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Racial profiling still a conversation Students were allegedly stopped by police on the basis of their race DAVID CAHN Staff Reporter

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Though racial profiling has been highlighted recently in the media in the wake of Ferguson, the

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issue has been a point of controversy in the United States and at Penn for a long time. In 2003, for example, the issue erupted when a black associate master of a college house was pepper sprayed and handcuffed by Penn Police.

As recently as Nov. 20, students critiqued the Division of Public Safety during a panel discussion

over a photo that depicted a young black boy who had been tied to a tree by a Penn Police officer.

In the aftermath of the Ferguson decision, as black advocacy groups campaign for reforms to community policing, the issue of racial profiling by Penn Police has resurfaced, said College senior and former UMOJA Chair Denzel

Cummings.

As a student leader, Cummings has spoken with a number of black students who told him about their experiences being racially profiled. Usually, he said, racial profiling at Penn amounts to black students being stopped SEE PROFILING PAGE 2

Full STEAM ahead Inside the U.’s approach to a liberal arts education JACK CAHN Staff Reporter

Is emphasizing everything the same as emphasizing nothing?

Penn’s choice of a STEAM approach to education — one that treats Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics equally — instead of a STEM approach has raised this question.

“We are emphasizing STEAM education. We are absolutely committed to integrating liberal arts and sciences with more technical education,” President Amy Gutmann said. “One of the reasons Penn is ranked so high internationally is that we make sure our students cultivate T-shaped intellects and skill sets which are deep in some things and broad at the top.”

This STEAM approach makes the School of Engineering and Applied Science unique, and is one of the University’s biggest selling points. As opposed to more technical schools like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or the California Institute of Technology, Penn offers its students a more well-rounded, interdisciplinary education.

“What I really like about Penn is the diversity of people. You get that more at a school with many different strong suits than at a more technical school,” Engineering freshman Becky Abramowitz said. “I think it’s important to know other things and not just to be a one-dimensional person or a one-dimensional engineer, especially in terms of writing and knowing how to communicate.”

Penn’s STEAM approach, however, can also be seen as a liability. Engineers in 2012 earned an average starting SEE STEAM PAGE 2 EMILY CHENG | NEWS DESIGN EDITOR

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Penn tunes up the housing selection process JEFFREY CAREYVA Contributing Reporter

Everyone has heard roommate and housing horror stories. Choosing the perfect roommate and room can cause much anxiety if you are not prepared for the process. Fortunately, Residential Services has made several changes this year to improve the room selection process for Penn students.

Finding a new or additional roommate is easier.

Residential Services now monitors a private Facebook group — Find a Roommate — where students can advertise and connect with potential roommates. “Students who want to join can request and we’ll verify that they’re an actual student in housing with us, and at that point it’s up to them to use the wall to post for a roommate,” Associate Director for Housing Assignments Lenny Zeiger said.

The second large update to room selection is a new program called Room Selection Room Change. In March, Residential Services will release a form that allows someone to be immediately considered for another room. As soon as the desired room is open, a student will be offered to trade their current room assignment for the open one, without first canceling their current room assignment.

“In past years, the only way someone could get another, better room is by canceling their currently assigned room, which is stressful for someone

Penn alum has created an alternative to traditional universities COREY STERN Deputy News Editor

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Penn Alum Ben Nelson recently opened an alternative college.

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Ironically, it was a class at Penn that led 1997 Wharton graduate Ben Nelson to develop an alternative to the traditional leading universities.

The former president and CEO of photo-printing service Snapfish, Nelson is now the founder and CEO of the Minerva Project. Aimed at creating a truly student-centric institution, Minerva

While it is easy to say depression is an illness, it is hard to appreciate just what that means.”

welcomed its inaugural class of 28 freshmen this past fall.

Nelson traces the roots of his idea for Minerva back to an undergraduate class he took with Associate Vice President and Director of the Netter Center Ira Harkavy in which students were challenged to reimagine how universities SEE UNIVERSITY PAGE 6

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salary of $69,234 with computer science graduates earning $80,118, compared to $63,273 among Wharton graduates and $52,061 among College graduates — indicating a strong market demand for engineers. Meanwhile, the Engineering School’s applicant pool has doubled over the past few admissions cycles, Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said. STEAM opponents think Penn’s decision to not significantly expand enrollment or funding at the Engineering School despite this high demand is economically inefficient and inexpedient.

“I think emphasizing everything is emphasizing absolutely nothing. If you write a whole paper and write it in bold that doesn’t mean a ny t h i ng,” Eng i ne er i ng freshman Maddie Gelfand said. “There are some basics we just don’t have. We have a notoriously unimpressive math department. For computer science, there are hundreds of people in CIS110 and hundreds of people that want to take CIS120 but can’t because there’s a waiting list.”

This is not to say that Penn does not emphasize STEM fields at all.

Eight of the 10 fastest growing jobs are in STEM fields, the Washington Post reported in 2014. With a 17 percent growth rate, STEM jobs are predicted to grow at a rate that is 1.7 times higher than other jobs according to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The 10 highest paying majors are in STEM fields, and STEM jobholders earn 11 percent higher wages than same degree holders in other jobs, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices wrote.

To address these trends, Penn recently increased

funding for the Penn Center for Innovation to promote commercialization, Laurie Actman, PCI’s Chief Operating Officer, said. Penn is developing a PennovationWorks campus to promote entrepreneurship and is a leader in research and development, especially in terms of science — it has the second highest total research and development expenditures among Ivy League universities.

