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arty Burger was in Miami when it happened.

The 1987 Wharton graduate was about to present before the Urban Land Institute. Before he could take the stage, the first plane hit the World Trade Center.

“We all just stood there holding hands,” he said. “Everything just stopped.”

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Following Ferguson, a call for change at Penn HUIZHONG WU Staff Writer

A month has passed since 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot in Ferguson, Mo. The mass protests have quieted down, but the energy is still felt on Penn’s campus.

Not in the form of a protest, or a large-scale public demonstration, but instead by quiet planning, organizing and informal discussions.

The energy has also been focused on uniting the existing black student community at Penn. College senior Keishawn Johnson, who is the president of Penn’s chapter for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said “there is more interest in seeing the black community coalesce and

become more supportive of each other,” since the events in Ferguson.

“I think Ferguson really lit a fire,” he said.

Johnson pointed to the town hall discussion forum about Michael Brown’s death held during New Student Orientation as an example of the “renewal or energy” behind building cohesiveness. In addition, he noticed that attendance at the most recent meeting of Black Men United, a group where black male students gather to talk about the issues they face, was the highest he had seen in a while.

“It was very informal, but to have that kind of showing says a lot about SEE FERGUSON PAGE 2

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Participants of the Ferguson Town Hall, which was held at the end of last month, discussed ideas on how to encourage dialogue and actions they can take to tackle the issue of race relations as Penn students.

A HAIKU to integrate knowledge The HAIKU Conference will focus on how arts and sciences interact CASSIDY LIZ Staff Writer

It’s a new age for the humanities — especially at Penn.

Integration of humanities and the arts in research universities will take center stage this weekend at the Humanities and the Arts in the Integrated Knowledge University (HAIKU) Conference at the Penn Museum, where professors will discuss how arts and

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sciences can be integrated to create knowledge.

“There have always been moments in the history of human learning when what specialists thought they knew turned out to be wrong, when specialists realized that they’d missed something important,” said art history professor Karen Beckman, who is organizing the event. “A liberal arts education allows you to think about a problem from multiple different perspectives.”

The conference will include panels on research, translation, musicianship and

pedagogy, among other topics. Most of the participants are Penn professors who have been invited to speak about their specialties.

English professor Jim English will be part of a roundtable entitled “Making It Up: Creative Writing, Literary Study and Digital Technologies.” He will be joined by fellow English professors Lorene Cary and Al Filreis, as well as Mark McGurl, a professor at Stanford University.

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Parents: Phila. school district failed to investigate complaints JENNIFER WRIGHT Staff Writer

Seven school district parents with the group Parents United for Public Education filed a lawsuit on Wednesday claiming that the Pennsylvania Department of Education has failed to investigate complaints about “curriculum deficiencies” in the School District of Philadelphia.

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UA forms assembly to match funds to clubs SONIA SIDHU Staff Writer

Last semester, Undergraduate Assembly treasurer and College senior Amanda Acosta Ruiz had not even used the Common Funding Application to secure resources for her own club. This year, she is leading the initiative to examine club funding across the University.

Acosta Ruiz was elected last semester and also currently serves as the treasurer for the Assembly of International Students. She realized the lack of discussion amongst funding sources as she started meeting with various student groups after her election.

“I wanted to set a meeting where funding sources are together to streamline the process and make funding easier,” Acosta Ruiz said. She added that various funding sources do not know much about one another, making it difficult to refer student groups to each others’ resources.

The Funding Steering Assembly — a group of various funding sources that Acosta Ruiz started this year — met for the first time

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been dealt with properly by the state.

The petition cites Pennsylvania law, which mandates the Secretary is supposed to “receive and investigate allegations of curriculum deficiencies” but that she has failed to “conduct a meaningful investigation,” the petition to the Commonwealth Court said.

“What we want is for the court to order [the Department of Education] to do a meaningful investigation of these complaints and, if they find these problems are substantiated, to require the district to take remedial actions,” said Benjamin Geffen, a lawyer from the Public Interest Law Center who is representing the plaintiffs in the case.

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on Sept. 8 to discuss improvements to the funding process for events and clubs around campus.

The meeting discussed improving the CFA, the application used to match student groups to funding sources outside of the Student Activities Council. They agreed to increase the level of communication between funding sources and prioritize which ones student groups should contact first.

Currently, the application is built to prevent overfunding or underfunding by showing how much money has already been awarded to a certain event. However, funding sources are not interacting with the application as much as they could because they are not aware of all the features of the application, Acosta Ruiz said.

For this reason, PennLabs, the student organization that runs the CFA, opened Monday’s meeting with information on how to properly use the application. New guidelines on the application will ensure that groups only reach out to relevant funding sources. For example, political groups should reach out to political or general funding sources, not religious

allege went unaddressed include overcrowded classrooms, the lack of foreign language and physical education classes and the lack of full-time guidance counselors.

Pennsylvania state law says that schools must have at least two foreign languages other than English and “at least one of which shall be offered in a minimum four-year sequence in the secondary program (middle level and high school)”.

Parent Tim Allen alleges in the petition that at his child’s high school, “[t]hey cut foreign language to just two years.”

According to the petition to the court, the complaints were filed individually to the state and through myphillyschools.com, a website set up by Parents United and other groups to send complaints directly to the Department of Education.

