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February 17, 2015: The mental health task force released its final recommendations

June 1, 2015: The New York City Medical Examiner’s office confirms that former College junior Timothy Hamlett died in a “suicide by drowning”

September 10, 2015: The “Hamlett-Reed Mental Health Initiative” delivers an open letter to President Amy Gutmann, urging the administrative action

November 18, 2015: Penn rolls out several new mental health initiatives, including a new wellness app and a faculty partnership program

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December 31, 2015: Engineering graduate student Stephen Kyle Wilshusen commits suicide

February 12-14, 2016: Penn hosts an all-Ivy conference on mental health

A look into changes and progress CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor

One year ago today, Penn released the final report of the Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare — a bundle of

administrative recommendations, developed after a year of consultation and designed to remedy Penn’s mental health crisis. Since the release of the final report, multiple initiatives and programs have sprung up across campus, each with its own creative approach to the issue.

At the same time, student

activism and outside media have highlighted ways that the administration has fallen short in its efforts. The Daily Pennsylvanian took a deep look at the issue’s development over the past few years, the specific progress the administration has made, and the way the issue is currently affecting students.

New policy on sexual violence complaints against faculty

Trustees chair a major donor to indicted congressman

Complaints will go through the Sexual Violence Investigation Office

Cohen continued to donate after investigation launched

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DAN SPINELLI AND JILL CASTELLANO City News Editor and Contributing Reporter

Beginning March 1, sexual violence complaints against faculty will be funneled through the Office of the Sexual Violence Investigative Officer.

At a University Council meeting on Jan. 28, Sexual Violence Investigative Officer Deborah Harley said her office only handles complaints against students. Provost Vincent Price quickly added that complaints against faculty would soon go through her office as well. This new policy, published in the Penn Almanac today, lays out that change.

The four-page document includes sections on confidentiality and resources, but the bulk of the text lays out the steps involved in filing a complaint.

Complaints must be submitted in writing to the Office of the Sexual Violence Investigative Officer, and complainants can also choose to file a report with the district attorney of the Office of Civil Rights of the United States Department of Education. Harley will make a preliminary determination of whether or not the complaint falls under the university’s policy. If it does, an investigation will follow.

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David Cohen has been a long-time supporter of Rep. Chaka Fattah, despite what some would call Fattah’s potentially unethical actions.

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Under fire from federal prosecutors, embattled Rep. Chaka Fattah has long counted on one consistent source of support: David Cohen, the chairman of the Penn Board of Trustees.

Campaign filings show that Cohen, a 1981 Law School graduate and senior executive vice president of Comcast Corporation, was Fattah’s

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fifth-highest-paying individual donor in the 2014 election cycle. He gave $5,000 to Fattah’s campaign in 2014, $1,500 in 2012 and $1,000 in 2010 — along with an additional $1,000 in 2010 from Cohen’s wife, Rhonda, a 1980 Law School graduate.

During the time Cohen’s donations were made, Philadelphia law limited individual campaign contributions to $2,900 per election. That means a single individual can contribute twice: once in the primary election and again in the general election.

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Multicultural Greek life offers tight-knit community

Groups provide alternative to traditional Greek life ELIZABETH WINSTON Staff Reporter

Many students look to Greek life as a way to find a family during their college journey.

There are several organizations that promise this type of closeknit companionship under the Panhellenic Council and Interfraternity Council. However, some minority students still feel that traditional Greek life lacks the closeness offered by multicultural Greek organizations.

Wharton junior Anthony Perry joined his fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, because of how close the brothers were. APA currently has only seven members across Drexel, Penn and Villanova.

“It’s smaller, and you know the people you’re involved with,” said Carol Quezada Olivo, a College junior and

member of Sigma Lambda Upsilon\Señoritas Latinas Unidas Sorority, Inc. Multicultural Greek organizations are attractive to minority students because of their intimate, tightknit feel.

Despite the relatively small size of multicultural Greek organizations, they still host several social and charity events throughout the year. Many of these events are similar to traditional Greek events but include a cultural twist.

Monday marked the start of APA’s “Alphadisiac” week, where the fraternity focuses on the appreciation and empowerment of women.

“A lot of the events are centered around our experiences,” Quezada Olivo said. “There’s more of a cultural aspect that relates to our cultural background.”

Lambda Phi Epsilon fraternity is a part of the Asian Pacific Student Coalition at

Penn and does many events with other Asian organizations on campus.

Similarly, APA has hosted several events on campus that have focused not only on socializing, but also social justice and community service.

Perry recalled one event where he took the lead: a session on personal financial literacy open to Philadelphia-area college students.

Leading such events has boosted his confidence as a leader. “It’s redefined the grit and motivation that I bring every day,” Perry said.

An event that is key to multicultural Greek life, especially for predominantly black and sometimes Latino organizations, is a type of dancing known as strolling or stepping.

This is a historically black tradition that involves synchronized dancing, singing and chanting. Many of the cultural Greek organizations perform at

the annual step show during the Penn Relays.

President of the Multicultural Greek Council and Wharton junior Kevin Park said he joined LPhiE to be around a culture to which he was accustomed. His work on the council has broadened his knowledge of other cultures.

The process of joining a multicultural fraternity or sorority varies depending on the organization. The rules that they have to follow are more lenient than those of traditional organizations — the rules and timing of pledging are much more flexible — but the process still gives students the feeling of joining something exclusive.

“What [I] really want to emphasize is that these aren’t two different worlds,” said Park, comparing traditional Greek life with multicultural chapters.

Members of multicultural Greek life urged students not to join a group for its prestige or

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Multicultural Greek organizations allow students to connect through shared cultures in a smaller and tight-knit community.

popularity. Joining one of the groups generally requires more individual effort, because the groups are smaller and can be overshadowed by the marquee

social fraternities and sororities.

