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As students gear up to see 3LAU and Chance the Rapper at Spring Fling this year, it is likely that not many know about the complex process Penn’s

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student-run Social Planning and Events Committee goes through every year to secure the artists. Generally the process starts after the SPEC Fall Concert in October, when the SPEC Concerts committee reaches out to major agencies to get a list of possible artists that fall within a certain price range. “We want artists that are big

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Ruby Rose … prominent artists with one or two top hits,” he said. Once SPEC responds to the respective agencies of the artists that interest them, the agencies and SPEC must coordinate to see if the artist is available on the weekend of Fling. SEE SPEC PAGE 2

Intl. seniors use loophole to get visas Gaming the H1-B application has helped students keep jobs

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How loyal are you to your political party? In Pennsylvania, it seems like many people aren’t too sure. According to a March 29 Philadelphia Inquirer article, around 128,000 voters have become registered Republicans since the beginning of the new year across the state. Most are Democrats switching to the Republican Party, but large numbers are also former independents and new voters. “The big draw for the party switching,” local politics expert and St. Joseph’s University professor Randall Miller said, “is Donald Trump.” Miller believes that those switching to the right side want the Republican party to hear their voice.

enough that they have good name recognition but small enough that they are within our budget constraints. Beyoncé, Calvin Harris ... those artists would just never happen,” College senior and SPEC Concerts Director Spencer Jaffe said. “Artists that were suggested to us are like Fetty Wap, Walk the Moon, Oliver Heldens,

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For some international students, a loophole in the H-1B visa filing process allows them another chance at gaining the elusive document.

At Penn it is currently spring season, adva nce registration season, Fling season and, for a few senior international students, H-1B visa filing season. Although one of the requirements to apply for an H-1B visa, which permits foreigners to work in the United States in specialty occupations for up to six years, is to have a college degree, some international Penn students have exploited a loophole and can apply before even graduating.

H-1B allow international students to stay in the U.S. after the 12-month work allowance of their Optional Practical Training (OPT) permit expires. As The Daily Pennsylvanian reported on March 21, failure to obtain an H-1B has forced international Penn graduates to leave the country against their will. Obtaining an H-1B visa has become increasingly hard in the past several years. The U.S. government, which grants the visas based on a random lottery system, caps the amount of yearly visas they allocate at 65,000, with an extra 20,000 visas reserved for applicants with masters degrees. Only a little over one-third of SEE LOOPHOLE PAGE 3

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Penn professors advise Kazakh educational policy Kazakh government has been reforming education JINAH KIM Staff Reporter

Penn professors are working towards building Kazakhstan’s first world-class national research university. Professor Matthew Hartley and Senior Fellow Allen Ruby, both of Penn’s Graduate School of Education, have been working since 2010 towards building a graduate program in education, when Nazarbayev University was first established in Kazakhstan. As a part of this partnership,

Penn recently developed a program that brings NU doctoral students to the United States to study at GSE for a semester. During their time here, NU students participated in classes, gave talks and participated in workshops to improve their dissertation research projects. In the process, they learned more about the structure of the United States’ education system. “Even though our university at home is world class we don’t have as many international students,” said Renata Apergenova, a member of last semester’s first cohort, in a Penn News Today article. “It was very useful to hear

opinions from a lot of people with different experiences that we can take back with us. The idea is that we are going to translate our experience to other universities and fulfill any educational reforms that are coming to Kazakhstan.” In the past, Kazakhstan modeled its education system after the Soviet model, in which the Ministry of Education controlled the vast majority of university curriculum, Hartley explained. Because this level of bureaucracy and control stifled intellectual development and innovation, the Kazakhstan government decided to experiment by granting its universities a higher level of autonomy. Nazarbayev was founded to serve as a model for this new approach to education. As a part of this effort, Hartley and Ruby became involved to help the University figure out how to design a more Westernstyle independent institution with governance systems like a Board of Trustees.

“The biggest change is this movement towards this lesscentralized approach in which individual institutions can make the decisions for themselves,” Hartley said. “In the context of the U.S. and a lot of Western nations, that may seem really straightforward, but this is kind of a mind blower in Kazakhstan because they’ve had this system of centralized control, in part because there’s been this desire to ensure high quality in education.” A lt houg h K a z a k h st a n’s government functions as an autocracy with severe limitations on freedom of speech and press, Nazarbayev University is welllooked after by its namesake, President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who sees it as a source for his country’s economic advancement as well as an opportunity to form stronger ties with the West. Part of his commitment to the University is ensuring more academic freedom. “One of the things that’s been very exciting, being a part of

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Penn like the LGBT Center and the Women’s Center to make sure these artists are okay,” Jaffe said. “Artists like Odd Future would probably not be approved just by the nature of starting riots at concerts and their very aggressive lyrics,” he added. Ultimately, the biggest limiting factor in picking artists is cost. At the beginning of each calendar year, the Undergraduate Assembly allocates the budget for SPEC for the next academic year. Within the lump-sum grant, the UA gives guidelines on how much to spend on production, security, talent and other subdivisions. The SPEC Concerts talent budget for this upcoming Spring Fling is set at $180,000, but for the 2016-17 school year it will increase to $185,000. But this increase will not necessarily go directly into talent. “Even if talent appears to go up

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“The biggest misconception is artist availability. I know Penn students throw out a lot of great ideas, but it comes down who’s available on tour and who has other shows,” Engineering junior and SPEC Director Kelsey Simet said. “For example, Wiz Khalifa is promoting a movie all weekend … so it is impossible to have him entertain the idea of performing at Fling.” Once SPEC has confirmed that the artists are available to perform, SPEC Concerts sends them a bid, which the artists must accept in order to sign the actual contract. The University also has to approve all the artists SPEC brings in. “Every artist we’re looking into, we send to our advisor in the Office of Student Affairs and he sends it off to various groups at

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this project, is that a number of the people we’ve been working with are younger, western-educated people who are promoting

reforms,” Hartley said. “They would really like to see their country evolve into much more of an open society.”

by $5,000, we might see that this increase needs to go elsewhere in order to not lose money,” Simet said. And this increase in talent budget seems almost negligible in comparison to the 100 percent increase in security costs for next year. The 2016-17 budget has $40,000 designated for security and $250,000 for production. Part of production involves building the stage overnight from Tuesday until Friday, because athletic practices take place at Franklin Field during the day. “Last year the security costs were significantly higher than what we had budgeted for and we are required to hire more security due to intoxicated students,” Jaffe said. The 100 percent increase in security allocation is a reflection of these rising security costs, which must be met to fulfill University requirements in order for Fling

programming to take place. Renting out Franklin Field is also becoming more and more costly every year, and extraneous costs are added on top of the rental cost. “The athletic field has had renovations; there’s a new track laid down and in order to protect it [when building the stage] we have to lay down plywood to cover it up,” Simet said. As the trend of increasing security, production and facility rental costs continues while the talent budget remains largely stagnant, SPEC Concerts is looking for creative solutions to deliver the same high quality Fling to students. “Historically, Fling used to be in the High Rise Field and then it moved to Wynn Commons,” Simet said. “It only moved to Franklin Field in 2011, so it looks like the next stage may be to move Fling to another location.”

