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How to survive the Pope’s visit

All of your questions about staying safe and getting around, answered ANNA HESS Staff Reporter

Though students are excited to have a day off for the pope’s visit on Sept. 25, the city shutdown will cause some inconveniences throughout the weekend. The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush to find out what you need to know to stay safe during the pope’s visit.

What roads will be closed to vehicles and/or pedestrians over the weekend?

34th Street from Spring Garden all the way down until University Avenue will be a no-drive zone emergency route, and will encompass 30th Street Station up to 38th Street. The South Street Bridge will also be used as an emergency route.

38th Street itself will be open North and South.

Sidewalks will be open for pedestrians as well as the South Street Bridge.

How long are these closures going to last

Every year during the first week of school, students scramble to perfect their schedules on Penn InTouch. The Daily Pennsylvanian rounded up some of Penn’s most in-demand courses for those looking to round out their schedules or those who are already scoping out their classes for next semester.

Engineering Entrepreneurship I (EAS 545) Professor: Thomas A. Cassel

The Third Reich (HIST 430) Professor: Thomas Childers

Victimology (NURS 333) Professor: Kathleen Brown

Chinese Politics (PSCI 219) Professor: Avery Goldstein

n this engineering course, Cassel brings his 20 years of entrepreneurial experience to the classroom by teaching students how to turn their ideas into businesses. Students learn about how tech entrepreneurs start their own companies, from finding opportunities in the market to attracting investors. Cassel supplements his lectures with guest speakers who have created their own businesses.

“At the end, I would feel comfortable creating my own start up and getting people to invest,” Engineering junior Elizabeth Walton, who is currently enrolled in the course, said. “That’s a really cool thing — there are a lot of us who are really creative and have ideas. We know how to build them, but don’t have all the business skills.”

hilders, who has taught at Penn for 40 years and specializes in World War II history, teaches some of the most popular courses in Penn’s history department. His Third Reich class covers the rise and fall of the Nazi regime in Germany.

“He’s a storyteller — he makes [history] less dry by telling it in a very oratory way,” said College sophomore and current student Sammy Krouse. “He’s a dramatic speaker. He just goes up and talks and knows everything.”

Childers has won numerous awards for outstanding teaching, including the Spotlight on Teaching Award as the Best Lecturer in the Humanities in 2004.

Childers told The Daily Pennsylvanian that he will be retiring at the end of the year.

ictimology is popular, especially among Wharton students, because it fulfills the Science and Technology graduation requirement.

The course also has a reputation of being less difficult than traditional sciences, with a 1.5 out of 4 rating for difficulty on Penn Course Review.

The course focuses on the study of trauma and abuse victims and their families. Brown brings in several guest speakers who have dealt with trauma like sexual assault and stalking, as well as experts who work with trauma patients.

Though the subject matter is somber, “Hearing about their perspective is really enlightening,” Nursing senior Ian Alexander said.

any students were out of luck this year in enrolling in this beloved staple of the Political Science Department; the class’ 90 spots were surpassed when students filled the chairs and the floor space on the first day of class, students said.

“Professor Goldstein is a fantastic professor and lecturer,” College sophomore and current student Stephanie Tang said. “It’s an increasingly relevant subject and I think more people just want to understand it so they can have a better grasp. Some of my friends have been trying to get into the course and just haven’t been able to.”

In Avery’s class, students can expect to study Chinese politics from 1949 on, and will benefit from Goldstein’s expertise without needing any prior knowledge of Chinese history and politics.

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Six months after the Penn W ha r ton China Center k icked off in Beijing, the opening celebrations will conclude with a gala and discussion for um featur ing distinguished guests from around the world.

T h u r s d ay’s Si l fe n Forum, the first to ever be held outside of Penn’s campus, will be moderated by Penn President Amy Gutmann and will feature General Colin Powel l, for mer U.S. secretary of state; Li Zhaoxing, former foreign minister of China; Zhang Xin, CEO and co-founder

of SOHO China; and Howard Marks, co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management.

The conversation will focus on Sino-U.S. relations in the 21st century in the areas of business, technology, finance and h igher education, as well as the importance of cross-cultural collaboration in solving the greatest challenges of modern times.

“This Silfen Forum will get a huge amount of attention, I’m sure, in any case. But all the more so because of what’s happening in the world,” Gutmann said, referring to the recent economic downturn in China that’s affected global markets.

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and when are they starting?

Road closures begin Friday at 10 p.m. and will continue until the early morning on Monday.

“We are cautiously optimistic that we will have our no-drive zone box opened up overnight so that Monday morning passage for all campus will be open,” Rush said.

If the Pope is going to be in Center City, why are roads closed up until 38th Street?

“University City is affected in the event of an emergency,” Rush said. The issue for University City is the close proximity of the three hospitals — the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.

What if I need to go to the hospital?

The Division of Public Safety wants to ensure that all who need to access those hospitals are able to do so and have a quick, safe passage to get there. The Penn Presbyterian will be the primary

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The city shutdown planned for Pope Francis’ visit on Sept. 25 will cause some inconveniences throughout the weekend in University City and the rest of Philadelphia.

designated trauma center in the event of an emergency. The main command center for University City public safety information, the Emergency Operations Center, will be housed at the DPS

headquarters. There will be command posts at each hospital that will be in contact with the EOC. There will be another EOC in Center City that the DPS will be in contact with as well.

Will I be able to work out?

Yes, Pottruck Health and Fitness Center will be open, and it will be the only gym open on campus. All memberships to other gyms, such as to the Fox Fitness Center and the

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Where can I study?

The Van Pelt Dietrich Library and the Goldstein Undergraduate Study Center (also known as the Van Pelt Basement) will have hours over the weekend. On Friday, only the Undergraduate Study Center will be open, and Van Pelt will reopen Saturday and Sunday.

Where can I eat?