“Since 2006, we have added three new engineering buildings: the Weiss Tech House, that was information science, Skirkanich Hall, that was bioengineering, and then the Singh Center, which was nanotechnology,” Executive Director of the Office of the Executive Vice President Anthony Sorrentino said. “The profile at which the University has been growing has been in those areas.”

Some students, however, believe this is not enough.

Only 40 percent of Penn students take an introductory computer science course compared to rates as high as 90 percent at Stanford, 60 percent at Princeton and 50 percent at Harvard, primarily as a result of a lack of resource allocation towards computer science in terms of space and faculty. STEAM opponents argue this could be corrected by putting more of an emphasis on tech fields, which have growing demand, instead of equally weighting technology and the arts.

Others disagree. “My personal thoughts on STEAM are that it can be great if i mplemente d prop erly,” Abramowitz said.

Time will tell whether Pen n’s interdisciplina r y approach will benefit its students in the long run or whether it is simply a vestige of an era in which generalization was more important than specialization.

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on the street and asked for identification. As long as the students present PennCards, he said, the conversation with police is unlikely to extend further.

John, who agreed to share his experience being racially profiled on the condition of anonymity, said that he was stopped by Penn Police in the fall because he “fit the description of a burglar.”

“In that moment when it happened to me, part of me wasn’t really ready,” he said.

“If only these officers knew the person that I am. If only they knew the people I know and what they’d say about me.”

John said the most challeng i ng pa r t of b ei ng racially profiled was having the police discredit everything he has worked toward, including getting into Penn.

“Yale, Penn — that goes out of the window when it comes to being profiled by the police,” he said, referring to a recent incident in which a black Yale student was stopped at gunpoint by Yale Police. “Everything that your life has built up to, in that moment, it’s valueless almost.”

After his encounter with Penn Police, John said he takes care to be identifiably “Penn” when he dresses in the morning. “If I’m not walking around with my big Wharton sweatshirt on or some type of Penn paraphernalia, I run the chance of not being associated with the University,” he said.

Cummings said this type of reaction is normal for Penn students. He said that many black students feel the need to “suit up” in the morning to avoid attracting attention.

“Race relations between Penn Police and the West Philadelphia and University community has long been a

top agenda item,” said Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush.

Rush said a number of racial profiling incidents in the mid-2000s led to a major internal push for reform in policies within DPS. She said all Penn Police are held to strict standards regarding their rationale for stopping certain individuals.

“Anytime the Penn Police make a pedestrian stop, they must outline what the reason for the stop was,” Rush explained. “If there’s anything that doesn’t look right, it comes to my attention.”

DPS survey data collected from all individuals who interact with Penn Police show approval rates in the high 90s, Rush added. “No one should walk around fearful about [what] they look like,” she said.

Penn Police usually only stop Penn students if they fit the description of a suspect or are engaging in suspicious behavior, Rush explained.

She added that DPS has been dealing with racial issues for years with specific initiatives, like the Police Athletic League, where some officers volunteer to play sports with local youth.

Dur ing a routine roll call — when Penn Police report for duty — before the Ferguson decision was announced, Rush said she recorded a video highlighting students’ right to freedom of expression.

“We wa nted them to ensure the safety of the protesters,” she said, noting that it is a “very emotional time in our country around race.”

D e s p it e r e a s s u r a n c e , some black students still feel that they are targeted due to their race.

“I know my identity, and I am almost always a target,” John said. “My hope is to open a dialogue among students.”

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Penn alum running for city council Helen Gym announced her campaign on Monday to improve Philly education JENN WRIGHT Deputy News Editor

It’s official — Penn alumna and education activist Helen Gym has entered into the race for a City Council at-large seat.

About 150 people gathered at the Ethical Society of Philadelphia in Rittenhouse for the announcement on Monday afternoon. Surrounded by family, friends and supporters, Gym said she is running for city council to fight for public education. “I will fight, as I have fought, to defend that most cherished institution and the biggest symbol toward a just, equitable and prosperous Philadelphia,” she said.

Gym is a former Philadelphia public school teacher and AsianAmerican rights activist. She is a known critic of the School Reform Commission and former Republican Governor Tom Corbett’s policies and a co-founder of the group Parents United for Public Education.

President of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers Jerry Jordan said that the teachers’ union “enthusiastically endorses” Gym. PFT endorsed Gym days before she made her candidacy official. The union’s Political Action Committee plans to donate the maximum contribution possible under finance laws — $11,500 — Philadelphia Magazine reported.

At least 12 people total — including the four Democratic

incumbents — are currently vying for at-large positions on City Council. At least one new member will be elected since Jim Kenney stepped down in order to run for Philadelphia mayor. Past precedent says that five seats will go to Democrats and two to Republicans.

Two openly gay candidates are in the race for a seat — former General Manger of Reading Terminal Market Paul Steinke and attorney Sherrie Cohen, who came in sixth in the last Democratic atlarge election. Lincoln University adjunct professor Isaiah Thomas and a former director at nonprofit food bank Philabundance George Matysik are among the candidates.

Public school parent Terrilyn McCormick spoke on behalf of Gym on Monday and mentioned the funding issues in the district.

“Helen has a proven track record of tackling issues of the Philadelphia schools and getting results.

She will take those skills to City Hall on behalf of all us,” she said.

“Unlike most politicians who say, ‘vote for me and I will speak for you,’ Helen spoke for us first,” LeRoi Simmons , another cofounder of Parents United, said.

“People sometimes ask me if I’m angry,” Gym joked. “I always tell them ‘yes, I am, aren’t you?’”

