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University presidents urge Trump to disavow hate attacks Nearly 130 presidents signed petition, but Amy Gutmann did not DAN SPINELLI Executive Editor-elect
Close to 130 university presidents wrote to President-elect Donald Trump last week, urging him to disavow the hateful, racist attacks that have been committed in his name and which have plagued campuses throughout the country, including at Penn. Penn President Amy Gutmann, who has repeatedly refused to comment on Trump throughout the campaign, did not sign the letter. While not directly indicting the president-elect, Gutmann attended a Nov. 11 open forum in Huntsman Hall after the release of racist, hateful messages targeting
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...you can only do so much to make your education affordable when your school’s policy does not reflect this reality.”
It’s a question nurses hear all the time: “Oh, you’re just a nurse. Can I see the doctor?” For Margo Brooks Carthon, assistant professor of family and community health in the School of Nursing, the question represents a widespread misunderstanding in how nurses are educated and what their role in hospitals is. In an interview last month with WHYYFM, Brooks Carthon dispelled misconceptions about the nursing profession.
“Nurse practitioners are definitely not trying to usurp the role of physicians,” Brooks Carthon said in the interview. “Nurse practitioners are leaders in healthcare, but they are also working collaboratively with physicians when appropriate.” She said the nursing profession includes making fast-paced decisions that can result in life or death. These crucial moments require the cr itical thin k ing and judgement that only highly educated and trained medical professionals can provide. Most nurses hold a bachelor’s degree in
Nursing, and many pursue postgraduate degrees as well. “I think most people have very little information about what nurses do,” Brooks Carthon told The Daily Pennsylvanian. “Many people don’t recognize the training that is required to become a nurse.” She added, “What is unique about nursing is that it brings together the humanities, psychology and the hard sciences because that is how we approach healthcare delivery. We approach patients in a holistic way.” As a profession, nursing is
responsive to societal changes, particularly with the recent implementation of the Affordable Care Act. “The ACA focuses more on community health and prevention,” she said. “That has required the Nursing faculty to teach students about how to take care of patients in the context of the healthcare transformation, including taking care of a diverse population.” There are three million nurses in the United States, making up the SEE NURSING PAGE 2
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Electronic locks coming to dorms Residential Services will install new locks in all houses
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By the start of winter break, electronic locks will have been installed inside every college house except the Quad.
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The traditional brass key lock on the door of your on-campus room is about to get a major upgrade. Residential Services is in the process of installing electronic locks on the doors of the rooms of the college houses. They are currently finishing installing these locks on the doors of the high rises: Harnwell, Harrison and Rodin. By the start of winter break, locks will be installed in every college house except the Quad, which is slated to receive the locks right after winter
break. The date the locks will be activated is still unknown. Director of Residential Services John Eckman said students won’t have to worry about the new locks in the immediate future though. Residential Services will be meeting within the next few days to discuss a potential timeline for activation. For now, students in houses other than Gregory and New College House are still using brass keys. Two years ago, these new locks were installed in Gregory College House as a pilot program. After kinks in the system were worked out, the Board of Trustees passed a resolution to allocate $7.85 million SEE LOCKS PAGE 2
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Three grad students chosen for Minority Fellowship Program SP2 program aims to help Philadelphia-area youth MANXI WANG Contributing Reporter
Some graduate students working to better the lives of minority children and youth in the Philadelphia area have been awarded with a prestigious fellowship. Three of the 40 graduate students who were accepted into the Council on Social Work Education’s Minority Fellowship Program this academic year study at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice. The three students, Alexandria Okeke, Paolo David Rodriguez and Kira White will receive additional training and mentorship during their studies at Penn, along with a $6,500 annual grant funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The fellows are committed to working with underserved adolescents and youth in minority communities. Okeke works on the intersectionality of sexuality, race, gender and
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for the installation of electronic locks across the college houses. Once activation is initiated, students will use their PennCards and four digit IDs to enter their rooms. According to Eckman, this method is much safer than the brass keys they use now. “If you lose your key right now, someone can go up to your room and use your key. But if you lose your ID, they have to have your ID and know your four digit code. So it makes it a lot more secure,” he said. Activation will be done on a rolling basis, with individual college houses being activated one at a time, in case any problems arise. However, Eckman
class with a specific focus on youth. She currently takes courses on child welfare and interns in Trans Care Services at the Mazzoni Center in Philadelphia. “I feel like there is a limited amount of resources that are focused on that population. I hope to apply what I learned from the classes and the program through a framework of intersectionality. For example, what does child welfare look like when we think about intersectional communities? How do children and youths navigate throughout the United States?” After graduation, Okeke plans to work in Georgia, where “there isn’t [much] centralized LGBT healthcare.” “Ultimately I would love to open a foster-care or child welfare agency that is focused on LGBT children and youth. So LGBT kids who may run away or get kicked out because of their sexuality can be taken care of,” Okeke said. Rodriguez chooses to be a social worker to follow his mother’s career path. “My parents are immigrants, and
said problems up until this point have been scarce. After activation, the brass keys will be recalled. Then the cores of the locks will be changed, rendering the brass keys useless. New brass keys will be distributed only to those who need them, specifically Sabbath-observant students who cannot operate electricity on the Sabbath. After Spring 2017, lock installation will begin on individual bedroom doors within suites. Residential Services’ initiative to install safer locks comes in conjunction with an initiative led by the Division of Public Safety to increase campus safety. According to Director of Communications and External Relations Barbara Lea-Kruger, students
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Recipients of the Fellowship Program will receive training and mentorship, along with a $6,500 annual grant funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
I was also born in Costa Rica. My mom is a social worker. I grew up going to work with her and I saw all the meaningful change she had on the minority families,” he said. Rodriguez believes that his minority background aids to his services for the Latino community. “I’m glad to receive training from the fellowship to be able to produce
can expect to see new locks in buildings across campus, not just the residential buildings. Other policies relating to the new locks, such as lockout policies, are still being deliberated. The Residential Services Advisory Board, a group that represents students, meets every Wednesday at 9 p.m. to discuss these issues. The meetings are open to the public, so students who have strong opinions can attend to make their voices heard. Residential Services expects the initiative to be a successful one. “We anticipate that in the rest of the buildings it will work as well as it did in the other two [Gregory and NCH]. Students seem to like it,” LeaKruger said.
