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A threat of potential violence on Monday kept anxieties on campus running high, leading some Penn professors to cancel classes and some students afraid to even leave their dorms.

A recent social media post threatened violence against an unspecified Philadelphia-area university on Monday at 2 p.m.

Eastern Time. The Division of Public Safety emailed members of the Penn community on Sunday afternoon, informing them that there would be heightened security across campus and encouraging students, faculty and staff to be cautious and aware of their surroundings.

After a day of preparation, 2 p.m. came and went without any reported violence, but speculations from students have varied. Some believe that the threat was in fact hinting

at a terrorist attack, while others felt the threat was too ambiguous to cause significant danger.

Many expressed on social media that the University prioritized its schedule over student’s fears and safety. @MrErnestOwens tweeted, “@Penn will cancel classes before Pope visit, snow blizzards that flop, but when getting a potential terrorist threat…no deal. @dailypenn” expressing concern that the threat would come to fruition. @miranathanson tweeted, “Thanks @Penn for the support re: potential terrorist threats against my school Penn Walk has me covered w/ unarmed walking buddy so all good.” @jack ienikpour questioned, “What if @Penn for once prioritized safety over academics? There’s an Oregon copycat threatening Philly SEE REACTIONS PAGE 2

How 4chan has become connected to threats Elements of the site make it apt for posting violence

site make it susceptible to hosting threats.

LOWELL NEUMANN NICKEY Staff Reporter

The Anonymous Effect: 4chan is an anonymous image board, meaning posts are generally independent and not tied to any specific account or username, as compared to sites like Facebook or Twitter. This allows for a great deal of confusion in identifying who posted what. There are some instances in which posters have been identified. For example, in 2011, 19-year-old Ali Saad was arrested after the FBI discovered he had made posts to the site’s “random”

In the wake of the school shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, public attention has again turned to the anonymous image board 4chan.org. The site was used to announce a potential act of violence against a Philadelphia-area university on Monday, which was not fulfilled.

From horrific acts of violence to celebrity photo leaks, the site comes up time and time again in the media, and many elements of the

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In the midst of financial crisis, student meets Greek president

College students aren’t coddled, says bioethics prof.

College sophomore met key EasternMediterranean political figures

Jonathan Moreno discusses sensitive issues in his class

MITCHELL CHAN Staff Reporter

SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Staff Reporter

While many teens spent the summer balancing internships, classes and beach outings, one Penn student was busy questioning a foreign head of state.

This past June, College sophomore Elias Gerasoulis joined a delegation of 10 college students who traveled to Cyprus and Greece to meet key political figures in the Eastern Mediterranean. The trip came at a key time in Greek history — the collapse of its economy.

The trip, which lasted from June 19 to July 3, was organized by the American Hellenic Institute, a Washington D.C.-based organization dedicated to advancing domestic and foreign policy issues that affect Greeks and Greek Americans.

Gerasoulis, who is half-Greek by descent — his father was born in a small farming village in the mountains of northern Greece — had never been to Greece before this summer, nor had he any significant contact with his relatives in Greece. He had regularly talked about politics at home, but those conversations focused mainly on American

OWAIN WEST | CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

In September, The Atlantic published an article called “The Coddling of the American Mind.”

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A Penn professor has weighed in on the recent debate over the overprotection of millennials. Bioethics professor Jonathan Moreno believes that university students can handle sensitive topics maturely.

In September, The Atlantic published an article online called “The Coddling of the American Mind,” which sparked

To worry about how you look in front of your peers is to let your educational and intellectual experience be dictated by others.”

conversations on and off college campuses. The article argued that there is a phenomenon at elite American universities, “driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense.” It decried the use of trigger warnings and argued that these privileged, oversensitive college students were continuing the work of their overindulgent parents and further isolating themselves from “the real world.” The impact of the article was such that even President Obama made a statement in SEE TRIGGER WARNINGS PAGE 7

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How’s it Hangifying? Social event app expands reach post-NSO More than 4,600 people have downloaded the app SAHIL KUMAR Contributing Reporter

For many Penn students, Hangify has become their first resource to figure out what to do on nights and weekends. Merv ArnoldLyons, a College senior and the company’s founder and current CEO, has no plans for slowing down anytime soon.

Hangify, an app that notifies students about social events taking place in their area, is currently operating at Penn, Drexel University and Temple University. The next step for the company is preparing for growth as it moves outside of these three colleges.

“For us, it means how do we create the documentation not for the app itself, but for launching on a new campus? How can we make launching a new campus as easy as making a burger at McDonald’s?’”

Arnold-Lyons said.

Since the company released

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universities, cancel classes.”

The Facebook event “Not Going to Class” gained over 200 attendees throughout the day. The event page included a small blurb, “Not going to class because it is okay to be worried, it is okay to be afraid, and it is okay to value your life and take measures to stay safe after a threat has been made against it. Stay safe everyone, regardless of whether or not

the iPhone app, more than 4,600 people have downloaded it, and the app has been used over 84,000 times. Arnold-Lyons believes that students participating in Penn’s New Student Orientation had a large impact on its success.

“I think that especially for incoming students, there is this whole campus community that you are not a part of and want to be a part of, which is very compelling,” Arnold-Lyons said.

With social media platforms such as Facebook and GroupMe employing similar event-sharing strategies, the creators of Hangify have been working to differentiate their app with strategies like push notifications, which tell students when fun and cheap activities are happening nearby. Hangify also appeals in a unique way due to its ability to provide information about events specific to each campus.

“You know when you are opening Hangify that everything on there is going to be relevant. That’s not true about any other platform,”

Arnold-Lyons said. “The goal is not to give people a massive list of what is happening — it is to give people a good list of what is happening.”

