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PENN’S MENTAL HEALTH

CHE KLIST Last February, Penn released the Report of the Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare, outlining recommendations for improving student mental health across campus. Nearly seven months later, see the progress that has been made.

Lawsuit describes suicide victim’s struggle to get help from Penn Former nursing student’s mother suing Penn for its response to her sexual assault and depression

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Communication and Education RECOMMENDATIONS Developing an online health and wellness module by summer 2015 for incoming freshmen to complete prior to NSO

"Thrive at Penn" module is now mandated for all incoming students

Streamlining descriptions of leave of absence policies across the websites of the four undergraduate schools

Leave of absence policies are similarly explained on the websites of the four undergraduate schools and include much of the same language

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Topics include thriving at a research university, wellness and health, the risks associated with alcohol and other drugs and healthy relationships and sexual violence prevention

However, different undergraduate schools state different information about typical lengths of leaves of absences

ANNA HESS Staff Reporter

A complaint has been filed against the University and Amazon.com Inc. on behalf of nursing student Arya Singh, who died in February 2013 by suicide in her Rodin College House dorm room. The document describes Singh’s ongoing struggle with finding help after her sexual assault and the depression resulting from it.

The lawsuit, filed by her mother Sujata Singh, blames Amazon for allowing her to purchase the soluble cyanide salts online that she used to kill herself. It alleges that there have been 51 purchases of these types of salts online that have resulted in 11 deaths — at the time of Singh’s purchase, Amazon did not have any policies in place to prevent such sales. The lawsuit also blames Thailand-based GMO Internet Inc. for

PROGRESS

Asking faculty, staff and alumni to share their experiences in order to fight the negative stigma of taking time off

"Thrive at Penn" module includes input from faculty and administrators such as Dean of Admissions Eric Furda

Centralized Information about Mental Health RECOMMENDATIONS

PROGRESS

Creating a single University website by fall 2015 to serve as a centralized location for all health and wellness resources on campus

Website is in progress but has not yet been released

Creating a wellness mobile application available to students, parents and partners to provide information and access to help

"Campus Help" app has been created but is currently in beta testing

Instituting a HELP phone line to provide 24/7 assistance with personal issues and connection to other campus resources

HELP line is up and running. In the first three months of service, the HELP line responded to 54 calls Connects callers to CAPS clinician on call or emergency responders

Engaging Faculty, Staff, Students and Families RECOMMENDATIONS

Dismissing fanatics, however, is not nearly as interesting or productive as trying to get inside their heads.”

PROGRESS

Launching the I CARE program, an initiative designed to provide training to faculty, staff and students to teach skills in early identification, crisis intervention and referral to campus resources

I CARE has already been offered to over 400 students

Distributing a one-page summary to faculty with early signs of mental illness and contact information for the various schools

Schools have shared the warning signs information created

by CAPS as well as the advice from the Faculty Council on Access and Academic Support

Expanding I CARE training to members of student groups to serve as resources for their student communities

Several groups, including the RAs and GAs within the college house system, have completed the I CARE program

Options include large sessions tailored to faculty and staff and small sessions tailored to students

Program aims to educate groups such as athletic teams and Greek organizations

Organizing Resources for Counseling and Psychological Services

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RECOMMENDATIONS Reducing wait times for CAPS appointments

PROGRESS CAPS moved locations in January and added four new staff members to increase available resources CAPS will soon begin running a satellite office to operate two nights a week

BACK PAGE Clearly delineating CAPS resources and opportunities for referral to other campus services

The CAPS website includes several links to resources, advertises upcoming health and wellness events and includes staff and office contact information

> Strengthening collaboration with Penn Behavioral Health and the Student Health Service

CAPS will collaborate with Penn Behavioral Health for psychiatry resident training events The new position of Case Manager, starting in October, will foster a greater relationship between CAPS and Student Health Service

Sources: Office of the Vice Provost for University Life & Bill Alexander, Director of Counseling and Psychological Services

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Healthcare nonprofit to connect cancer patients with Penn students Co-founder inspired by his dad’s brain cancer treatment LILY ZANDI Staff Reporter

David Warren, co-founder of the nonprofit organization TaketheFight, visited Penn on Wednesday to recruit students for a two-year fellowship program launched last week. TaketheFight aims to provide moral support to cancer patients by pairing them with college students who become responsible for helping the patients stay informed about when their doctor’s appointments are, helping them remember what medications to take and helping them fill out their paperwork.

“That social support is important. You are going to get really close with your patient,” Warren said. “You’ll want to help your patient, but you’ll also want to spend time with them.”

