roster with four players scoring in double digits, led

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sweat it out until the final whistle.

The Crimson scored a mind-boggling 22 points in the game’s final 1:41, taking some air out of what was otherwise a dominating performance by Penn’s defense.

“Harvard gave us a bit of a scare there at the end,” guard Roche, who played all 40 minutes, said. “They’re really good at that.

They have a ton of offensive firepower.”

Penn was ultimately able to hold on, thanks to excellent freethrow shooting down the stretch.

was to get a lot of people in the lineup that haven’t had much of a chance to swim this year, and to rely on people whom we haven’t had to rely on,” said Schnur.

“I thought that was really fun. Some of our freshman and senior women really stepped up and did a good job.”

Senior Irene Katopodis and freshman Maggie Heller contributed two wins each on Friday night. Katopodis won the 50-yard and 100-yard freestyle, while Heller came away victorious in the 1 and 3-meter diving events.

Against La Salle, the Quakers again captured 11 events, while rolling out a stronger lineup, according to Schnur.

“We were able to get a couple of really nice tuneup performances,” Schnur said.

One of the notable performances from Saturday came from the 200-yard medley relay A Team — consisting of seniors Lauryn Brown and Taylor Sneed, and sophomores Haley Wickham and Rochelle Dong — which defeated La Salle’s A Team by almost two seconds. In addition, With the regular season conILANA WURMAN/SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR cluded, Schnur is changing his Sophomore Haley Wickham, the current team record holder in the 100-yard breaststroke, has been a fixture in the breaststroke leg of the Quaker’s 200-yard focus to the Ivy Championships, medley relay. Wickham was also a part of the relay team that set a Sheerr Pool record against Columbia earlier this year on Nov. 7. which will be held February 19-21 for the women at Harvard, swept the 200-yard freestyle impressed with the men’s team records, and I thought the men Friday and La Salle 180-117 on and February 26-28 for the men and 200-yard breaststoke, and performance. swam very, very well Friday Saturday. at Princeton. sophomore Kevin Su turned in “Our real focus for the guys night.”

Against West Chester, the “Now is about the time where a second place finish in the 100- was to win. We put our best The women’s team was just Quakers took 11 events while we do a lot less work, doing a yard freestyle behind Schultz. guys out and saw good results,” as successful over the weekend, featuring a different look. lot of the little things right. It’s Coach Mike Schnur was said Schnur. “We set some pool routing West Chester 187-107 on “Our goal on Friday night a fun time.”

by Chambers with 14. Saunders — the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year — finished with 11 points, four rebounds and six assists.

Against Dartmouth (8-10, 1-3 Ivy), it was an entirely different story for the Quakers. Led by sophomore guard Matt Howard — who was suffering from a stomach illness — and his career-high 18 points, Penn found what was missing against Princeton earlier in the season and held off a late rally.

“When he’s aggressive and he’s active, we’re a much better team,” Allen said of Howard’s performance.

In the end, it came down to Woods, who made a key play in the final seconds, scoring a game-sealing layup with just under 10 seconds.

Penn implemented its defensive game-plan well in the first half, holding Dartmouth’s leading scorer, Alex

Mitola, without a point through the first 20 minutes. Yet, the Red and Blue got off to an equally slow start and took a 20-16 lead into halftime.

“In the first half, we struggled offensively,” Allen said. “But we held them to 16 points, and they’re a pretty good offensive team.”

In the second half, both teams woke up on the offensive side as Dartmouth’s Gabas Maldunas and Malik Gill began to find their rhythms to bring the game close.

Penn’s lead shrunk to one possession late in the game, but behind Woods’ clutch play and strong team defense, the Quakers held on to earn their only victory of the weekend.

Next weekend, the team will travel north to face off with Columbia and Cornell in the first Ivy League road doubleheader of the season.

Freshman guard Anna Ross was a perfect 9-for-9 from the line and played a very strong game overall, posting 19 points, six rebounds, four assists and a pair of steals.

“I’m so excited for her, and I’m so proud of her,” coach Mike McLaughlin raved after the game.