Arnold-Lyons started working on Hangify during the summer of his freshman year at Penn. He began to work with friends who had programming experience and even learned web development himself to help with the project. ArnoldLyons currently operates the app with the help of Wharton senior Sierra Hirt, the chief marketing officer for the company, and he plans to run the business fulltime after graduating.

Having worked on the project since its birth three years ago, Arnold-Lyons has faced many hurdles, but those have been overcome with the help of an Angel Investor to help fund the startup. 1998 Wharton graduate Scott Kosch has been funding and mentoring the team now for over two years.

Arnold-Lyons believes that

you go to class.” The Community College of Philadelphia and Temple University had similar pages for students organizing to skip classes.

Other students were not as worried about the potential threat and felt the scare was overblown. @ mindreeder23 tweeted, “@Penn I’ll be in class tomorrow. My education will not be taken hostage by vague threats,” and later posted, “If only @Penn students freaked out about daily violence, inequality, and poverty in Philly

as much as a vague threat from the Internet.”

Provost Vincent Price and Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli sent out an email Monday morning stating, “There has been considerable news coverage of this situation, and it has understandably caused concern for many. While the University will operate on a normal schedule, we want you to know that the Division of Public Safety has increased our police and security officer patrols, as well as our

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Ethan Dombroski, Merv Arnold-Lyons and Sierra Hirt are the creators of the popular campus app Hangify, which informs students about events in the area.

his passion for entrepreneurship was a driving force in his decision to stay with the project. “The question always has to be, ‘Let it go, what can we do

next?’” he said. “And the fun has to come from working on it. If I didn’t think it was fun to work on, I would have quit by now.”

Hangify is a growing startup,

and its success at NSO has given the team an idea of how successful it can be. For Arnold-Lyons, the question is the same as always: What next?

virtual CCTV virtual patrols.”

The email continued to say that there was very limited knowledge about the validity of the threat.

Throughout the day, Philadelphia Police patrolled the campus.

Officers were seen walking up and down Locust and a police car was parked outside of Stiteler Hall.

In the midst of midterm season, students expressed on social media that they didn’t feel safe going to class. Some students even emailed professors to ask for

their classes and tests to be postponed or cancelled.

Despite Penn’s efforts to keep everything on its regular schedule, professors and departments made their own decisions about whether or not to hold class and postpone midterms.

Several recitation classes were canceled. Math 180 and Math 240 were canceled due to the threat.

The entire Korean Department also did not hold any classes Monday.

Some professors canceled

class altogether, and others said class would be held but were optional. Communication 470 was first scheduled to take place on Monday despite the threat. Late Sunday night another email was sent out canceling the class and postponing lecture material.

Students taking Wharton core classes caught a break, as both Marketing 101 and Accounting 101 tests were postponed.

The Accounting 101 and Statistics 431 in-class midterms scheduled for Monday were rescheduled to Wednesday. Office hours on Monday and Tuesday were subsequently cancelled for Accounting 101. Professor Keith Niedermeier postponed his Marketing 101 quiz but still held class.

However, a recording of the class was posted online for the students who elected not to go.

The Student Labor Action Project decided to push a protest for PILOTs — Payments in Lieu of Taxes — that was scheduled for Monday. The Wharton Behavioral Lab canceled research studies because of “unforeseen logistical issues,” according to emails sent to participants.

Many students were torn when deciding if going to class was worth the risk.

As @GomianKonneh wrote on Twitter, “Do you go to class at 2pm and risk absolutely everything or do you skip class and suffer the academic consequences?”

She posted later, “I joked earlier, but it’s actually sick that we have to face the ethical burden of choosing between life and grades; it’s just hitting me.”

But others made light of the situation. @pumstah tweeted, “It might kill my vibe if I get shot during class tomorrow yes I’m subtweeting u penn.” @Karissa_Hand made a plea to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump: ”@realDonaldTrump can you plz call Penn & ask them to cancel classes tomorrow bc there was a threat of violence? Thx #MakeAmericaGreatAgain.”

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AQIS provides space for queer international students Club respects student anonymity due to sensitivity ISABEL KIM Deputy News Editor

AQIS, which stands for the Association for Queer International Students, is a name with a lot of hidden relevance. It is pronounced ah-kee, like the Spanish word for “here” and the French word for “to whom.” It also sounds similar to the phrase “my brother” in Arabic and “strange” in Mandarin. The ambiguity of the word suits the group, which serves those who are both international students and members of the LGBTQ community — identities that intersect in interesting ways.

The group was created last year

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issues.

“I thought this would be a tremendous opportunity both to deepen my level of knowledge — both in an academic and visceral level — and also really engage in discussion with some of these really international issues,” Gerasoulis said.

After a week in Cyprus, where Gerasoulis met a number of Cypriot academics and several key dignitaries, including the president of the Cypriot House of Representatives and the archbishop of Cyprus, the AHI delegation arrived in Greece on June 25, around the time that the Greek government was introducing capital controls to limit the amount of cash Greek citizens could withdraw daily from the banking system.

The student delegates stayed at a hotel near Syntagma Square — “Constitution Square” in English — in Central Athens, where many of the protests against the bailout negotiations occurred. The vast majority of media coverage of the bailout crisis’ aftermath was filmed or

by friends who realized that there was a niche that needed to be filled in the LGBTQ community on campus.

“Mostly on their own they pulled together to form a group, which has been phenomenal,” LGBT Center Senior Associate Director Erin Cross said.

Being a queer international student presents a set of challenges that differ from those of queer students from the United States .

International students come from “so many different backgrounds politically, socially, economically, faith and community-wise too,” Cross said. “You have to learn the culture, learn the education system, the social aspects and, on top of that, you happen to

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“We could literally see the lines of people at the ATMs. We could sense people’s desperation,” Gerasoulis said.

