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A year after the AAU sexual violence survey was released, a look at the changes Penn has made Ally Johnson | Staff Reporter

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xactly one year has passed since the release of the results of the Association of American Universities’ Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct.

When the results came out, Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price called them “deeply troubling,” in an email sent to students.

The survey was sponsored by the Association of American Universities, which was chaired by Gutmann at the time. Twenty-eight universities, including Penn and every other Ivy except Princeton University, participated in the survey.

The AAU survey found that only 10.7 percent of respondents knew Penn’s definition of sexual assault, and only 12.6

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percent knew where to make a report of sexual violence.

27 percent of Penn undergraduate women reported nonconsensual penetration or sexual touching since entering college. Of the seven Ivies that participated, only Yale University and Dartmouth College had higher rates of nonconsensual penetration or sexual touching.

Still, only 14.1 percent of Penn students believed that sexual assault is a problem on campus, compared to a national rate of 20.2 percent and even higher rates at the other Ivy League schools.

Penn Association for Gender Equity Chair and College and Wharton senior Megan Yan said that there were two main

lessons from the AAU survey: Many students who were affected by sexual assault did not go to resource centers or report their assaults, and several minority groups — including women of color and LGBTQ students — were disproportionately affected.

“What really hurt about that, is that I don’t think that statistic really surprised people,” said Yan, a former Business Manager of The Daily Pennsylvanian. “I think that statistic brought to light what we already knew and just mobilized and catalyzed the discussion about it,” she said.

Yan praised the work of the administration, especially the Penn Violence Prevention office, but emphasized the need for greater efforts to publicize

resources available through the school and through student groups like PAGE. She also believes students need to have difficult conversations about sexual assault on campus, instead of becoming jaded and accepting these problems as inevitable.

“I think we’re going to see change happen,” Yan added. “It’s always gradual, it’s always slowly, there always has to be a lot of education and conversation that goes into it first. But programs like PAVE [Penn Anti-Violence Educators], groups like ASAP [Abuse and Sexual Assault Prevention] and MARS [Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault], have done a lot to try and work on that as well.”

In the year that’s passed since the

survey results came out, the administration has taken several steps to address the issue of sexual violence. Here’s a look at their main efforts.

Getting student feedback After the survey results were released on Sept. 21, 2015, Gutmann and Price promised to arrange meetings with student leaders across campus to discuss how best to tackle the problem.

The administration did follow through on that promise. In addition to communicating with student groups and campus leaders, a public discussion about the survey’s findings was held in November 2015.

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Professor literally writes the book on student protests

What to do when bad grades could impact the job search

Jonathan Zimmermann published “Campus Politics” on Sept. 7

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Most college professors have a passing familiarity with the protests that so frequently adorn their campus, but Graduate School of Education professor Jonathan Zimmerman has been studying the demonstrations across history.

Published on Sept. 7, his book, “Campus Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know,” puts student protests, both current and former, in their political and social context.

Zimmerman said that there are similarities between today’s protests and the ones immortalized as part of the Civil Rights Movement and antiwar period, but noted there are different idioms and sets of demands to the protests.

Recent protests use concepts like trigger warnings, safe spaces and microaggressions, all of which are rooted in racist or sexist remarks that affect the individual psyche.

“How can you argue with someone who feels pained or traumatized?” Zimmerman asked.

A relatively new relationship has also developed between student protesters and the administration when handling social justice issues on campus. In late 2015, administrators largely avoided challenging the protesters,

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Career Services has some advice for students who are worried that poor grades or a lack of extracurricular activities have killed their chances at getting a job: keep calm and carry on.

The office sponsors a workshop, held several times a year, called “Damage Control: Handling Tough Issues to Discuss in Interviews.” It covers how to

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manage and frame issues that may worry students, like poor grades, lack of relevant work history or extended time away from school.

“We often have students that come and talk to us individually, in the privacy of our office, about things that they’re worried [will] come up in the interview that they think only they have,” said Barbara Hewitt, Senior Associate Director at Career Services and one of the main advisors for students in the Wharton School.

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Hamilton Court to undergo major renovations The building at 39th and Chestnut will get upgraded CHARLOTTE LARACY Deputy News Editor

Residents of Hamilton Court are about to see an upgrade in amenities, but it may come at the cost of the old building’s history.

In late August, real estate development company Post Brothers Apartments revealed its plans to renovate Hamilton Court, an apartment complex on 39th and Chestnut streets.

The developers said the bottom floor of this building will be neighborhood retail and the second story will be a gym for residents. The retail businesses plan to be operating within a year, and the new courtyard will be completed in two years.

Post Brothers intends to spend

around $250 million on developing Hamilton Court and six other properties, including Garden Court Plaza and 4400 Walnut Apartments, Philadelphia Magazine reported.

Hamilton Court was built in 1901 as a grand apartment building with a U-shaped design to emphasize the inner courtyard, which contained gardens and a fountain. The apartment was built for Penn students when there was a market for luxury housing for students, according to School of Design professor Aaron Wunsch.

