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Former admitted student involved in GroupMe The student added freshmen from Class of 2020 FB page DAVID MURRELL Staff Reporter

One of the people involved in adding black freshmen to a racist GroupMe chat had previously been admitted to Penn as a member of the Class of 2020, University officials announced Tuesday night.

Penn administrators sent an email saying its investigation determined that “one of the individuals being investigated in Oklahoma had been offered admission to Penn, accepted the offer in May, but chose, ultimately, not to attend. Having accepted Penn’s admission offer, he was invited to join and access the private Facebook group created for the Class of 2020, which is a common practice among many

colleges and universities.” The email added that the individual was able to access contact information from black freshmen in this way to add them to the GroupMe. On Tuesday morning, the University of Oklahoma announced that the student who was suspended in connection with the racist GroupMe messages sent to black Penn freshmen is no longer enrolled. A student at Tulsa Community

College was placed on “interim academic suspension” after being “identified with a social media group that posted racist messages identified by federal authorities to be potential criminal activity.” Vice President for University Communications Stephen MacCarthy confirmed that this was connected to the racist GroupMe messages sent SEE GROUPME PAGE 6

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How Philadelphia’s new soda tax could affect you LUIS FERRE SADURNI Senior Reporter

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education in the city. The tax will apply to sodas, teas, energy drinks and other beverages, but exclude others such as drinks that contain more than 50 percent milk, fresh fruit or vegetables. It is uncertain how prices will change for drinks sold at Penn. On campus, Penn Dining sells beverages through its cafés, retail establishments, residential dining halls and more than 250 vending machines. Since the tax will be levied on distributors, price changes will depend on whether distributors pass on the tax, or a portion of it, to Penn Dining through higher prices. Penn Dining would then need to decide whether to pass on the tax, or a portion of it, by increasing prices for students and faculty. “The distributor might decide that they’re just SEE SODA TAX PAGE 3

Faculty urge Amy Gutmann to protect undocumented students

Former Penn cop says University fired him for having a beard

Professors from all four undergrad. schools signed letter

The police officer said a skin condition meant shaving caused him pain

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A former Penn Police officer sued the University on Monday over alleged racial discrimination motivating his dismissal, Billy Penn reported. He is seeking an undisclosed sum of money. The officer, Joseph Lewis, claimed he was fired because he maintained facial hair, which is reportedly against the policy for officers. His skin condition, which is called pseudofolliculitis barbae, primarily affects black men and stems from an issue with ingrown hairs that create bumps every time he shaves, Billy Penn wrote. He had applied for a waiver last August to keep his beard, on the condition that it remain no thicker than a quarter inch. Lewis, who is black, claimed that after he applied for the waiver, his supervisors began mistreating him. The lawsuit said Lewis was denied overtime requests and singled out among his colleagues. After receiving a merit condemnation from the Division of Public Safety, Lewis later was dismissed from DPS, which he attributed to discord over his skin condition, Billy Penn reported.

xperts are unsure how much the price of certain beverages will increase once Philadelphia’s “soda tax” goes into effect on Jan. 1, but the price changes could be abrupt. The price of a 20 ounce Red Bull could increase by as much as 30 cents, while the price of a two litre Coca-Cola could increase by as much as 50 percent, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian’s analysis of tax-applicable drinks sold at Penn Dining locations. When the tax passed in June, Philadelphia became the first major city in the country to pass a tax on sweetened and diet drinks. The controversial 1.5-cent-per-ounce tax — which fueled a historic lobbying battle between the soda industry and health advocates— was Major Jim Kenney’s ambitious approach to fund early childhood

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Almost 100 Penn faculty members signed an open letter to President Gutmann advocating for the protection of the rights of undocumented Penn students.

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Nearly 100 standing faculty members signed a letter to Penn President Amy Gutmann encouraging the protection of undocumented immigrant students at Penn. Faculty from all four undergraduate schools signed the letter, which highlighted the passage of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an immigration policy implemented in 2012 to grant undocumented immigrants who entered the country before their 16th birthdays and before

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June 2007 temporary protection from deportation. “DACA students attend the University of Pennsylvania and we benefit from their presence on our campus,” the statement said. “President-elect Trump is likely to either cancel DACA or allow it to lapse.” The letter, which was sent to Gutmann on Tuesday, comes just one day after President Barack Obama urged 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump, not to “endanger” the immigration status of students protected by DACA. The faculty recommended that Gutmann communicate to political leaders how significantly DACA SEE DACA PAGE 2

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Hear the world differently with smart glasses The glasses are the creation of 2013 graduate Jason Gui HALEY SUH Contributing Reporter