Warren was inspired to start the nonprofit while watching his dad receive treatment for a brain tumor that developed into cancer.

He was disenchanted by the fact that his dad and his doctors had little face-to-face interaction, and he came to realize that the doctors simply did not have enough time to thoroughly examine and properly treat his dad’s individual case.

Warren said he wished he had medical knowledge so that he could compensate for the lack of individual attention his dad was receiving from his doctors — but soon realized that he could help in other ways.

“The fact that I was an outsider became a bit of a blessing, eventually,” Warren said.

Through the program, Warren hopes to encourage students to help cancer patients in the same way that he helped his dad.

Students who complete the two-year fellowship are granted a full time position at TaketheFight. The ultimate goal of the fellowship is for students to help cancer patients fight their illness and receive firsthand knowledge of the healthcare system. When they are finished with their first year, students have presumably acquired knowledge about

the drawbacks of the healthcare system and then have the capacity to ignite systemic change.

During the second year of the fellowship, students present solutions to the problems within the healthcare system that they witnessed during their first year.

Collaboratively, the TaketheFight team chooses the most promising proposal and develops it.

TaketheFight is not looking for a team full of pre-medicine students. Instead, it seeks students from different academic backgrounds to foster diverse perspectives. Most importantly, Warren said, the program hopes to find students who are innovative and capable of working well with others.

However, Warren stressed that working at TaketheFight is not be a suitable job for everyone — members need an emotional and professional commitment to their work to be able to survive the long hours.

“We are here because we care, that is why we work those hours.

COURTESY OF DAVID WARREN It is fun, but we believe in the David Warren, co-founder of the nonprofit organization TaketheFight, talked to Penn students on mission,” Warren said.

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Man behind the machine: Penn Engineering’s new dean

From research to teaching, Vijay Kumar talks about his passion for innovation SHOBA BABU Staff Reporter

While some faculty members teach students how the world is, Engineering Dean Vijay Kumar, who took the helm over the summer, wants to teach his students about the world they can create.

Before becoming an engineering rockstar, Kumar was simply a teenager with a passion for science fiction. “‘Any technology that’s sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic,” Kumar said, quoting famous science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke. “If you want to study magic, if you want to create the world that has not been, you want to know engineering. That’s what drew me to engineering.”

Drawing on this inspiration, Kumar even built his own hoverboard.

“The fundamental thing about engineering is being able to create, to synthesize, to build — and especially build and create things that have never been built before. No other field quite does that,” Kumar said.

After completing his bachelor’s degree at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kumar, who originally hails from India, was inspired to study in the United States by one of his mentors who had studied here. He fondly remembers his mentor telling him that it wasn’t just about the academic opportunities, but also the culture that he would experience in the U.S. that would change him forever.

“When you come here there’s this feeling that … if you work hard you can accomplish anything you set out to,” Kumar said.

A trailblazer in the field, he has written over 400 referenced articles and papers and more than 20 books and book chapters, is a member of various prestigious national and global engineering associations and has received countless awards and honors for not only his research but also his teaching skills and dedication to students. He has also mentored various doctoral students who are now pioneers in the field themselves.

Kumar’s resume includes a plethora of positions at Penn.

After completing his doctorate in Mechanical Engineering in 1987 at The Ohio State University , he joined the School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty as a professor. Among his many appointments, he served as UPS Foundation Professor of Transportation with appointments in three engineering departments and as deputy dean for Education in the Engineering School from 2000 to 2004, helping to add several innovative master’s degree programs to the school’s

offerings.

But even with his packed schedule, Kumar still finds time for the lab. He works out of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception, or GRASP, Laboratory, a multidisciplinary robotics and perception lab, of which he was previously director. From 2012 to 2014 he even took a brief leave to work in the White House as assistant director for Robotics and Cyber Physical Systems in the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

“Vijay has this phenomenal experience, expertise and drive to make Penn Engineering a leader in innovation … [He] is somebody that techies have to not only love but admire — and particularly Penn techies because he has been for me one of the great faculty leaders in helping me build the Pennovation Center,” Penn President Amy Gutmann said, adding that some of Kumar’s research will be featured in the newly renovated building.

One of Kumar’s most fundamental contributions to the

engineering field — his first introduction to the field, in fact — stems from work in robotics.

He was one of the first to explore the idea of multi-robot formation control. Instead of building general purpose machines that can do everything, which can become tedious and very difficult, Kumar’s research proposed building multiple machines that can do simple tasks and be configured together like Legos to accomplish a broader function. Then, the challenge becomes making the machines better communicate with each other.