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Penn’s district representative to face corruption trial Rep. Chaka Fattah has a murky history in politics LUIS FERRE SADURNI Staff Reporter

The past few years have not been kind to Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.), a 1986 Fels Institute of Government graduate. The 11-term congressman, whose area of representation includes his alma mater’s University City campus, is accomplished, with a track record of targeting federal dollars toward neuroscience research and education. He also faces a looming corruption trial, empty campaign coffers and a brutal primary election. The Daily Pennsylvanian took a look at Fattah’s recent legal troubles, extending back to 2007, and previewed what lies ahead for the embattled congressman. 2007: May 15: Fattah loses the Democratic Primary for mayor

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petitioners received one of the sought-after visas in 2015, as the United States government received an overwhelming 233,000 H-1B petitions in just a week. The period for employers to file H-1B visa applications on behalf of their employees extends from April 1 to April 7 every year. The Department of Homeland Security states that one of the minimum requirements for an H-1B visa is a bachelor’s degree related to the industry in which the applicant expects to work , but some students have found a loophole in this requirement. The slim chances of obtaining an H-1B visa and the fear of being forced out of the country if they fail to obtain a working visa after graduation have prompted some international Penn students to approach the system in an unorthodox way, by applying before officially obtaining their bachelor’s degree. For example, an international student graduating Penn in May 2016 with an offer to work in the United States after graduation would typically apply for an H-1B visa during filing season in April 2017. Certain students, however, have succeeded at applying before their graduation date by proving to the government that they are on track to receiving a degree even though they have not officially graduated. This doubles an applicant’s chances of obtaining an H-1B visa as they may apply twice, once in the April before and again in April of the following year after their graduation. One inter nationa l 2015 Wharton graduate — who

of Philadelphia. Michael Nutter won the Democratic nomination with 37 percent of the vote against the congressman’s fourth place finish of 15 percent. 2014: Aug. 5: The congressman’s son, Chaka Fattah Jr. is indicted for tax return fraud in an unrelated incident to his father’s future charges. Fattah Jr. is charged with providing false information to banks when he took out personal loans and loans for his consulting firm. Aug. 29: Gregory Naylor, Fattah’s former chief strategist for his 2007 mayoral bid, pleads guilty to concealing the misuse of hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal grant funds and campaign contributions. Naylor admitted to having conspired with Fattah to pay off a series of debts with campaign and federal money. Naylor’s plea represented federal investigators’ most prom inent breach of t he

preferred to not be named to avoid potential trouble with her employer — applied for an H-1B visa as a senior at Penn through her job at an international financial firm in New York City. Luckily, she was one of the onethird of applicants worldwide who obtained an H-1B in 2015. She can now work in the United States until 2021. Her employer, who hired an immigration law firm to handle the H-1B visa paperwork, asked her to request a letter from Wharton’s undergraduate office certifying that she was on track to complete her bachelor’s degree. She did so and received the letter with ease. “The [firm’s] lawyers told me, ‘We’re going to apply [for an H-1B visa] on your behalf. Get us a letter from the undergraduate advising office that states the courses you are still taking and has your current transcript,’” she said. “My story is pretty simple. I applied and I got it.” Another international College senior is currently in the process of applying for an H-1B before graduation through his employer, also a global financial firm. The immigration law firm hired by his employer also asked the senior to request a letter from the College’s undergraduate advising office confirming that he was on track to graduate in May 2016, despite still missing credits towards his major. The legal firm asked him to seek out proof from previous summer internship employers to confirm that he had worked for them. His employer used these documents in his H-1B application to prove that the senior’s past internship experience

Armond James, 12.3 percent. The 181,141 votes he received, however, was a significant decline from the 302,746 he won in the 2012 election, when he won more votes than any other member of the House.

congressman’s financial dealings, which authorities had been scrutinizing since his 2007 mayoral campaign. Nov. 14: Despite his former aide’s indictment, Fattah goes on to win an 11th term as representative of Pennsylvania’s 2nd District in the House of Representatives. Fat t a h easily wins t he seat with 91 percent of the vote against his opponent’s,

2015: July 29: Fattah receives a 29count indictment from federal authorities. The representative was accused of diverting campaign funds, federal grants and charitable donations to finance his unsuccessful 2007 mayoral campaign. Four of his associates are charged as well, including Bonnie Bowser, the chief of staff in his district office. The indictment also reports that Fattah’s wife, Renee C h en au lt-Fa t t a h a c c e pt e d $18,000 in payments for the sale of her 1989 Porsche Carrera event though she ended up keeping the car. Authorities allege the transaction was part of a disguised bribe. Fattah refused to say if he

combined with the credits he had already completed at Penn were the equivalent of a four year bachelor’s degree. The immigration law firm also worked with a professional education consultant to confirm the senior’s qualifications. “A professional also evaluated all my academic and work experience and certified that I had obtained what would have been the equivalent of a bachelor’s degree,” he said. “They did that and applied on April 1.” The College senior’s employer filed the application on his behalf and he is expected to hear back from the government this summer. “They mentioned that this was a very aggressive approach and that they’ve seen some success with it in the past, but that there is no certainty that the government is going to accept [the application],” the senior said. However, not all employers take this route or even recognize the legality of obtaining an H-1B visa in this fashion. When one current international Wharton senior heard that his friend succeeded at obtaining a visa while at Penn, he reached out in March to his future employer — a global management consulting firm

— to inquire about the possibility of doing the same. His employer’s legal counsel told him, in what he described as a “patronizing” manner, that what he was asking for was impossible. “They basically said, ‘That’s cute and all, but the law is black and white. You need a degree in your hand in order to apply. They were completely uninterested in seeing any letter [from Penn],’” he said. The Wharton senior was not even able to obtain the letter from his school’s undergraduate advising office that the 2015 Wharton graduate interviewed earlier received without complications. “I asked for letters saying that I was about to graduate and not about to fail any of my classes, which is what [the 2015 Wharton graduate] had used,” he said. “They were unwilling to give me that. They gave me one saying that I’m about to graduate, but not a confirmation that I’m not about to fail any of my classes.” The Wharton senior will go on to work for his employer in New York City after graduation and will most likely apply for an H-1B visa in April 2017. While the legal ambiguity of applying for an H-1B without

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had a role in obtaining and repaying an illegal $1 million 2007 campaign loan. Nov. 5: Fattah Jr. is found guilty of 22 of 23 counts against him. Prosecutors accused the congressman’s son of obtaining business loans to buy make car payments, buy jewelry and pay off his gambling debts. 2016: Jan. 29: Fattah’s lawyers attempt to remove themselves from the congressman’s corruption case, but a federal judge’s decision denies their request to do so. The lawyers’ request came after Fatta h m issed several deadlines to pay his defense team’s legal fees in full. U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle III’s recognized the congressman’s missed payment, but held that the lawyers were aware of the time and financial commitments when they signed on to the representative’s case. Feb. 2: Fattah Jr. is sentenced to five years in prison following his conviction in Nov. and

having officially received a bachelor’s degree is contested between different employers, Penn has been careful to stay out of its students’ process to apply for an H-1B visa. Penn’s International Students and Scholar Services, which typically helps internationals with their student visas, said that the H-1B visa process is an issue between students and their employers. “We’re not in a position to suggest a particular approach,” ISSS advisor Kathryn Fogle said. “That would be inappropriate,” she added. “Naturally students are going to come to us ... but we are very careful to describe the limits and the type of advising that we are legally able to do and the type of advising that the employer has to do. The

is ordered to pay $1.1 million in restitution. The representative’s son is appealing the conviction. March 16: Following Fattah’s attempt to have his corruption case dismissed by relying on congressional privilege, a federal judge rejected the bid. Judge Harvey Bartle III’s decision opens the way for the congressman’s trial to proceed on May 2. Looking Forward: April 26: Pennsylvania will hold its Democratic primary, where Fattah’s congressional seat will be up for grabs. Despite federal corruption charges and a dwindling campaign fund, Fattah will be running for a 12th term. Challengers include state Rep. Dwight Evans, Ward leader Dan Muroff and Lower Merion Township Commissioner Brian Gordon. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf endorsed Evans on Feb. 23. May 2: Fattah’s trial on racketeer ing conspiracy is scheduled to proceed.