Of the 825 complaints that Par-

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The Funding Steering Assembly is a new intiative that aims to bring together various funding sources to make raising funds easier for student groups and organizations on campus.

ones.

The assembly began ordering funding sources based on how specific their missions are. The first resort sources are the ones that fit into particular niches and have stricter guidelines for funding — such as Faith Fund, which can only give money to religious groups or events. However, the assembly met Monday to further clarify which sources should be

ents United for Public Education collected and sent, a few received one-page letters, but most were met with no response at all, the petition said. The letters that did come back advised the parents that it was a local issue to be taken up with the district.

“The state ultimately bears the responsibly for what’s going on,” Geffen said. “It’s odd of the state to tell parents that these are purely local problems when they School District of Philadelphia is controlled by the state.”

The current suit is unrelated to a potential lawsuit regarding the constitutionality of education funding in Pennsylvania, although the Law Center’s press release for this case indicated that one is forthcoming.

The Department of Education did not return a request for comment on Wednesday night.

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classified as first resorts.

“It’s a difficult [topic],” SAC Chair and College senior Kanisha Parthasarathy said. “Our funding sources on campus are limited, so every group’s natural response is to say that they are the last resort.”

Currently, student groups could wait up to two weeks to hear back about funding due to the meeting schedules of funding sources. In the future, the Funding Steering

Assembly will discuss how funding sources can better communicate and potentially collaborate.

Additionally, they will debate the criteria needed to receive resources.

The Funding Steering Assembly originally planned to meet monthly but will meet weekly until it prioritizes the order for student groups to approach sources for funding.

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subject or a narrow cluster of subjects, but the need for broad learning and creative combination of traditional disciplines has never been clearer than it is today,” English said.

“Within the liberal arts curriculum itself there has been a lot of shifting around — a big shift towards the humanities in the late 1980s and 1990s, a big shift toward engineering and social sciences over the last decade, a long strong rise of psychology, biology and the healthrelated disciplines for 40 years,” English added. “But these ups and downs in particular areas have been accompanied by the emergence [of] all kinds of new interdisciplinary fields so that a lot of the most important new knowledge is being produced between and among traditional disciplines.”

Penn has made a concerted effort to focus on integrated knowledge in recent years.

Since Penn President Amy

Gutmann’s announcement of the Penn Integrates Knowledge initiative in 2005, PIK professors with a keen interest in interdisciplinary research have filled the University’s campus. There are currently 15 PIK professors, a number which Gutmann pledged to increase as part of the Penn Compact 2020 initiative.

In addition, an Integrated Studies Program designed for undergraduates in the Benjamin Franklin Scholars program was launched in fall 2012. Beyond ISP, Beckman hopes there will be other arenas in which undergraduates can participate in the discussion.

“One genuine challenge that we have to work out is how to include undergraduate students in the most exciting aspects of knowledge integration projects at those early moments in their studies when they have not yet developed any deep and specialized body of knowledge,” Beckman said. “We need to have student voices participating in the discussion.”

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what the events in Ferguson did to coalesce the community,” Johnson said.

A more formal example of this type of collaboration is the Black@Penn campaign.

For the first time on Penn’s campus, graduate students have joined with undergraduate students in connecting the two populations.

Lloyd Talley, the vice chair of Black Graduate and Professional Students Assembly, founded the campaign. Talley, a first-year Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Education, said the campaign was inspired by the events in Ferguson. “We recognized how important it was to take on the importance of this responsibility because of how devastating the situation in Ferguson was for some students,” he said.

The campaign, however, is not a political one. “It’s about connecting all black students across campus who have similar experiences and having them be able to support one another,” Talley said.

The energy is also translating into concrete actions.

Two Graduate Advisors in DuBois College House, Hafeeza Anchrum and Brittany Keesling, are planning a forum in early October for DuBois residents called, “How Does it Feel to be a Problem?”

The event will provide a “safe and therapeutic environment” for students to openly discuss the relationship between the community and the law enforcement, said Anchrum, a first year Ph.D. candidate in the Nursing school.

The NAACP is also planning to hold an event in October called “Demystifying the Media” to talk about the more subtle effects of racism, such as how blacks are portrayed in national media.

Others like UMOJA — the umbrella group for black student groups on campus — are acting as facilitators for longer term projects.

At the UMOJA retreat this past weekend, students came together to plan action on issues raised by Ferguson.

They identified six areas that they want to address: 1. Direct Support/Contact With Ferguson; 2. Campus Policies; 3. Policy/Legislation (Nationally/Locally); 4. Education Initiatives for Voting; 5. Education Initiatives for the Judicial System (At Penn and in Philadelphia) and 6.

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Ebony Easley, a College senior and president of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority chapter at Penn, attended the retreat and said a major theme was about connecting and utilizing resources that are already present on campus.

“People were really thinking about mobilizing and how to get things going,” she said.

“We are all feeling this together. It’s not just an undergraduate issue, and it’s not just a graduate issue and not just a student issue,” Easley added.

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“The key issue here is that there are only certain states that have this exemption and that you have to be [in an eligible state to receive an exemption],” Wharton accounting professor Jennifer Blouin said.

After placing the order, students can email billing@chegg.com with a copy of a tax exemption certificate and order number.

