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INSIDE PENN’S ANNUAL MILLION DOLLAR LOBBYING OPERATION
Penn’s considerable lobbying expenses are due in large part to its sizable health care system CAROLINE SIMON Senior Reporter
Penn’s Expenses on Lobbying over time 1.2
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Ivy League Schools’ Contribution to Overall Lobbying Expenses
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enn spends over a million dollars each year trying to influence legislation on the state, local and national level — and that’s almost twice as much as any of its peer institutions. It’s common for large research universities to invest funds in lobbying, but Penn spends far more on lobbying than other Ivy League university. According to a report from Open The Books, a database of government spending 29.6 percent of the $17.8 million the Ivies spent on lobbying from 2010-2014 could be traced back to Penn. That’s almost twice as high as Columbia University, the school which spent the next highest amount on lobbying. Columbia was responsible for just 17 percent of
17% Columbia 8% Princeton
Ivy lobbying expenses, followed by Yale University at 15 percent and Cornell University at 13 percent. So where is all that money going? In a statement on its Form 990, a tax form the University submits every year that requires disclosure of political activity, Penn described its dependence on government money to continue its operations and how it lobbies to maintain that support over time. “The University, a private non-profit educational institution, receives direct annual non-preferred appropriations from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” the statement read in 2012, 2013 and 2014. “The amount and continuation of these appropriations are not guaranteed.
Task force under fire for narrow focus
Yale
12%
15%
Therefore, the University maintains an office of commonwealth relations in order to support, justify and coordinate these appropriation requests before the state Education Department, other appropriate agencies of the Executive Branch and the General Assembly. “ Penn’s lobbying expenses are also in part driven by its massive health system, which frequently lobbies for health care-related legislation. While Penn’s Office of Government and Community Affairs employs its own lobbyists, the hospital system and medical school employ external firms such as Van SEE LOBBYING PAGE 6
Penn’s new provost: Wendell Pritchett
Pritchett is currently a professor at the Penn Law School SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Senior News Editor
Students unsure of how U. will enforce new rules for off-campus organizations JINAH KIM Senior Reporter
The University task force charged with looking into off-campus organizations released eight recommendations last week. But it’s still unclear how the Penn administration plans on implementing these suggestions, which include having off-campus organizations register with the University. As part of an official designation as “Identified Off-Campus Groups,” off-campus groups, which typically act like underground fraternities and sororities, would be required to provide Penn with member lists and contact information, abide by the University’s alcohol and hazing policies and potentially register events. But requiring that off-campus groups register with the school and be subject to the same regulations as recognized on-campus groups appears to contravene the very reason that many such groups choose to move off campus. And administrators have not made it clear how the University hopes to incentivize registration. The Division of Public Safety said in a statement that “all details will be worked out as the task force moves from the recommendations to the implementation work.”
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Wendell Pritchett earned his bachelor’s degree at Brown University, his J.D. at Yale Law School and his Ph.D. at Penn. He is currently a Penn law professor.
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Wendell Pritchett, a professor at Penn Law School with a career of scholarship in urban policy and race relations, will be Penn’s next provost, Penn President Amy Gutmann announced Wednesday afternoon. Pritchett is currently the Presidential Professor of Law and Education at Penn Law. The current provost, Vincent Price, announced in December he would leave his post in the summer to become president of Duke University. “I have every confidence that
The allocation of physical space is political and it speaks volumes.”
Wendell will be an exceptional partner and inspiring presence for me and the entire Penn community,” Gutmann wrote in the announcement. Pritchett is also Penn’s first black provost. An Ivy Leaguer from the start, Pritchett spent his undergraduate years at Brown University with a major in political science. He graduated in 1986, and received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1991. He came to Penn to get his Ph.D., which he earned in 1997. In 2002, Pritchett became an assistant Penn Law professor before being promoted to a full professorship in 2006. He was the associate dean for academic SEE PRITCHETT PAGE 2
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College freshman is opening a homeless shelter A shelter in St. Louis held 35 people before its closure KELLY HEINZERLING Staff Reporter
While most students will be spending the next two weeks studying for finals, one freshman will be working to raise $150,000 to open a homeless shelter in her home city of St. Louis. College freshman Mackenzie Morrison is helping to open a new homeless shelter for women and children in St. Louis after one of the city’s largest homeless shelters was shut down in April. “No one else is trying to solve this issue,” Morrison said. “I’m in Philadelphia calling these people at city hall in St. Louis and no one has any answer … no one’s been specifically appointed to tackle the issue of the shelter closing.” New Life Evangelistic Center, a shelter that housed around 300 people, was closed down two weeks ago. According to a Fox News report, the shelter was extremely overcrowded. Its original permit stated that the shelter had a maximum occupancy of 35 people.
When the shelter was closed, its residents were displaced into a temporary shelter that only had 48-hours-notice to prepare for the women. When the women arrived there were no hygiene packs, each person had only one set of clothes and one light blanket to sleep in the 60 degrees gym. This temporary shelter will be closed down on May 15, though. “There’s 60 to 70 people who will be displaced on May 15,” Morrison said. “How are we going to meet the needs of these people who will not have any place to go? And we said what if [All Among Us] opens their own shelter.” AAU is a nonprofit organization that Morrison helped get off the ground two-and-a-half years ago. Since then, the group has been serving the homeless in the St. Louis area by distributing clothing, food and other items once a week. Given that St Louis does not currently have room for women and children in the small, existing shelter, the AAU plans for their new shelter to house 60 to 70 women and children, Morrison said. The organization also hopes the shelter can operate 24 hours a day, and accepts
people who are homeless, as well as those who have drug and alcohol addictions or criminal records. But the group has run into some problems with funding, Morrison said. Three or four of their donors, who make up 60 percent of their funds, pulled out of the project in March after someone on the board of the organization made a “proliberal” statement on Facebook, she explained. Now, Morrison and AAU are on a time crunch to raise the $150,000 in the two weeks. “This can’t not work, if we can’t raise the funds, we will have 40 to 45 women on the street of St. Louis,” Executive Director of AAU Cathryn Shaw said. “The city of St. Louis had promised them housing, and then that promise was taken away” Lydia Ruffin, who has been spearheading this project, said this new shelter is essential for the community. “I think it’s one of the most important things in St. Louis, there’s a huge need,” Ruffin said. “It’s kind of a big project but I think it’s doable, it’s just getting the word out. If a lot of people give a little bit, we can get where we need to be.”