H-1B application is completely the purview of the employer.” Fogle pointed out, however, that ISSS has anecdotally heard of students applying for an H-1B visa before graduating, but that the office does not get involved. Penn’s Career Services, in an emailed statement, also noted that it does not get involved in H-1B visa matters and referred comments to ISSS. When it comes to applying for an H-1B visa before graduation, employers have differing opinions, Penn is uninvolved and some international Penn students are left to scramble with a legal ambiguity that has worked for some, but not for others. The Wharton senior whose employer refused to apply for a visa on his behalf summed up the confusing process: “It is very frustrating.”

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OPINION Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing fair enough | Penn failed to balance tolerance of protest with ability to speak

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I don’t think I need to spend much time condemning the protesters who prompted the cancellation of CIA Director John Brennan’s speech last Friday afternoon. Their own words and actions discredit them more comprehensively than I ever could. “I don’t think there’s any reason to allow [Brennan’s] speech,” one of the protest’s organizers told The Daily Pennsylvanian. “We do not believe that Brennan has the right to speak,” proclaimed the fliers that “Students for a Democratic Society” — the group that organized the disruption — distributed outside the venue. I trust that most Penn students are able to spot the transparently hubristic ignorance these statements display. Not only do a small group of activists claim the right to decide what speech is and is not “allowed” at Penn, they do so in the name of a “democratic society.” I’ll say it again just for good measure — it is nobody’s prerogative to decide what or whose views and opinions Penn students may or may not

choose to hear and evaluate for themselves, least of all a ragtag handful of overzealous malcontents who fancy themselves crusaders for some twisted, narrow vision of moral purity. But however deplorable their actions may have been, the protesters do not bear the full responsibility for the loss of a precious academic opportunity. That ignoramuses may try to silence speech on campus is a foreseeable circumstance, and the University has a duty to foil efforts to do so. It is consistent with Penn’s commitments that the protesters were tolerated to say their bit, despite the disruptive nature of their chosen form of expression. It would have been wrong to remove the demonstrators without recognizing them. However, Penn professor Margolies and Penn Law School Dean Ruger not only recognized the protesters, but also committed to questioning Brennan about the issues they raised. Nevertheless, the chanting continued. At this point, it should have been evident that the protesters sought to prevent Brennan

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of the very CIA policies or programs which the protesters opposed. They sought to engage with him in precisely the way which is most conducive to the intellectual growth which universities are supposed to promote and protect. The protesters tried to deny the attendees that learning experience, and by failing to act, the University

... the University had a duty to remove them from the premises or otherwise put a stop to their disruption.” chance, the University had a duty to remove them from the premises or otherwise put a stop to their disruption. If that required arresting them for trespassing, so be it. There were students in the audience who wished to engage productively with Director Brennan, likely even to challenge him on some

allowed them to succeed. Consider an analogous situation. Say that SDS brought a speaker to campus to criticize the CIA. If I smuggled an amplifier into the venue and played a siren to prevent the audience from hearing the speaker, would SDS defend my “protest” as legitimate? I sincerely

doubt it. It would, in fact, be the University’s duty to do whatever was necessary to ensure that the event could proceed despite me. The “heckler’s veto” is just as pernicious as any other form of censorship, and the University must protect controversial expression from it along with the rest. Penn is not institutionally unaware of these commitments. The Open Expression Monitoring program is supposed to uphold the University’s policies on open expression under just these difficult circumstances. If Open Expression Monitors were present, however, they were utterly ineffective. But there is even more Penn can do to prevent future instances of such embarrassing inaction, and this case shows that further effort is warranted. Event organizers should be informed about under what circumstances they may ask law enforcement and security to remove protesters from a venue. It should be explained that presiding over such removals does not make one a fascist, but may in fact be necessary to protect open expression and pluralistic

Alec Ward values. In any case, it is not sufficient that the University affirms its commitment to the free exchange of ideas; it must take active steps to protect that freedom from threats. If the vocal few — those who would “shut down” speakers to whom they object — are routinely suffered to do so, our campus would be an intellectually bleak place indeed. ALEC WARD is a College junior from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is alecward@sas. upenn.edu. Follow him on Twitter @TalkBackWard. “Fair Enough,” formerly “Talking Backward,” usually appears every Wednesday.

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from speaking, and thereby to prevent the attendees from hearing him out. Their own fliers and statements admit as much. They intended not simply to prompt Brennan to address their concerns, but to “shut down” the event entirely, denying the attendees the chance to listen and participate. Rather than allow them that

On Friday, April 1, Philadelphia organizers, brought together by Penn SDS, shut down CIA Director John Brennan’s speech at the Penn Museum. To explain why we did this, we must give our analysis of the CIA and its violation of human rights. One of our banners read “CIA = TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.” Our analysis is that the CIA’s primary purpose is to expand and secure U.S. influence and control around the globe. Under the Obama administration, CIA drone strikes have targeted Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Somalia. In the first six years, drones claimed over 2,400 lives, including campaigns that hit unintended targets 90 percent of the time. These attacks include killing 150 innocent Somalians, killing children and bombing weddings, aligning with the United States’ long history of bombing civilian facilities. The CIA also makes use of methods of torture including sleep deprivation, stress positions, waterboarding, shutting detainees inside coffins and forced anal

feeding of detainees on hunger strike. The release of the torture report revealed that the CIA had been underreporting use of torture and outright lying about its practices and their effectiveness. A primary purpose of the CIA is to prop up governments that align with U.S. interests, and to subvert those that don’t. The CIA has backed several notorious military dictatorships, overthrown at least seven sovereign governments, supported drug traffickers and right-wing paramilitary groups in at least 35 countries and covertly supported regime change of countries at odds with U.S. interests countless times. The CIA has poured millions of dollars into funding the destruction of Yugoslavia, and famously backed the cocaine-trafficking Nicaraguan Contras. In fact, Osama bin Laden and the mujahideen, precursors of al-Qaeda, were funded and trained by the CIA to subvert the Afghan government. The CIA continues to funnel money to al-Qaeda. The CIA also has its hands in Syria. Many would agree that ISIS/ISIL arose out of con-

ditions of instability in the region, no doubt exacerbated by U.S. intervention. Beyond that, it is well documented that the CIA has covertly armed proxy forces that consistently join the ranks of ISIL. A 2012 declas-

security,” he is able to rationalize his war crimes. It’s worth noting that Western wars have killed four million Muslims since 1990, with the United States killing 2.9 million Iraqis between 1991 and the present.