DPS has met with retail hospitality groups, restaurants and retail stores to make sure that they have the ability to stock up their inventories. Residential dining facilities will offer brunch and dinner Friday to Sunday, while retail dining cafes will have reduced hours.

Who is still going to be working on campus?

Normal operating hours for the University will be suspended the Friday that the pope arrives, but all essential personnel will remain on campus. The University is providing accommodations for all necessary personal who need to be able to access campus.

“Many public safety personnel, including police as well as other essential personnel, will be staying on campus throughout the weekend. This is not mandated, but we don’t want to have someone who can’t get through to report to their shift,” Rush said.

Will everyone be safe?

DPS is working with all arms of the University and the Philadelphia Police Department to ensure the safety of everyone on and off campus. There will also be over 500 members of the National Guard in the city to provide support throughout the city and University City area. “This is with an abundance of caution to make sure that not only the pope but also all people here receive care,” Rush said.

What can I do to make things easier for the Penn Police?

“This is going to be an extremely busy weekend for the hospitals,” Rush said. “We ask all of our student to conduct themselves with great abundance of caution and in a way that doesn’t create danger for themselves or create more havoc at the hospitals.”

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Non-voting UA members still find positions valuable Associate members can pursue meaningful projects VIBHA KANNAN Staff Reporter

In the fall of her freshman year, College junior Tunmise Fawole got to be a part of the Undergraduate Assembly even though she had lost the general elections. The same year, College junior Eric Tepper became a UA member even though he didn’t run for a position.

Not all members of the UA are chosen by the student body during fall elections. Instead, these non-voting members, called associate members, are selected by the speaker through an application process after general body elections are decided.

UA Speaker and College junior Michael Karam said that although these members cannot vote on resolutions and budget

allocations, they can still work on projects and make tangible administrative changes. There are currently four associate members, but more will be chosen after the next election cycle.

“Associate members are a way for the UA to expand its reach in the undergraduate population,” Karam said.

UA President and College senior Jane Meyer said associate members tend to either be students who have a general interest in student government, or those from specific student groups that would benefit from collaboration with the UA. “Being an associate member gives people a taste of what being on the UA is like, so many decide to run for election during the next term,” Meyer said.

Fawole, who is now the Social Justice director in the UA, felt inspired to run again after her time as an associate member. She

The Undergraduate Assembly meets in Houston Hall’s Bodek Lounge every Sunday.

said that she was able to gain administrative contacts through the

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Fawole also found that her experience as an associate member

was helpful while running for elections again.

“I felt like I was a more credible candidate — I could be more genuine and talk about the work I did,” Fawole said.

Tepper, who is now the secretary of the UA, shared similar sentiments.

“Being an associate member taught me a lot about the UA, and it got me to meet a lot of people and want to be a greater part of it,” he said. “It inspired me to run and become further involved.”

Meyer feels that choosing associate members through an application process rather than through elections is essential to the success of the organization.

“Just because someone loses an election doesn’t mean they can’t be a valuable member of the UA,” Meyer said. “We want to make sure that all students 75004 with an issue they want to solve or advocate can have a voice.”

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OPINION Controversial? Bring it on

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 2015 VOL. CXXXI, NO. 67 131st Year of Publication

MATT MANTICA President JILL CASTELLANO Editor-in-Chief SHAWN KELLEY Opinion Editor LUKE CHEN Director of Online Projects LAUREN FEINER City News Editor KRISTEN GRABARZ Campus News Editor CLAIRE COHEN Assignments Editor STEVEN TYDINGS Social Media Director PAOLA RUANO Copy Editor RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor

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he day before classes started, Provost Vincent Price sent an email to all undergraduates about the recently launched “Campaign for Community.” An ambitious project, its goal is to help the Penn community “discuss and confront issues that are often avoided because they may seem ‘controversial’ or intractable.” To that effect, Price also encouraged faculty and staff to consider serving as Open Expression Monitors — observers sent to potentially fraught events or programs to ensure that the rights of the “meeting or demonstration participants to express their opinions in nondisruptive ways” are upheld.

At a time when universities are increasingly under fire for disregarding and oppressing open expression, we’re glad to see Penn maintaining its firm commitment to freedom of thought, freedom of inquiry and freedom of speech — in the form of a University-wide campaign, no less. Penn clearly

wants to encourage discussion about fraught topics, many of which impact us as college students — affirmative action, trigger warnings and college sexual assault policies, to

stead of the selective filtering that often occurred instead.

When a student organization at Brown University invited controversial individualist feminist Wendy McElroy — who is

age them not to cancel an event because they received negative feedback. The University of Michigan’s suspension of a columnist for writing a “hostile” column making fun of the con-

In these cases, it would be an egregious overstepping of boundaries for the Open Expression Monitors to prevent student groups from taking the actions they feel are necessary.” name a few — and we believe that productive discussions can lead to valuable and necessary change in these areas.

At colleges across the country, there have been countless incidents where students and speakers have faced opposition from their peers and administrators for their controversial stances on hot-button issues.

These incidents would likely have benefitted from Open Expression Monitors of some sort to encourage communication and respectful debate in-

widely known for denying the existence of “rape culture” in America — to a debate about rape culture, Brown President Christina Paxson announced the creation of a Universitysanctioned, alternate event to take place at the same time, effectively discouraging students from attending the other event.

Given Penn’s push for more open, controversial discussions, Open Expression Monitors should encourage students to host events even if they’re controversial, and likewise encour-

cepts of privilege and microaggressions, for example, was clearly in and of itself “hostile” to the principle of open expression. And to suggest that Penn organizations are immune to such a mentality would be absurd considering that just two years ago, the Wharton India Economic Forum disinvited India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi — who at the time was chief of an Indian province — after significant backlash from students and faculty about Modi’s political track record.

