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On the record: Gutmann talks mental health KRISTEN GRABARZ Deputy News Editor

The fight for better mental health at Penn is not yet a mission accomplished but it is an integral part of the University’s overall mission, according to Penn President Amy Gutmann.

In an email to all undergraduates last week, Penn’s administration announced new mental health initiatives without directly referencing the recent series of student deaths, an omission that earned criticism from the student body. But Gutmann spoke candidly with The Daily Pennsylvanian about SEE GUTMANN PAGE 10

Prevention of campus suicides is not well understood

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JARA KRYS WENT INTO SEX WORK TO PAY THE BILLS. NOW JARA, A TRANSGENDER STUDENT ON A LEAVE OF ABSENCE FROM PENN, IS PROUD

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OF HER ESCORT BUSINESS AND ASPIRES TO BE AN ICON.

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After a string of student deaths last semester, including three suicides, Penn bolstered its mental health staffing and created a task force to study how to improve campus resources. But just one month into a new school year, there have been two more student suicides, making six since August 2013.

Experts who study suicides at universities have noted the tendency for student suicides to occur in waves, with no clear reason for a beginning or end. In this sense, there is little that can be understood about the abnormally high number of suicides at Penn over the last year — just as little is known about how to prevent yet another from happening.

he first step is the website ad: $10 for each post and $10 more each day to promote it. The cost adds up, but the payoff more than covers the investment. Jara Krys’ payoff comes at $300 per hour, non-negotiable.

The next step is a mutual vetting by phone. Cops ask too much, and some men just want to get off on the sound of her voice. The man on the other end of Jara’s phone paid for three hours on the Friday of Labor Day weekend. He told her to meet him at a hotel on 17th Street.

When the three hours were up, Jara walked from the hotel back to her University City apartment, with a stop at Wawa to pick up spicy chicken fingers, Slim Jims, Red Vines and one doughnut. At home, she settled in for her version of the post-coital cigarette: multiplayer online game DotA 2. Midway through the game, her phone rang. It was the man she just left sad-eyed in the hotel room.

“I want to see you again,” he said, asking her to come back to the hotel.

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Path to recognition unclear for new arts groups

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The Performing Arts Council has yet to establish a definite plan for being able to recognize new arts groups, even in light of the Student Activities Council’s probable moratorium lift later this month.

The proposed partial lift of the SAC moratorium, which is expected to be formally approved on Oct. 23, will not apply to any performing arts groups. PAC itself imposed a moratorium on new groups within PAC as of Sept. 10, citing a lack of available rehearsal and performance spaces for existing groups.

Rising facilities costs, due in part to labor and technical fees, are also an obstacle to finding funding for new arts groups.

PAC declined to be interviewed for this article but released a statement saying that it “will recommend that [the moratorium] be lifted when it is determined that PAC will be able to support the needs of current groups as

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Penn Museum opens archaeology study center The center hopes to offer all its courses online in coming years CASSIDY LIZ Staff Writer

A new center on Penn’s campus will allow students and faculty to study nearly any type of archaeology they want.

The Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, which opened in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology this semester, will offer new laboratories and equipment — including a room specifically for X-rays and photography — to undergraduate and graduate students studying archaeology.

The center, which is in the Penn Museum’s west wing, was part of an $18 million renovation of the museum. Several existing centers at the museum, including the Ceramics Lab, were partly repurposed to meet the new center’s needs. A selective freshman seminar is already being taught at the center, despite it being only weeks old.

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in the Laboratory” is an introductory course in archaeology meant to expose freshmen to the center’s eight disciplines: archaeobotany, the study of ancient plants; archaeometallurgy, the study of prehistoric metal use; archaeozoology, the study of ancient animals; ceramics, conservation, digital archaeology, human skeletal analysis and lithics.

“We’ve always encouraged students to do research projects in the [Penn] Museum, but the CAAM initiative has focused attention on what beginning students can do and the different ways that they could use archaeological science to develop new skills,” said professor Katherine Moore, the seminar’s instructor.

Any student — graduate or undergraduate — will be able to concentrate in subjects offered through the center, and can apply for independent study.

“Penn students come in with great science backgrounds but they rarely have had a chance to use them in such a unique setting,” Moore said. “Literally everyone in the Penn Museum, from the Director to the Facilities staff, is rei-

magining what it means to make our incredible resources into important experiences for students.”

Another goal the center has is to build an online presence: The center hopes to offer all of its courses online within the next several years.

The Penn Museum will be holding a public open house for the center on Oct. 18 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in celebration of International Archaeology Day. Students are encouraged to attend and explore the new laboratories, as well as hear about the new initiatives made possible by the Center.

Near Eastern Languages professor Steve Tinney will serve as deputy director of CAAM. Tinney could not be reached for comment as of publication time.

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well as new groups.”

In the past, SAC has covered facilities, costumes and production costs for PAC groups separate from the operational budgets allocated to each group. Under that model, facilities costs are retroactively funded, so groups can effectively ignore some of their priciest expenditures when they budget for the year. The PAC groups do not receive the bills for their performance spaces directly so they are not aware of the cost, Platt Director Laurie McCall said. Platt is a common rehearsal space for PAC groups.

Groups are also assigned to performance spaces, which have varying price tags, by the PAC Executive Board and without input from SAC. SAC therefore cannot predict costs per group. A group assigned to perform at the Zellerbach Theater, for example, would end up with higher costs than a group performing in the Hall of Flags.

In order to help bridge the gap between SAC’s overall budget and PAC’s relatively high costs, PAC groups currently give SAC 20 percent of their ticket revenue. The other 80 percent goes towards publicity, programs, travel and miscellaneous fees.

There are currently no plans to increase the percentage of revenue directed back to SAC, according to SAC Chair Kanisha Parthasarathy.

McCall said SAC and PAC

might also set more specific spending caps for costs aside from equipment and hourly space rates. Capping spending would ideally allow PAC groups to keep a higher percentage of ticket revenue, rather than giving it back to SAC. McCall sees spending caps as a possible route to a more sustainable funding model for arts groups.

The lack of available spaces — rather than strictly funding problems — is a main reason that PAC voted on a moratorium for itself, McCall said.

The number of PAC groups increased from 37 to 47 between the time McCall started at Platt in 2007 and the time the SAC moratorium was imposed, McCall said. The PAC constitution guarantees that all groups can perform a show at least once a semester.

Because no new performance spaces have been added — and current spaces are at capacity — accepting new groups to PAC could force it to violate its constitution.

In an interview just after the SAC general body meeting in late September, Theater Arts Council chair and College senior Megan MacInnes and A Capella Council chair and College senior Swaroop Rao both said that PAC is working to transform existing spaces on campus into rehearsal spaces. Auditoriums in academic buildings are being considered.

SAC and PAC have met to discuss changes, but are still in the early stages of discussion.

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Penn administrators have expressed concerns with a proposed bill to change sexual assault protocols at colleges across the country.

The Campus Accountability and Safety Act, introduced in the U.S. Senate on July 30, would require new and increased protocols for how universities report and handle sexual assault — namely, a student survey of campus assaults, new fines for failure to report sexual assault crimes and increased support for alleged victims on campus.

The bill is part of the increasing national discussion about sexual assault, which has most recently manifested itself at Penn in a proposal to hire a Sexual Violence Investigative Officer to investigate sexual assault claims.

“My own position is that one sexual assault is one too many on any campus,” said Penn President Amy Gutmann in a meeting with The Daily Pennsylvanian at the beginning of the semester. “There has to be a fair and effective way of dealing with accusations of sexual assault. And I think we at Penn take this extremely seriously – pe-

riod.”

Alcohol and Campus Forcible sex offenses reported on or near campus While Gutmann Life established in emphasized the im2013, Penn appointed 25 portance of elimiits first Director of 21 nating sexual assault Student Sexual Vio20 on campus, she did lence Prevention and Note: not fully endorse the Education on Sept.

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14 the Annual 15 when asked about Penn’s Division 13 Security and Fire it in August, citing of Public Safety was 10 Safety Report. potentially burdenunable to comment 10 8 8 Statistics reflect some regulations. on the bill as of pub7 7 7 all crimes “There shouldn’t lishing time. Also, a 5 be more regulation representative for the committed on than there is known Office of Government Penn's main to be effective beand Community Afcampus.

0 cause if you have fairs did not respond too much regulation, to a request for comyou stifle creativment as of publishing ity and progress,” time.

