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— Alec Ward on the reaction to The Argus op-ed.

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A$AP Rocky headlined Forbes’ 30 Under 30 concert Tuesday night at Festival Pier.

Seventeen-year-old Shawn Mendes of “Stitches” fame performed to an enamored crowd.

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Forbes, Live Nation and the Global Poverty Project held a concert at Festival Pier to close the 2015 Forbes Under 30 Summit on Tuesday night. Featured artists included Hanson, Lindsey Stirling, Shawn Mendes and A$AP Rocky.

Lindsey Stirling fused the art of ballet into her riveting violin performance.

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New club encourages students to open up Penn Reflect provides a space for honest, confidential discussions about life at Penn

Taylor Hanson of the 90s rock band Hanson captivated the crowd at Festival Pier.

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Even when free food is provided, it isn’t easy to get 40 Penn students to attend a club meeting that doesn’t improve their chances of becoming a future executive.

Penn Ref lect, a new club founded by College junior Jared Fenton, doesn’t have official membership — just a listserv notifying subscribers of meetings. Penn Reflect is a place open to all students to talk whenever they want about whatever they want.

“The club’s motto is be open, be real, speak your mind,” Fenton said. “Penn Reflect is a club dedicated to providing students with a forum to speak and reflect openly about student life at Penn.”

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After being notified that she no longer qualified to study abroad, would-be College junior Samantha Wapner elected to take a leave of absence.

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Just a few days after finals had ended in May, while most other students were starting summer internships or research, Samantha Wapner received an email.

“In the process of reviewing academic standing for the College after Spring 2015 grades, it came to our attention that you no longer qualify to study abroad,” it read.

According to the College’s study abroad requirements, no student receiving a failing or an incomplete grade on his or her transcript from the semester prior to going abroad is eligible to study abroad.

A mental health concern Wapner, who would be a College junior this year, had planned to spend her fall semester studying at King’s College London. As an English major who was heavily involved in the theater community while at Penn, the program’s dual focus on both literature and theater seemed perfect for her.

While the program is a Pennsponsored study abroad program, Wapner said that she had to apply directly to King’s College as an exchange student, a process she remembers was complicated.

Despite the complex application process, Wapner still felt that the program was her best option, even choosing it over a French language immersion program, which she SEE CANCELLING ABROAD PAGE 8

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Facebook — one of his only the news once every few days, and methods of communication while he says he has managed to keep he is in Tanzania this semester. up with most “broad themes” of “I thought it was just another run current events since he left. of the mill Penn Alert email. Is it “I’ve gotten to watch the BBC JESSICA McDOWELL serious?” a few times to catch up on GreekStaff Reporter Scollan’s disconnect from the EU debt negotiation and the On Monday, campus was current events of campus is not refugee crisis, but that’s the only abuzz with activity as a Division just limited to the UPennAlert. TV I’ve had for two months,” he of Public Safety notice warning While he prides himself as being said. students and faculty of a threat “glued to the news” while on For Scollan, it isn’t impossible of violence. The threat, which campus, he told me excitedly that to stay up to date with the news, was posted anonymously on the even having Wi-Fi was consid- but it does prove more challengsocial media site 4chan, warned, ered a luxury for him now. ing and time-consuming. “If the “a fellow robot will take up arms “I don’t have wifi through my Internet is working, I can get an against a university near Philadel- school,” he said, explaining in- article or two in at a time,” he exphia” at 2 p.m. Eastern Standard stead that he has an “Internet plained. “At home I could read for Time. dongle,” which he can load with a while or watch a whole newsWhile the threat was the talk of data whenever he wants to access cast, so I think really it’s just that campus that day, more than 7,000 the internet. “It’s unreliable and here it takes so much longer to put miles away, College junior David slow because the cell service in- everything together.”

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said that he has actually gotten some of his news from Facebook, including hearing about the school shooting that took place at Umpqua Community College in Oregon last week.

But while keeping up with American news has been a challenge for Scollan, his semester in Tanzania has given him greater access to events and stories that don’t usually make international headlines.

“These past two months have really shattered my perceptions of what stability in what ‘stable’ African countries looks like,” he explained. “Tanzania is held up as an example of stability in the region, but they have elections at the end of the month and there have been violent protests in other place in the country and the army has been out as a show of force,” he said.

“We were in the market the

other day and saw a big truck filled with opposition party members drive up to the police station and then the police were pushing them out and beating people with batons into the police station,” he told me.

While Scollan’s struggles with an internet connection are more unique, his experience of seeing a different perspective on the news while abroad is a common theme.

College junior Avi Colonomos is in Budapest, Hungary, this semester, and he similarly said that finding American news sources is challenging, describing people in Budapest as only “distantly conscious of happenings in the U.S.” For Colonomos, while the Syrian refugee crisis has been a notable discussion point in recent weeks in both the United States and Hungary, he has noticed different perspectives on it in Hungary than he has seen from

American sources.

“The perception in the United States seems to be that because the refugees come from conflict zones that they’re dangerous or a threat to security in central Europe,” he said. “The opposition to take in refugees specifically among central Europeans has little or nothing to do with security, but (at least for Hungarians) the fear is an erosion of local culture,” he explained.

“The rhetoric revolves around protecting ‘European values’ more than security issues,” he added.

Colonomos isn’t the only one who has noticed a different bias in news coverage abroad.

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Life is like a box of chocolates.

You never know what you are going to get.

Speaking at a Wharton Women event on Tuesday night, 2010 College graduate Lucia Liu described her journey from a corporate job to starting her own chocolate company, Lululosophy.