Amazon does, however, offer a free year of Prime membership to college students with a .edu email address. This gives students the opportunity to buy textbooks online with free two-day delivery.

eBay does not currently have the option to file a tax reduction form.

“Normally if you purchase something on eBay, it’s the seller that is going to be paying the sales tax,” a customer service representative from eBay said.

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Unfortunately, eligibility is limited to ten states on Amazon — and Pennsylvania is not included among them.

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Students can receive tax exemptions on textbooks when ordering from Chegg.com, although this may require a few extra steps.

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You may be paying too much for your textbooks. While many students buy their course materials online to save time and money, they may be overlooking an important tax exemption. The Pennsylvania Code says that its tax exemption “is applicable only if the schools, colleges or universities sell directly or through bookstores designated by them to sell textbooks on their behalf to the students and faculty.” Sites like Amazon, Chegg and eBay have differing policies for getting your textbooks tax-free. The Daily Pennsylvanian broke down the policies regarding tax exemptions on these popular textbook websites.

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formed about current events despite an all-consuming campus culture

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came to college as a typical overeager freshman, expecting academic success, lifelong friendships and an expanded worldview. I looked forward to becoming an adult — shaping my identity through late-night discussions of philosophical issues and current events.

To a certain extent, I have had plenty of such thought-provoking debates with friends. At the same time, however, I’ve become very cognizant of the isolation that our campus community fosters.

In high school, I was generally knowledgeable about the world around me. I never spent hours reading The New York Times or The Atlantic. But between my classes, friends, family and casual Internet browsing, I managed to stay relatively well-informed.

That changed drastically when I came to Penn.

For one thing, I never realized how much I was exposed to world issues in my high school history classes and electives. I entered first semester freshman year as a biochemistry major. Most of my classes were completely lecture-based, and my homework consisted of textbook readings and problem sets.

When I wasn’t studying for classes, I was going to club events, making plans with friends or figuring out which dining hall to try next. The days passed in a blur of activities and left little room for keeping in contact with family and high school friends, let alone keeping up with the rest of the world.

I found myself relying on

my friends majoring in international relations and political science — and various friends’ Facebook statuses — to learn about major world news. I was unaware of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 and the unfolding events of the Israel-Palestine conflict for hours or sometimes days after the fact.

I fo u n d myse lf relying on my friends majoring in internatinoal relations and political science — a n d va r i o u s friends’ Facebook statuses — to learn about major world news.”

I realized that, especially given my academic focus and extracurricular interests, it was disturbingly easy to shield myself from everything outside of our small section of West Philly. And that was not okay.

Of course, I contributed to my own ignorance. I needed to make a conscious effort to stay in touch with the outside world.

At the same time, though, my problem is part of a larger campus culture.

Everyone jokes about the Penn “bubble.” It’s an unfortunate reality, though, that it’s all too easy to focus on last weekend’s parties, this week’s GBMs, next year’s classes, next summer’s internship…

MAYA RAWAL College is a unique part of our lives. We’re caught between childhood and adulthood, balancing the continued reliance on our families with the pressures of living independently. We worry about career options but still have dorm rooms and dining plans.

We get caught up in this lifestyle. But in doing so, we lose sight of the bigger picture.

Once we graduate, we can’t keep preserving our pictureperfect collegiate experience on Instagram. Suddenly, the real world with all its flaws and imperfections is staring us in the face.

Sometimes, that world has terrible, jarring, complicated problems and we need to know how to approach them. This brings me to the significance of today’s date.

Thirteen years ago, nearly 3,000 people were killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The resulting decisions and policies the United States has made since then will continue to affect us in the coming decades.

MAYA RAWAL is a College sophomore from River Forest, Ill. Her email address is mrawal@sas.upenn.edu.

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unhealthy our lifestyles can easily become

itting in the College office over a year ago after a week of hospitalization was uncomfortable at best. I could begin to feel the weight of the terrible situation I was in. Missing the last week of classes meant that half of my courses could not be completed because finals had to be in on time, no excuses. But I could always withdraw, right? Surely, I could fix this one.

What I was told afterwards still seems like a nightmarish blur in my head, but the message was clear: I would have to leave Penn. By the time I was being told how this wasn’t meant to be a punishment, that it should help me come back to school more successful, I was no longer fully listening. How would I face my family’s disappointment? How could I have gotten to my dream school only to fail so miserably?

The hardest part of being on leave was dealing with the shame of what felt like such a heavy failure. To me, every day I wasn’t in class was another day that I was being idle. It didn’t matter how much I helped my family out around the house, how much I volunteered or how many doctor’s appointments I went to. If I wasn’t a student, if I wasn’t employed, I wasn’t a productive member of society — end of story.

However, being away from Penn gave me the unique opportunity to examine my problematic habits as a student. I slept odd hours, skipped meals and took little care of my mental health. When the cushion of living at home was gone, being a full-time student felt like a

monstrosity. It wasn’t that my classes were overwhelmingly hard, but being a successful, healthy adult was something I had absolutely no idea how to do.