“For a freshman to play this position and continue to show unbelievable progress … it’s a credit to her. She’s worked so hard on her conditioning, on her strength … this was her best performance yet. She worked her tail off, and she got rewarded.”

Stipanovich went scoreless in the second game and spent nearly half the game on the bench after

getting in foul trouble while dealing with Harvard forward Temi Fagbenle. McLaughlin, however, wasn’t too concerned with the sophomore’s quiet night.

“It just wasn’t Sydney’s night on the offensive end … but to be able to score the way we did without her having her best night, it’s a real credit to the growth we’ve shown as a team. Michelle Nwokedi really picked her up tonight.”

It wasn’t always pretty, but the Quakers have two wins to show for their road trip this weekend, and they will return to the Palestra to host Cornell and Columbia next weekend.

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Coach Jerome Allen moved Penn into a 2-3 zone at one point in the first half, but this simply meant even more uncontested jumpers.

In the postgame press conference, Allen gave a pretty good reason for Harvard’s success on the evening.

“They came tonight ready to play … The core of that group has experienced winning before,” he said. “We’re trying to learn how to win.”

And that’s the heart of the issue. The Quakers can win games against lesser opponents when they’re playing well, but ILANA WURMAN/SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR Penn hasn’t figured out how to give a 40-minute effort to beat Harvard’s Wesley Saunders - the reigning Ivy League player of the year demonstrated the talent difference between the programs on Saturday. a top-tier opponent.

Moving forward, the Red and Blue have the chance to Yale for that matter. rebound against two decidedly Sorry for the lack of insight, less talented squads in Cornell but it boils down to one issue: STEVEN TYDINGS is a Wharton and Columbia. But when it Penn is far away from the top of junior from Hopewell, N.J., and comes to a game like this, the the Ivy League, and it’s going is Social Media Director of The team isn’t in a place to truly to take a whole lot more than Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at tydings@thedp.com. compete with Harvard – or one Ivy weekend to get there.

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Overmatched

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hat was ugly … I mean really ugly.

There were no redeeming qualities for Penn basketball’s blowout loss at home against Harvard.

None, absolutely none.

It was certainly a far cry from Penn’s game a day before against Dartmouth, a game Penn was able to win with the combination of game planning and the sizable contribution of a few underclassmen.

But from the opening tip on Saturday, it was all Harvard for one simple reason: The Crimson are a much better team.

That isn’t really insight, I admit. But it is an inherent truth that needs to be made clear before any of Penn’s unseemly defeats can be logically discussed.

Harvard has two of the best players in the Ivy League with Wesley Saunders and Siyani Chambers, the latter of whom started to put things together this weekend. In addition, the Crimson have a strong three-point shooter in Corbin Miller that played a large part in the win over Princeton and some talented, albeit flawed, forwards that round out the roster.

On any given night, the Crimson aren’t likely to run you out of the gym with their offense, but their defense can certainly make any team squirm.

And that’s how Harvard set the tone on Saturday: By completely shutting down the Quakers’ offense and giving them few, if any, open shots.

When Penn was working at its best against Dartmouth, the Quakers were able to penetrate, whether it be Tony Hicks, Matt Howard or Antonio Woods, helping to either get easy layups or to set up Greg Louis for easy dunks.

While Louis got a couple easy dunks in the opening half, Harvard forced the Red and Blue to take midrange jumpers and the occasional open three, neither of which fell. When Penn was able to get the ball inside, junior center Darien Nelson-Henry wasn’t able to find the bottom of the hoop despite trying a myriad of post moves.

As usual, turnovers reared their ugly head for Penn, but, unlike Dartmouth, Harvard was able to actually convert.

All of this is to say that this Penn team is not ready to compete with the top of the Ivy League. Again, this isn’t really insight into the Red and Blue. To paraphrase a famously frustrated football coach, the Quakers are who we thought they were.

This young squad simply doesn’t have the depth or experience at the offensive end to make their defensive efforts stick. It doesn’t help that the Red and Blue matched up with the Ivy League’s top defensive squad, one with the same experience that the Quakers lack.