“It’s not just about being around someone who looks like you,” Quezada Olivo said.

Penn Law holds guest lecture on Paris Agreement Shaming may be the best way to get compliance MITCHELL CHAN Senior Reporter

Dale Jamieson’s books have taken on climate change deniers and philosophical critics of structuralism, but he is no match for the classroom audio-visual technology of Wharton Computing.

After a little bit of technical assistance, the New York University environmental ethicist gave a well-attended lecture about the 2015 Paris Agreement on global greenhouse gas emissions Tuesday afternoon with his colleague Jennifer Jacquet. The

lecture, titled “Living with Climate Change: Will Paris Make a Difference?” focused on the practicalities of enforcing the historic but controversial international agreement worldwide.

The talk is the first in this semester’s Risk Regulation Seminar Series, a joint effort between the Penn Program on Regulation at Penn Law and the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center. The audience, which filled the Huntsman Hall classroom, included local environmental professionals as well as Penn undergraduate, MBA and law students.

Jamieson was introduced by Wharton Risk Management and

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Decision Processes Center CoDirector Howard Kunreuther, who has worked with Jamieson in the past.

“I always felt coming out of that that there was a new way of thinking about problems that I wouldn’t have come across had I not interacted with Dale,” Kunreuther said in his remarks.

The Paris Agreement was drafted during the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in December. The agreement is designed to limit global warming to less than two degrees Celsius compared to preindustrial years.

While its wording has been finalized by consensus among the

195 signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Paris Agreement will not be binding under international law until it has been ratified by at least 55 UNFCCC signatories, who collectively produce at least 55 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

But both the process of making the agreement legally binding and the subsequent steps of meeting its climate policy goals will prove challenging in the coming months.

“There’s going to have to be both a ratcheting up of ambition and a keeping of existing obligations,” Jamieson said during the presentation.

He also warned the audience against trusting too much in climate change diagrams

that frequently show the rate at which the planet’s temperature is increasing. Although not necessarily wrong, these charts represent what experts think might happen, rather than what precisely will happen. Oftentimes, the statistics are rough estimates at best, Jamieson said.

“So when you see charts like this,” he added, “don’t believe them.”

Throughout the talk, Jamieson and Jacquet distinguished between the regulatory regimes of past international climate agreements and those created under the Paris Agreement. While previous agreements adopted a top-down approach that dictated sanctions and punishments, the Paris Agreement uses a bottom-up approach, encouraging

member-countries to develop their own plans to reach the Paris Agreement’s goals.

Jacquet called the Paris Agreement’s enforcement mechanism “name and shame,” with stigma serving to keep participating nations accountable to the promises outlined in the agreement.

“Stigma is maximized at very high or very low involvement,” Jacquet said. “We see shaming at work regularly in civil society.”

She cited numerous examples of the media and non-profit organizations tracking the progress of other organizations that have signed or voiced support for past international environmental agreements, including lists showing how quickly countries released accurate data about their carbon emissions.

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ISIS expert visits Penn to discuss group’s success

Will McCant outlined the phases of its rise to power JAMIE BRENSILBER Staff Reporter

Every week, the media is filled with reports of ISIS and its latest atrocities. On Feb. 16, Penn hosted a talk in Houston Hall that delved into the question of how the group rose to power.

Will McCants, a senior fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institute, director of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World and adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University, discussed his most recent book, “The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State.”

“How could an organization that failed so stupendously succeed so remarkably?” McCants asked. McCants said that ISIS

did not change its formula from the first time it tried to establish a caliphate, but rather the political context changed the second time and permitted ISIS’ formula to succeed.

The formula McCants outlined consists of three parts: focusing on state-building rather than overthrowing an existing state, using extreme brutality rather than trying to win the hearts and minds of the inhabitants and emphasizing apocalypse now rather than later.

McCant applied each of the three parts to two phases of ISIS’ rise to power. Phase I began about 10 years ago and Phase II began about five years ago.

Phase I: Part 1 Al Qaeda discouraged the idea of first restoring the caliphate and then “fac[ing] down the West,” McCants said. Instead, al Qaeda preferred to first get rid of the Americans and then win over the hearts and minds of the Muslim

public to establish an enduring state.

Even though ISIS privately pledged allegiance to al Qeada, it was “the laughing stock in Jihadist circles,” McCants said.

“The Islamic State demanded to be treated as a state and required other groups to swear allegiance,” which irritated the other rebels.

Phase I: Part 2 Unlike bin Laden, who believed “you have to win over the masses if you’re going to be politically successful,” McCants said, “the Islamic State deeply disagreed ... trying to win over the masses can muddle your political plans ... it is better to be feared than loved.”

Although al Qaeda suggested the Islamic State stop with the beheading videos, “the Islamic State never really changed its stripes.”

This led to the alienation of various Sunnis in 2007-08, which effectively defeated the Islamic State at the time.

“Bin Laden took this as a case of what not to do,” McCants said.

Phase I: Part 3 “Their early leadership was really obsessed with the end time,” McCants noted. The apocalypse is part of Islamic prophecy, with the appearance of a savior, and the Islamic State tried to capitalize on this fear. They tried to set up for the end of the world at the time, but nobody knows when the apocalypse will happen, which led to the Islamic State making some poor decisions.

“These guys were just too extreme to succeed, the assumption went,” McCants said. “And they would collapse under their own weight.”

Phase II: Part 1 Just a few years later, ISIS’ tactics and formula proved successful. With regards to state building, they took advantage of the Syrian civil war, which divided the country.

While other groups were focused on overthrowing the existing Assad regime, the Islamic State’s priority was establishing a state. Assad focused more of his energy on the groups that were trying to overthrow him.