Brennan has opportunities to support his narrative that we do not have to support ours.” sified U.S. intelligence document indicates that the CIA knowingly facilitated the rise of ISIL. Although the relationship between the United States, its allies and ISIL is vacillating, all contribute to destabilization in Syria, leading to the displacement of 11 million of the 22 million citizens of Syria. Brennan was quick to provide rationales for these heinous acts, primarily through the framing of “national security concerns.” This is Brennan’s deceit: By framing the conversation around “national

1.3 million people have been left dead in total in the War on Terror started under the Bush administration. U.S. imperialism, with its covert wing in the CIA, should take primary blame for this staggering death and destruction. This violence instills terror in countries that are victims of the United States, creating more terrorism rather than putting an end to it. We’ve been asked why we chanted “Black Lives Matter.” The terror the CIA carries out abroad and the police terror black people face at home are

both parts of the same system. So, when we chant “Drones Kill Kids” and “Black Lives Matter” in the same breath, we’re linking up two struggles with a common goal. Does “Black Lives Matter” not include the black and brown lives taken by NATO warfare in Libya? We believe it does. Brennan, as head of the CIA, is responsible for its war crimes. It is well documented that he supports the use of torture. On these grounds, we shut down Brennan’s talk. Students expressed concerns about free speech and discussion. This talk was not a discourse; it was about perpetuating the narrative that the United States is a benevolent force, and that its war crimes are simply in the interest of “national security.” After we disrupted him for the first time, he was asked about drones, and responded by downplaying their destruction. If their “target” is any brown person, I suppose he’s correct to note their accuracy. (The Obama administration defines “militants” as “all military-age males in a strike zone”) John Brennan has incredible

access to free speech. When his speech is cut short, after talking for nearly an hour, he is not being silenced in any real sense. Brennan has opportunities to support his narrative that we do not have to support ours. He was not there to debate issues of American intelligence policies; with the blood he has on his hands, it is his job to rationalize and defend his war crimes. We disrupted him, but is CIA undermining of sovereign states not disruption? Was the drone strike that hit a wedding in Yemen, killing innocent people, not a disruption? As an organization that stands with victims of CIA warmongering and promotes peace and democracy, we felt an obligation to challenge Brennan’s narrative. For these reasons, we believe that criminals like John Brennan do not deserve a warm welcome. They must be made uncomfortable, and their war crimes must be exposed. L ucas lipatti i s a n Engineering junior and a member of Students for a Democratic Society.

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The disruption by protesters of the talk being given by sitting CIA Director John Brennan on Friday afternoon is a dark mark on this University’s reputation. Three separate disruptions by shouting activists derailed an otherwise illuminating discussion from one of the Obama administration’s highest officials. We condemn the actions of the protesters, who not only shut down the talk in the guise of promoting their own free speech, but also succeeded only in silencing the voice of an honorable civil servant and ruining the experience of many in the Penn community. The protesters identified themselves as members of the Students for a Democratic Society, a resurrection of the group founded in the 1960s amid the growth of the New Left in college campuses. The incarnation of the group present at Friday’s talk exists in a different cultural milieu, one of heightened sensitivity to the speech and actions of others.

We are in the midst of a national debate on the role of speech on college campuses, and while neither side in the debate is entirely wrong, Penn’s campus — usually less prone than others to such disturbances — was visited by an unwelcome product of that debate. Following their models of earlier generations, these protesters reintroduced civil disobedience at a deliberately provocative scale, looking to inspire someone else in that crowd to anger or to humiliate Mr. Brennan and the assembled members of the Penn community. Let us not confuse their actions with those of just crusaders, battling a tyrannical government. The protesters did not come to the event anticipating the beginning of any productive dialogue to induce policy change — for instance, in the height of the event’s absurdity, they got into a shouting match with a former Congresswoman and a law school dean. What, indeed, would have

been their preferred policies? The first shouting pair of protesters had the audience believing they were anti-drone

a Palestinian flag and literally screaming bloody murder. Yet a third pair threw all notion of policy away and droned out

We condemn the actions of the protesters, who not only shut down the talk in the guise of promoting their own free speech, but also succeeded only in silencing the voice of an honorable civil servant ...” warfare. Had they remained in their seats the entire time, they would have been privy to the director’s thoughtful comments on the administration’s drone policies, comments that highlighted the restrained and careful decisions he and the presidents he has served undertook. But the second pair pivoted off-foot, raising

conspiracy statements on the CIA being a terrorist organization. This was no well thought out, well targeted protest designed to advance their political agenda in the presence of a governmental elite — this was protest as shotgun, a blaring of false equivalences, summed up on one protester’s words as

“KKK, CIA”. To any viewer, the goal of the disruption could only have been the insult of a man whose careful steering of the United States’ counterterrorism operations for the past decade has undoubtedly saved scores of lives at home and abroad. How could Penn let this happen? At the start of this academic year, the Provost’s office revealed a campaign designed to handle exactly these situations. The University encouraged the presence of so-called Open Expression Monitors, observers sent to potentially fraught events or programs to ensure that the rights of the “meeting or demonstration participants to express their opinions in nondisruptive ways” are upheld. The only ones who sought to remove the protesters were the director’s own security detail and Dean Ruger himself, who should be commended for doing so. With no other recourse, students at the event were obliged to simply stand

up and begin applauding, hoping to drown out the unending shouts. Certain steps simply need to be taken before any high profile speaker comes to campus, should the University be so lucky to host someone of Mr. Brennan’s stature again, and one of these is basic preparation for disruptive protests. American democracy does not take place via shouting match and we need not reproduce the circus politics of this year’s presidential election in our auditoriums and walkways. Unfortunately, the disruption in one way or another of political figures’ campus visits has become almost a Penn tradition at this point, with examples ranging from Republican strategist Frank Luntz to Narendra Modi, the then chief minister of Gujarat, who was disinvited from speaking at a Wharton undergraduate club. The University must seek to do a better job of managing these high profile events. Otherwise, who would ever want to come here?

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Students study abroad despite terrorism threat Despite attacks in Europe, students remain unfazed SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Deputy News Editor

With the attacks in Paris and Brussels still in recent memory, terrorism is on Penn students’ radars as a potential hazard for study abroad programs, especially in Western Europe. But a few students say they don’t see the violence as a threat to their plans. College sophomore Bryn Friedenberg plans to study in London next semester, and she also participated in a program in Venice over the summer. “I knew that I wanted to [study abroad] before I came to college,” she said. “It’s hard to find that kind of opportunity outside of it.” The program in London, at Goldsmiths, University of London, ties in especially well with Friedenberg’s Visual Studies major at Penn, and she hasn’t been dissuaded from moving forward with her plans in light of the recent attacks. “It’s just one of those things — that just as easily I could be in danger for another reason,” she said. College junior Carrie Li is currently abroad in London, studying at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. She said she was accepted to the program late last semester, so she “already kind of knew that these things were happening in Europe.” She also felt that there was talk about London possibly being especially vulnerable for an attack.