In these cases, it would be an egregious overstepping of boundaries for the Open Expression Monitors to prevent student groups from taking the actions that they feel are necessary. But we hope if similar cases arise in the future at Penn, the administration will encourage groups to stand up to the backlash and assert their right to host speakers and events that may seem unpalatable, controversial or “wrong.”

There also may be situations in which the University’s responsibility is to restrict the actions of the protesters. In cases like the net neutrality protest at the Board of Trustees meeting last semester, for example, Penn should support the rights of the protesters to assemble and voice their dissent, but only outside of the meeting in question. Balancing the rights of the protesters with the rights of the protested moving forward will be the most important — and most complicated! — role of Penn’s Open Expression Monitors.

Penn has come a long way since the notorious water buffalo incident of 1993, when the University charged a student under its judicial code for shouting out his window at a group of black women being loud, “Shut up, you water buffalo.” In recent years, the University has led the charge among its peer universities in protecting freedom of speech.

In fact, Penn is the only Ivy League school to receive a top free speech rating from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. But the University’s support for freedom of speech only matters as much as we, the members of the Penn community, try to use it. Through the Campaign for Community and Open Expression Monitors, Penn is trying to create a safe space where we can have productive discussions about issues as complex and controversial as police brutality and racial discrimination.

Now it’s up to us to take advantage of that space.

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LEFTOVERS | Penn’s refusal to pay PILOTs stifles much-needed debate over efficacy of community partnerships

he School District of Philadelphia is in crisis. In the summer of 2011, Pennsylvania legislature cuts to the statewide education budget led to a $629 million budget shortfall in Philadelphia. In an effort to navigate this budget crisis, the School District of Philadelphia closed 31 schools over the course of two years and eliminated 5,000 staff positions, including laying off nearly 2,000 teachers. Since this devastating move, classrooms have been overcrowded and two young schoolchildren have died during the school day when no nurse was on duty.

Universities, like ours, are the beneficiaries of U.S. Congress’ 1917 university taxexemption structure that grants Penn millions in property taxexemption. Faced with similar disparities and poor urban school districts, every single Ivy League school, with the exception of Penn and Columbia, supports their municipality by contributing Payments in Lieu of Taxes. Yale, for example, pays the city of New Haven $8 million annually. In fact, during the 1980s, our own

University paid PILOTs to the city. Today, Philadelphia has the highest percent of tax-exempt nonprofit property of any city in the United States, worth $21.5 billion.

However, Penn and Philadelphia’s other major “eds and meds” have refused to make such payments, citing that their community involvement efforts offer sufficient support to the city. In September 2013,

substitute partnership with transaction. Ira Harkavy, the founding director of the Netter Center for Community Partnerships at Penn stated that PILOTs would threaten the relationships of trust that Penn has built with the city through the Netter Center’s University Assisted Community Schools program.

What is unclear is why the idea of providing financial

University Assisted Community Schools has remained poor.

When the Penn Student Labor Action Project and Students Organizing for Unity and Liberty held a protest at Amy Gutmann’s annual Christmas party demanding that Penn pay PILOTs, Amy Gutmann defended Penn’s position not to pay PILOTs by saying, “we are very proud of what we’ve done with the Penn Alexan-

What is unclear is why the idea of providing financial support is fundamentally hazardous to community partnership.”

Econsult Solutions Inc., a consulting firm commissioned by Penn and other higher education institutions, released a report titled, “The City of Philadelphia and its Higher Eds.” The report finds that Penn is already doing plenty to help out the city without paying PILOTs. The report offers that PILOT programs are antagonistically positioned against collaborative university-city partnerships because they

support is fundamentally hazardous to community partnership. Certainly the city would benefit most from financial and institutional support and Penn certainly possesses the wherewithal to provide both.

And Penn should — especially since there is virtually no evidence that the programs run through the Netter Center have had any measurable positive impact on partner schools.

Instead, school district data shows that performance at

der School.” Penn Alexander, a University of Pennsylvania Partnership School, receives direct and in-kind contributions from the University. This partnership began as part of Penn’s efforts to reinvest in the neighborhood surrounding Penn. As part of this plan, Penn sought to attract middle-class families and Penn employees to reside in the neighborhood.

And the original community has radically changed since the beginning of this partnership.

Between 2000 and 2010, the population living in the boundaries of the Penn Alexander catchment rose by 14 percent; however, the African American population in the same area saw a 43 percent decline.

It’s time for Penn’s successful community involvement to benefit all schoolchildren in Philadelphia.

Rather than an exercise in altruism, community partnerships are confined to the area surrounding Penn and fail to reach the rest of the city. The Penn academic calendar is not aligned with the School District of Philadelphia’s, meaning that public school students in West Philly are accustomed to a revolving door of Penn volunteers and initiatives. It is naive to think that these partnerships can substitute the kind of full time staff positions Penn’s PILOT contributions could secure.

A February 2015 DP Editorial argued that “If Penn were to pay PILOTs, much of the money could be lost in the maze of education bureaucracy.” Penn possesses the resources to partner with City Hall in ways that would create

CLARA JANE HENDRICKSON positive results for the city and its schools. Penn should offer undergraduate programs in urban governance and policy and incentivize its graduates to remain and invest in Philadelphia post-graduation. Until Penn is willing to critically evaluate its partnerships and transform them so they look a little bit less like charities and an exercise in public image upkeep as the “civic Ivy,” then it’s time for Penn to write a check to City Hall.

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Professor playing with food for a good cause Program transforms wasted food into new cuisines PAT ZANCOLLI Staff Reporter

A Penn professor is saving would-be wasted food and changing it into sustainable meals to help feed the hungry.

Around 30 to 40 percent of food in the United States goes to waste, according to the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. In response, Director of the Krogman Growth Center and anthropology professor Solomon Katz came up with a solution to this ongoing problem. He got together with faculty from Cabrini College and Drexel University to create a pilot program in West Philadelphia supermarkets that would allow for some of this wasted food to go to good use, summarizing findings in a July report.

