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Second-year medical student dies Ari Frosch died last week at his home in Newton, Mass.

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Second-year medical student Ari Frosch died last week, the University announced on Monday.

Frosch was on a leave of absence

Student sues Penn over alleged bias in sex. assault case The University’s disciplinary investigation was racially biased, he said

and died while at home with his family in Newton, Mass. He was 26 years old.

Students at the Perelman School of Medicine were alerted of Frosch’s death on Monday afternoon in an email from Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum. At the time of publication, a cause of death had not been reported.

“In sadness and with affectionate reflection, we write today to share that Ari Frosch, a second-year Medical student, died suddenly last week at home with family in Newton, Massachusetts,” the email said.

Frosch completed his undergraduate studies at Colorado College in 2012, and went on to work at Bryn Mawr College and the National

Cancer Institute before enrolling at Penn.

Cade’s email also detailed Frosch’s dedication to community service. “Ari spoke fluent Spanish, had worked in Mexico, and volunteered at Puentes de Salud (“Bridges of Health”), a nonprofit dedicated to improving the SEE MEDICAL STUDENT PAGE 5

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An unnamed senior sued Penn on Sept. 23 on the grounds that the University mishandled the investigation of a sexual assault accusation against him.

The student, who filed as John Doe, was accused of sexually assaulting another senior, referred to in the suit as Jane Roe, on June 8. Twelve days later, Roe reported the encounter to the Office of the Sexual Violence Investigator, which after compiling a report, recommended Doe be found responsible for violating the University’s sexual violence policy.

Doe, who is identified as African-American in the complaint, argued in the suit that the disciplinary investigation was unfair and discriminated against him on account of his race. He also claimed that Roe actively consented throughout the sexual encounter.

A draft report from the investigators “cobbled together snippets of statements that match gender and racial stereotypes” and “disregarded other facts that show affirmative consent,” Doe argued in the suit.

His suit asks for damages to cover his “emotional and psychological” well-being, a restart to the disciplinary process at Penn with a new investigative team and an allowance for Doe to remain a student at Penn.

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Banks recalled living through two elections at Penn NINA SELIPSKY Contributing Reporter

As the sound of students’ voices belting out the hit single, “Fight Song,” serenaded Penn’s LGBT Center, it was clear that something big was about to happen. Moments later, 1996 College graduate Elizabeth Banks stepped out and greeted a crowd of her fellow Quakers, met by cheering and waving.

Banks visited her alma mater on Monday to rally for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and register voters around campus.

She has been a strong supporter of Clinton, emceeing a large part of this year’s Democratic National Convention in addition to co-producing and directing an a cappella version of Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song,” featuring a host of prominent celebrities endorsing Clinton. Banks has also been an advocate for reproductive rights and gun safety.

“In this election, we’re really

looking in the mirror as a nation and going, ‘Do we want to live our ideal of equality, the one we based our entire country on, that we go around the world talking about, that our military fights for every day around the world? Or are we going to go backwards and elect Donald Trump?’”

Banks said.

Penn for Hillary had an instrumental role in organizing Banks’ visit to campus.

“Every day matters now in terms of grassroots mobilization. This is an extraordinarily important time to be

vocal and active on campus,” College senior and Penn for Hillary president Sam Iacobellis said. He added, “If you don’t vote in this election, you won’t have a say in a lot of the critical issues that this country is going to face. I think Hillary said it best: ‘The next 50 days are going to decide the next 50 years.’”

Banks said she grew up poor in western Massachusetts. She came to Penn on scholarship money and Pell Grants.

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Trustees voted not to divest from fossil fuel industries CHERRY ZHI Deputy News Editor

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Fossil Free Penn reacts strongly against the decision by the Board of Trustees to refrain from divesting from fossil fuel industries.

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Last Thursday, the Board of Trustees announced that Penn will not divest from fossil fuel industries, despite two years of campaigning from Fossil Free Penn.

The decision came after the unanimous recommendation of an Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Divestment, which was formed

in March to consider the divestment proposal submitted by Fossil Free Penn in November 2015, not to divest. The proposal was put forth after a student referendum in February 2015 in which over 30 percent of undergraduates voted, with almost 90 percent of votes in support of divesting from fossil fuel companies.

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Penn Spectrum Weekend celebrates diversity The third annual event is the most successful yet LAUREN SORANTINO Staff Reporter

On Sept. 25, the University’s third Penn Spectrum Weekend came to an end. Among this event’s three appearances on campus — the first two occurring in 2010 and 2013, respectively — this year’s was by far the best-attended. Though final attendance numbers are not yet confirmed, over 800 people registered. This group was made up of roughly half students and half alumni, with faculty and staff peppered in.

The weekend opened on Friday, Sept. 23 with a Diverse Women in Leadership March, cultural centers’ open houses, student group performances and “Campus Couches” put on by the student group Table Talk.

Saturday’s daytime events had heavy intellectual content.

The day began with a panel on the presidential election and many panels covering diverse topics followed. In total, there were sixteen different panels on Saturday, covering a variety of issues including Black Lives Matter, behavioral health, how professional sports measure on diversity, Hollywood, affirmative action and increasing technology in society. This was followed by more student performances and a social event.

The weekend came to a close on Sunday with a brunch to honor Ms. Cora Ingrum in celebration of her more than 55 years of contributions to Penn Engineering and its students.

There were also optional gallery visits to the Penn Museum and the Institute of Contemporary Art. Executive Director of Alumni

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Penn Spectrum Weekend seeks to reach out to diverse alumni and engage them and current students in topical discussions and events.

Relations Elise Betz expressed enthusiasm about the success of this year’s Penn Spectrum Weekend. “The feeling is that we moved the needle a little bit on this conversation about diversity and race,” she said.

