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Muslim students react to University’s statement Students are pleased with Penn’s response, but fear for the future ESHA INDANI Staff Reporter

Penn students from the Middle East reacted with anger and disbelief when President Donald Trump issued his temporary ban on immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries. These students later commended the University for the proactive role it took to assist affected students. “I was quite shocked to be honest,” College and Wharton freshman Jonathan Lahdo said. “Trump obviously spoke a lot about this in his election campaign, but I did not realize how soon it would be put into effect.” College and Wharton sophomore Zuhaib Badami pointed out that it was not only those from the designated seven majority-Muslim countries who are affected by the ban. Badami is president of the Muslim Students Association, but said he did not want to speak on behalf of the organization, only as an individual. “What people don’t realize is that it’s affecting far more than the seven countries on the list,”

Former Vice President Joe Biden will lead the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, based out of Washington He won’t be teaching classes though

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The wait is over. Former Vice President Joe Biden has been officially named a University professor, Penn President Amy Gutmann announced Tuesday. Under the title of “Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor,” Biden will lead the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, based out of Washington, D.C. The center, which is set to open later this year, will be focused on diplomacy, foreign policy and national security, according to a University statement released Tuesday morning. Biden will hold joint appointments in the Annenberg School for

Communication and the School of Arts and Sciences, with a secondary affiliation in the Wharton School. “We are thrilled to have Vice President Biden here at Annenberg,” Annenberg Dean Delli Carpini said in a statement. “Although he is not scheduled to teach a formal course at this time, we are certain that there will be opportunities for our students to benefit from his presence at Penn.” In fact, a spokesperson for the former vice president said Biden won’t be teaching at all. “He will not be teaching classes,” Biden spokesperson Kate Bedingfield told The Daily Pennsylvanian on

Tuesday morning. Biden’s work with Penn will be based out of Washington D.C. and Philadelphia, Bedingfield added. The University’s announcement finally confirms months of speculation surrounding Biden’s plans at Penn. After speculation in December that Biden would “set up shop” at Penn when he left the White House, the former vice president verbally confirmed his plans on a hot mic to come to Philadelphia in January. Biden was spotted at Penn Law School last month, and Gutmann attended SEE BIDEN PAGE 5

Asian Americans fight for funding Students protested for more faculty members and greater support HALEY SUH Staff Reporter

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Penn students gather on College Green to express their discontent over cuts to the Asian American Studies program.

“Know your history, know yourself! We are not your model minority,” students declared at a protest held in front of College Green on Monday afternoon. The protest group, largely comprised of Asian-American students, was demanding increased legitimacy and funding for the Asian American Studies Program at Penn. Marching past Locust Walk and onto Walnut Street, students held posters and raised their voices to express frustration over the current levels of funding, administrative support and number of faculty dedicated to the ASAM program. In particular, students demanded that Penn hire a standing senior Asian American sociology professor to replace professor Grace Kao, a key founding faculty member of the program who will be leaving Penn for Yale University.

“We are all gathered here today because we are not some docile model minority afraid to make noise,” Wharton junior and Asian Pacific Student Coalition chair YenYen Gao said. “We already know that our stories and experiences matter. And it’s time for this school to realize that once and for all.” The protesters also called for the administration to provide a physical space to house the program and to increase funding for the permanent ASAM professors. The protest came after an editorial column the Asian American Studies Undergraduate Advisory Board wrote in The Daily Pennsylvanian. The article included similar complaints — a lack of funding and faculty for ASAM, they said, despite growing student interest in the program. The ASAM UAB also created a petition around the same time they wrote the editorial column calling for College Dean Steven Fluharty, President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price to address their SEE PROTEST PAGE 6

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App designed to support patients with sarcoidosis Medical School student and professor created app OLIVIA SYLVESTER Staff Reporter

While standing at the nursing station, Perelman School of Medicine student Daniel O’Connor listened as professor in dermatology and internal medicine Misha Rosenbach consulted with a sarcoidosis patient. When Rosenbach suggested that there should be an app for patients with this disease, O’Connor, an experienced coder, said, “I can help!” Over a year after this “serendipitous” encounter, Rosenbach and O’Connor launched the app, “Sarcoidosis” on Jan. 17. Sarcoidosis is an uncommon disease causing inflammation in different organs that Rosenbach said is found in 10 to 30 out of every 100,000 people, and in the United

States, predominantly affects black women. Rosenbach said he sees a particularly high number of patients with sarcoidosis because of the demographics of the Philadelphia area and Penn’s combined dermatology and internal medicine program. “Sometimes patients with less widely known diseases will go to a doctor, and even the physician won’t know very much about these less common diseases,” Rosenbach said. O’Connor developed the app through Apple’s ResearchKit, which is designed to provide a framework for medical apps. ResearchKit has been used to develop 16 medical apps, but O’Connor pointed out that most of them address prevalent diseases such as asthma and diabetes. The Sarcoidosis app provides information about the disease, links patients to support groups

and features a map of nearby doctors who have indicated experience with the disease. Since the app has been released, it has been downloaded approximately 600 times, with 300 patients agreeing to participate in research. Rosenbach said that the largest sarcoidosis research study to date featured 700 people over the course of multiple years and required over $1 million in funding. “In two weeks we are halfway there, and it hasn’t cost anything close to that or required anything close to that,” Rosenbach said. The other primary goal of the app is to engage sarcoidosis patients in longitudinal research. It will send out regular surveys using the Sarcoidosis Assessment Tool, which is the standard patient selfassessment exam for the disease. Rosenbach plans to look for correlations between survey answers and other information provided by

the phone, such as weather or stepcounting. “A lot of times the way the government decides what areas to allocate research funding into is based on either how many patients are bothered by it or how much it impacts quality of life,” Rosenbach said. Kelli Beyer, the director of education and outreach for the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research, said the organization has been working on the project since O’Connor reached out in the beginning of 2016. FSR provided their support group and physician directory for the app’s features, and uses social media, newsletters and other platforms to support the app among patients. She said the long-term goal of the app is to ensure that it continues to expand. Currently the app is only available in English, on the iPhone and

