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he Penn chapter of College Republicans has been unusually quiet in regards to Donald Trump, neither endorsing nor denouncing the 1968 Wharton graduate. That stance nearly changed this month, but a proposed disavowal of Trump fell through, according to interviews with group members. In the middle of October, the College Republicans executive board voted to formally condemn Trump, chapter vice president and Wharton senior Grayson Sessa said. But the decision was never carried out. The board had originally decided against making any formal statements on Trump after a poll conducted at the start of the school year found the club’s membership was split on the candidate, but the topic was reopened this month, following the release of the Access Hollywood tape where Trump brags about groping women. The board decided to write an op-ed that members could shop around to newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and New York Times, but the project eventually fell through, Sessa
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On Monday, Engineering graduate student Alfredo “Freddy” Abravanel died “unexpectedly,” according to an email sent to the engineering community Tuesday morning. Abravanel graduated with his bachelor’s degree in 2016 and had sub-matriculated into the Master’s program for mechanical engineering and applied mechanics. Due to his connection to both graduate and undergraduate communities, the University opted to send an email to the entire School of Engineering and Applied Science, notifying them of his death. The email, sent by SEAS Dean Vijay Kumar, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum, President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price, notified students of a support session to be held Tuesday starting at 2:30 p.m. in the MEAM Conference Room, Towne 227. Originally from Greece, Abravanel “was known as a careful and creative thinker who would always have a unique thought or perspective to share,” Kumar and MEAM Department chair Robert Carpick wrote in a separate email to the MEAM community. “He was enthusiastic about engineering and was eager to solve challenging problems. Freddy was a smart and curious student; often quiet in class, and inquisitive during office hours. He was regularly seen dashing happily between MEAM classes and projects and his economics classes. He will be remembered as a lighthearted student with an easy smile.” Abravanel had planned to graduate with his Master’s in May 2017. He was 22 years old.
Alleged Castle arsonist delays court date again REBECCA TAN Staff Reporter
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Lorenzo Bonfiglio’s pretrial hearing has been moved back three times
Slightly more than a year after his arrest, former College and Wharton student Lorenzo Bonfiglio has still not gone to trial for his alleged arson of the Psi Upsilon chapter house, also known as Castle. According to a document from the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, Bonfiglio attended his formal arraignment on June 24. His pretrial at the Criminal Justice Center was originally scheduled for July 14, but has since been pushed back three times and is currently scheduled for Nov. 29. When The Daily Pennsylvanian contacted Bonfiglio’s lawyer, Fortunato Perri, to ask why the pretrial was postponed, he replied in an email statement that he has “No comment on the matter at this time.” This is not the first time Bonfiglio has
said. “It was really a cost-benefit analysis,” said College Republicans Communications Director and College sophomore Ryan Snyder, who thought the benefits of a public denouncement at this point in time would be rather low. “That disavowal a month and a half ago would’ve had a lot stronger effect than a disavowal two weeks before the election.” In terms of potential costs, Snyder compared the club’s situation to that of Penn State University’s College Republicans chapter, which announced their decision not to endorse Trump back in August and faced subsequent pressure from the national committee for its board members to resign. Chapter President and College and Wharton senior Jennifer Knesbach opposed making a chapter-wide denouncement this year, on the grounds that the College Republicans serves as one of the only places for conservatives to voice their political beliefs on Penn’s predominantly liberal campus. “This election cycle has been really difficult on the Republican party and on Republican college students,” Knesbach said, “and that’s why as an organization we didn’t want to join the other majority of campus in condemning [Trump].” Following a push by the majority of board members,
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At 12:01 Tuesday morning, members of the Transit Workers Union — the largest union of SEPTA workers— began a strike after it was not able to reach a contract deal with SEPTA. In an email statement, the Transportation Workers Union Local 234 cited issues regarding safety and pension plans as reasons for the strike. The TWU also claimed that after receiving a transit aid package from the state of Pennsylvania in 2009, “SEPTA
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diverted funds to pay for a bloated management pension plan, with unfunded monthly increases averaging $500.” The TWU is demanding a “fair and well-funded pension plan” without any increase in state or local taxes. “Local 234’s bargaining team is prepared to meet round-the-clock,” the TWU’s statement said. “When SEPTA is ready to stop stalling and start talking, we’re confident we can reach a fair agreement.” The union rejected SEPTA’s first strike proposal on Tuesday. Jeff Kessler, SEPTA Youth Advisory Council executive chairman and SEE SEPTA PAGE 5
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Grammy nominee Sara Bareilles gives mini-concert The event was part of a Get Out The Vote series LUCY WANG Contributing Reporter
Grammy and Tony nominated singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles held a concert in the rooftop lounge of Harnwell College House Tuesday as part of the Get Out The Vote event series. Held a week before Election Day, the Clinton campaign’s GOTV Sara Bareilles event was an effort to galvanize millennials to vote. It was hosted by Penn Democrats and Penn for Hillary. “This week is about exciting people to get out, vote and volunteer this weekend. It’s crunch time,” College senior and CoPresident of Penn for Hillary Sam Iacobellis said. With Pennsylvania as a battleground state, the Clinton campaign has been focused on turning out the young vote. Sara Bareilles, along with Katy Perry and Bon Jovi, is one of the many artists endorsing
Hillary Clinton through free performances in Pennsylvania. Many students, such as Engineering junior Alison Weiss , heard about the event through the Facebook event page or word-of-mouth. “Sara Bareilles has been a huge activist supporter for Clinton. Within the last 48 hours and since posting the event, there’s been a really great response,” Iacobellis said. Before performing her hit single “Love Song,” Bareilles praised Clinton’s efforts toward unifying the fragmented political landscape. “Essentially what she is standing for, at this time when we are so incredibly divided, is this will and optimism towards bringing people together,” Bareilles said. Bareilles, who already voted in California, noted the importance of being politically active. “This has been a hard year to watch in the media, and it’s brought up a lot of ugly stuff,” she said. “But a great way to channel our energy is to
organize and get involved and see the issues as they are. To reach for this higher purpose of bringing ourselves back together.” Her message centered around the importance of inclusion. “We don’t have to be enemies,” she said. “This isn’t about hating Donald Trump and Trump supporters. This is about a country that needs to heal.” Ba reilles per for med the song “Brave,” for which she was nominated for the 2014 Grammy Best Pop Solo Performance. The song, Bareilles said, was inspired by a friend in the LGBT community. “I wrote this song to a dear friend of mine who was struggling with coming out. Brave is a song about being truthful and knowing that it’s safe to be exactly who you are. And right now, we need that in our culture and community,” she said. “I support inclusivity. And that’s another reason I’m voting for Hillary. She’s going to be the next president of the United States,” Bareilles said to the cheering crowd.
