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Penn alum competes on Survivor

2014 College grad Cydney Gillon was a body builder, athlete at Penn RAY POMPONIO Contributing Reporter

Penn graduates are fit to shine in any arena, and reality TV is no exception. 2014 College graduate Cydney Gillon will be a contestant on the upcoming season of Survivor which premieres tomorrow. The Georgia native is no stranger to competition, as she has been a professional bodybuilder for over seven years. Those who knew Gillon at Penn will be tuning in on tomorrow night to cheer her on. “She’s a hard worker and a great person. I just want her to win,” Gillon’s close friend and 2014 College graduate Gabrielle Piper said. Eighteen contestants are competing for a $1 million prize. If Gillon is victorious, she will use the money to pay off her student debt and help her family with bills, according to her bio on the Survivor website. While at Penn, Gillon balanced a bodybuilding career with varsity track and field. Her fellow sprinters and hurdlers described her as having the strongest personality on the team with a quirky sense of humor. Yet Gillon’s commitment to fitness is no joke. Throughout her school years she often trained three times a day outside of her SEE SURVIVOR PAGE 2

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GOLD Penn Museum exhibit showcases life of King Midas AMINATA SY Staff Reporter

The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has undertaken a project to dispel a myth. Sprawling through the right side of the museum for the next 10 months, visitors will be able to step back in time and explore the life and mystery of mythical ruler King Midas. With the world premiere exhibit opening of “The Golden Age of King Midas” on Feb. 13, the Penn Museum takes visitors on a journey to almost 3,000 years ago. In famous mythical stories, King Midas is known for his “golden touch” — the power to transform things into gold. But in history, King Midas was the powerful ruler of the kingdom of Phrygia, which now lies in modern Turkey.

Penn Museum has been excavating at the Phrygian capital of Gordion for roughly 65 years. However, it was in 2012 that the museum began its negotiations with Turkey to decide what stories it will highlight in its exhibition as well as preparing its space in the museum. A total of 124 objects were brought in from overseas, all coming from Turkey except for one. All together, the exhibit showcases over 220 objects. Kate Quinn, Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at the Penn Museum, said that part of the challenge of putting the exhibit together was figuring out how to tell the stories of the ancient city of Gordion in a way that is accessible to visitors. Closely working with the exhibit’s curator Brian Rose, the museum’s staff talked to some visitors to find out how much they knew about Phrygia. Then they used a visitor’s survey analysis as a starting point for their storytelling of the history of ancient Turkey.

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the excavation project, Gursan-Salzmann has worked on the ground in Gordion for 20 years. "[The exhibit] really has introduced people to objects that have left Turkey for the first time,” Gursan-Salzmann said. Penn Museum will display the artifacts for 10 months and then return them to the seven different Turkish museums from which they were borrowed. Some items discovered in the tomb of King Midas’s father Gordios include bronze bowls of various sizes. Because their rarity draws visitors’ attention, these bowls command presence in the exhibit. The royal family as well as the affluent enjoyed feasts with foods such barbecue lamb and lentil stew, although most Phrygians ate bread. At its Pepper Mill Cafe, the museum is serving Turkish-inspired meals, such as chickpea fritters with curry and herbs. Also being served is a SEE MIDAS PAGE 6

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“We knew that people recognize Midas,” the exbibit’s Interpretive Planning Manager Jessica Bicknell explained. “So part of the goal was to introduce this culture through something that people recognize.” Rose and his team flew to Turkey to choose from hundreds of artifacts for the exhibition. With these objects, Penn’s archeologists and anthropologists started the process of reconstructing the narrative of ancient Turkey from the perspective of the power, wealth and influence of the Phrygian kingdom of Midas. “This is the only exhibit in North America, I think, that gives you the history of ancient Turkey,” Rose said. “It is also the first one to unravel the secrets of King Midas: who he was, what he did and the kind of empire that he ruled.” Deputy Director of the Gordion Project Ayse Gursan-Salzmann, a Turkish native who received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Penn in 1992, also pointed to the exclusivity of the exhibition. As a leader in

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QuickHelp is a new app that links college students looking for academic help with graduate students. It was recently introduced at Penn.

It might now be quicker for you to find a tutor than to look up your question on Google. Quickhelp is an on-demand tutoring service that connects college students looking for help with

graduate students looking for an extra source of income — they charge, on average, $23 per hour. The application has been set up at many universities across the United States to provide students with quick, easy and cheap tutoring services. Recently, it was introduced at Penn. Students who join Quickhelp register with their schools when SEE TUTORS PAGE 2

Candidate for U.S. Senate Katie McGinty speaks at Penn She would be the first female senator from PA ERNEST MONAHAN Contributing Reporter

As election season sweeps across Penn’s campus, United States Senate candidate Katie McGinty reminded students that who they vote for in the

presidential race isn’t the only decision they’ll make in November. On Monday, Penn Democrats, Penn for Hillary and the Student Sustainability Association at Penn welcomed McGinty to discuss the upcoming election. A win would guarantee Katie McGinty a spot in the history books as the first female Senator from Pennsylvania.