“There was no one to stop them,” McCants noted. In addition to Syria, the Americans had just pulled out of Iraq in 2011, leaving no one to stop the Islamic State there either.

Phase II: Part 2 “Absent a major competitor on the ground,” ISIS proved very successful at getting rid of their opponents, McCants said. They proceeded to “scare the population into submission.”

“Brutality ends up being much more efficient ... it got stuff done,” McCants added. Other groups that governed as coalitions struggled to negotiate with the various factions.

Phase II: Part 3

One part of the formula that changed slightly was the apocalyptic notion. The second time, the group “changed apocalypticism and shifted from the emphasis of a messiah-like figure as fulfillment of the prophecy to the appearance of a state as fulfillment of the prophecy,” McCants said.

The Islamic State was able to successfully use this apocalyptic fear to recruit young people abroad, as Middle Eastern locals were used to this kind of rhetoric.

“The belief that the world is going to end can be a pretty big motivator,” McCants noted.

McCants noted in response to a question at the conclusion of the event that in the end, the United States focuses a lot of energy on fighting ISIS, more energy than its allies employ.

“ISIS poses the least threat [to the United States],” McCants said.

“And yet we are doing the most to try to destroy it.”

UA retains lawyer to handle students’ legal issues A handful of students use the program each year CHERRY ZHI Staff Reporter

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Ever find yourself in a legal jam? The Undergraduate Assembly can help by providing a lawyer — for free.

In the past, the UA’s legal services have helped with issues ranging from assault and harassment to landlord problems and traffic violations. The legal services have also helped expunge the record of a student who was convicted of shoplifting from the Penn Bookstore and that of another student who was cited for public drunkenness. Under Pennsylvania law, the expunge34 3434 T STST guarantees that these Sment students’ offenses are purged

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Legal services, provided by the UA along with the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, are available to all students in the Penn community. All cases are kept confidential, and students are not charged.

Originally, the UA used a law firm in Center City to provide legal services to Penn students but the firm decided that it was not economical to continue doing so. The Office of the General Counsel then reached out to attorney James Higgins, who began working with the UA in 2006.

“I provide my services [to Penn] at a cut rate because I have a great relationship with the Office of [the] General Counsel going back to the year 2000 and I’m happy to do this particular

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work,” Higgins said. “It’s professionally rewarding because there [is] a broad spectrum of problems and I enjoy helping young people.”

Higgins can handle most cases during the 30-minute consultation but will not deal with cases in which a student has an adverse relationship with Penn and is seeking help for a disciplinary problem, because that would be a conflict of interest.

Students can seek help by first getting in contact with College sophomore and the UA’s legal services coordinator Justin Hopkins , who serves as a liaison between Higgins and student clients .

“Everyone who uses this service appreciates the help and students can really gain a lot without losing anything,”

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The service is also free to students, since the UA allocates a portion of its annual budget to providing legal services each year.

Since 2014, the UA has granted $1,200 to legal services annually, and Higgins explained that in the past, he has had as many as six to seven cases per semester. In the past two years, though, a lot fewer people have used this service. In the 2016-17 budget — which is still being finalized — only $800 has been allocated, reflecting the reduced demand.

“Of course we want legal services to be used, so if the costs exceed that allocation,” College junior and UA Treasurer Kat McKay said, “the UA can take money out of its contingency account to cover them.”

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Wednesday february 17, 2016 VOL. CXXXII, NO. 18 132nd Year of Publication COLIN HENDERSON President LAUREN FEINER Editor-in-Chief ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects BRIELLA MEGLIO Director of Internal Consulting ISABEL KIM Opinion Editor JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor DAN SPINELLI City News Editor CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor SUNNY CHEN Copy Editor NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor TOM NOWLAN Sports Editor LAINE HIGGINS Sports Editor TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor JOYCE VARMA Creative Director

At a rally on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump called Ted Cruz a pussy. More precisely, one of his supporters did, and he repeated it into the microphone.

Not coincidentally, during a CNN interview the next morning, Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson was asked whether she has ever regretted any of her candidate’s statements.

Maybe so, she conceded, before dropping the bomb: “[but] Donald Trump has single-handedly brought back free speech.”

A strange claim indeed for a candidate who has vowed repeatedly to discriminate based on religion and to censor the internet.

Her basic claim is that violating social taboos against certain types of speech — such as those against, say, tarring entire ethnic groups as rapists or referring to political opponents with an obscene term for genitalia — makes one a champion of free speech.

The implication is that transgressing such taboos is a positive good — that the quality of discourse is raised if all concerns for

conventions of decency and propriety are disregarded. It follows as a corollary that supporting free speech means encouraging and cheering for the violation of such conventions: “Be rude! Be crass! Be racist! Free speech!”

This is, in the etymological sense, a true perversion of the American cultural value for which “free speech” serves as a shorthand.

That cultural value is born out of a recognition that good ideas are as likely to be unpopular as bad ones, and that discourse, rather than dogma, is the proper method of distinguishing one from the other.

Incidentally, it is the same logic which, when dressed up in academic regalia, gives us the institutional value we call “open expression” — another common categorical confusion. Calling an attempt to avoid a discourse which would certainly expose one’s ideas as half-baked “free speech” turns that value inside out.

That precise perversion is a fiction which has been willfully peddled by a sin-

ister coalition. Nativist politicians like Donald Trump and Ben Carson seek to excuse their promotion of fringe views, while wouldbe cultural hegemons seek to paint free speech as an obstruction to their vision of social progress.

A proper view of free speech does not understand the shielding of taboobreakers from punishment as a positive good per se.

