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Juniors barred from the Quad on Hey Day

Like last year, they won’t be able to visit their freshman halls KELLY HEINZERLING Staff Reporter

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This Thursday, Penn juniors will march down Locust Walk with their customary red t-shirts, hats and canes as part of the 102nd Hey Day — a “moving up” celebration established

at Penn in 1916.

For the second consecutive year, juniors will be denied access to visit their freshman halls — a traditional part of Hey Day celebrations.

In an emailed statement sent earlier today to residents of the college houses, Residential Services said only residents of the Quadrangle, New College House, Kings Court English College House and Rodin College

House will be able to swipe into the dorms from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Hey Day. These lowered occupancy rules were first enforced last year, when approximately 100 juniors were blocked from entering the Upper Quad gate, leading to a standoff between the students and Penn Police.

Juniors last year tried to get around the rule by having freshmen swipe

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them into the Quad as guests, but the emailed statement sent this morning said this will not be an option this year. College houses will not be issuing guest passes on Thursday, although all dorms except the Quad will allow one-time guest sign-ins.

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tudents interning in the federal government this summer have mixed feelings about the current political climate. Some say they’re uneasy about working under the Trump administration, while others are relatively unaffected by the presidential transition.

College sophomore Sarah Lentz received an internship offer to work with Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) just before Election Day. Now, she said she is feeling apprehensive about working in Washington, D.C. “The total environment of D.C. has changed, and I applied assuming [Hillary Clinton] would win and assuming I would work in a Democratic administration,” Lentz said. “So initially it was really shocking and weird to think about.”

Still, Lentz said she is eager to learn about government from an insider’s perspective.

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Police escorted handcuffed man out of Huntsman Sunday evening

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Bystanders said it was apparent the man was attempting to hurt himself

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Police escorted a man in handcuffs out of Huntsman Hall on Monday around 12:30 a.m., College freshman Elizabeth Beugg, who witnessed the events, said.

She was on the third floor of Huntsman looking for a group study room when she noticed police standing outside the computer lab. Her friend — also in attendance — approached the police and relayed to Beugg that a man in the computer lab had been reported for some sort of suspicious behavior.

She added that her friend informed her of the police’s intent to take the individual in question to the hospital for mental evaluation.

Beugg remembered that it took “quite some time” — maybe 10 or 15 minutes — to coax the man out of the third floor computer lab. He started shouting, Beugg said, yelling, “Don’t touch me; you’re sexually assaulting me,” to the police, but after some time he started to cooperate.

Beugg was able to see the man, and she said he looked a bit older than the average college student, but a Huntsman security guard manager who did not give his name said the man was an undergraduate student. The security

This past weekend, scientists and science enthusiasts took to the streets of Philadelphia.

They joined more than 600 satellite communities worldwide for the first ever March for Science, held last Saturday, April 22.

The Philadelphia branch of the march began at 11 a.m. at City Hall as thousands packed the surrounding area to march from Broad Street to Penn’s

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When the marginalized don’t step up and say something, then we as a whole can never make progress.”

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Landing to advocate for the federal funding of science and the use of scientific evidence in policy making and to defend science from recent attacks, including Trump’s proposed budget cuts.

Janice Rael, the organizer of the Philadelphia march, said to CBS Philly, ”[W]e find ourselves in a time where facts are optional and the Philadelphia March For Science is a big way to show our elected officials and others that we value science and have no intention of starting a new Dark Ages,” Upon reaching their destination of the Great Plaza at Penn’s Landing,

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Greek organizations attend first I CARE training

One person from each chapter is required to sit in ESHA IDANI Staff Reporter

Last Tuesday, chapter members of the Interfraternity Council, the Panhellenic Council and the Intercultural Greek Council attended their first I CARE training— an intensive mental health program facilitated

by Penn’s Counseling and Psychological Services.

Director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life Eddie Banks-Crosson said that while in the past the training was offered to Greek organizations, this was the first time they chose to engage in it.

Launched in 2014, I CARE training is designed to help students recognize and address signs of mental health issues in their peers. Students and faculty can

register as individuals, though I CARE has recently gained momentum in training students through their respective student organizations.

“I think this is a great step in the right direction,” BanksCrosson said. “It’s just broader education that they’re asking the groups to participate in.”

The College Dean Advisory Board recently launched an initiative to expand I CARE training to all student groups on campus. Head of DAB’s mental health sub-committee and College junior Matt Foman said DAB felt the Greek community was a good place to start.

“I think it’s really valuable to have given it to the Greek community,” Foman, the vice president of Sigma Alpha Mu, said. “I think that Greek life is a place where people can be very real with each other and aren’t really afraid to talk about more

intimate things.”

CAPS has not responded to request for comment.

While neither DAB nor CAPS can mandate members to attend I CARE training, IFC President and College junior Bradley Freeman said the IFC executive board decided to require that one person from each chapter attend the training sessions. The IFC also strongly suggested that the attendees be members of their respective chapter’s executive board or underclassmen who are looking to apply for leadership positions in the future.

Freeman added that as a member of a fraternity chapter on campus, he sees the value in having a designated person within every Greek organization who is trained in dealing with mental health issues.

“This is obviously an issue that gets discussed a lot,” Freeman said. “I’ve certainly seen things

within my chapter and I can imagine that it applies to other chapters as well.”

Vice President of Public Relations of Panhel and College junior Caroline Kane attended the I CARE training. She said an advantage of the training was that it encouraged collaboration between the three Greek-life councils.

“With IFC, Panhellenic and IGC, you get a wide array of backgrounds,” Kane said. “It’s always useful to have that representation at the table.”

Foman made similar remarks.