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delayed legal hearings. After his arrest on Oct. 29, 2015, Bonfiglio was scheduled to attend a preliminary hearing on Nov. 13, 2015, but pushed the appointment back six times to June 3, 2016. Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office spokesman Cameron Kline said he does not know the specific reason why Bonfiglio’s pretrial was pushed back. There is generally a range of reasons why pretrials can be postponed, including the need for more time to process evidence for the pretrial as well as scheduling conflicts between the parties involved, such as the defendant, the judge and the prosecutor. Bonfiglio, who was a student in the Huntsman Program
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in International Studies and Business and a member of the off-campus organization Owls when he was at Penn, faces 24 charges, including arson, criminal mischief and simple assault. After his pretrial, he will enter the proceedings for a guilty plea or opt for a trial. Bonfiglio was arrested in October last year after he allegedly set off a fire in a closet at the Psi Upsilon fraternity. A built-in sprinkler system extinguished the fire and no injuries were reported. After his arrest, the Provost’s Office placed Bonfiglio on leave from the University and barred him from entering campus. Bonfiglio is still listed as a member of the class of 2018 in QuakerNet, the Penn directory for alumni and some current students,
However, Vice President of University Communications Stephen MacCarthy said in an emailed statement on Monday that Bonfiglio is no longer enrolled at Penn. According to his LinkedIn page, Bonfiglio has been working as a business and marketing analyst at the company I-Comm Connect since April. When contacted by phone, a worker at the company said Bonfiglio was employed there but refused to give his own name. I-Comm Connect markets a product that allows companies to place a call button on its website for customers to contact employees directly. The employee at I-Comm Connect, to whomthe DP spoke over the phone, said the company is aware Bonfiglio was on a leave of absence from Penn and
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A different kind of Wharton competition: Hostile Takeover Organizers welcome students of all schools to play MARC MARGOLIS Contributing Reporter
In addition to polishing LinkedIn profiles and networking with elite businessmen and women, this month you can also find Wharton students throwing stress balls at each other and deflecting with paper plates as they engage in the annual “Wharton Hostile Takeover.” The event is put on by the Wharton Council each year in late October. It is a month-long liveaction game where participants are assigned targets — other students — whom they need to get “out” in three separate rounds by hitting them with a foam stress ball. Participants can only use the ball given out at the Wharton Hostile Takeover kickoff event to assassinate opponents, and players can only defend themselves by deflecting the balls off paper plates. The first two rounds are a week and a half with the third round condensed to only a week. Players get eliminated at the end of the first two rounds if they have either been assassinated or failed to assassinate their own target. Toward the end of the third round only a fraction of the players remain, and the stakes get
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Knesbach relented and let the members of the board who wanted to write up a denouncement, do so. College Republicans Executive Director and College senior Matt Shapiro was one of the board members excited to criticize Trump, but said enthusiasm quickly faltered among the potential writers. “I made a Google Doc, [and] sent it out to everyone, as I was requested,” Shapiro said. “The only person that ever said anything to me about following through with the statement was Grayson.” Shapiro blamed many factors for the failure of the denouncement to happen, primarily timing.
more intense. “We put them up in a boardroom in Pottruck, which is usually only five or six poeple,” Hostile Takeover organizer and Wharton junior Holly Li said. In the “Final Boardroom,” as it is called in the rule book, the remaining players, with weapons — balls provided by the Gamemaster — and bodyguards on hand, battle it out for Hostile Takeover supremacy. Li described it as “hunger gamesesque with only awards for the first, second and third place finishers.” This year, the event underwent a few key changes. The game as a whole is one week longer and three extra days were added to the first two rounds. According to Li, this change gives people “a longer chance of getting other people out.” She added, “This year, Wharton Council is cohosting the event with Wharton Cohorts. Cohorts is this big group in Wharton which is more influential with freshman, and by doing this together, we have ensured more Freshman are joining. Cohorts is keeping them pumped up throughout the game.” One player who no longer needs that motivation is Wharton freshman Elliot Bernstein, since he was eliminated this past Wednesday by another student who lives down the hall from
Other College Republican chapters at Harvard University and Penn State had already earned publicity for refusing to endorse Trump. Penn wouldn’t have received the same plaudits for joining the list and may have even been scolded for waiting as long as it did, Shapiro said. Additionally, Shapiro pointed to hesitance from some of the board’s members “whose jobs don’t like them speaking about politics,” as well as a wariness of “alienating other conservatives that do support Trump.” He also believed the statement condemning Trump would be signed on behalf of the group’s entire executive board, while Knesbach only thought the students who wrote the letter would be signing their names to it.