Over the following week, the student delegation met with officials from across the breadth of Greek politics, including the deputy minister of defense, foreign and economic policy experts and many members of the Hellenic Parliament.

Gerasoulis also got to meet the chairman of the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund, George Michelis, who has been tasked with preserving the stability of the Greek banking system. The meeting occurred on the same day that capital controls went into effect in Greek banks. Few people in Greece were more exasperated by the breakdown of Greece’s financial sector than Michelis was.

“We got information that you could not get from online news sources or television,” Gerasoulis said of their meeting.

One of the high points of the trip was meeting Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos at Athens’ Presidential Mansion. After a televised address

be a sexual or gender minority.”

AQIS has members who hail from Lebanon, Trinidad and Tobago, Peru, Mexico, Hong Kong and, in the past, India and Pakistan, and these international queer students come from nations that have a full range of LGBTQ acceptance — from widespread acceptance to complete illegality.

While someone growing up queer in a conservative area in the U.S. might still understand that LGBTQ culture is accepted in more liberal areas, many international students come from countries where they lack an LGBTQ culture.

“It’s just not a thing,” said a College senior who preferred to remain anonymous because he has not

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Penn student Elias Gerasoulis discussed the Greek economic crisis with President of Greece Prokopis Pavlopoulos.

praising the students for their role in improving U.S.-Greek relations, Gerasoulis asked President Pavlopoulos about his long-term vision for Greece’s

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standards and break through difficulty,” Gerasoulis said.

In this respect, Gerasoulis and several other students were dissatisfied with the president’s answer of “you should have come to Greece in 2004.

Everything was wonderful and prosperous then.”

Ma ny meetings focused on economic matters that had either led to or worsened Greece’s financial crisis, including a weak judicial system, the lack of investment opportunities in Greece’s closed private sector and the stranglehold that Greece’s elite has maintained on the economy.

“They not only need to reduce debt and deficit. They have to increase GDP. They haven’t unshackled the Greek economy from the byzantine regulations that are holding it back,” Gerasoulis said, adding that he does not believe austerity will work if it is implemented abruptly and expected to solve the problem quickly.

But as much of a learning experience as it was, some of Gerasoulis’ fondest memories of the trip were encountering Greek relatives with whom he

had previously had little to no contact.

“I wasn’t sure if I would ever even visit Greece, and to meet some of my relatives was wonderful,” Gerasoulis said.

On his one day off from official meetings, Gerasoulis saw his first cousin, Penelope, who lives in Athens with her daughter and husband, a ship captain.

“We took a 30-minute trip driving next to the Aegean Sea — which was beyond beautiful — and then went to this local fish tavern outside Athens.”

Even though Gerasoulis seldom eats fish, he admitted that it was some of the best seafood he had ever eaten.

The day he met with President Pavlopoulos, Gerasoulis received a call from Penelope, who had seen him with the president on TV. Meanwhile, back in New Jersey, Gerasoulis’ father was fielding calls from relatives exclaiming that they had just seen his son on the news.

“It was very extraordinary,” Gerasoulis said. “My dad grew up in that country, and for his son to meet its president is very touching.”

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individuals, cannot afford to be visible because of the complex issues we face back home.”

AQIS hopes to be “a community of people who share similar issues and share similar things, not a safe space, but a comfortable space, a support system for queer international students,” AQIS board member and College senior Chikezie Wood said.

Still, AQIS is making waves, having created a guide for international LGBTQ students and a compilation of links on the LGBT Center website, and is working with the LGBT Center and International Student and Scholar Services to host workshops.

“They’re small, but mighty,” Cross said.

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“Greece’s leaders need to understand that they are masters of perception, that they can inspire people to really raise their

AQIS faces a unique challenge when it comes to recruiting. For many international students, there is “no opportunity for people to come out until they come to Penn,” the College senior said. “That’s a big thing, and I think it’s hard to reach out to freshmen, because they might not even be thinking about it.“ Even when The Daily Pennsylvanian reached out to photograph the group, organizers responded via email about the importance of the members’ anonymity. “This group has come to be because many queer international students prefer/NEED to remain invisible,” they wrote. “While we hope for AQIS, as a collective, to be very visible, many members of AQIS, as

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come out as gay to his parents. “We don’t talk about it. You just don’t have a conception of it.”

“I hadn’t come out to myself until I came to Penn,” he said.

“People who know me would have called me homophobic, homoeverything.” After one semester of being at Penn, he realized that he was queer and that this was a fairly common situation for a lot of queer international students to face.

Cross said that the number of international LGBTQ students attending Penn has increased over time, but there are no concrete statistics that exist.

“That’s the problem with our community — we have no numbers,” Cross said. “People have to self-identify.”

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OPINION Warning: This is not politically correct

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he freedom from feeling upset, it seems, now trumps the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press on many American college campuses.

The most egregious, recent example might be the furor engendered by an op-ed titled, “Why Black Lives Matter Isn’t What You Think,” published in Wesleyan University’s student newspaper. The conservative opinion piece, which argued that the Black Lives Matter movement did more harm than good, led to a movement to defund the 147-year-old Wesleyan Argus. In addition, a boycott signed by 167 people included demands that amounted to an extreme censorship of the newspaper, such as disposing of copies of

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EDITORIAL the Argus and dictating that a part of the front page be dedicated to marginalized voices.

In response, the Argus imme-

sorship of the free press and free speech that apparently do not understand how newspapers or democracies work.

The silencing of unpopular opinions because it causes ‘distress’ hinders real progress and will only prevent meaningful discussions from occurring.” diately published an almost 1,000-word apology in which the editors-in-chief wrote that they “sincerely apologize for the distress the piece caused the student body.”

