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Eastern campus to be more walker-friendly

The four task forces will also focus on alcohol and drugs and mental health ZAHRA HUSAIN Staff Writer

On the heels of the anti-hazing working group formed last December, administrators and members of the Greek community have now formed four new task forces to proactively examine issues facing Penn’s Greek community.

The task forces will focus on four key issues: alcohol and drugs, hazing, sexual assault and mental health. Students, staff and possibly some faculty will compose the task force, Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life Director Scott Reikofski said. The groups, which have not yet met, will convene every two or three weeks. At their first meetings, each group will establish goals about what it wants to focus on and accomplish.

The formation of the four Greek task forces was partly due to the anti-hazing working group’s success in addressing issues before they became larger problems. The new groups, however, will be more specifically focused on Greek life.

The Interfraternity Council “was a reactionary group last semester, and this inhibited our ability to be proactive,” IFC President Jimmy Germi, a College senior, said. Germi feels the progress of the four task forces will improve Greek life at Penn by tackling issues proactively.

The task forces will meet over the course of the semester with the goal of creating proposals that can be implemented in the spring. Recommendations can consist of anything from IFC policy changes to changes in party registration protocol.

Though the task forces will work primarily with the IFC, Germi said that in cases such as the sexual assault task force, it was important to include the PanHellenic Council as well as the larger Penn community.

The task forces will also look to other schools’ policies as potential models for Penn.

While each of the task forces will focus on a single subject,

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Eastern campus to be more walker-friendly

University City District is researching how to revitalize the streets at the edge of Penn’s campus

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University City District is looking into ways to improve the streets leading up to the east of Penn’s campus and to make it more pedestrianfriendly.

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The Penn community will be more likely to venture beyond campus lines once University City District transforms urban streets northeast of campus into vibrant hubs.

UCD is studying urban revitalization methods in order to create a more welcoming environment on the streets leading into campus. Gehl Studio, a world-renowned urban design consulting firm, was recently

hired to help analyze the study area, which encompasses the streets from the Schuylkill River to 33rd Street and from Arch Street down to Walnut Street.

Since the study area anchors the northern and eastern edges of Penn’s campus, if the study’s proposals come to fruition, renewed streets in the area will spur more movement from Penn to other parts of the

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LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION AT DILWORTH PARK “Ratatouille” appeared on the big screen in the recently renovated Dilworth Park near City Hall on Tuesday. The outdoor movie screening is part of a larger series, Pictures in the Park, which will screen a Hollywood blockbuster every Tuesday until Oct. 28. The next movie slated for this makeshift outdoor cinema is “Inception.”

Former track athlete Map tiles by Stamen Design charged with reckless assault, criminal mischief Timothy Hamlett pleaded not guilty on Monday HARRY COOPERMAN City News Editor

Former Penn track athlete Timothy Hamlett, a College junior, was charged with multiple charges of criminal mischief and one charge of reckless assault on Monday, his lawyer confirmed on Tuesday night.

Hamlett was charged last week with offenses that occurred in May, his attorney, Jason SEE ARREST PAGE 3

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Whartonite nominated for as country’s top college entrepreneur KENDRA HONG Contributing Writer

One Penn student hopes to help Wharton transform its entrepreneurial spirit.

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SEPT. 5 –SEPT. 11, 2014 BURGLARY:

FIRE INCIDENT:

Sept. 5, 2014: An af f iliated 20-year-old male, an affiliated 18-year-old female and an affiliated 19-year-old male reported that their belongings, including money and phones, were stolen at 5:00 a.m. at 4033 Pine St. The rear door was found to be half-open and there was no sign of force entr y. An unaffiliated 24-yearold male was arrested for the burglary.

Sept. 6, 2014: A plastic cup caught on f ire and was ex tinguished at the Alpha Tau Omega chapter house (225 S. 39th Street) at 8:15 p.m. Penn Police and Philadelphia Fire Department responded and the building was cleared. No one was injured.

ASSAULT:

Sept. 5, 2014: An unaffiliated 56-year-old male was placed in a choke-hold and then punched in the face by an unaf f iliated 25-year-old male due to a verbal dispute at 6:48 p.m. at Nara Restaurant (4002 Spruce St.). The police requested the suspect to leave the restaurant, but the suspect refused and fought the officers. The 25-year-old male was then arrested.

Sept. 10, 2014: An unaffiliated male reported being struck multiple times by a unknown person after exiting the Penn Bookstore (3601 Walnut St.) at 3:00 p.m.

FRAUD:

Sept. 6, 2014: An af f iliated 22-year-old male reported that after losing his wallet at the intersection of 40th and Walnut Streets at 11:00 p.m., fraudulent charges were made using his missing bank card.

Sept. 10, 2014: A suspect used to false identity to active prepaid credit cards at Wawa (3604 Chestnut St.) at 12:44 p.m.

DRUNKENNESS:

Sept. 7, 2014: An unaffiliated 21-year-old male was arrested after was he was observed to be shouting obscenities and visibly intoxicated on 4000 block of Locust Street at 12:05 a.m.

HARASSMENT:

Sept. 5, 2014: A confidential harassment was reported.