better outcomes for youth from minority backgrounds,” Rodriguez said, noting that more support will be needed as the nation-wide Latino community grows. “It’s better to take actions now before the demographic changes take effect.” He has done individual and group therapy with children and adolescents from Chester County
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largest proportion of healthcare providers in the country. The nursing profession has also seen a growing number of men joining the field. The percentage of male registered nurses jumped from 2.7 percent in 1970 to 9.6 percent in 2011, according to a study conducted by the American
last year. “Some of the children talk in Spanish. It’s rare for them to have not only a role model, but also a role model who also speaks Spanish and comes from similar culture and [the] Latino umbrella,” Rodriguez said. White pursues mental health services for children and adolescents in the public schools of Philadelphia.
Community Survey. Brooks Carthon attributed the fact that more college students are opting to become nurse practitioners rather than doctors to the high cost of medical school. Although, she said the nursing degree is one of the toughest undergraduate degrees to finish because of the time-intensive clinicals and taxing course requirements.
She currently works at the Mill Creek School, an alternative therapeutic high school just blocks from Penn in West Philadelphia. “I work at a private school, where students can get services that they won’t in the public schools of their districts,” White said. “This could be a model for how it can be done. In the past few years, there were a lot of public schools that didn’t even have a nurse for more than twice a week.” White is also pursuing a degree in public health, which will help her learn the administrative side of mental health services in public schools. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Social Policy & Practice, Joretha Bourjolly, said she takes pride in the three students. She is also the director of the MSW program at Penn. “They were selected because they already fulfill some of the expectations of the fellowship by demonstrating the courses they’re taking and their internships in this area,” she said, “These are students who definitely demonstrate leadership and commitment.”
Perhaps the most integral part of of the curriculum is teaching nursing students to be leaders. “We train our nursing students to think of themselves as nursing agents,” she said. “We indoctrinate them into a way of thinking and a way of knowing so they are ready to produce a counterargument when someone questions their viability.”
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Students petition for Penn to be a ‘sanctuary campus’ Petition hopes to protect the undocumented immigrants CHARLOTTE LARACY Staff Reporter
Philadelphia is already a sanctuary city, but given 1968 W ha r ton graduate Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election, some advocates have asked Penn President Amy Gutmann to make Penn a “sanctuary campus.� A petition created last week calls for Gutmann and the administration to make Penn a sanctuary campus for undocumented students, staff and their family members, given that Trump plans to deport 11 million undocumented persons, which would include 700,000
students protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program. The DACA program, which President Barack Obama introduced under an executive order, could be eliminated by Trump with a similar order. A “sanctuary city� is a term meaning local law enforcement is prohibited from turning over unauthorized immigrants to the federal government. These cities do not comply with federal immigration officials in holding undocumented immigrants in detention for nonviolent crimes or misdemeanors. In early November, Mayor Jim Kenney said Philadelphia will remain a sanctuary city, no matter what Trump does. Penn Law professor Fernando
Chang-Muy said calling an area a sanctuary city can be either reactive or proactive. “I know Mayor Kenney has affirmed that Philadelphia is a sanctuary city but I do not know if they are supported by an executive order, which is a very formal mandate,� he said. “Or the city government could train the various departments to not call the federal government. We are just going to have to wait and see how this plays out.� But Trump has called for a crackdown on sanctuary cities. His newly named chief of staff, Reince Priebus, said that Trump will consider cutting millions in funding to so-called sanctuary cities on the first day of his presidency. Kenney has said he prefers
the term “Fourth Amendment city� to “sanctuary city.� “It is a good way of reframing it,� Chang-Muy said. The Obama Administration has deported the largest number of people in U.S. history — between 2011 and 2013, immigration courts ordered an average of 414,650 people in one way or another, according to the Washington Post. “The federal government has not fixed immigration problems in the United States,� Penn Design professor Domenic Vitiello said, “so cities and states have formed their own plans, creating disjunctive policy.� “There has been increasingly polarized landscape, such as Hazleton, Pa. that passed the Illegal Immigration Relief Act in
2006, which imposes a fine on any landlord who rents to an illegal immigrant,� he said, “and it revokes for five years the business license of any employer who hires one. And then you have Philadelphia who supports the sanctuary movement.� The enactment of sanctuary cities is not a new idea. Vitiello said that the sanctuary movement started in the 1980s. Between 1980 and 1991, nearly 1 million Central Americans crossed the U.S. border seeking asylum. Most of them were fleeing political repression and violence caused by civil wars in Guatemala and El Salvador. However, President Ronald Reagan’s administration blocked Central Americans from obtaining asylum status since they
financially and militarily supported the governments, he said. The Sanctuary Movement formed as a reaction to these policies, originating along the border with Mexico and Arizona, but was strong in Chicago, Philadelphia, California and Texas. Vitielli said American cities have strongly benefited economically from immigration, noting that Philadelphia wouldn’t have a growing population without an influx of immigrants coming into the city. According to a 2012 article published by the Cato Institute, immigrants boost economic The New York productivity and don’t have a 620 Eight notable impact—either positive For Inf or negative—on net job growth For Releas for U.S.-born workers.
