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Kasich, Clinton top Penn caucuses LUIS FERRE SADURNI Staff Reporter

Once the votes were counted in the Iowa caucus, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) had claimed a solid victory. At the Penn Caucuses, hosted on Tuesday night by the Government & Politics Association along with six

student candidate support groups, Cruz received not a single vote.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who only amassed 2 percent of the vote in Iowa, earned the support of over 50 percent of the Republican caucusgoers at Penn.

The event, held for the first time this year, included a familiar victor on the Democratic side in former Secretary of State Hillary

Clinton, though with a much larger margin of victory than she attained in Iowa.

At Houston Hall, about 70 student attendees listened to stump speeches, dispersed to discuss the candidates amongst each other and rushed to huddle together under the sign of the presidential candidate they supported.

When conversing in the Hall of Flags, students

voiced the issues and concerns they had with each candidate. Skeptics of Sen. Bernie Sanders (DVermont) questioned his proposed tax policy while supporters of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) advocated in favor of the candidate’s proposal to audit the Federal Reserve.

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Across Penn, stress, its challenges and its solutions

‘Elitism at Penn’ event explores privilege, class

Four students from various schools share their experiences and advice

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Penn is home to a range of students, from 18-year-old freshmen who have never lived away from their parents to College of Liberal and Professional Studies students in their 30s, many of whom have jobs and families. While students may differ in age and background, they all struggle with academic stress and have found various solutions for managing it. The Daily Pennsylvanian discussed the challenges of Penn’s elite academic culture with four Penn students from various schools and departments.

College junior Sophia Tareen: self-exploration, not competition Tareen, who has noticed the competitiveness among many Penn students, believes the culture has many possible downsides.

She is the vice president of the MedX Program , a pre-health organization of about 50 students with backgrounds in engineering, nursing and pre-med. While serving on the MedX policy committee during her freshman year, she learned that many pre-med students felt frustrated with their C-average grades in their classes.

Students gathered at Civic House on Tuesday night to discuss elitism at Penn in an open forum, bringing up issues of privilege and class on Penn’s campus and in the surrounding area. The discussion touched on areas such as the use of language, financial and racial privilege, Penn’s social hierarchies and a culture of exclusion.

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Over Indian food, students discuss the important issue of elitism at Penn in Civic House’s Open Forum.

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Those confident in the progressive worldview ought to have nothing to fear from a stronger campus conservative community.”

College junior and Civic House Program Assistant Tahir Bell hoped the forum would allow for students to learn from others that they wouldn’t normally talk to in order to facilitate a conversation about financial disparities at Penn.

“I think it’s really healthy for us to talk about the different kinds of struggles students have to go through and the absence of struggles sometimes,” he said at the forum.

The discussion began with a viewing of the video “3 Ways to Speak SEE ELITISM PAGE 3

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Cancer Center founder Richard ‘Buz’ Cooper dies Cooper stood at the forefront of healthcare reform SHOBA BABU Staff Reporter

Recently, the Penn community lost one of its finest members — a doctor, researcher, leader and teacher.

On Jan. 15, Richard “Buz” Cooper passed away from pancreatic cancer complications at 79 years old in New York.

Cooper, a hematologist and oncologist, was the founder of Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center and a senior fellow at Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.

The news came just a few days after Vice President Joe Biden visited the Cancer Center to launch a national effort to find a cure.

Cooper spent part of his early career at the National

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swayed by their peers’ convincing arguments while others stubbornly defended their preferred candidates. Per traditional caucus rules, the time limit for discussions was limited by officials.

Political civility reigned throughout.

The results, while not surprising for a generally liberal school like Penn, vastly differed from their Iowan counterpart.

Iowa GOP winner Cruz garnered zero votes while 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump finished fourth with just three student votes. Paul, who received a mere 5 percent of the Republican vote in Iowa, achieved a surprising second place with 13 student votes.

The only resemblance to the actual Iowa results was when Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) retained his third-place spot, earning 10 student votes on Tuesday night.

On the Democratic side, Sanders earned 19 student votes,

Cancer Institute. After witnessing Dr. Emil Frei and Dr. Emil J. Freireich’s medical breakthrough of treating childhood acute leukemia using combination chemotherapy in 1963, he knew that expanding and building up cancer research was something worth fighting for.

“It was an extraordinary experience to see these children with a heretofore fatal disease respond to this first-time-ever treatment,” Cooper told the American Society of Clinical Oncology in an interview in early 2015. “It was truly a remarkable time in oncology, and I wanted to be part of it.”

After his stint at the NCI was over, Cooper joined Penn in 1971 and wrote Abramson’s first grant proposal to create the center — NCI Core Support Grant— which is currently renewed for its 40th year. His

d r ive a nd comAssociation and the m itment were Association of Amerkey in establishican Medical Colleges ing Abramson and who posited that there making it one of the was an oversupply of few cancer centers medical students. in the country with C o o p e r ’s work NCI Cancer Center showed that they did status. He served as not take into account RICHARD COOPER factors such as poputhe director of the center from 1977 lation growth in their to 1985 before returning to his calculations, and in later years hometown of Milwaukee and these associations changed building up the University of their stances and medical Wisconsin Medical College. schools across America inAlthough Cooper was a phy- creased enrollment. sician and scientist, he was “Buz will be remembered known for his staunch stances as a great example of a health on public health policy. policy expert who was fearless He returned to Penn in 2005 in standing up for his beliefs as a senior fellow in the Leon- and relentless in developing reard Davis Institute, and during search support for his ideas. He this time he became one of will be missed,” LDI Executive the first to say that the coun- Director Dan Polsky said in try faced a shortage of doctors an announcement of Cooper’s — contrary to the popular death. view of the American Medical The last phase of Cooper’s

placing him far behind Clinton, who only eked out a win against him in Iowa earlier Tuesday afternoon after pundits declared a virtual tie between the candidates on Monday night.

A comparison between Iowa’s voter demographics and the Penn student body can help shed light on the differing results.

Iowa’s voting population — mostly white, conservative and Christian — in part explains Cruz’s success in appealing to the GOP base and amassing 28 percent of the vote there. Trump’s incendiary rhetoric was only good enough for 24 percent of the Republican vote and barely held off a soaring Rubio who managed to garner 23 percent of the vote.

Penn students — younger and generally more liberal— saw more appeal in Kasich, the moderate Ohioan who tumbled to eighth place in Iowa.

