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College senior’s death ruled a suicide

Theodric Reed dealt with depression throughout college years HARRY COOPERMAN & LAUREN FEINER City News Editor & Deputy News Editor

The death of Theodric Reed, a College senior who studied English, was ruled a suicide, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed.

Reed, who died on Aug. 24, was 22 years old.

A memorial service was held

for Reed near his home in Santa Clarita, Calif., over the weekend.

Reed had a history of depression throughout his college years. He saw therapists both at Counseling and Psychological Services and at home, and took a leave of absence during what would have been his sophomore year to deal with his depression.

Over dinner two days before the suicide, Reed and his mother, Linda Douglas, talked about Penn and his return to campus this semester. In the middle of the conversation, Reed sudden-

ly said that Penn wouldn’t care if he committed suicide, but would only care if he committed suicide on campus, Douglas said in an interview Sunday night. That was the second time he expressed that sentiment to his mother.

Reed still enjoyed Penn, “as much as someone as depressed as he was” could, Douglas said.

She once asked if he ever regretted applying to Penn early decision. He would do it over again if given the chance, he responded.

“As soon as he set foot on

campus, he knew that was the school for him,” Douglas said in an interview two weeks ago, after Reed’s death. “He was a good kid, and a mother couldn’t ask for a better son.”

Reed started his freshman year in the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business. The summer after freshman year, he started seeing a therapist in one-on-one sessions one to two times per week, his mother, Douglas said.

He continued with therapy until he returned to campus after a yearlong leave of absence. As a

sophomore — no longer in the Hunstman Program, but an English major — Reed began seeing a counselor at CAPS, Douglas said.

The following summer, Reed did not receive counseling, but his mother became concerned with his behavior after he returned to Penn in his junior year. She called his former counselor at CAPS in hopes of gaining insight and help. The counselor told Douglas that her son did not need any intervention, she said.

At home, Reed’s therapist

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The School of Medicine opened and became the first medical school in the United States. Medical students paid for admission tickets to attend each lecture, which were held near 5th and Walnut.

Two hundred and fifty years later, much has changed. The number of students has burgeoned from 14 to 1,783 and these students have contributed to countless medical discoveries.

As the school celebrates its 250 year anniversary, the Daily Pennsylvanian looks back on its history.

The School of Medicine held its first commencement, with ten medical students receiving their bachelor’s degree (M.B.).

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The School of Medicine extended the length of each course to six months hoping that other medical schools would follow suit.

By 1853, no other medical school had done so and Penn reinstated 19-week courses.

Penn falls to eighth in U.S. News rankings MATT MANTICA Copy Editor

After rising from eighth to seventh last year, Penn has fallen back down to eighth in U.S. News and World Report’s rankings of the nation’s best colleges.

Many factors are taken into account other than the conventional factors of retention and graduation rates as well as the excellence of the faculty.

U.S. News takes into account location, campus life and academics while putting together the rankings.

Last year, several methodology changes were made to reduce the weight of input factors, such as high school class

standing and graduation rate performance.

“The methodology differs from years past in its focus on outcome measures from universities as opposed to what students look like when they enroll,” stated an article The Daily Pennsylvanian published at this time last year.

The ranking comes after Penn’s 14.4 percent increase in the application pool for the Class of 2018 and subsequent yield of 66 percent, the highest since the Class of 2011.

Penn tied with Duke University this year. The University was also tied with Duke last year, as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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expressed a similar opinion as the CAPS c o u n s e l o r.

“She actually said, ‘He’s definitely not THEODRIC REED depressed,’” Douglas re- College senior called of a conversation with his California-based therapist.

Douglas believes that coun-

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Four men graduated and received the first doctor’s degrees (M.D.).

1861 The Surgeon Generals for both the North and the South during the Civil War were graduates from Penn.

Six percent of the Union doctors and 26 percent of the Confederate doctors were Penn graduates.

The 10th anniversary of PennApps may bring new and exciting changes to the health care system.

This year, for the first time, PennApps is partnering with Penn Medicine to connect medical professionals and some of the student programmers who attend the hackathon in the hopes to bring new-age coding ideas to an older health care system.

College junior Alex Wissmann, a co-director of the event, is optimistic about the impact that PennApps Health may have on the future of medicine.

“The issue is that hackers familiar with these technologies don’t commonly work with those familiar with the healthcare system,” Wissman said in an email. “The event will bring hackers together with staff and students from the medical field.

I’m hopeful that it can be the start of something really cool.”

Mitt Coats, a medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine and an organizer for PennApps Health, is also excited for the opportunities that this new event could provide.

In an age where all medical

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>> PAGE 1 selors did not recognize Reed’s depression in part because he hid symptoms from counselors and peers.

“He didn’t present himself as being depressed. He didn’t like that label,” she said. More “aggressive” and regular sessions with counselors may have illuminated the issues he faced, she added. “If they did that they’d see that what he’s telling them is different than the life he’s living.”

Kathryn Lin, a 2014 College and Wharton graduate who was in Reed’s Huntsman class, said she felt Reed “was a really great person that a lot of people didn’t get to know.”

College and Wharton senior Max Wolff, who was Reed’s freshman year roommate, was also in the Huntsman Program and kept in touch with Reed through the years at Penn. “Anyone who ever came in contact with him I know will say he was a nice, totally what-you-see-iswhat-you-get, genuine guy,” Wolff said. Penn paid for Wolff to travel to California for Reed’s memorial service over the weekend.

