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Campus has a wide range of healthy options HANNAH NOYES Staff Reporter

If you attempt to grab a quick salad for lunch at Penn, you’ll have a lot of choices: HipCityVeg, Saladworks and Sweetgreen, just to name a few.

Penn is surrounded with healthy options, and the line at Magic Carpet at noon on any given day expresses how much Penn loves healthy eating.

Aren’t college kids supposed to be unhealthy? The “normal” college student who appears in popular culture binge eats pizza, ramen and copious amounts of dining hall food — where else would the “Freshman 15” come from? At Penn, students actually seem concerned with what they are putting into their bodies.

Philadelphia isn’t traditionally associated with healthy food. Cheesesteaks and soft pretzels do not make for a gymready body. But there seems to be a recent push in health in the Philadelphia area, increasingly known for its brand-name chef restaurants. Campus has seen the addition of Pure Fare in Houston Hall and will soon see the opening of veggie-centric Beefsteak in the same building, and Honeygrow on Walnut. On Sunday, Philadelphia Magazine published an article about 11 new fitness and healthy eating restaurants opening downtown in the fall alone.

But these same standards might not be true at other Philadelphia universities. Temple University student Libby Atterbury sees a food landscape more SEE HEALTH PAGE 7

Beefsteak veggies come to Houston New eatery to replace Einstein Bros Bagels JEFFREY CAREYVA Deputy News Editor

Shortly after opening organic Pure Fare in Houston Market, Penn Dining is announcing the opening of another veggie-centric restaurant in the building.

Beefstea k, created by Chef Jose Andres, is a new restaurant concept featuring fast, healthy and casual cuisine, which will open in

Houston Market for early 2016.

“We have taken the vegetable and made it more of a center-plate item. When you come to our restaurant, you can choose from a variety of fresh-picked vegetables ... as many as you want really, and our bowl becomes the volume for the vegetables that you’ll get,” Director of Operations for Beefsteak Jim Biafore said.

Beefsteak’s featured item is its bowls, which consist of a choice of vegetables

blanched to order — meaning they are boiled and then put in ice water — grains like rice or quinoa, housemade sauces and a variety of toppings like mozzarella or light dressing. Beefsteak features four predesigned vegetable bowls, but customers can create an unlimited number of custom combinations.

“You can create a different experience every time you come in. It can be a spicy flavor the one day, and then an Asian flavor followed by

a Mexican profile,” Biafore said.

Everything is cooked to order, and vegetables are all cut precisely to cook evenly for the same amount of time.

Beefsteak is not strictly vegetable-focused, as add-ons include chicken, soft-boiled eggs and salt-cured salmon.

One f requently asked question is why a vegetable-centric restaurant has double meats in its name. “[Our name] relates to the SEE BEEFSTEAK PAGE 2

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The African American Arts Alliance (4A), one of Penn’s performing arts groups, presented the multimedia production of “For Colored Girls.”

Coming this fall, Penn’s theater group the African American Arts Alliance (4A) is presenting the multimedia production of “For Colored Girls”.

The show is most known from the Tyler Perry movie version from 2010. However, the directors and 4A board have decided to use the original script written by Ntozake Shange. The entire play is through the perspective of the actresses, who interpret the actions of the male actors who remain silent. This amplifies the female voice.

4A produces plays that are

written for or by people of color.

They play a big role in the minority community on campus and host various events throughout the year, such as open mic nights and collaborations with other organizations to promote unity and equality for minorities.

“It’s about empowerment of black people and black excellence through the arts,” said Wharton sophomore Sydney Rodriguez, a producer and board member of 4A. College sophomore Kai Kornegay says that she was inspired to join 4A because she felt that she wasn’t just typecast into stereotypical black roles. She feels that she is able to grow as a performer and an artist through the group.

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Chaplain of Colbert Nation talks Pope visit Father Martin commented on pope’s recent actions

EUNICE LIM Staff Reporter

Last night, Penn alumnus and Jesuit priest Father James Martin spoke to a packed audience in the Hall of Flags about Pope Francis’ upcoming visit to Philadelphia.

But not before opening with a ‘hymn’: “The Red and the Blue.”

Martin, who graduated from the Wharton School in 1982, is the author of multiple New York Times bestsellers, a regulator contributor to news publications and “the chaplain of the Colbert Nation,” as dubbed by Stephen Colbert, who frequently hosted him as a guest on The Colbert Report. Martin agreed to return to Penn to talk about the pope and his papacy when College senior Sean Foley reached out.