Betz, who has been part of the management team for all three

of Penn’s Spectrum Weekends also noted that, this year, there were by far the most volunteers and students in attendance.

Betz also spoke about how the Penn Spectrum Weekend came into existence. The Diversity Alliance within Penn A lu m n i Relat ions, wh ich

has been around for about 20 years, played a key role in the creation of the event. This alliance, which is made up of Penn Alumni who are of color or are LGBTQ, was designed for social and intellectual support, as well as for networking.

As this alliance saw Penn become more diverse, it — along with members of the Alumni Relations team — decided it would be good for the University to move its exploration of diversity forward with some kind of conference to discuss these issues in depth.

Homecoming and other events designed to attract alumni failed to present the necessary amount of time to dive deep into these issues.

Bet z a l so h ig h l ig ht e d President Gutmann’s heavy involvement in Penn Spectrum Weekend. The President’s office subsidized the weekend so that

students could attend cheaply; it was only $10 for students to come all-weekend. If students couldn’t afford this, they were given a scholarship to attend the weekend for free.

Aside from the President’s office, alumni volunteers and the Alumni Relations office made the largest contributions to the event. Every single idea for the panels was generated by alumni, and the alumni office then filled all of the panels with relevant speakers.

The Alumni Relations office recognizes that the demographic of alumni has shifted.

University alum ni a re increasingly students of color and students who identify as LGBTQ. Betz acknowledged this, saying that “It’s important for us to offer them ways to connect based on those affiliations.”

Penn students featured in Animal Plant show ‘Life at Vet U’ Show features six Penn Vet students LEXI LIEBERMAN Contributing Reporter

Being a student at a veterinary school isn’t easy, especially at Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine. Once students reach their fourth and final year, they begin clinical rotations. They don their white lab coats proudly and prepare to treat patients, with the assistance of their professors, for the first time.

Animal Planet’s new show, “Life at Vet U,” documents this exciting time for fourth-year Penn Vet students. This six-part documentary series will premiere Oct. 1 at 10 p.m.

The show follows six Penn Vet students — Rebecca Bernstein, Max Emanuel, Lindsay Gallagher, Clint Kuban, Melanie Lang

and Morgan Taylor — as they experience the joys and challenges that come with their fourth year of vet school. The show features students working at the University’s Ryan Hospital for Companion Animals and Kennett Square’s New Bolton Center Hospital, which specialize in small and large animals, respectively.

Not only did the production team follow the students around the hospitals, it also followed them into their homes. And while none of the students were used to having cameras following them around, they quickly grew accustomed to it.

Twenty-eight-year-old Rebecca Bernstein wasn’t bothered at all by the cameras after the first week.

“After a while you kind of forget they’re there,” she said.

Bernstein also said the cameras

never caused her stress or distracted her from her work.

“The story was never meant to be about watching me mess up or make mistakes,” she added. “It’s about the clients and the dogs and the cats, and once I took myself out of it and realized that this was no different than any other day that I had, it was just that someone was documenting it — it really wasn’t distracting at all.”

Some scenes in “Life at Vet U” show Bernstein working with Dr. Grace Anne Mengel, a primary care veterinarian at Penn Vet. “I love working with the students,” Dr. Mengel said. She has high hopes for the show. “I hope it can highlight what goes into training to be a veterinarian.

And that there are a lot of really good people who go into veterinary medicine who really care

about the animals and care about the people.”

Dr. Brady Beale, a veterinary ophthalmologist from Penn Vet who is also featured on the show, had a similar line of thought.

“As a veterinary student, you make so many sacrifices, and you work so hard, and I think that it is hard for the community around you to know all of the work you’re putting into it,” she said. “For these six students to be able to showcase that on national TV is a pretty exciting element.”

As someone who is uncomfortable making mistakes in front of other people, Gallagher was a bit intimidated by the cameras at first. However, she recognized that it was fantastic practice for her future client interactions as a veterinarian.

“When I have to present a case to a senior clinician, when I have

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Six Penn Vet students will be featured on “Life at Vet U,” a six-part documentary series on the Animal Planet, due to premiere on Oct. 1.

to answer their questions…I have to make that leap,” she said.

“It’s a lot of pressure.”

But the pressure of having their daily lives filmed seemed to be worth it — all of the

doctors and students involved said they enjoyed working on the show.

“The crew was amazing,” Bernstein said. “It was all positive experiences.”

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Students can learn more about gender equity at the Women’s Center Open House, scheduled on Sept. 30, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

They can also attend events at Penn Spectrum Weekend, a conference scheduled from Sept.

23-25.

The conference, which is held

once every three years, focuses on issues important to minority alumni and student communities. This is the first time that the Women’s Center was fully engaged with the planning of the conference, organizing events such as the opening luncheon on “Diverse Women and Leadership.” Students can attend all events at the conference by registering online for $10.

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“Hillary Clinton has been that “Hillary Clinton as an inevi- role model for me since 1992,” tability, I find really funny,” said Banks said. “She’s my queen.

Banks. “If it were easy to elect a She’s my democratic ideal.”

protestors had with the process, including potential biases from the ad-hoc committee.

“There was no transparency,” College senior and Fossil Free Penn member Gavi Reiter said.

“We were under the impression that we were going to be involved in the process.”

Other protestors criticized the letter sent out by Board of Trustees Chairman David

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O ne protestor, G er ma n professor Simon Richter, suggested that there should be a university-wide debate over the effect climate change has on society.

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Another common topic was one focused on in previous Fossil Free Penn protests: the intersection of environmental and social justice. Some members, including Thacher, emphasized the effect climate change had on marginalized groups. Reiter focused on the effect climate change has on women.

