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Museum demands Penn artifacts Chinese museum released statement demanding statues’ return WESLEY SHEKER Staff Reporter
The tomb of an emperor, a ‘notorious’ art dealer and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology recently converged across over 13,000 years of
art history. A message from a museum in China called the Zhaoling Museum to the University of Pennsylvania on Jan. 11, posted on the museum’s public WeChat page, called for the return of two famous stone reliefs called the “Taizong Horses” or “Tang Horses.” These two reliefs are from a complete set of six horses known as the “Zhaoling Liujun” set named after the
area where they were found, according to China Daily. The pieces were originally found at the site of the Mausoleum of Tang Emperor Li Shimin, who died in the year 649. A ‘notorious’ art dealer, C. T. Loo, lent the pieces to the Penn Museum in the late 1910s and early 1920s, at which point Penn purchased the pieces for $125,000 via a donation from Eldridge Johnson in 1921. Loo was
sometimes known to provide vague descriptions of how he acquired his pieces. Julian Siggers, Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, said the Penn Museum is not aware of how the pieces came into Loo’s possession before they were sold to Penn. “Exactly whose hands [the reliefs] passed through before the Museum SEE MUSEUM PAGE 5
SENATOR CORY BOOKER COMMENCEMENT Sen. Booker (D-N.J.) is also a former mayor of Newark CAROLINE SIMON Senior Reporter
Earlier today, Penn announced that Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), an outspoken opponent of President Donald Trump, will speak at the
2017 Commencement ceremony. The junior senator from New Jersey and former mayor of Newark has recently emerged as one of the most vocal adversaries of Trump’s administration. He has been especially critical of Trump’s recent ban on immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries.
Booker has taken an active role in protesting against Trump’s executive orders. A photograph tweeted by his office account shows him marching at the Elizabeth Detention Center against Trump’s immigration ban and plan to build SEE BOOKER PAGE 5
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Penn men’s golf coach poached by Duke to be assistant coach
DataRefuge project to expand across the nation
Bob Heintz was the first-ever Ivy League Coach of the Year
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In any realm of life, if you succeed, you get noticed. Unfortunately for Penn men’s golf, you also never know who’s watching. Earlier on Tuesday, the team was stunned by the news that fifth-year head coach Bob Heintz would be resigning from his position, effective immediately. Heintz will be taking a role as an assistant coach at ACC powerhouse Duke, and will begin at the start of the spring season in February. “I want to thank the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Athletics for the opportunity to walk these halls, work with an incredibly supportive staff and some legendary coaches and coach these outstanding student athletes,” said Heintz. “Almost five years ago, Penn took a chance on a former professional golfer — from Yale of all places! — and entrusted me with the future of its men’s golf program. I am grateful for this time at Penn and for the relationships I’ve forged with my teams and Penn golf’s fantastic alumni base. I am proud of my team’s accomplishments during this time, and I look forward to watching Penn golf continue to pursue excellence in the years to come.”
Since the successful turnout for DataRefuge’s project DataRescue Philly on Jan. 10, the group is planning on developing more partnerships and hosting other events. Steven Dolph, a graduate student in the Spanish Department and member of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities advisory board, said he was overwhelmed by
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We will continue to fight for the integrity and livelihood of our Program, and this is certainly not the last you will hear from us.”
how quickly DataRefuge expanded. He is helping to curate a DataRefuge lexicon to standardize the terminology of data refuge. Dolph also said media attention, like their feature in WIRED, has brought attention to data vulnerability and broadened the scope of those interested in the effort. Jordan Klepper from “The Daily Show” came to campus on Wednesday to film a segment about the project. After the inauguration of 1968 Wharton graduate and 45th SEE DATA PAGE 5
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Sweetgreen renovations received well by students The restaurant now has more seating and new decor ESHA INDANI Staff Reporter
Sweetgreen in University City closed for renovations on Jan. 4, reopening with new decor, new menu options and a revamped seating area that have encouraged customers, old and new, to frequent the restaurant this semester. The main change noticed by customers following the renovations is greater seating space. Some students said the arrangement of the new seating contributes to a more community-like atmosphere. “There are more seats and they are arranged now in little alcoves, which is cute,” Wharton freshman Jessica Le said. Students also noted that the renovations have allowed Sweetgreen to improve its service
to its customers. Engineering junior Ankit Das said that the increased seating capacity allowed for changed the formation of the checkout line. “It’s no longer a straight line, which is more intuitive,” Das said. “It now curves from the ordering station to the wall and then back out the door.” Many noted that the restaurant changed its image considerably, with a more minimalist interior aesthetic and brighter colors that many students said improve the ambience. “Before it was like any old place,” Wharton freshman Jessica Nguyen said. “It now seems more inviting and very urban.” College junior Malia Mandl said that Sweetgreen also better facilitates the process of picking up food ordered online. To the left of the seating area are rows of shelves on which salads and bowls that are ordered online can be picked up at a time of the
customer’s convenience. “The area to pick up the food you’ve ordered is more spacious. And it’s nicer, because a lot of people order online,” Mandl said. As part of the renovations, Sweetgreen also added outlets underneath tables, allowing customers to use computers or charge their phones while dining. This subtler change went unnoticed by many, and despite the potential for longer stays to get work done with the new outlets, students said this change would not encourage them to consider Sweetgreen as a potential new study spot. “I personally wouldn’t study there because when it’s rush hour, there’s so many people and it’s loud and cramped,” Le said. Students felt that the atmosphere at Sweetgreen was more social and therefore not conducive to studying. “I feel like it’s too poppin’,” Wharton freshman Nicole Vaiani
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said. However, it’s the revamped social atmosphere at Sweetgreen that many said will ensure that it
remains a popular restaurant on campus. “Sweetgreen is getting better and better and is definitely going
to be sucking my wallet dry,” Le said. Sweetgreen has not yet responded to requests for comment.
