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Panhel adds new diversity position

There is no consensus on how eco-friendly Penn has been*

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VP will educate members of Greek life on race, gender and sexuality ESHA INDANI Staff Reporter

The Panhellenic Council has added a Vice President of Diversity position to its executive board after sorority members requested spaces and dialogues that deal with issues of diversity and inclusion.

College junior and Delta Delta Delta member Sesana Allen was appointed to the position after creating a diversity chair for her own sorority.

“If we educate members already in Greek life what is lacking in terms of diversity, they’ll feel like it’s a home within Greek life,” Allen said.

She added that she thinks diversity goes beyond a question of race, but it touches on gender and sexuality as well.

“So when I talk about diversity it’s important not to be only race,” Allen said. “There are a lot of different identifiers.”

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KELLY HEINZERLING Staff Reporter “We are sustainable,” the homepage of Penn’s newly constructed New College House dorm reads.

Yet Penn only ranks No. 37 for sustainability out of U.S. News’ Top 100 Colleges list, according to a report released by SaveOnEnergy earlier this month.

The ranking is based on a composite score that evaluates the walkability, green jobs, farmers’ markets and parks in the area, and reviews by the Department of Energy and The Princeton Review.

The ranking comes out 15 days before Penn’s annual “Power Down” challenge, which was unsuccessful in 2015 — the report found that over half of the participating college houses saw an increase in electricity usage. In 2016, the event was changed to stop being a competition between

the college houses, and Penn saw a 5.8 percent weather-normalized energy reduction.

“I think [the administration] has the right ideas, it’s just executing and implementing their intentions,” CoInternal Chair of Penn Vegan Society and College sophomore Farah Contractor said. “Recycling is actually pretty confusing and hard the way Penn does it. A lot of the recycling bins are not even big enough to put in your salad containers which discourages students from recycling.”

However, sustainability has always had a presence at Penn. The Philadelphia region’s first Earth Day traces its roots back to the University in 1970. Penn President Amy Gutmann signed the American College and University Climate Commitment in 2007, which required the SEE SUSTAINABILITY PAGE 2

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Wharton initiative provides public policy internships in D.C.

Penn’s financial aid does not currently work for everyone.”

- Taylor Becker

Positions offered in the White House and the Treasury Dept.

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Despite applications for public policy internships in Washington falling later in the spring semester, students are being increasingly drawn to D.C.

With a Penn alumnus in the White House, student interest in public policy is perhaps at an alltime high. For students who want to pursue a different internship path than traditional on-campus recruiting opportunities, the Penn Wharton

Public Policy Initiative is there to help.

PPI provides opportunities for students to get involved in public policy through summer internships in D.C. The initiative provides funding to students who receive an offer for unpaid internships in Washington.

Additionally, PPI brings speakers and advisors to campus and holds workshops to introduce students to SEE INTERNSHIPS PAGE 5

Penn Medicine has been developing a new Zika vaccine New Zika immunization does not use live viruses HALEY SUH Staff Reporter

The Zika virus may be mostly out of the news after its summertime peak, but Penn Medicine is still actively working to combat the spread of the disease.

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A new vaccine developed at Penn Medicine could provide long-term protection against the Zika virus with just a single, relatively low dose. The virus continues to affect 76 countries in Central and South America and the Caribbean, with isolated local transmission cases in Florida.

Unlike other vaccines currently being developed, this new immunization does

not use live viruses, which tend to cause adverse side effects and are not effective for those who have already been affected by the virus.

The new vaccines uses tiny strands of RNA that hold the genetic codes for making viral proteins that block Zika infection.

Drew Weissman, professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine

and senior author of the report on the new vaccine, said vaccines that require multiple doses are difficult to implement in areas with poor infrastructure.

“The population that you would immunize right now is across South America, and much of that is very poor regions without much infrastructure SEE ZIKA PAGE 5

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Panel compares modern immigration to WWII

The event was hosted by the Penn Hillel chapter BENJI DUKAS Contributing Reporter

A lthough ma ny A mer icans have protested President Donald Trump’s immigration ban, some protests come from a place of personal connection.

Jewish groups have invoked the memory of the restriction of Jewish immigration to the United States in the 1920s and 1930s, when millions of Jews died in the Holocaust.

On Monday night, Penn Hillel hosted a panel titled “Comparing the U.S. Policy During World War II and Today: Has Nothing Changed?” The panel was moderated by Hillel staff member Rabbi Yaakov Taubes and featured four Penn professors: History professors Beth Wenger and Benjamin Nathans, Ger man professor Liliane Weissberg of the German Department and Political Science

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completion of an inventory of the school’s greenhouse gas emissions, the purchase of at least 15 percent of electricity from renewable sources, a commitment that new construction be built to the U.S. Green Building Council LEED Silver standards and increased access to public transportation. In 2014, Penn launched the Climate Action Plan 2.0, which involved investing hundreds of millions of dollars in projects that spanned from remodeling the top 20 percent of campus buildings that have the highest energy use to increasing the number of zero-waste events on campus each year. “[Sustainability] has been a priority for the administration, even though it may not necessarily seem like it,” Eco-Rep Coordinator and College junior Jisoo Kim said. This past year, Green Campus Partnership revamped the student Eco-Rep program to become a more coordinated paid student internship.

Interestingly, on the same day the SaveOnEnergy report was released, the Environmental Protection Agency’s annual Green Power Partnership ranked Penn as the university with the third best annual green power usage — a far cry from 37th.

Environmental Sustainability Director Dan Garofalo, in an emailed statement to The Daily

professor Ian Lustick.

“Someone suggested that it might be interesting to have an event at Hillel discussing the parallels between the recent executive order and refugee policy in America during World War II,” former Hillel President and College senior Katie Hartman said. “Especially because that is something a lot of our students were maybe seeing on Facebook, or hearing the parallels, and wanted to know what the parallels actually are.”