“This is not unique to Philadelphia. Areas around many of the Ivy League [universities], you would get these neighborhoods of high-end apartment buildings,” he said. “For example, in Cambridge, Massachusetts where I grew up, people would often refer to it as the ‘gold coast.’ To the extent that there was a West Philadelphia gold coast, you can believe

that Hamilton Court was one of its crown jewels.”

Hamilton Court is named after William Hamilton, whose Woodlands estate once covered 300 acres, virtually all of University City.

The once-luxury housing complex still accommodates Penn students. According to Naked Philly, however, some of the commercial spaces in the complex have not been used in years.

Civic associations across Philadelphia are trying to preserve historic architecture while simultaneously trying to modernize the buildings. But according to Urban Studies professor Elaine Simon, these groups have lost some of their influence due to the new zoning code, which encourages higher density buildings to accommodate the city’s growing population.

“Developers have a lot more discretion and the ability for

community members has been cut,” Simon said. “You have to show a lot of interest and backing in the community to get something through.

Before this new zoning code was adopted, there were more ways in which the historic fabric of the city was protected without as much community intervention.”

Wunsch said the new zoning code is definitely making a big difference in the world of historic preservation, along with the tax abatement, which gives newly constructed buildings a 10-year break on property taxes.

“The zoning code along with the tax abatement has led developers rushing in, literally doing everything they can to get ahold of property,” Wunsch said.

In order to protect historical buildings, organizations like the University City Historical Society have been trying to include them on the Philadelphia Register of Historic

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Hamilton Court’s renovations plan to include retail on the bottom floor and an updated gym on the second floor.

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he said, even as schools faced campus uproars over racial issues.

Students at Yale University protested an email that was sent by an administrator stating that Halloween costumes that some view as cultural appropriation were protected under free speech, while students at Princeton University staged a 32-hour protest and sit-in calling for the University to revisit how it treats President Woodrow Wilson’s legacy.

“Students typically demand more layers of administration, which they invest with ever greater powers of bureaucratic control,” Zimmerman wrote.

However, these administrative policies haven’t been shown to increase diversity and inclusion, Zimmerman said. In his book, he wrote that “it’s time for students to step up and start leveraging their own power instead of investing yet more of it in university administrations.”

In his book, Zimmerman gives multiple examples of what this could look like: If a fraternity holds a racist party, instead of demanding the college president kick the fraternity off-campus, students should boycott and protest every event at the fraternity. If students dislike something in the school newspaper, they shouldn’t steal papers or ask the university to cut funding, but just produce journals and

Expanding Thrive at Penn Soon after the results were released, the Thrive at Penn preorientation module was made available to all undergraduates.

The module covers four topics, one of which is healthy relationships and sexual violence prevention.

Earlier this semester, completion of the module was mandated for all upperclassmen as a requirement to register for spring 2017 classes. The decision was intended to ensure all students are familiar with the resources available to them at Penn, according to Executive Director for Education and Academic Planning Rob Nelson.

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Graduate School of Education professor Jonathan Zimmerman analyzed today’s climate of campus protesting in his new book.

blogs and circulate them on and off campus as alternatives.

In the end of the book, Zimmerman noted the importance of maintaining free speech on college campuses, where a growing number of students and professors say they “self-censor for fear of repercussions” while also understanding the needs of minority students, who have

often been neglected and dismissed.

Zimmerman quoted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from her graduation speech from Wellesley College. She said campus politics are a great adventure: “And we are, all of us, exploring a world that none of us really understands.”

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Revising student surveys The University also revised regular institutional surveys to include questions about sexual assault, starting with the senior survey for the Class of 2016.

Immediately before that senior survey was released, Nelson told The Daily Pennsylvanian that these new questions would be especially geared toward gauging knowledge about resources for victims and measuring perceptions of sexual assault on campus.

Widening available resources The Penn Violence Prevention office — a program housed in the Division of the Vice Provost of University Life and supported by the Penn Women’s Center

Places. If on the local register, the prospective developers would have to testify before the Philadelphia Historical Commission.

Hamilton Court is on the National Register of Historic Places, which incentivizes developers by giving them substantial tax credits if

they renovate the historic buildings based off of Secretary of the Interior’s standards.

But the Post Brothers’ renovation plans, which looks like a “combination of a spaceship and the Louvre,” will not get any tax credits, Wunsch said.

— tripled in staff, welcoming Associate Director Malik Washington and Program Coordinator Katie Chockley. They joined Director Jessica Mertz, who has been working on violence prevention at Penn since 2009.

Following the release of the AAU results, Penn Violence Prevention set up three working teams of administrative staff to examine the role of sexual violence prevention among LGBTQ students, among graduate and professional students and with regard to men and masculinity.

These teams resulted in a number of policy changes: Creating a version of the Thrive at Penn module specifically for graduate and professional students, expanding Penn AntiViolence Educators (PAVE) to include graduate students and prioritizing outreach to LGBTQ and international students, as well as athletes.

sexual violence funding has enabled the expansion of program support, including the expansion of the PVP office and an increase in program outreach funding.

“The President and Provost worked with us in VPUL very closely to make important investments in sexual violence education, programming and survivor support since the AAU report was issued, and the growth, and reach, in the important work of student peer educators has also been phenomenal,” she wrote.

