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Papal visitors surf Penn couches

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I come with not a lot of credentials, but a lot of vision.”

Students open doors through Airbnb and Newman Center JEFFREY CAREYVA Staff Reporter

The pope’s upcoming visit to Philadelphia brings both opportunities and challenges to Penn students living on and around campus. While some are capitalizing on high housing rates for visitors, others are opening their doors freely and still others are restricted in having guests that particular weekend. Students who live off-campus are using the online renting site Airbnb to sell their spaces for the weekend. With over 1.5 million visitors expected in Philadelphia on the weekend of Sept. 26, the demand for housing is high, and space limited. As of Aug. 31, over 520 rentals were listed on Airbnb for the University City area from Sept. 25 to Sept. 28. Among one of a dozen identifiable Penn students found on Airbnb, College junior and psychology major Matthew Dong has an “Apartment for Pope” at 3900 Chestnut Street for $150 per night. Dong has been an Airbnb member since August 2015, and this is his first listing on the site. Although he might make an easy $150 a night, Dong doesn’t plan to get rich quick off SEE POPE PAGE 3

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LAUNCHING PRIDE Rececnt Penn grad wants to be first openly gay man in space ISABEL KIM Deputy News Editor

For Sayid Abdullaev, it’s not what he can do for space, it’s what space can do to amplify his message. Recently shor tlisted for K r uger Crowne’s Rising Star Programme, Abdullaev is 1 of 30 applicants shortlisted to travel into space. But the trip into space is just the beginning, and the winner will also be offered mentorship and a good amount of fame. If he wins the competition, he will be the first gay man to travel into space. Abdullaev is one of the youngest competitors, having just graduated from Penn. This spring, Abdullaev was a winner of

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The Daily Pennsylvanian’s inaugural Penn Ten, recognizing outstanding leaders in the Penn community. From youth, Abdullaev has been a human rights advocate. At age 10, he founded Youth for Peace. In 2013 he founded AsylumConnect with fellow 2015 Penn grad Katie Sgarro, an organization that helps LGBTQ asylum seekers when they arrive in the United States. He is also currently the United Religions Initiative Youth Representative to the United Nations. But even with his impressive list of achievements, Abdullaev doesn’t focus on what he’s done, but who he can represent. “I come with not a lot of credentials, but a lot of vision,” he said. “I am a young person, I met the young people who I want to represent. I’m a youth champion for a lot of causes.”

As a refugee himself, Abdullaev has a unique perspective on the world and the causes he supports because of his upbringing and experiences. Born in Krygzstan, he is currently a U.S. resident having sought political asylum, and is on track to becoming a U.S. citizen in two years. As a LGBTQ refugee and someone who comes from an economically disadvantaged background, he could have easily been discouraged to pursue his dreams, but his optimism is unstoppable. “I’m the person who doesn’t believe in impossible. For me, it’s ‘I’m possible,’” Abdullaev said. Abdullaev is interested in the Rising Star program, “not because of the glory of going to space, [but] because of the platform it’s going to provide.” In short, it’s not the space travel that’s SEE SPACE PAGE 5

Penn Law prof. and Roosevelt descendant writes WWII fiction Kermit Roosevelt conveys legal issues via fiction SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Staff Reporter

A JOCK AND HIS SOCKS

-Sayid Abdullaev

An enormous bookshelf covers one wall of Law professor Kermit Roosevelt’s office on the second floor of Penn’s Law School building, and more books litter the floor and are spread over his desk. On one shelf, the distinctive red and black spine adorns several copies of his most recent work, historical fiction novel “Allegiance.” Roosevelt is a study in contradictions. With a name that carries an association with not one, but two leaders of the free world, he comes across as much more suited to his current

line of work. In fact, Roosevelt prob- formal training, he writes fiction. ably more closely resembles the Roosevelt’s roots in legal studies students he teaches than anyone else come across clearly in both of the on this particular day. The sides of his fiction books that he’s published to glasses’ frames are neon green and he date. He described his first book, “In sports a Penn squash T-shirt. the Shadow of the Law,” as exploring Perhaps also analothe “nobility” of the legal gous to a few students’ profession. Roosevelt’s apartments or dorm latest book, “Allegiance,” rooms, a shield adorned centers around a young with the words “Winter man who has the opis Coming” hangs on portunity to clerk at the one wall. Roosevelt Supreme Court, which is a fan of the “Game Roosevelt also did shortly of Thrones” book after he graduated from series more so than the Yale Law School. shows. It’s appropriate His latest novel takes considering his other place during World War KERMIT ROOSEVELT contradiction: that with II, when the constituPenn Law Professor no English degree or tionality of detaining