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In Wharton Hostile Takeover, a game similar to Assassins, students must hit their targets with special stress balls within a time limit. Dining halls are considered safe zones, among others.
him. “The girl came to my room and knocked on my door,” he said. “Initially I thought it was a friend so I jokingly yelled at her to get out. Turned out it was some neighbor who I never talk to so I said oh come in. Then she killed me! I didn’t last very long but I guess thats the competitiveness they’re talking about at Wharton?” Though Elliot has gained some insights on how to succeed in Wharton as a result of the game, many participants are actually
include classrooms when class is in session, silent study rooms, libraries, OCR interviews, the Hilton Inn at Penn and faculty offices, among a few other places. Some students find that keys to success, besides only showing your face in safe zones, include finding your target’s class schedule and hitting them at times when they are most vulnerable, such as walking to and from class. It is also advisable to ignore social judgement and carry around your shield — the paper plate — at all times.
Either way, Knesbach said the null result is at least reflective of the board’s divided views on the idea of disavowing Trump. “We decided as a board that if certain members of the executive board wanted to write a statement and publish it, they could’ve, [but] they never ended up doing that,” she said. “The topic was always pretty split and it remained that way even after the tape was released.” Shapiro, for one, wished the group had publicly criticized the candidate before the release of the Access Hollywood tape. “I do think it was late,” Shapiro said, “100 percent. But I still think we should have done it to correct the mistake that we had made by not making a statement earlier.”
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distracted from school work. “There are definitely a few individuals who stop going to class as much because you are safer in your own room,” Li said, even if Bernstein wasn’t so lucky. “Also, people have used Hostile Takeover as an excuse to not go to a class they didn’t want to go to anyway. Many people have friends go out and grab food for them instead of risking the walk to a dining hall.” Dining halls are safe zones, but the journey to the dining hall remains perilous. Other safe zones
With a game that seems simple in concept and execution, there is still a lot of work that goes into getting the game ready. Li said she started working with her fellow club members and cohorts “by the second week of classes”. The game started on Oct. 23, so many weeks of effort went into it. The Hostile Takeover organizers write a thorough two-page rule book, which attempts to account for any potential conflicts that arise during the game. They also organize dates, start times and the official kick-off event. Furthermore, for future years, the Wharton Cohorts are trying to expand and improve the game for next year. A common misconception is that only Wharton students can participate — but students from across graduate and undergraduate schools, and even professors, are welcome to participate. Li said one way the organizers plan on expanding past Wharton is to do more advertising on Locust Walk as well as in Jon M. Huntsman Hall. The Final Boardroom will take place on Nov. 18. In addition to the awards for the main winners, other players will receive prizes for fastest kill, most elaborate plot, best haiku and funniest photo at the at the gamemaster’s discretion.
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OPINION It starts with the self CHANCES ARE | The importance of taking care of ourselves
WEDNESDAY NOVERMER 2, 2016 VOL. CXXXII, NO. 98 132nd Year of Publication COLIN HENDERSON President LAUREN FEINER Editor-in-Chief ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects ISABEL KIM Opinion Editor JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor DAN SPINELLI City News Editor CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor SUNNY CHEN Copy Editor NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor TOM NOWLAN Sports Editor
Last week, I caught the most unrelenting illness known to man: the common cold. That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, sanitize your beds and cover your mouths, because the respiratory syncytial virus is back in town and he’s not sparing anyone. As I lay in bed cancelling meetings and asking for extensions in classes, I felt a heavy sense of guilt and fear. Though I could hardly breathe for coughing so hard, all I worried about was whether I would fall behind in schoolwork. Moreover, I felt irresponsible. Was I really sick enough to warrant skipping class? I have a tendency to downplay my problems, as I think many Penn students do, because I don’t value myself enough to consider them legitimate. I can still move (slowly so my head doesn’t throb) and I can breathe (raggedly through my booger-filled nostrils), so I must be well enough to
do work. On top of cancelling my classes, I had to cancel on friends. To text after text of people asking me, “Hey, are we still meeting for coffee?” I had to respond, “No, I’m sorry, I’m not feeling well.” One of my close friends called, and though I heard the phone ring, I didn’t pick it up. I felt overwhelmingly ashamed, because he always picks up when I call, at whatever hour of the day. Here I was, actively ignoring him. I know we’ll talk for hours if I pick up, I said to myself. I have to go to bed soon. I have to think about myself first, just this one time, right? Growing up, we are constantly taught the importance of hard work and social duty. Always do your best. Always push yourself as hard as you can. Keep the promises you make. These lessons are necessary for a society to function. But what about the duty we have to ourselves?
This may seem like a really easy question, but it is one I find myself asking all the time here at Penn. Once, I was sitting in French class, exhausted from having had only four hours of sleep. I am the type of person who needs a good eight
say to that? I didn’t realize that abusing our bodies was another competition to be won. If so, I think I’ll be happy to lose. At Penn, there is a stigma around taking care of ourselves. It’s as if we are in ancient Sparta and respect-
At Penn, there is a stigma with taking care of ourselves.” hours to function, and I will not compromise it for any frivolity. My friend next to me asked me if I was okay, and I responded, “Yeah, just exhausted.” He went, “How long did you sleep?” And I said, “Oh, about four hours.” He replied, “Ha, that’s nothing. I sleep that much every night.” What was I supposed to
ing our limits means that we are too weak to survive. Not everyone has the same endurance. Some people can thrive on four hours of sleep, others need eight and there is nothing better or worse about either group. If anything, I think it takes great courage to admit when you need help. Maturity is the recognition of our strengths and our
weaknesses and the knowledge of how to compromise between the two. Nor do I think that we should limit self-care to just physical health. I think we should take care of ourselves in all aspects — emotional, mental, social. When we find ourselves in a situation that is dangerous or uncomfortable to us, we should never have any fear of saying “No.” I have ended up in many emotionally harmful situations because I was too afraid to decline the other person. I worried what they would call me. What I should have done was put myself first, regardless of what they thought of me. It is okay to be selfish sometimes. As long as you have judged, as best you can, that it is crucial for your wellbeing. My friend once told me that I didn’t know how to take care of other people because I didn’t know how to take care of myself. Nowadays,
AMY CHAN I’m starting to see more and more of what he meant. It’s hard to try to offer someone else something when you have nothing of your own to give. Everything starts with the self. So if you need to take the day off from some of your classes today, tell your professor I gave my blessing. AMY CHAN is a College junior from Augusta, Ga., studying English and classics. Her email address is chanamy@ sas.upenn.edu. “Chances Are” usually appear s ever y other Wednesday.