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“Last year people were saying that London is next,” she said, but added, “I thought since it was something I’d wanted to do for such a long time I couldn’t let that keep me from doing what I want to do.” College sophomore and Daily Pennsylvanian opinion columnist Ben Facey, who plans to study at Kings College in London next semester for the English program there, said terrorism wasn’t a factor when he applied in December, a month after the Paris attacks. “I thought about it but not in terms of study abroad at all,” he said. “It didn’t affect that decision.” It may be easy to think that since London is somewhat removed from Paris and Brussels, at least compared to the rest of Western Europe, students’ lack of concern would be expected. But College junior Peter Herbst, who was studying in Paris at the time of the attacks, said he still thinks he would have moved forward with his plans, had an attack already happened. He said carrying on with the things he likes to do is his “favorite form of personal protest” in the face of terrorism like the kind committed in Paris. “[Paris] was somewhere I’ve always wanted to study abroad,” said Herbst, who is minoring in French. “I think I ultimately still would have gone because that’s the best way I know how to stand up to that sort of violence.” Herbst still acknowledged that a previous attack would have complicated things, especially with the kind of support he would receive from his parents, and in

his own decision making. “I think it would be hard for it to not be on your mind,” he said. Herbst also said the registration for the specific program that he participated in seems to be dropping. “Just recently our program director reached out to us to ask us to personally campaign for the program,” he said, adding that they’ve been receiving “historically low numbers of applications.” After attacks happen like the ones in Paris and Brussels, Penn Abroad makes every effort to confirm the safety of students in the area. Administrators at Penn and on the ground attempt to contact students via phone and email. After the Paris attacks, Penn Director of International Risk Management Jaime Molyneux sent an email to all Penn students in France on the night of the attacks to confirm that they were ok, even though she knew some of them were unlikely to be in the Paris area. Continuous email alerts were also sent out from International SOS, a partner program that is described on the Penn Abroad website as “the leading medical assistance, international healthcare and security assistance company.” Following the Paris attacks, Penn Abroad Associate Director Rochelle Keesler, who oversees all study abroad programs in France, also sent an email to all Penn students reminding them of all on-campus resources available to students while abroad, including Counseling and Psychological Services and Student Intervention Services.

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Nominations are open for current ITAs and ITA managers who go “above and beyond the call of duty” in providing timely, friendly and successful support for all the residents of the House they serve. See the website below for more information about the Outstanding ITA of the Year award, how to nominate your lifesaver, and about opportunities in 2016 to join Penn’s very own league of superheroes.

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For College senior Naomi Stark, submatriculating into a master´s program in philosophy wasn’t a way to build her resume — she wanted to engage at a higher level with philosophical content she was interested in. “The diploma isn’t the prize,” Stark said. “It’s really what I needed, I think, to go into the world and think about what I want.” For Penn students who aren’t satisfied with just one degree, submatriculation can offer the opportunity to earn two degrees in the span of only four or five years. Students in the School of Arts and Sciences who apply to submatriculation programs are required to schedule an advising appointment with Gary Purpura, the associate director of academic advising. When students come in to discuss the possibility of submatriculation, Purpura says that he tells them to focus on the specifics of the program and how it ties into their individual goals. “They need to have a very clear rationale as to why they are applying to the specific program they are targeting,” Purpura said. In particular, for professional degrees like the J.D. program offered by Penn Law School, or master’s degrees offered by the Graduate School of Education or the School of Social Policy & Practice, students “need to also have a very clear idea of how that program will benefit them professionally.” For most students who submatriculate into SAS, their graduate degree — an M.S. or an M.A. — is often insufficient to make them competitive in fields like academia or research. Those

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Penn students have various reasons for submatriculating into graduate-level programs, taking advantage of the courses at Penn.

students often go on to earn a Ph.D., with the master’s degree serving less of a practical purpose than an intellectual one: students enjoy the opportunity submatriculation gives them for more challenging, graduate-level work. SAS sets requirements for submatriculation into the M.A. or M.S. degrees, but departments can choose whether or not to offer the option; SAS is currently in the process of verifying which departments plan on making submatriculation available. “I think it’s roughly about half,” Purpura said. “The reasons vary as to why some do and some don’t — some of those reasons are historical, that these departments have done it for years and years so they continue to do it.” Other concerns, he said, include class sizes and the increased demand for graduate courses that a submatriculation option would generate. While many other universities offer submatriculation options, Penn stands out for its breadth of options and the high number of courses that may double count for the undergraduate and graduate M.A. or M.S. degrees. The option offered by the Wharton

School for submatriculation into the MBA program is also unique among top-tier business schools, potentially giving Wharton an edge over other institutions. The School of Nursing’s opportunities for submatriculation can also make it more appealing to prospective students. “I always do these little informal focus groups with freshmen to say, ‘Why Penn? What made you come to Penn?’” said Marianne Smith, associate director of enrollment management at the Nursing School. “And the two that always rise to the top are submatriculation into a graduate program and a semester abroad.” Submatriculation is especially common in the Nursing School; over 40 percent of current juniors have applied to submatriculate into a master’s degree, while the number stands at over 60 percent for seniors. “All the graduate schools at Penn, their graduate courses are a little more expensive than their undergraduate courses, so it’s a significant savings,” Smith said. “You’ll be graduating with a B.S.N. [and] already having three graduate courses — that’s a minimum of $15,000 savings.”

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In the context of a wave of renewed anti-Islam sentiment in the country — exemplified by one presidential candidate’s call to ban Muslims from entering — a group is forming on Penn’s campus to stand up against discrimination. On Monday a group of Penn students held a “solidarity luncheon” as the inaugural meeting for the new group Students Against Islamophobia and Discrimination. The group outlined its goals and called for minority groups to partner in the fight against prejudice. They read a statement regarding Islamophobia, coauthored by 5B and the Penn Association for Gender Equity, and introduced their plan to combat Islamophobia on campus and in Philadelphia. SAID aims to facilitate dialogue, create programs and speak out against Islamophobia, according to the letter. Wharton senior and SAID leader Majid Mubeen emphasized the organization’s focus on everyone affected by Islamophobia. “Islamophobia affects not just Muslims, but anyone who can be construed as Muslim,” he said. Arab Christians and South Asian Sikhs, among other groups, are also affected, he added. According to the statement, SAID members started the organization in response to recent incidents of discrimination in Philadelphia as well as Islamophobic rhetoric in the political sphere. The group cited two recent incidents in Philadelphia that influenced its formation. In December 2015, a bloody pig’s head was found in front of the AlAqsa Islamic Society in North

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An anti-Islamophobia group has formed on campus, in response to rising discriminatory sentiment around the country.

Philadelphia following a string of antagonistic phone messages. In January, a Muslim man and fulltime student at Temple University was hospitalized after being verbally harassed and then beaten for speaking Arabic in Center City. In spite of these incidents, SAID members said they take pride in their community’s connection to Arabic. Said, pronounced sa-eed, is a transliteration of the Arabic word for happy. “We want to define ourselves and choose the way that we’re portrayed,” Mubeen said of the choice to use the Arabic pronunciation of the acronym. Faculty members also spoke about their experiences with prejudice. Fariha Khan, associate director of Asian American Studies, stressed the need for different groups to unite because of their shared humanity. She also spoke about the parallels between Islamophobia and the anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic rhetoric that characterized earlier periods of American history. “Islamophobia is not new — it’s

just xenophobia in new clothes,” she said. Associate Vice Provost for Equity and Access Rev. William Gipson emphasized the power of community. He described his trip with a group of interfaith university students and chaplains to concentration camps in Poland, comparing the effort to isolate Jews in Nazi Germany to efforts to isolate other minorities in America today. “Good people of good will must always stand up,” he said. The group intends to work with a diverse group of student leaders as well as University administrators. Representatives from other religious and cultural groups attended the luncheon to support SAID’s mission. College and Engineering junior and PRISM co-chair Gautam Nagaraj praised the group’s mission to bring together minority groups. “We have religious groups, we have minority groups [and] interfaith groups, but we rarely get to say that we’re all in this together and supporting each other,” he said.