Gutmann said. “I think it is yet to sault survey in order to create a things, and I don’t know where this As Penn and other members of be shown whether the new regula- national database for parents and would go.” the higher education community tions pass that test, or fail that test. students to compare universities.

In addition to the campus as- vocalize the need to fight campus Whatever the case may be, there is “If you take any pressing prob- sault survey, the bill proposes a sexual assault, they hope to make no doubt that at Penn we will do lem — and sexual violence is fairly fine equal to 1 percent of the col- some changes in the proposed bill everything to comply with it.” considered to be a pressing matter lege’s operating budget for failing before it ultimately goes to a vote In a meeting with the DP in of health — you have to attack it to report an assault on campus. A in Congress.

September, Provost Vincent Price by having systems in place to help 1 percent fine of Penn’s 2014 oper“Our staff has been talking to also discussed combatting cam- people who need help,” Price said. ating budget would amount to $66 Senator McCaskill’s staff and expus sexual assault, but specifically “Surveys are not the answer,” million. plaining those [concerns],” said identified the bill’s mandated stu- he added. “Surveys are defective In recent weeks, Penn has taken Ann Speicher, associate vice president survey as troublesome. The instruments for all kinds of rea- new steps to combat sexual assault dent for public affairs of the Amerlegislation would require colleges sons ... but my fear is that it just on campus. As advised in Penn’s ican Association of Universities, to administer an annual sexual as- becomes a drumbeat to do certain Commission on Student Safety, which acts as the chief lobbying

Number of forcible sex offenses

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organization for higher education.

The AAU has not yet endorsed the bill.

“We are trying to find something that is workable that does not create such high reporting burden that campuses, or any other institutions, focus so much on the reporting that they lose sight of the larger purpose,” Speicher said.

While the AAU and Penn administrators have some qualms with the bill in its current form, they still hope to pass a campus sexual assault bill in the future, possibly tied to the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. “We anticipate what will happen is that Senator McCaskill will reintroduce her bill in January, and it could be a bit different,” Speicher added.

“I think at this point, it’s reflective of our interest in making sure that we do all we can in way of prevention,” Price said in September.

“But ... a whole long list of mandates that are poorly thought out, its not clear that the end result is going to be improved, as opposed to a process where institutions are asked to step back and make sure they really have the best practices in place.”

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It’s all noise MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2014 VOL. CXXX, NO. 91 130th Year of Publication

TAYLOR CULLIVER, Executive Editor AMANDA SUAREZ, Managing Editor JENNIFER YU, Opinion Editor LOIS LEE, Director of Online Projects HARRY COOPERMAN, City News Editor JODY FREINKEL, Campus News Editor WILLIAM MARBLE, Enterprise Editor GENESIS NUNEZ, Copy Editor MATT MANTICA, Copy Editor YOLANDA CHEN, News Photo Editor MICHELE OZER, Sports Photo Editor

GUEST COLUMN BY DANIELA JINICH

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t’s all noise.

Actually, it’s not.

But that’s what it’s become: all noise.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict on college campuses all across America has become a back-and-forth argument about the same topics.

How many more times are we going to base our discussion on one-line headlines?

How simple are we going to make a conflict that is intrinsically so complicated? Are students going to continue walking down their college walks or opening up their school newspapers, hearing two sides debating with — screaming at — each other?

The conflict that we see today is a consequence of events that took place 100 years ago and every year since. Israel and the Palestinian territories have been shaped by these years, so the conflict is not going to be resolved tomorrow.

The fighting between Israel and Hamas this summer

showcased this complexity.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not a fight between two sides. There were always others involved. Egypt. Lebanon. Syria. Qatar. The United States.

were captured and brutally killed. Even though Israel’s Iron Dome did an outstanding job of protecting its citizens, no country should take hundreds of rockets raining down on its people.

Who is fighting whom? A democratic country versus a terrorist organization.

Is ‘number of deaths’ the only way to measure injustice? Or should we instead look at how well a government protects its people?”

This summer’s surge of fighting — called by some an unnecessary attack and by others Operation Protective Edge — showed the world that Israel, Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and the citizens of Gaza are all separate “players” in this conflict. Israel’s most populated cities were under constant rocket attack. Three Israeli teens

Yet, the story is obviously not so simple. How does a country deal with responding to rocket fire when the rockets are being thrown from densely populated areas? This summer, countless rockets were found in U.N.run schools and hospitals in Gaza — which the U.N. condemned.

Israel’s ground invasion

brought to light an even scarier realization: Hamas had been building tunnels that were meant to transport terrorists under the Gaza border and into Israel with the concrete that was given to Gaza as aid. They were built with the goal of causing terror in Israeli lives and killing Israeli citizens.

As I write this, however, I cannot help feeling an overwhelming amount of grief for the lives lost this summer. I witnessed an Israeli mother crying at her son’s funeral at a military cemetery in Jerusalem. Every Palestinian life lost troubled and saddened me. No one should live under a government that uses its citizens as human shields.

Hamas is a terrorist organization.

Who is fighting whom?

A democratic country versus a terrorist organization.

Is “number of deaths” the only way to measure justice?

Or should we instead look at how well a government pro-

tects its people? Let’s ask, why did the Hamas leadership tell the citizens of Gaza to ignore the pamphlets, phone calls and text messages sent by the Israel Defense Forces to Palestinian civilians before attacking rocketlaunching sites?

For those of you stuck in the middle of this dialogue, I urge you to do your own research.

Don’t take anything I say, or what anyone else says, as fact. Don’t simply believe hateful words with heavy connotations plastered on a wall. Don’t get carried away by social media campaigns meant to delegitimize a democratic country. The dialogue surrounding Israel and Palestine on our campus — and many other campuses — is broken.

The question I would like to pose is one that assumes Penn to be a place that promotes nuanced, intelligent discussion. We have the opportunity here at Penn to

speak to one another as individuals using our different backgrounds to better understand the world.

Are we here to discuss whether a democratic country that was founded in 1948 has the right to defend itself?

No. Or, I ask, are we here to use the past as a base for how to approach a solution? We are here to try and understand the bigger picture of the Middle East and see how it affects the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and America’s role in finding a solution. Yes, I want to talk about how to zoom out and move forward. I want to change this broken dialogue because I am tired of living in the past, dissecting facts, relying on numbers and making noise.

DANIELA JINICH is a College junior from La Jolia, Calif., studying chemistry. Her email address is jinichd@sas.upenn.edu.

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ast winter I, like many other Penn students, thought ahead to what opportunities waited the coming summer. When perusing Penn’s International Internship Program, I discovered one of my favorite professors was coordinating a project with health research in rural Guatemala.

With these bonuses and a desire for health care study, I found the position to be a wonderful opportunity to learn within a Latin American context. As fate would have it, I was accepted into the program and I gladly agreed to attend. With the hefty stipend amount described, I knew that my summer would be set — or so I thought. A few financial discrepancies would all unfold into a logistical nightmare.

Promised an initially fair

GUEST COLUMN BY SEAN MASSA stipend, the numbers and my possibilities dwindled down.

I received a letter with a number of miscellaneous and training “costs” that removed two-thirds of my funding.

Additional misinformation did not aid my cause as I discovered unvoiced “costs” including flights, meal plans and housing — finding out the latter only a few days before our planned departure.

With no financial resources to pull from, I sought support and wisdom from a variety of sources.

An advisor at Penn Global suggested applying for “outside scholarships,” unhelpful information to be employed a few days before the trip began. Those at Student Financial Services had nothing to offer either. Panicking, I turned to Wells Fargo to seek a loan, only to learn that I did not qualify. I was

placed in a situation in which time was inflexible and monetary resources fixed. With much frustration, I conceded to my apparent reality: I was not going to Guatemala. I returned home distraught and disheartened.

noticed. After declaring my departure from the program, I was instantly and somewhat viciously asked by Penn Global staff to return all previous funding. As a student who receives full financial aid during the semester, I

At an institution that boasts of its numerous opportunities available to all students, I was a blip in the system that went down unnoticed. After declaring my departure from the program, I was instantly and somewhat viciously asked

by Penn Global staff to return all previous funding.”

At an institution that boasts of its numerous opportunities available to all students, I was a blip in the system that went down un-

do not have monetary pools to instantly access upon request. In the end, Penn Global did have their money returned to them. However,

I refuse to apologize for appearing to be a negligent, non-compliant student in what I can only describe as a systematic perpetuation of socioeconomic inequality.

