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PERSPECTIVES International students not surprised by 2016 election LUIS FERRE SADURNI Staff Reporter
Survivor of suicide attempt discussed mental health education ELAINE LEE Contributing Reporter
Are you ok? Is something wrong? Can I help you? These are questions that Kevin Hines emphasized as he shared his story of struggling with mental illness, attempting suicide and handling psychiatric care. Had someone asked him these same questions as he cried on the bus to the Golden Gate Bridge, he may never have jumped, he said at an event Monday night. Now 34 years old, Hines is a mental health advocate, documentary filmmaker and bestselling author. Hines shared his story at Penn in an event hosted by the Philadelphia chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Reflecting on Sept. 25, 2000, the fateful day he survived his attempted suicide, he shared his story of recovery and renewed outlook on love and living. SEE MENTAL HEALTH PAGE 7
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We are competing at Penn with this abstract ideal person, this ideal self.”
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he 2016 United States presidential election cycle — with both parties featuring unorthodox political contenders and extensive global media coverage — has been an unprecedented surprise for the American electorate and, perhaps more so, for international students. At Penn, international students have borne witness, much to their surprise and concern, to what is turning out to be a historic election for American politics. Two of the major surprises this election cycle have been the emergence of 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump as the current front-runner for the
Republican nomination and the rise of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — a self-proclaimed democratic socialist — as a serious contender for the Democratic presidential candidacy. The real estate mogul’s rise wasn’t shocking to some international Penn students, such as Engineering senior Zahed Saifi from Jordan. “I actually wasn’t surprised by Donald Trump to be honest,” said Saifi, who is half Lebanese. “I always thought that if you scare the American public and tell them what they want to hear then you’re obviously going to end up getting the votes. In the past [President George W.] Bush used this tactic, a lot of other presidents have used this tactic. Back then it was 9/11 and Al Qaeda, now it is ISIS, refugees and the Paris attacks.” Currently, Trump leads the Republican field with 743 delegates out of the 1,237 needed to secure the nomination without a contested convention. On the Democratic side, Sanders trails former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by an estimated
250 pledged delegates, although her lead is significantly greater when including superdelegates. For certain international students, Trump and Sanders’ emergence was easy to understand because of Americans’ dissatisfaction with the status quo under President Barack Obama. College junior Jesus Alcocer, who is Mexican, said that the American electorate is reacting to the big policy changes enacted under Obama’s administration, such as the Affordable Care Act. “When you go to political science classes they always say that candidates are going to be close to the median voter,” Alcocer said. “The truth is that, in retrospect, it doesn’t seem like a surprise because it is a reaction to Obama’s administration. He implemented some really big reforms, very ambitious.” Alcocer noted that, although many Mexicans regard Trump as a “clown,” the current election cycle has brought a lot of citizens into the political process who previously felt disillusioned with the government.
The amount of people expressing differing opinions was surprising to Wharton junior Aneesh Kancharla, who is Australian . Although Kancharla expressed concern for the amount of support Trump’s unsubstantiated claims have received, he also noted the benefit in the range of opinions seen so far in the elections. “It is definitely a surprise for me because our system is much more constrained in regards to the diversity of views you get,” Kancharla said. “Most of Australian politics fits within the Democratic party … I think it is a really good thing that there has been so much differences in opinion and a much more hardly contested [election] than people might have thought.” Another shocking aspect for many international students has been the behavior among some of the candidates. Many students expressed concern for the lack of substance in the Republican debates and the overwhelming amount of name-calling SEE INTERNATIONAL PAGE 3
Former mayor to teach at Columbia, UChicago The 1979 Wharton graduate has not joined Penn faculty CHARLOTTE LARACY Staff Reporter
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Since his term as Philadelphia’s 98th mayor ended in January, Michael Nutter has had no lack of job opportunities. The 1979 Wharton graduate’s latest job offer is at the University of Chicago. As a fellow at the UChicago Institute of Politics, he will teach a week-long seminar series during the upcoming spring quarter. Unlike Penn, UChicago is on the quarter system. At IOP, he will focus on
how crisis management can upend a mayoralty, the challenges of institutionalizing changes after an election and how the 2016 presidential election will affect America’s big cities. Marc Meredith, professor in the Penn department of political science, said he is not surprised Nutter is a popular commodity on the academic circuit because of his strong record as mayor. “He was seen as having a very successful tenure as mayor here,” Meredith said. “I think he is seen as being very policy knowledgeable and I think universities try to attract people with real world experiences.
He will also work as a senior fellow for What Works Cities, a data-driven program funded by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg with the goal of making government more effective and increasing community engagement. Since leaving office, Nutter has already been a CNN commentator, urban policy professor at Columbia University and a U.S. Department of Homeland Security advisor. As Mayor of Philadelphia, Nutter reduced murder rates to their lowest point since the 1960s, and was able to grow the city’s SEE NUTTER PAGE 6
Students debate existence of Asian privilege in PAACH Organizers hope to unite minority groups at Penn NADIRA BERMAN Contributing Reporter
Students and faculty discuss white privilege in a wide variety of settings on Penn’s campus, from seminars to protests. But few have
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talked about, or even heard of, the concept of Asian privilege. Students participated in an open discussion at the Pan-Asian American Community House Monday night entitled “Does Asian Privilege Exist?” College freshman Queenie Lam and College junior Danielle Pi facilitated this week’s discussion, which comes after the Asian
Pacific Student Coalition’s failure to be guaranteed a seat on the University Council shined a light on issues Asian students face on campus. Participants talked about the definition of privilege, then recognized their own privileges — able-bodiedness, sexual orientation, speaking English and even being a Penn student — before launching into the discussion.