However, a seat in the senate wouldn’t be McGinty’s first time in office. In the 1990s, she became the first woman to run the White House Council on Environmental Quality under President Bill Clinton. McGinty has also served as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection under Gov. Ed Rendell, a position she

leveraged to advocate for clean and renewable energy. McGinty is now seeking a seat in the United States Senate after only a few months as Gov. Tom Wolf’s Chief of Staff. She said she believes her experience makes her uniquely qualified for office. SEE McGINTY PAGE 3

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Penn Wellness connects programs on campus Initiative aims to improve mental health on campus CHERRY ZHI Staff Reporter

For College senior Ben Bolnick, the idea of creating a new mental health initiative at Penn first came to mind when he was giving his rabbi a haircut. Penn Wellness, an initiative that’s part health think tank and part umbrella organization, aims to improve the well-being of the student body by uniting student communities and wellness groups to form joint initiatives. With representatives from 27 different student groups, Penn Wellness also works with the Vice Provost of University Life to advertise and promote wellness programs on campus. The idea behind the organization developed when Bolnick

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demanding track routine. “I think she will most certainly fare well in all of the physical challenges,” assistant track coach Porscha Dobson said. Gillon may be prepared to excel in the show’s physical tests, but what about the other obstacles a contestant faces? 2001 College graduate and former Survivor contestant Charlie Herschel cited boredom as the most unexpected challenge. Often contestants arrive with a lot of adrenaline and are surprised by the amount of downtime between events, he said. Herschel also said Penn’s diverse student body prepared him well for building relationships and making alliances on the show. He encourages

was discussing mental health with his rabbi and they came up with the idea of developing a new branch of Hillel specifically dedicated to the wellbeing of community members. “We went ahead and created [Hillel Wellness], which had yoga groups, meditation groups and speaker series,” Bolnick said. “At one point I was discussing several ideas with Bill Alexander, the director of [Counseling and Psychological Services]. He told me that communal mental health is a very powerful thing.” Bolnick then tried looking into expanding the program beyond Hillel by reaching out to various student groups and asking them what mental health looked like in their communities. “At a certain point it dawned on me that it could be really incredible if we all collaborated

students to apply for reality TV shows if nothing else than for the unique experience. In the upcoming season, Gillon and her fellow cast members will be facing the rocky terrain of Koh Rong, a tropical island of Cambodia. Despite the warm climate, this Survivor season will be no walk in the park. A contestant on a similar French reality TV show died of a heart attack during a 2013 filming in Cambodia. Gillon’s friends and family have nothing to fear, though. The bodybuilder and aspiring medical student is now home in Georgia after filming in March of last year. Anyone interested in the results, however, will have to wait for the finale. The show’s producers protect the secrecy of the results through confidentiality agreements.

and complemented each other,” Bolnick said. As an associate member of the Undergraduate Assembly, Bolnick pursued this initiative as a UA project and began contacting different student groups and administrators to get them involved and connected. “The mental health task force found that Penn has many of the necessary resources but they don’t work together so we wanted to create something that students could [use to] find everything they need in one place,” Bolnick said. On the Penn Wellness website, students can access a calendar with wellness programs scheduled every day, such as free yoga, peer counseling services and meditation sessions, as well as a page consolidating all the emotional, physical, academic and communal services available.

With meetings every other week, disparate student groups also have the opportunity to work together on joint initiatives. For example, Hillel Wellness is work ing with Nursing Wellness and the Consciousness Club to bring in a speaker on nutrition, and students are also working with administrators to develop an app promoting mental health called Stressbusters. Bolnick has been working hard since last fall to push this through before he finishes his last semester at Penn. “Our goals are less about black a nd wh ite accomplishments and more of a progression ... the whole point of the group is to increase collaboration a nd encou rage people to bring back the conversation to their own communities,” Bolnick said.

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A new mental health initiative, Penn Wellness, connects wellness programs and student groups together around campus.

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2014 College graduate Cydney Gillon is set to compete in the latest season of Survivor, premiering on Feb. 17.

Wednesday’s premiere — a special 90 minute episode — will air at 8 p.m. on CBS.

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they install the application. When they have questions, they send out a request for tutors, which is sent out to about 30 or 40 graduate students in the area. Then, the tutor and tutee can schedule a tutoring session in person, which is most highly encouraged, but also online or via Skype. “We focus on in-person tutoring because that’s the way people learn the best,” Hikari Senju, 2015 Harvard graduate and Quickhelp CEO, said. “You learn the best when you’re face to face at a coffee shop, looking at the same problems, talking to each other and you’re understanding what the other is saying.” Quickhelp is nicknamed the “Uber for Tutors.” “The way Uber works is it serves as a medium for providing clients with drivers,” Ajani Motta, College freshman and Quickhelp Manager of Operations at Penn, said. “We do the same in that we pair undergraduate students with graduate students for academic help, interview help, resume help [and] assistance that graduate students have experience with and undergraduate students don’t.” Quickhelp reached out to Motta in December about launching the program at Penn. Senju expressed his excitement about the initiative. “I think Philadelphia is a great place to launch and we’re clearly seeing that based on the usage,” Senju said. “Sometimes a city is more spread out, people don’t communicate with each other as much or people aren’t living as close to each other, so very few other places or cities are as perfect for it as Philadelphia and this huge research institution, Penn.” Since its launch on Jan. 30 at Penn, 500 students have signed up for the service and an average of three tutoring sessions have been held per day. “Every request that gets sent out at Penn gets a response literally within minutes,” Senju said. “We’ve had a bunch of requests at Penn per day — at least a couple per day — and it’s very exciting.” Alexandra Tiger, a College