For an hour, Martin touched upon what Cat hol ics a nd

non-Catholics alike can look forward to in the pope’s visit and sermons. Martin says with confidence that the pope will talk about social justice and the poor, capitalism and income inequality, the environment, the refugee crisis and family life and love during his visit to the United States.

“The pope is going to make some difficult critiques, and a lot of people don’t want to hear them because they are mistaking critique for condemnation,” Martin said. “But he has critiqued rightly the failures of our current system. We live in a country with gross economic extremes. But he is critiquing in the spirit of charity. It’s a difficult thing to hear, but we will hear it.”

Martin also recommended the audience look and learn from the pope’s actions.

“The pope’s spontaneous gestures — like when he embraced that man with the disfigured face — teach something. They

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Penn alumnus and Jesuit priest Father James Martin spoke to students in the Hall of Flags about Pope Francis’ upcoming visit to Philadelphia.

make more news than his speeches and homilies,” said Martin. “Jesus taught by word

and by deed. And Pope Francis does the same.”

During the question and

answer session that followed, Martin spoke a bit about his unconventional path from working in corporate finance at General Electric after graduating from Wharton to becoming a Jesuit

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beefsteak tomato and its quality, and it’s also a playful way for us to introduce ourselves to our customers,” Biafore said.

“We didn’t want to take ourselves too seriously.”

Beefsteak’s first retail location opened March 20 at George Washington University, followed by another location in the D.C. area.

“I’m so excited to be opening my first Beefsteak location in Philadelphia and I can’t imagine a better location than the University of Pennsylvania,” Andres said in a press release.

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“During undergrad, no one was asking me what I wanted to really do in life. And once I was in Wharton and later at GE, I could not envision any other type of life. I didn’t know how to get out,” Martin said. It was a documentary about Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, and seeing a psychologist that helped him eventually realize that he wanted to live a religious life — specifically, to join the Jesuit order.

“I approached the process of joining like I was approaching a job opportunity at Goldman Sachs,” Martin said. “I applied in May, and I was in by August, which is unconventionally fast.”

Adult and student audience members swarmed Martin once the talk ended.

“It’s great to see people getting excited about the Catholic church,” said Newman Center Assistant Director Jeff Klein, who attended the event. And I hope that it’s more than just a celebrity effect and that it leads people to true engagement with faith and questions about truth.”

as much as I do, and are more and more looking for quick delicious meals that are also good for them — a concept I like to call fast-good. Vegetables are so fun and sexy, and I’m thrilled for the people of Philadelphia to experience their limitless possibilities and flavors!”

Like Houston Market’s recently opened P u re Fa re, Beefsteak will expand Penn Dining and Bon Appétit’s selection of fresh meat-optional products.

“It also ties into our health and wellness initiatives on campus by allowing us to offer and promote healthy foods to students even more so,” Resident District Manager of Bon Appétit Stephen Scardina said.

“And our goals fit in with what Chef Andres is trying to do with his food as well.”

Bon Appétit will staff and oversee the future Beefsteak in Houston Market. Beefsteak will take the location where Einstein Bros Bagels used to be.

Andres will be the second celebrity chef to open a retail location with Penn Dining, the first being “Top Chef” winner Rick Bayless with his Tortas Frontera in the ARCH. “College students are very intelligent and passionate about what they eat. We wanted a very educated consumer because we’re very transparent about our process,” Biafore said.

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Penn reaches to Latin America, Caribbean PLAC ready to talk health in inaugural conference SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Staff Reporter

Penn’s presence as a global entity has been at the forefront lately, between the ever-present construction of the Perry World House on Locust Walk, and Penn President Amy Gutmann’s presence in China moderating the Silfen Forum just last week. On Wednesday, Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean is hosting a conference on Penn’s campus to further cement this global status.

The theme of this year’s inaugural conference is “Health: Equity, Access and Innovation.”

It will feature Amanda Glassman, who works in Washington, D.C. and is an expert on health in the developing world, as the keynote speaker. Two more panels comprised of three speakers each will round out the programming.

The goals of the conference are in line with PLAC itself — to foster a more cross-disciplinary approach in thinking about Latin America and the Caribbean.

Economics and Sociology professor in the Population Studies Center, Jere Behrman, said this is important because a challenge with studying Latin America and the Caribbean at Penn in the past has been that individual groups and researchers carry out their own activities in a relative vacuum, without much cross over.

“I hope [the conference] leads not only to greater awareness, but greater collaboration, and for that to span across the University, not

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Penn is increasing its international presence through initiatives such as the Caribbean conference and the construction of the Perry World House.

only across schools but also between undergrads and graduate students,” Behrman said.

