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The conversation about trigger warnings has spread nationwide this year LUIS A FERRE SADURNI Staff Reporter

Imagine if before class a teacher presented their students with a warning about course material that could potentially be traumatizing for students. Imagine if classrooms adopted a warning similar to the “viewer discretion is advised” so commonly seen in movie theaters. These advisories are called trigger warnings and — although mostly absent at Penn —their adoption in college classrooms have been part of a national conversation across university campuses in the past 12 months. The main goal of trigger warnings is to alert students of course material that may trigger trauma to students who have been victims of rape, sexual abuse and mental illness. Trigger warnings have been a common feature of the online world since the inception of message boards, online forums and the blogosphere. Their proposed use in college curriculums, however, is a more recent development. In February 2014 the student government at the University of California, Santa Barbara approved a resolution calling for the school to make trigger warnings mandatory when professors presented material that could trigger PTSD symptoms, according to The Daily Nexus. The sponsor of the resolution was a UCSB student — a victim of sexual abuse — who felt overwhelmingly uncomfortable when a graphic depiction of rape was presented in one of her classes. Some college administrations have taken action on the issue. Last year, Oberlin College published an official document advising its faculty to remove triggering material when it doesn’t directly contribute to learning goals, per The New Republic . It also suggested making triggering material optional for students. Both college newspapers and the national press took part in the trigger debate. In fact, many universities nationwide — like Oberlin SEE TRIGGER PAGE 2

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New Jersey state legislature seeks to pass bill in Holleran’s memory by 2016 LAVI BEN DOR Staff Reporter

Two New Jersey bills designed to help prevent college suicides have taken an important step in moving toward passage in the state Senate. The bills — named after former College freshman Madison Holleran, who committed suicide in January 2014 — could be passed as early as this year. The two bills, the Madison Holleran Suicide Prevention and

Proper Reporting acts (S.B. 2808 and 2809, respectively), gained the state Senate Higher Education Committee’s approval on June 18 and will now move to the state Senate as a whole. The Suicide Prevention Act would compel colleges to maintain health care professionals who have training on mental health issues. These counselors would be available to students around the clock, every day of the week. Schools would be required to inform students of the contact information and location of the professionals — who would work with faculty to help reduce student suicides — within

15 days of the start of the academic year. The Proper Reporting Act, which would take effect during the 2016-17 school year, would require colleges to publish the number of students who committed or attempted suicide in the previous year on their websites. Both of these bills are up for debate within the New Jersey State Legislature and therefore, if passed, would only affect colleges and universities in New Jersey. Suicides are the second-leading cause of death for people ages 15-24, according to the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention. Penn has been no exception, with seven student suicides in the past two years. It has taken steps in the past year to address the issue, creating a mental health task force and making changes based on its recommendations, including a 24/7 help line run by trained staff. “We can never fully know what Madison and her family have been through, and it’s impossible to make sense of her tragedy, but through glimpses of her triumphs and tribulations shared by family and friends, we can make sure her tragedy will SEE HOLLERAN PAGE 2

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Penn students taking leaves of absence face unexpected costs

Students have listed off-campus apartments to rent for weekend; Penn will restrict access to dorms

But the reality of Penn summers is that the University is relaxed in more areas than it should be.”

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a student to leave is complex and requires permission from the Provost. “[The leave] was a huge financial burden,” Mehta said. “I had inpatient, outpatient and post-outpatient care. I still have medical bills to this day, and it was four years ago. When you have inpatient care, insurance can only cover so much and when you have outpatient visits, you only have so many

Though there are still months before Pope Francis sets foot in Philadelphia for his historic — and first — trip to the United States since being appointed, the city is already in full-swing preparing for his visit, and Penn is no exception. In a whirlwind five-day visit, the pope will visit Philadelphia on Sept. 26 and 27. The trip will also include stops in New York City and Washington D.C. Estimates put expected visitors to the city between one and two million people. The United States Census Bureau approximates the population of Philadelphia to be roughly 1.5 million people, meaning the city is expected to double in size for the weekend of the pope’s visit. Accommodating so many people in the city could prove challenging. This week, SEPTA announced that visitors will have to purchase a special pass to ride the Regional Rail lines during the weekend of the visit. Sales of these passes will begin at 9 a.m. on July 20. Most hotels in the city are already completely booked, including the Hilton Inn at Penn. The Sheraton Hotel in University City, which typically rents rooms at approximately $159 per

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Counseling and Psychological Services, the main mental health treatment center on campus, recently moved to 3624 Market Street.

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Students who take leaves of absence for mental health reasons do not just suffer the financial burden of hospitalizations, outpatient care and therapist visits. Many also encounter unexpected Pennrelated financial difficulties.

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College senior Devanshi Mehta was forced by the University to take a leave of absence one month into her freshman year. She called the process “forceful,” and said the University didn’t want to have liability for her deteriorating mental health. Director of Counselling and Psychological Services Bill Alexander said only two or three students have taken involuntary leaves in the past fifteen years, and that the process for forcing

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— were pressured by its students to support some version of classroom trigger warnings. At Penn, the support for trigger warnings did not reach the overwhelming scope it did in other campuses. The debate was mostly limited to a handful of opinion

pieces on The Daily Pennsylvanian, two seminars offered by the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Department and a podcast on the topic by graduate students from the Annenberg School of Communication. In fact, a September 2014 DP editorial argued against university mandated trigger warnings claiming that they curtail academic

freedoms, free expression and do little to aid students suffering from trauma. “We have come to Penn because we want to be challenged — to have our perspectives tested and refined,” the editorial stated. “That sometimes requires that we grapple with material that we find disagreeable or even disgusting. Anything less would fall short of

a true education.” Critics of trigger warnings claim that these sort of advisories could set a dangerous precedent for all sorts of material to be censored. A student at Rutgers University, for example, received nationwide criticism after suggesting that F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby be preceded with a trigger warning for its “gory,

THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN | THEDP.COM abusive and misogynistic violence.” However, others like Annenberg Ph.D. student Alexandra Sastre argue that trigger warnings can be used — although not always — to complement the fundamental values of academic freedom and free speech. “[Free speech] is at the heart of the purpose of trigger warnings. If you think about it free speech can, in essence, only really happen under conditions of equal power where the free speech of one person or party doesn’t infringe on the free speech of another person,” said Sastre. “In theory, trigger warnings position themselves as a tool to foster that kind of environment of equality ... We need to acknowledge

people’s individual positionality, we can’t ... presume that everyone is going to react to a material in the same way.” Sastre mentioned utilizing an adaptation of a trigger warning in the “Gender & Society” class she taught last spring. On the first day of class she issued a “broad” trigger warning so that students were aware of the potentially traumatizing material that was going to be discussed throughout the semester. “I said we would be dealing with things that are often very difficult, often challenging ... and I wanted to be forthright about that to create the conditions where students felt comfortable ... to discuss anything that may have felt overwhelming, uncomfortable or challenging,” said Sastre.