Japanese Americans was being called into question. “What I was thinking about was post-9/11 national security measures, and in particular Guantanamo detentions,” Roosevelt said of the time frame when he began researching for the book in 2007. Roosevelt said he saw parallels between the events unfolding after 9/11 to what happened after Pearl Harbor. “There was a similar sense of fear, a similar overreaction, I think, in the name of national security,” he said, adding that in both periods of history, “You get these crazy situations where the government is trying to sort the dangerous people from the not SEE ROOSEVELT PAGE 5

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Niche LGBTQ groups attract members across spectrum Students create new groups when others don’t satisfy

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Penn’s queer student organizations encompass a full spectrum of the school’s diverse population. There are groups for students who fall into many intersections of the LGBTQ spectrum by race, religion and interest — a total of 25 groups are affiliated with the LGBT Center, Director Bob Schoenberg said. Penn’s large amount of niche LGBTQ groups might just be an extension of Penn’s propensity for niche organizations. “There is this view that if there are a few Penn students who, if they don’t find a group that exactly meets their needs, they start one,” Schoenberg said. Citing the Pan-Asian American Community House, which has 75-plus groups under its umbrella as an example,

he added that the LGBTQ community is similar to others at Penn in its breadth. Many of these niche LGBTQ groups are founded because students feel that a larger organization isn’t meeting their needs. For example, Penn Q&A was created last year when “we felt the Queer People of Color group didn’t really cater to the Asian population, in that there weren’t that many Asians involved,” College senior and Penn Q&A Co-Founder Victoria Chen said. Likewise, these niche groups also often blend multiple identities that wouldn’t fall under the LGBT umbrella, such as ethnicity, race and religion. They are also often affiliated with other campus organizations outside of Lambda Alliance or the LGBT Center, creating a conduit between cultural or religious and LGBT groups. For example, QPOC, Penn Q&A and J-Bagel, along with other groups, fall in this category.

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Twenty-five student groups are affiliated with Penn’s LGBT Center, many of which blend identities that would not fall under the LGBT umbrella.

“We are officially affiliated with Lambda and Hillel. We have a unique partnership between those two houses,” College senior and JBagel Co-Chair Eliana Yankelev said. Groups such as Wharton Alliance serve the professional goals of

some in the LGBTQ community, offering “corporate networking with our sponsors, LGBT-specific professional development and community building opportunities,” Wharton senior David Hirschy said. Compared to other schools,

Penn has both been a leader and a follower, but isn’t an outlier in the number of groups that it sustains. Chen says that “we aren’t the first Ivy League to have a queer Asian group,” and that a lot of universities, especially the UCs on the west coast, had queer Asian groups before Penn did. On the other hand, students at other universities have looked to Penn’s examples in forming niche groups. “We are even occasionally contacted by students at other schools looking for advice on how to create similar organizations at their own,” Hirschy said. The number of groups offers more opportunities for students to get involved, but fragmentation makes it more difficult to communicate or coordinate events. “It does create some challenges, such that if there’s an issue that you want to bring many groups together on, a shared goal or shared concern, it’s more challenging to bring together two dozen groups

than two groups,” Schoenberg said. “If you have a small contingency its hard to throw events, and events are kind of how you get your word out,” Chen said. Students acknowledge that there is a trade-off. “Does it detract from our overall cohesion as a queer community? Perhaps. You can’t have your cake and eat it too,” College junior and J-Bagel co-chair Cody Sherman Smith said. “If we were to sacrifice these niche groups for some larger LGBT group, a lot of voices would get lost in the conversation. In order for the community to be as large as it is, it needs to be have these things.” Being part of one group, however, doesn’t prevent students from becoming involved in others. “You don’t have to be part of the double, triple or quadruple minority to be part of the group,” Yankelev said. “You can choose to go to one, you can choose to go to five, you can choose to go to zero.”

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the papal visit. “It’s one of those things where it’s really easy to set up ... and I could have it at like 25 or 50 dollars a night which actually seems reasonable, but that money isn’t exactly worth having someone over. If someone does accept what I have right now, that would be totally worth it,” he said. Airbnb verifies and privatizes every host’s contact information to ensure the safety and privacy of its users, but users may still add personal information on their profiles. “The idea of putting a room on Airbnb has been floating around and that people could list their apartments for a lot, but I don’t know anyone else doing it but me,” he said. Other Penn students who listed their apartments for the weekend declined or did not respond to requests for comment. One Penn posting entitled, “Private Room for Papal Visit,” is located on Locust Street for $120 a night. Another student’s post, “UCity Room

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— Perfect for Pope Visit,” offers a stay at South 42nd Street for $240 a week. Many of the profiles were made within the last few months. While some students hope to turn a profit over the papal visit, members of the Penn Newman Catholic Community, St. AgathaSt. James Catholic Parish and Penn Catholic Student Association care more about experiencing Pope Francis’ visit firsthand. Working with the Penn Newman Center, St. Agatha-St. James Catholic Parish is hosting several “pilgrims” from around the world for the papal visit, Newman Center Assistant Director Jeff Klein said. “We are receiving almost 200 people to stay here specifically from Harvard and Brown, also from Denison University and University of Dallas ... also from Canada and South America, all of them are college students,” Javier de la Flor, the parish’s communications director, said. “We are offering the basement of the big church to sleep.” These pilgrims add to the large number of students from Penn and

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Penn braces itself for more visitors during the pope’s visit on Sept. 26.