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TRESPASSING:

Sept. 6, 2014: An unaffiliated 26-year-old male was cited at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (3401 Civic Center Blvd.) at 1:02 a.m. after he was observed to be sleeping in building without valid reason after visitor hours had ended.

Sept. 7, 2014: An unaffiliated 26-year-old male was cited after he entered private premises without permission at 3409 Walnut St. at 6:01 p.m. The suspect received warning before he entered.

Sept. 10, 2014: An unaffiliated 27-year-old male was cited after he was observed on private property at Penn Life (4508 Chestnut St.) at 12:02 a.m. The suspect had been warned not to trespass on the property by police.

PUBLIC URINATION:

Sept. 5, 2014: A student was cited for public urination on 3600 block Locust Walk at 1:44 a.m.

Sept. 6. 2014: Three students were cited for public urination on the intersection of 37th St. and Locust Walk at 1:31 a.m.

Sept. 7, 2014: A student was cited for public urination on 4000 block of Locust Street at 2:12 a.m.

THEFTS:

Thefts from Buildings: 7 Retail Thefts: 5 Bike Thefts: 4 Thefts from Vehicles: 4

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fever spikes.

“I’m trying to do my part to revitalize the entrepreneurial part of Wharton,” he stated.

“It’s sort of up-and-coming, and whatever I could do to help the school is great.”

Goldstein was announced as a top-five candidate in August, and voting, which ends Friday, is now underway for the winner of the title.

Targeted towards parents, this smart thermometer, originally dubbed LifePatch, can be used to track children’s temperatures.

“There is an electronic chip in a Band-Aid that sticks on the child’s side,” Goldstein explained. “It sends a system to the cloud and allows [parents] to monitor from anywhere in the world using [their] phones.”

His team is comprised of three other Penn students, including his friend Collin Hill, a Wharton junior.

Hill was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma before his freshman year at Penn.

Bouts of chemotherapy damaged his immune system, resulting in frequent infections and high fevers. One day, Hill woke up to a 104 degree fever and was rushed to the emergency room — an experience that propelled him to work toward preventing similar life-threatening situations in the future.

“That was the genesis of the idea,” Goldstein said. He then realized that parents with small children could also benefit from a temperature-monitoring product, and began tailoring it for use by infants and their parents.

Goldstein and his team have started a fundraising campaign for FeverSmart on Indiegogo, a crowd funding website. The hope is to raise $40,000 in order to manufacture the product in China and deliver it to customers.

Goldstein and his team have already designed FeverSmart, and the product is ready for manufacturing once the money is raised.

“All we have to do is to press

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THE ATTAINMENT AGENDA: State Policy Leadership in Higher Education A roundtable discussion featuring faculty from across the University: Laura Perna, Joni Finney, Wendell Pritchett, and Laura Wolf-Powers Wednesday, September 17, 4:30 PM - 6 PM Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room 340 Scan the QR code to register or visit: www.publicpolicy.wharton.upenn.edu

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Wharton junior Aaron Goldstein developed FeverSmart, a smart thermometer device. His team includes Penn students William Duckworth, Becca Goldstein, and Collin Hill.

the button on the manufacturing machine, and start shipping them,” he said. “That’s pretty exciting.”

Recently, University City Science Center’s Digital Health Accelerator agreed to mentor FeverSmart throughout

its development. The Center also gave Goldstein and his team office space and funding.

With these resources, Goldstein said, he hopes to transform the health care system by creating an innovative digital health space.

“With the advent of cellphones, health care is going to be mobile, and it’s going to be preventative,” Goldstein added.

Some day, Goldstein hopes FeverSmart will be sold in stores nationwide.

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Three Greek chapters come to Penn Delta Sigma Phi, Sigma Lambda Upsilon and Phi Beta Sigma start recruiting ZAHRA HUSAIN Staff Writer

There will be more opportunities to join the Greek community this year.

The Interfraternity Council will welcome Delta Sigma Phi back to campus after the fraternity left Penn around 1960, and two new multicultural Greek organizations will also join the Greek community at Penn.

Two representatives from the DSP national office came to do a site visit at Penn last week. DSP could not be reached for comment.

It is unclear why DSP left in the first place, Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life Director Scott Reikofski said. “I can say that in the late 1950s/early 1960s, a lot of fraternities ended up closing down

because not as many men were in college and those that were, many of them just weren’t joining fraternities,” Reikofski added.

A new fraternity can join Penn after a vote by the IFC. Because Penn now has many fraternities, the IFC is trying to limit the number of additional organizations coming to campus.

IFC President Jimmy Germi said, “Now we have around thirty fraternities, so it’s important to consider whether more will detract from the existing ones. If a new organization won’t fill a unique niche, then we need to focus on recruitment for the existing fraternities first.”

The IFC voted on the re-colonization of DSP at the end of last semester. National branches approach the IFC to start a chapter at the school because they want to increase recruitment, and they believe the chapter will fit in well with the community, which Germi

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noted is very focused on philanthropy.

Germi stressed the importance of the chapter finding its own place in the community. For example, an engineering fraternity considered colonizing at Penn a few semesters ago, but ultimately, the match didn’t seem right. Recently, Penn has seen one or two new IFC organizations attempt colonization on campus each year.