“Kasich is not a crazy rightwing nutjob. Ohio has seen proven results: job growth during the recession,” Penn for Kasich Chairman and College junior Joe

Kiernan said.

There were no student speakers, or votes for that matter, for Sen. Cruz or Christian conservative Ben Carson at the Penn Caucuses.

At Penn, Sanders was not greeted with the same kind of support from younger voters that the Vermont senator received in Iowa, where he won 70 percent of voters aged 17-29. Clinton supporters at the Penn Caucuses were set on convincing the undecided student voters.

“We need a president who can protect and build upon President Obama’s legacy,” Executive Vice President of Penn for Hillary and College senior Robert Klein said in his stump speech.

GPA organized the event in collaboration with Penn for Hillary, Penn Students for Bernie, Penn for Kasich, Penn for Jeb, Students for Rubio and Penn for Rand.

College junior and GPA President Sarah Simon said the event was organized to increase Penn students’ awareness of politics,

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meet new people through political discussion and create awareness for lesser-known candidates.

“I think we hear a lot on campus about Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders,” Simon said.

“I think there are a lot of Republican candidates who people might be interested in voting for, but might not know about. Republican candidates are beyond the typical Trump you hear in the news media.”

Simon pointed out how GPA — a three-year-old Penn student group — is the largest, non-partisan political group on campus with the goal of creating a conversation with diverse political perspectives. The Penn Caucuses was part of that conversation.

“I would say that Penn students have gotten more political over the last few years,” Simon said.

“We have a great Political Science Department, but there has been a great proliferation of political groups on campus in recent years,” she added. “We’re one of them.”

lecturer in her classes.

She added t hat despite his busy schedule, he would always make time for students and that he was a very friendly, approachable person. Her students enjoyed Cooper’s guest lectures and when speaking with the students, he created a safe space for them where they could express their views while he presented a way of thinking that was not the common mindset.

“He was incredibly humble and cared about people. He wasn’t one of those cold physicians. He was extremely warm and extremely human,” his son Jonathan Cooper said. “There’s a lot I’ll miss.”

Cooper is survived by his wife, son, daughter and three grandchildren. In place of flowers, donations can be made to Abramson Cancer Center.

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John Kasich (55%) Ron Paul (18%) Marco Rubio (14%) Jeb Bush (8%) Donald Trump (4%) Carly Fiorina (1%) Ted Cruz, Ben Carson and Chris Christie received no votes

John Kasich won with 40 student votes

DEMOCRATS Hillary Clinton (59%) Bernie Sanders (26%) Joe Biden (12%) Other (3%)

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career was spent on researching poverty and healthcare.

He challenged the Dartmouth Atlas by saying that the wide range in Medicare costs in different parts of the country stemmed from different poverty levels. After he was diagnosed with cancer, he raced to complete his book, “Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform,” which will be released by Johns Hopkins University Press this summer.

Linda Aiken, Penn Nursing School professor and director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, who worked closely wit h Cooper said he was “charming, thoughtful and generous” as well as an “innovative thinker.”

In addition to working with Cooper on policies involving nurses taking on increased responsibilities in medical care, she said that he was a frequent

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‘Best Countries,’ a collaboration with Wharton Germany outshines at No.1, America at fourth SUN JAE LEE Staff Reporter

Germany is the world’s top country, followed by Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States, according to a new rankings project that involved Wharton.

The Best Countries website, a collaborative project involving the Wharton School, BAV Consulting and U.S. News & World Report, allows users to view rankings of countries in various categories and read corresponding analyses, offering interactive graphics as well as videos.

Only 60 countries were eligible for this year’s Best Countries rankings — the ones that were ranked highly in GDP, international tourist arrivals, foreign direct investment inflows and human development. Those 60 countries were then ranked using the results of a worldwide survey that evaluated the global perceptions of particular nations.

16,200 respondents from 36 different countries all over the world participated, rating nations

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English,” a TED Talk by Jamila Lyiscott , a spoken word artist, which led to a conversation about the hierarchy of language and how it contributes to a culture of elitism.

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on 75 different attributes. This study was the largest ever to investigate the concept of nation branding: the idea that how the world perceives a particular nation may impact its foreign direct investment, exports and tourism, and therefore, economy.

David Reibstein, a marketing professor at Penn who has been at the forefront of nation branding research for many years, led Wharton in its involvement with the enterprise. Reibstein and his team were involved in duties including the design of the research, collection and analysis of data and outward communication.

The aim of this project was to provide data that citizens and governments could use to see how they could influence the world’s perceptions about their countries.

A country can influence its nation brand in several ways, including through the reputations of its corporations, the way its diplomats present the country and student exchange programs.

“I’m hoping that nations will look at [this study] and ask, ‘How am I currently perceived and what do I need to improve on?,’” Reibstein said. “As is the case for all brands, you can improve what you actually have to offer, but you also

can improve perceptions of what you have to offer.”

Respondents to the survey included informed elites, business decision makers and the general public, so that Reibstein’s team could compare and contrast the perceptions of different categories of people. Depending on the attribute that they were looking at, the team also broke down the data to compare the results of different genders, different age groups and other categories.

The 75 attributes evaluated for each country were based off of a set of characteristics that BAV Consulting uses to assess company brands. However, because Best Countries was evaluating nation branding, Reibstein and his team changed some of the listed features “to be more representative of a country than just products.”

“Basically, the website itself is the creation of US News; the survey was really BAV and Wharton with input from us,” US News Executive Editor Tim Smart said.

“It was truly a three-way collaboration. We all checked each other’s work well.”

Reibstein also collaborated with Tom Lincoln, co-founder of a web and graphic design firm

named TNT Content and Design, on the project. Lincoln said that he “has been extremely excited to work with professor Reibstein, U.S. News and WPP’s BAV consulting on the Best Countries project.”

Reflecting upon the final product, Reibstein mentioned that there were a few additions he was interested in making in the future, like analyzing the importance of city brands as well and investigating the impact a single, isolated event could have on a nation’s brand.

Though Best Countries has only just launched, Wharton, BAV Consulting and U.S. News have high hopes for the project’s future. “We will expand and include some more data points,” Smart said. “This particular inaugural version has 60 countries — we may add more countries to the list.”

They plan to annually conduct the survey and publish new rankings and in fact have already begun to discuss the 2017 Best Countries project. “Our intent is to do this study again this coming year, and the year after that, and hopefully into perpetuity,” Reibstein said. “We’re starting to work on next year’s now.”

the meaning of “elitism” and the barriers it causes, both socially and academically. Students noted that much of the elitism they experience is unconscious — those considered “elite” do not necessarily recognize that they set themselves apart from everyone else.