Penn Museum, brewing Egyptian coffee straight from Cairo Coffee lovers experience Egyptian coffeehouses SKYLER PALATNICK Contributing Reporter
On Monday at the Penn Museum, coffee addicts explored the connections between Egyptian coffeehouses and politics, social culture and even gender relations. At this edition of Penn Museum’s “Making Workshop” event series, doctoral student Alon Tam offered his audience a glimpse into 1920s coffeehouse
culture in Cairo. “I wanted to show how rich a topic studying coffeehouses can be and how much you can learn from it [about] many different subjects,” said Tam, who is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Tam lectured at the onset of the workshop, and when the coffee was ready he quickly concluded his statements as he and event attendees made their way to the museum’s Egypt exhibit, which had been modified to resemble a traditional
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coffeehouse in Cairo. Here, workers from local restaurant Manakeesh Cafe Bakery demonstrated how to make different types of coffee. Traditional pastries including baklava were served alongside samples of the coffee, and floor cushion seating arrangements resembling those common in Middle Eastern coffeehouses were set up for guests to use. Markers and coloring book outlines of Islamic art were made available to entertain students as they sampled the food and coffee. The workshop attracted a diverse audience, ranging from java connoisseurs to graduate students looking for somewhere to unwind. Wharton junior Matt Pearring, a self-described coffee fanatic, discovered the event while doing research on how to start his own coffee club.
“I couldn’t register because [a coffee club] already existed, so I figured I’d just go to the event and see what it’s about,” he said. Pearring was surprised by the structure of the event. “I didn’t expect there to be a presentation,” he said. “I thought we were going to come here and just mess around, but this was nice.” Ashley Baker, a doctoral student studying physics, also enjoyed Tam’s lesson. “I liked seeing the process of how he does his research. Coming from a science department, that’s very interesting to me, and how he was so excited to find that picture [of an Egyptian crossdresser],” she explained, referring to Tam’s explanation of nontraditional gender roles sometimes present in Egyptian coffeehouses in the early twentieth century.
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Students get in formation for English class on Beyoncé
Women’s March sparks questions of feminist identity
Students focus on race, class, gender and protest
Pro-life women were left out from Women’s March
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For the first time this spring, Penn students can find Beyoncé’s name listed on PennInTouch. “Beyoncé, Protest and Popular Music,” taught by Ph.D. candidate Julia Cox, is part of the English department’s Junior Research Seminar program. Enrollment is capped at just twelve students in order to promote discussion and research training. “The class is half-content and half-teaching the students how to develop their own research methods,” Cox said. “It is a culmination of my own research interests in media studies, gender and sexuality, as well as popular culture.” The course begins with a musical context unit, focusing on artists such as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan — musicians who have used their music to comment on social issues. Students will also analyze Beyoncé’s albums one by one, before
developing their own research projects in the last section of the class, each selecting a different artist. “Sadly I will not be reading twelve final papers on Beyoncé, as amazing as that would be,” Cox joked. In the past year, Cox said she observed a deliberate shift in Beyoncé’s political stance and musical aesthetic, from being fairly apolitical to actively engaging with racial politics and feminism. While the course title includes Beyoncé, in actuality Cox aims for a broader history, with contemporary examples supplemented by prominent cases from the past. “Beyoncé is somewhat of a marketing tool to get people interested in looking at longer histories of race, gender, protest and American studies,” Cox said. Cox defines the course as a combination of musicology, cultural studies and media studies. She approaches the course as an interdisciplinary exploration of American protest music, with assignments that include a mixture of academic and journalistic
pieces. “I let the questions stem from whatever music we’re listening to that day,” Cox said. “Anything can be a text; you can analyze a piece of music as closely and as critically you would a piece of literature.” Cox has a background in both music and journalism. She previously worked as a journalist in Atlanta, serving as a music beat reporter. “These conversations about pop music are really going from academia to the mass media in a way that they didn’t always,” Cox explained. While she maintains an interest in popular culture, Cox found that she wanted to “take the questions a little deeper” than surface-level speculation about how many times Beyoncé wore a fur coat or whether the singer and Jay Z were seeking a divorce. However, Cox acknowledged the inherent allure associated with keeping tabs on America’s pop culture. “It was definitely fun having a Google alert on Beyoncé and Rihanna for a year.”
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The new course traces the evolution of Beyoncé’s music from older songs being more apolitical, to newer songs discussing feminism and racial politics in her newest album “Lemonade.”
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“Can you be a feminist and oppose abortion?” Wharton sophomore and head of Quakers for Life Eric Hoover asked. After the exclusion of prolife groups from the Women’s March on Jan. 21, this is a question a lot of Penn pro-life students have been asking. Hannah Victor, a graduate student in both the School of Nursing and Penn Law School and a board member of Quakers for Life, said that in the wake of the march there is much discussion over what it means to be a pro-life feminist. “What kind of women’s march intentionally excludes the point of view of [over 40%] of women?” Victor asked. “I think that you can very much be a pro-life feminist and be proud of it.” Hoover, who attended the Women’s March as a part of the Columbus, Ohio-based pro-life group Created Equal, experienced this opposition firsthand. “Members of our group were spit at, they told us that we should be killed, they told us that we should die, told us that we should have been aborted,” Hoover said, “I’ve never met anyone as hateful as some of the people at the Women’s March.” The aggression towards prolife groups at the march made one Wharton freshman decide not to attend. “It’s called the Women’s March. It wasn’t a march for reproductive health, so I think the only requirement should be you’re a woman who wants to be treated equally,” she said. She requested to be anonymous, fearing social exclusion if people found out she was prolife.
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In the wake of the crowds at the Women’s March, pro-life women question where they fit into modern feminism.