The Multicultural Greek Council will also welcome two new chapters this year.

Sigma Lambda Upsilon, also known as Senoritas Latinas Unidas, Inc. is a citywide sorority chapter, meaning members from nearby schools including Drexel, Temple and Bryn Mawr are all part of the same chapter. Citywide chapters have branches at each school, but are considered one body.

SLY came to Penn in the fall of 1989, when four Latina students reached out to the national branch

because they felt that Penn had a need and demand for a branch. In spring 1990, the first class was initiated. The branch remained here until spring 2013, when all the members graduated. “[SLY] is a standout example of participating in community service. They have had a lot of ongoing collaboration with La Casa [Latina],” Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life Program Coordinator Kenny Jones said.

Phi Beta Sigma, a historically black fraternity, will also make its return to campus. Another citywide chapter, PBS was chartered here at Penn, but has been inactive since spring 2013. Since the return of its sister organization, Zeta Phi Beta, last spring, PBS has made a strong effort to recolonize at Penn.

Three new MGC groups have made the return to Penn since August 2013. After the recolonization of PBS and SLY, there will be 14 MGC organizations at Penn.

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Foy, said. NorthJersey.com first reported on Monday that Hamlett had turned himself in to Teaneck Municipal Court to face the charges against him. He pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Hamlett was charged in a “vandalism binge” that included shattering windows in nine homes and three parked cars in Teaneck Township in May, according to NorthJersey.com. In one case, an 18-year-old woman needed to get stitches after she was cut on the head when a brick was thrown through a window in her

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Nap more, sleep less KEEN ON THE TRUTH | When 4 p.m. rolls around tomorrow, give up and go to bed

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M

odern studies have a delightful way of discovering the obvious. For example, modern psychologists have found that if you physically act in a certain way — against your natural impulses — your natural impulses will gradually align with your actions.

Aristotle pointed this out 2300 years ago.

Perhaps a more amusing discovery of modern science is that human beings are designed to sleep at night and take a nap in the early afternoon. I grew up in China, where over a billion people have been naively following this schedule without consulting modern science, but in America we do not do things this way.

We surf the internet after lunch with half-closed eyes and coffee in hand, trying to figure out if it makes sense to take a nap. But by the time our brains have sluggishly come to a conclusion, the coffee has kicked in and we table the idea.

Fortunately for us, modern science has recently caught up with antiquity on the subject of napping. In a 2002 Harvard study, humans were set to the extremely practical task of re-

porting the orientation of diagonal bars in the lower left-hand corner of a computer screen.

Subjects did better if they took a nap after the second of four daily practice sessions. A host of other studies are crowded around this one, all attesting to the fact that naps increase alertness and quality of work.

But for some reason most Penn students don’t take a regular nap.

Why? Because as much as we’d all love to nap, we just don’t have the time.

Napping isn’t an Ivy League thing.”

Unfortunately, sleep — especially during the day — is still unpopular in America.

This has created a “countercultural movement” in support of slumber. The icon of this movement, Arianna Huffington — like St. Paul — was converted under extreme circumstances. She fainted from exhaustion while hard at work

one day, and broke her cheekbone on her desk. When she raised her head from this unexpected nap, apparently she saw the light. And her powerful voice has been raised in support of sleep ever since.

But for some reason most Penn students don’t take a regular nap. Why? Because much as we’d all love to nap, we just don’t have the time. Of course, we’d feel better if we slept more. We’d also feel better if we spent four hours a day in the gym! But you just can’t do that if you’re taking six credits and working weekends in a lab. Napping isn’t an Ivy League thing.

I held a similarly cynical view of napping early on in high school. As pressures mounted in my junior year, however, I started looking into ways to maintain alertness while reducing the total amount of time I spent sleeping. The result was that I discovered the daily nap. I found a study claiming that 20 minutes of sleep eight hours after waking boosts stamina more than sleeping an extra 20 minutes in the morning. I tried the idea out and quickly became a dedicated napper. I found it possible to reduce my total sleeping

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JEREMIAH KEENAN time and maintain the high level of productivity I associated with an eight and a half to nine hour night. The afternoon “drag” was also removed from my life, buying even more productive time.

So, here’s my pitch for napping. Tomorrow afternoon, if you can’t concentrate on your work, set your watch alarm for 20 minutes and lay down in a quiet place for a nap (make sure you don’t nap for over 30 minutes as this may cause you to wake up feeling groggy).

You may well find that those 20 minutes buy you back an hour of sleep you couldn’t get the night before.

JEREMIAH KEENAN is a College sophomore from China. His email address is jkeenan@sas.upenn.edu.

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ast Thursday, editors at The Daily Pennsylvanian contested the use of trigger warnings in the classroom with this declaration: “We have come to Penn because we want to be challenged — to have our perspectives tested and refined. That sometimes requires that we grapple with material that we find disagreeable or even disgusting. Anything less would fall short of a true education.”

When divorced from the topic of trigger warnings, I stand in solidarity with this statement. As a black woman at this university and in this country, all I have ever yearned for was a “true education,” a record of the Ida Elizabeth Asburys that made my voice and my existence in this place possible.

