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COLLEGE HOUSE PRICING OVERHAUL Writing seminar structure edited

83% of rooms will cost about $9,400

17% of rooms will cost about $13,200

Summer pilot seminar tested new curriculum SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Staff Reporter

Penn’s Critical Writing Seminar — whether you love it, hate it or want to forget about it — just got a facelift. The pacing and sequence of assignments in the course have significantly changed. Three of the old assignments have been replaced with a new literature review, a public editorial and a job letter. Plus, the “timed essays” have been renamed “on-demand writing.” These new assignments carry an emphasis on “authentic genre” — different forms of writing from a typical school paper, which students will actually use after they graduate. The audience for the writing seminar — often a professor or teaching assistant — “isn’t really reading to learn from you or be persuaded by you,” Critical Writing Program Director Valerie Ross said. But in a public editorial, for example, the larger audience is reading to get something from it. All three new assignments have a stronger sense of purpose associated with them than their older counterparts, Ross said. There is also an increased focus on content SEE WRITING PAGE 9

Season after Bagnoli exit, Penn football is rejuvenated Athletic director, football board see improved attention to detail by team RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor

To improve is to change. To perfect is to change often. For both Penn and Columbia football, however, change over the past several decades — in various fashions — has happened slowly. Except within the last year. On Oct. 18, 2014, the Quakers and Lions met at Franklin Field, with Penn coming away with a 31-7 victory. The win allowed the Red and Blue to snap an eight-game losing streak that had bridged the end of the 2013 and beginning of the 2014 seasons. It was also the last time Al Bagnoli would win a home game as Penn’s head coach. The nine-time conference champion completed his final season with the Quakers in November, finishing with a 2-8 record that ended a 23-year reign in which he made Penn the preeminent power in Ivy League. The .200 winning percentage was the worst of his tenure. But Bagnoli, who had announced seven months earlier that he would accept an administrative role in Penn Athletics upon his retirement, didn’t stay off the sidelines for long. In February, the 62 year old accepted the vacant head coaching position at Columbia, a program that went 24 consecutive games without a win until it knocked off Wagner last weekend. In Philadelphia, former defensive coordinator Ray Priore has helped the Red and Blue buck a trend of their own. After 104 years without a win against SEE BAGNOLI PAGE 10

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Penn to offer two instead of six housing rates JEFFREY CAREYVA Deputy News Editor

A new housing rate structure will make on-campus living cheaper for some, but more expensive for others. Residential Ser vices is

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announcing a significant change to housing rates designed to accommodate students’ financial packages. The new two-rate model has just two price rates for on-campus college house residences, replacing a system with six different rates. As of Oct. 14, Residential Services projects these new rates will be $9,452 and $13,234 per resident

of rates will decrease or stay the same

per academic year. The rates — which usually rise about four percent per year — are not set in stone until the Board of Trustees meets in the spring semester, but regardless of the exact prices, 83 percent of all beds in the college house system will be priced at the lower rate and 17 percent at the higher rate.

The $9,452 rate is around the amount that a student on financial aid will be rewarded for on-campus housing. In the old housing rate structure, the financial aid allocated for housing was based on the median room rate of college houses instead. Factoring out the yearly SEE HOUSING PAGE 9

Leave policies vary across schools VPUL explains leave of absence policy discrepancies CAROLINE SIMON Staff Reporter

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Wharton students may be more likely to take only a semester off because they often do short-term work on startups or political campaigns.

Despite efforts to make leave of absence policies consistent across all four undergraduate schools, differences persist on the websites of the four schools, particularly in each school’s discussion of how long a typical leave should be. According to the report of the Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare released on Feb. 17, students felt that inconsistencies among the leave of absence policies of the four undergraduate schools led to confusion. The report found that while the underlying policies of

the schools were the same, they were explained differently on the schools’ websites. As of Oct. 14, the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the School of Nursing say that “students typically take a leave for a full academic year.” The Wharton School’s website, however, states that “most students who take a leave do so for one or two semesters.” Most of the other language on the websites remains consistent among the four schools. Although each school determines its own policy, Counseling and Psychological Services Director Bill Alexander explained that, “for practical, functional purposes, they’re all the same.” SEE LEAVES PAGE 9

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Alum champions housing and education reform in run for City Council Helen Gym spoke to Penn students on Oct. 6 PAT ZANCOLLI Staff Reporter

Helen Gym, a 1993 College graduate, is running for the Philadelphia City Council At-Large as the Democratic nominee on a platform of education and housing reform. A strong proponent of social justice issues, Gym — a former Daily Pennsylvanian and 34th Street editor — has been making efforts in past weeks to spark conversation on these issues. On Sept. 30, she traveled down to D.C. to join Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other passionate housing reformers to bring attention to federal regulations that are making it difficult for low-income citizens to get housing in certain areas. On Oct. 6, Gym spoke at Penn about education reform in an event hosted by Penn Democrats and the Penn Education Society. Gym said the housing reform

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Penn alumna and Philadelphia City Council candidate Helen Gym has been making an effort to promote social justice conversations over the past few weeks.

Researcher defrauds Penn Med Cancer researcher steals from federal project ANNA HESS Staff Reporter

Former Penn Medicine cancer researcher was sentenced to prison on Tuesday for stealing funds from a federally-funded research program at the University. Steven W. Johnson will serve one year for defrauding a Penn Med ovarian cancer research project funded by the United

States Department of Defense, according to the official complaint. He is also ordered to pay the University over $69,000 in restitution, though the DOD granted his research project a total of over $655,000 from June 2007 to December 2009. Johnson was found guilty of ordering “primers,” which used to identify gene expression patterns in medical testing, through the University. He then tested those primers using Penn’s medical equipment and sold them privately for his own company,

RealTimePrimers. The complaint cites 10 instances of Johnson selling and shipping these primers to universities and labs across the country and the world — to Korea, D.C., Tennessee, California and Colorado, among other places. Johnson worked for the medical school for almost 12 years. In April, he pleaded guilty for misusing the federally-allocated resources to support his for-profit business that he ran alongside his wife.