“These kind of conversations also don’t really happen between those Greek groups. I think this kind of gave them the opportunity to talk about it together,” he said.

IGC President GC and College junior Angie Wang said she felt that the training was a positive experience for those who attended.

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The IFC executive board decided to require that one person from each chapter attend the training sessions.

“The staff were very knowledgeable and the training kind of built on itself,” Wang said. “It was three hours long, but didn’t feel that long at all.”

College freshman and fraternity member Andy Neumann

agreed, adding that he learned a lot from attending the I CARE training.

“It’s definitely important to have people within each organization that do know these things,” he said.

Fraternity presidents foster relationship with AOD monitors

Their first formal discussion was held on April 10 ESHA IDANI Staff Reporter

The Office of the Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives and the Interfraternity Council are taking steps

towards forging a more amicable relationship.

On April 10, a group of fraternity chapter presidents met with the AOD in an effort to promote better relationships between chapter presidents and AOD monitors, so that the first point of interaction between the two parties would not be

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President of the IFC and College junior Bradley Freeman said that in the past there was a lack of communication between the IFC chapter presidents and the AOD monitors.

“There was not much communication up until an event was getting shut down,” Freeman said. “Our goals were to form a relationship and better understanding between monitors and presidents.”

The AOD has not responded to request for comment.

IFC executive board member and College junior Tobias Milligan was in charge of organizing the meeting, which marked the first time a formal discussion has taken place between AOD monitors and chapter presidents.

“I think chapter presidents left the meeting being able to put a face to the name of the AOD monitors,” Milligan said.

“Hopefully, we can have one of these every year or every semester to improve the relationship between monitors and presidents,” he added.

Fre ema n e cho e d M i l l igan’s sentiment, noting that he thought the meeting had positive impacts for building a relationship with AOD monitors.

“I thought it went pretty well,” Freeman said. “Hopefully meeting people outside the situation of a party can help when trying to build relationships with them.”

Director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life Eddie Banks-Crosson said the meeting with the AOD was initiated by the IFC. “It was really to give folks the room to talk about best pract ices,” Ba n k s- Crosson said. “I think that meeting was a great opportunity for relationship building, for folks to put names with faces, so that, as we’re working together, it’s a smoother partnership.”

The meeting also provided a space for the organization to review their policies regarding registered parties that take place on and off-campus.

The AOD requires all student groups to register any planned events with them.

Without AOD approval, student organizations may not publicize or host any events. Social chairs of fraternity chapters are required to submit eventmanagement forms 10 days prior to the event they would like to register. Freeman said they are subsequently required to meet with their chapter advisor and an AOD representative

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The police succeeded in bringing the man into the elevator in handcuffs, Beugg said. She said

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to go over the form line by line, in order “to meet your needs while still meeting the safety and risk requirements of the school.”

While these requirements may seem too extensive for some, Freeman said he recognizes the importance of the detailed nature of the registration process.

“The items that they have [to submit on the registration form] are really to contextualize the event for University administration to make sure they go smoothly,” Freeman said. “It’s

very understandable why they would seek that detail.”

Freeman added that the meeting with the AOD is something the IFC executive board would like to see carry on with future generations of board members.

“It’s something that we would like to continue in the future when the new cycle of presidents come into office,” Freeman said. “The whole point is keeping the relationship because we don’t have regular meetings with the AOD as IFC exec board.”

she assumes he was taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania afterwards. The security guard manager confirmed that the man was taken to HUP. However, Beugg said that the situation was “low-key” overall — the police were so calm that she did not even notice them at first.

“The only truly disruptive thing I heard was that [the man] started yelling,” she said.

The Huntsman security guard manager said being confronted by the police caused the man to become “a little rowdy.”

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Two Penn sophomores win Goldwater Scholarship for research

Thair work involves Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s NINA SELIPSKY Staff Reporter

Two Penn sophomores making strides in disease research recently won a prestigious prize for excellence in science and math.

The Goldwater Scholarship is awarded each year to students around the country who intend to earn a doctorate and pursue a research career in math, engineering or the natural sciences.

This year the prize was awarded to College sophomores Michael Tran Duong and Tiberiu Mihaila.

Michael Tran Duong has always enjoyed engaging in scientific research.

“When I was six or seven years old, I was interested in the theory of relativity and how DNA works,” he said. “I was really interested in making gadgets and

trying to solve problems.”

Duong recalled a time as a child when he attempted to separate a chemical mixture in a tube by running around and trying to simulate the force of a centrifuge.

In middle and high school, he became involved in science fairs. Recognizing the increasingly prevalent issue of resistance to antibiotics, he began growing bacteria and testing it for antibiotics in his basement during eighth grade.

He eventually transitioned from his basement to a real lab, and received recognition at the 2014 International BioGENEius Challenge after conducting research on using the probiotics in yogurt as a potential alternative to antibiotics.

Currently working in Penn’s 3-D epigenomes and neurobiology lab, he plans to eventually become a physician-scientist, studying the genetics and neuroimaging of

Alzheimer’s disease.

Alzheimer’s is a personal matter for Duong, because his grandfather was diagnosed a few years ago.

“The loss of memory and dignity really affected my family and me, and I wanted to try to make an impact in the way that I could, which is scientific research,” he said.

His main focus is understanding how the gene works and what causes the disease, “so that one day [he] can hopefully try to treat it.” He is currently studying the development of the brain.

“The idea is that if we first understand the healthy brain, we can then possibly see what happens when things go awry,” he said.

Tiberiu Mihaila’s research also focuses on understanding disease. However, his work in Penn’s chemistry department primarily deals with Parkinson’s disease.