senior, is one of the Penn students who has already been able to take advantage of Quickhelp. “I used Quickhelp once last week when I needed help with a statistics homework and I got multiple responses within minutes,” Tiger said. “I met with a graduate student named Divyansh and he was extremely helpful.” Though Penn offers free tutoring services at the Tutoring Center, Senju said that Quickhelp offered advantages that the Tutoring Center could not. “It takes weeks or days to schedule [sessions with the Tutoring Center], but our app lets you meet a tutor within hours,” Senju said. “There’s less bureaucracy, you don’t have to fill any forms out, you don’t have to wait a week — the program is built around the students, not built around the necessities of the school.” Senju also noted that Quickhelp is distinct from other tutoring applications on the App Store. “There are tons of apps out there that are tailored for high school students, but we’re one of the very few apps that focus on college students,” Senju said. “Because we focus on colleges, we get to do a lot of other cool things: We get to focus on in-person tutoring because college students live close to each other — the person who is helping you might be living in the next building.” Q u ick help is pla n n i ng f u r t her development s to supplement students’ learning at Penn as well as other universities. One of these developments will allow tutees to not only schedule sessions with tutors, but also discuss problems with other peers in the course. “The way the app works now, once you download the app you register with the university and if you want academic help, you provide a course listing,” Motta said. “We’re working on a development in which if you click a course, it creates a message board that connects all the people who are taking a particular course so people [can] work with others who may be experiencing the same problems.”

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One last chance to take classes with top professors Wharton program hosts non-credit lectures ALIZA OHNOUNA Staff Reporter

Taking classes during dinnertime is difficult. And getting to class for second semester seniors might be the toughest — especially if the courses aren’t credit-bearing. But none of these conditions has prevented Penn Perspectives from thriving. Founded by Wharton senior Nicole Granet and Wharton and Engineering senior Monica Wojciechowski, Penn Perspectives addresses “an incredible dilemma of too many amazing professors and too many amazing classes and not enough time [for Penn students to take advantage of all of them],” Granet said. The initiative, which is piloting this semester, offers students from all four undergraduate schools the opportunity to attend a lecture every Wednesday evening given by one of Penn’s highly esteemed professors. Professors were picked based on student preferences, which were expressed in applications to the program. Students were

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McGinty’s speech focused on Philadelphia, which she described as a vibrant and culturally rich city, while also addressing problems that the city faces, such as poverty, unemployment and health care. She added that she would “stand up for the fabric and strength of the community” as a Pennsylvania senator. McGinty is one of several candidates for the state’s senatorial

required to include the names of the most influential professors they’d had throughout their Penn careers — they had to write “thank you” notes to them as well — in addition to the names of those from whom they’d still like to learn. Professor rankings on Penn Course Review were also taken into consideration. Participants had to apply to join the program during the fall exam period. More than 100 seniors were chosen from all four undergraduate schools, with a breakdown proportional to the Penn population in each of the schools. L ect u res genera lly emphasize professors’ research disciplines — which range from modernist poetry (English professor Al Filreis) to methods for developing competitive advantage (marketing professor Peter Fader) — which students seem to prefer over “general life advice” according to the feedback they provide following each session, Wojciechowski said. Much of the time, however, professors embed information about the paths they took to identify and pursue their passions in their research-oriented

election to speak at Penn this semester. Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania’s 7th congressional district, Joe Sestak, came to campus in October, and Pennyslvania Mayor John Fetterman is slated to come speak in March. Penn Democrats president Max Levy said that the speaker events are meant to give the student body a chance to get involved in the voting process. By bringing in the candidates they hope to educate students about the different platforms and

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Professors for Penn Perspectives are selected based on a survey asking students to name the most influential lecturers at Penn; Penn Course Review rankings were also taken into consideration.

lectures, a process in which many students expressed interest in their applications to the program, Granet said. Frequently, the lectures transcend disciplines and allow listeners to extract a universally

meaningful message. College senior Randi Kramer, a Penn Perspectives participant and former 34th Street editor, praised a recent lecture called “What is Success? You Get To Decide?” by Wharton professor

G. Richard Shell for its ability to resonate with all of the attendees, who come from “such different walks of life.” Penn Perspectives is the first of its kind in terms of scale and size at Penn. Every year the

encourage them to think about the senatorial election as much as the presidential election. College and Wharton senior Sebastian Negron-Reichard said he still needed to hear the other candidates before making a final decision but he thought McGinty presented a good background on environmental issues and showed experience. Negron-Reichard, a native of Puerto Rico, asked the candidate about her opinion on the current debt crisis in his home country. McGinty answered that citizens

should have a right to negotiate the debt. She also commended the students present for coming to hear her opinions. “It’s all up to us. The bottom line is that there’s so much at stake,” she said. She urged the students to become involved by spreading the word and voting, adding that the young vote is critically important in the 2016 Senate elections. “[Student] voice critically matters,” she said.

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Wharton Undergraduate Division works with the Wharton Council to organize one lecture called “The Business of Life” given by a professor that is open to the wider Penn community, said Lori Rosenkopf, the faculty sponsor for Penn Perspectives and the vice dean and director of the Wharton Undergraduate Division. Programs similar to Penn Perspectives are already popular at other universities. The University of Virginia offers a credit-bearing course named “The Best of UVA: A Collection of Unforgettable Lectures” that seeks to “broaden students’ perspectives and perceptions of the world around us,” according to its website. Wojciechowski noted that she learned about UVA’s program from a friend who attends the school, which was part of what inspired her to create the program at Penn. Rosenkopf is hopeful that Penn Perspectives will continue after Granet and Wojciechowski graduate. The program is modified after each session in response to student feedback. “It’s this love letter, this valentine, to seniors, from Penn, so why wouldn’t we want it to continue?” she said.