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one institution versus another, then perhaps we need to focus on that one institution to figure out what’s going on there — is it something with the environment? Is it something with the culture? You don’t know, so it’s to fix that over the long term,” he said. Jim Holleran, Madison Holleran’s father, said in an interview with the Associated Press that he supports the legislation’s goal of providing greater resources for students struggling with mental health issues. “We feel there’s a real need there for students that might be feeling the same thing as Madison and not knowing where to go to get help,” Jim Holleran said. The Madison Holleran Foundation did not respond to the Daily Pennsylvanian’s requests for comment. According to Barlas, O’Toole hopes to have the bills passed by the end of this year. In his statement, O’Toole said that he believes that the legislation will make a positive impact on efforts to prevent student suicides. “Despite the terrible sadness we still feel, and will continue to feel, about losing Madison, I am hopeful that when we swiftly enact this legislation, fellow parents will be reassured that powerful suicide prevention and awareness programs are right around the corner,” O’Toole said.

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save others,” state Sen. Kevin O’Toole, who sponsored the bills, said in a statement on his website. According to his Chief of Staff Al Barlas, O’Toole drafted the bills after hearing about Holleran’s suicide and working with her family and their community, which he represents, as well as colleges to craft the legislation. “His number one priority [is] to make sure we have the resources available to any student and help every student battle and cope with whatever internal issues they’re having that are leading to these types of thoughts,” Barlas said. “That’s an immediate thing that he wants available to every student, because that will have the greatest and most profound and hopefully immediate impact.” Barlas said that the accompanying reporting act will help officials identify schools with higher numbers of suicides and attempted suicides so they can work with them to identify and solve the problems on their campuses. “That’s to help students and parents and the state as a whole from a public policy perspective address issues in institutions,” Barlas said. “If you have a higher number [of suicides] in

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out-of-network benefits. And then I had to find a good therapist that could follow up with my care. It was taxing, super taxing.” But what Mehta did not expect were the difficulties relating to her Penn finances. “When I returned as a freshman, tuition had increased, and I guess it increases a certain percentage every year, but that was also really frustrating,” she said. “I had a lot of regrets. If I didn’t screw up my health and if I stayed, then that would be almost $2,000 savings.” Aside from her difficulties at Penn, Mehta also experienced difficulties communicating with her external scholarship provider in the aftermath of her leave. “I had to go back to the IBM Watson Foundation and explain the reason why I had to take a leave and why they had to take the scholarship back from Penn,” she said. “I had to get proof, doctors notes and therapy notes, and that was an annoyance. And then to get [the money] reapplied to my freshman year. And recently, they were confused about why I’m going to be a senior again.” Like Mehta, Daily Pennsylvanian columnist and rising College senior Katiera Sordjan was subject to an involuntary leave of absence during her sophomore year, instigated by the University in the same way that Mehta’s was. In addition to her year off,

Sordjan also had mental health struggles at the end of her freshman year and was not able to complete two classes. As a result, she had to complete classes in the summer, which was a financial burden on her family. “With the summer classes, for example, there isn’t really as much aid available from Penn, it’s more loans, and the extra summer that I took was at an additional cost to my family,” she said. “I feel like it would be helpful if students did have to take the leave and had to spend extra time, if there were some way to help them out. Because it is a financial issue if you’re taking extra semesters or pushing up your credit load or pushing back your graduation date.” While one student who wished to remain anonymous emphasized that the financial side of her crisis was not at the forefront of her mind at the time, she returned to Penn only to encounter financial frustration. “My FASFA for the next year [after returning] got audited because I had only gone for one semester of school so they were looking at my parents’ finances and it looked like we had cheated the system,” she said. “But it was actually because I took a leave and we got refunded for that. In the Spring we had to patch our financial aid a lot to get my package. We were calling them twice a week and sending them emails and they finally got a package together.”

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THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2015 Despite other difficulties, Mehta and the anonymous student both spoke positively of Penn’s tuition refund policy, which refunds 100 percent of tuition in medical cases if withdrawal occurs within the first two weeks of classes, and 50 percent within the third and fourth weeks. No refund is available after four weeks. Both students said they received full refunds. While Mehta and Sordjan were initially resistant to leaving the University, they were ultimately positive about the outcome of their leaves. “I had a rough experience because I was in such denial and I was resistant to any termination of enrollment, but I know that it was in [CAPS’s] best interests,” Mehta said. “Financially, I regret my leave, but holistically, I don’t.” The anonymous student agreed. She added that she knows a fellow student who took a leave for mental health reasons, but had to stay on campus for the duration of the leave, as it was too expensive for that student to travel home. “Taking a leave of absence is really good for your mental health and it can be a really good situation, but it also can be stressful in terms of finances,” she said. “There is privilege in the ability to take a leave of absence … that you have a place to go, somewhere that is safe with treatment and will provide you with an environment that is conducive to getting better.”

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n the morning of July 4, around 1:30 a.m., two men were shot while walking down Sansom street. The shooting — in which both suspects and victims fired rounds — occurred near Kings Court English College House and popular local dining spots Mad Mex, New Deck Tavern and Doc Magrogan’s. The Division of Public Safety confirmed that a UPenn Alert was sent at 1:52 a.m. and an “all clear” message at 2:17 a.m. Yet these alerts were only sent to faculty and staff who, like many Penn students, are not on campus during the summer. Why is it that faculty and staff are automatically enrolled to get the alerts, but students — who would more realistically be the ones out at one in the morning — are not? During the academic year, students enjoy a certain level of comfort. A wide variety of classes are available to them, tuition is kept reasonable thanks to financial aid and they are warned of any danger through the DPS’s UPenn Alerts. Even when the school year comes to a close, Penn promises an enjoyable experience for students who choose to continue classes in the summer. Penn’s campus is beautiful, and although there are fewer

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students, there is more access to everything it has to offer. But the reality of Penn summers is that the University is relaxed in more areas than it should be. Students who enroll in classes are already paying a significant price, at $4,058 per credit unit for School of

and a staple in convincing parents to relinquish their children to the expanses of West Philadelphia — is apparently seen as not so necessary during the summer: security. This became glaringly obvious on the morning of Independence Day.

It does not follow that UPenn Alerts adds and accommodates 24,806 students during the fall and spring semesters, yet cannot accommodate a much smaller group that attends classes and works during the summer.” Arts and Sciences courses. Wharton and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences charge a bit more: $5,848 and $4,327 respectively. The no-loan policy during the year does not apply to summer students, and housing is not included in tuition. With this in mind, one would hope that at least the basic benefits of being a Penn student would be extended to the summer months. Pottruck, Student Health Services, libraries and other services are available for student use. Yet a fundamental aspect of student life —

Apparently, the only reasons given by DPS for the lack of notification is that most students are not on campus and that “the technology doesn’t allow” students to opt into the system. Yet after asking about it, a member of The Summer Pennsylvanian staff was told that he would be able to be added to the system to receive the alerts. It does not follow that UPenn Alerts adds and accommodates 24,806 students during the fall and spring semesters, yet cannot accommodate a much smaller group that

attends classes and works during summer. Why can’t a system which allows staff and faculty to opt out of receiving the messages do the same for students? How is it that a system whose technology doesn’t allow students to opt in conveniently allows a single student from the SP to be added? These are questions that require answers. Maureen Rush has stated to students that “Your safety and security at Penn is our highest priority and we encourage you to partner with us and utilize the services, initiatives and trainings provided by the Division of Public Safety during your course of study or work here in Philadelphia.” However, perhaps safety isn’t as high of a priority, given that UPenn Alerts were first implemented in 2007. DPS has a system in place that allows tens of thousands of students to be enrolled based off of their Penn InTouch profile. To claim that this same system cannot be used to register summer students is absurd. If in eight years they have yet to find a way to include students who stay during the summer, it shows either a lax attitude towards safety or utter apathy. If Penn truly cares about the community’s safety beyond boosting enrollment, we will need better reasons for this oversight.