Men, can you help us? Can you help us carry the reality of sexual violence, each and ever y day?”

But the thing about being a woman is that I don’t need to be at Penn to be challenged, and this has nothing to do with “material.” Every day my identity requires me to grapple with the reality that sexual violence on this campus has become normalized. It is not just “disagreeable” or “disgusting,” but emotionally damaging and life-threatening. My body is still not safe here.

There is a conversation about our responsibility for healing those who endure sexual violence that we don’t want to have. There is “material” that we don’t have to analyze in the classroom, but experiences many of us carry once we leave these parties, on our walks to study, to eat, to sleep, to learn, to live. While many of us make claims about wanting to have uncomfortable conversations, dialogues about sexual violence remain largely overlooked by men.

Earlier this month Columbia University senior Emma Sulkowicz began carrying a mattress around her campus as a part of an endurance performing arts piece. It is an attempt to document and make manifest the unimaginable violence Sulkowicz endured from her alleged rapist. While anyone can offer to help her carry the mattress, one of Sulkowicz’s rules is that she can’t ask for help carrying that weight.

But truth is, here I am asking — men, can you help us? Can you help us

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I recently asked a friend of mine to make an announcement about sexual violence at a party. I asked if he might — in whatever way he saw fit — make mention that violence of any kind was prohibited. I was grateful to receive an update from the event’s Facebook page that read, “Sexual assault is not allowed.”

This victory did not come easy. Quite a few of my male friends laughed when I mentioned the update. If you have to make an announcement like that at your party, someone said, then why would anyone want to go? I do not mean to make mockery of their reactions or this question, because I too ask it often.

We have the tendency to believe that sexual assault doesn’t affect us, that it happens to other people but certainly not to our friends, not at our parties, not by our people.

This is a dirty lie. The longer we buy into it and coddle our ignorance, the longer we smother each other.

Violence has never been a comfortable subject, it has never be an easy thing to wear, and yet here we are at Penn experiencing violence every day, and none of the people who really can help make this better and safer want to talk about it.

But my brothers, we need you to talk about it. If we have come to one of the greatest universities in the world to be truly challenged, to become leaders, then perhaps here is an opportunity where we can lay it all out and get uncomfortable enough to want to make this experience safe for every living body. Sexual violence cannot continue to be a collection of stories told by women to other women. We need your help. Right here and right now. Stand with us.

Please.

If you would like to get in contact with Penn’s University Title IX Coordinator to learn more about sexual violence and assault, please contact Sam Starks at sstarks@upenn.edu.

VICTORIA FORD is a College senior from Piedmont, S.C., studying English. Her email address is vicford@sas.upenn.edu.

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e are the Government and Politics Association, the largest and most active political group on campus. With over 200 participating members, we are the central political forum on campus, the only place where anyone of any political belief can come and have their voice heard. We host over 50 events per semester, including politically diverse speakers, weekly intellectual discussions through the Polybian Society and formal policy debates through the Penn Political Union.

The 2014 midterm elections make now an especially important time to be politically engaged. Control of the Senate, the House of Representa-

GUEST COLUMN BY THE GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS ASSOCIATION tives and state houses across the country is at stake. The policies of our elected officials have a direct and immediate impact on all of us and those we care about. Here are the issues at stake: An unprecedented inflow of unaccompanied minors from Central America at the U.S.-Mexico border has engendered a new focus on immigration reform, long a controversial topic on the political horizon.

As economists and policymakers consider how to stimulate employment, job growth continues to stagnate and the employment outlook for current college students grows increasingly grim.

While pundits, doctors and politicians debate the merits

of the Affordable Care Act, health care reform persists as one of the most inflammatory and divisive topics in our politics discourse.

At home, the national debt and deficit remains a sticking point that threatens the operating ability of our government as we head into a heated election season.

Abroad, rapidly shifting events in Syria, Israel, Ukraine, Iraq and Nigeria are precipitating discussions about America’s role in the world, human rights and global stability.

Provocative and incendiary discourse surrounding wages, race, health, sex, equality and gender have triggered court cases, demonstrations, protests and petitions.

These are the issues at stake. We do not tell our members what to believe or whom to vote for. Rather, we encourage them to develop their own views after reviewing the facts and engaging with other political perspectives. As a result, our members are often reconsidering their political views, and not all of us are sure about where we stand. But there are things that all of us in Penn GPA know we want: We want dialogue on campus to be robust and diverse, not exclusive and one-sided.

We want students of diverse political perspectives to come together and discuss the issues that matter.

We want members of the Penn community to question their beliefs, reevaluate their

dogmas and challenge their convictions.

The 2014 midterm elections make now an especially imp or tant time to be engaged.

C o nt ro l of t h e Senate, the House of Representatives and state houses across the country is at stake.”

We want to get beyond partisan talking points and exchange real ideas.

The question here is not

“Democrat or Non-Democrat.”

The question here is not even “Democrat or Republican.”

The real question is “liberal, conservative, independent, libertarian, socialist, progressive or none of the above.”