Reed’s death is the fourth Penn student suicide since the start of last school year. After

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2014 three student suicides last semester, Penn President Amy Gutmann announced the creation of a student mental health task force to study the state of mental wellness at Penn. The task force will present recommendations to the president and provost by the end of 2014, and expects to present preliminary ideas to student groups later this month.

In a statement made in the days after Reed’s death, the University said: “We were all deeply saddened to hear of his death, and Penn staff have reached out to his family in California to do everything we can to be supportive.” A University spokesperson declined to comment further for this article.

Victor Schwartz, medical director at the Jed Foundation, an organization that promotes mental health and suicide prevention on college campuses, emphasized the importance of reaching out for help and opening up when dealing with mental illnesses like depression.

Schwartz also advised students who are worried about friends’ mental health to point to specific examples of concerning behavior — for example, skipping classes or drinking more — when recom-

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He added that treatment is beneficial in the vast majority of situations. “There are sometimes bad outcomes, but that doesn’t mean that help is not happening,” Schwartz said. “Help helps, but we can only help you if you ask for help.”

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Fraternities seek new members in ‘dirty rush’ ZAHRA HUSAIN Staff Writer

Greeks are on the prowl for new members. Just two weeks into the school year, fraternities are already scouting out potential pledges in the process commonly known as “dirty rush.”

Dirty rush gives fraternities the opportunity to look for freshmen they feel fit in well with their chapter, and it allows freshmen to get to know some of the fraternities before formal rushing begins at the start of second semester.

During the same time, fall recruitment takes place, allowing upperclassmen to join Greek life if they did not previously join a fraternity. While official fall rush focuses on upperclassmen specifically, dirty rush targets newly-arrived freshmen.

One student involved in Greek life said that fraternities tell members not to use the word rush when interacting with freshmen.

Brothers place notes under freshmen’s doors or send them email invitations to various events. Potential new members are often scouted through current brothers’ extracurricular activities or other commitments, the student said.

“What I’ve noticed [in my fraternity] is that invitees are often from the same places, ethnic or religious backgrounds or specific academic programs as the brothers who invite them,” said one Penn student, who is currently part of his fraternity’s effort to find the next pledge class.

The student went on to say that about once a week, the fraternity will host freshmen they want to get to know better through social events involving food, music and drinking games.

In order to keep track of potential members of the next pledge class, the fraternity —

like many others — keeps a document of freshmen, the fraternity brother said. The document includes basic information as well as comments on how the current members believe the new recruits will fit in. Even recent alumni add recommendations and comments about new members.

“Some people feel that there is no future for the organization without a budget for dirty rush,” the student went on to say. “While some of the comments are funny, and it’s all been harmless, I do see that this system is a bit wrong,” he added, noting his own experience dirty rushing his current fraternity.

Another Penn student spent the earliest part of his first semester socializing with various fraternities before he stopped receiving invitations to their events. “Dirty rushing is so fun.

You feel like the best, until you get cut and it’s all over. Then it sucks,” he said of the process.

This student recalls getting envelopes with wax seals under his door. Sometimes, the fraternities signed the invites, but other times, freshmen were just given an address and a dress code, he said.

The same student shared an anecdote of his friend, who complimented a brother’s Rolex during one dirty rush party. Afterward, the brothers took him and a few other freshmen on an all-expenses-paid bar and club crawl in Center City.

“The environment was chill.

You got to meet the brothers and get a general feel for the environment. Often, the events are parties they invite you to, or date nights,” the student said, adding that many of the events were planned so that potential members had to bring girls.

“They were definitely judging you based on the girls you

brought,” another student who participated in dirty rush said.

“They were always watching.”

He estimated that well over half of the pledge classes of the two fraternities he dirty rushed decided their pledge classes during first semester, before official rush even began at the beginning of the spring semester.

“The entire relationship [between a freshman and the brothers] is based on engaging you as a freshman, not getting to know you as a person,” said another student who dirty rushed for his entire first semester, only to receive no bids during formal rush.

During formal rush, the student said he tried to reach out to an older friend from home who was in a fraternity where he hadn’t dirty rushed. “My friend told me I had messed up because they had pretty much finalized the pledge class first semester,” he said.

A student currently dirty rushing fraternities said that the events are already beginning this year.

“Some people on my floor, myself included, were given a letter to join a frat for a barbecue. I also know that two of my hallmates were invited to watch Monday night football with a couple different frats,” he said. He added that none of the invitations used the specific phrase dirty rush to describe the events.

Director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life Scott Reikofski said that while fraternities cannot hold rush events for freshmen in the fall or promise bids for formal rush, they are allowed to invite potential members to come listen to a visiting speaker or participate in community service activities.

“I’m not going to regulate who’s friends with whom,” Reikofski said.

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Undergraduate Assembly plans to bring back College Day College Day, last held in 2012, invites local students to visit Penn SONIA SIDHU Staff Writer

On Sunday night, the Undergraduate Assembly met officially for the first time this semester and discussed College Day, updates to transportation at Penn and club treasurer training sessions.

College Day The Social Justice committee is planning to bring back College Day, an event where West Philadelphia middle and elementary school students are invited to visit Penn to become better acquainted with the daily life of a Penn student. The students can attend a class and parents can learn about financial aid. College Day had been an annual event until 2012, as it was not held last year due to a lack of a clear organizer.

Representative and College sophomore Ray Clark mentioned that he hopes to bring it back in order to “immerse students in college life” through groups of 50 students, though the project is still in the works.