Vue smart glasses are the latest creation of 2013 Wharton and Engineering graduate Jason Gui. Just two years after the launch of Vigo — a headset that helps its users stay alert and awake — Gui and his startup team have now developed glasses that serve as activity trackers, wireless headphones and Bluetooth mics for phone calls. Although Gui and the company’s co-founder, Tiantian Zhang — a 2013 graduate of the Integrated Product Design master’s program at Penn — were originally inspired by Google Glass, Google’s early attempt at creating a “smart” eyepiece, they said they were not satisfied with the way the the device appeared “big and bulky.” “The idea behind [Vue] was ‘how do we build glasses for people that actually wear glasses, instead of for tech-y people who don’t mind looking like a dork?’” Gui said. In order to shrink the bulkiness of the glasses, Gui and his

team worked on storing all of the technology into the side frames. Their aim was to create a normallooking pair of glasses that did not garner unwanted attention, they said. “As someone who wears glasses every day, the design of the glasses was crucial,” Zhang said. “With Vue, we’ve designed glasses that are stylish and discreet. That’s important because it allows us to appeal to a wider audience than just early tech adopters.” One of the key features of Vue glasses is the use of bone conduction technology, which transmits audio via vibrations through the skull, not eardrums. Tiny pads placed on the inside of the glass frames vibrates the skull, which in turn vibrates the cochlea. Users are essentially listening not through their ears but through vibrations in their heads. “The biggest benefit of this is the ‘open ear’ idea,” Gui said. “When you have ear buds that are plugged into your ears, you can’t really hear what’s going on around you, which is actually pretty dangerous for a pedestrian walking on the road or inconvenient when you’re in the office and someone’s talking to you.”

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A key feature of Vue glasses is the “open ear,” which uses bone conduction technology to transmit sounds waves from the skull to the cochlea, creating an earbud effect without the use of real earbuds.

“With this, you can listen to audio with your ears remaining unplugged, so you can hear what’s going on around you. It sounds like music is coming through your head, which is a pretty unique experience,” he said. Besides bone conduction audio, Vue glasses are equipped with

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The lawsuit also said DPS cited issues over family leave and a failure to update his personal information as reasons for his dismissal “He had been there for years,” Lewis’ attorney, Timothy Creech, told Billy Penn. “And then they piled onto him with all these things they came up with, one after the other.” Vice President for University Communications Stephen MacCarthy said Penn doesn’t “comment on pending litigation.” DPS did not respond to a request for comment on Tuesday afternoon.

students contribute to academic life, ensure that undocumented students continue receiving financial aid and fellowship stipends allocated to them under DACA, provide work opportunities for DACA students to support themselves and communicate to the academic community how the University intends to support undocumented students now and in the coming years. College senior and external chair for Penn for Immigrant Rights Daisy Romero said that she was moved by the initiative

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technology that tracks various activities during the day, such as the number of steps taken, miles walked and calories burned. The eyepiece also reminds users to stand up and stretch after hours of sitting. Furthermore, the glasses notify users of incoming calls, texts and

taken by faculty. She said the letter made her feel significantly safer on Penn’s campus and bodes well for a petition that PIR is currently planning around DACA. Students at Columbia University and Harvard University have already launched similar petitions and garnered thousands of signatures. Romero added that while undocumented students at Penn are grateful for the financial and academic support they already receive from the administration, she hopes that Gutmann will respond to this letter with a public announcement of the University’s commitment to undocumented students.

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emails. If lost or stolen, users can track their glasses using the “Find My Glasses” feature. Vue glasses were launched on Kickstarter three weeks ago, and are well over their initial goal of raising $50,000. With 23 days left in the campaign, Gui’s team have raised nearly $850,000 and Gui

While both Romero and College junior Pamela Fuentes are open about their status as undocumented, there are many other students on campus who are not. It is important that these students hear from the administration, Romero said. When The Daily Pennsylvanian reached out to Gutmann for a response to this letter, Vice President for University Communications Stephen MacCarthy replied with a written statement. “Dr. Gutmann is a strong supporter of DACA and is deeply committed to ensuring the success of students at Penn, regardless of their immigration

status. She has been a national leader in support of the Dream Act and the place of immigration in our society, and her support for that is unwavering,” the statement read. Romero said that PIR also plans to highlight the issue of mixed-status families to the administration. There are students at Penn who are not undocumented themselves, but have family members who are. They could endure financial and emotional consequences if DACA is repealed, Romero said. Another issue the administration needs to address is the future employment status of undocumented students, said

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predicts that they will soon reach $1,000,000. “These glasses seem to be popular — we raised more on day one of the campaign for Vue than we did for the whole campaign of Vigo,” Gui said. The glasses are planned to come out in July of next year.

Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program Tulia Falleti, one of the signees, in a statement. Many undocumented students at Penn have work-study jobs which are partially funded by federal agencies, meaning they face financial consequences if DACA is deferred or repealed, she said. “We want to make sure that the administration is ready to deal with all these complex issues if DACA is taken away,” Romero said. “In the case that this policy is removed, we want to be ready and not panicking last minute trying to figure everything out.”

