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‘WE ARE WATCHING’ Hundreds of flyers critiquing ‘rape culture’ greeted students on Tuesday

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undreds of flyers featuring an email sent by an account ozyellowbrickroad1@gmail.com were posted across campus on Tuesday morning, stamped with “THIS IS WHAT RAPE CULTURE LOOKS LIKE” and “WE ARE WATCHING.” Within hours, the flyers spawned an outpouring of reprisals on social media and a response from the University administration.

The flyers included part of an Aug. 31 email sent to an undisclosed list of recipients. It had the subject line “Wild Wednesday” and included a poem addressed to “ladies,” which read in part, “May we have your attention please/We’re looking for the fun ones/And say f—k off to a tease.” Similar emails with poems and CARSON KAHOE | PHOTO EDITOR

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Planned Parenthood president speaks at Penn for Hillary event

Student starts GoFundMe page after alleged robbery

She urged students to not be complacent in November

The Division of Public Safety said they have investigated the incident

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After witnessing an alleged assault and falling victim to an alleged robbery inside her dorm room, one Penn graduate student started a GoFundMe campaign to alleviate her financial situation.

Engineering geology student Mizane Johnson-Bowman recounted this incident on her GoFundMe crowd-source fundraising page, titled “Adey’s Fund After Assault & Robbery.”

She did not respond to a request for comment on this article.

The Division of Public Safety said it has conducted a full investigation on this incident and is working to assist the student with the help of the Division of the Vice Provost for University Life.

A regional communications manager at GoFundMe told The Daily Pennsylvanian the company does work with local law enforcement in cases involving criminal activity, such as this one.

On her GoFundMe page, Johnson-Bowman said only two weeks after arriving at Penn to begin her master’s degree, one of her roommates pulled

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Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards conducted a town-hall style meeting with Penn students, which was part of a Clinton campaign outreach.

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Playing to a nearly full lecture room in Huntsman Hall, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards addressed millennial voters in another attempt by the Clinton campaign to reach out to the youth at the University.

In an event organized by Penn for Hillary, Richards minced no words when discussing the implications of the Nov. 8 election.

Yes, I know, I’m a miserable curmudgeon. But I think I’ve actually got a case here.”

“I’m doing everything I can to make sure that Hillary Clinton is the next President,” Richards said in her opening remarks, earning a round of applause by students in attendance.

In what amounted to a town hall format, Richards did not hesitate to take questions from students. When one student asked her to address outreach to supporters of Clinton’s primary opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Richards stressed that, in her view, there were only two real choices for the presidency, and only one that made sense.

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Penn Admissions changes Early Decision policy ED applicants now more restricted

JULIA BELL Staff Reporter

Penn Admissions made a significant change to its Early Decision policy to ensure that early applicants are as committed to Penn as possible.

Admissions decided to restrict the Early Decision plan after determining that the original early option did not emphasize its binding agreement enough. The language of the new plan is very similar to the Restrictive Early Action program that Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford use.

Previously, students who applied Early Decision to Penn could apply Early Action to private schools that did not have Restrictive Early Action policies.

Now, they cannot apply Early Action to any private schools, regardless of whether their policies are restrictive.

The change only applies to private schools, not public or foreign

universities. It also does not include public or private schools with early non-binding scholarship programs.

“What we’re trying to do is make sure students who are looking at us really know about that Early Decision commitment,” Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said. “Because it’s a commitment you shouldn’t take lightly. And if you’re not sure, you shouldn’t apply under Early Decision.”

Furda said that a major motivator for the decision was an increasing trend of students breaking their Early Decision contracts after they were admitted to Penn in December. In the eyes of Penn Admissions, the only admissible reason for reneging on an Early Decision acceptance is an unsatisfactory financial aid offer.

Penn was concerned that some students who were admitted Early Action to other schools would regret applying Early Decision to Penn and renege on the binding agreement.

Although the previous Early Decision plan obligated a student

to attend the University, the admissions board would not force them to if they decided otherwise. The board still will not force students to attend, but the policy change will ideally prompt students to be more thoughtful before they select the Early Decision option and reduce conflicts later on.

“It’s not healthy for the student or the individuals around that student,” Furda said.

However, 1986 Wharton graduate Laurie Weingarten, director of admissions counseling at OneStep College Counseling, was worried that the new policy would limit students’ options.

“This new policy is disappointing and it’s going to hurt kids,” Weingarten said. “And what has come up is kids are now choosing to not apply to Penn ED. They’re going to choose Brown or Columbia or Cornell because they can then still hedge their bets. Even though Penn might be their first choice, it’s risky because you don’t always get into Penn Early Decision.”

One night of sleep loss negatively affects the memory Recovery sleep repairs synapses in hippocampus

between just one night of sleep deprivation and long-term memory.

MADELEINE LAMON Staff Reporter

What experiment did the researchers perform?

“Our main question was: What happens in the hippocampus?” author and assistant professor at the University of Groningen Robbert Havekes said. “Why is it so vulnerable to sleep loss?”

Researchers deprived mice of five hours of sleep a night and observed the ways in which this loss

At Penn, many students fail to budget time for one of the most important things in life — sleep.