And while the Dartmouth game was as impressive a defensive game as Penn has put together in recent memory, Saturday was a dud despite the efforts of the coaching staff. Harvard’s forwards proved too much for Penn’s frontcourt, while Chambers and Saunders were simply a step faster than anyone the Quakers placed on them.

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Harvard has been the class of Ivy League basketball for the past five years.

On Saturday, they continued to show why.

The Crimson handled Penn men’s basketball on Saturday night from start to finish, cruising to a 63-38 win over the Quakers. Led by guards Siyani Chambers and Wesley Saunders, Harvard put together a complete game at both ends of the

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“I just thought they came tonight ready to play. It could be a function of the core of that group, that they’ve experienced winning before,” coach Jerome Allen said.

“For us, we’re trying to learn how to win. We’ve played a number of guys a significant amount of minutes, and this is like their first experience playing back-to-back weekends. It’s not an excuse, but it’s a complete difference in approach as to how they came out tonight as opposed to us.”

On Friday, the Quakers held on to a tough win against Dartmouth, pulling off the team’s first Ivy victory of the season in a 58-51 thriller.

However, the Red and Blue couldn’t translate that into second-day success.

Harvard’s dominance started from the opening tip, and the Crimson (13-5, 3-1 Ivy) didn’t relent.

After Harvard jumped ahead to a 10-2 lead through the first four minutes, the Quakers (6-11, 1-2) fought back to a three-point deficit, 12-9.

From that point on, it was all Crimson in the first half. Harvard ended the half on a 24-6 run behind a dominant defensive performance.

The first half saw the Red and Blue shoot just 6-for-20 from the field, while being out-rebounded SEE M. HOOPS PAGE 9

Quakers sweep first Ivy doubleheader PENN 55 39 DARTMOUTH W. HOOPS | Freshmen

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BY TOMMY ROTHMAN Associate Sports Editor

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Freshman point guard Anna Ross was a perfect nine-for-nine from the free throw line against Harvard on Saturday.

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With nonconference play in the rearview mirror, it’s Ivy action from here on out for Penn women’s basketball. The defending champions showed their prowess this weekend against both Dartmouth and Harvard.

The Red and Blue cruised

by Dartmouth on Friday night, holding the Big Green to just 27 percent from the field in a 55-39

road win at Leede Arena, before surviving a furious late-game rally to beat Harvard 74-69 at Lavietes Pavilion on Saturday.

Sophomore center Sydney Stipanovich led the Quakers (11-6, 2-1 Ivy) on Friday with 16 points, nine boards and three blocks, pacing the team in each category.

Penn also got solid performances out of seniors Kathleen Roche, with 11 points, seven rebounds and Kara Bonenberger, with nine points and 10 rebounds.

Dartmouth (10-8, 1-3 Ivy) was led by 14 points from sophomore stud Fanni Szabo, the Ivy League’s leading scorer. But her co-star,

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PENN 74 69 HARVARD junior Lakin Roland , struggled mightily and left the game briefly after an injury. The two teams were close early on, but a pair of 12-2 runs by Penn helped ensure its first Ivy win of the year.

The Crimson (8-10, 1-3 Ivy) gave Penn a much closer game.

The hosts jumped out to a 7-0 advantage, and after the Quakers fought to close the gap and quickly opened up a 26-16 lead, Harvard caught fire and struck once more, taking a 33-30 edge into the locker room for halftime.

The second half started out as a low-scoring back-and-forth battle, with neither team able to

pull away. But with the game tied at 43 and 10 minutes left on the clock, Penn hit its stride, devastating Harvard from beyond the arc and from the charity stripe.

Meanwhile, the Red and Blue continued to shine on defense, and with just 1:41 left in the game, the Quakers had a 61-47 lead and appeared set to coast to the finish line.

Harvard refused to quit, however. A stunning barrage of Crimson threes, free throws and points off of turnovers made the Ancient Eight’s reigning champs SEE W. HOOPS PAGE 9 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640