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Knowing and reckless falsehoods FAIR ENOUGH | In politics, the truth matters for everyone It’s got every element of the perfect 21st-century pop morality fable: a sympathetic band of marginalized heros; a sinister coalition of law enforcement and Big Oil colluding to oppress them; elements of racial and environmental activism topped off with a secret code that you — yes, you! — can use to confuse, confound and defeat the Powers That Be. It’s the classic tale of David and Goliath perfectly recast to align with the millennial-progressive gestalt. The viral Facebook post that appeared on every Facebook-using undergrad in America’s newsfeed beginning Monday afternoon implores us all to take action. Just by using Facebook’s “check-in” feature to claim presence at a remote campsite in North Dakota, we can shield a group of Standing Rock Sioux protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline from the local police’s efforts to “target” them via social media. Except it’s bogus. Not true. Purely fantastic. The Morton County Sheriff’s Department isn’t using check-ins to track protesters and the Sioux
aren’t asking for help to defeat them. Within a few hours of the original posts, the mythbusting website Snopes had contacted both the protesters and the police department, who claimed no knowledge of the post’s origins and denied using check-ins to monitor protesters, respectively. Their article was the first hit on Google for the search term “Standing Rock” shortly thereafter. But that doesn’t seem to be stopping many people — at least among my Facebook friends — from posting the message. As of the time of writing, the debunking claims and the bunk itself are showing up on Facebook in what seems, unscientifically, to be about a 1:4 ratio. There are enough debunks floating around that the falsehood of the claim is eminently knowable; yet enough “Standing Rock” posts to suggest that many just don’t care. At the very least, many aren’t trying to verify before posting. Whatever one’s views on the pipeline, Native American land rights, environmentalism, et cetera, the post’s resilience among our peers
suggests a casual relationship between truth and politics in the minds of highly educated young people that ought to be concerning. Within a group that has been quick to condemn, say, Donald Trump’s fast-and-loose relationship
fortably affirming falsehoods might be. Sure, the consequences of posting a fabulist meme about an oil pipeline aren’t of the same order of magnitude as those of inventing nonexistent surge in illegal immigration, but they
By perpetuating a selfgratifying untruth, we become complicit in the elevation of what feels good to what is actually correct.” with the facts, the willingness to throw caution to the wind when a political meme props up its own preferred narrative is disheartening at least. When the crime wave of civic vandalism that has been this election cycle is over, we’re going to have to put some elbow grease into buffing up a few old commitments if we ever want to escape this awful Twilight Zone. One of them is our resolution that the truth in politics matters, no matter how appealing com-
nevertheless corrode the already-distressed cable which anchors ideology to reality. By perpetuating a self-gratifying untruth, we become complicit in the elevation of what feels good to what is actually correct. Even if you believe that “showing solidarity” is, independent of any other action, a moral good, doing so with a falsehood unnecessarily subordinates truth to politics and licenses others — including your opponents — to do the same.
We’ve seen the nastiness and stagnation this cavalierness leads to firsthand. This political season, I couldn’t help but notice the weaponization of fact-checking. It was certainly necessary in many cases, but it worries me for the same reasons as the willingness to repost an obvious myth. Nobody uses weapons on themself, and for good reason. But the truth is something we shouldn’t hesitate to hold ourselves accountable to as a matter of habit. Because we live in a society in which we get to directly influence the wielding of political power, fact-checking can’t become something we do only to damage our enemies. It’s each of our civic duties to revere and uphold the truth in our own politics as well. So even if some copy an pasted without knowledge of the message’s untruth, that’s hardly better. If we wouldn’t excuse a Trump supporter for repeating a false claim about an imaginary crime wave, we shouldn’t excuse ourselves for repeating lies that “feel true” to us. Police surveillance, land
ALEC WARD management, environmental policy and Native American rights are all legitimate arenas of political discussion. What happens in each of them is of serious consequence. But we can’t know what’s just with regard to any of these issues if we prioritize what “feels true” over what is true. Doing so does not come naturally; it is an ability that depends on the continued existence not just of the search bar, but of our care to use it, come what may. ALEC WARD is a College senior from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is alecward@ sas.upenn.edu. Follow him on Twitter @TalkBackWard. “Fair Enoug h,” u suall y appears every Wednesday.