“Imagine your thumb being controlled by one computer and your forefinger being controlled

by another computer and they’re doing their own thing and they have to coordinate in order for you to pick up the pen and write,” Kumar said of the process.

Although Kumar loves his research, his favorite things about Penn are teaching and seeing his students succeed.

“We get outstanding students.

When they come here they’re like uncut gems, and you just have to do a little bit of polish, a little bit of honing and watch them,” Kumar said. “I’ve always been fascinated by how, with minimal structure, if you let students grow, they end up being outstanding contributors and the best part of it is that you get to take credit for it.”

Kumar takes pride in the fact that Penn provides both professors and students the opportunity to use their knowledge not only in classrooms or labs, but also for social impact in the outside world, a perspective absent from many engineering schools around the world.

“It’s true that Ben Franklin founded the University, but I think of Benjamin Franklin as the world’s first engineer, or at least America’s first engineer because he really did think about engineering in its broad context of inventing things for the betterment of society,” Kumar said. “So to me this is an opportunity for doing exactly that.”

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OPINION Me and Kim Davis

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 VOL. CXXXI, NO. 66 131st Year of Publication

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TALKING BACKWARD | Why is it so difficult to engage with fanatics?

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ne of last week’s top national news stories, still unfolding as of yesterday, concerns the jailing and subsequent release of Kim Davis, the elected clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, for defying a federal writ ordering her to resume issuing marriage licenses. Davis had been refusing to issue any licenses since the Supreme Court announced its decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, mandating that states issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The court has ruled that her refusal constitutes a violation of the right to marriage affirmed in Obergefell.

My guess is that most Penn students who saw or followed the story attribute Davis’s choice to sacrifice her freedom rather than license same-sex marriages to some combination of backwardness, prejudice and bigotry. Viewed this way, the clerk’s decision comes across as idiotic and mean-spirited. They’re not

wrong, but this isn’t the whole picture.

Kim Davis is a religious fanatic. She is a devout member of the Apostolic Christian Church which, according to its

lieves to be imminent. Kim Davis’s epistemology rejects science, the evidence of her own senses and the entire intellectual and cultural legacy of the Enlightenment when

We assume everyone thinks like us because we haven’t trained ourselves to think in any other way.” website, is “based on a literal interpretation of the Bible, which is recognized as Godinspired, infallible, and inerrant.” This means that Kim Davis believes — among other things — that every word of the vivid and detailed doomsday prophecy contained in the Book of Revelation will come to pass. Her husband has said that, failing release by other means, she believes that God will free her from prison and take her into heaven during the Rapture, which she be-

any of them conflict with a literal interpretation of Scripture. She believes that if she were to obey the court, God would condemn her soul to eternal torture and damnation.

From her point of view, with her beliefs, her choice is absolutely rational.

This is an epistemology so different to mine and to that of (I presume) most Penn students, that it is very difficult to engage with. What would I do, for example, if Kim Davis showed up in my ethics

recitation? Lacking basically any epistemological common ground, could I have a productive argument with her?

Could I find a way to convince her that blocking samesex marriages is not the right thing to do, or even to consider that possibility? Could she convince me? Could there be any result other than stalemate and impasse and frustration? I doubt it.

And so I would be tempted, in the wake of this failure, to dismiss her as a kook, a bigot, a right-wing religious nut-job. I would tell myself that the failure to engage was her fault, not mine. I would cheer as she was marched off to jail.

Dismissing fanatics, however, is not nearly as interesting or productive as trying to get inside their heads. Fanaticism like Kim Davis’s has been, time and time again, a driving force in world history. Two thousand and fifteen years ago, another fanatic chose to scorn a judge and

face the worst contempt-ofcourt punishment the Roman empire could devise rather than renounce his own ministry — and he changed the world forever. Fanaticism has deposed kings and toppled empires; built great cities and destroyed them. It has flummoxed great minds and repelled great armies. It has shaped the present that we all inhabit in ways far too numerous to list.

It is the failure to understand the functioning of minds that are nothing like ours which has been the hobgoblin of so many attempts to put theories developed in the halls and classrooms of universities into practice in the real world. We assume everyone thinks like us because we haven’t trained ourselves to think in any other way.

This isn’t a problem with a nice, neat, elegant solution I can propose in the last paragraph — I’m not really sure what to suggest except that when we judge harshly the

ALEC WARD Kim Davises of the world, we ought perhaps to judge ourselves harshly as well for failing to understand them. When we send them to jail or drop bombs on them from a F-35, we should perhaps feel some twinge of disappointment that we didn’t know what else to do.

