THURSDAY, AUGUST 3RD, 2017
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Patient sues University and physician for sexual assault Tameka Green accused a doctor at Penn Presbyterian of assaulting her ESHA INDANI Senior Reporter
A patient at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, which is part of the Penn Medicine system, sued the University and physician Leonard Rosenfeld last week over accusations that the doctor sexually assaulted her through the aid of hypnosis. During an appointment in Rosenfeld’s office on the premises of Penn Presbyterian, which is located at 39th and Powelton streets, Tameka Green said he hypnotized her before sexually assaulting her. In addition to using hypnosis, Green alleged that Rosenfeld drugged her “possibly with a benzodiazepine or other short-acting medication,” according to her complaint. Rosenfeld “is an independent, private practice physician who is not employed by Penn Presbyterian Medical Center or Penn Medicine,” said Patrick Norton, Penn Medicine’s vice president for public affairs. A University spokesperson, Stephen MacCarthy, declined to comment, citing Penn’s policy to not comment on pending litigation. In a statement included in the complaint, another one of Rosenfeld’s patients accused the doctor of assaulting her. The details of her alleged assault mirror many aspects of Green’s story, including the use of hypnosis. Green deferred comment to her attorney, SEE LAWSUIT PAGE 2
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Fifth-year students shocked to hear of eightsemester limit for “all-grant” aid policy VIBHA KANNAN News Editor
Many undergraduate students who are choosing to stay a fifth year at Penn have just learned that they won’t be granted financial aid for that year. For many, this is a direct contradiction of what they were told by Student Financial Services in previous years, though Student Registration & Financial Services states that this policy has been in place since 2008. Unless any changes are made to this policy in the next few weeks, hundreds of students may not be able to return to campus come August. Many won’t be able to graduate. As a freshman in 2014, Engineering student Nancy Wong was assured by SRFS that financial aid would be made available for undergraduate students who stay a fifth year at Penn. “For students who choose to stay a 5th year, there is financial aid available, however, it will have a loan-component built into the package of a few thousand dollars,” an SRFS officer wrote to Wong on March 4, 2014. Wong, who uses they/them pronouns, was relieved — they had lived with mental illness as a student and wasn’t sure if graduating in four years was a possibility. “I was depressed and suicidal for much of my sophomore year,” Wong said. “Fall semester, I withdrew from Math 114, and I failed a fine arts class my spring semester.” Now three years on, Wong is a rising fifth-year Engineering senior. Wong was supposed to graduate in a few months, but a seeming change in SRFS policy now suggests that the “few thousand dollars” in aid that was promised to them in 2014 might turn into $20,000 worth in loans instead. Wong, along with tens of other students, learned that Penn isn’t offering financial aid to fifth-year students from a Facebook post written by Amy Calhoun, the director of the Integrated Studies Program. Penn administrators said this policy has been in place since 2008. “Student Financial Services is now enforcing Penn’s official policy that undergraduates can receive (at most) 8 semesters of financial aid, during their undergraduate studies,” Calhoun wrote. “Financial aid will not cover the 5th year of study for a submatriculant — even if the sub mat has not yet completed her/his undergraduate degree.” The post spawned an uproar in many student groups on Facebook, such as CG@Penn, the computer graphics group and CIS@Penn, a group for computer science. SEE FINANCIAL AID PAGE 3
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Trump and Huntsman intersect The two men are contrasting examples of famous alumni SARAH FORTINSKY News Editor
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President Donald Trump, 1968 Wharton graduate, has donated barely a fraction to Penn of what Jon Huntsman Jr., 1987 College graduate, has given.
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Outside of “Benjamin” and “Franklin,” two names may not be more closely intertwined with Penn than “Huntsman” and “Trump.” Each name, already associated with the billionaire patriarch of a proud Penn family, gained closer contact in recent weeks as President Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Jon Huntsman Jr. to the key post of U.S. ambassador to Russia. For the Huntsmans and Trumps, the president’s decision this week is the latest linkage between the two illustrious Penn families, who over their decades of interaction with the University have shown noted points of contrast. Billionaire Jon Huntsman Sr., a
1959 Wharton graduate, donated between $50 and $100 million to the Wharton School, where his name adorns the business school’s signature building, Jon M. Huntsman Hall. His patronage also led to the creation of the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business, a dual-degree program between the College of Arts and Sciences and Wharton. (Daily Pennsylvanian File Photo) President Donald Trump, a 1968 Wharton graduate whose net worth is more than triple that of Huntsman’s, has donated barely a fraction to Penn of what Huntsman has given. No building on campus is named after Trump, and the only mention of him on any Penn signage or property is on a plaque in the Class of 1968 Seminar Room in Van Pelt Library. (Despite his SEE HUNTSMAN PAGE 2
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