Behrman has personally been connected with Latin America through his research since he began working at Penn in the late ‘60s. He has conducted long-term research projects concerning ramifications of nutrition in children at a young age in Guatemala and the effects of student and teacher incentives in mathematics education in Mexico.

The conference and, in fact,

PLAC itself, were both spearheaded by the School of Nursing a year ago. Both the Dean of the Nursing School Antonia Villarruel, and Assistant Dean of the Nursing School, Nancy Biller, were instrumental in getting it up and running.

After the first PLAC interest meeting, comprised of about 80 faculty from six different schools, the attendees decided that PLAC should hold an annual conference. The Nursing School stepped up again to take the lead for the

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“It’s a great theme to coincide with the pope’s visit to Philly,” Biller said.

Biller added that one of her biggest roles, and one that PLAC will ultimately be involved with as well, is trying to provide opportunities for students to engage with Latin America and the Caribbean.

Last year, three Nursing students went to Oaxaca, Mexico to assist a microfinancing operation that wanted to get involved with the health of its community.

Already, there are 180 registrants for the conference, and two-thirds are students. Eight different schools are represented in addition to the Penn Health System, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the central administration, said Biller.

Next year, event organizers hope that another school or group at Penn will take the lead in choosing a theme and putting together the next conference.

Behrman said that in terms of topics, “One that’s been bantered around about is migration and urbanization in Latin America.”

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OPINION We’re open to open learning

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 2015 VOL. CXXXI, NO. 69 131st Year of Publication

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ow much does a Penn education cost? For enrolled students, it’s over $60,000 per year. But for other students, Penn courses don’t even cost a cent.

It’s the age of online learning, and Penn has opened its ivory gates to students from around the world. It started with Coursera, an online learning platform launched in 2012 in which Penn is a major investor. And now, it has continued with edX, one of the leading providers of massive online open courses, or MOOCs. Over the summer, Penn announced its new partnership with edX, an online course provider which, unlike its biggest competitors Coursera and Udacity, is also a nonprofit. As of April 2015, edX had logged over 4 million users, proving its accessibility worldwide. Penn’s

EDITORIAL collaboration with edX is thus an important step forward in cementing the University’s position at the forefront of educational technology.

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experiences with Penn MOOCs have even inspired them to apply and eventually matriculate to Penn. One student who enjoyed professor Al Filreis’ online poetry

United States in excess of $35,000, edX might be a viable alternative to college for those who may not be able to foot the bill. Since edX is currently available to anyone

We raise our eyebrows to the fact that Penn, a non-profit, is investing in a for-profit education company — a category of organizations that has largely been criticized for preying on students.” the edX catalog will undoubtedly help to raise the school’s global profile, and it’s a decision we strongly support.

With professors like Robert Ghrist and Ezekiel Emanuel teaching classes of hundreds of thousands of students, Penn’s name-brand recognition will only increase in value as the number of students enrolled in online courses grows. In the past, students’

course so much ultimately decided to come to Penn from his native Pakistan.

The ease with which edX can reach students from a variety of regional and economic backgrounds will also allow Penn to provide resources to people who may not otherwise be able to partake in higher education.

With tuition costs rising and average student debt in the

with access to a computer and internet connection, it truly creates a space where knowledge is open to everyone.

The fact that peer institutions such as Harvard, Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have joined forces with edX attest to the merits of becoming involved with the company’s programming. Penn should definitely be a part of this

growing community of universities with online outposts so that it can stay up-to-date with the evolution of this emerging educational medium.

But while we support Penn’s partnership with edX, we are more skeptical of its relationship with (and investment in) Coursera. Although Coursera provides courses online for free, as a for-profit company it has inherently different motives than edX. We raise our eyebrows to the fact that Penn, a nonprofit, is investing in a for-profit education company — a category of organizations that has largely been criticized for preying on students. That’s not to say that Penn should divest from Coursera — by all accounts, Coursera has done more good than harm.

But Penn should be wary of what Coursera will do, as it might act with dual motives.

Though some may argue that developing online courses diverts University resources (namely professors’ time) from students who pay tuition, we feel the benefits largely outweigh the costs, at least for the moment. In developing the courses, Penn professors could develop new technologies and strategies that vastly improve on current in-class methods. In this constantly evolving digital age, the best way to improve teaching in the classroom may be to spend some time outside of it.

In the University’s mission statement, Penn describes itself as “proudly entrepreneurial, dynamically forging new connections and inspiring learning through problem-solving, discoveryoriented approaches.” Partnering with edX surely embodies that ideal.

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t Penn, an often overlooked group of students are the younger population: most skipped a year or more in grade school, many started school early and some came from a different school system in which the coursework was more advanced.