“After graduating from Penn, there is the sentiment that you need to find a great company to work for,” Liu said. “But you realize there are other ways of living.”

Liu started Lululosophy, an artisan chocolate company, in New York City as a way to combine her love for Asian flavors and creativity. After graduating with a bachelor’s in Communication and Consumer Psychology, Liu worked for American Express for several years before realizing she wanted to do something more

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repeating anything that an attendee revealed during the me et i ng, at tende es broke out into discussion groups of twelve. Between bites of sushi and pizza, they opened up about how they made sense of Penn’s culture. A trained student facilitator moderated each group’s discussion, and each group’s discussion was guided by what the attendees had proposed.

Pressure, stress and “Penn face” were hot topics. But discussions weren’t limited to mental health.

“In my group last time we had a pretty long discussion about the decision calculus involved in MERTing someone,”

creative. Contemplating between attending business school or joining a startup, Liu decided to take a break and traveled across Asia, where she found a host of flavors not found in chocolates in the Western Hemisphere.

“I was sitting in [a] Taiwan tea shop, thinking no one does chocolate with tea,” Liu said.

“Chocolate is a really fun, interesting way to introduce flavors.”

Back in Manhattan, Liu began experimenting and developed a signature line of tea-infused truffles. She then entered her chocolates in a competition hosted by Smorgasburg, a food market in Brooklyn, and won. By April 2014, she had quit her job and was selling her product.

“I had to use my savings to start up, but I either would have spent money on business school,” Liu said. “It was such a risk to quit my job, yet sometimes everything falls into place.”

Today, Lululosophy has a full line of colorful, fun-shaped chocolates, ranging from maple whiskey to Thai tea that sell online and wholesale to hotels and shops. Liu shared a couple

flavors, as well as her story, to a room full of Penn students.

To get the audience to fully enjoy the chocolates, Liu explained how chocolate is made and guided the audience in a sixstep process of tasting it.

“I didn’t know there was a correct way of tasting chocolate,

but it did taste better,” Wharton freshman Melissa Matalon said.

“I actually could taste the champagne and whiskey.”

Natalie Borowski, vice president of university relations for Wharton Women, said the club chose Liu as a speaker to show young women other routes in

Wharton sophomore and Penn Reflect facilitator Aaron Smith said.

“I can’t really think of a situation where someone would bring up an idea, and I would censor it” he added.

Whatever the topic, discussions were f luid, honest and insightful. “ It ’s s o wo n d e r f u l t o see such a big group that’s com m it ted to having conversations,” Wharton junior Tai Bendit said, who was an attendee at the first meeting.

“I feel like we can feel very alone at Penn sometimes when we want to talk about difficult issues because people are too busy for us, and what Penn Reflect is doing is creating a space for that, so I really see in the future a way for people to see

that there are a lot of people who want to take time out of their day to support me and have conversations. I think that’s pretty powerful.”

The power of Penn Reflect’s mission might be able to overcome the challenge of people feeling uncomfortable about sha r ing personal stor ies on sensitive topics with what may often be strangers.

“My exper ience with the first session was that people were already sharing personal things and and no one knew anyone,” Bendit said.

Sm ith a nd Fenton added that they anticipate the club will develop a voluntary group of regula r attendees, which will build trust and encourage deep and open discussions.

They hope that future new

members will feel the sense of community and feel comfortable sharing — especially knowing that what they shared wouldn’t leave the meeting.

Penn Ref lect is “definitely not an alternative to CAPS,” Smith said. Although Fenton a nd h is fa ci l it ator s h ave received training from psychologists Sue Webber and Steven Treat, Smith affirmed that participants facing more severe mental health issues should seek out professional help.

Nevertheless, Fenton views Penn Ref lect as a club that fulfills a need at Penn. “You go, you be real, you be open, you leave with a sense of where you are in the moment and where you want to go,” Fenton said.

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College graduate Lucia Liu spoke at Penn on Tuesday, describing her journey from a corporate job to starting her own chocolate company, Lululosophy.

business.

“We try to get speakers who are in more than [finance] and consulting,” Borowski said.

“Chocolate tasting is much more interactive. We had originally 120 RSVP, but we had to cap it [at] 60. Having that much interest was amazing.”

Liu said that students may see her chocolates at Houston Hall one day, though she ultimately wants to keep the business small and hands-on.

“With chocolate, there is no right or wrong. You can be as playful as you want to be,” Liu said. “It is kind of like art.”

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OPINION The illiberal impulse TALKING BACKWARD | This Banned Books Week, we should commit to protecting even the thought that we hate

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As The Daily Pennsylvanian reported last week, a group of students at Wesleyan College stole and destroyed a press run of the college’s student newspaper, The Wesleyan Argus. The destruction was purportedly a reaction to the publication of an op-ed critical of some Black Lives Matter activists. The writer — in surprisingly gentle terms, given the reaction — had argued that BLM rhetoric might encourage violence against police officers.

The group subsequently filed a petition with the Wesleyan Student Assembly, which partially funds the Argus, demanding the revocation of those funds and threatening to continue destroying press runs unless a number of racial diversity-related demands were met. In the petition, they complained that “[The Argus] neglects to provide a safe space for the voices of students of color.” The president of the Student Assembly (who happens to have been a high school classmate and student newspaper colleague of mine)

eventually signed the petition herself, in a saddening display of conflict of interest and forgetfulness of her student newspaper past.

As an opinion writer who occasionally courts controversy myself, the newspaper’s response appalled me. The Argus promptly withdrew the article and issued a lengthy apology for having run a piece which some students found offensive.

No defense was offered of the

believes that it is occurring.