Morrison said she first became involved with shelters through working with Shaw. “Cathryn would bring me on runs to go and talk to people since I was 9-years-old,” Morrison said. “It became a very normal experience that happened every other weekend.” The relationships that Morrison formed through her runs and other work with AAU she says has truly impacted her life. “Seeing how [people my own age] navigated everything and had to deal with all these issues … like [my friend Darnisha and I] both had to take the ACT and she didn’t take it because she didn’t have a pencil,” Morrison said. “We shared so many experiences but had such different opportunities.” Shaw said that there are so many people like Darnisha whose situations depend on have a place to go on the 15th. Many of the women have never been in a shelter before and are not homeless but are “fleeing horrific circumstances.” “My wish is that we make All Among Us a sustainable organization so we can meet the needs of providing antibiotics or providing safety for these women,” Shaw said.
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College freshman Mackenzie Morrison works with All Among Us, a nonprofit organization that helps the homeless in the St. Louis area.
“These women really are at risk they don’t have a place to go, they don’t have a plan B.” Morrison said that giving to the homeless community doesn’t mean you have to open a shelter across the
country, though. “Any of us going to Penn has a huge educational advantage,” Morrison said. “It’s super easy to get involved there’s so many opportunities, especially in Philadelphia.”
Students flyer LOVE statue to protest neo-Nazi hate speech
Protesters were approached by security personnel
we done here? And [the employee] said yes and we walked away,” one student said. “He said are you guys just gonna leave it there? And we said yes, and he said okay, well we’ll do a good job taking it down for you.” Multiple sources said the flyers were still up around 8 a.m., but those on the LOVE statue and on Locust Walk were taken down within a few hours. Some other flyers posted in
CAROLINE SIMON & JINAH KIM Senior Reporters
A group of students covered the LOVE statue with flyers early Wednesday to protest the recent neo-Nazi recruitment flyers around campus that contained phrases such as “stop the blacks” and “join your local Nazis.” These flyers on the LOVE statue have since been taken down. One protester, who did not want to be named for fear of retaliation from white supremacy groups, said she and others who participated were angered by what they saw as Penn’s nonchalant attitude towards the neoNazi recruitment flyers. “Neutrality takes the side of the oppressor, and we are sick of being told to just take hate speech,” the protester wrote in an email. “If there is anything that history has taught us, fascism thrives when people allow it to.” Although the neo-Nazi flyers were taken down by Monday evening, it does not appear they were removed by the school. The University’s Guidelines on Open Expression state that “The content of student speech or expression is not by itself a basis for disciplinary action,” and “No posters shall be prohibited or restricted solely on the basis of their content, except when they may violate other applicable laws or regulations.” In a University-wide statement sent on Monday condemning the incident, Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price said “the flyers in question are no longer posted,” before emphasizing the power of free expression in combating hate speech and a “shared conviction” that “hatred and fearmongering have no place at Penn.” But several of the demonstrators
the College Houses were still posted as of the afternoon. “I’m surprised [the flyers] were taken down from the kiosks, actually,” another protester said. “We expected them to be taken down from … the lampposts and the LOVE statue … [but] the kiosks, we were surprised.” “There were Nazi flyers up, and no one took them down for a while,” she added.
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Students felt that the University’s statement emphasizing free expression in response to the hate speech distributed by neo-Nazis was inadequate and unsatisfactory.
took issue with the administration’s suggestion that free expression could successfully counter hate speech. “In the face of literal hate speech we have basically been told to respect it,” one protester said in an email. “Respect people that threaten our lives and humanity with talk of genocide and preserving the white race. This is not a free speech issue, this is a hate speech one, and we are putting our foot down immediately instead of waiting for a hate crime to get school attention.” Penn spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy did not comment beyond the University’s statement. Several other protesters who also did not wish to be named said that a man wearing an Allied Barton jacket approached them at the LOVE statue
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OPINION It’s time to end Penn’s century-long fraternity subsidization GROWING PAINS | To occupy the center of campus, you have to pay up
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hen I took my Center. The way in which the However, the University did sity, ended up officially sancHow much of our tuition is tioning that exemption. Their going to the fraternities, and APRIL 27, 2017 of Penn as a high into a small, hard-to-find space of new College Houses. But rationale? The property titles thus to the select group of fraVOL. CXXXIII, aternity dormitory system is created in student, response with physical to house school I fellto in an loveinflux with of inapplicants, Houston Hall. Andnot the enough way what they didspace have was empty them. belonged to the University, and ternity brothers who live inside NO. 56 Locust Walk. I was enamored in which there are no less than space in the fraternity houses so the fraternity houses could be of them? How much money YearUniversity enterofinto its ancient, beautiful brick signed 12 magnificent buildings the the already on or near the develclaimed as “real estate used for Board for Castle’s maintenance? How aternities133rd and the an indenture system by 37 frats thaton allows University to pay fraternity housing expenses after of Revision of Taxes asks whether frats should be entitled of Publication buildings, their elegant columns Locust thoroughfare alone used oping campus. Many of these educational purposes.” This de- much money to beautify Kappa and stained glass I almost exclusively by andthat for mandates fraternity houses were privately cision, was made byif the And in the meantime, ternities Reconveyance Amendment" is added to windows. the fraternity-University contract the properties to return towhich the fraternities they Sigma? are discontinued as University dorms. envisioned myself taking semi- fraternity men. owned, and so the University Board of Revision of Taxes, is how much of the actual fraterCARTER COUDRIET President nars in those buildings, working Why do the fraternities have struck a deal with the fraterni- cited in the 1939 amendment. nity brothers’ dues are going EMILY HOEVEN gh rises and Gregory College House open forlate students. on homework into the night such prime real estate, you ties detailed in the Dec. 20, Although this 1926/1939 straight to alcohol? DAN SPINELLI Executive