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Among election turmoil, roommates coexist They were at first surprised by each other’s views ISABELLA FERTEL Contributing Reporter

Forget reaching across the aisle — College freshmen David Barr Engel and Jesse Blanco only have to reach across the dorm room to encounter someone whose political beliefs differ from their own. The two roommates, both members of the Politics and Social Change residential program in Fisher College House, have each spent the months leading up to the election campaigning for their respective candidate, Barr Engel for Clinton and Blanco for Trump. It did not take long once the two moved in to their dorm together that they discovered the other’s political affiliations. The two can both vividly recall the first time that they realized that they were on opposing sides of the upcoming election. “I remember seeing Jesse’s prom-posal on Instagram. He was dressed up as Donald Trump and his sign said something like ‘Will you be the Melania to my Trump,’” Barr Engel said. “At first I thought it was just a joke, but then I saw he retweeted [...] Ann Coulter, and I realized that he was actually a Trump supporter.” Blanco recalled move-in day back in August, when he was in their room alone and trying to get a sense of who his new roommate was and how they would get along. Blanco saw a purple-sleeved arm sticking out of the pages of the book across the room. When he pulled out the book, a power-suited Hillary Clinton figurine fell out, and he read the title, “Haikus about Hillary.” “I was actually glad he was a Hillary supporter,” Blanco said. “I actually would have more issues if he was for Cruz or Jeb Bush.” The two went into election night with a similar nervousness, but

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College freshman David Barr Engel worked for the Clinton campaign while roommate Jesse Blanco was an intern at Trump Tower.

their reactions to how the events of Tuesday night unfolded could not be more different. Blanco, a former intern at Trump Tower, was invited to the election viewing party at the Hilton Midtown. Come election night, the Trump Tower interns and supporters were filled with a “cautious optimism,” Blanco said. “When they announced North Carolina and we saw it [North Carolina] go red, I knew that the work I had done both in New York City …and here in Philly was worth it. I knew I was part of something bigger, part of a movement of people who truly care about America and who want to make America better,” Blanco said. Barr Engel, on the other hand, started receiving calls of panic at around 8 p.m., he said. With each successive state turning red on the electoral map, Barr Engel’s anxiety and worry grew. When Trump won Ohio, “I was in intense denial. I was shaking, my heart was racing. It hit me that the worst was now more than extremely likely,” Barr Engel said. Blanco said he is looking forward to president-elect Trump opening doors and establishing communication with communities of color and people who have

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become alienated from his campaign through the “stereotypical blanket message” perpetuated by some of Trump’s following. Barr Engel’s sentiment going into the next four years, however, is one of nervousness rather than excitement. Due to the “precarious position” of both the Democratic Party and the nation, Barr Engel fears how the Trump administration will shape “an incredibly delicate” international climate their foreign policy in the years to come. If there is one thing that gives Barr Engel hope for the future, it is the dialogue and relationship he has with his roommate despite their political differences, he said. Over the past few days, the two have been talking a lot about the upcoming confirmations, on their visions of the DNC and their goals for Congress. Even though they “fundamentally disagree” on many issues, both Barr Engel and Blanco feel that their aspirations for America and the American people are actually quite similar. “The fact that we can still get along and talk about politics, even though we were both active on opposite sides of this election, is one of the few things that can give me hope going into these next four years,” Barr Engel said.

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Experts are unsure how much the price of certain beverages will increase once Philadelphia’s “soda tax” goes into effect on Jan. 1, but the price changes could be abrupt. The price of a 20-ounce Red Bull could increase by as much as 30 cents, while the price of a two liter Coca-Cola could increase by as much as 50 percent, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian’s analysis of taxapplicable drinks sold at Penn Dining locations. When the tax passed in June, Philadelphia became the first major city in the country to pass a tax on sweetened and diet drinks. The controversial 1.5-cent-per-ounce tax, which fueled a historic lobbying battle between the soda industry and health advocates, was Mayor Jim Kenney’s ambitious approach to fund early childhood education in the city. The tax will apply to sodas, teas, energy drinks and other beverages, but it will exclude others such as drinks that contain more than 50-percent milk, fresh fruit or vegetables. It is uncertain how prices will change for drinks sold at Penn. On campus, Penn Dining sells beverages through cafés, retail establishments, residential dining halls and more than 250 vending machines. Since the tax will be levied on distributors, price changes will depend on whether distributors pass on the tax, or a portion of it, to Penn Dining through higher prices. Penn Dining would then need to decide whether to pass on the tax, or a portion of it, by increasing prices for students and faculty. “The distributor might decide that they’re just going to swallow [the tax] or swallow a percent of [the tax] because they might not want to raise their prices,” said Karen Glanz, a professor at the Perelman School of Medicine. Glanz noted the difficulties of predicting the percentage

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The soda tax, which will go into effect the beginning of next year, may cause abrupt price changes to various sugary drinks.

of the tax Penn Dining and its distributor would pass on to consumers. If the tax is passed on completely to Penn students and faculty, the price of a 20-ounce Powerade from 1920 Commons would increase by 30 cents from $2.19 to $2.49. However, if only twenty percent of the tax is passed on to consumers, the price would go up by only six cents. A spokesperson, via email, said Penn Dining hasn’t been alerted of any price changes by its distributor as of yet. Penn Dining noted it has a contract with Coca-Cola, but did not disclose the identity of its beverage distributor. The first city-level tax on sugary drinks was passed in Berkley, California in 2014. Some researchers have studied the early phases of implementing the penny-per-ounce tax there. John Cawley, a professor of policy analysis and management at Cornell University, and others found that sellers of

sugary drinks in Berkley have absorbed part of the tax, passing on 43.1 percent of the tax to consumers. “All eyes will be in Philadelphia to see what happens there,” Cawley said. He noted that, unlike in Philadelphia, there was a campaign to lower consumption of sugary drinks when the tax was being debated in Berkley. It is uncertain if Berkley residents are consuming less sugary drinks because of the health campaign around the issue or the higher beverage prices, he said. But Philadelphia’s soda tax might go into effect next year, while the local administration grapples with certain legal hurdles. On Sept. 14, the American Beverage Association and others filed a lawsuit to block the sweetened-beverage tax, arguing it is unconstitutional. Judge Gary S. Glazer — the Common Pleas Court judge hearing the challenge — said on Oct. 25 that a decision should be made before the beginning of next year.