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REID ABOUT IT! | The international experience from a conflicted perspective As an international student, I’ve grown progressively better at fitting in with cultural groups. Growing up at a British international school in Vietnam, I know what being a cultural outsider means. Every time I come back from wherever I was, my senses towards the relative “other” culture are heightened. I would become more aware of the standard direction of the grain, and I would mold myself to it. Most international students are constantly adjusting themselves. Not only do they need to fit themselves into Penn’s culture, they’ll need to fit themselves into their home culture when they return. International and study abroad students know the hard work associated with learning to go with the flow. Enforced upon me, like many others, is the pressure to assimilate while still retaining a sense of identity. Like sandpaper molding the edges of splintered wood, I try to mold myself to fit to the world around me: get-

ting rid of the ugly edges or trying to find the parts of me that fit expectations. The holidays, for instance, are a time for revisiting your family, your roots, your old life. Eventually you end up revisiting a part of yourself you thought you left behind. For me, going home to Vietnam takes 18 hours of flying, five hours of layover and three hours of driving. Once I’m home, every aspect of life needs some level of adjustment. I try to navigate the roads from memory. I try to establish a substantial conversation with people in their own language. I try to recall restaurant etiquette, greeting etiquette, money conversion rates, what brands exist and don’t exist now. I’m always told that my accent changes depending on where I am. I self-consciously mimic people’s actions and words to make the situation less awkward. Slowly, I’ll get the hang of it. But just as I’ve become used to it, I swiftly abandon this life for the life overseas. And so goes

the acclimatization process when I come back from wherever I’ve been. When back in the States, international students need to readjust to American cul-

these things. Although some of us realize that integration is only temporary, there is always some need to belong anyway. Students might try to find

Enforced upon me, like many others, is the pressure to assimilate while still retaining a sense of identity.” ture, which is an even greater task. Some of us have to speak English as a second, third or fourth language. We need to get used to the infrastructure, the architecture, the weather, faces, voices, mannerisms and what is expected of us. We need to be aware of the things we say, the beliefs we hold and the way in which we express

their national home in a cultural group at Penn. Yet student groups, naturally microcosms, cannot represent the many rich and diverse experiences from across the globe. These groups are also run and populated by Americans; an Asian American does not always share the same experience as a person

who grew up in Asia. As much as we try to promote cultural fusion, there will always be a little bit more give than take when it comes to international students. There will always be a part of our cultural identity that won’t fit exactly how we want it to. It turns out that I, like many others, do not need to abide by the standards set for me by a greater social system. In fact, no matter how hard I try, I can’t force a definition of myself. Like the great Yoda says, “There is no try, there is only do.” You can try and build a community around you, you can try to speak with an American accent, you can try to pretend like American football makes sense — it doesn’t — and you can try to search out harmony between the external world and your internal world. But in the end, your growth as a human being unfolds without your control. Life would be a lot easier if we recognize that our behaviors are molding and influencing the culture

AMANDA REID around us. Integrating with or confronting the dominant culture isn’t completely in my control. Individuals are not the only ones that need to adjust, because the surrounding culture does too. Culture is the combined makeup of individuals in a community, but we forget that the individual is a combination of separate parts as well. AMANDA REID is a College sophomore from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, studying cinema studies & English. Her email address is amreid@sas. upenn.edu. “Reid About It!” usually appears every other Tuesday.

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As many of you already know, there is an ongoing campaign to convince Penn to divest its endowment from fossil fuels, or in other words, to eliminate all of the University’s investments in the coal, oil and gas companies that pollute the atmosphere and cause climate change. Just over a year after this campaign has taken off, Fossil Free Penn has gained the support of the Undergraduate Assembly along with 87.8 percent of undergraduate students (according to an undergraduate referendum), and thanks to our efforts, the University Council is in the process of appointing a committee to assess the divestment proposal FFP submitted to them in the fall. Francis Leong, representing the Penn Sustainability Review, cautioned readers about divestment in a Daily Pennsylvanian editorial on Jan. 19. Leong described divestment supporters, a considerable majority of the undergraduate population, as “masquerading as financiers and climatologists” and urged them instead

to “educate [them]selves” and “turn [their] fervor to learning more about [divestment] first.” On this one, however, it’s Leong who could learn a bit more. Since its inception, Fossil Free Penn has been mobilizing to promote divestment and inform the Penn community about it. Last spring, we set up camp in college houses, on Locust Walk and in other popular campus locations for a full week to talk to our peers about divestment and give them the opportunity to vote in the Nominations & Elections Committee’s referendum. This organizational feat was preceded by weeks of planning, collecting of signatures, coalition building and spreading the word about the campaign, and it resulted in the overwhelming support of the 33 percent of undergraduates that participated in the NEC’s referendum, more than double the required number. Then, FFP spent the entirety of last semester researching and crafting a proposal that will soon

be investigated by a committee that the University Council is currently in the process of appointing. With everything we’ve done, Leong seems to be the one who hasn’t done his homework. Perhaps the most apparent misjudgment in Leong’s col-

part of a larger movement that included cities and states and ultimately pressured the Republican-controlled Senate to override President Reagan’s veto of a 1968 bill that banned United States investments in South Africa, along with other economic sanctions. Nelson