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Student groups and charities celebrate the holiday SARAH FORTINSKY Contributing Reporter
Penn’s campus may be emptier than usual on Thanksgiving, but that hasn’t stopped several groups on and around campus from celebrating the holiday. From charity drives to early club dinners, check out some cool events that have happened around campus and some events worth sticking around for during the break. In case you missed it‌ At Cohort Thanksgiving, Wharton students gathered Sunday evening for “a full Thanksgiving feastâ€? with their respective cohorts. This event was open for students of all years and divided by
cohort. Ne a rly 20 nonp r of it organizations from around Philadelphia joined together Saturday in Houston Hall to host the Thanksfor-Giving Volunteer Fair, which gave Penn students the opportunity to volunteer and give back to the community. Organized by Team CIA and the Office of Civic Engagement, the event featured a free raffle sponsored by the Philadelphia 76ers and Philadelphia Union for those who signed up to volunteer with a nonprofit. Puppies from the Animal Care & Control Team of Philadelphia also visited with attendees. Penn Book Center held a “Holiday Giveaway� on Monday featuring hot cider and tasty treats. It gave away free Everyman’s Library books to all those who made
purchases of $50 or more. Relying exclusively on donations, one management team organized a Thanksgiving dinner this past Friday for senior citizens at Mercy-Douglas Residences. For your travel plans home‌ The Undergraduate Assembly has organized shuttles to take Penn students to the airport on Tuesday and Wednesday for only $3! If you’re staying on campus‌ Check out the JLIC at Hillel Pre-Thanksgiving Dinner. With Penn Hillel closed on Wednesday night for dinner, Rabbi Yaakov and Rachel Taubes of JLIC will be hosting a kosher dinner for students at their home in Philadelphia on Wednesday night! Hike (or Uber) a little off campus for the holiday tree lighting on the Philadelphia Museum
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OPINION Art-iculation REID ABOUT IT! | The healing process of art, and the fight for our humanity
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 22, 2016 VOL. CXXXII, NO. 110 132nd Year of Publication COLIN HENDERSON President LAUREN FEINER Editor-in-Chief ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects ISABEL KIM Opinion Editor JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor DAN SPINELLI City News Editor CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor SUNNY CHEN Copy Editor NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor TOM NOWLAN Sports Editor WILL SNOW Sports Editor
With the racist GroupMe messages targeted towards black students, with the fear and mistrust that certain minority groups have felt over the election and with the deepening of rhetorical divisions between political factions, it feels like the time to reform, rise and react has come upon us. The rallying cry demands healing. Between Nov. 9 and Nov. 16, more than 700 cases of hate crimes were recorded in the United States according to CNN, and Penn isn’t exempt from that statistic. There have been countless reactions from the Penn community as a result, from a faculty march to the United Minorities Council’s public wall of solidarity, to protests both on campus and across Philadelphia. As such, I’ve thought constantly about healing — specifically, the healing of the individual — and what it means when the individual confronts their place in a society larger than themself. I started to imagine how art can be the key to that healing; it bears witness to both
the larger societal history and the individual, personal response. To give context, I promised myself at the beginning of 2016 to make one piece of art every day, documenting it daily on an Instagram page. Everyday I would put pen, pencil, brush or whatever other material I had, to paper. I’d respond to things in my life, things in front of me and things happening globally; I’d respond spontaneously, even unconsciously. Art was a medium through which I could react to myself and the world around me. Sometimes I’d draw lines that went nowhere, which reflected experimentation, or I’d doodle in the margin of my notebooks, which reflected boredom. I’d draw flowers if I felt uninspired. I’d draw annoyed stick figures if I thought that my daily artistic challenge was pointless. But it never was, because I was recording something meaningful — my understanding of the world. It wasn’t about perfecting or even completing a
piece; it was simply about getting up and doing it. Sometimes this revealed to me a state of grief or anger or pain. Sometimes my work revealed nothing. Yet, by forcibly tapping into an
manity. By depicting the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, Picasso sears the human imagination with a surreal, extremely vivid portrayal of
After the harrowing past two weeks, public grief inevitably becomes internalized and, as a result, negatively affects individual mental health.“ unconscious imagination, I got to glimpse into a kind of abyss: the human “soul.” And what a profound abyss it is! That profound abyss informs us of a very complex humanity we cannot learn from collective rallying cries, or from talks given by other people. In a time when it feels like enduring white supremacy is continuously erasing the humanity of specific groups, we must desperately clutch that hu-
public tragedy. Reactionary art is lauded for its ability to awaken others, but not necessarily for its ability to provide a personal healing process. Imposed onto artists is thus the responsibility to educate. But how can we ask someone who has undergone trauma, someone who finds themself continuously betrayed and repressed by a system daily, to respond to that existence every day? Last Sunday, Femini-
sta Jones came to Penn to speak about what happens after the election and after the anti-black sentiments cropped up on campus. She asked the question: “Why not let the wound breathe?” This is the essential question for moving forward: Do we consciously need to heal? Isn’t healing just another forced process that negates the individual’s pain? After the harrowing past two weeks, public grief inevitably becomes internalized and, as a result, negatively affects the individual psyche. Targeted racism creates a kind of trauma for the black community that cannot be resolved so easily. But if making art has taught me anything, it is that the daily discipline of creating (whatever that means) leads to a deep personal reckoning with that confusing abyss we possess. This abyss, that interaction between larger public events and personal reactions, needs to be understood in order to be overcome. After the events of the election and the hate crimes
AMANDA REID that preceded it, we grapple with the existence of disparate experiences. And grappling artistically with these events gives us back our humanity. It gives us back our ability to feel, to react, to hurt, to feel angry, to feel confused, to feel lost, even to wish not to heal. But maybe that’s the paradox of the healing process: that it necessitates the revival of pain. It is our internal humanity we must fight to keep, and by creating art, we will. AMANDA REID is a College junior from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, studying cinema studies & English. Her email address is amreid@sas.upenn. edu. “Reid About It!” usually appears every other Tuesday.
