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ith the support of Penn President Amy Gutmann and Mayor Jim Kenney, Philadelphia has escalated its pitch to Amazon to host the retailing giant’s second headquarters in the “City of Brotherly Love.”

Gutmann, who in her role as president of Penn oversees the largest private employer in Philadelphia, co-signed a letter to Amazon with the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia, one of the most influential business advocacy groups in the city.

“When you bring the smartest people together with the best possible resources, you get new ideas. You get discovery, you get day one innovation. That’s the kind of approach that has made Amazon great and that’s what I feel across Philadelphia,” Gutmann wrote in a personal testimonial that was part of the letter.

Gutmann has previously touted Philadelphia’s strengths in an interview with The Huffington Post, where she said, “Philadelphia has so much to offer for any innovative company — top talent, ideas and creativity from

our universities, partnerships with global companies, one of the best health care systems in the world, and a city rich with culture as well as a high quality of life.”

The Chamber’s letter cited the Greater Philadelphia region’s “104 colleges and universities,” “favorable cost of living,” “rich arts and culture assets,” “transformational real estate projects” and “robust regional mass transit passenger services” as signature features. These “key ingredients” are visualized in a website and a series of videos.

The two to three minute videos, which make pitches for the city based on factors such as livability, talent and logistics, push forth the theme “Philadelphia Delivers.” Gutmann makes a quick appearance in the video, which then cuts to images of the Pennovation Center, a site for scientific research that was opened last year.

With the support of Penn President Amy Gutmann and Mayor Jim Kenney, Philadelphia has escalated its pitch to Amazon to host the retailing giant’s second headquarters in the “City of Brotherly Love.”

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Scooter and skateboard policies on campus are not clear

Anti-abortion protest used signs with graphic images

Some signs forbid them, while online policies don’t

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Sales of adult-sized scooters are skyrocketing across the country, the Wall Street Journal reported — and the trend isn’t lost on Penn students.

Over the past few semesters, there has been a surge in the number of students who choose to get from class to class on wheels.

However, many of them say they aren’t sure of the rules that determine where and when they are allowed to ride their scooters.

Bicycles are restricted for use only in certain places on campus and at certain times, according to policies from the Division of Public Safety. Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said this bike policy is generalized to include skateboards and scooters, but online versions of these policies do not include any language about skateboards or scooters.

Rush added that DPS holds “Share the Road” campaigns several times every year to publicize information relevant to those with bikes, skateboards and scooters.

Around Locust Walk and Hamilton Walk, signage explicitly bans skateboards and scooters. But elsewhere on campus, the lack of communication of Penn policy and a reportedly inconsistent enforcement of these rules has led to confusion.

College junior and Vice President of the Undergraduate Assembly Jay Shah said he got his scooter after his freshman year “because of

Quakers for Life, a Penn student group opposed to abortion, protested outside Van Pelt Library on Oct. 23, displaying nearly 20 graphic pictures of aborted fetuses.

The group partnered with Created Equal, a national anti-abortion organization, for the protest, which attracted more than a few glances from students commuting on Locust Walk.

In an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian, Wharton junior Eric Hoover said the group would be holding a protest on College Green from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Another statement from Created Equal sent to the DP wrote that this event was part of a “fall campus tour” that the organization is holding for 18 colleges in six states. At each of these schools, the group plans to “display large signs depicting the gruesome reality of abortion.”

“We just want to talk to students about abortion, answer their questions, share what we have to say and just start dialogue on the topic,” said Emma Mysko, a field assistant for Created Equal, which is based out of Columbus, Ohio.

Penn students who passed by the demonstration were “pretty polite,” Mysko added.

During the demonstration, counter-protesters stepped in to cover up some of the group’s signs.

College sophomore Hannah Rash saw the protests after leaving Van Pelt to get lunch. Along with members of Penn for Reproduc-

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“I looked up all the rules online before I bought my new scooter and made sure that it was okay,” said College freshman Kia DaSilva.

the crazy walk from the high rises to [David Rittenhouse Laboratory] and the chem building.” He has been told to step off his skateboard, he said, but only inconsistently.

“It depends on the person,” he said. “Some of them just don’t care and some of them do.”

College freshman Kia DaSilva, who commutes to classes from her [family’s] home in West Philadelphia on her scooter, said did research on Penn policy before buying her scooter.

“I looked up all the rules online before I bought my new scooter and made sure that it was okay,” she said.

College freshman Nico Tapiero learned to ride his skateboard a few weeks before the fall semester began, planning to use it to travel from class to class at Penn. Tapiero is usually able to skate down Locust Walk without any trouble, but one night early in the semester a Penn public safety official asked him to step off his skateboard, he said.

“There was nobody in sight and I was not violating any policy but he still asked me not to skate there,” Tapiero said.

College freshman Sam Goldstein had a similar experience.

Goldstein, who has been an avid skateboarder since he was in middle school, was told to step off his skateboard near Williams Hall in the Perelman Quadrangle. However, he said he recognized why he was stopped because there is signage banning skateboarding in the area.

“They’re not really strict about it but there are signs [in the the Perelman Quadrangle] which say you can’t skate,” he said.

Engineering and Wharton freshman Yan Li has been stopped twice for riding his skateboard and said he hopes policies will be clarified for skateboard and scooter riders.

“There’s a reason why there are rules for bike riding,” Li said. “Of course there needs to be rules for skateboards too.”

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The national organization Created Equal, based in Columbus, Ohio, partnered with Quakers for Life as part of its “fall campus tour.”

tive Justice, she blocked some of the signs with her sweatshirt.

“It just made me really upset, and I can imagine if I was contemplating abortion or if I had one, how upset that would make me,” she said.

College and Wharton sophomore Michael Moroz, co-director of the editorial board of College Republicans, said he disagreed with some students’ reactions to the protest. He said he was particularly concerned with the behavior of the students who blocked the protester’s signs with sweatshirts, calling the behavior “immature” and “unlawful.”

“That’s private property, at that point what [they are] doing is arguably illegal. It’s certainly against Penn student code of conduct about freedom of speech,” he said.

Quakers for Life is not new to controversy. Various student groups criticized the group when it was formed in October 2016. In an email statement last year, board members for the Penn Association for Gender Equity expressed

concern over the kind of “shame tactics” frequently used by antiabortion groups.

“A protest or large action [promoting the pro-life agenda] can be very triggering and alienating to someone who has had an abortion or considered having one,” PAGE said.

Hoover said at the time that the group does not intend to “shame women.”

“The images are shocking, and to all of us at Quakers for Life quite painful to see,” Hoover wrote in a statement provided to the DP. “But the abortion of these children was sanctioned by law - a law which most Penn students vote at all levels of government to support.”

Two months after their formation, the group clashed with PAGE again after they planted 600 flags on College Green to represent the abortions performed in Philadelphia over the span of two weeks.

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Central diversity office still not on Penn’s agenda Grad students have called for one since February MANLU LIU Staff Reporter

Seven months after graduate students in the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly made a proposal for Penn to introduce a centralized diversity office, the nature of the centralization remains disputed between the administration and GAPSA. In late February, GAPSA passed a resolution to “establish a Central Diversity Office.” Led largely by the work of the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access, and Leadership Committee, the resolution called for the creation of an office which would provide centralized support to all Penn students, no matter their home school. It also requested a full-time staff for the office.

Then-GAPSA president and 2017 master’s graduate Gaurav Shukla said, at the time, that he envisioned the office as a physical space where students could receive the support they need.

But in an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn’s Se-

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The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly envisions a physical office with full-time staff suited to deal with diversity-related issues.

nior Vice President for Institutional Affairs and Chief Diversity Officer Joann Mitchell said she interpreted the proposal to centralize resources differently.

“It’s not an office,” Mitchell said. “We said we would create a centralized chief diversity officer, and that’s what we did.”

Mitchell referenced Penn President Amy Gutmann’s announcement in March this year, which appointed Mitchell to the role of “Senior Vice President for Institu-

tional Affairs and Chief Diversity Officer.”

Student organizations such as IDEAL and 5B — a group of five undergraduate coalition groups representing different minority communities — advocated for Penn to create the role of the “chief diversity officer,” Mitchell said.

“Because Penn is highly decentralized, there are a number of offices already in existence that work on issues related to diversity for students, faculty, staff,” Mitchell

“When you bring the smartest people together with the best possible resources, you get new ideas.

You get discovery, you get day one innovation. That’s the kind of approach that has made Amazon

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said. “This role is basically making real and visible a function that I had been carrying out for quite some time … me as a senior advisor trying to coordinate, collaborate with individuals who [are] working on diversity.”

Mitchell said there are currently no plans to establish a physical centralized diversity office. Instead, her plan for this semester is to speak with different student groups to become more knowledgeable about the diversity support that students and staff need.

But students are still looking for the formation of this office.