This apology was both unfortunate and unnecessary — the Argus did nothing wrong.

Rather, it was those members of the Wesleyan community who participated in the cen-

A newspaper’s publication of an op-ed does not mean that the newspaper agrees with the opinions expressed in the op-ed. And the protesters’ immediate reaction to try to shut down the Argus just because they disagreed with what they read is a childish way to avoid reason-based discussion. It is through open expression and dialogue that people can

make educated decisions.

The silencing of unpopular opinions because they cause “distress” hinders real progress and will only prevent meaningful discussions from occurring.

Even President Barack Obama expressed his doubts about extreme political correctness, saying both liberal and conservative students should not be “coddled and protected from different points of view.” At Penn, that coddling has manifested itself in several disturbing ways.

Most recently, student leaders announced the creation of a Greek Community Judicial Board, whose sole purpose was to judge and punish student groups for instances of cultural insensitivity. Thankfully, the administration realized that policing

speech was a bad idea, and it’s now clear that the University doesn’t support a student group with the power to sanction others. While we think it’s extremely important for students to learn about the adversity faced by marginalized groups, no group should have the power to punish another for keeping to themselves or for expressing their feelings in speech — as troubling or disrespectful as those feelings might be.

Another example is the occasional censorship of speakers by Penn students, which underlines the importance of open expression monitors. Although the concept of open expression monitors might seem Orwellian, the culture of literally shouting down unpopular opinions ironically makes the

presence of the monitors necessary to protect free speech.

At Lawrence Summers’ lecture last year, for example, student protesters interrupted his speech and held up signs asking the audience to laugh at Summers. This kind of behavior has little effect besides serving as a convenient outlet for the anger of the protesters and does not truly engage with the speakers.

We recognize that the University has gone to extremes to accommodate freedom of speech and expression. But liberal students should understand that trying to end systemic histories of oppression is more complicated than simply yelling at people who disagree. And institutionalizing a culture of extreme political correctness is merely installing a new form of mar-

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was leaving my constitutional law class the other day when I noticed that my shoulders were so tightly scrunched up against my neck as to almost inhibit me from putting my backpack on. I slowly lowered them and remnants of stress leaked out from between my shoulder blades as they relaxed. I felt like a turtle sticking its head out from its shell, and really, the analogy was not too far off.

My constitutional law class is one of those classes where you don’t have to participate. Our participation grade is based almost entirely off of clicker responses, which allows for passive, stress-free articulation of opinions. However, the class is also completely discussion-based. So while participation in the usual sense is not directly part of your grade, you feel an inherent obligation to contribute to the discussion and be an active member of the class.

When I sit in that class and don’t raise my hand — not because I don’t have something to say or I don’t have a question to ask but because I worry that what I’ll say will be redundant, ridiculous or regrettable — I feel this oppressive weight on my shoulders. I feel burdened. I feel as if I have to guard, preserve and defend my intelligence.

And I illogically attempt to do this by not speaking.

Similarly, I was recently with friends who were discussing a topic that I didn’t know much about. I found myself smiling and nodding along, trying to make my comparative lack of knowledge as unnoticeable as possible. A couple of minutes later, the conversation somehow shifted to English literature, and I immediately started talking a mile a minute about my favorite books. The disparity between the two levels of my engagement and participation in the conversation was blatantly obvious. I

felt as if I had stepped off a tiny piece of shaky, fractured, vaguely defined land onto a sturdy, stable surface whose boundaries, lines and features I knew like the back of my hand. I went from feeling uneasy and uncomfortable — like I would be exposed

tongues, we think that we are saving face, protecting ourselves from potential mistakes and maintaining our current state of dignity.

“What will others think of me if I ask this question?” “What if my answer is wrong?” “I know much less than every-

Building intelligence is like building muscle. … You get stronger from lifting weights that are a bit too heavy for you to continuously life comfortably.” at any moment — to calm, confident and comfortable in what I was saying.

I should have felt relieved that my insecurities went undetected in constitutional law class and my conversation with friends. But the more I reflected on it, the more I felt disappointed.

In giving into our cowardly impulses to hold our

one around me, so I’m not going to contribute. I don’t want to look dumb.” We’re so focused on hiding what we perceive to be our faults and crafting our personas so none will be the wiser to our internal anxieties, that we don’t realize we’re also preventing ourselves from becoming wiser.

Building intelligence is

like building muscle. You don’t get stronger from lifting weights that are easy for you to lift. You get stronger from lifting weights that are a bit too heavy for you to continuously lift comfortably. Your muscle fibers break down, but then they rebuild themselves, and next time you lift you’re ready for a heavier load. We didn’t come to Penn to spout knowledge we already knew. We didn’t come here for the stable ground.

That would render the whole point of college moot. We came here to learn things we didn’t know before. We came here to challenge ourselves with difficult classes and talk with people who would present us with new perspectives.

We’re here to ask questions and to answer them — both correctly and incorrectly.

To only speak when you feel like you’re an expert on the subject is to take the easy way out. To only raise your hand when you’re 100 percent sure of the answer is to

EMILY HOEVEN limit yourself to a box that doesn’t allow for growth. To worry about how you look in front of your peers is to let your educational and intellectual experience be dictated by others. To stay silent is to tell ourselves that our voices aren’t as meaningful, profound or knowledgeable as others’; it is to tell ourselves that we blew it before we even begin to speak. And those are messages that we

EMILY HOEVEN is a College sophomore from Fremont, Calif., studying English. Her email address is ehoeven@ sas.upenn.edu.