Drexel who have already registered to experience the papal visit, de la Flor said. All of the spots are currently filled. Penn has reserved a spot near the papal ceremonies downtown for students to witness the events, and the Newman Center is asking

for 300 volunteers to assist the Philadelphia 2015 World Meeting of Families. College sophomore Ivana Kuhot is a member of the Penn Newman Catholic Community and is very excited for Francis’ visit. “The pope has many beautiful

teachings about love, and I am excited that people are both metaphorically and quite literally ‘flocking’ to him,” she said. “Honestly, I am not afraid that the city will be too hectic or crowded when he visits.” Penn students who live in

residence halls will not be having any friends or family stay with them during the pope’s visit, as Residential Services sent out emails regarding the restricted guest policy as early as July 14. Guests are not allowed in residence halls from 5 p.m. Sept. 25 until 8 a.m. Sept. 28. Residential Services is defining guests as “individuals who are not currently enrolled University of Pennsylvania students.” Although no guests are allowed, Residential Services is bracing for the impact of the city shutdown. “Residential Services will have additional staff on campus during the Papal Visit, which is typical for any big event (Spring Fling, move-in) that might impact our residents,” Director of Residential Services John Eckman wrote in an email. Pope Francis will arrive in Philadelphia at 9:30 a.m. Sept. 26, after having visited Washington, D.C. and New York City days before. Philadelphia will host the weeklong World Meeting of 75004 Families as the faithful await his Holiness on Saturday.

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Another step forward for mental health

hen Penn administrators welcomed the Class of 2018 last year, their message to students was to engage the world. To illustrate her point, Penn President Amy Gutmann had everyone get on their feet and shake hands with a stranger — having

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day night’s Convocation Ceremony had a second, more compelling message than in previous years: Students, take care of yourself. It’s no secret that Penn is in the midst of dealing with a serious problem with mental health. Over the course of 15 months, six students committed suicide. Penn students are extremely stressed and over-

responsibility for mental health on campus, which is their job. This is an important step for an administration that has struggled to deal with mental health issues on campus in the past, notably in leaving out student voices on the Mental Health Task Force and then, last fall, in insufficiently communicating with students after a campus

While Penn has implemented some changes to improve mental health on campus … several recommendations from the Mental Health Task Force … have yet to be implemented.” them literally engage with future world leaders they haven’t met yet. And while administrators surely still want Penn students to take advantage of the amazing opportunities they have on campus — in the spirit of the theme year, “Discovery,” Gutmann once again asked students to introduce themselves to their neighbors — their message at last Tues-

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whelmed and too often pretend that everything is okay. In light of these clear mental health gaps on campus, it’s heartening to see Penn administrators addressing mental health with transparency to incoming freshmen, before they become overwhelmed with classes and schoolwork and clubs and jobs. Penn administrators are finally taking clear

suicide. Although addressing freshmen about mental health from day one is progress, it won’t completely solve Penn’s mental health problems. While Penn has implemented some changes to improve mental health on campus, including the creation of a 24/7 helpline, several recommendations from the Mental Health Task

Force, including clarifying leave of absence policies and centralizing campus health resources on one website have yet to be implemented. It’s up to both Penn students and the administration to continue addressing mental health issues on campus. Administrators need to implement all recommendations from the Mental Health Task Force Report, as well as continue to reduce wait times at Counseling and Psychological Services. Students should also help foster a culture where they and their fellow classmates can feel comfortable discussing mental health. Penn is the sum of its parts, and as University Chaplain Chaz Howard said on Monday night, the life of every student is important. Students should take care of themselves as President Gutmann, Provost Vincent Price and Chaplain Howard urged, and it’s important they know when sadness, depression or even just a bad day happens, there are counseling resources available for them.