“There’s this idea that ... we’re coming from the same backgrounds,” College freshman and Civic House Program Assistant Ayah El-Fahmawi said. “People B&W tend to project their identities

onto other people.”

The conversation also touched on social divisions at Penn. Students discussed a perceived culture of exclusion on campus, with complaints about the exclusivity of parties during New Student Orientation and the feeling that cliques had begun forming immediately upon arriving to Penn. Some attendees said they felt the social hierarchy was already apparent in the first week of school, due to some students’ propensity to live with,

and consequently socialize with, people from similar backgrounds.

“The elite groups hang out with each other,” Bell said.

The discussion of elitism was not limited to the types found on Penn’s campus, however. The conversation also broached the topic of attending Penn: how Penn students see themselves and how they are seen, as Ivy League students compared to students at other universities.

“People make offhand comments about Drexel kids,”

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Students further discussed Penn’s community service culture, and how insincere it can seem. Some pointed out that community service projects at Penn constitute just “resume padding” and reinforce Penn’s “saviorist attitude” toward the Philadelphia community.

“Once you’re there it’s all about padding your resume,” one student said regarding community service projects at Penn. She

also touched on how students’ elitism extends into their efforts to improve their community.

“You can’t just throw money on things,” she added.

As the forum came to a close, Bell urged everyone in the room to continue the discussion of elitism and privilege with their peers.

“This shouldn’t be a space where this is the only place we’re having this discussion,” he said.

“The next step is to ... spread these thoughts.”

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At last week’s Undergraduate Assembly-sponsored panel on open expression at Penn, the most intriguing comment I heard was only tangentially related to free speech. Rather, it was an offhand musing by one of the panelists, College and Wharton junior Jennifer Knesbach, co-chair of the Penn Political Coalition and president of Penn College Republicans.

Knesbach recalled how, while wearing her College Republicans fling tank at last year’s festivities, a number of students told her, in conspiratorial tones, that they themselves were conservative, or voted Republican or were somehow right-of-center in political orientation. They’d never dream of announcing it publicly on a t-shirt, though, they confided.

Of course I knew that Republicans are a small minority on campus, but as one who rarely declines to voice an opinion, this tale of hesitancy was striking. When nationally-significant ideologies go unexpressed on campus, the learning experience is degraded as surely as it is when identity groups stay silent.

Multiple vocally conservative students I’ve spoken to have mused that they’re probably getting a better education than their left-of-center counterparts, as their views are earnestly challenged on a near-constant basis. They’re probably not wrong. There’s little else as intellectually demanding as having to defend one’s opinions from intelligent critique, and there is certainly no shortage of smart liberals at Penn. Though I consider myself a moderate, I’ve been through that ordeal more than once and without a doubt have learned a great deal from it.

And yet, I don’t feel bad for these oft-challenged conservative students. Nor, I think, do they feel bad for themselves. If I may be pardoned for employing a generalization, I think that the type of person likely to be an outspoken conservative in a mostlyliberal environment isn’t one who readily casts himself as a persecuted victim.

I do feel bad, however, for two other groups. First, the liberal students whose views and values track closely to those of the broader commu-

nity. It is altogether possible that they are never forced to seriously interrogate or defend their beliefs. Any student who never gets this experience really is missing out on a valuable and profound academic opportunity. Being in the ideological minority in a seminar or discussion group can be intense, but it has a tendency to highlight the weakest links in a proposition or belief that the comfort

Knesbach told me that she has heard students express fear of being graded down if they challenge the progressive values that they assume most of their peers and instructors hold. Perhaps such fears are founded, perhaps they aren’t, but their presence is inevitable and understandable when the ideological balance is so unequal. Not everyone wishes to be the voice of one crying out in the wilderness,

Those confident in the progressive worldview ought to have nothing to fear from a stronger campus conservative community.” of majority membership just doesn’t offer.

Second, the students who hold conservative views but who, for whatever reason, don’t feel comfortable expressing them publicly.

but that should not deny them the chance to participate in the give-and-take that is the essence of a liberal education.

At the same time, however, it’s not necessarily a problem with an institutional

solution for Penn to pursue by means of programs or initiatives, particularly since conservative ideology tends to value bootstrapping selfadvancement over “governmental” assistance. Rather, in true conservative fashion, the need to close a gap should be acknowledged, and efforts by the campus conservative community to strengthen their own position should be encouraged and fostered where they can be.

An attempt is currently underway to revamp the conservative magazine, The Statesman, as a weekly newspaper for conservative voices — a goal which, if accomplished, would doubtlessly help encourage more students to openly voice their views. The University has already acknowledged the gap to some extent by granting College Republicans one of the seats on the University Council reserved for “mis- and underrepresented groups,” a move which Knesbach described as an important symbolic step forward.

Even very progressive students should recognize the value of having a robust and

ALEC WARD multifaceted campus political discourse and that more needs to be done to achieve it. Those confident in the progressive worldview ought to have nothing to fear from a stronger campus conservative community if they truly believe in their ideals. The beauty of the academic sphere, as opposed to that of electoral politics, is that here our ideological opposites are not truly our opponents, but our symbiotic partners in the search for truth.

ALEC WARD is a College junior from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is alecward@sas. upenn.edu. Follow him on Twitter @TalkBackWard. “Fair Enough” usually appears every Wednesday.

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PENN SUSTAINABILITY REVIEW | The LEED-certified New College House will use disposable plates For all its hype about being a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver Certified building, the New College House has some uncharacteristic features for a dormitory. Namely, the building’s dining hall will use disposable plates because apparently, there will only be one dishwasher.

On the one hand, the New College House meets the criteria for LEED Certification; on the other, its dining hall will be overtly wasteful.

What is interesting about the building is its dichotomy between sustainability certification and single-use plates.

This situation shows us that there is no reaching an ideal, even with premeditated and calculated creation.

An initial meeting among everyone involved in the project occurred at its inception to lay out the vision and process for achieving a satisfactory result. Those at the table included representatives from many of Penn’s departments, such as Facilities and Real Estate Services and Hospitality Services, as well as the architectural firm

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson.

Despite the variety of expert perspectives on topics like aesthetics, operations and sustainability, mistakes still happen and problems arise.