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Medical student Daniel O’Connor collaborated with professor Misha Rosenbach to create an app for patients with sarcoidosis.

in the U.S. With continued success, she and O’Connor agreed that they can pursue broader accessibility, such as featuring different languages or developing an Android app. “We think that [the study of] rare disease has maybe even more

potential in this area just because with [more prevalent diseases] it is easier to get large numbers of patients involved.” O’Connor said, “For us to get critical numbers and ask the most basic questions is something that’s very powerful and useful.”

Children’s menus are not any healthier despite industry pledge Kids’ menus still loaded with sugar and sodium MANXI WANG Contributing Reporter

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professor found in a recent study. The study found that the participant restaurants of Kids LiveWell, a National Restaurant Association initiative, have not made significant positive changes to the nutritional value of the offerings of children’s menus. Published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine on Jan. 11 and led by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the study also failed to find meaningful improvements in calorie, saturated fat or sodium content of foods offered on menus of restaurants not participating in the voluntary program. Senior author of the study and Perelman School of Medicine professor Christina Roberto said there were only minimal changes made to menus as a result of the program, which requires at least one meal

and one other item on children’s menus to meet certain guidelines. “The Kids LiveWell program is a good first step, considered that the Kids LiveWell requirements are very minimal,” Roberto said. “One or two items might have changed, but the changes just haven’t had the impact that we wanted them to have.” The study is the first to examine these nutritional trends among national restaurant chains “at a time when many were making voluntary pledges to improve quality,” according to a statement from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. More than 150 chains with 42,000 American locations were participating in the Kids Live Well program by 2015. According to the Kids LiveWell website, the July 2011 launch of the program included 19 restaurant

chains. The study also found that sugary drinks still made up 80 percent of children’s beverage options in 2015, which Roberto said is “concerning.” She added that even though some kids’ menus removed soda, they replaced them with equally sugary drinks. “A lot of kids’ parents know soda is not healthy for their kids, but they might have actually thought these other kinds of drinks like sports drinks, ice teas, lemonades or juices are healthy, when in fact they often have as much sugar often times as soda. It’s not enough to just take soda off the menu.” She said she hopes to see more significant improvements in the future. “As public health researchers, what we like to see is some more substantial, significant improvements, and some more commitment to really make a difference,” she said.

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Sugary drinks still make up 80 percent of beverage options in children’s menus. Sodas have been replaced with equally sugary drinks.

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Former Baltimore mayor criticizes Trump at Penn

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Tired of Rotten Tomatoes? Then you should check out The Moviegoer, Penn’s student-run film criticism blog. Sponsored by the Kelly Writers House, the site not only offers analyses, reviews and previews of films, but also of TV shows and visual albums. The Moviegoer was founded in fall 2015 by College senior Brad Pettigrew, a “disillusioned” mathematics major who found his passion in writing about film. The organization has grown from a small group of film writers to a staff of 30 writers, editors and marketing staff. “It takes a village,” Pettigrew said. Knowing that students can easily look at Rotten Tomatoes or other movie sites for reviews, The Moviegoer also publishes articles focusing on issues portrayed in film, film history and the interconnected relationship of media. “This past semester, we’ve tried to take a shift towards more think pieces that are more unique and specialized,” said College junior Ritwik Bhatia, the head of press outreach for The Moviegoer. Content published on the site includes film comparisons, genre histories, controversies, reviews of TV shows, a series of articles on visual albums such as Frank Ocean’s “Endless,” interviews with directors and podcasts. “We like to work a lot in the intersection of our audiences’ different interests,” Pettigrew said. Recently, The Moviegoer has been sending its writers to

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, the former mayor of Baltimore, excoriated President Donald Trump during a visit to Penn Tuesday. Rawlings-Blake, who currently is president of The United States Conference of Mayors and secretary of the Democratic National Committee, spoke to students in “Urban Communication,” an undergraduate communication course. The conversation she had with the class was off-the-record, but Rawlings-Blake also spoke to The Daily Pennsylvanian about her triumphs and challenges, as well as her concerns about the Trump administration. “I think we have lost our moral standing in the world and he continues to erode it every single time he opens his mouth,” she said. “In our country, we have had our challenges, but we had a lot to be proud of — and reverence for the people who take high positions of power has been one of them.” “There’s nothing to revere with Trump,” Rawlings-Blake added. “It makes me sad not only for our country, but for our kids.” Rawlings-Blake was thrust into the political spotlight when she assumed the mayorship of Baltimore at only 39-yearsold, following the conviction of Mayor Sheila Dixon for embezzlement in 2009. Her role in managing the unrest in Baltimore in 2015 following the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray put national scrutiny on Rawlings-Blake once again. Rawlings-Blake said her decision to have Republican Gov. Larry Hogan send the National Guard to Baltimore “was