Doubling down on current projects PAVE has doubled its number of undergraduate educators.

Since the beginning of this semester, PAVE has held three workshops, including one for the football team, and has committed to giving violence prevention workshops to all varsity sports teams at Penn.

Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum emphasized in a written statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian that the University’s “very substantial increase” in VPUL

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Amending policies Penn also made two changes to the Sexual Violence, Relationship Violence and Stalking Policy during the summer.

These policy changes clarified the reporting process for members of the Penn community who experience interpersonal violence and clarified the difference between confidential and responsible resources.

Confidential resources include the African-American Resource Center, Counseling and Psychological Services, the LGBT Center, the Office of the Chaplain, the Office of the Ombudsman, the Office of Sexual Violence Prevention and Education, the Women’s Center, the Special Services Center and Student Health Services and information shared with confidential resources will generally remain private unless the person sharing the information gives their consent to its disclosure.

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PRESIDENT AMY GUTMANN CUTS RIBBON AT PERRY WORLD HOUSE

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Penn’s $17.8 million investment came to fruition Tuesday with the grand opening of the Perry World House, which included high profile speakers and garnered student praise.

The event began with a keynote address delivered by former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay.

The South African jurist lauded the new center for its mission of gathering experts from both government and academia to confront the most pressing of geopolitical problems. Recounting her experience as an anti-apartheid activist,

she explained how global academic cooperation, like that fostered by the Perry World House, effects meaningful social progress.

“We owe [the fall of apartheid] to international focus and activism,” Judge Pillay said, giving particular credit to the activism on college campuses.

Pillay’s speech also decried what she saw as the “failure” of the international community to confront human rights travesties. Pointing to the crimes of the Islamic State, the corresponding refugee crisis and the plight of developing states such as South Sudan, she called for greater respect for international law.

“There is a great deal of work for the Perry World House to do,” the career-activist said.

Following Judge Pillay’s

keynote, the new center’s namesakes, 1977 Wharton graduate Richard C. Perry and his wife Lisa Perry, joined Penn President Amy Gutmann for a traditional ribboncutting ceremony.

“You guys are really unbelievable,” Richard Perry said, expressing his gratitude for his wife, Gutmann and the Penn student body.

Later, the opening celebration continued at the Annenberg Center for Performing Arts with former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

During his conversation with Gutmann, the seasoned statesman told of his personal experiences serving under five different presidents.

“Lyndon Johnson had the biggest ego,” Gates recalled. He also remembered Richard Nixon as “the strangest,” Ronald Reagan as “the

most visionary” and Jimmy Carter as the president whom he once told “to zip up his pants” before an important speech.

On a more serious note, Gates discussed an array of current geopolitical topics. These ranged from the sectarian conflicts in the Middle East, to intensifying Russian aggression, to the rise of far-right governments in Europe.

He also called for the United States’ global economic engagement, and he endorsed the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Complementing his policy input, Gates shared advice for Penn students interested in government. He told them not to be put off by today’s hostile political atmosphere, and instead urged them towards local and national public service.

“Take risks, follow your

passions,” Gates said, noting the opportunities institutions like the Perry World House offer.

A panel of experts also explored the geopolitical issues central to the Perry World House’s mission.

The panel consisted of five policy experts, including former Utah Governor and United States ambassador to Singapore, 1987 College graduate Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. Together, the group deliberated and debated what foreign policy the United States should adopt in the immediate future. Among the more notable suggestions were directing more economic aid to Ukraine, organizing a much stronger sanction regime against North Korea and augmenting military presence in Syria.

Penn students attending the day’s opening ceremonies said they

looked forward to similar Perry World House events in the future.

College senior and President of the Social Planning and Events Committee Spencer Winson said, “In the past SPEC’s brought speakers like Serena Williams and Caitlyn Jenner [to Penn]. So I’m very interested in seeing where the Perry World House will go, and what other speakers it will bring to campus.”

International students present were also particularly excited. Engineering freshman Eduardo Ortuno, who is from Mexico, praised the new center at the ribbon cutting ceremony as a symbol for global engagement.

“I was proud to represent my country [at the ceremony] today, because I love what the Perry World House represents,” he said.

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OPINION If God is love, what is homosexuality?

CHANCES ARE | My struggle with religion, morality and identity

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I believe in God. I’m almost hesitant to start with that because I know many people will write me off immediately. Here’s another article about religion; here’s another crazy fanatic raving intolerance and ignorance.

Please. Just hear me out.

Last week, a preacher was protesting gays in the most hateful and aggressive way right in the center of our campus. He was wearing a sign that said, “You deserve hell,” and screaming it at the LGBT students rallying right across from him. I was horrified and ashamed. As if we Christians, we religious people in general, didn’t already have enough of a bad reputation.

The biblical rules against homosexuality have always been one of the core problems I have had with my faith. I have never been able to reconcile a God who could hate love with a God who is supposed to be the incarnation of love. The Bible says that man should not lay with man; it’s sup-

posed to be Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. But I could never understand why. How could God call it sin for two people to love each other, who never hurt anyone, who couldn’t help it? Some Christians say it’s a choice to be gay. Maybe some people choose, but I’m heterosexual and attracted to men, and I never chose that.