We know that we can’t have these conversations without all of those perspectives at the table. We know that we must consider these issues together. We know that everyone at Penn, Democrat or not, has something to add to the discussion.

THE GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS ASSOCIATION is a student-run organization dedicated to civic and political advancement. They can be reached at penngpa@gmail.com.

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Penn freshman snags USDA internship

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Zixuan Gao interned at the White House public liason office of the United States Department of Agriculture over the summer before starting her college career at Penn.

CLARE CONNAUGHTON Contributing Writer

Zixuan Gao didn’t spend her last free summer like a typical rising college freshman.

Gao, or “Yen Yen” as her friends call her, spent six weeks this past summer at the White House Liaison Office of the United States Department of Agriculture as an intern through the WallaceCarver fellowship. Beyond typical office duties like answering phone calls, Gao also vetted candidates for different board positions within the USDA and attended weekly teleconferences with undersecretaries in various USDA departments.

The road to Washington, however, was a long one.

During her sophomore year of high school, Gao began research on a small Polynesian island called Tuvalu, where she studied the island’s unique soil composition. She came up with ideas to increase local crop growth and presented

them at the Indiana Youth Institute.

From there, five delegates from Indiana, including Gao, were chosen to attend the Global Youth Institute in Des Moines, Iowa, where she presented her research. At the Institute, Gao also heard from international leaders including United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Ertharin Cousin , director of the World Food Programme.

It was only then that she was invited to apply to the Wallace-Carver fellowship, which partners with the World Food Prize and the USDA. The fellowship, started by agriculture experts, connects students with internships related to food and economic policy. Gao was one of 33 students from 27 states chosen for a paid internship through the fellowship.

“This whole experience has been a whirlwind, and it’s been incredible that I’ve had the opportunity to meet so many people in a field that I’m so interested in,” Gao said.

Hectic Penn campus life inspires new app Penn alumni created Wedge to help students manage their schedules JESSICA RYAN Contributing Writer

A new scheduling app may soon be wedging its way onto your iPhone homescreen.

Wedge, an app launching exclusively on Penn’s campus in the upcoming weeks, aims to make the hectic schedules of clubs, classes and sports manageable with the swipe of a finger.

“It’s sort of like Snapchat, but for planning,” cofounder Joshua Lyons said. “You can send a calendar invite for a certain time, or for a range of times, and the process is very quick.”

Users can create events by clicking a time on the large clock featured on the interface of the app, rather than scrolling through a long list of dates and times that slows down the scheduling process.

The idea came while the cofounders — including Management and Technology 2012 graduate Naveen Kasthuri and Wharton 2013 graduate Luther Zhao — observed the busy schedules of college students, like those on Penn’s campus.

Wedge addresses these problems, Lyons said, in a faster and more casual style than other similar scheduling apps.

“The app is designed for

SEI Center Distinguished Lecture Series

Islam and Democracy: A Vision to Lead Us from Violence

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The company currently has two student interns from Penn, and the team maintains close relationships with the business fraternity Phi Gamma Nu, often looking to them for feedback on the app.

And the app continues to evolve based on the student suggestions the team receives.

“We were actually visiting the Penn campus this past weekend and there was one piece of feedback that we got from the president of one of the clubs on campus,” Lyons said — a privacy feature that prevents users from seeing who is invited to a particular event.

“We actually added that in just in the last couple of days,” he said.

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Combating bike theft, one U-lock at a time JOE LI Staff Writer

Engineering and Wharton sophomore Frank Geng rode his bike to the Engineering Quad in March as he was getting ready to work with a group of friends on an electric racing project. He didn’t know at the time that his bike would be stolen that night.

“I parked my bike just outside Towne at around 7 p.m. When I came out at around 10, my bike was gone,” Geng recounted.

He locked his bike to the rack outside of Towne using a chain lock — a lock that is easily broken, Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said.

Geng bought a new bike recently and started using a U-lock — the most reliable type of lock, Rush noted. But still, “I [will] never park my bike near Towne again,” Geng said.

With bike theft historically a major crime at Penn, the Division of Public Safety is introducing new monitoring technology to re-

duce bike thefts on campus.

Starting last year DPS began installing analytics cameras at major parking locations to help track people who steal bikes from racks.

The cameras help combat crime because they are connected to a detector that sets off an alarm if someone stays at a bike rack for too long. If a person is standing at the rack and hears an alarm, the theory is that they will turn their head up and the camera will take a picture of their face.

As of now, there are about 15 such cameras installed at different locations on campus.

Rush also said that another way for a student not to have their bike stolen is for themto find an alternative to riding their own bike.

PennCycle is a good choice for students who are worried about the safety of their own bikes, Rush said. All PennCycle bikes use Ulocks, which are more durable to cuts and smashes by thieves, and the service is offered at an affordable price: $20 per month.

Another alternative for students worried about bike theft is walking. Rush pointed out that buildings on Penn’s campus are very accessible from everywhere. “It’s very healthy too,” she added.

Rush emphasized that if a student insists on riding their own bike, it is crucial for them to take good measures to protect it. “The key is to register your bike on Penn Express, use a U-lock and use it correctly,” Rush said.