Mihaila described his research

Samantha Power spoke at Penn about the refugee crisis Power was the former ambassador to the U.N. MICHEL LIU Contributing Reporter

Visitors packed into Perry World House on Friday afternoon to hear Samantha Power weigh in on the worldwide refugee crisis.

Power’s speech focused on the crisis through the lens of President Donald Trump’s restrictions on refugee admission, and she also stressed the sheer magnitude of the crisis, calling it the “largest displacement crisis since the Second World War.” She added that the United States models humanitarian behavior for the world.

“It’s not a coincidence that, in the wake of President Trump’s executive order and the presentation of his proposed budget, all around the world leaders are pointing to U.S. policy as justification to slam their doors, to shrink their financial contributions and even to expel or detain asylum-seekers in their midst,” she said.

The former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations delivered the keynote address for the Perry World House’s Global Shifts Conference. Penn President Amy Gutmann introduced Power, praising her “admirably global perspective, warmth and wit.” Gutmann “welcomed back” the Pulitzer Prize-winner, who spoke at Penn’s 259th Commencement Ceremony in 2015.

Power said the status of America’s refugee program under the new administration is

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Power’s visit at Perry World House on Friday was her first public appearance since the end of Obama’s presidency in January.

very unclear — even to her.

“I don’t know what refugees are going to do this year if even anything close to these budget numbers stick,” she said.

Power also expressed concern over “dangerous and unhealthy” polarization around the crisis.

“The problem of refugees and refugee admission has for the first time become a partisan issue,” she said, referencing exit polls showing overwhelming Republican opposition to the admission of Syrian refugees.

She also offered a glimpse of hope, insisting that “facts can break through even in what seem to be echo chambers.”

Power’s speech was her first time speaking publicly since the end of Obama’s presidency. Her appearance at the Perry World House, therefore, was “me back as me,” she said, no longer speaking on behalf of the U.S. government.

Wharton freshman Christopher Rathbun said that her address was particularly special

because she “truly expressed her own views and stances on issues that she had discussed before as a voice of the United States.”

Rathbun also called her speech “inspirational” and “empowering,” pointing to her example of Nicholas Winton, who saved hundreds of refugee children during World War II. “That story shows the importance of sheer will and undauntedness in working to protect refugees,” he said.

Power encouraged audience members to mobilize to support refugees.

“People are feeling so oppressed, like the odds are stacked against doing what’s smart as well as what’s right, but I think that others have conquered much steeper odds with less company,” Power said. “We can accomplish more. We just have to throw ourselves into the task, mobilize compassion and — let’s say — make America good again.”

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as a combination of fluorescence, photochemistry and cell culturebased Parkinson’s disease models to study toxicity and disease.

He, too, was interested in science from a young age, taking online science classes during elementary and middle school and then signing up for Science Olympiad.

As a student in the Vagelos Scholars Program in the Molecular Life Sciences, Mihaila has a strong interest in biophysics and biochemistry.

“The way I rank my time is that lab and classes are the most important,” Mihaila said. He is also involved in several clubs at Penn, one of which is Science Olympiad. Through this club, he helps host science tournaments for high school students.

“It’s a good way to give back to Science Olympiad since that’s kind of what got me interested in science,” he said.

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“The rampant partisanship is something that’s just so horrible and destructive,” she said. “But I do think that it’s interesting — maybe in a bad way — to be in that environment.”

College sophomore Eric Rauschkolb will be working in the Office of the Chief Information Officer in the Department of the Treasury — an internship he said is “unaffected by politics.”

“It’s just the internal logistics of the Treasury,” Rauschkolb said of his position. “I’m not doing anything policy-related or things that would be potentially impacted by my views,” he explained.

For other students, the November 2016 elections determined what kinds of internships would be available.

College junior Ashton Pollard couldn’t apply for her position in the House Committee on Oversight and

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Michael Duong and Tiberiu Mihaila were awarded the scholarship in recognition of their work in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s research.

Mihaila’s plan is to get his M.D./Ph.D. He believes this combination will help him to develop new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases — an M.D. will allow him to practice medicine

Government Reform until mid-winter — after elections determined which parties would have majorities in the House and the Senate.

“Obviously you can’t pick who’s working for you in September if you don’t know who is going to be in Congress or if you don’t know who the president is going to be,” said Pollard, who will be working for the Republican House Majority staff.

Pollard said she is excited about working under a Republican administration, but that the results of the election were not a “game-changer” either way.

“Had Hillary [Clinton] won, I still would have wanted to work for the House committee,” she said.

Another College junior, who wished to remain anonymous due to ongoing background checks required for the security clearance she needs for her position, said she was initially worried about the effects of the Trump administration’s hiring

and a Ph.D. will provide proper scientific training.

Mihaila and Duong both thanked their professors and research mentors at Penn for their support and guidance.

freeze on her summer position at the Central Intelligence Agency.

“It turns out that doesn’t apply to national security,” she said. “I called [the CIA] and specifically asked about that, and they said it’s ‘business as usual.’”

Even though Trump’s presidency did not change the logistics of her job prospects, she expressed concern about working in government under an adm inistration whose policies do not align with her personal views.

“I’m just wondering what types of tasks [Trump is] going to be assigning — and what kinds of operations the CIA is going to be taking out — and I definitely don’t want to facilitate anything that I think is not fair or appropriate,” she said.

“But I’m also just going to be an intern,” she added. “I’m not going to be making any national security decisions, but it is something that I thought about after [Trump] won.”

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When will the marginalized be able to speak?