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event was created to bring attention to a process through which the federal government is buying up delinquent mortgages and selling them to private equity groups. As a result of this process, 80 percent of mortgages end up in foreclosure, Gym said. She felt that she needed to bring attention to the issue since the process flows through federal agencies. “If it has any stamp of government involvement, it needs to serve the public interest,” Gym said. Gym’s Oct. 6 event at Penn also spoke to the topic of reform — but in relation to education instead. “A Conversation with Helen Gym,” as the Facebook event was titled, focused on how the conversation about public education has changed over time and how it continues to evolve, Gym said. “It was a really great opportunity to talk to over 120 to 130 attendees that were there,” Gym said. Gy m’s i nvolvement i n

Philadelphia education reform dates back to 2006, when she and a group of parents formed the organization known as Parents United for Public Education. The mission of this organization is to change the rhetoric around public schools and how parents had to sit helpless on the sidelines. “It was important for us to show that there was a large swath of public school parents who were choosing public education and were really trying to transform and change it, even as difficult as the circumstances were,” Gym said. Gym hopes that as a woman who came from Columbus, Ohio to attend Penn and then stayed in Philadelphia, she may serve as an example to Penn students who have energy and want to make a difference in Philadelphia post-graduation. “I hope that it encourages a lot of Penn students to think broadly about what they can do either in Philadelphia, or wherever they may land,” she said.

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At 8 p.m., a 43-year-old afﬁliated woman attempted to break up a ﬁght after the suspect attacked an unknown man at the Penn Rehabilitation Center on 3609 Chestnut St. When she intervened, the woman was verbally threatened by the suspect.

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At 4 p.m., an unafﬁliated 55-year-old man with a revoked license to carry was arrested after entering the emergency room at HUP with a gun.

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Peer counseling service Penn Benjamins officially launched last week The group’s goal is to promote communication NICOLE RUBIN Contributing Reporter

Penn Benjamins, a new peer counseling group, is open and ready to listen. The organization officially launched last week, after training with Penn counseling professionals, to provide an informal service geared toward validating the daily college issues from an experienced peer. The group was founded by College seniors Emily Derecktor and Diego Fiori, College junior Roy Lan and 2015 College graduate Jordan Lidsky-Everson, and now consists of a board of six members. “It’s not necessarily for a mental health problem,” cofounder Emily Derecktor said. “We’re a group of students that wants to help other students maximize their Penn

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Penn Benjamins founders Emily Derecktor (left) and Ben Bolnick (right), both College seniors.

experience.” “The most important part of training was actually learning how to listen,” said College senior and member of the

general body Ben Bolnick. “How to effectively open up and listen to what someone is trying to tell you and validate that … just being there to give

somebody the open ear that they might need.” He added that their goal as peer counselors is “to try and help change the culture at Penn

to be more aware of these kinds of things … to understand how to listen to somebody.” Penn Benjamins is run out of Huntsman Hall, Sundays from 7 to 11 p.m. in rooms F92 and F94 and Fridays from 1 to 5 p.m. in room G95, and Van Pelt Weigle Information Commons rooms 128 and 129 on Mondays and Tuesday from 7 until 11 p.m. Located in high-stress environments, it offers “a space on campus where you have us sitting there with a bunch of snacks and anyone is welcome to come in and talk,” Fiori said. The goal of the group is to coordinate effort and ensure communication between peers. It serves as a middle-man between the student population and Penn’s Counseling and Psychological Services, though it is a completely separate organization. “I feel like mental health is one of the social issues right now that is really underrepresented in people’s minds in America,”

Fiori said. “A lot of people feel weird about the mental health stigma. Not everyone wants to go to CAPS.” The founders branded Penn Benjamins as a “listening and referral service” that serves to facilitate open communication between students, but understands its limited professional skill. The relationship with CAPS allows the group to refer a student beyond its bounds of training to other resources more equipped to deal with mental health issues. “We are not trying to treat you — we’re just here to talk,” Fiori said. Derecktor said that the club didn’t directly form in response to any specific event but to help guide anyone facing stress. “All of us know what it is like to transition into college and I think that peer voice isn’t present as much as it could be,” she added. “This is the75004 beginning, I think, of a culture change.”

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OPINION Why President Gutmann deserves her $3.5 million

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arlier this week, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported that Penn President Amy Gutmann’s salary has reached an all-time high of nearly $3.5 million. Last year, her reported salary was $2.8 million. The year before, it was reported to be just over $2 million. And since these numbers represent her salary over a year prior to the reporting date, it’s possible she’s making even more money right now. As it happens every year, the publication of Gutmann’s earnings has re-ignited a familiar debate about economic inequality at Penn: Why should Gutmann and other top administrators be raking in the millions while thousands of students struggle to pay everrising tuition fees? The criticisms indeed have merit: Penn doesn’t pay property taxes, it refuses to pay $6.6 million in PILOTs to

support Philadelphia schools, but it’s willing to pay over half that sum to one employee. Gutmann’s salary, at $3,426,106 in Penn’s FY 2014, was over 63 times the cost of attendance (including

It begs the question, is she worth that much? What we must remember, however, when passing judgment on Gutmann’s compensation is that her salary is more than just a figure on a

Yes, Gutmann’s salary has reached an alltime high. What else has reached an all-time high? The University’s endowment.” room and board) of a Penn student that academic year. That’s more than any of the salaries of other Ivy League presidents reported last year, and about four times what the presidents of Cornell and Harvard made. Gutmann’s salary was over 19 times the median salary of a full professor at Penn in FY 2014, and 62 times the median household income in Pennsylvania.

payroll sheet; it is an investment in the University itself. And when it comes to returning on that investment, Gutmann has delivered time and time again. Setting soft factors aside for now, let’s look at the numbers. Yes, Gutmann’s salary has reached an all-time high. What else has reached an alltime high? The University’s endowment.