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“I’m sorry. I understand you’re frustrated, but it’s the policy,” said the financial aid advisor at Student Financial Services. Finally, well into my fourth year at Penn, I made the call to better understand my financial aid package. To students who are still searching and to the fortunate few who receive outside scholarships, I want to share a lesson I learned from this phone call: Don’t apply to that scholarship. Penn is one of the many universities that advertise their generous financial aid to attract high-performing, low-income students. Indeed, Penn’s financial aid is very generous. The average financial aid package awarded to freshmen in 2015 was $48,605. This is one of the main reasons I applied to Penn. I thought Penn would do everything in its power to make Penn work for me. Where Penn’s generosity stops is in the way it divides family contribution into two categories: student contribution and parent contribution. Student contribution includes
summer savings, work-study and student assets. Parent contribution is calculated based on the parents’ income and assets and equals the amount that the parents are responsible for. As a low-income student, I looked into outside scholarships to meet my family’s contribution. In this call, I learned that Penn uses outside scholarships to reduce student contribution. But if your scholarship exceeds student contribution, the school subtracts the excess from its grant. The real catch is no matter how much scholarship you receive, your parents’ contribution remains unchanged. However, for low-income students, dividing the responsibility of family contribution between the student and the parents is far removed from the lived experiences of the student and the family. The reality is — when your family is poor, you are all poor together and you all survive together. There’s no “my savings” or “my parents’ savings.” It’s “our money” and “I’m-going-
to-save-so-I-can-lend-my-parents-money-when-they-needit money.” All resources are shared. But you can only do so much to make your education afford-
for my family than my first. “I’ve been working here for more than 20 years. I’ve heard it all. It’s the policy. If your financial aid is not working for you, you can submit a request
...you can only do so much to make your education affordable when your school’s policy does not reflect this reality.”
able when your school’s policy does not reflect this reality. Unknown to most of my friends, I currently attend Penn on three outside scholarships. The sum of the scholarships is enough to cover my contribution and my parents’ contribution. Yet, because of Penn’s policy, my second and third scholarships do not make things any easier
for re-evaluation of your aid.” I try to explain what it would mean for my family if outside scholarships could cover my parents’ contribution, how I wouldn’t have to take out loans if the policy were different. In a recent DP article, another student similarly had to take out loans to cover her parents’ contribution because of Penn’s
policy. But my plea goes nowhere. Apparently, for more than decades, it’s been the policy to separate students’ contribution from their parents’. But this answer is unsatisfactory. Even if I submit a request for aid re-evaluation and my financial aid is readjusted, it still does not address the root issue, which is that the policy is set up to minimize the financial aid the school already committed to providing. This case-by-case approach only provides relief to students with the agency, time or knowledge of the system to request for reevaluation. Through this policy, Penn reduces its own commitment at the expense of burdening my family more. Scholarships are not meant to take the burden off the university. They are given to students so that they can afford their education. I beg SRFS to rethink the way it treats student and family contributions in financial aid packages. Penn says it has made the commitment to meet 100 percent of students’ dem-
onstrated need. But this commitment falls short by capping outside scholarships to student contribution. Instead, Penn must come up with a new way to meet the commitment they made to its students. If the policy doesn’t change, the message is clear: You will never receive enough outside scholarship money to reduce the burden that falls on your parents. The burden that falls on your parents will fall back on you, and you will have to look into working multiple jobs, cutting spending and taking out loans to make ends meet. So, students, save yourselves the time and don’t apply to that scholarship. Instead, give other students at institutions with more supportive policies the chance to reduce their families’ financial burdens. Let it not be pocketed by Penn. IAN JEONG is a senior in Nursing. His email addrss is jeonge@ nursing.upenn.edu.