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Up until now, I have always been silent about my political views. As an Asian-American woman, I was taught by my parents to work hard and keep my head down to achieve success. When I was bullied for my race as a kid, my parents told me to ignore the slurs. They told me that if I had good grades, I would show them in the end, that this would be the best form of fighting back. I understand that they only wanted to keep me safe, and acceptance was their form of survival. However, I can no longer remain silent. When I think about how the black freshmen added to the racist GroupMe were only trying to study in school when a group from the University of Oklahoma one day decided that they threaten their well-being, I become angry. To all the black students at Penn, I just want to say I’m sorry. I’m sorry that you have been singled out as a group to be exterminated

and hated. I’m sorry that Penn is supposed to be your home and you no longer feel safe. I’m sorry that up until now I have not been a louder advocate for your rights because I was so busy thinking of my own. What happened to you can be called nothing less than a hate crime. This is not a joke; this is not merely discrimination; this was a precursor to violence. You are human beings, and you deserve no less than anyone else, white, yellow or brown, to live and to live freely. Being a part of the AsianAmerican community means that we are centered around silence. We are seen but never heard. Our complicity in white privilege grants us our own privilege. We are called slurs by whites, we are asked if we can speak English well, but there is, for the most part, never explicit violence against us. We even have some of the highest salaries

in the United States, on par with or more than those of white people. It is for these reasons we are called the “model minority.” We become afraid of losing this condescending marker, so we remain quiet. If we have to put up with the implicit

eyes and our yellow skin, we too are the “other.” If the Asian-American community, with our silence, allows this action against marginalized groups to continue, how long before the hatred turns against us? America already has a history of rac-

The Asian American community must wake up.” racism to be accepted by the white majority, then it’s not acceptance, but toleration. The Asian-American community must wake up. If we think that this violence against black people and other marginalized groups does not affect us, we are naive. This intolerance of the “other” applies to all groups that do not fit the norm. With our slanted

ism against Asian people. Consider the Japanese concentration camps and the Chinese Exclusion Act. If we Asian Americans recognize the danger but refuse to act unless we ourselves are threatened, we are selfish. In times like these, when entire existences are being jeopardized, the only thing standing between someone and his marginal-

ization are the people brave enough to fight for him. In the midst of hostility, in the midst of division, all we have is our solidarity. I am not afraid to say that if you do nothing at this time, I am ashamed of you. If you feel unsure of what to do, or if you feel like what you do won’t matter, do something anyway. If you are afraid, so am I. I am afraid even now writing this article. I am afraid that what I say sounds empty or that it is not sufficient to create change. But I am still here, crying out for action, because I know that I must do something, however small. Saying something on behalf of your friend, telling someone to stop spreading hatred — that is creating change, and we can all do that. As for me, this is my promise to you, black students, Latinx students, LGBTQ students, to do better. I will not stay quiet. I will fight for you. I will mobilize. I admit that I am not al-

AMY CHAN ways the most informed, but that is changing. I will learn all I can about policies and legislature. I will vote not once every four years but consistently throughout the period. I will join activist groups and campaign for my beliefs. I will raise awareness about your rights. And I will speak up for you when you need me. 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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Laws without morals FAIR ENOUGH | By refusing to follow Harvard’s lead, Penn can live up to its motto In the question of how it should regard unaffiliated single-sex social clubs, Penn seems poised to “do a Harvard.” It shouldn’t. As anyone who has been following higher education news for the past six months probably knows, the yearslong conflict between Harvard College and the handful of independent single-sex social clubs to which many of its students belong reached a denouement last spring. On May 6, Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust announced that she had accepted Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana’s recommendation to ban members of off-campus groups from athletic team captaincies, scholarship endorsements and leadership positions in affiliated student groups. Last Friday, in an email whose timing seemed calculated to dodge publicity, Penn President Amy Gutmann announced the formation of a “task force” to join in Penn’s own multi-year conflict with the unaffiliated single-sex social clubs that operate in its vicinity. The task force, Gutmann said, will explore ways to “address the negative influence

of these unaffiliated and unsupervised groups” and to more efficiently enforce the Code of Student Conduct against members of these groups. It’s no certain thing, to be sure, but the specter of Harvard’s decision will certainly loom large over these proceedings. I would be very surprised if the task force’s members don’t at least consider advising that Penn, true to form, mimic its peri-Bostonian leaguemate in categorically punishing members of off-campus groups. My advice to the task force is simple: don’t. Harvard’s decision was an unconscionable imposition on the associational rights of its students that should be reversed in its own halls and not repeated in anyone else’s. The robust protection of associational rights is vital to the proper functioning of the liberal university. The effort to discover, define and live the good life — the essential mission of liberal education — is not a solitary goal. Scholars and thinkers have, since time immemorial, found it expedient and necessary to form groups, clubs and factions in order to

bring their lives and their communities in line with mutually agreed-upon visions of justice and virtue. To do so freely necessarily requires the discretion to include and exclude, and sometimes to discriminate. A Democratic organizing group,