By interviewing these students similar to myself, I was expecting to uncover issues related to mental health and dealing with high expectations. After all, there are plenty of media out there that sensationalize the stories of so-called “geniuses” who enter or even graduate college at a very young age, and equally as much research in the field of psychology done on their uncharacteristic development and learning environments.

College junior Adam* is a transfer who described to me his experience being three years younger than the typical student in the class of 2017. “I don’t talk about my age much with my peers, so often it comes as a surprise to people who would have expected someone younger to be more immature or to be less

TALL, SKINNY, MOCHA | Why younger students don’t always have it better capable … I never lie about [my age], but I do try to avoid discussing it in conversation.”

Engineering freshman Wenting Sun and College freshman Brandon Gonzalez have slightly different perspectives on the topic. Having had positive experiences surrounding conversations about their age, they feel comfortable with being a year younger than most freshmen.

major stage of life, then we are ahead of the game and understand the advantages that come along with it. However, age can be an especially pertinent issue in the college environment where drinking is commonplace and the ability to do so legally is highly anticipated. Both Adam and I, as well as fellow Daily Pennsylvanian staffer and College sophomore Ilana Wurman,

everyone what role they believe their racial identity played in their acceleration.

College senior Michelle*, who identifies as Chinese-American, agreed with my hypothesis that coming from an Asian immigrant background might have meant that she was more likely to have been encouraged to skip a grade. “I think my parents’ motivation for wanting me to

However, age can be an especially pertinent issue in the college environment where drinking is commonplace and the ability to do so legally is highly anticipated.”

Gonzalez did admit some challenges — “In a sense, I feel like a kid sometimes … I’m just beginning to figure out what it means to be an adult and all the responsibilities that come with it.”

It turns out that most students I talked with spoke to the advantages of having “extra” time to figure out what they want to do with their lives, especially as compared to their peers. If college is to be considered a

recognize the role that not turning 21 during college plays in our overall experience.

Though I originally set out to describe the experiences of younger students without regard to their race, I ended up noticing recurring patterns with regard to the racial identities of the students included in this article. Six out of seven (myself included) identify as partially or completely Asian, and so I asked

skip grades when I was younger definitely played into traditionally Chinese values — excelling academically, setting myself up to be a doctor as quickly as possible.” College junior Claudia Dally, who identifies as half black and and half Indian-American, claims that her advancing through school had more to do with her being a first-generation American than her parents’ racial identities.

The rest of the interviewees ended up disagreeing with Michelle, Claudia and me. “I know there’s some stereotype of the overbearing Chinese parent pushing their kid, but I think it was actually my [Caucasian Jewish] dad who was always pushing me to go forward academically,” Wurman said.

Gonzalez, who identifies as Hispanic, and Adam, who identifies as Indian-American, both claim that their racial identities have not played much of a part in the way they feel about their age and education. Finally, Sun’s situation was one of circumstance, in which after moving to the United States from China, her academic preparedness allowed her to skip the sixth grade.

Since I can only speak from my experience, I still believe that immigrant parents are more likely to encourage their children’s academic achievement. However, it is becoming more clear that while parenting styles are as diverse as the meaning of “Asian” itself, it is not uncommon to see a large number of Asian Americans who are ahead of where they are “supposed” to be. The

RAVI JAIN generation status and race of a student are important factors that help explain their experience, but they don’t encompass everything.

Given the increased attention mental health has received in the past few years, it was interesting to see that the issue didn’t surface in any of the interviews.

Looks like the kids are alright. *Individual’s name was changed upon request for privacy.

RAVI JAIN is a College junior from Syosset, NY, studying economics. His email address is jainravi@sas.upenn.edu.

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CREF finds first recipients of research grant

Funds forge stronger bonds between Penn and China CAROLINE SIMON Deputy News Editor

Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price announced on Thursday the first recipients of the Penn China Research and Engagement Fund awards. The announcement coincided with Gutmann’s first visit to the Penn Wharton China Center in Beijing, six months after its opening.

The awards, which were established in March, provide research grants to Penn faculty to encourage engagement in China. CREF plans to award up to $10 million over the next five years.

“Penn’s China Research and Engagement Fund builds on the deep connections between Penn and China forged over

nearly two centuries,” Gutmann said in a press release. “Penn’s engagement in China via research, academic and student exchanges and broad partnerships with Chinese institutions benefits Penn’s campus and community and enhances global understanding and discovery by bringing the world to Penn and Penn to the world.”

The first round of grants total nearly $3.8 million and involve 16 projects from all 12 of Penn’s schools and six centers and institutes. The recipients will work with 35 Chinese institutional partners as well as over 10 organizations worldwide.