I don’t buy that argument.

Other Christian friends tell me that gays are sinning, but their sin is no more wrong than lying or cheating or being selfish, which we all do. My friends say we have to love them anyway, just as we love other sinners, just as we still love ourselves. I hate this position the most.

It’s condescending. Why, I ask over and over. Why is it a sin to love someone? Because they weren’t the right gender to love? Then we have to excuse them, as if we are being God. I’ll say it again: I could never believe in a God who condemns innocent people.

The Bible says lots of crazy

things — I’ll be the first to admit that. The Old Testament allowed slavery, the Old Testament sanctioned stoning as punishment, yet I don’t see anyone trying to hold on to these laws. “You can’t pick and choose what to believe in the Bible!”

I can never reconcile with my faith. I will never understand why good people go to hell, why God allows suffering in the world, why people who follow Him can still find acres of misery and trouble. I still believe in Him anyway. As much

The biblical rules against homosexuality have always been one of the core problems I have had with my faith.”

friends tell me. I partially agree, but if we ignore some laws, why is this the one people try to hold on to? If the Bible describes a God who denounces people just for being, then I can’t believe in that kind of God. I don’t want to.

There are lots of things

as intellectuals try to make religion about reason and logic, faith — at some point — boils down to emotion and intuition.

If I’m being honest, I believe in God because at the times when I struggled, when I was loneliest, when I felt weakest, when I felt as

if I couldn’t stand to see the next day, a belief in some higher power was the only thing that gave me strength.

I believe in God because when I see the intricacy of the world, the way fates and lives can intertwine, I believe that none of it could have happened by chance.

I won’t try to justify contradictions, like many Christians try to do, because they are inexplicable. All our religious answers are just sophistry. I won’t tie up my argument with a nice little conclusion like the Bible is all metaphoric and dependent on context, so God is actually tolerant. The ambiguity of faith is intentional and necessary, just as ambiguity is necessary in any relationship. Why do I love this person, even though sometimes they disappoint me? Because at the end of the day, we’ve built trust and a bond that forms our very foundation, even if we don’t completely agree on everything. I can’t be rid of it.

I don’t believe that God

AMY CHAN finds homosexuality to be a sin. I know many Christians will scream at me for saying that, but I don’t care. It’s what I believe, and faith is not always about strict adherence to a set of laws. We Christians aren’t all like the town crier proclaiming hellfire on everyone. Some of us struggle with your same doubts about our faith. We don’t all follow blindly.

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This past Saturday, just before the start of Penn’s first home varsity football game, two members of the Penn cheerleading squad “[made] a statement,” according to a photo tweeted out by Penn Athletics. One took a knee and one raised her fist during the national anthem.

In doing so, they chose to follow the growing trend of athletes sitting out or otherwise declining to participate in the patriotic rituals which traditionally precede sporting events. That gesture, of course, began with San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who sat out a national anthem during NFL preseason.

Of course, no one who protests in this way ought to face retribution for exercising their rights. That doesn’t, however, immunize them from criticism, and it is to criticize I intend.

“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick said in explanation of his actions.

I will assume, for purposes

of examination, that those who have followed his lead, including at Penn, share the same motivation.

Though I am also deeply concerned with the treatment of black people nationwide, I don’t think Kaepernick’s implication that demonstrations of patriotism constitute indifference to or endorsement of those injustices holds water.

There’s much to protest about American society as it stands in 2016. But the choice to protest these phenomena by refusing to engage in patriotic display or by disparaging patriotic symbols, still leaves something to be desired. For one thing, it leaves room for its audience to mistake the intended message for either a specific denunciation of the United States government or for a condemnation of American ideals and values, because similar disrespect of national symbols — such as flag burnings — are often used to convey these messages.

More significantly though, this form of protest necessarily insists that what

patriotic symbols represent — America, the nation — is essentially defined by its sordid reality, rather than its lofty aims.

That’s understandable.

There are lots of things in the world which we define

needn’t necessarily rewrite a nation’s “recipe” to make it more like what its label says it ought to be.

Moreover, a nation, unlike a society, is not defined fully by its realities. As any political scientist will tell you,

... I believe it’s fully possible to respect and revere the idea of the American nation and its symbols without signifying approval of its current reality.” by the actual results they achieve rather than by the goals they aim at. If you bought candy designed to taste like strawberries that in reality tasted like disinfectant, you’d correctly write it off as bad candy, and not revere, respect or praise it.

But human institutions are not like consumer products.

Their realities are not fully determined by their constitutive processes and so are not static and fixed. One

nation is an idea, a cultural myth of a people who share a land, a heritage and a set of values.

As such, I believe it’s fully possible to respect and revere the idea of the American nation and its symbols without signifying approval of its current reality. It is the idea of America, made up of those essential American ideals and values articulated in our founding documents which our symbols, rightly

understood, represent not the imperfect present or the shameful past in which those ideals are and have been sadly unrealized.

Recognition of this allows one to avoid the nihilism which insists that the present failure to actually achieve our goals indicates the essential corruption of the goals themselves and to embrace the truly patriotic notion of ongoing struggle towards an ever more perfect union. It allows one to embrace patriotism itself as the most powerful form of protest against ongoing transgressions of the ideal of representative democracy guaranteeing equal treatment under law.