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Penn Museum interns address unique subfields in anthropology Interns conduct professional research work CLARIS PARK Contributing Reporter

For most, the Penn Museum is the slightly out-of-way building where some classes and NSO’s annual Toga Party are held. For others, it is a much more significant part of their Penn experience.

The Penn Museum is one of the world’s leading anthropology research institution and a place of pre-professional development for undergraduate students. Many undergraduate students with varied interests can develop their skills as researchers and relationships with faculty by taking part in the internship program. These interns do not have typical internships.

Ashley Terry is a senior majoring in Anthropology and submatriculating in Biological anthropology who works in the

American Section of the museum.

Her day sounds a little more dangerous than that of an average Penn student.

“Basically, I just come into contact with some poisons and pesticides to make sure that other people would be adequately warned about those poisons and pesticides,” Terry said, “It’s not bad. They’re mostly bagged, it’s not a huge deal.”

Working with Dr. Janet Monge and the physical collection, Maya Kassutto, a sophomore in the College who started working as a Penn Museum intern as a high schooler, is learning how to find the story behind the different bones and remains that she comes into contact with.

“We have a couple Maoris [skulls] that still have the soft tissue on their faces,” Kassutto said. “They have these very intricate tattoos on their faces, so we can tell [...] that they were the chiefs of their tribes and all of

those things.”

Others such as Julia Chatterjee, a junior in the College majoring in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, work with ancient texts.

“I work with a database that has photographs of cuneiform tablets and their transcriptions, and I essentially translate them,” says Chatterjee. “These are the earliest pieces of writing we have.”

Chatterjee is also combing through ancient texts to help identify themes and create an upcoming Near Eastern exhibit in the museum, and the work that all interns do contribute towards the research and maintenance of exhibits.

“It’s a lovely working environment where everyone is taken seriously,” said Kassutto “We’re introduced and treated as people with very important opinions and jobs, even though we are interns.“ Interns at Penn Museum work

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Ashley Terry, a senior majoring in anthropology and submatriculating into biological anthropology, and Maya Kassutto, a College sophomore, are two students interning at the Penn Museum.

with state of the art equipment and experts in their fields, and will use those skills in their future as anthropologists and researchers. Spending hours in the Penn Museum as students, researchers,

and valued voices, interns find a place where they can mix work and their interests and carve a niche for themselves.

“It’s essentially the best place I could be as an undergraduate,”

Chatterjee said. “It’s so amazing that for a person like me who has such a specific interest that people don’t exactly understand, 75004 it turned out to be the perfect place.”

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U.N. assistant secretary-general addresses various human rights issues Ivan Simonovic focused on U.N. progress CAROLINE CARBALLEIRA Contributing Reporter

In a world filled with violence and constant conflict, it can be hard to remember that there are people who still strive to make the world a more peaceful place.

One of those people, United Nations Assistant SecretaryGeneral for Human Rights Ivan Simonovic, came to speak at Penn Law School on Monday as part of the Dean’s Distinguished Speaker Series. Previously the Minister of Justice for Croatia, Simonovic now works on human rights projects at the U.N. in an effort to stop the atrocities that go on worldwide.

Simonovic’s presentation, as he said at the start, discussed “the relationship between human rights, peace and security.”

Throughout his lecture, Simonovic focused on the ways that the U.N. is becoming more proactive in addressing human rights issues. Initiatives such as the Human Rights Due Diligence Policy, a policy banning the U.N. from supporting forces that commit human rights violations, and the new Human Rights Screening, a process in which the U.N. screens any potential employees for possible human rights crimes, highlight Simonovic’s dedication to making the U.N. more conscious of human rights issues. Beginning in 2016, according to Simonovic, the U.N. plans to require human

out that not even the Human Rights Office provided human rights training … human rights in the United Nations should not be compartmentalized,” he said. “Human rights are not something that the Human Rights Office only does, it is a core mandate and activity of the United Nations.”

Certain parts of the presentation proved controversial for members of the audience, such as College junior Claudia Dally, who was surprised that the assistant secretary-general brought up the Ivory Coast and his relationship with President PHOTO COURTESY OF TOBIN JONES | WIKIMEDIA COMMONSVV Ouattara.

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and important … but [mentioning the Ivory Coast was] a bit controversial because the U.N.’s involvement with France seemed a little bit neo-imperialistic, which is, I think, said a lot about a lot of conflicts regarding human rights in Africa and the U.N,” she said.

After his main presentation, Simonovic left a large window of time for questions, which ranged from topics such as the relationship between the U.N. and other human rights organizations, to the recent bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in

Afghanistan, to the representation of women in peacekeeping and human rights development.

As a student in the International Educational Development Program, Graduate School of Education student Athena Lao was particularly moved by Simonovic’s talk.

“I thought that this talk really touched on things that we’re thinking about in our program of study — not only the big human rights issues in the world today, but also thinking more broadly about what role we can play to make things better,” Lao said.

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response to the apparent move toward censoring campuses.

“I don’t agree that you, when you become students at colleges, have to be coddled and protected from different points of view,” Obama said at a town hall debate in Iowa in September.

In the header of the Atlantic article, a clueless-looking toddler in a sweatshirt that says “college” sits at a desk with a Macbook in front of him. Yes, that depiction could represent a Penn student.

But maybe it doesn’t, Moreno argues.

Moreno, who is a faculty member of both the School of Arts and Sciences and Penn Medicine, wrote an article for The Huffington Post called “Warning: My Class Is One Big Trigger.” In it, he argues that students — and specifically Penn students in his class — can, in fact, handle hard topics and think about difficult issues.

“I see trigger warnings as part of a longer conversation that has to do with political correctness,” Moreno said. “It’s another manifestation of the idea that elite universities are coddling students. Undoubtably there have been speakers who have been invited or uninvited … and it may be happening more now, but it doesn’t characterize what really goes on in universities.”