IDEAL Deputy Chair and linguistics Ph.D. student Betsy Sneller said IDEAL’s main objective for this semester is to continue working towards “centralized diversity resources and initiatives, including a centralized diversity office.”

Sneller also said that IDEAL envisions the office to be “a physical space where students, faculty can come together, hold events, but also … a space where workshops are held,” adding that she imagines the office would conduct campuswide climate surveys, which would

terview with The Huffington Post, where she said, “Philadelphia has so much to offer for any innovative company — top talent, ideas and creativity from our universities, partnerships with global companies, one of the best health care systems in the world, and a city rich with culture as well as a high quality of life.”

The Chamber’s letter cited the Greater Philadelphia region’s “104 colleges and universities,” “favorable cost of living,” “rich arts and culture assets,” “transformational real estate projects” and “robust regional mass transit passenger services” as signature features.

These “key ingredients” are visualized in a website and a series of videos.

The two to three minute videos, which make pitches for the city

support recruitment and retention of underrepresented minorities.

The office should also work with Counseling and Psychological Services to provide resources for minority students.

IDEAL Chair and sociology Ph.D. candidate Haley Pilgrim emphasized the importance of staffing the office with full-time employees who have a background in supporting diversity-related issues.

“Right now a lot of the labor is put on students,” Pilgrim said. “We would hope that this is a centralized diversity office staffed with capable workers who are knowledgeable about issues about diversity and have time to devote to it.”

Pilgrim added that IDEAL is working toward engaging IDEAL representatives and administrators in a discussion on the details of the centralized diversity office.

“Part of the purpose of a focus group is that together with [the] administration, we can align our visions and end goals,” Sneller said.

“Penn has historically been a decentralized place – so each school is responsible for its own students – so part of the process is to work out with administration exactly what

our end vision is.”

GAPSA president and graduate student in both the School of Design and School of Arts and Sciences Miles Owen confirmed that “IDEAL’s stance [on the need for a centralized diversity office] is GAPSA’s stance.” Owen said that GAPSA appreciates the initial work administrators have done regarding the office but is “advocating for the full realization.”

“The idea of the physical office space – [though] we definitely support that – is not the most important part of the centralized diversity office.” Owen added.

He said that the most important part is creating “a single full-time voice” instead of adding on these responsibilities to the role of an existing administrator.

Sneller said that IDEAL representatives and Owen had a meeting with Mitchell, Vice Provost for Education Beth Winkelstein, Executive Director for Graduate Education and Initiatives Anita Mastroieni and Provost Wendell Pritchett to discuss the centralized diversity office on Oct. 3. Owen said that the meeting did not include a discussion of creating a physical space.

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Mayor Jim Kenney said to a crowd at the Barnes Foundation that Philadelphia was already in the “Goldilocks zone” for Amazon.

based on factors such as livability, talent and logistics, push forth the theme “Philadelphia Delivers.” Gutmann makes a quick ap-

pearance in the video, which then cuts to images of the Pennovation Center, a site for scientific research that was opened last year.

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Two Penn alumni nominated to join the Trump administration Rohit Chopra and Kenneth Braithwaite are nominees ALISA BHAKTA Associate Copy Editor

President Donald Trump announced his intention last week to nominate two Penn alumni to open administration posts.

A White House press release detailed four new potential appointees to Trump’s administration. Rohit Chopra, who received a Wharton MBA in 2009, was nominated to fill the open Democratic seat on the Federal Trade Commission and Kenneth Braithwaite, a 1995 Fels Institute of

Government graduate, was nominated to serve as the American ambassador to Norway.

If appointed, Braithwaite and Chopra will join a number of Penn alumni already serving in Trump’s administration, including Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman Jr., a 1987 College graduate, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a 1986 Wharton graduate and Securities and Exchange Commission head Jay Clayton, who received his bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the School of Engineering and Applied Science in 1988 and his J.D. from Penn Law School in 1993.

Chopra earned his undergradu-

ate degree in government from Harvard University and serves as a senior fellow for the Consumer Federation of America, where he addresses consumer protection issues.

Braithwaite studied as an undergraduate at the United States Naval Academy and worked as a naval aviator.

According to Bloomberg, Braithwaite retired from the U.S. Navy in 2011, and has served as the executive director of the Delaware Valley Healthcare Council, the vice president of advocacy and government relations for Saint Thomas Health and the executive and state director for former U.S.

Sen. Arlen Specter from Pennsylvania (who was a Republican during Braithwaite’s tenure, but joined the Democratic party in 2009).

He currently serves as senior vice president and executive officer of East Coast and Pennsylvania offices at Vizient, Inc., a health care improvement organization.

According to CNN, Trump has nominated and confirmed far fewer candidates than both of his predecessors, Barack Obama and George W. Bush, at this point in his term. As of Oct. 23, Trump has made 412 nominations, of which only 172 have been confirmed.

Phila. works to defend DACA recipients The Office of Immigrant Affairs lists ways to help JAMES MCFADDEN Staff Reporter

In the wake of Trump’s decision to reverse the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — an Obama-era immigration policy that allowed certain immigrants who arrived in the United States as children to stay in the country legally — the City of Philadelphia has taken steps to provide resources for residents affected by the decision to get the support they need.

Trump’s decision to end DACA has sparked anxiety among communities at Penn. In September, Penn President Amy Gutmann described the decision as “heartbreaking,” while students took to College Green to stand in solidarity with those threatened by this.

Philadelphia’s Office of Immigrant Affairs has partnered with local, smaller advocacy groups and nonprofit organizations to

urge people to donate to immigrant causes and help provide additional resources that the government does not provide.

“The one thing I’ve learned in this line of work is that we are extremely, extremely lucky to have an amazing network of nonprofit organizations that serve our immigrant community.” said Miriam Enriquez, the executive director of the Office of Immigrant Affairs.

The Office of Immigrant Affairs lists four local organizations — Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Association Coalition, Aquinas Coalition, New Sanctuary Movement and Juntos — as helpful resources in providing information on DACA. One of these organizations, the Aquinas Center, is part of the Catholic community in South Philadelphia and works with local immigrants to integrate them into the community.

According to Executive Director Bethany Welch, the Aquinas Center worked with volunteer attorneys

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and paralegals to ensure that those with DACA issuances or work permits expiring before March 5 are able to meet the 30-day renewal deadline.

“Once that window closed, our ongoing support that’s specific to DACA would be around answering questions if people had questions with regards to work authorization or associated paperwork,” Welch said.

Some of these other organizations can connect immigrants to legal services, reaching out to residents in their communities and directing them to the legal organizations that can more adequately serve their needs.

The Philadelphia Praise Center, a congregation in South Philly, helps to form a support network for marginalized people such as immigrants as part of its mission. The Center’s founding pastor, Aldo Siahaan, said they work with organizations such as the Christian Legal Clinic to provide DACA recipients with legal advice.

“[DACA] is like a two year work visa. It doesn’t give them a path to citizenship, but it makes them feel a little bit safer,” said Peter Hileman, the executive director of Christian Legal Clinic.

There are also a variety of ways to advocate for DACA recipients, which are listed on the Office of Immigrant Affairs website, such as calling representatives and encouraging them to support immigrants. There are also organizations focused on supporting immigrant rights like the Immigration Defense Project and United We Dream.

The Office of Immigrant Affairs plans on holding conferences for these nonprofits so that outreach to immigrant communities can be more organized.

“It’s important that different organizations communicate, know what each other is doing, so that if that particular organization can’t help somebody, they can also refer them to another organization in Philadelphia that can,” Enriquez said.

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derstanding) cisgendered man, which in and of itself is concerning,” PAGE wrote on Facebook at the time. “Abortion rights respect the dignity and autonomy of people with uteruses to choose what happens with their bodies. We’re honestly tired of the continued attempts to legislate bodies, period.”

Following Quakers for Life’s most recent protests, PAGE opened up their general board meeting on Monday evening

by discussing the anti-abortion protest. College sophomore and board member Tanya Jain said the group is not focused on communication with protesters but rather speaking with concerned students.

“Our main thing is trying to create a safe space for people who feel attacked by that,” Jain said.

“Instead of directly confronting [Quakers for Life] because that usually doesn’t work or doesn’t lead to a good conversation.”

Staff reporters James McFadden and Giovanna Paz contributed reporting.

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What I want from the ‘Campus Conversation’ SIMONETTI SAYS SO | The issues the administration didn’t include in their email

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I expected my freshman year at Penn to be consumed by late-night Wawa runs, interpreting syllabi, broken conversations over loud music at parties and cranking out essays in my dorm room. But my first semester of college has been packed with much more than the burden of finding friends and allnighters in Van Pelt.

Given the recent deaths of students Nicholas Moya, Justin Hamano, Henry Rogers and Brett Cooper, it seems that each day a new tragedy strikes the Penn community. In addition, Penn’s Task Force on a Safe and Responsible Campus Community has been ineffective at addressing issues of sexual violence and excessive drinking. This has made it hard to feel positive about being a firstyear student here.