It may be a valuable way to promote greater inclusion, and it is almost sure to provoke worthwhile discussion. To destroy its press runs and call for its defunding, however, is neither tolerant, nor inclusive, nor likely to promote justice of any kind. Rather, it is the indulgence of a base desire to exercise power, to limit and control the bounds of acceptable thought and expression. It

For confronting that which gives discomfort, which disturbs and offends, and thereby discovering how to be content despite it is not merely productive of learning or incidental to it, it is learning itself.” paper’s editorial independence or of the columnist’s right to express his opinion in a public forum.

To criticize a college newspaper for shutting out minority writers is a perfectly valid action in any sphere if one

does not advance, but in truth impedes, the production of the unique educational value that diversity, rightly understood, can create — the certainty that we as students will come into contact with opinions, facts and actions with which

we are uncomfortable. For confronting that which gives discomfort, which disturbs and offends, and thereby discovering how to be content despite it is not merely productive of learning or incidental to it, it is learning itself. It is what we mean by the very word.

Luckily for me and my opinion page colleagues, The Daily Pennsylvanian does not accept any funding, student government or otherwise, from Penn, and so cannot be “defunded” for publishing material which offends. Last year, I was able to criticize SOUL without provoking demands for my dismissal or the article’s retraction. These are heartening indications that perhaps Penn students are somewhat less censorious, or perhaps simply less ideologically monolithic, than their counterparts at Wesleyan. It also speaks well of the DP that a wide range of political and ideological viewpoints are currently represented on the Opinion staff.

Such relative triumphs, however, do not mean that

Penn students need not remain vigilant against threats to open expression on campus. Two weeks ago a pair of students ran a guest column in these pages announcing the creation of a “Greek Community Judicial Board” which, they said, would impose sanctions on Greek organizations for “cultural insensitivity” with the backing of the Office of Student Conduct. Luckily these claims turned out to be essentially untrue, but I was dismayed by the apparent willingness of the student body to accept the imposition of a policy so obviously contrary to the letter and spirit of the University’s vital commitments to open expression. In the time between the original “announcement” and the publication of the University’s disavowal, there was no protest, no outcry from the student body, but rather a collective silent shrug. Perhaps it was simply that nobody noticed, but I truly fear that nobody cared.

On the timeline of human history, the existence of a meaningful right to speak

ALEC WARD one’s mind barely registers as a blip; it has existed for less than 50 years in a single nation. It does not arise naturally or endure automatically; rather it must be fiercely fought for and closely guarded by those who would not see it extinguished.

As students engaged in the pursuit of truth, we should all count ourselves among the ranks of its defenders.

ALEC WARD is a College junior from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is alecward@ sas.upenn.edu. Follow him on Twitter @TalkBackWard.

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LEFTOVERS | Pennsylvania House Bill 262 criminalizes adult-entertainment workers

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If Pennsylvania House Bill 262 becomes law, employees of adult entertainment establishments will have to pay $50 to register with the state, including a copy of photo ID, personal criminal history, eye color, hair color, stage names, height, weight, personal address and phone number. This database would be accessible by law enforcement. In addition, the bill would ban alcohol and private rooms from strip clubs.

The extensive regulations that would be put in place in strips clubs and on its employees only serves to threaten the financial well-being of those employed in the one of the only industries where women make more money than men.

When talking about women who work in the sex industry, discussions often focus on whether or not such employment is empowering for the women who choose to work in this industry or if it is nothing but the gross cultural practice of exploiting the female body for male pleasure. While such a conversation is ideologically significant,

it too often serves to siphon off, or ignore altogether, that gender issues are related to the economic realities facing women who work in this industry.

lawsuit against the city and its police chief after officers raided clubs, detaining dancers and forcing them to pose for photos in an effort to enforce a similar

interest in protecting women in this industry should be, first and foremost, supportive of the economic demands of dancers before creating legislation in a

Too often, the focus and momentum surrounding efforts to protect sex trafficking victims detracts from other serious challenges facing dancers in the industry, such as police and customer harassment.”

The bill was introduced ostensibly to help sex trafficking victims. While combating sex trafficking is not mutually exclusive with supporting consenting employees’ efforts to improve working conditions, the reality is that the vast majority of sex industry employees in Pennsylvania are not trafficked. Too often, the focus and momentum surrounding efforts to protect sex trafficking victims detracts from other serious challenges facing dancers in the industry, such as police and customer harassment.

For example, last summer, 30 dancers in San Diego filed a

piece of sex trafficking legislation. In 1997, dancers at Lusty Lady in San Francisco opposed the club’s booths made of oneway glass where customers regularly took videos for pornographic purposes without the dancers’ consent. The dancers ran, what is believed to be, the first successful union organizing drive in the sex industry in the country. Represented by Service Employees International Union Local 790: The Exotic Dancers Union, dancers won a pay-raise system, sick leave, vacation and holidays.

The people who proclaim

vacuum under the guise of protecting women in the industry.

The House Bill 262 has been criticized for not consulting any dancers, with the bill’s sponsor Representative Matt Baker bragging that he had never been to a strip club. Brandon McGinley, director of strategic initiatives at the Pennsylvania Family Institute helped draft the legislation.

When asked if any strippers were consulted during the bill’s drafting, McGinley responded, “Not as far as I know.” In an effort to create sound public policy, we regularly expect stakeholders to be consulted. Why should this

time be any different?