The panelists, all of whom publish research related to Jewish history or Israel, spoke about current and historical refugee policies with a Jewish perspective. They noted that Jews throughout their history have been immigrants and refugees.

“The narrative of being strangers in a strange land is woven into the DNA of Jewish consciousness,” Nathans said.

The professors also discussed America’s historical

relationship with immigrants.

“Along with a nation that touts itself as a nation of immigrants comes a long history of fear of immigrants and immigrant exclusion,” Wenger said.

Lustick pointed out a similarity between the reasoning behind today’s ban and the ban against Jewish immigration during the 1930s.

“There can be a fear of Jews because ‘the Nazis have sprinkled some spies among them,’” he said. “And therefore we can’t let any of these men, women or children in because Nazi spies might come. And then the fear that among the Muslims could be terrorists, so we can’t take any of them. It’s the same argument, and it’s not an unusual argument.”

Comparing Nazi anti-Semitism and modern xenophobic trends, Nathans emphasized the seriousness of state adoption of discriminatory policies.

“That for me is the tipping point,” he said.

Pennsylvanian, noted that rankings done by “outside organizations” use “a variety of methodologies and data” while Penn is guided by the specific criteria put forth by the Climate Action Plan 2.0.

“I’m very grateful that we have the Penn sustainability office,” cochair of the Student Sustainability Association at Penn and College junior Johanna Matt said. She said she spoke not as a representative of SSAP, but as an individual.

She noted she believes that the University does more on the “infrastructure end” and ultimately “in some ways [the administration] is committed to being green, but in other ways they still don’t really consider it a priority.”

As for New College House, the University’s LEED Silver Certified building that claims sustainability in bold on their home page, Matt cites this building as a place where sustainability may not be as much of a priority as the University claims.

According to 2016 College graduate Elena Crouch, who was involved in focus groups during the construction of the dorm, designs did not leave enough room in the kitchen to put in a dishwasher, which is why all the plates and bowls are single-use.

“I was at a focus group before they built the dining hall,” Crouch said. “They just didn’t build enough space for a dishwasher … we were all really upset … but it couldn’t

be stopped. They already had this plan.” “[The Sustainability Office isn’t] happy about it for sure,” Kim said.

“They were trying their best as soon as they found out about it, but I think it was already too late.”

Director of Business Services and Hospitality Services of Penn Dining Pam Lampitt clarified that the building ended up installing a low volume, single-well dish machine.

“We have something called a bio bin [where the used plates are put],” Lampitt said. “The product that comes out of the bio bin actually goes to a farm to be used for compost … we’re being as sustainable as we can be given our situation.”

She added that a survey by Bon Appétit Management Company found that all products used by Penn Dining are recyclable except for five: chopsticks, napkins, straws, coffee stirrers and condiment packages. She said that signs at Penn Dining locations warn students to avoid using those products if they want to maintain sustainable practices.

As Penn continues to expand programs such as the Eco-Reps and build LEED Certified buildings, many remain optimistic about the future of sustainability at Penn.

“I see a lot of hope,” Matt said.

“A lot of people are kind of coming together and working in their own ways to make a better place, and it’s really beautiful.”

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History professor Benjamin Nathans, German professor Liliane Weissberg and Political Science professor Ian Lustick (pictured) led the retrospective discussion on Jewish immigration during World War II.

The panelists also discussed the differences between the political climates in Nazi Germany and the United States today. Weissberg spoke about how thousands of Americans have protested the recent ban in

ways the citizens of Germany did not protest Nazi policies.

American Jews in the 1930s feared that appearing to be too politically active could increase the prevalence of anti-Semitism, panelists said. When asked if

Jews should have the same fears today, Wenger said they should not refrain from political advocacy.

“I don’t think this is a time to step back,” she said. “I think it is a time to step forward.”

U. City startups are eligible for state tax credit program These tax credit program is a partnership between seven organizations.

WESLEY SHEKER Staff Reporter

University City continues to set the trend for innovation in Pennsylvania, with 36 companies receiving over $2 million in tax credits for profitable startups.

The 2016 Keystone Innovation Zone Tax Credits are $15 million in tax credits that are available to startup companies in cartain geographic areas throughout the state , called “Keystone Innovation Zones.” KIZs were originally created as part of former Gover nor E d Rendel l’s stimulus plan to encourage startup growth throughout Pennsylvania.

Eligible startups can receive a tax credit for up to half of the total increase in revenues from the previous year.

Senior manager for marketing and media relations at the University City Science Center Kristen Fitch

said that most of the startups don’t need these tax credits, so they can sell them instead at market value and use the money at their discretion to pursue new projects.

“Most of these companies do not have tax liabilities, so most of them are selling the tax credits. What’s unique about these tax credits is that once they sell it they can apply the money to anything they want at the company,” she said.

Fitch adm in isters the KIZ, and the University City Science Center provides resources and lab space for companies like Phelix Therapeutics, which received a KIZ tax credit for 2016 to pursue research that is not normally covered through the grants they receive.

“K I Z compa n ies a re using the tax credits for everything from research and development to hiring a new employee to buying new equipment,” she said. “The great part about the program is it provides flexibility to these companies.”

Specifically, K IZs are

designed around educational institutions to foster a startup environment. The University City KIZ is a partnership between Drexel University, Penn, Thomas Jefferson University, the University of the Sciences, the Wistar Institute, BioAdvance and the University City Science Center, which has Penn administrators serving on the board according to the Science Center website.

The success of University City companies at gaining nearly 15 percent of the total KIZ tax credits awarded in Pennsylvania ref lects the growing startup community within University City, which was recently named the ‘hottest tech submarket’ and continues to develop real estate to encourage startups.