It was this very embrace of patriotism as protest which made this year’s Democratic National Convention so powerful and unique. In particular, the speech given by Khizr Khan, who, in protest, literally elevated the most concrete symbol of American ideals to denounce their violation. Khan certainly has as much reason as Kaepernick to be dissatisfied with the present reality of Ameri-

ALEC WARD ca. It has taken his son’s life in a failed and frivolous war and threatens to elect a man who denies Khan’s ability to be an American based on his faith. And yet, Khan chose not to denigrate America’s ideals, but to hold them up and challenge us all to realize them more fully. By Kaepernick’s logic, he should have thrown the document down and tread upon it. My respect for him is very much heightened because he did not.

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

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Twenty-five students will get to make their mark on the Perry World House as undergraduate fellows.

Administrators from the Perry World House have announced the list of undergraduate students who will participate in a special program that focuses on connecting academic thought and policy implementation in the world of international affairs.

“The World House student fellows program is a focused

extra-curricular program for students who are interested in having a more in-depth experience in global affairs,” said Michael Horowitz, Political Science professor and associate director of Perry World House.

The group was selected after completing applications last spring.

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Fernando Rojo walks in nobody else’s footsteps, nor their shoes for that matter.

The would-be College junior is taking a semester off to work full-time on the launch of his shoe company, PATOS Shoes, a brand that offers high quality footwear with a positive social impact.

The design of the shoe combines a modern, minimalist sneaker with authentic Latin American textiles. It is currently offered in canvas and leather.

Each pair is made by hand in a small factory in Peru, and each purchase ensures a skilled team of local artisans can continue their centuries-old trade.

Rojo was first inspired to start PATOS while visiting family in Argentina. He noticed the vibrant, well-made shoes in local markets

and recognized their potential in the American fashion industry.

“There’s no reason that an impoverished area with a good product should be left out of the game,” Rojo said. With this in mind, he sought to introduce the footwear to a new market.

PATOS Shoes is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, an online platform where creative projects receive financial support from a global community. The company hoped to reach $10,000 within its first day; it hit $11,000 within the first six hours.

PATOS has raised over $21,000 and is on its way toward reaching its goal of $45,000 by Oct. 14. The brand has also received grants from the Penn Wharton Innovation Fund and the PennApps Accelerator, two student-run organizations.

The up-and-coming shoe brand has been featured in CNBC and Philadelphia Magazine and is “one of 2016’s coolest college startups,” according to Inc.

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Wharton sophomore DJ Corbett, who is part of the brand development team, is more than pleased with the current state of PATOS. “I’m in love with the product and our story and our mission,” Corbett said. “And seeing the fact that other people are also falling in love with that and want to support it is amazing.”

PATOS’ recent success may come as no surprise to those who know Rojo well. The ambitious 20-year-old started his entrepreneurial ventures at age eight, when the Ann Arbor native turned his yard into a parking lot during University of Michigan football games.

Rojo saw Kickstarter as the right platform to launch his business because it would push him to fully invest while still allowing him to retain creative freedom.

“It’s better to just jump right in and not spend 90 percent of your time on a business plan you’re not trying to follow,” Rojo said.

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“We decided to do [a] workshop so that we could address some of these issues a little more publicly, so students could realize that they’re not the only ones that might have a specific worry.”

Hewitt said grades are the most common concern among students, but that concern is often unfounded.

“I think sometimes students have unrealistic ideas of what their competition [is],” she said. “I have students who sometimes come in and talk about how their grades aren’t good enough and they couldn’t possibly be competitive for a consulting company ... and I’ve learned to say, well, what is your GPA? Because what they think is a bad GPA and what I think is a bad GPA are usually not the same.”

Hewitt and Senior Associate Director Claire Klieger, who works with students in the College of Arts and Sciences, said they often have to reassure students that what they see as a problem might barely register at all to a recruiter.

like episodic depression or chronic illness may be more difficult to explain, they advised.

“That might not be something that you want to disclose fully, so you need to approach that on a case-by-case basis,” Klieger said. “Maybe there are pieces of that story ... that you can share without having to share the whole thing.”

Appointments with Career Services are strictly confidential and will not be shared with employers. Although discussion at the workshops is infrequent with students reluctant to share details in public, Hewitt and Klieger hope that the workshops can help students realize that their problems are not as insurmountable as they may seem.

“Nine times out of 10, a student will come in and say, there’s this really important thing, I’m so embarrassed, no one’s going to want to hire me because of this thing,” Klieger said. “When you’re carrying this around inside you, and you’re worried that it’s going to get out in the world and people are going to discover the skeleton in your closet, it can be a lot — but it’s usually not nearly as bad

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If an employer does ask a student to explain any gaps or problems in his or her resume, Hewitt and Klieger advise not to get defensive; accept responsibility and move on.

While the content of the workshop has mostly stayed the same through its 10-yearplus history, recent years have placed a greater emphasis on maintaining a professional social media profile. Career Services also added a section on dealing with disciplinary infractions or criminal records after several students expressed concerns about previous arrests.