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would consider myself a pretty big music fan. To this day, my iTunes library consists of around 5,000 songs, for a total of 12 days of music. At my worst, I would download gigabytes a day — entire discographies — for no reason other than that I could. There was even a complaint filed against me under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act asking for compensation after they noticed I had illegally downloaded “Nevermind” by Nirvana on AirPennNet. I didn’t respond, but I did feel incredibly guilty. Not towards Courtney Love, or Universal Music Group or the DMCA, but towards the music industry in general. The story was different when I was a kid and my parents wouldn’t let me buy music. Now I had my own money, and yet I was still stealing. The story of the internet is the story of democratization. People aren’t going to be any more likely to pay to listen to a song than they are

A NUMBERS GAME | The true cost of free music to buy an encyclopedia, because that information “belongs” to everyone now. It seems that the only successful way to profit off this new paradigm is the “freemium” model, in which you have the option to pay for quality. It’s a natural solution which allows customers to pay what they want. But for this model to be successful and to change what the value of music is, we need to have a discussion about what the value of music should be. Services like Spotify and Apple Music are making great strides in that artists are finally getting compensated for digital music which is being consumed at unprecedented levels. Unfortunately, the free option has set the tone for how our generation will consume music. If Spotify won’t provide, then YouTube will, and if YouTube won’t, then there’s always piracy. That music is free is an inescapable truth. That it is worthless is not.

It is heartening that people will pay for music even when it’s free. As CD sales have consistently plummeted for the past few years, vinyl has established itself as the fastest growing segment of the music industry. Sure, some are paying for quality, and some for style, but many are making an emotional investment.

future generations will be able to live in the kind of vibrant musical landscape we see today. Despite the entitled, narcissistic stereotype of the millennial, research suggests that we are actually quite philanthropic, with 87 percent of millennials donating to charity in 2014. It’s not impossible to get our genera-

If Spotify won’t provide, then YouTube will, and if YouTube won’t then there’s always piracy. That music is free is an inescapable truth. That it is worthless is not.” Paying for a free good is an anarchistic act, a rebellion in which we question the judgment of the free market and instead set our own price. In the age of the internet, we have the unique opportunity to do this, and we ought to take advantage of it now so

tion to move on issues that inspire them. If the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and Kickstarter have taught us anything, it’s that our generation is willing to exchange actual currency for social currency and personalized rewards. Whether you think this is

an adequate justification or not, it is certainly a successful strategy, in no small part due to the fact that it gives donors the feeling that they’re getting their money’s worth. Amanda Palmer’s book, “The Art of Asking,” details how she was able to crowdfund her album “Theatre Is Evil” — then the most successful music project ever on Kickstarter — simply by setting up a simple system of tiered rewards. As digital strategist Amy Webb suggests, we could think of charity as investment, not donation. In this way, we can rediscover and rebuild the value of music. The duty falls upon our generation, and particularly our generation of music fans, to change the way we consume music before it’s too late. We are told that music is free, but platforms like Bandcamp and Kickstarter increasingly offer us the option to reject that assertion. Here’s my investing advice for the day. Buy as many shares as you can in music:

JAY HAVALDAR in creativity, in art and in culture. Prove to the industry — and to the artists — that music is worth something, and I guarantee in a few decades’ time, you’ll be glad you did. After all, you get what you pay for.

JAY HAVALDAR is a rising Engineering junior from Dix Hills, NY studying math and computer science. His email address is havaldar@seas.upenn.edu.

Spinsterhood vs. sisterhood LEFTOVERS | One woman’s quest to live alone fails female solidarity

hen I read that Kate Bolick’s book “Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own” was akin to Betty Friedan’s “Feminine Mystique” in its transformational and generation-defining significance, I immediately picked up a copy. Unfortunately, I was immediately disappointed. Here was a gorgeous white woman living in a Brooklyn apartment with 11-foot ceilings outfitted by an interior designer. She found herself in partnerships with clever men more often than not, and had just secured a sixfigure book deal. It felt insincere. She was rising to minor TV personality fame and cashing in by calling herself a spinster: a woman intentionally choosing to live by herself in rejection of marriage. I soon realized that what irritated me was not wholly attributable to the inauthenticity of her narrative. I was more frustrated by how singular it was. Not only does she propose the interchangeability of her spinster ex-

perience with a “universal” female experience, her story is one that is steeped in a rigid, individualistic notion of female success as forging the path alone. It is a book that tells the story of a privileged woman who has awakened to the rewards of spinsterhood while further marginalizing the narratives of many women.

cially poor women of color, live with the damning stereotype of the welfare queen who leeches off taxpayer dollars. It is not until the very end of her book that Bolick barely breaches the surface of the problem when she finally asks “Are women people yet?” Her offering of female empower-

During my freshman convocation, Amy Gutmann told us we were the leaders of the future, and almost in the same breath, that there was a 30 percent chance that we would marry another Penn student.” The challenges facing single women and mothers extend beyond the trite image of crawling into bed alone every night. Often, the ability of these women to “get by” is not touted as a form of feminist self-empowerment. In fact, many single mothers, espe-

ment through spinsterhood as a viable solution to the woman question is inherently limited, because so much depends on women establishing autonomy in all parts of their lives. Carrie Brownstein of “Portlandia” and riot grrrl band Sleater-Kinney so

precisely stated, “People would ask me, years ago, ‘What does it feel like to be a woman playing music?’ And I said, ‘Being asked this question is what it feels like.’” We expect women, especially female artists, to orient themselves only in their gender. At the same time, our films idealize and propagate the staple manic pixie dream girl character who serves only as a medium for her sentimental male counterpart to discover his own youthfulness. At Penn, marriage is part and parcel with our preprofessionalization. During my freshman convocation, Amy Gutmann told us we were the leaders of the future, and almost in the same breath, that there was a 30 percent chance we would marry another Penn student. Of course, the alternative is the platitudinous college hook-up culture that places a premium on both partners’ emotional complacency. The choices seem to be rote and serial monogamy, or hypersexualized nonchalance, and both seem to deny the agency of those

involved. Bolick is strongest when she defines being single as not just doing whatever you want, whenever you want, but as a lifestyle that cultivates self-care. However, it is time to translate self-care into solidarity. Just as gracefully as Bolick succeeds in creating a vibrant life for herself as a single woman, she just as quickly fails to offer women a collective way out of gendered marital codes. Virginia Woolf tells us that we need means and a room of our own to create. In her essay “In Favor of the Sensitive Man,” Anaïs Nin tells us that if women are to find the support for their intellectual pursuits the new man who possesses a gentler masculinity must complement the new woman. The choice is clear: good money or good men. But what if there was another way that didn’t strengthen the understanding of marriage and raising a family as endangering the creative female self? What if, instead, we creatively approached entering into and sustaining lifelong partnerships,

CLARA JANE HENDRICKSON rearing children and reimagining female careerism in order to assert a new place for women? The challenge we face is not merely learning how to inhabit the world as it exists, but possessing the audacity to create a new one. We need a room of our own and so much more.