Rather, we view the nonpunishment of speech as a

ment’s coercive power, then, the thinking goes, the enforcers are handed unacceptable power to control the exchange of ideas.

Consider, as an analogy, the famous English jurist William Blackstone’s oftrepeated formulation of the criminal due process: “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” Blackstone does not consider the acquittal of guilty persons a positive good, but a by-

Trump’s claim to be a champion of free speech is much like a jury-rigger’s claim to be a champion of due process.”

necessary condition for the preservation of the liberties required to protect robust and fruitful discourses in the social, political and academic spheres.

If speech taboos are enforced with the govern-

product of necessary protections for the innocent.

Understood this way, Trump’s claim to be a champion of free speech is much like a jury-rigger’s claim to be a champion of due process. The fact that

valued liberties create opportunities for people to defame and preach prejudice on the one hand, or to get away with crimes on the other, does not mean that justice is realized when they do.

The mistaken notion that to champion free speech is to applaud all taboobreaking is particularly infuriating to me as a free speech advocate because it bolsters the idea that censorious measures like hate speech laws and campus speech codes are necessary preconditions to justice.

By offering “free speech” as a defense against charges of rudeness, wrongness, meanness or idiocy, the Trumps of the world only hand ammunition to those who would have us believe that free speech and equal opportunity are diametrically opposed.

In truth, the maintenance of strong social taboos, with social, rather than official, “punishments” for their violation, is an essential precondition for a decent and just society.

The American liberal tradition does not, and never has, insisted that the content of speech must be

Alec Ward immune from judgement and harsh criticism. It insists only that we not be so sure in the correctness of such judgements that we back them with the heavy hand of the state’s coercion.

Free speech, that is to say, does not mean that Donald need not answer to the public for his choice to use a demeaning vulgarity at a rally. It does mean he need not answer to a court, and for that, we should all be thankful.

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

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To the Penn community: In a post-9/11 world, Islamophobia is not uncommon, and many Muslims and non-Muslims can recount instances of undue fear mongering, ranging from high school bullying to murder.

More recently, we must note that anti-Muslim sentiment has resurged in light of upcoming presidential elections, with proclamations threatening the sense of belonging for Muslims all over this country.

This sentiment has manifested in the form of acts challenging the dignity and safety of our Muslim peers at the University of Pennsylvania and in Philadelphia itself.

On the morning of Monday, Dec. 4, a bloodied

pig’s head was found in front of the Al-Aqsa Islamic Society in north Philadelphia, following a string of antagonistic phone messages.

This challenge to the Muslim families and attendants of the Al-Aqsa Islamic Society is deeply unsettling.

This has not been the sole incident. On the night of Saturday, Jan. 16, a Muslim man and full-time student at Temple University was hospitalized after being verbally harassed and beaten for speaking Arabic in Center City.

These are two examples of many where Muslims and indeed other peoples ,such as Sikhs, have been harmed for their faith or what is perceived to be an

associated ethnicity.

Anti-Muslim rhetoric produces more than hurtful words on the national stage; rather, this sentiment presents a real and true danger

on campus and beyond.

We, as the 5B and PAGE, explicitly condemn these hate crimes and the unfounded anti-Muslim rhetoric playing out on the presi-

Anti-Muslim rhetoric produces more than hurtful words on the national stage; rather, this sentiment presents a real and true danger to Muslims in America. to Muslims in America and has irrevocably affected the sense of safety of our peers

dential stage.

We stand in complete solidarity with the Muslim

students, faculty and employees of this University in this trying time, and we recognize that their safety is of the utmost importance.

This has happened before and it will happen again; suggestions for the gradual expulsion of a group of people on a national level is not new in the history of humankind.

The fact that this resurgence has occurred at a time of great upheaval across several other marginalized communities in our country makes it even more imperative for us to stand together. And truly, we do.

The 5B and PAGE hopes that others, including our University administration, will stand with us.

To find out more and make a change, please see the petition drafted by graduate students at our University: http://tinyurl. com/PennPetition We call upon the University to recognize the at-risk situation of Muslim students, faculty and employees on this campus and to act to ameliorate this situation.

In light of the recent institutionalization of Halal accommodations in Penn Dining as well as Penn’s history in standing up for its Muslim students in the past, we are hopeful for the best in working with the administrators and Muslims at Penn in determining an amenable program that meets the needs of the community.

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Free mammograms part of new Penn Med initiative The program targets impoverished women CHASEN SHAO Contributing Reporter

Whether you were spending your Valentine’s Day with a Dunkin Donut’s heart-shaped donut or your loved one, doctors at Penn Medicine were already looking beyond the holiday.

On Feb. 15 and 16, the Penn Breast Health Initiative provided free breast cancer diagnostic tests — from screening mammograms, biopsies and ultrasound diagnostic tests — to local women with minimal or without insurance coverage. In many communities,

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His relationship with the congressman extends back decades and may even continue this spring when Fattah faces a tough primary against three Democratic contenders.

According to Federal Election Commission filings, Cohen has individually contributed to Fattah’s campaign since at least 2000.

Suspicion surrounding financial impropriety has hovered over the congressman since a failed 2007 mayoral bid, when he was found to have brokered an off-the-books $1 million loan.

A January 2014 Justice Department audit found evidence of Fattah earmarking nearly half of a $771,000 federal grant for a

working mothers are more likely to pass up the opportunity to get regular medical checkups, especially mammograms, in favor of the health of children or to work longer hours.

According to Carmen Guerra, an associate professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine and associate chief of staff at the Abramson Cancer Center, “the Penn Breast Health Initiative tries to reach women who traditionally have been more difficult to reach when it comes to medical screening.”

In the past few years, Guerra has fought against adversity to enlarge the scope of the Penn Breast Health Initiative, which was initially

unable to serve all women in Philadelphia.