Rarely do issues have a single point-source. In the case of the New College House, a series of inconsistencies, accommodation and compromise resulted in the need for disposable plates.

Though LEED aims to reduce the ecological footprint of projects like the New College House, this multi-disciplinary team of professionals chose to install only one dishwasher, which is the main reason the dining hall must resort to disposable plates. More intriguing, however, are the underlying issues masked by the physical plates. According to University Architect David Hollenberg, if given more resources to improve the building’s sustainability, “we might have done more with water, we might have done more with heat recovery, we might have done more on any number of things that are more profoundly impactful on the

carbon footprint than dishwashers.” Thus, disposable plates are only the surface of greater, structural concerns within the New College House.

Mr. Hollenberg acknowledges that the issue of disposable plates is troubling, stating, “I wish we were not doing this.” Nonetheless,

dishes are not ideal, Business and Hospitality Services is engaging the services of an expert in sustainable dining design to ensure the type of plate and other process details won’t be adding to landfills. She adds that a bio-bin will be installed to help facilitate effective composting of food and waste in

The results of the New College House are far from perfect, showing that Penn is not a flawless system.” the New College House will make the most of the situation. Director of Business Services and Hospitality Services Pam Lampitt describes the way the dining facility will run: “Breakfast and lunch options will be retail only, once Hill reopens from renovations in 2017, and dinner will encourage family-style dining but also offer traditional buffet-style operations.” Ms. Lampitt asserts that though disposable

the dining hall.

Fortunately, the New College House’s most visible issue — disposable plates — may only be temporary. Mr. Hollenberg emphasizes that “the way the building functions on opening day is not how it will function always, as there will be two-plus years before the New College House and Hill are both operating, and we therefore will have an opportunity to re-evaluate these decisions

and respond to student preferences.” Ms. Lampitt concurs, noting the existence of a “greater campus plan” as a common goal at Penn.

Hopefully, that goal encompasses the spirit, rather than just the letter (aka LEED Silver Certification), of real sustainability.

Penn is known for its efforts in embracing sustainability; it sources more renewable electricity than any other institution of higher education and took progressive steps with its Climate Action Plan 2.0. Penn aims to promote its vision and goal of environmental stewardship by integrating sustainability into the local community, university operations and campus planning.

For instance, organizations like the Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Divestment do so by offering a forum for understanding issues like divestment and social responsibility. The committee makes comprehensive decisions on where university investments should go.

This incorporative approach reflects the ideal that institutions should work to-

PENN SUSTAINABILITY REVIEW gether as a system in order to make well-informed and unanimous decisions, which would have benefited the planning and building of the New College House.

The results of the New College House are far from perfect, showing that Penn is not a flawless system. The New College House earned LEED Silver Certification, which is certainly praiseworthy, though I think we can all agree that some aspects of it are more disposable than they are sustainable.

KAREN CHI is a College freshman studying economics. Her email address is karenchi@sas.upenn. edu. Penn Sustainability Review (PSR) is the first and only sustainability-focused publication at the University of Pennsylvania.

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She got involved in the “PreMed Culture Project,” which sent out an online survey to students that received around 200 responses. Over 80 percent of respondents described feeling over whelmed with stress because of Penn’s highly competitive environment. The organization went on to have a panel discussion that included pre-med health advisors, professors and medical students.

“That offered the opportunity for pre-med underclassmen to gain the knowledge they needed in order to not feel so unsure of themselves, to know that they are in the right place and doing the right thing,” Tareen said. “I think that the knowledge and insurance relieved some of the mental stress that comes with being an underclassmen.”

College is a time of self-exploration, she said, but because Penn is a pre-professional school, it doesn’t always allow

for that exploration.

“A lot of times at Penn, if you don’t know what you’re doing, you’re made to feel inferior, which is not how I think college should be,” Tareen added.

“College is a time when you’re young and still trying to figure out what you’re doing.”

She encourages students to take control of their own mental health by allowing themselves to be vulnerable, opening up to others during hard times and carving their own paths of success.

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“Really make sure that you have your own definition of success,” Tareen added. “Penn has a very limited criteria of what is successful.”

LPS sophomore Shannon McMahon: awareness of students’ diverse priorities McMa hon expla ined her struggle as a non-traditional student to balance work and school. A transfer student from Harcum College with an associate degree in veterinary technology, McMahon has a tight schedule: She takes one course per semester, works about 50 hours per week as a veterinarian nurse and about 10 hours as an administrative assistant at Harcum College — not mention she has a fiancé.

“They’re all very important to me, and I don’t know which one to give up on,” McMahon said.

She admits that at the end of her days she feels mentally exhausted both from her job as a nurse and from the constant pressure of school in having to keep up with her assignments’ deadlines.

“I have to-do lists that you wouldn’t believe,” she added.

She does some of her class reading during her bus rides and completes some of her school work on the job whenever possible.

McMa hon hopes professors will be more flexible with deadlines to accom modate students with busy work schedules.

“I have to be realistic — school is a very high priority for me,” McMahon added.

“However, my career that I already have is a much higher priority, and that’s just reality.”

She advised students not to register for more classes than they can handle and take a break when needed.

“The best thing to do when you are truly at that point of mental exhaustion is to put the assignment down,” McMahon said. “You’re not going to get anything out of it by just continuing to work in exhaustion.”

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Deshpande said being aware of this situation allows students to become proactive in knowing when to back away from their studies.

“It’s okay to take a weekend off, it’s okay not to work all day, you don’t have to study for this test four times,” he said.

He added that today, when he sees certain students overwork themselves, he tells them that in the grand scheme of things their extra work is going to make little difference.

“I sort of got that perspective later on as I was moving on through the program,” Deshpande explained.

MBA student Ming Khor: more than just academics Ming Khor, a second-year MBA student at Wharton said his program is flexible. He explained that his program not only includes academics, but also networking and socializing, and more emphasis is put on finding a job rather than acquiring high grades.

“The academics are manageable,” Khor said. “They are what you make of them.”

During his first three semesters, Khor focused his energy on academics, while today he is more engaged with other aspects of the program such as sports clubs.

The school has a grade nondisclosure policy that allows students to withhold their GPA from potential employers — a policy that relieves some of the academic pressure on students.

“The caliber of students here is really quite high,” Khor explained. “So I don’t come here and have to feel like I have to compete with a bunch of smart people for a number.”