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DPS hires new police officers Hires went through a rigorous interview process CARL-EMMANUEL FULGHIERI Staff Reporter
The Division of Public Safety, which is currently on a search to hire two more Penn Police officers, spoke with The Daily Pennsylvanian this week about the qualities the office looks for when hiring. Due to the sensitive nature of police work and the particularities of policing in an urban university system, DPS goes to lengths to ensure the quality of applicants in order to develop a diverse workforce, in compliance with the Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity. “We strive to hire diverse candidates to reflect the diversity of our community,” said Vice President for Public Safety Maureen
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Rush, who has a large role in the selection of new hires. DPS pays careful attention to the character and history of job applicants before hiring them, and even after being hired, new enlists must go through a lengthy orientation program. After looking at police academies and other departments in southeast Pennsylvania for new recruits and prospective veteran officers, potential new hires face three rounds of interviewing. They are first given a few questions, which are for the first time being asked over video interview platform Spark Hire. Next, they speak with a community hiring board, consisting of a Penn Police representative and one to two Penn associates from resource centers such as the AfricanAmerican Resource Center and LGBT Center. Those who are approved then go through a final
vetting by Rush and one of her deputies. Answering questions about the hiring process, Rush emphasized the importance of rigorous hiring scrutiny. “They’re entrusted with power and a weapon, so we want to make sure we get it right,” she said. During this process, applicants’ backgrounds are thoroughly investigated through financial background checks and interviews with their peers and past employers. After hiring, DPS then goes to efforts to prepare officers for the specific policing needs of a college campus and interacting with the institutions and members of the university. They go through a “stringent Field Training Officer program” akin to a New Student Orientation that lasts several weeks. New officers
are introduced to the various resource centers at Penn, the culture of DPS and paired with a hand-picked veteran Penn Police officer to mentor them. “We Penn-ize them,” Rush said. “They meet with me and my commanders and talk about the philosophy of policing at Penn. They understand they are not only hired as Penn Police but as members of the DPS team and Penn team.” Rush made a point of the importance of the orientation program for preparing officers to deal with the subtlety of interacting with students. “The individual needs to be chameleon-like in that they need to be handling a hospital case for a student one minute and might be responding to a crime in progress five minutes later,” she said. “We turn people away when we think they can’t make that transition.”
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Annenberg study critiques reach of Papal encyclical Climate change message fails to convince some Lauren Sorantino Staff Reporter
Pope Francis’ plea for climate change action backfired among conservative Catholics, according to an Oct. 24 study published by the Annenberg Public Policy Center. The study sought to investigate whether a religious authority could influence public opinion on such a politically polarized topic. The researchers analyzed the perception of Francis’s 2015 encyclical “Laudato si,” which casts the need to
address climate change as a moral imperative. According to the study, an increase in politically polarized views on climate change correlates with an awareness of the Pope’s encyclical. Conservative Catholics aware of the encyclical devalued the Pope’s credibility on climate change because they felt “crosspressured by the inconsistency between the pontiff’s views and those of their political allies,” the study said. These encyclical-aware conservatives felt less concerned about climate change than conservatives who weren’t aware of it. On the left, those who were more aware of the encyclical expressed
more concerns about climate change than those who were not aware. The study also found, more generally, that “Laudato si” did not raise broad public concern about climate change. Though Catholics attributed higher credibility to the Pope on climate change than nonCatholics, awareness of “Laudato si” was not associated with an increase in public concern over climate change. The study’s primary author, Texas Tech University professor Nan Li, who researched the study as a postdoctoral fellow at The Annenberg Public Policy Center last year, said in an interview about
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A giant beach ball covered in declarations ranging from expletives to “Black Lives Matter” to “Support Trump,” sat in front of Van Pelt Library Tuesday afternoon. The ball was part of a free speech demonstration held by The Statesman, Penn’s “alternative media publication.” Passers-by were encouraged to write anything they wanted on the ball as a way of supporting free speech on campus. The event garnered hundreds of participants. College junior and Statesman Editor-in-Chief Maria Biery said the event was organized to address Penn’s free speech culture, especially in light of recent backlash on
a Facebook post made by Wharton sophomore Eric Hoover. In the post, Hoover sought to identity students who may be interested in joining a pro-life group and received heated backlash from other students. “I do think there should be a shift in the culture that surrounds our free speech,” Biery said. “I think we still do a pretty good job of hearing everyone’s opinions, but I think we need to be a bit more open.” The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education gave Penn a “green light” speech code rating — meaning its policies are highly protective of free speech rights — making it the only Ivy League school to achieve such a rating. Penn received a “yellow light” rating regarding free speech in its sexual harassment policy, however. The large beach ball attracted the attention of many students walking through College Green, including
College junior Michael Katzovitz. Katzovitz said she was unaware of Penn’s free speech policies. “I’m definitely not pro-censoring,” she said, signing the ball. In addition to anti-censorship messages, the ball also attracted a colorful collection of political messages, profanity and silliness. The Statesman has also endorsed free speech in other ways. In an opinion article published by The Statesman Tuesday, Biery thanked The Daily Pennsylvanian opinion writer Alessandro van den Brink for a piece he wrote for helping to foster a dialogue on campus, despite disagreeing with his position. Suzanne Cruz, Pennsylvania field representative for the Leadership Institute, a partner to The Statesman, expressed a similar opinion. “When you hear both sides, that’s an education. When you hear one side, that’s indoctrination,” she said.
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did it by how many depths of levels there were to win the game and strategies involved,” Carr recalled. “I couldn’t believe it.” Carr uses the game as a startof-practice warmup. The team usually begins with a cardio activity and a dynamic activity, the latter of which includes dirtyball and other grade-school improvisations such as tag-based games. “I found out that people actually sprint harder when they don’t realize they’re doing sprints,” Carr laughed as she explained the dynamic exercises. Of course, while the point of the game is to help the players loosen up, the coach doesn’t want her team to get TOO into the game. “I think I’ve had more injuries in these games than in actual volleyball, because the girls will do all sorts of different things [to win].” Junior outside hitter Hayley Molnar, whom Carr referred to as the most competitive Dirtyball player on the squad, admits to
being open-minded when it comes to tactics for pursuing the victory. “Sometimes we’re stealing or [hoarding] volleyballs, which, well, we don’t know if we’re really allowed to do that,” Molnar said. “That’s usually when you’re losing, you get really competitive.” “When your team loses, you’re like, ‘that can’t happen again,’” junior libero Emmy Friedler said. “So maybe I’m more on the losing side,” Molnar laughed, remembering Carr’s remark about her competitiveness. Sophomore outside hitter Courtney Quinn views the game as an added chance to bond with the entire team. “In practice we usually start off in position groups, so it’s fun to do stuff with everyone else beforehand,” she said. But, as the players noted, new position groups are often formed when the game begins. “Our liberos are all really good at getting people out because they’re pretty low to the ground, so they can just throw at people,” junior captain Sydney Morton
said. “And then tall people like our outside hitters and middles are good with the dirtyball because they just jump over and throw it over the net. So we kind of have positions for people within the game.” The origins of the game are unclear, even to Carr. But her alumni, both recent and long-since-departed, remember the game fondly. “It was definitely the team’s favorite thing to do my freshman year,” 2016 graduate and former captain Alexis Genske said. “It was a special treat, when Kerry was in a good mood,” laughed 2004 graduate and former Ivy League Player of the Year Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan. One mystery the Daily Pennsylvanian did manage to solve was the origin of the game’s name. “We only had white volleyballs back 20 years ago, there were no color-volleyballs,” Carr recalled. “We’d put out all the pristine, nice white volleyballs out as the dodgeballs. And we would find the dirtiest ball in the whole bin, and that would be the dirtyball.”