A recently published study, conducted by researchers at the University of Groningen and the University of Pennsylvania, demonstrated a harmful connection

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Researchers found that the brain undergoes physical changes in synaptic connections between wakefulness and sleep.

of sleep affected the physiological state of the hippocampus, a section of the brain that is vital to forming memories. They specifically focused on how sleep deprivation affects the connection between synapses in the hippocampus.

What did this experiment reveal?

Researchers found that loss of sleep caused loss of connectivity between synapses in the hippocampus. While just one night of sleep loss negatively affected memory, the synapses could be repaired through ‘recovery sleep’ after the sleep loss.

“What’s amazing is that the brain quite literally becomes unwired during wakefulness and then reconnected during sleep,” said Penn biology professor Ted Abel, the other main author of the study. “The neurons lost their synapses with extended wakefulness and with sleep, those synapses were reformed, so it’s a physical difference in our brain when we’re awake.”

What does this mean for sleepdeprived students?

“Most students, you spend your time cramming for an exam, but that isn’t really learning,” coauthor Dr. Jen Tudor said. “Get a really good night’s sleep after putting in the time to study.”

If you must sacrifice sleep for a project or an exam, don’t forget that recovery sleep can be key.

“You learn better if you actually take a nap,” Havekes said.

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Students who applied to Penn Early Decision before the policy change are not affected. College sophomore Zoe Colbert was glad that she had more autonomy when she applied to Penn in the fall of 2014.

“I wouldn’t have wanted to not apply to certain schools,” she said.

The new admissions plan is still untested. Only when the potential Class of 2021 applies to Penn will it go into effect.

“At the end of the day, I want

every face in front of me to want to be here,” Furda said. “People can have doubts, but certainly not, ‘Oh wow, I got into that other place Early Action, I shouldn’t be sitting here tonight on College Green.’”

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In an attempt to prevent students who aren’t fully committed to Penn from applying early, ED applicants will no longer be permitted to apply to other private universities’ non-binding Early Action programs.

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references to “Wild Wednesday” have been sent in previous years to freshman girls from almost identical email accounts, with variations on the number at the end. Those accounts had been connected to off-campus organization OZ. Six protesters continued flyering early Wednesday morning as well.

Using a copy of the same email that stirred a campus-wide controversy the day before, the group placed flyers around The Button outside of Van Pelt Library and taped more flyers over the LOVE statue.

The email continued, “Wednesday nights will get you going/With bankers flowing all night/Tonight is your first showing/So please wear something tight.”

College junior Amanda Silberling, one of the group of students who printed and distributed flyers early Tuesday morning, said she was outraged by what she called the sexist nature of the email, which was allegedly addressed to freshman women.

“We want freshman girls to see the signs we put up and know they don’t have to give into the culture they’re thrown into,” she said.

Silberling was tipped off to the email by a freshman who received it and shared it on Monday with some of her female friends in a Facebook chat. Over 10 of the people in the chat joined her in printing more than 600 copies of the email and flyering them around campus, she said.

They covered the LOVE statue outside Claudia Cohen Hall with flyers and posted them across the Class of 1949 Bridge and around the Compass on Locust Walk, among other places.

Originally, Silberling’s group thought about “trolling” the email account, but instead decided “to let the rest of campus know what they’ve done and shame them for it,” said Hannah, a College senior who asked to only be identified by her first name. “We’re just trying to keep somebody safe, because no one did it for us.”

Hannah said the email participates in a culture of coercing women to have sex.

“We recognized that it was targeting freshman girls at one of the most vulnerable times in their lives,” she said.

In a statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian, Interfraternity Council President and Wharton senior David Moore said, “ [...] the group seemingly indicated by the email address (OZ) is in no capacity affiliated with the IFC or the Penn Greek system.”

He went on to add that the Greek community and governing organizations “strongly condemn the words and sentiments of the email in question.”

“Moreover, we wish to take an unequivocal stance regarding rape culture and campus sexual assault,” Moore wrote. “We categorically denounce the behavior this email so brazenly perpetuates.

Sexual objectification, nonconsensual contact, and harassment in any form are not tolerated by the IFC. We will not remain complacent; the Greek community will stand together to combat any culture of passivity and normalization of these actions.”

OZ members could not be reached for comment as of Tuesday night.

The University also released a statement Tuesday, saying, “The text of the email was offensive and has no place at Penn. As the University has made clear in its policies and protocols, sexual harassment and sexual assault are unacceptable and will not be tolerated on campus. Challenging offensive speech, as these students did, is important and wholly consistent with the University’s ongoing efforts and the national conversation about preventing and responding to sexual misconduct.”

Executive Director of Communications and External Affairs in the Office of the Vice Provost of Undergraduate Life Monica Yant Kinney declined to release a statement. She instead pointed to a letter sent to undergraduate parents in December of 2015. The letter,

signed by Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum, warned parents about off-campus organizations.

“As you discuss social life at Penn, you may hear references to groups called APEs, OZ, THEOS, PHI, The Owl Society, OAX, or The Tabard Society,” the letter said. “These off-campus groups are NOT part of the Greek system, but rather, underground, unregistered affiliations without administrative oversight or liability insurance. Students in these private groups have hosted parties resulting in hospitalizations, conduct sanctions, and criminal citations from Penn Police and the Pennsylvania State Police Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement.

