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Penn student government pushes for diversity Leaders urge six branches to install internal diversity training CONOR MURRAY Staff Reporter

Dissatisfied with how Penn Student Government addresses diversity, members of the six branches are pushing for internal reform.

The proposals include organizing diversity training and releasing diversity reports, steps that members say are crucial for groups that conduct internal elections.

“With internal elections, unconscious biases and things like microaggressions are, if you’re not the target of them, hard to notice.”

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Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said. This is a jump from the 10 transported during NSO last year. However, 16 students were transported to the hospital two years ago.

Freshmen remain the most frequently transported grade level. Nine freshmen were sent to the hospital this year, compared with one sophomore, th ree SEE NSO PAGE 7

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Most of the transports took place by the ARU. Freshmen remain the most frequently transported grade level.

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Penn said checks would be abolished by spring semester DANIEL WANG Staff Reporter

After declaring that bag checks at Van Pelt Library will be phased out by the end of the spring

semester, Penn has walked back on its decision.

In January, Director of Penn Libraries Constantia Constantinou announced that the longstanding bag checks were slated to be abolished by the end of the SEE BAG CHECKS PAGE 3

More new students taken to hospital this NSO for drinking Sixteen students transported to hospital during NSO DANIEL WANG Staff Reporter

T he number of st udents transported to the hospital during New Student Orientation rose this year.

Sixteen students were sent to the hospital for issues related to high alcohol intake this year,

OPINION | Stop complaining about NCHW

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SPORTS | Quakers survive rain delay in win

Penn women’s soccer bounced back from a season-opening loss at No. 3 Stanford to defeat Towson, 2-0, in their first home game of the fall.

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Penn Graduate School of Education professor Marybeth Gasman has been accused of fostering a racially insensitive and sexually inappropriate climate in her workplace on campus.

Gasman, who ran the Center for Minority Serving Institutions and studied historically black colleges and universities, was investigated by the University, Inside Higher Ed reported. Gasman is leaving GSE after 16 years at Penn and started at Rutgers University – New Brunswick on Sept. 1.

Gasman allegedly made comments about both her and her staff’s bodies and sex lives in group texts, according to the report. She was accused of “fetishizing” some of her Latinx and black staff and students. Former Center for Minority Serving Institutions assistants, who were not named in the Inside Higher Ed article, accused Gasman of rubbing men’s arms and chests and asking two people to compare butt sizes. She also repeatedly encouraged a man and woman to “hook up.”

The complaint against Gasman also included several sexually explicit texts that Gasman sent to her work group chats. She allegedly wrote “Please get a room, you two,” and said that one staff member “sucks and flashes.”

Following the University investigation into the complaints against Gasman, Penn took a number of steps to “change the culture,” the report said. GSE master’s students were relocated from Gasman’s center to another part of Penn’s campus. Gasman’s grant writer, who participated in the sexually explicit text messages, resigned following the investigation, according to the article.

Gasman did not respond to a request for comment from The Daily Pennsylvanian.

In response to the report, GSE Dean Pam Grossman emailed members of the Penn community on Aug. 27 stating that she is not able to discuss individual personnel matters and reiterated GSE’s dedication to a “respectful, professional workplace and a strong, equitable, and responsive community.” Grossman also said GSE does not condone sexual misconduct on campus and assured that the University responds to all reports of sexual harassment.

“Let me be clear: Penn GSE does not tolerate sexual misconduct and harassment and is committed to doing everything possible to create an environment where every member of the community feels respected and safe,” she wrote.

Grossman did not respond to request for comment. University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy said Penn has no further comment beyond Grossman’s email.

Members are specifically pushing for PSG to be more transparent about diversity in membership and leadership positions, and for members of all six branches to be more conscious of diversity to be able to adequately work on behalf of the student body.

College and Wharton senior Maria Curry, the director of the Undergraduate Assembly’s Dining, Housing, and Transit committee, said the UA often urges peer organizations and Penn’s administration to be conscious of their diversity, but the UA itself does not reflect upon its own diversity enough.

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Administrators intially said that there were security delays, but later announced that they will keep bag checks as the system works well.

Gasman allegedly made racially and sexually inappropriate comments

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Virtual Reality lab unifies Penn’s VR efforts The lab is open to Penn professors and students GORDON HO Staff Reporter

Penn’s Virtual Reality lab is making a fresh push to provide more unified and professional VR services in the University.

The Neurology Virtual Reality Laboratory, which recently became a core service of the Brain Science Center, aims to centralize VR efforts throughout the University.

Through coding virtual reality into experiments, Penn researchers have been able to use the VR lab to create novel experiments and advance medical research.

Past experiments have included measuring psychological reactions to architectural features and helping alleviate pain in patients who have prosthetic limbs.

The Neurology VR Lab, which is part of the Perelman School of Medicine and started in March 2017, currently has two professional programmers, one intern, and a neuroscientist working inside the lab, said Alexander Miller, who is the co-director and has been a fulltime programmer in the lab for two years.

“The goal of the lab is to provide a professional VR service so that people can do better science for less money,” Miller said.

Penn students and professors can approach Miller to discuss research plans of working together, said Branch Coslett, neurology professor and codirector of the lab. While researchers might have struggled to find an expert programmer to design a particular experiment in the past, researchers can now approach the lab, Miller added.