During the past fiscal year, Penn’s endowment grew from $9.6 billion to $10.1 billion. This new figure is more than double the size of the endowment in 2004, when Gutmann assumed office. What’s more, the majority of spending from the endowment goes to two key areas: instruction and student aid. Gutmann’s uncanny ability to garner donations (remember how she “Made History”?) is no small feat, as it funds the most essential components of Penn’s operations. In recent years, Gutmann has also overseen the expansion of Penn’s undergraduate financial aid budget, which has grown by over 150 percent in her time at the helm. During her tenure, Gutmann has also raised the University’s international profile. New additions such as the Penn Wharton China Center and the Perry World House are physical manifestations of Gutmann’s commitment

to broadening the scope of Penn’s research and teaching beyond our West Philadelphia campus. Her administration has even ushered in a new era of online learning, as Penn has partnered with MOOCs such as Coursera and edX to bring higher education to people across the globe. And she’s helped make sure Penn fulfills its duties to the environment through the Climate Action Plans for University expenditures. All of these advancements are valuable as American institutions of higher education strive for a more global perspective. Perhaps Gutmann’s critics will find it comforting that the big money is going to someone who has an essential role at the University, as opposed to some football coaches who out-earn top administrators several times over at other schools. In 2013, University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban made over

$5.5 million, a far cry from then-president Judy Bonner’s $535,000 paycheck. Since that time, Saban’s salary has only gone up. Why? It all goes back to the numbers; revenue from football games makes a pretty penny for the Crimson Tide. Tens of millions of dollars, in fact — a fraction of what Gutmann raised in the Making History Campaign. As the University’s value has increased over the past 11 years, so has Gutmann’s own value — she knows this, and the Board of Trustees knows this. At any other job, if an employee is doing well and exceeding expectations, they are typically granted a raise. Though Penn is a nonprofit, Gutmann is the leader of a multi-billion dollar corporation, and at the end of the day, we realize that it’s important that she be compensated like one.

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lec, before I begin, I’d like to say that this is not an attack on you, but on your harmful and racist views. Your article last week struck me as very interesting as you touched on a topic that I am particularly passionate about. I hope that you don’t take this too hard … or if you do, I honestly do not care. To me, the main underlying topic of your article reads as one defending the first amendment: the fundamental right of freedom of speech. However, as you have done before in previous articles — which I will not get into right now — you make this most recent piece about the protection of the freedom of speech, which in this country is dominated by white freedom of speech. You make the claim that Black Lives Matter activists are attacking this freedom, at least in

the titus touch | Stop choking on your white privilege regard to the Wesleyan Argus piece (which I have read by the way). I can tell you, as a black man, this piece along with your response quite frankly disgust me. For one, the article in The Argus has the nerve

painted red with our blood. This has been proven from Emmett Till to Freddie Gray. But back to the crux of the issue: Just in case my statements above were not clear, it is the freedom of speech of minorities that has been and

When has this nation been tolerant, inclusive or wanting to promote justice of any kind?” to say that the Black Lives Matter movement is at least partially responsible for the high-strung state of race relations in the country, when since the inception of this nation, the killing of black men and women has been deemed more of a sport than a crime. The Black Lives Matter movement is just the most recent reaction of a people fed up with the streets being

continues to be threatened. Not, as you imply, those of white people. In fact, as the majority in this country, the rights of white people are the least threatened of anyone. What you see as white rights being attacked is a case of your white privilege. Allow me to elaborate. As the oppressor, you see the equality of other races as an attack or a diminishing of

your rights, when in reality it is simply just gaining equality for those that have been oppressed for the entirety of this nation’s existence. The groups that had The Argus op-ed removed were also using a combination of civil liberties. The result of these liberties is the right to protest. Which, whether you choose to accept it or not, is a right that is not exclusive to the white majority of the country. Is it really that appalling to you that those who have never had any of their rights taken from them, be asked to be censored by people who found The Argus article offensive? Those same people have the right to stand up for themselves and the things they ally themselves with. This is 2015, not 1955. Those offended by oppressors have the right to voice their opinions much to your chagrin. The target of your anger

seems to be misdirected. It seems as though you are more mad at the president of the student assembly for signing the petition. You paint it as though she had no choice but to sign, that she was a victim. But in life we always have a choice. You go on to say that “to destroy its press runs and call for its defunding, however, is neither tolerant, nor inclusive, nor likely to promote justice of any kind.” To this I ask: When has this nation been tolerant, inclusive or wanting to promote justice of any kind? Black people in this country are incarcerated at more than quadruple the rate of whites, but only constitute 13 percent of the population, compared to 77 percent who are white. Those who created the petition did so in a peaceful manner, something rarely afforded to black people in this country. So please, Alec, for your

TITUS ADKINS own sake, acknowledge that people were offended by this article enough to stand up against it, respect the democratic process that you appear to hold so near and dear to your heart and please, stop choking on your white privilege.

TITUS ADKINS is a College junior from New York, studying philosophy. His email address is titusa@ sas.upenn.edu. “The Titus Touch” appears every other Thursday.