CHANCES ARE | On the lack of minority voices, and why they should be the ones leading the way

TUESDAY APRIL 25 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 54 133rd Year of Publication CARTER COUDRIET President DAN SPINELLI Executive Editor LUCIEN WANG Print Director ALEX GRAVES Digital Director ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK Opinion Editor SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Senior News Editor WILL SNOW Senior Sports Editor CHRIS MURACCA Design Editor CAMILLE RAPAY Design Editor JULIA SCHORR Design Editor LUCY FERRY Design Editor VIBHA KANNAN Enterprise Editor GENEVIEVE GLATSKY News Editor

When I first applied to be an opinion columnist, the application asked one question which will forever stick out in my mind, “What do you want your column to be known for?” I answered, “I want my column to provide a voice for Asian Americans, because we don’t often get to hear the perspective of the most silent group in America.”

In that vein of thought, I wanted to provide a voice, not only for Asian Americans, but for all people who were silenced out of fear or oppression. I knew what it felt like to be torn apart by the burning desire to say something and the crushing disappointment of not being able to. The rage eats you alive.

I think it is time that I talk about something I have considered for a while. That is the lack of marginalized voices in the media.

It is no great secret that the white perspective fills everything we see and read these days. From the highly homogeneous casts of Hollywood to the journalists

on CNN to even the popular literature we read, the faces we see and the stories we hear are predominantly white.

Whenever I discuss this issue with my friends, they always say the same thing: “Well, yes, it’s annoying.

But it’s not a serious matter; things could be worse.”

I completely disagree. In fact, I think that the lack of minority voices in the media and popular culture is incredibly dangerous and harmful to our society.

What we see on TV, what we read in books, what we hear on the radio — these are the first things we ever experience growing up and they shape the way we think and act. They continue to shape us long after we even realize they still have an effect by normalizing certain things and ostracizing others. What we see on the screen translates into real life.

And this has an enormous effect on the way marginalized groups experience life.

It is the reason why Asian Americans often grow up

with identity crises. Because Asian Americans generally do not see themselves on-screen — or if they do, only as foreigners — they feel they do not belong to the very place that is their home. And the majority of the U.S. population too has no problem calling Asian

public becomes accustomed to this type of thinking and so acts accordingly. It often leads to black people’s own inability to overcome their self-doubt.

When the marginalized leave it to the majority to tell their side of the story, their narrative is either com-

When the marginalized leave it to the majority to tell their side of the story, their narrative is either completely neglected or warped … “ Americans foreign because they experience the same lack of Asian American representation.

It is the reason why black people are often stereotyped as criminals and thugs and why this stereotyping leads to their maltreatment. Because black people are portrayed so frequently as violent and unintelligent, the

pletely neglected or warped (see: cultural appropriation, the media shaming of Trayvon Martin, the glossing over of Japanese-American concentration camps in history books). This is because the majority often cannot see nor understand the inequalities that the marginalized can. I had a professor who made the best analogy:

“When you are not handicapped, you don’t see all the conveniences you have. You don’t have to think about these things. It’s only when you are handicapped that you can see the differences.”

We do not live in a postracial, post-prejudice world.

Once, a commenter on my article told me that young people nowadays make everything about race. He obviously had never experienced what I have — the eye-pulling, the ching chang chongs, the “Go back to China”’s. I never wanted to make it about race; that was done for me the moment I was born. But many people are unaware of this type of inherent inequality unless we who do know it speak.

When the marginalized don’t step up and say something, then we as a whole can never make progress.

The marginalized have to be the ones to lead the way because they are the ones who see the pitfalls in the path.

Riz Ahmed, one of my favorite actors of the moment, says that “the places where you stick out the most, those

AMY CHAN are the places you have to stick it out the most. Because it’s only in those places you can effect some real change.” It’s uncomfortable and disheartening to see so few minority voices, in the media and in popular culture, but that is why it is all the more necessary that we push our way into the mainstream. It is the hope of improvement and the hope of a more inclusive story that keep me writing even in the face of rejection.

AMY CHAN is a College junior from Augusta, Ga., studying Classics and English. Her email address is chanamy@ sas.upenn.edu. “Chances Are” usually appears every other Thursday.

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Creating conversations on inclusive classrooms SROL WITH IT | Why teachers and students are equally responsible I recently had the opportunity to attend a seminar on inclusive teaching hosted by the Center for Teaching and Learning — the group on campus charged with helping Penn instructors with their teaching and generally improving the quality of education at Penn. This event brought together faculty, staff and students devoted to the idea of fostering inclusive learning environments for all students at Penn.

Given the incredible diversity in the Penn student body, it is important that we consider how to support all of our students and create classrooms that are conducive to learning for students of all backgrounds and experiences. I applaud CTL for bringing this essential conversation to the forefront so that teachers and students alike can seriously think about these issues.

The event started with a presentation on the diversity that exists in the Penn undergraduate cohort. Penn students, as we all know, come from a wide range of backgrounds: ethnically, geographically, socioeconomically and more. Despite

all that makes Penn students different from one another, there was one uniting factor for all Penn students: their high levels of achievement in high school that brought them to Penn. I found this to be an interesting thought on which to start a discussion on inclusive teaching — as Penn students, we may have a lot of differences, but at the end of the day, we are still brought together for the same purpose of furthering our education at an incredible institution.

Since the majority of attendees at this seminar were teachers in some capacity, much of the discussion focused on what instructors can do create spaces where students feel supported and welcome to promote learning and discussion. These conversations really opened my eyes to what inclusion in the classroom really means. At a surface level, it is easy to consider this issue in terms of race, gender, country of origin and other seemingly obvious pieces of students’ backgrounds.