Through professional programming and code reuse, he hopes that his team’s skills can help researchers improve virtual reality services and pursue more

virtual reality experiments.

Miller also said collaboration between the experimenters and the lab will reduce costs and improve the speed of experiments.

One experiment the lab developed is the Arch project, which allows people to view different rooms in virtual reality to investigate the psychological effects of experiencing different architectural features.

The project, which started in February 2018, belongs to research conducted by the Psychology Department.

By presenting two rooms side-by-side with different materials, levels of clutter, or presence of windows, experimenters were able to infer individuals’ preferences when choosing rooms. Experimenters also rated the importance of each feature by looking at how much time each participant focused on a given feature.

“When you are in VR, you actually have a real sense of the space. You can have this really believable compelling presentation of rooms,” Miller said. “That’s impossible to do in the real world but you can do it with virtual reality.”

In another experiment, which started in March 2017 and was conducted by the Neurology Department, people with phantom limb pain were instructed to use their legs to play games or browse the internet in virtual reality. The experiments aimed to relieve pain for patients. So far, the therapy has been effective, though researchers are looking for more data and information, Coslett said.

Adam Federbusch, a coop student from Drexel who works inside the lab, said the lab is currently integrating new technologies into different experiments. The lab recently bought gloves equipped with accurate tracking devices to monitor participants’ motions in experiments.

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“The goal of the lab is to provide a professional VR service so that people can do better science for less money,” said Alexander Miller, the co-director of Penn’s virtual reality lab who has been a full-time programmer in the lab for two years.

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A virtual reality program where patients with prosthetic limbs are instructed to do tasks with their legs to relieve limb pain.

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Penn launches opioid addiction center amid national crisis The center focuses on opioids’ impact on brain JASON YAN Staff Reporter

Penn Medicine announced it was launching a new Center of Excellence on Aug. 26 to combat opioid addiction.

The Penn Addiction Center of Excellence will bring together researchers from the Radiology and Psychiatry Departments to better understand and improve the treatment for opioid use disorder. The Center will study the impacts of opioids on the brain in order to develop new treatments for opioid addiction.

“The opioid crisis is a catastrophe for the country, which many people have suffered and lost their lives,” said Henry Kranzler, psychiatry professor and director of the Center for Studies of Addiction at the Perelman School of Medicine.

On the same day that Penn launched its Center, an Oklahoma state court judge fined pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson more than $500 million for misleading opioid advertising, which resulted in addiction and deaths.

Approximately 47,055 people died from drug overdoses in the United States in 2014, according to the Philadelphia Department of Public Health.

Of those deaths, 61% involved opioids, double the rate from 2000.

Robert Mach, radiology professor and director of the PET Radiochemistry Program at

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semester. She wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian that over the course of the semester, the library will be testing “new systems and technologies,” which will replace bag checks.

After months of delays, Van Pelt and the Division of Public Safety have given up on the idea of eliminating bag checks, Associate Vice Provost and Deputy University Librarian Jon Shaw said. Shaw said the current bag check procedure has been working well, and there aren’t any changes that need to be made.

“Consistency has led to efficiency for us,” Shaw said, adding that DPS has a system in place to effectively coordinate and train Van Pelt security guards.

Over the past few months, the library team and DPS have been working closely to study several technologies and have

Penn, said uniting the research groups from different fields will expand existing knowledge of opioid use disorder.

“It is a top priority for NIDA [National Institute on Drug Abuse] to do research to better understand the mechanism of opioid use disorder, so that we can come up with better treatment to combat the condition,” Mach said.

Opioid use disorder, also known as opioid addiction, is the physical and psychological reliance on opioids, which usually requires long-term treatment and care.

The Penn Addiction Center of Excellence is funded through a five-year, $8.9 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s P30 Grant Program.

The researchers will initially focus on opioid receptors in opioid sensitivity, addiction, and suicide, according to a press release. “[PACE] can help the world better understand the neurobiology of opioid use disorder and thereby identify novel approaches to treatment,” Kranzler said.

Mach said PACE will be using positron emission tomography, or PET, imaging techniques to study the molecular change in brain function because of opioid use disorder.

While the collaboration of the two departments can potentially lead to better results, it also poses challenges to the researchers in the group.

“One of the difficulties with

combining researchers from two very different fields is the ‘language barrier’ between them,” Kranzler added.

“Radiologist often don’t speak the same ‘language’ as physiatrists, and vice versa.”

But the two departments are working to bridge the differences. Kranzler said there are already multiple ongoing projects between the two departments, which lay the groundwork for this project.

implemented a few security measures, DPS Director of Security Services Louis Petrecco said. However, no changes will be made to the bag check in the near future until there is a viable alternative solution, Petrecco added.

In early April, the security team identified an issue with the Van Pelt security gates while testing new equipment, Shaw wrote in an email. If bag checks were to be replaced with a new security system, it could cause a need to update or replace the security gates. Later in April, a Penn Libraries spokesperson said the bag checks were still in place while the library searched for new security technologies.

As an updated security measure, Van Pelt began using a laser scanner last semester at the exit to scan barcodes inside each library book, replacing the use of traditional date stamps.