We are and always have been committed to supporting this position with facts and reasons, not just unbridled passion ... ” umn was his underestimation of the influence divestment can have. Leong dismissed the movement to divest from Apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s based on prices in the Johannesburg Stock Exchange at the time, but he failed to realize that the 155 divesting institutions were

Mandela himself acknowledged the significant role university divestment played in toppling Apartheid. In PSR’s column, Leong makes the subtle but specious suggestion that decisions like divestment should be purely business decisions, but if he had taken the time to learn

about divestment as he suggested his peers do, he would know that Penn has never operated like that. In fact, the Trustees have established criteria specifically for socially responsible divestment, and in the past the University has divested from companies involved with the genocide in Darfur. Fossil Free Penn is not like the other campaigns and student activist groups that Leong alludes to in his article. We haven’t blockaded administration buildings or held sit-ins. We don’t stir up dissent, and our demonstrations haven’t ended in arrests. Since the beginning, FFP has been committed to waging this campaign the right way. We have worked hard to build a strong coalition of students, faculty and alumni in support of our cause. We have followed the University’s procedure for proposing divestment, and we are happy to comply with that process. We believe that it is the financial, moral, social and environmental responsibility

of the University of Pennsylvania to divest from fossil fuels. We are and always have been committed to supporting this position with facts and reasons, not just unbridled passion as Leong suggests, and informing the Penn community about those reasons. We encourage Leong and the writers for the Penn Sustainability Review to view our detailed reasons and the sources that support them on our website, fossilfreepenn.org. We understand PSR’s concern about divestment better than anyone, but we do believe that these concerns have already been fully addressed by our campaign. We echo their sentiment that Penn students should educate themselves about divestment, and we hope that PSR and the rest of the Penn community will visit our website to learn more. FOSSIL FREE PENN leads the campaign to get Penn to divest its endowment from fossil fuels. Learn more at fossilfreepenn.org.

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NomSense bakery expands as founders graduate

The company now sells desserts around campus MICHAELA PALMER Contributing Reporter

Penn’s sweetest startup is now selling its desserts in stores and coffeeshops near campus. NOMsense Bakery was started in February of 2014 by Wharton senior Roopa Shankar and College senior Alina Wong and has grown drastically in the past year. Philadelphia coffee shops Hubbub, Elixir and Petra’s Key — as well as Gourmet Grocer — have all started selling their signature dessert, the NOMwich. Over the past year the company has grown from just the duo to include a team of eight freshmen and sophomores to help with marketing, finance and event planning. “We needed to scale really quickly to provide orders,” Wong said. The bakery and catering company exclusively sells their signature “NOMwich” — a cookie sandwich that consists of different fillings, drizzles and

toppings. “The Classic,” their original flavor, consists of two snickerdoodle cookies with a cookie dough filling, a chocolate drizzle and a crushed toffee topping. Their other flavors change seasonally and consist of flavors like the “Cutie Pie,” a strawberry and white chocolate filling with brown sugar cookies, strawberry drizzle and graham cracker topping. Shankar and Wong loved to bake together in Wong’s Harnwell College House kitchen and were inspired to begin selling their creations when friends told them they would buy their cookies. The baking duo started off by catering for student groups and then began to sell their sandwiches wholesale. They now do all their baking out of the Center for Culinary Enterprises on 48th and Spruce Streets. Shankar and Wong believe their target segment, millenials, enjoy the aesthetics of their cookie sandwiches in addition to the taste. “Our product is ... Instagramworthy, which is high-key for

millennials,” Wong said. NOMwiches help people “satisfy their digital hunger,” Shankar added. “You want something to be able to take a picture of.” Though Wong and Shankar admit that it can be difficult to be students, run a bakery and work to get their new employees to get as excited about the NOMsense brand as they are. “We definitely feel like we’re doing this full time right now,” Shankar said. Leah Sprague, a College freshman and one of their employees, agreed. “They say they’re bakers first and students second,” Sprague, the chief of marketing events, said. “I’ve been blown away by how much work [Shankar and Wong] put in to it.” Both consider themselves experiential learners and love applying what they learn in the classroom to outside pursuits. Shankar said several of her Wharton classes gave her business skills — specifically branding and networking — but feels she has learned the most about marketing from her hands-on experience.

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NOMsense Bakery was founded in 2014 by Wharton senior Roopa Shankar and College senior Alina Wong. The duo look to expand their operations after graduation this spring.

Wong and Shankar hope to open a NOMsense cafe in Philadelphia that embodies their bakery’s brand. After graduation, the two plan to continue running

and growing NOMsense and hope to expand outside of Philadelphia in the future, maybe to other college campuses. Shankar and Wong admitted

to eating at least twenty NOMwiches a week. “It’s hard to eat just one,” Wong said. “I like to think it’s negative calories.”