Editor while sitting in large armchairs, might ask? Well, I went all the 1926 Board of Trustees notes. contract is not the same as those The thing about the fraterhousing begins. talking with friends. But then way to the University Archives The University would buy the which currently exist between nity housing system is that it ing their own property taxes. LUCIEN WANG Print Director when I got to Penn, I realized Records Center to find out. fraternities’ houses and pay for the fraternities housed in Uni- is obsolete. There is no need There’s no two ways around it. that 12 of those buildingsBulletin were, asUp until theavailable creation of their maintenance costs, facili- versity-owned buildings and the for the fraternities to be legally GRAVES The other option would be raternity ALEX houses are no longer listed in the University housing to the students not in fraternities. Digital Director ties upkeek and utilities bills. University, they are in practice considered as public dorms for the University to buy the In exchange, the fraternities almost identical. I spoke with a anymore because the University houses outright — which they ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK Opinion Editor would give their empty rooms Facilities and Real Estate Ser- has enough dorms. In fact, in could do even if the buyback to the University, who could vices executive and an attorney the 1980s, “fraternity houses” clause were exercised — and SYDNEY SCHAEDEL The Quadrangle is built, Senior News Editor then use them to house the in- from Penn’s Office of General stopped being listed as potential turn them into buildings that meaning that more flux of new students. Thus the Counsel, both of whom request- student dormitories in the an- would actually be accessible WILL SNOW Senior Sports Editor students could live on Fraternity Dormitory System ed to remain anonymous, about nual University Bulletin avail- to the entire student body. This was created on Dec. 20, 1926 current fraternity housing con- able in print in Van Pelt Library makes sense. Because if UniCHRIS MURACCA campus and fewer had Design Editor and was entered into as a mutual tracts. They told me that many because at that point the High versity money — our money — to commute. contract between the University fraternities which currently Rises and Gregory College is going to the fraternity houses CAMILLE RAPAY The Fraternity Dormitory Design Editor and 37 fraternities. inhabit University-owned prop- House had been constructed. and has been for all this time, for System is created in There are two things of par- erty do so under contracts that The Kings Court College Hous- almost a hundred years, then we JULIA SCHORR Design Editor response to an influx of ticular interest in this agree- include a buyback clause. es had become coed. And now are entitled to those buildings. ment. The first is that the fraThis essentially states that if we have New College House In fact, our use of them is long LUCY FERRY applicants, with not Design Editor ternities could nominate certain these buildings stop being used and a soon-to-be-new Hill Col- overdue. It is high time we actuenough physical space to men to live in those fraternity as “residences for University lege House. VIBHA KANNAN ally use that real estate for real house them. Enterprise Editor houses and those men would students,” the original donor And if the fraternities are no educational purposes. then get priority during housing of the building (the fraternity) longer legally viewed as public GENEVIEVE GLATSKY If the University wants to News Editor assignments. Penn made this could buy the property back for dorms, which in practice they stand behind the mission it had The fraternities & clear to the public. But what about $1. However, after that are not, then there is no need when it first bought the fraterTOM NOWLAN “Fraternities Reconveyance University enter into an News Editor they didn’t disclose was a clause point all other taxes and utilities for the University to own those nity houses on and around LoAmendment” is added to indenture system signed in the contract that specified ALLY JOHNSON cust — if it really wants to crethe fraternity-University Assignments Editor by 37 frats that allows the those nominees would pay for ate a more inclusive, equitable contract that mandates the their “dormitory facilities” at COLE JACOBSON community — it must now buy University to pay fraternity Sports Editor properties to return to the “the lowest price for which the those houses outright. Because housing expenses after same can be given.” JONATHAN POLLACK if it doesn’t, the fraternities will fraternities if discontinued Board of Revision of Taxes Sports Editor For non-nominated students continue to exercise their “stranas University dorms. asks whether frats should glehold” over the social and inplaced in the fraternities, “Any TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor tellectual life of the University, rentals charged to others than be entitled to real estate in the words of 1968 College nominees of the Donor [the AMANDA GEISER tax exceptions. Copy Editor graduate Tom Rafael. And to fraternity] shall be fixed by that list, I would add the finanUniversity on a fair rental value HARRY TRUSTMAN Copy Editor cial life of the University. basis and credited to the income From our first night of New account of said dormitory.” In ANDREW FISCHER Director of Web Development Student Orientation to our last other words: friends of the frat step on Locust Walk, we are brothers were charged much DYLAN REIM Social Media Editor The high rises and Gregory taught — and reminded over lower rental rates than men who Coed housing begins. and over again — that the frawere randomly placed there. DAKSH CHHOKRA College House open for Analytics Editor ternities not only command the And the men who were ranstudents. social scene, but also occupy domly placed there were paying ANANYA CHANDRA Photo Manager much higher rent — rent that, costs would be on the fraternity. buildings — especially since the very heart of Penn’s acaunlike that of the nominees’, If the fraternity could not afford they are now working to extend demic campus. The allocation JOY LEE News Photo Editor was going straight to the frater- these expenses, the University similar amounts of administra- of physical space is political and nity’s coffers. could buy the building outright tive control over off-campus it speaks volumes. And the hierZACH SHELDON The fraternity houses are no longer listed in the Sports Photo Editor I can’t think of a better way to from the fraternity. fraternities living in non-Uni- archies, priorities and ideologies University Bulletin as housing available to students create a more inclusive, vibrant When I asked if the term versity-owned property. So the of the University sure ring loud LUCAS WEINER Video Producer not in fraternities. and equitable campus culture. “residences for University stu- fraternities that live in Univer- when walking down Locust. Ashley Sarah Paine, a 1996 Second item of interest: a dents” was in reality restricted sity-owned properties should, in JOYCE VARMA Podcast Editor 1939 amendment to the contract to members of the fraternity, the theory, be directed to buy those College graduate, is quoted as in fact, fraternities. Quadrangle in 1895, many stu- stipulated that if any of these 37 response was that the language