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Fossil Free Penn moves forward after Trump’s election victory The group had staged a sit-in earlier this month LAUREN SORANTINO Staff Reporter
With 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump’s presidency on the horizon, Fossil Free Penn sees their mission as more urgent than ever. Organizations like Fossil Free Penn view their role in Trump’s America as a part of broader private sector and grassroots efforts to combat climate change without the support of the federal government. The Trump administration has not stated any plans to reverse climate change. Trump has vowed to cancel last year’s Paris climate agreement and dismantle President Barack Obama’s domestic climate change regulations during his time in office. “We think it is especially important right now that we continue this campaign,” said College senior Peter Thacher, the alumni coordinator for Fossil Free Penn. “Because if the
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Following the election of Trump, Fossil Free Penn will pursue their mission with more urgency.
government is going to be unwilling to take action on climate, grassroots organizing and the actions of institutions like Penn become even more important.” Group members said moving money out of the fossil fuel industry and into renewable energy at a private sector level will be crucial to progress given that a Trump administration is unlikely to facilitate that transition. Fossil Free Penn hopes institutional shifts in funding, like
the divestment from fossil fuels that they have long advocated for at Penn, will be the new impetus to limit the impact of climate change. The Policy Coordinator for Fossil Free Penn and Engineering and Wharton senior Thomas Lee said the burden of ensuring clean energy use in developing countries has now shifted to the private sector too. “When there is reduced federal funding for the U.N.’s Green
Climate Fund and for renewable energy, private investors need to step up for cleaner energy deployment in developing countries — not just in the U.S,” Lee said. Since the presidential election, many members of Fossil Free Penn have attended solidarity marches like the demonstration organized by Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation after racist GroupMe messages were sent to black freshmen. They feel that causes like this are relevant to their mission as an environmental group. “We see these issues as connected,” Thacher said. “Climate change affects people who are low-income and people of color the most, so we really try to engage in other justice issues in addition to divestment as individuals, even if that’s not quite what the campaign focuses on on a day to day basis.” Though Fossil Free Penn does identify as a political movement, it does not have immediate plans to collaborate with political campaigns.
“We treat that in the same way that we try to engage in other justice fights on campus,” Thacher said. “We would be interested in engaging with local politics as much as we could but we do have a limited capacity of people.” Earlier this month, the group staged a sit-in to protest the University’s decision in September to not divest from fossil fuels. Fossil Free Penn members were granted a meeting with Penn President Amy
Gutmann and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, David Cohen, following the protest, and the group is currently focusing on preparation for that meeting. “We are not finished with this campaign despite the rejection that occurred this past September,” Thacher said. “We look forward to working with the administration and figuring out what we can do together to have Penn divest from fossil fuels.”
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black freshmen and heard from students of color at a University Council meeting about the fear they felt after Trump’s election. She read a statement at that meeting about the election, calling it “bitter, divisive and hurtful,” but did not mention Trump by name. When asked why Gutmann did not sign the letter, a spokesperson for her office replied in an email, “This is not something we received and appears to have been circulated among presidents of smaller liberal arts schools. That type of thing is very common.”
The University has usually declined to comment on the presidential election by noting how as a nonprofit institution, it would be ill-advised and potentially illegal for high-ranking school officials like Gutmann to make a public, political stand. She has indirectly criticized one of Trump’s policy proposals before — at a meeting with The Daily Pennsylvanian staff members in January, Gutmann called his proposed Muslim ban “disgraceful,” but, again, did not mention Trump’s name. She has also put her name to other public letters. A statement in support of maintaining the Deferred Action for
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Childhood Arrivals program, signed by over 100 university presidents, included Gutmann’s name among its list of signees. Because DACA was instituted by Obama through an executive order, it is possible Trump can rescind it with a sign of the pen. The omission of Gutmann’s signature did not go unnoticed among students, who have repeatedly asked her to speak out against Trump, as over 400 Penn faculty members have done. The letter itself condemned Trump’s silence about the hateful attacks that have occurred throughout the country since his election and urged him to disavow them.
“In light of your pledge to be ‘President for all Americans,’ we urge you to condemn and work to prevent the harassment, hate and acts of violence that are being perpetrated across our nation, sometimes in your name, which is now synonymous with our nation’s highest office,” the letter read. “In our schools, on job sites and college campuses, on public streets and in coffee shops, members of our communities, our children, our families, our neighbors, our students and our employees are facing very real threats, and are frightened.” Staff Reporter Jenna Wang contributed reporting.
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When sophomore safety Sam Philippi was matched as a bone marrow donor earlier this year — after joining the donor registry through a program the Quakers run every spring — he didn’t even hesitate in deciding to go through with the transplant. “It’s why we’re in this business. You get a chance to recruit kids, bring them to a place like Penn — that’s a life-changing experience,” he told me shortly after Philippi was matched. “And then when they’re here, we talk all the time about how you can be so impactful in other people’s lives. ... It really, truly puts into perspective our whole mission as coaches,
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games so far, notching a respectable nine points, 12 rebounds and four assists in 53 minutes. But most importantly, MacDonald was named a captain before the season, a testament
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teachers, of what we’re able to do — and also him being willing to do it, on top of it. I think all of our guys understand its their responsibility to make a difference, and he’s done a phenomenal job of it.” The culture within the program does not simply revolve around lived success. It’s easy for a team to win. It’s hard to sustain it. You have to get players to buy into more than the scheme — it’s more holistic than that. You’re not going to get a bunch of athletes going pro and, frankly, for the foreseeable future, you’re not going to get a ton of students out to games. Programs have to be about laying the foundation for athletes’ futures beyond the game. They have to be about establishing community and a culture of
mutual reinforcement and support. It’s about shaping the lives players will lead once their careers end and their adult lives begin. It’s about putting athletes in a position to make a difference. Priore gets it. Last weekend was the final game I will watch as a Penn student, the last one I will cover as a journalist. You tend to get reflective about these things. I was thrilled when Penn won. I was lovingly shocked when Nick Demes trucked in a seven-yard rushing touchdown. I was excited when Yale upset Harvard. I was all of those things because I’m a Penn student, because I love sports, and because it is my job to care. But I was also all of those things because the title seemed like a just reward for the program
Priore has built: not one that wins, though win it does, but one that revolves around a sense of shared experience and an understanding of what Penn Athletics is really about. It brings us back to what Priore said in that press conference on Saturday. It isn’t a job, it’s a passion. It isn’t about winning games, it’s about building men. As we all celebrated in Ithaca, a lot of boosters and alums were thanking God for Ray Priore. So was I, but for entirely different reasons.