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Months after his untimely death due to brain cancer, 1991 College of Arts and Sciences graduate Beau Biden’s legacy will live on in the form of a scholarship. In conjunction with the Tau Chapter of Psi Upsilon, also known as Castle, Penn announced that the Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III Memorial Scholarship will provide needbased support to a College student demonstrating a passion for civil engagement and leadership through public service. Biden, who was a member

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mildly-spicy chicken skewer marinated with yogurt. On its third floor, the museum set up a Turkish-style space called Kervansaray with wall-to-wall carpets, throw rugs and low

of Castle as an undergraduate, trained as a lawyer and served two terms as attorney general of Delaware. Previously, he served in Iraq as part of the Delaware National Guard where he won a Bronze Star. He was also given the Legion Award of Merit posthumously. The scholarship, which will be awarded to one student annually, will cover the average financial aid package for a Penn student of $44,000. Ongoing fundraising efforts have been successful with donations from Biden’s friends and family totaling $500,000 said Maryann O’Leary Salas, director of development for undergraduate financial aid. “Beau was an extraordinary human being, and his legacy at

Penn and beyond is one of leadership and service,” Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Steven Fluharty said in a statement. The Biden family has maintained close ties to Penn throughout the years. After Beau Biden died at the age of 46 in May 2015, Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Penn in January to launch an initiative to cure cancer through Penn Medicine. At the roundtable discussion to launch the initiative, he said that he intends to be involved with this effort for the rest of his life. Ashley Biden, Beau’s halfsister, graduated from School of Social Policy and Practice in 2010 and Naomi Biden, Beau’s niece, is a current College senior.

seats. Turkish women’s attire, such as long dresses, present an aura of elegance and ornament with their extravagant details and soft draping. During the press preview of the exhibit, a replica of a Phrygian gown flown in from a Turkish fashion institute

specialized in old culture was modeled by graduate student Jess Holler. The majority of Phrygians were farmers, but others worked in food preparation and in textile production. With a connection to the Greek language, Phrygians spoke an Indo-European language. However, with their brief surviving text mostly inscribed on pottery, scientists have yet to figure out how to completely read Phrygians’ messages. Ibrahim Onaral, president of the Turkish American Friendship Society of the United States, noted that Turkey is located in a very archeologically-rich land between Europe and Asia and that the King Midas exhibit is a huge opportunity for publicity for the country. He also mentioned that the government of Turkey could have refused to allow such items of historical importance to leave their country. “The Turkish government deserves a lot credit for letting the Museum have all these artifacts,” Onaral said. Rose stressed the long and hard work that the museum has

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The King Midas exhibit is set to dazzle visitors at the Penn Museum, and serves Turkish-inspired meals, like chickpea fritters with curry and herbs.

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When visitors of Penn Museum walk into the exhibit, they will be greeted by a timeline that traces the history of King Midas from during his lifetime to the present day.

invested over the years not only in its project with the museum exhibit but also in its archeological studies in general. “In a sense, this exhibit is the performance of our archeological research,” he said. “It’s a

commitment no other university has made in terms of archaeology.” In putting historical pieces of the Gordion site together, one of the museum’s main objectives was to increase public awareness

on the kingdom of Phrygia and its ruler. “We hope that people will walk away knowing a little bit more about the real King Midas, Phrygia and this time period,” Bicknell said.

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THEY’RE READY TO FINALLY GET GOING After a long winter of practices in the Dunning Seasonal Air Structure, Penn men’s lacrosse is ready to start off the 2016 campaign, hosting Michigan on Saturday to kickstart the season after a pair of scrimmages at Drexel in early February.

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Talk of mental health is good, but action is better LAINE HIGGINS

Over the weekend, students from across the Ivy League gathered on Penn’s campus to participate in panel discussions and workshops as part of the Unmasking the Ivy League Conference. Organized by a dozen Penn students, the firstever Ivy League mental health summit was designed to gather some of the brightest minds to discuss the state of mental health on college campuses and empower students to invoke change at their universities. According to the conference’s website, the three days of programming sought to address the “theme of unearthing campus perceptions of success.” True to its goal, this came up again and again in the hour-long workshops held on Saturday at Huntsman Hall. In a panel discussion facilitated by Penn’s Counseling and Psychological Services on expectations of the Ivy League, students across all eight schools expressed a struggle to define their identity by means other than stellar GPAs and coveted internships. Collectively they wondered, can someone be successful if they aren’t the best at everything they try? At first glance, the answer seems to be an obvious “yes.” The trouble is getting students in intense academic, pre-professional climates like Penn to realize that. Perhaps one of the most difficult things for students to overcome in the Ivy League is being mediocre for the first times in their lives. If, all of your life, everyone around you tells you that you are the best, and, as a result, you build your confidence from external validation, imagine

how crushing it must feel when you get a B- for the first time in your life at the age of 18 or 19. With living away from home for the first time and having to reestablish support networks in the absence of parents or trusted friends, it’s enough to wreck a person’s psyche. Ivy League student-athletes have another layer of pressure to navigate in this already intense environment. Not only do they have to compete against the best of the best in the classroom, but in athletic arenas they are no longer standouts. Penn’s rosters are made up of young adults who spent the entirety of their teenage years as team MVPs, state champions and record holders. Put all of these outstanding performers on a team together and standing out becomes a much taller task. Quite frankly, many studentathletes don’t know how to cope when put in this situation. Multiple studies have shown that college athletes tend to be less at risk for depression and suicide than their non-athlete peers. According to Dr. Ashwin Rao of the University of Washington, this is likely due to the existing athletic infrastructure on college campuses. However, these support networks exist because of the unique stressors that come with being a college athlete, such as pressures from parents, coaches and teammates, coping with injury and increased likelihood to participate in “high-risk behavior” such as binge drinking. “Athletes in general are expected to be tough and to sort of blow off any mental health concerns,” Rao said. “Doctors aren’t particularly comfortable asking athletes about their mental well-being.” Given the recent rash of suicides in the Penn Athletics community, namely those of track runners Madison Holleran in January and Timothy