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Tech Talk features Penn alumna Mikaelyn Austin discusses women in film industry JINAH KIM Contributing Reporter

On Wednesday, students got to pay attention to the woman behind the curtain — or rather, the camera. Mikaelyn Austin, a 2004 College graduate and co-founder of Philly Philms, joined Penn students at a Tech Talk at Stouffer College House. As a female camerawoman, Austin belongs to an extreme minority; the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film reports that among the top 250 films of 2014, women accounted for only five percent of cinematographers. College senior Isabella Gong was thrilled to be able to meet Austin. Having changed her major from computational biology to cinema studies at the end of her junior year, Gong felt a bit adrift about how to get started in her new field. “I wanted to hear about her career trajectory, especially as a woman going into the industry,” Gong said. Austin, who was a member of the varsity track and field and basketball teams at Penn, described the ways her previous experiences helped her current career. Her first documentary about the history of the Palestra was picked up by ESPN, and a throwaway line in her resume about playing semi-pro football helped her land a job with PHL17, a local station affiliate. PHL17 became her first dip into news, and she quickly transitioned into multimedia journalism.

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“I literally did everything,” Austin said. “Anything they threw at me I said, ‘Yeah, I know how to do it, or I don’t know, but I can learn how’ … they loved that.” Austin’s gung-ho attitude seemed to resonate with her audience. “I found [the talk] overall very inspiring, especially her ‘just do it’ kind of attitude,” Gong said. “She’s absolutely fearless.” This isn’t the first time Austin returned to Penn to share advice: Austin and PHL17 reporter Zachery Lashway gave a Tech Talk at Penn last year to share their experiences working on PHL’s morning show, Eye Opener. John Merz, a College House Computing IT Support Specialist, helps run the Tech Talk program and brought in Austin to speak again this year. “We always get feedback on every talk because it’s important to understand what the

audience wants,” Merz said. “This is the 24th we’ve done since the program has begun, and we just want to make sure what people want in the future so we can bring those speakers back.” This year, Austin had some specific advice for female cinematographers — or any woman looking to enter a male-dominated field. “As a woman in our industry, you have to sort of play your cards,” she said. “You have to figure out the ones that are the good guys, the good eggs, who are going to respect you and treat you like a co-worker.” Even if some men remain recalcitrant, Austin advised women not to give up hope. “I always go out of my way to find some sort of common denominator; you’ll be surprised how quickly they shed that sort of bigoted appearance and perception.”

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Fem Dems brings educational perspective to feminist advocacy Club examines U.S. policy on women’s issues NADIA KIM Contributing Reporter

Fem Dems may be a young group on campus, but it has big plans for the future. A new branch of Penn Democrats, the group hopes to raise awareness on and increase advocacy for women’s issues. Fem Dems originally began last year as a social group for women, initially launched by Undergraduate Assembly President and Penn Dems Vice President Jane Meyer. This year, Engineering sophomore Allison Schwartz, College sophomore Jana Korn and College freshman Zoe Colbert hope to bring an educational theme to the group by focusing more on policy and advocacy. “We want to create a space for women first on campus … to talk about women’s issues, how they relate to us and how they relate to

the U.S. at large,” Schwartz said. One of the ways they hope to achieve this is by organizing monthly discussions about women’s issues and related policies. Possible topics range from campus sexual assault to women’s reproductive rights. Apart from discussing theory, Fem Dems hopes to differentiate itself by also examining these issues in terms of current U.S. policy, Schwartz said. The first discussion this Saturday, open to Penn Dems members, will explore the media’s portrayal of women in power. Fem Dems also hopes to involve students in feminist advocacy events. Recently, they used social media to show their support for Planned Parenthood funding. Students took photos with a #IStandWithPP picture frame on Locust Walk, changed their Facebook profile pictures to pink and shared the hashtag across social media. Events such as these advance the club’s goal of destigmatizing feminism and making

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Fem Dems leaders from left to right: Engineering sophomore Allison Schwartz, College freshman Zoe Colbert and College sophomore Jana Korn.

students aware of women’s issues on campus and in the world, Colbert said. Another upcoming Fem Dems

advocacy event is a bake sale that will raise awareness about income inequality. It will be held on Oct. 26 outside or in Huntsman Hall.

The catch: Men will be charged one dollar, while women will pay 75 cents, paralleling the wage gap that women experience in the

workforce. In the future, Fem Dems hopes to organize an event in partnership with the Society of Women Engineers and Wharton Women. “I think that there is a problem at Penn — and nationally — where politics are almost 100 percent controlled by white men,” Korn said. “If you think about it, politics, business and engineering are the three fields where women don’t have a strong footing,” Schwartz added. Fem Dems hopes to change this by inviting speakers to advise students about ways to combat sexism and how to enter the workforce. Through all of these events, Fem Dems’ primary goal remains the same. “I want a place where liberal women can talk about the issues they care about, a place where they feel comfortable and not embarrassed by any ambition they have,” Korn said. “At the most basic level, it will bring a lot of motivated girls together to support one another.”

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increase in housing rates, 73 percent of upperclassmen residents will have their rate decrease or remain the same, whereas 27 percent will see a price increase. “The primary reason we’re doing this is for access and affordability,” Director of Residential Services John Eckman said. “We want to make sure that as many room-types as possible can be afforded by all students, especially in situations where you’re required to live on campus.” Residential Services also hopes that the change will make the rate structure more

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However, a source from the Provost’s office explained that Wharton students are more likely to take a semester off rather than a full year, because they often leave school to do short-term work on startups or political campaigns. They also may be more inclined to take a semester-long leave in order to avoid missing on-campus recruiting. Alexander emphasized that in the case of a mental health issue, taking a year-long leave is often the best way to recover — and that the schools’ policies reflect that. “Many of them [the schools] believe that a one-year leave of absence is really the most beneficial to students,” Alexander said.

simplified and intuitive for families trying to afford on-campus housing. “There will be no financial gain for the University because of this change — it’s about access, not about the housing budget,” Director of Communications for Business Services Barbara Lea-Kruger said. Residential Services projects a decrease in revenue due to the new two-rate model, but says it will take on the loss. Every freshman residence will be priced at the lower rate, as to allow freshmen access to both doubles and singles in first-year houses like Kings Court English House and those in the Quadrangle.