On Oct. 17, the University sent an email that acknowledged some of these issues and urged students to attend a “Campus Conversation” next Monday to discuss “… what we can do, individually and collectively, to take care of ourselves and others and to foster individual and community resilience.”

It is encouraging that the administration is initiating a discussion; I applaud them for admitting that this semester has been challenging, because this conversation has the potential to stimulate

positive change at Penn regarding these pressing concerns.

But what I want from the “Campus Conversation” is more than just a space to share my grievances and to have a list of campus resources thrown at me.

The administration can no longer blindly point to Counseling and Psychological Services and shut down parties in hopes that mental health issues and the consequences of binge drinking will vanish.

I want policy change directly aimed at combating rape culture, more on-campus support groups for alcoholism and substance abuse and improved resources for mental health.

Nearly 27 percent of Penn’s female undergraduates have experienced sexual assault, according to a 2015 campus climate survey. Yet, neither the rape culture that persists on campus nor the failure of the task force to address such issues were mentioned in the administration’s email. This is deeply concerning.

As a freshman girl, I feel particularly vulnerable to sexual violence. Just a few weeks ago, one of my friends was cornered by a

boy in a hallway in the Quad and groped against her will. It is becoming a rarity for me to meet women who have not fallen victim to some form of sexual assault at Penn.

Furthermore, in a recent 34th Street piece, Penn senior and 34th Street Managing Editor Dani Blum highlighted how the task force has failed to prevent sexual violence on campus, describing it as an “insult to assault survivors.”

Where is Penn President Amy Gutmann’s response to Blum’s

… what I want from the “Campus Conversation” is more than just a space to share my grievances and to have a list of campus resources thrown at me.” call to action?

The task force hasn’t been effective in preventing binge drinking either. During New Student Orientation this year, which is notorious for slews of fraternity parties filled with drunk freshmen, there was a 20 percent increase in

instances of students needing hospital transport from 2016.

According to a 2014 survey, two-thirds of the 60 percent of college students who consumed alcohol in the past month engaged in binge drinking.

Prohibition has rarely ever been effective in instigating change. So there needs to be discussions of better ways to aid alcohol abuse that acknowledge the fact that drinking does and will continue to occur at Penn.

Another issue that should be included in the “Campus Conversation” is the nationwide mental health crisis on college campuses.

Suicide is the second leading cause of death amongst 15-24 year olds. Additionally, The American College Association’s spring 2016 National College Health Assessment found that 65 percent of college students felt very sad in the past 12 months, 36.7 percent felt so depressed it was difficult to function and 9.8 percent seriously considered suicide.

Since February of 2013, 14 Penn students have died by suicide; however, it can still take months to secure an appointment

ISABELLA SIMONETTI with CAPS. While Gutmann did not highlight these pertinent issues in the email she sent to students, these subjects must be discussed at the conversation. The email did not hesitate to point to crises like the recent natural disasters and the Las Vegas shooting. These tragedies are extremely important to discuss. But I fear that by solely highlighting things that have happened outside of Penn, the administration may be denying the issues that plague our campus.

My hope is that issues like sexual assault and mental health will have a place at the “Campus Conversation”; I urge the administration to make the space to discuss them.

ISABELLA SIMONETTI is a College freshman from New York. Her email address is isim@sas.upenn.edu.

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Club election season is looming. For many, this means the chance to serve on an executive board for a reputable club, adding to an extensive resume and elongating one’s list of prospective employers. Some students strain themselves and mentally invest their all. For those involved, it’s a time of stress, pressure and, sometimes, disappointment.

But is the pressure we place on ourselves going to be worth it — are we promised happiness as an end result of this duress?

Although Penn students know how to get a 3.7 GPA, be the social chair of 14 different consulting clubs and get recruited to McKinsey, there is one thing that Quakers fail at: appreciating and finding happiness from smaller details in life. They are stuck in a grind of placing too much emphasis on resume stuffers, believing that career success can secure all future happiness. Penn students must remember that a small, daily or weekly ritual is ultimately more meaningful.

As a volunteer at a retirement home, I had many conversations with senior citizens that centered around memories in their lives.

Their eyes sparkled when they reminisced about old times. What happened in their pasts that could have possibly brought about such happiness and fond nostalgia?

You guessed it — that internship at Goldman Sachs followed by a permanent recruitment when they were 20 years old was “Treasured Memory Number One.” It was practically a recurring theme among the senior citizens.

Seriously though, it wasn’t.

They recounted weekly rituals and activities, and time enjoyed at events or with family and friends.

I remember one lady, Nina, very strongly. The way her face lit up when she reminisced about playing tennis with her colleagues from the bank every Sunday, you would’ve thought she had lived a life of grandeur — or secured an internship at Google. Nina talked about the small things like they were the most significant moments in her life.

But actually, weren’t they?

Penn students are often trapped inside a different sort of “Penn bubble.” Everyone is scrambling to secure a new position on an executive board and add another line to their resume. For Generic Quaker No. 1, an extra line on a LinkedIn profile means internal and external validation, and that equates to increased happiness points. And our little Quaker here

isn’t to blame. He is a guinea pig in our toxic pre-professional culture that makes students forget how to gauge the real importance of different elements in life. Generic Quaker No. 1 is trapped in a self-perpetuating cycle as students continue one-upping each other.

Through the endless strive for superficial professional success, Penn students forget that, at the end of the road, happiness is truly found in the minutiae of everyday life: not a one-off position or achievement, but a consistent facet

an opinion columnist to tell you that happiness comes from fun, small things. Yet, Penn students are still trapped in that bubble where this fact has been erased.

They still cry when they don’t get internships, feel jealous when their friends do, apply for prestigious-sounding positions to appear important and rely heavily on external validation. The bubble has blurred the line between validation and happiness, which is a slippery slope for mental health issues and life dissatisfaction.

In the 2013 National College Health Assessment, almost 50 percent of college students said they “felt overwhelming anxiety in the last year,” undeniably resulting from the snowballed pressures of college. Some psychology researchers define happiness as “subjective wellbeing”; we must stray from Penn’s outlook that the one objective way to gain happiness is through a resume.

Of course, it’s not all gloomy.

I concede that this culture pushes and drives students to achieve, discover and learn. It’s good motivation, but it has become skewed to a point where students buckle under external pressure because

What’s going to matter in the very end is how you appreciated the details of what you did have — how you lived every day.” of life that is not taken for granted.

It may be that game of tennis that you play every week with your roommates. It may be a conversation you have every day with your favorite barista. It may be sitting in the sun on College Green on spring afternoons.

This is obvious. It doesn’t take

LUCY HU they don’t have impressiveenough internships, or are more concerned with outward appearances than activities that they actually love.

A reminder is necessary, that it’s OK to not get an exec position in a club, or even a job at a prestigious firm. What’s going to matter in the very end is how you appreciated the details of what you did have — how you lived every day. Because when you’re looking back on your life in a retirement home, what are you really going to reminisce about? What memories are you going to wish that you could relive, one last time?

It probably won’t be anything on your LinkedIn. LUCY HU is a College sophomore from Auckland, New Zealand, studying political science. Her email address is lucyhu@sas.upenn.edu.

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Penn administrators are finally asking students for feedback — let’s answer EDITORIAL BY THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN OPINION BOARD On Oct. 11, Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett emailed undergraduate students “The Penn PULSE Survey,” with a stated objective to provide “an opportunity for you to provide confidential feedback about your own experiences and activities here at Penn.” The survey, which has since been emailed out by a variety of University offices, includes questions about sexual violence, experiences of bias, the availability of resources and other components of campus culture.

Days later, the University announced an event next Monday, Oct. 30 from 5 to 7 p.m. in Zellerbach Theater titled the “Campus Conversation,” at which members of the Penn community will “discuss what we can do, individually and collectively, to take care of ourselves and others and to foster individual and community resilience.”

The PULSE survey and Campus Conversation represent clear attempts by the University’s administration to delve

into the feedback that Penn students have about life as a Quaker. However, these efforts are effective only if we, the student body of Penn, engage. We therefore call on every student to participate in the survey and the Campus Conversation event to the degree that they feel comfortable.

In different ways, each of these efforts represents an important step taken by the administration to address major areas of concern on campus. In a semester in which tragedy after tragedy has hit our community, we appreciate the willingness of high-level administrators to acknowledge the tragedies and discuss with us how members of this community — students, faculty and staff alike — can contribute to the mental wellness and resilience of our fellow Quakers. Through the PULSE survey, the administration is giving every undergraduate student a megaphone with which to shout his or her thoughts on the Penn experience, critical or otherwise.

We hope that administrators

will take the ideas, concerns and critiques expressed through the PULSE survey and Campus Conversation seriously, but for either of these efforts to be of any use, we the students must participate heavily.