“My role in it was to sort of spur it to start with, connect the dots or the people and also to create the structure of the reports,” Katz said.

In October 2013, the U.S. budget was sequestered, as the federal government could not decide on how to allocate it. As a result, the government decided that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program, more commonly known as food stamps, would have to be cut substantially.

Katz got together with Tom O’Donnell from Cabrini and Jonathan Deutsch from Drexel to find a fix to this problem. The three came together through Katz’s seminar at Penn called “University of Pennsylvania Food Systems.”

Katz met O’Donnell, who also works at the U.S. Economic Development Administration, when he attended the class, but he had known Deutsch previously from work he’d done for Katz’s encyclopedia, “Encyclopedia of Food and Culture.”

“We decided to all join in and

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Director of the Krogman Growth Center and anthropology professor Solomon Katz came up with a solution to food waste.

see what we could do,” Katz said.

They knew that one of the hardest-hit areas by the food stamp cut would be West Philadelphia. Because of this, the group wanted to combat the local issue and use it as an example for other cities.

They wanted to get the supermarkets that O’Donnell was already working with to come up with recipes that could make the food that would otherwise spoil into new products for homeless shelters.

Katz, O’Donnell and Deutsch then teamed up with Jeffrey Brown, head of Brown’s Super Stores in West Philadelphia. They took fruits and vegetables from his stores that would not make it to the shelters before spoiling and brought them to Drexel to “transform it into new foods,” Katz said.

Deutsch explained the idea behind their program to Philly Voice, saying, “If I offered you a bruised banana, you probably wouldn’t be interested. But if I offered you some banana ice cream on a hot summer day? I bet you’d find that more appealing.”

The scholars have since presented their findings at a number of different venues across the country and plan to use the pope’s

visit later this month to streamline their goals and efforts. Since Pope Francis’ agenda addresses poverty and hunger, Katz says that this is a great opportunity “to engage and get the word out about what is going on, and also to create a playbook that they [visitors] can take back to their own communities as a way of engaging them in the process as well.”

“Our goal is, in essence, to create an opportunity for the people to make real contributions.”

Katz and his colleagues also plan to expand their current project even further by creating surveys of Philadelphia restaurants that students can help with.

Their pilot survey will be focused on West Philadelphia restaurants and how they work on the problem of food waste as well.

“The question is coming up with practical solutions that will make economic sense, that will make moral sense, that help people to have food that they wouldn’t have ordinarily and to stress new kinds of recipes that take advantage of the natural nutrient properties of foods that are available,” Katz said.

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Humanities offers smooth waters for SAIL courses Penn has stepped up to accomodate more MITCHELL CHAN Staff Reporter

Penn’s take on active learning courses has had a rocky start, but calmer waters may lay ahead as Structured, Active, InClass Learning, or SAIL, courses expand into the humanities.

The SAIL method emphasizes

student engagement and active participation during time that is typically allotted to instructor lecturing.

“One thing we ask is, ‘Can we transform what happens in the lecture space?’” said Bruce Lenthall, executive director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, who has been spearheading the initiative.

In the past, many students have expressed frustration over SAIL

courses. The Student Committee for Undergraduate Education included several problems it found with the way SAIL was being implemented in its 2015 White Paper, a comprehensive review of undergraduate education released every five years.

The review found unhelpful ways that students were giving feedback to instructors, inadequate training for faculty using SAIL methods and ineffective

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In the humanities, more conventional classes are turning into Structured, Active, In-Class Learning, or SAIL classes.

use of the flipped classroom, a common application of SAIL in which students watch lectures at home and use class time for group work and other activities.

While problem sets and videotaped lectures remain part of many SAIL courses, especially in math and science disciplines, adapting SAIL to humanities courses has opened the door to new variations of the model. “[SAIL] takes a lot of different forms depending on the type

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of class you’re applying it to,” College senior and SCUE chair Laura Sorice said. “We can definitely see how students in all different disciplines would benefit from this type of engagement.”

Sorice gave the example of “Classical American Constitutional Law” taught by Rogers Smith, a political science course that is also a successful SAIL class. In Smith’s course, students watch recordings of his lectures outside of class, in addition to completing assigned readings.

During actual lecture time, Smith asks discussion questions to prompt debates among students.

“The opportunity to engage in a debate on constitutional law with one of the best professors in that field — that’s a really good example of the way that SAIL can work for humanities classes,” Sorice explained.

College junior and current participant in the course Taylor Becker agreed, “You get to hear a lot of different perspectives.

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Organizational Behavior with Adam Grant (MGMT 238) Grant’s beloved organizational behavior course deals with the how to manage people in work environments. Grant is the author of an award-winning book and a contributor to The New York Times. He has also been rated the top professor in Wharton by his students for four straight years, and is one of Businessweek’s favorite professors. Students wishing to get a spot in the 74-person course must complete an essay application.

“He relates the course material back to his own personal life and really relates it to what we would be experiencing,” said Wharton senior John Hoffman, who took the course last year.

Grant’s course creates an introspective environment in which students develop into stronger leaders through personal reflection and learning about group dynamics. He brings in guest speakers, as well as MBA students, who serve as mentors for the class. “[The mentors] are there to help you understand the application of the concepts to your own life and thinking about what you want to do career-wise. It’s more personal than academic,” Hoffman said.

For Hoffman, Grant’s availability as a professor made the class worthwhile in and of itself.

Students probably do half the talking in the class.”

Smith’s class is not the only humanities course using SAIL. Several professors in departments such as Political Science, History and the health & societies major have added SAIL principles to their curricula.

So far, Lenthall has been pleased by SAIL’s growing popularity.

“More faculty are getting more excited to think about it,” he said.

CTL has taken steps to ease professors’ transitions to using SAIL to address early apprehension. It provides faculty interested in SAIL with numerous resources, including individualized consulting with CTL, facilitated meetings with other faculty and access to its research into student learning outcomes in both SAIL and nonSAIL courses.