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A retrospective on 2015 Fall and spring paved way for 2016 successes TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor

2015 saw plenty of action in and out of the water for Penn rowing for all three teams â&#x20AC;&#x201D; womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, lightweight and heavyweight. One of the three head coaches oversaw his first spring season at the helm; the other two worked their last. The womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team finished sixth at the Ivy League Championships in the spring of 2015. After the season, the program cut ties with coach Mike Lane following 12 years with Penn and hired Wesley Ng in his place. In October, Ngâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s squad earned three gold medals and four silver medals at home in

the Head of the Schuylkill meet. The menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heavyweights had a solid start to the spring of 2015, winning two of their first three meets. The team then hit a bit of a slide, however. The Red and Blue put up a decent showing in the Eastern Sprints Championships (ninth) and National Championships (11th), with the freshman boats finishing third in both meets, but that was not enough to save the job of coach Greg Myhr, who was replaced by Geoff Bond. The heavyweights had a strong fall, finishing second in the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta, but were undone at the Princeton Chase when an oar struck a log in the water, nearly causing the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boat to crash. The menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lightweights had a good spring in 2015 under new head coach Colin Farrell,

highlighted by a win over Navy and a sixth-place finish at the National Championships. In the fall, the team placed fifth in three of its four events. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It being my first year as head coach, there was a lot of groundwork being laid, and trying to get the team understanding what we need to do, and what the standards are, and setting a framework for what our team is gonna be all about,â&#x20AC;? Farrell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So from that standpoint I think last year was pretty successful. From a results standpoint, I think we wanted more. Certainly them finishing the year sixth was a good start for us. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The team is looking to compete at the highest level, so from that standpoint, last year was kind of a start ... a place that we want to improve from.â&#x20AC;?

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ROWING SCHEDULES 2016 MENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S HEAVYWEIGHT

March 26

Class Day Races

Schuylkill

April 2

Burk Cup

Schuylkill

April 9

Childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cup

Overpeck Park, N.J.

April 16

Blackwell Cup

Schuylkill

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Adams Cup

Cambridge, Mass.

April 30

Madeira Cup

Ithaca, N.Y.

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Eastern Sprints Championships

Worcester, Mass.

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Mercer, N.J.

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MIT

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Schuylkill

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Leonia, N.J.

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Saratoga, N.Y.

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Clemson Invitational

Clemson, S.C.

April 23

Dartmouth/Princeton/Bucknell

Princeton, N.J.

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Ivy League Championships

Cherry Hill, N.J.

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powerhouse recruiting power of the Ivies, and raises the question of an international brand name. Speaking from her own experiences, Essex questions whether top rowers from Great Britain and beyond are truly aware of Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offerings on the Schuylkill. On that point, Essexâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s has family in the states, which she credits for her exposure to a larger gamut of collegiate options. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the biggest thing Penn could do is making their presence known more in the UK and Europe because a lot of rowers go to Harvard or Yale or Princeton, but only because those are the names they know,â&#x20AC;? Essex said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not so much a preference of one rowing program over Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, just that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the name they know. So I think if Penn works to get its name out there more, that would be the biggest thing they could do.â&#x20AC;? On the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side, sophomore Dutchman Roel Van Broekhuizen echoes the sentiments of it being a warm welcome, provided one has ample ambition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pretty welcoming atmosphere. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really matter where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re from; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more like if you care about rowing and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re dedicated then youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be welcomed and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll fit right in,â&#x20AC;? Broekhuizen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you like to row and work hard, then thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all that counts.â&#x20AC;? As the only international man on the roster, he recognizes the inherent advantage in pulling globally for forming the best boats around. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The top crews have a disproportionate number of international athletes compared to the regular student body. So recruiting is an essential aspect

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Originally from the Netherlands, sophomore Roel Van Borekhuizen of heavyweight rowing is one of Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three international athletes.

to the strength of a program, so pulling from across the globe just increases your recruiting pool,â&#x20AC;? Broekhuizen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you look at the top crews right now their fastest boats all have a couple of international guys. In Europe, guys will start rowing relatively early so coaches will go out of their way to recruit from outside the U.S there.â&#x20AC;? With that said, Broekhuizen concedes a squad certainly does not need to have international athletes to achieve success, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no question it can help a team out. While maximizing recruiting power seems to be imperative to top teams, Essex questions the extent to which Penn can compete with some of the more established programs when it

comes to claiming global rising stars. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As far as Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m aware, Penn doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have much international recruiting. The new head coach, Wesley Ng, wants to kind of broaden out a bit,â&#x20AC;? Essex said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think Wes knows that and is trying but you can reach out to as many people as you like, but if they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recognize or appreciate what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re offering itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not necessarily going to get much of reaction when you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the same brand name as a Harvard.â&#x20AC;? So while Penn rowing may keep their immediate focus on their blade work and rhythm, the best long term strategy may be to work on the global pipelines for the Quaker rowers of tomorrow.

The two first-years, hailing from opposite sides of the country, make up half of their boat. On the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heavyweight side, a class of eight freshmen also represents one of the programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s smallest incoming classes in recent memory. But the makeup of hometowns speaks to familiarity, as all of the rowers come from the surrounding Mid-Atlantic region. Three Pennsylvania natives and three Connecticut natives

add to already large contingents from those two states, making the Keystone State and the Constitution State the bestrepresented on the team. The addition of 14 freshmen to the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lightweight team is more typical of a Penn side, but only time will tell if the newly added Quakers can help the team improve on last year, in which it recorded its second-highest finish at the IRA National Championships.

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native is not the only first-year to have found a significant position in the team. Tess La Pat ra has been rowing in the second Varsity 8 at the six seat, and the boat has seen results as well, going 7-1 last weekend in Saratoga. Additionally, on the Varsity 4 sit two more freshmen in Victoria Korine and Abigail Scheetz.