College junior Michiyah Collins said the bag checks aren’t

necessary, but has not found them to be a hassle.

“I just kind of prepare for it when I’m walking over. I just sling my bag around front and unzip it, show them, and zip it back up,” Collins said.

Other students argue that the bag checks are not an effective way to prevent theft, as the checks are not thorough.

Wharton and Engineering sophomore Kanishka Ragula said the security personnel does not put much effort into checking student bags.

“It’s more just a nuisance than anything, because [security] don’t really care when they do the bag checks. They’re putting in the minimum amount of effort possible. They’re treating it more like a formality than anything else,” he said.

“I don’t really know how effective [the bag checks are], other than just stopping students for 10 seconds on their way out,” he added.

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The Penn Addiction Center of Excellence will bring together researchers from the Radiology and Psychiatry Departments to better understand and improve the treatment for opioid use disorder.

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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 3, 2019 VOL. CXXXV, NO. 34 135th Year of Publication JULIA SCHORR President SARAH FORTINSKY Executive Editor ALICE HEYEH Print Director BEN ZHAO Digital Director ISABELLA SIMONETTI Opinion Editor MADELEINE NGO Senior News Editor THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS Senior Sports Editor GILLIAN DIEBOLD Senior Design Editor JESS TAN Design Editor LUCY FERRY Design Editor TAMSYN BRANN Design Editor GIOVANNA PAZ News Editor

Stop complaining about construction noise

Penn’s construction ignores community needs

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STIRRING THE POT | “Penntrification” isn’t neighborly

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tudents living on campus have been displeased by the noise from New College House West’s construction in recent weeks.

They cite problems including waking up from early start times, the sounds from the unloading of equipment, and the fact that they may have to close their windows to deal with the noise outside. The needs of Penn students shouldn’t come before those of the wider Philadelphia community — particularly the people who work long hours and are integral to the functioning of the University, like construction workers. This also risks the further labeling of the community as entitled and out of touch to the rest of the city.

Penn exists within a city with millions of non-Penn affiliated residents.

It’s absurd to expect the city to cater to the University. Construction should be expected as a part of living in a city.

While new buildings are rarer than rebuilding and renovation, the alternative is decay and increasing livable housing prices. Philadelphia is rich

complaining about the workers starting their jobs when they are supposed to places your desires above the livelihood of others. This is particularly exacerbated by the position of privilege that many Penn students are complaining from. For example, while it might be annoying to get up and close a window, all students but those in Gregory College House are sleeping in air-conditioned rooms while the construction crew is already outside and hard at work.

This is also occurring within the context of the charged relationship between Penn and surrounding residents, due to gentrification, increased policing, and other Penn policies with negative externalities for Philly residents. If you don’t feel like building a new dorm is worth the noise and inconvenience, ask yourself why Penn’s administrators and big donors have invested millions in projects like NCHW and a new entrepreneurship hub instead of investing in better spaces for campus multicultural groups, a request

with culture, heritage, diversity, and, at times annoyingly, noise. Griping about these inconveniences is futile.

Expecting a construction crew to work around students’ schedules is ridiculous. NCHW’s construction occurs from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday. For these nine and a half hours, there is a team of construction companies working together to build housing for future students.

These are normal work hours. It’s not realistic to ask workers to work later in the day — when daylight is diminished — or fewer hours, which will increase the time the project takes and essentially amounts to a pay decrease for the people working on the project.

The point isn’t that Penn students must love the idea of waking up before they’d otherwise have to. Rather,

that’s been hanging unanswered for years. Or ask why Penn enacted a new policy forcing sophomores to live on campus when they didn’t already have enough dorms to house them.

There’s a lot to critique about Penn’s decisions surrounding NCHW. If the fact that the noise is a nuisance is a motivating factor behind your criticism, that’s fine. But it’s wrong to denigrate the construction workers who have been hired to do the job and are just trying to do their work as efficiently as possible when they aren’t the source of the problem. Debate and resist not what causes minor malaise, but the despondent concerns that negatively influence the lives of everyone around us. Strive to be a better member of both the Penn community and our larger home in Philadelphia.

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ecent studies have uncovered a nationwide trend of college campuses constructing and renovating buildings in order to attain the ultimate high-tech facilities, despite growing stress on their financial budgets. Penn, with its four large construction projects — the Penn Museum, the Penn Medicine Pavilion, the Wharton Academic Research Building, and most infamously, New College House West, fits right into this trend.

New academic buildings are one thing, but Penn’s decision to build another residence hall specifically to support its latest policy mandating that all sophomores live on campus starting in 2021 — with little student input about either the construction or the policy itself — is quite another, and simply outrageous.

Not only does the new residence hall’s location — immediately abutting Rodin College House — obstruct many Rodin residents’ views of West Philadelphia, but its early and long construction hours of 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday, are extremely disruptive, especially given how sleepdeprived most students already are.

And Rodin residents aren’t the only people disadvantaged by this construction. For some students, simply seeing the gray construction site is a mood dampener.

This point is only magnified by the fact that, in order to begin constructing NCHW, Penn had to tear down high JESS TAN rise field — one of Penn’s few and diminishing green spaces. What differentiates Penn from other city campuses is its beautiful, albeit limited, bucolic areas, and the dismantling of high rise field makes crystal clear the lack of importance Penn places on being a green campus.