CLARA JANE HENDRICKSON is a rising College senior from San Francisco studying political science. Her email address is clara@sas.upenn.edu.

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night on weekends is listing its remaining available rooms online at $539 per night for the weekend of the papal visit, according to their website. With the city quickly running out of hotel space, many people, including some Penn students, have come up with an alternative solution. Turning to websites like Airbnb, students are listing their off-campus apartments — or even their entire homes — for rent the weekend of the visit. Third-year English graduate student Mariah Min has decided to list her studio apartment on Locust street for the weekend and is hoping to find 1-2 guests to stay there. Her current listing on Airbnb advertises her studio for $300 per night. Min said that she got the idea to list her apartment from a conversation with a friend in the same building. “We were chatting about the whole pope visit and we were

THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2015 wondering, with so many people coming to the city, where they would all be staying,” she said. “We went on Airbnb and found a lot of listings, so I decided to list my apartment too,” she said, adding that she will stay with her friend if she does successfully rent her apartment. “It was mostly just for fun,” Min said. In the week since she has listed her apartment, she has not yet had any interest in it. “The way I see it, if it does happen, it’s kind of a win-win situation,” she said, but noted that she is not doing anything to promote it. Min also said that while her studio could comfortably accommodate 1-3 people, she doesn’t know “how dire the housing situation will get” and is not setting an “upper bound” for how many people she is willing to house. At the time of publication, Campus Apartments, which owns many of the houses and apartments students are listing, had not returned The Daily Pennsylvanian’s request for

comment. While some students are willing to open their doors to guests for the papal visit, Penn Residential Services does not seem to have the same plans. In an email sent to students on Tuesday afternoon, Residential Services stated that guests will not be allowed in the residence halls between 5 p.m. on Sept. 25 and 8 a.m. on Sept. 28. The email defined guests as people or visitors who are not currently enrolled students at Penn. In an emailed statement to the DP, Director of Residential Services John Eckman said that Penn has no plans to use empty or extra rooms in residence halls to accommodate visitors. “Campus residences are reserved for the Penn Community (except during summer when the University hosts conferences) and during the school year nearly all our campus residences are occupied or in use,” he said. While Eck man also said that “students can request a

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pre-approved guest visit exception to allow access for one short day-time visit” for family members who have previously arranged to visit them, he also said that “we encourage families to choose alternate dates to visit as the city will be very difficult to navigate during this time.” While Eckman did not clarify what — if any — extra security might be on campus for the visit, he said that, like other big

events including Spring Fling and Move-In, Residential Services may have extra staff on campus that could affect residents. The email sent to residents emphasized that their focus is on maintaining a safe and healthy environment for students. “Dur ing late September, you will likely be balancing participating in new student organizations, preparing for

mid-terms, and enjoying getting to know your new hall mates. It is our responsibility in Residential Services and College Houses and Academic Services to ensure that you always have a safe and purposeful learning environment,” the email said. It also included special guest policies for other dates, including Spring Fling and the Democratic National Convention, which will happen in Philadelphia in July 2016.

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THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2015

Obama talks race, prison, in Phila.

9 things you missed at Trustees meeting Board of Trustees met to discuss U. budget, faculty appointments CAROLINE SIMON News Editor

Penn’s Board of Trustees met on June 19 to discuss and approve several major initiatives within the University. Here are some of the highlights. 1) Trustee Chair David Cohen announced that Philadelphia media mogul Ralph Roberts died at age 95. Roberts, the founder of Comcast, graduated from Wharton in 1941 and received an honorary degree from Penn in 2005. In 2006, Roberts and his son, Brian, pledged $15 million to Penn Medicine for the construction of the $144 million Roberts Proton Therapy Center, which opened in 2009. Penn President Amy Gutmann called him a “cherished member of the Penn family.” 2) David L. Cohen was reelected chair of the board, while Andrea Mitchell and David Silfen were re-elected as vice chairs. Cohen, who graduated from Penn Law in 1981, is the Executive Vice President of Comcast. Mitchell, a 1967 College graduate,

is now NBC’s foreign affairs correspondent, and Silfen, a 1966 College graduate, is the CEO of an investment management company. 3) The board celebrated the success of May’s Alumni Weekend, which ran from May 15 to May 18 and culminated in the 2015 Commencement Ceremony. This year, the weekend boasted a record-breaking attendance of more than 11,750 alumni and guests. 4) Gutmann presented a resolution of appreciation for Eduardo Glandt, who served as the Nemirovsky Family Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences for 17 years. Glandt, who received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Penn in 1977, uses computer simulation techniques and statistical models to investigate various chemical phenomena. 5) Gutmann also presented resolutions for the appointment of two new deans: Vijay Kumar as Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Theodore Ruger as Dean of the Law School. Kumar, who was previously a professor of Mechanical Engineering, is known for his work with autonomous robots and algorithms for collective

behavior. Ruger, who has been on the Law School faculty since 2004, specializes in health law and regulation, food and drug law and constitutional law. 6) Provost Vincent Price a n nou nce d t he appoi ntment of Beth Winkelstein as Vice Provost for Education. Winkelstein, who replaced Vice Provost for Education Andrew Binns on July 1, previously served as Dean for Underg raduate E ducation in the School of Education and Applied Sciences. Her research focuses on the physical consequences of injury, especially bodily harm resulting from sports, automobile accidents or degenerative diseases. 7) Vice President for Finance and Treasurer Stephen Golding gave the financial report, noting a strong forecast for the 2015 fiscal year. He cited an academic component that outperformed budget, and the successful relocation of the Trauma Center to the Penn Presbyterian site in February. He also mentioned that the University of Pennsylvania Health System has improved its mortality rate. The budget for the 2016 fiscal year contains an operating surplus, but the

University expects to lose cash because of construction projects, including the renovation of the Larry Robbins House of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology. 7) Dean of Admissions Eric Furda announced that the Class of 2019 was chosen from the most competitive pool of applicants in Penn’s history, resulting in an overall acceptance rate of 9.9 percent. The class hails from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and Guam, as well as 84 countries around the world. Thirteen percent of the class are first-generation college students, 14 percent are legacies, and 45 percent identified as minorities. 8) The board approved a Master of Science in design, allowing the School of Design to offer post-graduate students advanced professional training in architecture. 9) The board announced that the operating budget for the 2016 fiscal year will be $3.367 billion. $200 million will be used for energy eff iciency upg rades a nd m a i n t e n a n c e , i n clu d i n g lighting upgrades in several buildings and other improvements in major building projects.