In a recent article in The New York Times, Peter Dreier writes that elite institutions need to “look less like an aristocracy and more like the meritocracy they are supposed to embody.” Though I have personal qualms about meritocratic ideology, I do agree with the beginning sentiment — that Penn, in my experience, is still in many senses an aristocracy.

Let me be clear: I am in no way negating or belittling the experiences and involvement of all persons in the International Internship Program. Indeed, I have many close friends who have gone on these trips who now have transformative and insightful

stories to share.

Nor am I saying that all Penn Global programs are flawed. In fact, some programs were well executed and students were given full funding as promised. All I wish is to voice my experience, one that did not have its happy ending and one that should not go overlooked.

Until Penn Global and the larger university community is more considerate of the socioeconomic situations and interests of all constituent students, these problems will continue to manifest themselves as more students fall through the cracks of the institution.

SEAN MASSA is a College senior from San Jose, Calif., studying health and societies. His email is massas@sas.upenn.edu.

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JA R A > > PAG E 1 He paid $1,200 for an overnight, and Jara abandoned her game to make her way back down to 17th Street.

“I only got two hours of sleep that night. I don’t know how I made it through the day,” Jara said the next week. Not that she regretted it, she added, as she reclined in a chair sipping iced tea. Let Jara talk and she’ll go on tangents for hours, starting with a story of a client that reminds her of a friend that reminds her of a problem in the transgender community. Eventually, she’ll circle back to how her life was before Penn.

If Jara had followed her original plan, she’d be a senior in Penn’s Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business, set to graduate next May. If Jara had stayed as she was freshman year, she’d still be a man named Christian Jaramillo, afraid to explore why she was drawn to dresses and ashamed to tell anyone that she’d turned to sex work for money. Since then, she’s accepted her identity as transgender and gone from male to an androgynous gender to more feminine. She talks about a career as an international sex worker as a real possibility. No matter what, she’s sure that she’ll be well-known in the future.

“If you want to be an icon,” she said, “you have to start somewhere.”

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ara Krys grew up 15 minutes outside of the Las Vegas strip, born into a poor and sprawling family that, as a niece of hers put it, nurses a longrunning mean streak. Jara, named Christian at birth, is the youngest of 13 full and half-siblings. Her mother died when she was six, her father when she was 16.

Jara never let herself identify as anything other than a boy before college. Looking back, she describes her attitude as transphobic, disgusted by the trans porn she found on the computer of a much-older half-brother, whom everyone in the family tacitly agreed was a pedophile. But she liked to put on her sisters’ dresses and made female avatars for herself in online video games.

As a very young child, she stripped the clothes off her sisters’ Barbie dolls and marveled at their bodies’ flatness, wanting the same for herself.

Her family noticed.

“When my dad would catch me being too feminine, he’d hit me for it,” she said. “Whenever I was acting like a woman, they’d get mad at me.”

The depression that would follow Jara through college hit her when she was young.

From fifth grade until high school, Jara’s worst moments included swallowing a handful of pills and putting a knife as far into her mouth as it would go. When she couldn’t forge meaningful relationships with her family, she turned to men: She lost her virginity at age 13 to a 16-year-old boy and ran away from home with a man nine years her senior when she was 14.

After her father died of a long-term illness, Jara moved in with her sister and her sister’s husband. Jara was supposed to receive income from her father’s Social Security account, but says she didn’t see any of it until after she was 18. Her sister took it, Jara said, claiming it as her due for housing Jara. During her senior year of high school, Jara moved into a place of her own.

“I supported him,” said Jara’s sister, Erendira Feuntes, who goes by Erin. Nearly 12 years older than Jara, Erin said she had to house nearly all of her younger siblings at some point. Asked about the Social Security, she said, “When he moved out, I signed it over to him.”

Jara said she went to the Social Security office when she turned 18 to stop her checks from going to Erin, but she said she never got back the money from before.

The sisters aren’t on speaking terms anymore, by Jara’s choice. Erin still wants to reopen a relationship, but it’s not a priority for Jara. Although Erin still refers to Jara as “he,” she said she supports Jara’s transition and wasn’t entirely surprised by it. Having Jara live in her house, though, was grueling.

“It was a challenge, not because of who he was and who he is and what he’s like. He had an argument on everything. He loved to debate,”

Erin said. “It’s hard because he never appreciated us.”

Despite her home life, Jara was a model student in high school. She became salutatorian of her graduating class and spent her free time on policy debate and mock trial. Her friends and family who knew her at the time describe her as the personification of a pre-Ivy League student.

“His work ethic was just off the charts,” said Troi Chomas, who was Jara’s high school debate partner and is now a junior at Towson University in southern Maryland. Troi sometimes switches between male and female pronouns, especially when talking about their time in high school when she knew Jara as Christian. “He picked up policy the same year we were debating together, and we did really well because he worked his butt off. It was crazy.”

To pay for travel to debate tournaments, Jara secretly earned money by taking up sex work — a younger boy selling himself to a consistent rotation of older men. One of the men who found her through a gay dating site controlled a large network of male sex workers in their mid20s. Although she was never in the network — the man paid for Jara to be with him personally — watching him work taught her the basics of the sex trade.

After graduation, she headed to her top choice: the Huntsman Program at the University of Pennsylvania, on full financial aid. Jara took off for Philadelphia, still a boy named Christian who was inclined to linger by the makeup aisle but didn’t know why.

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ara talking about her escort work sounds like any other twenty-something talking about a new startup.

She’s conscious of how she presents her brand in, as she put it, a “highly-saturated market.” She talks about attracting the right client profile, picking the right price point and setting the right regulations.

“Wharton taught me how to be a proper sex worker,” she said, smirking.

Delve past the stereotypes and the sex industry is more than prostitutes lurking on the street corner. There are the girls who want a sugar daddy and get their payoff in luxury goods.

Some sex workers, mostly those who work on the street, charge by the act. Jara’s type charges by the hour. She speaks with derision of the girls who pride themselves on getting their customers out the door as soon as they can; Jara never goes under a full hour. She identifies as demisexual — someone who only enjoys sex within a relationship — and uses the hour to create a pseudo-relationship with her client. In the industry, what she offers is known as the “girlfriend experience.”

Jara’s clients don’t have much in common but a desire for secrecy. There are the men who have her role play as a teacher, a daughter or a daughter’s best friend. There was the man with a missing arm and the man with abnormally short legs. One man looked about 80. Another had always wanted to have sex with a transwoman, but confided to her that he could never be seen with one in public.

The economics of escort work makes for a hand-to-mouth lifestyle: Earn $1,000 one day and spend it on a New York City hotel to try to make $2,000 the next. Sometimes Jara is broke, sometimes she can splurge on a new pair of shoes. What Jara saves from escorting will help pay for the breast implants and nose job she wants, which cost thousands of dollars.

An ex-boyfriend remembers seeing what he described as “endless stacks of hundred-dollar bills” in her purse — and never paying for a date after their first. Another ex admitted he wasn’t entirely happy with Jara’s line of work, but says he never brought it up. On the upside, he added, “I get it for free. Awesome.”

Over a dozen people who know Jara were interviewed for this article. She’s told some about the intimate details of her sex work, while she’s never brought it up with others.

The first time she told one of her best friends, Jake Heagy, about her work, Jara was so vague that it took a few back-and-forths by text for Jake to understand what she meant.

“I try to be supportive because I feel like not

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enough people will be supportive,” said Jake, who graduated from the University of Maryland in Baltimore County last spring. He and Jara met on the dating site OKCupid in fall of 2013, though there’s never been anything between them but friendship.

“But I feel like she’s a better person than the job.

And to me it feels demeaning.”

The high school Jara agreed with Jake. She was ashamed of her work and only did it because she felt like she didn’t have another option to make money. It wasn’t until college, when Jara started accepting herself as transgender, that she overcame the shame around her identity as a sex worker.

“I wouldn’t do it if I didn’t enjoy it. I hate people who are like, ‘Only women who have nothing else to do, only women who are depressed with their lives do it,’” she said. “I feel so empowered. I feel like a businesswoman. I’m getting somewhere. I can use it as capital to do other things.”

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T “WHEN I GOT OUT OF PENN AND WASN’T GOING TO SCHOOL, I REALIZED THERE WAS SO MUCH I WASN’T DOING.”

he single piece of furniture in Jara’s living room is a TV, left on the carpeted floor because she’s afraid to mount it on the wall by herself and hasn’t gotten around to buying a stand for it. The only room in her one-person apartment that looks lived in is the bedroom, where the entire four-foot windowsill is covered in bottles and boxes of beauty products.

