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College and Wharton sophomore Lorenzo Bonfiglio, the student arrested last week for allegedly committing arson at the Psi Upsilon fraternity house, also known as Castle, is being charged with 24 criminal counts by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Nineteen of the counts are for recklessly endangering another person, and the remainder are for simple assault, possible instrument of crime with intent, criminal mischief, causing catastrophe and arson — danger of death or bodily injury, according to court documents.

According to United States common law codes, arson is generally defined as “the malicious burning or exploding of the dwelling house of another, or the burning of a building within the curtilage, the immediate surrounding space, of the dwelling of another.”

Bonfiglio was arrested on Oct. 29 by Penn Police, according to the Division of Public Safety. He was arraigned the same day and bail was set at $100,000. Bonfiglio posted 10 percent of the bail that same day and was then released, according to the court docket.

Bonfiglio has been placed on a leave of

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or most students, midterm season is stressful enough as is.

Religious Jewish and Muslim students, however, face an additional stress factor on an annual basis with the possibility of midterms being scheduled on the same day as a religious holiday.

A number of observant Jewish students faced a dilemma this semester when midterm schedules

overlapped with the holidays of Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, which took place late September and early October. According to Hillel Director Rabbi Mike Uram, more exams were scheduled on the holidays this year than had been in previous years.

Uram said he heard of a few professors who were unwilling to fairly accommodate students who wished to move their midterms to observe the holidays.

“of importance to some individuals and groups,” as outlined on the site, such as Sukkot, the last two days of Passover, Shavuot, Shemini Atzerat, Simchat Torah, Chinese New Year, the Muslim New Year, Diwali and the Islamic holidays Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. Students who plan on observing these holidays must let their instructors know within the first two weeks of SEE HOLIDAYS PAGE 2

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Watching television and writing about it may seem like a dream job. But on Monday night, TV critic Todd VanDerWerff explained how his job isn’t just Netflix and chilling.

The Kelly Writers House hosted VanDerWerff in the first event of its annual “Writing About TV” series. VanDerWerff is the former TV Editor at The A.V. Club and is now the Culture Editor at Vox Media.

VanDerWerff read two of his own pieces: a recap of the season four finale of “The Sopranos” and an article about today’s new golden age of television. He then answered several questions from the audience, focusing on his career and his thoughts about the future of the television industry.

Although VanDerWerff’s original goal

The Office of the Provost has strict guidelines that prohibit Penn’s academic departments from giving exams or assigning work on “several religious holidays that affect large numbers of University community members,” including Christmas, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, the first two days of Passover and Good Friday, according to the Provost’s website.

However, the rules blur for a number of “other holidays” that are

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2006 College graduate Rachel Senturia is on a mission to make science cool.

In early 2012, Senturia founded STEMsocks, a company that produces unisex science-themed socks for adults. Designs include everything from electrocardiogram socks to DNA socks to even bacterium socks.

A biochemistry major , Senturia said she wanted to get other people as excited about science as she was.

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“I felt like I was learning all of this really interesting stuff, but so many people didn’t really know what I was learning and didn’t know what I was talking about,” she said. “I really wanted to make science more accessible for people.”

With that mindset, she launched STEMsocks.

Although Senturia wasn’t a Wharton student, she found other ways to nurture her entrepreneurial spirit while at Penn. She was the captain of the club water polo team for two years, an experience which she said taught her about leadership and how to build a more rigorous, SEE SOCKS PAGE 5

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each semester so that alternative arrangements can be made regarding missed assignments and exams. Once the students inform their instructors, faculty then “must provide reasonable opportunities” to make up the missed work, according to the policy.

But this year, some students felt that they were not given “reasonable oppor tun ities” to make up their work. Hillel President and College senior Michael Mitzner recounted stories of his friends who had issues with the policy this year.

“A close friend of mine was in a class where there are three

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was to become a film critic, he has never wanted to stop writing about television. He said he thinks writing about TV is more interesting than writing about film because critics are always in conversation with the shows they write about. He added that they also have a lot more opportunities to engage with readers than do film critics.

However, he pointed out that TV criticism requires

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midterms, and the class allowed for one drop midterm. When my friend told the professor he had to miss one midterm because of holidays, the professor told him that the missed midterm would just have to be the drop, adding pressure to do extremely well on the other two,” Mitzner said.

Another friend of Mitzner’s was not offered an opportunity to take a midterm on another day when it conflicted with a holiday. Instead, the professor redistributed the percentage of the missed midterm (30 percent of the entire grade), putting 15 percent of the weight on midterm one and the other 15 percent on midterm three.

“The Provost policy differentiates ‘smaller’ holidays like

Sukkot and Shemini Atzerat, but the problem with this from a Jewish perspective is that there is no difference in how they are observed from Rosh Hashanah or Passover,” Mitzner said. “Observers are not able to write or use their computers. And it’s not necessarily fair that there is some sort of hierarchy for the holidays. And while students are flexible and have worked through it, these situations can cause a lot of stress.”

Uram has noticed problems tend to arise mostly in large classes where it is harder to find space for exams, where grades are on a curve and the creation of the exam is labor-intensive for the professor.

Muslim students also face a

tricky situation during midterm season each year when they celebrate Eid al-Adha, a holiday that has no set date and changes yearly according to the lunar calendar. This year, the holiday fell on Sept. 24.

Muslim Student Association Chaplain Kameelah Rashad said that during Eid al-Adha, students must decide between devoting time to family and worship or doing homework and taking exams. “Some students are reluctant to take advantages of exceptions because they don’t want professors to think they can’t keep up or even because of the perception of being too religious,” Rashad said. “So while students want to devote the time to acts of worship, just the fact

that the holiday falls on a different day every year and that they have to ask for the religious exception, when it should be just available to them, makes it difficult.”

To help alleviate potential issues, the Office of the Chaplain sends out an email to staff at the beginning of every year with a list of religious holidays so staff can be mindful of students who celebrate.