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t seems to me that there is no other group of people on Earth as obsessed with the profession of medicine as the Indian-American community. Of course, it’s possible to associate others with the same values and parenting styles that might lead their children down the path to become a physician, but not to the extent that almost everyone is convinced that success involves little more than an M.D. When I decided I was no longer interested in medicine, most of my friends didn’t blink an eye. Then again, most of my friends aren’t of South Asian descent and haven’t grown up with the mantra of medicine ingrained in their minds by parents with high expectations and aspirations for them. My extended family, however, responded in a predictably unsupportive way. “How will you make money?” “No other career

TALL, SKINNY, MOCHA | Widening the scope of resources for South Asians on campus can compete with medicine in the level of prestige, mobility and financial viability,” they’d claim defiantly. My parents went as far as claiming that “as an Indian, [I] won’t be respected if [I am] not a physician.” I laughed that off, thinking of the countless TV shows and movies I’d seen featuring an Indian physician: Did those

I could see were not that far from reality? I am Indian-American and I have no immediate plans to be a doctor. (My parents see the word “immediate” as an indicator that I might start taking science classes in a few years.) I used to have a lot of anger directed toward both my community and others, frequently aroused by

Presently, my career choices are often influenced by the same shallow — yet unfortunately important — values of viability and sustainability that I once scorned.” characters command the respect the medical profession supposedly earns, or did they — with their sing-songy accents and earnestness — serve to perpetuate stereotypes about the Indian-American community that as far as

the various microaggressions which often came up in conversations about career planning. Why was I constantly having to defend myself? Why did it seem as though everyone was waiting for me to fail, only to wield trium-

phant smiles as I resignedly sign up for organic chemistry in my late 20s? Presently, my career choices are often influenced by the same shallow — yet unfortunately important — values of viability and sustainability that I once scorned. At one point, as I sorted through various leaflets in the Career Services office, I found myself discarding without a second glance those professions that offered no job security or decent pay. I soon tasked myself with shedding the bitterness and actually attempting to determine what field(s) most appealed to me, and how I could get there. I have, more often than not, made the mistake of assuming that an Indian American pursuing medicine has chosen to do so primarily as a result of parental or familial influence, and has little internal, self-motivated desire. It is my own narrow-minded-

ness that has embarrassed me on multiple occasions when I might make a sarcastic remark about the overwhelming number of Indian physicians and be met with a hurt and offended response from a sincere pre-med. A multitude of factors — Penn, my parents, my own personality — have all suggested that I would reach a certain level of manic desperation in my pursuit of the perfect career. Fortunately, I am not unique in experiencing stress related to my postgraduation plans, nor am I the only person — Indian or otherwise — who has opted against a parent-approved and highly encouraged route in life. However, it is often difficult for me to find solidarity with other South Asians, because networks for South Asians who pursue “nontraditional” career paths, i.e. anything in the humanities or social sciences, are not

RAVI JAIN prevalent on campus. For instance, there is no “South Asian Students in the Social Sciences” (SASSS), or more generally, campus organizations that cater to the interests and needs of these students. There might only be a few of us, but we’re still here.

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dangerous people, which it doesn’t do very well.” A novel might not seem to be the most intuitive way for Roosevelt to get this point across, but he has a different way of looking at it. “You can write law review articles saying we overreacted in a counterproductive way after Sept. 11,” he said. “But a limited number of people read those. So, I was really hoping that I could present the same issues in a more entertaining and accessible way so people … will come away with a slightly different perspective.” Even with the connection between the fiction he writes and his background in law made clear, it still seems odd that Roosevelt, with an undergraduate degree in philosophy and a graduate degree from law school under his belt, would moonlight in creative writing. Indeed, especially in

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important, it’s everything that comes after. “I kind of view it as a stunt to get people started, to get their word out,” Sgarro, the AsylumConnect co-founder, said. “They think that the winner will get a new perspective.” “Sayid is indefatigable in a way that few others are,” Ariel Koren, 2015 graduate and former class president, said. “He never rests on his laurels. He’s very focused on how he can make a difference.” If he is chosen, Abdullaev would use the platform that going into space would give him to broadcast awareness for issues he already supports, especia lly AsylumCon nect. He’s got a lot of balls in the air, but one of his biggest dreams is creating a TV show called I’Mpossible to showcase the incredible things that talented, passionate a nd com m it ted young people are doing to better the world. “I’ve been involved in being a peacemaker since I was ten,” Abdullaev said. “What I’ve learned from meeting people, meeting presidents, meeting refugees [is that] we all want to belong and we all want to be heard.” By being the first gay man to go into space, Abdullaev and his possible space trip would create enormous representation for the LGBTQ community in the act itself. While being the first gay man to go into space is not Abdullaev’s primary goal, he acknowledges

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“Allegiance,” the prose is almost lyrical — and that’s exactly what he was going for. “[Allegiance] is supposed to be sort of like ‘War and Remembrance’ or ‘The Winds of War,’ written by a guy called Herman Wouk. But I wanted to do it in a more lyrical style, a style more like ‘All the King’s Men,’” he said. Roosevelt said he’s been writing creatively since high school, generally semi-autobiographically. “I liked it because it was a way of looking for meaning in my life and in life generally, and also a way of creating meaning or giving artistic structure to things that happened,” he said. The autobiographical aspect comes across in his work even now, with parallels between Roosevelt and his protagonists. The protagonist in “Allegiance” is from Philadelphia, partially because it’s where Roosevelt now lives. Roosevelt will read from ”Allegiance” and sign copies at the Penn Bookstore on Oct. 7.