“It’s threatening,” she said. “I see how people are treated online for having this more conservative view and I don’t want to be isolated.” Rachel Burkey, a representative for Created Equal echoed these sentiments. “[The Women’s March] was a gathering of the most vile, profane, intolerant group of protestors that I’ve ever encountered,” Burkey said. “It was obvious they were a closeminded group.” Hoover also felt that being pro-life and pro-women are not necessarily exclusive. “Our platform is 100 percent pro-women, we’re pro-women’s rights, especially the one group in our society that is discriminated against the most: pre-born women and pre-born men,” Hoover said. “It is a shame that people who support all women, pre-born and born, would be treated in that way.” On Penn’s campus though, pro-life students sometimes feel
that their views are not considered legitimate. “There is a measure of opposition,” Victor said. “Sometimes I’m viewed as a sort of traitor to my own gender.” Although Hoover felt that the “tolerance mantra” is a “complete sham,” he said Quakers for Life plans to continue their work this semester to foster greater dialogue on campus. “I’m thankful to be at a place that protects our freedom of speech,” Hoover said. “We should all be able to have a reasonable conversation with someone.” Victor, too remains hopeful that Penn is a “space for dialogue” where students with different views on abortion can learn from each other. “If you’re open you should be open to hearing people’s differences and move on,” the Wharton freshman said. “I like to consider myself a feminist, and being pro-life shouldn’t take that away.”
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Who killed Asian American studies?
GUEST COLUMN BY THE ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES UNDERGRADUATE ADVISORY BOARD WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 1, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 12 133rd Year of Publication CARTER COUDRIET President DAN SPINELLI Executive Editor LUCIEN WANG Print Director ALEX GRAVES Digital Director ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK Opinion Editor SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Senior News Editor WILL SNOW Senior Sports Editor CHRIS MURACCA Design Editor CAMILLE RAPAY Design Editor JULIA SCHORR Design Editor RONG XIANG Design Editor VIBHA KANNAN Enterprise Editor GENEVIEVE GLATSKY News Editor TOM NOWLAN News Editor
On the dawn of the Asian American Studies Program’s 20th anniversary, founding faculty member Grace Kao accepted an offer from Yale University. With this loss comes great uncertainty for the future of our program. Built on a foundation of protests and frustrated voices that spans over 20 years, Penn’s Asian American Studies Program appointed Kao as one of the first faculty members to head the program. Serving as director from 2003 to 2009, she has consistently fought for its growth and academic offerings. Her mentorship and scholarly work at Penn — cited 7060 times — have been groundbreaking. Despite two decades of Kao’s dedication to the University’s mission for integrated learning, we as a program are still struggling for legitimacy, funding and faculty retention. Yet, somehow interest has only grown. Our courses offered in sociology, history and English are currently among the largest and highest enrolled classes in their respective departments.
Even with this undeniable demand, we have made little progress. With Kao’s upcoming departure and the continued stagnation of the program, it is tragic to think that Provost Vincent Price and Penn President Amy Gutmann stated that ASAM was “a shining example of the value and importance of interdisciplinary education at Penn” and “a superb example of the integration of knowledge and the commitment to global engagement,” respectively. What more must we prove to protect our history? It is not enough for Dean Steven Fluharty to write, “Penn will continue our strong commitment to the Asian American Studies Program,” to the members of our Undergraduate Advisory Board on Jan. 26 after being contacted by our chair a total of three times since Dec. 23. In his email to the UAB, Dean Fluharty asked for suggestions on how to best support the program, and for him, we have many. First and foremost, the
ASAM UAB demands that Penn hire a standing senior Asian-American sociology professor to replace Kao. It is imperative that we have another permanent faculty member in the ASAM
Program and English professor Josephine Park and Associate Director of the ASAM Program Fariha Khan will no longer have any incentive to keep the ASAM Program alive.
In the wake of a president that spews toxic rhetoric against people of color, immigrants and refugees, our program is critical to remind us the consequences of forgetting a history of discrimination, protest and struggle.” program in order to focus and strengthen this discipline that is repeatedly erased from history. If Penn does not hire another full-time ASAM faculty member, Director of the ASAM Program Eiichiro Azuma, History professor Alan Charles Kors, Core Faculty Member of the ASAM
The ASAM UAB demands more administrative support for the program. Currently, Khan is the only person who handles any administrative work related to ASAM, leaving her unable to focus on the growth of the program and limiting her ability to teach. It is unrea-
sonable that Khan, recipient of this year’s Women of Color at Penn award and Ambassador for Penn on the Governor’s Commission for Asian Pacific American Affairs, is not given enough support. In order to grow, the ASAM Program requires more physical space for its program. No space has been formally dedicated to the program on campus other than two small rooms in the McNeil Building. It is only appropriate for ASAM to have a reading room in the library or a seminar room to host events, so that the resources the ASAM Department possesses can be accessed and utilized by students. ASAM demands space and money for post-doctorates and faculty who can teach disciplines beyond those already offered. Penn is severely lacking in courses that discuss the APA narratives within Cinema and Media Studies, Anthropology and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. Critical discussions in these fields are
necessary. Finally, the ASAM UAB demands more support not only for its own program but for all ethnic and minority studies programs on campus. The Africana Studies, the Latin American and Latino Studies, the Native American & Indigenous Studies and the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies programs on campus experience similar struggles. It is imperative that Penn show increased support for its minority communities. To say that we are “celebrating” our 20th anniversary is a gross irony. We now have a reduced number of core faculty, only one administrative position and a continuously dwindling number of courses. In the wake of a president that spews toxic rhetoric against people of color, immigrants and refugees, our program is critical to remind us the consequences of forgetting a history of discrimination, protest and struggle. We will continue to fight for the integrity and livelihood of our program, and this is certainly not the last you will hear from us.