“Penn has a historic commitment to the integration of knowledge across disciplines,” Price said in a press release.

“The complexity of global issues requires multidisciplinary solutions, especially for future challenges that are difficult to

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anticipate. These exciting projects demonstrate this breadth

of expertise among our 12 schools, drawing their strength

and innovation from perspectives that span diverse areas of

inquiry.”

Projects focus on a wide range of issues, ranging from “Prenatal Ambient Air Pollution and Fetal and Child Development in South China” to “Improving the Productive and Health Efficiency of the Chinese Dairy Industry,” The award also facilitates visits to China by over 100 students and faculty and encompasses more than just research proposals — there are three projects that focus on student programming in China and two short-term global seminars to be held in China.

The awards are the latest reflection of Penn’s global presence. Nearly 4,000 Penn alumni currently live in China and Hong Kong, with over 10,000 scattered throughout Asia. Penn also has 180 faculty members with 75004 over 275 projects in or relating to China.

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New program adds public policy to coursework across schools Program not offered to students in the College ELLIE SCHROEDER Deputy News Editor

A new interdisciplina r y certificate offered to undergraduates at Penn will allow students from across the schools to integrate public policy into their courses of study.

Pioneered by the Wharton Public Policy Initiative, Penn’s hub for public policy, the Wharton Public Policy Research Scholars program lets students from the Wharton School, the

School of Engineering and Applied Science and the School of Nursing add a public policy certificate to their degree. The first group of 11 scholars are sophomores. Applications opened during the end of last semester, and the only prerequisites for students to apply are two semesters of economics study.

A major hurdle of implementing the certificate program is the fact that it has not yet been approved for students in the College of Arts and Sciences. The program organizers intended from its inception to include students from all four schools, but the School of Arts and Sciences has not yet approved the certificate, Assistant Director of Policy Research & Coordination Matthew Stengel said.

Rogers Smith, a Political Science professor closely involved in the process of approving the certificate for College students, said that during discussions last year, SAS faculty expressed interest in approving the program; however, questions remained as to what the structure and involvement of SAS faculty would be, and the decision was tabled.

“There are further approvals that will be needed but I hope that the questions will get resolved during this fall,” Smith said.

The curriculum for the certificate consists of eight classes.

Students take “Intro to Business Economics and Public Policy,” two semesters of calculus or one semester of calculus and one semester of statistics and one of four courses in the Political Science Department focusing on policy. Then, students chose a policy track to delve into, such as education policy, healthcare policy or energy and environmental policy, in which they

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take three classes. Finally, students participate in a capstone course during the spring semester of their senior years in which they write a policy analysis of a current issue.

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Students are required to complete one public policy internship, for which the program guarantees full funding, and are encouraged to do research related to their field of interest within public policy.

There are already opportunities within Penn’s curriculum for students to study public policy. Wharton offers a business economics and public pol icy concent rat ion, a nd the College offers a thematic concentration in policy and governance as part of the philosophy, politics and economics major, as well as an American public policy minor.

However, the new certificate program is different from these courses of study because it allows students from across majors and undergraduate schools to integrate public policy into their own courses of study, as well as pursue a specific issue more in-depth.

Additionally, the program helps students arrange research opportunities and internships.

“Everything we’re doing, including the classes, are things that students could have pieced together themselves, but we’re giving it direction, administrative support and funding,” Stengel said.

College and Wharton sophomore Emily Zhen heard about the Public Policy Research Scholars program during her summer internship in Washington, D.C. She decided to apply in part because she was inspired by the people she met while at the Department of Treasury.

Zhen will pursue the health or fiscal policy track in the certificate program. “I think with the Affordable Care Act and all of the implementation there’s so much to do career-wise with health policy and public health,” she said.

Nursing sophomore Er in Hartman, the sole nurse in the certificate program currently, applied because although she wants to work in healthcare after she graduates, her academic passions lie in the realms of economics and political science. She was also inspired by her Nursing professor, Julie Sochalski, who worked on writing the Affordable Care Act, to explore a career in policy.

Hartman hopes that if she works in public policy, having a nursing degree will give her a better idea of what hospitals are really like and help her to better understand the realities of the United States healthcare system.

“People write policy, but don’t necessarily see it in action,” she said.

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Students address gender gaps Imbalances leave impacts, but not discouragement TIFFANY YAU Staff Reporter

The Washington Post published an article exposing unequal admissions rates between male and female applicants among private universities. Based on 2014 data from the United States Department of Education, however, it seems that Penn does not have such disparity.