While University architects claim that they are “optimistic about preserving green space on campus and improving the quality of open space available to the Penn community,” they have also admitted that not only will the anticipated amount of open green space be reduced to one-half or even one-third of what it was before, but the green space will be artificial turf, as opposed to regular grass, which is significantly less ecofriendly.

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HADRIANA LOWENKRON that has been destroyed is further suspect, as the details behind that promise consist primarily of building a courtyard. This does nothing for the majority of the Penn community, for whom entering the building just to attain green space would be an inconvenience. And Penn’s frequent visitors, who cannot access the building’s interior at all, will reap no benefit whatsoever.

Penn prides itself on having an open campus and purportedly maintaining a positive relationship with the surrounding West Philadelphia community, having even coined the slogan “be a good neighbor.” Yet tearing down the space that allows local children the opportunity to play and enjoy the campus that they might hope to one day attend — after, of course, overcoming the overwhelming barriers of Philadelphia’s inadequate public schools and housing units that are a direct result of the city’s investment in the University at the expense of its surrounding community, or “Penntrification” — doesn’t seem very neighborly.

Penn needs to take a step back from its competition for the most high-tech buildings, and instead prioritize its students’ needs. After all, the students are the ones who pay to attend this institution, and it’s only fair that we have at least some say in what goes on at it.

Where students live should not be determined by the administration, especially not under the misguided justification that forcing students to live on campus for a second year will “strengthen the sense of community among … first- and second-year students [by] promoting students’ achievement and well-being, [and] enhancing support for students’ academic and social lives.” Nor should students who the University claims will benefit from the construction be punished by a tuition increase — especially if the students are, for the most part, excluded from the related decision-making processes.

As more and more students are barred from attending this school due to it being unaffordable, Penn must ask itself: Who is this construction really benefiting?

HADRIANA LOWENKRON is a College sophomore studying Urban Studies and Journalism. Her email address is hadriana@ sas.upenn.edu.

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Penn’s pre-college programs won’t get you accepted

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SNAKE PIT MEMOS | Your dream school is looking for more than brand names

icture Penn’s campus mid-July – it’s a humid Philly summer, but you and most other students are far, far away, probably either at the beach or at an investment bank. Still, somehow I found myself right back in University City, working as an RA and TA at one of the many high school business programs on campus.

Unfortunately, it became clear that many participants and their families overvalue these precollege programs, expecting a magic shortcut to college admissions.

Summertime Locust Walk is flooded by 15-year-olds in

brightly colored T-shirts and matching lanyards. Closely packed, the rainbow-branded clusters are herded around campus to experience Penn through an array of pre-college summer programs hosted at the University. It’s almost a carnival. Step right up and get your 30-day trial of the Penn undergrad experience before committing to the full subscription … that is, as long as Penn commits to you, too.

So many of these programs have popped up that they overcrowd the resources on campus also used by University students.

At peak high school rush hour

over the summer, the line for Hill or New College House dining halls (the only two that were open) extended long out the door.

What’s more, on-campus dorms were filled to capacity, so Penn’s programs also rented space at Drexel University to accommodate the students. Just imagine if you’re a Penn undergrad staying on campus for the summer to squeeze in a class or two only to have your living spaces overtaken by teenage hordes.

Where do they all come from?

Some summer programs are run directly by any of Penn’s 12 schools, while others are managed by partner companies.

Through the Penn Pre-College Program at the School of Arts and Sciences, 10th and 11th graders can live on campus and enroll in a for-credit class for the price of $11,279 or more.

Those with tighter budgets can select a not-for-credit option like the Summer Academies for only $8,449. Wharton alone offers seven pre-college programs ranging from sports business to finance, and the Penn Law PreCollege Academy and the Penn Engineering Summer Academy are other popular options.

With the astronomical price tag, it’s worth wondering what students and their parents expect

summer experience on the Common Application – did they work as a cashier at Walmart? Volunteer at a hospital? Lounge by the pool? – admissions officers are looking for signs of personal development and personality much more than whether a fancy name is attached.

Let me speak from experience. Most of the high school students I met during the program were incredibly smart, curious, and eager to make the most of their time. Most also had some degree of anxiety over the college admissions process. I witnessed their stress and uncertainty about the future, which I

Pre-college summer programs generally signify wealth and opportunity to admissions officers, rather than achievement.”

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to gain from these programs – and whether they actually get it. The first question on many eager participants’ minds is whether they will get an edge in the admissions process for doing a program at their dream school.

Well, the answer is no. In fact, pre-college summer programs generally signify wealth and opportunity to admissions officers, rather than achievement.

When students are asked to describe their

was both complicit in and tried to diminish. One student told me that he couldn’t help but feel – however irrationally – that the business plan and pitch that he developed as a final project was a test of whether or not he was qualified for Wharton. And who can blame him?

In reality, these pre-college programs both feed into and are fed by the increasingly competitive college admissions culture.

And Penn is not alone; Yale, Stanford, Harvard, Brown, and most other big-name schools boast similar programs encouraging students to “get a feel for what college life is like,” as

JULIA MITCHELL Summer@Brown puts it.