Students disagreed about the existence of Asian privilege. Some argued that Asians are not a privileged group because they often do not have to consider their racial identity and Asian-American issues if they don’t chose to, a privilege not afforded to some other racial SEE PRIVILEGE PAGE 5
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Penn professor on ending chronic homelessness Culhane has been studying homelessness for 25 years SHOBA BABU Staff Reporter
In the United States, more than 560,000 people were homeless on a single night in January 2015, according to Project HOME, a Philadelphia-based advocacy organization. But according to one Penn professor, ending homelessness is possible. School of Social Policy & Practice and Perelman School of Medicine professor Dennis Culhane specializes in homelessness and assisted housing policy. He has been studying homelessness for 25 years and has conducted valuable research in ending homelessness across the nation and the globe. He says newer approaches to ending homelessness have helped mitigate the problem over the years. Culhane’s research breaks down homelessness into two categories: crisis and chronic. 80 percent of cases are crisis homelessness, which is more transient and can be caused by factors like job loss, conflict with family, divorce or incarceration. It usually lasts for 30 days and once people leave, they normally don’t fall back into homelessness. Chronic homelessness can last for years at a time. Those who are chronically homeless have significant behavioral health disabilities, whether it be mental illness, substance abuse addiction or other
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and personal attacks. Ife Emmanuel, a Nigerian exchange student who grew up in the United Kingdom, noted that although heated exchanges between British politicians is normal, the type of disputes he has seen at Republican debates contrasts with the British standard. “You get instances like that in U.K. parliament as well,” said Emmanuel, who pointed out that living in the U.S. during the elections has made it much more striking for him. “In the U.K. you get that. Not to the extreme of talking [about penis size], but you do get some name calling and jokes thrown around. That is not foreign for me.” For Robert Vladareanu, a Wharton freshman from Sweden, the Republican candidates’ lack of civility during debates was striking, describing debates as “the best reality TV show on the market right now.” “It is very unusual from a Swedish or European perspective,” Vladareanu said. “That would be very uncommon and frowned upon in Sweden. Sweden is a very politically correct country and people are pretty sensitive about politics. Even though there is some trash talking it is very indirect and a bit subtle.” Vladareanu also pointed out that Sanders is perceived as radical by some in Sweden, a democratic socialist country. The freshman said that although he agrees with his goals for universal healthcare and education, his populist rhetoric and style is unfamiliar to Swedes. “I would say he is considered radical even in Sweden because he has a certain type of flair that isn’t common in Sweden,”
problems or need for organized assistance to escape homelessness. “The second phase [of our work] has been to design interventions that are specific to those two groups,” Culhane said. “We’ve developed rapid rehousing ... and permanent supported housing intervention for people suffering from chronic homelessness... they each run at about 85 percent effectiveness and are a remarkably low cost to society.” This new “housing first” approach of fighting homelessness focuses on quickly getting people into stable housing first and then getting them access to mental health services, substance abuse treatment and other support services afterwards. The new approach has been shown to work more effectively than prior programs that required homeless people to go through substance abuse and mental health treatments before going through a long social services process to obtain housing. The effectiveness of this model has contributed to an overall decline in homelessness, Culhane said — the United States homeless population has dropped by 26 percent since 2010. It has even been replicated in other countries, including Europe, Canada and Australia. Culhane is currently looking at how to scale these methods further in many diverse contexts and finding ways to fund it. One program that he thinks really demonstrates the country’s potential in ending
Vladareanu said. “In Sweden politicians are pretty passive and quiet when it comes to politics.” Saifi agreed with the Swede’s view regarding the presidential candidates’ behavior. He pointed out how the United States is a leading country of the world in comparison to his home country of Jordan and that the country’s
homelessness is those of the U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs. Under the Obama administration, six billion dollars have been spent since 2009 in obtaining affordable housing vouchers and rapid rehousing to fight chronic and crisis homelessness. Because of this veteran homelessness has dropped by 36 percent since 2010, several states and more than a dozen cities that have ended veteran homelessness, and these areas now have systems in place to resolve new homelessness within 30 days. If the same type of effort was dedicated to ending homelessness among non-veterans as well as veterans, Culhane said, homelessness could be at anend in eight to ten years. Culhane’s commitment for the cause stems from his experiences in undergraduate school doing volunteer work with the homeless. “I had not really encountered that kind of poverty in my upbringing and so it had a very profound impact on me in terms of wanting to think about how to address it,” Culhane said. Working as a community organizer in graduate school allowed him to gain an even deeper understanding of the problem and the perspective of people facing it. “It really helped me understand the problem in a way that I don’t think researchers had traditionally thought about homelessness, and it also helps me to think about interventions that would be much more effective than those taken heretofore,” Culhane said.