Please discuss as a family concerns about socializing or affiliating with such a group.”

Yant Kinney also pointed to a box on the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life webpage headlined “Don’t Fall for the Fakes” that has a similar message.

Penn Democrats posted on their Facebook page Tuesday evening, writing, “Penn Democrats, alongside many organizations on campus, is dedicated to activism and programming aimed at combatting rape culture. We condemn any and all activity that promotes this kind of behavior and stand in solidarity with Penn’s protesters and activist communities.” Other external organizations, including Women Organized Against Rape, promoted the flyering as well in a tweet.

Further motivating the group of protesters were the results from the 2015 American Association of Universities survey, in which close to one-third of female respondents at Penn said they had been sexually assaulted, and the public reaction to Brock Turner’s six-month jail sentence after being convicted of three counts of felony sexual assault.

“It’s rare for me to have a female friend who has not been sexually harassed or assaulted during their time at Penn,” Hannah said.

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Why some students are voting for third-party candidates Trump and Clinton are historically unpopular BOWMAN COOPER Staff Reporter

Traditional United States presidential election theory holds that the real race is only between the nominees of the Republican and Democratic

parties. But this time around, two third-party candidates have slid into the spotlight and some Penn students are opting for those alternate choices.

College junior Hunter Pearl , who plans to vote for Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson in November, said the former New Mexico governor is the candidate that best

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One third-party candidate is Jill Stein of the Green Party. Students may consider her as an alternative left-wing choice.

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“Millennials are the most progressive generation ever, in the history of the United States,” said Richards. “Millennials are going to choose the next president of the United States.” In another nod to the values of the current Penn generation, Richards pointed out that teen pregnancy was at its lowest rate in over 30 years. And while she was quick to claim success for Planned Parenthood in this area, she was more

than willing to cede to the notion that millennials and their values played a role in this decrease.

Richards used her own personal experience to reach the Clinton supporters at the gathering. At one point, when speaking to a fellow Texan, she took a moment to mention the University of Texas’ win over the University of Notre Dame this weekend in an overtime thriller.

Her answers were full of personal stories, including a moment where she relayed how a woman had come to her office for breast

represents what the American people want.

“I support Gary Johnson because it is obvious that the primary two candidates do not offer real choices or bring in the kinds of ideas that the majority of Americans actually want,” Pearl said.

He also said that he likes that Johnson and his running mate Bill Weld have the most governing experience, and that they have good records of balancing the budget and bringing bipartisanship to their respective states.

“Johnson and vice presidential candidate William Weld are the most experienced in governing of all of the candidates,” Pearl said. “They are the only ones that can break out of the Washington gridlock.”

Pearl considers himself a Libertarian, but he believes that Johnson can appeal to a wide range of people.

“Gary Johnson, even if you don’t agree with him one hundred percent, is the most intelligent and rational choice,” he said. “Anybody who would slightly consider themselves fiscally responsible and socially moderate...or tolerant should take a serious look at Gary Johnson.”

College sophomore John Matthews is planning to vote for another third party option,

Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein.

“I think that [Stein] provides on the one side, a left alternative to the Democratic Party and I think at the same time her policies are bringing the United States in the right direction rather than the less wrong direction,” he said. “I do think Hillary Clinton is a less dangerous candidate than Donald Trump, but I think that … her politics are bringing the United States in the wrong direction.”

Matthews believes that he can now comfortably vote for Stein with Hillary Clinton leading in most national polls over Republican nominee Donald Trump.

“There is very little chance of Donald Trump winning which means it’s safer to vote for a third-party candidate,” he said.

“At the same time, I think that it’s valid to vote for a third-party candidate in the first place because I think that candidates like Hillary Clinton have determined...who their policies will appeal to, and their policies don’t appeal to me so I shouldn’t actually be voting for them.”

Political science professor Dan Hopkins offered some insight into why third-party candidates are so appealing in this election, but said he believes there will be a decline in the number of people planning to vote third party as the election

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“Anyone who pays for birth control knows it’s an economic issue,” Richards said, when asked a question about the accessibility of contraceptives on campus. She also championed the role that Clinton, along with Planned Parenthood, played in making sure that the Affordable Care Act contained provisions to allow access to emergency contraceptives.

In an interview after the event, Richards mused on the worry that voters may grow complacent before Election Day, a similar view held by Clinton when she visited Philadelphia on Aug. 16.

“Well, we certainly can’t be complacent, and I think that Secretary Clinton is going to fight hard, not only for every vote, but for every American, regardless of political affiliation. She is the most tireless, not only campaigner, but public servant that I’ve ever been around, and so I think she is going to take [the

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OPINION Take the Penn Face off CHANCES ARE | A conversation about real conversations

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 7, 2016 VOL. CXXXII, NO. 64 132nd Year of Publication COLIN HENDERSON President LAUREN FEINER Editor-in-Chief ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects BRIELLA MEGLIO Director of Internal Consulting ISABEL KIM Opinion Editor JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor DAN SPINELLI City News Editor CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor SUNNY CHEN Copy Editor NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor

During last semester’s Reading Days, my sister came to see me and we decided to take a weekend trip to New York. As we sat on the Megabus heading to Fifth Avenue (or wherever it is the bus stops near Times Square), at that golden hour in the afternoon when you have just finished lunch and all the blood is rushing to your stomach, my sister and I had fallen silent from a lack of topics to talk about and were succumbing to the heavy call of slumber. Unfortunately for us, several voices behind us did not feel the same.