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

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ou and I, whoever we may be — neighbors, classmates or strangers that pass on Locust — are more similar than we think. Yes, we may vary in our backgrounds, experiences, race, gender, sexuality, etc., but at the core we are all human with deep-rooted insecurities, fears, aspirations and visions. So I will say again, we are not alright, and we need to confront it.

Every day the word “alright” is thrown around. This occurs most often in two contexts: someone getting physically hurt and being checked in on, or someone who seems “out of it” being asked about their mood. More often than not, whether one is physically or emotionally hurting, the response will be an attempted variation of “Yeah,

JA FEEL | We are not alright and we need to confront it I’m alright,” regardless of one’s actual state.

We project being put together and in control even if

tracurricular activities, family dynamics and love lives constantly plague our psyche.

Unfortunately, feeling sad,

their internal struggles, there is a stigma against suffering externally. Among Penn students, if someone admits

Unfortunately, feeling sad, angry or hurt is not something we can schedule in our calendars or cross off our to-do lists.” we know that we are not. The ambiguity and hollowness of the word “alright” becomes our crutch — a cop-out as we deflect and ignore deeper issues. “Alright” is the curtain that we pull in front of our brokenness, claiming that we are okay while dismissing our internal cries for help.

Many students at Penn feel as though they do not have the time to address their emotional turmoil. Papers, exams, projects on top of ex-

angry or hurt is not something we can schedule in our calendars or cross off our todo lists. However, if we do not address our mental and emotional states, these sentiments will inhibit all that we are attempting to accomplish.

One cannot be successful if one is distracted — and let’s be real — Penn students are all about their success, current and future.

Even if a student is tempted to speak openly about

that they go to Counseling and Psychological Services, there is a shift in the way their peers view them. That is where we take a wrong turn.

It is imperative that we are cognizant of others’ fragility lest we witness the consequence associated with the eruption of their internalized struggle. We must understand that people do not wake up one day and suddenly decide that coping is no longer enough, that they do

not want to live anymore. It is the result of a culmination of weighted thoughts and feelings at the forefront of an extensive backdrop of pain.

As a society we marginalize people that struggle with mental and emotional health.

In doing so, we add to the pain that they are enduring and simultaneously engender the false notion that unless what they are dealing with is extreme, they are “okay.” We underestimate the power of smaller mental and emotional challenges, and in doing so, invalidate people’s feelings.

This promotes the idea that we must suffer individually and internally.

Trauma is not a requirement for acknowledging the shifts in your mental and emotional states; everyone has different experiences and triggers. Your feelings are

GIAVANNI ALVES valid. It is a given that we will not always be at our best, but dismissing our lows is detrimental. Seriously, sit down and check in with yourself. “Am I okay?” Answer honestly. “And now what am I going to do to address it?”

GIAVANNI ALVES is a College sophomore from Staten Island, N.Y. Her email address is alvesg@sas.upenn.edu.

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Penn is named as a defendant due to alleged “unsympathetic, hostile and at times vindictive” behavior that administrators showed towards Singh. On Jan. 16, 2011, Singh reported being sexually assaulted as a freshman in her dorm room in Kings Court English College House by another student.

Singh reported the sexual assault to her resident advisor , who filed an incident report. The Penn Police then investigated the sexual assault, and Singh received a forensic rape examination at Jefferson Hospital, according to the complaint. She also reported the sexual assault to the Counseling and Psychological Services office, who noted that Singh was experiencing depression, anxiety, nightmares, erratic sleep and loss of appetite due to the sexual assault.

The complaint states that CAPS scheduled an appointment for Singh with a therapist, but when she attempted to schedule a follow-up, CAPS had no availability and did not attempt

to schedule another appointment with her despite knowing about her depressive state. Singh informed Student Intervention Services and the Penn’s Women’s Center, both within the Vice Provost for University Life office, that her sexual assaulter was still living in her dorm, which was causing emotional difficulties for her. On Feb. 7, Singh was notified that her assaulter would be removed from her dorm, but he maintained access to the building and other buildings on campus.

The Office of Student Conduct notified Singh on Feb. 17, a month after the sexual assault, that they were beginning their investigation into the assault, according to the complaint. On Mar. 30, Singh’s assaulter demanded that OSC facilitate a formal hearing before a panel to dispute the charges against him.