Sex trafficking often gets conflated to means all the work in this industry, but the sex industry, like every other, has its horrendous extremes. Toorjo Ghose, a Penn Social Policy & Practice professor who researches sex worker mobilization, stated, “it is pretty obvious that this move to require registration is just part of a greater movement to surveil poor people and subject them to a level of surveillance the rich don’t have to comply with under the idea of public safety. If we’re really interested in their health, we would end the police and customer harassment these dancers face. Instead, sex workers are portrayed as risky people who endanger the rich.”

It’s not surprising, given that mainstream feminist understandings of the sex industry predominantly feature the narratives in books like Nicholas Kristof’s and Sheryl WuDunn’s “Half the Sky.” This book features stories of young girls from developing countries who are survivors of sex trafficking, and makes the choice to feature

CLARA JANE HENDRICKSON gender violence under the umbrella of feminism rather than wage discrimination and workplace conditions — which are not seen as explicitly gendered.

The justification for deepened measures to end sex trafficking often results in efforts that harm rather than help many women in the industry and positions the fight against gender violence antagonistically to workers’ financial well-being.

CLARA JANE HENDRICKSON is a College senior from San Francisco studying political science. Her email address is clara@sas.upenn.edu.

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days after Cooperman arrived in Paris, several terrorist attacks took place, the most notable one at the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, killing 11 people.

In the aftermath of the shooting, Cooperman remembered seeing floods of posts

from both French and American news sources about the shooting and the publication.

American sources, Cooperman noted, seemed to focus much more on the merits or morality of Charlie Hebdo’s publications.

“A lot of the stories from the U.S. seemed to focus on a lot of what Charlie Hebdo had said in the past,” he explained. The satirical paper, which comes out

once a week, is known for often attacking religious and political groups through articles and political cartoons.

“From the U.S. perspective, there seemed to be a lot of people saying ‘what happened was of course shocking and terrible, but the things they’re printing are also not okay,’” Cooperman remembered. “In France though, everyone was just shocked. There

was not really a questioning of what they were writing — at least not in mainstream media — and everyone was kind of united in shock and the belief of freedom of expression.”

Cooperman also noticed that French and European media covers current events in other parts of the world, particularly Africa, much more than American media. The coverage he was exposed to, he said, gave him a greater appreciation for the things that happen outside the arena of the world stage.

“I knew Boko Haram was terrible before I got to France,” Cooperman said, “but the U.S. just doesn’t cover it.”

“Details of attacks and slaughterings of hundreds of people were in Le Monde all the time, and I hardly ever saw anything make it into an American publication,” Cooperman said, referencing one of the most prominent daily newspapers in France.

While Cooperman remembered hearing a lot about international news while in France, he said that it was harder to feel connected to what was happening in the U.S. “It wasn’t necessarily difficult to hear about most of what was going on, but it became harder to feel connected to it because the problems people were feeling and experiencing in France were so different,” Cooperman said. France was worrying about immigration reform and the version of the PATRIOT Act that had been proposed, while the U.S. was so focused on things like race relations and police shootings, he explained.

“I was still connected to everything, but I wasn’t living it,” he said.

While Scollan has an arguably more difficult time staying connected, he has managed to do so with “creativity and some extra work.” He explained that with things like the internet, it makes it easy to stay connected to campus.

“I think that the Internet is super empowering and the fact that I can be 7,000 miles from home in rural Tanzania and talk to people like normal is great,” he said.

Like Cooperman, though, Scollan said that his exposure to so many stories that wouldn’t make American headlines has given him a greater appreciation. “I think it just confirms that at home the news spends a lot of time worrying about which Kardashian is doing what,” he said.

“But little to no time is given to real non-western problems in the world.”

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Annenberg’s FactCheck.org authenticates politicians’ statements BOWMAN COOPER Contributing Reporter

Politicians make a lot of wild claims. Often, it can be difficult to separate the true from the semi-true from the downright false. That is where FactCheck.org of Penn’s own Annenberg Public Policy Center comes in.

FactCheck.org is a company that verifies politicians’ statements across their speeches, interviews and social media. A project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, the organization is a nonpartisan resource that aims to reduce voter deception.

The work is “tedious,” FactCheck.org director Eugene Kiely said, but he nevertheless recognizes its significance. Through partnerships with major media outlets, including MSN and CNN,

FactCheck.org reaches vast audiences, which is one of Kiely’s primary goals.

Lori Robertson, managing editor at FactCheck.org, acknowledged that fact checking is “time-consuming work,” and that most major media outlets do not possess the time or the resources to do their own fact checking. It is for this reason that she believes FactCheck’s services are so vital. While FactCheck. org is not the only fact-checking service in existence, its information is free and available to the public, which is it what makes it stand out from any other similar organizations.

“While we have seen an increase in fact checking,” Robertson said, “we still feel like we fill a void in traditional journalism. As a nonprofit our information is free for media to reprint.”

Robertson often gets asked if the work of FactCheck.org can change how politicians behave. Unfortunately, she said that “we rarely see

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Gender gap looms large for recent Penn graduates Women earn significantly less than men 10 years after graduating from Penn RUIHONG LIU Staff Reporter

A report released by College Scorecard suggests that Penn is

worth the price tag, with Penn alumni earning a median salary of $78,200 10 years after graduation. But men and women may reap different benefits.

The earning gap for Penn alumni is modest within the first year of graduation — a $2,000 to $4,000 gap depending

on degree — but it climbs to a gap ranging from $15,000 to $100,000 in ten years, according to data released by Career Services. The gap is largest for engineering students ten years after graduation — men earn a yearly average of $106,339 more than women.

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According to a recent New York Times article combing through the College Scorecard data, schools such as Duke, Princeton, Cornell, MIT and Yale all see gender divides in salaries ten years after graduation. At Duke, the difference between men and women is $29,900; at Princeton, the difference is $47,700. MIT, with a difference of $58,100, has the largest earning gap.