“So they adopted the language.” Aside from the differences among the schools’ websites in discussing typical lengths of leaves of absence, the Engineering School is the only school to list a maximum length of a leave — four semesters. The reason for this, said the Provost office source, is that the field of engineering transforms rapidly, and it is necessary for students to keep up with the most current knowledge by completing all of their studies within a certain amount of time. Other aspects of the policies, such as the process of requesting a leave and returning from a leave, are explained similarly across all four schools. For dual-degree students who want to take a leave of absence, the differences in the websites’

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2015 For example, a student living in a large Quad single will now pay the same rate as a resident in a double. “The Quad has a lot of singles. And with the way room assignment worked, freshman would wind up in singles that their financial aid wouldn’t cover completely — so the new rate structure prevents that by making a single cost as much as a double,” Eckman said. “Really the prices of most rooms are coming down to the price of a Quad double.” The rate change is a significant increase for many residences of the high rises, but current students living oncampus will be grandfathered

explanations could lead to confusion. However, the Provost office source maintained that academic advisors for dual-degree students help to streamline the process. “That [academic advising] is the main reason why I cruised through it,” Wharton and Engineering senior Arjun Raj Jain said. Jain took a year-long leave of absence after his sophomore year to work on a startup. He said this leave of absence allowed him to learn more about the industry and learn how to work independently. “It was honestly the best choice I’ve ever made in my life,” he said. He acknowledged that students who are not in dual-degree programs may suffer from administrative issues when they take leaves of absence. “I’m one of the few who had it easy,” he said.

in under the old rating system should the change result in a price increase. “Anyone who is currently in one of those units and wishes to remain in one of those units, we will only increase their rate by whatever the Board of Trustees decides the yearly increase to be,” Eckman said. The grandfather rule is meant to benefit juniors who will only be in college houses for one more year. Apartments where each resident has a private bedroom as well as a private bathroom, living room and kitchen all fall into the higher rate, while every other type of residence will be priced at the lower rate. For example, a three-bedroom quad in the high rises will be charged

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in the new seminar, which comes across in the extra time allotted for students to dive more deeply into the assigned reading. Students now start off outlining their readings, instead of having a writing assignment at the same time. The emphasis on the assigned content “has intensified [the] topic, and there is much more discussion of topic,” Ross said. She also said these changes would lessen the amount of outlining students would be required to do throughout the rest of the course. College senior Susan Hao chose to do the pilot version of the new seminar taught by Ross

at the lower rate while the fourbedroom quad will be charged at the higher rate for $3,782 more. Three-bedroom quads will cost about the same as they do now, but four-bedroom quads will increase by almost $1,000 beyond the usual four percent yearly increase in housing prices. One-bedroom singles with pr ivate bath rooms, k itchens and living rooms, along with two-bedroom doubles, three-bedroom triples and fourbedroom quads in the high rises will all be priced at the higher rate. But others, like single rooms in Dubois College House, will cost less. While it can be difficult to compare on-campus to

last summer because the content had to do with her double major in cognitive science and computer science. She said the book they read, “Cognitive Variations” by Geoffrey Lloyd, was still very challenging but that the extra effort helped her get more out of the class. “Outlining and finding the main point of the argument, and the points that support the argument in writing seminar helped me figure out a better way to approach my reading comprehension,” Hao said. It also helped her with dense, difficult passages on the GRE exam when she took it at the end of the summer. This is one of the reasons why Hao is happy that she took the pilot course when she did. “As a freshman, you mostly

off-campus living expenses, the higher rate is designed to be at or below the rent prices of private apartment buildings off-campus like the Radian. A four-bedroom, two-bathroom Radian apartment starts at $1,345 per bedroom per month or $16,140 per year, and a one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment starts at $1,915 per bedroom per month or $22,980 per year. The new rate structure takes into effect fall 2016 for all college house student residences. There will be information sessions Nov. 10 and 18 for residents with questions about the new rate structure among other issues.

try to do well in your classes to get a good grade, but now as a senior I wanted to get something out of it,” she said. “I felt like I learned more from applying what I learned from writing seminar to outside experiences.” Engineering junior Rhudii Quaye also took the pilot course over the summer. “I didn’t want the stress of taking a class like the writing seminar during the semester,” Quaye said, who keeps himself busy with a double major in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. Even though writing is far from his subject of choice, he said he enjoyed the class. “I kind of liked it,” he said. “I didn’t consider myself a good writer, but I’m starting to think otherwise.”