“My sense is that the Provost’s Office and the Chaplain’s Office are looking to improve the situation and better train various faculty so they can be more sensitive to students of religious backgrounds,” Uram said.

Like Rashad, Uram also

significantly more watching, thinking and writing because of its frequent deadlines. When VanDerWerff worked at The A.V. Club, he was following around 67 shows at one time.

In an interview before the event, VanDerWerff said that TV criticism is more work than people would expect. “You have to watch a lot of stuff you hate,” VanDerWerff said.

Although he said he does not enjoy some popular shows including “Two and A Half Men,” “Glee” and “American Horror

Story,” he feels the need to keep up with them because he knows that many other people are watching. VanDerWerff added he understands that he can’t always write about his preferred shows.

“The shows TV critics want to talk about, which are often way off the beaten path, are not the shows that our readers are actually watching,” VanDerWerff said.

VanDerWerff told Monday night’s audience that he hopes his writing on popular shows

will guide readers to his pieces about the lesser known shows that he’s more passionate about.

When interviewed about his advice for aspiring TV critics, he recommended reading and writing often. “I don’t necessarily mean read 15 novels a day;reading interesting stuff about TV on the internet is certainly working toward that goal,” VanDerWerff said.

He also suggested that aspiring TV writers write not only about the television they love but also about the television other people love, and try to figure out why others love it. He told aspiring critics to expose themselves to new television as much as possible.

“Try writing about something you’ve never heard of, or something people don’t really pay attention to,” VanDerWerff said.

Vox culture editor Todd VanDerWerff spoke at the Kelly Writers House on Monday night as part of the “Writing about TV” series.

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commented on how the students feel when they must ask for religious exceptions. “What I hear from students is that they feel scared to ask their professor to accommodate them because they’re worried it’ll affect their grade, and others are just uncomfortable asking,” Uram said.

“While this may only happen to a professor once in a while, for the orthodox students, this is something that happens every fall, and it can create a set of experiences that make them feel other and different in a university that wants to make people from different backgrounds feel welcome. If a student is made to feel different because of who they are, we’re failing to meet the needs of students.”

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Event to stress African-American issues Whitney M. Young conference to take place Sat. ERIC LEI Contributing Reporter

An inside look at the hip-hop industry, a pitch competition and an analysis of diversity in tech are all in store at a conference this weekend.

Hosted by the African American MBA Association, the Whitney M. Young Jr. Memorial Conference will be held this Saturday at the Center City Ritz-Carlton. The conference celebrates humanitarian and civil rights leader Whitney M. Young Jr., who fought for full participation of African Americans in social and economic sectors. This year’s theme, The New Black: Creating Impact in Business and Society, aims to highlight the scope of social, political and economic issues facing the African-American community.

“We decided that we wanted to base our content and panels by featuring a range of African-American executives and

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The 41st annual Whitney M. Young Jr. Memorial Conference was held at Penn last December and will be held again this year on Nov. 6 and 7.

entrepreneurs to talk about their

perspectives in the career and

current state of industries such

as technology and urban development,” said Marketing Chair and Wharton MBA candidate Monica Myers.

One of the main attractions of the conference is the main keynote speaker, Russell Simmons. Simmons will discuss his transition from working in the hip-hop industry as co-founder of Def Jam Recordings into work with the Carlyle Group.

Four additional panels will address socioeconomic issues that impact African-American and lower-income communities.

“One of our panels — Diversity in Tech — will discuss the state of the union of the tech industry in places like Silicon Valley, what things we can do to get more diversity and minorities in that industry,” Myers said.

The 41st conference welcomes the return of a venture competition. This weekend, current graduate and recent graduate students launching a business will compete to pitch their business plans. The winning students will gain automatic entry as a finalist in Black Enterprise Magazine’s Elevator

Pitch Competition as well as a one-hour consultation with a Google Venture.

AAMBAA is also launching new events this year, including a high school business plan competition. Modeled after the venture competition, high school students from Philadelphia will compete to pitch their business plan idea to win a $3,000 grant.

Furthermore, AAMBAA has invited representatives from local businesses to talk about their experiences on a panel.

“In an effort to expand the borders of the Wharton community, we wanted to reach out and connect with many minority-owned and local businesses in Philadelphia,” Co-Chair and second-year Wharton MBA student Brian Rikuda said.

“We launched a procurement event that caters towards local businesses as well as representatives from University of Pennsylvania and from the city of Philadelphia that will sit on the procurement panel and provide information and insight into these businesses, and how to do business with them.”

Cornell reinstates spring admissions program

Wharton alumnus drops Democratic presidential bid

Cornell the only Ivy League to adopt program

Lessig quits in light of changes in debate rules

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For college freshmen, the fall semester typically marks a series of welcoming activities — orientation, student trips and floor events. But at Cornell University, approximately 125 students will join the community in January 2016 through its First-Year Spring Admission program.

This will be the first time that such a program will run since 2003, when Cornell had a similar program called “J Frosh.” Cornell is one among the growing number of colleges adopting spring admissions programs, according to the National Association for College Admission Counseling. It is currently the only Ivy League university to reinstate its spring admissions program.

Historically, Penn also had a similar program, according to Dean of Admissions Eric Furda.

Reviving the program does not seem to be a priority.

“From an admissions standpoint, there is a very short period of time and a greater volume of work that you would have to care for if you wanted spring admissions,” Furda said.

But Educational Consultation and Admissions Strategist Steven Goodman explained that spring admissions programs hold an appeal to universities because they bring in more revenue.

“Cornell is trying to make better use of its facilities that it has available and get more money,” Goodman said.

He added that Cornell’s adoption of a spring admissions program may be notable to its peer institutions, as schools like Penn might reevaluate its benefits.

Founder of IvySelect College Consulting Michael Goran stated that spring admissions programs

A Penn graduate’s quest for the White House has ended.