In an editorial last semester, we wrote somewhat critically of students’ approaches toward pursuing long-term cul-

over the last few months is impossible to say. However, we do believe that students with strong opinions — and, as this is Penn, there are many such students — who do not take advantage of this opportunity to discuss, explore or even submit them are cheating themselves and their peers of the opportunity to actually enable cultural growth.

We hope that a great deal of good can come out of the Campus Conversation and the PULSE survey, but that good will only come if we get involved.” tural change — that “Far too often, campus has erupted into outrage over an issue and then moved on, leaving only a minority of activists to actually drive change.” Whether or not that systemic issue has been erased

Especially in the advent of a new provost, we believe that sharing honest feedback and forward-thinking ideas with the campus community can only be positive for the direction of the University. Provost Pritchett is

showing a willingness early in his tenure to engage with students on the issues that plague our campus, and he needs our voices now as he lays the groundwork for his years atop the University.

This being said, the logical ask in return will be that Pritchett, Gutmann and other University administrators and leaders take seriously the feedback and ideas we present. There is ostensibly an attitude of apprehension toward the administration coming from a significant chunk of the student population, particularly in the aftermath of recommendations made last semester by the “Task Force on a Safe and Responsible Campus Community.” While we appreciate the degree of time and thought that went into those recommendations, we hope that the results of the Campus Conversation and especially the PULSE survey are transparent, far-reaching and effective.

Indeed, we wish that it had not taken this long for such a Campus Conversation to occur.

It is unacceptable — and, frank-

ly, baffling — that, after years and years of campus discussion regarding mental health, the administration at the highest level is only now spearheading this sort of dialogue. We appreciate the current degree of willingness to engage being displayed, but there are years of ground to make up.

Perhaps the biggest complaint that we hear from other students is that Penn’s administration is too inaccessible or too out-of-touch with the campus community. Regardless of the merit of the statement, the sentiment has fueled the skeptical reactions that Quakers have had toward various University actions, from the various task forces to the communication choices made after serious campus events, and so on. While we acknowledge — and often share — the skepticism, our number one priority is the betterment of campus culture. We hope that a great deal of good can come out of the Campus Conversation and the PULSE survey, but that good will only come if we get involved.

Woke is not enough CHANCES ARE | How the culture of wokeness is hurting real activism Woke: (adj.) Aware, socially conscious, understanding and sensitive of racial, socioeconomic, gender and further societal inequalities.

The idea behind it: that once we were “asleep” in the mire of prejudice and now we are “woke” to the problems in our oppressive system.

The word has infiltrated our culture from the falsetto of Childish Gambino warning us to “Stay woke” to the satire of “Saturday Night Live” selling us “Levi wokes.” We throw it around every day, and it translates into an attitude we carry in our speech and in our social media.

Wokeness manifests itself in the caution with which we approach certain words and certain topics — for example, calling someone “African-American” instead of “black.” It manifests itself in hashtag activism, which throws out a pretty picture of the media user with a punchy platitude for friends who have already been there, done that.

And while nothing is necessarily wrong with being woke — after all, a culture that works to be accepting is one former civil rights leaders could only have dreamt about —

being woke is hurting our nation’s activism. Why? The problem with wokeness is in its very nature; it rarely extends beyond the surface-level show. We are eager to do what is expected of us when the trend calls for it, but we don’t let that influence anything we do in real life. We simply present ourselves in a politically correct way and circulate The New York Times discourse among our friends, having intellectual conversations that end in everyone reaffirming what everyone else already believed.

But there’s nothing wrong with that. People need to be sensitive to the discriminatory remarks they make. And furthermore, by circulating these discussions, we are pulling people into otherwise unheard of causes.

However, what good is awareness if it does not translate into action?

The ultimate goal of education is to effect real change. When we raise awareness, the idea is not to simply have the knowledge of what is right and wrong in our heads and continue doing what is wrong. We educate people because we hope for concrete improvement.

Quite frankly, in an era where political activism, particularly among the millennial generation, is supposedly at its most popular, the numbers reflect a different story. In the 2012 presidential election, though they made up approximately the same size of the electorate as baby boomers, millennials turned out to vote at

cause we millennials do not care. If anything, we care too much.

The problem is that we have allowed ourselves to think that social media activism is enough. That posting a snappy message in black and white somehow replaces voting for legislation that makes a difference. That marching in a protest

We are eager to do what is expected of us when the trend calls for it, but we don’t let that influence anything we do in real life.” only half the rate of baby boomers.

And in this past 2016 election, the percentage of millennials who voted only increased from 46.4 percent to 49.5 percent, despite their number of eligible voters being set to surpass that of baby boomers in 2020.

But this seeming apathy is not be-

seen by like-minded populations, where visibility is the primary factor, does more than petitioning a local government for increased environmental regulation.

And the superficiality of our political activism extends not simply to justifying our inaction, but also to

reasoning away our darker impulses.

At times, we use our wokeness to defend things that are so blatantly discriminatory that we would condemn them, were they under any other name but “woke.”

Two years ago, Rachel Dolezal, former leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was outed as being white. When called upon to answer for her actions, she responded, “I identify as black,” as if race were something one could just choose, like the shoes we put on our feet.

To be cognizant of another group’s struggle, to help them, is blameless.

But to go so far as to appropriate that group’s culture and, by doing so, send the racial hierarchy back into Jim Crow era, is to be a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Finally, the culture of wokeness waters down the heart of the messages political activists make. Colin Kaepernick, when he took a knee during the national anthem, did so to highlight the abuses that America has made. However, the conversation has turned from spotlighting American abuse to the outrage of the activist action itself. Now, the

AMY CHAN discussion is all about the flag and what real patriotism is, instead of what Kaepernick wanted to draw attention to in the first place.

Wokeness is not inherently bad.

The complacency with the superficial that it creates is. The difference comes down to word-of-mouth change vs. tangible action. And the question I leave with is: If activism from this point on becomes solely discourse, what will our world look like in 20 years?

AMY CHAN is a College senior from Augusta, Ga., studying classics. Her email address is chanamy@sas. upenn.edu. “Chances Are” usually appears every other Thursday.

In defense of Early Decision THE OBJECTIVIST | Although flawed, ED works best in the American admissions system While the upcoming Nov. 1 deadline for early decision candidates may no longer be relevant to most of us personally, it is still worth continuing to discuss Penn’s application process. Although the trend of admitting over 50 percent of each freshman class in Early Decision has its drawbacks, it is ultimately the best system for admitting the most committed Penn class.

A bit of history helps put things in perspective. Originally launched in the 1970s, the Common Application revolutionized the college application process when it went

online in 2007. In the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s, when applications were often handwritten, our parents usually applied to a maximum of five colleges. Applying to even 10 schools was still considered rather excessive in the early 2000s.

However, this all suddenly changed with the advent of the electronic Common App, when it became possible to apply to multiple schools with just a few keystrokes.

As a result, the volume of applications admissions departments were expected to weed through skyrocketed. Penn, which had “enjoyed a record number of students apply-

ing — 12,800” in 1985, had 40,413 applicants for 2,457 places for the Class of 2021.

Given this huge and ever-increasing volume of applications for the same limited number of spots, a high early decision rate is not only necessary but also desirable. Just ask yourself how Penn should make informed decisions when choosing from 40,000-plus applicants when these candidates generally have similar superb credentials and are often applying to 20-plus other institutions, with some students even applying to 30 or more schools.

Most importantly, a university

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SIYIN HAN is a College senior from Birmingham, Ala. Her email address is siyinhan@sas.upenn.edu.

must plan ahead and fill an incoming class, so how exactly does Dean of Admissions Eric Furda and his team make any sort of educated guess as to which admitted candidates will matriculate?

Many of us either conveyed or were prepared to convey the same “love” to other schools besides Penn. Personally, I was poised to apply to several additional colleges had I not been accepted ED. And how can even the most dedicated and experienced of Penn’s volunteers tease out the keenest applicants during their interviews, especially when it is hard to enforce consistency across tens of thousands of alumni interviews?

Supplemental application essays aimed to demonstrate knowledge of a college’s courses and extracurricular opportunities do not successfully predict a student’s ultimate college choice. Similarly, measures that attempt to evaluate “demonstrated interest” are disingenuous and unproductive. These tactics, such as tracking visits to campus, actively discriminate against prospective students who can’t afford the trip or live too far away to manage the time for an expensive college tour.

Of course, Penn is not unique.

Universities across America have the same challenges choosing the best students and likely matriculates among ever-growing numbers of applicants. But the United States seems to stand alone; worldwide, universities systemically whittle

down their applicant pools. In most European countries, secondary school is a long process of forced academic-ranking, which is first used to eliminate many students from the running and then to assign one university spot or, if you’re lucky, a small number of choices.

In the United Kingdom, UCAS — the University and Colleges Admissions Service — restricts the number of total applications per student to five, while also prohibiting simultaneous application to elite Oxford and Cambridge. Without an overhaul of the entire United States application process, Penn’s most logical and only infallible approach to test a student’s dedication and honesty turns out to be requiring commitment via a binding application. It is ultimately profoundly comforting for Penn students to know that over 50 percent of our peers were willing to commit to being here above any number of other schools.