the representation and support that the act would bring to the LGBTQ community. “It’s another breakthrough, another barrier,” LGBT Center Director Bob Schoenberg said. “I think it’s going to be a major historical event. I think he’s going to be remembered forever for that,” Italo Alves, director of policy and research for AsylumConnect, said. “He’s finally going to be able to advocate for an issue at the highest level. If they’ve got internet, they’re going to hear about Sayid.” Does he have a good chance at winning? Those that have met him certainly seem to think so. “Since he’s so good at public speaking,” Sgarro said, “if he reaches that point, he’ll win.” “The sky is the limit for him. He knows no limitations. He’s great at amplifying the voices of others,” Koren said. “I think that’s the sort of person we need.”

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Penn Dining finds out what #PennCraves

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Whether you are craving a coffee or a vegan burrito, now you can let Penn Dining know by using “#PennCraves”, Penn Dining’s hashtag of choice for receiving student feedback. In 2014, Penn Dining looked to increase its outreach to students and opportunity for student feedback through the use of social media. “We were thinking of using a Twitter [hashtag] and found that ‘crave’ would be just the right word,” Director of Business Services Pam Lampitt said. Thus the popular hashtag was born. Dining used the hashtag on its social media throughout the summer, hosting a “30 Days of Dining” campaign. Penn Dining asked students what they craved, “and the answer that we kept getting back again and again was ‘convenience,’” Lampitt said. Students also responded with “healthy,” “variety” and “vegan” among other cravings. “Personally, I’m craving for them to have a greater variety of fresh foods and options,” College sophomore Krisna Maddy said. “I would definitely want them to increase the freshness.” College sophomores Cassie Huang and former Daily Pennsylvanian contributing reporter Kendra Hong are craving more free dining events. “I really enjoyed the food at the barbecue for upperclassmen that [Penn Dining] hosted,” Huang said. “It would be fantastic if they planned similar events in the near future.” “I’m really craving a big food festival, like a day at Penn where they have different international foods and represent all

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of the places where Penn students come from,” Hong said. Lampitt said that Penn Dining is looking to increase the number of pop-up events, like the Upperclassmen Barbecue, which will be branded with #PennCraves all over them. #PennCraves works well as a tagline for Penn Dining, Lampitt said. “It’s a means to identity what we are delivering to students, and to communicate that [Penn Dining] is one operation looking to provide the community what they want.” “We want students to know that Dining is a community, not just a couple of dining halls, and I think that the tagline PennCraves helps to get that message across,” Lampitt said. “We’re always looking for feedback from the students and this has been a fun way, a social media way, to learn what students are craving, whether

it’s coffee or community,” Barbara Lea-Kruger, the director of communications and external relations at Business Services, said. “It’s a different avenue for students to tell us what they want.” While some shared their cravings for food, the Penn Environmental Group shared its “craving” for conservation. Working with PEG, Penn Dining handed out thousands of reusable water bottles during New Student Orientation. The bottles came complete with a map of all of the water-bottle filling stations across campus. JinAh Kim, a College sophomore, is not craving much from Penn Dining, as she chose not to purchase another meal plan. “I don’t eat a lot at one time, so having a dining plan with meal swipes was never very cost-efficient for me,” Kim said.

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While Penn students are looking forward to cancelled classes for the pope’s visit to Philadelphia later this month, other Philadelphia residents will need to work to find somewhere to stay for the weekend. Those who live on the

streets will likely need to be relocated as a result of the city’s plans. At any given point in time, it is estimated that there are an average of 650 people living on the streets of Philadelphia, according to the non-profit Project HOME, a Philadelphia-based organization “empowering individuals to break the cycle of poverty and homelessness through affordable housing,

employment, health care and education,” according to its website. People living on the streets will undeniably be impacted by the visit of the pope on Sept. 25. For example, the homeless that live on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway will need to be relocated, as Pope Francis will be delivering a mass from the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum on Sunday, Sept. 27. The parkway is designated as an area

with the highest level of security for the weekend. The security zone that the city has created for the pope’s visit may also cause some problems as well. “There are some services that are in the area that has been designated as a security zone, and it is not clear, from what I heard, whether or not those services will be operating,” Penn Social Policy and Practice professor Dennis