“It has been a gradual change,” Lenthall said. “We don’t expect this to transform overnight. Reinventing a class is hard work.

It takes a lot of investment from faculty who decide to do this.”

Lenthall added that elements of SAIL have begun to resonate with students.

“If you ask, ‘How did you like working on problems in groups and learning from your peers?’ [students] say, ‘I loved that,’” he said.

As SAIL courses grow in number, Penn has stepped up to accommodate them. Department chairs, faculty and administrators ranging from the vice provost for education, the deans of the undergraduate schools and even those responsible for maintaining Penn’s classrooms have worked to help SAIL’s growth.

“Each year we bring on more classrooms that are set up for this,” Lenthall said. “These are rooms that really lend themselves to this kind of teaching.”

This fall alone, Penn added two SAIL-friendly classrooms, including one in the David Rittenhouse Laboratory.

Ultimately, Lenthall’s goal is to keep asking, “Have we helped our students learn as much as possible?”

“What makes the class most interesting is the fact that he’s so available to students, especially during office hours. Being able to talk to him about how to apply course concepts to your life in a meaningful way created a lot of value,” he said.

Intro to the Theory and Practice of Counterintelligence with Frank Plantan (INTR 290) In Plantan’s course, counterintelligence serves as a unique lens for studying international relations, American and British history. Students study counterintelligence from multiple angles including motivations behind espionage and figures in military, civilian and corporate espionage.

“You learn crazy things. You absolutely would never have thought that history happened this way,” Engineering and Wharton sophomore Robert Patrick Dowling, who took the course in part because his family is connected to the military and counterintelligence, said.

The class, which is offered in the spring, requires students to apply and write an essay about why they should be accepted.

Chosen participants are given access to guest speakers who are experts in the field and spend two days in Washington D.C., where, in the past, they have visited the Central Intelligence Agency and met with different intelligence experts.

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Administrators, coaches join DPS on night patrol

Program exposes staff to the social life of students LOWELL NEUMANN NICKEY Staff Reporter

Ever had a coach or school administrator show up to one of your parties? Well, Penn’s Division of Public Safety has a program that makes it more likely than you’d think.

“I’m not the person most students expect to see standing on their porch during a party.

There’s definitely a moment of reckoning when the director of the Office for Student Conduct is at your front door,” Director Julie Lyzinski Nettleton said.

DPS r uns a r ide-a long program in which school administrators and members of the athletics department can accompany Penn Police officers during a shift. This helps administrators better understand some of the challenges the officers face in terms of off-campus parties and general student interaction with the West Philadelphia community.

“It’s a great way to take a somewhat decentralized campus and keep everyone connected.

Sometimes we feel detached since we’re only here during work hours,” Nettleton said.

“Seeing the nightlife in realtime helps inform a lot of the work we do.”

“It’s important for administrators to see what a ‘typical’ Saturday night at 2 a.m. looks like,” Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs Hiraku Kozuma wrote in an email.

“A picture is worth a thousand words. For administrators like Julie and Karu [Kozuma] who might be involved with a student conduct case, or may be working on developing a new policy, seeing what PPD deal with in their own eyes and in real-time helps effectively and realistically inform the decisions they make and policy they

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followed by a gala on Thursday evening, with around 600 guests.

Gutmann noted that relations with China have always been important to the University.

“Engagement in China has been a long-term priority for Penn, and connections between Penn and China date back to 1823,” Gutmann said. “And today, thousands of Chinese students call Penn home.”

Second-year MBA and Beijing-native Michael Chen visited the Penn Wharton China Center this summer and was excited to see Penn living up to its goal of promoting collaboration between the two nations.

“I can see the dedication from Penn,” Chen said. “Last year we had the Global Forum in Beijing, and this is one of the most important events for Wharton.

Now we have the physical facility. [Penn] not only puts a lot of money in there, but they put a lot of the commitment.”

Other events during the week

Student Conduct or even members of the Bureau of Liquor Control and Enforcement.

“We’ve been successful in curtailing recidivism in a few of these houses, but it’s not a onesize fits all solution. We have a toolbox of programs and initiatives we can use to help keeps students safe and responsible,” Rush said. “This include the ride-along and nuisance house programs, as well as working with the landlords of these places in advance, as well as working closely with the office of Alcohol and Other Drugs here at Penn.”

Pen n adm in ist rators a re grateful for the chance at an interactive experience with student nightlife, and the officers who monitor it. “I appreciated getting to know the Penn Police officers who patrol off campus and watching them interact with students,” Kozuma wrote.

“My presence is generally that of an observer, although I was happy to help the officer wherever necessary in explaining Penn policies and expectations around parties. I also use the opportunities to remind students of our Medical Amnesty Policy, encouraging them to call for MERT anytime they or a friend might need medical attention after drinking or taking drugs.”

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Nine of Penn’s 12 deans will visit PWCC throughout the week.

The events will also include a dedication of PWCC, featuring a familiar Penn symbol replicated halfway across the globe.

“We are going to have a Benjamin Franklin ‘Ben on the Bench’ statue that is going to be unveiled at the center,” PWCC Director John Zhang said. “The reason why we want to have this piece is this is very sentimental.

Many people who study at Penn have their picture taken on the bench. So it’s to remind them about their experience at Penn.”

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Quakers maintain high expectations despite lack of experience Fuller has eyes set on NCAA Tournament HOLDEN McGINNIS Sports Editor

It wasn’t the ending anyone had hoped for.

Three games into the Ivy League season last year, everything was looking up for Penn men’s soccer. The team was coming off a 2-1 victory over Dartmouth — the Big Green’s only Ancient Eight loss of the year — and sat in a tie for second place.