One representative suggested partnering with groups such as the Penn Education Society to reach out to West Philadelphia schools and see if any of the student groups that engage with West Philadelphia would be interested in getting involved.

Updates to Penn Transportation As mentioned in an earlier DP article, the Dining, Sustainability and Facilities Committee is in the early stages of revamping Penn Transit. Committee chair and Col-

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West Philadelphia middle and elementary school students experience the daily life of a Penn student during College Day 2012, which was not held last year. The Undergraduate Assembly discussed bringing back this event during Sunday night’s meeting.

lege sophomore Kat McKay said that she reached out to Business Services about the initiative. She also mentioned that chair of the SEPTA Youth Advisory Council Jeff Kessler contacted her regarding potentially adapting SEPTA for Penn students.

One representative suggested

that the UA collaborate with other groups on campus or engage in more research going forward. President Joyce Kim mentioned that Harnwell and Rodin college houses offered free shuttles to Trader Joe’s in the past.

Club Treasurer Training UA Treasurer and College senior

Amanda Acosta Ruiz mentioned discussion with the Student Activities Council to develop a club treasurer training plan, one of the three initiatives for the upcoming year.

Because some club treasurers are not aware of the various funding sources, these training modules will help illuminate potential areas

Penn researchers explain link between low heart rate and criminal tendencies The sensation seeking theory can explain some criminal behavior JILL GOLUB Staff Writer

New research suggests that criminal tendencies may derive from low resting heart rates.

While past studies have shown that criminals and people who engage in anti-social behavior tend to have low resting heart rates, the precise biological link remained unclear.

Criminology professor Adrian Raine worked with Ph.D. student and 2010 College graduate Jill Portnoy — who collaborated with Raine on her senior thesis while an undergraduate at Penn — and three criminologists from other universities to explore the link.

The team found that the link between heart rate and criminal tendencies was the sensationseeking theory, which Portnoy said is common among people with low heart rates who exist in a state of lower arousal.

“This is an uncomfortable physiological state, so these people do things like commit crimes to increase their heart rate to a more optimal rate,” Portnoy said.

Portnoy and the other researchers used data from the Pittsburgh Youth Study to examine 16-year-old boys. The study measured heart rate at rest, during a cognitive task and during a stressful task and asked the boys to report on their levels of aggression and fill out a questionnaire about their personality — specifically in regards to sensation-seeking activities.

“The findings demonstrated that the relationship between low resting heart rate and aggression was almost entirely abolished after controlling for sensation-seeking,” Portnoy said.

The team’s findings brings to light new approaches in crime prevention.

One way to reduce chances of antisocial behavior in individuals with low resting heart rates,

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Portnoy said, is to provide opportunities for enrichment with pro-social stimulation, like sports. These activities would fulfill the desire and need for stimulation that could otherwise result in criminal behavior.

The study also sheds light on criminal punishment and the notion that a person with a low resting heart rate should not be punished equally to someone with a normal resting heart rate who commits the same crimes or engages in similar acts of aggression.

Raine is no new face to the

biological side of criminology.

In 2013, Raine published a book entitled “The Anatomy of Violence,” which summarizes the link between biology and criminology and discusses the societal implications for prevention, prediction and punishment.

“I think very broadly, the more we learn about brain-behavior relationships, the more people become more understanding, compassionate and merciful,” Raine said. “I’m not saying this is right, I am just saying this is what we know from social neuroscience.”

to reach out to for funding, Acosta Ruiz said. The treasurer plan would likely consist of a series of modules with a quiz at the end of each section.

Acosta Ruiz suggested a twopronged approach to cover groups both funded and not funded by SAC. The SAC-funded groups

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Acosta Ruiz said that she hopes to get some sort of training program completed by spring semester, but is waiting to receive feedback from student groups.

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THE DANALYST | The extravagance of NSO may be gone, but there’s still plenty to be

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t’s NSOver.

Classes started two weeks ago, but the fact that NSO came and went hasn’t caught up with me. My friends and I still swap stories from our first nights at Penn, most of us are still sick from too little sleep (I’ve learned that “NSO cough” is an adequate explanation when my poli-sci lecture hall sounds like an ad for Mucinex) and we still wave to people we half-recognize from endless rounds of icebreakers. Even though classes have started and we’ve replaced Quad hangouts with Van Pelt study sessions, the effects of NSO linger.

For me and many other freshmen, NSO was one of the best weeks of our lives. Yes, it was exhausting, and yes, we got really tired of small talk, but NSO didn’t give us enough time to feel anything other than amazement that we were here. We loved the constant bustle of orientation, the running from meeting to assembly to floor bonding to fratting. We learned to parse through small talk or found some way to suffer through it, and learned that after asking, “So where are you from?” a hundred times, we could actually find friends. I spent my first night at Penn on the patio outside my friend’s room in

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Hill, eating microwave popcorn and blasting EDM just for the fun of it. Cliche as it sounds, I felt like I was exactly where I was supposed to be.

“Real college,” though, seems entirely different. NSO packed our schedules with “mandatory” events during the day and sleepless nights, but now that we’re settling into our classes, we realize we can’t fill every minute with friends. We feel that we’re constantly supposed to be doing something, but we’re never sure what that something is. We

pop up in a 40-person GroupMe, I barely see some of the people I claimed as my NSO best friends.