So much of our well-being can be sacrificed to succeed at school. I began seeing clinicians at home, changing my lifestyle patterns and volunteering for college groups. I blogged for the Leila Grace Foundation, a non-profit that educates college students on sexual assault prevention, and volunteered for Art With Impact, a group that tackles the stigma of mental illness and connects college students to mental health resources. Overall, I tried to cultivate a healthy, happy outlook before my return.

The hardest part of being on leave was dealing with the shame of what felt like such a heavy failure.”

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KATIERA SORDJAN not yet seized? Taking a leave gave me the chance to begin to reflect on these questions.

I would hope that anyone considering a leave of absence is doing so on their own terms.

But for those who find themselves in a stickier situation as I did, it is most important to find self-forgiveness. Accept what has happened, and make it your mission to not only prevent such a situation from recurring, but also learn from your mistakes and work to be the best version of you that you can be.

Now I’m back at Penn, and I feel that much more determined to reach my goals and perform at the caliber of which I know I am capable.

I’m excited to learn from professors and peers alike, to be a true part of an academic as well as a social community. I even mustered up the courage to apply for this column. In a world that moves at a dizzying pace, taking a leave can feel like an uncomfortable pause, and if not your choice, a mark of shame.

I’m here to tell you that it is not the end. In fact, you may find it to be the best decision of your college career.

KATIERA SORDJAN is a College junior from New York.

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College house cafes are now serving free refreshments

The cafes were temporarily closed because of licensing issues JESSICA WASHINGTON Staff Writer

Several College House cafes are now serving free refreshments to residents after they were preemptively closed by College Housing and Academic Services because of licensing issues.

“I think it is great and demonstrates the resourcefulness of the houses to use these spaces to meet other program objectives while we work through reopening issues,” CHAS Executive Director Martin Redman said in an email.

Harrison College House is currently giving away free coffee in its cafe space Sunday and Monday between the hours of 7 p.m. and 11 p.m., and on Friday between 4

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p.m. and 7 p.m. Coffee distribution is being handled by students.

Gregory College House is running a similar program where, in addition to coffee, the cafe is giving away tea, brownies and other drinks for free. The operation, which runs from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. to 12 a.m., is managed by students on work study and funded by the house budget.

Harnwell College House has taken a different approach, creating a recreational center for students out of the closed cafes.

Harnwell “Rec” distributes items for rent, such as CDs and games for residents, and on occasion free food. In addition to being a place for students to gather and obtain items, the Rec center also provides

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Various college house cafes, including those in Harnwell and Harrison College Houses, are offering free coffee to residents for a limited time following the suspension of the cafes’ normal operations.

jobs for students, as it is entirely student-managed and staffed.

Riepe College House’s 11th Hour Grotto is currently closed, although Faculty Master Dennis DeTurck said that since it wasn’t operating on the same scale as the other cafes — for example, it didn’t sell prepared food — “hopefully we’ll see the grotto reopened shortly, potentially in October.”

A representative from Rodin College House could not be reached for comment regarding any new initiatives to replace the cafes, although a sign on the cafe says that the cafe is closed until further notice.

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Thirteen years later, DP alums recount 9/11 JESSICA MCDOWELL Staff Writer

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I thought it was a joke.”

“It just didn’t seem like it could possibly be real.”

But the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001 were anything but a joke.

While New York and the rest of the country were sent into a fit of chaos and confusion, Penn’s campus reflected very much the same picture.

“I remember I was actually at the [Daily Pennsylvanian] office when I found out. I was doing something on the computer and someone from the photography department came in and told us a plane had just hit the World Trade Center. I don’t think I knew what to think when I heard him say that,” 2003 College graduate and former DP reporter Samantha Melamed said.

“A bunch of us were standing together watching the TV when the second plane hit, and then other reporters just started showing up. We all knew this was something we would need to cover,” she said. “I don’t think I immediately processed what had happened. I could see it on the TV, but really understanding what it meant — that took a while.”

Another DP alum, 2004 College graduate Marla Dunn remembers a similar sense of shock and confusion. “I remember I woke up early to meet with an administrator for a story I was working on, and I just remember hearing the news. Obviously my meeting was canceled, but I just didn’t really know how to process it. I think I showed up to my meeting anyway,” she remembers.

Today, 13 years after the initial attacks, we know exactly who was behind the terror and what it would mean for the next 10 years of American politics and foreign policy. But in the initial wake of the attacks, much less was certain.

“At the time, we didn’t really know what was going to happen. I mean, would there be more attacks? There was just no way of knowing. Ten years of war — that was just unimaginable,” Melamed remembers.

For most students, the events of 9/11 were difficult to comprehend, but they hit closer to home for some more than others.

“I’m from the D.C. area, so my first instinct was to get in touch with my family,” Dunn

said.

In the immediate wake of the attacks, there was a definite feeling of concern on campus for the safety of the students, and for Philadelphia in general. However, as more time passed, the danger seemed less imminent.

“Once it was clear that there weren’t more planes flying into buildings, people started to calm down,” Melamed remembers.

In the days after 9/11, even local students in New York didn’t venture off their campuses. Still, just two days after the attacks, on September 13, 2001, Melamed and a team of other reporters and photographers from the DP took a train to New York to cover the scene on the ground.

“The first thing I remember is just taking the Amtrak up first thing in the morning and, as we got closer to the city, seeing the skyline without the World Trade Center. It was just so surreal,” Melamed said.a 2002 College graduate and former DP photographer Jacques-Jean Tiziou was with Melamed in New York that day.