Student-run film criticism blog was founded in 2015

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Founded by College senior Brad Pettigrew, The Moviegoer is a student-run resource for film, TV and visual album criticism.

film festivals to review movies as they premiere. Bhatia works with distribution companies around Philadelphia to secure press passes for these events. At the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2016, Bhatia got to interview Ricky Gervais on the red carpet. “He’s like my favorite comedian,” Bhatia said. “So it was a dream come true.” E ng i n e e r i ng f r e sh m a n Morgan Herrmann wrote a 10part series reviewing HBO’s “Westworld” and markets the publication on social media. She created an Instagram account for fans of “Westworld” and got 41,000 followers, which she then linked to The Moviegoer site to get more views. Pettigrew said The Moviegoer has about 800 active monthly users, half of whom are in Philadelphia. Most of these viewers are affiliated with Penn, but some are from Temple University and Drexel University as well. The publication is

completely online, allowing its writers to publish without any time restrictions. “If there’s a film that comes out, or a film controversy that comes out, we can cover that pretty quickly,” Pettigrew said. Members of the club are constantly in contact with one another through an active group chat. They meet once a week and have various movie nights. “Everyone in the club is really passionate about it. So it makes it really easy to bond … or fight. We sometimes have very diverging views on films, which is cool,” College senior and writer for The Moviegoer Elvire Audi said. With a predominantly senior staff, The Moviegoer is working to recruit more writers to keep the publication going beyond this year. “I think there is really something special about it, and I hope to continue making that something special grow,” Pettigrew added.

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difficult for a number of reasons.” “They don’t have a non-lethal response,” she said, calling to mind the National Guard’s last time in Baltimore, when they were ordered by a Republican governor to “shoot to kill,” in order to stifle riots in 1968 following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “If you throw a rock, or a brick at them, you’re going to get shot,” she said. “I knew the potential volatility of bringing them in. But I worked to push back against a heavily militaristic response.” “I also knew, at the time, that we were dealing with kids,” she added. “From what I could see,” she said, Hogan “had one tool, which was a hammer, and everything looked like a nail.” But despite her criticism of him for Hogan’s militaristic response to unrest, some Penn students think the mayor was too hard-lined in her response as well. “I remember during the riots she said some really problematic

things,” College sophomore Shanzeh Haque, a Baltimore native, said. “First she called them ‘thugs,’ and then she basically insinuated that property was more important than black bodies or black lives,” Haque said. “As mayor of Baltimore, she had to stand up against what happened to Freddie Gray … and she didn’t.” But Haque also said she considers Rawlings-Blake an inspiration. “As a black female, she was such an inspiration to so many little girls in Baltimore,” Haque said. “To see this black [woman] take on such an important role in our city is incredible.” Desiree Peterkin Bell, who teaches “Urban Communication,” agreed. “Young black women oftentimes don’t have leaders who look like them. They don’t have someone to aspire to,” Peterkin Bell said. “But in this generation, we have a whole new breed of women who are defining their own paths, and Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is one of them.”

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With every choice of commencement speaker comes another chance for a university to empower some important speaker to fulfill the school’s final instructional function: shepherding a student’s transition into graduate by shaping and challenging their intellectual beliefs. In selecting Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) to address the Class of 2017, Penn shocked no one by continuing a trend of having unabashedly liberal public figures preach to a very sympathetic audience. Look at the past five commencement speakers: Booker, Broadway mastermind Lin-Manuel Miranda, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, singer and 1999 College graduate John Legend and former Vice President Joe Biden. Not since 2010, when 1987 College graduate Jon Huntsman, Jr. spoke, has anyone with even moderately conservative views addressed Penn graduates at commencement. This pattern hasn’t gone

unnoticed. At a Feb. 1 University Council meeting, College Republicans representative Michael Moroz, a College and Wharton freshman, noted the “very little ideological diversity” between Penn’s past five commencement speaker. These choices threaten “to alienate students who hold reasonable but different beliefs from many on this campus.” While we would not champion any University effort to praise President Donald Trump, it hardly makes sense to exclude the viewpoints of half the country — and of the party that controls two branches of our national government — from schoolsponsored discourse. While previous speakers have included former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), it doesn’t take much creative thinking to see which types of speakers Penn prefers. While Gutmann kept a stately silence during Trump’s campaign,

she spares no praise for Biden, whom the school just welcomed back as a professor. Calling Biden “one of the greatest statesmen of our times,” Gutmann said he

policies, the University as an institution does not advertise itself that way. Penn properly and routinely declines to weigh in on partisan political questions — including elections — repeating that

… beyond its potential to contribute to an apparent pattern of ideological favoritism which threatens to alienate conservative students, the choice of Booker is unfortunate in its intellectual opportunity cost.” “has demonstrated a unique capacity to bring people together across divides and to craft constructive responses to some of the toughest and most important policy challenges of our day.” While it’s no shock that Penn students remain solidly liberal and averse to Trump’s

