October 11, 2016

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2016

THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Protestors attack Trump tapes Students who protested OZ tied Trump to rape culture DAN SPINELLI City News Editor

The student collective known as “We Are Watching” protested on campus early Tuesday morning with messages calling

Republican presidential nominee and 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump “an active advocate of rape culture” and urging Penn students to register to vote. Close to 20 students decorated College Green with eight-feet-tall artwork and posters with the slogan, “Your body, your vote.” Group members drew and painted

the posters, which portrayed naked women with “vote” written across their foreheads, in the living room of Pi Lambda Phi’s chapter house near 39th and Spruce streets. In interviews on Monday night, members said the idea for their demonstration formed after The Washington Post uncovered a video from 2005 of Trump telling

then-Access Hollywood host Billy Bush of his ability to grope and kiss women without their consent due to his fame. “Penn as a community often prides itself on being diverse in a variety of different ways,” said We Are Watching co-founder and College junior SEE PROTEST PAGE 7

GENEVIEVE GLATSKY Staff Reporter

Every year, Locust Walk buzzes with excitement during the SAC Activities Fair, as students shout and wave flyers to attract eager freshmen to their organizations. But some Penn students are never told about the SAC Activities Fair. They might not even know what Locust Walk is. These students, numbering between 25 and 50 each year, are part of the Bachelor of Fine Arts program — a coordinated degree between Penn’s College of Liberal and Professional Studies and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the oldest art museum and art school in the country. The program somehow still remains a “well-kept secret,” said Anne Stassen, the dean of Student Affairs at PAFA.

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Penn will implement campus firewall to prevent cyberattacks The firewall is the most comprehensive security measure ever LILY ZANDI Staff Reporter

AVALON MORELL | ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR

Penn’s Office of Information Security is implementing a campus-wide firewall service in response to universities being targetted by cyberhackers.

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In an effort to protect PennNet users from cyberattacks, Penn’s Office of Information Security is implementing a campus-wide firewall service. “Computer attacks are increasing in number and sophistication every year, and one common vector for attack is through the network,” said Joshua Beeman, Penn’s information security officer. The firewall was tested over the past month and a half in the IT departments of

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various centers and schools across campus. If it passes its validation phase, it will be implemented soon. Universities are prone to targeting by hackers — in 2015, Harvard University suffered a cyberattack on its Faculty of Arts and Sciences and central administration information technology networks, forcing thousands of students and employees to change their passwords. Hacking has also been highlighted in the national news following cyberattacks on the Democratic National Committee and the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. This is the the most comprehensive form of cyber protection Penn has ever

The first step towards change is to believe in the legitimacy of a nonbinary system.

implemented, Beeman said. In the past, firewalls have been initiated on local and individual scales, but this is the first campuswide protective measure. IT staff have been working across all of the schools, since this firewall is intended to be as far-reaching as possible — protecting all users and devices connected to PennNet, AirPennNet and AirPennNet Guest. Although this measure is comprehensive, Beeman said it is not invasive to the students, and doesn’t violate Penn’s electronic privacy or open expression policies. “[The University Firewall] gives us the ability to respond faster, more broadly and more proactively to network-based attacks,” he said.

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