“When we got there, memorials were already set up and people had started grieving. There was still this huge cloud of smoke and dust over the city two days later,” Tiziou said.

The atmosphere in the city was completely out of the ordinary.

“We got off the train at Penn Station, and it was just eerily quiet for New York.

Everyone was in a state of shock. There were American flags everywhere, and I remember seeing people just in Washington Square Park crying and comforting each other,” Melamed said.

“A lot of roads were blocked, and actually getting to the site was really difficult. People were mourning everywhere,” Tiziou said.

While the emotional tolls were severe, the physical toll on the city was equally catastrophic. An estimated 2,996 people died as a result of all of the hijackings, including hundreds of people on the ground and relief workers. Thirteen years later, the Freedom Tower and the rest of the new World Trade Center complex are just now nearing completion.

In the days after the attacks, the city was still numb. The feeling of security and safety had yet to return, but still “it never occurred to me not to go,” Melamed said. “It was just something we had to cover.”

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PennDesign professor Gary Hack was on his way to his office at Penn when he got the call. It was his daughter, telling him of the Sept. 11 attacks.

He arrived in Meyerson B-1, where “I watched the towers collapse, along with most students and faculty of our school,” he said in an email. “I will never forget the horror.” The event was especially poignant for Hack, having worked in Two World Trade Center 10 years earlier.

At that moment neither man could imagine the role they would play in

rebuilding the World Trade Center site.

Thirteen years later, Burger is now CEO of Silverstein Properties, the developer at the World Trade Center. Since joining the company in 2010, Burger has been responsible for financing and leasing four of the six skyscrapers in the World Trade Center complex.

“I’ve been very fortunate to have the opportunity to work on these types of projects,” Burger said.

Although Silverstein Properties had the development rights to the entire center after the attacks, they gave the rights to develop two of the buildings to the Port Authority

of New York and New Jersey. This included the right to World Trade Center Five as well as One World Trade Center, or as it’s more commonly known, the Freedom Tower.

Penn further played a role in developing the site before construction even began.

In 2002, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation hosted an international competition for entrants to submit plans for the World Trade Center’s redesign. Daniel Libeskind, then the Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture, assembled a Penn design team. Their proposal, entitled “Memory Foundations,” won the competition.

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The Penn team will be remembered for proposing the tower’s emblematic height of 1,776 feet, same as the year the Declaration of Independence was signed, also making it the tallest building in the western hemisphere.

“It needed something that distinguished itself from all the other towers of similar height,” Hack, who was on Libeskind’s proposal team, said. “Rebuilding it was viewed as a statement about the durability of the American spirit; identifying it with the date of American independence would make this memorable.”

Later in the design process, architect David Childs joined the project and altered some of the team’s plan due to security concerns. Childs is currently the project architect of One World Trade Center.

For Burger, the road to developing the World Trade Center began during his freshman year at Penn. While

making his housing plans for his second year, Burger decided to buy and renovate a townhouse on Delancey Street where he could live and rent out to his friends. His first real estate deal sparked an interest that would turn into a life-long passion.

“Directly it was my Wharton experience that lead me into real estate,” he said.

One World Trade Center is expected to open sometime later this year. Silverstein Properties opened Seven World Trade Center in 2006 and Four World Trade Center in 2013. Two, Three and Five World Trade Center are still under construction. The National 9/11 Memorial Museum opened this past May. “After much delay and debate, people are again working on the World Trade Center site, and the museum records the event for all times,” Hack wrote in his email.

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THREE UP, THREE DOWN

Quakers aim to stay hot during homestand W. SOCCER | Penn will try to stay undefeated during the weekend

BY COLIN HENDERSON Sports Editor Following an opening weekend in wh ich Pen n women’s soccer won two matches, the Quakers (2-0) will look to keep up the good vibes in their home matches against St. Francis (Pa.) tonight and William & Mary on Sunday. Going against the winless Red Flash, the Red and Blue will be heavily favored to win their third straight match to start the season. Here are some of the reasons why this is the case, and a few reasons why Penn needs to be careful not to slip up.

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Sophomore midfielder Linsey Sawczuk notched a key goal in Penn’s last match, an overtime victory against Old Dominion. The Quakers will look for young players like Sawczuk to continue to contribute to an offense in need of firepower.

Three Up Clutch play: To start last season, the Red and Blue notched two 4-0 wins, kick-starting a run that would eventually lead Penn to a 12-1-4 overall record.

The road to start this campaign has not been an easy one, with Penn winning both ga mes it has played by only one-goal margins. It took the Quakers overtime to win their last match against Old Dominion courtesy of a goal by freshman Kristen Miller. While they may not have

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shown dominance yet, this early experience should bode well for the Quakers if it is a close match against St. Francis.

Penn’s defense: When you think of Penn women’s soccer, you should think of defense.

Last year, the Quakers featured one of the top statistical backlines in the country. With several difference makers — like back Haley Cooper and keeper Kalijah Terilli — returning, the same should be the case this year. They may have given up an uncharacteristic two goals in their last match, but the Quakers’ defense should stand tall tonight.