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OPINION What kinda Asian are you? Reid about it! | The problem with internal divisions in Penn’s Asian community
Tuesday april 19, 2016 VOL. CXXXII, NO. 49 132nd Year of Publication COLIN HENDERSON President LAUREN FEINER Editor-in-Chief ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects BRIELLA MEGLIO Director of Internal Consulting ISABEL KIM Opinion Editor JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor DAN SPINELLI City News Editor CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor SUNNY CHEN Copy Editor NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor TOM NOWLAN Sports Editor LAINE HIGGINS Sports Editor TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor JOYCE VARMA Creative Director
In today’s racial climate, which has seen a lot of division, tension and revolt, it always seems difficult to insert the “Asian” voice in the dialogue — partly because Asian is an umbrella term. Sometimes, racial issues seem like isolated incidents when they happen to a segment of the Asian community. Yet, to me this also raises the question of why Penn’s Asian community finds difficulty in creating a cohesion out of its diverse cultural groups, especially during times of high tension. Penn’s Pan–Asian community is broad, to say the least. Umbrella organizations with long acronyms subsume smaller, individual groups that represent every faction of Asian identity you could find. For instance, APSC (Asian Pacific Student Coalition) is a student-run organization that coordinates and represents smaller student cultural groups like CSA and VSA, allowing a greater unity to be formed out of many cultural bubbles. The diversity of groups is impressive, and needed, yet how can a community that strives for cohesion appear so fractured? Whenever a racially–motivated attack happens within
the Asian community — such as at last year’s VSA Spring Fling barbecue — there is little sense of coming together. One group’s issues seem isolated from that of another’s group. There exists no strong movement that tries to unite the pan– Asian identity in times of strife, because it has always been culturally diverse by nature. With all these communities built around us, we somehow still struggle to solidify the PanAsian collective. In a community where there are multiple dimensions to what “Asian” means, finding the middle ground between a synthesis of cultures while appreciating their diversities is challenging. One Asian sophomore from California meditates on the cultural divide between Asians present already in the United States. He begins by noting that divisions already exist between the East Coast and West Coast: “It’s a different culture already because East Coast Asians are mostly [from] mainland China, and West Coast [Asians] are mostly Vietnamese immigrants.” He then acknowledges the pressures to fit into a label: “At Penn … I’m forced to represent my culture. People ask, ‘You know the best dimsum
places right?’ It’s forced me to become a lot more aware of myself as a culture. Being Chinese only became important when being in an environment where that was my sole identifier.” In fact, there are so many
definition. Moreover, how can an Asian born and raised in the West truly reclaim such a simultaneously flattening and unifying word like “Asian?” College junior Steven Sun acknowledges that “the way the Penn community talks about it,
In a community where there are multiple dimensions to what “Asian” means, finding the middle ground between a synthesis of cultures while appreciating their diversities is challenging.” cultural complexities within the community that calling it “Asian” begins to feel like a misnomer. It’s a word that seems to have lost cultural meaning from the moment having monolids became synonymous with being “vaguely Chinese.” Often, Asians from the Middle East and South Asia are excluded from that
being Asian is very polarizing.” He stresses further that, “For Asian Americans … we’re slightly more diluted. Getting in touch with our heritage is an obligation a lot of Asian Americans feel. For [international Asians] their identity is not really questioned.” A half–Vietnamese, half– white student I talked to admits
that: “[At Penn], white people would tell me I’m not white, and I take that as meaning I’m not a part of their community. In the Asian community, people will tell me, ‘You’re not Asian,’ as though I’m not enough. But I grew up in a predominantly white area, so Asian American meant, since there was so few of us, that there was a shared identity.” This shared identity comes into question considering how the Asian community is structurally divided at Penn. Having always identified as Asian, I feel a divergence between what my Asian American peers understand of my culture, and what I do of it. As such, I can’t imagine how to properly unify culturally unique groups under the “Asian” umbrella, and how mobilization can work to bring out a wholly united “Asian” voice. Somehow the Asian community tries to unite itself by gravitating to generically Asian cultural markers and activities. From my experience, activities like Chinatown runs or bubble tea hangouts act as artificial links that provide the semblance of authenticity. Inevitably, this creates a bubble justifying what is “authenti-
Amanda Reid cally” Asian and what isn’t; soon enough, anyone who once thought “Asian” could apply to them would feel excluded if they grew up with a different version of the Asian experience. This is more than just an identity crisis, it’s the real challenge that comes with diversity — that balance between cohesion and appreciation of our differences. Not until we acknowledge that there is a fractured, polarizing component to the Asian identity at Penn can we really learn to create a more united, yet diverse, community of Asians. Amanda Reid is a College sophomore from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, studying cinema studies & English. Her email address is amreid@sas.upenn. edu. “Reid About It!” usually appears every other Tuesday.
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On Monday, April 11, we all suffered a great loss. I was shocked and saddened to hear that a Penn student took her own life, but as cavalier as this may sound, I wasn’t too surprised. Our university has had a string of suicides over the past three years and that by no means creates a culture that condones suicide, but it makes it start to feel like “something that might happen at Penn.” It’s true that Penn is competitive, but in my almost two years here I’ve never actually felt like I’m competing with another student directly. People don’t sabotage one another or wish for others to fail — in fact, countless times I’ve been touched by the incredible generosity and support of my peers who have gone out of their way to help me. But we are competing at Penn with this abstract ideal person, this ideal self. The one with a 4.0 GPA taking six classes who’s on the executive board of five clubs and somehow still makes the time to go to the gym every morning. The one that is successful. And striving to-
wards this ideal of success can be motivating. I can honestly say I’ve never worked harder than I have at Penn, and it’s probably pushed me to develop a work ethic that another environment might not have. However, it’s easy to forget that this ideal of success you are striving towards is actually unattainable. And so when you fall short, you are inclined to doubt or criticize yourself. And I think that leaves you constantly feeling dissatisfied, or even unhappy, with your achievements. For me, it was this pernicious feeling that I was selling myself short, and not making the most of my Penn experience, that I should stop slacking and start doing more. After all, “everyone else” seemed to be even busier and they all seemed to be coping, if not thriving. Only I wasn’t achieving success. And that underlying sense of “I’m not successful” made other stressful events in my life seem unbearable. Last semester I was juggling six classes, serving on the executive board of a club and
stressing about how to get an internship for summer. A few of my close friends at Penn were already recruiting for big firms, but I hadn’t yet decided whether or not I wanted to enter the finance or consulting industries or try something else. There was a midterm coming up that I was grossly underprepared for and I didn’t even know where to begin. And these things on their own are stressful but I think