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“The next morning when I went back to get it, it wasn’t there anymore,” he said.

From then on, Xu decided to take the second piece of Rush’s advice: He would walk, instead of bike, across campus.

Xu never bought a new bike.

“It’s not very necessary and quite expensive to lose [the bike] as well,” Xu said.

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city. The greater incentive to walk through this section of University City will especially “increase the level of circulation between West Philadelphia and Center City,” said Sarah Stuart, deputy director of the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia.

While pedestrian amenities in University City — like its pleasant architecture and bustling street life — draw people into the neighborhood, the streets on the periphery fail to provide a strategic landscape that could “complement the work of Penn and others at the eastern edge,” UCD spokesperson Lori Brennan said.

“The area needs wider sidewalks, shorter distances for cross walks and sufficient public space to accommodate a high volume of people,” Stuart said.

The ultimate goal of the project is to create an environment that

encourages people to spend time in the northeastern area of University City. As the eastern gateway into Penn’s campus and all of University City, these streets play a crucial role in establishing the neighborhood’s image.

“It is important to make a neighborhood gateway more inviting because it forms an impression of what the entire community is like,” said Barry Grossbach, director of the Spruce Hill District zoning committee.

Urban neighborhoods with better landscape design create a more populated atmosphere, which makes them more sustainable since densely populated areas are safer and more economically successful than unpopulated ones.

“The more folks you have in an area, the safer it becomes and the more you can encourage commerce and business ventures,” Philadelphia Streets Commissioner David Perri said.

liminary surveys, UCD has commissioned Gehl Studio to run a comprehensive study on how to enhance the pedestrian experience.

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New York City’s Times Square.

Gehl’s urban ideology is based on the belief that people will linger in public areas if they are presented with the necessary amenities. But since cars became the focus of landscape design in 20th century American cities, urban streets have acquired “hostile en-

vironments that are only conducive to getting people from point A to point B,” Al said.

Based on recommendations that Gehl studio will release in a report, UCD will embark on a plan to supply urban resources that will revamp streets into more than just a means to an end.

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there are some issues that they aren’t set to address.

“While other issues, like diversity, are very important to me and to Greek organizations, we eliminated [them] because we didn’t want to dilute the efficacy of the task forces and so we could more easily monitor their progress,” Germi said.

At the same time, the IFC is working with the United Minorities Council to discuss cultural sensitivities and how to deal with some issues that have arisen — like the “gangsta”-themed Beta Theta Pi–Chi Omega mixer last semester, which some students considered insensitive.

While Germi said they cannot be sure what will come out of the task groups until they have been fully enacted, he is hopeful that they will yield beneficial results.

Street revitalization boosts public safety not only through material improvements such as better street lighting, but also through the natural security that comes with more frequent social activity.

As a result, the financial prosperity of the neighborhood profits because “business wants to be located where the population wants to be,” Perri added.

The long-term plan of UCD’s project is to “work with area institutions and landlords to help aid in the recruitment of new businesses,” Brennan said.

The study area will be most successful at drawing crowds if the streets become lined with shops, restaurants and other commercial functions. Interactive businesses on the ground floor “can promote social interactions by bringing more activity to the street facades,” PennDesign professor Stefan Al said.

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Penn football’s successful San Diego roadtrip

to stake the Quakers out to a 2-0 lead.

Through Penn’s four games, Hoover leads the squad in almost every major offensive category, including goals (six), total points (14), shooting percentage (66 percent) and percentage of shots on goal (100 percent).

Hoover is not the only player on Penn’s current roster to have earned multiple Ivy Rookie of the Week honors in a single season — Hitti did it in 2012 — but she is the first Red and Blue player to have pulled off the feat in consecutive weeks since Sarah Hasson in 2009.

With Penn’s Ivy opener against Cornell coming up on Saturday, Hoover will have a chance at making her case to win the award for an unprecedented third consecutive week.

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The Toreros had a former NFL quarterback as their firstyear head coach with Jim Harbaugh — now the coach of the San Francisco 49ers — patrolling the sidelines. But his NFL background wouldn’t be any help that day as Penn trounced San Diego, 61-18.

Sixty-one points scored was Penn’s most points in a game since joining the Ivy League in 1956, and the most points allowed by San Diego in a game since 1956 as well. The Quakers’ devastating attack was led by then-junior running back Sam Mathews, who scored a career-high three touchdowns and added 152 total yards. “He was terrific,� Penn coach Al Bagnoli said of Mathews. “He is definitely one of the marquee players in our league, and I think you can see why if you watch him. He does everything for us.�

Mathews wasn’t the only Red and Blue running back to reach the century mark, as Duke transfer Von Bryant had 111 yards on just five carries. Penn ended the day with 325 yards on the ground and 494 yards overall in a shocking offensive display.

Surprisingly enough, San Diego led in time of possession despite a 26-0 deficit at halftime.

The Toreros’ four turnovers and inability to stop Penn’s ground game ultimately did them in. “They’re a physically overpowering force, and they could stop the run,� Harbaugh said of Penn.

Under Bagnoli, Penn has recruited many players from the California area, so the trip was particularly nice for those players returning home. “We’ve got a lot of players

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runners that can back up Awad and Whiting and produce strong team scores.