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OPINION (Public) spatial awareness REID ABOUT IT! | The importance of giving our attention to public space

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 VOL. CXXXII, NO. 75 132nd Year of Publication COLIN HENDERSON President LAUREN FEINER Editor-in-Chief ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects BRIELLA MEGLIO Director of Internal Consulting ISABEL KIM Opinion Editor JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor DAN SPINELLI City News Editor CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor SUNNY CHEN Copy Editor NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor TOM NOWLAN Sports Editor WILL SNOW Sports Editor TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor JOYCE VARMA Creative Director

Public space is always around, which is maybe why we forget its potential for discourse. With larger growth in online spaces — social networking sites specifically — physical public space no longer holds tangible influence over us.

Yet following the widescale flyer incident, then the homophobic preachers and their counter-protesters, we are reminded of the presence of human voices expressing opinions in the public sphere.

Though demonstrations can often seem more like a monologue, this time the public space was transformed into a forum for dialogue.

When I saw the preachers and their protesters, I was reminded of the Athenian democratic forums, the Assemblies, which existed for citizens (albeit exclusively male) to express their votes for how they believed their city should be governed. Any attendee could address the assembly. However, public assemblies faded over time and were replaced with nationwide elections processes and now less focus is given to local, public dialogue as a means of social engagement.

Instead, public dialogue shifted into public demonstrations. In 2015, Penn activist group Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation used public space to decry acts of racism and sexism on campus after several incidents, such as the Ferguson shooting and Phi Delta Theta’s racist Christmas card. A Fine Arts course — Art, Design and Digital Culture — has even directly required students to engage in public interventionist art that confronts social situations. As a result, a few things are becoming clearer.

Large institutional systems continually fail to actively rectify social problems, unsurprisingly. Second, that people will express themselves in open spaces regardless of alternative platforms and regardless of criticism. Third, and perhaps most importantly, people need to pay attention to their surroundings.

Public demonstrations often end up with the same fate: a short-lived media maelstrom, followed by a shouldershrugging audience memory of the news. With every new demonstration that makes the headlines, the previous one is

forgotten the week after.

The presence of the individual and the voice of the people are both bolstered by the community’s willingness to listen.

In SOUL’s video, which shows a student speaking about rac-

contributed to Penn’s public space by dancing in colorful outfits and waving the American flag. In October 1996, Change doused herself with gasoline and lit herself on fire by the peace sign sculpture

Sometimes, we become passive to our physical environment — I am no exception — because public spaces just don’t feel very relevant anymore.“ ism against black women on campus, we see students walk by with headphones, barely glimpsing at the demonstrator.

Tuning out isn’t necessarily immoral, but it is limiting.

Sometimes, we become passive to our physical environment — I am no exception — because public spaces just don’t feel very relevant anymore.

Kathy Change, an activist and performance artist, was one individual who regularly

in front of Van Pelt Library.

Change was pronounced dead at the hospital. She was widely known across Penn’s campus — one article referred to her as a “well-known gadfly” — but she now recedes from Penn’s collective memory, as things in the past are wont to do.

When we don’t pay attention or avert our gaze, we give into a cycle of passivity. Passivity can sometimes encourage desperate actions like Kathy

Change’s. How do we retain a sense of dialogue with involvement from both spectator and orator, considering the current irrelevance of public forums?

If we are neutral to our public space, we devalue its potential. When we see campus demonstrations, we are not obligated to listen. We are not obligated to hear each other out. But then again, we are not obligated to vote. And voting is so often emphasized as a moral and civic duty because we are publicly engaging in shaping our society. So how can we hope to progress into the society we want by continually shutting out its very real, public existence?

Public spaces provide something which the vote cannot: a physical presence. This presence can disturb, amuse, inspire or anger its spectators — just as long as they’re listening.

The flyering incident and the counter-protests that occurred in response to the preachers demonstrated how public space is being given back the discursive power it used to have.

But I fear that these moments define themselves as isolated incidents that will eventually be forgotten.

AMANDA REID We may choose to tune out the events happening within and around public space. But simply by stopping and listening to what’s around us, regardless of our own agenda, we are giving socially engaged presence back to the public space.

This is true even with mass hateful speech, which incites certain societal truths to correct it, and it is true of artistic intervention, which might make us stop to introspect. No obligation exists for us to do so, but perhaps it is our right and our duty.

AMANDA REID is a College junior from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, studying cinema studies & English. Her email address is amreid@sas. upenn.edu. “Reid About It!” usually appears every other Tuesday.

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In November, I urge members of the Penn community to vote for Hillary Clinton as the next president. Such a vote should not be treated as a vote for the “lesser of two evils” but rather as a vote for a seasoned politician who has spent her career fighting for women’s and children’s causes.

Most of us have heard the story of how Hillary Clinton spoke before the United Nations conference in Beijing in 1995 and declared that “human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights.” However, while we often praise Clinton’s advocacy work at the conference, we often forget that the Democratic nominee has a consistent, decades-long record of affecting positive change for women and children around the world.

When Hillary Clinton left university, she could have found work at a lofty legal firm, but instead she chose to work at the Children’s Defense Fund. Then, after a short stint on the House Judiciary

Committee, she taught law as an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas. Clinton could have ended her advocacy work there, but instead she worked a second job as the director of the university’s legal aid clinic.

In 1978, President Jimmy Carter appointed Hillary Clinton to the board of directors of the Legal Services Corporation. In her new role, she oversaw a “federal agency that provided legal aid to the poor.”

Then, as the First Lady of Arkansas, Clinton pioneered a number of programs that dealt with women and children. As noted by the non-partisan organization PolitiFact: “[Hillary Clinton] was co-founder of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families and she served as president and a member of the group’s board of directors until 1984. She also chaired an advisory committee on rural health, served on a task force on infant mortality and chaired an Arkansas education task force. She chaired the Children’s Defense Fund

board from 1986 through 1992.”