If Penn’s leaders refuse to embrace those principles on their merits, they should at least look to Harvard as a practical warning. Khurana and Faust’s power-grab has not exactly gone over well, earning condemnation from within and

The robust protection of associational rights is vital to the proper functioning of the liberal university.” for example, must be free to exclude non-Democrats, a racial equity group segregationists and so on. I am not so blind as to believe that Penn’s off-campus social clubs are high-minded scholarly societies. Nevertheless, it would be wrong to grant the powers that be the authority to determine what groups are sufficiently virtuous as to deserve associational liberties. Freedom that is held only at the whim of authority is not freedom at all.

without. The justification they proffered is flimsy — that Harvard may punish students for membership in organizations that do not share Harvard’s institutional values of inclusion and equity. It has been rightly decried as hypocritical and McCarthyist by students and faculty of diverse ideological allegiances, former Harvard leaders and civil liberties watchdog groups alike. Its advancement will be an indelible stain on Khurana and Faust’s reputations, and deservedly so.

Just think about the ramifications of their claim. The Catholic Church’s policies and beliefs do not, in many ways, reflect “inclusion and equity” in the way that mainstream academic progressivism understands those values. Many college students choose to associate themselves with it nevertheless, knowing that it does not ordain women, condemns homosexuality and has a history of tolerating sexual abuse. That many students are Catholic no doubt has a significant influence on Penn’s and Harvard’s campus climates. Should either school therefore punish Catholic students who refuse to disaffiliate from their church? Of course not. Yet this is precisely the power Harvard’s leaders have claimed over its students, and these are the stated grounds upon which they have done it. Penn’s task force should not follow Khurana and Faust off that cliff. Its members have, to date, given many reasons to believe that they are personally committed to preserving academic freedoms. It would be sad to see that trend reversed. None of this is to say there is nothing that the task force can

ALEC WARD or should do. If Penn’s leaders believe that there are facets of the University’s own, internal infrastructure that shield members of certain groups from accountability to their contractual obligations to the school, they should change them. But treating students differently based on the external groups they choose to join is not an option if the school wishes to maintain its integrity. It is unethical, and it should be off the table from the start. 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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Why Penn Course Review has no more comments The site used to be run by its own student group ALLY JOHNSON Deputy News Editor

Penn Course Review was recently updated with ratings for last semester’s classes — but once again, there are no new written reviews. A student organization called Penn Labs is responsible for the technological task of updating Penn Course Review every semester after receiving ratings data from the administration. However, they do not include the written comments students make when filling out course reviews. This is because students’ comments used to be filtered by a separate student organization called Penn Course Review, which is no longer an active club at Penn.

Midway through each semester, Penn Labs receives an email from the University saying that data from the previous semester has been prepared, according to Wharton sophomore and Penn Labs Co-Director Adam Domingoes. Then, the data is securely transferred from the University to Penn Labs. “We use our own program, which we wrote about five years ago, to cut and slice it and put it into a way that our programs understand. Then we run it through our program and upload it to our database,” he said. “From there, we actually generate every single page on Penn Course Review.” Domingoes said the process of uploading the data usually takes around two weeks from the time they receive the data. The time it takes to process and upload the data varies depending on the organization of the data. For

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Wharton sophomore and Penn Labs Co-Director Adam Domingoes explained that manpower is missing to sift through comments.

example, the organization has to manually cross-list some courses. For classes offered as recently

as in 2012, Penn Course Review offers access to a summary of students’ written comments in

addition to average numerical ratings. Students continue to provide written commentary in their course reviews, but it is no longer uploaded to the Penn Course Review site. “It was because the comments were actually manually reviewed. And essentially that component has dropped out — we’ve lost the manpower for it,” Domingoes said. “[Penn Course Review] would go through and filter all the comments. And then after that we would receive that data from them, so we’d know which comments just can’t be uploaded. We just don’t get the data anymore because there’s no one to review them.” Domingoes said Penn Labs hopes to bring back the written comments, but they must find a way to review written comments without the manpower of a student organization like Penn

Course Review. One option is to use Mechanical Turk, a service run by Amazon, to review the comments. “There’s a lot of politics that go into it, so it’s just an idea and I’m trying to get it to run through the bureaucracy,” he said. “You can essentially get people across the internet to do very small tasks for you. So it would be sending it out in chunks of fifty or a hundred comments, just saying, ‘are these obscene or can they not be posted for other reasons?’” Mechanical Turk costs a few cents per task, according to Domingoes. However, this alternative means to filter reviews brings up confidentiality concerns. Penn Course Review data is confidential, so reviews would have to be filtered to remove references to Penn, professors and classes in order to ensure anonymity.

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to Penn students. OU President David Boren wrote in a tweet, “As our university has clearly demonstrated in the past, we have zero tolerance at this university for those who would engage in racism.” OU spokesperson Rowdy Gilbert declined to reveal the identity of the expelled student when reached by The Daily Pennsylvanian, citing the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. On Monday evening, Gilbert confirmed that OU officials are continuing their investigation.