It’s also had a taste of success.

Both teams broke out with strong overall performances at last fall’s NCAA Regional meet and parlayed that success into solid spring track seasons.

But this taste of success was just that: a taste. A preview. Not the real thing.

Although there has been an overall trend of team improvement over the past two years, just about every sign that the program was ready to break out has been hampered by the inevitable inconsistency that has followed.

Dolan has downplayed the importance of team results, defending his team’s inconsistency based on its inexperience.

But with a significantly more experienced squad — and one that’s feeling increasingly like a “finished product” — this sort of rationalization will not hold nearly as much weight this year.

And it’s losing more weight by the minute.

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six points, the Quakers performed well against the national powerhouses, showing many flashes of offensive dominance.

However, what was impressive about the Quakers’ performance was not simply what they did, but how they did it. Pitted against top athletes, Penn chose mind over matter and controlled the emotional atmosphere of each match.

“If we had a good pass, good set, then got blocked on the hit, we focused on the first two steps of the process,” coach Kerry Carr said. “We were celebrating even though we lost the point. All of that energy translated into points for us.”

Facilitated by an incredible on-court morale paired with the Ivy League’s most spirited bench, the Quakers posed a steep mental threat to opponents. Empowered by this advantage, the Red and

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our usual travel budget for a year, which isn’t all that unexpected when you bring 150 people on a plane down to Florida. We had to crunch our numbers and make sure we were doing things the right way.”

Given that the Red and Blue’s travel roster is capped at 62, the large number of people traveling with the program represents the game’s event-like status.

“This game is different,” Silverman said. “There are more people interested in this game because it’s part of an exciting trip — you get to go to Florida in September and

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the preseason Regional rankings, respectively.

These expectations were immediately supported, as both squads utterly dominated this past weekend’s Big 5 Invitational. The program showed a combination of youth, experience and team running that could prove deadly in the Ivy League.

This is not to say that the success of the program’s season depends entirely on its teams’ results.

Both squads seem to lack the production from seniors that other top Regional and Ivy squads will expect to receive this year. The women’s team in particular seems to be at least another year out from reaching its full potential.

Additionally, it remains to be seen how the team responds to increased expectations.

However, it’s simply not good enough to blatantly disregard team results anymore.

Dolan has spent his entire tenure at Penn focused on the development of his program, and the next logical step in this progression is team success.

The training wheels are off, and it’s time to enjoy the ride.

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After an exciting summer in which he finished second at the 2014 USA Junior Championships, sophomore Brendan Shearn is off to a fast start in the fall. The Ashland, Pa. native finished 2nd in the Big Five championship last weekend with a time of 18:40.8. With the Quakers finally moving into position for a strong Ivy finish, Shearn is at the forefront.

Blue tied top-ranked Stanford at 19 different points in their match and won a tough 26-24 first set against Duke.

“We wore the other team down emotionally, which I think was about half the battle in the Stanford match,” Carr said. “Learning those types of strategies … was a really big step for us.”

Penn also ironically found home court advantage in California, as Carr observed that “our crowds were bigger” than those of the California universities. With eight members hailing from the Golden State, the Penn squad was heavily supported by parents and alumni. “[About] half our team is from California,” Ohms said. “I think a lot of the team was so grateful and appreciative for this opportunity.”

Along with their chemistry, the Quakers’ sense of accountability continued to grow throughout the tournament. As a team with fewer than five seniors for the

second straight year, leadership is a shared responsibility for the Quakers. While the three captains — senior setters Meghan Connolly and Ohms along with junior Genske — head the squad on and off the court, each teammate plays an important role in spearheading the group’s progress.

“It’s not a couple of individual leaders, it’s really a solid group,” Carr, the Quakers’ coach of 16 seasons, said. “Trina, Alexis and Megan are the captains, but the whole senior class … does a great job leading. Some people lead at different times. I think that’s a really good thing for us.”

The Penn squad will lean on this revitalized chemistry as it enters an important weekend at the Palestra — the Big 5 Tournament.

Slated to face regional foes Villanova, La Salle and Temple, the Quakers return to the East Coast to defeat their neighbors as both a stronger team and stronger teammates.

play a new opponent.”

Coordinating travel arrangements for a healthy number of staff members, administrators and alumni in addition to the team has also been on Silverman’s plate in the recent months.

The phrase “there is no offseason” rings just as true for Silverman as it does for Penn’s players.

The level of preparation put in on the operational end this spring is justified by what games — like Saturday’s contest in Jacksonville — can provide Penn’s football program.

“It’s great to get into a different area of the country,” Silverman said. “Anytime we get added exposure in a different market,

it’s nice for the program. It also breaks us out of our routine and creates additional excitement.”

Despite all the novelty and excitement for this Saturday’s game, Silverman is focused on the simple priority of the trip: Come home 1-0.

“We want to make it meaningful, but we don’t want it to distract and take away from what we’re trying to do which is just go down there and win a game.”