Very impressively, Hillary Clinton accomplished all of this before she became the First Lady of the United States. She would only re-

parties acknowledge her crucial role in creating the Children’s Health Insurance Program. CHIP now covers 8.4 million children nationwide in families that made modest incomes slightly too high to

In short, the Penn community shouldn’t support Hillary Clinton simply because her opponent — the only other viable candidate — has described women as “fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals.” double her advocacy work in her time at the White House.

The United States State Department gives Clinton credit for “successful bipartisan efforts to improve the adoption and foster care systems” and “reduce teen pregnancy.”

Furthermore, leaders of both

qualify for Medicaid.

As First Lady, Clinton travelled to more than 80 countries and became a well respected advocate for human rights. Around this time, she co-founded Vital Voices Democracy with Madeline Albright, bringing leadership

training to “women leaders across the globe.”

As a two-term U.S. Senator, Hillary Clinton was an advocate for an “expansion of economic opportunity and access to quality, affordable health care.” She also fought passionately for “funding the rebuilding of New York and the health concerns of the first responders who risked their lives working at Ground Zero.” Furthermore, Hillary Clinton staunchly supported “better health care and benefits for wounded service members, veterans and members of the National Guard and Reserves.”

Clinton’s advocacy work also took center stage when she served as Secretary of State. As noted in the Huffington Post, “[Clinton] appointed the first-ever Ambassador-atLarge for Global Women’s Issues at the State Department; oversaw the creation of the U.S. National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security; and introduced the Global Health Initiative (GHI), investing $63 billion to help

partner countries provide robust maternal and infant health services.”

The Clinton Foundation has also done extraordinary work helping disadvantaged groups, particularly women and children. It provides seeds and other assistance to rural farmers, offers low-cost HIV/ AIDS treatment and supplies “life-saving” medication to fight diarrhea. Hillary Clinton is correct in saying that “nine million people have lowercost HIV/AIDS medicine because of the work of the Clinton Foundation and my husband.”

In short, the Penn community shouldn’t support Hillary Clinton simply because her opponent — the only other viable candidate — has described women as “fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals.” We should support her because she has the best record of all the presidential candidates.

NATHAN AUSUBEL is a College sophomore studying mathematical economics.

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Faculty must inform U. of sexual violence cases SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Deputy News Editor

Faculty members are no longer confidential resources when it comes to reporting sexual violence.

Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments Act, which calls for gender equity in federally funded educational programs and is most often associated with funding for women’s sports, also has implications for sexual violence. On the website KnowYourIX.org, several stipulations are listed for schools to be in compliance with Title IX in cases of sexual assault. For instance, schools must “take immediate action to ensure a victim can continue their education free of ongoing sex discrimination, sexual harassment or sexual violence.”

In April of 2011, the Department of Education issued a 19-page Dear Colleague Letter on the Title IX implications of campus sexual violence, and in October 2014 the Department of Education also released final regulations significantly amending the Clery Act, which set standards for crime reporting and victim support on campus. With these regulations, faculty members at colleges and universities became “responsible persons.” This means when a faculty member at Penn receives information that sexual violence has

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The complaint said that a final report released later — after Doe submitted a seven page response explaining its alleged flaws and requesting a reexamination ­— recommended Doe be expelled and have a permanent mark placed on his academic transcript.

In a response to Doe’s motion, the University submitted a response to the court Monday morning arguing for the internal disciplinary process to play out without interference from the legal system.

As part of the school’s disciplinary proceeding, Doe requested a hearing to take place in front of three faculty members on Sept.

29, where the recommendations in the Office of the Sexual Violence Investigator’s final report could conceivably be overturned, according to the filing by Penn. Even if Doe is given the same sanctions recommended in the report, he can appeal the decision to a “trained faculty member,” who acts as Disciplinary Appellate Officer, the filing said.

Though Doe referred to the disciplinary hearing as “futile” and a “sham” in his complaint, the faculty tribunal has modified recommendations from the sexual violence investigator’s report 75 percent of the time since Feb. 1, 2015, Vice President for Institutional Affairs Joann Mitchell argued in an addendum to the University’s response brief.

In two of the four cases brought before the panel in the past, the tribunal reduced the severity of the sanctions recommended by the investigative team. In the other two cases, the panel upheld one sanction recommended by the report and overturned the investigator’s report in another case — declaring a student “not responsible” that the investigative report declared “responsible.”

The University also opposed Doe’s request for a temporary restraining order — an immediate end to the disciplinary proceeding — due to the harm to Doe. “Plaintiff wants this Court to tell any student, anywhere, that if you are concerned about the possible

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health of Philadelphia’s Latino community. He loved rock climbing and also gave his time and talents to Habitat for Humanity,” she wrote.

Frosch’s father and brother also attended Penn, each earning their medical degree from the Perelman School of Medicine in 1976 and 2014, respectively.

A support session for Frosch’s friends and classmates will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 12:45 p.m. in the Biomedical Research Building Auditorium, 421 Curie Boulevard.

occurred, they have an obligation to report it to Penn’s Title IX Coordinator, Sam Starks.

“That is a change in position for the University from what we have always understood to be the case,” said Law Professor and former Chair of the Faculty Senate Claire Finkelstein. “We have previously understood the category of responsible persons to be University administrators, or anyone who has an official role in carrying out university policy on Title IX, but because the Department of Education has…been seeking to broaden the category, our General Council’s Office has recognized that under current legal guidelines all faculty members are all responsible persons within the meaning of Title IX.” Last year the University distributed “Sexual Violence Reporting: A Short Guide For Faculty,” to faculty members last year. The guide contains a section labeled “Details You Must Report,” which says “You must share with the Title IX Coordinator whatever information has been shared with you, including the names of any individuals involved, the details of the incident, and the person’s wishes regarding next steps including if the person wishes to keep the matter confidential.”