Moreno teaches both undergraduate- and graduate-level bioethics classes and said he hasn’t seen any of the over-sensitivity or need for trigger warnings described in the Atlantic piece, even though sensitive material is discussed regularly in Humanities and Social Science classes. Moreno said he had even presented a case study of his own life to his undergraduate bioethics class about the hard decisions he’s being forced to make concerning his mother, who is in a nursing home.

“Almost everybody in that room has an elderly grandparent or has a parent or grandparent who’s died, or a friend who’s died,” he said. “You could say the whole conversation was very triggering to those people, but no one ran out of the class in tears. They seemed to be very engaged, and that’s pretty typical in my experience.”

Moreno has also taught at the University of Virginia, George Mason University and Swarthmore College and said that he has seen the same trend at those institutions. He attributes the “coddled American college student” image more to a generational disconnect rather than hard evidence.

He added that such disconnect isn’t limited to this time and place, recalling previous examples of generational discord.

“People who were my age when I was in college had a certain view of us — we were all drug-crazed, sex-crazed hippies,” he said. “We survived somehow.”

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to raise funds centrally for what we’re establishing now as our new initiatives,” she said.

More money means more perks and opportunities for Penn’s athletes, coaches and t ra i n i ng st a f f, somet h i ng Calhoun hopes will set the University apart from its peer institutions when it comes to recruiting.

Penn Champions Club is an important first step towards greater financial parity amongst the University’s 33 athletic teams. More than that, though, by branding the athletics department on a school-wide basis instead of lifting certain teams into the spotlight over others, the initiative seeks to rebrand Penn Athletics as a unified community rather than 33 separate entities.

Another crucial element of this rebranding effort is more consistency across teams’ apparel.

“An early desire of mine was to clean up our look in that we saw every shade of red and blue that you could imagine,” said Calhoun. “Just none of the teams looked very uniform.”

The University signed a multisport deal with Nike in the spring to streamline the process of having just one shade of red and one shade of blue on the fields and courts. The contract effectively made Nike the official retailer of Penn Athletics, however Under Armour will still outfit five of the University’s teams until their respective multi-year contracts expire.

The Nike swoosh won’t be the only new logo on Penn’s uniforms. The Athletic Depa r t ment is d itch i ng t he University’s shield logo in favor of the split “P” design, what Calhoun envisions as a badge of honor for Quakers athletes.

“We like our marks, we’re not reconsidering the split ‘P’ in any way,” she said. “If anything we get compliments consistently that it’s a really strong mark.”

From a financial standpoint, the Nike contract was a welcome boon for teams with smaller operating budgets. By consolidating apparel contracts of 28 teams into one, more free apparel is available to teams.

“I think coaches were all very happy we ended up where we did,” Calhoun said of the Nike partnership.

New uniforms and new fundraising intiatives certainly fall short of a department overhaul.

Yet these key changes reorient the path of Penn Athletics.

Gone are the days when being a student-athlete only meant pledging allegiance to a coach and a pair of colors.

Now, being a student-athlete means something more than that. It means belonging to a school-wide community, all proudly brandishing that split “P” badge across their chests.

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Penn gets revenge over Tigers at home tournament W. TENNIS | Quakers win

titles in three brackets JACOB SNYDER Contributing Reporter

Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but Penn women’s tennis found a way to serve it up sheltered from the elements this weekend.

Sunday saw the conclusion of an excellent showing for the Quakers at the Cissie Leary Invitational, a tournament hosted indoors on Penn’s campus this past weekend.

Leading Penn in its third invitational tournament of the semester, Red and Blue coach Sanela Kunovac was impressed by the level of competition on display.

“It was excellent,” she said.

“We had the defending Ivy League champs [Princeton] here

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that the mentality was mine and mine alone early on, and I was trying to put it into the defense rather than have them formulate and embrace their own defensive mindset,” Fink said. “So in those early games, despite us giving up some costly goals, I was really harping on defensive mentality, which I don’t think they had clearly defined for themselves.”

After four games, the defense had conceded 36 shots on goal and 10 scores, but it was around this time that everything began to click for the defense.

“I told them I wasn’t going to talk about defensive mentality anymore because I felt that I was the only one embracing it and not them,” Fink said. “They had a team meeting, independent of the coaches, and they defined it themselves. ... They should be playing for each other and not playing scared or afraid to upset the staff.”

“I think we all hold ourselves accountable for what we can do and what each other can do,” Mackin said. “We work on [our weaknesses] in practice and take that to the field,

and another three or four teams were nationally ranked in the top 70. The level of play was very high.”

The tournament was organized into four different brackets, with singles and doubles matches divided between two tiers based on each player’s skill set.

Coming off a strong showing at the Princeton Invitational the previous weekend, one looming obstacle dominated Penn’s thoughts: the Tigers. At that tournament, the Tigers soundly beat the Quakers both in singles, 6-1, and doubles play, 4-0.

However, this weekend, Penn managed to exact its revenge.

In the doubles Flight B bracket, the Red and Blue got their first taste of it against Princeton. As the final approached, the Penn pair of sophomore Lina Qostal and freshman O.J. Singh faced off against the Tigers’ Sara

Goodwin and Nicole Kalhorn.

Although not partners at the Princeton Invitational, both Goodwin and Kalhorn had been victorious in their separate doubles matches against Penn last weekend. However, Qostal and Singh flipped the script on the Tigers this weekend, taking down the pair in the championship, 6-3.

In the doubles Flight A bracket, the Quakers’ duo of senior Sonya Latycheva and junior Kana Daniel reached the final before eventually losing a close 7-5 match to a strong team from Saint John’s.