Let’s be clear – these programs can still be amazing experiences for students: a chance to meet interesting people, face new academic challenges, and live in a new environment. Not to mention, some offer scholarships and financial aid to expand access. Still, the base of most pre-college programs are upperincome families, and what most of them are paying for is just not worth it. Instead, high schoolers eager to gain an edge in the admissions process would get a better deal by enrolling in a course at a community college or online, not to mention getting a job.

The inexhaustible demand for costly pre-college programs prove that Penn and its peer institutions are businesses with powerful brand names to be exploited. In fact, the higher tuition climbs, the more creativity and trial rounds will be required to sell it as both an investment and an experience.

In that respect, pre-college programs are in danger of resembling an ad campaign or trial period for consumers, rather than a growth opportunity for adolescents.

JULIA MITCHELL is a College and Wharton sophomore from Yardley, Pa. studying international relations.

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Curry is calling for PSG to release public diversity reports, urging the six branches to collect data that would allow them to “analyze” themselves.

She also wants mandated diversity training for all members of the six branches — the UA, Class Board, Nominations and Elections Committee, Social Planning and Events Committee, Student Activities Council, and Student Committee on Undergraduate Education.

Curry said this training is especially important for governing bodies, such as the UA, which internally appoints a treasurer, secretary, speaker, and committee directors.

“With internal elections, unconscious biases and things like microaggressions are, if you’re not the target of them, hard to notice,” Curry said.

College senior Elena Hoffman, vice chair of SAC and a UA

representative, echoed Curry’s calls for greater diversity initiatives.

Hoffman said the UA would benefit from “unconscious bias training” for its members and wants to see all branches release diversity reports that compare the diversity of general body members with leadership diversity.

“Even if the students themselves are electing minority members into the body itself, the true power only comes when you’re in these powerful positions, so who amongst the leaders are diverse?” Hoffman said.

She cited low Hispanic representation on the UA body as a concern and said minority students typically have less of an incentive to run for the UA compared to the SAC board. Hoffman explained that there is a “tangible benefit” for minority students to be involved with SAC because they can advocate for more funding for cultural groups supported by student government.

But in the UA, Hoffman said minority students may find it harder to achieve improvements for minority groups on campus.

College senior and UA President Natasha Menon said that although SAC board members do have to abide

by SAC’s funding guidelines for allocating money to student groups, it is an “important point” that SAC board members fund groups that “support the voices of marginalized groups on campus.”

However, Menon added that UA members from minority groups often use their experiences to influence the projects they choose to work on, citing an example of first-generation, low-income students working with Penn First to create a “FGLI guide” to help FGLI students navigate life at Penn.

College junior Urooba Abid, the NEC vice chair for Nominations, said the group currently hosts retreats for its members in the fall and spring for diversity sensitivity and anti-bias purposes.

Abid, who is a Daily Pennsylvanian columnist, said she supports expanding diversity training to all six branches of government, calling it a “priority of the NEC to push inter-branch collaboration

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regarding diversity initiatives.”

College and Wharton senior Arman Ramezani, the external chair of the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education, said increasing diversity is a top priority for SCUE recruitment.

SCUE reaches out to students in smaller schools, such as Nursing and Engineering, and makes a conscious effort to include voices of students from various ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, Ramezani said. Unconscious bias training would also be helpful for improving SCUE internal elections, he added, saying it is something that SCUE “will definitely look into.”

Curry said she will lobby for bias training and diversity reports this year, and said that UA leadership has been receptive to and supportive of her ideas.

Menon said she supports implementing diversity training and releasing PSG-wide diversity reports, and plans to discuss this with the heads of the other student government branches at the first PSG Steering meeting of the semester.

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Gasman is still slated to finish moving her Center for Minority Serving Institutions to Rutgers in just a few days. The announcement of her move was made in December 2018.

“The Graduate School of Education vetted Dr. Gasman before her appointment and eagerly looks forward to her joining the faculty as an internationally recognized expert in U.S. higher education,” Rutgers spokesperson Neal Buccino told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The accusation against Gasman comes after years of efforts by graduate students petitioning for improvements to GSE’s sexual harassment policies. In September

2017, the Graduate Employees TogetherUniversity of Pennsylvania published a petition calling for better procedures for students to report sexual harassment after incidents of workplace sexual harassment at the school.

Following their advocacy, GSE published an update to their sexual harassment policies in July 2018.

As part of the updated policy, Penn GSE began yearly staff and faculty training for sexual harassment and sexual violence reporting during the 2017-2018 academic year.

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New president, Greg Callaghan, to restructure GAPSA Callaghan responds to growth of GAPSA SHANA VAID Staff Reporter

Greg Callaghan, the next president of Graduate and Professional Students Assembly, will focus on restructuring GAPSA in response to the organization’s growth.

By restructuring GAPSA, Callaghan, a sixth-year ancient history Ph.D. candidate, hopes to improve communication in response to the organization’s expansion in recent years.

GAPSA serves more than the 10,890 graduate students at Penn, according to Penn’s website. In the last three

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juniors, and three seniors.

No graduate students were transported this year. Last year, six freshmen were sent to the hospital, as opposed to one junior and one senior. In addition, one graduate student was transported last year.

In 2017, 10 freshmen, four sophomores, and two seniors were transported. No juniors or graduate students were transported in 2017.