University City Science Center spokesperson Jeanne Mell said,“I think it’s just one more tool in the Commonwealth’s ability to attract, retain, and foster startups.

Startups really help us develop a thriving and a vibrant economy, and we’re excited to do our part for it.”

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Amnesty Int’l director talks on political activism

Huang voiced concern with Trump’s policies

NATALIA SANCHEZ-NIGOLIAN Contributing Reporter

On Monday, students gathered in Perry World House for a discussion about the future of global and domestic human rights.

Executive Director of Amnest y I nter nationa l USA Ma rga ret Hua ng visite d Perry World House to speak about the importance of political activism and freedom of expression at an event organized by the International Affairs Association and the Penn chapter of Amnesty International. She stressed the impor tance of increasing support for human rights advocacy, particularly following the inauguration of President Donald Trump.

“Over the weekend, following the announcement of President Trump’s executive order banning Muslims from the country, our Twitter following went up by 3 million,” Huang said. “That is critical because the kind of information we are putting out there is how to take action and make a difference.”

College junior Madeleine Jacobs, president of the Penn chapter of Amnesty International and International Affairs Association vice director of academic affairs, also referenced controversy about Trump’s human rights policies.

“We started planning this event before the election, and it became even more relevant after Trump was elected,” she said.

Huang said she questioned the credibility of United States humanitarian interventions in light of controversy about American policy that may

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The executive director of Amnesty International USA was invited by the IAA and the Penn chapter of Amnesty International.

violate human rights principles. She also mentioned Trump’s comments regarding waterboarding.

“If we have a president that endorses waterboarding, why would any other country in the world oppose torture?” Huang said.

Speaking about comments the former Exxon Mobil CEO made during his confirmation hearings, Huang also criticized recently confirmed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

“We are one of the last remaining political opposition figures to President Putin, yet Russia was not rejected by the U.S. Secretary of State as [a country] that has human rights concerns that should be a focus for U.S. foreign policy,” she said.

She added that health care is a human rights issue, and that

Republican efforts to overturn Obamacare call into question the United States’ dedication to domestic human rights.

Wharton freshman Bizzy Vinton said she appreciated Huang’s discussion of “actionable steps” for human rights advocacy.

“I generally think of human rights as some far off legal issues that I can’t advocate for,” she said. “It was exciting to hear about ways that I can make a difference.”

While Huang said Amnesty International has a large body of support, including 1 million members in the United States, to support the organization’s action on human rights, she emphasized the importance of bringing further attention to human rights issues.

“While I am grateful that we have those numbers,” she said. “They are not enough.”

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College junior and Panhellenic President Caroline Ohlson said she thought it would be helpful to create a position that caters to students’ needs for an environment that allows them to explore gender, race and sexuality.

“I thought that it would be a good idea to make a position for it so that there was someone whose whole position on the council would be dedicated towards creating those spaces and those dialogues and promoting that within our community,” Ohlson said.

The Panhellenic Council had been considering creating the position since last semester and the executive board sent Allen an email asking if she was interested. Allen readily accepted the offer, because she said she felt that increasing discussion on diversity would heighten a sense of community within and between sororities.

Wharton freshman Wendy Lee accepted a bid from Chi Omega this spring, and said she appreciated Panhellenic’s decision to add the position, adding that she felt it showed the organization’s recognition of the importance of diversity in Greek life.

“It’s awesome that Panhellenic has introduced this new executive position, and that there will be someone dedicated to ensuring that sororities are representative of Penn at large,” Lee said.

Ohlson said the specific responsibilities for the role are not yet laid out, but that she hopes to see it evolve into a role that can best serve Penn’s Greek life community.

“I see it definitely as

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College junior and Tri-Delt member Sesana Allen, indicated that the new position recognizes that diversity is more than race.

something that will develop throughout the year. I don’t see it as a closed set of responsibilities at this point,” Ohlson said. “As things come up and we figure out how best this position can benefit the community, we will adapt it as it goes.”

Allen said she is hoping to start cultural competency workshops and has plans to collaborate with groups from the 5B, the Women’s Center and the LGBT Center. She said she also hopes to create a diversity chair position in all of the Panhellenic chapters.

“I will be reaching out to the chapter presidents and making a diversity chair position within

each sorority,” Allen said. “I think different sororities are very different, so making sure the position molds to the different chapters is very important.”

Ohlson added that she thinks this position enhances the Greek experience by allowing for a discussion of the “intersectionality” of female identities. “[The position] is part of an understanding of the kind of diversity of identities that already exists in our community,” Ohlson said. “I think that increasing dialogue so that women within the chapters feel like they can talk about all of the different parts of their identities is very important.”

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Unboxing Black history: Whom we remember CAL’S CORNER | How our standards of success undermine black historical figures

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This semester, I’ve done my best to be as attentive as possible when examining Penn culture, and researching black history at Penn has truly strengthened that attentiveness. As I researched the unsung black heroes of Penn, a serious question struck me: Whom do we remember and why?

One person who comes to mind is a woman by the name of Ida Elizabeth (Bowser) Asbury, who was a distinguished African American woman who worked as both a teacher and a musician in the 19th century. She was raised in Philadelphia, the daughter of renowned painter David Bustill Bowser and his wife Elizabeth Harriet Stevens Gray, who was a member of the Ladies’ Union Association of Philadelphia. Her great-grandfather was one of the founders of Philadelphia’s Free African Society and her ancestry can be traced to various ethnicities as it includes African American, English, Indian and Scottish forebearers.

Nonetheless, she began her course work at the University

of Pennsylvania in 1887. She went on to earn a Certificate of Proficiency in Music in 1890, which marked her as the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania.