Winless opponent: St. Francis is currently 0-6 on the year, not i nclud i ng a n ex h ibit ion contest it also lost. The Red Flash have been shut out in four of their six matches. To boot, they have been outscored by a combined total of 14 goals. Not to rub it in, but it hasn’t been pretty. This should be a golden opportunity to pick up an early season win.

the Quakers’ Achilles’ heel last season, and it looks like that may be the case once again this year. Despite winning both of their matches, the Quakers have only been able to produce two goal scorers in regular time thus far. Penn will look to its young players — like sophomore Lindsey Sawczuk , who notched a key score against Old Dominion — to provide a spark offensively moving forward.

Conditioning: Pen n has played significantly less competitive soccer than St. Francis has to start the season. This will be the team’s third match in five days, with the last having gone into overtime, and the first significant test of its overall conditioning. It will be interesting to see if the Red and Blue have the legs to fight through the fatigue.

NCAA implications: Despite putting up a very strong overall record and impressive team statistics last season, the Quakers were snubbed from last year’s NCAA tournament. This year, they won’t want to ta ke any chances, and a loss to a winless Three Down team would not look good on Penn’s scoring: Offense was their resume moving forward.

Optimism reigns as Red and Blue open with local meet

XC | Big 5 meet is first test for talented lineup

BY SAM ALTLAND Staff Writer

The adage goes “It’s a marathon, not a sprint,” but starting a distance race on the right foot sure can’t hurt.

Penn cross country will get to take its first steps of the season this Friday in the annual Big 5 Invitational race, hosted by Temple at its Belmont Plateau course. This early season contest between Penn, Villanova, Saint Joseph’s, La Salle and Temple will provide both the men’s and women’s teams the opportunity to get their 2014 campaign set in the right direction.

Both squads enter this season ranked highly within its region.

The men enter the fall ranked fourth in the Mid-Atlantic, while the women enter the fray in the sixth position.

For yet another year, Villanova will be the greatest obstacle that Penn will face in the early part of the season.

Villanova enters Friday’s race ranked second in the Mid-At-

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lantic on the women’s side, with the men claiming the top spot in the preseason rankings after winning the regional championship last year. The Quakers will race against this Big 5 rival four times in the next six weeks, and this race may be an excellent barometer for Penn’s ability to challenge the top programs in the region.

“While this might just be a stepping stone, I think we will actually do quite well,” coach Steve Dolan said. “I have been very impressed with the team’s overall fitness level and the work that has been done over the summer, so I think we can expect to see a very good team result.”

However, Dolan and his runners have more important things on their minds than team scores at this early stage.

“It’s been a while since most of us have been in a competitive race,” senior Conner Paez said.

DP FILE PHOTO “So this race is really to help us transition and get ready for some A team captain in 2013, senior Conner Paez will lead the Quakers as they take of the more important races in on their local rivals in Friday’s season-opening Big 5 Invitational.

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batch of freshmen will make their debut wearing the Red and Blue on Friday, an occasion that is always a cause for excitement and optimism.

Last year, then-freshman Cleo Whiting placed third overall at this event in her first-ever collegiate race to start one of the best freshman seasons of any Penn women’s cross country runner.

While there may not be a breakout star like Whiting emerging from the pack this year, hopes are high that the freshman class can make significant contributions to the team.

“The freshmen have trained

really well in this preseason, and I’m very excited to see them go out and compete,” Dolan said.

“The burden of setting the pace will ultimately fall on the upperclassmen, which should give the freshmen the opportunity to get up and run with the group. After that, it’s all about running hard for the second half, and it should be fun to watch.”

Friday will be only the first hurdle in what is for some of these athletes an eight-monthlong competition season, and putting the right foot forward could go a long way towards making it a success.

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Quakers to give the best their very best shot VOLLEYBALL | Match vs. No. 1 Stanford highlights trip to California

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A few short days after a tough nonconference loss to Delaware, Penn volleyball will get a shot at No. 1.

This weekend, the Quakers will travel out west to compete in what looks to be their greatest challenge of the year: the Stanford Tournament in Stanford, Calif., hosted by the topranked team in the country.

The Quakers (2-2) are coming off of a tough loss in the nest of the Blue Hens, losing in three sets on Tuesday.

This weekend, the Red and Blue will look to get back on the right side of the .500 mark. However this will not be an easy task, as they will first face a strong Santa Clara team. The

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6-1 Broncosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; only loss of the season came at the hands of a familiar foe to Penn, Ivy rival Harvard.

The Quakers will hope to start the tournament with a win, and as absurd as it sounds, Santa Clara is just a warmup in comparison to the other foes Penn will be going against on Saturday.

On Saturday, the Quakers will have an early â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 11 a.m., to be specific â&#x20AC;&#x201D; matchup with the No. 1 Car-

dinal (4-0). Penn will have to bring its absolute best if it wants to make Stanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stay at the top a short one. The Cardinal earned their No. 1 ranking only after beating previously unbeaten Penn State in five sets last Friday.

A few hours later, the Quakers will take on No. 20 Duke to close out their Saturday doubleheader. The Blue Devils (5-1) have won three out of their last four matches.

Though the performances of junior setter/rightside hitter Alex Caldwell and junior outside hitter Alexis Genske have been superb this season, the Quakers learned against Delaware on Tuesday that one stellar performance is not enough to secure a victory, as 32 team errors overshadowed Caldwellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 12 points.