I loved. I failed a test in one of my favorite classes because I couldn’t muster up the energy to study. During my runs downtown along Walnut, as I crossed the Schuylkill, there would be this part of me that wanted to leap over the edge into the water. I imagined I would feel free and weightless, and yet I knew that wasn’t true. But it took me sitting in my room one day, spontaneously burst-
... we are competing at Penn with this abstract ideal person, this ideal self.” they all just piled on top of the underlying unhappiness I felt. I started to withdraw into myself because I felt like a failure. I would walk down Locust Walk and actively avoid any acquaintances or friends because I didn’t want to have to engage in conversation. I couldn’t work up the motivation to do things
ing into tears to admit to myself that I was deeply unhappy and I could no longer ignore it. The part that scares me is that, as this was happening, I recognized that I was being irrational, but I still couldn’t get rid of my irrational thoughts. And it wasn’t until I finally opened up to someone else that my
perspective changed. My own experience showed me that it’s necessary to talk to someone else or physically change your environment to gain an outside perspective on your life. When I did so, the worries that were weighing me down didn’t seem so critical and became more manageable. Now that I’m studying abroad, I realize how easily I got wrapped up in the Penn bubble, especially last semester, and how I’ve unconsciously associated that place with stress and work, when it can and should be a place of learning and growth. I wanted to share my experience so that if you’ve ever felt similarly, you know you’re not alone. Sometimes being at Penn feels like being tossed into an ocean with no life vest, and as the weight of academics or clubs starts to drag you down, it’s up to you to fight to stay afloat. With everyone in the same position, I was worried that burdening someone else with my problems would drag them down, but I’ve found it doesn’t. Sharing these feelings with someone reminds you
both that you are not alone in your vulnerabilities. I didn’t know Olivia personally, but I hope that part of her legacy is to encourage people not to bottle up these feelings of doubt and stress, but to express them. I also hope on the institutional level for honest conversations about why students at Penn find it so easy to feel overwhelmed here, and what we can do as individuals, communities and a University to redefine success. We need to be reminded that being successful is not about being perfect; being successful is about being dedicated and resilient and seeing yourself as a work in progress. Finally, as you finish up the semester and head into finals, please take care of yourself. Make sure you have a few people who you can trust and depend on to talk to and know there is always someone who can make the time to hear you out. You never have to struggle alone. Ritika philip is a College and Wharton sophomore.
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groups. Others argued that some Asian ethnic groups are not as privileged as others; for example, Cambodian immigrants often have lower socioeconomic status than those who are part of other ethnic groups. “[Asian privilege] is pitting minorities against each other, so [it’s] turning our focus away from white supremacy and white privilege,” Lam said, arguing that Asian privilege does not exist. “That’s what’s preventing minorities from standing up together and having solidarity.” Wharton senior Tanya Jain disagreed, citing how Asians are privileged in comparison to other ethnic groups. “I definitely think Asian privilege exists,” she said. “Asians assume the benefits of not being black, but also the burdens of not being white. ... Inherently, the way a lot of us look — a.k.a. not black — lends us a sense of privilege. It’s not that we’re the most hardworking, it’s that we’re
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not going to be targeted when we step out the door.” The event was the fifth in a sequence of conversations called The Solidarity Series, started
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this semester by Jain and College and Wharton junior Will Wang. Previous events have focused on topics such as misogyny and antiblackness in the Asian Pacific
American community. Wang and Jain hope to expand the discussion series to involve Makuu and La Casa Latina. Part of their goal is to unite the minority population at Penn, which they say is currently separated. “In my experience, the Chinese Student Association and also PAACH [have] been a little self-segregating,” Pi said. “But I think breaking that barrier first, within the community, and then reaching out, having more collaborative events, is really fruitful.” Pi called for larger cultural spaces so that different groups can collaborate more easily. “It feels like we want to do bigger things,” she said, “but that’s just not possible given the physical constraints of the space.” Jain said racial self-segregation is common at Penn. In her experience, students get filtered into homogenous groups and only hear opinions from people with similar perspectives. “Your exposure to other cultures just gets thrown out the
window,” she said. “I think [our series is] important because at the fundamental level, we need to understand that we need to
empathize with other communities in order to raise all minorities together. One way of doing that is through discussion.”
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population for the first time in 57 years, thanks to an influx of immigrants and highly educated millennials. Nutter was also able to guide the city through the worst economy in recent history, but not without receiving some criticism. While some neighborhoods saw increa se d development a nd prosperity, other neighborhoods experienced creeping poverty and stagnant economic prosperity. His ma nagement of the recession also made him enemies with unions, especially the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, which had health care cut out of their contracts in 2014. During his mayoralty, Nutter also alienated business leaders who had hoped the crisis would lead to a slimmeddown City Hall bureaucracy, and had a strained relationship with former colleagues at City Council.
Nutter has been thought of highly outside of Philadelphia, receiving compliments from President Barack Obama and Bloomberg. In 2014, Nutter was named one of Governing magazine’s “Public Officials of the Year.” In Philadelphia, citizens still hold mixed feelings toward Nutter. One of his most controversial ideas was to close some of the city’s libraries during the recession. In March 2015, Michael Nutter’s approval rating stood at 52 percent, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts. However, his approval rating among black Philadelphians was only 30 percent. Meredith said the fact that Philadelphians are more liberal than Nutter’s policies is one explanation of the disparity between Nutter’s public approval ratings and his respectable reputation. “In Philadelphia, almost ever yone ca lls themselves Democrats, but as Democrats go in Philadelphia, Nutter is
certainly more on the conservative side than [current Mayor Jim Kenney],” Meredith said. “A lot of it probably is a reaction to the fact that he governed more from the right than the median voter in Philadelphia would have preferred.” Nutter was born in West Philadelphia, earned his undergraduate degree from Wharton and was the councilman for the fourth district for 15 years. Now, all of his job prospects have taken him out of the city. However, Meredith would not be shocked if he came back to Philadelphia for a career in statewide politics in Pennsylvania or as an instructor at Penn. “It seems like if the right job opportunity arose at a place like Penn, I could see him coming here,” Meredith said. “But at universities, the situation is more of a ‘right place, right time’ factor, so there just might not have been the position that was right for him this time around. And who knows what will come around in the future?”