In addition to alcohol t ra nspor ts, one bu rgla r y from the residence of an offcampus group was reported to Penn Police during NSO. The guidelines for parties registered with the University require one designated host to remain sober and guard the door to identify everyone entering and exiting.

However, the person must have stepped away, as an individual was able to walk into the house and steal personal possessions from upstairs, Rush said.

A majority of this year’s

years, GAPSA has added three executive board positions, and last year, GAPSA established a standing subcommittee on a sexual harassment reform.

Callaghan has been involved in student government for the past five years. He was elected president in April after being the president of SASgov, GAPSA general assembly representative and finance deputy, SASgov Vice President for Financial Operations, and GAPSA Research Council chair.

“We [now] manage a lot more events, funds, and policies than we really ever have,” Callaghan said. “The problem is, as we’ve grown we haven’t really evaluated how we operate.”

The structural changes aim to fix problems

hindering communication and collaboration among the different branches of GAPSA, he said. Increased communication between the branches of GAPSA will also solve various issues, such as two branches working on similar projects at the same time.

GAPSA’s executive board has 14 members from 12 different schools who are at different stages in their graduate programs, so collaboration among the members of the board is difficult, he said.

Callaghan said a major role of the GAPSA president is to help other members of the organization.

“It’s not just about whatever my policy initiatives are,” he said. “It’s about me

providing an environment and atmosphere where everyone else can accomplish their policy initiatives.”

Fourth-year nursing student Matthew Lee will serve as GAPSA’s vice president this year. Lee was previously Student Life chair at GAPSA. In his tenure, Lee helped compile graduate mental health survey results and launch the peer support group Penn Franklins.

In January 2019, Callaghan, Lee, and the GAPSA Research Council helped develop an online feedback form in conjunction with the Office of the Vice Provost for Education, where students in graduate groups that are being reviewed can submit their feedback anonymously.

Greg Callaghan, a sixth-year ancient history Ph.D. candidate will be the next president of GAPSA.

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A look into Penn football’s most iconic traditions over the years There’s more to the Franklin Field experience than toast DANIEL WITTMER Sports Reporter

The first leaves are turning, signaling the return of one of America’s most anticipated sports pastimes: football. A new season is here, filled with the smell of bratwursts, the sound of cheering fans, and the feeling of mesh replica jerseys worn only by the most diehard of fans.

As Franklin Field celebrates 125 years this season, here’s a reflection on the Penn football history and traditions that have lasted since its inception and emerged through the decades.

Penn football has lined up more than any other collegiate team The Red and Blue’s football team was founded in 1876, even pre-dating the 1895 construction of Franklin Field. This longevity has resulted in the Quakers competing in 1,393 total games — 856 of which were wins — the most contests played of any college football team across every division. Entering the 2019 season, Penn has played 44 more games than Rutgers, the next closest team and winner of the first ever col-

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addition to two one-goal losses.

Gill recognizes that his team often relied on its defense to stay in games and remain competitive before finding itself to capitalize on game-winning chances.

While the Quakers take some comfort from the fact that they were typically a competitive opponent, the piling up of draws and tight losses wasn’t an enjoyable process to endure. “Last year, I think it was just sort of draining,� junior defender Alex Touche said. “Once you have a few games where you don’t get goals and are under pressure,

lege football game.

If the Quakers continue to play on a ten-game schedule, as they have for the past few decades, this record will stand for a number of years to come.

This one stat symbolizes not only the team’s experience but also the history behind the program.

Goalposts make a splash in the Schuylkill A tradition of tearing down the goalposts at Franklin Field has been in effect ever since the 1960s with drastic evolution along the way.

Currently, goalposts at Penn and around the country are made from a strong steel and aluminum alloy. In the 1960s, when this tradition was at its peak and the goalpost was still at the goal line, the uprights were made of wood. The brittle nature of timber versus steel and aluminum made easy the tradition of tearing down the goalposts after home wins.

The tradition was revived and re-invented even after the stronger posts came into existence in 1984 when Penn went on to win three Ivy League titles in a row. After every championship win, the goalposts were carried to the Schuylkill River and tossed in by the student body. It was at this time that the students decided only

the most coveted of wins — an Ivy League title — warranted tearing down the posts, instead of every home win.

A few more major instances of goalposts splashing into the Schuylkill occurred, including the 1994 championship that left multiple students and police officers injured. Now, Penn police and security have taken

everyone gets in our heads and it’s just tough. You overthink everything.�

That said, Touche thinks that early team practices are signaling a possible uptick in goal-scoring. “Based on training last year, we’d come in like, ‘Hey, we need goals, nil-nil [result],’� Touche said. “This year, it’s not like that. In practice — just last week we had one — [freshman defender Jack] Rosener finished practice with a great goal [and] we all come in hyped about the good goal to finish, so there’s definitely more days like that.�

Touche appreciates the excitement and energy that even goals from intrasquad scrim-

mages can infuse in the team.

While the Red and Blue are focusing on becoming more dangerous as an attacking group, though, they’re also aware that last season’s defensive sturdiness won’t simply roll over to the upcoming year.

Gill explained that the 2018 Quakers’ defensive-minded approach came in response to years of conceding more goals than he thought to be acceptable. Having established what for at least one season looked to be a revived defensive scheme, he now wants to put his players in positions where they can display both sound decision-making and technical prowess.