Democratic presidential candidate and 1983 College and Wharton graduate Lawrence Lessig announced Monday that he was suspending his campaign amidst changes in presidential debate rules that prevented him from participating in the next Democratic debate.

“I was eager and happy to ask for support for the campaign when there was a prospect of getting into the debates. When there wasn’t, I couldn’t in good faith make that ask. When that’s true, a campaign must end,” Lessig said in a statement posted on his Tumblr page.

A distinguished activist and Harvard Law School professor, Lessig launched his campaign on Sept. 2 after raising $1 million from supporters. His campaign focused on reforming federal campaign finance

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Starting next year, Cornell University will be deviating from Ivy League norm and reinstating its spring admissions program.

are just one more thing that the Ivy League universities do not agree on.

“Just like the Ivies have different opinions over whether they want to count the writing component of the new SAT or not, spring admissions don’t offer a universal appeal,” Goran said.

Furda said that spring admissions might be more successful at Cornell because the university is a larger and more decentralized institution than Penn. He added that the program also allows Cornell to open its doors to students who might take a more atypical college track.

But some experts say that this new form of admissions allows universities like Cornell to take more special admits like athletes and legacies without counting them in fall admissions statistics.

President of Hernandez College Consulting Michele Hernandez noted that students with credentials not necessarily up to the general admissions level can now be accepted in the spring.

But Goodman added that since the number of spring students is only a small part of Cornell, special admits would not change the university’s overall statistics profile.

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Goodman agreed: “Some students do feel like they’ve been left behind,” he said. “Their peers have started college and they haven’t.”

policies and improving voter access and equality.

He initially promised that if elected, he would step down once he had achieved those goals, but later changed his mind and announced in October that he would be seeking a full presidential term.

The Lessig campaign initially believed that in order to qualify for the televised Democratic debates, Lessig had to have the support of 1 percent of Democratic voters in three national polls conducted within six weeks of the date of a given debate.

After considerable effort, Lessig managed to reach the 1 percent mark last week in a Monmouth University poll, followed by similar rankings in polls by the National Broadcasting Company and the Huffington Post. Under the previously understood rules, this qualified Lessig to participate in the next Democratic debate on Nov. 14.

But late last week, the Democratic National Committee contacted Lessig’s campaign

with a new explanation of the debate rules. To participate in the November debate, candidates had to have reached 1 percent in the polls “six weeks before the debate.”

“Under this new rule, Lessig obviously cannot qualify for the Nov. 14 debate. He would have had to qualify four weeks ago!” campaign general consultant Steve Jarding wrote Monday in the Huffington Post.

Lessig has previously protested unfair electoral practices in his academic and professional work. One of his books on the subject, “Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress — and How to Stop It,” has inspired a Penn writing seminar taught

by Critical Writing Program Senior Writing Fellow Christopher Phillips.

“At the core of our democracy there is a hole where the Framers meant there to be a Congress.

That crippled and corrupted institution will block progress until it is fixed,” Lessig said of his old platform. “It is an agenda for reforming a failed institution.”

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OPINION Why Penn’s new rent prices are wrong

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t’s no surprise when Penn increases the cost of being a student every year.

In February, the University typically announces a tuition increase, then spins it as only raising the tuition by less than 4 percent. The Trustees typically raise housing and dining prices, too, generally around when students start thinking about where they’ll be living the following year.

But this year, Residential Services announced a significant change in room pricing structure right after fall break. Nearly all freshman rooms will now be one standard price, but rooms with more amenities — namely personal kitchens, bathrooms and private bedrooms — will cost nearly $4,000 more than that price.

Penn says that these changes

will benefit students, especially students on financial aid, because it will make it easier for families to plan for freshman year knowing the set price they will have

for students.

While we question whether this price change will adversely affect profits — the average room rate last year was $8,688, and the

What these measures really will do is discourage students from staying on campus as upperclassmen.” to pay. While under the previous system students could be placed into higher-priced rooms they might struggle to afford, all incoming freshmen will pay the same amount for their first-year housing. The University even cites the fact that this new rent structure will lower profits as evidence of its good intentions

minimum price next year will be $800 higher than that, so how are profits decreasing, again? — we are willing to accept Penn’s position that this change is supposed to benefit students. However, we think that the new pricing system is still the wrong choice to make, and in the long run, it won’t be good for students.

Under the new pricing scheme, a large single in FisherHassenfeld costs the same as a cramped double in Hill College House, when the two rooms don’t really provide the same experience (or amenities). On the flip side, over 37 percent of high rise rooms will now be priced at levels comparable to elite, off-campus residences — about $1,470 per month over the academic year — which doesn’t reflect the true value of the rooms.

What these measures really will do is discourage students from staying on campus as upperclassmen. The majority of rooms that will experience price increases are in the high rises, where a large number of on-campus residents move after freshman year.

While some high rise rooms will be priced at the lower of the two

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dents to move off-campus in order to save money.

Instead of creating uniform prices that will increase every year, the University should prioritize managing price increases so that student costs don’t automatically rise each fall. The average dorm price at Penn has nearly doubled since the 2000-01 academic year, when the average room cost was only $4,754.

In fact, the projected minimum room rate for next year is $2,883 more than the inflation-adjusted price in 2000.

While Penn’s new changes are well-intentioned, in reality they won’t be as beneficial as intended. The new prices will hurt students financially — and the Penn community more generally by encouraging students to move off-campus.

options (which will still be higher than the current price of $9,062), a large number will see a price jump by about $1,500. At a new price of $13,234 per academic year, living in some high rise rooms will be akin to living in the Radian ($16,140 for the calendar year) and would be more expensive than living in the Hub ($10,380 for the calendar year).

The new pricing system will make it simpler for freshmen on financial aid to plan for their first year — and that is a good thing.