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Philadelphia and South Jersey area. Consequently, many of teammates first met as high school rivals. “I knew [junior] Zack [DiGregorio] before we got here,� said senior Pat Boyle, who played with the fellow Trenton-area native in a high school all-star game. “I played against [sophomore linebacker] Sam Smallzman ... and [senior defensive back] Chris Colavita and I scrimmaged against each other.�

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Much like the size of the players, the sphere of recruitment is much smaller for Penn sprint football than with many other sports.

Since the team largely eschews the nationwide recruiting effort of many other Penn teams, most players hail from the metropolitan

you’ll hear similar stories from the majority of the team. “[2016 graduate] Jeff Barsamian and Zack DiGregorio were both captains for my high school,� added sophomore linebacker Sam Smallzman, a Princeton High School graduate. “I looked up to them as an underclassman in high school and actually found out about sprint football program through them.�

This represents a common theme. Since sprint football is a niche sport — there are only seven

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Success in athletics, however, hinges just as much on mental wellness as it does physical fitness.

The problem is that identifying when an athlete is out of shape is easy, but telling when something is amiss with an athlete’s mental health is not.

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Athletes Connected is a specialized program aimed at reducing stigma, promoting help seeking and raising awareness. “One of our big goals is to create conversation of mental health among our student-athletes because there is a huge stigma surrounding helping student-athletes,� said Emily Brunemann, a former captain of the women’s swim team at Michigan and program coordinator of Athletes Connected. “There is a tough-itout mentality, they’re supposed to

stimulate conversation. The concept seems simple, but that is why it is genius. “In the first year when we did this presentation we had a big uptick in student-athletes seeking one-on-one counseling,�

Brunemann said. Michigan also benefits from employing three full-time counselors within the athletic department, a resource Penn does not share.

Athletes Connected is not without its hiccups, though. “Time commitment is a big issue. All of the student-athletes we’ve been talking to want the resources that we’re currently providing, but with

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Per the Penn Athletics website, 23 of the team’s 43 members hail from the states of Pennsylvania or New Jersey. Each of them seems to have a story to tell about a current teammate — not all of which are rosy. “Tom Console and Kevin Lajeunesse were crosstown rivals [at Philly area schools St. Joseph’s Prep and La Salle High School, respectively],� Smallzman said, laughing. “At first they wouldn’t even really talk to each other.

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Red and Blue power past Delaware before Ivy play

VOLLEYBALL | Epic 4th

set gives team 5th win TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor

Teams often hope for intense competition at the end of their preseason schedules to prepare themselves for the regular season.

The Quakers certainly got what they wanted.

Penn volleyball hit the road to nearby Delaware and beat the Blue Hens in four hard-fought sets to finish off the preseason and head into Saturday’s Ivy opener against Princeton with positive momentum.

Penn (5-7) got off to a good start, taking each of the first two sets, 25-20.

“Our passing was right on target, and our serving was really tough,” coach Kerry Carr said of the fast start. “They went to work

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of the incredibly rare opportunity to do it side-by-side.

“When you’re both coaches at the Division I level, you kind of assume that working together at the same school is going to be a long shot, so we were really excited,” Juli said. “We both feel incredibly blessed that we’re able to coach together here.”

Although the two spouses have finally settled in University City together, their individual paths to get there couldn’t have been much more different. Bob’s coaching career began as a graduate assistant at Albany in 1986 and ‘87, where he first established a relationship with then-Great Danes’ defensive backs coach and current Penn football head coach Ray Priore.

From there, Bob proceeded

on Monday in practice at a couple things that weren’t clicking, and they really just turned things around, and it was really fun to see, once we got our passing figured out, to see our offense roll really strong.”

But the Blue Hens (6-7) refused to go away. An extremely tough third set saw very little separation between the two teams throughout, and at 23-23, a pair of Delaware kills sent the match to a fourth set.

Back in the match, Delaware came out strong in the fourth set, and at 24-21, the Blue Hens were one point away from sending it to a fifth and deciding set.

“Delaware started playing really well,” Carr said. “And we had a little bit of a panic, and we had to calm down and have confidence to just push through it, and mix things up and not be predictable.”

And the Quakers certainly did

push through. Penn won the next three points to tie it at 24, and eventually took the set 27-25 to win the match.

“We had some pretty incredible digs,” the coach reflected. “I think our defense really was the reason we won at that point. Our offense started out strong and our defense finished it out.”

The Quakers got a huge game from setter Sydney Morton, who hit .529 for nine kills while notching 48 assists and 10 digs, just missing out on a triple-double.

“She had extreme confidence,” Carr said in praise of the junior captain. “She worked really hard at practice on Monday on coming up with a bunch of solutions for serve-receive, so she went into the game super confident that we weren’t going to get stuck in a rotation, because she had gone over a lot of play-sets.”

Penn also got double-digit kills from juniors Kendall Covington

and Hayley Molnar (10 each), sophomore Courtney Quinn (14, to go with a career-high 23 digs) and freshman Caroline Furrer (13).

For an extremely young Penn team, the close, back-and-forth contest provides crucial experience to go along with the confidence that comes from a win.