Obama’s speech concluded the NAACP Convention on July 14 DAN SPINELLI News Editor

President Ba rack Oba ma capped off the NAACP’s annual convention with a speech in Philadelphia on Tuesday. Obama laid out a progressive vision for America’s criminal justice system, echoing concerns that racial minorities are treated more harshly than their white peers by the justice system. “Mass incarceration makes our country worse off, and we need to do something about it,” Obama said to the crowd gathered at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Center City. Obama, who had previously spoken at the NAACP convention in 2009, characterized racial relations in a far different manner than his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, where he said ”[t]here’s not a black America or white America.” With no more re-election campaigns to run and only the question of his historical legacy

to govern his decision-making, Obama has addressed racial relations more emotionally — as in his impromptu singing of “Amazing Grace” while eulogizing slain Charleston, S.C. pastor and state Sen. Clementa Pinckney. In Philadelphia on Tuesday, Obama listed policy solutions to the issue of mass incarceration, including restoring the right to vote to ex-convicts — many of whom are left off the voting rolls in some states — and studying the adverse effects of solitary confinement through a task force. T he convention’s theme, “Pursuing Liberty in the Face of Injustice,” comes after a string of racially-motivated protests in Ferguson , New York and Baltimore over killings of unarmed black men by police officers. “Any system that allows us to turn a blind eye to hopelessness and despair — that’s not a justice system,” Obama said on Tuesday. “That’s an injustice system.” After commuting the sentences of 46 nonviolent drug felons this week, Obama has shown a willingness to leave his mark on criminal justice before his presidency is complete.

Amid controversy, Trump finds traction with voters Since his campaign began, Trump has lost multiple business deals

DAN SPINELLI News Editor

Donald Trump’s rapid advancement in national polls has pundits and voters wondering whether the business magnate’s campaign for president can galvanize Republican voters, or whether his short-term burst of popularity will fade. In a USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll released on Tuesday, Trump, a 1968 Wharton graduate, led the crowded pack of Republican candidates for president with support from 17 percent of those surveyed. The poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points leaves Trump at a statistical tie with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who polled second among Republican candidates with 14 percent support. This marks a stunning rise for Trump, considering nearly 65 percent of likely Republican primary voters held an unfavorable view of him in May, according to a Washington Post/ABC poll. That number dropped to 40 percent, per a Post poll released this week. Tr ump, 69, has attracted controversy since his June 16 pr esident ia l a n nou nc ement for saying of Mexican immigrants: “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” He added, “And some, I assume, are good people,” but his comments already set off a

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wave of criticism from Mexican-Amer ican citizens and businesses. NBC, the network airing Trump’s popular reality-television show, “The Apprentice,” severed its ties with him on June 29, citing “the recent derogatory statements by Donald Trump regarding immigrants.” The station had rebuked Trump’s comments in a statement days earlier but, under heavy criticism from Hispanic organizations, eventually decided to end their relationship with him. Trump, meanwhile, doubled down on his controversial comments in an interview with Fox

News after his announcement, expressing a desire to force Mexico to build a wall across their American border by marking up the price of any products they export to America unless they cooperate. “Mexico is not our friend,” Trump said in the interview. A we ek a f t er Tr u mp’s president ia l a n nou ncement, Univision, the Spanish-language broadcast station, said they would not air the Miss USA or Miss Universe beauty pageants — both owned by Trump. Making good on his threat to retaliate, Trump filed a $500 m illion suit against Univision for breach of contract and

defamation. Ot her business pa r tners, including the Professional Golfers Association, ESPN and NASCAR, also cut ties with him. The fallout didn’t seem to bother Trump all that much. “The disassociation of ESPN and NASCAR with the Trump Organization was covered by the press in headlines all over the world as though it was a major setback for me. Really? What were the losses?” Trump said in a statement released last week. Trump reasoned that he could collect the deposits placed by these organizations to use his hotels and golf courses, rent the space out to another vendor, and “get two fees instead of one.” Trump repeatedly defends his economic acumen with his Wharton diploma as a major credential. “I’m, like, a really smart person,” Trump said in a speech last week. “I went to the Wharton School of Finance.” W ha r ton does recogn ize Trump as one of its 125 Influential People in the first 125 years of its history. In a profile on their website, Trump was described as “the best known brand name in real estate.” Despite continued blowback from his business partners, Trump formed a rally last week at the epicenter of immigration controversy: Arizona. In a nearly hour-long speech, Trump decried sanctuary cities, rival Jeb Bush and President Obama’s negotiating ability. “We can’t be great if we don’t have a border,” Trump said to the assembled crowd at the Phoenix

Convention Center. Ot her spea kers i ncluded Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., an outspoken immigration critic, whose department was found guilty of the systemic racial profiling of Latinos and was mandated by a U.S. District Court in February to include body cameras on his officers. Trump’s candidacy is a conundrum for the Republican National Committee, which while cognizant of the need to attract more Latino voters, is unwilling to openly antagonize Trump lest he run as an independent in the general election and siphon votes away from the Republican nominee.

The Washington Post reported that RNC chairman Reince Priebus spoke with Trump on July 8 for “nearly an hour on the phone” to ask him to “tone down his inf lammatory comments about immigration … .” With few formal powers to control Republican candidates, Priebus and other party leaders must wait nervously to see the longitudinal effect of Trump’s controversial campaign. They may not have to wait very long. Fox News is hosting a debate on Aug. 6 between the top 10 Republican candidates per national polling. Trump will likely be in that field, putting his braggadocio center-stage next to the other candidates.

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’YUCCIE’

SUB-BAES

BY SPENCER WINSON

BY FRANCES PATANO We Quakers pride ourselves on egregious use of acronyms SABS, DFMO, DRL, etc. So if you’re a self-respecting Penn student, then you already know all about what a yuccie is. For those of you slackers, we’ll get you up to speed. Mashable recently ran an article about how the typical hipster is dead (nobody cried) and it’s now the age of the “yuccie,” the creative yet financially motivated offspring of a hipster and a yuppie — kinda like a kid in Wharton who’s getting a fine arts minor because he totally feels things. The “yuc-“ prefix stands for “young urban creative” — in Penn terms, a flannel-sporting consumer psych minor at United By Blue. Not to blow it for you, but 50 years from now no one’s gonna give a f**k about yuccies. So while the term still exists, here are some variations of “YUC” that we think are way better than the original. “Yugoslavian Underground Crafting” - the world’s most exclusive European DIY ring “Yarmulkes of University City” - A serious revamp to Humans of UPenn “Yesterday’s Underwear Club” - Face it, we’re all members “Yes! An Underpriced Coffee!” - lol jk everybody knows this doesn’t exist “Yak-pot Utah Casino” - Yak-themed place of gambling, replete with puns and venereal disease “Yanked Up Crotch” - New-age slang for the modern, aggressive handjob (we’re getting desperate, folks) “Youths United by Canada Goose” - A support group for a**holes who don’t know how to showcase their wealth “Yeomen Unfazed by Cavalry” - Honestly, we really just wanted a reason to use “yeomen” “Yellowbrick Road Productions presents: Uptown Chunk” - … As in blowing chunks. At a downtown. Like upchucking at a downtYou know what?