However, it also makes it impossible for students to opt into a room that costs less than their financial aid in order to put extra money towards other expenses they might have. Some off-campus residences, on the other hand, cost less than Penn’s cheapest rooms, which will prompt stu-

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s someone who grew up in California, I thought I would be something of a novelty at an East Coast university. But as I introduced myself to different people during my first weeks at Penn, I was overwhelmed by the variety of responses I got when I asked where they were from: “I grew up in Dubai.” “I went to high school in Egypt.” “Boarding school in London.” “South Korea.” “Panama.” Suddenly, California didn’t seem exotic — and it sure didn’t feel cool to tell people that I’d lived in the same suburb for 18 years. I felt this pressing need to globalize myself, to make up in college all the time I’d lost in suburbia.

I was not alone in this feeling. In a survey conducted across a random sample of Penn undergraduate and graduate students, 19 out of 33 students indicated that after entering college, they felt pressure to become worldlier. But what does it mean to be worldly? One student, Sophia*, predicted responses to this ques-

Growing pains | Why wealth and travel experience aren’t always correlated with worldliness tion: “Obviously many people will say all the international students or the ones who traveled are worldlier. However, I think we should define [worldliness] based on what you know about the world rather than who went to Lycée in NYC or traveled more.”

Student responses indeed reflected the two viewpoints delineated by Sophia. One group stressed that worldliness often manifests itself in external, materialistic norms; for example, 42 percent of respondents cited characteristics like being welldressed and smoking cigarettes as evidence of what worldliness looks like. In this vein, Donna* responded that worldliness is made obvious in “accent, the way people dress (‘worldly’ people tend to be wealthier, are more fashionable, skinnier, prettier, sceney-er, et cetera).” She also emphasized that international Asian students are often excluded from common conceptions of worldliness because they are seen to be “FOB-y” rather than “worldly.” In her opinion,

worldliness is often “restricted to European or white international students, which can be seen in Theta’s pledge classes.” Curtis* agreed that fraternities and sororities like Owls, Tabard and Theta appear worldlier than other Greek associations.

They don’t intend it maliciously, but they can’t begin to appreciate that their way of life isn’t a given for other people.” David* agreed: “I think the type of global experience that many Penn students live by is a sheltered one — not necessarily a true embodiment

… international Asian students are often excluded from common conceptions of worldliness because they are seen to be ‘FOB-y’ rather than ‘worldly.‘” Additionally, for many respondents, the notion of worldliness was inextricably correlated with the stereotype of the rich international student. In Yolande’s* opinion, this was especially true “given that international admissions is need-aware, so there’s even more of a selection bias toward wealthy students.” College senior Jordi Rivera Prince added, “Many international students are very wealthy in countries with extreme economic disparities.

of what it’s really like for the average person to live in those countries.” Other students cited “Facebook pictures of unaffordable vacations” or “endless talking about study abroad experiences” as further indicators of how worldliness and wealth are often connected.

The second camp of students acknowledged that while these external definitions of worldliness exist, true worldliness is instead reflective of deeper internal

qualities. College and Wharton freshman Ruhy Patel underlined this by saying, “Worldly people have an inherent curiosity that, regardless of being well traveled or not, manifests itself in knowledge about and appreciation for other places in the world.” An understanding of different perspectives, as well as an innate desire to discover and learn about new cultures, were two qualities that this group of respondents deemed necessary for worldliness.

As our world becomes increasingly global, there is more pressure upon us to do the same.

But this doesn’t necessarily mean we have to spend big bucks or travel extensively to become more global. We are surrounded by — we are ensconced in — diversity. Within our dorms, on SEPTA, our neighborhoods at home, any street on which we walk, we are brushing arms with so many different types of people. It’s similar to something I learned in calculus: As you count higher and higher, the numbers become infinite. But in be-

EMILY HOEVEN tween 6 and 6.000001 there is just as large of an infinity. As such, there is no “common” experience. Diversity can be discovered and globality attained in the smallest microcosm, just as it can in the world at large. All that’s required is an open mind, open ears and an open heart. *student’s name has been changed to protect privacy

EMILY HOEVEN is a College sophomore from Fremont, Calif., studying English. Her email address is ehoeven@ sas.upenn.edu. “Growing Pains” appears every other Tuesday.

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Campus ministries more mindful of consumption The Office of the Chaplain is urging a greener lifestyle EUNICE LIM Staff Reporter

The Penn Religious Communities Council is teaming up with Penn’s Environmental Sustainability Director Dan Garofalo to discuss ways to make campus ministries be more green.

While the Office of the Chaplain had initially planned to issue a green challenge to the ministries for a duration of two months, it decided instead to encourage the ministries to consult with Garofalo and find ways to save energy that are best suited to their unique situations.

“It’s a half notch less formal than we were making it out to be at first, but we realized that

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unified team. Under Senturia’s guidance, the team went to the Nationals meet twice.

“Penn was also the place where my scientific passion really developed,” Senturia said. She added that her freshman chemistry class with professor A nd rew Rappe and physical chemistry with

there’s no one-size-fits-all solution because some ministries are housed in their own buildings, but many just meet in a room a couple times a week, and some groups meet and worship off campus,” University Chaplain Chaz Howard said.

“We want this to be an openended call to be more green, as opposed to a challenge that will just end after two months.”

After Garofalo’s presentation, many showed interest and began making concrete action steps to reduce energy or resource consumption. One of the Christian ministries decided to bring and reuse plates, silverware and glasses at every one of its food events instead of buying and dumping disposables. “It’s an easy thing to do, it’ll save money and is fantastic for the environment,” Howard said.

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professor Michael Topp particularly nurtured her love for science and helped her engage with like-minded peers.

“I made a lot of friends who were scientists and realized that scientists come in a lot of different flavors instead of what’s normally presented in stereotypes in the media,” she said.

“There was definitely a desire to combat the stereotype of scientists being these frumpy,

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Rashad said that she also plans

to ask students and community members to make small changes that will go a long way.