Although the Philadelphia Police Department investigated the sexual assault and created a report, the Philadelphia district attorney’s office declined to prosecute the sexual assaulter.

The complaint targets the University for negligence in pursuing her case because of the changeover in the sexual assault investigating procedures over the last few years.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 The hearing was cancelled when the alleged assaulter accepted disciplinary sanctions — agreeing to avoid contact with Singh and leave her college house.

Singh became depressed, began drinking heavily, and started exhibiting avoidant behavior as a result of the trauma of her assault, the complaint says. In January 2013, Singh was placed on academic probation and faced various other student misconduct offenses, including not meeting

certain undergraduate Nursing requirements and failing a writing seminar course. Her student account was placed on disciplinary hold, preventing her from registering for classes, which prompted the University to ask her to vacate student housing on Feb. 8 due to underenrollment.

The day following the notice of her removal from campus housing, Singh was found unconscious in her dorm room after having consumed the cyanide salts, and she

was not able to be revived.

Singh left two Post-it notes behind before her suicide — one with her sister and moms’ phone numbers on it, and one with the passcode to her laptop and instructions for her sister to open her suicide note document. According to the complaint, in her note, Singh wrote about the OSC investigation into her student misconduct and about her ongoing troubles at the University.

Vice President for University

Communications Stephen McCarthy declined to comment on the lawsuit, stating, “We do not comment on pending litigation.”

Mental health has been an ongoing conversation among Penn students and administrators, who witnessed a string of six student suicides in 15 months. Since Singh’s sexual assault, the University has undergone a significant remodeling of its sexual assault reporting and investigating processes.

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Furniture Campus Home Store relocates to 38th and Chestnut streets Owner hopes to overcome drop in business PATRICK ZANCOLLI Staff Reporter

Remember the dorm goods store near the Penn Bookstore on 36th Street? Thought it was gone for good? Well think again — Furniture Campus Home Store is still in University City, just at a new location.

Furniture Campus Home Store has moved from its old location between Cosi and Urban Outfitters on 36th Street to a new location at 3801 Chestnut St. The reason why the store moved, according to owner Henry Wong, is that its lease was up at the other location, and Ann Taylor wanted their space.

Wong was able to move his family-owned store from its two floor location to a one floor location next to Sitar India. Penn

helped him find the new location, and Wong said he is happy with his new one floor store, as he believes it is much easier to operate.

However, with the change in location, Wong faced a loss in business. “We lost around a 28 percent base,” Wong said, citing distance from campus as the main cause for the drop in business.

“Here, [the students] have to walk this way. The other store was on the way to the classroom,” Wong said.

Wong has been in charge of Furniture Campus Home Store since it came to Penn’s campus eight years ago. The store is completely family-run, which is why Penn students sometimes see young children while shopping.

Four of Wong’s family members work at the store full time, and they have also hired two employees part time to assist with deliveries.

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“Sometimes when students graduate, they still order from us.

We deliver all the way up to New York,” Wong said.

The toughest part about running the store for Wong is time.

People often order products for delivery and want it instantly, but Furniture Campus Home Store’s deliveries generally take three to five days, Wong said.

Wong has also struggled to keep up with the latest

technology. “My marketing is more old fashion,” he said, adding that in the future he hopes to find a way to develop a mobile app and create Facebook and Twitter pages for the store.

All the furniture invoices for Furniture Campus Home Store are done by hand, a process that may seem arcane to most Penn students. When asked about this, Wong said that he tried to change over to a point-of-sale system, but

he could not get enough people to help him with data entry.

Despite some difficulties, Wong finds operating the store and helping students to be a rewarding task. New students often come into the store with their parents, overwhelmed with the effort of settling into a new home, and Wong and his employees make sure to help them out.

“Serving the student makes you feel accomplished,” Wong said.

Shortly after moving back to campus, College sophomore Ross Wilson realized that he needed a full sized mattress pad for his new bed. After looking at the Penn Bookstore and the pop-up Bed Bath & Beyond store in Williams Hall, he made his way over to Furniture Campus Home Store, where he found what he was looking for.

“It was good because they had everything I was looking for, although it was a little unorganized,” Wilson said.

Wong acknowledged that the current state of his store is a bit disorganized, but he promised that as time goes on and they settle into the new location, the store will run more efficiently.

“I hope that students give us a chance,” Wong said.

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Like many millenials, Penn students prioritize portable purchases Penn students seek mobile lifestyle, flock to cities after graduation MITCHELL CHAN Staff Reporter

It’s no secret that many Penn students are drawn to the city.