The fact is, we’re in the rocky transition stage. We pencil events into our schedule, we mull over whether or not to get a jump on that Spanish assignment due in three weeks, but we’re still trying to fit ourselves into the mold of college kids. For me, at least, the hardest part about Penn hasn’t been the work — although the first full week of classes will probably change that — but wading through details I never gave

Real college isn’t as easily romanticized as NSO was, like in those times when I lock myself out of my room or forget my Spanish binder on my desk or discover all the dining halls are closed.” remind ourselves about opportunity cost — or have our Wharton friends do the reminding for us — but we don’t really know time management skills other than typing furiously into a Google Calendar. What’s more, it’s difficult to navigate the relationships we formed during orientation.

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much thought to back home. Attempting to eat a balanced diet is more difficult than I anticipated, and budgeting my money and time is a skill I can’t seem to pick up fast enough.

More than anything, though, I’m learning to accept the “meh” moments. Real college isn’t as easily romanticized as NSO

DANI BLUM was, like those times when I lock myself out of my room or forget my Spanish binder on my desk or discover all the dining halls are closed. Convocation seems like it was six months ago. I don’t want to accept that Penn’s losing its sparkle. I want to re-believe in the glossy admissions brochure images I taped to my wall back home, and to not feel gypped when every day isn’t an adventure.

Recreating NSO is impossible, but there’s still wonder to be found in every Hill brunch and a-ha! moment I have in class.

Penn just started — let’s not act like we’re tired of it.

DANI BLUM is a College freshman from Ridgefield, Conn. Her email address is kblum@sas.upenn.edu. “The Danalyst” appears every Tuesday.

Cannabis prohibition: fiscally flawed, morally bankrupt

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t’s time to talk about weed.

And no, we’re not talking about last Friday night at the bio pond. It’s time to talk about the discriminatory, wasteful War on Drugs.

Our drug policy has been an unqualified failure. While we understand change will happen gradually, immediate steps can be taken to decriminalize marijuana possession in Philadelphia and legalize medical cannabis statewide. These actions alone would put Pennsylvania on the path to a sensible drug policy.

The facts about marijuana policy are sobering. Though usage rates are essentially the same between blacks and whites, blacks are five times more likely to be arrested for possession of cannabis in Philadelphia. And according to the US Sentencing Commission, drug sentences for black men were 13 percent longer than comparable punishments for white men. Weed is not just the butt of stoner jokes — it is a vehicle of policy efforts to institutionalize racial inequality and codify discrimination.

Further, marijuana prohibition is expensive. A 2012 report pegged the cost of enforcing simple possession charges at about $2.5 million. Plus, legal-

GUEST COLUMN BY PENN DEMS izing marijuana would mean being able to tax it — a potentially multi-million dollar new revenue stream. In a city whose public schools face a perilous financial crisis, spending such exorbitant amounts of money on a racist and ineffective zero tolerance drug program is negligent and irresponsible.

But, thankfully, there are people who understand the problem and are trying to affect change.

The Philadelphia City Council voted 13-3 to decriminalize the possession of up to an ounce of marijuana. Instead of being arrested, risking jail time and having a drug offense permanently stain their record, residents found in possession of marijuana would simply be subject to $25 tickets — and, upon payment of the ticket, the city would expunge the charge.

This bill is a no-brainer. To issue criminal charges — and their attendant ramifications, including substantially diminished eligibility for employment — to disproportionately black men and women simply for possessing a non-addictive, non-harmful plant is lunacy.

But lunacy, sadly, has come to define our drug policy. The City Council bill remains stalled.

While Philadelphia arrests 360 people each month for possession of small amounts of cannabis, Mayor Michael Nutter has let the bill sit on his desk. He has called it “simplistic” without outlining any comprehensive vision of reform himself, and he parrots the ineffectual “Just Say No” rhetoric that just doesn’t work.

Marijuana decriminalization is not the only prong in our fight.

In the Pennsylvania General Assembly, State Senator Daylin Leach has introduced PA Senate Bill 1182, the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Act, to legalize medical marijuana for patients with a physician recommendation. The bill is commonsense reform and has bipartisan backing, but Republican Governor Tom Corbett stands in the way.

The governor has repeatedly issued veto threats to Sen. Leach’s bill. His support is crucial — it would give political cover for more Republicans to vote in favor of the bill, virtually guaranteeing its passage.

Instead, the bill remains mired in the swamps of partisan politics.

Worse, Gov. Corbett’s opposition is incoherent. He has been stunningly incapable of articulating legitimate grounds for his hostil-

ity to the bill, even contradicting his small government principles by attempting to pass the buck to the federal government.

America does not have a drug problem — America has a drug policy problem. The War on Drugs is a pandemic, and we do not pretend that these policies are a panacea. Still, the City Council’s and Sen. Leach’s prescriptive measures are steps in the right direction, and we can’t afford to miss the forest for the trees.

Mayor Nutter, Governor Corbett, the ball is in your court.

You can act to end these costly, destructive policies. And if you don’t, it’s up to us to vote for representatives who will.

We cannot afford to stand idly by as our city wastes millions of dollars each year to turn chronically disadvantaged poor and minority men and women from workers to inmates. It’s time to pass these bills — the costs of inaction are too high to ignore.

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hen I raise my head mid-text to check my surroundings on my walk to class, there’s one thing I always notice: Many of the people around me still have their heads down, absorbed in their own little screens.

There are a lot of things I could say about this that have already been said: We are addicted to our smartphones. We no longer notice our surroundings. Our technological dependency is making us socially inept at best and downright rude at worst.

We can’t even speak to those around us, yet we are incapable of being alone with our thoughts.