However, there is another piece to it; inclusive teaching also encompasses

thoughts about students with different learning styles and educational backgrounds. The sometimes less apparent aspects of students’ experiences also play a crucial role in shaping their abilities and behaviors in a classroom setting, and this is something that is important for instructors to consider.

One misconception that I

strategies for professors to support their students, I began to realize how much of a role students can play in creating inclusive classrooms, as advocates and supporters for their peers and themselves.

As students, we can and should do more to help faculty and staff in creating learning environments that are inclusive for all of our

As students, we can and should do more to help faculty and staff in creating learning environments that are inclusive for all of our classmates.” had about this topic was that the professor is the sole arbiter of the inclusive classroom. Coming into these talks, I expected that the onus should be exclusively on the instructor to create a learning space that met the needs of all students. However, as we worked through

classmates. It starts with being advocates for ourselves and for our peers. In situations in which teachers may knowingly or unknowingly create spaces that exclude certain students, it is our duty to speak up.

The mode of how we address this is up to our dis-

cretion. In some situations, addressing the professor directly is appropriate, while in others, it may be better to discuss the occurrence with an advisor. Regardless, being a bystander only serves to perpetuate the incidence of exclusion in the classroom.

Creating conversations that allow professors to confront these issues is an important step in making Penn the most inclusive that it can be.

As students, it is important that we also pay attention to our own biases and actions in the classroom that may affect other students. For example, in class discussions, we should be aware of our own roles. Do we tend to take a backseat and listen to what’s being said? Or do we more often dominate the conversation?

Our actions can profoundly affect our peers’ ability to participate and get the most out of the class. Just as it is a professor’s responsibility to monitor these discussions and provide a space where everyone’s voices can be heard, it is our job to also be cognizant of the impact

SHAWN SROLOVITZ we may be having on other students. Once we realize this impact, we should take an active role in promoting inclusion in our classes.

At the end of the day, an inclusive learning environment serves the best interests of all students, by providing a safe space for individuals to explore their interests and get the most out of their education. Discussions like the inclusive teaching seminar are just the first step in making Penn the most inclusive it can be.

SHAWN SROLOVITZ is an Engineering junior from Manalapan, N.J., studying bioengineering. His email address is ssrol@seas.upenn. edu. “Srol With It” usually appears every other Tuesday.

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Revamped PennMobile app lets you track laundry and book GSRs The Penn Labs team recently redesigned the app WESLEY SHEKER Contributing Reporter

After several attempts since 2015 to make the PennMobile application for iOS as useful as possible, the new Penn Labs iOS team thinks they’ve finally got it right.

The newly updated app, which will keep the name PennMobile, was revamped

by Wharton and Engineering freshmen Josh Doman and Victor Chien with the help of Penn Labs Co-Director and Wharton sophomore Tiffany Chang. Chang also did graphic design for the new app.

While the PennMobile app was launched before in 2015, Chang said she believes the updated app will provide a better experience for users by condensing its functions and

making it more accessible for students.

The app is now available on the Apple App Store.

“It’s a fresh start,” Chang said. “I think there [was] a lot of stigma around the app previously.

“I think the biggest concern is people thought there were too many functions and they were not each built out really well, so overall it became kind of mediocre,” she added.

Chien said he believes that the app makes it easier for students at Penn to access resources.

“Use it because it will make your life at Penn easier,” he said.

“You’ll have the University at your fingertips. Laundry, dining — it’s all at your fingertips.”

Through the app, students can book Group Study Rooms in libraries, monitor the statuses of laundry machines to see exactly when a machine will

become available and check the menus and hours of dining halls on campus.

The app is entirely studentcreated, and the project is funded by the Undergraduate Assembly through the Penn Labs program.

Doman and Chien both joined Penn Labs this year after each teaching themselves the programming language Swift, which is used to create iPhone apps.

Moving forward, the team said they plan on adding additional functions to the app, such as a way to access Penn Transit.

Doman said he wants development of PennMobile to continue in a similar way as a start-up would, adding that the team hopes to “push the boundaries on what we can do.”

“Penn Labs has historically been run by engineers,” Doman said. “And I think there’s a lot of value that people with different

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Thursday. Students who do not live at New College House, Kings Court English House or the Quad will not be able to eat at their dining halls without checking in at the dorm’s information center.

Ware College House Dean Amanda Atkinson said last year that juniors visiting their first year rooms at the Quad often “devolved into acts of vandalism.” Today’s statement also indicated that the rules are in place for safety reasons, and seek to “protect [residents’] privacy and space.”

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backgrounds can bring to Penn Labs, including designers, people who have backgrounds in marketing and people who want to gain skills in product management.”

protestors were greeted by local bands such as The Really Cooks and speeches from high-profile members of the scientific community including two speakers associated with Penn: Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania, and Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neuroscience.

The same day that protestors called out the Trump administration, the president released an Earth Day statement supporting scientific advancement, but later released a somewhat contradictory tweet.

“I am committed to keeping our air and water clean but always remember that economic growth enhances environmental protection,” he wrote.

According of the March for Science Philadelphia website, Philadelphia supports more than 530,000 jobs in STEM fields as well as universities that award roughly 37,000 STEM degrees.

The protest was sponsored by the Freethought Society, the University City Science Center and the Delaware Valley Chapter of

Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

Although the event was described as nonpartisan by the organizers, it was declared partially in response to actions by the Trump administration concerning the scientific community.

One of the most well-known speakers at the Washington D.C. march was William Sanford “Bill” Nye, an outspoken science activist. He directly called out the government for its recent attitudes toward science.

“Today we have a great many lawmakers, not just here, but around the world, deliberately ignoring and actively surpassing science,” Nye told the crowd in Washington, according to Variety.

“Their inclination is misguided, and in no one’s best interest.”