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As Friedrich Nietzsche so eloquently said, “that which does not kill us, makes us stronger.” Among the multitude of philosophical quotes that have been and could be applied to this remarkable undefeated Penn sprint football season, this one stands out for its relevance to one of the team’s most important players: senior nose tackle Arthur D’Angelo. Entering his junior season, D’Angelo had high hopes for both individual and team success, but a serious knee injury on opening day ended his season and clouded his future as a football player. “At first, I was really worried that that was the end of my football career,” D’Angelo said. Determined not to allow his darkest fears to become reality, D’Angelo immediately started the rehabilitation process and attacked each day with vigor,
understanding that his ability to return to the field was dependent on his hard work. “He worked hard in the off season to get himself back to where he’s able to really perform. I knew he would work his butt off, and he did,” Coach Bill Wagner said. Additionally, D’Angelo understood that the 2016 team could potentially go down in Penn sprint football lore, but it was obvious that for the team to do so, he would have to play a crucial role. “He’s had some great games for us. He’s a very good nose guard with great technique,” Coach Wagner said. “He puts a lot of pressure on the center of the opposing line. He’s a great player. He really is.” However, D’Angelo’s on-field abilities and accomplishments do not adequately represent his importance to the team. According to star senior quarterback Mike McCurdy, D’Angelo’s leadership and energy are just as crucial as his form and quickness. “He sets the tone from an emotional standpoint, and we all go
the way he goes emotionally,” McCurdy said. “He’s a leader. He’s that type of guy who will come back and fight hard for his team, his family.” That leadership and ability to fight have served D’Angelo well on the field this year, as he has become the anchor of a defense that has allowed more than 20 points just once this entire season. In fact, his level of play in 2016 has been has been so impressive that it is impossible to tell that he was ever injured. “He hasn’t skipped a beat. He really hasn’t,” Coach Wagner said. If anything, the injury has had a positive impact on D’Angelo’s game. It has helped him significantly with the mental aspects of football, bestowing upon him a new appreciation for the sport itself. “The biggest change in my mindset is that now, when I go out there, I realize that each play could be my last as a football player,” D’Angelo said. “So it definitely has made me focus on each play, making sure that I go
hard every single play.” D’Angelo’s last plays as a Quaker will come this Saturday as Penn looks to close out an undefeated championship season at
Post. His long, strenuous battle back into form will have its merits tested this weekend, the last time he will ever don the Red and Blue. All of his hard work
can culminate this Saturday with a prize worthy of his epic journey. Luckily for the Quakers, the stakes do not worry D’Angelo. He’s been through worse.
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An injury in the season opener ended Arthur D’Angelo’s junior season in 2015. This year, the nose tackle is back anchoring the Penn defense; coach Bill Wagner has taken note of his leadership role and technical skill.
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The winter sports season is right around the corner. In anticipation, our editors debated: Which team are you most excited to see play?
hyper-athletic senior veteran Matt Howard. After no player averaged more than 12.7 points per game a year ago, look for the team to once again spread the wealth on offense. The possible midseason return of Woods in January also remains a wild card. And that’s just the stuff on the court. Can you deny the inherent excitement that comes from men’s games at the Palestra? Win or lose, the energy of the crowd during a Big 5 or conference matchup is something that you can’t find anywhere else in Penn Athletics.
Sports Editor Tom Nowlan: For me, the answer has got to be men’s hoops. A year ago, Steve Donahue’s first season as coach saw the Red and Blue overcome the loss of two star players: Tony Hicks sat out his final season of eligibility in order to use it at Louisville while Antonio Woods was ruled academically ineligible in January. Still, the team’s system of dribble-drives and three-point shots was able to guide the squad to a 5th-place Ivy finish, an improvement over their tied-for-last showing in Jerome Allen’s final season. This year, the team will feature a bevy of new faces: Freshman AJ Brodeur figures to be the team’s primary option down low while junior transfers Caleb Wood and Matt MacDonald will likely get significant minutes at guard. These newcomers will join an established crew that includes sharpshooters Jackson Donahue and Sam Jones, starting point guard Jake Silpe, and
played all of her matches at the No. 1 spot last campaign, and her cannon of a shot has showed no sign of abating in her sophomore season. This year will also feature the return of junior Melissa Alves, who played four games at the No. 2 spot before a seasonending injury. With a star studded cast, a sinister arch-nemesis and the potential for a magical ending, how could you not be looking forward to return of squash season?