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combination of music and move- detail, every detail. From taking the Hutchinson Gymnasium houses the ment,” he explained. “It grabbed me oars down in the morning, to setting rowing programs during the bleak from that first day pretty much until the boats gently in the water, to the winter months when the Schuylkill The oarsmen were largely reI decided to stop.” first stroke off the dock. Everything freezes over and the dropping temceptive to the rapid changes Bond After his retirement from dance, has to have a purpose. With purpose peratures prevent the oarsmen from brought about, though their adaptaShald decided to stay in California and attention to detail fast boats will training on the river. In the basetion, technical or otherwise, was not to attend college at UC-Berkeley. happen.” ment, the team labors away on ergs, all smooth sailing. Cal is a school with a storied hisRowing, for Shald, isn’t just his waiting for spring and the chance to “In terms of the nuances of the tory of rowing, and for an athlete current job or a source of memo- go to work on the open water. technical instruction, it was new to like Shald, who stands at 6-foot-6, it ries from his own career. The sport It is in this facility that the rowers them, and I think a little bit confuswas only a matter of time before he permeates his whole life, even in have put in the most hours and spent ing. There were very few — they’re would cross paths with rowing. the personal realm. Caroline Lind, the most time with the new staff, adgone now — guys who were re“It was something about being in Shald’s wife, is a two-time Olympic justing to both new ways of training sistant. I think perhaps they were and new styles of coaching BRANDON SHALD the Bay Area, you’re surrounded puzzled by some of what was being by water,” he said. “People are — even new equipment. This coached, but they were by and large prospect. But Brandon Shald isn’t rowing past your house in singles. year, the team gained new We have to come receptive.” your everyday assistant coach. When I stopped doing ballet, I was racing shells, Empachers, off every race Though some team members When Shald was 19, he per- looking for something physical to whose signature fluorescent having learned chose to leave the program after not formed as the lead in Balanchine’s do — my dad didn’t want me to yellow skin and masterful meshing well with Bond’s approach, Concerto Barocco ballet, earning get fat and out of shape — rowing something, come off the German engineering have those who remained had the recep- glowing reviews in publications was something always available them popular among water after practice having made tive mindset necessary to function such as the San Francisco Chronicle, to me. I checked out a local boatcrews worldwide. under a new system. Bond empha- who lauded him as a “very musical house and got connected through learned something…” Adjusting to the new staff sizes trust and respect, both among and sensitive partner.” coaches [to Cal]. in tandem with the demands - Brandon Shald the team and in the boat. Just three years later as a fresh“I just hopped in a boat and the of winter training was dif“If you’re going to be a team man at Cal under Bond’s tutelage, rest was history.” ficult for the heavyweight you’re going to need to trust one he traded in his tights for trou, and For Shald, his background in gold medalist for the United States oarsmen but not impossible, acanother,” he said. “It’s not about was racking up prestigious wins at dance served him well as an oars- in the Women’s 8, world record cording to senior captain Connor ‘like.’ We’re socially hardwired to races like the Royal Henry Regatta man. The demanding nature of both holder and multiple time Senior Na- Davenport. deal in ‘like’ and that has nothing to and the Head of the Charles Regatta, sports, as well as the kinesthetic tional Team member. Shald cites her “At the beginning of the year it do with [rowing]. It comes down to eventually winning a national title in awareness and bodyweight strength as one of his biggest inspirations in was a difficult transition,” Daventrust and respect, and when you’re the Freshman 8. Shald developed through ballet, and out of the sport. port said. “But we had a team full of down to the final 30 strokes of the Growing up on a farm in rural gave him an advantage in the boat. “She’s seven months out of back guys who were willing to work hard race, I need to trust that man in front Nebraska, Shald’s first athletic en“Flexibility and rhythm is the surgery and still trying to make this and do it. of me so I only have to worry about deavors were on horseback. It was most obvious thing that helps. But Olympics. The thing that I find that “Coach Bond takes a very technimyself. That trust is built over time, through his younger sister that he body control, manipulating it and I’m fortunate with is that she under- cal approach, whereas Myhr didn’t. by working, failing, and succeeding gained his first exposure to ballet; putting it in positions that coaches stands and knows rowing, and how From day one there was a way together.” after she came home after her own are looking for — sometimes you’ll hard I work, and of course her own [Bond] wanted us to row, everything Bond has also brought an interna- ballet lessons. Shald, always the du- go and tell guys to put their shoul- work ethic.” from your posture in the boat, to the tional focus to recruiting. tiful younger brother, inquired after ders down and they can’t, though it’s After Shald’s time as a collegiate length of the slide, to what the drive “Though Juniors Rowing in pretty simple. That made the rower, he spent time at the Olympic looks like — that’s been the main the U.S. is very popular, there transition easy.” Training Center in Princeton, at- thing for guys, being in line with are not enough top of the line Working with Bond for tempting to make the Olympic boat. what he wants while still going hard Its not about ‘like.’ recruits coming out of the U.S. a second time in his career Though he fell short of his goal, he on the pieces and on the erg.” We’re socially Juniors program to satisfy the — this time as his assistant still brings the experience and lesIn addition to the physical and needs of the top rowing procoach rather than his athlete sons accumulated over a career mental challenges the oarsmen hardwired to grams.” — has made Shald’s transi- spent in the highest levels of the faced over the winter, they gained In a truly Wharton-like deal in ‘like’ and that tion to Penn almost as easy as sport. an understanding of what simply statement, Bond likened the has nothing to do with his transition from dance to “We’re finding ways to get good makes a boat go fast. recruiting pool to global ecorowing. work in,” he said. “Penn hasn’t won Senior Diego Fiori, though in [rowing].” nomics. big races in a while — but coming his final year on the team, found “It is a market, and you have - Geoff Bond The best time of his life here with the idea of building himself learning new caveats from to make sure you’re recruiting “My best time rowing in something, and bringing the things Bond. globally. Our percentage of incollege was freshman year I’ve leaned from the national team “There’s a lot of places to find ternational guys is lower than our what she had learned, at times repli- because of [Bond] and the guys I coaches, from coaches like Bond speed, and we have to get it from competitors’. A young man from cating the moves she demonstrated rowed with. Those friendships that and Gladstone, that’s what we’re every place we can find,” Fiori said. Serbia comes from a place where to him. were formed and the total experi- here to do, to build something. “That means pushing our fitness rowing is really valued and a lot of After encouragement from his ence of life — freshman year was “We have to come off every race numbers, getting technique down people work very hard at it, and he’ll grandfather, Shald eventually pur- the greatest year and I get to relive it having learned something, come to a flawless degree, and then all the be of great value to a crew.” sued — and excelled — at dance, every day, and that’s pretty special.” off the water after practice having other things that go into performing both relocating to Spain to pursue Shald’s experience with Bond, as learned something, ask if we’ve bet- your best.” The most interesting man in the his passion and spending four years both an athlete and now as his assis- tered our teammates and bettered Even with experience from the world training and performing with the tant coach, makes for a staff that is ourselves.” world stage, senior coxswain Jake It’s not every day that a coach was San Francisco Ballet School. cohesive in their approach. Mendelson — who coxed for the both a professional ballet dancer “It was one of those things “The biggest thing we’re bring- The Boys in the Empachers senior national team in Aubergette, and a U.S. Rowing National Team that was pretty awesome, the ing — all of us — is attention to In the shadow of the Palestra, France, this past summer — has

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found himself learning valuable lessons from Bond. “I’ve learned a lot about the stroke and learned so much about physics, how boats move, how human bodies move, and how to exert the most out of a body,” he noted. Physics wasn’t the only thing in which Mendelson got a crash course. Learning a new mindset for the team and setting the tone for a team culture more compatible with higher expectations was another thing Bond brought that Mendelson, as a coxswain, had to instill in his team. “Even with team dynamic, our old culture wasn’t explicitly written,” Mendelson said. “With the new coach, we stated who we wanted to be and he’s taught us to be that in everything we do. “We have to be cohesive in everything we do. It’s almost abrasive — if there’s something we don’t like, we call it out — if you’re not holding others to the highest standard, then what are you holding yourself to?” Creating consistently winning crews is a lengthy and multi-year process, one that requires the right combination of strong recruits, near technical perfection, trust in one’s teammates and hours of work on and off the water. The present oarsmen serve as the foundation for the future, and Bond looks to get all the speed he can from his current crew. “This year, we’re on track, the quality of rowing is dramatically improved. We have enormous strides to make physiologically, getting tougher and getting fitter, we’re still not quite there, but that development will come. “In terms of boat speed, I’m not a prognosticator — I know we’re getting better and we’re going to be as fast as we’re capable of being.”