Later in life, she joined the board of the Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons (later renamed the Stephen Smith Home) on 45th and Belmont Avenue. She went on to work as a violinist and teacher of music, eventually marrying John Cornelius Asbury, a politician, businessman, successful attorney and member of the Pennsylvania State Assembly among other organizations.

When reading her story, what shocked me most was not just how hard it was to find an extensive biography of her life, but also how much the work of her husband hid, and continues to hide, her own legacy and accomplishments. While reading about her life in the Almanac this past week, I was shocked to see that her husband’s biography overpowered hers in a section that was designed to solely honor her legacy.

“John Asbury was a successful attorney, business man, and politician; there was no need for Ida to work after their marriage,” reads the first sentence written in the Penn Archives. Such a quote sparked my interest in

believe Bowser’s history is often undermined by her husband because of Penn’s culture, which functions as a microcosm of American culture. As Penn culture has a narrow definition of success that doesn’t always extend

If we are to examine the history of blacks at the University of Pennsylvania, we must extend our research beyond just black successful people at Penn.” the work of overshadowed figures in Penn’s history, particularly those of African American descent.

So, whom do we remember and why? Ida Elizabeth (Bowser) Asbury is in the Penn archives because she was the first black woman to graduate from the University.

But is that where our remembrance of her stops? I firmly

itself to those who are otherwise deserving of it; who we define as successful is who we remember.

If we are to examine the history of blacks at the University of Pennsylvania, we must extend our research beyond just black successful people at Penn. While I am guilty of this as well, our definition of “success” more than

often undermines what someone has accomplished due to our obsession with quantifiable achievements.

I want to remember the first black woman that graduated from the school of music, even though her work and the racism she experienced getting that degree was overshadowed by her husband’s success. I want to remember the first black student at Penn that stood up to racism on campus, whether or not he or she graduated. I want to remember the first black faculty member that snuck food to black students from the “white-only” cafeterias they served. I want to remember every unsuccessful black student in the history of this campus because our experiences deserve recognition and we can all learn from them.

While it saddens me that the accomplishments of Asbury are overlooked because of her ongoing encounters with racism and sexism, I am also disheartened by just how much of her story is left untold because it is not triumphant enough to match the

CALVARY ROGERS criteria set by notable alumni at Penn.

Asbury’s experience as the first black woman to graduate from Penn briefly 30 years after the Civil War is a triumph in and of itself that deserves to be celebrated. Now more than ever it is imperative for us to understand that black history at Penn excels beyond our standards, from Ida Elizabeth (Bowser) Asbury to Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander.

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A recent article in The New York Times showed that the median family income for an undergraduate family at Penn is $195,500, placing the median Penn family in the 82nd percentile among U.S. families. The study also found that Penn has more students from the top 1 percent of household incomes than from the entire bottom 60 percent.

While this statistic may have been jarring, we did not need a lot of statistics to prove to us that there are a lot of wealthy people at Penn. The sea of designer jacket logos on Locust Walk, bottle service at downtowns and shockingly regular $50 dinner tabs provide ample evidence.

A majority of Penn students do not receive any financial aid — 47 percent got aid in 2015 — meaning the University has deemed that a majority of its undergraduate families can afford to pay nearly $300,000 for four years of education. Many of us do not have to worry about financial aid, and because of this, we may be unaware of inequitable policies in place.

However, it is important that

we talk about them if we ever hope to address them.

Penn’s financial aid policy is generous and comparable to our peer institutions with larger endowments and smaller student bodies, such as Harvard University and Yale University. Financial aid has grown significantly under President Gutmann’s administration, though the funding mechanism is murky.

As was discussed in the last Undergraduate Assembly general body meeting, it appears that around 70 percent of financial aid comes from tuition dollars. In other words, for every dollar that a Penn student receives in financial aid, 70 cents of that dollar is subsidized by fellow students. In short, it is unclear to what extent more generous aid simply means higher tuition prices.

The NYT article further shows that students from the bottom 20 percent of Americans make up only about 3 percent of Penn students.

This is a shame. A conversation for another time is how we can improve access for students from socio-economically disadvantaged back-

grounds. However, Penn has committed to providing generous aid for low-income students once they get here — if your family makes less than $40,000 you attend Penn absolutely free.

Despite this, Penn is not as great at making college affordable for students from middle income brackets. For instance, if a family makes

times, the student personally takes out loans for the entire amount, which in this scenario is about $50,000.

In addition, Penn’s financial aid policy is to consider a family’s income and assets, including home equity. That is to say, a family that has conscientiously paid down the mortgage on their home — perhaps forgoing new cars

We ought to care, and we ought to have conversations on how to create a more evenhanded application of Penn’s policies.” between $70,000-$99,999, Penn’s median grant is just under $57,000. With an annual cost of attendance of $70,000, this means that a family making $70,000 a year is expected to find somewhere around $13,000 — 20 percent of that family’s annual income — for educational expenses. Many

or family vacations to do so — will have this held against them in the aid process.

If you had two families, each making $100,000 a year, but one has paid down a significant portion of their home mortgage, while the other has instead decided to take out a loan for a new BMW and an annual condo

lease, you could expect Penn to grant more aid to the second family than the first. This does not seem intuitive, and disproportionately burdens those families who have been fiscally responsible.

The University might consider that the practical result of its policies may be that high-achieving middle and upper-middle class students are forced to choose between obtaining an Ivy League education that could saddle them with more than $50,000 of debt, and attending a less prestigious school which they could attend for free with merit scholarships or by living at home. If this be the case, the end result is that upper-income students will be there to fill the spots left by lower-income students who decide they cannot afford Penn.