The College Scorecard, created by the U.S Department of Education, traces annual costs, typical total debts, graduation rates and salaries in nearly every university and college in America from 1996 through 2015. Aiming to provide students and their families a “truer picture on college cost and value,” the report forgoes traditional ranking methods such as

acceptance rate and academic reputation, and instead focusing on “the earnings of former college graduates and new data on student debt.”

According to the scorecard, 89 percent of Penn students earned on average more than those with only a high school diploma. While Penn’s annual cost (the average net price or federal financial aid recipients) is $22,948, higher than the national average of $16,789, Penn graduates earns an average of $43,857 higher than the national average in ten years.

Among fellow Ivy League universities, Penn ranks number two in salary after attending only after Harvard, whose graduates earn $87,200 ten years after graduation. While many medical colleges occupy the top spots in the charts, MIT,

Stanford and Georgetown are among universities whose graduates have the highest annual salaries.

The report also measures socioeconomic diversity in each school. At Penn, 14 percent of students have a family income less than $40,000 and receive an income-based federal Pell Grant to help pay for college.

President Barack Obama commented on this new data release in his weekly address on September 12. “Right now, however, many existing college rankings reward schools for spending more money and rejecting more students — at a time when America needs our colleges to focus on affordability and supporting all students who enroll,” Obama said. “That doesn’t make sense, and it has to change.”

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posted, Wapner said she wasn’t surprised.

But once she knew that she wouldn’t study abroad, she described the process of withdrawing her participation as “confusing” and “unclear.”

On Penn Abroad’s website, the only policies listed in relation to withdrawing from a study abroad program after being accepted detail the refunds students will be eligible for when withdrawing after paying tuition.

Blanket solutions After receiving the official notice that she was ineligible to study abroad, Wapner decided to take a leave of absence for the year. From notifying King’s College of her canceled participation to applying for the leave itself, Wapner said she felt that the administration kept her in the dark.

“Once I got that first email, it really wasn’t clear to me at all whether there was anything I needed to do. Nobody told

me whether I was supposed to reach out to KCL or whether Penn would do that for me,” she said. She also added that she had just gotten official notice from King’s College in September that she was no longer registered to be a student.

After receiving the original email, Wapner said that she almost immediately heard from her advisor Rebecca Poyourow who brought up the idea of taking a leave of absence — an idea Poyourow had brought up when she first learned of Wapner’s mental health struggles, even though at the time Wapner was still eligible to study abroad.

Penn Abroad, which is responsible for dealing with students withdrawing participation in study abroad programs, said that each situation is handled on a case-by-case basis. “There are a number of reasons why a student might decide to withdraw from a study abroad program, and the process will vary depending on the timing and nature of the request. In every instance, we always work with the student and their undergraduate school to facilitate the process,” Penn Abroad Associate Director Danielle Scugoza wrote in an email.

Wapner, however, felt like her situation was handled with a “blanket solution” by the administration. “I was very much pushed into a year-long leave just because it felt like that was the easiest thing for the administration to deal with,” Wapner said.

In addition to students withdrawing from specific programs, Scugoza added that there are some instances that could cause Penn Abroad to cancel a program altogether, including natural disasters, civil unrest, public health outbreaks, militancy or conflict. “In the event an international incident affects the Penn community, the Global Incident Management Team convenes to coordinate a university-wide response and provide immediate assistance to travelers that are directly impacted,” Scugoza wrote. She added that students wishing to travel on a Penn-related program to a country listed as a “Risk Region” must gain approval from Penn before going.

For Wapner, though, it is not Penn’s commitment to ensuring its students’ safety that she questions, but rather the way it handles the logistics of achieving that end. “The entire process was just not very clearly laid out for me, and it actually became very frustrating,” she said.

“For someone who is already struggling with mental health, I really felt like I just didn’t get the support I needed from the administration at Penn. I feel like they should have done more,” she said.

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would have been eligible for after studying French for several years.

It seemed as though everything was in order.

But Wapner had struggled with mental health issues since arriving at Penn. By the spring of her sophomore year, her mental health had begun to take a toll on her grades. Wapner said that even after speaking to her professors and seeking help at Counseling and Psychological Services and with a private psychologist, it became obvious to her midway through the spring that her grades could interfere with her plans to go to London.

“I had a bad last semester, so even though I had picked classes and registered with the program, I knew I still might not be able to go,” Wapner said.

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Students squirrel away their savings with Acorns app Starting from cents, Acorns invests for the long-term REMI LEDERMAN Contributing Reporter

Thanks to a new app, you don’t have to be a finance major to learn about investing — you can do it from your smartphone instead.

Acorns is a new app that is free to college students and aims to make the stock market less daunting to millennials who have little to no investment experience.

“Investing has always been something that has been challenging for people to get started with,” Acorns business developer Taylor Dance said. “We keep it really easy.”

This investment app links to a bank account and allows users to invest spare change in companies they frequent. For example, if one spends $1.70 on groceries, Acorns will automatically invest 30 cents from his or her account into an exchange traded fund. The app caters to students who have little money to invest but are eager to learn.

“You don’t invest a lot of money.

You just invest spare change,”

Wharton and Engineering freshman Yoni Dejene said. “It is a nice way to save and invest at the same time.”

The app serves both as a learning device for how to build and diversify a portfolio and as a means for long-term investment growth.

“People can actually get what we call ‘skin in the game,’” Dance said. “The best way to learn is to practice.”