Penn cannot and does not take such stances. Only when Trump released an executive order temporarily barring immigrants from seven majorityMuslim countries did Gutmann publicly mention his name. To a conservative student,

it would be reasonable to assume that Penn has prioritized the concerns and requests of its liberal students. The selection of a highly partisan standing Democratic senator only reinforces this notion and isolates students who don’t subscribe to Booker’s brand of politics. Rather than challenging ideas on campus, Penn has simply catered to the vast majority of its students. We do not contest that Booker is qualified — or even, considered purely on his own merits, appropriate — for the job. But beyond its potential to contribute to an apparent pattern of ideological favoritism that threatens to alienate conservative students, the choice of Senator Booker is unfortunate in its intellectual opportunity cost. Commencement should, in our view, aim to broaden the horizons of departing students one last time – to be one last lesson before graduates leave the academic sphere. It should, like any good lecture, provide us with a

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new perspective and teach us something we do not know. Booker is influential, intelligent and widely admired – true – but he simply does not bring to the graduation table much that is unfamiliar. Ask nine out of 10 graduating seniors to describe their views on politics, and you would likely hear a perspective and platform not far removed from Booker’s own. In a time when the world of highly educated elites into which the Class of 2017 will be graduating is reeling from the consequences of its failure to see beyond its own insulated horizons, the choice of a speaker who serves more as echo than herald is particularly inopportune. We do not ask for what has been decided to be undone, so we welcome Booker and hope that he will defy our expectations. In the future, however, we would like to see a roster of commencement speakers who align more closely with the high ideals of education and the unending struggle against our own self-polarization.

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Unboxing Black history: the white moderate

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In my opinion, the most powerful quote of Martin Luther King Jr. is perhaps his most overlooked. It is a central theme in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” describing his conflict and bewilderment with the “white moderate.” He described the white moderate as one who is “more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action.” As I study the history of protests by black students in response to racism on campus, it pains me to say that the white moderate is woven into the fabric of the history of students at Penn. Let’s throw things back to 1979, when several members of Kappa Sigma fraternity wore KKK robes to a Halloween costume party. It is worth mentioning that campus tensions over racism within Kappa Sigma

had already been brewing, as brothers had wrongly accused a black Penn administrator of stealing one of their bikes while threatening him with a crutch. This chain of incidents led to a protest by 75 black students on campus that ended on College Green. Russell Brooks, chairman of the Black Student League at the time, stated that “the blatantly insensitive act by this fraternity has helped to illustrate the larger issue, which is the racist atmosphere which pervades our campus … ” When a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity was asked to comment on the incident, he refused to do so after the protest, stating the fraternity wanted to “stay clear” of the incident. The University then revoked university recognition of Kappa Sigma, just to reverse the decision two and a half months later after students called the punishment “unfair.” Just two years later in 1981, W.E.B. DuBois House receptionist Jackie Brown received at least

eight threatening phone calls from someone who asked her if she “liked dead n*****s.” In response, a protest organized by the Vice Provost for University Life, approximately 1,000 students, faculty members and administrators occurred

book. The photo showed the brothers, most of whom are white, unashamedly smiling for a holiday photo with a dark-skinned blow-up doll. It is worth mentioning that behind the brothers in the photo, two Confederate generals are framed on shelves

Allyship is not found in those who wear a safety pin, but in those who dedicate their efforts towards diminishing the inequities that cause protests in the first place.” at DuBois, as they linked arms and sang “We Shall Overcome.” Just as the Civil Rights movement did not end in the 1980s, neither did racism on Penn’s campus. In December 2014, a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity posted an extremely insensitive photo on Face-

in the room the picture was taken in. As a response, Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation transformed Locust Walk into a slave auctioning block in front of Phi Delt. During this protest, Victoria Ford read a poem entitled “Sally Speaks to Tom about their Daughter

Beyoncé,” which was read over 20 times. This poem was not mentioned or published in the DP; however, a guest column by students Dillon Weber and Aidan McConnell went on to call SOUL’s protest a damage to “the environment for debate” and a competition to see “who could shout the loudest and make the most talked about demonstration.” By doing so, Weber and McConnell seemed to be more concerned with the protest SOUL had regarding the racism of Phi Delt more than racism itself. MLK said it best: When it comes to solidarity, “lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.” A central theme that is found far too often throughout our history is that Penn students are more concerned with how black students react to racism, rather than the racism itself. When I research op-eds and student responses during racially tense periods of time on campus, I see many critiques of how black stu-

CALVARY ROGERS dents protest, yet barely any critique of the racism we experience on campus. If we never put in the work to help black students on campus deal with racism, yet find ourselves often critiquing the way they respond to it, we must examine what our intentions truly are. Allyship is not found in those who wear a safety pin, but in those who dedicate their efforts towards diminishing the inequities that cause protests in the first place. CALVARY ROGERS is a College sophomore from Rochester, N.Y., studying political science. His email address is calvary@ sas.upenn.edu. “Cal’s Corner” usually appears ever y Wednesday

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Ira Harkavy is the founding director of the Netter Center MADDIE VAZIRI Contributing Reporter

During his undergraduate years at Penn in the 1960s, Ira Harkavy protested the University’s treatment of the West Philadelphia community. Now, as the associate vice president and founding director of the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships, he continues that mission, most recently in an article in the American Journal of Public Health. His article, “Engaging Urban Universities as Anchor Institutions for Health Equity,” says that more needs to be done to address poverty, race relations and health in “communities in the shadows of powerful, relatively wealthy urban universities.” “There is no greater problem than the condition of our cities,” he said in an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian. Echoing philosopher and educational reformer John Dewey, Harkavy said “democracy must begin at home, and its home is the truly engaged neighborly university and its local community partners.” The most effective institutions to improve communities, Harkavy maintains, are “eds and meds.” Philadelphia, he says, as a hub for both universities and hospitals, holds great potential to engage positively with local communities. The article contends that government must also play a role in facilitating this action. Harkavy writes this support should be based on the “Noah principle,” under which funding is given for producing change — not just identifying problems. He said this is a “more effective utilization of government resources.” Harkavy contrasted the relationship between Penn and West

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Ira Harkavy, the associate vice president the Netter Center, noted the improved relationship between Penn and the Phila. community.