Derrick Pitts, the chief astronomer and director of the Fels Planetarium at the Franklin Institute, was one of the featured keynote speakers at the event. He encouraged people to think about science in a broader context.

“We all need to get on board with the idea that science is what it is,” he said to CBS Local. “We humans can interpret it any way we want to, but we have to use the data to create a better value of life for everybody.”

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Students living in the Quad could only access the building from their own section, and guards sat at each door with a list of names and pictures of students allowed in that entry.

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loved football. Next week, still flying as high on my recent success and the regular brazenness that keeps 16-year-olds afloat, I graced the game on a dreary Saturday afternoon with an even more dreary play. I was benched halfway through the second quarter after starting 1-8 for nine yards, topped off with an interception before I got yanked.

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the Quakers’ success seems to drop. The noticeable outlier here is football — even in the FCS, Penn’s opponents are allowed up to 63 scholarship athletes, making things harder on the Red and Blue. But despite this difficulty, Penn football manages to win at a rate right in the middle of the pack of the other teams displayed here.

Women’s lacrosse also is very impressive, being higher ranked than nearly 95 percent of the country’s teams despite its opponents being able to offer up to 12 scholarships.

On a similar note, academic standards play a major role in the success of any team. The principle is simple — the higher a team’s requirements are, the smaller its pool of prospective studentathletes becomes, creating some new difficulties. And while most teams at Penn and throughout the Ivy League have fairly elite standards across the board, this isn’t necessarily the case elsewhere.

And though there’s no data here for non-NCAA sports, when seeing how each Penn team’s success percentile compares to the NCAA’s average Academic Progress Rate in that respective sport, a reasonable trend seems to form again — the higher a sport’s nationwide APR is, the more competitive Penn’s team in that sport becomes, since the rest of the country doesn’t have as large of an advantage in terms of the player pool to select from.

And once again, football is extremely noticeable as an outlier — the NCAA’s average APR in football (954) was significantly lower than that of any of the other

going in, and that was that. I was distraught. I had no business being in the game at that point.

I couldn’t think straight, I was frustrated to the point where I was shaking and I could barely form a sentence to say to any teammate who was trying to console me. I paced and steamed up and down the sideline, warding off anyone who came to try to pick me up with a piercing glance I’m not sure I’ve replicated since, until halftime. It was not because my coach was

wrong to pull me, but because he was right and I deserved it.

That’s when I knew I loved football. *** I’m sure every athlete at Penn has a story just like mine: a moment when they knew they loved the game and the process, the art, and the passion became just as much a part of the allure as the competition itself. For me, it became an obsession. I never wanted to feel like I did on that sideline ever again and

sports mentioned, which again should’ve put the Red and Blue at a disadvantage. But to Penn’s credit, it managed to be extremely competitive despite facing this supposed deficit in prospective players.

Yet another potential factor in determining the toughest sports to succeed in lies in how nationally prominent each sport is — and one way to determine that is by looking at the money. The sports that get love from the fans are the ones that most schools will likely care about the most, meaning that these schools will go all out in order to put the top product out on the field or court.

When dissecting how each Penn team’s percentile (again excluding the five non-NCAA sports) compares to the total generated revenue in that sport, it’s deja vu here — we see another sort of trend where increasing revenue across the nation in a sport negatively correlates with Penn’s success in that sport.

And again, football stands as a major outlier to the remainder of the group. Even when looking at only the FCS level, the national revenue was far higher in football (north of a million dollars) than in any other sport, and the Penn squad managed to have a high success rate despite that. Women’s lacrosse also stood out among the school’s NCAA-sanctioned sports, ranking very near the top of the nation in what’s a relatively prominent association.

So with all of these factors combined, which sport is indeed most difficult to succeed in?

There’s no one objective way, but by ranking all the Penn teams in each of the three aforementioned

categories, we can conjure up a number that tries to sum it all up.

Ranking each of the involved Penn sports from 1-to-17 in available national scholarships, APR and revenue, we can add each of those numbers together to get a “difficulty index� for each sport.

(For example, football was considered to have the most difficult slate in each category, resulting in it earning 51 “difficulty index� points — men’s lacrosse was second at 43.5, and so on.)

Thus, in the moment we’ve all been waiting for, here’s the conclusion: which Penn teams are most successful relative to the overall difficulty of being competitive in their respective sports: A clear top tier forms with the schools on the top level. Football and women’s basketball have solid success rates despite being in very nationally difficult sports. Women’s cross country and women’s lacrosse both were in slightly less prominent sports, but can make the claim that they outperformed more than 90 percent of the D-I teams in their fields. And then there’s sprint football on the top left — though the non-NCAA sport was harmed by its lack of data, perfection doesn’t lie, and it was the only team to unequivocally outperform all of its opposition this year.

So which team’s success is most impressive? To pick one is, ultimately, still up for debate. A few of these elite teams could all make very reasonable cases, with none clearly separating from the pack. But what isn’t arguable is this: Penn Athletics is making a major impact at the national level, and that trend doesn’t seem to be stopping any time soon.

I was going to do every single thing in my power to make sure I wouldn’t. Eventually, I learned I could take that passionate and meticulous approach to different areas of my life I cared about like school, service, relationships and writing these DP columns that I send in late every week because I keep tweaking and editing until I’m convinced it’s the worst thing I’ve ever written.

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better and act on it. I love football because of the physical investment I’ve put in for the last nine years. I love football because of what I have learned about myself through it. I love football because it’s the ultimate team game, creating a totally unique bond among teammates.