“We couldn’t have scripted it any better than this,” Carr said of the nail-biting victory that gave the Red and Blue five wins in eight games. “We’re finally coming into our own and playing the kind of ball we want to be playing right before Princeton.”

All in all, the Quakers did well to finish the non-conference season 5-7 despite a tough and dense schedule. But you can throw that record out the window now.

What matters is the team’s record from here on out, starting this weekend at home against their biggest rival, the Tigers.

Junior setter Sydney Morton had one of the best games of her career on Tuesday, finishing a single kill shy of a triple-double in Penn’s win.

to work for six different schools over the next 27 seasons, most notably holding the head coaching spot at Georgetown from 1993 to 2005, before he finally received the call from Priore in December 2014 asking him to take his talents to Philadelphia. “[At Albany] I became very close to the entire Priore family, not just Ray, so I got to know that family very well and stayed close with them throughout the years.

Ray and [Ray’s brother and Stony Brook coach] Chuck are tremendous coaches who have always been not just friends, but also mentors,” Bob said. “Ray and I have shared ideas for over 25 years, so when the opportunity at Penn arrived, I jumped at it.”

Meanwhile, Juli’s own career as a distance runner — one which included an appearance at the 1996 Olympic Games — didn’t even conclude until 2000, at

which point she began her own journey through the world of coaching collegiate athletics. Juli worked for four schools prior to arriving at Penn, most recently including a stint as Air Force’s head men’s and women’s cross country coach from 2009 to 2014.

So when Bob took the job with Penn football and both Bensons packed their bags for Philadelphia, Juli thought her coaching career would at least be placed on a temporary halt — if not done for good. But Penn track and field program head Steve Dolan had other ideas, taking advantage of the Bensons’ relocation and securing a big-time acquisition to his coaching staff.

“Obviously I reside here because [Bob’s] job is here, and he was incredibly supportive of my career for many, many years ... and I just really felt that when we moved here, it was time to put

my college coach dreams on the backburner,” Juli said. “But I’ve known Coach Dolan for several years, and he just approached me this summer saying that the program was going to take a little bit of a different direction; we talked several times this summer and we both decided that it would be great to work together, so I kind of came on board that way and I was very, very fortunate.”

Coincidentally, this isn’t actually the first time the two have shared a location — their careers briefly overlapped at Georgetown after Juli was hired as an assistant there in 2004. But considering that Benson left Georgetown for Towson in 2005 and that the two weren’t even in a relationship at the time anyway, their reunion in Philadelphia has felt like a oncein-a-lifetime opportunity to both parties.

“Both of our careers have

gone very differently since then; that was a long time ago, and we weren’t married then,” Juli said. “Honestly, we never really thought we would be coaching at the same school again, and now we are, so we both feel very lucky.”

Ultimately, while sharing the same workplace is certainly a convenience for Bob and Juli, it’s strictly business for both coaches when on campus — so much so, as a matter of fact, that days go by where the two don’t even interact at all.

“Our sports are very different, so we’re in different buildings and we don’t see each other as often as people might think.

Once since I started working at Penn we’ve had lunch together, and we’ll try to be together for maybe 30 seconds here and there throughout the week,” Juli said. “But there’s just a comfort

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knowing that we’re working for the same school and toward the same goals, and it’s just been really, really nice.”

And if the early results from the pair’s time in Philadelphia are any indication — football vaulted from 106th to eighth nationally in turnover margin in Bob’s first season, while both the men’s and women’s cross country squads remain unbeaten in the admittedly small sample size of Juli’s debut year — this power couple could be running the Ancient Eight for years to come.

“We love Penn, it’s an awesome atmosphere, and we both want to win and excel at the highest level,” Bob said. “We’re pretty intense at home – that’s the one thing because we both strive to be the best — but we’re thankful for the opportunity to be doing it together, and it’s a great situation for us both.”

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SETTING UP A WIN

FRIENDS AND FOES

A career night from junior setter Sydney Morton propelled Penn volleyball past Delaware

Former teammates and rivals unite in one uniform: that of Penn sprint football

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On mental health and Penn Athletics LAINE HIGGINS

ALL IN THE

FAMILY Penn assistant coaches Bob and Juli Benson form power couple on and off the field COLE JACOBSON

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sk any civilian on the street who the nation’s premier power couple is, and you’ll probably get some varied responses; Kim and Kanye, Beyonce and Jay-Z and Brad and Angelina are among many names that might get thrown out there.

But within the realm of Penn Athletics, the answer is quite simple: Bob and Juli.

Bob Benson is entering his second year as Penn football’s defensive coordinator, having immediately sparked the Quakers’ drastically improved defense en route to a

share of the Ivy League title in his debut season. Juli Benson was just hired this summer

by Penn’s track and field program to serve as an assistant coach to the team’s distance runners, having begun her first season with the Red and Blue during cross country this

fall.

Together, the married couple of seven years is taking the world of Ivy League athletics by storm, respectively working to improve their programs while taking advantage SEE BENSONS PAGE 9

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eing a student-athlete is hard. Plain and simple.