“I need some furniture,” she said. “I’m going to take a trip to IKEA — I’ve never been.”

Sitting on her bed — a mattress on the floor — in a black-and-red robe with a turquoise bra peeking out, she pulled out her phone to look at the list of topics she didn’t want to forget to bring up.

Last on her list was depression. Her mental state and a desire to focus on her transition — along with problems she had in the Huntsman program — pushed Jara to take a voluntary leave of absence in the spring of her junior year.

“To be honest, I was having a lot of issues,” she said. “I just needed a break.”

From the beginning of school, Jara struggled to find her place in the tight-knit Huntsman Program. She didn’t get along with Huntsman’s executive director, Inge Herman. She’d made her closest friends in pre-orientation programs and felt that the Huntsman students had an affluence she couldn’t relate to.

Midway through her freshman year, a Huntsman classmate walked up to Jara and asked if everything was all right.

“I shouldn’t be telling you this,” Jara remembers him saying, “but Inge told us a lot in the lounge.”

Herman told a group of Huntsman students that Jara’s parents had both died, the student said to Jara. She told them that Jara’s sister had taken her Social Security money, something Jara only revealed to Penn’s Student Financial Services because she had to explain why she was applying as an independent student.

The Huntsman student, who requested anonymity, said he doesn’t remember the exact conversation or whether or not Herman was there. But he does remember discussing Jara’s personal life with four or five other students in the lounge and telling Jara about the conversation. Another Huntsman student, however, remembers a conversation with Herman specifically about Jara’s personal life during their freshman year. Herman told the student, who also asked not to be named, that Jara’s parents

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were both dead.

“She said we should have grace dealing with her because it’s obviously a pretty big thing to have happened at 18 years old,” he said. “Christian was a little bit more quiet, a little bit more reserved with us, and we didn’t know why.”

In an interview, Herman said that she and Jara had several conversations about Jara’s personal life. Herman acknowledged that she did share details like Jara’s parents dying and that she and her sister didn’t speak, but only in response to other Huntsman students asking why Jara didn’t spend more time with them. By sharing, Herman said, she wanted to encourage other students to reach out to Jara. Many students, Huntsman faculty director Janice Bellace said, knew the details already.

“It’s for the benefit of the student,” Herman said. “I never talk to any student about confidential information when it regards academics or health or anything like that.”

Whatever Herman’s intentions may have been, Jara never felt comfortable again with Herman or the other Huntsman students.

Feeling ostracized from her Huntsman classmates, Jara became increasingly depressed. Her mental health was tied up with her gender identity: The worse she felt, the more she hated her genitals. Looking in a mirror to see herself as a man made her feel sick.

Spring of freshman year, she walked into Counseling and Psychological Services without an appointment, suicidal and desperate to see anyone who had time. Haltingly, Jara told her therapist in a follow-up appointment about how her depression seemed connected to her penis and how, above all, she wanted to get rid of it.

That was normal, her therapist said, and Penn’s student insurance plan even covered gender reassignment.

“That day changed my life,” Jara said.

In the second semester of her sophomore year, Jara came back to classes wearing feminine jeans and high heels, the beginning of her outward transition. She started hormone therapy and moved toward an androgynous gender before ultimately settling on the “she” pronoun.

She transformed her old name, Christian Jaramillo, into her new one, Jara Krys.

As she started her transition at Penn, all she wanted was to pass unseen.

“I didn’t want people to talk about me, I didn’t want them to think about me, I didn’t want them to think about what was in my pants,” she said. “I didn’t want to hear them say ‘he.’”

But some professors and many of her classmates still called Jara “he,” despite her requests.

When a professor used her old name on a PowerPoint to divide a class into groups, Jara pretended she hadn’t been assigned a group. After class, she spoke to the apologetic professor but still walked out of the room feeling humiliated.

Jara’s closest friends at Penn — who were not in the Huntsman program — knew about her depression but felt ill-equipped to help her.

At her lowest points, food rotted in her fridge for months. When her table didn’t have any more space on it, she pushed the trash onto the floor. She missed exams and was too embarrassed to say why, dropping classes until she was only taking one and a half credits — landing her on academic probation. Every day, she asked herself, Why am I even here?

In February 2014, Jara snapped. She hurled her phone down the stairs of a high rise and watched it shatter. The next morning, she

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emailed her College adviser, Katrina Glanzer.

“I really want to take a break from school, I am not in the right mindset and things are not going well. Would it be too late for this semester?” Jara wrote in a Feb. 3 email. “I really just need to stop doing my studies for a bit and concentrate on something else.”

Glanzer replied half an hour later.

“I think a leave is a good idea,” Glanzer said in the email. “I know it’s been hard to focus on school and Penn will always be here for you to return to.”

Jara secured an OK from her therapist, with her earliest possible return date in the spring of 2015. With $2,000 in her bank account, she took off for New York City to do full-time sex work.

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s of early September, Jara is the proud owner of a brand new Pennsylvania driver’s license with a new photo, her new name and an “F” next to sex, acquired with the help of the Mazzoni Center, an LGBT advocacy organization in Philadelphia. The laws for legally changing one’s sex vary state-to-state: In Pennsylvania, a court only requires a note from a doctor or counselor saying a person is transitioning and he or she now identifies as a different sex. Other states require physical genitalia to reassign sex.

Despite what she told her therapist that day freshman year, Jara is now comfortable with her penis. Having it doesn’t make her feel any less feminine.

“A lot of my trans sisters feel shame when they’re young, like they’re born in the wrong body,” Jara said. “The only reason you feel like you’re born in the wrong body is society tells you so — not because you are.”

Most of her family knows about her transition by now, said her 17-year-old niece, Maria Hernandez. A few, like Maria and her sister Erin — the only two members of Jara’s family who responded to multiple interview requests — accept it. Most don’t.

“What stands out to me is how proud she is that she’s transgender,” Maria said. “She thinks it’s funny when people try staring at her. She’s like, ‘These people are staring at me because they know I’m so hot.’ It’s probably true.”

Jara’s time off from Penn allowed her to transition without the constant fear of scrutiny. At Penn, she timed her changes by semester, afraid that people would judge her for any drastic change. She didn’t wear a bra. Her voice stayed low. Instead of the carefully-drawn on makeup she wears now, she stuck to simple foundation.

“I thought I was so free at Penn, but when I got out of Penn and wasn’t going to school, I realized there was so much I wasn’t doing and so much I could’ve changed that I didn’t, because I was scared of what people would think,” she said.

“I’ve come to the point that when I do go back to school, I wouldn’t care anymore.” Jara plans on returning to classes in fall 2015.

After graduating, Jara wants to start a nongendered clothing company. Not baggy unisex clothes, she clarified quickly, but a place where clothes aren’t sectioned off by gender. She wants to start a nonprofit for sex workers that would provide support and advocate for their rights. She wants people to see sex workers as more than just their jobs. Sex work, Jara said, shouldn’t define people.

She’s also considering a full-time career as an international escort, which she says could make her six figures in a year — a salary rivaling those of her Wharton peers on Wall Street.

Either way, she wants a high-profile life.

“It seems egotistic,” she said, “but I want to be an icon for trans rights and rights of sex workers.”

For now, Jara’s just working on getting on stage at the Thursday night drag show at Bob and Barbara’s, a bar and lounge at 15th and South streets that boasts the city’s longest-running drag show. She picked out her wigs in a dark shade of red, the hair pre-styled in long waves and bangs.

She’s styling her drag persona around the redand-black motif from her hair. At her apartment, she lifted her wig carefully out of its case and went to the bathroom to put it on, tucking away her natural hair and brushing out the wig’s bangs.

“How does it look?” she asked.

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Vice Dean Lori Rosenkopf’s experimental management course, which focuses on technology and entrepreneuriship, has attracted Penn alumni from across the country.

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Andrew “A.T.” Trader’s face is projected across the walls of Huntsman Hall’s room F90 not once, not twice but seven times.

Though the Zynga and Madison Reed co-founder sits in his hip office in San Francisco, he maintains a sort of omnipresence in the classroom while he shares his experiences as a serial entrepreneur with the MGMT 265X class.

Trader, a 1991 Wharton graduate and a 1999 MBA, is one of the several Quakers in Silicon Valley who has joined Vice Dean Lori Rosenkopf’s experimental management course, “Culture and Institutions of the Tech Sector: Bridging Research and Practice” through telepresence technology this semester. The course is one of the two new initiatives led by Rosenkopf to allow students to have greater exposure to the tech and entrepreneurship sectors.