She talked about the poverty rates in the city, contention with the teachers’ contract and lack of funding for nurses and counselors.

“As the saying goes, if you are not angry, if you are not outraged at this moment, then you are not paying attention,” Gym said.

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OPINION The selfish gene THE MELTING POT | Expecting selflessness and happiness from suicide victims underestimates the powerful grip of mental illness

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 10, 2015 VOL. CXXXI, NO. 13 131st Year of Publication

MATT MANTICA President JILL CASTELLANO Editor-in-Chief SHAWN KELLEY Opinion Editor LUKE CHEN Director of Online Projects LAUREN FEINER City News Editor KRISTEN GRABARZ Campus News Editor CLAIRE COHEN Assignments Editor STEVEN TYDINGS Social Media Director PAOLA RUANO Copy Editor RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor HOLDEN MCGINNIS Sports Editor

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n high-pressure campuses like Penn, there is still great shame and misconception surrounding depression and suicide. The death of Madison Holleran, a 19-yearold freshman, was one of a group of student suicides that devastated the Penn community in 2014.

A year later, Holleran’s family recently released her suicide notes to the public. Along with starting a foundation in their daughter’s name, Holleran’s parents hope that their story might help other young people in crisis, especially those transitioning to college.

When interviewed by New Jersey publication The Record, Holleran’s father Jim said, “The thing I am still shocked about is that every 13 or 14 seconds in the United States, someone will take their own life. I can’t fathom that.

Madison was the happiest kid, you know, when she was happy.

And if that person would understand what they are doing to their family and their friends and their extended friends, they would not choose suicide if they really understood that they would be gone

forever.”

Unfortunately, the problem precisely is this two-sided misunderstanding. While loved ones try to make sense of the death, suicide victims and depressed individuals often cannot understand the effect on their family, or ultimately, feel that their loved ones would be better off. In her letter to her family, Holleran apologized, leaving her jewelry and other possessions to them and telling them repeatedly that she loved them.

Penn, students who take their own lives are often described by those close to them as smart, kind and talented, with close friendships. Media outlets sensationalize deaths like Holleran’s, wondering where a student who was also attractive — as if this alone should account for a young woman’s happiness — could go wrong. How, it is argued, could someone not only fail to consider those around them, but even have depression considering how fortunate their circumstances are?

Like many other misconceptions of mental health, the view of the selfish, privileged person takes emphasis away from the illness and places a burdening responsibility on the depressed person.

While it is easy to say depression is an illness, it is hard to appreciate just what that means.

Clinical depression is the result of a combination of environmental and biological factors and does not suddenly emerge overnight. Young women are more than twice as likely to be-

Like many other misconceptions of mental health, the view of the selfish, privileged person takes emphasis away from the illness and places a burdening responsibility on the depressed person.”

Many of the sentiments I have heard from my own family and friends are hypercritical.

“I don’t understand how anyone could be selfish enough to take their own life” is one of the most common statements I hear.

Coming from communities like

This only adds to the misunderstanding of depression and other mental illnesses. It implies that not only does a depressed person have a certain profile, but unless they are surrounded by profound hardship, they are not justified in being depressed.

come depressed as young men.

Some cases, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, are accompanied by psychosis, which causes delusions and false beliefs. A person with depression also has significant differences in brain functioning than a non-de-

pressed person. Mirror neurons, which help people understand the perspectives and intentions of others, have weakened connections in depressed individuals.

Areas of the brain that control functions like action planning, memory and the reward pathway are also affected. It is no surprise then, that a person with suicidal thoughts may not only falsely underestimate their importance to others or the true consequences of suicide, but may not be able to consider another’s perspective more strongly than their own.

The real selfishness regarding suicides is expecting a person to live in misery for someone else, rather than helping them to get to a place where they can live happily for themselves. We do not give people suffering from illness enough credit for having the strength to endure just as long as they do, often merely for the sake of others.

I am reminded, even after my own medical leave, that powerful assumptions about mental health persist in our culture and pervade the space of the Penn community. We must recognize that

KATIERA SORDJAN not only can anyone suffer from depression, but the feelings and symptoms that go along with the illness are justified and valid. We all have the responsibility to become more aware of what mental illness means to intervene when others are struggling, without judgment.

KATIERA SORDJAN is a College junior from New York studying communications.

Her email address is skati@ sas.upenn.edu. “The Melting Pot” appears every other Tuesday.

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he following can be found in the Makuu archives of UMOJA history: “On March 19, 1991, a Black man named Rodney King was beaten severely by police officers in Los Angeles, California. This normally would be nothing new, but a miscellaneous individual caught the incident on videotape. The Black community went into an uproar about this injustice, claiming that one of the biggest crimes was DWB, or Driving While Black. However, this burst of anger was nothing compared to the one of the following year, on April 29, 1992, when all four police officers charged in the Rodney King beating were acquitted.

Riots broke out in Los Angeles, leaving the city torn down and in flames. This wrath was not restricted to Southern California; it reached many urban cities across America. One

place that was hit by Black rage in April 1992 was the University of Pennsylvania. Black students were exceptionally infuriated. They decided to release their frustration by marching to the City Hall in downtown Philadelphia.”

This should sound familiar.

If you were paying attention to black students and their allies on campus at all last semester you should know that fall 2014 looked very similar to 1992.