Fiddling with my fingers in Coach Michaeles office, trying to come up with an answer to his “Why� question, I’m sure I said some of these things, just slightly less eloquently. But,

like every relationship of love, I’m still learning. To be honest, I’m still answering that question today and will probably never pin down just the right words to tell my story. But, also just like every relationship of love, I don’t think I’m ever going to stop looking for that answer.

ZACK DIGREGORIO is a College junior from Princeton, N.J., and is a quarterback on the Penn sprint football team. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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Strong defense leads the way for Penn women’s lacrosse

Team concedes only 7.78 goals per game GREG ROBINOV Sports Reporter

As the old adage goes, the best offense is a good defense.

Perhaps cliché, but for Penn women’s lacrosse, this really rings true.

While the back line of the Quakers (12-2, 5-1 Ivy) may not be the ones lighting up the scoreboard, they are still a driving force for the team’s dominant run. Having now won six in a row, No. 10 Penn has taken full advantage of its defenders’ impressive work in limiting opponents to 7.78 goals a game on approximately 24 shots.

And while this defensive unit may largely lack experience on paper, senior defender Megan Kelly thinks this is less important than the team’s evolution over the seasons.

“I think we don’t have a problem because last year, my junior year, we had lost all of our seniority. My sophomore year, our defense was otherwise entirely seniors, but then we lost everyone,” Kelly said. “So, I had to step up as a leader last year and learn how to teach the other girls. We’ve filled in the gaps and everyone has really stepped up.”

This young group, mainly sophomores a nd fresh men under Kelly’s command, has cer ta inly impressed coach Karin Corbett thus far.

“I think that they are playing

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Despite the relative inexperience on the backend, defense has been Penn women’s lacrosse’s strongest unit so far this season, headlined by sophomore defender Katy Junior.

really well as a unit. They are communicating well and all doing their roles, and our goalie [senior Britt Brown] is stellar back there as the anchor,” Corbett said. “We really only had two kids that played last year in our defensive end, so I’m really pleased with how they’ve gelled as a unit.”

Aside from personnel, tactics have also changed significantly this season as the team has rolled out a brand new defensive scheme. The old standard of man-to-man defense was exchanged for a more fluid zone system, in part to adapt to the new shot clock rule. Having to change her defensive mindset, Kelly explained how this

alteration has given them the upper hand.

“We have more of a protective mentality now because we know our solid defense will pay off, and after a minute and a half, it’s our ball,” Kelly said.

“For me personally, I definitely reined in some of my checks just because it’s not worth a foul, especially when I’m by the crease. If we can just play solid team defense together we get the ball back, or force them to turn it over.”

This was not the easiest of transitions, requiring many to relearn their roles or take on entirely redefined ones. However, the transition has appeared pretty seamless, as the squad

currently holds the fourth-best goals allowed average amongst all Division I schools.

“I think there’s a lot of trust between the coaches and players, and they believe that what we are putting forth is

how we’re gonna beat our opponents,” Corbett said. “We adjust to what we feel is going to make us strongest on that day. They’ve really embraced that and are open to the changes that we’ve made.”

The zone formation has afforded some more flexibility to defenders, as players move in behind to cover others in more advanced positions. Sophomore Katy Junior has taken advantage of the newfound freedom, citing her confidence in Kelly and Brown, whose commanding play has brought her to second in the nation for save percentage.

“I’m very fortunate for the type of defense that we play because it allows me to take a lot of risks. They don’t always pay off but I always know my teammates are there for me,” Junior said.

While the Quakers are now finding the back of the net more consistently, winning the past three games at 13, 17, and 17 respectively, this was not always the case. When scoring was harder to come by, stellar defensive performances gave

Penn enough of an edge to claim victories behind merely seven and nine goals. Junior added that the front line often gets sparked by play in the back, leading to more fruitful attacks.

“We are such a close unit that the attack definitely feeds off the energy of the defense,” Junior said. “They get so excited when we come up with a big stop or get a huge interception and come up with the ball and it gets us going on the attack.”

Having found their rhythm with new players and tactics, this plucky group of defenders will have to hold out just a little bit longer. After a weekend that included a victory over Harvard and a loss by Cornell, Penn now holds control over its own destiny in its mission to capture Ancient Eight hardware this coming weekend when Yale visits Franklin Field.

Limiting opponents’ scoring is just as important as creating your own team’s scoring. With that in mind, maybe these defensive stalwarts can carry the Quakers to a title and beyond.

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Behind Penn women’s lacrosse’s recent win streak has been a remarkable defensive unit >> SEE PAGE 7 TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 2017

Seeking to rank Penn’s performances across the NCAA and beyond COLE JACOBSON Sports Editor

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s the 2016-17 school year nears its close, there have been some incredible Penn Athletics feats to reflect upon. Football took home its second straight Ivy League championship only two years after finishing in sixth place. Sprint football finished undefeated for only the second time in program history. Men’s cross country brought home Ancient Eight glory for the first time in 43 years.

Women’s basketball continued its dynastic run with its third Ivy title in four years — the list goes on and on.

But with so many Penn teams having such thorough success this year, there’s one natural question to ask — which one was best? DP Sports set out to find out.

Taking a look at factors ranging from academic progress rates to sport revenue to nationwide scholarship availability, we go in-depth comparing the top Penn teams against one another.

The criteria for inclusion: Any Penn varsity team that has won a league championship, is currently leading its league, competed in its national postseason tournament or lies in the top 30 of its national ranking made the cut.

The most trivial way to judge teams’ quality would simply be these national rankings — i.e., sprint football was its sport’s national champion, so it’d be Penn’s best team as a result. Women’s squash finished No. 2 nationally,

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so it’d be the school’s next-best team, and so on.