The bus was completely silent save the conversations of these students, talking animatedly about the conference to which they were going and the Waldorf Astoria in which they were going to stay. What began as innocent excitement about a great opportunity soon morphed into a rather pretentious battle of “who has it better,” and though I felt guilty for eavesdropping, I felt partially absolved by the volume at which they were speaking, as

if they wanted everyone in the bus to listen in.

One girl began by namedropping Wharton, at which point my heart dropped as I realized the gist of the conversation to follow. She talked about Jon Huntsman’s son, about how he was coming to the conference, and how he was “so nice,” and how she had seen him before, about how the other girls would be “so excited” to meet him. Somehow or another GPAs were brought up, and credits were discussed and then another girl made a rather distasteful and uninformed comment on Ebola because her brother, a student at MIT, did research on it, and he had been asked by The New York Times to work there, but had turned it down because “it just wasn’t for him.” I rolled my eyes a little and wondered how those last three points were connected at all.

When the bus finally stopped and we reached salvation, my sister turned to me and said, “Did those students go to Penn?” I closed my eyes

and nodded reluctantly, and she asked, “It wasn’t just me, was it?”

I shook my head reluctantly.

“You have no idea” — because I cannot isolate this overheard conversation on the bus from all the conversations I overhear walking around Penn campus.

we bond over are our imperfections. Without those, conversations are an act. In reality, there’s no one to impress.

Newsflash: We’re all human.

My roommate and I once discussed this phenomenon during Quaker Days our sophomore year. We talked about

Everything is a competition, in some way or another.

Everything is about perfection.

Conversations are too polished, too superficial, too smooth.”

Everything is a competition, in some way or another. Everything is about perfection. Conversations are too polished, too superficial, too smooth.

People — especially Penn students — always want to seem perfect, but the things

how you can always tell the “baby Quakers” apart from the real ones, partly because they will be in huge packs with red lanyards hanging around their necks, partly because of the flow of their conversations.

When baby Quakers are to-

gether, they talk so awkwardly.

Sometimes there are huge pauses in between sentences; sometimes what one says is a meek response to the other; sometimes one stutters a little; sometimes topics as mundane as the aesthetics of the campus come up. But the conversations are always real. No one is promising to call the other in a week, and not following through. No one is asking the other how he or she is, not really caring about the response.

No one is trying to show he or she is better than the other.

Compare that to just a couple of years later, when I heard the one-upmanship on the bus.

Pre-frosh just make conversation, revealing a little about their personalities and their mindsets in a way that is more real than the millions of instances of small talk I have had with people about whom I can tell you absolutely nothing.

I love awkwardness. I love silences. I love when the conversation doesn’t flow naturally, and when someone abruptly changes the subject,

AMY CHAN because at least now you know what they were really thinking.

It’s in those awkward pauses and weird transitions and spontaneous words that come out of our mouths that we discover part of the person’s soul.

It’s a little uncomfortable and extremely unpolished, but it’s human, and imperfect, and beautiful and at the very least, it’s a bonding experience.

AMY CHAN is a College junior from Augusta, Ga., studying English and Classics. Her email address is chanamy@ sas.upenn.edu. “Chances Are” usually appears every other Wednesday.

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It’s official — the College Houses have out-TV’d my dad. As reported in a Daily Pennsylvanian news article

by Ray Pomponio, starting this year College House residents will get Comcast’s Xfinity On Demand streaming service included in the ever-increasing price of rent.

Even my tech-happy father, who has enthusiastically upgraded our “home theater” infrastructure every few years since my birth, hasn’t quite sprung for that yet.

While I am sure that College House residents will appreciate the service, I have to confess that it seems to me an extravagance.

Yes, I know, I’m a miserable curmudgeon. But I think I’ve actually got a case here.

Before I present my defense, let me make a couple of disclosures up front: I do not know how much the upgrade cost the University.

Penn’s opaque financial disclosure practices made sure of that. I presume, however, that there was some associated cost. Comcast is not a charity.

What interests me more

than how much Penn actually paid for the streaming service — even if it was a bargain — is the mindset that went into the decision to make that particular purchase at all.

Pomponio’s article provides a pretty clear indication as to what that mindset was.

“The opportunity for students to get levels of service closer to what they have at home is always something I’m trying to do,” Director of Residential Services John Eckman said.

To some degree, that’s unsurprising. Eckman’s job is to provide College House residents with a comfortable, enjoyable living experience.

But just how comfortable and enjoyable, exactly? The answer to that question, and to the coordinating question of to what extent comfort and enjoyment-related expenditures are justified in a university housing system, will logically depend on what the proper goal of such a system is.

American academia’s history and heritage provide an answer to that question.

Colonial America’s first colleges were residential largely because their founders came from the English tradition of residential universities, which in turn had its roots in religious monasticism.