Philadelphia during his undergraduate years when there was “overt conflict” to the improved condition of this relationship now, a change he says he is proud of. Harkavy added to his praise, calling Penn the national leader in university engagement with local communities, but added that there is still a long way to go. He cited Academically Based Community Service courses and economic inclusion initiatives as positive advancements. Harkavy has taught a facultystudent collaborative action seminar in urban-community relations since 1985 and said he “learns from students all the time.” Students in his course study urban problems and design solutions to achieve active results. He said he sees his students as “notable for their idealism.” College freshman Grace Hylinski volunteered in West Philadelphia, and said she found it valuable. “It’s been one of my favorite things because I’ve ventured

away from a privileged life at Penn and gotten to help shape how the youth of our city are being raised both in the classroom and as people,” she said. “To not use our talents to give back is a detriment to society,” she added. Despite his dedication to inspiring civic engagement, Harkavy would not recommend a service requirement for undergraduate Penn students because “to do this work you have to be committed.” Instead, he said he would rather “raise the expectation of what it means to be a Penn student.”

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Biden’s farewell ceremony, wher e for mer P r esid ent Barack Obama surprised him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Biden spoke after he received the medal, addressing Gutmann directly. “I keep seeing people I don’t expect. Madame President [Amy Gutmann], how are you?” he asked, adding, “Mr. President, look at my new boss over there.” “At Penn, I look forward to building on the work that has been a central pillar of my career in public office: promoting and protecting the post-WWII international order that keeps the United States safe and strong,” Biden said in a statement. “The Penn Biden Center and I will be engaging with Penn’s wonderful students while partnering with its eminent faculty and global centers to convene world leaders, develop and advance smart policy, and impact the national debate about how

America can continue to lead in the 21st Century.” Biden’s post-White House life won’t be restricted to just Penn, however. A statement from the University of Delaware announced that he will serve as the “founding chair” of the school’s Biden Institute, “a new research and policy center focused on developing public policy solutions on issues ranging from economic reform and environmental sustainability to civil rights, crim inal justice, women’s rights and more.” Biden, a 1965 graduate from the University of Delaware, has spoken at the school’s Com mencement ceremony four times. His wife, Jill Biden, also earned her bachelor’s and doctorate degrees there. Despite not attending Penn, Biden has had a close relationship with the University since the 1970s. He has frequently returned to campus for lectures and events, serving as the commencement speaker in 2013. Various members of Biden’s

family have attended Penn, including his daughter, 2010 Social Policy and Practice graduate Ashley Biden and late son, 1991 College graduate Beau Biden. The former vice president’s granddaughter, Naomi, graduated from the College in 2016. Beau’s death in 2015 from brain cancer prompted Biden to announce his “Cancer Moonshoot ” in itiative in a roundtable discussion at Pen n’s Abra mson Ca ncer Center in January 2016. Campus has been buzzing with enthusiasm over Biden’s likely move to Philadelphia since the rumors began circulating in December of his involvement with Penn. Biden had previously been swarmed with students asking for photographs when he made a surprise visit to University City on election day. Biden was a senator from Delaware for 36 years. He was well known for commuting to D.C. on Amtrak daily before he moved into the city fulltime when he was elected vice president.

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Badami said. “Anyone from a Muslim country is getting stopped.” Penn’s administration reacted immediately to the immigration ban with an email assuring support for any students affected by the order, but some students felt that the contents of the email lacked details on how the University would support them. “The first time they sent an email about it I emailed them back and I said, ‘This statement is very vague,’” Wharton freshman Ghali Benlafkih said. “I said, ‘I need you guys to step it up and say something condemning the executive order’ — instead of being like ‘Oh this is what happened. We’ll help you guys out.’” Benlafkih said he was among

many students and student organizations that requested the administration take a stronger stand against the immigration ban, agreeing that the administration was very responsive and sensitive to the students’ needs and grievances, acting quickly to revise the stance they had taken. “They took all the recommendations. They understood the grievance,” Badami said. “They came out publicly in University Council and made a statement reflecting that they understand that. They found they weren’t doing enough and rectified it.” Following the administration’s email, Penn President Amy Gutmann gave a speech on College Green condemning the president’s executive order. Her personal response to the situation was wellreceived by students, who saw this

as an indication of the degree of Penn’s commitment to its students. “It just showed that they cared about this issue enough that they brought out the highest person in the university hierarchy to speak about this,” Lahdo said. “They sent out the president of the university to speak about this, which I think is a powerful statement.” Students still remain uncertain about the future of those impacted by the ban. Many are unsure as to whether they can go home for spring break or over the summer. “A lot of people are too scared to leave for summer,” Badami said. “I think the safe choice is to stay in the country at least until the 90-day period is over, or at least until we’ve seen people come in and out without an issue.”