Most users are charged $1 a month for the service, and users with accounts that contain more than $5,000 are charged 0.25 percent of their earnings. However, Acorns waives the fee for all students who sign up with their university email.

Dejene has been using Acorns for a year and a half and has seen a four to five percent return on his investment.

“This app gives you an easy way to start investing, without actually knowing about investing,” Dejene said. “If you use something like Acorns, you can sit back, relax, check on it from time to time and they do the work for you.”

The app has over 500,000

accounts and has received approximately 1 million sign-ups. Penn is in the top 50 universities currently using the app, and 70 percent of Acorns users are under the age of 35.

However, some students were concerned about using the app after reading reviews about users not making money.

“I was about to download the app, but then I read the reviews and it made me nervous,” College freshman Kerry Hollis said.

Dejene didn’t make any money in the first four months of using Acorns.

“This is about long-term investing,” Dance said. “This is about investing for the future. Sticking with it is a big deal. Recently, there has been a lot of volatility in the market, but in the long-term, this is something that will grow with us as we get older.”

The app serves as more than just a way to make money. It also provides a valuable learning experience to users. “[Acorns] helps me get financial discipline,” Dejene said.

“It showed me to be patient and slowly invest.”

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Penn field hockey rode another exceptional Alexa Hoover performance to its eighth win of the season, toppling Lafayette, 5-0, in a midweek non-conference matchup at Vagelos Field.

Hoover scored her 18th, 19th, and 20th goals of 2015, extending her massive lead in the Ivy goals scored standings. Maddie Copeland of Princeton and Krysten Mayers of Cornell are each tied for a distant second with nine goals apiece.

Hoover — who was held scoreless for the first time in 2015 during a 2-1 overtime win over Harvard on Saturday — scored her first tally of the match just seven minutes into the game. The sophomore attacker stole the ball and tucked it into the left side of the net, giving the Quakers (8-1) a quick 1-0 advantage.

“We went into the game with that mentality of attacking early, scoring first,” coach Colleen Fink said. “It allows you to settle into the game early on and not play with as frantic of a style.

Hopefully that’s the lesson that they’ll take into the next game.”

Sophomore Rachel Huang struck again for the Quakers just five minutes later, scoring off an Elizabeth Hitti feed. Hoover notched her second goal of the match at the 35-minute mark, stretching the advantage to 3-0 going into halftime.

Hoover got right back into things four minutes into the

second period, putting away another Hitti feed to complete the hat trick. That goal gave the Collegeville, Pa., native 20 on the season, which tied Penn’s

all-time single-season goals scored record. Penn as a team has surrendered only 17 goals to opponents all season.

“It’s always great to break

records, but my initial thought is always, ‘I’m not trying to be selfish.’ I actually had no idea I had tied the record,” Hoover said, laughing.

Hoover set another Penn program mark when she assisted on a Hitti goal to close out the scoring with five minutes remaining in the game. With that assist, Hoover now has 44 total points on the season, making her Penn’s outright all-time leader in that department. Liz Lorelli had previously held both the points and goals scored records, both of which were set in 2003.

Princeton’s Kathleen Sharkey, with 38 in 2012, holds the alltime Ivy League single-season goals scored record. With seven more games remaining, Hoover has a shot at seriously challenging the Tigers’ ex-star’s mark.

Penn goalkeeper Liz Mata had a quiet night in goal, needing only to make two saves en route to her first career shutout. The sophomore gave way

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No. 25 William and Mary and No. 1 Virginia.

In their first season with Van Dyke at the helm, the Red and Blue followed suit, booking a showdown with then-No. 11 Clemson — currently ranked seventh in the nation — for their fourth game of the season.

While Harvard and Penn fell in each game against a ranked opponents, the Quakers especially brought its best to the national stage, only losing to Clemson 2-1.

Van Dyke does not plan to exclusively schedule tough opponents in non-conference games in the future, but she does hope a steady increase in schedule difficulty can elevate the Quakers play and establish a national presence.

“We want to gradually increase the schedule because I think we are a good team,” she said. “And as we

continue to play good teams, we are just going to get better.

“Penn is not a regional university. Penn is a massive brand, and if we want to increase the brand, then we need to play all over the country,” said Van Dyke of her plans to take her team out west to her home state of California.

Not only does increasing schedule strength elevate play and contribute to “the whole studentathlete experience,” but it also brings up the possibility of an at large bid to the 32-team College Cup, the NCAA women’s soccer national championship tournament.

Historically, Ivy League teams do not receive at large bids to the tournament. Even in 2012, Dartmouth did not receive a bid, despite only one Ivy loss to Princeton and a higher ranking than the Tigers — 37th in the nation according to the

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starting play much earlier.

“There is an art to scheduling,” coach Nicole Van Dyke said. “The one thing that we have to be cautious of is the opening weekend.

You really have to gauge your team and its game fitness.”

After the first couple tune-up games but before the conference slate begins is when Ivy teams have looked to add top-ranked opponents to their schedules.

In the lead so far is Harvard, a perennial Ancient Eight powerhouse that has three games slated against top-25 teams this season after playing none in the previous five years.

In these contests, the Crimson faced off against the nation’s best, including then-No. 25 Connecticut,

to freshman backup Reina Kern with 5:25 left in the contest.

“We’ve been talking a lot about our defensive mentality,” said Fink. “It’s funny that today’s game came on the day when [the DP]’s headline was ‘The Defensive Unit.’ If we can keep eliminating entry balls and eliminating corner opportunities, then I think we’ll be successful defensively.”

“Everyone on this team has great stick skills, great field awareness,” Hoover added.

“There’s no pressure for anyone since everyone feels like they can contribute.”