There are some steps that can be taken towards fixing the gap. Penn can re-evaluate scholarship policies which do not allow merit scholarships to be applied to tuition beyond covering a student’s personal contribution. This disincentivizes students from applying for scholarships that could cover some part of

TAYLOR BECKER their family’s expected contribution. Why would a student spend the time applying if they know their family will not benefit from it? The administration can also end the policy of considering home equity and other basic assets which are often the earned byproducts of fiscal responsibility.

Penn’s financial aid does not currently work for everyone. We ought to care, and we ought to have conversations on how to create a more even-handed application of Penn’s policies.

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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the internship recruitment process.

“At this year’s workshop [with Career Services and the Penn Government and Politics Association], we actually had a higher turnout than last year,” PPI Managing Director Andrew Coopersmith said. “My sense is that students are really energized to better understand what is going on in D.C., and to have some involvement with it.”

Coopersmith believes that last year’s election, as contentious as it was, enlivened people’s interest in the country’s social and economic direction and how it might affect them.

“Students might have a different perspective on working in an Obama White House versus working in a Trump White House,” Coopersmith said, adding that Washington internship opportunities reach far beyond the White House.

According to Coopersmith, PPI supported 105 internships in

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D.C. last summer, ranging from positions at the White House and Treasury Department to internships at think tanks and other public policy research organizations.

D.C. internships have later application deadlines than prototypical Penn summer jobs.

“The timeline for recruitment in Washington has always been a spring semester affair, as far back as I can remember,” Coopersmith said.

Nursing junior Erin Hartman spent last summer interning at the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

Hartman applied to jobs at the end of February and beginning of March, and didn’t hear back until the end of April.

“You have to apply to many jobs in D.C. just to hear back from one or two if you’re lucky,” Hartman said.

Coopersmith is aware that this later timeline can deter students from pursuing internships in public policy, as students can be anxious to nail down their plans for the summer.

“Some terrific students get snapped up by investment banks and consulting firms in the fall,” Coopersmith said.

While many Penn students seek out jobs in the fall through OCR, Coopersmith said that the students who are truly interested in public policy understand that they must wait until the spring to map out their summers.

“It can be stressful for students who see some of their peers coming back from winter break knowing what they’re doing for the summer,” Coopersmith said.

“Once students understand that they’re not behind and it’s not that they’ve been remiss, but instead it’s just the timeline that D.C. works on, they feel more comfortable and ready to move forward.”

Hartman said she found her experience in D.C. extremely rewarding. Her projects included attending briefings and hearings on healthcare, analyzing legislation and predicting policy implications, as well as writing letters to cabinet members on women’s health issues.

Through PPI, she was given

a stipend that covered housing at Georgetown University, food and some extra cash for exploring D.C. Coopersmith believes there are several compelling arguments for pursuing an internship in public policy.

“Public policy affects our lives very directly,” Coopersmith said.

“It affects the functioning of our economy. It can affect someone’s ability to land the job that they want, or to have the social freedoms that they aspire to, and have their rights protected.”

Coopersmith said even if a student is thinking of going into a career in business, the public policy landscape will affect that business environment.

“I think more and more, students understand that public policy is everywhere.”

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Up to this point, the vaccine has been tested on lab mice and monkeys. Human clinical trials are expected to start within 12 to 18 months.

“The most important finding of this paper is that the vaccine is safe,” Norbert Pardi, research associate and co-author of the report, said. “We didn’t see any side effects after vaccination in

mice and monkeys.”

Pardi also noted that the vaccine is protective after a single immunization with a relatively small dose.

“This is very important … [that] there is long-term protection,” Pardi said. “Many times, the problem with vaccines is that we get some protection for a while but after months or years, you have to be vaccinated again.”

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Class Board of 2020 pledges to rectify freshman mug shortage The mugs were a surprise hit during December event KELLY HEINZERLING Staff Reporter

After starting off the year with some controversy, the Class Board of 2020 has faced both highs and lows after their first semester. One of their more ambitious projects was an event in December that they called the “12 Days of Giveaways,” in which the board gave away different free items every day for 12 days, like socks and laptop stickers.

Executive Vice President and College freshman Jason Kim said the board didn’t expect the “unprecedented” numbers from the

Class of 2020 during the giveaways. The underestimation led to a shortage of Class of 2020 coffee mugs on one of the days. The class board told students that everyone in line at New College House and the Quad where the giveaway was stationed would receive a free mug.

“The giveaways were a huge hit — everyone got a little too excited about them,” Class Board of 2020 President and Engineering and Wharton freshman Karim El Sewedy said.

College freshman Antonio Ramirez said he was next in line to receive a mug for 30 minutes but never did.

“I’m very upset about [the fact that I didn’t get a mug],” Ramirez

said. “I messaged them and they never really got back to me.”

The Class Board of 2020 Facebook page posted an update on Dec. 10 promising that those who were waiting in line would receive a mug. El Sewedy confirmed that the mugs were ordered two weeks ago and said that the board will follow through on delivering the mugs to everyone they promised.

“At first I was upset about not getting a mug, however the class board reassured those who didn’t get one that we would get it in the future,” College freshman George Costidis said. “I know that the class board has good people running it and it’ll come in a timely manner.”

Other students said they were never contacted afterwards and were not aware that another order had been placed.

“They told us we weren’t getting one, and we were all disappointed,” Engineering freshman Dominic Holmes said. “I submitted a one

star review on their Facebook page.”

Despite this hiccup, Undergraduate Assembly President and College senior Kat McKay remains confident in this board’s success.

“The Class of 2020 chose the right people that are really committed to their work on the class board and creating class unity and school spirit,” McKay said.

“We’re really ambitious,” El Sewedy said, citing the number of events the board has put on.

Looking to the future, Kim said the board wants to focus on the diversity and quality rather than the quantity of events. He said he wants to plan events that “not only have a social aspect, but also unite our students.”