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concerns. The petition has so far gained over 1,000 signatures from students at Yale, Drexel University, Harvard University, University of California at Berkeley and other schools. “For many of us, Asian American Studies is our first opportunity to realize the power of our voice, the richness of our history and take pride in our race and culture,” Gao said during the protest. “Without ASAM, the legacies of key Asian American figures like Yuri Kochiyama, Grace Lee Boggs and Vincent Chin would not be preserved.” “We would not remember the gross injustices this country has committed against Asian Pacific Islanders in the past,” Gao added. The struggle to keep the Asian American Studies Program alive and growing is not a new issue. In fact, a handful of the posters used during Monday’s protests were reminiscent of some used during a similar protest a decade

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ago. Implemented in 1996, the program has had a history of decreased funding and lack of growth, Nursing graduate student and chair of ASAM UAB Christian Perucho said. “Ever since the program’s inception … all of the things that the Asian American Studies Program has, none of it was ever given to us. We had to fight for all of it,” Perucho said. “It’s a gross irony because we are celebrating our 20th anniversary this year but it’s sad that we have to [protest] ever single decade...always having to keep fighting for the same thing.” According to Perucho, the administration did not reach out to Kao upon hearing that she received an offer to teach at Yale until a month later. “The administration didn’t try to actively negotiate with her until the end,” Perucho said. “The fact that they care so little that they just let a faculty member slip away, is huge.” Fluharty responded to the ASAM UAB’s demands in an

email, writing that “Penn will continue our strong commitment to the Asian American Studies Program” and asking for feedback in how best support the program. Fluharty, however, only responded after being contacted by the UAB three times since Dec. 23. In a written statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian, Fluharty said that he was slow to respond to Perucho’s emails due to the holidays and travel schedule as Dean. “The departure of Grace Kao is a significant loss of a distinguished scholar and teacher, not just in Asian American Studies, but also the Sociology department and the Graduate School of Education,” Fluharty said. “I am not able to discuss confidential personnel matters, other than to say that Arts and Sciences did work to keep professor Kao at Penn.” In his last email to Perucho, Fluharty said that he “welcomed the opportunity to meet with [Perucho] and the [ASAM UAB] to discuss the future of this important program.”

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The NFL Hall of Fame snubbing Terrell Owens again is a joke THOMAS MUNSON

Terrell Owens is hands down one of the greatest wide receivers in NFL history. Yet, for the second straight year, he has failed to be enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The fact that less than the 80 percent of the 48-person selection committee voted to induct him yet again is a joke. A third-round of pick out of UT-Chattanooga, Owens emerged from under the radar to begin his illustrious career. For 15 seasons, he would go on to torment opposing defensive backs. His elite pass catching ability, coupled with memorable touchdown celebrations, made him a staple of sports highlight shows. “T.O.” consistently performed as well as anyone in his generation, earning five first-team All-pro selections during his tenure in the league. Perhaps his most notable

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performance was in Super Bowl XXXIX, when he hauled in 9 receptions for 122 yards despite suffering a sprained ankle and broken fibula only weeks before. Even though his herculean effort was not enough to deliver the Eagles their first Super Bowl title, the fact

that he played, and excelled, under such circumstances was met with amazement. His excellence, durability, and reliability allowed him to accumulate the second most receiving yards and third most receiving touchdowns in NFL history. While it’s

fair to point out that passing statistics have become inflated in recent seasons, Owens’ accolades are still incredible because of how they rank against his peers. Only 49ers legend Jerry Rice has more career receiving yards, and Rice and Randy Moss are the only two receivers to catch more touchdowns. In both categories he significantly outpaces Marvin Harrison, a contemporary who has already been enshrined in Canton. But, despite the numbers, and testimonials, Owens yet again was not awarded the golden jacket that he certainly deserves. So why keep Owens out? He never cheated. He never took performance-enhancing drugs. He has never been accused of a serious crime, and he has certainly never been convicted of one. The only plausible explanation for Owens’ lack of induction is his relationship with the media and some of

his former coaches and teammates. His behavior on the field at times was questionable, even childish. He was famous for using props to celebrate his acrobatic scores, once pulling a sharpie out of his sock to sign a football after a touchdown. Many ridiculed these antics, and the NFL leveled many fines on him. But his celebrations added excitement to the game and didn’t undermine his playmaking abilities. Where criticism of Owens is fair is in regards to his public statements about teammates and team management. He famously held a workout in his driveway while holding out from Philadelphia Eagles training camp in 2005. Additionally, during his time with the Eagles, he took multiple public jabs at star quarterback Donovan McNabb, commentating on his performance as well as his fitness.