Similar to pretty much every New Yorker that is living on a normal salary, I work a 30-minute subway ride from where I live. That’s a base of one hour and four different subway cars daily, allowing for a lot of time to find a hobby. Am I one of those people who plays Candy Crush on the commute? Do I read while holding a statement tote given away by the library? On the contrary, I’ve found a new passion: husband hunting. While many joke of an MRS (or MR) degree while at college, I am not actually angling at a husband (though it’s my dream to be hit on by a cute man on the subway). Rather, I like to create futures with that one dreamy man in the corner of the subway car. Here are some highlights from my daydreams: On Tuesday, June 23, I first noticed his pronounced jawline. It almost matches the neckline of his slightly loose tee showing from under his linen button-down. He stood reading the newspaper, showing off the just slightly masculine wrist of black beaded bracelets. His brow was furrowed and had a plain Navy flat brimmed hat covering all his hair. He had a navy and vibrant orange duffel

by his feet, which drew me to a small written tattoo on his ankle, shown because of his rolled up jeans. Was it a symbol from his heritage? A stupid drunk mistake? We could be going to work together, both in advertising: he in sales and I in creative. His duffel holds workout clothes for the lunch hour, where he rock climbs at Equinox. We live together in North Williamsburg. It's a one bedroom but feels spacious. The items are all "hip" but not grungy, most likely bought at an ABC home store. We go out to the very curated "hip bars " in Brooklyn and live a life of mild pleasantness — never anything too crazy. Then it's my station. He doesn't get off, and I'll never see him again.

On July 1, I walk into the subway and take a seat while coming home from dinner. Next to me is a man with his legs open wide taking a selfie, and all I can think is, “This is my kind of man!” His short sandy blonde buzzcut blends in with his beard. His biceps are accentuated by his just-tight-enough t-shirt. Is he coming back from work? He probably works at a tech startup and takes his work home with him. He'd come back to our brownstone in Park Slope and sit with his laptop another hour. The kids — one blonde girl and another brunette boy — would

play with the wooden blocks. We're running late for karate class. He can't leave his computer since he's coding, so I walk them myself. Hopefully, he'll be free when we get back. The sex is quick, aggressive and fulfilling. Just as I imagine how he'd cook breakfast, a simple over easy egg, it's my stop. He gets off as well but walks in the other direction. It's 12 p.m. on Monday, July 6, and I have the day off of work. There's a 5'11'' boy on the subway, who must be in his early 20s, with a tee and great fitting jeans. His black, probably Hershel, duffel matches the black leather sneakers he's wearing. He has sunglasses on and looks off into the distance. In my mind we both work freelance and live in the Meatpacking District (pun intended) using his family money. The pink stain on his tee is from the raspberries we threw at each other as we slowly made breakfast after coming back from the gym. His mouth is small which makes the fruit always end up on his shirt. He sometimes goes out without me, clubbing and coming home at obscene hours. I worry, but he tells me it's nothing. There’s a coldness that keeps me interested. Then, I get off at Union Square and he’s just a memory.

F**k it, we’re out of acronyms. We’re all yuccies and, goddammit, we love it. Now has anyone seen my Warby Parkers?

DRUNK DISPATCH INSIDE OUT EDITION

REVIEW

BY ELLIE SCHROEDER

MAGIC MIKE XXL BY HALLIE BROOKMAN “Magic. Magic Mike.” We all flocked to the theaters three years ago to see Channing Tatum strip tease for us as a male entertainer, and now he and the boys return to the screen for a final blow out performance. The last time we saw Mike [Tatum], he was retiring from stripping. It’s clear that he misses both the job and his crew, the Kings of Tampa. Hence, when the opportunity to reunite arrives as they come knocking on his door to join them at a stripper convention, he can’t resist. As the boys take a road trip to Myrtle Beach, Mike notes that if this is really their last ride, maybe they should make

up some new routines too, so the boys get to work. Bonding ensues, and each performer gets their chance to shine. They revisit their past picking up Mike’s old flame, Rome (Jada Pinkett Smith) to be their MC, and they also form new experiences such as encountering a group of drunken single women as they even get invited into one of the mom’s apartments. In addition to the bonding, clowning around and killer dance moves (and skin) that we see on screen, Mike steals the show once again. As he welds machinery in his apartment, he goes into a solo dance break using a chair and other furniture that exhibits his desire and long to return to entertaining. The charismatic

persona that he displays in moments like this shows us that he’s more than just an attractive male entertainer. Seeing this movie on the next girls night out is a must, but “Magic Mike XXL” proves to be for the guys too. Rather than just shedding clothes, it’s also about the bond the guys share while they travel together in hopes of ending with a bang. If you’re wondering if “He still has that Magic in his Mike …” I can assure you that he does. GRADE: A RATING AND RUNTIME: R, 115 min. SEE IF YOU LIKED: Magic Mike

On a typical Tuesday night, I armed myself with a Diet Coke and flask of Svedka as I went to the movies ready to get #turnt. While on the surface “Inside Out” may look like a lighthearted children’s film, I discovered that it’s actually darker than “The Conjuring,” deeper than “Eat, Pray, Love” and trippier than “Inception.” Here are the notes I drunkenly took throughout the movie. • The tiger mom a row back throws me some shade as I spike my Coke and drink 90 percent of it in approximately three minutes. This should be interesting. • As the movie begins, a lonely singing volcano looking for love appears. I have no idea how this fits into the premise of the story, but it’s f**king heart wrenching. • Despite the fact that this makes no logical sense I’m about to tear up at this beautiful love story. • As the alcohol begins to take effect, the film moves into the inside of a baby’s brain. Wow, this is getting trippy AF. • Is this what the inside of my brain actually looks like??? • If nothing else, this movie is teaching me how the brain really works, unlike Psych 101. I’m sure that if I’d watched this movie instead of reading my textbook I would have done better than a C+. • I know that I’m now officially drunk because I am hysterically laughing at a joke aimed at 6-yearolds and half of the theater is turning around to look at me. • This movie is actually so dark disguised under the guise of adorableness. • I’m learning more about puberty from the film than in any middle school health class. • My mind is literally tumbling into a pit of darkness. Everything I know is a lie. • Omfg pretty sure we are in the id, Freud would approve. • Actually, this entire show is pretty much a Freudian nightmare. • Riley can’t feel any emotions, so guess she’s a psychopath now. (I doze off for the last twenty minutes of the movie, and am awakened to the sound of a 100 9-year-olds, who are probably oblivious to the profundity of what they have just witnessed, emptying the theater.) So, what did that scene with the talking volcanoes have to do with literally anything else in the movie? Oh, it didn’t. That’s just typical Pixar. Holy shit. I LAVA you. IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW. Damn, I’m so blonde. I can’t believe I just got that.