The change hasn’t come without controversy. An Inside Higher Ed article called “Endangering a Trust” said, “[Faculty members]

worry that fewer students will come forward if doing so means a report.”

Director of Faculty Development and Equity Programs within the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Lubna Mian acknowledged that one potential downfall of the policy adjustment is “the sense that the faculty member cannot assure the student that everything the student tells the faculty member will be held confidential.”

Mian noted that the details of these reports remain on a strict need-to-know basis.

“It’s very important that students understand that if you tell someone, it doesn’t mean that everything you told becomes visible to everyone in the administration,” she said.

“There are very very careful procedures to make sure that student names, for example, are considered highly confidential.”

Mian said what happens after an instance of sexual violence is reported is “highly dependent on what is reported,” since sexual violence can range from verbal harassment to physical abuse or assault. Ron Ozio, the spokesman for Starks, sent an email statement saying the administration can actually take action and launch an investigation even if the complainant asks for no action to be taken.

“The complainant’s preference is absolutely taken into account.

However, in some instances the University/Title IX Coordinator may determine that steps should

outcome of a private, internal, administrative conduct process, you can go to court to try to get a restart,” the response brief stated.

Doe has also not shown that continuing the school disciplinary process constituted “irreparable harm,” the University argued.

As part of their response, Penn’s attorneys referenced similar cases that occurred at Temple University, Ohio State University and the University of Pittsburgh, where

students under investigation in school disciplinary hearings sued for relief in federal court before the completion of school disciplinary proceedings. In each case, the federal court dismissed requests for temporary relief.

One slight victory for the plaintiff came on Monday, when Pennsylvania Eastern District Judge John Padova granted Doe the right to proceed in court using a pseudonym for himself and Roe.

be taken to prevent a recurrence of the behavior and ensure the safety of the Penn community,” the statement said.

Some faculty members don’t view the policy change as negative. Communication professor Sharrona Pearl thinks more accountability for professors will most likely be a good thing.

“I think professors being more aware of the rules and laws, if anything, will only lead to greater sensitivity on the part of professors, ideally,” she said. “Are students now going to be concerned that they don’t have confidentiality and aren’t going to be able to come forward to

professors? I’m not sure students felt like they were to turn to professors because that was a confidential space. I think maybe this would make students feel a little bit more comfortable knowing that professors are a little bit more educated about the stakes for Title IX.” There are completely confidential resources on campus where students can talk about sexual violence without worrying about required reporting, like Special Services within the Division of Public Safety, the Penn Women’s Center, the LGBT Center, Student Health Services and Counseling and Psychological Services, among

others.

Mian said she thinks the pros outweigh the cons for implementing this new policy. This is largely because the other part of Penn’s adoption of this policy change strongly urges faculty members to not only report, but also to direct students to appropriate support services.

“Students will be funneled to the right place to help, and patterns of sexual misconduct will be more readily visible to the institution,” she said. “Overall, I think the thinking is that by making people responsible parties it is making sure these issues get attention.”

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VOLLEYBALL Penn volleyball lost at home in their Ivy opener this weekend to Princeton. Despite forcing a fifth set, the young Penn team was no match for the more experienced Tigers. The Quakers are 5-8 overall, and 0-1 in the Ivy League.

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The Men’s Tennis team co-hosted the Ivy-Plus Invitational with Princeton this weekend. The singles matches included wins from Josh Pompan, Matt Nardella, and Max Cancilla. Cancilla also scored a doubles win with fellow freshman Robby Smithline.

Penn men’s soccer got its first regulation victory of the season with a dominant 5-0 blowout of the Drexel Dragons. With a hat trick from Alec Neumann and goals from Sam Wancowicz and Sam Hefter, the Quakers remained aggressive throughout the game.

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WOMENS SOCCER Despite outshooting the Harvard team, 9-3, Penn women’s soccer was not able to hold off the Crimson in a 1-0 loss on Saturday in their Ivy Opener. A controversial foul in the 29th minute lead to the only score of the match, and resulted in just the second time the Quaker’s have lost at home in Ivy League play in its last 20 games.

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SPRINT FOOTBALL Penn sprint football pulled off an upset on Friday night to beat Army for the first time since 2008.

With strong plays from both defense and offense, Penn kept the score to a tight 14-9 win.

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Penn drops restrictions on applying EA to other schools JULIA BELL Staff Reporter

Just weeks after Penn restricted its Early Decision policy, the University released a statement undoing the change and reverting the Early Decision Program back to the original procedure.

The change, which was enacted over the summer, restricted students from applying Early Action to private schools while simultaneously applying Early Decision to Penn. However, a statement released online on Sept. 16 returned the Early Decision policy to its previous

status.

Now, students can simultaneously apply to Penn and private schools with Early Action or schools with rolling admission. Attending Penn is obligatory if the student is accepted.

The statement verified that the University would once again allow unrestricted Early Decision after “conversations with counselors, community-based organizations, and other educators.”

The stricter policy change that was enacted over the summer was prompted by an increase of students reneging on the binding Early Decision agreement with Penn and attending other universities. After the new program was announced, Furda said, the policy was plagued

by questions of fairness from critics.

Laurie Kopp Weingarten, director of admissions counseling at One-Stop College Counseling, applauded Penn’s decision to undo the restrictive policy, which she said was unenforceable and placed undue burdens on students who were not accepted Early Decision to Penn.

“The truth is that the majority of students, over 75 percent of them, are going to be deferred or rejected in the early round,” Weingarten said. “If they can potentially lessen their disappointment by having Early Action schools accept them in December or January, it’s going to alleviate so much of the stress.”