These comments ultimately got him suspended from the team and then eventually released. Undoubtedly, his remarks cost himself money and the team wins. Still, despite these distractions, Owens always performed on the field. Only Randy Moss challenges him as the greatest receiver of his generation. That, combined with his traditional stats, is more than enough to earn him a spot in the Hall of Fame. Was T.O. an ass? No doubt. But at many times it was his selfishness and tremendous will that allowed him to excel on the field. He belongs in Canton. To deny him that honor is nothing short of petty. THOMAS MUNSON is a College junior from, New York City, N.Y., and is a senior sports reporter of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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Long a stalwart of Penn wrestling, fifth-year senior and 165-pounder Brooks Martino made his return to the Red and Blue on January 8th after a semester off from the team. Since returning to the mat with a commanding 12-0 win against Princeton freshman 165-pounder Riley DeMoss, Martino has not disappointed, going 4-2 in dual meets. That also includes an upset victory against Stanford senior Keaton Subjeck, ranked eighteenth in the country in the 165-pound weight class, that helped Penn take down the No. 17 Cardinal. Yet, despite his standout performance over the past month, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not enough for Martino. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have a couple of losses, so I wouldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve liked to have those turn out the other way,â&#x20AC;? Martino said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were certainly winnable â&#x20AC;&#x201D; if I had won them, then I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have anything bad to say.â&#x20AC;? Since he missed his entire sophomore season with a knee injury, Martino had enough eligibility

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downtown. They didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep up the mind-boggling efficiency of the first half, but they kept making enough baskets to extend their lead all the way out to 18 with ten minutes left. The only way Penn could have competed down the stretch was to match them shot for shot, and Princeton did not make that possible. The home team didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lead at all the game since shortly after the first media timeout, which came with the Red and Blue up 8-5. The Quakers couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t inject a high pace into their offense despite their hard work, largely because of the Tigersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ability to lock down the game into a half-court system. Penn barely scored any points in transition all game long, a problem Donahue

for another season of competition at the collegiate level after completing his fourth year at Penn last year. Since the biology major still needed a few more credits to graduate, Martino seized the opportunity to be able to compete for one more season. However, Martino only required one semester to complete these credits, so due to the minutiae of athletic eligibility rules, he would only be able to compete on the team for one semester. For Martino, who received a taste of the NCAA Championships â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the pinnacle of collegiate wrestling competition â&#x20AC;&#x201D; during his junior year, the choice was obvious. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With us being a winter sport, our championship season is in March, so it made sense to be able to take my remaining classes in the spring and compete in that part of the season,â&#x20AC;? Martino said. While he waited to officially rejoin the team in the fall, Martino remained around campus. The aspiring doctor spent his time off from school conducting biology research and shadowing a pediatric orthopedist at the Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital of Philadelphia. Martino also kept his skills on the mat sharp by taking advantage

of the Penn Regional Training Center, the two-year-old Olympic training center co-hosted at Penn and Drexelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wrestling facilities and headed by Olympic gold medalist and former Penn wrestler Brandon Slay. Martino was able to train with his Penn teammates that also qualified to work with the PRTC in addition to four full-time wrestlers hoping to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Individually, Martino also took the time to continue to improve his general fitness by running and lifting, in addition to learning more about wrestling itself. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more time to lift when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not competing because you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to make weight, so you can concentrate on lifting more. You can spectate the sport a little more,â&#x20AC;? Martino said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was also running in the city, doing the Rocky Steps. ... Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big city â&#x20AC;&#x201D; there are tons of places to get a good and impromptu workout in.â&#x20AC;? As such, Martinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s training and presence around the team during the fall semester made for a smooth return once he was finally eligible to officially join the Quakers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a pretty smooth transition with him being in Philadelphia and training with the

thought contributed to the loss. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think they did a good job of their awareness in transition... we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really get any good looks in transition,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;?[Their defense] takes more of the shot clock, and you need more time to execute. Their ability to guard you that long, and all five of their guys handling the ball well, making shots, I thought that was the difference in the game.â&#x20AC;? At 0-6, Penn remains firmly rooted to the bottom of the Ivy League. Things havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t gotten going for the Quakers in conference play, and with a young team, the opportunity stands now to go back to the drawing board and work on the fundamentals. In particular, Donahue singled out mentality as a key issue with his team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mental toughness â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Princeton has it. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to get it. That had

a lot to do with this game.â&#x20AC;? Tuesday was just the third in a stretch of five Ivy League games in nine days. All three have been losses, with two coming by double digits, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to see them turning things around. But Donahue remained adamant that their season isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t over. Pointing to Harvard last year, he highlighted that the Crimson started out 1-5 and then 2-7 before heating up down the stretch to finish fourth. If his players could just get their first win, he thought, the monkey would be off their backs, and they could finally work towards finishing in the top four to make the inaugural Ivy League Tournament in March. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to get to work right away â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the next test is on Friday with a challenge from fourth-place Columbia at hand.

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PRINCETON 64 49 PENN

Two Princeton games perfectly sum up season JONATHAN POLLACK

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rock bottom in rivalry loss WILL SNOW Senior Sports Editor

If when it rains, it pours, then there was a monsoon at the Palestra on Tuesday night. Penn men’s basketball fell to its archnemesis Princeton, 64-49, in a high-stakes rivalry match that kept the Quakers rooted to the bottom of the Ivy League and solidified the Tigers’ grip at the top. Despite the packed crowd at the Palestra there to celebrate the Cathedral of College Basketball’s 90th birthday, there was no celebration for Penn (7-12, 0-6 Ivy) and its players’ hopes of topping their fiercest rivals (13-6, 6-0) in

the first match between the two during the school year since 2012. As with the first matchup between the two teams in January, the Tigers outshot their foe by a substantial margin. In particular, the visitors’ shooting from behind the arc was noteworthy. When the two teams left the court for the half, it didn’t look pretty for the hosts. Down 39-27, the Quakers had fallen victim to a shooting spree rarely seen in the league — Princeton made 65 percent of its three-pointers in the first half to earn 27 points from deep,

equal to Penn’s overall total. “I thought we challenged a lot of those early ones [three-pointers] but they got some bounces, the ball started going in,” coach Steve Donahue said. “And it got contagious for them. They shot the heck out of it.” The trend couldn’t continue. Shooting so efficiently was unsustainable; surely even Princeton coach Mitch Henderson knew that. Yet the Tigers came out in the second half and kept on shooting from SEE RECAP PAGE 8