The animating belief in

fundamental, so all-encompassing, that to call it merely a tradition is to undervalue it. For what is involved here is nothing less than […] the notion that a curriculum, a library, a faculty, and students are not enough to make

... expenditures on housing ought to be closely related to fostering lively, vibrant livinglearning communities;” each case was the same: that complete devotion to studies — religious or secular — was possible only under conditions of immersion. It is no mistake that the AngloAmerican university’s signature architectural feature — the quad — replicates the inward-facing, monastic cloister.

In his book “The American College and University: A History,” educational historian Frederick Rudolph called the tradition of American student residence “so

a college.”

This, then, is the historical purpose of campus residences: to provide students the opportunity to enrich their academic experience by extending it beyond the classroom, into an additional and more intimate sphere of students’ lives. Markedly different from that of a home, this goal represents the belief that students learn better when they are surrounded by other learners and thinkers not only in the classroom, but also in their

domestic lives.

It seems, therefore, that expenditures on housing ought to be closely related to fostering lively, vibrant living-learning communities — places that enable and encourage students to learn from each and with one another and support them in doing so.

Certainly some degree of luxury furthers this objective. It’s true that generations past made do with far more spartan dorms than we’ve become accustomed to and are seemingly none the worse for it. It’s fair, however, to assume that there is some link between providing a degree of material comfort and creating a space which is optimally conducive to actually living the life of the mind.

Unpopular as saying so will probably be, I think fancy television streaming fails this test. As I can attest as a partially-recovered Netflix user, increased access to online streaming hardly prods one to leave the dorm room and engage intellectually with peers.

To be fair, Residential

ALEC WARD Services’ mission statement doesn’t actually say anything about making residences conducive to peer learning, so maybe that’s the problem.

It makes me wonder, though, why Penn goes to the trouble of following the tradition of providing student housing — it’s not like there’s any local shortage — if not to supplement its academic mission.

Maybe it’s just a revenuegenerating scheme, and the fancy TV packages just another way to lure customers.

Wouldn’t that be a shame?

ALEC WARD is a College senior from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is alecward@ sas.upenn.edu. Follow him on Twitter @TalkBackWard.

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Students ‘Lunch & Learn’ with Wharton professors

Dining Dollars discount now offered at some campus eateries

Program funds lunch with profs. at local eateries

Students can save 5 percent on Dining Dollars

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Wharton students should know that there’s no such thing as a free lunch — except when the school pays for it.

T h rough t he W ha r ton School’s “Lunch & Learn” program, a group of two to three students can invite a professor to lunch at one of four restaurants around campus.

The school will cover all expenses up to $20 per person, including tax and tip; Wharton undergraduates, as well as other Penn undergraduate students who are currently enrolled in a Wharton class, are eligible to participate.

“The program started during my first year here, 2007, when I was asked to put together a program where students can take a professor to lunch — and the division would cover it — in the hope of creating stronger ties between students and professors,” Wharton’s Director of Student Life Lee Kramer said.

While the University as a whole also offers a “Take Your Professor to Lunch” program at the University Club, Lunch & Learn at Wharton provides a greater variety of options: Students can choose to eat at Pattaya, Mad Mex, Beijing or Baby Blues BBQ. Since the program’s creation, response has been overwhelmingly positive.

“I think it’s a great experience,” Wharton junior Laura Gao said. “In the classroom it’s a more professional atmosphere; you see [the professor] as an otherworldly being. And then when you start talking to them about their life outside the classroom, it’s a lot more personal.”

Students and professors are free to discuss any topics that come to mind; some students may ask about research opportunities or look to professors for insight, while many professors take the opportunity to tell students about their own experiences.

Gao recalled a lunch with Wharton professor Robert Jensen, who told students about

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his experiences researching developing markets before becoming a professor.

“He did a lot of backpacking,” she said. “He talked about a few times when he didn’t have a place to live, so he’d just sleep on someone’s roof in some rural village in India.”

An average of 220 students and 59 professors have participated in the program over the past three years, representing departments ranging from Accounting to Health Care Management. In follow-up surveys, 98 percent of students polled said that they would recommend the program to a friend, and the same number said that they would participate in the program again.

Wharton senior Sydney Yang said that she particularly enjoys the lunches because they give her the chance to build relationships with her professors.

“A lot of professors are interested in building a relationship with students, but it’s hard to have that personal connection point,” she said.

“It’s a really nice chance to get to know the students in a different way,” Wharton professor Phil Nichols said.

“Students talk an awful lot in class, but they only talk about the subject matter, so you get to know them a bit, but only with respect to what you’re talking about. At lunch we all talk about what they want to do, what they’re interested in, their life experiences ... it’s really nice.”

W ha r ton is sometimes criticized for its competitive, pre-professional culture, but students and professors both said that the lunches were less a chance to network than to connect on a personal level.

“It’s more similar to eating with your family at home,” Nichols said. “It’s really just a nice, comfortable family kind of thing.”

RAY POMPONIO Staff Reporter

Students on a dining plan can now save 5 percent at certain dining locations, including Houston Hall and Mark’s Cafe.

The discount is new this fall and offers students a real benefit to using Dining Dollars on campus, as opposed to other methods of payment.

“I didn’t see any real benefit of being on the dining plan because Dining Dollars were one-to-one with cash,” College junior Adam Mansell said.

“Something like this could be a real incentive to sign-up for a dining plan.”

Other locations where the discount applies include Gourmet Grocer, McClelland Express, Accenture Cafe and the New College House, according to the Penn Dining website.