Urging from counselors like Weingarten prompted Dean of

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“I think what was a pleasant surprise for a lot of counselors is that the Penn admissions office listened,” said Furda. “We heard them and we responded with time left until the Early Decision and Early Action deadlines.”

Prospective students applying to Penn this year will apply under the same guidelines as the proceeding classes.

“I still do think that our reasoning was correct, but you need to listen to people too,” Furda said of the disregarded policy change.

“You shouldn’t be afraid to be openminded.”

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>> PAGE 1 Rissman said, in response to the decision.

The Committee, which consisted of faculty, students, staff and alumni, met four times in person and found that the Fossil Free Penn Divestment proposal did not meet the criteria set forth in the Guidelines and Procedures for Consideration by the Trustees of Proposals for Divestment.

Chairman of the Board of Tr ustees David Cohen explained in a letter to Fossil Free Penn that “the linchpin of any divestment decision at Penn” is that the “moral evil” protestors linked to fossil fuel companies must be “an activity on par with apartheid or genocide.”

Cohen explained that “while the Trustees recognize that the ‘bar’ of moral evil presents a rigorously high barrier of consideration…such a high barrier must be maintained so that investment decisions and the endowment are not used for the purpose of making public policy statements.”

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feel that this explanation is insufficient.

“They had no legitimate reason in their response; they did not respond to any of our research and they were going to say no from the beginning,” Rissman said.

In a public statement issued after the Trustees’ decision, Fossil Free Penn said that “the Ad Hoc Advisory Committee was egregiously biased” and “its illegitimate decision does not accurately represent the university community.”

Fossil Free Penn explained that the Trustees chose David Roberts, a managing director at an investment firm that finances oil and gas companies, to be the Committee Chair who “held ultimate control and influence over the committee.” They also chose then-Engineering senior Dillon Weber, who had previously published public articles that disapproved of divestment based on ideology and personal interests, to serve on the Committee.

Weber wrote in the Spring 2015 issue of Penn Sustainability Review that, “though

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I’m sure many students at Penn would be overjoyed, I personally hope to never see the headline ‘Penn Divests’ splashed across the front page of the Daily Pennsylvanian.”

The remaining Committee members had not previously publicly supported or campaigned in favor of divestment.

“The entire process was rigged against us,” Rissman said. “Right now we need to show the University overwhelmingly that rejecting the proposal is against the views of Penn.”

Rissman said Fossil Free Penn’s next step is to raise greater awareness about its cause.

“We can see this as the tipping point. Before, we were following the rules, we were very respectful — but there was no mutual respect,” he said.

“This rejection only energizes us.”

The group plans on getting more faculty support. It has already released an open letter in April 2016, featuring over 100 faculty signatories from 10 of Penn’s 12 schools. They also hope to reach out to climate scientists who work at Penn to speak out against Penn’s decision.

I nstead of re com mending divestment, the Ad Hoc Committee suggested other strategies such as considering whether the companies Penn invests in or conducts business with are “taking into account the effects of climate change and possible regulatory responses.”

It also recommended using proxy voting to increase attention to issues relating to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, pointing to Yale as a model for shareholder engagement.

“The idea behind that is, given the fact that we have investments in these companies and therefore we own a small part of these companies, we can influence those companies in their actions and change the industry,” Rissman said.

However, Rissman explained that his brother, Gabe Rissman, who helped co-found Fossil Free Yale, experienced firsthand the inadequacy of this method.

“My brother went to an Exxon Mobil investor shareholder conference this summer and spoke on behalf of Yale in the exact situation of shareholder engagement,” Rissman said. “He told the company to release more data given Exxon’s ambiguity but all they responded with was ‘thank you for your comment, bye.’”

Given his brother’s personal experience, Rissman is skeptical about the effectiveness of the strategies the Committee has put forward for Penn to follow as its next steps.

“The only viable action is divestment, and anything less than that is not good enough,” he said.

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Penn’s non-conference woes nothing to worry about The Mountain Hawks drove down to the Penn 3 without much issue, as five seconds remained in the period.

Lehigh quarterback Nick Shafnisky couldn’t complete his first-and-goal pass from the 3.

But the Quakers were called for roughing the passer, setting up one last play at the Penn 1 where Shafnisky ran it in himself. In the second half, the Quakers fell flat, surrendering 21 points without an answer.

After the game, Shafnisky said that he thought the Quakers giving Lehigh one more chance gave Lehigh the momentum.

Priore later agreed, comparing it to the Red and Blue’s 2015 tilt with Fordham. “You can’t do things to give the other team opportunities,�

Priore said. “In the first half [against Fordham] last year, our first two drives we turned it over, a fumble and a pick.�

Yet on Saturday, it was more of the same story. Torgersen produced three first-half turnovers by way of an interception and two fumbles, and Fordham commanded a 24-7 lead shortly into

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With the Ivy League ban on postseason play, Penn football’s non-conference matchups aren’t the team’s top priority. That’s taking home the Ivy League crown.

But in the two weeks leading up to Penn’s Ancient Eight opener at Dartmouth, it’s nevertheless a disappointment to see the team not yet in midseason form.

After the Red and Blue’s season-opening loss to Lehigh, coach Ray Priore said his team didn’t play all four quarters in a contest that turned from nailbiter to blowout.

Seemingly trading touchdowns with Lehigh early, Penn attained a 28-21 advantage on senior quarterback Alek Torgersen’s seven-yard rush with 1:14 left in the first half. However, a 16-yard kickoff gave Lehigh the ball already in Penn territory.

the second quarter.

The Quakers’ turnovers against the Rams proved especially costly, as they essentially put the ball in the hands of Fordham running back Chase Edmonds. In last year’s headto-head, Edmonds bulldozed for 279 total yards and five touchdowns. He finished fourth in the STATS FCS Offensive Player of the Year voting that season.