The Quakers would play to draws in their next two Ivy matches and lose the final two, slipping to a disappointing fifth place finish. It was an unfortunate finish for the defending Ivy League champions, but not a reason to panic. “A lot of people come in and say ‘Oh is this a rebuilding year, you have so many first-year guys,’� coach Rudy Fuller said.

But I don’t look at it that way at all. “We have a roster of talented individuals. It’s going to be how quickly they get up to speed and start playing for each other.�

Coming into 2015, Fuller knows the team has the potential to take back the Ivy crown. It’s just a matter of putting everything together. All the pieces are there.

The team is young, only returning 12 players, while bringing in one of the largest recruiting classes in Fuller’s tenure. In the early season, the focus has been

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Junior Alec Neumann once again will have an impotant role for the Quakers in their quest for a second Ivy League title in three seasons. Despite the team’s disappointing results last year, the veteran forward led the Red and Blue in goals and total points while finishing third in the conference in scoring, en route to being named second-team All-Ivy for the second time in as many years.

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recruits, who will bolster the depth of young talent the Quakers have this year and for seasons to come.

Sophomore transfer Joe Swenson also arrives at Penn after not seeing playing time at Connecticut. He won two club national championships with the New York Red Bulls in high school, and was a member of the U.S. Soccer Developmental Academy

getting the new players up to speed. “No disrespect to the returning guys, but when you only have 12 [players], you’re going to need minutes from the first-year guys,�

Fuller said. “So as a staff and in talking with some of the returning guys, [our goal is getting the new players] to understand what it means to be a high-level college soccer player.�

While the coaching staff is focused on integrating their young roster, the team is focused on ‘go mode,’ the mantra they’ve adopted in early season practices. “It came from Nigel [Blackwood]. He’s a pretty intense guy, always up for every game, every practice. It’s a good central mantra that gets everyone focused,� junior forward Alec Neumann said. “We know we have the

technical quality, we have good players, just every game is being up for it and matching the intensity.�

Maintaining that mantra has helped the team focus and get onto the same page mentally, but the early results have been mixed. A scoreless draw against No. 7 Washington was encouraging, but the team followed it up with a blowout loss to American, which Fuller attributed to a poor

turnaround after the game against the Huskies.

Moving forward, the team will continue its tough non-conference slate before progressing into Ivy League season. It’s the sort of trial by fire that forces players to adapt and grow, particularly the young ones.

Even more so, the non-Ivy challenges offer great opportunities for the Quakers to prove themselves against top-tier opponents,

something they’ll need to do to position themselves for an at-large bid in the NCAA Tournament. “[We’re looking for] an Ivy League championship and an NCAA Tournament birth,� Fuller said of the team’s goals for the season. “We may fall short on the Ivy League championship, but if we’ve done what we’ve already discussed, we should be in contention for an at-large bid.�

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Getting such a highly touted group of student athletes to commit to Penn is no easy task and much of the credit must be given to coach Rudy Fuller.

Fuller attributed the recruiting success to the school itself. “Penn has a lot to offer young men who want to play soccer at the highest level and get a degree from a top notch institution,� he said. “So it’s a compelling opportunity for those individuals, and we’ve done a good job selling

that.�

After a disappointing 2014 season that saw the Quakers finish 6-9-2 overall, this type of freshman class is the first, and arguably most important, step in returning the team to its winning ways. Fuller, however, remained cautiously optimistic about what type of immediate impact this assembly of talent would have on his program. “I think it remains to be seen,� he said. “Right now there’s still pressure to learn what it takes to

be successful at the college level.

Fortunately we have guys who have played a lot of minutes for us who can help bring them along quicker than normal. “We need our upperclassmen to be good leaders and to mentor these guys because in the end, it’s going to make their last year or two years more special.�

Compared to other Ivy League programs, the Quakers appear to have brought in the best class of

athletes by a significant margin.

The next closest schools to them in the rankings are Dartmouth and Princeton, at No. 34 and 36, respectively.

Looking forward, it’s not uncommon for one strong recruiting class to have an effect on attracting other top players in years to come, which Fuller acknowledged. “As a coach, recruiting is the most important thing you do,�

he said. “They said good players make good coaches, and great players make great coaches. To be successful at the college level, you’ve got to work harder and recruit better than the next guy and really do a good job of developing the talent when it gets here. But recruiting is the first and most important step in that process.�

With the current group of freshmen, it appears the Quakers have taken that first step.

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In 2013, Polkinhorne, now a senior, transferred to Penn from Santa Clara to join Tyler Kinn in front of the Red and Blue’s net.

That year, Polkinhorne was a crucial part in the effort to win the Ivy title. “[Max] has had some really big games for us over his career,�

Fuller said. “Most notably back in 2013, coming in after halftime [in the team’s penultimate against Princeton] when Tyler Kinn was injured, then the following week up at Harvard when we won the Ivy title. “He’s had some big performances for us so it gives us confidence with him in the net.�

Last year, following Kinn’s graduation, Polkinhorne clinched the starting position and was joined on the roster by fellow member of the class of 2016, Nick Savino. The latter also transfered from UC-Santa Barbara for his sophomore year, but joined the

squad as a player in 2014.

Together, Polkinorne and Savino make up Penn’s veteran set of goalies.

In the crop of 10 new players the Quakers added to their roster this fall, two freshmen round out the quartet of goalkeepers: Scott Forbes and Etan Mabourakh.

The duo is one of the critical reasons why the Red and Blue’s recruiting class was ranked 12th in the country this year. With much success and experience in their pre-collegiate careers, there are high hopes for what they can do at Penn.