Penn will need to be firing on all cylinders to have any hope of defeating the Broncos, Cardinal and Blue Devils this weekend. Such an effort would erase the bad memories of Tuesday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and then some.

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Although she is better known for her skills in doubles play, senior Sol Eskenazi won the singles tournament at the 2013 Cissie Leary Invitational after teammate Sonya Latycheva dropped out before the finals match.

W. TENNIS | 18th annual Cissie Leary Invitational awaits

Nine other teams will descend on the Hamlin Tennis Center this weekend, including Ivy rivals Harvard, Princeton and Yale.

This weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tourney will be the Red and Blueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first experience with the new NCAA Division I dual meet format.

No-advantage scoring has replaced regular scoring in both singles and doubles matches, with doubles matches being shortened to six games. The simplified scoring system and shortened doubles matches are expected to significantly quicken the pace of play.

If last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results are any

BY IAN WENIK Sports Editor Penn womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tennis lost one of its all-time greatest coaches back in November 1996 when Cissie Leary died of scleroderma.

This weekend, the team will once again uphold her memory. From Friday until Sunday, the Quakers will host the 18th edition of Learyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eponymous tournament.

indication, this iteration of the tournament should have plenty of Red and Blue success.

Last year, then-junior Sol Eskenazi and then-sophomore Sonya Latycheva advanced all the way to the finals of the singles tournament. However, before they could play each other, Latycheva pulled out due to injury and conceded the title to Eskenazi by default.

With the two doubles partners both still on campus and competing for the Quakers, a rematch could be in the cards.

And there would be no better way to honor Learyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memory.

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During the tenure of Steve Bilsky as Penn’s athletic director, Columbia hired M. Dianne Murphy as its AD. The two were members of the Ivy League television subcommittee.

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Palestra and Franklin Field were complemented by new facilities like Penn Park, Rhodes Field and Meiklejohn Stadium.

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Columbia’s lack of land with which to create new fields, yet Penn still went above and beyond when working on new fields.

Looking at on-the-field success, Columbia caught up to Penn in non-marquee sports while Penn kept its edge in men’s basketball and football titles, something Bilsky used as a metric for success.

The stats say it all. Columbia has won most of its titles in a handful of sports: archery (which Penn doesn’t have), fencing, men’s golf, men’s tennis and baseball. Meanwhile, Penn has won titles in 13 sports that both schools have compared to in 10 sports by Columbia.

And in those marquee sports of football and men’s basketball, Penn has six titles while the Lions haven’t been very close to a title in either sport for the last two decades.

So despite Columbia’s improvements, the Lions don’t quite measure up to Penn over the last

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decade. That’s not surprising since Penn has historically won more titles. But the gap has gotten smaller.

Could Columbia overtake Penn in Ivy titles in the next decade? All of that truly depends on who takes over its athletic department.

While Grace Calhoun is firmly in place as Penn’s Athletic Director, we probably won’t know Columbia’s next AD until 2015. And Murphy’s legacy in Morningside Heights extends far past wins and losses or the actions of the athletic department.

Regardless of how you think she handled certain issues at Columbia (the Spectator summarized their opinion pretty well), her impact in advancing the Ivy League as one of the eight ADs during the last decade is crucial to remember.

Her successor will have to build upon her success in Ivy championships, improve marquee sports programs and be a steady voice within in the Ancient Eight.

What a comparison.

STEVEN TYDINGS is a Wharton junior from Hopewell, N.J., and is senior sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at tydings@ thedp.com.

edged 2-1 by No. 9 Old Dominion last weekend.

The visiting squad is hoping that freshman Alynn Richardson — who was named NorPac Rookie of the Week after regis-

tering her first collegiate goal against Old Dominion — will continue to give the offense a boost.

The Quakers have found their own rookie threat in Alexa

eliminating scoring opportunities altogether, trying to do that in creative ways,” Fink said.

Holding together the back end for Penn is senior MaryRose Croddick . “[She has] been a centerpiece to our defense,” Fink said of the veteran.

A welcome addition to Penn’s defense has been sophomore Columbia transfer Claire Kneizys, whose relationship with Fink goes back years.

“I coached [Claire] when she was in middle school and high school at the club level, so I’m pretty familiar with her game,” Fink said.

Made up of faces new and old, Penn’s defense will look to be the latest unit to give Liberty’s attack trouble.

Liberty (1-3) is averaging only about one goal per game, but that is in large part because JOSHUA NG/DP FILE PHOTO of the stiff competition it has faced. The Flames fell to No. 12 Penn field hockey’s defense, led by senior MaryRose Croddick, has been solid Stanford in late August and were so far in 2014, surrendering only two goals over the course of two matches.

Hoover, who was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week after posting a hat trick in her first game against Lehigh.

This weekend, the Quakers hope to replicate their high-octane performance against Lehigh and move on from their empty effort against Bucknell.

“I think we need to make our opponents a little more uncomfortable when we are in the attacking part of the field,” Fink said.

“We’re just gonna have to play our game. I think our games complement each other, so I think it’ll be a good weekend.”