Penn needed to prevent him from taking over the game.

Instead, he finished with 203 yards and four touchdowns.

All in all, the Quakers were lucky that the Rams converted just 10 points off the three turnovers. But some of it was creating their own luck, similar to what made last season’s team so successful. After Fordham returned Torgersen’s pick for 40 yards late in the first quarter to place the Rams at the Penn 11, the defense forced a three-andout, ceding just a 22-yard field goal.

In the second quarter, after the second of Torgersen’s fumbles, the defense came up clutch again. Sophomore cornerback

Mason Williams intercepted his second pass of the season, this one in the end zone.

And in striking resemblance to the prior week, a Penn penalty gave the opponent a goal-line chance on what would be the last play of the first half. But this time, junior linebacker Colton Moskal stopped Edmonds short of the goal line. Perhaps that is evidence the team is building off the first week’s mishaps.

It’s true that Ivy opponents won’t be as good as Lehigh and Fordham. But look at plays like senior wide receiver Adam Strouss taking a delay of game penalty while working out of the wildcat at the Fordham 1. If Penn continues to make avoidable mistakes, we won’t see repeat of a conference championship. We’ll see a team fall short of its potential and lose winnable games, as has been the case in each of the first two games.

Let’s not forget that Penn started 1-3 last season, with the one victory coming against an injury-plagued and fatigued Villanova team. Starting midway through last year’s Fordham

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The Meh The Penn defense came through on a number of key plays. In addition to defensive back Ephraim Lee bringing down Fordham quarterback Kevin Anderson for the Quakers’ first sack of the season, the defense kept Penn in the game with a multiple goal-line stands and one clutch interception by sophomore Mason Williams in the play immediately following a Penn turnover. Jyron Walker even got his hand in the way of a Fordham field goal, though he was promptly called offside by the officials.

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The Good After ending the first half with a sizable deficit, the Quakers gained momentum with a powerful performance by Tre Solomon.

The junior running back from Brooklyn racked up 93 rushing yards in 15 carries and one touchdown on his longest rush (22 yards) of the game.

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Strouss is not the only converted quarterback out wide for the Quakers.

Cam Countryman could have called it quits after last year. He would have been able to bookend his career with Ivy titles as a freshman and senior.

But that wasn’t enough.

Now, he’s back for a fifth year as one of the team’s three captains, ready for one last run at a ring. “I knew how much enjoyment this game brings to me, how much these guys mean to me,� he said. “So to have the opportunity to come back and play and feel that camaraderie and just the brotherhood that we get every day from this game, there was no doubt that I wanted to do that.�

Countryman brings unique experience to the team. Like Strouss, he was once a quarterback, but Countryman made the transition to wide out before embarking upon his Penn career. After missing the large part of his junior season, Countryman elected to stick around for an extra season — and was named one of the team’s three captains heading into the year. “Cam’s a great leader,� sophomore wide out Christian Pearson said. “He was my big brother, actually, on my official visit. He’s always been there for me, always showing me the ropes. It’s great to have him back for a fifth year.�

It is Pearson who makes up the third part of Penn coach

Ray Priore’s not-so-secret triumvirate.

He showed flashes of brilliance as a freshman last year — including back-toback 100-yard performances against Columbia and Yale — and is now tasked with avoiding the classic sophomore slump.

The three receivers have kept quiet through two games — though Penn’s passing attack has also been relatively limited. Nonetheless, they represent some of the first options Priore eyes when the game is on the line. That’s why it was Strouss lined up for the snap in the Wildcat as Penn faced a goal-line situation in a tight game against Fordham.

But that calm does not necessarily reflect what is yet to come. Each receiver has posted career games in Ivy play in the past. They’ll be the weapons to watch out for while defenses pay attention to the now-famous TorgersenWatson combination.

They seem to each go off in turn. When one has the hot hand, opposing defenses must pay him mind — at which point another rises up to take his place. Regardless of who Priore throws out there, the objective remains constant. “Obviously we want that Ivy title,� Pearson said. “All out this time, none of that tie.�

Heading into Dartmouth this weekend, someone will need to need to take over if the Red and Blue hope to knock off the undefeated Big Green.

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Kneizys said after the first weekend of the season. “Everyone is working together and I think [junior] Gina [Guccione] and Sofia have done a great job of stepping up. So it’s definitely a team offense but I don’t think it’s necessarily that different from last year.”

So what gives? The biggest aspect of the team is the flexibility of their roster. Guccione is the only player listed as a true midfielder on the roster. Every other midfielder is double-listed as either a forward and midfielder or midfielder and back. You may think that having a lack of defined positions could cause some confusion for the Quakers, but in reality, this flexibility lends to the playing style that they strive for.

“More and more, the direction of this program is towards a less traditional strategy,” Penn coach Colleen Fink said. “So we may have some three-dimensional movement off the ball that’s hopefully going to create situations where you have a left middie playing center forward and a center forward playing right mid. If we’re moving appropriately off the ball and creating dynamic opportunities off the ball, then people should be playing some more versatile positions.”

Penn may still be working out the kinks in their offense, but one thing is clear: The Quakers will only become more dynamic as their team continues to improve upon a stellar 2015 campaign.

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is running his mouth, but also the self control to do what you are supposed to do on every play.

I would know. I was the kid, all the way through high school, throwing his helmet or his bat after striking out. Then, next time up, wanting so badly to make up for it, I would swing harder, miss by more and the cycle would repeat. It wasn’t for lack of passion — I loved baseball and I wanted desperately to persevere and succeed in that game I loved, but I lacked the discipline over my own emotions and mind to do so.

Over time, it just became something I was conscious of; to the point where I know feel like I am as in control of myself as possible (except when professors upload documents sideways in Canvas).