Meanwhile, in Flight B singles, Penn enjoyed another remarkably successful bracket, sending two members of the team — Marta Kowalska and Qostal — to the final to square off against one another. Because the two were teammates, the match had a different feel than a typical

tournament final.

“It was more friendly,” Kowalska admitted. “Two weeks ago, we played a practice match on this same exact court. Also, we know each other’s weaknesses, so it was more of a mental match.”

In the process of getting to the final, both Kowalska, who eventually won the match, and Qostal defeated Princeton opponents in the semifinals.

The biggest battle of the weekend came between Princeton’s Kristine Steffenson and Penn sophomre Ria Vaidya in the Flight A singles final. After a long weekend of matches, Vaidya began to feel fatigue during her final match, both mentally and physically. “[Saturday] after my two matches I was really tired,” Vaidya said. “During the breaks during a match, I read from a paper. It has words like ‘snap the

wrist’ on it, things I need to work on. That way when emotional and physical fatigue set in, I have something to focus on.”

After a gritty 7-5 first set won

by Vaidya, the second set was a true test of both players’ stamina.

The set went back and forth, with Vaidya taking a lead and Steffenson tying the set on three different occasions. However, in the end, the Singapore native outlasted Steffenson to win the second set, 6-4, and capture the title.

When speaking about Vaidya’s performance, Kunovac praised the sophomore.

“I am very proud of the way she’s carried herself all season,” Kunovac said. “This tournament, she had a lot of tough matches.

She is a fighter and very forwardlooking.

“No matter the circumstance, her strong will carries her

forward. I am very proud of Ria for winning, but I would have been proud of her whatever way the match turned out.”

Having captured championships in three of the tournament’s four brackets, the entire Penn squad agreed that the weekend was an immense success overall.

“Everyone played really well,” Vaidya said.

“We did well as a team, cheering each other on and supporting each other,” Kowalska added.

Yet the biggest praise for the Quakers came from Kunovac.

“I don’t like to use big, heavy words, but this weekend was phenomenal,” she said. “I think this is the best we have done in this tournament since I have been here coaching. The performances in every bracket were outstanding.

“This weekend, I think we did our talking with the rackets.”

and we are always backing each other up on the field and supporting each other.”

According to Li, the Red and Blue back line has come together as a unit with a singular purpose: to defend what’s theirs.

“You can only have success if you work together,” Li said. “The circle [and the entire area within 25yards from the goal] is our house.

“And we’re not letting anyone into our house.”

In the next two games, the Quakers’ defense was even more successful in preventing quality offensive chances, allowing only seven shots on goal and taking down Villanova and Sacred Heart in the process. With so much success on both sides of the ball, Penn was ready for its Ancient Eight opener against Cornell.

Typical to Ivy League play, scoring was low throughout the majority of the contest. After a disciplined first half from the defense, the Red and Blue allowed Cornell to get back into the game, who would score two quick goals in the final minutes. Penn would match that with a dramatic pair of their own.

Even though the game was won largely thanks to Alexa Hoover’s

critical overtime penalty stroke, the defense’s impact on the result cannot be overstated. Kneizys played one of her best games, while Mackin and Li stopped many entry attempts by the Big Red. The following week, the Quakers traveled to Cambridge, Mass., and took down Harvard 2-1, again thanks in large part to the defense.

In a game where Penn’s offense was having trouble finding the back of the net, the defense delivered, along with Mata, who had one of her best performances of the year. The Red and Blue won the game, once again, in overtime.

The numbers speak for themselves. Since allowing 36 shots on goal and 10 goals in the first four games, the Red and Blue have only let up 20 and 7, respectively, since.

The Quakers allowed 58 shots in the first four games of the season, but have allowed only 34 in the four since.

Entering the second half of the season, the Quakers’ schedule will stiffen a bit as they face five more Ivy opponents and get set to enjoy far less recovery time between contests. The offense will continue to fire away shots, but scoring goals will undoubtedly be more

challenging as conference games come around. Therein lies the need for the defense to shine.

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For the past three years, Penn cross country has shown consistent signs of improvement but has been unable, as of yet, to put it all together. This year, though, the Quakers are coming temptingly close to doing just that.

This past weekend at the Notre Dame Invitational, both the men’s and women’s squads put up respectable finishes against some of the top-ranked teams in the nation.

The women impressed in particular, finishing 10th in a 21-team field only one year after finishing third-to-last at the same meet. The team was led by junior Ashley Montgomery, who barely missed out on a top-10 finish in a fast field with an impressive 5K time of 16:50.

After showing promise but failing to break out of her role as a supporting performer through her first two collegiate cross country seasons, Montgomery’s rise to the top of the Red and Blue program has been meteoric. Following a strong middle-distance track season last spring, she has established herself as the Quakers’ clear top runner in the early goings of the cross country season. “She’s got a really good competitive spirit to be able to push herself,� coach Steve Dolan said. “She just came back really fit from three great months of summer running.�

Sisters Cleo and Clarissa Whiting followed behind Montgomery, and their early season consistency has sur prised nobody. However, the Quakers did have another breakout performer in sophomore Isabel Griffith, who put together the best race of her young collegiate career to finish fourth on the team.

All in all, the women’s team is showing all the signs of a team that has left its last-place Ivy finish from 2014 far in the past.

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Despite the strong results for the Red and Blue overall this weekend, there is still plenty of room to improve as the program settles into its crucial stretch of midseason training, particularly on the men’s side. “If we wanna contend for an Ivy League title [on the men’s side], it’s gonna take a stronger fifth runner,� Dolan said. “But that’s what the next month is about.�

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the men’s side did not turn quite as many heads with its performance. However, with a solid 11th-place finish out of field of 20 that featured five teams in the nation’s top-30, the men’s team put its best foot forward.