Regardless of the policy, he pointed out that internal stress lingers among students because of the competitive nature of their environment and students’ desire to fit in. Also, because finding a job is the main focus of his program, some students are not as invested in their studies as they should be. As a result, there is continuous tension among some students and the professors. Khor added that in general Penn could improve its campus culture.

“Penn students can take steps to build a community that is less competitive and more encouraging,” he said.

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Queer religious groups seek interfaith partnership

Queer students find a new accepting environment ESTHER YOON Deputy News Editor

A lot has changed since Newsweek ranked Penn the No. 1 most “gay-friendly” campus in 2011 for having the most resources for LGBTQ students. For queer students from faith backgrounds especially, the past few years have been an ongoing effort to keep their organizations — and voices — alive on campus.

This semester, however, the Queer Christian Fellowship, J-Bagel and Queer Muslims and Allies at Penn have expressed interest in a potential partnership with one another after collaborating on their first interfaith dinner at Penn Hillel last week.

“I think everyone had a very positive experience with it,” College junior and J-Bagel Co-Chair Cody Smith said. “In fact, we may be coming together again for more discussions because the response to this event was so positive.”

Nursing senior Andre Rosario, the former QCF chair who rebooted the organization in 2014,

believes the inspiration for a collaboration came partially from his own personal experiences with the LGBT Center.

“For me, personally, for the earlier half of my time at Penn I didn’t feel totally comfortable or that I fit in necessarily at the LGBT Center,” Rosario said. “I thought my personality fit in more with the religious groups on campus, as I used to be involved in the Newman Center.”

Rosario initially contacted JBagel and QMAP student leaders to work together for the event in hopes of fostering a more holistic queer-religious community.

“So I think this isn’t totally true, but I almost felt like the LGBT Center tried to attract a certain type of personality that I didn’t always fit in with and that’s why I felt more comfortable at QCF,” he said. “I kind of felt like the other religious groups on campus like J-Bagel and QMAP, to a certain extent, might have identified with that and [wanted to] try to get to know each other more personally.”

“When we initially had the interfaith dinner, my wildest dreams were that it would go so well that

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we would want to do it once a year,” current QCF chair and College senior Scott Sprunger said. “But it went so well that we actually want to do it much more regularly throughout the semester, including collaborating for QPenn week.”

“The thing that really struck me was the commonalities that we found together,” Sprunger added.

“I was really impressed by the amount of vulnerability and how willing people were to share intimate details and be authentic with each other.”

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senior Shan Choudhri described the event as “illuminating” because of the different struggles that each religious group brought forth to the discussion.

“It was very meaningful in that we got to see how other groups interacted with this campus in different ways that we’ve never had … and a lot of people who came didn’t even know that queer Muslims existed on this campus so it was really enlightening in many ways.”

Choudhri, who co-founded the organization in 2014, explained that while QMAP was more of a cultural group than one about

theological exploration, there were still notable challenges of getting such a social community for queer students of Muslim faith on its feet.

As there “wasn’t a space for [QMAP] in the mainstream Muslim community” because it “was a bit more conservative and not really open to our kind of alternative interpretation of religion,” there was a need to create a space where students could “express themselves in the ways that we wanted to,” Choudhri said.

He explained that while QMAP received support from the Office of the Chaplain, Choudhri had trouble acquiring resources or institutional support from the campus minister to the Muslim community, Kameelah Mu’Min Rashad.

“We did meet with her once last year and it just seemed like we weren’t on the same page in terms of what we wanted, and resources and what they were willing to do for us,” Choudhri said. “I don’t want to say that there’s antagonism between us and the other mainstream Muslim community here, but there’s sort of a rift because sex and sexuality are topics that are generally taboo.”

Regarding future goals for QMAP, Choudhri added that having more interfaith events focused on sexuality is definitely a top priority in order to increase awareness and “normalize our community so it’s not necessarily seen as an outcast type of thing anymore.”

Their ultimate goal, Choudhri explained, is “to create a space at Penn where all Muslims regardless of sexuality can get together under the same umbrella and no one has to feel marginalized by that.”

For Smith, the interfaith dinner was an opportunity to have people involved in Hillel leadership engage in this discussion of dealing with sexual identity while also being part of a faith-based community.

“I think despite this not being a Jewish-life centered event, because of its interfaith quality it brought a lot of people from Hillel,” Smith said. “While some may not have personal experience being queer in a religious space, the questions were still applicable to people to by just talking about your perceptions of queer people in your religious community.”

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Discussing Penn Athletics... with more personal pronouns Now that we’re roughly halfway through the winter sports season and teams have really gotten rolling, the DP sports staff sat down to debate: Who has been the Most Valuable Player of the 2015-16 season thus far?

Sports Editor Tommy Rothman: Sydney Stipanovich has been the MVP for Penn Athletics up to this point in the winter season. She just racked up her 10th career Ivy Player of the Week honor, becoming the seventh Ivy Leaguer to pull it off and the second Penn player. But Stip has some close competition from her frontcourt mate, Michelle Nwokedi. Stipanovich ranks first in the Ivy League with 2.9 blocks per game--- Nwokedi is second with 2.8. Nwokedi leads the league with 10.5 rebounds per game--- Stip is second with 10.1.

Michele is sixth with 14.7 points

per game--- Stipanovich is seventh with 14.2. I’ll give Sydney the edge because of a slightly higher shooting percentage and, more importantly, notably superior play during the (young) conference slate. But you can’t go wrong with either player, and the Quakers are very, very lucky to have both.

Sports Editor Tom Nowlan: Can I choose a coach? I’m going to choose a coach.

Penn women’s basketball’s boss Mike McLaughlin has clearly been the most valuable figure in Penn Athletics this winter. Through his steady veteran leadership, his squad is poised to be the most successful team in all of Quaker athletics this season.

Over the last several weeks, McLaughlin has notched two major milestones – he scored his 500th career victory on Dec. 19th before picking up his 100th win as the Quakers’ boss last weekend. That those two major personal accomplishments

have come this year has been fitting; The Red and Blue are off to probably the best start of McLaughlin’s tenure this season, as they sit at 13-3 (3-0 Ivy), having picked up victories both hard-fought (a 50-48 thriller vs.

Princeton on Jan. 9) and handy (a pair of Ws last weekend).

So while it’s easy to marvel at the women’s stars on the floor, it’s important to give due credit to the man orchestrating it all.

Associate Sports Editor Will Snow: Assessing the mid-season MVP to date is a bit difficult because of the relatively high level of quality among the teams, but probably no one single athlete is as important to her squad as Rochelle Dong is to the women’s swimming team.