According to the 2014 data, 10 percent of 18,286 male applicants were accepted to Penn, and 11 percent of 17,580 female applicants were admitted to Penn, totaling 1,828 male and 1,933 female accepted students.

While overall admissions statistics may not show a gender gap at Penn, students say individual schools have more distinct imbalances in their student bodies and extracurricular activities.

The School of Nursing, for example, has more female students than male students.

Nursing sophomore Sarah Shin expressed her views on the male to female ratio. “I feel like a lot of the

applicants are female. That influences the aspect of women versus men. Although, a lot of people in Nursing share that common perception that males have a better chance of getting in. You don’t want to have only girls. You want to have a variety of people. It’s pretty different in Nursing because Nursing is so specialized.”

The School of Engineering and Applied Science, at the other end of the gender spectrum, is predominantly male, with 68 percent male students. This is relevant in the classroom as well as in clubs.

Wharton sophomore Laura Gao elaborated about her experience at the Student Activities Council fair while advertising for the Penn Aerospace Club.

“During the SAC fair, [the president of Penn Aerospace Club] noted that no girls approached the table during the first two hours, but once I joined him at the booth during the final hour, 30 percent of the people who approached us were girls,” Gao said. “By having a more equal representation in the club, we not only address the gender gap but also make sure other girls, especially new freshmen, feel comfortable approaching us and being a part of the

teams.”

Gao also finds that this gender disparity is relevant in the Wharton School and its extracurriculars as well.

“It’s not just in Engineering, but also in Wharton Investment Trading Group. That is also very male-dominated and has turned away quite many female friends I have,” Gao said. “They have opted out of Wharton Investment Trading Group and gone to Smart Woman Securities, which is only for girls.”

President of Smart Woman Securities, Wharton senior Samina Hydery explained that SWS connects women with speakers, building an influential community and encouraging them to enter fields that tend to be male-dominated.

“Given my interactions with upperclassmen through Penn SWS, it’s clear we have exceptional and intelligent young women here at Penn.

We have made positive strides in closing the gender disparity in the classroom at Wharton,” Hydery said. “I would love to keep this momentum moving forward by seeing more women rise to leadership positions in Wharton organizations and subsequently executive roles in finance and business.”

In the College of Arts and Sciences, on the other hand, students don’t notice any such gender gap.

“I don’t feel any gender discrimination at Penn,” College sophomore Michelle Yom said. “Like the diversity of race at Penn, there seems to be an established balance of genders in the student population.”

While students may perceive gender imbalances in particular schools at Penn, they gave words of wisdom, with hopes to inspire young female applicants to push the limits.

“There is always that stigma that can perpetuate who applies to the school, but it comes down to the basic skills you learn [in Nursing] and how you apply those in the field,” Shin said.

Regardless of the demographic breakdown of groups such as Penn Aerospace Club, Gao encourages women to set the benchmark.

“Don’t look too much into who is in the club, but once you put your foot in there, and make sure that you’re determined to keep your foot in there, that sets a precedent for all other girls who will be coming in the next few years,” Gao said. “They will look up to you, and they will feel much more comfortable.”

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accepting of fast food restaurants at her school.

“People from Temple were happy we got a Burger King. There’s a lot of crappy Chinese places that have walk-up windows, McDonalds, Wendy’s … because they are cheap,” she said.

Atterbury’s older sister went to Penn, so she is familiar with both college campuses.

“Penn is different because of its socioeconomic status,” Atterbury said. “University City is like its own hub. You have Drexel and Penn on the same campus, and a lot of

professors living in University City, as well as a large crowd from HUP.” Atterbury believes this is a result of the type of people that both areas of Philadelphia attract. She assumes that University City brings a higher economic bracket than Temple’s campus, especially since the surrounding areas are filled with hospitals and their staff.

Other Ivy League schools boast similar restaurants to Penn’s, possibly due to similar socioeconomic reasons. Harvard University has a few sushi bars, and even a place called Harvest. But they have more than a few burger places as well, including Danny Meyer’s Shake Shack.

So-called Ivy League prestige might play less of a role in the healthy food industry’s choice to develop at Penn than its metropolitan location. For example, George Washington University’s main housing in Washington, D.C. is two streets away from a Whole Foods and a Sweetgreen, which was started in the city. Cambridge is home to two of the country’s top universities, but is also the fifth most populous city in Massachusetts. Stanford, located in Silicon Valley, was voted peta2’s favorite vegan-friendly college in its 2015 bracket (Penn was knocked out the second round).

Lakshmi Sivaguru is a 2013 College graduate; she explained how the

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“Healthy options were pretty limited my freshman year,” Sivaguru said. She said the main healthy food restaurants were Hummus and Gia Pronto; Magic Carpet “had a cult following before I was a freshman.”