buildings back. According to saying, in relation to the conBRANDON JOHNSON Business Manager There is nothing I love more dents had to commute to Penn’s fraternities stopped being used is broader than that. Almost a the FRES executive, the frater- struction of the Women’s Centhan walking down Locust on a campus. However, even with as dormitories, the University hundred years later, the core nities have the right to buy back ter, “In the past, Locust Walk MADDY OVERMOYER Advertising Manager beautiful spring day and passing the Quad, the University didn’t would not only be “authorized” of the 1926 contract remains. their houses for next to nothing has embodied the old boy mengroup after group of fraternity have enough space to house but also “directed forthwith to The frats housed in University- whenever the properties stop tality that Penn has traditionally SONIA KUMAR Business Analytics Manager brothers sitting proprietarily in all the students who were at- reconvey such property or prop- owned buildings — which are being used as dormitories for held and the Women’s Center front of these buildings, loung- tending Penn. This problem erties to the Fraternity or Fra- the vast majority — are, above University students. will be a real source of empowMARK PARASKEVAS Circulation Manager ing on leather couches and was exacerbated in the 1920’s ternities, respectively.” In other all, dorms. Dorms in which, But even if they have that erment and comfort for women. looking at everyone over the when the U.S. economy began words, if the fraternities were technically, any student could right, they’ll try to avoid using It’s about time we get women HANNAH SHAKNOVICH Marketing Manager tips of their sunglasses. And to boom. Suddenly families had discontinued as public dormi- live. it at all costs. Why would they on the Walk.” there is for sure nothing I love more money to spend and more tories, the contract between the Twenty-one years later, LoIt is because the frats are want to buy back their houses, TANVI KAPUR Development Project Lead more than having those fraterni- incentive to send their kids to University and the fraternity legally considered to be Uni- when there’s a chance they cust Walk still embodies that ties decide what kind of music college. Penn’s applicant pool would be void and the property versity-owned dorms, and thus won’t have enough money to old boy mentality. The old boy MEGHA AGARWAL Development Project Lead the entire campus gets to listen increased steadily and, want- would have to be returned to the theoretically open to all Penn maintain the houses as they cur- mentality that Penn currently to all day long. ing students to choose Penn original owner — the fraternity. students and serving an “edu- rently are? After all, those prop- holds — and upholds. It’s about THIS ISSUE It’s kind of funny, isn’t it? over competing schools like The fraternity would then be cational purpose,” that the Uni- erty taxes, landscaping costs time we get everybody on the ANDREW ZHENG The way in which Penn’s three Princeton University and Har- responsible for all property tax, versity can rationalize spending and utilities bills are pretty darn Walk. It’s about time we reSports Associate cultural centers — Makuu, Pan- vard University, the University maintenance, and utilities costs. money on them. As the FRES expensive. But these houses claim what’s ours. BREVIN FLEISCHER Asian American Community Board of Trustees decided they In 1939, the city of Philadel- executive pointed out, the Uni- are, for all intents and purposes, Sports Associate House and La Casa Latina — needed to expand on-campus phia, who had in 1938 ques- versity can’t justify spending private residences. They are not EMILY HOEVEN is a College GRACE WU are all housed in a small base- student housing. More student tioned and fought against the University money on assets it being used as public dorms nor senior from Fremont, Calif., Copy Associate ment in ARCH. The way in housing would lead to a more fraternity houses’ exemption doesn’t own. Precisely. I would for public intellectual purposes. studying English. Her email ZOE BRACCIA which the Penn Women’s Cen- inclusive and lively commu- from all property taxes, which very much like to know how The fraternities should be pay- address is ehoeven@sas.upenn. Copy Associate ter shares a building with the nity and incentivize students to was a byproduct of the houses much University money is be- ing their own bills. They should edu. “Growing Pains” usually ALISA BHAKTA African American Resource come to Penn. being purchased by the Univer- ing spent on these “assets.” no longer be exempt from pay- appears every other Tuesday.
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Scoyoc Associates in 2016 and Clark Hill PLC in 2017, according to opensecrets.org. Many of the health care-related issues Penn and its hospital system lobby for are obscure, though other issues Penn lobbies for affect students far more directly After President Donald Trump announced his controversial travel ban on immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries, Penn President Amy Gutmann denounced the executive order. In a statement, she promised that, “We will do everything in our power, speak to every friend and ally and leave no stone unturned in our efforts to urge President Trump to change course and rectify the horrible damage this order has caused.” According to a lobbying disclosure report from the first quarter of 2017, Penn listed “impact of travel bans and immigration policy on higher education” as one of the issues they lobbied for.
Penn has also lobbied for increased funding to the National Institute of Health and continued funding to the National Science Foundation. It has made its voice heard in debates over appropriations that affect the National Endowment for the Humanities, which has been a target for proposed budget cuts under President Trump. In multiple reports from 2016, Penn listed “education policy” as a lobbying issue — and has listed the federal work study program and Title IV, which prohibits “discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in programs or activities which receive federal financial assistance,” on its disclosure forms. Because the Lobbying Disclosure Forms, which are publicly available on opensecrets.com, only require that Penn lists lobbying issues, it is difficult to determine what position Penn actually took on certain issues. For example, Penn listed “IRS Regulations on Taxing Foreign Students” as a lobbying issue, but it is unclear what exactly Penn’s
interests were in that particular debate. Some of Penn’s recent lobbying issues have been quite specific — in 2016, Penn listed “support for Department of Energy for Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.” University lobbyists have also waded into more controversial issues. Penn has listed the Affordable Care Act — which both President Trump and congressional Republicans have vehemently opposed — as a lobbying issue, as well as the potential repeal and replace of the ACA. In an email, Dawn Maglicco Deitch, the executive director OGCA, said that “our team is actively implementing comprehensive advocacy strategies with federal, state and city representatives. I’m not able to provide comments at this time.” Deitch did not respond to followup questions about specific lobbying issues and Penn’s positions on them.