Protests, marches, demonstrations and various displays of student activism were occurring all over campus as a result of numerous cases of civilian and police brutality against black bodies. In the ‘90s, students realized that singular statements were not enough to create change. That realization, and the rage and turmoil brought on by the Rodney King verdict, was the impetus for UMOJA, a student group meant to unify the groups

pertaining to the African diaspora under a common calendar, agenda and political voice. The first official UMOJA meeting was in September 1998.

Now, 16 years later, we find ourselves in the middle of Black History Month and

the experiences of the African diaspora relate to me? Last semester, if you found yourself in the midst of students protesting their right to life and were confused as to what their specific grievances were, you should come to UMOJA

I do not expect the systemic problems we face to disappear overnight.”

UMOJA Week at a time when black unity and reflection are needed most. We not only find our nation in the grips of a raging debate in regards to systemic oppression and genocide of black bodies, but our campus community as well.

Traditionally, the broader Penn community would not consider their presence necessary at UMOJA Week proceedings.

Why do events centered around

Week. If you think Fortune 500 diversity programs are unnecessary, you should come to UMOJA Week. If you find yourself confused by the existence of the Du Bois College House or the cultural centers, come to UMOJA Week. If you don’t know that we have six historically black Greek organizations on campus, come to UMOJA Week. If you think 28 days is long enough to cele-

brate black history, you should come to UMOJA Week. The issues above are not just issues of significance to the black community. They are relevant and greatly important issues for the entirety of the Penn community, especially if you consider us part of the community.

If we are a part of this University’s community, then when the majority of the country — and by extension the campus — finds no value in my life because I am a black woman, the entire community should be outraged into action.

I do not expect the systemic problems we face to disappear overnight. However, I do expect everyone to take a vested interest in dismantling the systems that oppress those around them. That means taking the time to learn about our differences instead of trying to ignore them. It requires active participation in a larger community that will be uncomfort-

THE VISION able at times, particularly for the most privileged among us.

It means we must acknowledge the privileges we each have, listen to the concerns of others and act on them as if they affected us personally — because they do.

RACHEL PALMER is a Wharton junior from Glenside, Pa. Her email address is rpalm@wharton.upenn.edu.

“The Vision” is a space for unfiltered black voices and appears every Tuesday.

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International Students push for longer orientation period Students feel one day is not enough for them ELLIE SCHROEDER Staff Reporter

Most freshmen students have plenty to worry about, from losing their PennCard for the umpteenth time to trying to actually find that frat party they got invited to. On top of that, international students are only allotted one day to make the additional adjustment from their countries to Penn before the other 2,000 freshmen arrive.

The Undergraduate Assembly passed a resolution on Sunday requesting the University extend International Student Orientation from one to two days, although they estimate the extension would cost about $10,000.

The UA said in the resolution

that they plan on helping to fund the extra day, though they did not specify how much money they intended to contribute.

“A lot of international students feel that there is not necessarily enough support from the school — or at least that there should be more support for international students because they are a community at risk transitioning from another country to Penn,” said Association of International Students President and Wharton and Engineering junior Alexandre Kleis.

Peer institutions such as Stanford, Cornell, Yale, Brown and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology all have four day international student orientations, and Georgetown, the University of Chicago and Princeton have three days.

The brevity of ISO means that

students miss out on information about important resources.

In 2013, Counseling and Psychological Services and the Weingarten Learning Resources Center only had five minutes each to present their resources to international students, and in 2014 were not allotted any time during ISO, according to the UA resolution.

However, since ISO has yet to be extended, other departments on campus are working to develop alternative resources that will benefit international students in their long-term integrations to life at Penn.

For one, International Student and Scholar Services Director Rudie Altamirano is working diligently to expand his department’s role in international student integration.

“I don’t want to be seen just as

the immigration office,” he said, referencing the fact that most international students come to his office to deal with paperwork.

“We have to serve our students holistically.”

Recently, his department has developed an innovative online portal aimed at integrating all of the University resources for international students. They have also led the creation of workshops for international students at Weingarten and a discussion series at CAPS, both of which are aimed at improving integration for international students, especially during their first semesters.

Similarly, the International Student Advisory Board recently debuted the first of a series of videos on its YouTube channel about the transition to American college life, which students

will be able to reference before move-in.

ISAB is also working with the Penn Alumni Interview program to have interviewers connect with students after their acceptances to Penn and serve as guides through the transition process.

In addition to individual guides and university-led initiatives, smaller student groups can also be valuable assets for students during their transition.

For example, the Intercultural Leadership Program brings together incoming domestic and international students during their first semester at Penn and culminates in a three-day retreat, serving as an additional way for international students to ease the transition into college life.

Additionally, Penn Global Scholars, a scholarship program

for international students from underrepresented socioeconomic backgrounds, provides a small and supportive community for their incoming students.

“Having this small community of students that were living the same experience as I was was really helpful and provided a safety net,” said Global Scholar and College and Wharton junior Valerio Imperatore .

“It gave me the confidence to spring out to other groups because I knew that no matter what I had them in the background,” he said.

Even if the UA resolution is not adopted by the University, it is essential that international students be provided with adequate resources to feel comfortable at the University, Kleis said.

“If you aren’t comfortable, you can’t integrate,” he said.

Van Pelt showcases Lincoln-signed copies of Emancipation Proclamation

The Emancipation Proclamation is on display at Van Pelt.

Documents part of exhibit on Philadelphia and Civil War MARLENA HANNA Contributing Reporter

The Emancipation Proclamation is sitting amongst the stacks in Van Pelt Library. Abraham Lincoln’s legacy — and signature — is right on the sixth floor.