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Students serve as educators, ambassadors ALIZA OHNOUNA Staff Reporter
While most Penn teaching assistants are preparing for their final recitations of the semester, a handful of TAs are preparing to begin work in one of the most intensive TA positions that Penn has to offer: working as TAs for high school students in Wharton’s various pre-college summer programs. Residential teaching assistants straddle the line between parent, friend, peer, educator and Penn ambassador for rising high school seniors participating in one of Wharton’s five highly-selective pre-college programs. These programs include Leadership Education and Development (LEAD), Leadership in the Business World (LBW), the Management and Technology Summer Institute (M&TSI), Wharton Moneyball Academy and Wharton Sports Business Academy (WSBA). Each of the programs is about one month long and is modeled after MGMT-100, a required course for Wharton freshman. Students are divided into small teams and tasked with developing a business plan related to the themes of their particular program. Some programs present their plans at the end of program to a group of judges, which then select a winning team. Summer RTAs are assigned to head each team and to help to facilitate the team’s business plan development, said Wharton sophomore Richie Lou, a former RTA for LBW. He would frequently take his team to GSRs and guide their discussions.
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“This is about reaching an audience with individuals that are hurting,” Hines said in an interview. “Either hurting from someone they lost, or they’re lost. And they’re in desperate need of hearing the message that they have a voice and it needs to be heard. No matter the emotional, physical, mental pain they’re going through, there can be a future without suicide.” Hines began the event by calling for a moment of silence for those contemplating suicide or for those who have seen loved ones die from or attempt suicide. The event came just a week after the death of Wharton junior Ao “Olivia” Hong by suicide, which sparked renewed conversations of mental health on campus. Hines said his belief that no one cared about him was a big contributor to his feelings of depression. “I thought everybody in my life hated me. I thought they wanted me dead. None of that was true,” Hines said. “I kept it all inside, I denied my own true state of being, I was
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The various Wharton pre-college summer programs require residential teaching assistants, and are staffed by current students, who act as teachers, parents, friends and educators to the incoming seniors.
RTAs are also seated at the back of the Huntsman lecture halls to ensure that students are paying attention to the speaker. RTAs get a very comprehensive picture of their students both inside and outside of the classroom, said Teran Tadal, who selects high school students to participate in LBW and RTAs for both LEAD and LBW. One of the challenges she cited that RTAs have to overcome is students seeing them as friends instead of educators and oversharing personal information. Wharton junior Emily Huber, one of the former head RTAs for LBW, agreed. One of the biggest challenges she’s had to tackle as an RTA is helping students manage their stress levels
ashamed. I was embarrassed, and I thought that if I told anyone in my family what was going on, that they would just lock me up in a psych unit, never to be let out.” Sharing his experiences in psychiatric care after being rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard, Hines said that what was most disturbing was the “forgotten”: those who receive no visitors while in psychiatric care. He emphasized that many suicidal people are internally begging for help but cannot seek it. “I desperately wanted to live, but I believed I had to die,” Hines said. “Had I had education in high school about mental illness, had I had education about how to fight it and had my family had known tools to suicide prevention, all of this outcome would have been different.” When asked by an audience member for advice for those who have recently lost someone to suicide, Hines stressed the importance of not feeling guilty for not “being there.” “I can’t save a life: I can share a message, and hope to inspire someone to save their own life,” Hines said. “To ask for help from a myriad
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throughout the program. “A lot of these people come in and are really surprised by how competitive the environment is,” Huber said. She noted that the students represent a pretty good crosssection of Penn’s applicant pool, and that because many are in the top of their class, the pre-college program is the most intense competition they’ve faced. She recalled having to pull students aside on several occasions and help them calm down. A large source of the stress, Huber noted, comes from students’ belief that success in the program is a ticket to admission to Penn. It isn’t. While there is a team who wins the business plan competition in LBW,
LEAD and WSBA, it doesn’t confer any advantage in the admissions game. Grades are not given in any of the programs except for the M&TSI, for which students are awarded college credit. But at the end of the program, the RTAs send written performance evaluations for each student to Penn’s Admissions Office, based on how they observed students interacting in groups. The evaluations do provide the admissions officers a perspective of how well a given student fits at Penn. Wharton sophomore Artemis Tiburcio, an RTA and alumnus of LEAD, a program designed to help introduce diverse high school students to the business
collect students’ Penn cards before their curfew at around 11 p.m. They’re also responsible for ensuring that student travel in groups of three anywhere outside of the Quad. The selection process for RTAs is an involved one, including a written application and at least one interview. Many of the RTAs are alumni of the programs themselves, and some aren’t Penn or Wharton students. Many of the RTAs develop close bonds with their students. Lou, who also participated in LBW as a high school student, recalled his team having a particularly close bond with his RTA. His team took her out to Pod at the end of the program. Last summer, his team did the same for him. Lou is still in touch with his team. He’s been helping them make college decisions. The RTAs also reap some professional benefits. “LBW’s a great experience for these kids because they’re meeting all these cool business leaders … but you also get to engage with these added benefits,” Lou said. “You get to meet with these top business leaders too and make connections.”