to his leadership role. Serving alongside senior guard Matt Howard, MacDonald managed to earn the honor before ever actually stepping on the court in a Penn uniform. “It was his teammates — they voted for him,” Donahue said. “I wasn’t surprised; he’s the one
that everyone looks to.” MacDonald is one of three new faces — alongside transfer junior guard Caleb Wood and prized freshman forward AJ Brodeur — to start both games for the quakers thus far. And in Donahue’s eyes, new blood in the program is just what the doctor
ordered. “When we haven’t won a championship in 10 years, nobody can rest and think that they deserve a spot. They understand that, Matt and everyone else,” Donahue said. “This is about building a champion. That’s the mission.”
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PRTC program from coaching positions they had taken up at various colleges or other regional training centers they had joined. Even though the PRTC is one of wrestling’s youngest regional training centers, with four full-time wrestlers, it is already the one of the largest. The wrestlers have already had some success in tournaments preparing them for the big show in 2020. On Nov. 11, Futrell, a 2013 Illinois graduate, won his weight class at the Bill Farrell International Open while Perry took third in his category. Additionally, the four grapplers have been called upon to represent Team USA at various tournaments around the globe. “Team USA sees some of our guys as the best guys in country and are already taking them all around the world, so I think that bodes well for our future,” Slay said. The four wrestlers have been active in the community as well, helping to coach young wrestlers through Beat the Streets Philadelphia, a program that coaches nearly a thousand kids throughout the city. “We’re committed to serving this community,” Slay said. “The community service is something that separates us
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Not all games are won on the court. Sometimes, the real differences are made on the sidelines, at the gym or in the locker room. That’s where the coaches factor in, and for Penn squash, that department just got a whole lot stronger. Enter Emery Maine Greenwood, the Quakers’ new assistant coach. With her addition, the program welcomes in a wealth of talent and knowledge backed up by a stacked rÊsumÊ and unique background. Greenwood is no stranger to elite collegiate and international squash, having earned College Squash Association All-American honors twice, two national titles while at Princeton, and a selection to the U.S. World Junior Squash team for play abroad. Not bad for a student-athlete splitting her time with lacrosse. Coming off spectacular topfive finishes on both the men’s and
women’s side last year, Penn squash is brimming with confidence for this go-around, and Greenwood is enthusiastic to be a part of the action. “I think our motto this year as coaches in general is ‘one match at time.’ We’re trying not to think about the big picture too much because obviously there are expectations and a lot of high hopes after a great finish last year,� she said. “We have to win them all to get to the place we want to be so I’m really excited to get going and get into the competition.� Since coming aboard this summer, she has only had the preseason to get to know the program and its players, but Greenwood already feels very at home at Ringe. “I couldn’t have asked for a better welcome. Between Jack [Wyant] and Gilly [Lane], I’ve known them both for a really long time and feel comfortable with them. I think our dynamic is pretty great and made it an easy transition with the teams,� Greenwood said. “Honestly, I think the girls were probably more excited to have a girl around, but I think it’s probably good for the guys as well
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to have a bit of a different perspective. Both teams are great groups of kids and it’s been a great fall so far.� Lane, the newly promoted men’s head coach, insists that Greenwood’s transition has been seamless in part thanks to their longtime relationship off the court. The pair grew up down the street from one another and even attended the same high school, meaning they’ve been in close contact practically their entire lives. “Emery went to Springside [Academy] and I went to Chesnut
Hill [Academy],� Lane said. “Also, my brother was a classmate with her younger brother Jack, who I ended up coaching. So there’s a lot of connections between the Maine and the Lane family.� What’s interesting is although Greenwood was a mainstay for the dominant, albeit rival, Tigers, Jack Maine was an essential member of the Quakers, playing four years with the men’s squad and captaining for two before he graduated in 2015. In discussing that interesting dynamic with Penn’s nemesis in New Jersey, Greenwood expressed her excitement to take on her former school. “I’m here now and want to beat them probably more than anyone,� she said. “I feel that while I didn’t go to Penn, I have real roots here. Between my brother and growing up in Philadelphia, and knowing Jack and Gilly for so long, I feel like I’ve been a part of this team for longer than I have. There’s no question where my heart is.� When not busy competing as a Tiger, Greenwood was hitting the books, picking up her B.A. in politics with a concentration in
International Relations and American Politics and entering the finance world upon graduation. After some time at the trading desk, she figured it was time to make a career change. “I realized that it wasn’t something I wanted to be doing, and I wanted to be doing something I’m passionate about where I feel like I can make a difference,� she said. “I always sort of had coaching on the back of my mind, but it hadn’t been the right time or place. This summer I was really fortunate the stars aligned, this position opened, and I was in a position where I was ready to make a change and jump into something. It really came together as well I could have hoped for.� With her addition, the Penn program underwent a bit of a logistical mix-up, but Lane assures fans that the foundations of the teams have not been altered. “The access to the players is still the same. We really look at it as a Penn squash program, though, obviously, the roles have changed somewhat. Our goals and focusses are still the same. We still look to be successful on both sides and make sure the student-athletes are
achieving in the classroom as well as on the court,� Lane said. From her phenomenal collegiate career, Greenwood has a wealth of experience she hopes to bring to the Penn program in the new role, though her work may not be immediately visible on the court. “Everyone on this team is a great player already. A lot of times, these girls and guys know what their games are and they’ve established what their strengths and weaknesses are. You’re not going to change a player in college, you can just take what they have and make them better,� she said. “That’s not always tactically or fundamentally in terms of the squash, a lot of it is mental or strategic and focusing on the preparation side. That’s most what I’m hoping to bring as a coach.� Discussing Greenwood’s strengths, Lane put it simply: “She’s a winner and when you add someone like that, it’s infectious.� With the season finally underway, only time will tell what Greenwood can bring to the table for the Red and Blue.