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In the era of rampant “fake news” and “alternative facts,” now more than ever we have a moral obligation to seek truth to inform our dissent. The purpose of this article is to show that misconceptions matter, and to use the refugee issue as an illustration. This is a call to action — a call for us to actually understand the issues we protest. We ought not to experience a knee-jerk, sensationalist opposition to a policy, simply because of who signs it. As a Christian, I believe God calls me to care for orphans and widows, to help the poor and to love the “least of these.” This belief is woven into America’s moral fabric, with the Statue of Liberty asking the world for, “Your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” As a nation, some of our greatest failures occurred when we did not live up to this creed, such as failing to shelter European Jews during the Holocaust. Yet our care for others must be balanced with our government’s primary purpose, which is to protect its own citizens. Of course, there is nothing wrong with vetting immigrants
before they enter; it would be irresponsible not to. While America’s vetting system is among the toughest and most sophisticated in the world, many officials have gone on the record saying it needs to be strengthened. To be clear, there are plenty of reasons to dislike the president’s recent executive order. Senators John McCain (RAriz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) criticized several practical elements such as the sloppy rollout. There are also major security concerns such as the exclusion of arguably more dangerous countries from extreme vetting. Have Penn students engaged this issue with intellectual rigor? Did we read the full text of the executive order before rushing to the Philadelphia airport to protest? I want to address just some of the misconceptions I have come across in my conversations with friends. On the #MuslimBan, it is true that the seven countries specified in the executive order are majority-Muslim. However, the Obama administration had singled out these exact
countries as “countries of concern,” or as PolitiFact puts it, “terrorist hotbeds,” which was approved by 165 Democratic members of Congress. While perhaps ineffective policy, choosing these seven was not inconsistent, or as some claim, nefarious. It also should not be
you also took to the streets in 2011. Finally, the Syrian Civil War began in 2011. By the end of 2014, there were over 3 million Syrian refugees. Here are the numbers of Syrians that President Obama allowed in during these years:
We ought not to experience a knee-jerk, sensationalist opposition to a policy, simply because of who signs it.” controversial to prioritize persecuted minorities in the immigration process. On the principle of banning refugees, Obama placed a six-month ban on Iraqi refugees in 2011, including those “who had heroically helped U.S. forces as interpreters and intelligence assets.” While Obama’s policy and Trump’s are significantly different, if you have a singular moral issue with banning refugees, I hope
Fiscal year 2011: 29 FY 2012: 31 FY 2013: 36 FY 2014: 105 That’s an average of 50 per year. I truly hope my friends with a passion for refugee awareness did not wait until a Republican took office to begin sharing pictures of bloodied Syrian children. To be sure, President Obama dramatically raised the numbers on his way out the
door in 2015 and 2016. But let’s be clear: Trump temporarily returning the number to zero is far closer to Obama’s own precedent than Obama’s remarkable spike in his final days. As for the 120-day suspension of refugee admissions, this is a temporary measure before allowing a cap of 50,000 refugees per year. Again, this number is far closer to the 15year average before Obama’s radical expansion. I am not defending the President’s policies. As a Christian, I feel a moral obligation to welcome refugees and I share the bipartisan concerns mentioned above. The administration should immediately roll back certain flaws in the policy, especially as it pertains to greencard holders, international students and others. If your heart breaks for refugees, I urge you to get involved with civic organizations. My church, City Church Philadelphia, serves local refugee resettlement programs, and I can connect you with friends who do the same. The time for virtue signalling and performative protests
TAYLOR BECKER are over. Is your disagreement with the president over his immigration policy? Examine the evidence. Check the trends. You may find he is closer to the norm than many think. And my hope is that we each do this with every controversy that we disagree with in the future. Be consistent, and let us not make the mistake of distrustful partisanship that causes us to assume the worst. Be radical in your love, realistic in your policies and rational in your dissent. TAYLOR BECKER is a College senior from Lebanon, Ore., studying political science. His email address is tabe@sas. upenn.edu. “Right Angles” usually appears every other Wednesday.
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Students sign open letter against immigration ban Title of letter adapted from Penn’s motto HARI KUMAR Staff Reporter
Over 1,100 Penn students and alumni have signed an open letter criticizing President Donald Trump’s recent executive order on immigration. Trump’s executive order prohibits citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States for 90 days and suspends the admission of all refugees for 120 days. The letter condemns these actions, stating that Trump’s policies seek to “displace our classmates and separate us from our teachers and friends.” The letter takes its title from Penn’s motto: Laws without morals are useless. It states that when the freedoms of expression, association and belief are threatened, people must take action. Addressed to all senators, representatives and public officials, the letter urges officials to “work to block and overturn [this order] and other policies that run counter to American values.” The letter states that signatories “are students, faculty, scientists, administrators, and
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wall on the border with Mexico. T he caption includes the hashtag #NoBanNoWall. In this video, Booker bashes Trump’s ban, calling it “fundamentally un-American.” Booker has praised former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates for ordering the U.S. Department of Justice to not
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The letter follows widespread protests at airports nationwide, including Philadelphia International Airport.
alumni” of Penn. These signatories are not alone in their criticism of the immigration policy. On Monday night, Penn President Amy Gutmann also condemned the immigration bans, calling them “injurious to our work and inimical to our
values.” The open letter concludes with a call to action directed at the public officials to whom the letter is addressed. “We are ready to fulfill our civic responsibilities and protest injustice,” the letter reads. “We hope you are, too.”