Of course, the benefits of Early Decision do not come without costs, including potentially biasing the Penn undergrad profile towards more privileged students who can “commit to enroll if they get in” while “shutting out those who want the chance to compare offers of grants and scholarships.”

Undeniably, more privileged high schoolers who benefit from earlier and better college coaching are better prepared to apply early, essentially discriminating against

SPENCER SWANSON the less fortunate. Furthermore, wealthier students often do not need to wait for information on financial aid. But with nearly 10 percent of admitted ED students being “the first in their family to attend college” and 47.9 percent self-identifying as minorities, Penn is demonstrating its commitment to diversity and “bringing students of the highest promise to campus without regard to their families’ ability to pay.”

The current American college application system produces an insurmountable volume of applications. Coupled with the increasing propensity of nervous high school seniors to apply to dozens, if not more, colleges, admitting 50 percent or more of each Penn class through ED is necessary and ultimately works the best.

SPENCER SWANSON is a College freshman from London, studying philosophy, politics and economics.

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A look into the life of Penn’s Navy ROTC freshmen They’re nearing the end of their 12-week initiation MAX COHEN Contributing Reporter

At 4:30 a.m. on a typical Wednesday most Penn students are fast asleep. But for the 32 freshman candidates in the Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps program, their day has already begun.

Unbeknownst to much of the Penn community, first-year ROTC students spend the first two-and-a-half months at Penn in a grueling initiation process called “Kilo Company.”

This year’s Kilo Company squad is one of the biggest and most diverse in recent years, with double the number of overall candidates as other years.

An average day for an ROTC candidate begins well before

dawn, College freshman Reagan Bracknell said. On most weekdays, candidates wake up around 5:30 a.m. to attend drill and ceremony training before undergoing physical training, and conclude the morning in the classroom for naval science.

“Wednesdays are really long days,” Bracknell said, adding that he wakes up at 4:30 a.m. to travel to the Hollenback Center on South Street for a morning meeting referred to as “muster.”

This is followed by drills and the weekly “lab” class — a segment where guest speakers present ethically complicated situations and ask the candidates to describe how they would act.

Both Bracknell and Nursing freshman Sydney Bertrand identified these weekly “lab” class as their favorite part of the ROTC program.

There are more female candi-

dates in this year’s ROTC program, including Bertrand.

“Something that interested me is that three to five years after being a Navy nurse, you become a charge nurse, which means you’re the head of an entire floor,” Bertrand said. “In the civilian world, that generally takes 10 to 15 years.”

After graduation, ROTC members are guaranteed five years employment in the Navy. This ability to directly enter the service appealed to Engineering freshman Ethan Chaffee.

“Free college was definitely a big thing, but what I really wanted was to get into the Navy and do some cool stuff,” Chaffee said.

But for many candidates, being part of Kilo Company can be too challenging, particularly when it comes to time management. College freshman Theo Yuan said he enrolled into ROTC to fulfill his

dream of becoming a naval aviator, but decided it was best for him to drop out and focus on his academics.

“There would be some days I’d be sprinting down Spruce Street from the Hollenback Center to Chinese class at Williams Hall,” Yuan said. “I couldn’t balance ROTC and Ivy League academics, so I decided to pursue my commission in the military through other paths.”

Yuan plans to enroll in Officer Candidate School, a 12-week training course that is completed after college graduation and gives the same end result as ROTC: commission into the Navy.

As the candidates enter their 11th week of Kilo Company, the end is in sight. The candidates officially become midshipmen on Nov. 3, marking their first steps towards becoming leaders in the Navy.

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Two sororities hosted first ‘cross-Panhellenic’ event Chi Omega budgeted this year for more such events MICHEL LIU Staff Reporter

To promote inter-sorority bonding, two Penn sororities held what they described as the first “crossPanhellenic” event last week.

On Oct. 22, Chi Omega and Sigma Kappa held a “Sweet and Savory” social event in the backyard of the Chi O chapter house.

Nursing junior Amanda Sangston and College junior Kaylee Slusser, who are Panhellenic delegates for Chi O and SK respectively, organized the social.

According to Sangston and Slusser, this is the first time at Penn that a sorority has held a formal social event with just another sorority.

Slusser said she wanted to host this event after a leadership consultant from the national SK organization noted that it is more common for different sororities to host social events with each other in the South.

Sangston said Chi O had similar conversations with their national advisors about brainstorming ways

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The Panhellenic delegates of both Sigma Kappa and Chi Omega aimed to bring the sororities, whose houses are next door to each other, closer together through an organized social event.

to bring sororities together at Penn.

“Panhel has pulled away from having mandatory events for sororities on campus, so there are less requirements for interaction,” Sangston added.

Slusser said that she did not know of any sororities at Penn that had organized events with other chapters on campus, so she reached out to Sangston to organize an event with Chi O, whose chapter

house is right next to the SK house.

SK President and Wharton senior Lindsay Stearns said the event was an attempt to “do more social events with sororities and not just fraternities.”

“Usually we just do date nights and formals where normally frats come,” Stearns said. “We sometimes partner with frats to do philanthropy things, but usually it’s rare to have two sororities come together for any kind of purpose.”

But President of Sigma Delta Tau and College senior Elizabeth Heit said there has always been informal interaction between members of different sororities within the Panhellenic Council.

“On a more microscopic level, the girls are very close with other girls in other sororities. I, for example, live with four girls; two of whom are in my sorority and two of whom are in different sororities,” Heit said.

She added that one barrier to having sororities formally interact is the amount of programming that chapters already plan for their own members, which can be difficult to manage on top of their student schedules.

Stearns agreed, adding, “We have so many different events every weekend it’s hard to find a time that works on both ends.”

Elena Carrigan, executive vice president of SK and Nursing se-

nior, said she appreciated the casual setting of “Sweet and Savory” and the opportunity to branch out from her chapter.

“I really love the concept of bringing together different people in Greek life. I wanted to bring that down to a smaller scale for people who maybe don’t do Panhel or Omega to let them get a taste of that,” Slusser said.

Sangston and Slusser said they plan to reach out to other sororities to organize similar socials, and Sangston added that Chi O has reserved a section of their budgetary funds to host more cross-sorority events.

President of the Panhellenic Council and College senior Caroline Ohlson said that she was glad to hear the event took place.

“I’m really happy to see crossprogramming being planned between sororities and would love to see more events like this taking place throughout the Panhellenic community,” she said. “When someone joins a sorority, they are also joining the Panhellenic community at large, and events like this help promote that larger sense of community.”

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Digital humanities minor College presidents ask connects two disciplines Congress to fix DACA New minor combines CIS classes with the humanities SAMMY GORDON Contributing Reporter

Penn is introducing a new digital humanities minor designed to expose students to technical skills that they can use to solve practical problems in the humanities.

The minor was created to bridge the divide between humanities and STEM disciplines. Sponsored by the Price Lab for Digital Humanities, which applies technology to issues in the humanities, the minor includes coursework in departments ranging from Computer and Information Science to Philosophy.

“Right now there is quite a chasm between the STEM curriculum and the humanities curriculum,” said English professor James English, who supported the creation of the minor.

“The DH minor is designed to guide students on a comfortable

curricular pathway to become familiar with some of the computational tools and techniques that can be useful for their humanities research, and to help them see ways to be in dialogue with more tech- and math-intensive fields,” he added.

The minor requires an introductory computer-related course, such as CIS 110, and five courses that involve both humanities and digital science. These courses range from the anthropology class “Mapping for Social Justice” to the religious studies class “Spirituality in the Age of Global Warming.” Students can craft the minor to suit their interests and connect concentrations in humanities to topics in digital research.

The main goal of the minor is “to provide students with a real credential for work they may already be doing in order to explore digital humanities,” Stewart Varner, managing director of Price Lab, wrote in a statement.

“As we’ve already seen, the ubiq-

uity of technology and the power of data are raising huge questions about culture and identity,” he added. “I’m thinking of questions around online surveillance, bias in algorithms and artificial intelligence.”

Digital humanities is a relatively new field at Penn. It was formally introduced with the creation of the Price Lab in 2015, and remains uncommon among most of Penn’s peer institutions. Professors said interest in the discipline has risen along with the application of mathematical models to solve problems including gerrymandering and public opinion polling.

The opportunity to shape the minor around each student’s interests is at the heart of the program, Varner said.

“We’ve designed the minor in a way that reflects the fact that DH is not just one thing,” he wrote. “Each student is encouraged to build a pathway through the minor that complements their major and resonates with their interests.”