Culhane said. T hese ser v ices i nclude emergency food programs and routine street outreach. “If traffic isn’t able to flow, it is my opinion that the outreach programs won’t be able to operate,” Culhane said. T he homeless men a nd women who vacate the Parkway are not the only ones who will be impacted. High population, road closures and security measures will affect homeless people who reside throughout the city. Police officers will stress to the public the places that people will need to leave, said Project HOME Vice President for Public Affairs and Strategic Initiatives Laura Weinbaum. “Out here in University City, there should be much less of an impact,” Culhane said. The Division of Public Safety said in an email statement that it works regularly with the University City District. “The UCD and DPS work closely with Project HOME in ensuring these individuals are offered services and assistance,” according to the statement. In order to ensure that the homeless residents of Philadelphia are minimally impacted by the papal visit, Project HOME has been working on a threepart campaign. The first part of the campaign is called the Francis Fund, which aims to raise at least $1.5 million dollars for local organizations that aid those who are suffering from homelessness, hunger and poverty throughout

the Philadelphia area. “The money is not going to Project HOME,” Weinbaum said, “It’s going to these other organizations to increase programming that is consistent with the types of things the pope has endorsed.” The second part of HOME’s campaign is a bipartisan movement known as the Act for Justice Campaign. The campaign asks Congress to respond to the Pope’s challenge and address the crisis of poverty in America with hopes to end homelessness throughout the country. The third part of the campaign is an artistic component. “Undoing the Knots,” named after the Pope’s favorite work of art, “Mary, Undoer of the Knots,” is a public art project created to allow those experiencing issues, such as poverty, homelessness and addiction, to tell their stories to the community. The project will be opening next to the Basilica on the Ben Franklin Parkway on Sept. 3, Weinbaum said. Weinbaum a nd Cul ha ne agreed that with such a large event, it is hard to predict what the impact will be, though Culhane envisions it will only be short-term, at least for University City. Despite efforts to move the homeless to more convenient areas for the weekend, Weinbaum anticipates, “In all likelihood, after the crowds leave, people will likely return back to their usual places.”

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Penn online courses reach two million students worldwide Penn began offering courses through Coursera in 2012 CAROLINE SIMON Deputy News Editor

online discussion. “In my case, they’re sharing their different experience — how they’re doing business in their part of the world,” he said. For Penn’s administration, expansion into the world of online learning has been a priority throughout the past few years. The University began offering classes through Coursera in 2012, and it recently announced a partnership with edX, another online learning platform. Provost Vincent Price explained that Penn’s Online Learning Initiative ties in with its overall mission of global engagement. So far, there have been four million enrollments in Penn online courses worldwide, representing roughly two million unique students, and 160,000 certificates of accomplishment. “My intention all the way along has been to use these platforms to deliver some of the best work that Penn produces, freely to the world, so other populations that don’t have access to a place like Penn have some access to that material,” Price said.

It can be difficult to reach people from all corners of the globe, but Penn professor Brian Bushee’s financial accounting course, offered through the massive online open course provider Coursera, has found its way to students in every single country, excluding the Vatican City, Cuba and North Korea. Bushee, noting that he and his colleagues had no idea whether they would be compensated when they began teaching online courses, said, “the only reason to do it was that we thought it was cool to reach out to people all COURTESY OF COLLEGE.LIBRARY/CREATIVE COMMONS over the world.” Coursera, an online open course provider, offers numerous learning opportunities on a global scale. According to Coursera statistics, nearly 400,000 students “[Wortham is] a very, very different countries. students who lived in counhave signed up for Bushee’s knowledgeable and committed For some of Guer rero’s tries like Pakistan and China, course since he began offering faculty member,” Price said. “I it in 2013, with nearly 25,000 am thrilled to have him stepping earning certificates of complein as director of that program.” tion. For some of Penn’s online In some parts of the world, courses, learning is deeply Bushee’s students lack formal en ha nced by t he diverse education, traveling to internet backgrounds of the students. cafes twice a Philosophy proweek in search fessor Alexander of f i n a n c i a l Guerrero teaches knowledge that an online course will help them about legal and break into the political philosobusiness world. phy, in which A lthough acvideos are supple4 million enrollments counting is a mented by online 2 million unique students subje ct more forums. He said objective than that dispa rities 160,000 certiﬁcates of completion some, Bushee among the gov195 countries said he has had ernments of his to adjust the students’ home47 unique courses curriculum so la nds promote that it would lively discussion 57 faculty members mesh with the and debate. financial sys“I think the tems of countries outside the Price also expressed optimism really rewarding part was that United States. about the leadership of Penn’s there were online discussion “The rules for accounting do online learning program — the forums, and there was a lot of differ across the world,” he said. University recently announced interesting back and forth from “I had to make it general so it that Stanton Wortham, a profes- people from very different legal would apply to everyone.” sor in the Graduate School of and political systems, from all Bushee added that the differ- Education, would be assuming around the world,” Guerrero ences in perspective among his the role of faculty director of the said, adding that his students students makes for interesting Online Learning Initiative. hailed from approximately 180

the course presented a unique opportunity to engage in uninhibited conversation about their government systems. “I think for some of them, the open and frank discussion of these issues and topics was pretty new to them, and exciting,” he said. “It was really eye-opening for me.” Both Guerrero and Bushee expressed interest in offering courses through edX, though Guerrero explained that because his current course is designed for Coursera, he would probably choose to expand into edX using a different class. Several other courses, including “Intellectual Property Law and Policy” by Law professor R. Polk Wagner and “Going Out on a Limb: The Anatomy of the Upper Limb” with Perelman School of Medicine professor James White, will be launched on edX over the coming months.