Some of these concerns are more valid than others, but they all paint the same picture: Technology is killing our real relationships and replacing them with smartphones and tablets. Soon, we’ll be part of a dystopian landscape of lonely individuals, each staring at our respective screens, our emotions blunted with only our computers to keep us company.

And on the surface, this picture may not be far from the truth. I don’t doubt that a snapshot (Snapchat?) of the near future might reveal a lot of eyes glued to tablets or surveying the world through Google glasses, but why are we so quick to condemn this shift as isolating?

Perhaps we should give ourselves the benefit of the doubt and consider that there’s more to our love of texting than an obsession with shiny electronics and instant gratification.

It’s hardly the case that we always know what’s good for us, but we are not so stupid as to perpetually force ourselves into entirely unsatisfactory interactions.

SOPHIA WUSHANLEY person we want to talk to, no matter where they are.

As a result, we have more say regarding the people we keep in our lives. Our circle of friends might better be described as a web of connections we maintain more by choice than convenience.

Our friends are our friends because we like them, not because they live nearby.

Furthermore, technology allows for conversations that otherwise might not be had, and connections that otherwise wouldn’t be made. For introverts, a digital interface can be a godsend when the intensity of face-to-face interaction is too great a barrier to overcome.

And as for the common lament that technological communication is too superficial, we need to ask ourselves if it’s replacing anything that wasn’t superficial to begin with.

It’s easy to overestimate how deep most of our face-to-face conversations really are.

Texts and emails that replace mundane small talk and logistical planning aren’t depriving us of deep conversation. Who among us hasn’t complained about the shallowness of brief introductions and perfunctory pleasantries?

As convenient as it is to blame our smartphones for the fact that our exchanges aren’t thoughtful enough, this argument doesn’t hold water. We’re all free to put down our phones if that’s what it takes to think criti-

Texts and emails that replace mundane small talk and logistical planning aren’t depriving us of deep conversation. Who among us hasn’t complained about the shallowness of brief introductions and perfunctory pleasantries?”

There’s a significant and legitimate human connection to be gained from the texts, the Snapchats and the Facebook messages. We’ve all welled up reading a Facebook post or gotten butterflies in our stomachs from a text message — the intensity of the communication is still there, in all its visceral reality.

In fact, what we’re observing is not the decline of meaningful interaction, but a fundamental shift in how we conduct it. We have a lot more options now, and our adjusted behavior might suggest that these new choices are more enriching than they are stifling.

To begin with, arbitrary factors that once determined who we could call our friends have diminished in importance.

For example, our interactions are no longer limited by geographical location.

We can, at any moment, connect with exactly the

cally, and asserting that they’re capable of dumbing us down requires more evidence than an appeal to Twitter’s character limit.

Of course, we haven’t given up on seeing people in real life, and I don’t think we ever will.

Face-to-face interaction is almost undeniably irreplaceable, and we all make much better dinner dates when we leave our phones in our pockets. But consider the idea that the new landscape of social interaction isn’t so bleak after all. For every person smiling at her screen, there’s someone who wrote the words she’s reading. A phone is just an interface, and we’re all still people.

SOPHIA WUSHANLEY is a College senior from Millersville, Pa., studying philosophy. Her email address is wsophia@sas.upenn.edu.

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Penn Q&A creates new safe space Members of the new group wrote their constitution last weekend

Wharton sophomore Kevin Lin and Wharton and College sophomore Eliot Oblander are part of Penn Queer and Asian, a new studentfounded organization on campus.

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“I never met [a] gay Korean before,” Ian Jeong, a sophomore in Nursing, said. “When you grow up in an environment where there aren’t many out Asians, you feel isolated.”

The 40-50 students who are involved with Penn Q&A — Queer and Asian — are aiming to remedy this problem. The club creates a safe space specifically for them, which has not existed on campus before.

Many Asian American students are involved in either Asian or LGBT communities, but hardly ever both. Jeong has observed that they are more likely to join an Asian community than a group in the Lambda alliance. Even within Queer People of Color, a student group on campus, the representation of Asian queer students was relatively low because a lot of them were reluctant to be active members, he said.

“Gender binary is very strong in [the] Asian community,” Jeong said.

In addition to creating a community on campus, the group aims to support queer asian students.

“Being Asian and LGBT, we have our own specific issues we have to deal with that other LGBT minorities don’t have to,” Kevin Lin, a sophomore in Wharton and the founding member, said.

For instance, coming out to traditional Asian parents is a huge challenge.

“A lot of East Asian countries in the older generations don’t recognize the existence of LGBT youth,” Eliot Oblander, a sophomore in College and Wharton, said. “They see it like a disease brought in by Westerners.”

Q&A is at the very early stage as a nascent organization.

The members wrote their constitution Saturday, and are currently seeking recognition from Lambda Alliance — the um-

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brella organization for LGBT student groups — and Asian Pacific Student Coalition.

The group is currently encouraging a sense of community within the members with upcoming social events.

Q&A is a space for everyone.

Out queer students can meet other queer people. For those who are selectively out, the group is a safe space where they can be open, Jeong said.

Even for those who haven’t come out yet, Q&A is an assurance that there is a supportive community. “We want to be very visible,” Jeong said. “Just by being visible, people will know there is a group they can go to.”

The number of LGBT-related student organizations on cam-

pus is growing, with many of them targeting a specific demographic. Last semester, students founded a club for International LGBTQ students. Existing niche LGBTQ groups on campus include Queer Ladies at Penn, J-Bagel and Queer Christian Fellowship.