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FIELD HOCKEY

C R OSS C O U NTRY TOUR

PENN VOLLEYBALL AND MEN’S SOCCER ARE TAKING LONG TRIPS TO THE WEST COAST THIS WEEKEND. WITH THAT IN MIND, LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE PLACES THAT PENN ATHLETICS WILL BE VISITING DURING THE FALL SPORTS SEASON.

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SEATTLE, WASH. (SEPT. 12 AND 14)

TERRA HAUTE, IND. (NOV. 22)

Vs. Fairfield Vagelos Field Friday, 4 p.m.

M. SOCCER

Vs.Seattle University Seattle Friday, 7 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL Vs. Santa Clara Santa Clara Friday, 7 p.m.

Red and Blue prepare for tough trip

M. SOCCER | Trip brings three Quakers back to their doorsteps

BY HOLDEN McGINNIS Sports Editor

Traditionally, a trip across the country doesn’t bring a team closer to home, but Penn men’s soccer isn’t like most teams.

When the Quakers (2-0) take their trip to Washington this weekend to face Seattle University (2-1) and No. 10 University of Washington (2-1), three members of the team — senior Lou Schott, sophomore Matt Poplawski and freshman Marc Kaizi-Lutu — will find themselves near their hometowns and playing against familiar foes.

As a senior, the trip holds special significance for Schott, a Medina, Wash., native, who looks forward to playing close to home and eating some home-cooked meals.

But while the chance to play near home is definitely on his mind, Schott’s first thoughts were about the games themselves.

“I want to beat them. I want to play well against a bunch of kids I

Seattle University 2-1 Friday, 10 p.m. EST Seattle, Wash.

No. 10 Washington 2-1 Sunday, 4 p.m. EST Seattle, Wash.

know,” Schott said of his reaction to hearing about the schedule. “It’s nice to be able to go home during the semester.”

In what will be the team’s longest and most-challenging road trip of the season, the team will benefit from the ability to have a home away from home with the families of their players. It should particularly provide comfort for Schott, Poplawski and Kaizi-Lutu.

“I think we’re going to get their best effort. They’re going to be very comfortable in the games because they’re familiar with a lot more players,” coach Rudy Fuller said of the Washington natives.

“It might be a little different if we were going to a different part

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Perpetual comparison in the Ivy League STEVEN TYDINGS

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s one of eight Ivy League institutions, Penn is perpetually compared to its

peers.

For example, just a few days ago, College Factual ranked Penn as the No. 1 college in the nation. But the U.S News and World Report’s ranking had

Penn at No. 8 behind four of its fellow Ivy schools.

On the athletic field, however, there seems to be no need for a comparison or ranking: The Ivy League schools play each other for Ivy titles, and the stats clearly say who is the best — after all, the Ivy League is primarily an athletic conference.

So after the announcement that Columbia Athletic Director M. Dianne Murphy will step down after the 2014-15 academic year, it is easy to look at how Penn has performed in relation to its Empire State rivals.

And when you look at over-

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all titles, Penn seeks out a 31-26 edge since Murphy took over in 2004-05. Look at the decade before Murphy took over (the first 10 years of Steve Bilsky’s tenure as Penn’s AD) and you see that the Red and Blue hold a much more significant 42-13 advantage.

Many questions easily arise from those numbers: Why did Penn win fewer titles? How did Columbia have so much success, at least, numerically compared to prior years? Does any of this actually matter? And how much will the Ivy League miss Murphy?

When looking at Murphy’s tenure, you can see some significant renovations and additions to athletic facilities, including the Campbell Sports Center within the Baker Field complex that houses many of Columbia’s sports.

But compared to Penn, Columbia falls short in terms of athletic facilities.

During his time working in Weightman Hall, Bilsky put together an even more impressive resume of renovations and new fields. Renovations to the

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Senior midfield Lou Schott, a Medina, Wash. native, will have the opportunity to play against tough competition in Seattle, just minutes from his hometown.

Penn’s defense to face another big test FIELD HOCKEY Fairfield and Liberty bring potent attacks

Vagelos Field

BY SEAMUS POWERS Staff Writer

LIBERTY 1-3

After a solid opening weekend at Vagelos Field, Penn field hockey will look to use two more nonconference games to shape into form ahead of Ivy play.

The Quakers (1-1) will host Fairfield on Friday and Liberty on Sunday, two teams that figure to give the Red and Blue a test on their AstroTurf.

When the Stags (2-2) trot down to University City on Friday, Penn will be on the lookout for sophomore Ann Burgoyne. The shifty attack has been Fairfield’s biggest offensive threat thus far with six points in four games.

The Quakers, who have put a premium on their toughness this season, will see to it that Burgoyne works for everything she gets on the Red and Blue’s half of the field.

FAIRFIELD 2-2 Friday, 4 p.m.

Sunday, 11 a.m.

Vagelos Field

“Our slogan is ‘true grit,’” coach Colleen Fink said. “We’ve been defining true grit as a lot of different things. One of the primary things is the notion of resilience. I think that really transcends into the defense.”

It would seem that the Quakers have taken the mantra to heart — the squad gave up just two goals in its pair of games to open the season against Lehigh and Bucknell last weekend.

Senior goalie Allison Weisenfels made a strong debut behind a defense that worked effectively to prevent opponents’ offensive opportunities.

“We’ve been really working on

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