Guerra refused to allow her team to be limited to a meager 75 free mammogram “slots” for a full year. From rather small beginnings, Guerra eventually pursued the Susan G. Komen for the Cure grant, and greatly increased the capacity of the Penn Breast Cancer Health Initiative.

In the past two years, through the recognition of the Breast Cancer Initiative by the American Cancer Society, a collaborative project with Univision began to solidify that eventually led to the development of today’s project, “Amate a ti Misma,” or “Love Yourself.”

By placing Hispanic culture at

the forefront of its focus, the Penn Breast Health Initiative reached out through female news anchors on the Univision News Network who informed middle-aged women of the free service through Public Service Announcements. The PSAs, though short, were aired between three and four weeks before the assigned days for the appointments and turned out to be almost as effective as reaching out to the Hispanic community on a personal level.

This year, 16 women came in for an appointment during the two-day event, and nine more signed up for appointments at a later date. For the past two years, the two-day event for free appointments has had a

large turnout and showed an indication of a steady future.

Guerra said that she will

continually strive to make free breast cancer assessments available to impoverished women.

nonprofit whose only staff member was previously a Fattah aide.

Despite the overtures of federal investigators in January 2014, Cohen gave his largest single-year contribution to Fattah, $5,000, months later.

“I’ve been a longtime political supporter of his,” Cohen said in an interview. “He’s been a very effective and an important federal legislator for issues that matter to me personally.”

One of these issues, Cohen pointed out, is access to higher education. Fattah, a 1986 Fels Institute of Government graduate, authored the 1998 GEARUP bill, which provided federal grants to students applying for college.

As an 11-term congressman from West Philadelphia — whose area

of representation includes Penn — Fattah has had a long record of supporting schools and lower-income families in the city. He’s also had a trail of federal prosecutors on his back for years, culminating in a July 2015 indictment on nearly 30 charges including bribery, money laundering and bank fraud. Fattah’s press office deferred comment to his campaign press team, which was not immediately available.

On Feb. 2, Fattah’s son, Chaka Fattah, Jr., was sentenced to five years in prison on unrelated charges concerning nearly $1 million in loans he misspent as a school management subcontractor.

Cohen’s company, Comcast Corporation, the largest broadcasting and cable company in the world, also has a long history of donating

to Fattah. The company contributed $10,000 to Fattah in 2013, with a grand total of nearly $50,000 in donations between between 1998 and 2013, campaign filings show.

For high-rollers like Cohen and major corporations like Comcast, donating to congressmen from both parties is not unusual — it’s standard operating procedure, said Randall Miller, history professor at Saint Joseph’s University. The only reason to raise an eyebrow is if they continue to donate money after a potential scandal has come to light, he added.

“Fattah’s actions are probably unethical and perhaps illegal,” Miller said. “The extent to which Cohen knew that and did anything in terms of support of Fattah might raise a question.”

Though Cohen has yet to donate since Fattah’s indictment, their political relationship may continue.

Cohen has not given money to Fattah’s reelection campaign yet, but did not rule out doing so in the future. Pennsylvania’s primary election is on April 26.

“The indictment is troubling, and I’m not sure yet what I’m going to do,” he said. “It’s an unfortunate situation for him and his family, and for Philadelphia.”

Penn Vice President for University Communications Steve MacCarthy said Penn does not typically comment on private donations.

“Board members are no different from any other private citizen; they are free to support whomever they choose,” he wrote in an emailed statement.

Cohen, who formerly served as chief of staff to former Philadelphia mayor and 1965 College graduate Ed Rendell, regularly gives money in local and national political elections. This cycle, he’s contributed to Rep. Bob Brady — also the chairman of the City Democratic Committee — and Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), among others.

Of Fattah’s two opponents in the spring primary, Cohen has only given to one — state Rep. Dwight Evans — according to campaign donation data from the last five election cycles. Cohen contributed $500 in 2006 and $1,000 in 2008 to Evans. Both of Fattah’s opponents have more money on hand than him.

“What that says is Cohen and Comcast, they see a dead man walking,” Miller said.

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Dr. Carmen Guerra has taken charge of the Penn Breast Health Initiative, offering free mammograms to impoverished women.

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Penn legal scholars reflect on Justice Scalia’s legacy Obama’s replacement could shift balance of court LUIS FERRE SADURNI Staff Reporter

Justice Antonin Scalia’s death on Saturday left the Supreme Court’s ideological composition in flux, sent Congress into a typical partisan turmoil and sparked a flood of political punditry. At Penn, the justice’s death invoked predictions by law professors and scholars on the future of the Court and constitutional interpretation in general.

Scalia was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 and served for nearly 30 years on the bench until his death, the longest serving judge out of the current justices. According to scholars, Scalia won’t just be remembered for his fiery dissents and consistent conservative voting record, but for his intellectual contributions to the originalist and textualist approaches to interpreting the Constitution.

“Scalia is the leading exponent of what has become the most common version of what

used to be original intent of the Constitution,” said Rogers Smith , a political science professor and associate dean for social sciences at Penn. “In regards to interpreting statutes, [Scalia] wouldn’t look at legislative intent. He would only look at the text that [legislators] enacted, because only the text that [legislators] enacted was authoritative.”

It didn’t take long for the justice’s death to ignite a political controversy between Republicans and Democrats. While President Barack Obama has publicly expressed his intentions to nominate a new judge soon, Senate Republicans argue that a new judge should not be nominated until after the November presidential elections.

At the core of both parties’ intentions lies the desire to replace Scalia’s seat with a judge with their party’s respective political ideology.

“If you get a liberal replacement for Justice Scalia, that would be enormously important,” Kermit Roosevelt , a constitutional law professor,

said. “It would change the balance of the court.”