“There are both pros and cons of many niche organizations,” Bob Schoenberg, director of LGBT Center, said. “Pro is that students have identified a place where their specific identities and needs can be addressed.”

On the other hand, Schoenberg also suggested the possibility of collaboration between many organizations can be difficult.

“It’s both an opportunity and a challenge,” he said.

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Penn surgeon and lecturer D. Hayes Agnew attended to President James Garfield after Garfield was shot during an assassination attempt.

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Penn Taiwanese Society and Chinese Students’ Association celebrated Mid-Autumn Festival last night with traditional paper lanterns, mooncakes and a view of Center City at the Radian. MidAutumn Festival is an official harvest festival that falls on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese calendar, when the full moon can be observed.

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Frances Starn were taken aback when one Penn student responded that he had never been asked that question before.

The encounter led them to realize that the general student body does not have feasible means to reach administrators and change policies at Penn in a concrete way, Raman said.

IMPACT magazine and the Undergraduate Assembly will partner to lead the Student Solution Sessions, where groups of seven to ten students will meet for an hour each week for

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“How would you change Penn?�

That was the question on IMPACT magazine’s presentation board at GreenFest — an event hosted by the Penn Environmental Group — last March. College seniors and co-founders of IMPACT Valentina Raman and

five weeks to discuss areas they think Penn should change. Discussions would seek solutions for topics ranging from mental health to minority group integration to academic curriculum, Raman said. “The main difference between the aim of this and a typical discussion is that this is a continuous discussion and aim for a solution,� College sophomore and chair of the Student Life committee Daniel Kahana said.

The solutions will be formulated entirely by the students,

but presented to the administration by the UA. “People don’t realize student government is a power and they don’t use it,� Starn said. “People don’t recognize them as avenues for change.�

Although there will be separate groups at the program’s inception, if multiple groups discuss the same issue, IMPACT and the UA will combine the groups in an effort to reach a common written solution proposal to present to the administration.

The UA hopes to use their relationships with administrators to facilitate the implementation of solutions. “[The] UA understands how different sections of the administration work and that’s where we can come [in] and [decide] which ideas to run with more than others,� Kahana said.

After the the mental health task force was formed without student representation last semester, these sessions will encourage students to suggest ideas.

“[Penn students] have the mental faculty to figure out the answers to these problems,�

Starn said. “It’s trusting Penn students in a way that I don’t feel like administration or higher ups have done before.�

Raman said that administrators will likely not attend these events because the sessions are supposed to be an open space to discuss issues and bring power into the hands of the students.

The sign-ups for the sessions are open online to all students and will close later this week.

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As this event is the first of its kind, Coats knows to keep expectations reasonable. “There is a temptation to think that we are going to make the next big thing,� Coats said. “Yet the point of these hackathons is to have fun and to get people interested in creating new things and thinking about problems in a hands-on way.�

Staff members from the Medical School, Penn Center for Innovation and the University of Pennsylvania Health System will learn the basic tools needed to construct a web application in a series of coding tutorials leading up to the event.

>> PAGE 1 records have become digital, it is imperative that medical professionals understand the complicated systems that can ultimately save or hurt their patients The electronic medical record (EMR) has been under scrutiny from doctors for being technically confusing and hard to maneuver.

PennApps Health may be a step in solving these issues. “Every aspect of our physical lives is starting to have an electronic imprint,� Coats explains. “Coding has this nerdy subculture, but I think people should understand the basic languages that go into the things they use every day.� “When I found out about PennApps I thought this would be a

“The idea isn’t to turn people into little coding prodigies over the weekend,� Coats said. “The idea is to give people the nuts and bolts of building a web app that could be published in a weekend.�

Just before the PennApps main events on Friday, a health and medicine fair will be held, during which the student hackers can meet their medical mentors and review the data and hardware that will be accessible to them for their hacking needs.

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Jerome Allen: Penn recruit

Quakers will compete exclusively out of the city.

However, travel will not be too much of an issue for them.

Apart from trips to Indiana for the Notre Dame Invitational and the NCAA Championships for a select group of runners, the team will only have to travel out of state as far as Princeton, N.J. The schedule has remained

relatively static from this year to last, with one notable change: the replacement of Pre-Nationals with the Notre Dame Invitational on Oct. 3.

This addition should provide elite competition for Penn’s top runners — including junior Thomas Awad and sophomore Cleo Whiting — earlier in the year than Penn’s schedule allowed for last year.

As is always the case for cross country, the Ivy League stand-

ings are entirely determined by the Heptagonal Championships, a meet followed directly by NCAA Regionals and Nationals. As a result, the meets preceding will be viewed largely for team and individual development, but not necessarily success.

Heptagonals will not be run until the beginning of November, but between training and negotiating its unique schedule, Penn cross country should have plenty to do until then.

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Penn basketball coach Jerome Allen came to campus in the fall of 1991 as a highly touted prospect for then-coach Fran Dunphy.

Allen quickly found a starting spot in the Quakers lineup, helping lead the team to a strong reign of dominance in the Ivies.

Dunphy said at the time that he didn’t expect Allen to step right into the starting lineup but that he was hoping Allen would “challenge the four returning guards for playing time and, somewhere during the course of the season, possibly start.”

T he Qua kers had played through consecutive losing seasons to begin Dunphy’s tenure as coach. While the Quakers wouldn’t win the Ivy title in the 1991-92 season, they laid the groundwork for an era of dominance. Allen did make his way into the starting lineup, starting 20 of the 26 games he played while averaging 12.2 points per contest.