Two Lincoln-autographed copies of the document, along with other rare artifacts concerning its history, are being displayed in the new exhibit “The Great Emancipator and the Great Central Fair.” This free exhibit is open to the public in the Goldstein Family Gallery on the sixth floor of Van Pelt until Feb. 27.

The documents on display are two of the original 48 copies of the Emancipation Proclamation, which were printed and signed

by Lincoln to be sold in the Philadelphia sanitary fair. One of the copies is owned by Penn Libraries, and the other is on loan from the collection of Ian and Sonnet McKinnon. In addition to the two signed copies, the exhibit also displays a manuscript copy of the 13th Amendment, historical pamphlets and newspaper printings of the proclamation.

Exhibition designer and coordinator Andrea Gottschalk said she thinks this display is very relevant to the recent activism about racial inequality. “Given that we’re still dealing with a lot of inequalities in our society today, it’s important to look at the history,” Gottschalk said.

“The Emancipation Proclamation is something we need to go back to and think about some more as we think about how we can heal.”

The exhibit was created to be an accessible display of Philadelphia’s history. “It’s just an important part of our history, and I don’t think that many people get to see these kinds of documents,” Gottschalk said.

In light of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, Co-Curators Mitch Fraas and

Alexis Neumann used the exhibit to highlight the effects of the proclamation during the war.

“The goal was to get people to see these things as a learning experience,” Fraas said. “We really wanted to build up a story around it ... we wanted to have a narrative more than just the documents themselves.”

The display especially showcases all the different versions of the artifact. Fraas said it is a great display of the different ways people were reading the document when it was issued.

“I’d love to see people come in just to see the different way this document gets reproduced,” Fraas said. “I think we take for granted that these famous documents exist as one thing, but in

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fact, there are many different manifestations of them.”

All the panels and displays in the gallery portray the complicated history of the proclamation. “What I really wanted was for people to realize how complicated the Emancipation Proclamation was and that its effect isn’t simple,” Neumann said.

There are about 50 objects in the gallery, which are put together to give a new perspective of the Civil War time period. The exhibit is a rare opportunity to see famous historical documents in a different context. “I think this document holds such a large place in the minds of Americans,” Neumann said. “It’s alive in the minds of all of us.”

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Committed to this idea, Nelson wrote a paper that encouraged Penn to institute a core curriculum and “breathe intellectual life back into the University.� Nelson took over as chair of the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education, but he soon learned that change would not come easily. He believed that universities simply had no incentives to reform.

Nelson felt schools were competing on largely irrelevant factors, such as how many Nobel Prize winners they had in their faculties or how nice their campuses were. “We don’t go to the place because it will educate us better,�

Nelson said. “We go to the place because we like all of this circus nonsense.�

Frustrated by the nonsense, Nelson threw in his towel on education reform and went into the business world upon graduating from Penn. But he never fully closed the door on his desire to change how universities teach. “A few years ago, after not being able to let go of these initial ideas and having some real luck in the business world, I realized that in the next chapter of my life what I wanted to do was do something that actually had broad-based impact,� Nelson said about his decision to launch his own for-profit institution of higher education.

He was confident that he could establish an institution that would not be pressured by the political environment of existing universities and would serve as a prototype for others to follow. “I realized that the best way to get the Ivy League to reform was

to create a new peer institution,�

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Minerva is a global online school with small seminars that students can take around the world. At the moment, Minerva only has a residence hall in San Francisco but plans to expand so that each student can choose seven cities around the world to live in before they graduate.

Or Segal is one of the 28 members of Minerva’s founding class. After completing his required service in the Israel Defense Forces, Segal enrolled at Tel Aviv University, but felt something was missing. A friend sent him the link to Minerva’s website, and he felt it was a perfect match. “I prefer not to stay in a protected environment, but to let myself grow and find my direction. I knew that part of being in the founding class was that I was going somewhere that I didn’t necessarily know where it would take me, but it’s part of the experience,� Segal said of his decision to be one of the 2,454 students who applied for admission to Minerva.

Segal was among the 2.8 percent of applicants selected from around the world and among the many who had applied from traditional four-year institutions. “Last year we had several dozen students from the top 25 universities in the United States apply for admission to Minerva — including several from the University of Pennsylvania,�

Nelson said. “Of those several dozen, three made our qualification bar and were admitted.�

While he is committed to pushing institutions of higher education to change the way they educate their students, Nelson does give credit where credit is due. “As much as Penn needs to fix a lot of things, I do think that there should be deserved pride that an idea like Minerva was really born and incubated at Penn,� he said.

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who wants to know they have something at least,� Zeiger said.

The Room Selection Room Change program will work on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Residential Services has been trying to cater to upperclassmen students who have been in on-campus housing. The hope is to make more desired apartment-style living increasingly available.

Fewer freshmen have been able to live in the high-rise buildings in order to make room for upperclassmen. “We’ve positioned more beds in the high-rise buildings for upperclassmen, because that’s where upperclassmen most want to live,�

Zeiger added.

To make more room for upperclassmen, rooms in residential programs will be made more available to students outside of those programs. “There has been a shift to move some beds out of living programs and make them available to everyone in campus housing,� Zeiger said. Empty beds in programs now also roll over into in-house and interhouse selection if a program cannot fill its available spaces.

The standard room-selection process is split into in-house selection — staying in the same college house — and inter-house selection — moving to a different college house. Students applying for a room

Call for increased diversity lead to task force creation ALEXIS BLOCK Staff Reporter

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In response, the LGBT Center launched its own LGBTQ Diversity Task Force — composed of faculty, professors and students — to address the lack of attention that the community received in the plan regarding diversity.