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Red and Blue look towards offense to lead

SPRINT FB | Mature squad McCurdy returns for his third JACOB ADLER Associate Sports Editor

With most of last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team still intact, Penn sprint football coach Bill Wagner believes his squad can take a step forward from last seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 4-3 performance. That is, if a few factors play in the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think this offensive team is going to be a major offensive threat if they can stay healthy,â&#x20AC;? Wagner said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The defense is going to be better. They want to take away the big plays, especially on third down.â&#x20AC;? With only three starters graduating last year, there were not many holes to plug in the lineup. The biggest question mark on offense is the running back position, with four-time first team All-College Spring Football League running back Mike Beamish having graduated. Last season, Beamish was the Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top offensive threat, rushing 121 times for 533 yards and six touchdowns. The Quakers will likely lean on one of the freshmen pair of Jake Klaus and Max Jones for the majority of the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s carries. Junior quarterback Mike

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here,â&#x20AC;? Boyle said. While Boyle considers the front seven on defense one of the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strengths, he believes opponents may be able to exploit the Quakers through the secondary. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We always have trouble defensively with long, deep passes,â&#x20AC;? Boyle said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody in this league is very fast. It always seems like some of the better teams have a receiver thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s able to run a 4.4 [forty-yard dash time] or we have trouble covering him over the middle. So thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really going to have to work on.â&#x20AC;? The Red and Blue will get their first action in a joint practice and scrimmage against upstart Chestnut Hill this Saturday at Penn Park. Boyle believes it will be a refreshing change of pace from playing against his own teammates. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get to do some live competition against another team that we arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t used to, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be able to get new looks and go against new guys,â&#x20AC;? he said. Next week, the team will play in the annual alumni game, followed by its CSFL opener on Sept. 19 at Franklin Field against Franklin Pierce (3-4 in 2014). In last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s matchup, the Quakers won on the road, 14-7, behind 163 rushing yards and two touchdowns from Beamish.

season as starter. After a sevengame debut season in 2013 where he threw for 1,403 yards, 14 touchdowns and four interceptions, McCurdy arguably took a step back last year. He finished with 1,157 yards passing, seven touchdowns and eight interceptions. However, both Wagner and junior defensive lineman Patrick Boyle believe he was the victim of poor pass blocking and took more hits than he needed to. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think our strength will be in our passing game and our defensive front seven, as long as we can keep Mike safe, we should be able to be successful passing the ball,â&#x20AC;? Boyle said. Due to unexpected depth at linebacker, a few veteran players are now in new spots on defense. Junior captain Robert Diorio will now line up at safety instead of linebacker, and senior Derek Shnider will play on the defensive line. Boyle pointed to freshman defender James Juliano as a potential impact player new to the team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[He] was a very good high school player, he had 140 tackles last year in a high school season [MaxPreps.com credits him with 153 in 11 senior season games], which is very impressive, and a lot of the guys were good football players weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re excited to have out

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His initial because it represents that charity opportunity arose in Spain, with or they have an emotional inshort stints in Sweden, France volvement with a certain cause.” and England coming thereafter. Recently, an engaged woman Schreiber won a league title with placed an order for multiple Worcester two years ago, and — pairs of Evoke’s breast cancer after a second foray in the Iberian awareness socks. According Peninsula — now finds himself to Schreiber, the mother of the back in England preparing for the woman’s fiancee recently passed 2015 season. away from the disease, and But the idea for Evoke Socks the couple sought to honor her stretches back to Schreiber’s time memory by having all groomswith the Quakers. It was while at men at their wedding sport the Penn that he began developing product. the idea for his company, be“I told myself that these guys ginning with the premise that a figured it out,” Schreiber said. percentage of sales should go to “They understood what I wanted charity. the socks to represent.” COURTESY OF ANDREAS SCHREIBER “The charity aspect was the While the initial batch of Former Penn center Andreas Schreiber prepares to begin the 2015-16 season with a team in Surrey, England, his ninth team since 2011. basis of the idea,” he noted. Evoke’s socks were inspired by Although he spent last season in Spain, Schreiber now returns to the U.K., where he won a league championship with Worcester two years ago. “There are a lot of sock compa- events in Schreiber’s life — innies out there, so I knew I wanted cluding the deaths of people close midseason. to make something special and to him due to cancer and his pas"[Former players] are proud of something powerful enough sion for the environment — he the program [and], even though to make people remember it. recently partnered with former they’re in a slump right now, we There’s an emotional appeal to Penn teammate Dau Jok to create still believe things can happen,” charities and I think it’s impor- “The African Standard,” a sock he said. “There’s no reason Penn tant.” whose proceeds are donated to cannot be successful, especially According to Schreiber, Eu- Jok’s foundation aiming to ben- with the facilities and everything ropean professional teams have efit impoverished youth in South in place. 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Schreiber balances pro hoops, sock company RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor