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Penn’s lacrosse programs, which have each clinched berths in the Ivy League Tournament from May 6-8. “You know what you have coming up for weeks, so sometimes you might just have to do things ahead of time,� senior women’s lacrosse midfielder Brooke Kiley said. “For example, I have a finance exam on Thursday and we have [Ivy League-leading] Princeton on Wednesday night, so I studied for that exam like a week ago and it’s not really on my plate anymore. ... Everything is kind of that mentality; there can be difficulty prioritizing things, so you have to find that balance and make decisions for yourself.� Understanding the increasing burdens on their players, coaches can work to help marginally, but a drop-off in intensity with conference and national titles at stake is unacceptable. “As we get later in the season, we don’t need practices to be so long, so we can try to keep them working harder for a shorter period of time,� women’s lacrosse coach Karin Corbett said. “The reason each of these kids came here is to be student-athletes; lacrosse is a big priority for them right under academics, so they just have to look ahead a little bit more than a normal student would.� One might think that with all the obligations surrounding Penn’s spring athletes, the academic performances would inevitably drop — but the numbers say otherwise. Penn boasts five
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obviously students come to Penn for academics first, and we understand that,� said track and field coach Steve Dolan, whose teams will compete in the Ivy League Championships from May 7-8. “People have had to miss competitions. ... There are simply times when we’ve had to step away and give up a competitive opportunity for the students’ academic pursuits.� Still, the professors’ difficulties in scheduling exams pale in comparison to those faced by the athletes themselves. In addition to the already daunting grind of preparing for their respective postseasons, Penn’s student-athletes are forced to tackle the challenges of readying for exams at the same time, leaving time for all work and no play as soon as each day’s final whistle comes. “It’s all about time management; as soon as you get done with practice, you do need to go back and get your work done,� freshman pole vaulter Nicole Macco said. “We definitely came into school knowing that we should be expecting this. ... You know that you’re not going to have the time that other students do to go out and do fun things sometimes.� One benefit that Dolan’s squad does have is the largely individual nature of track and field, which permits athletes to work on their crafts when they’re forced to miss a team practice. But this isn’t at all the case for
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competitive nature, Rogers believes that this loss taught him much more than a win could have. “I definitely needed to lose that race. I hate losing but that taught me that I still have a lot to learn.�
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of the 110 Division I teams that have earned Public Recognition Awards (given to teams that had Academic Progress Rate scores in the top 10 percent of their sport nationally) in each of the past 11 years — the fourth most in the country. Even more amazingly, four of these five are spring sports, proving that Penn truly encourages the student-athlete label even in crunch time. “It’s a competitive academic
“Cal is kind of in some unchartered territory for Penn track and field runners,� Martin said. “You just don’t see elite-level sprinting, and Calvary is one of the 10 fastest freshmen in the country.� And not only is Rogers showing incredible prowess on the track. In fact, his engagements off the track
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“This year [I can] throw a curveball in fastball counts, throw it for strikes when hitters aren’t ready for it just to get that extra advantage to get ahead of hitters,� Kleiman said. “It really helps.� Kleiman’s deception and ability to locate his pitches has allowed him to move through lineups quickly without running his pitch count too high. As a result, he’s pitched a team-high 40 innings this year, averaging just shy of six innings per start. K leima n’s durability has helped take pressure off the bullpen in collegiate seveninning games. Despite the increased efficiency on the mound that both have pursued, the added workload has inevitably increased the strain on their arms. “The last couple games that I’ve started, I’ve gone over a hundred pitches, and I don’t think I’ve done that since I was back in my high school days,� Lescher said. “But it’s something you get adjusted to. “There’s definitely a lot more arm fatigue this year than last year, but we have a great training staff, and they’re very on top of making sure that we’re healthy.� Both Lescher and Kleiman have pitched key games for the Quakers this season. Just a week after being named
As part of Penn track and field, freshman Nicole Macco will be one of the many Penn athletes that will have to balance finals and competition.
His improvement this outdoor season shows how much he has taken that second-place finish to heart. At the Florida Relays earlier this month, Rogers ran a 20.95 200m, which not only placed him 3rd all time in the Penn record books but smashed his previous personal record of 21.52.
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environment, but the hope is they can use their day hours to the best of their abilities and find ways to recover,� Dolan said. “In the end, I really think academics and athletics can work well hand-in-hand — our students can excel in both.� Now, with only nine days until the Penn Relays open and thirteen days until final exams, Dolan’s team and several others are rapidly approaching the opportunity to back up those words yet again. Let the games begin.
are equally impressive. Rogers serves the Vice President for External Affairs for the 2019 Class Board and is an Undergraduate Assembly representative for the College. He says his decision to run was an easy one as he cares deeply about the school and wanted to gives athletes a voice. Aside from student government, his social activism is also apparent in his work with the Penn Against Gun Violence club, which he cofounded. The leadership and compassion he exhibits in these endeavors also translates to the track. When asked what Rogers contributes most to
Penn track, Martin paused before saying “character� confidently. “That’s kind of odd to say for someone with his talent level but ... I think its easy especially as an athlete to get really myopic in the way you view the world, and that’s just not part of Cal’s make-up. “I think he’s really just a citizen of the world and to have leaders like that on the team is really important. This is a really formative four years for athletes and students and to have leaders like Cal around is really helpful for the team to see that people are thinking about things bigger than themselves.