In the Quakers’ first two contests, Polkinhorne played every minute between the pipes. The Red and Blue held No. 7 Washington to a 0-0 tie but faltered against American, letting in four goals. “I think the Washington game, I came out really ready to go,�

Polkinhorne said. “With a big home crowd, first real game of the season and playing against a ranked opponent always makes

you ready to go. "[The American] game, I don’t think anyone was ready, I don’t think that I played any better than anybody else, I don’t think I had a very good game. That’s not because we let four goals in; everyone coming off the Washington game relaxed a little bit too much.�

No one disputes that Polkinhorne is an asset to the team, but only time will tell which member of the quartet of qualified and talented goalies will be the starter in the games to come. “Max has certainly done well over the past year and a half in goal for us, he’s won an Ivy title,�

Fuller said. “Nick has done really well in training as well. “So you have two guys in training that I think our coaches and our players are really comfortable with and we were fortunate to have two guys in Scott and Etan that were two of the most soughtafter goalkeepers in the country last year. It’s a good problem to have.�

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Penn heads for Sunshine State slate in hope of a change of fortune Red and Blue will travel to Fort Myers and Miami COREY HENRY Sports Reporter

Hurricane E r i k a may Florida Intl. have skirted (2-2) Florida last week, but a 7 p.m.

Miami new stor m is head i ng SATURDAY sout h t h is Florida Gulf weekend.

After two Coast scoreless (0-1-1) contests last 7 p.m. weekend, Fort Myers, Fla. Penn men’s soccer looks to get its offense back on track during its two-game road trip to Florida.

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(0-1-1) will get a shot to avenge two losses from their Ivy titlewinning 2013 campaign. Florida Gulf Coast University (0-1-1) snuck away with a 3-2 doubleovertime victory two years back, while Florida International (2-2-0) came away with a 2-0 result in the Rhodes Field matchup that same year.

“I think we have revenge on our minds,” senior midfielder Forrest Clancy said. “We want to go back and right that wrong by beating them.”

The Sunshine State will pose a unique conditioning challenge for the Red and Blue. With temperatures expected to climb into the 90s this weekend, the opposing players on the field won’t be the only thing for which the Quakers must prepare.

“We’re gonna need depth,” coach Rudy Fuller said. “It’s gonna be hot for both teams out there.”

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Heading into the weekend’s matchups, Penn is worried less about the Florida teams on the other side of the pitch than the squad that calls Rhodes Field home.

“We’re still gelling as a team,” Clancy said. “It’s coming step by step, and we just need to be patient.”

Sunday’s disappointing 4-0 loss to American was something the Red and Blue felt they could have reversed. Coupled with the hangover from its impressive 0-0 draw against Washington, Clancy felt that the quick turnaround served as a detriment to Penn’s performance against the Eagles.

By departing this Wednesday to prepare for the weekend’s matches — more than a full 24 hours in advance of the weekend’s first kick off — the team hopes the extended layover will help the team to finally put some

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[Sophomore midfielder] Marc Kaizi-Lutu and [senior back] Griffin Heffner Favorite pregame meal?

Greek Lady grilled chicken platter What’s your most prized possession?

My first car — a ’96 Bronco with 36-inch Super Swamper tires. I still drive it in the summer.

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Winning the Ivy League my sophomore year.

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Not [senior midfielder] Forrest Clancy

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“I think everyone’s kind of gotten everyone else on the right track for those goals so it’s looking good,” he said.

On the backline, the team welcomes several players who will see full-time action this season. Senior backs Aaron Chen and Griffin Heffner have earned starting spots this season after spot starting in 2014. And even though the experience level on the defensive side of the ball is not as great as a veteran goalkeeper would like, Polkinhorne is still confident in the unit’s ability to succeed.

“Honestly, I think we’ve got a lot of depth on the team, even if those guys haven’t started a lot of games,” Polkinhorne said.

“I think everyone’s always prepared coming off the bench, so I think we’re ready to go.”

Further up the pitch, having so many upperclassmen step in at midfield has been a major help for Clancy.

“Communication is so important when you’re out there on the field. You need your teammates around you all the time, talking to you,” he said.

“To have guys who know what they’re doing and know what they’re talking to you behind you and all around you at all times is incredibly useful and helps midfielders get down on defense.”

Players like Clancy and jun ior m idf ielder Mat t Poplawski return and have worked to build rapport with

newcomers l i ke f resh men midfielders Gavin Barger and Erumuse Momoh. Clancy, like Polkinhorne behind him, believes that the upperclassmen have had an important impact on the newcomers.

“The upperclassmen really know how to get everyone else going and inspire the freshmen so I have a lot of belief in them,” Clancy said.

On the attack, the Red and Blue still have Neumann, the star who is now tasked with producing quality chances for himself and for attacking midfielders. Even though Lacroix graduated in May, Neumann still has utmost confidence in his supporting cast. In an effort to improve their rapport with one another, the midfielders and attackers have stayed after practice recently to work on combination play.

Still, the team has been held scoreless thus far through two games. Yet coach Rudy Fuller doesn’t view that as a major concern for the team.

“The scoring woes [are] less of an issue to me than our overall approach,” Fuller said. “Our goals are going to come. It’s going to take time because we have so many new relationships on the front half on the field.

For the Quakers, this season is not about a last-ditch effort to win the Ivy title before the impressive class of 2016 graduates. Rather, it is a time for the team’s veterans to mentor the youth and a period to see what this team can do with a praiseworthy mix of experience and potential.

tally marks in the win column.

“We’ll have a lot of time to settle in, train there a few times and get mentally prepared,” Clancy added. “We came into Sunday [against American] very lethargic, and we don’t want to repeat that in Florida.”

T he cu r rent 210 -m i nute scoreless streak for the Quakers’ offense is another issue the team looks to tackle in Florida.

A proven goal scorer like junior forward Alec Neumann could be the key to getting the ball into the back of the net.

“We’ve gotta do a better job at keeping the ball,” Fuller said.

“If we get good service to someone like Neumann, he’ll score goals.”

The Quakers arrive in Florida hoping that, when they pack their bags on Monday for DP FILE PHOTO a return trip to Philadelphia, they’ll be bringing home some Penn soccer coach Rudy Fuller leads the Quakers down south for the weekend after their opening two-game slate ended with a dissapointing loss to American on Sunday. wins along with their tans.