With the win, Penn has notched eight straight victories, moving to 8-1. Lafayette fell to 6-6.

The Red and Blue will look to build on their perfect 2-0 Ivy record when they host Dartmouth at home on Saturday.

The Quakers will be looking to avenge a rough 5-3 loss in Hanover a year ago.

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Because of this, if Ivy League teams schedule top-ranked opponents and win games as underdogs, the possibility of tournament berth is even greater.

And Van Dyke says her club is always up for this challenge.

“Everyone knows where it’s a big game,” she said. “We try to attack it like, ‘Hey, this is a great opportunity. ... We’re on the national stage.’”

This mentality was evident as the team fought hard in its loss against Clemson earlier in the year.

“I think we were still disappointed when we lost that game — that’s the best thing about being a part of this group,” Van Dyke said.

“They are not a complacent group.

“They just want to challenge themselves and get better, and, as a staff, we are happy with that.”

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Quakers seek rebound hosting Big Red and Lions VOLLEYBALL | Foes rank

Carr’s squad will play host to a pair of struggling teams in Cornell and

Columbia. The Big Red (4-9, 0-3) have lost five straight, and the

Lions (3-9, 1-2) have the worst overall record in the Ancient

Eight.

But Carr is not taking either game lightly.

“There is no team in the Ivy League that is a pushover this year,” she said.

The Quakers split the season series with both teams in 2014, and it’s safe to say that Carr plans to be prepared when Penn’s New Yorkbased Ivy foes arrive at the Palestra.

But how exactly does a team prepare for games on back-to-back days against different opponents?

“It’s tough,” Carr admitted.

“We’re going to look at both teams equally throughout the week. As a coaching staff, in terms of giving information to our players, we never want them to look [too far] ahead.

“But at the same time we do have to prepare for both teams equally because we don’t have time to practice between the two matches. It’s definitely a give-and-take strategy.”

And the problem is made all the more challenging for the Quakers’ by their opponents’ diverging style of play.

“You’re not preparing for one style of team,” Carr said. “Cornell and Columbia have two very different strengths. So we’re challenging ourselves to conquer both of those strengths in one week of practice.”

Columbia, Cornell and Penn are the bottom three teams in the Ivy League in terms of hitting percentage. So while each team has

school, and it’s always fun to go up against them.”

Whereas Solomon was the one who found himself hampered by an injury against Fordham in 2014, it is another member of the Quakers’ starting backfield who will likely be unavailable for Saturday’s game.

Quarterback Alek Torgersen suffered a head injury late in the first half of Penn’s loss to the Big Green at Franklin Field last weekend. Although the junior tried to continue playing after the initial hit, the Red and Blue’s coaching staff pulled him from the game, and it appears he is unlikely to play against the Rams.

“Right now, he’s getting evaluated by the doctors, and we won’t know his status for a couple of days,” coach Ray Priore said. “It’s a concussion protocol, and other than getting tested and riding bikes, he

hasn’t done any other physical activity.”

With Torgersen ailing, the Quakers turned to senior Andrew Lisa behind center against Dartmouth. Having never played a down with Penn, the Moorestown, N.J., native entered the game and summarily threw two touchdown passes in his collegiate debut.

Although it remains unclear if

Lisa will actually start on Saturday, the veteran is prepared for whatever gets thrown his way.

“I try and go into each week like I am the starter, just in case a scenario like last week does happen, and I need to come in and perform,” he noted. “I’m just preparing like I’m going to be the starter, and whether it’s me or it’s [Torgersen], we’ll make things work.

Regardless of who lines up at quarterback for the Quakers, the bigger problem for Penn may be its ability to contain the Rams’ attack.

Fordham has scored 35 or more points in four of its five contests, with the lone exception being the squad’s 14-7 loss to Villanova on Sept. 12.

Yet while the Rams’ pedigree and the non-conference nature of

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Many Penn students will be relaxing at home this weekend for fall break. But the volleyball players will be on campus, and they certainly won’t be resting.

This weekend, the Quakers will leave their bags unpacked and prepare for their second Ivy League doubleheader of the season, the first that will be played on their home court.

After a season-opening win at Princeton two weeks ago, the Red and Blue (8-7, 2-1 Ivy) took to the road again last weekend, where they beat Dartmouth before seeing their four-game winning streak snapped

by Harvard.

This weekend, coach Kerry

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getting hurt.

“At this point, I feel like we have nothing to lose really after losing last week so badly. Everyone’s just going into this with a nothing-tolose mentality.”

For Solomon, who went to high school not far from Fordham’s campus, is also excited for this weekend’s contest for more personal reasons. Having gone head-to-head with players currently on the Rams’ roster while growing up, Solomon is excited to match himself up against his former rivals.

“It’s a little extra motivation for me to prove that I can still beat them,” he said. “At the same time, it’s exciting because we get to see how much we’ve grown since high

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Senior Alex Caldwell, who ranks second on the team in kills with 105, and the Red and Blue look to pick up where they left off before last week’s loss to Harvard, when they had accrued a four-game winning streak.

different strengths, they share a weakness in net efficiency, and fans attending the games should expect to see their fair share of errors.

Of course, with fall break emptying out the campus, there most likely won’t be many students at the Palestra other than the ones on the court. But Carr pointed out one positive of an uncharacteristically uncongested University of Pennsylvania: an opportunity for some creative usage of the historic Palestra.

“We’re able to do a kids’ class on Saturday after the match, where we help out anybody that wants to come in and do a little community service workshop,” she said. “We’re gonna throw them on the court and play some volleyball. It gives us a chance to give back to the community.”