“Something as simple as not leaving the water on for the ablutions before the daily prayers, or asking people to bring their own utensils during the month of Ramadan when we feed people every night aligns with the tradition of the prophet, which emphasized simplicity and mindfulness,” Rashad said.

“We have a hand in shaping the future of conservation, and the best way to bring those reminders to the Muslim community is to emphasize that it is aligned with our faith, and it always has been the case that we should not take more than our share, that we care about future generations and about the land.”

Rashad also plans to be mindful of consumption during big events that MSA has coming up

awkward, generally uncool people.”

2006 College graduate Alyssa Zackler, who played club water polo with Senturia at Penn, is an avid consumer of STEMsocks today.

“Science does tend to have sort of a nerdy stereotype, but I think bringing it into public life and giving it that visual cue makes it more public and more acceptable,” Zackler said.

An obstetrics and gynecology resident at Temple University, Zackler said she likes to wear the socks with her scrubs, as it is one of the few ways she can individualize her style at work.

Though he is not directly involved in the business, 2006 Wharton graduate Michael Brozman also supports STEMsocks. Brozman first met Senturia during their freshman year, when they both lived in

Stouffer College House. With a concentration in both Finance and Insurance and Risk Management, Brozman sometimes offers advice in product positioning and pricing for STEMsocks.

In the future, Senturia said she hopes to grow STEMsocks by diversifying the product line and increasing its accessibility.

The company also donates a portion of its sales to a nonprofit in California that increases STEM

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The Office of the Chaplain is calling for campus ministries, like the Newman Center, to make strides towards a greener Penn.

this semester, such as the annual MSA Winter Wonderland, a free skating event. “There’s going to be treats and hot chocolate, and we’re going to ask people to bring their own mugs, and we’re going to think of ways to reuse materials and containers we already have.”

For the skeptics, Howard considers an important question: Does this really make a difference?

“Does one Jewish or Muslim or Christian student cutting down their shower time, powering down their computer, riding a bike instead of a car make a huge difference? Maybe not,” Howard said. “But if all of Hillel or Newman, if an entire religious fellowship, if all of the religious groups that make up a big portion of our campus try to do something environmentally positive, it’s a big deal.”

education for K-12 students.

Although Senturia didn’t enter Penn with the intention of starting a business, this did not deter her from following her passions later on.

“Don’t be influenced by what you see around you — even if your peers may be going into high-paying, Wall Street jobs, that shouldn’t deter you from going the route that you want to go,” she said.

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Penn’s Innovation Prize largest in the Ivy League

Ivies help students show off social entrepreneurship MITCHELL CHAN Staff Reporter

Top American universities are becoming the “Shark Tank” for social entrepreneurs, and Penn is no exception.

Announced last Wednesday, the President’s Innovation Prize will recognize ventures that fulfill three requirements: 1) produce a “positive and important social impact,” 2) commitment to innovation and 3) viability as a long-term commercial venture. Each year, one winner will receive $100,000 in prize money, along with a $50,000 stipend.

This makes the prize among the largest social entrepreneurship awards offered by American colleges. This is how Penn’s latest prize compares to similar awards at other Ivies.

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President’s Challenge (Harvard): Up to $100,000 in grand prizes

10 $5,000 prizes Established in 2012, the President’s Challenge is held each spring through the Harvard Innovation Lab. In addition to competing for prize money, all challenge participants receive opportunities to consult with Harvard faculty throughout the course of the contest.

Entrants must address one of five pre-determined topic areas.

The 2016 topic areas will be education innovation, affordable health, energy and environment, economic development and sustainable employment or food and agriculture.

Unlike Penn’s prize, the money is awarded to multiple people in smaller sums. In the initial round in March, judges award $5,000 seed grants to 10 entries (two from each topic area) that advance to the April final round. In the finals, judges award additional prizes

totaling $100,000 to one grand prize winner and three runners-up.

Thorne Prize for Social Innovation in Health or Education (Yale):

One $25,000 prize The Thorne Prize focuses on a narrower field of social change than Penn’s Innovation Prize. It is offered every spring by InnovateHealth Yale, a group of Yale faculty, students and program directors who focus on a specific type of social entrepreneurship addressing the health care industry. Both individuals and teams with at least one Yale student can enter the contest.

Entrants submit a proposal addressing a specific problem facing either health care or education. Selected entrants are then invited to present live proposals to an expert panel, which selects the winning venture.

Ventures are judged based on their potential for social impact, innovation, sustainability, team

dynamic and how thoroughly they define their product and target population, according to the 2016 Thorne Prize information packet.

Past winners include a proposal to expand health care literacy using cell phones and a team developing necklaces for infants containing vaccination records that can be updated from a smartphone app, Yale School of Public Health Communications Director Michael Greenwood wrote in April.

Global Technology Challenge (Columbia): Total prizes: $50,000 Sponsored by Columbia’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Global Technology Challenge is awarded every spring as part of the Columbia Venture Competition. The challenge is open to all Columbia students and recent alumni, unlike Penn’s, which is open to only current undergraduate students. Entrants choose a

problem that represents “global challenges” and pitch a technology-based solution to that problem.

“Those competing in the global challenge [are] more geared at problems such as environmental challenges, health, sustainability and disaster relief,” wrote Columbia Engineering Associate Director of Communications Melanie Farmer in a press release.

The Global Technology Challenge especially encourages entries addressing cross-disciplinary problems. This year’s entries included a suspension system for freight trucks that reduces fuel consumption and an inexpensive system for maintaining infant vital signs in developing countries.

Social Innovation Fellowship (Brown): 15 to 20 $4,000 prizes Although Brown is less pre-professional than any of its Ivy League

siblings, Brown’s Social Innovation Fellowship is one of the most wellregarded social entrepreneurship awards for undergraduates. The program won the Ashoka U-Cordes Innovation Award in 2014. While Penn’s Innovation Prize stresses a commercial component, Brown’s prize welcomes nonprofits and other social endeavors.