CHASE SUTTON

Penn football fans have a series of long-lived traditions, from throwing toast to throwing the goalposts into the Schuylkill River after big wins. Not all traditions have survived the test of time.

extra precautions, including threatening arrest to students who attempt to climb on and tear down the goalposts. However, the tradition still lives on in the hearts of the new generation of Penn fans waiting for their chance at goalpost glory.

Make a Toast to Penn ‌ But With Actual Toast?

G.B. Brigham made his way

into Penn lore with his 1901 song “Drink a Highball.� For many years the song has rung through the brick horse show that is Franklin Field. In the past, patrons would raise the mixed drink (termed a “Highball�) at the end of the third quarter of home football games.

However, alcohol was banned from the stadium in the 1970s.

The response of throwing toast on the field was not a direct result of disappointment by the student body that the stadium was dry. In reality, a group of students attended a film where toast throwing symbolized making an actual toast.

This group threw toast at the next home game after “Drink a Highball,� and the rest is history. Toast throwing has symbolized unity in the past across the student body and can even contribute to higher attendance at home games with the allure surrounding this unique tradition.

When one revels in thoughts around iconic football stadiums, “The Shoe� at Ohio State, “Death Valley� at Clemson, and “The Big House� at Michigan come to mind. However, new inspirations come from longtime icons, and Franklin Field should be designated “The Granddaddy of Them All,� as the stadium was the first collegiate football stadium ever constructed. The field has been home to the Army-Navy game, the Philadelphia Eagles, and even the place where televised football was born.

From its opening 125 years ago to the present day, Franklin Field will always have a place in the college football history books.

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Michael Wang played with U19 Chinese national team this summer M. HOOPS | China finished 16th in the FIBA Global Cup JESS MIXON Associate Sports Editor

For most international students at Penn, summer brings a long-awaited opportunity to travel home and reconnect with family and friends. For fewer, returning home means resuming a position on a senior national team.

Michael Wang might just be the only one.

Fresh off a freshman year where he was a three-time Rookie of the Week — averaging 8.5 points across 26 games — Wang returned home this summer to China to train on the national circuit for the second year in a row.

Before his freshman year at

Penn, Wang led the U18 Chinese team to a third-place Continental Tournament finish in Thailand, where he averaged 20 points and 13 rebounds per game. The competition last year, however, was more limited as the team played only Asian teams.

This summer, the Chinese team returned to the FIBA U19 Global Cup after failing to qualify in Cairo in 2017. In Heraklion, Greece, the team faced off against a tough group of teams from around the world, ultimately placing 16th after falling to Senegal in the team's final game. Wang only played in three of China's seven matches, totaling 20 minutes of time on the court.

Wang’s basketball career has coincided with a huge growth in the popularity of basketball in China. Despite moving to California when he was 14 to attend

basketball powerhouse Mater Dei, Wang still has a sizable following at home. The growing base of Chinese basketball fans has a reach that extends to following players who have come to the United States to play. In fact, ESPN+ began streaming Penn games with Mandarin commentary in February.

Wang is one of many Chinese players making an impact on the American stage. Last year, James Zhao became the NCAA’s first male player to come from a Chinese high school, competing for California. Unsurprisingly, the two countries have distinct styles of play.

“We play different types of games,” Wang said. “Whatever coach [Donahue] needs me to do here, I do.”

At 6-foot-10, Wang is easily one of the tallest Quakers. This provides for an interesting

transition when he comes back to Penn after playing alongside a number of Chinese teammates who monopolize the paint, reaching well above seven feet.

“On the Chinese national team, I was playing more outside. Here it’s different because we don’t have that many big guys, so I’ll play more inside the paint,” Wang said.

This flexibility in his game has made Wang a promising contributor on the court. Even with a knee injury that forced him to miss five games in the middle of the season, Wang made a significant impact in his first season with the Quakers. In December, he had a four-game stretch in which he averaged 18.5 points and 5.5 rebounds.

With another summer of basketball under his belt, Wang will look to be a consistent contributor for the Quakers next season.

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Sophomore forward Michael Wang played for his native China in the FIBA U19 Global Cup this summer after scoring 8.5 points per game at Penn.

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Quakers survive rain delay in home-opening win Goals from Sands and Lawton enough for first victory JACKSON JOFFE Associate Sports Editor

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It didn’t take long for the Quakers to get back on track.

Just three days after a loss to No. 3 Stanford, Penn women’s soccer handled Towson, 2-0, despite rainy weather conditions that stopped the game for 90 minutes. It marked the first home game and first win of the season for the Quakers (1-1), who posted a 6-1-1 record at Rhodes Field last season.

Towson, coming off a 2-0 victory over Saint Mary’s, notched the first shot of the game with just under two minutes passed. In the 17th minute, senior forward Emma Loving beat Towson goalkeeper Lindsey Pazdziorko to the ball and skidded a ground ball to sophomore forward Jackie Bruder, who flicked it behind her on her first touch and found senior forward Emily Sands. Sands overpowered her defender and netted the Quakers’ first goal in the far left corner at 18:56.

