TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN | THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
CAPS branch opens at Vet School CAPS clinician to be stationed at school starting mid-October
BY CAROLINE SIMON Deputy News Editor
This year’s burst of mental health activism at Penn has not been limited to undergraduates — students at Penn’s graduate schools have been
working to bring about change as well. At the School of Veterinary Medicine, plans to more seriously address mental health will soon be brought to fruition. Starting in mid-October, a Counseling and Psychological Services clinician will be stationed in the Veterinary hospital on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings to perform
initial triage assessments, accommodating the tight clinical schedules of veterinary students. 2016 Veterinary student Ashley Klein first led efforts to bring counseling services to the Vet School through a student survey and a proposal to administrators. She explained that veterinary students face a unique form of stress — they must cope with the
task of euthanizing animals, which conflicts with the compassion that drew them to the profession in the first place. “The reason I think it’s so important is not only because the schedule is really rigorous and the expectations are really high,” she said. “Veterinary SEE CAPS PAGE 10
FIORINA
FEVER V Fiorina headlining the Keystone Conference BY JOYCE VARMA Design Editor
Carly Fiorina will be making waves at Donald Trump’s alma mater. Fiorina, a Republican presidential nominee and former Hewlett-Packard CEO, will speak at the Keystone Conference on Business and Policy, to be held in Irvine Auditorium on Nov. 19 and 20. The conference is hosted by Keystone Business Magazine, and tickets will be sold for $99.
The conference will feature panels that explore issues relevant to Pennsylvania’s economy, especially those that combine business and policy to drive growth. Afterwards, guests will attend breakout sessions led by panelists of business and government backgrounds in Houston Hall throughout the day. “[The conference] is geared towards executives, but I believe students that are in your MBA program and some of your business programs should be a part of these conversations,” Keystone SEE FIORINA PAGE 2
COURTESY OF CREATIVE COMMONS
Lessons through mentorship Penn students share Big Brothers Big Sisters stories ELLIE SCHROEDER Deputy News Editor
Classes, clubs, football and friends — the sheer amount of commitments that College junior Tyrone Quarterman juggles in a week is enough to make anyone’s head spin. Yet his busy schedule isn’t far from typical for a Penn student. But one of his responsibilities actually takes away from his stress: his role as a mentor in Big Brothers Big Sisters at Penn. For Quarterman, meeting with his little brother — a fifth grader named Samir with whom he was matched last fall
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— for one hour a week, is a time of escape, even of refuge, from the pressures on Penn’s Ivy League campus. “If you go here, day in and day out, you’ve got this on your plate, you’ve got that on your plate — sometimes you get stressed out, or focus on what other people have,” he said. “But you go there and see someone who’s just so happy to see you for one hour a week — they may or may not come from the best background, but that little thing is enough to make them happy.” According to national statistics, the positive effects of having a big brother or big sister on an at-risk child’s life are astounding SEE MENTORSHIP PAGE 11
Administrators react to Greek life going offcampus
There are no current plans to stop the increase in off-campus Greek groups LILY ZANDI Staff Reporter
COURTESY OF CAMILA ZAGER
Penn students Kelli Liu, Alex McClelland, and Laura Ruiz-Colon helped promote Penn’s Big Brothers Big Sisters program at an event last week.
Whether you are aware or not, you have a friend that has survived rape.” - Halie Craig PAGE 4
WORTH THE WAIT BACK PAGE
Though Greek life has seen two organizations go off campus within the past year, the administration will not get in the way of their formation. As of now, there are a total of seven Greek organizations that function without the recognition of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, most recently including the former Alpha Chi Omega and Pi Kappa Phi. The administration deems these organizations as “nuisances” on the OFSL website in part because their unaffiliated status supersedes OFSL’s authority to regulate their activities. OFSL is concerned that without this supervision, the students of these organizations will engage in precarious situations that may violate Penn’s code of conduct and put its members in harm’s way. “It’s an unaffiliated organization, so you can get students that are not as self-actualized as they should be, creating traditions out of risk,” OFSL Director Eddie Banks-Crosson said. In addition to gaining administrative backing, being a part of an affiliated organization grants each member legal protection. If members of an affiliated organization were to violate Penn’s code of conduct, the entire chapter would be investigated. Whereas if an unaffiliated organization commits a comparable offense, each member is investigated separately — increasing the likelihood that each SEE OFF-CAMPUS PAGE 3
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