Many freshmen said that the mug shortage did not affect the way they view the class board, and they were happy with the quantity and quality of events this year.

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Quakers were once again successful in 2016 season Quakers won Ivy title, made NCAA semifinals PAUL HARRYHILL Sports Reporter

On paper, it’s hard to imagine that Penn women’s lacrosse could have many gripes with its 2016 season. The Quakers were Ivy League co-Champions (the team’s ninth title in ten years), quarterfinalists in the NCAA Championships, and they had a plethora of individual award winners, including captain Nina Corcoran winning Ivy League Attacker of the Year and Karin Corbett winning Ivy League Coach of the Year.

For all they had, however, they

still wanted more.

For starters, this team did not want to lose to Dartmouth in the early stages of the Ivy League season.

The Quakers got out to a roaring start, with seven victories in the first nine games, including a 8-3 trouncing of Brown, but Dartmouth came prepared to stymie the Corcoran-led attack. In the end, the Red and Blue narrowly fell by the score of 10-9.

“We were much more athletic than Dartmouth, but they had a great game plan, and we really struggled with it,” coach Karin Corbett said. “That was a tough loss. We were the best team in the league.”

Despite the unpalatable nature of this early loss, it shifted the

mindset of the team in a positive way, and the team worked to make sure that there was “no question that we share [the title],” as Corbett put it.

The Quakers did not drop a game in the Ivy League after that, and this run of victories included a 10-6 win over Cornell and a decisive 12-7 triumph against Princeton — the same team that shared the Ivy League title with the Red and Blue. This didn’t sit too well with many of the players.

“We were obviously happy to have the title, but to share it with Princeton kind of stings,” senior Megan Kelly said.

Junior Alex Condon echoed this sentiment. When asked if that was the biggest regret of the 2016 season, Condon replied, “Yes, I

think so.”

After being crowned co-champions, the Quakers set their sights on the NCAA National Championship, and were seeded at No. 7 for the tournament. Wagner and Towson were the first two challengers, and the Red and Blue took care of them easily by scores of 17-7 and 12-4, respectively. The Quakers were then faced with Penn State, a competitor that coach Corbett felt the team had a “great opportunity” to defeat. Unfortunately, the offense that had been so prolific throughout the year had an off day, and they fell by a score of 8-4.

“We had many opportunities.

Our defense played really well and we were getting the ball back a lot, creating more and more opportunities as they were trying to stall.

But we shot 4-for-25, and my three top point-getters had zero goals,”

Corbett said. “The stars were just not aligned for us. It was one of the toughest losses as a coach since I’ve been here because I knew how capable those kids were.”

Those top three point-getters were Nina Corcoran, Iris Williamson and Alex Condon, and of them, only Condon is returning this season. Corcoran, a three-year captain, had a historic career with the Quakers, with Corbett describing her as “one of the best players I’ve coached.”

Condon acknowledges that the offensive dynamic will shift this season, but is optimistic in the new recruits the team has brought along. “[Corcoran] was a true leader of our attack, and just a very selfless player,” Condon said. “It definitely hurts not having her and her leadership on our attack this year, but I think we have a lot of girls coming

up and I think we’ll be able to make do.”

The team finished the season with an impressive 15-5 record, with a 6-1 Ivy League record to go along with that. They had a very good season, but, in their eyes, it was not good enough.

“I think we’re coming back with a vengeance,” Kelly said.

They’re also coming back with ten new faces, six of whom were All-Americans in high school. As a result of this and the plethora of experience on the roster, the team was ranked No. 11 in national preseason polls, the highest of any Ivy League school.

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Across all sports, it’s almost a universal rule: you never want to look too far ahead.

But for Penn women’s lacrosse, there are times when a future-minded approach is the only way to go.

Accompanied by Penn’s track and field and men’s lacrosse squads, the team is in its third year working with Young Quakers Community Athletics, an after-school sports program that pairs Penn athletes with students from a trio of local middle schools. “I love it because it makes an impact on their lives, and at the same time, they impact our lives so much,� freshman defender Teia Ross said. “Seeing how excited the kids are to come and hang out with us, making really personal relationships with all the kids — they really start to trust the Big Quakers, and it’s great to see that.�

Though the program wasn’t started until January 2015, the roots between YQCA and Penn lacrosse are decades in the making.

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with 120 points to Penn’s 111 in the preseason media poll.

Conversely, the Quakers held the upper leg in the ILWCA preseason poll, in which they were ranked No. 11 in the country with Ivy opponents Princeton falling at No. 13 and Cornell closely behind at No. 15.

Even when the rankings do speak in their favor, however, the Red and Blue are unlikely to pay them any mind. “I think every year somebody is looking at you,� senior goalkeeper Britt Brown said. “I personally don’t really look at preseason rankings.� “The rankings are out there, but

in 1981, former men’s lacrosse standout Charles Leitner has become the chairman of the Board of Overseers for Penn Athletics. Shortly after his older daughter, Emily, graduated from Penn in 2012 following a career as a goalie under women’s lacrosse coach Karin Corbett, the elder Leitner came to his daughter’s coach with a plan — and from there, the rest was history. “This is [Chuck’s] brain-child ... he’s been such a great mentor in every way, I completely believe in what he backs,� said Corbett, who also currently coaches Leitner’s younger daughter, junior defender Maureen. “He was so excited telling me about it, and you got excited about hearing his joy for it.�

As one would expect, a major portion of YQCA involves Corbett’s athletes instructing the “Young Quakers� on the field, enabling the “Big Quakers� to be on the opposite side of the player-coach relationship. “I hope we give them some of the characteristics that you can get from being part of a team and playing sports, especially as a girl,� senior defender Megan Kelly said. “Building relationships with the girls and having them trust you, having them set goals and be excited about lacrosse and about being part of

a team, that’s really rewarding.�

Of course, athletic expertise is far from all the Penn players have to offer. The Big and Young Quakers spending sessions off the field together, allowing the elder students to share important academic advice in addition to general bonding.