SweetGreen opened Sivaguru’s junior year, and their salads became very popular after that, taking over the role of Gia Pronto.

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Penn runners in the top ten.

The men’s team put up a score of 44 in the 6K, locking up second place behind Saint Joseph’s (37). The Quakers’ average time of 19:18 was two seconds slower than that of the Hawks, although the Red and Blue rested several key runners, including star senior Thomas Awad.

Sophomore Patrick Hally finished eighth with a time of 19:14.9, just before seniors Clark Shurtleff and Keaton Naff crossed the finish line

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classmate Cleo Whiting finished the race. Cleo’s twin, Clarissa, arrived two-tenths of a second later, just an eyelash ahead of sophomore Abby Hong, who clocked in at 14:15.7. In four-tenths of a second, the Quakers had claimed four of the top five finishes in the race.

Senior Amy Darlington also posted a time of 14:32.2 to finish ninth and put five

simultaneously at 19:15.1.

Junior Christopher Halter then clocked in at 19:18.1 for an 11th-place finish.

Between the men’s and women’s teams, Penn had four strings of four consecutive runners and three pairs of runners finish with the exact same time as a teammate.

The Quakers are no strangers to success at the Big 5 Invitational. In 2014, both the men and women captured first place at the event.

However, for coach Steve

Dolan’s runners, success — or lack thereof — will be measured at season’s end by their performance at Heps. The men will be looking to build on last year’s third-place finish, while the women will look to rebound and make a statement after 2014 saw them finish eighth in the Ancient Eight.

The long road to Heps will resume on Friday, when the Red and Blue make the short trip to Haverford to compete in the Mainline Invitational.

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track Heptagonals — that’s a far cry from last.

However, even if his squad did not show marked improvement during the track season, Dolan would still have plenty of means to justify his athletes’ last-place cross country finish.

Throughout his tenure at Penn, Dolan has had a chronic dearth of production from his upperclassmen on the women’s side, including his seniors in particular. In last year’s cross country Heptagonals, for example, Penn did not feature a single senior amongst the team’s top seven finishers, of whom only two were juniors.

In a collegiate sport that can be as reliant on leadership from upperclassmen as any other, a lack of experienced talent can be a disaster, and it has severely limited the progress of Dolan’s women’s squad in the past.

However, the tides appear to be turning.

Finally, most of Dolan’s first true Penn recruits, including the Whiting twins and Ashley Montgomery, are finally making the transition into their junior year. And runners like Elyssa Gensib and Amy Darlington, who have shown consistent improvement throughout the past three years, are now ready to provide senior leadership for a group of runners in dire need of it. “As the new runners come in, [the upperclassmen] are almost like coaches in terms of helping

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A quartet of Quakers crossed the finish line in rapid succession, as juniors Ashley Montgomery, Cleo and Clarissa Whiting, as well as sophomore Abby Hong all crossed the finish line in the span of four-tenths of a second to give Penn four runners in the top five.

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incredibly, he has one year in Red and Blue remaining — it still remains to be seen just how far the senior star can push his success.

But last season, the Quakers proved they were much more than just a one-man show. After years of threatening to contend with the top teams in the Ancient Eight, they came up with a breakthrough third-place finish at Heptagonals, edging out Dartmouth and falling to only Princeton and Cornell in the league championship meet.

Of course, Awad led the way for his squad, posting an incredible time of 24:24 in the 8K race to pace the field, but he was by no means the sole reason for the Quakers’ success. After all, in 2013, Awad finished third, yet his team was only able to muster a somewhat forgettable sixthplace overall finish.

The true difference between those two years came from the runners occupying supporting, as opposed to leading roles: Penn’s second through fifth runners.

In 2013, none of Penn’s supporting performers were able to break into the league’s top-30 finishers. By contrast, three of Penn’s top five runners finished in the Ancient Eight’s top 30 in 2014, with all five finishing within the top 26. And this extra support made all the difference for the team’s overall performance.

Moving forward, the Quakers return Awad and, beyond that, much of the rest of the squad remains the same. Out of their top

them find their way,� Dolan noted.

Add in the usual cast of underclassmen talent — led by sophomores Abby Hong and Kylene Cochrane — that the program is already used to, and it would appear that the Red and Blue finally have the right ingredients for a run at success in the Ivy League.

With a fully-healthy squad in tow — including Cleo Whiting, who was plagued by injury throughout the latter stages of 2014 — the Quakers hinted at this kind of ability over the weekend at the season-opening Big 5 Invitational, in which they blitzed the competition, taking four of the top five positions.