He added, “Right now, there are a lot of constitutional areas where the Supreme Court is very narrowly split: congressional power, campaign finance reform, abortion. In all of those areas, it would depend in part on how willing liberals would be in overruling previous positions. In any case, the conservative advance would be stopped.”

While Article II of the Constitution states that the president shall nominate Supreme Court justices “by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,” it makes no reference to the timeliness of a nominee’s confirmation.

The longest wait for a nominee, from the time it was received to when it was voted upon in the Senate, was 125 days for Louis D. Brandeis in 1916. If the Republicans get their way, a new judge might not be confirmed until at least 338 days from now when Obama leaves office.

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to any nominee until a new president is elected, that is within their constitutional power.

Whether it is a good exercise of their constitutional power and whether [Republicans] are performing their roles well, that is legitimately debatable,” Smith, who specializes his research in constitutional law, said.

Political observers are now paying close attention to how Obama will proceed with the judicial nomination.

Certain pundits speculate Obama will attempt to nominate a judge that Senate Republicans have already confirmed to the circuit courts. Such a move would corner the Republican leadership into having to justify why they wouldn’t accept a nominee they have previously vetted

and confirmed.

“The President might want to nominate someone who has successfully undergone the confirmation recently so there won’t need to be an entirely new vetting process,” Penn Law Dean Theodore Ruger said. “That would mean recent circuit court appointees that President Obama has successfully nominated and the Senate has confirmed.”

Smith saw an opportunity for Obama to nominate a judge that is independent and moderate enough for Republicans to accept, yet liberal enough to change the balance of the Court.

“They’ll want a candidate that Republicans in the Senate would be embarrassed not to vote for,” he said.

The Senate Republicans’ failure to accept a moderate nominee during Obama’s term might backfire if Democrats take the White House in November and have the political capital to nominate a more liberal judge, Roosevelt added.

He is even betting on Obama using the Supreme Court justice nomination process as a way to affect the Senate race in November.

“Maybe [Obama] wants to put someone forward who will specifically hurt [Republican] senators who refuse to bring [the nominee] to the floor. Like a Latino, a Mexican-American maybe,” Roosevelt said. “It could hurt the Republicans with the Latino voters. I think that is probably Obama’s strategy.”

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also lays out specific rights and protections for both parties.

Harley was appointed sexual violence investigative officer in January. She is the second person to hold this position since its creation in January of last year.

Initial SVIO Christopher Mallios left the position in December when he was elected to be a judge of the Philadelphia’s Court of Common Pleas, and Harley took over immediately.

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The matter can be resolved with or without a hearing, depending on the wishes of the complainant and respondent. The new policy

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SENIOR MIDFIELDER BROOKE KILEY What was the last TV show you watched?

“Friends.” I watch a lot of “Friends” on Netflix at night.

If you could be an animal, what would you be?

One hundred percent a dog.

Because I’m obsessed with my dogs, and they get treated like royalty in my household.

I think they eat better than I do.

If you could play another sport at Penn, what would it be?

Field hockey. I wanted to play both when I came here, but I think it would have been difficult. I still miss the sport a lot. I’ve always loved the sport, so we fool around sometimes, a few of us have our sticks on campus, but I love like the athletic and fast pace of the sport.

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Also in the backfield were Taylor Foussadier and Lydia Miller, two second team All-Ivy recipients and four-year starters.

Replacing the defenders individually will be tough if not downright impossible. Instead, Corbett has implemented a new system that looks to harness the defense’s speed.

“I do think the one thing this team has differently [is that] this group has the potential to play a much more aggressive, high-paced defense to set the tone a little bit differently. So I’m looking forward to

that,” she said. “I’m hoping we can put a little more pressure on the opposing attacks with playing a more pressure high defense.”

The only returning defensive starter, junior defender Megan Kelly, is no stranger to individual success: her 33 ground balls in 2015 — third best in the Ivy League — strongly complemented her 22 caused turnovers, good for second best in the Ancient Eight. She too recognizes the profound impact that the three defenders and Ferguson had on her own development as a player.

“I think the combination of losing the four of them is definitely different, it’s a void to fill,” she said.

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“We’re just a different kind of defense this year and I’ve had to take on a role of teaching a little bit, but everyone’s been doing so well and working so hard because there are so many opportunities for people to fill spots and make a difference on the team.”

As the lone returning defensive starter, Kelly will surely be looked to as a leader and acknowledges that she has had to take on a bit of a teaching role thus far. Nonetheless, the Moorestown, N.J., native makes sure not to take over control.

“It’s not a one man defense. [That is] not going to be successful.”

In replacing the outgoing seniors,

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defense a little bit more,” Corbett said. “But you can’t really learn much from Lucy. It’s not that easy to learn from Lucy because you can’t play like Lucy — not many people in the country can play like Lucy.

Lucy was doing splits, and had tremendous height and handeye coordination ... with these goalies, it’s more about their positioning and cutting off angles.

These goalies need to be more technical.”

So who will the role fall to?

For now, the coach plans to ride the hot hand.

“It’s day to day, week to week.

It’s about who’s playing better.”

And none of the three players will ever find themselves playing better than Ferguson. But that’s not what matters.

“I want to win an Ivy League championship,” Brown said. “I couldn’t care less about Lucy’s percentages.”

Kelly pointed out candidates like senior Liz Gully and sophomore Katie Cromie to shoulder the load but also noted that the freshmen are exceeding expectations, too.

“They are not playing like freshmen. They are pressuring and are both fast, aggressive athletes, and that’s exactly what we need,” she commented At midfield and attack, the team lost two full-time starters in midfielder Lindsey Smith and attacker Tory Bensen, who tied the program record in 2015 with 58 goals. Corbett knows that a player like Bensen is hard to find, but notes that senior attack Nina Corcoran played a large

role in that success last season.