Associate Sports Editor Andrew Zheng: I to hate hop on the bandwagon, but there’s no season quite like squash season. I mean, it’s hard to believe that the most exciting team isn’t going to be the same one as the team most likely to win a national championship. For Penn, that undeniably means women’s squash. When the dust settled at the end of February, the Quakers had firmly staked their claim to being one of the best teams in the country. The Red and Blue erased any doubt that they were a league above the rest with a second place finish
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Squash sophomore Reeham Salah will be the top talent for the women’s team, Andrew Zheng’s pick for most exciting winter squad.
at the CSA Team National Championships. But don’t expect those runners-up medals to bring up too many good memories for the Quakers, who were a match away from topping Harvard for the national title. Last season was essentially a two-team show between the Quakers and the Crimson. Penn’s 14-2 record is littered with an absurd amount of 9-0 shutouts, even over
teams that were also ranked in the top ten. The Red and Blue’s only losses came at the hands of their Cambridge rivals, which means they will definitely be going into this new campaign with a chip on their shoulders. If anything, that makes them more exciting. As for players, how could you not be excited about somebody like Reeham Salah? Known around the league as “The Hammer,� Salah
Sports Editor Tommy Rothman: I’m most excited for Penn women’s basketball. It’s an easy choice, and here’s why: Last year, the Quakers won the Ivy title, earned a trip to the NCAA Tournament, and traveled to Maryland to face Washington. I, and a few others in the department, made the trip as well. The game was an absolute battle. The Red and Blue led in the final seconds of the 3rd quarter and it was a one-possession game going into the fourth. The Huskies didn’t pull away until the very end of the game. What’s so exciting about that? Would winning ONE game in March Madness have been much
different than winning zero? Yes, for two reasons. First of all, Penn has never won an NCAA Tournament game. A win there would have been its first. And more importantly, it very well may not have been the last. After squeezing past the Quakers, Washington embarked on a magical run through the tournament, making it all the way to the Final Four. Forward Chantel Osahor became an internet sensation with her no-jump jump shots, and Kelsey Plum dominated enough to become a prospective top-three pick in the WNBA draft. Could that have been Penn? Based on the Washington game, maybe it could have been. Maybe Sydney Stipanovich and Michelle Nwokedi would have become overnight NCAA sensations. But instead, they’ll have to settle for being the best two players in the Ivy League, on a team unanimously considered the favorite to win the Ancient Eight according to the Ivy League preseason media poll. Then, they’ll be back in the tournament. And then, we’ll see if the Quakers can work some real magic.
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Athletics requires mental as well as physical fitness LAINE HIGGINS
I set out to write this column about nutrition. As you’ll soon read, that’s not what happened. The idea came to me last Monday after morning practice when coach Mike Schnur gathered the men’s and women’s swim teams for a meeting. He stressed the importance of health outside of the pool by telling an anecdote about Melvin Stewart, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and world recorder-holder in the 200 -meter butterf ly before a gentleman named Phelps came along. Back in the early 1990’s, Stewart was on top of the swimming world. However, he didn’t start smashing world records until he gave up alcohol and made a more concerted effort to focus on nutrition.
“Now that would be a great idea for a column,” I thought. I could explain the resources available to Penn athletes — like the advice of full-time nutritionist Jill Joseph or the in-depth internal body composition data provided by the BodPod — and encourage my peers to use them to their advantage. Penn student-athletes are lucky to go to a school that has prioritized investment in cutting edge sports performance technology. Failing to incorporate these resources into training regimens struck me as a wasted opportunity. Joseph explained that most athletes wander into her office hidden above Franklin Field’s athletic training room with questions about fueling. “It’s usually I’m having trouble at practice, I don’t feel like I have any power, endurance – depending on the sport,” she said. “It could be I’m cramping, just feeling like they’re not getting what they can in that
practice.” The most difficult aspect of fueling is the timing. For many sports, consuming calories the recommended 45 minutes to an hour before practice commence is hard to fathom for 6 a.m. workouts. Trust me, rolling out of bed at 5:45 a.m. just to eat a protein bar before practice is not quite fun. For other sports, the main concern is recovery. When evening weight-lifting sessions are followed by morning practices the next day, student-athletes’ bodies are left with little time to recover between training periods. With most teams receiving just one day of rest per week, fueling and refueling to maximize athletic performance becomes a 24/7 ordeal. Yet when Joseph was discussing navigating the dining halls creatively, I couldn’t help but think about the other ways in which we fuel our athletic performance. Obviously there are good habits like getting
enough sleep, eating healthy and managing injuries that contribute to our physical wellness. But what about our mental wellness? With so many good habits to maintain to fuel our bodies, minds and souls, and a finite number of hours in each day, certain things are bound to fall by the wayside. Too often the first to go are the things that make us mentally well. In the two-week interim since my last column, I watched as the stress of midterms, impending schoolwork and oncampus recruiting ate away at my teammates. I barely slept for two nights, kept up by worried thoughts about the girls training in the lanes next to me. We were all sore and broken down physically, but we were broken down mentally, too. Although it is often shrouded in stigma, maintaining mental health is just as important as maintaining physical health in athletics. According to a
research sponsored by the NCAA’s Mind, Body and Sport initiative, “as with physical injuries, mental health problems may, by their severity, affect athletic performance and limit or even preclude training and competition until successfully managed and treated.” T he t r ick y th ing about mental wellness, however, is that there is no clear way to “refuel.” For some people it is taking a day off of practice to catch up on homework or getting dinner with a teammate to destress. For others, it is going to Counseling and Psychological Services. It’s not as simple as just eating a granola bar. This is not to say that nutrition is not important. Clearly that is not the case, because success stories like Melvin Stewart’s are so common in the sporting world that they’ve become clichéd. Wouldn’t it be reassuring, though, if success stories of athletes who made conscious efforts to be mentally
well were just as common? I still believe that Penn student-athletes should take advantage of the resources at their disposal to be physically well and highly encourage them to make an appointment with Joseph. But I also believe that Penn student-athletes need to find a way to be accountable to their mental health too. They should use the resources this campus has to offer, whether it is through the Provost, peer counseling services like Penn Benjamins, the wellness checkup survey on CAPS’s website or just conversations with teammates asking if they are doing okay. After all, a body in peak physical shape is worthless if the mind behind the muscles is not equally strong. LAINE HIGGINS is a College senior from Wayzata, Minn., and is a senior sports reporter at The Daily Pennsylvanian. She can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.