Those who do attend this weekend, both from the University and the surrounding area — not to mention the families of the athletes, many of whom travel to Philly for the games — will notice something special right off the bat. Both the Cornell and Columbia matches are “Dig Pink” events, in which the Quakers will don pink uniforms to help raise breast cancer awareness.

“I’m super excited for the opportunity to get our community involved,” Carr said. “Not only getting involved with Penn volleyball, but with a great cause.”

Saturday’s game may lead many to think that Penn should rest its key players before resuming Ivy play, Priore has no plans of doing so.

“We need to get better with the players who are available and can play, but we’re not going in and thinking we’re going to sit someone because we’re afraid they’re going to get hurt,” he said. “At this point, we just need to get better.”

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As Penn men’s soccer prepares to take on Columbia in New York over fall break this weekend, the team finds itself in an eerily familiar situation. “Columbia has always been a difficult place to get a result,� coach Rudy Fuller said. “It’s going to be a good challenge for us to go up there and get one.�

But the familiarity of the situation goes beyond the Lions’ persisting talent.

Not only is Columbia (4-2-1, 0-1-0 Ivy) still relevant, but the timing of the game is identical to that of two years ago. Also identical? The record of the Red and Blue.

Penn (2-5-1, 1-0-0) started off the season with many new faces and without much success, losing five of their first six games.

Clearly they were unsatisfied with the results. “We are definitely young,� junior captain Alec Neumann said. “But I think we’ve gotten a firm grasp of who we are, especially in the past few games.�

Last week, the Red and Blue took their first win over Saint Joe’s, 3-0. The team showed that it was no one-hit wonder with a follow-up win in its home and Ivy

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The first step on that road will be holding the Lions back, which will be a challenge given Columbia’s strong start to the season this year. “Columbia has always been a dark horse for me for the Ivy title,� Fuller said. “They hadn’t put it together the past few years but this year they got off to a really good start in the season.�

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It is not hard to understand why this squad’s chemistry is not where the team was this time two years ago. With 10 new faces on the roster out of the 22 total, Penn’s group is fresh; a fact that brings many benefits as well as difficulties. “When you look at our roster of 22 guys I think 21 of them have seen time in a game, which is a rarity typically at this point in the season if you’ve got a roster 22-25,� Fuller said. “I think this is a deeper, more talented team.�

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EIGHT STRAIGHT! Penn field hockey won its eighth straight game behind Hoover’s three goals

Penn men’s soccer finds itself in an eerily similar position against Columbia

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Coach Nicole Van Dyke plans to increase the strength of Penn’s schedule during her tenure.

Anyone who has watched college football in the last decade knows that strength of schedule for teams on the national stage matters. A lot.

Just ask any TCU fan what it felt like to be left out of the inaugural College Football Playoff this year because the 13-person committee believed its non-conference schedule was weaker than that of the other top teams.

Or Oklahoma State in 2011, when the BCS rankings — which factored in strength of schedule through complex formulas — put the Cowboys in third behind Alabama by only 86 ten-thousandths of a point.

But while football might boast the most public display of scheduling importance, it matters for every college sport, and it is quickly becoming a focus for Penn women’s soccer, as well as other top teams in the Ivy League.

However, scheduling non-conference games at the beginning of a season is not an easy task for Ancient Eight coaches, as most other conferences have a big advantage by

Penn football has nothing left to lose. At least, that’s the way the Quakers put it.

Coming off a 41-20 loss in their Ivy League opener last Saturday, the Red and Blue (1-2) have one final non-conference game on tap before wrapping up their season with six consecutive Ivy contests. But if last season’s outing against Fordham is any indication, this weekend might not be pretty.

The Rams (4-1) are the 13th-ranked team in the Football Championship Subdivision, marking the second consecutive non-Ivy matchup for Penn against one of the toughest teams in the country. Last season, Fordham destroyed the Quakers, 60-22, handing the program its worst loss under former coach Al Bagnoli.

That October matchup was particularly poignant for Penn because of the injuries it caused. Then-freshman running back Tre Solomon tore his ACL against the Rams, ending a promising season for the rookie from Brooklyn.

Now approaching the one-year anniversary of that injury, the sophomore feels no ill will towards this weekend’s opponent, but is looking forward to helping the Red and Blue get back on track after Saturday’s loss to Dartmouth.

“Injuries are a part of the game, and I accept that,” Solomon said. “They caught me, it was a freak accident and wasn’t like anyone tried to hurt me, so I don’t really have animosity towards them in terms of me SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 11

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[Disclaimer: Swamis is an exercise where The Daily Pennsylvanian’s editors make jokes and pick the Ivy League football games. Enjoy. -Riley] It’s hard out here for a Swami. Just when we think we’ve got it all figured out, the rug is pulled from under us, and we’re back to square one.

After upsetting Villanova two weeks ago, Swamis were ready for last Saturday’s game Ivy League opener. This was our moment.

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So … about that.

The Big Green’s quarterback — Dalyn Williams, the Ivy League’z finest and the Ancient Eight reincarnation of college RG III (not Washington NFL RG III, gross) — went 22-for-24 last weekend. He had 400 yards by himself. He accounted for six touchdowns.

22-for-24. That’s 92 percent.

That’s good.

It got us thinking: When was the last time any of us Swamis did anything at a 92 percent success rate?

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by Williams on Saturday. Facts are facts, except when they’re not.

And considering that Fordham put 60 points up on the Quakers in 2014 and typically scores more than 35 points per game, we guess we should expect a zero percent chance of a Red and Blue upset.

Womp. At least we play Columbia next week.

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