“We have two things going on this year because we have heard undergraduates saying to us, ‘We want more opportunities to engage with that geography, with that industry sector,’” Rosenkopf said, referring to both her course this semester and a half-credit industry exploration program set to take place in San Francisco this January.

As for the management course, students are able to engage with Penn alumni who are leading some of the most innovative companies in the Bay Area. Before each session, the class and their scheduled guest both read an academic paper on the tech sector and then come together to discuss it.

The advanced technologies from Blue Jeans and CISCO that are used in the class allow for a virtual presence that is much more substantial than a simple Skype teleconference.

“It’s this immersive experience, and it has turned out that all these technology partners are excited about what we’re doing because it’s something different,” Rosenkopf explained with excitement.

“We’re having this intimate discussion with this person who can, with their iPad, see all that’s going on in our classroom. It’s incredible. You don’t lose a word.”

Despite her appreciation for the technology — and the IT department that made it possible — Rosenkopf is looking for an even more interactive experience for students by taking them to the epicenter of the tech world, Silicon Valley. The separate Wharton Industry Exploration Program will be held at Wharton’s San Francisco campus from Jan. 5 to Jan. 11 and will feature an array of speakers from the tech industry, as well as visits to company offices.

Though the program will only last a week, longer opportunities in the Bay Area could be coming for Wharton students. Rosenkopf hinted that an undergraduate equivalent to the MBA semester at Wharton San Francisco may soon be in the works.

“We do hear that there is interest in longer-term sorts of opportunities, and we’re just starting to explore that as well,” she said.

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cisco and we are assessing the cost and benefits of doing something ... like that.”

Nevertheless, the January program’s application window closed on Sept. 24 with high demand for the opportunity.

“We have 40 spots that we have planned on from the get-go ... and we have definitely exceeded those numbers,” Lee Kramer, the Director of Student Life for the Wharton Undergraduate Division said. “We’re quite content with the demand for the program in its pilot year.” Applicants will learn of their acceptance status in the next month.

Kramer added that he hopes the Industry Exploration Program will find success similar to that of the Wharton International Program, which now runs several trips each year. He explained that the program is meant to be flexible to allow for trips to other domestic industry hotspots, something Rosenkopf had also said about her experimental course.

“There’s a lot of ways that this model can be really flexible and again hit that goal of students being able to find and explore the area where they feel the most resonance,” she said.

It is clear that an increasing number of Wharton undergraduates are feeling this pull in tech and entrepreneurship as interest shifts from more traditional sectors

such as investment banking and consulting. However, Rosenkopf highlighted that the statistics show the shift towards the tech sector is much more dramatic at the MBA level than the undergraduate level.

But perhaps as these programs spearheaded by Rosenkopf grow, so too will Wharton undergraduate interest in the tech sector.

“I think we may be on the cusp of seeing a larger shift,” she said.

“There’s almost a sense that these things pick up some kind of momentum,” said Victor Schwartz, medical director of the Jed Foundation, an organization studying prevention of suicides on college campuses. “At any given time in a large enough population, with a certain number of people struggling with depression or other mental illnesses that predispose them to self-harm, people will begin to pick up things from their surroundings.”

The phenomenon has been dubbed the “contagion effect,” and has been witnessed at other universities similar to Penn over the years. From 2009 to 2010, six students committed suicide at Cornell University, three of them jumping off campus bridges within a month’s span. At New York University, six students killed themselves from 2003 to 2004 by jumping off buildings.

Between 6.5 and 7.5 college students out of every 100,000 commit suicide each year, according to a 2009 study, and 18 percent of undergraduate students have seriously considered attempting suicide in their lifetimes. From August 2013 to now, Penn’s student suicide rate has been higher than the average, but is likely to drop back down, like at Cornell and NYU. “I think every college or university at times will have an experience like this where you have a cluster of student

deaths or suicides,” said Greg Eells, Director of Counseling and Psychological Services at Cornell. “I think it’s important not to jump to conclusions or place blame.”

Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum, whose office oversees Penn’s CAPS, declined to comment for this article.

CAPS Director Bill Alexander did not respond to requests for comment.

+ UNIVERSITY SUICIDE STATISTICS IN THE U.S. According to a 2009 study: 18 percent of undergraduate students have seriously considered attempting suicide in their lifetimes Between 6.5 and 7.5 college students out of every 100,000 commit suicide each year Students have called out the administration for a perceived slow and callous response in the aftermath of the suicides, while also calling on the University to prevent similar incidents in the future. But the appropriate response to student suicides is not entirely clear, experts say.

“We are very bad at predicting what individual person will commit suicide, even though we can make changes

on the whole with things like counseling services,” said Schwartz, who has consulted with Penn’s mental health task force in developing recommendations to improve mental wellness on campus.

“Even though there are things you can do to make the problem better or worse across large samples and large groups, it doesn’t mean you can control what’s happening with any individual on campus.”

Over the years, colleges have taken on a growing number of responsibilities on behalf of their students. But the lingering question is how far outside of the academic sphere a university should reach. When it comes to punishing sexual assault, for example, some critics have argued that universities are not equipped to deal with violent sex crimes. Mental health could fall into the same category — issues like suicides and severe mental illness are still largely a mystery with no clear solution.

President Amy Gutmann, however, said that mental wellness is one of the responsibilities that the administration will take on.

“I avidly believe that universities have the mission of educating the whole person, as not only the mind, but the hearts of their students,” Gutmann said in an interview last week. “It is an ongoing mission of the University. It’s not a mission accomplished.”

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Administrators are leaving the goals of Wharton’s undergraduate curriculum review almost entirely up to the members of the review committee.

The offices of the Dean and Vice Dean are in the process of solidifying the makeup of the review committee, which will be announced later this semester.

The process is expected to take at least a year to complete, according to Vice Dean Lori Rosenkopf.

The undergraduate curriculum was last reassessed from 2003 to 2004. Wharton Undergraduate Division’s Director of Academic Affairs and Advising Scott Romeika explained that this is a periodic process that happens for any curriculum at any college. As for Wharton’s curriculum, he believes changes will need to echo those that have been occurring in the business world.

“Business has changed a lot in the last 10, 20, 30 years, and I think we want to try to reflect that as best we can in the curriculum,” he said. “Where can we deliver things in a way that capitalizes on the talent here but also matches what we think the 21st century will demand of a business education?”

According to Romeika, the senior faculty members representing the various academic departments have committed to taking part in the curriculum examination and are expected to convene before the end of the semester, but nothing is yet set in stone.

He added that there will be some student consultation and perhaps some student representation on the committee.

Wharton’s MBA curriculum recently underwent its own review, and changes to the MBA curriculum were implemented throughout 2011 and 2012.

Rosenkopf indicated that the

MBA review is a good benchmark for the direction of the undergraduate review.

Professor G. Richard Shell chaired the MBA review committee at the request of then-dean Thomas Robertson. Shell described a comprehensive process that included consulting with recruiters and alumni, considering the requirements of accreditation bodies and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, analyzing the curriculum trends at peer schools and reaching out to different arms within the University.

“It’s a very complex process when considering all the stakeholders and decision makers involved,” Shell said. “The final part of the review process is to present the suggestions to the entire Wharton faculty. In our case, the faculty voted to approve our recommendations.”

Interestingly, none of the changes that were presented to the faculty involved adjusting the

makeup of the MBA syllabus.

“Our changes did not alter the content of the curriculum,” he said. “We left those decisions up to the individual departments.

We focused on the curriculum requirements and expanding choices students could make to fulfill those requirements.”

Rosenkopf, who is in her second year at the helm of Wharton’s undergraduate division, is enthusiastic about the potential to further improve how her school educates its students.

“It’s a super exciting process that I expect will have impact ultimately on business education,” she said. “But who can know at this point what exactly it will turn out to be?”

Romeika thinks it is possible the curriculum will not see dramatic changes. “We’ve got a great base to start with,” he said. “It’s a luxury to have that as a foundation. That’s why we’re going into this with limited expectations.”

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Often, Taft’s beliefs on controversial issues varied with his emotions.

Interpolating theory and practice, he discussed the subjective appreciation of the beauty of life and the miraculousness of birth and presented veritable arguments against abortion, claiming it is something “liberals did not want to understand.”

Later, however, he said that “fathers don’t have a hell of a lot of a relationship with their unborn child.”