enforce the immigration ban and criticized Trump for firing Yates. He is co-sponsoring Sen. C h r istopher Mu r phy ( D Conn.)’s bill to overturn this executive order. In a recent tweet, he pointed out an inconsistency with Trump’s immigration ban and its purported purpose. CNN tweeted a video in which Booker calls Trump’s
executive order a “a crime and a sin” at Washington Dulles International Airport. Last week in an interview with CNN, Booker denounced Trump as “a liar” and described Trump’s voter fraud allegations as “stunning and deeply offensive given the challenges we’ve had with voting in our nation’s history.” He also criticized Trump’s recent refugee ban as “a wrong
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President Donald Tr ump, Laurie Allen, assistant director for digital scholarship for Penn libraries, said the “sense of urgency is stronger” to support DataRefuge and similar projects. Since November, the DataRefuge project has aimed to protect public environmental data and spread awareness about the vulnerability of public access to data. Margaret Janz, scholarly communications and data curation librarian at Van Pelt Library, reported that about 250 people attended their two-day January event. By the end of the event, they had added 3692 URLs to the End of Term Harvest and downloaded 1.5 terabytes of data from federal websites. Since the inauguration, the Trump administration has essentially issued gag orders on the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental
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was involved is not clear,” Siggers said in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian. The Penn Museum has kept the pieces on display for the public since they were acquired, and it completed conservation on the reliefs in 2010. The Zhaoling Museum keeps the other six reliefs of the set on display,
assault on people who are the most vulnerable, who are the most persecuted on planet earth.” Booker previously faced off against Trump last July after President Trump shared an enigmatic tweet about the candidate. Booker responded in an interview with CNN’s morning news program, “New Day,” saying “I love you, I just don’t
Protection Agency. His officials have also instructed the EPA to remove a webpage about climate change from their website. Allen acknowledged that the DataRefuge project began in anticipation of this suppression of public data. “We know the data is going to come down. We know the science is going to be more vulnerable,” Allen said. “This is not a project driven from panic. It is driven by good data and archival practices.” Theodore Schurr, professor of anthropology and member of the PPEH faculty working group, spoke about how data purging is a consistent practice, seen at the end of both the Reagan and Bush administrations as well. He is concerned that with such a “profoundly anti-science” administration the narrowing of information will only increase with time. “It is not just an attack on the organizations themselves,” Schurr said. “It’s an attack on
being transparent in what their doing.” On Monday the DataRefuge team hosted a webinar for about 20 people who had reached out about hosting their own DataRescue event. In the month of February, there are events scheduled at Harvard University, University of California at Davis and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well in Portland, New York and the San Francisco Bay Area. Allen added that the DataRefuge project is headed in two directions: building partnerships locally in the Philadelphia area, and with research libraries around the country. The team plans to meet with Philadelphia city officials on Friday. “I think that there is a general widespread consciousness among citizens that there are lots of different risks that are being increased right now,” Dolph said. “I think people are looking for a way to get engaged.”
and requested the return of the pieces. According to China Daily, the statement released by the Zhaoling Museum lectured the Penn Museum on its decision to purchase the reliefs nearly 100 years ago, and called for their immediate return. “The Penn Museum should not have purchased the two horses ... We hereby demand that Penn Museum negotiate a plan to reunite the six horses,”
the Zhaoling Museum said in the statement. “We have not received a request for their return from a Chinese official,” Siggers said in response to the statement. Siggers is correct, as the Zhaoling Museum statement was not directly issued from a Chinese official, however, the Museum’s website does list members of the Chinese government under its leadership.
want you to be my president. I don’t want to you have the White House to be spewing that kind of mean-spirited hate that doesn’t even belong on a playground sandbox.” Booker has interspersed quotes from prominent public figures about activism and public resistance among his tweets condemning the Trump administration. In a recent interview on
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Every match is special in its own way. But then there are those contests that are circled on the calendar months ahead of time. For Penn men’s tennis, that time is bright and early Sunday morning, when it will be hosting Minnesota. The man who it will mean the most to won’t be on the courts, however. For coach David Geatz, welcoming his former team to the Hecht Tennis Center will be a trip down memory lane. Having made his name with the Golden Gopher program during nearly two decades of dominance, Geatz secured accolades including five Big Ten championships, a 45-match win streak in conference play, three Big Ten Coach of the Year awards, and NCAA Regional Coach of the Year honors. Naturally, he’s something of a legend in the Twin Cities. So when he picked up the phone to
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After a historic career with the Bulldogs that saw him win three consecutive individual Ivy League Championships from 1990 to 1992, Heintz embarked on a 19-year professional career that saw him secure six top-10 finishes in PGA Tour events. According to the PGA’s website, Heintz earned upwards of $2.2 million in his professional career, which reached its pinnacle with a second-place finish
call in a favor, Minnesota made it happen. “I was in the Big Ten for eighteen years and had a lot of good times at Minnesota. I know the coach really well because he worked with me for a summer, and it’s nice to get them out here to play us,� Geatz said. “To get a Big Ten team here for a match is not easy to do, so as a perennially top-20 or 25 team, this would be a great match for our guys. So I persuaded him into a home-and-away.� Despite the air of amiability, the Quakers (3-1) will be rigorously tested, as the Golden Gophers (5-0) have demonstrated their supremacy quite plainly. Both teams will be riding high coming off impressive doubleheader sweeps this past weekend. For Penn, the wins both came at 6-1 over Georgetown and Temple, with a handful of straight-set victories across the ladder. From Minnesota’s perspective, things are looking pretty good, having easily dispatched of Marquette and South Dakota State at love, coming to Philadelphia having only dropped three points on the year. For junior captain Josh Pompan, who racked up victories in No. 2 singles and No. 3 doubles slots twice Saturday, this matchup will give the squad a chance to prove its
resilience. “We’ve had a tough road so far. Our first match we had to go down to Tennessee and play two tough teams, Middle Tennessee State, where we pulled out a really good win, and then Vanderbilt, who will probably be top-25 in the country, so they were tough,� Pompan said. “This was a brutal double header, so I think we’re well prepared, and we’ll take this week to train and get ready for them, because they will be
tough.� Regarding the atmosphere surrounding the match, Pompan noted the significance of his coach’s historic connection to the visitors. “It’s funny because coach Geatz is a legend at Minnesota, because he coached there for 18 years,� Pompan said. “He has a banner on their court, so it will be cool for them to be coming to our building and hopefully we’ll take them out.� Thinking about the upcoming
reunion, Geatz cracked a smile and said, “It will be nice to have the Golden Gophers here. They’re a good group of guys, and I’m looking forward to it. Should be great competition for us and a lot of fun.� With the strength of the Minnesota team hardly a secret, Penn knows it will have to come out firing on all cylinders to come away victorious against such heavy opposition. On that note, Geatz admitted the team is not truly at full
strength, citing illness and admissibility problems as the hindrances. “We have a really good guy who played number one for us two years ago, who is not eligible yet, Nicholas Podesta, who’s a very good player. If he becomes eligible, it will impact our team a lot, and we’ll become significantly better with him in the line-up,� Geatz said. “If we get a couple guys healthy too; Nicholai Westergaard isn’t healthy and Marshall Sharpe couldn’t play against Temple because of a hurt back. We just need a fully healthy, eligible team and we’ll do well.� Rega rd ing Podest a , t he former Penn ace was removed from the roster last April surrounding rumors of a professional career attempt and disputes with coaches and players. The four-time junior national champion was integral to Geatz’s program, and his return could really shake things up again. Asked whether he could foresee these players making a return for Sunday, Geatz said, “I do, but I’m an optimistic guy. It could just go to crap too; you never know.� If ever ything pans out, maybe the Quakers can rally behind their coach, and give his old program a run for its money.