Certain retail dining locations, such as Tortas Frontera and Beefsteak, are on franchised agreements with the University through Bon Appetit and thus are not eligible for a 5 percent discount, Director of Business Services Pamela Lampitt said.

Last year about 4,300 students were on a dining plan. Most were undergraduates who lived in on-campus housing. Because these students have the option of using cash, credit or bursar

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Houston Hall is one of the locations students can now save 5 percent to encourage students to find more value in a dining plan.

on campus, the new discount is about offering value in a dining plan, Lampitt said.

“We wanted students to find more value in why they should choose a dining plan,” Lampitt said.

The Dining Dollar discount is one of several changes to Penn’s dining system this year. Others include extended dinner hours at Kings Court English College House and the addition of the

New College House, which features community dining.

“What’s interesting about all of [these changes] is that all of them came from student feedback,” Director of Communications and External Relations for Business Services Barbara Lea-Kruger said. “Dining is really trying to be responsive and find interesting ways that they can accommodate what students want.”

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this season.”

For the three senior stars of the team, there is an element of ‘now or never’ for 2016. Montgomery went to the NCAA championships last season as an individual, and Cleo Whiting went as a freshman in 2013, but the team has not qualified for nationals in the four years that the now-seniors have run for the team. This year could be their best shot.

“It’s a very different season for all of us,” Cleo said. “If anything, we already have such an established top group that the younger classmen can ask us a lot more questions and get a lot more advice, because we’ve been there so much. Three of us, the only three seniors on the women’s team, the program just wasn’t that developed when we were freshmen. We went into every race with unclear expectations, so now I think we can guide them a lot more. It makes us feel good to be helpful to them.”

Cleo made it very clear that for her, being helpful doesn’t stop there. She’s spending her whole season trying to build up her team, to achieve her ultimate goal of sending the Quakers to

TrackTown U.S.A. in Oregon to compete in the NCAA national championships as a team.

“My freshman year, I was really lucky, and I qualified for nationals individually,” Cleo said. “And — I told the girls this at the beginning of the summer — when I lined up at nationals, I felt really lonely. My goal since then, for the last three years, has been to get the team there. I will not feel satisfied unless we go as a team.

“But I really think this is the year we’re gonna do it,” she continued. “We have a lot of really great girls, we’ve already been ranked high, which I think is a good little bit of pressure for everybody, but it really just affirms what I was trying to tell everybody at the beginning of the season, which is that we just have to decide that we want to do it and that we’re good enough.”

And a lot of pundits are saying that they could good enough, indeed. The team was ranked last week as the No. 3 team in the Mid-Atlantic Region by the USTFCCCA for their preseason poll. Time will tell whether they can live up to the billing, and even progress further, but the first step awaits on Friday when they open their season at the Big 5 Invitational at Belmont Plateau.

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important as where you end up at the championship meets,� Penn coach Steve Dolan said. “We’re in a building process for the Ivy League Championships, Regionals and NCAA Championships.

These first few meets that we run locally are really great chances to get back into racing, see where we are from a fitness standpoint and continue to develop.�

One benefit of the site proximity is that the short travel time reduces stress on the studentathletes as the fall semester gets going. Senior Cleo Whiting says it’s also easier on the runners’ bodies, and appreciates the opportunity to conserve her energy early in the season. “The later meets that we’ll be going to are a lot more physically draining and emotionally draining so having Big Five, Paul Short, Haverford, it just helps us relax

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Penn cross country will get its first taste of competition on Friday at the Big Five Invitational at Belmont Plateau. It marks the first of three local meets — preceding the Main Line Invitational at Haverford and Paul Short Invitational at Lehigh — that the team will use to gear up for more strenuous competition. “Our sport is unique in that the win-loss record isn’t as

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Penn cross country will use the upcoming Big 5 Invitational to get young runners experience and veterans back in the swing of things for 2016.

and still continue to have traininglike efforts instead of meet efforts where we’re really tired and it takes a few days to recover,� she said.

While many upperclassmen think of the meet as a tune-up, the new faces on the team will be

competing for the first time at the collegiate level. Senior captain Brendan Shearn described the transition from high school to college as “tough� and recommends freshmen keep their expectations in check and try to have fun.

Senior Clarissa Whiting (Cleo’s

identical twin) thinks the most beneficial part of the meet for freshmen is the chance to learn the warm-up routine and adjust to the differences of the collegiate race. She is also keeping an eye out for team chemistry. It will be an opportunity to look for teammates who run at similar paces and get a feel for who prefers to run as an individual, she said.

Cleo Whiting remembered being nervous in her first race as a freshman, but spent most of the race alongside her teammates and only ran alone for about a quarter of the race. She advises freshmen to stick with a group. “We’re definitely one of the largest teams there that stick together the best so we can run next to each other and help each other get our best effort while remaining relaxed, staying calm and not really freaking out,� Cleo said.

As far as more tangible goals go, Shearn is looking to see a crew of Quakers crash the top of the standings. “If we have everyone in a pack up towards the front of the race finishing well, that will be a really good sign for the rest of the season because if we’re going to compete well, we have to finish races hard,� he said. “If we can do that in these local meets it will translate to later-season meets.�

At last year’s event, the women did just that. Now-seniors Ashley Montgomery, Cleo and Clarissa Whiting and now-junior Abby Hong claimed second through fifth, and 11 of the top 21 finishes belonged to the Red and Blue. The women also took first in the team race. The men finished second in the team race, with now-sophomore Kurt Convey placing tenth in the individual race.