At the beginning of the University’s five-year plan to address faculty diversity on campus, all 12 schools were mandated to carry out their plans individually. While some included gender identity and sexual preference in their definitions of diversity, others did not. Of the four undergraduate schools, only the Wharton School and the School of Nursing identify gender identity in their definitions, although they all mention sexual orientation. Additionally, LGBTQ issues are only highlighted twice in the University’s Action Plan: once in the introductory definition of diversity, and again in a feature of an LGBTQ-identifying Engineering professor, Robert Carpick.

According to the Action Plan findings, over half of LGBTQ-identifying faculty agreed they need to work harder than colleagues to be perceived as legitimate scholars. “I think that it states that many faculty feel that being queer is not as accepted in some schools and departments at Penn,� Senior Associate Director of the LGBT Center Erin Cross said. “As a result they feel that they need to go the extra mile to do ‘real valuable’ research.�

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Cross added that being on the task force poses a dilemma for some faculty members. “Some of the people who work with us in the working group only feel comfortable to do so because they have tenure,� Cross

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Since faculty members are not mandated to report their gender identification to the LGBT Center, there is therefore no concrete data regarding trans faculty members. However, to Cross’ knowledge, she said, there are no transgender faculty members at Penn.

College junior and Lambda Alliance Chair Erich Kessel explained the importance of having LGBTQ faculty members.

He cited his experience taking a class with an LGBTQ-identifying professor during his freshman year.

He enjoyed being taught by a faculty member who approached the subject with a different perspective, he said. “I felt like it was a special experience because it just provided a specific insight and expertise that I found very inspiring in my first semester at Penn,� Kessel said.

“It is Lambda’s role to advocate for faculty diversity because it benefits students by providing role models who they can look up to and identify with,� Kessel said.

In the past, the LGBT Center hasn’t addressed hiring practices at Penn. However, in recent years, as the University is releasing its diversity reports, faculty diversity has become an increasingly pressing issue.

Cross also said that the presence of LGBTQ-identifying faculty members benefits students by providing role models. “It’s important to see LGBTQ professors so students can say, ‘Ok I can be queer and a chemist too, cool,’�

Cross said. “It is incredibly important to have these role models so [students] don’t have to worry, ‘Oh my gosh, am I going to be graded down because I’m LGBTQ?’�

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Seniority and points are mainly given according to the semesters a student has spent in a house, not their year of graduation. For students applying as a group, their point totals are averaged into a group score. “It is very common for groups of students to all have the same number of points, and that’s when the in-house process becomes randomized,� Zeiger said. “Points are on a scale from house to house, as each house may assign points differently,� Director of Residential Services John Eckman added. “The longer you live in housing, the better your room selection gets.�

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015

A look at the telling figures of Penn’s season

M. HOOPS | Jones, Louis

lead squad in efficiency

BY JACOB ADLER Staff Writer

Penn basketball has performed relatively well in recent weeks, splitting its last eight games including its past two Ivy weekend doubleheaders.

As the Quakers inch closer to the end of the 2014-15 season, the analytics provide intriguing information about a few of the individual Red and Blue players, as well as the entire team.

Sam Jones Freshman wing Sam Jones converted 10 of his 16 threepoint attempts in this past weekend’s games at Cornell and Columbia, bumping his season three-point percentage to 46.9 percent through 19 games. If Jones continues to hit treys at that rate for the rest of the season, it would go down as the third-best mark in Penn men’s basketball history and the best since Jeff Schiffner hit 49.3 percent of his threes in 2002-03.

Jones also stands at the top of Penn’s leaderboard in both player efficiency rating at 20.6 and effective field goal percentage, a statistic that offers extra weight to three pointers. Jones’

effective field goal percentage is 62.2, a mark that is the secondbest in the Ivy League among players with at least 50 field goal attempts, trailing only Columbia’s Isaac Cohen.

Greg Louis Senior forward Greg Louis is one of the Quakers’ more balanced players. Only averaging 4.1 shot attempts per game, the veteran makes the most out of them, with both a field goal and effective field goal percentage of 59.0 percent. That is the best field goal percentage on the team while his effective field goal percentage trails only that of Jones.

According to Sports-Reference.com’s points produced per 100 possessions, Louis ranks third on the team, behind Jones and sophomore Matt Howard, at 98.7 points. Louis also is one of the most efficient rebounders on the team, having reeled in 17.8 percent of possible defensive rebounds, second to only freshman Mike Auger.

The Entire Squad Penn, as a team, has scored only 61.7 points per game this season — the worst average in HOLDEN MCGINNIS | SPORTS EDITOR the Ivy League — while Yale Although he only takes four shots per game, senior forward Greg Louis ranks as the second-most effective player on currently sits atop the leaderboard with 69.1 points per Penn basketball’s roster with a 59.0 percent effective field goal percentage this season.

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THE BUZZ: FEATURE

Nwokedi wins Ivy rookie honors

BY HOLDEN MCGINNIS

From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ While it might not have been the weekend Penn women’s basketball had hoped for, freshman forward Michelle Nwokedi stood tall in her first career start and earned Ivy League Rookie of the Week for the third time this season.

The Missouri City, Texas, native put up double-doubles in both of her games this weekend as the Quakers split games with Cornell and Columbia. Nwokedi averaged 15.0 points, 11.5 rebounds and five blocks on the weekend, while shooting over 50 percent from the field.