“The University of Oklahoma Police Department is investigating and is in communication with University of Pennsylvania officials,” he wrote. In 2015, two OU fraternity members were expelled from the school and more than two dozen others were disciplined after a video leaked of the students, members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, singing a racist chant on a bus. Black freshmen at Penn were not the only university students added to a racist GroupMe thread on Nov. 11. According to screenshots obtained by The Daily Pennsylvanian, at least two individuals whose names

appear in a thread with similar messages attend Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. The Vanderbilt Hustler reported that multiple students informed Ariana Fowler, the student body president, of the hateful messages in the GroupMe.These included racial slurs and an event titled “Daily lynching,” as did the chat to which Penn students were added. Dean of Students Mark Bandas and the Vanderbilt University Police Department were also notified, according to The Hustler. “The Dean of Students has been trying to get all the name [sic.], because they want to

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Looking back on a historic season for Red and Blue

Men took 6th in nation, women were runners-up WILL SNOW Sports Editor

For one of the lower-profile teams on campus, Penn squash sure did have one heck of a 2015-16 season. The men finished fifth in the nation after winning the consolation bracket in the Collegiate Squash Association tournament. The women came devastatingly close to a CSA national title, finishing as runners-up to Harvard after losing to the Crimson, 5-4, in the final. Harvard was the only team the women’s side lost to all season en route to their 14-2 record and highest national finish since 2010. The men, on the other hand, managed to snag their first upset over the national powerhouse since 1979. They may have ended the season at 12-5, but those five losses all came against topeight teams — one of which

they avenged at nationals when they beat Columbia to reach the finals of the consolation bracket. “My feeling is that last season was an overwhelming success for both the men and the women,” Penn coach Jack Wyant said. “Each team worked very hard. Each team, by the end of the year, was playing at — or very near — their potential. And I think the results demonstrated that.” Still, the results showed that the women were agonizingly close to becoming national champions. The Quakers went down to the Crimson early, but senior captain Yan Xin Tan put her side in the lead in the third match of the day. Another win saw the Red and Blue up 3-1, and after Harvard tied it up at three, Penn made it 4-3 to come within one game of the championship with two games to make history. But it wasn’t meant to be. “Today just wasn’t our day,” Wyant told the DP back on the day of the championship.

Harvard won the final two matches, including a 3-2 nailbiter at the top of the ladder, to take the team crown. “They handled the pressure really well,” sophomore sensation Reeham Salah said. “We kind of broke down at the end. I mean, if you look at the two teams, it was so close that it’s very hard to tell the difference between the two teams. It was 5-4, and 3-2 in the deciding match. In that sense, they’re so close that it’s so hard to tell a difference.” It was close, but just not meant to be. The women were the first losers, while the men were the last winners, triumphing in the consolation bracket. A successf ul tou r na ment, though one with just the slightest pang of disappointment. “I don’t have any regrets about that,” Wyant said. “Would I have preferred the results to go the other way? Of course. But we evaluate these teams on their preparedness, their togetherness and their hard work, and I feel that the women were

fantastic. As for the men, they beat Harvard for the first time since 1979, so that in itself is a great accomplishment.” So 2015-16 will long be a season to remember for the Quakers, but they will want to come out stronger this time around. The women only graduated two players from the top-nine ladder. The men were even younger, playing mostly freshmen, while their three senior captains battled it out for the last two spots on the ladder. Both sides will undoubtedly miss their captains, but with older, more experienced squads this time around — plus the promotion of Gilly Lane to coach of the men’s team — this season’s CSA tournaments could see the Quakers take it up just another notch.

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Wyant now director of squash, Lane coaches men DAVID FIGURELLI Sports Reporter

You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say it was an ordinary offseason for Penn squash. In a move that showed great faith in the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; coaching staff, it was announced that both Jack Wyant and Gilly Lane would be getting promotions in the Penn squash program. Lane would be promoted from associate head coach to menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head coach, while Wyant was promoted to the new Director of Squash position while retaining the title of womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head coach. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jack Wyant has been a tremendous asset for many years while overseeing both the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s programs,â&#x20AC;? Penn athletic director Grace Calhoun said at the time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Retaining him as our Director of Squash and Head Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coach ensures that we have an experienced leader guiding our student-athletes. Gilly Laneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passion for and loyalty to Penn made him the ideal candidate for Head Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coach. ... It is an exciting time for Penn squash.â&#x20AC;? For Lane, the promotion marks a new step in his relationship to the program. The Philadelphia native graduated from the College of Arts and Sciences after