Selected students receive a $4,000 stipend to work on a social venture during the summer — a markedly lower amount than the other prizes.

They also receive extensive mentoring and networking help during the spring.

In addition, the Brown fellowship encourages applicants pursuing intrapreneurship (starting ventures within an existing organization).

Since its establishment in 2009, the Social Innovation Fellowship has supported 75 students, including 43 intrapreneurs, according to the program’s 2013 Fellowship Impact Report.

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Penn travels to continue stretch run against Mountaineers M. SOCCER | Quakers

aim to snap losing streak ALEXIS ZIEBELMAN Senior Sports Reporter TUESDAY

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Country roads are taking Penn men’s soccer away from home down to West Virginia.

Having gone a month since their last victory on Oct. 3, the Quakers hit the road again to face off against the Mountaineers for their final mid-week, non-Ivy match of the season. The Red and Blue (2-92) take on West Virginia (6-10-0) having just returned from Providence after falling to Brown, 2-1, on Saturday.

Despite the extensive travel over the past several days, there is little time for the team to dwell on its disappointing weekend loss to the Bears.

Coach Rudy Fuller noted that he is “glad [for] a quick turnaround.”

Though the Mountaineers are seemingly out of place among the Red and Blue’s Ivy-dominated schedule since the end of September, the Quakers are no strangers to competing against a tough outof-conference opponent at this stage in the season.

“The intention of the game in the schedule was it being against a quality opponent,” Fuller said.

“Over the past two years, West Virginia has been a good team with a good RPI.”

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during their club volleyball days in high school while playing in the San Jose, Calif., area.

“We’ve kind of grown up together,” Caldwell said. “It’s been a lot of fun playing with her.”

Keeping the hitters happy is one of the most important jobs

But for the Red and Blue to end their slide, they need to be able to convert game control into more balls in the back of the net, something they were unable to do against Brown.

“We were in a really good spot against Brown and a good performance overall,” Fuller said. “But we were not able to put the game away with some opportunities after we got the first goal and were up 1-0.

“We had one or two goal opportunities early in the second half and really could have put the game to bed at that point. [But] we weren’t able to take advantage of those chances so it’s a learning experience for a lot of our younger guys.”

The Quakers’ youth certainly factors into their experience this season, with so many players fresh to collegiate action nonetheless playing major minutes due to a plethora of injuries.

In 2014, Penn’s matchup with West Virginia took a very different form — a dominant senior class accompanied by experienced younger members took the field for the Red and Blue. The current reality of Penn’s squad indicates that the players on the field make up a very different demographic ALEX FISHER | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER while the Mountaineers have sevJunior forward Alec Neumann will look to ignite a Penn soccer offense that hasn’t had a multiple-goal game in the last month. Over eral returning players. that span, the Red and Blue have been able to generate plenty of scoring opportunites but have struggled mightily to finish them.

“Hopefully we are able to get off to a good start,” Fuller said.

Last year Penn hosted the games here recently,” Fuller said, and a good environment.”

For both squads, a win means “[We need to] give ourselves an Mountaineers at a similar junc- noting that the Mountaineers are West Virginia comes into the little in their respective league opportunity to get a goal on the ture, but fell in a match at Rhodes on a four-game losing skid. “But game with only distant memories rankings. But in looking to their board and look to finish the game Field, 1-0. Like most of the Quak- they are a very similar team to of what victory tastes like — simi- ends of season, a win could be a off a little bit better than we did ers’ non-conference opponents, who we played last year at home lar to Penn, the Mountaineers have significant morale booster, es- against Brown.”

West Virginia is no easy foe. and ended up losing [to] on the not won since a 3-0 victory over pecially leading into each team’s Perhaps only then will West “They dropped a couple of restart, so we expect a good game Penn State on Oct. 13. final matches of the season.

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a setter has to take on. Making sure the ball is lofted perfectly and mixing up the looks to give the other team is something that is also improved by that constant communication. “[Bither] does a good job asking for feedback from the hitters,” Caldwell added. “After every point she’s asking if the ball is in the right place.”

As of late, Bither has been spot on. Last Saturday against Dartmouth, before fellow senior Jasmine DeSilva’s kill put Penn up, 2-0, over the Big Green, Bither had to place the ball perfectly. She did just that.

Commonly referred to as the quarterback of the team, the setter often finds herself not only running the offense, but the

squad’s defense as well. “[Bither]’s really taken a step forward by playing defense first,” Carr said. “She’s learned to trust her teammates more.”

This past weekend, Bither showed off her versatility on both ends of the court with backto-back double doubles. With a mind-boggling 61 assists to accompany 26 digs, the senior

provided a bright spot in the team’s Ivy weekend split.

Sometimes the setter gets a chance to contribute to the kill column as well. In order to keep the opposing squad on its toes, the setter can use deception to sneak the ball over the net while the team backpedals to prepare for a kill.

“A lot of it has to do with

looking at the other side of the net,” Bither said. “If we get stuck, you have to mix it up from time to time.”

A largely unheralded position, the setter is often the linchpin of a successful squad. Coming down the stretch of the Ivy schedule, the Red and Blue can look to Bither to help the team finish strong.

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not enough thought). I’ve mentioned to people that, at worst, I could try and find a job working in sports media. I’ve been told that that is a stupid decision.

Yet it struck me over the weekend — as idols of mine in the industry lost their jobs while I, a far-less-deserving 21 year old, have the avenues to write this column — that trying to explore creative passions in the journalism world is an incredibly brave thing.

We are told frequently that journalism is a dying industry.

A colleague and I have tried to figure out when the DP will only publish stories online. He says within two years, I say not until 2020.

But there are kids in high school and college who are good with words and skilled with the pen that will not go into journalism because of ESPN’s decision to shut Grantland down. There are good writers who will fail to find the inspiration to continue honing their craft because, hell, if Grantland — one of the best websites for quality journalism — can fail, anything can.