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Off to the races they go.

After a brief layoff following the end of track and field season, Penn’s cross country teams are eagerly anticipating their season opener at the Big 5 Invitational. The first of eight competitions on the docket for 2015 will come this Friday when the Quakers will kick off their campaign at Belmont Plateau in Fairmount Park.

Earlier this week, in anticipation of the squads’ first action this year, coach Steve Dolan announced seniors Thomas Awad and Amy Darlington as captains for the second season in a row along with five others.

“Thomas and Amy were elected by their peers for the second year, and I’m not surprised,” Dolan said. “They bring an excellent sense of leadership and work ethic to our program.”

At this event last year, the Quakers silenced their competition, securing 15 team points and a pair of team titles. While this season’s senior class brings with it plenty of leadership and experience, there are several

up-and-coming talents looking to build on their impressive performances from 2014.

Last season, the cur rent junior class claimed three of the top five finishes in the men’s 6K race. However, most notably, then-freshman Abby Hong posted the best time in the women’s 4K, clocking in at 14:21.5 in her first season with the Red and Blue.

Despite a promising core of returning runners, Penn must fill the void left behind by the recent graduation of Conner Paez in 2015. A captain in 2013 and 2014, Paez was an instrumental member of the cross country squad, earning a firstplace finish in the 6K at the Big 5 Invitational last season.

To make up for Paez’s departure, the Quakers will be looking to their freshman class for promising results at their opening collegiate event. “[The freshmen] are doing great,” Dolan said. “I’ve been impressed with how quickly they’ve integrated themselves with the team. They’re hitting their stride with the daily routine as well.”

Since this is the opening event for most of the teams competing this weekend, Dolan is unsure which athletes Penn’s competitors will bring to Belmont

Plateau. It isn’t uncommon for programs to conserve certain runners for the more prestigious events later in the fall.

Unlike Penn and Villanova, the other Big 5 teams competed last week at various locations.

La Salle sophomore Morgan Szekely captured a title at the Lehigh Invitational, while two freshmen from Saint Joseph’s, Shawn Hutchison and Lindsey Oremus,placed second in their respective 5K races at the TCNJ Invitational. Lastly, Temple junior transfer Stephan Listabarth earned the top finish in the 8K at the Dusquesne Duals.

With a handful of their opponents off to a hot start in 2015, the Red and Blue will be looking to end those streaks on Friday.

“I’ve been very pleased with cross country thus far,” Dolan said. “Everyone devoted themselves to training individually this summer and their performances in practice prove it.”

Undoubtedly, the Quakers will be looking to their senior class, especially their two-time captains, as a catalyst for explosive results this weekend. And if they can build on their preseason momentum on Friday, this poised team may catch fire en route to the Heptagonal Championships in October.

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OLDIES BUT GOODIES In new roles, seniors aim to set record straight WILL AGATHIS Associate Sports Editor Penn men’s soccer is entering unique territory in the program’s history.

Two years removed from an Ivy League title, gone now are graduated mainstays like Duke Lacroix and Kamar Saint-Louis. Now in their place are a handful of seniors that have yet to compile numerous starts for the Red and Blue.

Even though they are well known for their high-profile freshman class, the Quakers make up for their youth with strength in the form of vast experience. Despite the loss

of Lacroix and Saint-Louis, many of the team’s cogs from 2014 — including senior goalkeeper Max Polk inhor ne, senior m idfielder For rest Clancy and junior forward Alec Neumann, to name a few — return in 2015 with hopes to make yet another push for an Ancient Eight championship.

Based on the loss of quality veterans and an inevitable reliance on freshmen, it may seem that Penn’s outlook is bleak this fall. However, that has not stopped the upperclassmen from instilling in the freshmen a desire to win.

Polkinhorne believes that the current seniors have had an important impact on the freshmen’s motivation levels thus far.

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Penn boasts strong quartet of goalies Quakers’ rookies Polkinhorne started first two matches ALEXIS ZIEBELMAN Senior Sports Reporter As the old saying goes, two’s company, three’s a crowd, four’s too many.

But for coach Rudy Fuller and Penn men’s soccer, four might actually be the magic number.

Only two games into the 2015 season, it’s clear the Quakers have four legitimate options for the goalkeeping position, at least in the team’s eyes. But only time will tell if four is truly too many or a blessing.

“I could probably say without hesitation — I’ve been at Penn 18 years — and this is probably the deepest

goalkeeping crop that I’ve had in my time at Penn,” Fuller said. “We’re still getting a few of them fit, but if we can get them fit and healthy, it will really benefit them and our team when they are competing each and every day.

“At their core, I think each one of them has the potential to be a good college goalkeeper and win the starting position for us. So it’s going to be interesting to see how it plays out.”

Returning starter Max Polkinhorne is the most experienced of the four. Yet even he agrees with Fuller’s assessment of the team’s backline depth.

“I think having four guys is actually really, really good,” he said. “Especially having two older and two younger guys.”

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Penn men’s soccer has four viable options to fill the starting goalkeeper role, including incumbent senior Max Polkinhorne.

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Every championship team in collegiate athletics begins with a core class, the players who build the foundation for the entire season.

The championship may be a few years down the road, but Penn men’s soccer could have found that group with this year’s recruiting class.

Ranked the 12th-best recruiting class in all of college soccer by CollegeSoccerNews. com, the Red and Blue may have brought in one of the best

collection of players in school history.

An impressive five of the nine freshmen — Nigel Blackwood, Gavin Barger, Etan Mabourakh, Erik Swenson and Gideon Metrikin — have at least some experience on the United States youth national team, a squad tasked with finding and training the best American soccer players in every age group. Three of those five — Blackwood, Barger, and Mabourakh — are still currently members of the national squad.

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