However, this is still largely the same squad as last year’s that finished last in the Ivies, and this is still the same program that has failed to break into the top five of the Ancient Eight since 2007. As such, Dolan is quick to temper expectations of what it may be able to achieve. “The reality is ‌ we’re a little bit stronger [in] middle-distance,â€? he said. “There’s some work for us to develop to be as strong as we need to be in cross country for 6,000 meters.â€?

So is it reasonable to expect the women’s squad to break out into the top level of the Ivy League, much like the men’s team did last year? Probably not.

But that’s a bit beside the point. For the first time in the Dolan era of Penn women’s cross country, the team is all grown up. Now it’s time to see if the results follow.

seven finishers in 2014, they lost only one — senior Conner Paez to graduation.

Granted, this loss will certainly hurt, especially given Paez’s incredible finish to his senior campaign, in which he came in second for the team at Heps and earned All-Region honors. However, while it may be naive to expect his talents to be fully replaced, the Quakers have several young runners, like sophomore Ross Wilson, waiting in the wings to help fill in the hole left by Paez’s departure.

But while the Quakers’ fleet of returning contributors should help to inspire confidence, it ultimately isn’t the biggest reason for optimism surrounding the team’s 2015 campaign. Rather, it is all of the room that the Quakers have left themselves to improve.

Juniors Brendan Shearn and Nicholas Tuck, for instance, have both shown glimmers of brilliance in their first two years in the Red and Blue. At last season’s Heps, they finished 26th and 33rd in the league, respectively.

And yet, neither has shown any sign of reaching their ceilings as collegiate runners. Both will look to break in amongst the top runners in the Ivies as they become upperclassmen.

Similarly, senior Brendan Smith showed impressive consistency throughout his junior campaign and could reasonably finish off his career with a surge similar to that of his former teammate, Paez.

Ultimately, these will be the athletes who will determine the team’s results in 2015 — not Awad, who will likely be running away from the pack as always.

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RED AND BLUE SEASON OPENER

Penn men’s and women’s cross country opened up their respective seasons at Belmont Plateau in the Big 5 Invitational. Both teams found success, with the women taking first and the men taking second overall.

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Last year, Penn women’s cross country finished last in the Ivy League.

This is an indisputable fact. In their year-end Heptagonal meet, the de facto Ivy championship competition, the Red and Blue failed to finish higher than eighth in the Ancient Eight. And while any single meet result should be taken with a grain of salt, this sort of result is the elephant proverbial in the room.

But to hear coach Steve Dolan talk about it, one gets the impression that, with this season’s squad, there’s no elephant in sight.

“There were a lot of good things that happened to us last season,” he said. “Track and field was actually very good for our middle-distance and distance runners, so we’re looking at that [instead of cross country] as the last season.”

Last year’s track and field results largely back up Dolan’s position. The Quakers’ women’s middle-distance squad, and their 4x800-meter team in particular, impressed on a consistent basis throughout the spring, helping Penn achieve a fifth-place finish in SEE GROWN UP PAGE 8

Penn seeks more support behind star runner Awad’s supporting cast should prove important

Women win 4K, men finish second in 6K

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Over the past few years, Penn men’s cross country has largely been a showcase for one of the top runners in the nation: Thomas Awad. And what a showcase it has been.

As a sophomore, Awad broke four minutes in the mile at the Penn Relays. Last year, he stepped up even further, winning multiple Heptagonal titles, including the all-important Ivy cross country championship. He is an All-American and a national power. And,

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Junior Brendan Shearn, who finished 26th at last year’s Heps, is one of several Penn runners who will need to step up SEE STEPPING UP PAGE 8 behind star senior Thomas Awad.

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Opener brings strange endings for Quakers

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Penn’s cross country opener featured some strong times and some shocking timing.

In their first competitive action of the season, the Quakers went up against Saint Joseph’s, La Salle, Villanova and Temple in the Big 5 Invitational, held at Belmont Plateau in Philadelphia.

The women’s team emerged victorious in the 4K, winning by a fairly wide margin. The Red and Blue posted an average

time of 14:19 and a score of 23, a “cross country mile” ahead of second-place Villanova, who finished in 14:38 with 60 points.

Penn had the second, third, fourth and fifth finishers at the meet. But while it was clear that the Quakers’ women were the best team on the course, it was nearly impossible to discern which Red and Blue-clad runners finished in which spot — and not just because two of them are identical twins.

Junior Ashley Montgomery crossed the line at 14:15.3 to earn second place a mere tenth of a second before her SEE BIG 5 RECAP PAGE 8

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