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talent and experience is substantial. Yacobucci comes in with two squash All-American honors from 2014 and 2015 and was featured in Sports Illustratedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Faces in the Crowdâ&#x20AC;? series, while Hagen helped the U.S. Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Team to a gold medal at the 2015 PanAmerican Juniors in Argentina and was a quarterfinalist at the U.S. Junior Squash Championships in 2015. Discussing his path to Penn, Yacobucci noted that his years

serving as a member of the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team from 2004-07, captaining the team as a junior and senior while earning team MVP, All-Ivy and All-American honors all four years in University City. After returning to Penn as an assistant head coach in 2013, he was subsequently promoted to associate head coach in 2015. The newest promotion now brings his journey with the Quakers fullcircle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is my favorite place in the world,â&#x20AC;? Lane said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I pretty much made that known since I was a sophomore in college, that I just absolutely love being a part of Penn squash. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been very fortunate because of Penn squash to meet people from all over and have support pretty much wherever Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gone. ... This place is like home to me, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a blessing to be in this role.â&#x20AC;? Wyant, who will relinquish the reins to the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side to Lane for the new season, had nothing but praise for Lane and expressed full confidence in his ability to lead the squad. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Having known him since he was 20 years old, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to recognize when someone is going to be successful in this business,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The choice was we either find a home for him here, or heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to go somewhere else and beat us or make it damn hard for us to win. Obviously, Gilly being a Philly guy and a Penn person, I

think it was an easy sell for him once we approached him with the idea.â&#x20AC;? Wyant, who has been with Penn squash since 2004 when he was hired as womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head coach,

at perennial high school squash jugger naut Br u nswick i n Greenwich, Conn., will aid him at the collegiate level. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of kids come to college and havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really had any seriously competitive team experience,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My team in high school was very competitive so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m used to that type of atmosphere. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With the team at Penn, I think everybody is a great guy and didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think anywhere else had right set-up in terms of guys and talent, so Penn was the right fit for me,â&#x20AC;? he added. Contrasting with the high

school success of Yacobucci, Hagenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journey through the international level brings him to Penn with a unique set of skills and strengths. â&#x20AC;&#x153; T h roughout US Jun ior squash, you play a lot of the same guys and see a lot of the same faces. The Pan-American games was somewhere I could see a lot of new faces and competitors and styles of play that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m expecting to see in college, so that was a great opportunity to get that experience of facing new opponents,â&#x20AC;? Hagen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was also a really good team building experience, because

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four-time US Squash ScholarAt h lete honoree; Lindsay St a n ley, t h re e -t i me H igh School Squash All-American; Brookie McIlvaine, a top player at elite Saint Andrewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School and Alexandra Sharpe, a New England Interscholastic Squash champion. Regarding getting their feet wet, Wyant said to expect the new members to get onto the ladders right away, and if they can remain calm under pressure, perhaps advance on up as they settle into the collegiate game. Chasing titles on both fronts, the Quakers will look to make full usage of their new weapons as the new season kicks off.

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work ethics of the newcomers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That is something that really as a coach, when you spend so much time recruiting student-athletes, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t predict what their demeanor will be like,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being a Penn student is extremely demanding, and you get pulled in a lot of different directions every day, so for them to come to practice excited to improve and be with their teammates is really energizing for the coaches and the team.â&#x20AC;? The freshmen entering the fray for the women come with long resumes. The newest recruiting class boasts Jessica Davis, a member of Englandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s U-19 squad; Clare Kearns,

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throughout juniors I played as an individual, and didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really have a team, so it built my teamwork skills up for Penn.â&#x20AC;? Looking at the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team, Penn wrapped up last year with a second-place finish at the CSA Championships, topping the likes of Trinity and Stanford, giving them the opportunity to displace Harvard for the top spot this season. The team will be welcoming five new student-athletes, a fairly large recruiting class with plenty of power to boast. Aside from the obvious amount of technical quality the bunch brings to the squad, Wyant was particularly impressed with the attitudes and

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program as an assistant coach, working with both the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sides. Greenwood spent her college years playing squash and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lacrosse for rival Princeton, graduating in 2010 and winning two national titles for the Tigers in 2008 and 2009. Greenwood comes to Penn after taking a brief break from squash, working in the finance industry in New York for a time before returning to the sport to coach against her alma mater. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In addition to being a competitor and someone who knows the game well, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already demonstrated that she relates well to both teams. The feedback that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve received is overwhelmingly positive from the student-athletes,â&#x20AC;? said Wyant of Greenwood. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Knowing what is involved in college athletics, the skill-set that is required to be a good college coach isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just Xâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more to it than that. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of skills that I think she acquired after her time in college that I think will help going forward for us.â&#x20AC;? Despite the momentous changes for the structure of Penn squash, the goal of establishing and keeping a winning tradition at Penn will always remain the same. As the dawn of the season approaches, watch for the Quakers to maximize their potential in a newly transformed program.

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will remain the head coach of the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team while overlooking the program as a whole in the newly created Director of Squash role. The new coaching structure will allow the staff to remedy

what they felt was an imbalance of attention given between the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sides. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the disadvantages of the previous coaching structure that I always thought we could improve upon was that there would be matches where because of how competitive each match would be, there would be times where the coaching staff would focus on one team versus the other,â&#x20AC;? said Wyant. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And that bothered me. Here we got 30 student-athletes, both teams are working really hard, why are we favoring one versus the other in a competitive situation? The new system will also show how Lane and Wyant differ as coaches; the older Wyant tends to have a more reserved approach to coaching while the younger Lane has a knack for being fiery and expressive. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned from Jack to be patient in situations where I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t normally be patient,â&#x20AC;? revealed Lane. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Last year as associate head coach, I was kind of taking notes on different situations about how I should react. When I played I was definitely a very high energy guy and I think I coach that way as well. What Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned from Jack is that sometimes you need to ease off that.â&#x20AC;? In another significant change to the Penn coaching structure, the Red and Blue also brought Emery Maine Greenwood to the