Penn joined hundreds of other universities ZACH JACOBS Contributing Reporter

Penn joined nearly 800 colleges and universities in a letter to Congressional leaders Oct. 19 urging a bipartisan, “long-term legislative fix as soon as possible” to protect recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

In September, President Donald Trump announced his intention to repeal DACA, an Obama-era policy which protects young undocumented immigrants and students from deportation. Penn President Amy Gutmann has previously called the end of DACA “heartbreaking,” and called on Congress that month “to act promptly to pass bipartisan legislation” to protect recipients of DACA. The letter was organized by

the American Council on Education’s Protect Dreamers Higher Education Coalition, which includes the Association of American Universities, an organization Gutmann previously led.

The letter argues that if Congress does not act, “we will be shutting the door to an entire generation of individuals who seek to contribute their best to America,” and that people brought to the U.S. as children “are today Americans in every way but immigration status.”

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has previously said Congress will come up with a permanent solution within the six-month window given by the White House. Minority Leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, also recipients of the letter, claimed to have struck a deal with the White House which would extend the protections given to DACA recipients, although the White House has

denied this claim.

This plea from higher education organizations follows widespread uncertainty on the status of undocumented students. At Penn, this uncertainty has been marked by student protests against DACA’s repeal and informational sessions held by campus administrators, including the upcoming “Campus Conversation.”

Following the election of Trump, who promised to “immediately terminate” DACA during his campaign, Gutmann announced in response to questions about the status of students receiving DACA protection, that Penn would remain a “sanctuary” for undocumented students and not allow immigration officials on campus without a warrant. Several student leaders expressed discontent with these comments, suggesting it was unclear what it meant for Penn to be a ‘sanctuary.’

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CIS 120 teaching assistants call for more resources Many classrooms are ‘small and cramped’ RAHUL CHOPRA Staff Reporter

More Penn students are taking computer science courses, but Computer and Information Science faculty say they aren’t being given enough resources to accommodate this growing demand.

Students nationwide are pursuing skills in computer science, and Penn is no exception.

As students work to further encourage others to take on CIS courses through initiatives like a certificate reflecting competency, class sizes for introductory CIS courses such as CIS 120 have expanded. However, CIS 120 faculty say that the University isn’t giving them enough space for office hours.

Bethany Davis, a fifth-year Engineering student and one of the head teaching assistants for CIS 120, said CIS 120 has grown

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“We’ve since outgrown all of the available engineering auditoriums. So we are in the Nursing building now,” Davis said.

CIS 120 TA Matthew Chiaravalloti said that given the number of students in the course, the classrooms currently used by TAs are too small and cramped.

He added that CIS 120 TAs have tried to reach out to the University regarding alternative spaces for office hours, such as the Active Learning Classroom in Towne or a space at 3041 Walnut near Penn Park, but all their requests have been denied by administrators.

Space shortages have forced TAs to switch rooms every couple of hours and hold office hours in places that don’t have computers or outlets, said Jenny Chen, a Wharton and Engineering senior and CIS 120 TA. “We want to provide the best quality education to our students and not have students sit on the floor,” Chen said.

Davis added that holding office hours in classrooms and in other schools’ buildings that lack outlets and computers has made it harder for TAs to help students.

“If you’re working on your laptop and it dies and you need help, what do you do?” Davis said, referring to the lack of power outlets in some venues for office hours.

Having to change rooms for office hours can also be inconvenient for students, said College sophomore Arjun Swaminathan, who is currently taking CIS 120.

“We start out in one room from 4-6 and no matter what, we switch to another room from 6-10. That changes the queue of people waiting to get help, because it’s very hard for TAs to transfer one queue to another,” Swaminathan said.

Chen said that she and other TAs have all been frustrated by the lack of space provided by the Engineering School for CIS courses.

“There’s a trend of computer science interest growing, and they need to be planning ahead to allocate for our interest growing, and instead they are doing the opposite,” she said.

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A 5 by 25 sculpture sits at a bustling city intersection in Silicon Valley, where two University of Pennsylvania lecturers hope to encourage passersby to consider the effects of climate change.

Penn School of Design lecturers and wife-husband collaborators Deirdre Murphy and Scott White built the sculpture, titled “Warbler Migration,” for the northern California city of Dublin, after winning a competition held by the city government.

Constructed with more than 500 aluminum plates individually bolted together, the installation is based on Murphy’s research on the impact of climate change

on the flight patterns of warbler birds.

The pair worked on the project at their home in Philadelphia for over two years, making use of their fine arts and engineering skills. Last week, they made their final adjustments to the piece.

After studying flight patterns of migratory birds for over a decade, Murphy realized she could visualize scientific data as patterns in her paintings.

Murphy crafted the twodimensional design, planning the theme and creating intricate hand-drawn sketches. White took her drawings and brought them to life through engineering, using wooden modeling techniques inspired by 1930s car design.

The installation lights up internally at night to reflect how songbird migration follows con-

stellation patterns. Small, precisely cut-out holes in the sculpture portray the stars that make up the constellations. The cutout triangular shapes represent the warblers while the polygonal design is inspired by the erratic flight pattern of the birds.

“I don’t usually incorporate political messages through my work, but regardless of what’s making it happen, it’s clear that climate change is real,” White said. “It’s easy to forget how human development has impacted the sheer numbers of birds.”

Although the two have sought advice from one another on individual projects, this was the first time Murphy and White have officially worked together on a project. “We didn’t really know it before, but we’ve been collaborating this whole time,” White said.

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Murphy hopes that people passing by the sculpture will recognize the “soft awareness” and educational focus in the piece.

“Maybe they’ll bike to the market or stop throwing garbage in the streets,” she said.

College senior Irena Xia, who works with the pair as their graphic design assistant, said the climate change theme “gave [her] more of a drive to get involved.”

“It’s important to take care of our environment,” she said, “and they really convey that message in a beautiful way.”

Pieces of art drawn from the pair’s process in creating this installation are on display at University of the Arts, 211 S. Broad Street, Terra Hall, Room 511 until Dec. 15.

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As field hockey’s offense cools, defense lights up WILL AGATHIS Associate Sports Editor

Nothing about the 2017 season has been ordinary for Penn field hockey. Once in the running to win the Ivy League championship and make an appearance in the NCAA Tournament, the Quakers are all but eliminated from winning the conference with two weeks left in the season.

However, that has not stopped the team from showing signs of a potential transformation.

The Quakers’ current record (8-6, 3-2 Ivy) and performance are not indicative of their recent run of play or current composition. After a win over No. 10 Syracuse, the Quakers proved that they still have the same fight as in previous years, but the real surprise comes when looking at how they have been winning their games — usually led by a high-octane attack that uses a potent offense to keep itself in games, the Quakers are scoring fewer goals this year while conceding far fewer.

The difference in scoring — 1.79 goals per game in 2017 versus 2.59 in 2016 — cannot be chalked up to graduations or a changing lineup. While 2016 graduates Elise Tilton and Claire Kneizys were critical to the program’s successes, the two of them combined for only nine of the team’s 44 goals in 2016 and assisted just twice.

Moreover, the change in scoring is unrelated to any major changes in the lineup. The team’s three forwards — seniors Alexa Hoover and Gina Guccione plus junior Sofia Palacios — remain the same.

Hoover and Guccione have started every game up top, with Palacios returning to her attacking post after a brief spell at center defensive midfield.

The three of them are scoring 1.14 goals per game this season compared to 1.53 in 2016.

Coach Colleen Fink has reiterated over the course of the season that while the team’s re-

duced shot counts — 10.6 per game as opposed to last year’s 17.1 — is something to work on, the real issue is about shot quality.

“We need to work on the power of our shots. We’ve outshot several of our opponents but I don’t love that statistic,” Fink opined. Ultimately, she later summed up that it will come down to the quality of the team’s shots relative to the opposition.

Reduced shot count aside, perhaps the most telling reason for any drop in scoring this season is the team’s schedule. As the Quakers have progressed from a mid-tier Ivy talent to a nationally-ranked team, their schedule has significantly improved.

In 2016, the Quakers faced off with four ranked opponents.

In 2017, the Quakers will likely finish the season with seven.

Moreover, the Quakers’ schedule this year does not feature the opponents from last year who conceded a lot of goals to the Red and Blue, including LIU-Brooklyn (which lost 6-0), St. Joe’s (which conceded 5 goals), and Villanova (which allowed 6).

With just three games left in 2017, the goal total is unlikely to revert back to its usual total of more than two per game.

However, both Fink and some of the team’s leaders have looked at ways that the team can work on jump-starting its scoring ability.

“There’s no doubt our offense is not producing the way we want to, and they’ll be the first to admit that.” Fink said.

“They need to execute their corners more efficiently and have more quality in their shots.”

Captain Jasmine Li has her own take on the situation from the back of the of the midfield diamond.

“From my position, I try to give as many opportunities as possible to give the forwards as many shots as possible,” Li said, noting that most of her shots are taken outside of the circle in hopes of leading to a scoring opportunity for the team’s attacking unit.