And perhaps none of the Quakers did so more literally than junior Nick Tuck, who not only finished second on the team in 25th place overall, but largely did it while wearing only one shoe. “He actually lost [it] early in the race,� Dolan said. “So it was a pretty courageous effort, and lucky that it was good footing

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the opportunity to reverse the trend, they were unable to put the finishing touches on any scoring opportunities.

Van Dyke attempted to shuffle around the lineup to create chances. And for the most part her substitutions were successful.

Senior defender Caroline Dwyer shifted to forward and junior Olivia Blaber was moved from midfield to target forward where she unleashed three shots, two on target.

Despite the final score, neither the players nor the coaches were hanging their heads. If anything, the loss seemed to only leave them hungry and anxious for another shot at scoring the goal that eluded them all night.

“From a holistic standpoint it was a good performance,” Van Dyke said. “However, it’s a cruel game at times. We have to remind ourselves of how good we were

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tonight and not focus so much on the result. But in the end results matter unfortunately.”

Fortunately for Penn, the loss didn’t come in Ivy play. Thus the performance can shine a little brighter behind the result, especially if the Quakers build upon it during their upcoming league slate.

As Columbia looms on Friday, Mikolai is confident that her team is capable of making necessary adjustments.

“It’s actually a good feeling to know that you were doing everything right, and that was just one aspect that we can easily correct,” she added.

In the upcoming contest with the Lions (5-5, 1-1), Mikolai is confident about what her team must to in comparison to Monday night’s loss in order to record the win.

“We need to pressure every single ball. In the first half, we came off really slow. In the second half, we came out fired up,” she observed. “They didn’t have any

time on the ball, and you could see we were obviously creating a lot of chances, so we just have to do that and put them under the gun and just kick their butts.”

Van Dyke also explained that the team is still settling into their identity.

“On the attack we’re young,” she stated. “So with that you just have to continue to gain experience and gain minutes.

“For the future of the program everything is still new. A lot of new faces.”

Van Dyke’s face is of course one of those new faces. But in the six months since her hire, she has seamlessly settled into her new role and has ignited this young Red and Blue squad.

As the players stretched and drank recovery drinks after the game they didn’t look like a team that had just been defeated. No, they looked like a team on a mission, one that isn’t even close to over.

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For Penn field hockey, the plan is pretty simple: find a way to win Ivy contests, even when those results don’t come easily. And sitting on a 7-1 record with two wins in the conference, that is exactly what the team has done so far.

But while the Quakers’ offense controlled contests earlier in the season, goals have become harder to register lately, recently the team has relied on its defense to come through.

Entering the season, Penn faced a huge question mark in its backfield.

Gone were full-time starters Helene Caniglia and MaryRose Croddick

— two backs who never missed a game over their four-year careers at Penn and combined for 136 starts.

In their place entered senior Nicole Mackin and sophomore Jasmine Li. The only returning full-time starters on the back line were junior back Claire Kneizys and sophomore goalkeeper Liz Mata.

“It was definitely an adjustment because we were all playing in different positions than we played last year,” Kneizys said. “I know how Jasmine and Nicole play, and it’s been working really well. We work really well together.”

Out of the gate, the new-look defense faced some growing pains. In the team’s season opener against Liberty, the Red and Blue allowed two late goals in a losing effort. Coach Colleen Fink was less than pleased with her team’s approach.

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It’s time to hit the refresh button for Penn Athletics.

In the eyes of Athletic Director Grace Calhoun, that means new uniforms, new initiatives, new programming and, most importantly, a new vision.

Now in her second academic year at the helm of the athletic depa r tment, Calhoun is done learning the ropes. She is ready to concentrate her efforts on unifying the student-athlete community on campus and push Penn Athletics as a whole onwards to victory.

A h a l l m a rk of t h is changed focus is the newly christened Penn Champions Club. Unveiled in late September at Ca l houn’s second-annual “All Athlete Gathering” in the Palestra, the program is designed to be an outlet for holistic

athletics fundraising.

At first glance, this may seem like a lot of jargon, but the central goal of the Penn Champions Club is quite simple: Raise money without strings attached.

In the past, the athletic department was restricted in how it allocated its resources based on which teams generated the most revenue from alumni gifts. Now, with donations directed towards a centralized pool, Calhoun and the rest of her staff have greater freedom.

“When everything is tied to a particular sport it restricts some of those major initiatives that I think unify the division a nd create more collaboration with the campus,” Calhoun said.

At its core, Penn Champions Club is a fundraising entity. Calhoun hopes that it can be more than that, though.

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On a brisk Monday night at Rhodes Field, the Quakers played nearly flawless soccer.

From a statistical standpoint, Penn dominated the box score in every column except the one that mattered most: the final score.

Despite outshooting their opponents 16-5, the Red and Blue (4-3-3, 0-1-1 Ivy) lost for the second time in their last three outings to Lehigh, 1-0.

After a slower first period that saw a score from the Mountain Hawks (5-4-3) in the 35th minute, Penn could not be stopped. According to coach Nicole Van Dyke, “We came out in the second half and there was only one team here.”

Senior midfielder Erin Mikolai echoed the sentiments of her coach.

“We were dominating them and got so many more shots, and the play was in their half. But we just weren’t clinical,” she said.

The team and coaching staff were notably frustrated as shot after shot failed to cross the goal line despite their exceptional play.

“We did everything right tonight except for score a goal,” Van Dyke noted. “This was one of our best performances all year.”

Undoubtedly the Quakers could have used a positive midweek result heading into their third Ivy League contest. After starting the season by winning four of five games, they have failed to record a victory in their last five attempts. Unfortunately tonight, when given SEE W. SOCCER PAGE 11 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640