As such, it’s not merely fun and games when these underprivileged students visit — with the positive influences that the Big Quakers can provide, these players have the opportunity to change lives. “I think that the sports aspect really helps them connect to us, but then talking to them during team time, they can see what kind of people we are, and that helps inspire them to want to go to college,� Ross said. “A lot of them have said, ‘Oh, I really want to go to Penn now, I love it here.’�

While the experience is thoroughly rewarding to the Young Quakers, the benefits that come to them are matched by those that come to Penn’s athletes, who have come to embrace the intrinsic satisfaction that results from escaping the “Penn bubble� and making a greater impact on the local community. “We’re so fortunate here, and we’ve been given so many opportunities through sports,

in a lacrosse game, when you can score a goal in 10 to 15 seconds, anything can happen.� “I really think what matters is the end,� Corbett said. “We haven’t proven anything to be at 11.�

If the end is what the team is focussed on, there is nothing more final than an NCAA championship, a feat that has alluded the Quakers to this day.

After last season’s deep run into the tournament, where then-senior Nina Corcoran helped lead her team to the quarterfinals, the Quakers appear as hungry as ever.

But in order to feed that appetite, Corbett’s side has some reworking to do. The loss of Corcoran and a strong core of seniors has left the

team searching for a new edge to their play.

When the team travels to Delaware next weekend, we’ll see what exactly this season’s style is without the relentless flow of Corcoran’s record-breaking 58 assists from last season.

This search for new sources of strength, however, might feed directly into Penn’s attitude for the season as they look to new avenues to win games. Corbett claims this year’s team boasts the best midfield the Quakers have seen in years “It’s a new year and we’re pursuing a championship,� Corbett said. “We’re not defending anything.�

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two are two of the best midfielders that I’ve ever coached as freshmen.� She didn’t stop there. “In what they grasp, in how they make changes to their game, how fearless they are, how much risk they’re willing to take, and learn from their mistakes, I haven’t had two freshmen like this. I’m really excited to see what they can do when it really counts.�

So what’s it like as a freshman to make the adjustment from varsity and club play to a collegiate program this renowned? Barry, for one, has proved she’s up to the challenge.

“Coming in here I was very nervous because I knew that high school lacrosse was definitely so different than collegiate lacrosse,� she said. “The level of play is so much faster and so much more intense, but I’m getting more and more used to it every day.�

For every challenge she will face however, Barry has a great community with a lot of experience to help her along the way. “I went on a lot of visits, y’know, just like every other girl trying to play lacrosse in college,� she laughed, “but the thing here was the team camaraderie and how everyone just supports each other and how dedicated everyone is to this program. It’s something so

special and I don’t think that if I went anywhere else that I would have gotten the experience that I’m getting.�

With this many talented young athletes, the future of the program here at Penn certainly looks as bright as ever. But the gameplay is only part of the picture. The season hasn’t even begun, and Barry can already feel how much closer she’s grown to her teammates over the past few months. “In my class, we have so many different personalities that add to the team,� she said. “With our level of play, we’re all so competitive, but off the field we’re such good friends as well. I think we really bring something special to the team.�

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again in a 41-goal sophomore campaign. They had an unparalleled on-field chemistry last season that resulted in AllAmerican recognition.

It is crucial for Penn’s offense that Condon’s performance picks up right where it left off in the second half of 2016, when she scored the majority of her goals. To do that, Condon is going to need to find chemistry with whoever plays behind the cage.

“This year, instead of just having one major feeder, we have a couple different ones and a couple different looks,” Condon said. “I’ve definitely been working in practice on my chemistry with other people to build something that somewhat replicates what I had with Nina last year.”

In Corbett’s view, Condon has improved great lengths since last season and is going to be creating more chances for herself this year. She is not only a potent goal scorer but also solid on the backline when pitching in on defense.

“She has become a challenger, a takeaway defender.

She’s causing more turnovers than anybody on the field.

She’s a great defender. She’s that true midfielder, and she’s really rising to the occasion of not being just a cutter,” Corbett said. “She’s taking it to the net, and she has some of the best hands I’ve ever seen. She can finish. We need to get the ball in her hands but she also can create on her own.”

When it comes to replacing Corcoran, there is no one-forone swap. Sophomore Chrissy Corcoran, Nina’s younger sister, has gotten looks behind the goal and will be starting in Saturday’s season opener against Delaware. Junior Emily RogersHealion, one of the team’s best on the draw, has also appeared in that lead role behind the net.

Finally, freshman midfield Gabby Rosenzweig has worked behind the cage in practice.

Rosenzweig, Corbett mentions, is going to be major component to this year’s offensive makeover. Whereas last year the team had only one natural midfielder, as Corbett admits, there are now four. Freshmen Erin Berry and Rosenzweig have burst onto the scene and bolster an already talented midfield, which Corbett

The rest of the midfield is already quite powerful, featuring Chrissy Corcoran, Condon, Roger s-He a l ion , C a r ol i ne Cummings and Natalie Stefan.

Rogers-Healion and Cummings both performed well in 2016, picking up a number of points but also being reliable on the backend.

Stefan could be the biggest surprise in the group. She had an impressive freshman campaign but missed all of her sophomore season with an injury. She is great on the draw and overall a strong player.

Ultimately, the team’s offense will be driven by the midfield in unison with the attack. There is no program great on the attack in 2017, but there are a lot of talented athletes that have performed well in previous years. Condon aptly described the situation, which was the reality in 2016 and very well could hold true this year.