Taft continued his discussion

by situating himself against the politics of a religion that perpetuated a caste system which divided believers and nonbelievers.

Although the movement emphasizes pluralism and freedom of thought, it is clear that its foundations and goals — reducing climate change, eradicating racism, reducing the influence of religion in politics, among others — are not up for grabs. "[The movement] is open to tolerable hypocrisy, one that allows diversity of thought, if not of action,” Taft said.

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It is an ongoing mission of the University. It’s not a mission accomplished. It’s something that we do and need to do day in and day out, so the work of the Penn task force is ongoing, and we’ve been implementing their recommendations as they’re developed, and we will continue to look for the best things we can do and continue to strengthen the resources that are available to students in need.

I want to emphasize how much we all grieve for Amanda Hu and Theo Reed and the students whose lives were tragically shortened. Amanda and Theo were wonderful members of the Penn community. We love them, we admire them, their family and friends are grieving, we feel their loss deeply. And we are incredibly compassionate in doing all the outreach we can do for the students and family and friends and staff who are trying nobly to cope and support one another and council one another.

We do our best to comfort shattered parents, families, distraught friends. We search our hearts and minds for the best ways to move forward, despite the suffering. All of that we do

and must do, and care about doing, in addition to highlighting the resources that are available proactively for all members of our community to cope with the stresses and the strains of life.

[A]nd through these tragedies, our highest priorities have been dually to honor the wishes … of families and to keep up emotional strength of the students, faculty and staff.

DP: Is there any particular message you’d like to send to concerned parents, as well as prospective students?

AG: Yes, I think it’s important for everybody to recognize that our highest priority is to help those who are grieving, and to provide all the resources we can possibly provide to our students so they can go on with the wonderful work — both in class and co-curricular work — that is a signature part of the Penn experience.

I also want to communicate that we’re always looking for better ways of helping here.

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talented teams in the league. I’m not going to stop saying that. But you get to a point where talent 0-1, 0-0 Ivy 0-2, 0-1 Ivy isn’t enough.”

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fully capitalize, putting only three more points up in the third quarter.

Ultimately, it was far too little and far too late. Dartmouth put a field goal on the board early in the fourth quarter and both sides were unable to do much offensively the rest of the game.

Penn’s tackling was suspect throughout the game, and although Torgersen showed promise with his strong throwing arm, the Quakers’

Spencer Kulcsar Penn wide receiver

THEY SAID IT “I think our team is one of the most talented teams in the league.

I’m not going to stop saying that. But you get to a point where talent isn’t enough.”

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faced so far.

The Quakers’ rushing game didn’t help on Saturday, gaining just 33 yards and forcing the Red and Blue to throw in a significant rain storm. While Torgersen was able to complete 40 passes, the majority of the passes were for short yardage, unable to move the ball very far against Dartmouth’s defense.

While former Jets coach Herm Edwards is right that you play to win the game, this season shouldn’t be about winning an Ivy title anymore. The Quakers need to bring their young core along and regroup, finding some way to be competitive in coach Al Bagnoli’s final season.

Penn’s strong senior class, led by players like Kulcsar, receiver Conner Scott and defensive captains Dan Davis and Evan Jackson, will have the chance to leave its mark in a different way, setting an example for the group that comes after it.

“We have some kids with some

upside but they certainly are still into success. learning, still growing,” Bagnoli But don’t count on an Ivy title said. “We’re going to have to re- this year. That ship sailed on main patient and stay positive Saturday. with them because our schedule STEVEN TYDINGS is a Wharton junior is very difficult.”

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offense didn’t do enough to get the job done against a potential Ivy contender.

Senior running back Kyle Bramble was able to help with the Dartmouth effort as well, rushing for over 100 yards and the Big Green’s first score.

Over the course of the game, Penn was dominated on both lines.

Despite having a 243-yard edge in passing yards, Torgersen was clearly outplayed by Williams, who found success in the air and on the ground.

Despite Torgersen’s two interceptions, senior receiver Spencer Kulcsar was quick to come to his teammate’s defense.

“He’s phenomenal. He’s been doing everything he can to be a leader,” he said. “A lot of those errors and interceptions are not his fault … We’ve put him in a bad position.”

Kulcsar was the clear bright spot for Penn in the game. He tied a school record with 15 receptions, going for 125 yards including a spectacular 53-yard gain on

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Unanswered points scored by Dartmouth after Penn took a 7-0 lead in the first quarter.

Big Green junior quarterback Dalyn Williams led the squad, scoring three touchdowns in that span.

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Penn football is off to an 0-3 start, which coach Al Bagnoli says has a lot to do with the team’s youth. The Quakers last began a season 0-3 in 2007.

a bomb from Torgersen.

A bittersweet moment came when Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens met with Bagnoli after the game for the last time in his career.

“He’s done a wonderful job,” Teevens said. “He was very thoughtful and complimentary of our team at the end … And it was sincere.”

The Red and Blue will carry their losing streak into Fordham next week before resuming Ivy play against an also-winless Columbia squad on Oct. 18.

14 Points off turnovers for the Big Green, who forced three Quakers turnovers. Penn has seven turnovers on the year and has lost the turnover margin in each of its last two games.

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C atche s by senior wide receiver Spencer Kulcsar, tying a school record.

Kulc s ar proved to be a reliable target for sophomore quarterback Alek Torgersen, who completed 40 of his 58 passes.

Penn cross country shows promise over busy weekend

The Quakers split up to take on tough national competiton

BY TOMMY ROTHMAN Staff Writer

On a busy weekend for Penn athletics in general, cross country in particular had a lot on its hands.

The program started off its busy weekend against tough national competition during Friday’s Notre Dame Invitational, in which Penn’s top men placed 15th out of 24 and the top women placed 18th out of 20.

The Red and Blue sent a much younger group to Saturday’s Paul Short Invitational at Lehigh. The men came in 29th out of 42.

On Friday, Penn’s star junior Thomas Awad was his ordinary extraordinary self, posting a fivemile time of 23:26.7 in South Bend to finish fourth overall and tops among Ivy runners.

“He ran outstanding,” coach Steve Dolan said. “The guy was running with a number of guys who are returning All-Americans, and he ran extremely well to finish fourth in that field.”

Sophomore Brendan Shearn also put on a solid showing, placing 62nd overall with a time of 24:18.9. despite falling early in the race.

“He got knocked down early and didn’t get a very good position,” Dolan said. “That happens in cross country, it’s a part of the sport. He actually passed quite a few people throughout the duration of the race.”

Fellow sophomores Nicholas Tuck (103rd) and Lyle Wistar (111th) finished just outside the top 100. Meanwhile, freshman Ross Wilson turned in a respectable time of 24:46.6.

“It was his first 8K,” Dolan said of Wilson. “I think he did a nice job ,and he’s another guy who could make a big push over the next six weeks as he gets more experience.”

For the women, sophomore Ashley Montgomery led the way in Notre Dame with a 5K time of 17:10.8, good for 56th overall. Junior Amy Darlington was right on her heels, placing 66th with a time of 17:14.6. Dolan raved about both runners after the meet.

“Ashley Montgomery had an outstanding race, that might have been her best collegiate cross country race,” he said. “And that was an excellent race for Amy, she was our second runner in, she’s a team captain, and she has come a really long way in the last year.”

Junior Elyssa Gensib was the third Quakers runner to crack the top 100, placing 73rd with a solid time of 17:17.0, and sophomore Clarissa Whiting was close to making it four, coming in 111th with a time of 17:40.8. Freshmen Abby Hong and Kylene Cochrane were strong as well.

Meanwhile, on Saturday, freshman Brendan Smith (70th overall, 11th Ivy) led the way with a time of 24:57.

Dolan noted that Smith, who didn’t travel to South Bend due to an academic commitment, should be in for bigger things in the near

future.

“There’s a couple of teams that “Brendan was our first guy in, have to be favorites at this point, we’ll look for him to be a big con- and we wouldn’t be amongst that tributor as the season goes on,” group at this stage, so we’re hoping he said.

The women didn’t have enough runners to place as a team, but freshman Hailey Dougherty (29th, 22:30), junior Shannon McCarthy (34th, 22:38) and freshman Sophie Debode (40th, 22:41) gave the Quakers a trio of runners in the top 50.

Dolan thought it was an encouraging performance in a very competitive set of meets, but noted that there is much work to be done.

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a solid finish, and their next big test isn’t too far away, as they will head to New Jersey for the Princeton Invitational in two weekends.