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Penn State suspends fraternity for two years Sigma Alpha Mu violated alcohol policies REBECCA LIEBERMAN Staff Reporter
Pennsylvania State University fraternity Sigma Alpha Mu has been suspended for two years after violating restrictions on alcohol use. The violations occurred during Parents Weekend on April 1 and included “excessive drinking, involving hard liquor, with no third-party server; open access to alcohol with no monitoring; and permitting guests other than fraternity members, their parents and family to attend,” according to PennState News. Penn State imposed a new set of regulations concerning alcohol
and Greek life following the death of sophomore Timothy Piazza at a Beta Theta Pi party. The University banned the chapter and alcohol usage indefinitely after discovering that Piazza had fallen down a set of stairs and was then left lying on a couch for 12 hours while critically injured. In honor of Parents Weekend, the university decided to allow fraternities and sororities to host strictly monitored social events involving alcohol. Nine fraternities and sororities were found to have violated at least one rule during their activities. “Sigma Alpha Mu knowingly violated every rule that was imposed,” Damon Sims, vice president for student affairs said in a statement. “This behavior is not consistent with our University
values and is in direct opposition to the changes required if we are to have a healthy, successful and sustainable Greek-letter system at Penn State.” In an open letter released on April 10, President Eric Barron characterized the Parents Weekend alcohol exception as a “mistake” and expressed worry that the new regulations may simply force the bad behavior “underground.” “In the past, Greek life had a powerful positive effect on many of our alumni. The positive is well worth protecting – the value of brotherhood and sisterhood and the great service associated with Greek life,” he said. “But the stories cited above cannot continue. If they do, I predict that we will see many empty houses and then the end of Greek life at Penn State.”
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72.4 percent dropped the plan because of poor food KELLY HEINZERLING Staff Reporter
After learning that many sophomore students drop Penn’s dining plan after their freshman year, a student-run consulting club at Penn was determined to find out why. Called The MindBank, this consulting group conducts data collection for other campus organizations. The data from their survey was collected from 169 people — short of their goal of 300 responses. It was collected by speaking to students outside of Houston Hall and soliciting responses in class Facebook groups. 75 percent of those who responded were freshmen, 6.5 percent were sophomores, 8.5 percent were juniors and 10 percent were seniors. On a scale from 1 (least satisfied) to 5 (most satisfied), 64.5 percent said they were not satisfied, answering with a 1 or 2, and 14.2 percent said they were satisfied, answering with a 4 or 5.
College freshman Matthew Schnitzer, one of the students who worked on the survey, said he thought the level of dissatisfaction was “very shocking.” “It’s pretty unsatisfying for something the school is requiring us to buy,” Schnitzer said. Of the people that dropped the dining plan after freshman year, 82.8 percent said saying they dropped the plan because it was too expensive and 72.4 percent said they dropped the plan because it had poor food quality. The survey also found that people 50 percent of people were unsatisfied with the availability of food that adhere to their diet, either because of religious reasons or because they were gluten free. Another aspect of the survey found that 52 percent of respondents had witnessed unprofessional conduct or unsanitary conditions at the dining halls. In particular, seven different students mentioned seeing mice in the 1920 Commons dining hall. Eng i ne er i ng f resh ma n Eddie Hammond said he was
disappointed by the results of the survey, since 25 percent of the student body is required to have one. “Freshmen get locked into the dining program,” Hammond said. “Penn should be doing it’s best that students get their money’s worth.” “There needs to be increased transparency in matters like this where students are automatically enrolled and don’t have a choice,” he added. When The Daily Pennsylvanian reached out to the University for comment, they responded that they did not know this student survey existed. Penn Dining has their own annual survey they use to see if their program is satisfying the community’s needs. “We have to continue to monitor and determine [the contractor’s] effectiveness and efficiency in their deliverables,” Penn Business Services’ Director of Communications and External Relations Barbara Lea-Kruger said. “There are certain things that we continue to monitor: quality of food, variety of food, those are some of the things that are very important towards
achieving satisfaction.” The University’s survey has been used in the past to make changes to the One-Swipe-Through program at the Cafe at McClelland and extend dining hours to meet students’ demands. The University does not grant access to the results from their survey. Lea-Kruger noted that it is important to keep in mind that the University survey gets around 1,000 replies, while the one by The MindBank only had 169 responses. She said the surveys were designed to analyze different aspects of the dining plan, so they cannot be directly compared. The students at The MindBank, however, said that students should still be able to participate in a discussion on the quality of Penn Dining. “It was important for us to put all these voices together so perhaps we can have a high level discussion about how Penn Dining could improve their services,” Hammond said. “It’s up to students to challenge the ideas of when they have to spend money.”
Events include free yoga and the NFL draft ZIHAN XIONG Contributing Reporter
Summer is just around the corner, close yet not quite close enough. If you find yourself in need of a break from the cramming this finals season, check out these six events in Philadelphia that may help to chase your worries away. Flavors on the Avenue On April 30, Flavors on the Avenue is returning to East Passyunk Avenue with a wide variety of food and live music. More than two dozen neighborhood rest au ra nts will present their signature dishes, costing an average of $3 to $6 per dish. You can also expect to find artists and crafters peddling their works, with items such as jewelry and candles. Tickets purchased in advance cover all festivities for $50, providing a taste of each dish and two beers if you’re over 21. 82nd National Football League Draft If you’re a die-hard football fan, you can’t miss the 82nd NFL draft on April 27-29. The draft is back in Philadelphia for the first time in more than 50 years. With free Fan Mobile Pass registration, you can experience most of the attractions of the 2017 NFL Draft Experience on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, including picture-taking with the Vince Lombardi Trophy, a 100-yard zip line and media interviews of some of the players. Free Yoga on the Pier Take some time to breathe and relax with free yoga classes on Race Street Pier.