The excitement and accessible attractions in Philadelphia are some of Penn’s strongest selling points. Like many people their age, Penn-educated millennials are becoming a highly urbanized generation, making plans conducive to an “up-and-about” city life.

These plans include eschewing many of the once-standard decisions that our parents almost automatically made. Big-ticket purchases like cars, washing machines and large houses are taking second place to more “portable” spending that makes moving to and living in urban centers easier.

Cars in particular are a purchase many millennials aren’t making. A Goldman Sachs survey from 2013 found that a full third of millennials don’t want a car at all, as it’s an added burden in cities with other transportation

options.

Even at Penn, only 3 percent of students bring a car to campus, according to U.S. News and World Report in 2013.

“I hopefully will live in a city with good public transportation so I wouldn’t have to buy a car,” College sophomore Leo PageBlau said. He added that while he had a car back home, he does not feel any particular sense of pride in owning one.

In absence of his own car, Page-Blau estimates that he uses services like Uber and Lyft about once a week.

A Wharton senior who currently lives off-campus and will be working in New York after graduation also uses other methods for transportation. “Using Zipcar is much cheaper than keeping a car on campus 24/7,” she said. She doesn’t plan on getting a car in New York.

“When I first moved into my apartment, I bought compact furniture from IKEA that I could easily carry with me when I moved,” the Wharton senior said.

“Anything else probably won’t even fit in a New York apartment.”

As a senior, she also has a very practical reason for making big

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purchases like large appliances.

“I’ll have a lot of student loans to pay back, so I don’t want any big purchases that make living in New York even more unaffordable.”

According to data from Career Plans Survey Reports, for the Class of 2014, a full 43 percent of College graduates and over half

of Wharton graduates ended up in New York alone. Washington and Boston were other expensive postPenn destinations.

When asked why he wanted to live in a city, Page-Blau cited his desired career path as one factor.

“The work opportunities I want probably only exist in [major] cities.”

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fingers plague Stapletons STEVEN TYDINGS Senior Sports Reporter

In preseason practice, Penn football wide receiver Christian Stapleton broke his finger, sending him to the trainers. When he got there, a surprise was sitting there waiting for him: His brother, Austin, with the exact same injury.

Christian, a senior, and Austin, a sophomore offensive lineman, are the only pair of brothers on Penn football’s roster. The HoHo-Kus, N.J., natives have played on the same squad for four of the last six years, but sharing an injury is new territory for the siblings. “I guess we haven’t been drinking enough milk to get our calcium in and build strong bones. It was a freak thing,�

Christian said. “The next day we went over to Penn Medicine and we both got x-rays together. It was pretty funny.�

The two are unsure, however, whether they will get a two-forone special on x-rays. “That’s something we should talk about and work a little deal with the insurance company, but not that I know of,� Christian said.

The brothers have still been able to practice with the injuries, although it has limited Christian.

He has been unable to practice in his normal role as the team’s holder, but the senior receiver has still been able to take his reps at wideout.

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It may be Penn volleyball’s first string of matches on their home court, but it is not the team’s first rodeo, so to speak.

Last weekend, the Red and Blue traveled to Washington, D.C., for a four-game swing, splitting their matches.

In that tournament, Penn

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Sophomore offensive lineman Austin Stapleton reluctantly followed his brother — senior wide receiver Christian Stapleton — to Penn even after setting his mind on not following his brother. However, he has not looked back.since deciding to play for the Red and Blue in 2014.

Austin, meanwhile, had a similar injury in high school, breaking a bone near the same finger on his hand. When he suffered the initial injury, he had a custom brace made for him, so he had the same one shipped up to him, not missing any practice time. “I was supposed to have

surgery but I didn’t really want to put pins in my finger, and the doctor said it wasn’t 100 percent necessary so I decided not to do it,� Austin said. “I got next day delivery [on the brace], because luckily I broke my finger and we had the next day off, so I lucked out and got that 24-hour

delivery.� “I got a club on and he’s got a club on, but we’re both able to do our thing,� Christian added.

As the younger brother, Austin initially didn’t plan on following Christian to Penn, staying firm in that decision until his senior year when their mother encouraged

dropped its first two games in five hard-fought sets and finally hit its stride in the final two games to win over Western Carolina, 3-2, and Howard, 3-0. Although the split record may not indicate an immensely successful weekend, those four games gave the Quakers the momentum and confidence they’ll need heading into their home opener this weekend.