Hamlett in December of 2014 and two football players in 2005 and 2010, the intersection of mental health and athletics in the Ivy League is starting to become salient. vSo then why was this topic not discussed at last weekend’s conference? Yes, athletes are but one subset of the entire Ancient Eight student population. However, across the conference they make up roughly 13 percent of the undergraduate community, and they are no less immune to mental health concerns than the rest of their non-athlete peers. No m at t er how m a ny resources such as sports psychologists, athletic trainers, coaches, tutors and mentors may be in place, the same issues of suboptimal utilization of available resources exist within the collegiate athletic sphere as they do with the psychological and mental health services available to the general population on any campus — a point

of tension found to be common by delegates from across the Ivy League. Why can’t Penn lead the way in ensuring that its student-athletes are mentally well? This March, the University is hosting a conference for Division I schools on “holistic wellness,” organized by Penn’s Associate Athletic Director for Sports Performance, Eric Laudano. “I ncreasingly we’re understanding that to keep our student-athletes to perform their best it’s not just about training on the field. It’s all the other little pieces that go around the sport and the student in totality,” Athletic Director Grace Calhoun said. “We’re willing to put ourselves out there and talk about these things more.” While this conference is an important acknowledgement of the issue of mental health in athletics, talking is just a starting point. The same goes for the conference held by

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One of Doktorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorite moments with the team â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an annual tradition called â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Programâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; speaks to the truth of his leadership role on the team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ex-Navy SEALs come in and train us in workouts and things related to building leadership and team skills,â&#x20AC;? Doktor said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pretty grueling work out but by the end it does a good job of brining the team together through adversity.â&#x20AC;? Doktorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leadership and dedication show beyond his skills on the field. His selflessness, according to Murphy, is reflected by his stat line: He has more assists than goals even though he is an exceptionally talented attack. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a really good guy, someone you trust down there to do the right thing,â&#x20AC;? Murphy said. While Murphy and Doktor are both focued on the upcoming season, the senior attack has the option to continue his lacrosse career beyond graduation. Early this winter, he was drafted 18th in the second round

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Additionally, Lejman, Dunn and Roesner were all selected to the U-19 U.S. Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Team for summer 2016, allowing the Red and Blue to match North Carolina, Ohio State and Penn State as the only colleges able to make such a claim. And, most notably, Insider Lacrosse has Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recruiting class ranked No. 4 overall in the nation, joining Yale (No. 5) as the only Ivy League teams in the top 10. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re aware of the rankings,

to the Charlotte Hounds of Major League Lacrosse. The selection made Doktor the highest draft pick in Penn menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lacrosse history, eclipsing the previous mark set by D.J. Andrzejewski, who went in the third round of the draft. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The draft was obviously a pretty cool experience, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something that was a goal of mine, something I was looking forward to,â&#x20AC;? Doktor said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really focused on the season right now.â&#x20AC;? Because of the timing of the MLL draft, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to wait a little while longer to realize his professional dreams as he enters his final year with the Red and Blue. So while Doktor has an exciting plan come May, the focus now is on this last season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to make it the best one yet.â&#x20AC;?

but we try not to focus on it and just be as good as we can be,â&#x20AC;? said Lejman, who was Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highest-ranked player at seventh overall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really mean anything â&#x20AC;&#x201D; we still have to work and earn whatever we get.â&#x20AC;? Although Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most recent season cer tainly failed to meet expectations, the Quakers appeared on the verge of emerging as a title contender for the coming years. The Red and Blue finished 8-5 and reached the Ivy League tournament in 2012-13, and a dominant 2013-14 season

concluded in a conference title and No. 4 national seed in the NCAA Tournament before the squad was upset in the first round by Drexel. Consequently, in a sport with increasingly early college recruiting â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with Dragonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; coach Brian Voelker lamenting to Insider Lacrosse in September 2014 that â&#x20AC;&#x153;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the reality for players to make their decisions before their junior promsâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not-too-distant success played a key role in coercing the highest-ranked class in Murphyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tenure to don the Red and Blue.

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who finished second and fifth on the team in scoring last season (Doktor finished first, of course). Sports Editor Laine Higgins: As the adage goes, defense wins championships. If Penn wants to repeat its Ivy Tournament success from 2014, it will need to find stability in goal. Last season, the Quakers alternated between then-senior John Lopes and then-junior Jimmy Sestilio, but neither established a stalwart presence in the net. Despite an explosive offense, Penn could not manage to outscore its opponents and lost many of its Ivy games by close margins. With Sestilio in his senior season, he seems to be the clear goalie of choice for coach Mike Murphy. That said,

after losing Matt McMahon — one of Penn’s best defensemen — to graduation, Sestilio must prove he has what it takes to anchor the Quakers’ defense in the backfield. Sports Editor Tom Nowlan: I’m gonna go big picture and name Penn coach Mike Murphy. After the Red and Blue won the Ivy title in 2014 [and got off to a great start last season], the team faltered down the stretch in 2015 and missed the playoffs entirely. If the team is to regain its 2014 mojo, the leadership will need to come straight from the top. The team is clearly talented, all the way from senior Nick Doktor to the impressive freshman class. It’s Murphy’s job to convert that talent to wins.