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Penn must replace star player Nina Corcoran graduated in 2016 as Penn’s all-time assists leader WILL AGATHIS Associate Sports Editor

Quakers chasing more than just an Ivy League title in 2017 season ANDREW ZHENG Associate Sports Editor

Expectations. You can either embrace them or shrug them off. With the season opener only days away, it’s safe to say that Penn women’s lacrosse has chosen the former.

“We want all those championships,” coach Karin Corbett said of her team’s ambitions this year.

For the Quakers, there is a good number of championships to be won. As they enter this newest campaign, the Red and Blue have their eyes on three pieces of silverware: an NCAA title, an

Ivy League title and an Ivy League Tournament trophy.

In the past, only one of those has been a near-guarantee for Penn, who has taken home 10 out of the last 11 Ivy League titles. The Quakers missed out to Princeton in the 2015 season, but both teams finished 6-1 last year leaving them as joint champions.

“It’s always a challenge,” Corbett added. “Every year the target is on your back. We’ve had that every year for the last ten years.

“It’s nothing new for us. There’s a lot of pressure with that, but there’s also a lot of pride as well.”

Yet this season, the largest target might be falling on the Tigers, who were recently slotted as Ivy League title favorites SEE EXPECTATIONS PAGE 8

In Ivy League sports, dynasties are few and far between. After all, a dynasty exists only when new stellar talent comes in as quickly as seniors leave, which is never guaranteed. Penn women’s lacrosse was able to do that in 2016 after losing a tremendous senior class and now looks to do the same in 2017.

This spring, the Quakers will be without 2016 graduate Nina Corcoran, the program’s all-time assist leader. Her 58 assists in 2016 were far and away a program record, with the next best being Corcoran’s 2015 total of 40. On top of that, Corcoran’s 127 assists over four years are the most in Ivy League history.

Coach Karin Corbett has plenty of experience coaching all-time greats and has had to replace them in the past. In 2015, Tory Bensen, second in program history in goals with 141, graduated and left a noticeable vacancy at attack. Corbett was able to replace her, and the offense kept on ticking in 2016. This transition will be unlike last year’s, according to Corbett.

“It’s a different loss. Tory was a prolific scorer for us, and Nina was a prolific playmaker for us. It’s very different. Every year you have to reinvent who you are, not necessarily field issues but having a different look to your offense,” Corbett said.

“With the catalyst that Nina was and the leader she was — she really was in charge of our team for 3 years — that has been a big void.”

Corcoran’s on-field vision was perhaps the Quakers’ greatest strength last season.

Usually positioned behind the cage, Corcoran was able to quarterback the offense and make reads that most athletes could never dream of. Her keenness and patience with the ball made defending the Quakers a nightmare in 2016 and led to many quick release goals for the Red and Blue.

No individual benefitted from Corcoran’s presence more than now-junior midfielder Alex Condon, who connected with the 2016 graduate time and time

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Deep freshman class will make immediate impact Ten freshmen totals to the largest class on team GRIFF FITZSIMMONS Sports Reporter

These past few years have seen many of Penn’s athletic programs make it clear they are a force to be reckoned with in the Ivy League. But in women’s lacrosse? Penn’s not just good for their conference, they’re one of the best teams in the country.

When you fight your way to a national semifinal game like the Quakers did last year, well, it’s no wonder that the best players come from far and wide to don the Red and Blue. And though the roster lost some big names after graduation last May, the arrival of such an impressive class of 2020 seems to be a harbinger of a new era of lacrosse excellence here at Franklin Field.

This year’s freshman class comes to Penn from hometowns across the Eastern Seaboard, with enough All-American accolades to make your head spin.

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Because a large graduating class has left a handful of openings in the starting lineup, the Quakers could look to deploy some of their highly talented freshmen, including Erin Barry and Gabby Rosenzweig.

Half the players come from New York, and many from in and around the infamous Long

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Island hotbed of high school lacrosse talent. Mikaila Cheeseman (G #00), Erin Berry (M #2),

Emily O’Neill (M #18), Katherine Markham (D #23) and Gabby Rosenzweig (M #24).

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Alex Frenzel (M #5) and Teia Ross (D #17) come from New Jersey, while Kaeleigh Morrill (A #15), Chelsea Kibler (M #4) and Morgan Winstead (A #13) are from Connecticut, Maryland and North Carolina respectively.

The first aspect that stands out about the new recruitment class is its size. Currently, the team is carrying six seniors, five juniors, six sophomores... and ten freshmen. This is no fluke, though. It’s the setting of a new precedent by head coach Karin Corbett is trying to establish a new precent and this is one she is fully committed, and one to which she is fully committed.

“We need more people,” she explained forthrightly. “With the amount that these kids are playing in high school and middle school, they’re coming in with a lot more injuries. I see a lot more kids with past concussions, more kids with past ACL’s; It’s just a big toll on their bodies.”

A full intrasquad scrimmage necessitates 24 players on the field at one time, which makes it an undertaking that hasn’t been

seen at a Penn women’s lacrosse practice in the last few years.

Even at their current size, Corbett insisted, “we’re really one injury away from not being able to do that.”

In the coming years, Corbett is striving to get up to a 30-person team, and maybe even max out their travel party limit of 32. For now, though, the effect of the change is clear: freshmen make up big part of this team, and not only in a numerical sense.

Two first-years are set to start Penn’s season opener against Delaware this Saturday, and by the looks of it they’ll likely be turning some heads. Gabby Rosenzweig and Erin Barry are both multi-year All-Americans, high school team captains (both in hoops as well), and midfielders here at Penn. That last point is especially important, according to Corbett.

“Being a midfielder is really hard as a freshman. You have to split your time to learn both offenses and defenses, and these SEE FRESHMAN PAGE 8 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640