And when it comes to mental health, student-athletes are not necessarily more at risk than their peers. Research done at the University of Washington by Dr. Ashmin Rao has shown that incidence rates of anxiety and depression tend to be lower among student-athletes than non-athletes.

“Athletes actually have a ton of social support,” he said. “They have a lot of resources, trainers, coaches and people who keep their eyes on them at all times. So they’re a more monitored group.”

Despite that support, athletes are far less likely to seek out help. A 2014 study done at the University of Michigan School of Public Health with a random sampling of 7,000 students from nine universities found that only 10 percent of student-athletes with depression or anxiety took advantage of mental health resources, whereas 30 percent of non-athletes utilized care.

This is a problem. And it’s a problem that Penn can and should address.

Under the tutelage of athletic director Grace Calhoun, some improvements have already been made. During the 2014-15 academic year, all of Penn’s coaches underwent “ICARE” (Inquire.

Connect. Acknowledge. Respond. Explore.) training. It’s a crash course designed by Counseling and Psychological Services for Penn faculty and students to identify the signs and symptoms of mental health issues.

“We’re trying to be more proactive with identifying signs with students who might be presenting in a certain way so we can get out in front of it and hopefully catching things before they escalate,” Calhoun said.

Sherryta Freeman was also brought on in July 2015 as senior associate athletic director to oversee student-athlete development, including mental health issues.

But that is not enough.

A good starting point would be to mimic the Athletes Connected program at the University of Michigan and give Penn student-athletes a platform for discussion. Started in 2014 as a partnership between the School of Public Health, the Depression Center and the Athletic Department with funding from a grant from the NCAA, SEE HIGGINS PAGE 8

1 LEHIGH

Penn extends undefeated streak with Lehigh draw M. SOCCER | Squad trade

goals with no winner

SANJAY DURESETI Sports Reporter

Penn men’s soccer followed I-476 with the goal of reaching Bethlehem.

But, unlike the three wise men, their purpose was to take and not to give.

Lehigh’s Ulrich Sports Complex played host to a tightly-contested match between two Pennsylvania teams with middling records. Penn, having recorded its first win of the season on Saturday against La Salle, hoped to extend their stretch of quality soccer while the Mountain Hawks were looking for redemption following a 2-1 loss to Robert Morris.

The result was an incredibly tense match, with quick swings of momentum fueled by potent counterattacks from both sides. But, the game ended in a 1-1 draw after two overtime periods, an outcome emblematic of the Quakers’ season so far.

The first half was largely uneventful, with neither side managing to record many meaningful chances on goal. Sophomore goalkeeper Etan Mabourakh continued his strong start to the season by cutting off angles and attacking the ball off of Lehigh set pieces. The Mountain Hawks (2-4-1) came closest to scoring, with junior Kevin Klinkenberg ripping a shot off the post in the 20th minute.

The second half, however, featured nearly constant end-to-end movement. Penn (1-1-4) utilized versatile junior right back Sam Wancowicz, whose ability to evade defenders opened space for his more offensively minded comrades. One of these runs resulted in a hardhit shot from freshman behemoth Aramis Kouzine that Lehigh’s goalie barely deflected. The Mountain Hawks, however, responded in kind, aggressively sending long balls to their forwards in the hope of catching Penn’s defense unawares.

Despite their aerial aggression, Lehigh’s first goal resulted from an intricate series of quick passes and

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perfectly timed runs. Mabourakh’s sliding attempt was to no avail, as junior Jack Miskel drilled a low shot into the center of the net. But, instead of bowing their heads in defeat, the Quakers quickly regrouped and equalized less than a minute after.

Freshman Dami Omitaomu crossed the ball to junior Austin Kuhn, who buried it with a one-timed shot.

After this late-game excitement, however, neither side managed to break the deadlock. Omitaomu came the closest, as he lasered a beautiful shot towards the top-left corner of the goal, which freshman goalkeeper Will Smith miraculously saved.

So, as the Quakers trudged off the field with yet another draw under their cleats, the tone amongst the players and coaches was one of disappointment.

“I thought they showed some resiliency and grit with that late equalizer. It was obviously a great response in a difficult situation. But in the end we were there to try to get the ‘W’ and we didn’t,” Penn coach Rudy Fuller said.

Nevertheless, this recent stretch of double-overtime games provides valuable experience to a team that is filled with youngsters.

“I think that those guys have been able to deal with tough situations and perform well. I think with each game we get better and the last two games we’ve played well. We’re on the right track and we’re getting closer to the next level,” senior Alec Neumann commented.

Despite the reliance on young players like Omitaomu, Kouzine and fellow freshman attacker Sam Hefter, Fuller insisted that it will be the veterans and their leadership that will turn these close, tense matches into wins rather than draws.

“We want to rely on guys like Alec Neumann, Matt Poplawski, Sam Wancowicz. Guys who’ve been there, who have won Ivy League titles. We don’t want to put too much expectations on the younger guys right now,” Fuller remarked.

While Penn’s trip to the promised land was not entirely fruitful, there is certainly reason to hope for better results in the future.

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Penn men’s soccer extended their three-game unbeaten streak on Tuesday, thanks to a goal from junior Austin Kuhn in the 86th minute.

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