“If you look at a lot of [Bensen’s] goals, they’re assisted by Nina and Nina has been our biggest playmaker the last three years. She really leads this attack with Lely and our midfield,” Corbett said. “They’ve done a very good job, the senior class, of bringing along those young players who haven’t seen so much time.”

Corcoran, like Kelly, is thankful for the role that the graduating seniors have played in shaping her as an attacker and leader.

“I think that everyone on attack knows that they have to step up.

Obviously, no one can replace Tory

Bensen,” she added. In her senior season, Corcoran looks to teach the underclassmen much like Bensen taught her from her days as a freshman to her record-breaking junior season.

“I think, especially with me on the attack, Tory was such an awesome leader, a molding leader, as we were freshmen and sophomores so that the transition would be easier when we were upperclassmen,” she said.

“So I was ready to be a junior, I was ready to be a senior [and] I was ready to take that role just because how well my upperclassmen prepared me for that.”

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Looking back on 2015 and an unexpected title loss Quakers fell in title game for first time since 2007 ANNA DYER Associate Sports Editor

Winning is a state of mind.

And for Penn women’s lacrosse, it’s the only state of mind the members of the team have ever known.

For nearly a decade, the program has fostered a culture of winning, claiming eight straight Ivy League titles from 2007 to 2014 and earning nine straight NCAA bids.

With the expectation of victory, the team seemed poised to stand atop the Ancient Eight as the perennial champion. That is, until 2015.

Despite a strong season, which saw the team go 14-5 overall and 6-1 in Ivy play, the team faltered in the Ivy League Championship game against Princeton, falling 14-11 to the Tigers.

This was especially difficult for the team to swallow, considering the Quakers had arguably three of the best players in the conference — senior attack Tory Bensen, 2015 Ivy League

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way as last season. The Red and Blue enter the year with a No. 13 ranking by Inside Lacrosse.

The only other Ivy League team to crack the top 20 — and the only other Ivy League team to earn a ranking higher than Penn — is none other than the No. 12 Princeton Tigers. “We have a great team this year and we expect great things from ourselves,� senior midfield Lely DeSimone said. “This year [is] just refocusing ourselves.

We’re looking to take back the Ivy League championship.�

Despite this apparent parity, the Quakers that take to the field

Attacker of the Year; senior defender Meg Markham, 2014 and 2015 Ivy League Defender of the Year; and senior goalkeeper Lucy Ferguson, a unanimous first team All-Ivy selection. “I think we actually had the right personnel to win,� coach Karin Corbett said. “I think Princeton was better that day, and that was frustrating.�

While forgoing its spot at the top of the conference was extremely disappointing for the team, the Red and Blue still earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. There, the Quakers won their first round contest against Albany before eventually falling to No. 4 Syracuse in the Round of 16.

Despite making the NCAA Championships, the feeling of losing to rival Princeton and relinquishing the Ivy League title did not sit well with the players — as no one on the roster had ever played a season without finishing victorious as Ivy Champs. “It was a horrible feeling,� said now-senior captain Nina Corcoran, who led the team with 40 assists in 2015. “It’s not a way that you want to end the season, but I think that it gives

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Despite having both the Ivy League Attacker of the Year and Defender of the Year in Tory Bensen and Meg Markham, Penn women’s lacrosse lost the conference title before earning an at-large NCAA Tournament bid.

us motivation for this year.� “It was very disappointing,� senior captain Lely DeSimone said. “We had a great team last year with a lot of starters returning and to have an amazing team and fall short of an Ivy League championship when we’ve had it eight years in a row, it was just

on Saturday against Delaware will look quite different than the Quakers of yesteryear. Gone are six of the team’s former starters, most notably All-American defender Meg Markham and second team All-Americans goalkeeper Lucy Ferguson and attack Tory Bensen. “On paper, we are the team that has lost the most,� Corbett said. “But for my team, that’s not what it’s about.�

Indeed, the team is not focused on filling holes but on finding redemption. That means beating teams like Harvard and Cornell that lost very few star players to graduation. Most importantly, that means beating Princeton, yet another Ancient

Eight team with relatively few shifts in its starting lineup from 2015 to 2016. “People can discount us all they want,� Corbett said. “But we have a great group of fighting kids that want to win.�

Even though Corbett’s squad may not be coming into this year as the reigning champions, they still see themselves as the biggest threat in the Ivy League. In that sense, this year is no different than the nine seasons that preceded it. “That’s just the culture we’ve created,� Corbett said. “You can never rest on anything, There’s always a target on your back and they’re always coming to get you.�

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who graduated in 2015. These seniors combined to score 80 of the 199 total goals made by the Quakers in 2015. “On paper, we have the most losses [of graduating seniors],�

Corbett said. “But for my team, that’s not what its about. People can discount us all they want.

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And this expectation of winning isn’t imposed by outsiders either. Rather, the members of the team believe they must set the bar high for themselves to reach their full potential. “I think we expect ourselves to win because we hold ourselves to high standards, and we expect to come back in this year and win the Ivy League Championship,� DeSimone said. “The nice thing is I don’t think the rest of the Ivy League is expecting us to win.�

Despite the loss in 2015, the team’s goals haven’t changed.

For the players and coaches, it’s about getting better every day.

With this attitude, reclaiming the Ivy title looks more and more likely. But why stop there?

The Red and Blue are aiming for the coveted national title, too.

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RED AND BLUE READY TO RECLAIM THE IVY TITLE After failing to take home the Ivy League title for the first time since 2006, Penn women’s lacrosse is ready to begin the fight to bring the hardware back to Philadelphia. That journey starts on Saturday, when the Red and Blue host Delaware, as they ready to get some game action in on Franklin Field.