Da ily classes r un f rom Monday to Thursday at 7 a.m. and 6 p.m., on Fridays at 7 a.m. and on Saturdays and Sundays at 9:30 a.m. until the fall. Blue Cross RiverRink Summerfest Housed in the same area as Blue Cross RiverRink Winterfest, Blue Cross RiverRink Summerfest will transform the wintry park into to a summertime destination through Labor Day. Free and open to the public, Summerfest features a roller rink that sits next to a nine-hole mini-golf course, an urban beach and a summertime-only Chickie’s and Pete’s Waterfront Crabshack. Philadelphia Chinese Lantern Festival If you’re still in Philadelphia after finals season and need to celebrate, check out the Philadelphia Chinese Lantern Festival, which runs from May 9 until June 11. The event will feature a 200-footlong Chinese dragon among over 28 other lantern displays, which will have over 15,000 LED lights. The festival will also include acrobatic performances and stalls selling Asian food. American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Now until May 14, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will feature an exhibition on the watercolor masterpieces of Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent. The collection brings together rare works to narrate the rise and development of American watercolor as an art form. Tickets are $19 for students.
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Men seek to defend 4xMile title from 2016
Field for the Penn Relays, thousands will be in attendance to seem them compete. Although they might not be the main atYOSEF WEITZMAN traction, Penn track and field’s Sports Editor-elect distance runners are hoping their performances will catch fans’ atWith some of the world’s best tention too. athletes descending on Franklin And after Penn’s men won
gold in the 4xMile Championship last year, the Quakers have plenty of reason to be optimistic. While the Red and Blue will have to overcome the graduations of Keaton Naff and All-Ivy Thomas Awad, Penn will be returning an experienced pair of runners from that squad.
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Seniors Nick Tuck and Chris Hatler are both excited to prove that last year was no fluke with another first place finish this time around. “Last year it was exciting to win the four by mile, but in a lot of ways, it was kind of the seniors that year — that was their win, it was their wheel,” Hatler said. “So I know Nick and I kind of have a little grudge here. We want our own wheel for ourselves our senior year, so we’re going to come out and see what we can do.” Tuck also spoke of how much a strong finish in the 4xMile would mean. “It’s an incredible feeling,” Tuck said. “Now that I’ve got the opportunity to do it here at Penn, especially with Chris [Hatler], it’s been an incredible experience. I wouldn’t trade that feeling for anything in the world.” Coach Steve Dolan is still deciding what runners will join Hatler and Hunt, but the Quakers should be a top contender no matter who is chosen. Earlier this year, Hatler became only the second runner in Penn history to record a subfour minute mile on an indoor track, and he also finished first in the mile at the Ivy League Indoor Heptagonal Championships. Tuck usually specializes in longer-distance events, but he proved at last year’s Penn Relays that he could more than hold his own in the mile. On top of that, this January, he raced out to a
second-place finish in the mile at the Lehigh Angry Birds Challenge. Outside of the 4xMile, Dolan is also excited for what his Quakers can do in the other distance relay events. On the men’s side, the Red and Blue are also primed to finish well in the 4x800 meter and the distance medley. And on the women’s side, accomplished senior runners like Cleo Whiting and Ashley Montgomery will look to keep the Penn women competitive in their longer races. Many of the personnel decisions are still being made for who will compete in the different specific events, but overall, Dolan is
expecting a lot of from all of his runners. For the seniors, the pressure will be on to compete well in their last meet in Philadelphia, and for the younger runners, this may be the biggest stage they have ever competed on. “This is a big stage for us,” Dolan said. “And it’s always exciting to try to win something at Penn. I think most of the years, we’ve been competitive in the relays, but it’s sort of a different level when you can win one.” There’s no telling whether or not Penn can replicate some of its success from last year, but one thing is certain. These Quakers are eager to put on a show and take the Penn Relays by storm.
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Still a rookie, Maura Kimmel eyes shot put record Biggest stage yet for the freshman phenomenon
start off well. Even coming into Penn, my numbers weren’t great, but I’ve managed to defy expectations — even my own. I’m so close to 50 feet in the shot put, a number which, if you had asked me two years ago, I never thought I would hit.� As the indoor season came to a close and Kimmel’s spring success was on the upswing, her performance in the discus event carried the same level of improvement as her shot put throws had. In the first outdoor season of her collegiate career, Kimmel shattered her second school record, this time in the discus throw. “Discus was another surprise for me because it was not going so well [in the winter]. I knew I could throw far, it just wasn’t happening, and then at the first [outdoor] meet I somehow managed to break that record,� Kimmel said. Perhaps it’s Kimmel’s seemingly haphazard stumbling upon the outstanding success of her track career that makes it so exuberant, but make
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Within a university culture where too often personal accomplishments are taken in stride as given or expected, one athlete is keeping her relationship with mind-blowing success in the thrower’s pit new and exciting. Freshman shot put and discus thrower Maura Kimmel has blazed her way into Division I athletics with an absolutely dazzling debut to her career. In just her third meet of the indoor season, Kimmel knocked off the school record in the indoor shot put — and she was quite literally just getting started. “My indoor season went really well: I put the work in, but I didn’t expect it to go quite as well as it did, so that was wonderful,� Kimmel said. “It’s been really exciting to
no mistake: her wild rate of improvement is attributed to a lot of grit, discipline, form correction, and, of course, some good old-fashioned hard work. “A big part of improvement is just throwing over and over and over again. There’s a lot of lifting. We lift two days a week in-season and three days a week out of season, and then practice every weekday,� Kimmel explained. “When we’re not taking full throws, we break the throw down into smaller components. If you know you have an issue at a certain point in the throw, you just keep working on that part until it gets better, and then work it into your full throw.� This weekend, Kimmel’s accumulation of new knowledge, her spike of improvement and the skill set she’s been working to perfect all year will be put to the test at the Penn Relays. A famed and historic meet held annually at Franklin Field, the competition will be a perfect opportunity for Kimmel to showcase
her incredible achievements and add length to the throws she already knows she can pull off. “In the shot put, I’m hoping to throw over 15 meters this weekend — also because I haven’t broken the outdoor shot record yet, so it would be nice to get another one. It would be really nice to qualify for regionals in at least one of the events, if not both. The outdoor shot record is around 14.49, which I’ve done before indoors several times,� Kimmel said. “But I’ve also been working through an injury, so it’s sort of hard to get back to where I was.� As the Red and Blue take to Franklin Field on Thursday for the internationally-attended relay event, they’ll be looking forward to kicking off the weekend with more impressive marks from their rising star thrower. If her rate of improvement continues, she’s not just looking at a noteworthy career — she’ll stand out as one of the most significant and impactful athletes Penn has seen in its history.