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ROWING

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Penn Athletics announced Monday that former Trinity coach Wesley Ng will take over the position of womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rowing head coach.

experience both as an Ivy League student-athlete and coach. â&#x20AC;&#x153;During the interview process, I also was impressed with how Wes thinks outside the box with his training methods and the use of technology. Wes is a rising star and a very sought-after coach, and we are lucky to have him lead our program.â&#x20AC;? Ng began his involvement with collegiate rowing as a member of the Bulldogsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; heavyweight crew in the late 1990s. Before graduating in 2002, Ng won three EARC Sprints championships at Yale, and was part of the programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s IRA National Championship squad as a senior. Before moving on to Trinity, Ng served as an assistant for

one season each with the Elisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lightweight programs. The Yale graduate eventually spent two years as an assistant and recruiting coordinator for the Bantamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rowing crews before taking over as head coach in 2006. Beyond his work in collegiate rowing, Ng has also been involved with boats on an international level. After coaching the squad at the assistant level last year, Ng will spend this summer leading the United Statesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crew at the 2015 World Rowing Under-23 Championships in Bulgaria later this month before beginning preparations for the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; upcoming campaign. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I believe that our current and future student-athletes should be inspired â&#x20AC;Ś as they strive for

excellence within the alwayscompetitive Ivy League and nationally,â&#x20AC;? Ng said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you combine the draw of the Ivy League student-athlete experience, the iconic boathouse row in the great rowing city of Philadelphia and the value of a Penn education, I believe that package will resonate with past, current and future members of the Penn womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rowing family.â&#x20AC;? With Ng now in the fold, Calhounâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next move will likely focus on filling the currently empty menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heavyweight rowing coaching position. In addition to Ng and Myhrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eventual successor, football coach Ray Priore, womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soccer coach Nicole Van Dyke and menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball coach Steve Donahue will all begin their first season with the Quakers in the coming semester.

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Former Penn basketball head coach Jerome Allen will join the Boston Celtics as an assistant coach.

JEROME ALLEN

the City of Brotherly Love, Allen amassed a 65-104 record, featuring just one winning campaign, in 2011-12. Despite his generally disappointing coaching tenure, Allen is still grateful for the opportunities offered to him by Penn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I tried to look at it like I left [the Penn program] better than I found it,â&#x20AC;? Allen told the Globe. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When the door closed, I tried to keep a positive attitude. My time was up [there]. What can I complain about?â&#x20AC;?

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defending champion Crimson. Harvard has established itself as a force in the Ancient Eight as of late, and that was made clear last year as the Crimson defeated the Quakers, 3-0. It may be a lot to ask Penn to take home Ivy hardware in its first year with new coach Nicole Van Dyke, but a win over Harvard would be a huge step in the right direction. 2. Seton Hall, Aug. 30 In her first match as Penn head coach, Van Dyke will have the tough task of taking on a Big East opponent that has played the Quakers close in each of their past three meetings. 3. Princeton, Nov. 7 The Quakers will finish up their regular season against the

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will free up the passing game, he said, as last year defenses began to key in on the pass. Due to the injuries, Torgersen actually ended up finishing as the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; leading rusher, with 405 yards gained on the ground and four touchdowns, with most of the yardage coming via scrambling. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He limits his to times when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s absolutely necessary, or certain situations where we find it advantageous for him to be carrying the football,â&#x20AC;? Reagan said. With another year working with the same offensive line, the Huntington Beach, Calif. native expects his rushing total to go down naturally, as he believes he will not need to escape the pocket as often. However, one can expect the rushing totals for the team to increase, as conventional wisdom suggests Torgersenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2014 average of 42.1 attempts per game is unsustainable. With most of the pass attempts coming with the Quakers trailing their opponents, more success earlier in games will lead to less of a burden on Torgersen in the second half. While Reagan has not yet determined how much emphasis to shift to the running game, he is quick to stress its importance.

rival Tigers, who are also in the midst of a coaching transition. If either finds itself in the thick of the Ivy race, it could make for some serious drama. Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Soccer Coming off of an exhilarating Ivy championship run in 2013, the Quakers went into the 2014 season ready to repeat. Instead, they came away with a disappointing 2-3-2 Ivy record, good for fifth in the league. They were also hit hard by graduation, especially by the departure of forward Duke Lacroix. However, with star forward Alec Neumann and longtime coach Rudy Fuller returning â&#x20AC;&#x201D; along with the 12th-ranked recruiting class in the nation â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Quakers look ready to bounce back. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what they will be up against.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;In order to be a championship-level team, you have to be able to run the football. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s times in a game, whether they be a short-yardage situation, just a key down-and-distance or at the end of a game when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to hold onto the ball. Championship teams have to be able to run the football.â&#x20AC;? Reagan says the Quakers will stay flexible and see what works at first, and potentially tailor the offense to each weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opponent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To tell you that I know how itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to play out, I just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know that,â&#x20AC;? the first-year offensive coordinator said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be the first one to tell you that if weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to complete passes at 75 percent or better, then weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll probably throw the ball a lot more than we run it.â&#x20AC;? Also to be seen is who will be catching the ball from the second-year starter. The quarterback said the team is â&#x20AC;&#x153;reloadingâ&#x20AC;? at wide receiver after losing his top two targets from 2014 in Spencer Kulcsar and Conner Scott, who combined for 133 catches a year ago. R ising sophomore Justin Watson, who had 42 catches for 497 yards in his first year, is expected to become the No.1 receiver, and Torgersen cited rising seniors Cam Countryman and Eric Fiore, and rising junior Danny Ferens as other potential

1. Princeton, Nov. 7 While the Quakers lost their final two games of the 2014 season, the Tigers won their last five en route to share first place in the Ivy standings. In their penultimate Ivy matchup, Penn will need to avenge a tough 3-2 loss in 2014 in what could prove to be a deciding match in the Ivy race at Rhodes Field. 2. Dartmouth, Oct. 17 The Big Green earned a spot in the NCAA Tournament by taking home the Ivy title in a close race over Princeton last year. However, the Quakers gave them their only Ivy loss last year, and they will get another shot this year on their home field. 3. Washington, Sept. 4 The Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; nonconference schedule doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t appear to be as brutal as it was last year.

playmakers. Fiore, who played mostly as a running back in 2014, will work out of the slot in 2015 in a role similar to that of Scott, who finished his career at Penn fourth all-time in school history in receptions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You just never know exactly how things will fit together,â&#x20AC;? Reagan said. The role of starting quarterback often comes with the expectation of leadership, and Torgersen is aiming to fulfill that archetype. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hoping that I can lead by example and just come out there, and practice my hardest and give everything my all,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Come out, perform the best every day. I may not be the most vocal guy out there, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hoping I can be the hardestworking.â&#x20AC;? With first-year head coach Ray Priore ensuring the defense takes a step forward this season, Torgersen is confident that the Quakers can be a winning team if they simply score enough points. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to execute every play, work very well as a unit,â&#x20AC;? Torgersen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we put up points, I have a lot of faith in our defense. I think if we put up a fair amount of points, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll hold teams to pretty low numbers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All we need to do as an offense is score.â&#x20AC;?

However, they will open their season against Washington, a team that spent time last year ranked No. 1 in the nation.