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BY STEVEN JACOBSON Contributing Writer Penn sprint football came into Saturday night against a heavily favored Navy team and the odds stacked against it.

The Red and Blue ultimately lost, 21-19, to the Midshipmen, but they were able to find success in different ways in their third game on the year.

Namely, chasing an undefeated Navy team â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that has not lost to an opponent other than Army for four years â&#x20AC;&#x201D; down to the wire. The Quakers (2-1) limited the Midshipmen (3-0), who had scored 89 points in their previous two games, to just 21 on the night. â&#x20AC;&#x153;T he defense played good enough for us to win,â&#x20AC;? coach Bill Wagner said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They only gave up two plays the whole game, which happened to be two touchdown runs. They never packed it in and played hard enough to stop a high-powered offense.â&#x20AC;?

Those two big touchdowns came from star Navy running back Eric Wellmon, whose 42-

VS. NAVY yard run in the third quarter tied the game at 14, and wide receiver Matthew Hite, who caught a 67-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Joe Hampton at the end of the third quarter.

Wellmon rushed for his first touchdown in the second quarter to put Navy on the board, 7-0, as part of a 191-yard rushing effort. The Quakers, however, were able to limit Hampton to 169 passing yards. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We prepared really well for this game,â&#x20AC;? said junior defensive end/linebacker Ed Cai, who sacked Hampton in the fourth quarter to force a safety, bringing the Quakers within two at the eventual final score. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our coaches schemed really well for this game,â&#x20AC;? Cai continued, reiterating the two big touchdown plays by Navy as the Penn defenseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only miscues.

Ca i, f resh m a n l i nebacker Quinn Karam and junior linebacker/defensive back Stu Hegelson led the defensive effort for the Quakers.

Penn looked strong on offense as well. Sophomore quarterback

Mike McCurdy passed for 237 yards, connecting for two scores with sophomore wide receiver/ defensive back Mario del Cueto.

Del Cueto, who received limited playing time as a defensive back last year, has become an integral part of the Quakers offense in the 2014 season.

He tallied 108 receiving yards against Navy and has caught three touchdown passes overall on the year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was on the defense for about the first week, but we had some guys get injured and had to move some people over. He came to me and said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I want to play some offense,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Wagner said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made some big catches. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is his first year playing as a starter in this league, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing great.â&#x20AC;?

Despite del Cuetoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strong p e r fo r m a n c e , h oweve r, t h e Quakers had a difficult time around the line of scrimmage, with senior running back and tea m capta in Mike Bea m ish str uggling at times to brea k through Navyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s powerful defense. Moreover, McCurdy was sacked seven times throughout the game for a total loss of 51 yards.

T he M idsh ipmen wa s not without their own mistakes ei-

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Navy junior running back Eric Wellmon scored two touchdowns against Penn on Saturday evening, helping to lead the Midshipmen past the Red and Blue. Wellmon ultimately rushed for 191 yards while heading Navyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strong offensive attack.

ther, committing eight penalties for a total loss of 77 yards. Nevertheless, their strong defense and the excellent performance from Wellmon helped the team defeat the Quakers.

Ultimately, the Quakers took a team thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 61-6 over the past ten years down to the gameâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s final seconds and came up short by only two points. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[ Nav y] is a toug h t ea m.

the pair was still active on the offensive end. Lacroix contributed five shots, but against a strong Cornell defense and in tough playing conditions, Penn wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t able to get its usual offensive rhythm going.

In a matchup between the two previous Ivy League champions, a win for the Quakers was â&#x20AC;&#x153;huge,â&#x20AC;? according to Fuller.

Cornell had a strong showing in the nonconference portion of its schedule. The Big Red fought to a draw against No. 2 Louisville and had been riding a four-game winning streak into this weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contest.

With a tough Ivy League to navigate this season, getting three points against Cornell could prove to be key to Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s title defense. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To get a win on the road in the league any time is a great accomplishment and a huge challenge,â&#x20AC;?

Fuller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But to do it against a team of their caliber makes it that much more special.â&#x20AC;?

Against Cornell, junior midfield Forrest Clancy came up big with a second-half goal for the Red and Blue. Clancy now ranks third on the team in points with seven.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a good football team,â&#x20AC;? noted Wagner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to go one game at a time.â&#x20AC;?

The Red and Blue will look to get back in the win column at Franklin Pierce next weekend.

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kept Cornell under control the rest of the way for the win.

Clancyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goal was backed up by a strong performance in goal by junior Max Polkinhorne, who recorded five saves for the clean sheet. The Portola Valley, Calif., native recorded his third shutout of the season and the fifth of his career. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Both keepers were called on to make a few saves and Max made one or two really good ones for us to keep them off the board and preserve the shutout.â&#x20AC;&#x153; Fuller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Overall, it was just a really committed team effort.â&#x20AC;?

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Seconds later, Hoover came charging down the field to score an unassisted goal of her own.

She pounced on a loose ball and beat the goalkeeper with a big shot.

Pen n wa s f i na l ly com i ng through with its backs against the wall. But the rally would end there as the Quakers watched Dartmouth extend its lead just

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two minutes after Hooverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goal.

That would be it for the scoring on Saturday as Dartmouth extended its win n ing st rea k to three and handed Penn its second Ivy League loss of the season. The five goals by Dartmouth are the most Weisenfels has allowed in a game so far this year.

There were mixed feelings for the Quakers on the bus ride home. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It couldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been a win but unfor tunately time ran out,â&#x20AC;?

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Because of how close Penn came to erasing its first-half m ist a ke s b efo r e u lt i m a t ely falling short, Fink noted that everyone was â&#x20AC;&#x153;feeling a little disappointed and frustrated.â&#x20AC;?

Perhaps the second-half surge was a silver lining, but in the end it was too little, too late.

Penn will look to bounce back against Monmouth on Thursday at Ellen Vagelos Field .

Tom Nowlan contributed reporting.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2014

Red and Blue rebound over the weekend

VOLLEYBALL | The Quakers split weekend to pick up first Ivy win

VS. COLUMBIA

BY INES DIAZ Contributing Writer Penn volleyball came out of the weekend a different team than it was when it began.

The timid, disconnected Quakers who laced up against Columbia in a 3-0 loss (25-12, 25-22, 25-13) transformed into a dynamic team overnight. They split the weekend with a 3-1 win over Cornell (25-19, 25-18, 22-25, 25-23).

The Red and Blue (4-10, 1-2 Ivy) faced off with the Lions on Friday night. In a performance characterized by extremes , Penn had moments of greatness without the

VS. CORNELL consistency necessary to threaten a solid Columbia team.

The Lions (6-6, 2-1) led for the entirety of both the first and third sets. Junior outside hitter and captain Alexis Genske put on a strong showing for the Quakers with 10 kills.

“We have a chip on our shoulder now. We’re ready to change things,” Genske said after the disappointing match. “Our goal is to

come out strong and hit the ground running.”

Penn did exactly that to open its contest against the Big Red (3-10, 0-3).

The Red and Blue’s first conference win of the season was energetic, inspired and characterized by a mental resilience coach Kerry Carr had been waiting for all season.

“Not only is it the win that’s important, but … it was good to see them have the co n f idence to fight back,” she said. “That was the difference between the win and the loss.”

Penn started off strong in the opening set and then went into cruise control, taking the set 25-19.

“The execution and listening to the game plan Coach brought out

for us made all the difference,” freshman middle blocker Kendall Covington said.

A large part of Penn’s game plan hinged on freshman libero Emmy Friedler, who finished with 19 digs.

“Emmy stepped up her game to a whole new level,” Carr gushed.

“It’s what I know she is capable of and to see her gain that confidence tonight was great.”

In what started out as a much closer second set, the Red and Blue went back and forth with Cornell, but the Quakers finished strong to take the set, 25-18.

The third set showed a much scrappier Cornell team. The Quakers and the Big Red traded points until a 14-11 lead for Cornell — the biggest lead of the set at that point — forced a Penn timeout.

Penn would fight back, but the Big Red would hold on to force a fourth set.

With the memory of last night’s collapse against Columbia following a close-set loss fueling the Red and Blue as a “chip on [their] shoulder,” Penn looked as strong as ever, systematically outscoring Cornell, 16-9, to open the fourth set.

Despite opening up a lead in the fourth set, Penn could not seem to finish off Cornell. The Big Red took their first lead of the set at 23-22.

This, however, set up a classic comeback that could well turn out to be a turning point in Penn’s Ivy League season.