“This week we’re really focusing on keeping our offense fast,� senior outside hitter and captain Alexis Genske said. “That’s what worked for us last weekend when we took risks and kind of just went for balls even when they were tight.�

Staying aggressive and quick on the court will be key in a homestand that features three teams with three unique styles

of play. First up for the Quakers is Fairfield (3-3), a team that Coach Kerry Carr describes as the biggest team in terms of stature Penn will see this weekend. Following Fairfield is Delaware State (2-5), which features an athletic and unpredictable lineup, according to Carr.

Finally, Penn will take on Towson (7-1) on Saturday evening to wrap up the tournament.

Of the three teams the Quakers will face over the two-day invitational, their final matchup will undoubtedly be the biggest test. In addition to already having eight games under their belt, through all of their wins, Towson has only dropped three sets, proof that the Tigers take care of their opponents early and often. “I think it will be very similar to last weekend where you have one team that was heavy offense, one team that was heavy defense and one team that is a combination of the two,� Carr said of her team’s opponents.

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Thankfully, the six players in Red and Blue that walk onto the court to start this weekend look remarkably similar to the sextet from last year’s Crowne Plaza Invitational. In fact, the only face that will not return to the starting lineup is Trina Ohms, a 2015 graduate.

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After visiting his older brother while still in high school, Austin was plenty familiar with Penn. “As a freshman, he was a junior in high school and he was visiting me all the time so this is like his sixth year in college,� Christian

said.

With both Stapletons on the roster, there is occasional confusion. The two are both called ‘Stape’ or ‘Big Stape’ by different teammates, causing both to look when any variation of their last name is called out.

Coach Ray Priore can sympathize, as he was in a similar situation in college. Priore went to Albany, playing on the football team alongside his brother, Chuck, who is two years his elder.

Chuck is the head coach at Stony Brook — also an FCS football school — after previously serving as an assistant along with his brother at Penn.

Don’t expect a matchup between the two brothers any time soon though. “I’m not sure if my parents would like it all that much but that level is a very challenging level,� the Penn coach said. “They have 63 scholarships, opportunities for kids ... nothing [is] in the immediate plans.�

In other news from the Quakers’ recent practices, the team’s special teams will be handled by multiple coaches, although Rick Ulrich has taken on the role as special teams coordinator for the Red and Blue.

On offense, John Reagan is Penn’s third coordinator in as many seasons. But Priore, for one, isn’t worried about his players needing to adjust with yet another new system. “You gotta be able to adjust to those things [as a coach],� Priore said. “Just because you have a style, the best people can adjust their styles to what you have. And they’ve done a great job of that.�

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said. “I’m used to the long hours at this point.”

The Red and Blue’s freshman class also brings an extensive championship pedigree along with it. On top of multitudes of individual accolades, Brooke Behrbaum, Courtney Quinn, Nicole Profit and Maloz each won state championships for their respective teams during their high school careers.

Losing is somewhat of a foreign concept to this incoming class of recruits. But coming onto a team fresh off its first losing season since 2011, it’s not hard to foresee early growing pains testing the young core’s patience. Over the weekend, these growing pains were made apparent in two opening losses, but the team also sparked optimism by showing its offensive potential.

“Winning [a state championship in high school] was a sur real experience,” Quinn added. “I think it would be an incredible moment if we were able to win [the Ivy League championship] while we’re here.”

Some freshmen on the team became familiar with each other before committing to play for the Quakers. For example, Profit and Julia Tulloh, both of whom grew up in Maryland, played against one another frequently on the club volleyball circuit.

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I like to dance a lot before the match and sing pumpup songs with the team.

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Can I say myself? Just kidding, probably Alexis [Genske].

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Jasmine [DeSilva], because she just runs stuff.

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Some Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin.

Who’s the funniest person on the team?

I think Michellie [McDonald-O’Brien] is pretty funny.

the team from the area already,” Tulloh noted. “I think it’s good having people from your hometown there for you.”

Profit comes from a long line of athletes in her family.

Her father, Eugene, was an AllAmerican long jumper as well as football player for Yale. A few years ago, her sister played volleyball for Maryland — the team that defeated the Quakers in their opener in five sets this past weekend.

While she couldn’t provide any intel on Penn’s opening opponent, Profit admitted that there was plenty of familial teasing exchanged in anticipation of the matchup.

The Quakers’ freshmen are accustomed to their fair share of leadership roles, as a majority of them served as captains on their teams in high school. Now, playing for a team laden with underclassmen, having multiple leaders ready and willing to step up to the challenge of guiding the squad forward will be key to helping it improve.

“Everyone has their own strengths,” freshman middle blocker Taylor Cooper said.