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2016| NOON–1 P.M. IRVINE AUDITORIUM, AMADO RECITAL HALL To mark the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare this April, three of Penn’s Shakespeare scholars will give three perspectives on Hamlet in this special panel. Zachary Lesser will tell the ghost story of the lost Hamlet quarto, Cary Mazer will discuss the play in performance, and Rebecca Bushnell will speak about choice and consequence. Followed by a Q&A. Knowledge by the Slice Live If you can’t make it to the lecture, you can watch Knowledge by the Slice live online! Visit www.sas.upenn.edu/slice/live to learn more, sign up for an email reminder, or view the lecture. You can also view past Knowledge by the Slice lectures here: www.sas.upenn.edu/slice

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ROWING ISSUE

Uncharted Waters New heavyweight coach Geoff Bond’s fresh philosophy aims to bring glory days back to Penn ARIEL FIELDMAN Sports Reporter

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upac Shakur once noted, “Things changed, and that’s the way it is.”

Things may never be the same for Penn heavyweight rowing, as the program has undergone a near-complete overhaul of the coaching staff. At the conclusion of the 2015 season, previous men’s coach Greg Myhr’s contract was not renewed after six years in University City. However, in its first season with the program, the new staff is looking to bring Penn rowing — a storied program dating back to 1854 — back into the national spotlight. New head coach Geoff Bond and assistant coach Brandon Shald brought their talents to Penn from the University of California, Berkeley, a perennial rowing powerhouse. Bond’s tenure at Cal stretched nine years, during which he coached five boats to national titles at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships and three freshman boats to IRA titles. Shald not only served as an assistant coach for Ivy rival Princeton, but also has a national title under his belt from his time at Cal — where he was coached by none other than Bond. The heavyweight men have enjoyed the tenure of several legendary coaches such as Ted Nash — who participated in 10 total Olympic games as both an athlete and coach — and Joe Burk, once known as the “world’s greatest oarsman,” who coached the Quakers

to both multiple IRA championships and nearly to an Olympic appearance in 1968. However, the last IRA win for the Red and Blue heavyweights came in 1991. Despite not being a heavily decorated program in the past two decades, Bond hopes to usher in an era of higher standards and higher finishes on the national stage for the heavyweights. Turning fine boys into good men Standing in the boat bay of 11 Boathouse Row, Bond gestures to the banners hanging above the rows of racing shells, ruffled slightly by the breeze coming off of the Schuylkill. The red and blue banners catalogue the years of IRA wins and Eastern Sprints championships, serving as a reminder of former victories for the heavyweights — and perhaps as an indicator of what could come. “This place — look at these banners on the ceiling. There have been generations of men here who have made boats go as fast as any in the country, or the world. That’s what Penn’s done, and that’s what Penn should do. This place with its rich tradition and great alumni base should be competitive with anyone.” However, hanging more banners from the rafters of Penn’s boathouse will take buying into a very different system than in years past. Bond is bringing in a technical focus that previously fell to the wayside for the heavyweights.

Class of 2019 small but mighty

Penn’s 34 freshmen on three teams make waves ANDREW ZHENG Associate Sports Editor

After Penn’s sixth-place finish at least year’s Ivy Championships — the team’s best in the tournament’s four-year history — the women’s rowing program underwent a significant amount of restructuring, seeing former head coach Mike Lane head out in favor of current head coach Wesley Ng. With that change in leadership came a need to replace a sizable portion of the Red and Blue rowers, as eight Quakers graduated in the Spring. Upon first glance, eight losses out of a team over 40 strong may not come across as too significant. But considering the fact that four of those seniors rowed in the Varsity 8 at Ivies last year, there was a serious need for the Quakers to replenish their talent pool. Then in came a class of 12 freshmen, the program’s smallest recruiting class in well over 10 years. While the current

newcomers do not represent the recruiting work of Ng, he has not been afraid to apply their talents where necessary. Freshman Christina Nordrum has held the Varsity 8 stroke seat in each of the Red and Blue’s meets this spring; the most recent case was at the Doc Hosea Invitational in Saratoga, N.Y., last weekend, where the Varsity 8 won both of its races en route to clinching the Orange Challenge Cup. Typically, the stroke seat is reserved for one of the most technically sound rowers in the boat. Last year that honor was reserved for then-senior Veronica Jones, but with Jones out of the picture, Nordrum appears to have comfortably stepped into the prestigious role. According to an article in the Redwood Bark, the paper of Nordrum’s high school, Penn was also the only school that Nordrum contacted during the recruiting process — a promising sign for the rejuvenated Red and Blue program. Just as promising is the fact that the Corte Mardera, Calif., SEE FRESHMEN PAGE 10

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Under legendary coach Steve Gladstone — first as an oarsman himself at Brown and then as part of Gladstone’s staff at Cal — Bond developed a strong conceptual and technical knowledge of the sport. Implementing the stroke technique learned under Gladstone and reforming the way the Quakers’ crew rows is foremost for Bond. “The technical tradition goes back a lot of generations,” he said. “In terms of the stroke pattern, that’s consistent and cohesive with what I’ve learned back in the day. I’m a big fan of being able to use your body weight and being a skilled all-around athlete. The foundation was laid at Brown and I’ve taken it with me wherever I’ve coached.” Though Bond’s vision and strategies may be steadfast, it’s no easy task to completely reform the way 41 athletes go about moving a boat. Not only was the challenge a physical one, but one of conforming competing mindsets to a unified goal. “The human ego is what it is. It gets comfortable and gets used to doing something a particular way,” he said. “My job as a coach is bringing the guys where they need to be — to have a strong presence and to be unyielding in terms of my vision and what I’m trying to accomplish. Any resistance is only because they’re used to doing something a certain way.” SEE COACHES PAGE 11

Quakers stay in domestic waters New coaches aim to better foreign recruiting GREG ROBINOV Sports Reporter

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Taylor Auman is one of just eight freshmen, an unusually small class, to join the Penn men’s heavyweight rowing roster in 2016.

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They say sports serve as the world’s language — a way to cross international boundaries with ease. Some sporting events truly do unite people, such as the World Cup, while others aren’t quite there yet. For Penn rowing, these bridges are yet to be completed. Between the men’s and women’s squads, there are only three international athletes of the some 50 total on the rosters. This contrasts uniquely with some of the other Quakers’ teams, which are heavily comprised of student-athletes from across the globe. With the numbers so skewed, it could perhaps be an unnerving environment for those joining the American-dominated scene at the boathouse.

For freshman Isabella Essex of the women’s team, however, the transition from across the pond from London to Philadelphia has been overwhelmingly enjoyable. “People are incredibly supportive when you come and I think there’s an appreciation when you come from very far away,” Essex said. “I’ve never really felt ‘wow I want to go home’ because I feel very supported by the people on the team, and they are really great about making sure I have somewhere to go dinner for Thanksgiving and ask what I’m doing about Easter.” Hailing from the United Kingdom, she is the only European rowing for the Red and Blue, while the crews of the Harvard Crimson and Dartmouth Big Green pull heavily from the prolific stars from the far side of the Atlantic. This contrasts starkly with the SEE INTERNATIONAL PAGE 10