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2015 displayed programs on the upswing for Penn

Seniors look to build on last year’s progress SANJAY DURESETI Sports Reporter

With a historically strong season in the books and the departure of some of its strongest runners, Penn cross country has some big shoes to fill.

2015 saw the ascendance of Penn’s distance stars to new heights, as 2016 graduate Tom Awad and current senior Ashley Montgomery established themselves as two of the most dominant runners in the Ivy League.

Men’s cross country was particularly impressive, flying under the radar as one of Penn Athletics’ most successful teams last fall. The team’s performance, overshadowed by football’s unexpected championship season,

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I noticed that even just from being a football wife,” she said of Penn.

“I feel like there’s a lot more school pride here than anywhere I’ve coached.”

The runners themselves spoke highly of Benson as an addition to their program. Senior Cleo Whiting said that it’s “definitely a little bit intimidating” to work with a coach who has so many accomplishments to her name, “but more than that, it’s really exciting.”

“She will bring just a whole new perspective to the group, while maintaining the same goals and expectations that Dolan has had for us,” Whiting continued.

But when it comes to her approach to the Penn cross country team, Benson is playing the long game. Despite the high expectations the program has for her, Benson said she is coming into the program with very few expectations in the other direction.

“I just want everyone to go out and have a good time and run what

was historically significant, as the Quakers qualified for the NCAA championships 40 years after their last appearance. And not only did the Red and Blue qualify, but they also placed an impressive 24th.

The men’s team was led by the recently graduated Awad, who is firmly entrenched in Penn’s history books as one of the greatest to ever lace them up for the Red and Blue. Awad capped his storied career with a first place finish in the Ivy Heptagonal Championships, clocking a time of 24:26.4 at the 2015 meet, and now owns three of the top five times in Penn’s Heptagonal history. The result boosted the Quakers to a second-place team finish, their best in 42 years.

Senior Nick Tuck reflected on Awad’s dominant presence: “There’s no replacing Tommy, he’s a one of a kind runner. I think we’ll be affected on a national level, because he was always a low

stick for us. But we’ll always keep what Tommy told us in mind while we’re racing and his influence will never leave the team.”

Awad was not the only component of last year’s success, however, as Tuck and the rest of the then-supporting cast performed admirably. Tuck opened the year strong with a second-place finish at the Mainline Invitational and

they’re capable of running on that day,” she said, adding that she hopes runners will simply “get a little bit better every time we come out.”

Her approach, she says, comes largely from personal experience.

At the 1996 Olympic Games, Benson was injured. “I didn’t train very intelligently,” Benson said of her own career. “I wasn’t one that listened to my body and I overtrained quite a bit, I rarely listened to my coaches.”

Having been the director of the program at Penn for four years, Dolan agrees with Benson’s approach.

“We feel very much on the same page,” he said. “Our sport is unique in that the win-loss record isn’t as important as kind of where you end up at the end. So we’re kind of in a building process for that.”

With most of the team’s early season being spent at more local meets, the runners themselves are also prioritizing team-building and steady progress over putting up the fastest times.

“If we have everyone together

in a pack up toward the front of races, finishing well, I think that’ll be a really good sign for the beginning of the season,” senior Brendan Shearn said.

But the team’s measured approach to the beginning of the season doesn’t mean the Quakers aren’t setting their sights high.

“My freshman year, I was really lucky, and I qualified for nationals individually,” Whiting said. “When I lined up at nationals, I felt really lonely. And my goal, since then, for the past three years, has been to get the team there.”

“I will not feel satisfied unless we go as a team,” she added.

But for now, Whiting is satisfied just with the possibility of reaching that level. “We all just want to have a really great time figuring out how good we can be,” she said.

And Benson agrees: “It seems like people are very excited to be a part of this university and this institution,” she said.

“I think that’s really what I took in last year, and that certainly didn’t change now that I’m an employee here.”

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Penn cross country will feel the absence of Tom Awad (left), who graduated in May, ending one of the best careers in program history.

placed six at the NCAA MidAtlantic Regional, which helped lock up the Quakers’ automatic qualification for the NCAA championships. Now-senior Brendan Shearn also recorded four top-12 finishes throughout the year, including a season-high finish of eighth at the Princeton Invitational.

The women’s team, however,

was not to be outdone by their male counterparts.

Led by Ashley Montgomery, the Quakers drastically improved from a last-place finish at the 2014 Heps by beating out Cornell, Harvard and Dartmouth with 114 points in the 6K race. Montgomery came in fifth, earning first team All-Ivy status, and twin seniors, Cleo and Clarissa Whiting, finished 13th and 23rd respectively. Cleo, with her run, capped a season chock full of top-10 finishes with a second team All-Ivy distinction.

Montgomery reflected on the thrill of running well at the Heptagonal championships and putting the rest of the conference on notice: “Heps was my favorite race by far because that meet had a special feeling with all the school and team spirit going into it. That was our one opportunity to compete

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against the other Ivies and show what we’re capable of.”