This summer, Serrano and I had an email exchange. I asked him how to maintain my own voice in stories and not simply copy what others do. I wanted to be able to pass that advice on to my writers.

He gave me good advice and made points that were sensible.

And he ended his email saying, “I hope something here helps out some.�

He was talking about his email. He could have been talking about Grantland. Either way, he wasn’t wrong.

The journalism and sports worlds are sadder places without Grantland, as well as the multitude of writers losing their jobs in the industry across the country, including people at media outlets here in Philadelphia.

Our jobs are to make sure that those jobs aren’t lost in vain. We at the DP are lucky to continue to have that opportunity.

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On top of that, imitation is the greatest form of flattery. And, at least from the perspective of this section, no higher compliment can be paid from us to a place like Grantland than that our writers and editors consistently strive to be like it, to replicate its quality. “If you ask most writers what they think about writing, they will say the same thing: It sucks!� said Andy Greenwald, one of the Grantland writers suddenly out of a job, on Twitter on Monday. “Writing is hard — not coal-mining hard, but hard. And deeply lonely. “The thing everyone loves is having written and, despite impressive technological advances, it’s still impossible to skip straight there.�

But for us, Grantland showed that the process, the steps taken to get “straight there,� were all worth it. The experience of working to a point where an article is good is invaluable.

Genuinely, as the DP’s senior sports editor, it’s my overarching goal to make sure that everyone involved with the section enjoys what they are doing. And no site demonstrated that a publication can still be well-regarded and taken seriously while also having fun like Grantland.

Where they had Shea Serrano writing weekly about the Houston Texans on “Hard Knocks,� we had a writer last week delve into why Penn women’s soccer is wearing bucket hats. Hard hitting journalism? No. But bringing to your attention the fun aspects of Penn sports is equally as important for us as informing you if the field hockey team is still in the Ivy title race (Note: They are.).

I’ve been writing for this newspaper for almost three and a half years now. I’ve covered a lot of different teams, games and events. And in virtually every one of those articles, I’ve tried to emulate Grantland’s quality. Would Bill Simmons use this kicker?

Am I breaking things down as well as Zach Lowe would? Is my story relatable in a way Rembert Browne would make his?

On top of that, as a senior, I’ve put a lot of thought into my future (although, given the dearth of interviews with prospective employers on my calendar, clearly

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Uplifting Athletes push COLE JACOBSON Sports Reporter

Winning percentage isn’t the only thing Penn football is raising in Ray Priore’s first year at the helm.

Led by junior linebacker Sam Tullman, the Quakers have started a chapter within Uplifting Athletes, an organization comprised of 24 Division I football programs, each working to boost awareness and research funding for diseases. Individually, the Red and Blue are raising money for the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network, co-founded by Penn School of Medicine professor David Fajgenbaum. “Between Vhito [DeCapria, a 4-year-old cancer survivor serving as the team’s honorary captain] and this, there’s a lot of extra motivation,� Tullman said. “It’s fun when everybody’s winning and we’re having success, but, in addition, you’re possibly saving lives.�

To fully comprehend why Penn chose Castleman disease, which only has an estimated 6,500 annual cases in the United States, one must take a trip back to the mid-2000s, when Fajgenbaum was a quarterback for Georgetown under then-head coach Bob Benson. “Like any player-coach relationship, we developed a pretty close bond,� Benson — who is now the Quakers’ defensive coordinator — said about Fajgenbaum, a 2006 All-USA College Academic first team selection. “Sadly his mom passed away, and we experienced that grief together.�

Although they went their separate ways after Benson left Georgetown and Fajgenbaum graduated as a Rhodes Scholar, the two stayed in touch through social media. But things took a

RILEY STEELE is a College senior from Dorado, P.R., and is senior sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at steele@thedp.com.

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Money raised will go to support Castleman disease research in honor of David Fajgenbaum, one of Bob Benson’s former players.

turn for the worse in 2010.

Fajgenbaum, then a Penn medical school student, was diagnosed with Castleman disease, an illness with a 35 percent mortality rate that he described as “the immune system attacking the organs.�

However, since staring death in the face and even being read his last rites in November 2010, Fajgenbaum has responded strongly, starting the CDCN in 2012, earning an MBA from Wharton after medical school and being named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30� in health care in 2015. “He’s always been an inspiration to me,� Benson said. “One of the most courageous people I’ve ever met.�

Consequently, when Benson — who had coached with Priore at Albany in 1986 — was hired last winter, he and Fajgenbaum were finally reunited, helping facilitate Penn’s initiation into Uplifting Athletes as the latter continues his battle. “When I found out that he was coming to Penn, I was so

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Every player learns differently and responds to statistics differently, and the coaching staff is able to provide these insights through different media, whether it’s graphical representations or just cold, hard numbers to help their players grow. “It’s all getting us to having a better student athlete and a better experience for them,� Rochlin added. “We’re trying to give them the tools to be a better volleyball player and to be a better student athlete, whether it’s in the weight room, in the classroom or specifically on the volleyball court in set three.�

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season on Penn’s coaching staff, has been heavily involved in the continued growth of analytics within the program.

For example, when looking at offensive stats in volleyball, it’s easy to pick up on the importance of kills, point-scoring plays produced by a given player. But from a deeper analytical perspective, a lot of factors go into a player notching a kill.

Rochlin and the rest of Penn’s staff are able to look into a hitter’s position on the court, where and who the set came from and where the hitter drove the ball in order to find ways for more effective attacks.

For the players, it’s an adjustment from the way that they’ve been coached in the past — most high school programs don’t take analytics as seriously as the

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excited, because he’s such a great leader, and I’d get a chance to reconnect with him,� Fajgenbaum said. “When I told him about the work I’m doing to take down Castleman disease, he immediately asked how he could help.�

Fajgenbaum spoke with players during the summer, and the rest was history. “I got a chance to meet Sam, [junior defensive lineman] Tyrone [Quarterman] and Hendo [junior defensive back Matt Henderson], and I loved seeing the motivation in their eyes,� Fajgenbaum said. “I then spoke with the whole team, and it was clear that this was a really good group of guys. “I came to them needing their help, and they stepped up.�

Currently, the fundraising system involves donors pledging custom amounts to CDCN for either offensive touchdowns or defensive turnovers in Ivy League games. As of Saturday’s win at Brown, the donations were at approximately $184 per touchdown and $82 per

turnover.