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then-No. 4 Wildcats on Sept. 24 and followed that up two weeks later with a near upset of No. 13 Fordham on Saturday. And while both squads sit at 1-3 on the year, a record for Penn that is only one game better than at this point a year ago, it is impossible to deny the positive impact Priore has had on the Quakers since taking the helm. Athletic Director Grace Calhoun acknowledged that the change in leadership has led to a reinvigoration of the program. “We’re certainly going to see some ups and downs this season but, by and large, I see much more accountability than I did last year,” Calhoun said. “The level of organization and confidence with which the team operates right now is very different. “I see the little things being done unlike last year; I always believe the little things make all the difference in how you run a program.” For both Calhoun and Gary Vura, the head of Penn football board, the squad’s effort on the field, combined with its unwillingness to quit during games in which it is trailing, is a direct effect of Priore’s leadership, along with the coaching staff’s other members. Aga inst Da r tmouth two weeks ago, the Quakers found themselves trailing late with the game already out of reach. However, as the Big Green drove down the field to further ice the win, Penn’s defense forced a turnover on downs at its five-yard line, one that both Calhoun and Vura take pride in. “It just showed that there is such a poise and such a confidence,” Calhoun said. “We might not win every battle right now, but there’s this confidence that we’re getting things going, that we’re ... doing all the little things right that are going to lead to the repositioning of the program. I didn’t see those little things happen last year.” “For many years, Penn football has had a certain standard, and I think Ray has been laser focused on getting the program

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Ray Priore was Penn’s defensive coordinator the last time his team faced Columbia, Al Bagnoli’s final home win as the Quakers’ head coach.

back to that standard,” Vura added. Beyond seeing their effort improve on the field, the Quakers have benefited from a dearth of distractions off it, in stark contrast to 2014 when Bagnoli’s impending retirement took precedent over every contest. “When Al announced his retirement and his successor was named, I think it brought a lot of questions about,” Vura noted. “I think the staff was concerned, and the players may have even felt a tad betrayed, so maybe their minds were on something other than playing championship football. So, I can only say that whatever was going on last year does not seem to be happening this year. “Anytime you have coaching changes and schematic changes, it takes at least a year to get on board and buy in. I think with

Al’s retirement and Ray being named successor, I think 2014 was that transition year.” While many suspected that Bagnoli’s departure earlier this year might lead to hard feelings from both current and former players, there appears to be no ill will aimed at the winningest coach in Penn history. “The morning after we beat Villanova, he sent me a text wishing us well,” Priore said. “He’s been a good friend for 23 years, was a big part of my growth as a coach and helped me tremendously in so many personal things.” “There might be some people that felt betrayed and I think we would have liked for [Bagnoli] to be around after retirement,” Vura noted. “But he’s done so much for the program, he’s got a great legacy, and he has a lot of respect for the Red and Blue.”

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Penn volleyball knows the sting of a massive upset. Fortunately for the Red and Blue, they won’t have to wait too long for a chance to dish one out of their own. Only six days after a stunning upset at the hands of Columbia — the 279th-ranked team in Division I RPI, worst among Ivy League teams — the Quakers (9-8, 3-2 Ivy) will travel to Yale to take on the four-time defending conference champions on Friday night, before finishing their doubleheader at Brown on Saturday. “We str uggled with our blocking and our defense, and those are usually points that we’ve been pretty solid with,” coach Kerry Carr said about the surprising 3-1 loss to the Lions, in which the Red and Blue hit only .145. “It served as a wakeup call.” While Penn is entering this weekend on a negative note, the Bulldogs (8-6, 3-2) have had their own recent troubles. Heading into last weekend undefeated in conference play, Yale dropped matches against Dartmouth and Harvard, losing both ends of an Ivy doubleheader for the first time since 2010. As a result, Yale has fallen to

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Sophomore libero Michelle Pereira ranks sixth in the Ivy League at 3.79 digs per set. The Red and Blue were decimated on the defensive end against Columbia on Saturday, falling in four sets as the Lions continually blocked Penn’s shots at the net. Penn takes on Yale and Brown this weekend.

181st in the RPI, only 11 spots ahead of the Quakers, giving Penn players and coaches optimism that they can finally end an eight-match, four-year losing skid to the Elis. “We know that if we play our best, we can beat anybody in this league,” Carr said. “They’re vulnerable, but so are we, and it’s the team that recovers best from defeat that’ll win.”

Despite Yale’s recent struggles, the talent cupboard is by no means bare for the Bulldogs, as they feature 6-foot-2 senior setter Kelly Johnson, the only three-time first team All-Ivy selection still playing collegiately. Overall, eight of Yale’s top-ten scorers measure at least six feet compared to only three for the Red and Blue. But the Quakers feel that technique and quickness can

help diminish the impact of this size disparity. “One thing that’s really great about our offense is that we have smaller players; one thing we have over [taller players] is being court-smart,” said sophomore libero Michelle Pereira, who ranks sixth in the Ancient Eight with 3.79 digs per set. “We have people who can put the ball in a smart place.” While countering Yale’s bigs

will certainly be a focus for the Red and Blue, Friday will also feature a showdown of elite setters. 5-foot-8 Penn senior Ronnie Bither leads the conference with 9.23 assists per set, while 5-foot-9 Yale sophomore and reigning Ivy Rookie of the Year Kelsey Crawford ranks third at 8.57. “I try not to think about those things during the match,” Bither sa id. “We’ve been

working on some new offenses that’ll definitely challenge the other side, so I’m just playing for the team.” Regardless of Friday’s result, Penn must be careful to avoid a letdown against the Bears (8-8, 2-3), who split the season series with the Quakers in 2014. Despite their lowly 221st RPI rank, Brown features the Ivy digs leader in sophomore libero Melissa Cairo and two-time 2015 Ivy League Rookie of the Week Sabrina Stillwell. The Red and Blue have lost the second match of both of their Ivy doubleheaders in 2015, forcing the team to buckle down mentally in order to avoid continuing that streak. “We have felt that letdown the last two weekends, so if we haven’t figured out our lesson by now, I don’t know when we’re going to learn it,” Carr said. “We’re preparing equally for both teams, and I think the girls have seen that we have to play our best to win.” Although Penn remains only a game back of the conference leaders, no Ivy champion has finished with more than two league losses since 2004. Thus, after last weekend’s shocking result, the margin of error is slim for the Quakers. “There’s no doubt in anyone’s mind that we can and will win Ivies,” Pereira said. “That loss to Columbia makes the road a lot tougher, but if we win everything from here on out, the title will be ours.”