Professional basketball player. Ivy League graduate. Philanthropist. Sock lover. Not exactly the bio one would expect to find for the typical former Penn student. But that’s exactly how the website for Evoke Socks, a company launched last December, describes its CEO. Andreas Schreiber didn’t study business throughout his five years at Penn. Instead, the 6-foot-9 center, who averaged slightly under four points per game while playing for the Quakers, majored in environmental science. After his final season with the Red and Blue in 2011, he began a professional career in Europe that has seen him make stops with nine teams in four years. Along the way, from high school in California to his new home in Surrey, England, one aspect of Schreiber’s personality has remained constant: He loves socks. Now, despite his relative lack of business experience, the man who made 24 starts for the Quakers between 2006 and 2011 is the founder and proud owner of Evoke Socks, a company that sells cashmere socks while donating proceeds from every sale to nine charities of Schreiber’s choosing. On the court, he matches his basketball shoes with a pair of neon socks — something, he says, he began doing before Nike made the trend popular. In formal settings, Schreiber uses his style to grab people’s attention. “For me, it’s one of those things where you can dress nicely, wear a super nice suit, and the socks

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Red and Blue make one final roster addition M. SOCCER | 7-year-old is

introduced to teammates THOMAS MUNSON Associate Sports Editor

As the offseason dwindled to a close this August, Penn men’s soccer coach Rudy Fuller noticed that, while his team was coming together nicely, something was missing. An X factor. “We needed something special that was hard to find,” he said. Luckily, Fuller didn’t have to look too far. Stepping up to the challenge of igniting the Red and Blue this season will be local seven-year-old Tanner Falato, who was put in contact with the Quakers through the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation. A hockey player by trade, Falato is currently battling Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma, a malignant brain tumor. An initial surgery in December of 2013 successfully removed 90 percent of the lowgrade, slow-growing tumor. Tanner was then scanned once every three months to ensure that the part of the tumor that remained on his brain stem did not continue grow. After one year, Tanner

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In the European club tradition, coach Rudy Fuller gave Penn men’s soccer’s newest member Tanner Falato a jersey and scarf at a press conference Monday in conjuction with the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation.

showed success and was moved to a six-month scan cycle. Unfortunately, the first of these scans showed growth and, as a result, Tanner is now undergoing chemotherapy once a week at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

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The good news is that Tanner was discharged from the occupational and therapy programs he was in at CHOP. Now, he is able to play video games, watch his favorite movie — Big Hero 6 — and run with his friends (although at times this is still difficult).

It’s needless to say that emotions were high at the Dunning Coaches Center Monday afternoon when Tanner was presented with his own jersey and a Penn soccer scarf. For Fuller, the event will be embedded in his memory forever.

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“I can say without hesitation that this is one of the most exciting days of my career at Penn.” While all of the team’s roster was in attendance to greet its newest member, Fuller noted one player in particular who led the charge to make the event possible. "[Senior midfielder] James Rushton came into my office one day last spring,” Fuller recounted. “He says, ‘We really need to get involved with something as a team. Our team needs to think about giving back more to the community.’ “For somebody to come forward and say ‘That’s all well and good, but we wanna do more’ was really telling about the group of men we have at our program,” Fuller added. While Tanner and Penn men’s soccer are new to the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation, Penn is not. First-year head football coach Ray Priore attended college at Albany with the founder of the foundation, Denis Murphy, and the football team has also “adopted” a kid to their squad. Murphy was in attendance for the press conference Monday and shared the story of how he came up with the idea that has led to

over 600 adoptions and a story on HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumble. When Murphy’s daughter was a pediatric cancer patient on the ninth floor of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, her relationship with the Northwestern women’s lacrosse team gave her strength. According to Murphy, his daughter was able to momentarily escape the gravity of her situation when texting members of the team. Murphy’s goal has been to share his daughter’s experience with other families and children going through similar hardships. But it’s not just the kids that Friends of Jaclyn plans to help. The experience is designed to serve as an inspiration for the athletes as well. “The cure is going to come from somebody sitting in this room,” Murphy said. Undoubtedly, the Quakers added an X factor to their roster today who will surely help them this season. But more importantly, Tanner will remain a part of the Penn family for years to come, and one day serve as the catalyst for a member of the current team to do something great.