Virginia Burns has also put in a wonderful season to date, but Dong has found a whole new level altogether. After setting two school records last season, the junior has already started this year right where she left off by taking a 400IM team to a Sheerr

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After becoming the seventh player in Ivy League history to log 10 career Player of the Week awards, Penn women’s basketball’s Sydney Stipanovich has a strong case to be Penn Athletics’ Winter MVP.

Pool record on Senior Night last week against La Salle. While Chris Swanson is undoubtedly important to the men, Dong has shown the versatility and the star

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The moment Penn football celebrated its Ivy title on the field with student fans in November is one that Athletic Director Grace Calhoun looks to recreate time and again as Penn athletics tries to rekindle student interest.

“We always have this debate in athletics administration: Do you need winning teams before you get student attendance or can student attendance help build winning teams?” said Calhoun. “I think it’s probably both. ... Winning does a lot toward making people feel like it’s going to be a fun place to go and to be.”

During the winter seasons, the athletic department has been concentrating its efforts on the programs that call the Palestra home. Men’s basketball — another one of Penn’s traditionally dominant programs with a firstyear coach — is a primary focus for these efforts to combat fan apathy on campus. The team may be winless in three games in the conference, but attendance thus far in 2015-16 is up from previous seasons. The same can be said for the numbers on the women’s side.

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over last year’s champions already in the bag.

“Both coaches are committed to engaging with the community both on campus as well as the youth teams in the surrounding area and doing the right thing to build those relationships,” Reina said of Donahue and McLaughlin.

According to Calhoun, a primary goal — and not just for basketball games — is increasing entertainment value for fans.

“Can we be more strategic about how we use the timeouts, the halftimes, getting more people involved and doing something at the event instead of just coming there to passively sit and watch?” she asked.

For instance, during the Big 5 doubleheader at the Palestra on Jan. 20, star players and Big 5 Hall of Famers from each of the last six decades were honored during breaks throughout the night. Other games have featured

more trivial content, such as fan hula-hooping or free throw contests.

The efforts may seem small for now, but Calhoun and Reina hope that they will accumulate over time and help reverse the tide of sports disinterest on campus.

“A part of Penn’s culture has been one of sport and the shared experiences and community building that’s happened through sports,” Calhoun said.

For now the question remains exactly what it will take to make that facet of Penn’s culture as vibrant as it once was. Or, as Calhoun phrases it, “Can we help expose these new generations of students to that and have them feel that it’s not just part of our heritage, but that it becomes part of their living, breathing traditions and memories of being a student at Penn?”

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“We want to be innovative,” he said. “And we talk about how innovative Franklin Field was back in the day — all the different firsts it encompasses: first scoreboard, first video board, first night game, first TV game and all that stuff. So we just want to continue along that trend.”

Several new events designed for fans were also added to the calendar. To generate hype for the first nationally televised game at Franklin Field, Penn’s Oct. 23 Friday night date with Yale, Penn Athletics hosted a “Red and Blue BBQ” on Shoemaker Green designed for undergraduates and relatives visiting for family weekend and a block party in conjunction with restaurants in University City for students over 21, dubbed “Quaker Fan Fest.”

Although game attendance always receives a boost for tilts coinciding with family weekend, the 5,849 people at Penn’s 34-20 victory over Yale was the high water mark for the season until 11,017 filed into the Frank’s stands two weeks later to watch the Quakers dispatch Princeton 26-23 in overtime on Homecoming.

At the risk of mistaking correlation for causality, early numbers indicate that the athletic department’s efforts were fruitful. Year-over-year attendance for home games was up 65 percent in 2015 and many autumns have come and gone since the buzz in Franklin Field was this tangible. It’s unclear, though, how much that data is affected by favorable weather or the team’s increased success on the field.

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“It was a little bit of both [the school seeking me out and vice versa]; I had known [Penn assistant] coach [Chris] Day for a while from back when he was at Saint Joe’s, and through him I was able to get [head] coach [Mike] McLaughlin’s attention,� Chambers said. “The school honestly had a big draw to me both academically and basketball-wise, and it ended up being a great fit.�

The lone downside to Chambers’ decision was that NCAA rules mandate that for intradivisional transfers, a one-year sit-out period is required. With Monmouth and Penn both being Division I teams, Chambers was forced to sit out the entire 2014-15 season. “It was hard not playing — of course it is, for any athlete, to tell them, ‘You can’t play,’� she said.

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basketball reasons, I just didn’t fit in their system as well as I would’ve liked,� Chambers said. “So, when I decided that I was going to transfer, I really wanted to focus on academics as a major point.�

Enter Penn.

For any women’s basketball student-athlete looking for a new home, Penn – which won the Ivy League in 2013-14 before being named USA Today’s best overall college in September 2014 – would have been a highly sought-after choice at the time.

But for Chambers, who already had connections in Philadelphia via AAU [Amateur Athletic Union] ball, the no-brainer was made even simpler.

“Fortunately, my teammates and coaches were really supportive and helped me get through it.�

While a year away from action might cause some to grow rusty, Chambers’ time off seems to have had an opposite effect, as the guard earned a role as a team captain for 2015-16 before ever suiting up for Penn. The guard has thrived in her new setting, filling the stat sheet with 6.9 points, 3.9 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game while helping the Quakers to their phenomenal 14-3 start. “Honestly, that year off improved me — I got to learn the system and all the plays, so that when I came back this year, I’d be ready to go,� Chambers said. “I understand the [sit-out] rule, but that year ended up benefitting me in more ways than I can even explain, because retrospectively, I know it really did a lot for me. “[Transferring] was the best decision I’ve ever made for myself in my entire life.�

Academics over athletics It’s tough to beat the career path of Chambers, but one Penn athlete who can make an argument is football’s Colton Moskal, a linebacker who made his Red and Blue debut this fall after redshirting his freshman year at Syracuse in 2014. “At Syracuse, I had a great relationship with players and coaches there — I still talk to my former roommate, Zaire Franklin, who was a captain there this year — so I just had those connections,� he said. “I still love my former coaches.�

But Syracuse struggled to a 3-9 record in the 2014 season, as the sophomore didn’t see any game action, and the 6-foot linebacker began to re-evaluate his life priorities. “Academics were the driving force in me wanting to leave,�

Moskal said. “I wasn’t really considering any other FBS schools. I knew that if I was going to transfer, it would be to the Ivy League, and Penn was my first choice.�

Where Moskal may have Chambers beat is that he didn’t even have to take a sit-out period after transferring. Because D-I football is split into the FBS and the FCS, Moskal wasn’t considered an intra-divisional transfer,

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Not everything works out Unfortunately, for every transfer case that works out as positively as Chambers’ and Moskal’s, there’s one that ends in heartbreak,

and this was the case for foreign exchange student Calum MacGregor, a junior who was denied eligibility to play sprint football for the Quakers in 2015.