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Trust him, he’s a Doktor

In his senior season, captain Nick Doktor ready to lead Penn’s offense

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ALEXIS ZIEBELMAN Senior Sports Reporter

Fifteen years ago, a young six-year-old Nick Doktor scored a goal in a spring youth lacrosse league. However, he scored from the crease, thus rendering the goal moot, a nuance of the rules that the young player did not really understand at the time. The referees let his mistake slide and Doktor’s goal counted anyway. Over a decade and a half later, Doktor is readying for his senior season wearing the Red and Blue and leading the offense for Penn men’s lacrosse. The memories of 15 years ago remain salient in the attacker’s mind as he readies to turn a new chapter in his career in the sport. Now a senior captain, Doktor has been an asset to the Quakers since his freshman season in 2013. In his three-year tenure at Penn, the Rochester, N.Y., native has seen action in all 41 of Penn’s games during that time frame, starting in 34, including every game as a sophomore and junior. In those minutes, Doktor accumulated 56 goals and 59 assists. But there is much more to Doktor than his stat sheet shows. According to coach Mike Murphy, “His greatest asset is his mind. “What sets him apart and has allowed him to become the player he has is his vision of the game and his understanding of the game. He knows where everyone is at all times and his reliable stick-work allows him to score.” While Doktor saw action in all his freshman games, his role as a team leader and now as captain has been slowly developing over the years. “My role on the team has changed from being a young guy,” Doktor said. “More of a follower in my freshman and sophomore year to more of a leadership role in my junior, senior year.” “He’s doing a great job as a captain,” Murphy said. “And just expect him to keep leading our offense, getting everyone on the same page and make sure we’re organized down there.” SEE DOKTOR PAGE 8

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Highly touted freshman class ready to leave its mark COLE JACOBSON Associate Sports Editor

Not one, not two, not three, not four... Penn men’s lacrosse had a disappointing 2014-15 season, finishing 6-7 overall and missing both the Ivy

League and NCAA tournaments after beginning the year ranked No. 13 in the nation by Inside Lacrosse. But with a highly touted recruiting class headlined by an astonishing five U.S. Lacrosse High School All-Americans, the building blocks are in place for the program to prove that last year was a fluke and the team will return to national prominence once again. “As soon as they got here, we

could feel their energy and ability, and the other guys have had to respond just to keep their jobs,” seventh-year coach Mike Murphy said. “These freshmen definitely have already made an impact.” By just about any metric, the Quakers’ nine incoming freshmen form a group that ranks among both the conference’s and nation’s elite. According to Insider Lacrosse , Penn has three players — defender

Noah Lejman and attackmen Tyler Dunn and Alex Roesner — ranked among the nation’s top 20 freshmen; no other program in the NCAA has more than two, and the other six Ivy teams have a combined one. Within the conference, Penn’s five High School All-Americans rank only behind Cornell’s six. SEE FRESHMEN PAGE 8

2015 brought share of highs, lows for Quakers After hot start, team missed Ivy playoffs TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor

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Penn men’s lacrosse will look a little on defense in 2016 after losing honorable mention All-American Matt McMahon to graduation. McMahon anchored the Quakers’ defense, leading the league with 2.15 turnovers caused per game in 2015. SEND STORY IDEAS TO DPSPORTS@THEDP.COM

Penn men’s lacrosse had an up-and-down season in 2015, failing to defend the Ivy League Tournament Championship it had earned the year prior. The Red and Blue entered the campaign ranked 13th in the country but only retained the spot for a single week, dropping to No. 14 despite opening the year with a 10-8 win over UMBC. An overtime win over Saint Joseph’s followed, but losses to No. 11 Maryland and Penn State resulted in the squad dropping out of the rankings. They wouldn’t find their way back into the top 25 for the rest of the year.

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Those two losses kickstarted a midseason skid for the Quakers, as they lost six of seven including their first three Ivy League games. In the midst of that run, the most heartbreaking loss came in a triple-overtime thriller that saw No. 7 Cornell pull out a 10-9 victory. This seven-game stretch consisted of a run of tough opponents for Penn, with losses to four straight ranked opponents before ending the slide against No. 10 Brown, 14-11. The Red and Blue bounced back to win their final three league games and finished 3-3 in Ancient Eight play, tying with Yale for fourth place as three teams tied for first at 4-2. But having lost the headto-head matchup with Yale, the Quakers were denied an opportunity to participate in the four-team Ivy tournament and defend their title.

Penn finished its season with a loss to national powerhouse Virginia, making the Quakers’ final record 6-7 on the year. The team received large contributions from its upperclassmen. Then-junior Nick Doktor (21 goals, 36 assists) and then-senior Joe McCallion (22 goals, 12 assists) were the team’s top two scorers by far, and Isaac Bock chipped in with the team’s fifth-highest point total (18) in his final season at Penn. John Lopes didn’t start any games in goal, but the 2015 graduate appeared in 10 of the team’s 13 contests. Matt McMahon finished his NCAA career strong, leading the Ivy League in turnovers caused per game with 2.15. McMahon earned first team All-Ivy honors, while Doktor earned second team SEE YEAR IN REVIEW PAGE 9 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640