Of course, this method depends on the success of Penn’s on-the-field product. And the Quakers have held up their end of the bargain, already securing 33 touchdowns and 19 turnovers through seven games — both higher than their marks of 26 and 14, respectively, from all of 2014. “The players are starting to get confident, understand the system and they are responding,� Benson said. “We’re a disguised pressure defense that wants to force turnovers, and it’s great along the way that we can help someone like Dave.�

Overall, Tullman estimated that the team would raise at least $8,000 during the season. “As we break it down and figure out how this disease works, we will save lives,� Fajgenbaum said. “But you can’t do that unless there’s funding for research.�

Although only three games remain in 2015, Tullman already has some ideas cooking for the team’s next fundraising tactic. “We’re trying to reach out even more across campus, hoping to get some fraternity or sorority support,� he said. “We’ll be doing another event related to spring training since we definitely want to continue our success.�

Ultimately, even as Fajgenbaum approaches 22 months since his most recent relapse — his longest stretch since being diagnosed — there’s more work to be done. “We’ve already been benefitting from the research, but I still live in a constant state of fear, so I just cherish every day so much,� Fajgenbaum said. “As optimistic as I am about the progress we’ve made, I live trying to make the most of every single second to try to win this battle.�

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Volleyball coaches using advanced data analytics HOLDEN McGINNIS Sports Editor

Statistics have always been an integral part of sports. From the rise of Moneyball and the modern statistical revolution all the way back to the first box score ever recorded, the two

topics have been inseparable.

For Penn volleyball, data analytics have become part of the coaching staff’s routine both in between and during matches, leveraging insights from outside the box score to produce tangible results.

“It’s a little bit of a tightrope walk because as a coach you have some instincts, very subjective ideas about what’s going on in the game,” head coach

Kerry Carr said. “Then you get stats that prove otherwise, you’re looking at objectivity.”

“I think it makes me a better coach getting to be objective about [the game], getting that distance from how I feel about it.”

Analytics tend to be a polarizing subject in the sports world, coming down to competing ideas of the old-school ‘eye test’ versus new-school

analytics. Carr, currently in her 18th season as the head coach of the Quakers, fits somewhere in the middle of that spectrum, acknowledging the need for analytics while still relying on her instincts on game day.

These insights come from many different places. During games, the team has an assistant on the end of the bench furiously typing into a laptop, recording the outcomes of each

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rally as it happens in real time.

In between games, the coaching staff spends time analyzing video of practices and matches to offer insights into how they should prepare the team for the next weekend.

In the highly competitive Ivy League, every advantage matters, and the ability to go beyond simply counting stats on the publicly available box score is the focus for Penn.

“The stat program that we’re using enables us to see statistics that are more in depth than what we see on the box sheet,” assistant coach Seth Rochlin said.

“It’s really about helping quantify what has historically been unquantifiable. We use all sort of programs to keep ourselves at the cutting edge.”

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Dig. Set. Kill. The success of a volleyball team’s offense often relies on the relationship between the setters and the outside hitters.

Penn’s primary setter, senior Ronnie Bither, has spent the past four years working to make sure the Quakers’ offense runs smoothly. From getting players in position for digs and kills to finding her own ways to contribute defensively, Bither has catapulted to the top of the Ancient Eight for the assists she has doled out thus far in 2015.

Out of Penn’s 984 kills this season, Bither has assisted on 680 — 99 more than the next highest assist total in the conference. According to Bither, being responsible for setting up 69 percent of the Quakers’ offense comes down to one thing.

“A lot of it comes down to const a nt com mun ication,” Bither said. “Having something said after each play and giving

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Senior captain Ronnie Bither leads the Ivy League with 680 assists. Her classmates and fellow captains, Alex Caldwell and Alexis Genske, are often the beneficiaries of Bither’s sets, leading the team in kills.

each other confidence helps a lot.”

After the setter lobs the ball up in the air, the responsibility then turns to the outside hitters to send the ball over the net for the kill. Senior hitters Alex Caldwell and Alexis Genske,

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the top two players on the team in kills, have spent the past four years working with Bither to ensure that they know each other’s tendencies down to a tee.

“They’re best friends,” coach Kerry Carr added. “They know what each other is thinking

which has really helped us this year.”

Bither and Caldwell go back even further than their freshman New Student Orientation in 2012, as they became friends SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 9

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The sports world was quiet on Friday afternoon.

It wasn’t too far out of the ordinary for the end of the week. Game three of the World Series was several hours away.

“College GameDay” wasn’t until the next morning.

They say the best time to announce bad news is on a Friday. If someone gets fired at the end of the week, at least they have the weekend to grieve. Plus, it’s harder for those involved with sports media to get stories put together when games on Saturday and Sunday take place.

The sports world was quiet on Friday afternoon. That is, until Grantland died.

For those who only read The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports section because they go to Penn, they have a child

who plays for Penn or they just really like our content, the decision by ESPN to shut down Grantland may not seem like a big deal. After all, given the climate in today’s media industry, publications that have been far more entrenched in American culture have ceased to exist over the past decade as print journalism fights to survive.

Tough, but fair. But as one of the most relevant sports and pop culture sites with a national reach, you should care about Grantland’s death. Because, whether you realize it or not, that publication directly impacts the DP. The college newspaper and the journalism that accompanies it is the most pure form of media in existence. We are students. We do not get paid.

Like the athletes we cover, we do this because we — sometimes — are good at it and we love the game. There are no Pulitzer Prizes in our office.

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