But without a question, the more teams that are in a sport’s governing body, the harder it is to finish with such a national ranking. So perhaps it’s more effective to look at percentiles — what proportion of the nation’s teams the Penn squad was better than.

Using that metric (while considering Division I for NCAA sports besides football, FCS for football and the entire group of college teams for non-NCAA sports), here’s how the Red and Blue squads stack up: So in terms of simply which teams are the most dominant relative to their competition, there it it is — sprint football, women’s squash and women’s lacrosse lead the way. But from there, there’s another key issue; which sports are most difficult to build contending programs in? Most would agree that in the higherprofile sports, it’s a lot harder to take a team the top — there are more resources needed in terms of recruiting methods, facilities, funding, etc. to build an elite football or basketball program than there are for much smaller sports.

Looking at recruiting on its own, the Ivy League has a policy against athletic scholarships, but the rest of the country doesn’t by any means. As such, if a sport permits a high number of scholarships to teams nationwide, Penn teams should theoretically be at a disadvantage, having to face off against scholarship athletes.

Looking at the scholarship data, the trends seem to match what one would expect — as the number of allowed scholarships for Penn’s opponents rises, SEE BEST TEAM PAGE 6

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Why do I love football? It’s a little complicated ZACK DIGREGORIO

An eighteen-year-old Zack DiGregorio sat in a spacious office on an old couch surrounded by whiteboards mounted on the walls. The room was long — or so it felt. It seemed that I was very far away from the desk that sat at the back of the room and looked like any other football coach’s desk, littered with papers and binders strewn about.

My dad sat at the other end of the couch as we waited for Jonathan Michaeles, head football coach of Colby College, to come meet us on one of the final legs of my college tour. It was a mid-August evening and we’d just sat through an info session on the quaint college of just 1,800 students, set on a small lake in Waterville, Maine, went on a tour, and I had an admissions interview at our second college of the day.

Coach Michaeles walked in about five minutes later. We quickly exchanged pleasantries and small talk about the drive, the tour, and the like.

He then looked down at his notepad and asked bluntly, “So, Zack, why do you love football?” I was immediately taken aback. What do you mean, why do I love football? Of course I love it, who is this jamoke to come in and question that?

I quickly came to two realizations:

the first was that he obviously didn’t mean the question in an accusatory way, so best not to call this genuinely nice man who smiled with his eyes as much as his mouth a jamoke. The second was that no one, least of all myself, had ever stopped to ask me this question before. I’ve had coaches, teammates, and literally a dozen fans in my football career, and no one had ever questioned my love of the game. In high school, I often found myself upset — sometimes to the point of tears — when I saw teammates not working or not caring on the field. I’ve done the same in college and I doubt my teammates would say anyone else has as much fun while doing it as I do. But I had never thought about, let alone have to articulate, why. *** I love lots of things. I love Kit Kats, I love fancy cheese platters, I love the Fast and Furious movie series, I love Shea Serrano articles, and I love podcasts, to name a few. I love my family and my friends and stuff too, of course, but mostly the podcasts and the cheese. What do all those things have in common, though? They’re simple; I loved them right off the bat because it’s easy. It’s not like I ate my first Kit Kat and went, “Uh oh, I am going to have a complicated, yet loving relationship with this for the rest of my life.” Perhaps my relationship with Kit Kats has grown in breadth, maybe, in terms of the number that I eat, but hasn’t grown in depth at all.

I didn’t love football immediately. I

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Sprint football quarterback and DP columnist Zack DiGregorio was asked a simple question: why do you love football? His answer took a little time to articulate.

played tackle football for the first time in eighth grade on a team of 16 players and decided I wanted to play quarterback the day before my first practice.

My coaches let me because I could remember all the plays, and I didn’t mind touching the center’s butt before every play — quite a consideration for 13 year olds.

My first practices started off on the wrong foot: they cut down my vacation with my cousins so that I could wear a bulky helmet and oversized shoulder pads in the August heat on a half-grass half-dirt field. It was hard. The season didn’t get easier as our team recorded ONLINE AT THEDP.COM

negative yardage in most of our games, and a lot of those yards were a result of me getting sacked. For most of the season, the longest pass I completed was to my left guard on a screen pass who inexplicably turned around and caught the ball on the play and ran for nine yards with it. The referees either didn’t notice he was the left guard or felt bad for us as a team. My first season ended with me on a back board getting ambulanced off the field and taken to a local hospital, and I spent the next two weeks in a neck brace — a favorite accessory of 13-year-olds everywhere, like head gear braces or eye patches.

For whatever reason — be it stubbornness, stupidity, or the idea that football players got all the girls in high school (spoiler: they don’t unless they look like the guys in Friday Night Lights) — I played freshman football and was hooked from day one. Anyone who played a high school sport knows that there is no higher pedestal to be on than being a senior in the eyes of the freshman. I started playing, and from the beginning it was clear the game was hard for them too, but it was hard for a different reason, though I couldn’t quite figure out why. I had fun playing the game and being with my friends, and, even if it didn’t come with all the girls, it was cool to say you were on the football team in high school.

My junior year I was slated to be the back-up quarterback to start the season, until our starter, a senior, broke his throwing hand in our first game. Now I was the guy everyone looked at in the huddle, and the very next game, the guy everyone looked at sprawled out on the ground after taking a hit that made everyone watching the game hold their breath for a second. We were overmatched, no matter who was playing quarterback, but maybe I was in over my head.

The next game was the Zack DiGregorio coming out party. Two touchdowns, 170 yards passing and a win against a big rival. Even then, at my highest point in my athletic career that far, it didn’t hit me that I really SEE WHY I PLAY PAGE 6 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640