worst-to-first turnaround in Ivy League men’s golf history when Heintz led the Quakers to a riveting one-stroke victory over second-place Princeton in the 2015 Ivy League Championships. The improbable effort, which saw the Quakers trailing the Tigers by as many as seven strokes during the final round, brought Penn its fourth Ivy team championship in school history, as Heintz was named the firstever Ivy League Coach of the Year after his historic effort.
“It was looking a little bleak about halfway through [that last day],� Heintz said in the immediate aftermath of that tournament. “They just kept on believing in themselves.� Unfortunately, the Penn program couldn’t quite sustain the success in the coming years. The squad dropped to seventh place at the Ivy Championships a year ago, and followed that up with a frustrating fourth-place finish at this fall’s City Six Shootout. Meanwhile, a strong Duke program had its eyes on Heintz
from a distance, finally deciding to take a chance on the former pro this week. Ranked No. 21 nationally in the most recent coaches’ poll, the Blue Devils qualified for the NCAA Championships as recently as 2015, while Penn has never done so in program history. Overall, Duke represented a rise in prestige that was too much for Heintz to resist. “I’m grateful for the opportunity to be part of the Duke Athletics family,� Heintz said in a Duke press release. “While
it’s difficult to part ways with my team and the outstanding people at Penn, I’m excited to begin working with Coach [Jamie] Green and Duke men’s golf. I have tremendous respect for Duke University, its athletic department and the historic success of its golf programs. I look forward to helping Coach Green continue to provide a first-class experience for Duke’s studentathletes.� No word has come from Penn Athletics yet regarding the search for Heintz’s replacement.
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at the PGA Reno-Tahoe Open in 2010. He arrived at Penn at the start of the 2012-13 school year, inheriting a team that stood as the defending Ivy League champions. And though his first two seasons in Philadelphia saw relatively pedestrian results, his third year saw one of the most impressive turnarounds in Ivy League history in any sport. The Red and Blue, after finishing in dead last in the conference in 2014, managed to complete the first and only
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Kana Daniel and Penn women’s tennis have high expectations on the court this season. This weekend, they’ll get the chance to back them up. Penn (0-2) hosts Temple (3-2) this Saturday at 1 in the Hecht Tennis Center. In a brutal doubleheader to open the spring season last weekend, the Quakers fell to both No.
11 Georgia Tech and No. 20 Kentucky by a score of 4-0 in Atlanta, Ga., but the final scores didn’t quite reflect how competitive the Red and Blue were. “All the matches were really close and show that the belief was there, that we are really close to beating teams that are top-10 or top-20 ranked in the country,” senior Kana Daniel said. “We just need that little extra belief in us when the score gets tighter, when the match gets a little closer, and I think that only improves with experience,” Daniel added. Meanwhile, Temple is coming off a 2-1 performance at the VCU Invite last weekend. The Owls defeated Morgan State 5-0 and Longwood 5-0, but fell to VCU 2-3. Temple also travels to Villanova on February 3, meaning the
CARSON KAHOE | ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR
Senior Kana Daniel anchors a Penn women’s tennis squad that will attempt to bounce back from a tough opening weekend against Temple
Owls will have to face Penn in the second half of a doubleheader. If last season is any indication,
Red and Blue dominate in convincing weekend sweep
Mautner, Pompan finish doubleheader unbeaten LAINE HIGGINS Associate Sports Editor
Although there was no love lost between the Williams sisters in Australia on Saturday, tennis feuds were alive and well in the city of Brotherly Love last weekend. In their 2017 home opener, Penn men’s tennis defeated Georgetown and Philadelphia rivals Temple 6-1, each. “It was a double header on Saturday so we knew it was going to be a long day,” senior captain Matt Nardella explained. “We knew both teams were pretty good, so we had to go in respecting them and expecting a fight.” The Quakers took all but one of the singles points against the Hoyas, with wins from junior Kyle Mautner, junior Josh Pompan, Nardella, junior Gabe Rapoport and freshman Max Cancilla. Rapoport’s win was most impressive, as it came after splitting the first two sets against Yannik Mahlangu, 6-4 and 6-3, only to battle back to take the final set 10-3.