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Though Penn field hockey’s offensive trident of seniors Alexa Hoover and Gina Guccione, plus junior Sofia Palacios, has been less productive this season, the Quakers’ defense has picked up the slack, conceding fewer goals than ever to keep their team in tight, big games.

Although the offense has “But I think I’ve adapted Quakers this year would be defensive play of Meily, the been less productive this sea- pretty well.” remiss not to have noticed the two outside backs have incredson, the defense has improved Oftentimes the last line of play of the team’s two outside ible speed that can make atto a point not seen in years. In defense before the goalie, Mei- backs, freshman Reese Vogel tacking the Quakers a bit of a past years a liability, the back- ly has also been a saving grace and junior Karen Seid. nightmare. With sophomore line has turned in several stellar for this year’s defense. As a Vogel has not only shown goalie Ava Rosati now at the performances in 2017 and kept sophomore, she transitioned to that she can consistently play helm for the Red and Blue, it is the team in several games when center back in 2016 in a move an important role as a rookie, now more important than ever the offense has stalled. that would suit her strengths as but she has also proven that she to avoid any sort of trial by fire “We’ve been working on it a player. could be leading the team’s de- for the new starter. for 15 to 20 months, and it’s “Back when I switched I fense in her next three years at The team trusts Rosati, but finally starting to come to had a lot of support from Jas- Penn. She has certainly earned in a tough Ivy League season, fruition with that mentality,” mine at left back,” Meily said, the praise of her teammates. it is always crucial to limit the Fink said, praising the unit’s also adding that Kneizys, the “I’m really grateful to have number of opposing scoring increased composure and con- team’s most recent center back, Reese join the team as a fresh- chances. fidence. and the coaches supported her man and contribute so much,” “We trust her,” Li said. “And As the two returning starters through the switch.

Li said of the team’s right back. even in ourselves we have into the group from last year, Li Ultimately the move would On the left side is Seid. A creased motivation to not even and center back Paige Meily allow Meily to leverage her converted midfielder, Seid is let balls get to Ava.” have proven integral in the de- strengths on defense and allow playing defense for the first In the last three games of the fense’s recent successes. Li is 4 the Quakers to slow down optime and has found remarkable season, the Quakers will have 3434 a four-year starter for the pro- 3STposing STST offenses at an impres- success. Her speed and physi- a chance to show more signs gram but only recently made sive rate. In 2017, the Red and cality make her a tough match- of life from the offense while the move from left back to cen- Blue concede just 11.4 shots up when teams attack Penn’s maintaining a solid defense. ter defensive midfield. But for per game compared to 13.6 in defense.

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Sprint football’s Quinn Karam: a true lover of the game Senior captain leads with work ethic and passion MARC MARGOLIS Sports Reporter

“I’ve honestly never seen someone who loves football as much as Quinn does.�

Those were the first words out of Penn sprint football senior defensive back Tom Tyrell’s mouth when describing his best friend and teammate; senior linebacker Quinn Karam.

From the moment he got accepted to Penn, few have matched the work ethic and drive of the five-foot-seven, 178 pound linebacker.

Literally.

After hearing of his admission to Penn in December of his senior year in high school, Karam immediately began to lose weight in order to be able to suit up for the Quakers. In the Collegiate Sprint Football League (CSFL), all players are required to weigh under 178 pounds in order to be eligible to play.

Karam weighed 210 pounds when he got accepted to Penn. “I was running close to ten miles every other day and I was doing abs as much as I could,�

Karam said. “I had been in contact with one of the players here who told me about the diet that

the trainer had them on. He got me set up on the diet that they were using. It made [losing weight] a lot easier for me.�

The hard work paid off for Karam, who earned honorable mention All-CSFL as a freshman linebacker. In his sophomore and junior seasons, Karam continued his high level of production, garnering honorable mention All-CSFL again as a sophomore, and second-team All-CSFL as a junior.

This season the senior captain and four-year starter helps anchor a unit that has only surrendered 11.6 points per game, good for second in the league behind Army. He also leads the Quakers’ defense in fumble recoveries and fumble recoveries for touchdowns.

Still, Karam is worth more to Penn sprint football than just his statistics. “He’s a very vocal leader,� freshman linebacker Connor Ashton said of his captain. “He’s always going very hard at practice, making sure everyone on the defense is on the same page in terms of their assignments.�

Karam’s leadership has made a particular impact on Ashton, who before this season had never played linebacker. “He helped a lot with my responsibilities and just showing me what to do in the concepts,�

Ashton reflected. “More im-

portantly, he just made me feel comfortable within the linebacker unit and on the team in general.�

However, Karam may have never played suited up for the Red and Blue if it were not for another Penn sprint football legend: running back Mike Beamish.

When Karam was a freshman at Abington Heights high school, Beamish, a senior, was the team’s star quarterback and punter. In fact, Beamish even gave up opportunities to punt at the Division I level to play for Penn sprint football. “My brother was close friends with him and he ended up telling me about what Beamish was doing. I thought it was really cool,� Karam said. “I loved the University of Pennsylvania and it was one of my favorite schools since I was younger. So when I found out that there would be an opportunity for me to play there rather than going to D-II or D-III ball, I definitely was interested.�

Once Karam had expressed interest in playing lightweight football, Beamish put him in contact with head coach Bill Wagner. Once it was clear Wagner was interested in him, Karam made up his mind that he wanted to be a Quaker.

When Beamish graduated in 2015, he left as the program as its third all-time leading rusher.

But his greatest gift to the program may have been Karam. “I don’t think I would have known about sprint football if it weren’t for Mike,� Karam explained.

This week, Penn welcomes Navy on Friday in a de-facto South Division championship game. The winner is slotted to take on the North Division champion (likely Army, but possibly Cornell) in the first-ever CSFL championship game.

After an uninspiring performance as a team against Army earlier in the season, Karam and the Quakers relish another chance to defend last year’s title. “I would definitely say this game’s got extra meaning for me being a senior,� Karam said. “If we win this game I get to play one more football game and I never want to stop playing football.�

Besides his commitment to his team on the field, Karam is equally committed to using sprint football’s resources to help him off the field. The allCSFL linebacker is also a political science major with plans to attend law school when he graduates in the spring. With these lofty aspirations in mind, Karam is using the variety of resources available to him as a Penn sprint football player. “Every player on the sprint football team has a mentor who

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Senior linebacker Quinn Karam originally had to lose 32 pounds to make the weight limit to compete for Penn sprint football.

we stay in contact with through email that are all either in our major or have the same job interests,� Karam said.

Karam’s mentor is Adam Smiley (C’02), a three time allCSFL offensive lineman who now works as a Senior Attorney for Consolidated Edison after attending American University Washington College of Law. “He’s been helpful when it came to talking about how to apply for law school, and what to do with the LSAT’s,� Karam said.

On and off the field, Karam has taken advantage of the resources available to Penn sprint football players.

Even considering all he has

accomplished, Karam will take away much more from Penn sprint football than his individual accolades. “I could never give you [my favorite sprint football memory] from my own playbook because the moments we remember are the ones where we did it as a team,� Karma said. “All of my best friends that I have met, the kids that I know I’m going to be hanging out with the rest of my life, are all kids on my team,�

By his own admission, he is not one the biggest, fastest, or strongest guys on the team, but his infectious love for the game and his ability to be a leader will forever keep Karam in sprint football lore.

Women’s soccer’s defense surges team to success with Brown waiting Quakers concede less than one goal a game VINCENT LUGRINE Sports Reporter

For Penn women’s soccer, it’s all about defense.

The Quakers (5-6-3, 3-1-1 Ivy) have only allowed 10 goals thus far through 14 games this season. Throughout the season, the team’s focus has remained

on the defensive side of the ball, as coach Nicole Van Dyke and her staff have implemented a new system centered around defense.

The defensive players have an immense leadership role that echoes throughout the squad on and off the field. The more experienced players have worked alongside the younger players and have given the freshman a steady support system on which they can rely.

“One of the biggest things they have taught me is to just to play without thinking about any other pressures and to play for each other,� freshman Jadyn Wilensky said.

The youthful backline has been a stable presence throughout a season in which the offense has generally struggled. “We have such a young backline where we have just been able to develop with each other and also develop as a team,�

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DP SWAMIS | WEEK SEVEN Boo! As in, “Boo! Scared you!”

Because it’s Halloween, and SWAMIS are accordingly spooky. NOT a disgruntled “booooo” because Penn is winless in Ivy League play after allegedly winning two champion-

ships in a row... although that’s not exactly worth a “hurrah.”

I’m not disgruntled. Losing happens. But I wouldn’t call myself gruntled, either. And if Penn loses the Toilet Bowl this week, I’ll definitely be disgruntled.

That’s right, Saturday will bring the matchup we’ve all been waiting for, Penn vs.

Brown. A battle to avoid last place and the shame of a winless season.

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Even though each team has another game to play after this weekend, this showdown will decide the division. With the next-best divisional opponent, Chestnut Hill, sitting at 2-2, the winner of this game is guaranteed to have at least the best divisional record and the tiebreakers necessary to advance to the title game.