Nwokedi had previously won the award on Dec. 1 and Jan. 26, while also being named Eastern College Athletic Conference South Co-Rookie of the Week on Dec. 1. She is Penn’s second player to be named Ivy League Rookie of the Week this season, as Anna Ross earned the honor earlier in the season.

Nwokedi started the first game of her career in Penn’s win over Columbia and responded well, posting a career-high in points and blocks with 19 and seven respectively.

Her seven blocks is tied for fourth-most in school history behind three totals from thenfreshman Sydney Stipanovich last season.

Last season, Stipanovich was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week eight times en route to a unanimous selection as Ivy League Rookie of the Year.

Nwokedi started the season slow, but has steadily been earning more and more playing

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a 10-point scale, says that Varga “might have to show he can take snaps as a move fullback and shine on special teams to make an NFL team.”

“I want to go out there and show there is quality football in the Ivy League,” Varga told The New Haven Register. “There are players there, too. Everyone looks down on the league. I want to represent for them.

“Zack Hodges is out here playing hard, too. We’re working on making the transition to the next level.”

Hodges was impressive in his own right this season, helping to lead the Crimson defense on its way to an Ivy League title and perfect record. The 6-foot-3, 235pound lineman dominated as a pass rusher, leading the league with 8.5 sacks in 2014.

The Atlanta native, who was named All-Ivy while with the Crimson, ranks at a 5.19/10 on NFL.com. NFL analysts claims that Harvard’s all-time sack leader “appears to be a project who must live in the weight room in order to be able to become a more complete physical talent.”

“To hear that I have the potential to play at the peak of competition in this arena, that’s amazing and humbling,” Hodges told The Boston Globe in November. “But for me, I’m just going to try to sit down, figure out what are the goals of my life, what are the priorities to me or my family, and how can I maximize that.

“It’s great to be able to say, ‘Oh, I can go

HOLDEN MCGINNIS | SPORTS EDITOR

Following her 19-point, 10-rebound performance against Columbia on Saturday night, freshman forward Michelle Nwokedi was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week for the third time this season.

time culminating in her move into the starting lineup on Saturday. For the season, the freshman is averaging 6.9 points, 5.9 rebounds and 1.8 blocks in just 13.5 minutes per game.

Despite playing very few minutes,

Nwokedi ranks second on the team in rebounds and blocks and fourth in points.

After Saturday’s successful performance, the freshman could be seeing more starts down the stretch for the Quakers as they battle through the rest of their Ivy League slate.

to the NFL.’ But if I’m going to do something, I’m going to do it right.”

Whether “doing it right” means a career as a professional athlete is contingent on getting drafted for Varga and Hodges.

While only one member of the Ancient Eight was drafted last year, three were drafted in 2013, so there’s certainly a precedent for Ivy Leaguers to be drafted.a

If not, both athletes will still have paths on which to “fall back.” Varga is an ecology and evolutionary biology major, while Hodges has studied government.

While the Quakers have had players on practice squads as recently as the start of last season, Penn will have to wait at least another year to send a player to the Combine.

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hasn’t slowed down. Now ranked 16th in the nation, the Tigers now sit at 21-0 and their 83-54 win over Penn in the teams’ Ivy opener was certainly convincing.

Also convincing was Princeton’s triumph in last season’s Ivy opener, almost identically so — Princeton beat the Quakers 84-53 at the Palestra, Penn’s last home loss in a league game until Friday.

But the Quakers certainly made anyone who was “convinced” back then reconsider. Thanks to a nearly perfect finish to the regular season that was capped off by a road win over the Tigers with the Ancient Eight title on the line, Penn stole the conference’s NCAA Tournament bid and made everyone forget about the fiasco in the teams’ first meeting.

So despite the blowout last month, Penn supporters could still hold on to the belief that if the Quakers could win out — which looks increasingly necessary with each passing Princeton victory — they could pull off another season-finale miracle against the Tigers, this time on their home court.

If that were to happen, the two rivals would then take part in a onegame playoff to determine which team would earn the automatic NCAA bid.

But Friday night changed everything. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say it forced us to accept what has been true since the season began.

After losing to the Big Red, Penn now needs Princeton to lose to another Ivy opponent, drop the season finale to the Quakers to force a playoff and then be bested once more by the Red and Blue on a neutral court.

Of course, all of this assumes that Penn can finish its Ivy campaign without another blemish. As we learned this weekend, that itself is by no means a sure thing.

When asked a week before the Cornell loss about the pressure caused by Princeton’s perfection,

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coach Mike McLaughlin said he wanted his players to play “stressfree” with regards to the league standings.

After the loss on Friday, McLaughlin shrugged off the game’s doomsday implications by using the timeless “it’s a long season” line. Senior captain Kathleen Roche was similarly hopeful, saying that the Ivy League is one in which “any team can beat any team.”

But no team, neither in this league of allegedly limitless possibility nor in any of the nation’s other conferences, has beaten Princeton to date.

While the season is long and things could change, the Quakers will in all likelihood be fighting to finish in second place and earn a possible NIT berth. Cornell showed Penn that not even this consolation prize can be taken for granted, and 5-1 Yale has a good chance to fortify that harsh message when the Red and Blue head to New Haven on Friday.

This year’s Quakers are a good bunch — maybe not as good as last season’s squad, but still a solid squad. They have certainly been far more formidable and uplifting than most of Penn’s sports teams have been this year.

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Along with Yale running back Justin Varga, Harvard senior defensive lineman Zack Hodges received an invite to this year’s NFL Combine.

contest. Interestingly, the Quakers actually rank third in the Ancient Eight in connecting on 44.0 percent of their field goals.