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Van Arkel said. “Melissa takes care of the squash aspect, and I take care of some of the other more logistical aspects. I think that we’ve found a good balance that brings out the best in both of our leadership styles.” Last season Alves was forced to the sidelines after four matches due to injury, but the French Guiana native is surely eager to reclaim her place as one of the team’s top contenders. In her freshman season, Alves went undefeated in the league at the Nos. 3 and 4 positions en route to a post-season ranking of No. 22 in the CSA Individual Rankings. Van Arkel has also been a strong component of the Quakers’ lineup ever since she transferred from Columbia in her sophomore year. “It’s a really great honor to feel respected by my fellow team members and that they felt confident in my leadership after only

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Quakers look to build on historic 2015-16 performances COREY HENRY | Senior Sports Reporter

anuary 14, 2017. Head coach of Penn women’s squash Jack Wyant may not personally have the date circled on his calendar, but the eyes of the college squash community will undoubtedly be on Philadelphia as Harvard heads to Ringe for a rematch of last year’s national championship match. But before either team makes it to that January matchup, they’ll have to battle through the brunt of their non-conference slate if they want to retain their spots at the top of the CSA rankings. With the teams below them

quickly improving, both teams must be wary lest they fall prey to the parity that has ravaged the men’s side of the game. “Everyone’s improved,” Wyant said. “We’ve been at or near the top for a while so our focus is more on working hard and the fundamentals at this point in the season.” Key to reversing the result of last year’s heartbreaking loss to the Crimson will be three players at the top of the ladder. Sophomore No. 1 Reeham Salah nabbed a huge victory at this weekend’s Ivy scrimmages by defeating Harvard No. 1 Sabrina Sobhy, the woman who beat Salah in the deciding

match of the Howe Cup finals to win the national title. Combine that win with her experience playing in the qualifying rounds of the U.S. Open, and “The Hammer” could be in store for another breakthrough this season with the Red and Blue. Juniors Marie Stephan and Melissa Alves will also be important pieces in the Quakers’ quest for their second Howe Cup championship. Alves missed the majority of the 2015-16 season after SEE SUCCESS PAGE 9

Trio of captains ready to lead Red and Blue reload with Quakers into 2016-17 campaign addition of a series of rookies

Alves, Van Arkel lead women; Lemmon, men ANDREW ZHENG Associate Sports Editor

As Penn squash counts down the days until they set off on this newest adventure, the teams will be looking to their captains to see which direction they’re headed. Last season was undoubtedly a triumphant one for both sides of the Red and Blue. A fifthplace national finish for the men and a runners-up ending for the women showed that both sides have made hard claims to belonging among the country’s elite. With the graduation of last year’s seasoned leaders, however, Penn will welcome a new group of captains as the program looks to repeat its success. Those burdens will fall on three sets of shoulders: senior B.G. Lemmon for the men, and senior Grace Van Arkel and junior Melissa Alves for the women. On the men’s side, the election

of one captain marks a serious departure from last year’s situation, which featured three co-captains in then-seniors Augie Frank, Liam Quinn and Tyler Odell. While three captains might be irregular for what is already such a small team, Lemmon does not believe there were too many cooks in the kitchen. “That was really advantageous, to have three different voices, three different personalities for everyone to look up to,” Lemmon said. According to Lemmon, each captain brought a leadership style to the team, ensuring that each aspect of the Quakers’ dayto-day routine was tended to. Frank pushed the team in training, Quinn served as the team’s vocal leader and Odell led by example on the court. As a lone captain, Lemmon will face a large task in trying to unite all three roles under a single name, but the Villanova, Pa., native believes he is up to the task. “I like to consider myself a mixture of the three,” Lemmon

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said. “It definitely will be different with one captain this year, but I was really close with all three of those guys and was able to observe them along with captains before me. “I just want to take pieces of them and weave it into how I’m approaching this year.” Last season was a particularly strong one for Lemmon, who went 15-2 overall and broke the program record for most wins in a single season. He credits his former captains with guiding him to his best year so far and hopes to do the same with his new role. Whereas the men’s team is decreasing the number of captains, their partner program has done the opposite in electing both Van Arkel and Alves. With two leaders, however, Van Arkel believes that she and Alves will both be able to focus on what they do best and help the team reach new heights in the coming season. “We have different leadership styles, but at the end of the day we want the best for the team,” SEE CAPTAINS PAGE 9

Seven new players join Penn’s pair of squads GREG ROBINOV Sports Reporter

Success breeds success. After a dominating season last year, Penn squash will look to build upon its excellent foundations with stellar new recruits for this go-around. From the perspective of Jack Wyant, the Director of Squash at Penn, freshmen David Yacobucci and Wil Hagen are assets that the team will benefit from right away. “They’ve had some big wins in their junior career, and now they’ll have the opportunity every day in practice to train with some great players, some proven college standouts,” Wyant said. “I think if they apply themselves in terms of taking care of themselves outside of Ringe, and working hard physically and mentally in terms of learning what the college game is all about, I think they can

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One of two freshmen on Penn men’s squash, David Yacobucci will join classmate Wil Hagen on the Quakers’ ladder for the first time.

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