A powerful kill from junior setter Alex Caldwell put the Quakers

ahead 24-23 following a crucial Cornell service error.

Junior setter Ronnie Bither pushed Genske, Tur ner a nd Caldwell to execute the offensive onslaught Penn fans have been waiting for. After a long rally that involved all three hitters, Penn outlasted Cornell and earned its first conference win in dramatic fashion.

Much of the team’s resolve over the weekend can be traced back to Kendall Turner.

“She’s a senior. She’s a leader on this team,” Carr said. “I ask a lot of her — she’s the one player that I can always ask to give more.”

The Quakers hope to carry their energy and success into next weekend’s Dig 73092 Pink! matches against Yale and Brown.

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SHOWING PROMISE

MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2014

SUNK BY NAVY

Penn cross country had a strong finish at both Notre Dame and the Paul Short Invitational

Penn sprint football took a favored Navy squad to the wire but couldn’t pull off the win

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PENN (0-3, 0-1)

DARTMOUTH (2-1, 1-0 IVY)

NEXT GAME: AT FORDHAM | SAT, 1 P.M.

The ship has sailed on Penn football’s Ivy title hopes

HARD TIMES IN HANOVER FOOTBALL | Big Green dominated Penn in Ivy opener

BY COLIN HENDERSON Sports Editor

STEVEN TYDINGS

HANOVER — If it wasn’t clear a week ago, it surely is now: Penn football won’t be Ivy League champions this year.

Dartmouth and its junior quarterback — Dalyn Williams — made sure of that on Saturday.

Despite being ranked fourth in the Ivy League preseason media poll, the Red and Blue were expected to compete for an Ivy title.

But through three games, it looks like Penn will be closer to the bottom of the Ancient Eight than Ivy glory.

When the Quakers traveled to Dartmouth, they were looking to shake off any memories of last week’s 41-7 loss to Villanova.

And for a while, it looked like Penn may have figured things out. Sophomore quarterback Alek Torgersen led two impressive drives, using quick throws to get Penn down the field in a hurry. A 54-yard touchdown pass to senior Matt Schwartz gave Penn fans some hope and a 7-0 lead.

But it was all downhill from there. A Dartmouth touchdown. An interception. Another Dartmouth touchdown. More turnovers.

When all was said and done, the Big Green blew out the Quakers by 18 points in a game that never seemed very close after the early second quarter.

This team has shown flashes of brilliance — whether it was a deep pass from Torgersen to senior Spencer Kulcsar in the third quarter or a series of big hits from sophomore defensive end Corey Power and senior defensive back Drew Harris.

“We have a lot of young kids,” Kulcsar said.

“You get sick of talking about it and hearing about it, but I think our team is one of the most SEE TYDINGS PAGE 11

HANOVER — When the Penn football made the trek to Dartmouth to take on the Big Green, the Red and Blue knew it was their first game of the year that actually mattered.

The Quakers weren’t able to rise to the occasion, though, as they fell to Dartmouth decisively, 31-13, tallying their seventh consecutive loss dating back to last season.

For Penn coach Al Bagnoli, it was a disappointment but also a learning experience.

“We’re still learning, we’re still growing,” he said. “And we’re gonna have to stay patient, because our schedule is very difficult.”

Midway through the first quarter, the Quakers (0-3, 0-1 Ivy) got the scoring started, burning the Big Green with a sneaky play-action pass down the middle of the field for a 54-yard touchdown to full back Matt Schwartz. The Quakers drove 76 yards in only six plays and 1:56.

Unfortunately for the Quakers, it would be the only time they would find pay dirt.

After tying the game at seven, Dartmouth (2-1, 1-0) proceeded to pick off Penn sophomore quarterback Alek

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Dartmouth quarterback Dalyn Williams was a key contributor to the Big Green’s dominant 31-13 defeat of the Quakers on Saturday. Although he was only able to put up 107 yards through the air — compared to Penn quarterback Alek Torgersen’s 350 yards — in wet and cold condititons, his three first half rushing touchdowns put his team in total control of the contest.

Red and Blue comeback falls short FIELD HOCKEY The Quakers lose second straight Ivy game

BY THOMAS MUNSON Contributing Writer

Clancy’s stunner lifts Quakers past Cornell

M. SOCCER | Penn earns first Ivy win with long goal

AT DARTMOUTH HANOVER — When freshman attacker Alexa Hoover netted a huge unassisted shot with 10 minutes left on Saturday, it looked like the Quakers were about to pull off a stunning comeback and make the long trip to New Hampshire worthwhile.

Unfortunately for the Red and Blue, the cold, rainy elements and a strong Dartmouth team proved to be too much to overcome, as Penn fell, 5-3, in Hanover.

The box score showed a slow start for the Quakers (4-4, 1-2 Ivy), who gave up four straight goals to The Big Green (3-5, 2-1) in the first half. Coach Colleen Fink , however, looked at the first half differently.

“We actually started really well,” she said.

The Big Green’s offensive surge was, in her mind, “a result of [the Quakers] sitting back after the first goal.”

While Penn controlled the pace for the first 10 minutes, keeping the ball in its offensive zone, the floodgates quickly opened

Torgersen. Dartmouth quarterback Dalyn Williams capitalized, using his next-level athleticism to rush for a nineyard score.

After a few uneventful offensive drives, the issue of turnovers reared its ugly head once again. A Penn fumble off a botched snap gave Dartmouth possession in Penn’s half of the field.

The Big Green capitalized once again. Williams gashed the Red and Blue for another touchdown run — this time a 24-yard scamper — to take control of the game, 21-7. Penn simply could not contain Dartmouth’s star quarterback, who rushed for three touchdowns on the game.

“They were read plays,” Williams said. “They overpursued ... And that’s the most open [those plays] have ever been.”

By that point, it had gotten ugly for the Quakers, who allowed yet another rushing touchdown from Williams just minutes later.

With time winding down in the half, the Penn offense showed some signs of life, but a goal-line stand by Dartmouth forced the Quakers to settle for a Jimmy Gammill field goal. The Quakers went into halftime down, 28-10.

The Red and Blue looked strong coming out of the locker room, but they were unable to

BY HOLDEN McGINNIS Sports Editor

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Junior attack Elizabeth Hitti spun off of a defender and scored a key goal to bring the Red and Blue within two goals of Dartmouth in rainy conditions on Saturday. It was her fourth on the season, tying her for third on the team in goals.

for Dartmouth’s offense. As a result, senior goalkeeper Allison Weisenfels faced 12 first half shots and let in four of them.

After calming down to start a second half in which Dartmouth only put up five shots to Penn’s 13, there was again life in the

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Quakers attack.

In the span of 62 seconds, Penn finally capitalized and saw three shots hit the back of the net.

Sophomore midfielder Elise Tilton started the wave of Red and Blue offense with a goal, assisted by sophomore back Claire

Kneizys.

Down 4-1, junior attacker Elizabeth Hitti unleashed a spectacular spin-o-rama move and then fired a shot into the far right corner to cut the Big Green lead SEE FIELD HOCKEY PAGE 12

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“As the game wore on into the second half, it felt like it was going to take something special to get the three points for either team,” coach Rudy Fuller said following the game.

And right when Penn men’s soccer needed it most, Forrest Clancy found that special something.

With the game tied 0-0 in its 58th minute, the junior stepped up to take a free kick with the game tied 0-0. Clancy gave Penn a 1-0 lead with a beautiful boot into the upper 90 that proved to be the difference against Cornell.

“We picked up a foul probably 30, 35 yards out from goal and Forrest stepped up and absolutely hit a stunner,” Fuller said. “It was just an unbelievable goal. He hit it about as true as you can hit it.”

Facing a tough opponent in

VS. CORNELL the Big Red (6-3-1, 0-1 Ivy), the Quakers (5-4, 1-0) were prepared for a long drawn-out battle. In rain-soaked Ithaca, both teams struggled to sustain long plays and opportunities were at a premium.

For most of the game, Cornell was able to find more opportunities on the offensive side, but couldn’t find ways to convert. The Big Red outshot Penn, 12-8, on the game, including three more shots on goal.

“Both tea ms a re really strong defensively. […] The field made it really difficult to string any soccer plays together,” Fuller said. “With the combination of those two things, you knew chances were going to be few and far between.”

When Penn finally had an opportunity to score soon after the half, Clancy was able to convert and put the Quakers ahead. The Red and Blue SEE M. SOCCER PAGE 12

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