But it took practice: of taking the deep breath before every pitch, clearing my head before every drive on the football field, of taking inventory of my emotions before exams to see what needed

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to be quelled and what needed to be counterbalanced.

I felt extremely proud in making this observation... until going deeper into Duckworth’s most recent scholarship to see that self-control has been at the epicenter of it. Nevertheless, if grit is what leads to success, then maybe we give the speech about “getting knocked down” a little less, and the speech about

introspection, and learning about your own emotions so that you can learn to control them when you do get knocked down, a little more.

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two-touchdown games in the process.

During his freshman spring, he started getting more and more time as a scout team wide receiver. Eventually he found himself lining up wide as a target for Torgersen, appearing in all 10 games in 2015. Against Fordham last Saturday, he made his way into the starting lineup.

“I kind of always wanted to play receiver,” he said. ”It was an interesting position to me.

I never had a quarterback that I wanted to run routes for — until I got to Torg, obviously.”

ver since I started playing sports, almost every coach I’ve had has talked about resilience as if it was their big secret.

“I know this, but no one else does: you have to be tough and get up when you get knocked down.”

It’s a common refrain — and it has become known as “grit.” Grit is exactly the subject of the work Penn psychology professor Angela Duckworth won a MacArthur Genius Fellowship for in 2013. She brought a new spin to the all-too-common discussion of toughness, resilience and the importance of talent.

This gospel preached about grit is very similar to an adage I’ve heard ever since I was playing Little League baseball, that I still think about and rely on to this day.

“There are only two things you can control: how hard you work and how much you care.” I attribute this quote to my father, who is probably thinking as he reads this that maybe he got Winklevoss-ed by Duckworth.

Duckworth defines grit as the confluence of passion and perseverance in the long term. And in the long term, I am talking about a sustained effort over the span of years to accomplish a specific goal.

This made sense to me, and it is not earth shattering news. We are all taught from a very young age that “hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard” or some variation of the same sentiment. So if grit is what correlates most strongly to success, how do we improve or increase grit? We must either increase passion or improve perseverance, but how does one do that?

Passion, to me, is something that is constantly on your mind: You start thinking about life through the lens of this passion. You find yourself day dreaming about this one thing, bothering your friends by talking about this one thing, and this one thing very quickly consumes your life and way of thinking. Passion is not so much learned as it is found, and the only way to find it is to try different things and to push yourself outside your comfort zone, to use yet another cliche.

Perseverance in common parlance is “how many times you get back up after getting knocked down.”

Every athlete, performer and student has heard this in millions of difference forms throughout their lives; especially in sports where people — myself in particular — are constantly getting literally knocked down. Perseverance is something that has been stressed to everyone forever, but the question remains how do you learn how to be perseverant?

I think the answer is to learn how to control one’s self. Call it discipline, call it self restraint, but whatever you call it, it is mastery over one’s emotions and mind. The key here is not self control in that you don’t get that penalty when the other player

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One of the worst things a quarterback can do is spend too much time trying to make a decision in the pocket. With the weapons at the disposal of Penn football’s Alek Torgersen, there’s undoubtedly a heightened risk of that pitfall.

Of course, most of that conversation revolves around star receiver Justin Watson. But to only focus on him would overlook some of the most interesting weapons flyingunder the radar in the Quakers’ air raid.

“The guys at the top can’t slip up,” senior wide out Adam Strouss said. “There’s somebody chomping at the bit, trying to take those reps. I think that one of the strengths of our receiving corps is our depth.”

Some may remember Strouss as an underclassman quarterback who lined up primarily in rushing schemes — logging a pair of

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Last year, Penn field hockey’s opponents probably had one plan to keep the ball out of their net: find Alexa Hoover and keep the ball as far away from her as possible. Now? It’s not quite so simple.

In 2015, the then-sophomore scored 27 goals and added nine assists, good enough for exactly half of the total goals produced by the entire team. This year, she’s not even the leading goalscorer.

That’s no knock on Hoover; seven games into the season she’s produced three goals and four assists, good enough for an average of 1.43 points per game so far this season, tied for first on the team.

But now, we see players all over the field producing at this level for the Quakers.

The player who has made the biggest jump in production this season has been junior Rachel Huang. Listed as both a forward and midfielder on the roster, Huang has added four goals and two assists so far this season, tying her for first place with Hoover for the lead in points and with sophomore Sofia Palacios for the lead in goals.

After accumulating five goals and two assists in the first two seasons of her career for the Red and Blue, Huang is on pace to smash her previous production and help lead the Quakers’ pursuit of an Ivy League championship and bid to the NCAA Tournament. Despite this, she is quick to acknowledge the entire team for her helping her succeed.

“I think it’s just a result of the whole team’s hard work and practice that we’ve put in. I think having a larger role is just a result of the way that the team helps you build your skill,” said Huang after the team’s weekend game against Syracuse.

“Over the years you get a lot more playing experience, you get a lot more playing time. All the girls on the team help you

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get better and better every single year. There’s so many girls contributing on this team right now, and it shows how we’re working together really well.”

Another group that has seen their role in the offense increase are the backs. Three players who are listed as backs on the roster — senior captain Claire Kneizys, sophomore Paige Meily and freshman Alexa Schneck have all added their names to scoresheet this season.

Kneizys and Schneck both have a goal to their name so far this season while Meily has added three assists for the Quakers as a part of their short corner unit.

“I’m really just honored to be in the position I’m in,” Meily said.

“We have a great corner unit as a team which helps me get involved. I’m very excited to fill in some of the holes that we have from players graduating last year and just step up and take a more active role.”

“As a team we’ve never tried to base our offense around Alexa.

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Though a defender, sophomore Paige Meily has managed to log three assists this season — and she’s not alone. Penn field hockey has increasingly relied upon a non-traditional offense to find new ways to score.

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