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Penn cross country has just one meet left — the Princeton Invitational — before championship season begins, leaving little time for improvement as the men’s and women’s squads search for strength in numbers heading into nationals. The men and women both put on similar performances at their most recent meet, the prestigious Notre Dame Invitational. The men placed 11th out of a highly competitive 20 teams, while the women finished 10th out of 21 high-caliber squads. And while both sets of runners had strong showings at the front of the pack, depth was an issue for the Red and Blue. Purely from a times perspective, the teams’ top five runners failed to close out quickly enough. Given that points are scored by order of finish, this prevents the Quakers from going from the group of strong teams to the group of nationwide elites. The men, boosted by the return of senior Thomas Awad, are looking to build on their consistently good performances and reach the next, elite level as they approach the Heptagonal Championships on Oct. 30. “It’s fun to be back and racing again,” Awad said. His contribution at the front of the Quakers’ pack is crucial for the team’s success, but he deflected the focus on his individual contributions. “We need a strong showing from the three through seven guys,” Awad continued. “Our one-two punch is there, and the potential for our three through seven guys to be in the top 20 at regionals is there. We’re almost there, and I think a couple more weeks of training will put us there.”

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Coach Steve Dolan has been working to ensure that this next step is taken in the practices leading up to the Princeton Invitational on Saturday, as well as the Leopard Invitational, where the younger runners in the squad will compete on the same day. “We’re stronger now than we were two weeks ago,” Dolan said. “This race is a big one to develop our depth. We’re looking for a good team performance.” In a similar sense, the women have been seeking a stronger and deeper team performance in 2015. Approaching Heps as well as the NCAA regional championship in November, assistant coach Claire Hewitt was optimistic of her squad’s chances. “We had a good showing at Notre Dame, so we’re all excited to have good momentum,” Hewitt said. “This is the point in the season where you start to

have breakthrough races. The girls who are running in the five, six and seven spots will be able to see improvements from their training. “At Heps we want to finish in the top five, maybe top three,” Hewitt added. Awad also weighed in for the men, saying, “We want to win Heps and make it to the NCAA finals.” First, though, the Quakers must come out strong at the Princeton Invitational, the same site where the NCAA regional championships will be held just less than a month later. Saturday’s meet will also host regional rivals Villanova. “We want to compete well with ‘Nova and give them a run for their money,” Awad concluded. “They’re a good team, but we’re also a good team. We’re almost there.”

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required to come to Penn. Clancy had a similar experience. “It was very aggressive. You are playing against kids who have nothing to lose, kids who certainly had different priorities than mine,” he said. “It taught me grit.” The style of soccer played in England and in the U.S. is also quite different, and the discrepancy required some adjustment when the duo began playing for the Quakers. “American soccer is a lot more physical,” Clancy said. “It requires you to be bigger, stronger, faster while in England they focus on the technical side of the game.” Levenfiche agreed. “I just think college soccer is a lot quicker — a lot more physical — so it takes some getting used to the tempo,” he noted. “At first it was definitely a culture shock, and a transition had to be made. It

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made me question whether I am good enough to play at this level. “But with teammates pushing you and after getting more and more touches, you start to get better. I think I have acclimated.” Coach Rudy Fuller was impressed with his two British players and how they have adjusted to American soccer, which he agreed was one of the most difficult parts of coming to this country. “It’s a very athletic game and I think generally speaking in Europe, games are called a lot tighter. A lot more is called as a foul so it is an adjustment,” he said. “It’s one thing to be able to pull plays off when you’re not getting knocked and banged, and it’s another thing down when a guys is chasing you down with speed and banging you a bit. ” From after-school practices to playing alongside future Premier League stars, such as Clancy’s former teammate Raheem Sterling, Clancy and Levenfiche have had similar soccer experiences to many Americans while also

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Much like the Lions, the Quakers have operated at their best this year when they’ve been able to utilize their ground game on offense and pressure the quarterback on defense, and they will need to put themselves in a position to do just that by balancing discipline and aggression. “We’re definitely going to be getting after the quarterback in every way possible,” Drake said. “Especially if we stop them on first and second down, they’re gonna be in passing situations. “And that’s when I like to let loose.” Of course, this is easier said than done, and Priore has continued to preach the importance of getting “the little things” right. “If you look at it, if the right guard takes a wrong step, it’s a broken play,” he said. But the storylines don’t end with the two teams on the field. Saturday also features the first matchup between Bagnoli and

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his former team, a fact that Priore — who himself calls Bagnoli a “friend and mentor” — has had to come to terms with. However, for the Quakers to focus on the minute aspects of their game like Priore suggests, they will have to paradoxically ignore the biggest storyline of them all. “I think the focus is really simple,” Priore said. “I want our kids to focus in on ourselves. “Yes, it is a game with coach [Bagnoli] there. … The attention to detail is what wins.” And of course, the distractions go both ways. “When I look across the field, it’ll just be [Bagnoli],” Priore noted. “Him looking at Penn is the other side of it.” So ultimately, what does that leave? Two teams looking to define themselves as winning programs and a dramatic storyline that would make Scorcese blush, set to reach its dramatic conclusion in the city that never sleeps. Lights. Camera. Action.