In Allen’s sophomore, ju-

BY STEVEN TYDINGS From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ Students currently enrolled at Penn haven’t seen a time when anyone other than Jerome Allen was the head coach of Penn basketball. But that time did indeed exist.

On Sept. 10, 1991, then-head coach Fran Dunphy gave The Daily Pennsylvanian a sneak peek into what he thought about the players he had recruited to join the Red and Blue. One of those recruits was a 6-foot-3 guard from Episcopal Academy (Pa.) named, you guessed it, Jerome Allen.

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— showed that their class certainly has the ability to create opportunities for the team, some of the best play came from the second unit of forwards against Drexel.

The Quakers boast one of the best pairings of forwards in the Ivy League in sophomore Alec Neumann and senior Duke Lacroix, yet when they were pulled for Levenfiche and senior Mariano Gonzalez-Guerineau the team didn’t particularly lack in offense.

With the pair in, Penn scored both of its goals against Drexel and still seemed effective in producing goalscoring opportunities.

Goal-scoring was never an issue for the Quakers in their championship campaign as the team put up a league-high 12 goals in conference games. Fuller and his coaching staff have to be happy with the output, though obviously the defense will have to shore up for later team success.

One of the revelations of last season’s championship run was the per-

nior and senior seasons, Penn didn’t lose a single Ivy game, going a perfect 42-0 in that span led by Allen and guard Matt Maloney.

However, it wasn’t just Allen that made Dunphy’s recruiting class special. Allen was joined by 6-foot-7 forward Shawn Trice, who became a starter in the frontcourt for the Red and Blue in a short span.

Scot t Kegler, a 6 -foot-5 guard, and 6-foot-6 forward Eric Moore would also play parts in the Red and Blue’s impressive run.

All of this added up to a pretty impressive class that Dunphy introduced to Penn’s campus in the fall of 1991.

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Senior running back Mike Beamish played a big role for sprint football in 2013, rushing for big yardage out of the backfield. One of his top games came in a 28-14 victory against Cornell when he ran for 190 yards, a game-high total.

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516 yards overall on the evening.

It was also a strong defensive effort by Penn, which picked up five sacks. Then-sophomore Ed Cai contributed three of those quarterback takedowns.

3. Airing it out: After losing their opening game, the Red and Blue went to the air to pick up a solid win against Mansfield at Franklin Field. McCurdy teamed with the starting quarterback from the 2012 campaign, Keith Braccia, to throw for five touchdowns, taking down the Moun-

taineers, 42-14.

For a while, it looked like Penn might fall for the second straight week, as the Quakers were down, 14-7, at the half. However, they found a way to score 35 points in the second half while shutting out the Mountaineers. The Red and Blue finished the game with 294 yards passing compared to just 87 from Mansfield.

4. Cancelled?: The Quakers were preparing for a game at Navy in early October as if it were actually going to happen.

“As far as we’re concerned, we have a game on Friday,” freshman quarterback Mike McCurdy

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formance of then-sophomore goalie Max Polkinhorne. While he was solid in both games this weekend — only truly responsible for two of the goals given up — Penn can’t expect to win every game where it gives up three goals.

So while there are certainly a number of kinks for Penn to work out in their pursuit of the Ivy League title, opening weekend dissipated any fears that the Quakers were going to falter from their turnover this offseason.

The upcoming weekend places the Red and Blue in a pair of incredibly tough games against ranked opponents, where any sign of early season jitters will be deadly.

If the Quakers can clean up their defense and better convert their opportunities, they should pose stiff opponents to both Seattle and Washington. At the very least, their offense, fresh with new faces, should be able to apply the pressure.

HOLDEN MCGINNIS is an Engineering sophomore from Gladwyne, Pa. and is a sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at mcginnis@thedp.com.

said at the time. “We have to be prepared, be in the right mindset.”

But the Department of Defense announced that all Navy sporting events — other than the Navy-Air Force football game — would be cancelled due to the government shutdown at the time.

Navy’s press release at the time said that the game would be “rescheduled as the calendar allowed.” As a result, Penn added a week to its schedule, heading to Annapolis in early November for its final game of the season. The Quakers ultimately lost, 34-14.

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Picking up where they left off

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With time winding down and the score tied at three, junior Forrest Clancy dropped in a perfect cross at the feet of senior forward Duke Lacroix,, who tapped it in for the game winning goal against Central Connecticut State. The win gave the Quakers a two-game sweep in their opening weekend.

Miller Time

Women’s soccer fell down, 2-0, against Old Dominion on Sunday, and it looked like an impending loss for coach Darren Ambrose’s squad. However, the Quakers fired three unanswered goals, as freshman Kristen Miller provided the game-winner in her second career game.

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Hats off to the Captain Field hockey dominated to say the least on Friday against Lehigh, scoring nine goals — the highest total in coach Colleen Fink’s time at Penn. Senior captain Emily Corcoran contributed in a big way, putting five shots on goal and adding a hat trick.

Efficiency Personified Junior setter and rightside hitter Alex Caldwell registered an astounding seven kills, 17 assists and 13 digs versus zero errors. Her incredibly efficient performance led the Quakers to a straight sets win over Colgate in their season opener.

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With a well-placed boot from outside the box, walk-on Levi Levenfiche had his first career goal against Drexel to put the Quakers up 2-0. “I kept going for it, it got to a point where I thought ‘you know what, may as well have one,’ and that’s where the magic happens,” the sophomore said.

