October 29, 2015

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2015

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THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

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Finance and mental health: it’s complicated Despite employee deaths, finance remains popular Penn major

ELLIE SCHROEDER Deputy News Editor

A quarter of 2014 Penn graduates took jobs in finance despite renewed concerns about mental health due to employee deaths in the industry. After the June suicide of Sarvshreshth Gupta, a 2014 Penn graduate and Goldman Sachs analyst, a media firestorm raised questions about the issue of stress in the finance industry, especially among young workers. Gupta’s death was not the first. After the 2013 death of a 21-year-old Bank of America SEE FINANCE PAGE 6

LGBT COMMUNITY REACTS TO SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVEY PAGE 2

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The Penn Coffee Club, a recreational organization on campus, holds events to teach members coffee brewing techniques and allows members to taste different coffees.

Coffee Club unites campus coffee lovers MICHAELA PALMER Contributing Reporter

… regardless of who is elected next week, there is still a lot of work to be done in Philadelphia … “ — The Daily Pennsylvanian

For some students, a love of caffeine is actually an extra-curricular activity. Penn’s Coffee Club is a Wharton graduate student organization that gives students the opportunity to bond over their shared love of coffee. Started three years ago, the club now has over 60 members and a three-person board.

The Coffee Club’s main draw is its coffee-centric events, which are hosted several times throughout the year. Recently, the club co-sponsored a coffee and dessert night with the Wharton Food Club and hosted a coffee and chocolate night last year. The club also gives its members free coffee during midterms and finals, setting up shop in a Huntsman group study room. One of the club’s popular events is a Philadelphia “coffee crawl,” in which members go together to a number of different coffee shops

in Center City. The shops they visit are “off the beaten path or shops members haven’t heard of,” club co-president and MBA student Emily Clayton said. The club board hopes to help broaden members’ knowledge about coffee and enable them to try new varieties. The Coffee Club’s other copresident, MBA student Yuji Ogawa, also emphasized that the club wants to “educate [its] members about coffee.” To this end, the club organizes “coffee cupping” events, with coffee shops around campus. At a coffee cupping event,

members learn about the origins of different types of coffee and try to identify differences in taste. Ogawa also enjoys showing other members different methods of brewing coffee and plans to host an event to teach members how to use different brewing techniques and coffee makers. Though primarily a social organization, many members of the club are interested in the coffee, agriculture or food industries. Some members have worked in the SEE COFFEE CLUB PAGE 2

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YOU SHALL NOT PASS

Thefts, burglary drop 37 percent in 2015

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Fewer thefts are due to an increase in security measures ANNA HESS Staff Reporter

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Drastic decreases in thefts are being attributed to education, technology, and an increase in student alertness.

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Thefts and burglaries are down 37 percent in 2015 compared to last year, according to the Division of Public Safety. Nine hundred and fifty-three burglaries and thefts were reported to the Penn Police in the 2014 calendar year, from Jan. 1 to Sept. 30, and there have been just 696 reports in the same time period in 2015. Thefts from buildings on campus have seen the most significant drop, coming down 41 counts in 2015. Vice President for Public Safety

Maureen Rush credits the drop to the creation of the Operation Building Safe project, a public safety endeavor to secure the perimeter doors of on-campus buildings and monitor who can enter freely at what times. Through the project, DPS identified visitor entrances and placed security officers, civilian concierges and virtual concierge systems run by DPS or visitor management systems at those entrances. Rush said that the process of making visitors identify themselves discourages perpetrators from committing thefts. DPS has also held security fairs and education SEE THEFT PAGE 2

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