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With the school records in the indoor shot put and discus under her name, freshman Maura Kimmel has already made history in her rookie season.
Men’s, women’s sprinters set to battle with nation’s elite runners McCorkle and Rogers lead a strong Penn unit
the team, both the men’s and women’s sprinters will be facing some of the best schools in the country this weekend at the Penn Relays. But that won’t faze them, as they’ve shown throughout the year that they belong with the best. While this is familiar territory for the women’s sprinters, this year might represent their best chance at winning it all. Last year at Penn Relays, the
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Don’t blink, or you might miss them. Penn track and field’s sprinters have a busy weekend in front of them. As one of premier units on
Quakers’ women’s 4x100m team finished eighth in the Championship of America with a time of 46.39, but two combinations of sprinters have already topped that so far this year. The team of junior Barbara Biney, freshman Elena Soler-Brown, sophomore Imani Solan and junior Taylor McCorkle broke the school record with a time of 45.27 seconds, and McCorkle, Biney and Soler-Brown along with
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be better if an obstacle course were involved, this is the event for you. In this long race, the runners must keep a quick pace while jumping over barriers and mud puddles. And if a runner can’t quite make the jump, things can get messy. There will be impressive athleticism on display, but there’s also good potential for a cheap laugh at the expense of people in better shape than you. More importantly, there’s potential for Penn to make a splash (hopefully, for the
Quakers, not literally) in the event, as both the men’s and women’s fields will feature some strong Red and Blue talent. Ross Wilson will lead the way for the men as the ninth-seeded runner in the field, while Julianna Catania and Carole Harsch will compete for the women. Check out the race and enjoy, but if you’re going to rush the track shirtless during one of the events holding a homemade sign, choose this event at your own peril.
realistically take the 4x100m title, having assembled the best sprinting quartet in program history. Additionally, Dolan expressed his confidence that the women’s shuttle hurdles and 4x400 teams could take stabs at a title themselves, too. There is no other time of the year when Penn has the chance to make such a grand statement on such a grand stage. Simply put, the Penn Relays is not
only a bucket list experience, but it’s one that should keep you coming back, too. The roaring — and conspicuously Jamaican — crowds, the star power, the fanfare, the atmosphere and so much more provide everyone in attendance something to enjoy. So take a few hours off from studying on Saturday afternoon and make the trek down to Franklin Field. You won’t regret it — I promise.
Torgersen could develop into an NFL starter. Four weeks ago, another former FCS quarterback retired. He wasn’t a national champion, and he wasn’t high on anyone’s draft board. He went undrafted. But one team took a chance on him and it paid incredible dividends. The Cowboys signed Tony Romo out of little Eastern Illinois in 2003.
They stashed him on the bottom of their roster, taught him the system, and molded him into one of the top passers of his generation. Who’s to say Alek Torgersen won’t be next? Whoever calls him, whether it’s during the draft or immediately thereafter as a free agent, they won’t regret taking the quarterback who put Penn football back on the map.
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And that doesn’t include star sprinter and sophomore Calvary Rogers, who earlier this year set a meet record in the 200m sprint en route to an Ivy title at the Indoor Heptagonal Championship. With Rogers at the helm, this unit has a chance to improve drastically on last year’s performance. “Our top sprinter is Calvary Rogers,� Dolan said. “He’s run 20.95 in the 200, so he’ll be a big part of sprint relays and the 400 meter running for us.� Lastly, both men’s and women’s teams will be competing in the sprint medley relay, which is a 1600m race split into four parts — two 200m legs, one 400m leg and one 800m leg. The women haven’t competed in this race since 2015, when they finished 20th, and the men haven’t raced in this event in seven years, running last in 2009. The sprints will be over in a blur for all of the teams competing, but if all goes well for the Red and Blue, they could have a chance to be up on the podium when the dust clears.
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McCorkle, who has been nothing short of spectacular this year for the Red and Blue, will also be competing individually in the 100m dash. The junior from Pittsburgh, Pa. has already broken the school in the event this year, posting a blistering time of 11.58 seconds, which would have been good enough for fourth place in last year’s finals for the event. McCorkle will have her first chance to prove herself individually on Friday in the late afternoon, and if she is one of the eight sprinters who make it to the final, she’ll race again on Saturday. Over on the men’s side, the sprinters have already made significant improvements from the same time last year. At last year’s Relays, the men’s 4x100 team finished 54th out of 74, with a time of 43.67, but this year’s quartet of juniors Wyatt David, Ayman Mayberry, senior Peter Whiteneck and freshman Kyle Oden shaved nearly a second and a half off, with a time of 42.22 seconds earlier this year.