Big 5 Pitcher of the Week, Lescher pitched a complete game against Yale on April 3, striking out 10 batters on his way to a 3-2 victory to help Penn achieve a doubleheader sweep of the Bulldogs. Kleiman turned in a sparkling six shutout innings against Dartmouth, helping the Quakers escape Hanover with a series split on April 9. Yet, not all of the season has been as smooth. Lescher allowed seven runs in a loss to a powerful Princeton team on April 16, while Kleiman followed that afternoon by giving up three runs in a narrow loss to the Tigers. Neither first-year member of the rotation has let that hiccup get them down, however. “Obviously, I think it’s i nc r e d ibly d isapp oi nt i ng whenever you go out there and don’t give your team the best chance to win,� Kleiman said. “I’m going to work on the things I think I was lacking last week against Princeton, and I’m just going to trust that what’s made me successful in the past will continue to do so in the future.� “They say baseball players have to have short memories to be good because it’s such a long season and there are so many games,� Lescher added. “You just have to come back, get a good week of work in, go out the next weekend and dice ‘em up.�
On the track, Martin stressed that the best of Rogers is yet to come. And Rogers has his goals set high goals for himself including winning Ivies, setting school records, and hopefully one day competing for Team USA. “Not a week goes by where he doesn’t ask me about some technical element or another and how he can improve on that or if he can come in in the morning and do extra work,� Martin said. At the end of the day though, “He’s really really fast and that is cool, but there’s so much more to Calvary that makes him really special.�
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Penn looks inward to grow out Princeton finally NICK BUCHTA
Last week, Penn Athletics announced the elevation of assistant squash coach Gilly Lane to head men’s coach. It was just the most recent in a string of internal promotions and Penn Athletics alums rehired by the athletic department. While performance on the field is one thing, the treatment of those invested in Penn Athletics is of equal importance. And time and again, Penn athletic directors — Grace Calhoun and her predecessor, Steve Bilsky — have shown willingness to reward their own. Lane’s promotion is everything we should expect out of Penn. He played for the Red and Blue, succeeded professionally outside the University, then found his way back to campus as an assistant. And his story is by no means unique. Take swimming coach Mike Schnur, for example. The reigning Ivy Legaue coach of the year has been a fixture in University City for over 30 years, first as a student-athlete, then an assistant coach and now at the helm of his alma mater’s program. Or the decision to make nowfootball coach Ray Priore the head coach-in-waiting under Al Bagnoli, rewarding the longtime defensive coordinator of over
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After over two decades as a Penn football assistant, Ray Priore took over at the helm last year, guiding the Quakers to an Ivy title.
two decades on the sidelines at Franklin Field. It speaks volumes that Calhoun — and Bilsky before her — have worked to reinforce a culture that keeps around those who bleed Red and Blue. More than what it tells Penn Athletics staff, these moves are important for athletes as well. Not only do they build stability within programs — such as when baseball coach John Yurkow was elevated from assistant after the firing of John Cole in 2013 — but it belies a commitment to the people that make up Penn Athletics. Perhaps most important is the way this has manifested itself even at the administrative level.
As Calhoun has worked to reinvigorate student interest in sports, she made the decision last summer to make former wrestling coach Roger Reina the senior associate athletic director for external affairs. Reina attested to the intrinsic value of bringing in staff with a Penn Athletics background in January. “I came from when we didn’t charge for wrestling and we had a couple parents and the janitors might watch the match to where we had thousands of people coming in regularly,” he noted. “So absolutely, I know we can build fanbases, we’ve done it in the past and we’re in the process of doing it again.
“But we know it’s a different landscape to market effectively in.” It makes a difference when you bring in a men’s basketball coach like Steve Donahue — who spent 10 years as an assistant here — or women’s basketball coach like Mike McLaughlin — who grew up, played and coached in Philadelphia prior to coming to Penn. “Being a part of the Philadelphia area, I know what the Big 5 is... It means a lot because of where I’m from,” McLaughlin noted after taking home the city’s Coach of the Year award in March. He understands the value of the Big 5 and what it means to Penn basketball fans — because he grew up with it. These coaches have an understanding of what Penn Athletics stands for, and they’re able to live up to its ideals because of it. Grace Calhoun is building Penn Athletics the right way. NICK BUCHTA is a College junior from Olmsted Falls, Ohio, and is senior sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at buchta@thedp.com.
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Last Monday, Princeton announced that it was discontinuing its long-beleaguered sprint football team, effective immediately. The decision follows over two decades of immense struggles from the program, which has not won a single game since 1999; the program has been forced to forfeit four games over the last five seasons, including its 2014 game against Penn. With Princeton’s decision to leave, Cornell and Penn are now the only Ivy League schools with a sprint program. The Collegiate Sprint Football League has expanded in recent years to include Post (2010), Franklin Pierce (2012), Chestnut Hill
(2015) and Caldwell (joining 2017). The two primary reasons Princeton cited for its decision to leave are troubles with filling out its roster — hence the history of forfeits — and injury concerns among its largely inexperienced roster. “The risk of concussion and catastrophic injury is a major concern of ours and the medical staff advising us, and it is directly related to both the team’s inadequate roster size and the fact that too many of our players have much less football experience or athletic training than players from other schools in the league,” Princeton president Christopher L. Eisgruber wrote in a letter to program alumni. As a result of Princeton’s decision, Penn will play one fewer game this fall before returning a full slate of games with Caldwell’s arrival in 2017.
