December 5, 2016

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2016

THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

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Provost Price to leave for Duke Price will depart Penn on July 1 to become president of Duke SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Senior News Editor-elect

Provost Vincent Price will be leaving Penn to become President of Duke University, Penn President Amy Gutmann announced in an email on Friday morning. Price has been provost since 2009, but has been at the University since 1998. He has previously held roles as Interim Provost, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, Chair of the Faculty Senate and Associate Dean of the Annenberg School. He is also the Steven H. Chaffee Professor of Communication in the Annenberg School for Communication and a professor of political science. In her email, Gutmann called his departure, which is scheduled for July 1, “bittersweet news.” “No one is better prepared or more deserving than Vince to lead a distinguished university such as Duke. We are proud and extremely happy for him…even if our happiness is tinged with the sadness of our cherished colleague and friend departing from Penn,” Gutmann wrote. Price was unanimously selected on Friday to succeed Duke’s current president, Richard H. Brodhead, after an international search led by a

One reporter’s take on a selfdefense seminar CATHERINE DE LUNA Contributing Reporter

After I climbed to the fourth f loor of Pottruck, I had made it. Penn Taekwondo was having its very first self defense seminar. I was expecting to be intimidated by the team and was anxious that my nonexistent Taekwondo skills would be looked down upon. Fortunately, I could not have been more wrong. Penn Taekwondo created an environment that was welcoming to all skill levels and made me, and others, feel comfortable asking questions. Engineering junior a nd Treasu rer of Pen n

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What other universities are ‘sanctuary’ campuses?

Taekwondo Angelina Risi embodied this cheerful spirit and expressed her love for the program. “The people here a re great. I want to be a bigger part of [the club] in the future and help it grow,” Risi said. College sophomore Benjamin Silva lightheartedly shared that the only reason he first tried Taekwondo was because it rhymed with “cookie dough.” College junior and co-captain Aarsheya Hooda, on the SEE TAEKWONDO PAGE 6

Penn is only Ivy League school on list of seven that includes Swarthmore

Beyond the safety pin: How to show you’re an ally to minorities

REBECCA TAN Staff Reporter

With the recent addition of Swarthmore College, the list of “sanctuary campuses” in the U.S. now stands at seven. Penn, which declared last week that it “is and always has been a sanctuary” for undocumented students, is the only Ivy League University on that list. On Nov. 21, a week before President Amy Gutmann’s school-wide email addressing petitions for Penn to be made a sanctuary, Columbia University’s Provost John Coatsworth sent out a similar statement. Coatsworth wrote that Columbia would not cooperate with federal efforts to identify undocumented students, although there is still doubt as to whether Columbia has identified as a sanctuary campus, as Coatsworth refrained from using the exact term. Last week, Gutmann wrote that Penn is SEE SANCTUARY PAGE 5

Campus leaders give advice for post-election actions ELIZABETH WINSTON Staff Reporter

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Members of the Penn Women’s Center questioned the efficacy of the safety pin movement, calling for active ally-ship

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Following several reports of hate crimes allegedly in response to President-Elect Trump’s victory, people who don’t belong to minority groups showed support by wearing safety pins. The pin is intended to identify that person as an ally to minorities. This “safety pin movement” has started a new conversation on what it means to be an ally. The Penn Women’s

In short, I am boldly taking the stance that procrastination is not good. It is, in fact, quite bad.”

Center has been advertising an event about ally-ship next Tuesday and Wednesday. College junior Maya Arthur, former United Minorities Council board member, finds the safety pin to be “frustrating”. “Instead of coming to people actively they want people to come to them,” Arthur said, adding that she feels this representation of ally-ship is not effective in solving problems that minorities face. Arthur encourages students who SEE ALLY PAGE 2

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