Montgomery’s exceptional season-long performance was certainly not expected after slow but steady improvement over her first two seasons. She credited her meteoric rise to the extensive experience and preparation that every Penn runner goes through: “There’s a lot to be said about getting used to the training over the years. You’re used to balancing school and running. You’re getting closer to the team. And, a big aspect of it was learning to listen to my own body and to learn that all runners are different and all people are different.”

Ask any member of the Penn cross country team and they will tell you that their focus lies on the months ahead. But, after the results of last season, the Quakers can be forgiven if they take some time to reminisce.

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CROSS COUNTRY ISSUE

NOW Quakers return top five scorers for 2016’s run at an Ivy championship WILL SNOW Sports Editor

Collegiate athletics always brings challenges to teams who have to deal with radically different rosters every year.

But this year, Penn women’s cross country

OR NEVER

caught a break.

All of the Quakers’ top five runners — also known as the five runners who score for the team — are returning to the team for the 2016 season.

At the peak of their college careers, coach Steve Dolan is expecting seniors Ashley Montgomery, Cleo and Clarissa Whiting, and juniors Abby Hong and Isabel Griffith to lead their team to new heights this year.

Awad out, new faces in With legend graduated, vets, frosh to fill gap TOM NOWLAN Sports Editor

It’s not uncommon for graduating seniors to leave holes in a team’s roster -- but this particular one is about the size of the Grand Canyon.

With the departure of allworld runner Tom Awad, Penn men’s track and field will look to adjust to life without the two-time defending Ivy League champion. To do that, they’ll have to look to their experienced stars and a workin-progress freshman class.

“When we get into the races we’re going to need our best runners to improve and fill those gaps, and we’ll need new runners to step into starting positions,” coach Steve Dolan said. “But from a leadership standpoint, Tom and his teammates were part of building something that will sustain.”

Much of that responsibility

will fall on senior Nick Tuck, the squad’s most accomplished returning member. Particularly dominant in the steeplechase during the spring track season (he won the Ivy title in the event a year ago), Tuck also impressed in cross country last fall, placing 73rd in the nation at NCAAs. Dolan also mentioned the team’s two senior captains — Chris Hatler and Brendan Shearn — as runners poised to cut their already-impressive times.

The team’s veterans will also likely benefit from a spring season that focused on more distance events — competitions that are comparable to the fall XC season.

“This is the first time in a few years that we’ll have a significant group of upperclassmen that were accomplished runners coming into the season,” Dolan added. “I’m really excited to see what they can do.”

The Quakers will also benefit from an impressive incoming freshman class. It

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features one set of twins — Colin and William Daly of Oradell, NJ — and one new runner, Andrew Halley, who will be joining his older sibling Patrick, a sophomore, on the team.

The three other freshmen joining the squad will be Isaiah Gaines of Findley, Ohio, Aaron Groff of Cherry Hill, NJ., and Mitchell Poynter of Tipp City, Ohio.

“It’s been pretty hectic, doing all this for the first time,” Poynter said of his first weeks at Penn. “But it’s great to have the team. I couldn’t think of a better way to start your time in college.”

Dolan, however, is quick to downplay expectations for the team’s newcomers, pointing out that it’s more common for freshmen to hit their stride in the spring season, when they have a semester of college-level distance experience under their belts.

“To be honest with you, SEE RECRUITS PAGE 8

“We’re really excited about the women,” Dolan said. “One of the things that was significant is that we had more women run the 5,000 meters on the track last year to get some experience in longer-distance races.”

Experience is one thing the women have at a premium this season — three seniors and two juniors form the core of Penn’s squad.

The runners have been training and competing at the 5k distance for years — and not just

competing, but racing well, too.

“We actually had 4 women hit the NCAAs preliminary qualifying standard in the 5,000,” Dolan said. “This is the first year in a few years that we’ve had a significant group of upperclassmen who are accomplished runners coming into the season. It’s really exciting, and it’ll be fun to see what they can do SEE UPPERCLASSMEN PAGE 7

Ex-Olympian joins staff Benson brings over array of experience JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor

About a month into her new role as assistant coach to the cross country team, Juli Benson calls the position “a dream come true.”

With a laundry list of coaching stops on her resume, including posts at the Air Force Academy, George Mason, Georgetown and James Madison, Benson is no stranger to coaching. Benson is also an accomplished distance runner in her own right, even earning a spot to the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

Director of Cross Country/ Track & Field Steve Dolan said that the program jumped at the chance to add her to their roster.

“I’ve known Coach Benson for a number of years,” he said. “So I know she’s an outstanding coach, and when the position became available this year, we were really excited that she was interested.”

Benson is also no stranger to

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After stints with Air Force Academy, George Mason, Georgetown and James Madison, coach Juli Benson joins the Quakers’ staff.

Penn Athletics as a whole. Her husband, Bob Benson, is beginning his second year as the defensive coordinator and associate head coach for the football team.

Despite having coached together before at Georgetown, Benson still describes it as “something we never thought would

happen.” Though she said they don’t cross paths often because they spend their time coaching with their respective teams, being part of the Penn Athletics family together is “cool.”

“There’s definitely something special in the air here, and SEE BENSON PAGE 9 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640