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When Penn football makes its trip down to the Sunshine State this weekend for its season opener against Jacksonville, the team will rely on Jake Silverman and the rest of the operational staff for a smooth ride. Silverman, Penn’s Director of Football Operations, has been planning the trip since last spring, as the trip is one of the rare times Penn moves out of the Northeast and poses a number of challenges logistically.

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lead a bounce-back campaign for the Quakers, the tireless efforts of the program’s operational staff to make the trip a possibility will go more or less unrecognized.

BY SEAMUS POWERS While their goal is to go unStaff Writer noticed through arranging and executing flawless plans, the people Penn football’s season is set to that make Penn football run belift off this weekend in Jackson- hind the scenes should not go unville, and while all the attention credited. will be on whether new starting Heading up the travel coordinaquarterback Alek Torgersen can tion efforts for the highly antici-

pated trip to Jacksonville is Jake Silverman, Penn’s director of football operations.

The trip down south represents the biggest endeavor Silverman has been a part of in his six-plus years at Penn.

“It’s a new challenge,” Silverman said. “We’ve never had this type of trip just in terms of the wide scope.”

While boarding a plane for a football game is no doubt an excit-

ing concept for the team, having to charter flights to and from a far away and unfamiliar destination adds new dimensions to the challenge of facilitating a smooth trip from the operational end.

Because Penn more or less plays the same teams from year to year, Silverman and his staff are usually able to coordinate travel based on what the team did in previous years.

As that was not the case for

Jacksonville, Silverman had to go much further than usual to arrange the Red and Blue’s visit to the Sunshine State.

“It’s been a longer process for this trip. We started contacting charter companies in January,” Silverman said. “I had the opportunity to go down to Jacksonville in March and take a look around, visit with some hotels to make sure they were what we needed for the team as far as meeting space

The time is now for Penn cross country COLIN HENDERSON

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t’s time to take the training wheels off.

After having spent the past two years rebuilding, developing young talent and generally hanging out near the bottom of

the campus fall sports totem pole, Penn cross country is ready to take the next step forward.

And this time, citing individual development as an end in and of itself won’t quite cut it.

Steve Dolan is entering his third year as Penn’s cross country (XC) coach, and individual development has certainly been his calling card.

He took over a program that was — quite frankly — in shambles. Accordingly, he had no

choice other than to take his time and rebuild the program in the image of an Ivy contender.

And that’s exactly what he has done.

What he has (understandably) failed to provide in team results, he has more than made up for with solid recruiting and development of young athletes into a cohesive team unit.

But now, the athletes of Dolan’s first recruiting class are entering

their junior year, and it’s lazy to say that the program is still rebuilding.

The program has the requisite stars.

Then-sophomore Thomas Awad set the running community ablaze last year with a remarkable third-place finish at XC Heptagonals , only to top himself with a world-beating spring track season.

Meanwhile, then-freshman Cleo Whiting emerged as one of the top

young talents in the Ivy League.

Both of them will be looked upon to lead their squads on the course this year.

It has the supporting cast.

Both the men — with senior Conner Paez and sophomore Brendan Shearn — and the women, with junior Elyssa Gensib and sophomore Ashley Montgomery, have accrued a proven group of SEE HENDERSON PAGE 9

VOLLEYBALL Homecoming trip rejuvinated Red and Blue

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Hoover receives Ivy honors

FIELD HOCKEY Freshman attack excelling for Quakers

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Penn morale high after Calif. trip

part of our team, probably the biggest part of this team and our program,” senior right setter Trina Ohms said. “We all love being together. Whether it’s road trips,

BY Carter Coudriet singing along to a boombox or Contributing Writer warming up and giggling, it’s always full of smiles.”

Winning means more than Squaring off against Santa match points for the Penn volley- Clara, No. 1 Stanford and No. 20 ball team.

Duke, Penn faced stout competiThe Quakers lost three close tion on the West Coast. Despite showdowns to highly-ranked an All-Tournament performance teams at the Stanford Invitational by junior outside hitter Alexis in California this past weekend, Genske, the Red and Blue’s reyet the athletes developed chem- cord dropped to 2-5. Losing each istry that made the cross country set by an average margin of about campaign a success.

SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 9 “That team chemistry is a big

and banquet space. It was also important just to get the lay of the land.”

The Jacksonville trip also has a larger-than-usual budget impact, which was another significant element of the preparation process.

“We had to put some extra planning into [the cost analysis],” Silverman said. “To define the scope, this trip is probably as much as

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Senior captain Trina Ohms is one of eight members of Penn volleyball from California. Ohms and her teammates got to return home last weekend while the Red and Blue as a whole used the trip to help with team bonding.

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At this rate, Penn field hockey’s Alexa Hoover is going to run out of room in her trophy case very quickly.

The freshman was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week on Tuesday, the second consecutive time that she has earned the honor.

Over the course of two games against Fairfield and Liberty, Hoover scored three goals and added an assist to make the decision by the League academic.

Against the Stags on Friday, Hoover both opened and closed the scoring in a 4-2 victory. Though Penn’s matchup with Liberty two days later ended in a tough 3-2 loss, Hoover assisted on Elizabeth Hitti’s ninth-minute goal and added a strike of her own six minutes later SEE FIELD HOCKEY PAGE 8

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