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Jerome Allen joins Celtics as assistant

Alek Torgersen is ‘ready to go’

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The Boston Celtics announced this week that former Penn men’s basketball coach Jerome Allen will join the team in an assistant coaching role. It will be the first NBA coaching experience for Allen, who will support third-year Boston coach Brad Stevens as the Celtics look to improve on last season’s 40-42 record, which was good for the seventh seed in a weak Eastern Conference. “For me, it’s a blessing,” Allen told the Boston Globe. “Brad had enough confidence in me to feel like I can add value. I am eager. I’m excited. I’m just looking forward to everything.” Allen and Stevens have been friends for years, dating back to Stevens’ tenure at Butler University. When the Celtics were in Philadelphia to take on the 76ers last season, Allen helped facilitate a pregame shootaround at the SEE JEROME ALLEN PAGE 9

W. Rowers get new head coach ROWING | New coach Wesley Ng

previously coached at Trinity

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Rising junior quarterback Alek Torgersen will develop under coach John Reagan in his first year as offensive coordinator.

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One vacancy filled, one to go. Five weeks after women’s rowing coach Mike Lane’s contract was not renewed, Penn Athletics announced Monday that it has hired former Trinity coach Wesley Ng to take the program’s helm. Ng arrives at Penn following nine seasons with the Bantams, a period in which he received numerous accolades for his work with the Division III squad. In addition to helping it qualify for the NCAA Division III Championships in each year of his tenure, the former Yale rower led Trinity to its first team national championship in 2014. For his work with that Bantams crew, Ng was named Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association Coach of the Year and ECAC Coach of the Year. He also guided Trinity’s varsity-eight boat to national titles in 2008 and 2015. “It is a privilege and an honor to become a part of the tradition of the Penn women’s rowing program,” Ng said in a press release. “The passion of the alumnae, the past leadership of this program, and the focus of Penn Athletics has created a foundation that we can successfully build upon. “I am deeply committed to creating an environment where we will gain speed and success. Great challenges create opportunities for personal and programmatic growth, and I am looking forward to working with our studentathletes to help them earn that growth and experience.” Lane, whose contract expired at the conclusion of the 2015 season, had been in charge of the Red and Blue for six years — following three campaigns as an assistant — prior to his dismissal. In May, Lane guided Penn’s crew to its best performance at the Ivy League Championships ever, as the squad finished in sixth place, well ahead of Dartmouth and Columbia and only five points behind fifth-place Cornell. When it was announced that Lane and men’s heavyweight coach Greg Myhr would not return in 2015-16, Athletic Director Grace Calhoun explained that “it is in the best interest of these programs to go in new directions as we look to advance at the Ivy League and national levels.” In the administration’s release on Monday, Calhoun claimed that the she had found the exact candidate she was seeking. “Wesley set the bar for what Penn needs in its next head coach,” she said. “He has a winning coaching record, a proven ability to develop student-athletes, positive character traits and SEE ROWING PAGE 9

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the Ivy League’s best. After finishing sixth in the Ancient Eight in points per game in 2014, Torgersen and the Penn offense will enter their first season under the direction of Offensive Coordinator John Reagan, who spent the last four years in the same role at Kansas (2014) and Rice (2011-2013). Reagan, a former three-year

acuse who has coached the college game since 1994, is seeking a quick turnaround for an offense that was young last season but enters 2015 with experience and poise. Reagan and Torgersen did not wait long to get to work, spending time together throughout the spring and part of the summer. Reagan says the passer is “ready to go” for his

be his second full season as Penn’s starting quarterback. Despite an injury-plagued season for the offense last year — especially for the running back corps — Torgersen believes the unit is healthy now and will stay that way for the entire season. A threatening running game SEE TORGERSEN PAGE 9

Must-see Penn soccer games in the fall SOCCER | Both teams

released fall schedules last week

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Last season was filled with unfulfilled expectations for both Penn men’s and women’s soccer. However,

any disappointing season is partially redeemed by the fact that another lies right around the corner. And with the fall season fast approaching, both squads will soon get their shots at taking care of any unfinished business. Last week, both programs released their schedules in advance of their 2015 seasons. To mark the occasion, let’s take a look forward at each of

the teams’ three biggest upcoming matchups. Women’s Soccer Last season did not go as Penn women’s soccer probably would have expected. Not even close. After an up-and-down season, the Quakers failed to break the .500 mark in Ivy play. The real shock came after the end of their season, though, as longtime coach Darren Ambrose left

to take over at Vanderbilt. In the wake of this massive change, here are the three biggest matchups the Red and Blue will face this season. 1. Harvard, Sept. 26 The Quakers will not only need to open their Ivy schedule on the road, but also against the two-time SEE SOCCER PAGE 9

SOCCER TEAM SCHEDULES

Men

women

DATE

OPPONENT

LOCATION

TIME

DATE

OPPONENT

LOCATION

TIME

Fri, Sep 04

Washington

Rhodes Field

7:30 PM

Sat, Aug 22

West Chester

Rhodes Field

1:00 PM

Sun, Sep 06

American

at Washington, D.C.

1:00 PM

Sun, Aug 30

Seton Hall

Rhodes Field

1:00 PM

Thu, Sep 10

Florida International at Miami, Fla.

7:00 PM

Fri, Sep 04

Temple

Rhodes Field

5:00 PM

Sat, Sep 12

Florida Gulf Coast

at Fort Myers, Fla

7:00 PM

Sun, Sep 06

Mount St. Mary’s

Rhodes Field

1:00 PM

Tue, Sep 15

Drexel

at Philadelphia, Pa.

7:30 PM

Fri, Sep 11

Clemson

at Clemson, S.C.

7:00 PM

Sun, Sep 20

Temple

Rhodes Field

7:00 PM

Sun, Sep 13

USC Upstate

at Spartanburg, S.C.

12:00 PM

Wed, Sep 23

Penn State

Rhodes Field

7:00 PM

Fri, Sep 18

VCU

Rhodes Field

7:00 PM

at Towson, Md.

1:00 PM

Tue, Sep 29

Saint Joseph’s

at Philadelphia, Pa.

7:00 PM

Sun, Sep 20

Towson

Sat, Oct 03

Cornell*

Rhodes Field

7:00 PM

Sat, Sep 26

Harvard*

at Cambridge, Mass.

4:00 PM

Sat, Oct 10

Columbia*

at New York, N.Y.

7:00 PM

Fri, Oct 02

Cornell*

Rhodes Field

7:00 PM

Tue, Oct 13

Rutgers

Rhodes Field

5:00 PM

Mon, Oct 05

Lehigh

Rhodes Field

7:00 PM

Sat, Oct 17

Dartmouth*

Rhodes Field

7:30 PM

Fri, Oct 09

Columbia*

at New York, N.Y.

6:00 PM

Sat, Oct 24

Yale*

Rhodes Field

7:30 PM

Tue, Oct 13

America

Rhodes Field

7:30 PM

Sat, Oct 31

Brown*

at Providence R.I.

7:00 PM

Sat, Oct 17

Dartmouth*

Rhodes Field

5:00 PM

Tue, Nov 03

West Virginia

at Morgantown, W. Va.

7:00 PM

Sat, Oct 24

Yale*

Rhodes Field

5:00 PM

Sat, Nov 07

Princeton*

Rhodes Field

7:30 PM

Sat, Oct 31

Brown*

at Providence, R.I.

3:30 PM

Sat, Nov 14

Harvard*

at Cambridge, Mass.

7:00 PM

Sat, Nov 07

Princeton*

Rhodes Field

5:00 PM

*Conference Games

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