MacGregor is enrolled at St. Andrew’s University in Scotland, but he decided to come to the United States in a study abroad program for the 2015-16 year. Although he had never played a down of organized tackle football at St. Andrews — this was, objectively, not an athletically motivated transfer — MacGregor looked for the opportunity to get involved at Penn. “I figured that trying American football would be pretty fun given that I would be in the U.S.,� he said. “I wasn’t big enough or good enough to do regular football here, but sprint football looked interesting and I thought I’d take a look at it.�

MacGregor jumped right into the mix with the 2015 team, immediately joining the Quakers’ practices as they prepared for their regular season to start in mid-September. Placed at wide receiver, the 6-foot-1 junior gradually adjusted to the sport, enjoying his practice time as the anticipation for Collegiate Sprint Football

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It’s not every day that FBS players willingly drop down a level to play in the FCS with the intent of staying permanently — Penn hadn’t seen one since former Florida State quarterback Ryan Becker came over in 2009 — but Moskal should be here to stay.

Despite a relative lack of offseason work with the team, Moskal quickly gained a starting job and finished the 2015 season with 44 total tackles in nine games, helping anchor a defense that lowered its opponents’ averages from 31.9 points per game in 2014 to 26.8 PPG this season. “Learning a new scheme was definitely tough, but [defensive coordinator Bob] Benson and [linebackers coach Jon] Dupont did a great job — same with older guys like Nolan Biegel and Donald Panciello,� Moskal said. “Really, the biggest acclimation was just learning a new place and meeting new people, but it worked out.�

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League play began. “It was surprisingly professional, given that it’s not a very well-known sport,� MacGregor said. “It was really good fun – the squad was great, really supportive of me given that I had never played before.�

But the few weeks of practice merely ended up being a cruel tease for the exchange student, as he was informed just before the start of the regular season that he was ineligible to compete. “Obviously, I was disappointed; I had put a lot of time into it and had spent probably five or six days a week getting ready,� MacGregor said. “I was looking forward to being able to actually play, so it was quite disappointing that I didn’t get to go through with it.�

CSFL rules state that players must meet NCAA eligibility requirements, and the NCAA states that transfer exceptions may be used to compete immediately if “the sport is dropped or is not sponsored at the first school.�

Consequently, with sprint football not being played outside of the United States, MacGregor assumed that he was in the clear.

However, after weeks of deliberation, the Penn Athletics Compliance Department ruled him ineligible to play. “Penn’s assistant eligibility guy [D. Elton Cochran-Fikes] said that if you’re an exchange student, you have to be funded by your government. Because I wasn’t funded by our government, that was problematic,� MacGregor said. “They said they would appeal for me, but apparently it failed.�

Understandably, his reaction to the decision was quite negative, having loved a sport and lost it in the blink of an eye. “The main reason people come to study abroad is to experience this sort of thing, and to not be able to take part in any varsity sports seems unfair.�

Ultimately, although MacGregor found some consolation suiting up as an intramural flag football player, there will always be remnants of “what-if� from his season stripped away. “I’m still glad I came here, and I’ve had an amazing time so far,�

MacGregor concluded, “but it would’ve been awesome to get the chance to suit up.�

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however, Silpe got another surprise. With the departure of star guard Tony Hicks to Louisville and the sudden academic ineligibility of sophomore Antonio Woods, the Quakers found themselves without the services of their two best perimeter players.

For Silpe, it meant he would be the starting point guard for the Quakers in his first season wearing the Red and Blue.

“It was very surprising. I was just kind of thrown into this role and I’m trying to make the most of it, trying to help my teammates get better and help get the team on track.”

Very few freshmen get the opportunity to have such an important role across NCAA basketball programs, so Silpe had a lot to learn in a small amount of time about adjusting to the style of play in college.

“The physicality and the mental toughness is so different [from high school],” he

said. “Playing a lot of minutes as a guard is pretty tiring and mentally fatiguing. That, and I should take more of a role as a leader on this team in the future, even as a freshman.”

Silpe has performed well so far for the Quakers, despite their losing skid over the last two weeks. A savvy playmaker and passer, he hopes to add more to his game to make him more of an offensive threat.

“I want to look to be in attack mode for the entire game. We are a great threepoint shooting team with Sam Jones, Jackson Donahue, Matt Howard and all the others, so as a point guard I’m always looking for them but sometimes I have an opening that I overlook.”

With extra scoring ability from the point, the Red and Blue could put together a powerful offense with their already-impressive three point shooting abilities.

And Silpe, despite the surprises he’s faced already in his short time at Penn, will surely continue to be an important factor for the Quakers going forward.

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explained in January. “So we have to find ways to increase the entertainment value, to make it more engaging, where there are more participatory opportunities where you’re doing things on the video board in games, surveying the competitions happening.”

For Reina, this means using every tool at the University’s disposal, including capitalizing on its Philadelphia setting.

“We’re in a significant media market. So not only from a standpoint of engaging students, engaging the local community and youth sports teams. We’ve got a tremendous advantage over our friends in Ithaca, for example.”

The mission is a personal one, which Reina acknowledges.

“As an alum and as a former coach here, I take it very personally that people connect while they’re here and they don’t graduate and miss that opportunity,” he said.

“So I know that senior class when they rushed the field, I was looking at them, and I remember seeing a football player’s eyes open up when his peers rushed the field. It was just the coolest thing in the world, the senior class was rushing out, and I was like, ‘They almost missed this chance.’ And so it doesn’t need to be missed. It can be celebrated.”

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student body.

Before the creation of his position, too many different roles fell on too few senior administrators. With Reina’s move, the hierarchy was simplified.

“I don’t think the position has changed that much,” Craggs said.

“We have a lot more access to our boss.”

Though it looks to be no easy feat, the administrators are under no illusions about the challenges. With Calhoun presenting a fresh burst of energy to the department as she took over last year, Reina offers the added perspective treating Penn Athletics as a 240-year-old startup.