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We Are Who We Say We Are: A Black Family’s Search for Home Across the Atlantic World provides a detailed, nuanced account of shifting forms of racial identification within an extended familial network and constrained by law and social reality. This colored Creole story offers a unique historical lens through which to understand the issues of migration, immigration, passing, identity, and color-forces that still shape American society today. Author Mary Frances Berry, a well-known expert in the field, focuses on the complexity and malleability of racial meanings within the US over generations. Light refreshments will be provided For more information, contact the Center for Africana Studies at 215-898-4965 or visit our website at https://africana.sas.upenn.edu FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC If you require reasonable accommodations, please provide at least 5 days notice This event is co-sponsored with the Penn Bookstore

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UPSET ALERT

Penn cross country heads to the Princeton Invitational this week as its season winds down

After losing to Columbia, Penn volleyball seeks a shocker of its own against Yale

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2015

Penn benefitting from UK invasion

“WHAT GAME?”

M. SOCCER | Quakers boast pair

of foreign talents on roster MATTHEW FINE Associate Sports Editor

Soccer is without doubt the world’s sport. Outside the United States, the majority of athletes grow up playing soccer at some point in their lives. And now, throughout much of American collegiate soccer, international players are becoming more prominent as schools are increasingly willing to expand their recruiting networks overseas. Although many Ivy League programs — due to more limited athletic resources and stricter academic standards — rarely look outside the country for athletes, international recruits sometimes decide that they want to come to schools like Penn to continue their athletic careers. Specifically, over the last four years, Penn has been able to land two recruits from England. Senior Forrest Clancy and freshman Teddie Levenfiche both hail from London, where they grew up playing “football” after eventually choosing it over their other naSATURDAY tional sports, rugby and cricket. Dartmouth “I wasn’t even (6-3-1, 2-0-0 Ivy) allowed to play 7:30 p.m. rugby at the school Rhodes Field I went to from ages one to 18,” Clancy said. “There was no other sport for me to play during the summer.” Levenfiche experimented with other sports before settling on soccer. “I used to play rugby, cricket and soccer at school. My coaches always told me I should’ve been a rugby player but I persisted with football,” he said. “I picked soccer for the love of the game. I had season tickets for Chelsea since I was three years old, watching the legends, John Terry, Frank Lampard. ... It was an easy choice.” Along with playing for their school teams, Clancy and Levenfiche also played for the junior academy teams associated with most English Premier League clubs that are used to find and create the best youth talent. Clancy played in the Queens Park Rangers academy system, as well as the U-18 All-England private school team. Similarly, Levenfiche was a member of the Fulham, Watford and Reading junior academies before he signed a junior contract with Barnet F.C. Levenfiche’s commitment, while providing many incredible opportunities, also coincided with his decision to focus on the academics

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FOOTBALL | Penn faces off

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In the weeks leading up to Penn football’s upcoming matchup against Columbia, the game has been framed in countless ways. One of the first winnable games of the season for the Quakers. Former coach Al Bagnoli’s reckoning. The game circled on everyone’s calendar. Or as Penn coach Ray Priore

puts it: “What game?” This weekend, the Red and Blue (1-3, 0-1 Ivy) will travel to New York for their highly anticipated contest against the Lions (1-3, 0-1), the team’s first chance to take on Bagnoli since he left town last year. And despite Priore’s best efforts, however humorous, to downplay the matchup, there’s no denying its significance. In fact, the storylines surrounding the weekend are almost too many to count. First off, the Lions enter the matchup coming off of their first win since 2012, a 26-3 victory over

a lowly Wagner squad last week. No doubt, the win did not come over a powerhouse program the caliber of Villanova, which the Quakers beat soundly earlier in the season. But nonetheless, the Lions have shown dramatic signs of improvement all year, and Penn is not about to overlook them. “They’re playing power football,” said senior captain Tyler Drake, who had four sacks last weekend against Fordham. “It’s [something] we haven’t seen yet.” Back in Philly, the matchup also finds a team in flux. In their four games this season,

the Quakers have been wildly inconsistent, playing strong football in three of their eight halves of play while frankly looking more like the inept Columbia teams of years past in the other five. From Priore’s point of view, these drastic fluctuations have largely been a function of the team’s mental approach to the game. “It’s how you deal with success and how you deal with adversity,” he said, diagnosing the cause of his team’s inconsistent play. SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 15

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DP SWAMIS 62 YEARS OF GRIDIRON GENIUS

WEEK FIVE

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK [Disclaimer: Swamis is an exercise where The Daily Pennsylvanian’s editors make jokes and pick the Ivy League football games. Enjoy. -Riley] Outside of Robert Kraft Field, spaceships from the allies and enemies converge on one another just above the streets of New York. Meanwhile, inside the stadium, the main actors of this franchise battle on the gridiron. Usually peaceful Quakers charge forward. They tackle their fierce feline rivals across 100 yards of underinflated field (thanks Patriots). An influential leader has convinced them to take up arms against the evil empire* building up in the Big

Apple. While Andrew Lisa, Han Solo, Justin Watson and Princess Leia fight the droids they were looking for while charging towards the endzone, the Red and Blue’s leader is out of sight. He cannot be found on Penn’s sideline. Underneath the stadium, a wind tunnel blowing down into a vortex features Ray Priore, seemingly dangling above an abyss into oblivion. He assuredly will not survive if he falls. Suddenly, the dark lord approaches. With a menacing glare and a knack for one-liners, the leader of the evil empire* gives his former assistant an ultimatum. “Ray, join the dark side. Come

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with me to Columbia.” “NEVER! Because you killed coach Bagnoli, left the Red and Blue side of the force and went to Columbia yourself.” “No Ray ... I am coach Bagnoli!” “NOOOOOO!” Priore falls. How can he survive? Like everything else, he is caught by Watson as the latter dives through the air. The Quakers, a win in the proverbial hand cut off by Darth Bagnoli, head home. On to Yale in Episode VI. *Editor’s Note: Calling Columbia football an empire is an erroneous label. The Lions suck at football.

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