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It may have taken four years and 30 games, but Alek Torgersen finally has his weekly award. The Penn football senior quarterback, recipient of Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors for his first-ever appearance against Cornell in 2013, was named the conference Co-Offensive Player of the Week on Monday, the first such award for his career. Torgersen was joined by a teammate on the other side of the field, as sophomore defensive
back Mason Williams was named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week for the first time of his career. It is the third time in the last four weeks the Red and Blue have had a player get the award, as junior defensive lineman Louis Vecchio won it last week and sophomore defensive back Sam Philippi brought it home on Oct. 31. With a second-quarter interception against Cornell, Williams became the first Penn player to record six picks in a season since Ross Armstrong in 1984. Torgersen concluded his career with a bevy of program records, including total yards,
passing touchdowns and completion percentage. He became just the eighth player in Ivy League history to surpass 7,000 career passing yards, which he did during his 284-yard performance on Saturday. Along with junior wide receiver Justin Watson, Torgersen has been one-half of the most productive duo in Penn history. In 29 games together over the course of the last three years, they combined for 192 receptions, 2,456 yards and 17 touchdowns, all program records for a single partnership. Unlike Watson — who has earned four Offensive Player of the Week awards in the last two years — Torgersen had made it
through the breadth of his recordsetting career without a single weekly award since the first game he ever played. For his part, Watson has been named one of 15 finalists for the Walter Payton Award, which goes to the top player in the Football Championship Subdivision
each year. Watson led the Ivy League in receptions (89), receiving yards (1,115) and touchdowns (8) this season, setting program records in each of the first two. Two other finalists for the award, Chase Edmonds of Fordham and Troy Pelletier of Lehigh, played against Penn this season,
with the Rams and Mountain Hawks handing the Quakers two of their three losses on the year. The Quakers clinched a record-tying 18th Ivy league title with Saturday’s 42-20 win over Cornell, sharing the crown with Princeton after both went 6-1 in conference play.
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Ross provides steady, clutch presence for the Red and Blue
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Counting the three games this year, Penn women’s basketball has played 62 games in the past three seasons. Only one player from Penn has started each and every one of those 62 games. And no, it isn’t reigning Ivy League Player of the Year Sydney Stipanovich or reigning first team All-Ivy selection Michelle Nwokedi. Well who can it be then? The correct answer is actually 5-foot-9 junior guard Anna Ross. While this might be surprising to some, anyone who’s followed Penn women’s basketball closely for the past three years knows just how important Ross has been to the team’s success.
Often overshadowed by her higher-scoring teammates, the Syracuse, N.Y., native has quietly established herself as one of the best guards in the Ivy League. In her 62 games for the Red and Blue, Ross has led the team in assists with 228, while also proving herself as a lockdown perimeter defender. Her 1.3 steals per game are also good for tops on the team. While Ross hasn’t put up the biggest numbers so far this season, her value to the team is unquestioned. It is no accident that she has led the team in minutes thus far with 36 a game. “It is well deserved,” Penn coach Mike McLaughlin said. “She can play a lot of minutes. She’s deserved everything she’s gotten so far and I’m just trying to take her game to another level.” With great quickness and athleticism, Ross certainly has the potential to take her game to another level, but it will probably
require her scoring a little more. She averaged a respectable 9.4 points per game last season, but McLaughlin wants to see Ross raise that average even higher. “I just need her to be an aggressive scorer,” McLaughlin said. “She has the ability to do it, she’s just inconsistent on doing it. I’m trying to give her the autonomy to go play and go score. You know coach is telling you take to 10 or 12 shots, take that as a good thing.” Ross was largely on the same page as her coach. “I think the first few games have revealed to me and probably the coaches that I need to step it up a little more, maybe put more points on the board, get more rebounds,” she said. “So I think those games have revealed my weaknesses that I need to improve on going forward for us to win.” If Ross is successful in taking
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transfer rules. Though not being able to take the court with his teammates was a burden, the now-fourth-year junior admits that a year away from the action was a valuable learning experience. “It was really tough. The worst part was that I was perfectly healthy — I thought I could help the team, but there was nothing I could do,” MacDonald said. “But you learn to appreciate the game more, with all those hours in the gym … I feel like I’ve improved in a lot of different ways.” And, in the very early going of 2016-17, MacDonald seems to be integrating well with his new teammates: he has started both of Penn’s
n with a win, out with a win. Penn football’s seniors finished things off the way they came in, winning their final game against Cornell the same way they took down Lafayette to open the 2013 season. Those two endpoints, however, don’t do any justice to the narrative that played out in the intervening four years. Ray Priore is the only Penn coach to ever win Ivy titles in his first two seasons. He’s the first to do it at any Ivy program since 1971-72. That’s awesome. But that’s not what’s important about the program he’s built. Yeah, Penn reached its nadir in Al Bagnoli’s final years, stumbling to disappointing 4-6 and 2-8 campaigns. We can talk all we want about Priore re-teaching Penn football how to win. But the cultural change at Franklin Field has been more than that, and that’s why this Ivy title matters. I jokingly asked Priore after Saturday’s game if he was ready to retire, having already won two titles in two years. His response was more than I was expecting. “I say this often, ‘If you happen to work in something you love to do, you’ll never work a day in your life.’ And this is not work. This is fun, these are great kids — I love them all, love the Penn family.” In my time here, football has become of the most dominant teams in Penn Athletics. Priore has been one of the most welcoming and open coaches I’ve had the chance to cover. And this extends beyond just his self-interest in getting a reporter to say nice things about him. Watch the way Priore has fully embraced the presence of Vhito DeCapria, a boy diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer in 2014 — now in remission — that the team brought on as a captain prior to last year. Vhito isn’t a mere presence on the sidelines, he’s a vibrant part of the Penn football community. Priore’s vision is reflected in his own athletes.