That game will almost certainly be a rematch with Army, who can capture the North Division title with a win over Cornell this weekend.

Penn’s title defense comes down to this game. If they can prove victorious, they will have a shot to repeat as champions for the first time in program history. But if they falter, the title quest will be over.

With that in mind, you can expect the Red and Blue to give it everything they’ve got.

the rest of the Red and Blue (2-4, 0-3 Ivy) know that, although a third consecutive championship may be out of reach, there is still plenty for which to play.

“We talk all the time about who we’re playing for and why we’re playing the game,”

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process. Our goal is to grow and learn every two weeks,” said the sixth year coach. “We increased in distance and intensity as the season went along… in the hopes that this sets us up for our best races now, in the championships season.”

Check.

The confidence?

Over the course of these competitions, the Quakers have crossed paths with a number of Ivy League rivals. The men have yet to finish below a fellow Ivy League team; the women have been edged out a few times, but most notably finished above defending Heps champions Harvard in Wisconsin.

Men’s senior cross country runner Chris Luciano pointed out that the meet at Wisconsin was likely the most important for both teams, preparing them for the big stage and tough competition.

“It really showed us how to race and how to handle the pressure of those big situations, but it also how to close a race properly,” the captain said. “Going from a meet with 200-plus people in it, down to a meet with about 90 for the Ivy League Championships — it’s a different feel, but if you can execute in those big, high-pressure meets, then a meet like the Ivy League Championships is a lot different.”

Abby Hong, senior captain for the women’s team, felt that the Paul Short Invitational showed the team what it was capable of.

“Paul Short was really a big meet for everyone. I think it was a step forward in everyone’s confidence,” she said. “I think pretty much everyone [had personal records] by at least 30 seconds or more against their time on the same course last year. That was really huge for everyone seeing that the training’s working and that everyone’s improving a lot over last year.”

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The hunger?

Chris will take this one.

“We’ve had this week circled on our calendar since we ran [in Heps] last year.”

Check, check and check.

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last. If you tie for first, it’s kind of debatable, so the Quakers have sort of fallen in a gray area the last couple years.

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Bokun said. “For us, we’re not necessarily playing only to win. We’re obviously playing to win, but that’s not the only reason we’re out here. There’s not really a chance for us to win the league this year, but we play for each other and for all the people in our lives that have made sacrifices for us.”

For Bokun and the rest of his fellow seniors, this is it.

This is the grand finale. After Brown (2-4, 0-3 Ivy), Penn has just three more games.

For almost every member of the senior class, these are the last times to strap on the pads and to buckle up the helmet.

So you can throw conference records and championship odds aside. There’s still work to be done for Bokun and company.

I’m not saying Penn is Reese’s Cups, but Brown is, like, raisins.

Prediction: Penn 35, Brown 7

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Because, for Bokun, this football team and this school deserve maximum effort.

“Penn has changed my life in a lot of different ways,” Bokun said. “The values that this program embodies have shaped my life and have shaped who I am as a person.

I knew that Penn was a really good football school and a really good academic school,

so I figured that it would be positive for my life, but I never could have imagined that it would change my life in so many different ways.”

So whether it’s blocking in the trenches or celebrating his own touchdowns in the end zone, you can be sure that Nicholas Bokun will come to Providence ready to play on Saturday.

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Sports journalism is prone to hyperbole.

Players, coaches, a single performance, and even whole teams are too often prematurely bestowed the title of the “greatest of all time.”

But, make no mistake: this Friday, at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, has

the potential to be the greatest, most successful day in the history of the University of Pennsylvania’s cross country program.

While the men’s team snapped their notorious 43-year championship drought last season, the women extended their own drought to 26 years. Judging by both of the team’s performances this season, the unprecedented — a season where both the men and women win Heps — is wholly plausible.

The team will need to carry its momentum, confidence and hunger to get this done.

The momentum?

In the first triad of local, lower-stakes meets

— the Blue/Gold Classic, the Main Line Invitational and the Paul Short Run — the Quakers utterly dominated. Then, earlier this month, the Red and Blue split up, with the top-seven from each side traveling to Wisconsin to compete against some of the finest teams in the nation, and the remaining Quakers going to Princeton to race against local foes.

Coach Steve Dolan carefully designed the season in this in order with the intent of getting the best performances when it matters most.

“We try to set the season up as a building

Since its season schedule came out several months ago, Penn sprint football has had this weekend circled.

Now, it’s here.

This Friday, the Quakers head to Annapolis, Md. to take on Navy in the de facto CSFL South Division championship game. The Red and Blue (4-1, 2-0 South) and the Midshipmen (5-1, 2-0) are the only teams that are mathematically still in the hunt for the division title and a chance to face Army in the CSFL title game.

In previous years, these two teams would be fighting for second place after they both lost to Army. But with the introduction of divisions and a championship game, this game takes on a whole new significance.

“It’s do-or-die. To get to the championship, we have to win this game,” sophomore quarterback Eddie Jenkins said.

Jenkins will be leading Penn’s productive offensive unit, which has averaged 38 points and over 400 yards per game, against the stout Navy defense. Led by defensive lineman Luke Coughlin and linebacker Sheppard Wilson, both of whom have been named CSFL Defensive Player of the Week this season, the Midshipmen’s defense is averaging 14.2 points against and under 200 yards allowed per game.

The other side of the ball has an equally enticing matchup. Penn’s defense has only given up more than 14 points once this season, but Navy’s offense is averaging 32.5 points per game.

Regardless of who has the ball, the matchup will be difficult for the Quakers.

“They’re always very tough,” Jenkins said. “They’re very smart, they study, they watch film, they know what we’re going to do. So it just comes down to us executing to the best of our ability, and being strong up front.”

But the Red and Blue have reason to be confident heading into the matchup. After their failed comeback against Army, the Quakers have posted two straight 40+ point performances, topping Cornell 45-14 and beating Post 42-7 this past weekend. The offense has been clicking on all cylinders, with seven rushing touchdowns in those games.

Moreover, Penn proved to be a much tougher opponent in its lone loss than Navy was. Both squads fell to Army, but the Quakers were able to hold the CSFL’s best offense to just 24 points. On the other hand, Navy surrendered 40 points while only putting up six points of their own.

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Nicholas Bokun talks rise from role-player to game-changer for football Senior enjoying form before Brown game BREVIN FLEISCHER Sports Editor

There are very few positions more thankless on a football team than that of the blocking tight end.

You know, that guy that that lines up next to your stud fantasy football receiver and enables him to score the touchdowns and show off his dance moves in the endzone.

Not Rob Gronkowski or Jimmy Graham. No, think more along the lines of Rhett Ellison or Tyler Kroft.

Never heard of them? Well, that’s the point.

Occupying this less-thanglamorous role for Penn football these last few years has been senior Nicholas Bokun.

Bokun, an Indiana native who has worked himself up from special teams contributor to starting tight end, has been sacrificing his body for years so that stars like senior wide receiver Justin Watson and senior running back Tre Solomon can grab the highlights.

“I take a lot of pride in just

doing what I’m asked to do,” Bokun said. “We’ve had a bunch of great skill players here these last few years, so my role has been blocking, and that’s something that I’ve embraced.”

Well, for Bokun and by extension, the entire Penn team, his commitment to his role has paid off. Not only has Bokun’s blocking opened holes for guys like Watson, but it’s also opened opportunities in the passing game for Bokun himself, and to his credit, he’s more than taken advantage.

Coming into this season with just five catches and 59 yards for his career, Bokun has exploded offensively in his final campaign, posting 14 catches and 204 yards already to go along with two touchdowns, making him the third-most productive receiver on the entire team.

When asked if this increase in targets has been a welcomed change, Bokun did not mince words.

“Absolutely! I love getting catches obviously, but I love blocking too,” Bokun said.

“You know, it’s fun whoever’s catching, whoever’s scoring touchdowns. It’s all fun. But,

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it’s definitely nice to be a part of it.”

Bokun isn’t the only one who’s enjoyed watching his fortunes rise. Star receiver Watson beamed when talking about his good friend catching passes and finding the end zone.

“Everytime he has a catch or scores a touchdown, I’m the first one down there jumping on top of him,” Watson said. “I love that, because with all the time he’s spent blocking for me on our screens, he’s done so much to help my career. Just to finally see him see some of that success on the receiving end is just awesome.”

According to Watson, the unbridled enthusiasm for Bokun’s rise to receiving prominence is a testament to all of the work that Bokun has put in and the type of attitude he brings to practice each day.

“We saw big steps all offseason with the way he’s worked, especially in the spring and in camp. You could see a difference in his speed, his route running, and the confidence in his hands.

“He just loves being here,” Watson continued. “Everyday, he’s probably the guy that brings the best energy. Day in

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As conference play heats up, the Quakers could use even more production out of their

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