Kendall’s got you Covered

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Freshman outside hitter Kendall Covington — a highly touted recruit coming out of high school — had a lot of promising moments over the weekend. None came at a more opportune time than her game-winning kill against Cleveland State. With the score notched at 24-21 in the third set, Covington gave the Quakers their second straight win to start the season.

Hello Neumann After a relatively quiet first game against Drexel, sophomore forward Alec Neumann found some opportunities against Central Connecticut State, converting a pair of first half goals to put the Quakers ahead early.

Filling In

Senior Allison Weisenfels had some big shoes to fill in goal for field hockey, taking over for first-team All-Ivy goalkeeper Carly Sokach. However, she filled in admirably in her first two career starts, giving up just two goals in Penn’s opening weekend.

Bringing home the Hardware >>>

Junior outside hitter Alexis Genske — along with fellow junior Alex Caldwell — were named to the Crowne Plaza Invitational All-Tournament Team. Coach Kerry Carr called them “the cornerstones of the offense.”

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Women’s soccer got its season off on an interesting foot, with Mount St. Mary’s gifting an own goal to the Red and Blue early on in Friday’s match. From there, goalkeepers Kalijah Terilli and Katherine Myhre shut out the Mount in a 1-0 win.

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enn men’s soccer answered all of the questions this weekend.

And though the team also opened up some new ones — where was the defense early against CCSU? How many good opportunities does it take to score a goal? — it also emphatically answered the one question hanging over the team this off-season.

How would the Quakers deal with the loss of such a strong senior class?

After all, last year’s seniors seemed irreplaceable by the end of the season, both from their presence on the field and off it as the leaders of the team. From starting backs Jonny Dolezal and Nicky Yin, to the Kinn brothers and Stephen Baker, the team had plenty of personalities in their senior class.

So when the team moved on to its practices in the spring, there was clearly a void to be filled on and off the field.

And against Drexel, it became evident from the first whistle — when three freshmen were in the team’s starting eleven — that this was a Quakers team that was already thinking towards the future.

“I thought the first-year players that came on did great, obviously Austin Kuhn and Levi [Levenfiche] got their first goals, but quietly Sam Wancowicz was strong at the back,” coach Rudy Fuller said.

Though the Quakers were starting a few new players, the real fireworks started flying when the reserves started coming in in the early second half.

Freshman midfield Kuhn found his way into the game in the 46th minute, and in the 53rd, Kuhn found the back of the net for his first career goal and the first goal of Penn’s season.

One big question mark for the team was the offensive depth with Baker gone and not a forward to be found in the freshman class. Though Kuhn and freshman back Luka Martinovic — who contributed an assist in the second game of the weekend SEE MCGINNIS PAGE 9

Penn XC faces unique schedule CROSS COUNTRY | Eight meets set for Red and Blue, none at home

BY COLIN HENDERSON Sports Editor In almost any sport, if you spend the fewest minutes on the field of anyone on the team, it makes you a scrub or a benchwarmer, monikers to which athletes have never taken a liking.

In cross country, though, this same condition makes you something different entirely: a star.

It only makes sense, then, that Penn cross country would apply this same brand of less-is-more reverse logic in its scheduling process, as the team has the fewest scheduled competitions of any Penn fall sport.

Although the team currently has eight meets listed on its schedule, the average runner will probably compete in fewer than those eight.

With meets scheduled in South Bend, Ind. and Bethlehem, Pa.

on consecutive days, runners will likely be relegated to one or the other. Additionally, only a select group of runners will compete in the season’s final meet at Nationals, depending on individual and team results.

Thus, a healthy Penn runner can expect to compete in at most six races this fall. By comparison, Penn football and sprint football — sports more well known for their physicality — have 10 and eight games scheduled respectively.

Penn cross country team also has a unique schedule in another sense: Due to the campus’ lack of running-friendly real estate, it is the only fall sport without a scheduled competition at home.

The closest the Red and Blue will come to a home meet will be in their first meet of the season, this Friday’s Big 5 Invitational at nearby Belmont Plateau.

From that point forward, the SEE CROSS COUNTRY PAGE 9

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Sprint football’s top 2013 moments Quakers fight through government shutdown to solid 2013 season

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Cross country coach Steve Dolan must contend with a fall season schedule devoid of home meets for the Quakers.

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With a strong alumni game, a government shutdown and the mercy rule, Penn sprint football had an interesting 2013 to say the least. The Quakers played a solid schedule in the Collegiate Sprint Football League, winning both of their Ivy games while falling against both service academies. Let’s take a look at the top moments from last fall.

1. Senior Night massacre: Penn came into a matchup with Princeton after losing to Post a week before by 31 points. However, the Quakers turned the tables in a six-day span, beating down rival Princeton on Senior

Night, 72-29. It got bad enough that the Tigers had to call the game due to both the score and their shorthanded roster. Thenfreshman Mike McCurdy threw for 351 yards on just 17 passes, contributing four touchdowns, while then-junior Mike Beamish ran for three TDs. Needless to say, it was a great way to close out the Red and Blue’s home slate.

2. Overtime unnecessary: The Quakers went to six overtimes against Cornell in 2012, but not a single second of extra time was needed last season.

Then-sophomore Joe Raso ran in two touchdowns from short yardage while Beamish had a strong game, rushing for 190 yards.

Penn out-gained the Big Red significantly, putting together SEE SPRINT FOOTBALL PAGE 9

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