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It sounds paradoxical: Matt MacDonald is, at the same time, a veteran, a captain and a first-year player. That is, of course, due to the fact that the junior guard is a transfer. After playing his first two college seasons at Farleigh Dickenson in northern New Jersey, the Buffalo native made the switch to Penn in May 2015 before sitting out last season because of transfer rules. “Coming here was a combination of a lot of things, both basketball- and academics-wise,” MacDonald said.
“Coming to Penn was the perfect fit. It has the best academics in the world.” MacDonald announced his decision to join the team just two months after Steve Donahue was officially unveiled as Jerome Allen’s successor, making him the first player added to the team by the now-second-year coach. “Once [Penn] called, I knew I wanted to come here. It was just a matter of time,” MacDonald said. “Things have been great with all the coaches from the start. I’m glad I made the move.” “I knew that he’d be a real leader. He knows how hard you gotta work,” Donahue noted. “He knows how to go about his business, and he makes sure that others do the same.” Donahue added that, as a 30-year
friend of MacDonald’s father, he had an eye on the guard since his high school days. Despite not making a recruiting effort for MacDonald as Boston College’s head coach (his job from 2010-14), Donahue acknowledged he never took his eyes off of the potential Quaker. “Matt was kind of a late bloomer. He got stronger — he used to be thinner,” Donahue said, adding that MacDonald almost took a postgraduate year at a prep school before deciding at the last minute to attend FDU. “If he had taken that year … He would have had a lot of offers.” After starting all but one of 60 games across his two seasons with the Knights, MacDonald was forced to sit out the entirety of the 201516 season, as mandated by NCAA
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Training alongside Penn’s 31 grapplers are four wrestlers working full-time to win gold at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. These four wrestlers train fulltime as part of the Pennsylvania Regional Training Center, a joint partnership between Penn and Drexel’s wrestling programs. The PRTC is one of 34 sites designated by USA Wrestling, the sport’s national governing body, as an Olympic Regional Training Center dedicated to training Olympic hopefuls. Over the past year, under the leadership of the program’s executive director — Wharton graduate and 2000 Olympic gold medalist Brandon Slay — the PRTC has recruited Richard Perry, BJ Futrell, Dan Vallimont
and Chase Pami, four former champion collegiate wrestlers who possessed the skill and the desire to continue their wrestling careers at the next level. The organization pays stipends, as well as insurance expenses, so that these athletes can focus on training full time. “We’re able to focus on just competing because training is a full-time job,” said Perry, a 2014 graduate of Bloomsburg University. “If you want to be the best in the world, it’s a 24/7 commitment.” The PRTC is one of USA Wrestling’s newest designated training centers, joining similar programs housed at the facilities of other top wrestling programs such as Ohio State, Penn State, North Carolina State and Iowa. The idea for the program came about during the transition from former Penn wrestling head coach Rob Eiter to current head coach Alex Tirapelle following the 2013-14 season. “A lot of the candidates that
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Penn interviewed for what eventually became my position brought up, ‘Where’s your regional training center?’” Tirapelle said. “It became very apparent from those conversations that this was something we’re missing in order to be where we want to be — a perennial top-ten program.” The PRTC, whose board of directors includes both Penn and Drexel wrestling alumni and is chaired by former longtime Penn wrestling coach Roger Reina, brought Slay on to head the program last April. After winning gold in the 76-kilogram (167-pound) weight class at the 2000 Olympics, Slay entered commercial real estate in his native Texas, believing he would use his Wharton degree to focus on a career in business. However, after five years, he began to miss the sport in which he had been so successful. “I began to miss what I call ‘Olympism’ — the idea of training guys to become the best not
just in their city or in their country but on the planet,” Slay said, cracking a smile. “Beating the Russians and the Iranians.” Slay was offered the opportunity to coach at the Olympic Training Center at USA Wrestling’s headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo., and he spent the next eight years training future Olympians. Slay helped coach Team USA at both the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, amidst a number of other tournaments. While Slay enjoyed the experience, the job was taxing for the husband and father of three, who had to travel over 100 days per year. “To be best husband and father I could be, I needed to find something that was more userfriendly for my family,” Slay said. “I thought, if I’m going to stay in coaching, what could I do?” That question caused Slay’s attention to turn to his alma mater. The PRTC’s board, of which Slay was already a member, was looking to bring on an executive
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director and head coach, so in April 2016 Slay was named the inaugural holder of the position. A few months after finishing his stint coaching Team USA in Rio, Slay officially took on day-today duties running the program
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