“Gabe hasn’t really had too much experience playing this year at singles, so these are some of his first two or three matches that he’s ever played,” Nardella said of his teammate. “It was good to see him go out there and get two really close victories.” For the third match in a row, Penn captured the doubles point thanks to another strong performance from the pairing of senior Thomas Spratt and Pompan, who are undefeated this season. Also capturing doubles match wins were duo Mautner and Nardella, and junior Nicholai Westergaard and senior Marshall Sharp, who edged out the Hoyas, 7-6. “Compared to last weekend, we really managed that well, and we cleaned up some of the mistakes we had,” Nardella said. “It was a good team effort across the board.” The story was similar in the Quakers’ second match of the afternoon versus Temple. Once again, five of Penn’s singles players recorded wins with Mautner, Pompan and Cancilla easily beating their opponents in straight sets. Rapoport continued to prove his stamina with a comeback win
of Daniel. The senior was named first-team All-Ivy in singles and doubles in 2015-16, and has continued her success further this fall, with records of 9-4 in singles, and 6-3 in doubles with freshman Ashley Zhu. “The fall season has been a good learning experience for the whole team. We all started really strong as a team,” Daniel added. Saturday’s match against Temple will be the first home match of the season. “Playing home is more comfortable, you practice on the courts pretty much every day,” Daniel said. “For example, we played at Georgia Tech this last weekend and the courts were slower and the conditions are different.” With Daniel leading the charge, the Quakers have five of their six returning starters
over Florian Mayer in sets of 3-6, 6-3, 6-1. Doubles was a strong point for the Red and Blue against the Owls as well, although this time Penn was unable to win all three sets. The pairing of Mautner and Nardella and duo Spratt and Pompan both won 6-2 while the pair of Westergaard and Sharp fell 4-6. The pair of wins for the Quakers follows a weekend of split results on the road against Middle Tennessee State and Vanderbilt, a team Coach Gaetz dubbed one of the most talented squads in the country. Although Penn ultimately fell to the Commodores 6-1, having the chance to play against some of the nation’s best clearly sharpened the Quakers’ skills. “Playing Vanderbilt, their level was really high,” Nardella said. “If we want to beat the best teams in the Ivy League, we need to raise our game to that level.” Penn will have to wait until April to open its conference slate, but until then the Quakers hope to continue the upward trend with a match against Minnesota next weekend.
then the Owls’ already difficult task will be made even more daunting by the recent dominance
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“I moved to Florida to develop my career, and because I thought that was the best option for me to bring my game to the next level,” he said. “My junior career, I had a lot of great wins at national tournaments and sectional tournaments, and I really broke through at the national level in the 18-and-under age division, winning a bunch. I’ve travelled to the Caribbean and Central America to play some international tournaments, but most of my success came in the U.S.” A highly ranked recruit once he committed to the sport full-time — even becoming Connecticut’s top-ranked high schooler by the time he graduated — Mautner had already verbally committed to Penn by the end of his sophomore year of high school. But unlike most athletes with that level of success, Mautner had an unusual recruitment process, having been in touch with Penn coach David Geatz both before and during his move south, before ultimately returning back to Connecticut for his senior year. “When I was living in Florida, I committed to Penn because I
felt as though it was a great balance of academics and athletics. I thought it would be a school where I could play at the top of the lineup from the start, and I really loved coach Geatz. I had known him since he worked at Greenwich Country Club when I was 12 or 13 years old,” Mautner said. “We stayed in touch all the way through. He came to watch me play a bunch of sectional tournaments ... I didn’t even make any official visits to any other schools because I was committed to Penn so early. I just knew it was the school I wanted to go to.” Once on Penn’s campus, Mautner took little time to make his presence felt on the team. He quickly became the top guy in the lineup, and needed to adjust quickly to the level of play at the top of Division I programs. “I felt like the biggest difference from junior to college tennis was the physicality,” Mautner said. “Most of the guys I played had big serves and moved well, so a part of me that needed to improve for me to compete and win was me getting into the gym more and working on the physical part of the game to hang in there with these guys.” An early match against Dartmouth showed that he had the
from last season, giving the team some high expectations this time around. “We played some top schools in the country and we are really looking to win the Ivies this year,” Daniel said. “That’s the big goal.” Princeton finished at the top at 5-2 in the Ivy League last season, while Penn, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Columbia tied for next at 4-3. And even as Daniel approaches graduation and a potential new journey in the professional tennis circuit, the senior’s focus is entirely on boosting the Red and Blue to new levels. “Personally, I look forward to playing professionally after I graduate,” Daniel said, “but my one goal for the team is to be able to win the Ivy League title and to make it to the NCAA tournament — and hopefully win a few rounds there as well.”
talent to stay on the court with the best, but also showed what he would be faced with at the D-I level. “When we played Dartmouth, I was a freshman and I was playing against a 23-year-old senior who was a man. You could clearly see the difference. Mentally I felt like I could hang with these guys, but it was physically where I needed to improve the most.” While some freshmen may shave struggled with being tasked as the top player on a college team from the get-go, Mautner was immediately comfortable. So comfortable, in fact, he was named first team All-Ivy and notched wins over three players ranked in the top-100 nationally. “I really enjoyed being at the top of the lineup and being the guy who everyone could look up to and follow, training extra hours and getting other guys to come out as well,” Mautner said. “I embraced the challenge and embraced being at the top, and other than the very beginning when I was very nervous for my first match, I got into a rhythm all the way through.” If he continues to stay in rhythm, look for Mautner and the rest of the Red and Blue to have a big year on court.