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Final decision yet to be made over Ferguson’s replacement

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Lucy Ferguson was a consistent — and consistently excellent — presence in the net for the Red and Blue after transferring from William & Mary in 2012. Ferguson was named first-team All-Ivy in each of her three seasons at Penn, missing just 50 minutes of game action during that time.

But now, Ferguson’s 2015 graduation leaves a gaping hole in the net as Penn women’s lacrosse seeks to bounce back from a disappointing season in which saw the Quakers fail to win the Ivy League for the first time since 2006.

“It’s really hard. For the last five years you’ve had the number one Ivy goalie,” Penn coach Karin Corbett said. “We had

Emily Leitner for two years and then we were blessed to get Lucy as a transfer, who was one of the best goalies in the country. So [losing] that is hard.”

Without a star in the net, the Red and Blue will have to adjust, and it will be a team-wide effort.

“Lucy was a goalie that was extremely athletic, and saved shots that most goalies wouldn’t save,” Corbett said. “The key really for us now is putting a good defense in front of our goalkeeper to [enable them] to save the shots that they can save.

And that’s always been what our defense has been about, to have our goals against average very low. That’s a defensive stat, not necessarily a goalkeeper stat. We need to, first and foremost, put a defense in front that can make our goalkeeper

successful.”

With Ferguson gone, there are several candidates to fill the vacant goalie position. Senior Courtney Rushford, junior transfer Britt Brown and freshman Maggie Smith are battling for the spot in the net, but aren’t losing sight of the team’s larger goals.

“We all want each other to get better,” Brown said. “Some days I have a bad day, some days they have a bad day ... I don’t think it matters to us, I think we’re set on one goal of an Ivy championship.”

“Obviously it’s a competitive position,” Rushford said. There’s only one spot on the field for a goalie, but I think we’ve got a really good attitude about it. Everyone’s very friendly and we’re all best friends off the field and on the field. [We] support

each other every play, every drill, every practice. At the end of the day it’s all for the benefit of the team.”

“I think they have a good relationship that’s competitive and yet really supportive,” Corbett said. “That’s always a tough position as a goalkeeper. To have three goalies who really pull for one another, and yet compete with one another is a great, unique kind of situation.”

Having spent three years under Ferguson as a backup, Rushford is certainly more familiar with the system than her fellow net-minders. But going from playing behind Ferguson to playing instead of her is not an easy switch to make.

“I think that Rushford understands our SEE GOALKEEPER PAGE 7

Defending champs or New year, new lineup not, Penn still confident for the Red and Blue Quakers enter year with a chip on their shoulder LAINE HIGGINS Sports Editor

Performing under the weight of expectations is no easy task.

Just ask Penn women’s lacrosse.

Heading into the 2015 season, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that the Quakers would end the season with an Ivy League championship. Penn, after all, had won a share of the Ancient Eight crown for each of the previous eight years. No one on the roster knew what it was like to end the season in second place.

But 2015 would be different. Penn would play the same stellar lacrosse all season long — hanging with the eventual NCAA champions, Maryland,

through one and a half periods and demolishing all of their Ivy League rivals, save one.

That one foe would not only ruin Penn’s otherwise perfect conference record, but deny them a share of the Ivy title for the first time in nearly a decade. That opponent? Our friendly rival from across the border, Princeton.

The clash of titans came in April at Franklin Field.

Heading into the game, both Princeton and Penn had unblemished Ivy records with just two more conference games left in the season before the Ivy League tournament. Despite home field advantage, the Quakers were outmaneuvered

by Princeton, 9-7.

Even with a regular season loss to the Tigers, Penn’s hopes of repeating as champions were still alive heading into the Ivy League Tournament in May.

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And in the matchup everyone predicted — a tournament final between Princeton and Penn — no one this side of the New Jersey state line saw the outcome coming. The Red and Blue fell to the Tigers once more, this time 14-11.

“It was our goal to win and I think that we had the right personnel to win it,” coach Karin Corbett said. “I think Princeton was better that day.

“It was disappointing, no question.”

Although Penn did not extend its streak to nine consecutive seasons atop the league, it did earn an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament, where it advanced to the second round before falling to Syracuse, 13-10.

In 2016, it looks as if the cards are stacked the same SEE EXPECTATIONS PAGE 8

Talented group seeks to replace lost seniors WILL AGATHIS Associate Sports Editor

It’s bad enough losing one alltime talent. Penn women’s lacrosse coach Karin Corbett has to find a way to handle losing three.

No stranger to replacing greats, Corbett has coached 23 Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association first or second team All-Americans.

Three of them, second team All-Americans Tory Bensen and Lucy Ferguson, as well as twotime first team All-American Meg Markham, graduated in the spring of 2015. They are just three of six full-time starters — in addition to four other contributors to the 2015 squad — who will no longer don the Red and Blue.

Corbett knows how important

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In the wake of losing three standout players, junior defender Megan Kelly (16) will be key to a new Penn women’s lacrossse defense in 2016.

last year’s graduating class was but maintains that they have built the foundation for the current upperclassmen to uphold.

“Obviously it was a tremendous class …and a group that set the tone for what this team was going to fight for. So we miss them, that’s no question,” she said. “But I think they left a legacy for this team this year and we have a tremendous senior class this year.”

On the backend, Ferguson graduated after starting in 53 of the team’s 54 contests between 2013 and 2015. Markham, the Quakers’ defensive stalwart, was a co-recipient of the 2014-2015 Association of Alumnae Fathers’ Trophy which is given to a senior student-athlete who shows outstanding athletic, academic and leadership qualities.

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