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didn’t think there were many more ways Penn could work to stifle any hope of creating a sports culture at this University. Yet, somehow, they’ve found another. As if it isn’t difficult enough to get the student body invested in Penn Athletics, it has been deemed necessary to clamp down on student drinking at this weekend’s Penn-Princeton football game.
Students having a good time at a football game? The horror. This was not a decision borne out of some particular, devastating event — it’s baseless nanny state overreach. The real tragedy is suffered by the football players, who lose out on the one road game where they can expect an actual fan presence. In my three-plus years here, there’s been next to nothing the Penn administration has done that I felt had an actual, positive impact on the student body. But at least they left sports alone. The culture around athletics may not be what I want out of it, but at least there was the freedom to make out of it what I could.
This decision comes on the heels of the first of four fan fests to be held before football and basketball games this year. Finally, Penn was paying lip service to athletics. But even then, there was the explicit command that the presence of alcohol at the event never once be mentioned in promotional material. Heaven forbid. Could you imagine, college students drinking at a tailgate before a football game? What’s going to happen next? An actual student section during the game? That would be crazy. This whole thing would be laughable if it weren’t just sad. It’s really necessary to send alcohol monitors on the road to
prevent Penn students from doing anything that might be deemed inappropriate. But hey, it worked. The University got what it wanted. There won’t be any debauchery at all before this game — they got everyone to simply decide not to go. Good for them. At least the only side effects of this decision are going to be the continued push toward offcampus events and organizations, the undermining of the work Penn Athletics has done to integrate sports and the rest of the Penn experience, the forestalling of any student presence at the game and the perpetuation of the idea that any attempts to have fun have to
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Penn volleyball coach Kerry Carr has been coaching the Red and Blue for longer than some of her current players have been alive. Few things have been a part of the program longer than she has. But “Dirtyball” is an exception. What IS Dirtyball? “It’s basically like a very complex — I would call it an Ivy League version of dodgeball,” Carr said. In Dirtyball, the team splits into two groups and each takes one side of the net. People must throw the ball, under the net, and hit opposing players to get them “out.” Once a player is out, they go to the baseline, and their teammates
Penn football will travel to Princeton for a pivotal Ivy matchup Saturday. In advance of the game, we sat down with Tiger junior quarterback John Lovett, the reigning Ivy Offensive Player of the Week after accounting for seven total touchdowns Saturday at Cornell. Daily Pennsylvanian: You weren’t able to go last year versus Penn, but what were the emotions like coming out of the loss? What are the adjustments you must make as a team to be more successful this year? John Lovett: Watching from the sidelines was definitely hard to do last year. I wish I could have been out there playing with
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wild than Ohio State-Michigan. At the end of the day, I’m just glad that the Penn administration is here to protect me from myself. I was briefly worried I might accidentally try to have fun this weekend. That said, I’m still going to Penn-Princeton. I’m going to see the Quakers win their 11th straight Ivy game. And I’m going to have a helluva good time doing it. You should, too. NICK BUCHTA is a College senior from Olmsted Falls, Ohio, and is senior sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at buchta@thedp.com.
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must throw smaller balls across the court for them to catch in order to be back “in.” If you get the entire opposing team out, your team wins. Sounds an awful lot like dodgeball, right? But the balls being thrown under a net isn’t the only twist. The “dirtyball,” a designated ball that looks different from
be made in secret. I grew up in Ohio, where football is king and sports are a part of the cultural fabric. I’ve been to games across the Big Ten — Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Wisconsin — and strangely, I’ve seen people combine alcohol, sports and fun without Dante’s Inferno opening up around them. It’s remarkable. Both Penn and Princeton have been involved in this decisionmaking process, and apparently Penn students just go too hard to be able to handle themselves in a situation like this. Definitely. Having experienced both, there’s no doubt in my mind that PennPrinceton is exponentially more
the volleyballs-turned-dodgeballs, can be thrown over the net by a player, and for each time it bounces on the opposing side, the throwing team gets one point. Score fifteen points, and your team wins. “I was shocked when we first SEE DIRTYBALL PAGE 8
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my teammates. We are focused on having a great week of practice this week to make sure we have a better taste in our mouths after the final whistle this Saturday. DP: What clicked for you Saturday? How do you feel about how your offense is rolling right now? JL: We finally played a complete game of football in all three facets — offense, defense and special teams. It was a great feeling to do that. The success of our offense starts up front. The offensive line has done a fantastic job opening up holes in the run game and protecting the pocket in the pass game. DP: Take me through how you and Chad Kanoff have been splitting snaps so far this year; how is your offensive scheme geared to maximize each of your talents? JL: Coach Perry preaches
that the best 11 guys are going to play. Whether that mean two or three quarterbacks are on the field, or 5 receivers, the best 11 will play. He does a great job putting us all in a position to succeed. DP: Penn hasn’t given up a touchdown in each of their last three first halves; how do you plan to expose their vulnerabilities early? What do you see as those weaknesses being? JL: We are going to focus on what we can control, which is executing our offense to the best of our ability. We look to play every snap fast and physical. DP: You and Justin Watson seem to be two early favorites for Ivy Offensive Player of the Year; do you feel any sort of personal rivalry with him? JL: Justin is a great wide receiver. He must be fun to throw SEE LOVETT PAGE 8 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640