I went to both Penn-Princeton men’s basketball games this year, and they tell the story of our team’s season. They tell the story of a team that had the ability to hang with the best of the league, but just couldn’t put it all together. They tell the story of a squad that had ample opportunities to earn their way back into competition, but faltered when it mattered most. The tell the story of a team that couldn’t correct their flaws, and continued to make the same mistakes. In both games, Penn (7-12, 0-6 Ivy) came out of the gate far too slowly, and Princeton (13-6, 6-0) jumped out to a big first-half lead. Then, in the second half, the Quakers struggled on offense for an extended period of time, letting the Tigers pull out of reach. Each time, Princeton outperformed the Red and Blue in a key area. Last time, the Tigers shot 86 percent from the charity stripe, and on Tuesday it was a 48 percent mark from downtown that seemed like it was closer to 80 percent. There were a lot of the same mistakes too. Bad passes and giveaways ended far too many Quaker possessions, and gave the Tigers opportunities to pile up points. They couldn’t make their free throws, and they committed too many pointless fouls. Both AJ Brodeur and Matt Howard came up small, and failed to contribute their usual share of points. These aren’t isolated incidents just seen in these two games however. All Ivy season long, the Quakers have come up just short several times for just these reasons. Their inability to work on their flaws and learn from their mistakes converted would-be wins to losses, and those losses kept adding up. There were a couple of key differences between the two though. This time around, there was no big second half comeback for Penn. The Quakers were dominated for the entirety of the game, and each time they started to mount some semblance of a comeback, Princeton snuffed it out with a barrage of threes. But more importantly, the hope and energy that the Red and Blue started the season with just wasn’t there tonight. The Quakers had plenty of fight in them a month ago at Princeton, storming back from down 21 to tie the game at one point. However, at this point in their season, the Quakers are battered, beaten down, and it showed. There was none of that urgency, and Penn looked defeated for much of the game. Penn’s lack of success in Ivy play is to blame for that, and the mental and physical effects that losses like these produce certainly take their toll. If the Quakers had been able to right the ship on a few of those key issues, perhaps the season would have gone a little differently. But continuing to be done in by the same flaws led them to disappointment. While the Quakers couldn’t muster up the gumption for a real second half run, Princeton kept piling it on. Shot after shot fell from beyond the arc, and each one took a little more away from whatever modicum of life was left from Penn’s season. The Quakers might have eight games left after this latest loss, but make no mistake: their season ended Tuesday night. JONATHAN POLLACK is a College sophomore from Stamford, Connecticut, and is sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at pollack@thedp.com.

Darnell Foreman leads lackluster Quakers in loss

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In the most highly-anticipated game of the year, Penn men’s basketball fell to archrival Princeton, 64-49, to keep the Quakers languishing at the bottom of the Ivy League. In his postgame press conference Tuesday night, coach Steve Donahue lamented that his players really didn’t play that badly — they just aren’t good enough at their current level. With that in mind, here are our player ratings from Penn’s loss to Princeton at the Palestra: STARTERS Darnell Foreman, G — 7.5/10 The junior guard was the best player for the Red and Blue, but it wasn’t an incredibly high bar to reach. Foreman was really the only one on his team who consistently strove to take the game by the scruff of its neck and make something out of it. The Camden, N.J. native scored

11 points and registered four assists, both team-highs. Jackson Donahue, G — 5/10 There has been a small amount of regression for Donahue from his freshman season to this one, and it showed against Princeton. He ran hard, but couldn’t quite seem to find himself open enough to ever get good looks. The sophomore shooter only put up five shots, including just two from deep — both of which he missed. He hasn’t been the go-to guy for the Quakers recently, and he wasn’t on Tuesday. Matt MacDonald, G — 3/10 Played less than half the time that any other starter did, and didn’t even put up a shot. His only mentions on the stat sheet were a foul, a turnover, an assist and a pair of rebounds. Matt Howard, G — 5/10 The senior set an example with his hard work, but there was no end product. For some reason, Howard was anonymous in the first game against Princeton this season, too — maybe the Tigers had him figured out in their film sessions. Didn’t

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score on the night, which was an anomaly. AJ Brodeur, F — 6/10 Penn’s “only hope” had a decent night, but he wasn’t the commanding presence fans were looking to see. Brodeur scored 10 points and brought down six boards, but also had four turnovers. It seems like every team’s first priority in the Ivy League is to shut him down, and Princeton managed to do that well enough. BENCH Max Rothschild — 6/10 Rothschild plays with a proactivity that this team sorely needs. He didn’t try to do too much, though, as his decisionmaking was prudent enough to know when he was beat. Scored six points, registered a teamhigh four assists and put in 22 good minutes for the Quakers. Sam Jones — 6/10 When the rest of the team struggled from three, Penn’s purest shooter came on and helped his teammates out, scoring 10 points on the night including a four-point play in the first half. Couldn’t get hot enough to counter the

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Aside from junior guard Darnell Foreman’s performance on Tuesday, there weren’t many bright spots — but freshman AJ Brodeur was another player who tried to get things going for the Red and Blue.

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