In the 41st minute, Towson got a direct header on goal, but senior goalkeeper Kitty Qu swatted it out of the box to avoid a tying goal. Penn went into the half holding a 1-0 lead.

The Red and Blue came out firing after the break. Loving sprinted down the left flank and found freshman midfielder/forward Sizzy Lawton, who won a 50-50 ball and split two defenders before calmly sending the ball past SEE W. SOCCER PAGE 8

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How women’s soccer really won its 5-1 loss to Stanford

Penn searches for offensive spark in Gill’s second season M. SOCCER | Quakers were ing characteristically airtight in defensively minded in 2018 their defensive third.

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JACKSON SATZ Associate Sports Editor

Penn women’s soccer lost 5-1 to No. 3 Stanford in its opening game, but this match may have been the next big step toward national relevance for the program.

Going into the contest, there were several factors that raised major causes for concern.

While the Quakers were using this game as a warm-up for their season, Stanford’s season was well underway.

For starters, Penn had just 10 days of training going into the opener. Meanwhile, the Cardinal, coming off of a Final Four appearance in the 2018 Women’s College Cup, had already won two games before their home opener against the Quakers, with wins at No. 6 Penn State and No. 11 West Virginia.

Additionally, the traveling logistics of starting the season on the road, more than 2,500 miles away from home, is a daunting task for any team.

This was the program’s first road season opener in coach Nicole Van Dyke’s five-year tenure. After this trip, the Quakers returned to Philadelphia on Saturday to play a home game Monday night against Towson.

The outcome of the Stanford match was disappointing, but also exactly as was expected for Penn.

On the surface, the game seemed like a blowout — the Quakers, who let up just five goals in 2018, allowed five scores in this contest. But when thought about from a developmental standpoint, the game set the precedent for future competition against top-tier opponents.

Stanford is the highest-ranked team the Quakers have faced in program history, which sets the stage for Penn to play at an elite level. In recent years, the Red and Blue have consistently been raising their level of competition under Van Dyke, including a 2018 match against No. 13 North

CHASE SUTTON

Coach Nicole Van Dyke has leveraged her California background — she was an assistant at Stanford before coming to Penn — for recruiting.

Carolina State.

Additionally, the Quakers even managed to score a goal against the Cardinal, a team that allowed just 0.5 goals per game last season. In Stanford’s road games this season against Penn State and West Virginia, it also surrendered one goal in each of those games.

The game showcased the Quakers’ talent on a national scale, as it was aired on the Pac-12 Network. This is the only game of Penn’s 2019 season slated to be nationally televised, and the only televised game not exclusively on ESPN+.

Specifically for Van Dyke, the game had special meaning. Before joining Penn as a head coach in March 2015, Van Dyke spent four seasons at Stanford, including three seasons as an assistant head coach and one as the associate head coach.

During her time at Stanford, the team won the 2011 NCAA Tournament and went a combined 81-9-7. Since leaving for Penn, the Quakers have recruited heavily from California,

During the 2018 season, Penn men’s soccer developed a defensive identity by conceding just 15 goals in 16 matches, good for third-best in the Ivy League. Despite the strong defensive performance, the Quakers struggled mightily on the other end of the pitch, finding the back of the net only 12 times.

As he enters his second year at the helm of the men’s soccer program after taking over for now-Senior Associate Athletic Director Rudy Fuller, coach Brian Gill is hopeful that the Red and Blue can open things up offensively while remain-

That job is complicated by Gill’s welcoming of an eightmember freshman class that will try to integrate itself into both the offensive and defensive systems.

“We’re trying to maintain that defensive discipline while getting the guys more comfortable with making more progress on the offensive side of the ball,” Gill said. “To be fair to them, I think we did a good amount of that in the spring for this returning group of guys, and now [we’re] starting to bring some of these younger guys into the fold, trying to see what kind of impacts those guys can make to help us ultimately take the next step in the program.”

Gill clarified that the effort to build comfort for his players when they attack opposing

defenses isn’t the result of lackluster ball skills, but rather an attempt to help his players be sufficiently confident and experienced to make good choices with the ball while dealing with college soccer’s heightened speed and intensity.

“It doesn’t necessarily mean more technical ability, although we’re adding another group of guys that we feel are highly capable, but our definition of comfort really comes back to being more capable decision-makers with the ball,” Gill said. “That will impact us in a way where we can take more advantage of — and get higher reward from — some of our opportunities in either the middle third to the final third or the final third itself.”

Penn is coming off a year that featured five scoreless draws in SEE M. SOCCER PAGE 8

especially from the Palo Alto area. Nearly half of the players on the Red and Blue’s roster — 15 of 31 — are from the Golden State.

Despite the game coming at the cost of a lengthy journey for the team, the game was well received by the players, for many of whom it was a homecoming.

The Quakers’ fans and family of the players came out in support of the team in Palo Alto and outnumbered the Cardinal fans at a sold-out contest.

The Quakers may have lost their opener against Stanford, coming to many as an expected result. But the program as a whole grew significantly, setting the team up for success moving forward.

ZACK ROVNER is a College junior from Holland, Pa. and an Associate Sports Editor for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.

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Men’s soccer coach Brian Gill’s first year at the helm saw the Quakers play a defensive style with only 15 goals conceeded. However, Penn performed poorly at the other end, scoring only 12 goals.

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