“I think we’re trying to measure more of what we’re doing here,” Reina said. “And some of that came from my experiences at startups, where there’s a lot of measurement tools.”

For Penn Athletics, this means paying closer attention to attendance, social media numbers and engagement.

“The bigger change is just a national change that we see in that students no longer want to go as those passive bystanders and spectators to the events,” Calhoun

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leading role after key departures MATTHEW FINE Associate Sports Editor

It was early March when Jake Silpe, in the midst of his second semester as a senior in high school, received some very unexpected news.

Jerome Allen, Penn basketball’s head coach, had just been fired with several games still left to play on the Quakers’ schedule.

Allen had recruited Silpe to Penn, and once he signed his letter of intent, Silpe was fully under the assumption Allen would be his coach for his college basketball career. Clearly, this meant that would not be the case.

For the now-freshman point guard, however, coming to Penn was about much more than who would be calling plays for him from the sidelines.

“When I chose to come to Penn, it was basically for the school. I loved the coaching staff before but primarily it was being at Wharton, playing on the Penn basketball team, and the coaching decision didn’t really change my mind,” he said. “It was a different type of feel.

I knew the type of offense Coach Allen ran and I had heard great things about Coach Donahue, so I was very confident that it would still work for me and it absolutely did.”

Despite the initial surprise, Silpe wasn’t concerned that a different coach would change much for him as he entered his first year on campus—especially after getting a chance to talk to Donahue, who reached out to the promising recruit.

“I think it was about two days after the school announced he would be the head coach and just wanted to see if I was still on board.

He told me a little about himself and I did the same,” Silpe said. “I was still definitely unsure of what was coming. The whole adaptation from high school to college is very different and nobody can really prepare for it. You just got to go in and let it happen and everything will digest from there.”

After only a couple months at school, SEE SILPE PAGE 11

Revitalizing interest in the Red and Blue Admin. strategies to boost attendance LAINE HIGGINS Sports Editor

On an overcast afternoon in November, the lines between student and student-athlete blurred on the turf of Franklin Field. With its 34-21 victory over Cornell — an outcome that seemed like a foregone conclusion from the second the ball left the tee for the opening kickoff at 1:00 p.m. — Penn football had just won a share of the Ivy title.

In celebration, streams of giddy students poured over the brick barrier onto the turf forming a human swarm around midfield.

The Penn band erupted with its usual rumpled aplomb in a chorus of “Hurrah for the Red and Blue.” The brass reached the final verse and arms of students and football players alike extended proudly with each repetition of “Hurrah!”

While that moment would not have been possible without a stellar season from first year coach Ray Priore’s team, it was exactly the moment that Penn

Athletics had been hoping for.

The University of Pennsylvania might not ever be known as a sports school in the same way that its Division I brethren at Power Five conferences are, but that mix of fans and studentathletes united in song was the image of what Penn Athletics knew it could be. With the right tact, sports could matter here, at an Ivy League school, too.

“I think for non-student-athletes to get involved in sharing that excitement, it’s just a winwin,” Roger Reina said of the title-clinching celebration.

Reina, a 1984 Penn graduate and Quakers’ wrestling coach from 1986-2005, was recently hired

by Athletic Director Grace Calhoun as senior associate athletic director of external affairs. In his new role for the Red and Blue he focuses primarily on sports marketing – essentially making sports matter in University City.

That goal seems daunting, but not when you consider how Reina created a fan base for his wrestling squad back in the nineties. During the first years of his tenure, “when we didn’t charge [admission] for wrestling we had a couple of parents and

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the janitors might watch the match,” recalled Reina. By his final season as coach there were “thousands of people coming in regularly.”

“I know we can build fanbases,” he said. “We’ve done it in the past and we’re in the process of doing it again.”

During the 2015 football campaign, Reina’s department sought new channels for game promotion, such as social media and the undergraduate class boards. On game days, for instance, nearly all of the content on the Penn Athletics-run Twitter and Instagram pages urged students to attend that weekend’s home game and class presidents sent out emails to their constituencies reminding them to make their way to the stands.

This complements the work done through the Penn Rewards app, which the marketing department has pushed out over the last several years.

One of the first schools in the country to utilize a fan loyalty program, Penn has just under 5,000 students actively using the app, according to Director of SEE PENN ATHLETICS PAGE 9

Roger Reina returns to re-engage student body Former wrestling coach back as associate AD NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor

It was time to bring in the big guns.

In the face of lagging student interest and attendance, Penn Athletics began a process of reorganization last summer that ended with Roger Reina coming back into the fold as senior associate athletic director for external affairs after nine years away.

Reina was no stranger to the Red and Blue.

After four years as a wrestler for the Quakers, Reina graduated from the University in 1984 — only to return in two years as the team’s head coach. Nineteen years, 63 NCAA Qualifiers, 31 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Champions, 17 All-Americans, four consecutive EIWA titles, three NCAA finalists, an NCAA Champion and an Olympic Gold Medalist later, he left the program as its most storied coach.

His ties to the University did not end there. Before eventually taking a position in business development

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at TicketLeap, bringing athletic Reina moved over communications to Penn Medicine and sports marketserving as major ing under a single gifts officer and umbrella. eventually director From the outset, of development.

Reina and his team This, along with have worked to several other roles find new ways to in development replicate the fan before his return to bases present when ROGER REINA he coached at Penn Weightman Hall, gave the former throughout the ’90s. coach more formal experience in “We want to replicate the atexternal relations beyond his own tendance,” he noted. “But it’s a work bringing people into the Pal- different landscape for marketing estra for 19 years that he is able to entirely. So we’re cognizant of use in his new role. that.”

“To me it was a really excit“I think there are so many ing opportunity to bring the things bombarding the students,” experiences that I had gained in the Director of Marketing and New commercial world and the tech- Media Josh Craggs said. nology world and come back to a “It’s harder to get through the very familiar landscape with a new clutter.” lens,” he said.

There is no question that the So when Athletic Director challenges of marketing to stuGrace Calhoun was looking for a dents are foremost in the minds new senior associate athletic direc- of the external relations staff, but tor for external affairs, she didn’t there is also recognition that this have to look far. is not a problem endemic to Penn.

The creation of Reina’s posi- Calhoun and Reina both alluded tion is part of an ongoing process to long-term trends nationally in Penn Athletics to bring students that make it difficult to reach the back into the fold. Structurally, SEE REINA PAGE 11 this move had the largest effect,

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