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WILD BASEBALL | Lescher, Kleiman
thrive as Quakers’ 1-2 punch STEVEN JACOBSON Sports Reporter
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hile they may have been nonentities last year, sophomore right-handed pitcher Billy Lescher and junior southpaw Gabe Kleiman have become indispensable members of Penn baseball’s pitching staff this season. Pitchers Connor Cuff and Ronnie Glenn, who accounted for 17 starts and 91 innings between them last season, left a large void in Penn’s starting rotation after the two graduated. Lescher and Kleiman were two of four pitchers who competed for the opportunity over this fall, winter and early spring to fill those rotation spots behind juniors Mike Reitcheck and Jake Cousins. “At no point did that become unfriendly competition,” Kleiman said. “We all wanted each other to be as good as possible and keep getting better. I think that’s helped both of us to become as successful as we’ve been this year so far.” After beginning the spring in the bullpen, Lescher worked his way into the starting rotation by the time the team began to face its Ivy League opponents in
early April. In four relief appearances and five starts, he has worked a 4-2 record to go along with a 3.97 earned run average. Lescher’s success has come after he only pitched 1.2 innings during the entire 2015 season. Lescher’s strong showing has come after the pitcher improved his mechanics and his strength in the weightroom. Lescher honed his skills over the summer, pitching for his hometown Alexandria Aces in the Cal Ripken League before returning to Penn in the fall. Subsequently, Lescher has seen an increase his fastball velocity from 85-89 miles per hour last season to 91-93 MPH this season. Counting himself among the hardest throwers in the Ivy League, Lescher has averaged nearly a strikeout per inning and has held his opponents to a team-best .224 batting average, good for seventh in the Ivy League. The Alexandria, Va., native has also added a slider to his repertoire behind his fastball and his changeup.
“It works pretty well — when it actually slides,” Lescher said with a laugh. Kleiman began the year as the team’s No. 3 starter when the Quakers made their trip to Florida over spring break, and he has not disappointed. In six innings, the New York native gave up only two runs against a powerful North Florida team in Penn’s third game of the year, helping the team achieve its first victory of the season. Since then, Kleiman has reeled off six more starts while pitching to a 2.25 ERA, the best on the Red and Blue’s staff and tied with Brown junior right handed pitcher Christian Taugner for the best in the Ivy League. The junior southpaw’s ascent is remarkable, given that he posted a mediocre 5.06 ERA at Division III Bard College as a freshman before transferring to Penn last year. Kleiman was not guaranteed a spot on the roster after arriving at Penn, but made the team after a few practices. He was forced to sit out the entire season due to NCAA transfer rules.
Although Kleiman missed live game action, he took the time off as an opportunity to get better. “I think I had a big opportunity to improve a lot over the last year and a half because I wasn’t able to play,” Kleiman said. “I spent the better part of that spring and the entire summer trying to get my body in the best shape possible. “It could be tough, knowing that I couldn’t play, to keep going through the motions every single day, but I just had to stay patient and keep trusting our coaches, trusting the weightlifting staff and powering through it for the past year and a half.” Kleiman also credits added muscle in addition to an expanded repertoire of pitches as the main reasons behind his emergence. Although the junior transfer’s fastball usually sits below 90 miles per hour, he supports it with three off-speed pitches that he can throw for strikes in any count. SEE PITCHING PAGE 8
Rogers makes big impression Athletes balance finals, practices TRACK & FIELD | Sprinter
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Both on and off the track, sprinter Calvary Rogers is already making a mark as part of the Red and Blue in his freshman year.
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If you asked most Penn students if they really enjoyed their toughest Pottruck workouts, the answer would probably be no. Hard runs or the dreaded leg days are often the things that — despite being sometimes necessary — they dread the most. Calvary Rogers, freshman track phenom, on the other hand, relishes the opportunity to have his coaches push him every day in practice. “It’s an amazing feeling going to practice every day,” the Rochester, N.Y., native said. “Even though it’s a really hard work out sometimes, I walk out and say I did something to improve an area of my life that God has given me.” It’s this passion and drive to improve himself and the world around him that guides Rogers in everything he does — from the track to the classroom to his Penn student government meetings. When Rogers first arrived at Penn this fall, his coaches knew
that he was a talented sprinter, but even they weren’t expecting him to contribute as much as he has to Penn track and field. “When he got here, he just had way more speed than we thought he did, which is kind of a fun surprise,” coach Robin Martin said. “He did a lot of work to really develop that speed, and one of the most exciting things for us as a coaching staff is helping him make that [natural speed] work in his events.” Before long, Rogers was turning heads of coaches and teammates alike, breaking records in the 200and 400-meter sprints, his primary events. And these performances didn’t come as a surprise to just the coaching staff. “I shock myself every single meet to be honest with you,” Rogers said. After improving throughout the indoor season, during Indoor Heps, Rogers notched the secondbest 200m indoor time in Penn history with a 20.58 but narrowly missed out on first place by .02 seconds. Despite his incredibly SEE ROGERS PAGE 8
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All of Penn’s student body knows that “finals season” is approaching. But for a select subset of the school, the phrase is a bit of a double entendre. For Penn’s spring athletes, academic exams won’t be the only hyper-competitive action in the next few weeks. During the school’s final exam period of May 2-10, both men’s and women’s track and field and men’s and women’s lacrosse will be competing for conference titles, with baseball and softball also still in contention for the Ivy League Championship Series during the same week. “It’s just a matter of really, really managing your time correctly, because that’s the one thing you can’t get back,” freshman sprinter Calvary Rogers said. “It can be very hard when you’re really nervous for
a race and nervous for a test as well, but the one thing you have to tell yourself is that if so many people on this team have made it through, you definitely can too.” In addition his sprinting work, Rogers has made strides off the track as well, having joined the Undergraduate Assembly in an effort to help athletes manage their seemingly impossible workloads. “One reason I actually joined the UA was to try to figure that out more,” he said. “Maybe start a policy where athletes can get some more leniency or a better system regarding [the scheduling of inseason exams].” Indeed, with both Penn’s athletic teams and academic courses simultaneously entering the most critical portions of their respective seasons, avoiding such conflicts can be difficult due to the jam-packed schedules. “We’ve had some situations where professors will allow alterations of a test time or we’ve had to proctor a test during travel, but SEE FINALS PAGE 8 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640