Although Penn’s lackluster 66.5 percent mark from the free throw line doesn’t help matters, it is also not the biggest problem on offense.

The real issue stems from the Red and Blue’s inability to find openings and hold onto the ball.

Penn has the second-worst assist per game average in the Ivy League at 11.6 dimes per contest. That translates to an assist percentage of only 53.3 percent.

Additionally, the Quakers are currently last in the Ivy League with a 0.71 assist/turnover ratio.

Not only do the Red and Blue fail to record a high number assists, but they also waste too many possessions because of turnovers. Penn’s 16.4 turnovers per game are the most in the Ivy League, which almost negates the advantage of having a high field goal percentage.

The same problems plague the Quakers on defense, as they do not force many turnovers but allow teams to rack up assists, culminating in an Ivy-worst 1.09 assist/turnover ratio. Penn also gives up an effective field goal percentage of 49.8 percent, the highest figure among the Ivies.

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Two double-doubles over the weekend gave Michelle Nwokedi a weekly award.

Sam Jones and Greg Louis have proven to be effective offensively for Penn.

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No letdown Penn men’s tennis entered the top-75 rankings for the first time since 2012 after a win against then-No. 16 Penn State. The Quakers followed that up with two convincing wins against Furman and William & Mary.

CHAMPIONS Nobody hoped it would take this long for Penn to clinch its first Ivy title under Grace Calhoun. But the second-ranked women’s squash team has only dropped one match on the season, and the squad’s two wins this weekend both pushed its winning streak to six and clinched the program’s first Ancient Eight championship since 2008.

Hicks…for the win!

The last time Penn basketball played against Cornell, guard Tony Hicks sat out due to suspension.

On Friday, however, Hicks made up for his previous absence, singlehandedly willing the Quakers to victory. His floater in the lane with 4.0 seconds left gave Penn the win, 71-69.

Coming out party Freshman Michelle Nwokedi has left her mark on several games for Penn women’s basketball this season, none more so than Saturday’s destruction of Columbia. The rookie was one of four Red and Blue players to score in double digits, notching a career-high 19 points in her first start.

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Bring out the brooms On the mats at home this weekend, Penn wrestling continued its strong push towards the end of the season, riding veteran performances to 26-9 and 26-13 wins over Brown and Harvard, respectively.

Looking back, 2 looking 3 ahead 1 Last weekend was a watershed moment for Penn Athletics. With most of the winter season teams in action, the weekend offered plenty of telling moments for Red and Blue fans. Attention may now begin to shift to Penn’s spring sports, as both men’s and women’s lacrosse are set to get their seasons underway within the next two weeks. With so much action to discuss, here are the top five moments from last weekend and key points to look forward to in the week to come.

Best and worst Hicks will bring the Red and Blue back to the Palestra to face the two teams at the top and bottom of the Ivy League standings, respectively.

Penn takes on Yale on Friday before hosting lowly Brown on Saturday.

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1 Season Opener No. 12 Penn men’s lacrosse kicks off its season with a home contest against UMBC on Saturday.

Despite falling to Drexel in the NCAA Tournament last year, the defending Ivy champs return eight of their top 10 scorers from 2014.

A chance at revenge Fresh off its Ivy title, Penn women’s squash will head to Cambridge, Mass., for the CSA Team National Championships.

With a win, the Quakers will have a chance to avenge their only loss of the season against No. 1 Trinity.

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invited to NFL Combine Penn women’s basketball had fun in its 78-57 demolition of Columbia on Saturday. The Red and Blue came within one point of the school’s first-half scoring record, four players scored in double digits and senior Kara Bonenberger notched her 1,000th point.

But the win — although impressive — was inconsequential when compared to the results of the previous night’s game. Friday’s 60-49 home loss to Cornell means that, for the Quakers, the race for second place is officially underway.

You could argue that the team was only in the hunt for silver from the very beginning, even as the defending Ivy champs.

Last season’s runner-up Princeton started out red-hot and certainly SEE ROTHMAN PAGE 7

BY CARTER COUDRIET Staff Writer

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Despite Friday night’s 60-49 loss at the hands of Cornell, senior captain Kathleen Roche insists that Penn women’s basketball is not out of the Ivy title race because “any team can beat any team.”

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Brawn may trump brain this April for two athletes from the Ancient Eight.

Yale senior running back Tyler Varga and Harvard senior defensive end Zack Hodges have been invited to attend the National Football League Scouting Combine, an event that showcases college football players to potentially interested NFL teams. The two Ivy League invitees would, if they choose to attend, travel to Indianapolis, Ind., with hundreds of other athletes, including standouts such as Oregon’s Marcus Mariota and Florida State’s Jameis Winston.

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be invited. Last year, Princeton defensive tackle Caraun Reid and Cornell quarterback Jeff Mathews were the only invitees, with Reid eventually being selected in the fifth round by the Detroit Lions and Mathews going undrafted.

Varga earned a spot at the Combine after a standout career as an Eli, racking up 1,423 rushing yards and a Yale record 26 total touchdowns as a senior. Scouts were particularly observant at the annual Senior Bowl, as the senior drew attention from NFL scouts when he scored two touchdowns.

Hailing from Ontario, Varga has amassed a plethora of awards in his tenure at Yale, including Ivy Offensive Player of the Year, firstteam All-Ivy and the NEFW Top Senior in New England. NFL.com, which ranks the tailback as a 5.18 on SEE NFL DRAFT PAGE 7 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640