“We’re trying to figure out what those are so we can become the most cohesive unit possible.”

Now, with the season already four games old, if Penn wants to avoid its second consecutive losing season and inch closer to its first Ivy League title since 2010, the youngest players on the team might just hold the key to the team’s success.

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Coach Kerry Carr echoed the sentiment.

“On game point, we want to get her the ball. As a serve receiver, against their ace server, she’s going to take that ball,” Carr said. “Alexis is the glue that holds the team together. We need her in the front row, we need her in the back row.”

What does Caldwell do that makes her so special? The better question is: What doesn’t she do?

In 2014, Caldwell set a career-high in kills with 195 and stuffed the stat-sheet on a regular basis. In addition to finishing second on the squad in kills, she finished second in assists, third in blocks, digs and hitting percentage, and led the team with 17 aces.

“Because she’s played a couple different positions — a setter and a hitter — she’s versatile,” Carr said. “She’s always willing to do whatever we need. [Due to] her flexibility and versatility, we can throw her in at any time. She can see the game from everybody’s perspective, both setters and hitters, so it makes her an easy choice for captain.”

Carr praised the two Californian captains for their ability to step up and shoulder the load in support of their younger teammates when needed.

“They know that if they’re next to a new passer, they’re going to shoulder the majority of the responsibility. Or even as a hitter, they’re going to take a majority of the swings.”

Both players were rewarded

for their efforts in 2014. Genske earned honorable mention All-Ivy honors, her second consecutive conference nod after being named second team All-Ivy as a sophomore in 2013. Caldwell, on the other hand, was named second team All-Ivy for the second straight year.

Carr is always quick to talk about the leadership qualities of her two stars, but both players predictably downplay their own contributions to the team’s chemistry. They are, however, eager to rave about one another.

“Alex has the most confidence out of anybody on the court, she never seems to be rattled,” Genske

said. “She never gets quiet or looks intimidated. And that gives everybody else confidence.”

“Alexis is a natural leader. She makes everybody around her feel comfortable,” Caldwell said. “She’s my best friend off the court, so it’s easy to communicate with her.”

To call Genske and Caldwell reliable would be an understatement.

Genske played every set for the Quakers last year, while Caldwell has missed just one set in the last two seasons combined. "[They are] a known, not an unknown in our system. We know what we’re gonna get out of them,” Carr said. “We’re pushing them to give more, but we also can have

a baseline of expectations that they’re going to be playing at a high level.

But while Carr admires her stars’ talent, their relentless pursuit of perfection sticks out to her even more.

“To me, it really is about what they do for other people around them, more than anything else.

The fact that they want to help and learn and change their game all the time really sets an example for the younger kids that we’re asking to do things that are new,” she said.

“It’s not about your ability being better than everybody else,” Carr said. “It’s what you do with that ability.”

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While Penn volleyball will certainly be hoping for this season to play out differently than last, some things are best left unchanged.

Senior captains and star hitters Alexis Genske and Alex Caldwell return as the anchors of this year’s team after pacing the Quakers in kills a season ago.

Genske had a career year last season, finishing fourth in the Ivy League with 282 kills. She also made her presence felt on defense, finishing second on the team with 254 digs.

What makes Genske so good? Her costar praised her ability to come through when she’s needed the most.

“She puts balls away. If we’re down, and we need to kill the ball, or if it’s game point, we can count on her,” Caldwell said.

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to the historic floor for its first home games of the 2015 season in the Crowne Plaza Invitational.

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Freshman middle blocker Taylor Cooper is one of Penn volleyball’s eight rookies, a group upon whom the team will rely as it tries to rebound from 2014.

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Every fall, a new batch of wide-eyed freshmen storms the campus to start their college careers.

For Penn volleyball, the case is no different. Out of 20 total players on the Quakers’ roster, more than one-third of the team — eight players to be exact — is comprised of members of the class of 2019.

After an up and down 2014 campaign highlighted by numerous growing pains for a roster defined, even then, largely by youth, the Red and Blue will once again be tasked with the challenge of getting a relatively

inexperienced squad ready for the rigors of college volleyball.

The Penn freshmen will have to deal with juggling their first college classes on top of the demands of a collegiate-level sport. While the time commitment is invariably an arduous task, a handful of rookies feel that their experiences tackling high school athletics were actually quite similar.

Br igit McDer mott, Kynnedie Maloz and Grace James were all dual-sport athletes in high school. As a result, their schedules before coming to Penn mirror what t hey’re cu r rently going through.

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