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are ranked No. 20 in the nation by ITA. Also assisting in upperclassmen leadership on the women’s team will be juniors Ria Vaidya and Lina Qostal. The pair form Penn’s No. 2 doubles team, as well as slotting in as Penn’s No. 2 and No. 3 singles players respectively. As Nardella heads into his final season, he is setting a lot of personal goals for himself, but he hopes these will rub off on to his teammates as well. “I want to go out on a better note than any other season,” he said. “I want to win a majority of my singles and doubles matches, while also just making everyone else better.” Pompan added to Nardella’s belief about the importance of winning matches on a personal
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THE TENNIS ISSUE Growth highlights 2016 campaign
Men’s and women’s teams increase win totals in successful campaign ANANYA CHANDRA Photo Manager
While Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal were busy fighting for a comeback in the world of tennis over the past year, Penn tennis was making waves of its own in Ivy League. Despite not winning a team conference title in either the men’s or women’s side, both sets of Quakers had impressive seasons. Penn women’s tennis, with their best finish since 2008, finished their season ranked No. 48 nationally in the Intercollegiate Tennis Rankings (ITA). Meanwhile, the men’s squad had a three-win improvement from the year before in the Ivy League. Finishing second in the conference, and 11-8 overall, the women’s team had a strong 2016 campaign. One win shy of gaining a part of the Ivy title, the Quakers lost their championship hopes with a loss to Cornell in their second to last Ivy match of the year. But it wasn’t all disappointment. Current senior Kana Daniel was unanimously selected for the First Team All-Ivy. Daniel and graduated senior Sonya Latycheva were also unanimously awarded First Team All-Ivy in doubles — their second time receiving that particular honor in their three years together. The men’s team, meanwhile, finished 3-4 in the Ivy League in 2016. The Quakers opened up conference play on a high note with two key wins over Yale and Brown. The latter match, especially, was one to remember. Against Brown, the match was tied at 3-3 with just one match remaining. Junior captain — though a sophomore at the time — Josh Pompan, suffering from a severe case of the flu, threw up on the court in the middle of the third set. After a brief pause in play, he then continued to rally on and win the match, clinching another Ivy win for the Quakers. “I think that was a match that shows you, if you just go one point at a time, you’re in every match,” Pompan said. “So that just kind of motivates the whole team, matches like that.” Despite the motivation from two Ivy wins, the men then faced successive conference losses to Cornell, Columbia, Harvard, and Dartmouth. But the crowning moment for the men’s team came in the last match of the season. The Quakers capped off 2016 with 4-3 win over their rival, No. 48 Princeton, securing a finish 3-4 in the league. The year before, they had finished 0-7 in Ivy play. Freshman Kyle Mautner was named First Team All-Ivy, the first all-conference performer since 2012 for the men’s team. Throughout 2016, he played every match at No. 1 singles, and helped secure Penn’s victory over Princeton. “What went right last year,” men’s coach David Geatz chuckled. “We had a good group of guys that fought hard to the very end. And we beat Princeton.”
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Sophomore Kyle Mautner’s rise from high school star to Penn’s No. 1 MATT FINE Senior Sports Reporter
When Penn men’s tennis sophomore Kyle Mautner quit hockey at the age of 12 to focus on tennis, he began making the hour-long
trek from his home in Greenwich, Conn. to Long Island five times a week. In just under seven years, he turned from a kid who practiced very little into one of the most highly touted recruits in the country, and then one of the best players in the Ivy League. The path to this point required hard work and a lot of time away from home, but for Mautner, it was all part of a special opportunity that has led to him playing at the
NG top of the Quakers’ lineup. With obvious talent at a young age and some promising results, Mautner and his family decided to relocate him to train with many other talented tennis players yearround in Florida. He lived full-time with his coach and practiced daily with several other budding recruits. SEE MAUTNER PAGE 7
Nardella, Pompan ready to captain Penn to the title
Meanwhile, the women’s team has no captains REINA KERN Sports Reporter
For Penn men’s tennis, being a captain is a tough but rewarding position, and it is ultimately an honor for those who get chosen for it. Senior Matt Nardella and junior Josh Pompan were chosen to lead their team to success in this upcoming season, as the Quakers will face some high competition and competitive
rivalries. “It’s the little things,” Nardella said. “It’s about setting a good example and setting a tone at practice every day. When you work hard, everyone else who is younger feeds off of what you do.” According to Nardella, being a captain is not all about being glorified, and it is not always about being a loud and powerful leader. Rather, it is the smaller things that you do for your teammates that will leave a lasting impact and an enduring legacy on the program long after both captains have graduated. Pompan agreed with Nardella,
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but also highlighted some of the glories that come along with being named to this important role on the team. “It is a great honor to get to represent Penn tennis in this way and what the program has to offer,” he said. “We have a lot of young players, so we came in right away showing them how its done because leading by example is important.” Both Nardella and Pompan stress the importance of being an example for their young team as they approach this season, and they believe this leadership strategy will lead the Red and Blue to
victory. On any team, the veterans set the tone, and the captains feel that it is essential to do their part in contributing to the positive culture of the men’s tennis program. “It’s about treating all your teammates fairly at practice and treating them well. Our leadership pushes everyone, so again it’s about setting that good example,” Nardella continued. Similar to Nardella, Pompan believes that showing others on the team how practice is run, how to compete in a match, and how to prepare is key to a successful and strongly bonded team.
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“Being really enthusiastic is infectious,” Pompan said. When the leaders of a team are confident and upbeat, this energy trickles down to every member of the squad. As such, both captains are setting team goals and doing everything they can to prepare their teammates for what lies ahead. “The Ivy League is tough, so we need to take one match at a time,” Pompan said. “Last year we had a great group, but this year our goals are even higher.” “We are looking to win the Ivy League, which is something that I haven’t done yet in my three
years at Penn, so we are hoping to up the intensity and have bigger expectations for the team,” Nardella added. The story is very similar on the women’s side. Despite not having captains this year, there are several more experienced players who will look to lead the team by example. First and foremost in that regard is senior Kana Daniel, who earned first-team All-Ivy honors in both doubles and singles last season. Heading into the spring season, Daniel and her partner, freshman Ashley Zhu, SEE CAPTAINS PAGE 7
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