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freshman Cecil Ene finished third in school history with a time of 45.70 seconds. “I want to credit coach Porscha Dobson on the women’s side,� head coach Steve Dolan said. “It’s been really a record breaking year. I think we field a very strong 4x1, 4x4 and shuttle hurdles on the women’s side there, all potentially record breaking type teams for us if we have a great day at the Penn Relays.� Regardless of the lineup the Quakers put out there for the 4x100m, they will have the ability to take down perennial, national powerhouses such as Oregon, Stanford and Notre Dame, something they have not been able to do in previous years. The women’s 4x100m squad will get its first shot at competition on Thursday afternoon in the preliminary heats. If the sprinters finish within the top nine, which they did last year, they’ll move on to the College Championship of America, which takes place early on Friday.
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will make the trip across the country to give Penn a run for its money in the distance events in particular, but almost every area on the track and the field. Expect the Quakers to make strong cases in the 4xMile, 4x800-meter and distance medley relays on the men’s side. The women, meanwhile, could
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Franklin Field, a historic stadium of over 55,000 seats, only ever fills up on one weekend every year. That weekend is almost here, and people from all over the world have already begun to descend upon Philadelphia for the 123rd running of the Penn Relay Carnival. “There’s nothing like the Penn Relays,”
Penn track and field coach Steve Dolan said. And he’s right. The oldest — and largest — meet in the United States is truly a national treasure, and it blesses our campus every year without fail. Superstars like Usain Bolt grace Franklin Field with their presence, and this year will be no different, with a whole host of Olympic medalists coming to Philadelphia to duke it out for international glory. In total, over 100,000 people will pass through the stadium between Friday and Saturday, and those numbers include some of the craziest fans that you’ll ever see from across the globe.
If you haven’t gotten the chance to experience the atmosphere first-hand, you need to. For a pair of reasons, University City turns yellow and green for the weekend. One is that half of Jamaica comes up to watch the world’s finest sprinters in action. But the other is that West Philly oddly becomes Jamaican for a weekend, donning its yellow clothing and even cheering on the visiting sprinters over Team USA. Perhaps the greatest consequence of the Jamaican presence is the happenings outside of the stadium. Blaring music, dance competitions, The Bickle and more make the area surrounding Franklin Field into an
atmosphere that can only be described as … honestly, lit. But the best part about it all might be that Penn isn’t just a host site, either. Last year, the Quakers’ 4xMile relay squad won the team’s first event since 1974, but several other relay teams and individual athletes came close to achieving that feat themselves with second and third-place finishes. On Saturday, two of the four members of last year’s 4xMile team will return to attempt a daring repeat victory — on national television, nonetheless. NBC will be broadcasting the Relays live for two hours on Saturday during the USA vs. The World events which
border the 4xMile, and this year, NBC will also show one hour of events on Friday afternoon, live. It’s a meet that has national and international appeal. Last year, Penn Relays was used as a stepping stone event leading up to the 2016 Rio Olympics. 200 athletes who filtered through Franklin Field made it to Rio later in the summer, and the level of quality on tap this year should be no different. On the collegiate level, two of NCAA’s historic powerhouses will return to the Relays after a year off in 2016. Stanford and Oregon SEE RELAYS PAGE 12
Penn football’s Torgersen prepares for NFL draft Former QB projected as a late round draft pick THOMAS MUNSON Sports Reporter
If an entire career can be boiled down to just one game, then for Alek Torgersen, look no further than November 7th, 2015. On the first Saturday in November in front of a homecoming crowd against archrival Princeton, the thenjunior showed the world who he was. The odds were against the Quakers. They were down 20-10 at halftime, coming off two straight losing seasons, and needed to run the table for a chance at a conference title. At that moment, Torgersen stepped up. In overtime, down three, Torgersen lofted a perfect touch pass into the corner of the endzone. Eric Fiore caught the game-winning score, Penn went on to win the Ivy League title and the rest is history. That touchdown pass was more than a key play in a regular-season game. It was the moment Penn football was put back on the map. It was the moment Alek Torgersen burst onto the scene.
And most of all, it was the first glimpse at a potential NFL quarterback. Sure, Torgersen had already been the starter for a year and a half and had taken down nationally-ranked Villanova, but it was in that Princeton game, on that pass, that he proved he could consistently perform in the toughest situations. Torgersen only lost one more league game during the rest of his Penn career. He became Penn’s all-time leading passer and has collected two first team All-Ivy selections. He was invited to the East-West Shrine Game, and this weekend, he just might hear his name called at the NFL Draft. Four years ago, the prospect of a Penn quarterback being drafted wouldn’t have been taken seriously. But just as the Quakers beat the odds to come back against Princeton and win two straight Ivy titles, Torgersen has miraculously put himself in the position to make his NFL dream a reality. Torgersen was a two-star recruit, a 185 pound senior from Huntington, Calif., when he committed to the Red and Blue. Four years later and 50 pounds heavier, Torgersen is ready to beat the
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odds. He sat most of his freshman season and was one of the lone bright spots on a team that only won two games his sophomore year. As a junior, he started to turn heads, developing as a runner and deep ball passer while teaming up with wideout Justin Watson under the tutelage of new offensive coordinator John Reagan. Despite being named first-team All-Ivy and finishing fourth in the FCS in passing efficiency in 2015, it was Watson who grabbed headlines heading into the 2016 campaign. Still, Torgersen was quietly carving out a legacy for himself. By the off-season, Torgersen’s name started popping up consistently in rankings of the 2017 draft class. He turned heads at the East-West Shrine Game, where he proved he could compete against prospects from bigger schools. In early March, he had his pro day, and 20 teams sent scouts to watch the Penn gunslinger. Now, he projects as a late-round pick or undrafted free agent. Bleacher Report’s Matt Miller has SEE TORGERSON PAGE 12
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After a record setting final season and illustrious college career, senior quarterback Alek Torgersen is hoping to be the first Penn football player slected in the NFL Draft since Jeff Hatch in 2002.
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